European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday August 24,1988 w. Virginia town happily losing tons of weight Wellsburg . A resident shave been counting calories and comparing waistlines for three months shedding thousands of pounds and hundreds of inches in an Experiment aimed at improving the health of Rural americans. My neighbor lost 32 pounds and i be lost14," said Odessa Mace 62, one of 1,000 participants in the two year $4 million study. I Don teat red meat anymore and i watch my butter. No More Salt or Bacon  Mace and others in the study had their blood pressure pulse cholesterol and weight checked last week in their first health exam since the Experiment began in May. Participants will receive a More extensive physical along with blood tests in november. At initial screenings the average participant was30 pounds overweight and three out of four reported they never exercised. A substantial number also had High blood pressure and cholesterol readings of More than the desired 200-or-less level. All that has begun to change. I m out Here three nights a week Mace said during a break in her water aerobics class at the municipal Pool. Organizers of the study said they chose Wells Burg a Northern Panhandle Mill town of about 4,000, because of its size and because the stat registered the highest obesity rate in the country at 24 percent in a 1986 Federal study. The Sam study also found nearly a third of West Virgini ans smoke. President signs Trade Bill ensuring fair play abroad Long Beach Calif. Up president Rea Gan using the West coast s busiest port As a backdrop signed the historic Trade Reform Bill tuesday saying it will help 9pen world markets for . Products and ensure fair play abroad. In a dramatic setting at Long Beach Harbor with a audience of congressional leaders and dockworkers Reagan did not mention sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas the democratic vice presidential candidate and prime mover of the Bill. But White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater not ing the bipartisan support for the measure told report ers monday everyone who worked on it gets the credit adding that Bentsen did a Good Job on the legislation. The 2,000-Page Trade Bill passed overwhelmingly in the House and Senate is intended to make the United states a Leader in world Trade by opening foreign markets to . Exports and requiring retaliation against foreign Trade abuses. This Bill will help us continue to open markets he said. It will help us insist on standards of fair play for our products  the United states government now Speaks with one voice in calling for a free and open trading system one committed to fair play for All  in 1981, George Bush and i arrived in Washington committed to getting government out of your Way he said. We slashed tax rates Cut interest rates in half and revved up the most powerful creative engine of growth innovation and Opportunity the world has yet known the american people he said. Reagan said the Bill is just the latest step in the Effort which began the first Day George Bush and i entered office to open vast markets to american products around the world. Reagan warned however that he feared a trend of protectionism. Let me be Plain he said. There awesome things in this Bill i Don t like. It is possible this Bill could Lead to an import fee that would be illegal according to International Law and inconsistent with our goal of moving toward free world  the final Trade Bill was a redraft of the original legislation vetoed by Reagan who rejected the first version for including a provision requiring that work ers receive 60 Days notice of Plant closings and major layoffs. Congress later passed the Plant closing Bill separately and bowing to pressure from Republican Law makers Reagan allowed it to become Law without his signature. The Trade Bill requires the president to retaliate against foreign Trade abuses but allows him to choose the form of retaliation such As tariffs or quotas. The Bill expands the definition of unfair Trade practices that can trigger retaliation. The measure also transfers authority from the presi Dent to the . Trade representative to decide whether foreign practice is unfair and it requires action if negotiations Are unsuccessful with countries that Vio late . Intellectual property rights such As patents or copyrights. It limits Access for american telecommunication products or services and streamlines Export licensing rules. In addition the Bill enhances government programs to help injured industries adjust to import Competition and expands the Trade adjustment assistance program for workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competitors. More than $2,000 since 1980, the depart ment of education reported tuesday. The new estimate puts spending on Edu cation Well ahead of inflation in this dec Ade department statistics show. The financial investment we Are Mak education spending ahead of inflation in 80s Washington a educating future of our nation said education Sec during the same period Between the expected to reach $132 billion up 6.6 per America s youth is expected to Cost $4,810 rotary William j. Bennett in releasing the 1980-81 school year and 1988-89, salaries cent from last year while elementary and pets sent in Public Dementry and Sec Agency s Back to school forecast. For teachers have increased from $17,644 secondary spending is up 6.0 percent to Mondary schools this year an increase of the $2,762 per Pupil spending of the to $29,573 the report shows. $196 billion or 1980-81 school year would have risen to since inflation would have raised teach total enrolment in the nation s schools $3 462 if simply adjusted to reflect in or pay to just $21,286 in the period their and colleges is expected to reach 58.5 Mil creases in the Federal consumer Price salaries led inflation by the same amount As lion students. Index. Yet the department expects spend per Pupil spending did 39 percent. Elementary enrolments continue to rising to top that by nearly 39 percent. Overall the Agency expects education because of the surge in births that began in increased spending by state and local spending at All Levels Public and private to 1977, rising from 32.38 million last year to governments in an Effort to improve Rise to $328 billion for the coming school 32.84 million. The number of students in ing in our children s education is immense schools was cited by statistician Vance year a record. That is up from $308.8 Bil High school continues to decline somewhat we must produce better results for our in Grant As a major reason for spending being Hon last year and $ 182.8 billion in 1980-81. Falling from last year s 13.51 million to vestment for our Young people and for the ahead of inflation spending by colleges and universities is 13.14 million expected in classes this fall. Many married women Happy with their ves Gallup poll discovers new York a married women aged 18-44 Are nearly twice As Likely As unmarried women to say they Are very satisfied with life according to a Gallup poll released tuesday. Overall 44 percent in the National Survey of 1,000women said they were very satisfied with their lives and another 44 percent said they were mostly satisfied As opposed to the third Choice not satisfied. Money marriage and part time employment were the most common factors. Fifty seven percent of women with family incomes of $35,000 or More said they were very satisfied com pared to 29 percent of women with incomes less than $15,000. Similarly 53 percent of married women said the were very satisfied compared to 23 percent of unmarried women. And 52 percent of women who work part time said they were very satisfied compared to 41 percent of full time workers. Of those with children 46 percent said they were very satisfied with their lives. Of those with no children Only slightly fewer 39 percent took that Choice. The poll s margin of error for the entire Sample was plus or minus three Points but As in All polls it was greater for subgroups. The poll conducted by Telephone june 17-21, was commissioned by Ortho pharmaceutical corp., which makes birth control products. Refuses to Budge two windsurfers sail by the podge As it lies aground on australian sailing vessel ran onto the reef at Low tide a reef near Kabala Beach Park in Hawaii the 45-foot Early efforts by the coast guard to free the ship foiled