European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday july 13,1988 stateside against a Flag backdrop a worker helps get things ready at Atlanta Omni site of the upcoming political convention. Inflated prices blow up in face of some Atlanta Buck chasers Atlanta a with hot water going for nearly$27 a gallon and potted plants renting for $79.50, there is Money to be made at next week s democratic National convention. The Days when delegates pulled into town with a$10 Bill and a clean shirt and left without changing either Are history. The 35,000 visitors for the july 18-21 event to nominate Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis Are expected to leave about $30 million in Atlanta. But some local plans to partake of the Windfall have gone awry. An employee of an Atlanta office furniture an equipment rental company told one caller his company and Many others like it had raised prices 30 to 40percent in anticipation of the convention Rush. The result was that Many news organizations handsome Denro cratic National committee groups flocked to a Detroit area company willing to deliver install maintain and remove typewriters computers copiers Tel fax machines and office furniture at roughly half the going Atlanta  example water coolers were quoted locally at $30 a Day. The Detroit company provides them at $30 a  Atlanta companies Are renting typing tables at $50 each waste baskets for up to $27 and chairs for As much As $40. Convention Florist service int l. Inc. Lists the rental Price on a 7-foot Green Plant at $79.50. Local florists checked by Telephone offered to sell similar plants out right for from $45 to $65. Hotels Are also looking at a Boom with rooms for delegates reporters vips fund raisers lobbyists pro testers and the curious at a Premium. A prospectus for a major textile convention coming to Atlanta in september lists a single room at the at Lanta Hilton at $102. A reservations clerk quoted a rate of $ 135 for the democratic convention. A spot Check found some hotels charging even higher rates. Suits filed by relatives of 2 women killed in collapse of Texas store Brownsville Texas a relatives of two women killed when a department store collapsed in a thunderstorm have filed lawsuits charging that the roof was unsafe. Juan Lopez Butron of Matamoros Mexico whose wife Graciela Cortinas de Lopez was the fifth victim pulled from the rubble filed two lawsuits monday. Lopez Butron accused the Amigo store of failing toward his wife a collapse could occur and failing to properly inspect the roof and its drainage system. In a second suit he accused the store s builders Adams Brothers general contractors inc., of failing to install a Safe roof failing to inspect it and failing to properly install an adequate Way to Drain the Flat sur face. In that suit he requests a trial by jury and ask for no More than $5 million in damages interest and court costs. Luis Enrique Cortinas Villarreal filed a suit seeking damages for the death of his Mother Marisela Villar real via. De Rivera. He named Bernard Levine owner of the store and his company los Amigos inc., in the suit which alleges negligence. Calls to Levine s Home in Brownsville were not an swered monday. Meanwhile officials continued to investigate Why the building collapsed during heavy Rains thursday crushing 14 people to death and injuring at least 47  Winslow of the Southern building code con Gress of Birmingham ala., said investigators were checking whether some special characteristic of the building caused it to be affected by shifting Rainwater that could have led to its collapse. In this Case it s going to be very difficult because of the Way the material was removed during the res Cue Winslow said. The debris was later carted to the City dump. He also said investigators were looking at whether the weight of the water soaked building materials could have contributed to the collapse. On monday heavier than usual Street and foot traffic flowed along the downtown Street past where the building once stood. Some passers by slowed to look atthe store s swept clean floor All that remains of the three Story Structure. Nearby stores that closed during the Rescue Effort reopened with the exception of the adjacent Wool Worth a in which rescuers knocked a Hole in the Wall to reach survivors. Hwisook Lee owner of East West fashions across the Street said she lost a Good Deal of business while her store was closed thursday through saturday. But we had to close. We re going to have to catch  Lee said she planned to Contact the owner of her building for a safety inspection. 4 arrested for poaching 1,000 sea Turtle eggs Riviera Beach Fla. A state wildlife officers arrested four people and confiscated More than 1,000 sea Turtle eggs after staking out a Beach used for nesting by endangered sea tur  eggs were retrieved too late to save them said it. Jim Huffstodt of the state game and Freshwater fish commission. Huffstodt said the officers spotted four people on a Beach near the Entrance to John d. Car thur state  had been patrolling. Because to acis is the time of year when the big turtles come up to Lay their eggs and some people collect the eggs to sell them As food and As an aphrodisiac huffs Todt  eggs Are sold for about $2 each he said. Charged were riveria Beach residents Enous Lewis jr., 33 Roosevelt u. Paulk 27 James e. Bivins 36 and Joyce Allen 33. The maximum penalty for the offence is a $ 1,000 Fine and a year in jail. Monetary compensation secondary to parents Louisville by. A the parents of a 10-year-old girl killed in a fiery Church bus crash say they have offered to give up a settlement from Ford motor co. If the automaker agrees to recall and modify its older school buses. If someone was Ever injured or killed in a Simi Lar Accident and we had t done everything we could to prevent it from happening again we could t live with ourselves said James Nunnal Lee whose daughter Patricia died May 14 with 26 others on the Radcliff Assembly of god Church bus. People might think we re crazy but it does t bother  Nunnallee an air Force major and his wife Karolyn said recently they would accept a $ 1 settlement if Ford agreed to the recall and to revamp the Gas tanks on thousands of its older buses. When the Church s bus was struck by an Alleg edly Drunken Driver heading the wrong Way on interstate 71, the Gas tank was punctured and smoke from the ensuing fire that spread rapidly through the bus was blamed for All 27 deaths. Anheuser Busch plans brewery in Georgia Cartersville a. Up Anheuser Busch cos. Inc. Announced monday it will build its 13th brewery in Cartersville to be operation Al in 1992, the company said. August a. Busch Iii Board chairman and president said construction of the $300 million brewery will begin immediately. We Are pleased to be Able to make this announcement. It reflects our Confidence in the future of our company and in the kind of leadership and business climate we have found i Cartersville and the state of Georgia he said. The brewery will produce 6 million barrels of Beer a year company officials said. Chrysler corp. Marks loan payback anniversary Detroit up Chrysler corp. This wee Marks its fifth anniversary of paying Back More than $1.2 billion in federally backed Loans seven years ahead of schedule noting it has earned More than $7.4 billion in profits since 1983. The no. 3 car maker paid Back $1.2 billion in federally backed Loans plus $23.4 million in in Terest in two payments made in june and a gust of 1983. The car maker also repaid $362million in state Loans which included $155 Mil lion Worth of interest. Iacocca said Chrysler which averted bankruptcy in the Early 1980s through such Loans plus More than $1.37 billion in employee conces Sions has spent $12.1 billion modernizing seven North american Assembly plants and introducing 25 new car and truck products since 1983. Chrysler said its employment Levels since the have risen by 45,000 hourly and salaried work ers although nearly 22.000 have been added to its payrolls As a result of last year s acquisition of amen can motors corp