European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Battle lines drawn on minimum wage Congress Likely to raise it Reagan veto loj Washington not vocals arc Correct raising the wage now $3.35 an hour would have few noticeable Adverse effects on Busi Ness or employment and could stimulate the Economy Fay increasing the Purchas ing Power of his 4.7 million americans who earn i i. But Many economists including advisers to president Reagan say raising the Federal minimum wage May do More harm than Good. They argue that employers would try to offset inc cast of the wage increase by hiring fewer people in particular youths and members of minority groups would suffer the debate is More than academic. Congress appears poised to approve a Bill raising inc minimum wage for the first time in seven Yean setting up a possible veto Battle with Reagan the Bill that s ready to Apfl Slac floor would prompt a very Strong Velo recommendation said mkt acl e. Baroody. Assistant Secretary a flavor for policy a Bill to raise the minimum wage to si.05 in several it Fps Over four years was passed by the House education and labor committee earlier this month und the full House is Cip Cutai to Lake Kilup after the Spring recess. A companion measure for a wage floor . Minimum wage Sill Ollil urns 45 "50 so wow 74 78 coca to of Bun Chart by David Jahntz source us. Zapor Towl of labor of j4.63 an hour aver several Yean is before the Senate labor committee. Robert mag toilet chief lobbyist for the american federation of labor and Congress of Industrial organizations is optimistic thai a Bill raising the mini mum wage will be passed especially in an election year. The majority of inc members of Congress obviously feel that there should be some increase in the minimum wage he said and we Hope they will act upon tha  the minimum wage debate has olso been coloured by a historical coincidence it was to years ago that Congress first set a minimum wage 25 cents an hour when it. The fair labor standards aet. Since then inc minimum wage has risen steadily and never before in the 50 years has in remained the same for so Long. The debate also Symbolics. Perhaps More thin any other legislation this year the conflict Between conservatives and More moderate politicians Over How the Federal government can Besl help poor americans find jobs and break the Cycle of dependency on government assistance. That legislation has made it this far reflects Lin important shift in that conflict in the waning months of the Reagan administration. In inc six years of Republican control of the Senate democrats were Una hic in bring a minimum wage increase out of commit tee. The result was the same even in the democratic controlled Huus. The administration countered proposals to raise the wage with a All for a sub minimum wage teen age workers saying that would a him Etc the Job Market. Trip firm control of both so talc and  have placed Bills raising the Bali Plum wage High on the nation s  some con Gressional aides say i conceivable but not Likely that Congress might accept some form of a sub minimum wage in an Effort to Avert a Reagan Vela. State senator shot by wife won t press charges Shreveport la. A a stale senator who told police he was shot by his wife after he resumed Home from a special legislative session improved from critical to serious condition sunday a spokeswoman Al leu medical Center said. Creg Tarvor. 41, a second irm senator told police thai his wife Sabrina shot him but that he did t want to press charges police chief Charles Gruber said Al a Newt conference late saturday she is not in custody., we Art nol looking for her he said. Mrs Tarvor could nol be totalled for comment sunday. Nobody answered at the tarvers Home number. Sam Jones who answered the Telephone at the funeral Home Tarvor runs raid the whole family was Al inc Hospital although reporters there did not Sec mrs. Tarvor. Tarver was in intensive care after 4vi hours of surgery Hospital spokeswoman Elaine King said. Doctors said they repaired blood vessels damaged by a .25-Catiber Bullet that Tore through Torver s Chest saturday. It s up to Tarver whether or not he hoi i  Gruber said. If a victim does t wish to pursue a Case then you have no Case. Although we will try to put our cose loge ice in Case he should change his mind "1 feel sure that once we get everything together we will turn it All Over to the District attorney and id Nim look Al it and Sec what he thinks said detective sol. Rick Ware. Charges often Ere not filed in Domestic violence cases said District attorney Paul con Nouchy. The shooting happened Jess than an hour after tan1 or returned from the special session in Baton Rouge. Gruber said Tarver s Mother. Batistine Hopkins re ported the shooting. Tarvor was one of three Blacks elected to the shr pc part City Council in 1978 the first Blacks elected to the Council. He became the City s first Black state senator in 1984 after a bitter Campaign against incumbent Bill Keith who ran n television commercial showing police Mug shots of Tarvor and listing 14 arrests from 1967 to 1973. Most of inc arrests were on charges of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest during civil rights protests. Study puts vehicle thefts at 12.3 million in 1973-85 Washington a morchim.,. 12.3 million cars trucks vans and motorcycles valued at 552 billion were Sto Len Over a 13-year period inc Federal government estimated sunday. After recovery of about 65 percent of them losses were estimated Al $29 Bil lion in 198s dollars. Insurance payments reduced actual losses to vehicle owners loan estimated si6.i billion according loan anal Sis of the Bureau of Justice statistics National crime surveys for the years 1973 through 1985.  per 1,000 registered vehicles Sci Rusli if incl Over the surveyed period from my the Bureau concluded in an anal biennial surveys of Mon pfc a 4q,000 households Nalion a Over  the number of Asti Marcd-4zniclc thefts per 1,000 House Bolus also declined by 21 percent from 13.3 in 1973 to 10.5 in 1985. In addition to the vehicle thefts during the period there were an estimated 7 in parking lots on tile Street or near the victim s Home the most Likely to be victim ill by car i heft were Blacks hispanic households headed by people younger than 25, people in multiple dwelling units a chiral Tity Resi dents and Low income households. Those least Likely to be victims were people is years and older homeowners and Rural residents. Slu Smith Bureau spokesman said the report was based on a new computer Analy Sis of the extensive crime surveys the Statis tic Bureau conducts every six Moths. Prostitute to re create poses she says Swaggart paid for new York up the prostitute who said she posed  disgraced television evangelist j will rc-crcsil1 the precise poses notions he paid Tor in a Penthouse photo layout the Magazine said sunday. The july Issue of pct House of Sak june 6 will have an Cuc Husum scrips of stunning photographs rat Deborah Murphree the new Abr Loans prostitute who brought Aptt the downfall of Jimmy Swagaing said by Preston a  Penl House. A 28, has signed an exclusive contract to Post for Penthouse Preston said. The confessed prostitute s Allomby said in new Orleans part she was paid a Sij figure  work but pres ton would to reconfirm the fee. Pictures will be accompanied by in which Murphree will reveal Vecty Mode in the yearlong relationship Preston Slid. On feb. 21, a tearful a thaggart con fessed before his congregation to an unspecified moral  later Murphree said she charged the television evangelist j50 an hour for Reg ular meetings Over a period of More than a year in a Motel in new Orleans. Million attempted the Fri said bus director Strven Schlesinger about w a Treen of those were  to police he _ recent of the actual vehicles also went Urc ported. A Tolu ? thefts involved a loss ofs2.455 or Monte Marc recoveries and insurance payments. About 10 percent involved losses of s 10,Uoo or More. The vehicle stolen in 76 percent of the cases surveyed was a car in 7 percent of the completed theft he vehicle was lit a garage Al Home. Thefts Taoa often took place Al night and Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. March 29,1948  possible common Mac Brics Pope Pius Xii said in Hii easier address that Rome Italy and  at a Crossroads Between Christ and the  30 years ago today. March 29, 19sb general Rio lors corp announced in would close seven Assembly plants and one  line for a week due to poor sales. 20 years ago today. March 29, a mass civil rights March in Memphis. Tenn., led by or. Martin  or. Erupted into a bloody nol As police beat Back marchers with clubs Tim Rena tear Gas. 0, ago today. March 29,1978 doctors continued to discover thyroid abnormalities among Marshall Island natives who were exposed to fallout from a . Hydrogen bomb test 20 years earlier on Bikini atoll