European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May is 1937 the stars and stripes Paga 3 the Buck Good news bad news stronger growth More inflation predicted Washington api the . Economy will Sec significantly hither inflation this year because of a weaker Dollar. But the foiling Greenback will finally begin to lift the fortunes of american manufacturers leading economists predicted monday. The National association of business economist said its latest Survey or member sentiment found More optimism thai the country will be Able to avoid a recession through 1988. The economists who wort for some of the nation s largest corporations forecast stronger growth this year a lower Trade deficit and a declining Federal budget deficit. Bui they said these favourable economic developments would be offset somewhat by a pickup i inflation. Consumer prices which posted a 1,1 percent Rise last year the lowest increase in two decades will climb 4.3 percent in 1987, the economists forecast. This pre diction was More pessimistic than a Survey just three months ago that forecast a 3.8 percent Price Rise for this year. Even with the less favourable inflation prospects the economists still were optimistic thai inc recovery from the 1981-82 recession will continue for a least the next two years. The analysis forecast that the Economy As measured by the Gross National product will expand this year and next at annual Rales of 2.9 percent up from the 2.5 percent Gnu growth turned in during 1936. More than half the economists 57 percent believe the current expansion will last through 1988, com pared with Only 48 percent who were that optimistic in the previous Survey. While the Reagan administration is forecasting no downturn Ihry urfi 1991, the private economists Are not that optimistic. Virtually All of the business analysts look for a downturn to occur within the next five years said Jerry l. Jordan president of tic association. Ninety percent of the economists think a recession will begin by the end of 1989." the Reagan administration led by Treasury Secre tary James a baiter 111, began in 1985 pursuing a policy of push ing the value of the Dollar lower in order to limit imports and make american goods More competitive on overseas markets. The new Survey indicated that this strategy was finally beginning to pay off with one fourth of the economists reporting higher Export sales by heir Compa Nies in the past three months up from just 8 percent in a november Survey. And 55 percent of the economists in manufacturing firms reported rising demand both domestically and internationally for i Cir products. These were the highest shares reported since the Middle of 1984, when the Economy shifted into a pal Tern of loner economic growth said Jordan. 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Meeting with re-1 porters and Pholog-1 Raphers sunday on ithe eve of his an-1 nou Cement Simon said there is no feeling of un-1 certainty about his decision. The Tough part iof the campaign1 was reaching the Simon new York a the Federal aviation administration says its new computer system will enable it to ease dangerous congestion without reducing Rush hour flights scheduled at major air ports. The new York times reported that the new Syi Lern put into effect Sunda can show Ceast to coast air traffic on one screen and ii designed to Cut Down on delays and increase safety. Last week the National transportation safely Board warned of an impending air safely crisis and called for Faa cutbacks in the number of Rush hour flights arriving and departing at major airports. John Ryan the Faa s director of air traffic operations said cutting lights won t be necessary. Rather than cutting airline schedules we can do something else that s More scientific he said. The new equipment can show every air plane flying under the jurisdiction of the control system on a single radar Dis play. Managers at the Faa command Center in Washington d.c., can also focus on sections of airspace where a Rush of flights is occurring or is expected the times said. The new by slim is designed to allow managers to prevent or ease traffic jams by slowing or rerouting flights or by or Dering longer intervals Between takeoffs the report said. By september the Faa Hopes to be Able to predict two hours or More in and Vance when a Jam might develop the times said. John g. Richardson acting manager of the Headquarters control Center i Washington d.c., told the times that by Midas Mcmoon sunday managers had closely monitored three heavily travelled airspace sectors for one hour periods. Tentative plans to Send some flights Westea sectors and to lower some Shorter flights altitudes May go into effect this week he told the times. Plans for the new system were drawn up in october 1985, and programming the computer began Early last year the newspaper said. _ _ a i m read for it he said. Simon Baa a Bungalow in the rating Hills of the Shawnee National Forest i Makanda and says his ties to the Community of 300 people make it possible for him to understand the plight of farm economies. He officially entered the democratic race monday speaking in nearby car Bondale. After an appearance in Iowa hews to return to Southern Illinois for a fund Raiser monday night he said his fund raising is going belter than expected and his organization had received 1250,000 before we in out our first solicitation for  asked if there were anyone whose entry Inlo Ibe race might persuade him to drop out he said absolutely not. I m in this race  ice Cream lovers get a taste of yesteryear Omaha neb. A ice Cream fans journeyed into the past when they gathered for the third soda Jerk reunion a Celebration of the time when almost every drugstore had a soda Fountain. About 100 former soda jerks and 2,000 visitors at tended the informal reunion sunday at the Omaha history museum housed in the former Union station. I think in s sad that soda fountains Are gone Laid Dottie Tiffin of Omaha who served customers from 945 to 1930 at a drugstore soda Fountain. My grand children Don t even know what a soda Fountain  antique cars were parked outside the Art  for Mer station where response to Ibe restoration of its own soda Fountain prompted museum officials to Host the first soda Jerk reunion in 1984. The honoured soda jerks on sunday wore traditional paper hats and ate deluxe hot fudge sundaes spooned Inlo traditional Glass dishes. Visitors also got free hoi fudge sundaes but in modern paper cups. The drugstores and the soda fountains were places where people gathered said Robert Van Buskirk of Omaha who worked at several different fountains for about three years Between 1925 and 19 0. I Don t know where they go now. I guess the fast food  Tiffin said she knew Many of her regular customers because they All used the neighbourhood drugstore. She said the soda Fountain May be vanishing because their items May have gotten to be too expensive. When i was working you could gel two hamburgers and a malted for 25 cents she said. The reunion helps kick Oft the museum s annual membership drive by luring ice Cream lovers to in museum for hot fudge sundaes As Well As for browsing. Museum spokeswoman Betly Davis said. She uses the reunion to build up her list of former soda jerks and Hopes to develop a National registry. Bill Hagerty of Lincoln said he worked his Way through the University of Nebraska by lending the soda Fountain at filler s drugs. The drugstore is now a Barking garage he said. Hagerty put in a iwo year stint at the Fountain from 1940 to 1942, Bui world War ii put a four year break in his plans. When he resumed from the War in 1946, Hagerty said he went Back to working part time Al the soda Fountain for four More years. I used to work about 20 to 30 hours a week he said. A lol of that was on weekends Hagerty said i recently went to try out a new do fashioned ice Cream store in Lincoln. It was t quite thesmar he said