European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday january 20,1988 Industry operating rate at 7-year High Washington a american Industry operated at 81.1 percent or capacity in december the highest operating Rale in More than seven Yean the government reported tuesday. The Federal Reserve Board said the operating rate at . Factories min Sand utilities edged up  percentage Points from the november level of 82 percent. The operating rate is now at its High est Rale since March i98d. When Amer ican Industry operated at 83.7 percent of capacity. The operating rate has made steady gains in the last year reflecting booming import sales brought about by the decline in the value of the Dollar. The weaker Dollar has made american products More competitive on overseas markets. Last Friday the Commerce depart ment reported that the nation s Trade deficit narrowed to s13.2 billion in no vember As . Exports surged in a re Cord s23.b billion. Economists arc predicting further in creases in factory production in the new year As . Producers continue to Benefit from the Boom in exports. Many analysts say that strength from the Industrial sector will allow the Economy to survive the jail delivered to Consumers Confidence by the Black monday Slock plunge last october. The Small 0.1 percentage Point in Aasc in capacity utilization in Decem Ber matched the november gain. In october the operating rate had risen 0.8 percentage Point. The slight increase in december came despite a Sharp drop in production no automobile plants where the operating rate fell 10 63.9 percent of capacity from 70.2 percent in novem Ber. Analysis Are predicting continued weakness in this sector As automakers struggle to bolster sagging sales. In All of manufacturing the operating rate dipped to 52,2 percent of capacity in december compared to a no vember rate of 82.3 percent. Factories making durable goods Bitch As Auto mobiles saw the operating ble fall to79.8 percent of capacity compared to the november rate of 80.1 percent. This weakness was Oft i somewhat by a 0.3 percentage Point increase to 85.8 percent in the operating rate at i clones producing non durable  operating rate in the mining Industry which includes Oil and Gas drilling Rose to 80.6 percent of capacity i december up 0.4 percentage Point from the november  nation s utilities operated at  percent of capacity in december Down one half of a percentage Point from the november level. The Overall operating talc of 82.1percent compared to a rate of 79.7 per cent a year ago. Memorial Jon Mark the spot on the i rage where it. Col. Crore Amu truck Cutler and numbers of it 7lh cavalry died in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Man wants Custer remains returned to Battlefield iiard1n. Mont. A it col. I Corgi Armstrong Cutler in t getting the recognition he deserves at the .military Academy and his remains Jiu uld be returned to the Montana Battlefield where he died a businessman a c Larunce Clements said he has talked gues. To the state Centennial committee and is attempting to talk to other officials including congressmen and representatives of the National Park service about mov ing the remains to the Custer Battlefield National Monument near Crow Agency. Remains believed to be those of the commander were collected and sent to the . Military Academy no Westpoint his Alma mater a year after Cutler and his 7th cavalry were wiped out in inc Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He s not getting the recognition Hes due Back in West Point Clements said. Clements says the return of cd scr s remains would help Mark the 1989 Mon Tana Centennial and would boost Tou  said thai if his efforts Are successful he would like to Sec three Truluc of sitting Bull crazy horse and Custo erected at uie Entrance of the National Monument with a plaque trading May peace  the  new Kentucky diocese created Lexington. By. A 1 Opo John haul ii tues Day established the new diocese of Lexington and named a cleric serving in Covington As its first Bishop. The Vatican said the Lexington diocese was created from territory in the dioceses of Louisville and coving Ion. The new Bishop is monsignor James Kendrick Wil Liams 51, promoted from auxiliary Bishop in Covington. As a native kentuckian he has a great love for the Commonwealth and especially for people in the area that arc part of the new diocese said Bishop William a. Hughes of the diocese of Covington. He under stands the culture he loves the people he works Well with the clergy and religious of this area "1 am immensely Happy and am grateful to his holiness Pope John Paul 11, for his continuing Confidence in me said Williams. The new diocese Wilt be made up of so counties 43 from the diocese of Covington and seven from the archdiocese of Louisville. The Lexington diocese has a roman Catholic population of 39,745. The Covington diocese Wil drop from 106,380 to 84,647 and Louisville from 211,403 0209,178. Among the reasons cited for inc new diocese were cultural differences and distance Irani Covington to the far reaches of Eastern Kentucky. The formal establishment of the diocese of Lexing ton will be March 2 at Christ the King Church. 7 states picked As supercollider finalists Washington a the Federal government tuesday officially made seven slates finalists in the race for the Muli billion Dollar superconducting super  seven Stales which earlier had been recommended by a scientific , arc Scias Illinois North Carolina. Tennessee Arizona Michigan and Colorado. New York which was also recommended As a Candi Date stale by the National Academy of sciences and the National Academy of engineering last month was not on the list. Energy Secretary John Herrington said the department would not consider the new York site  York gov. Mario Cuomo earlier this month asked the department to drop consideration of the Rochester area As a location for the $4.4 billion atom smasher in response to stiff opposition from local Resi  department is scheduled to announce Iti Choice for the site in july and confirm it in january 1989. The project would require congressional approval Herrington told a news conference the depart ment found no justification for either rejecting or changing the academies recommended list of Sites which in the judgment of the department wat devel oped impartially and without . Phil Gramm a Texas said each of the seven is being considered at an equal footing from o techno logical standpoint. Hut we Are Down to consideration based on economics rather than technical  5th graders profess bumpy utensils Greenfield Masi. A fifth grader angry about the plastic Forks and spoons that appeared in their cafeteria have Hung poster protesting school is no picnic and real peo ple deserve real  Christopher Peters. 11, described the Putty utensils As bumpy thick hard to hold. And eating with them makes you feel weird All  Peters a Leader of the protest said the four Omer elementary school pupils became in Censed when they discovered their hamlets med tableware had been transferred to the High school for use by what Peters described As ugh  using non violent tactics they studied for the Martin Luther King or. Holiday Chrit ind hit classmate launched a poster making Campaign and Drew up a petition requesting thai the main ices steel utensils be resumed. By Friday the youngsters had gathered i6s by  the schoots 316 pupils Ages s to 12. The food service director who ordered the Utica silk however said she it unlikely to Len them Back. Sandra Hewig said stainless steel Forks and spoons too often ended up in the trash. I end up replacing about one Quarter of the utensils each year she said. Plastic uie mils Cost about 5 cents each lets than stainless she Laid