European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 5 unemployment up slightly in july Washington up unemployment Rose to 5.4 percent in july an increase of one tenth of a percentage Point the labor department reported Friday. The jobless rate in june 5.3 percent was the lowest in 14 years but analysts had said in Advance that they expected the unemployment rate to Rise slightly in july. Many economists said the Low june figure reflected the timing of the Survey and the Entrance of students into the summer work Force. Despite the Rise in the jobless rate other data in the latest unemployment report showed Many facets of America s Economy remained Strong. There was a healthy increase of 283,000 non farm pay Roll jobs in the Economy considered a key gauge of future economic growth. Also there was vigorous employment growth in the manufacturing portion of the country s Economy. Some 70,000 new factory jobs were added to the Economy for a new total of 19.6 million. Employment in the Low paying service Industry also Rose in july by 200,000 new jobs. A total of 80,000 of those Job were in retail stores equating similarly Strong growth in june. The service Industry figures were significant because three out of every four of America s non farm workers Are employed in this sector of the Economy. A companion Index of unemployment counting Menand women in the military also Rose to 5.4 percent in july. Overall the unemployment rate has declined six tenths of a percentage Point since july 1987, the labor depart ment noted. Manufacturing showed continued strength in july because summer declines were smaller than usual. After seasonal adjustment factory employment Rose by 70,000 people. Translated from percentages the july figures showed that6.6 million americans were out of work seasonally adjusted while civilian employment stood at 115.1 million. The civilian labor Force edged up by 210,000 people in july. Overall 62.3 percent of americans had a Job. The july unemployment rate for teen agers Rose by a significant 1.6 percentage Points in july to 15.2 percent. The jobless rate for adult men was 4.5 percent and twas 5.1 percent for adult women both Little changed from the previous month. Also Little changed from june were the unemployment rates for Whites 4.7 percent Blacks 11.4 percent and Black teen agers a staggering 31.1 percent. The unemployment rate for hispanics dropped a full percentage Point to 8 percent the labor depart ment said. Postal Union official guilty of embezzlement Columbus Ohio a the National president of a Union of . Postal service employees pleaded guilty Friday to five of 50 Federal charges that he embezzled Union Money and made false re ports in Union records. Herbert Walker head of the Post of fice mail handlers Union entered the pleas in Federal court. He is to report Toa Federal probation office for a presen tence investigation and sentencing by judge Joseph Kinneary is expected in about three weeks. In Exchange for his pleas the other45 counts will be dismissed at sentencing the office of . Attorney d. Michael crites said. Walker 45, of Cincinnati was accused of embezzling $99,000 from 1983 to 1985 while head of local 304 in Cincinnati representing workers in Ohio Indiana and Kentucky. He was elected in december to the National presidency. As part of the plea bargain agreement he must make restitution of the Money. He already has paid Back More than $60,000, the . Attorney s office said. Walker pleaded guilty to embezzle ment making false entries in Union books and signing a false labor manage ment report to the department of labor. On sentencing he faces As much As$260,000 in fines and 10 years in prison for embezzlement a $20,000 Fine an two years in prison for making false entries in Union books and $100,000 Andone year in prison for signing a false labor management report. A june 16 indictment alleged that Walker deposited checks payable to local 304 in his personal Bank account and wrote checks to himself from Union accounts. He allegedly altered records to make it appear that checks to himself were for Union expenses. Crites said a Union audit revealed the Money was missing. Actor Dies a Ralph Meeker an actor whose role As the Macho Hal in the original production of picnic led to a 50-movie career and his own television show died Friday of a heart attack. He was 67. College tuition official predicts new York a College tuition will Rise an average of 7 percent this fall and students at the most expensive private schools can now expect their four year education to Cost upwards of $80,000, the College Board said Friday. Average fixed charges at private four year institutions tuition fees room and Board will hit$11,330 for 1988-89, up 9 percent from last fall the Board estimated in its annual Survey of College costs. Adding another $1,600, which the Board estimate the average student spends on incidentals like books supplies and transportation the total budget for residential four year private school students will reach nearly $13,000. We Are of course not at All surprised by these increases said Bruce Carnes Deputy undersecretary of the . Department of education and an outspoken critic of rising tuition. We have stated that so far As we can see the Price of College is going to go up at this rate  average fixed charges at four year Public schools will go up a More modest 5 percent to $4,445 for in state students or to just More than $6,000 including incidental expenses. At two year private schools tuition fees room and Board will average $7,627, up 7 percent. Average Tui Tion and fees at Public two year institutions Are in creasing 4 percent to $767. The Board said the Sample of such schools charging room and Board was too Small of increase 7% Rise of continue to compile an average. Students at tiny selective Bennington it College can expect costs to reach approximately $20,590,counting estimated incidental expenses. Sarah Law rence College is second most expensive at an estimated$20,360, followed by Brandeis University at $20,186 and Barnard College at $20,150. Other schools where student expenses will hover near the $20,000-a-year Mark include Tufts University University of Chicago Harvard and Radcliffe Dartmouth College Boston University and new York University. Students and their families should not be discouraged by these increases said College Board president Donald Stewart. About 5 million students will share More than $24 billion in Public and private financial Aid next year he said. Many College officials however blame Sharp tuition increases at least partly on dwindling Federal student Aid which forces schools to make up the difference with Aid programs of their own. The College Board is a private non profit Organiza Tion whose members include More than 2,500 secon Dary and higher education institutions. Since last year the Board has used a new method to calculate average College costs which takes each school s enrolment into account. The new method i designed to give a truer picture of what an average student can expect to pay at a Given Type of school. Tuition have increased faster than inflation for eight straight years. Chevrolet cancels Nova i a plans new car with Toyota Oakland Calif. A Chevrolet will cease production of its slow Selling Nova Model and replace it with a new car called prize to begin rolling off the Assembly line in Fremont next Spring. The official announcement is a Mon Hoff but Chevrolet spokesman Ralph Kramer told the Tribune newspaper the prize would be produced at the new United motor manufacturing inc. Plant. Nummi is a joint venture of general motors corp. And Toyota. The new car will be sportier than the Nova Kramer said. Once you see the prize i think you will agree it has More contemporary styling which translates into sportier he said. We think it is a More exciting car than the  it will be a much More inspired car said Christopher Sawyer associate editor of Auto week an Industry Magazine. This is a car that will sell for four years and it won t go out of  Nova was the featured product of the joint venture formed in 1983. Although it offered japanese features and Quality and was praised by experts the uninspired styling and the name take from an older line of mainstream sedans made people picture the car As an econ Box driven by Blue haired old la Dies Sawyer said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Aug. 7, 1948 one of 300 women returning to Hamburg West Germany after More than three years in soviet prison Camps said Equality for women in soviet Russia existed Only in the kind of backbreaking work they did. 30 years ago foday. Aug. 7, 1958 the House voted 286-108 to increase the Federal government s debt ceiling to $288 billion the highest in peacetime history. 20 years ago foday aug. 7, 1968 in a secret satellite launching the air Force rocketed an experimental payload on a Mission that could produce a vast amount of intelligence data about Russia red China Southeast Asia and other potential trouble spots. To years ago foday aug. 7, 1978 Pope Paul i 80-year-old Leader of the roman Catholic Church died after suffering a heart attack