European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday August 24,1988 Industry analyst reports hike in gasoline prices los Angeles up the average retail Price nationwide of a gallon of gasoline Rose .06 cents to $1.03.42 during the two week period ending aug. 19, an Industry analyst said Mon Day. Trilby Lundberg president of the Lundberg Survey said retail gasoline prices were technically stagnant but there was great movement in the wholesale Market. The twice monthly Lundberg Survey is based on a review of 13,000 gasoline stations nation wide. The following average prices include taxes and Are based on self service pumps which account for eight out of every 10 Gallons sold regu Lar unleaded 94.32 cents Premium unleaded $ 1.09.04, regular unleaded 91.99 cents. Full service regular unleaded $1.21.88, Premium unleaded $1.32.16, regular unleaded $1.18.05. Massachusetts new York tops in lottery revenues Albany . Up american lottery ticket sales nationwide climbed 3.4 percent from $12.42 billion and pumped $12.84 billion into state treasuries in fiscal 1987, a report on the . Gaming Industry showed monday. Massachusetts pulled in $1.52 billion to Edge new York s $1.51 billion in Gross revenues and top the 23 american states that run legalized lotteries. Residents of Massachusetts also spent the most on lottery games in fiscal 1987, a whop Ping $260 per person. The figures Are culled from the annual reports of the 23 lottery states said Saul Leonard who wrote the study. Profits for All 23 states reached $4.99 billion for the fiscal year up from $4.94 billion in fiscal 1986. Revenues from ticket sales in the 23 lotteries hit $12.84 billion in fiscal 1987, an increase of 3.4 percent from $12.42 billion the previous Fis Cal year the study said. Express mail expanded to 4 More african nations Washington a express mail serv ice has been extended to four More nations in Africa the . Postal service reported tues Day. The seeded up service to and from the United states is now being offered to Madagascar and Somalia the Agency said. In addition the service is available to but not from Sierra Leone and Malawi. The rates Start at $18 per half Pound. All items acceptable in International mail to these nations can be sent express mail. International express mail is now available to 83 countries. Health officials probe Case of mistaken identity new York a health department officials Are trying to determine if any regulations were violated when an elderly nursing Home patient who was still alive was mistaken for a dead woman and taken to a funeral Home for pm  at the Sinai chapels funeral Home discovered the woman whose name was not re leased was still alive. Health officials said the incident began aug.10 when the woman s 91-year-old Roommate died at the Bridge View nursing Home i Queens. Someone at the nursing Home apparently Drew a curtain around the woman who was still alive and attendants from the funeral Home assumed she was the dead woman and took her to the funeral Home in a body bag authorities said. The woman was taken to a Hospital and late returned to the nursing Home. Health officials said they also Are trying to determine who was responsible for the mix up. Discovery Crew from left George Nelson David Hilmers John lounge Richard Covey and Frederick Hauck. Rewards of space shuttle flight outweigh risks astronaut says space Center Houston a the dangers in returning americans to space shuttle flight Are Over shadowed by the rewards says one of five astronauts scheduled to Fly on the first shuttle Mission since the challenger disaster. There Are certain things in life that the importance really transcends any danger that s involved or risk that s involved Marine it. Col. David c. Hilmers said monday at the last news conference he and fellow discovery Crew members will hold before their flight. The sense of privilege that i have in being a part of this and the purpose very much overshadows any fear that i  the discovery s launch expected during late sep tember will Mark the nation s return to manned flights in space. On Jan. 28, 1986, the challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff killing its Crew of seven. Navy capt. Frederick h. Rick Hauck who will command the Veteran Crew on the discovery s four Day Mission said the flight is important to establish Confidence in the space program. Hauck said that although safety is important he is concerned about people who believe All risks should be avoided. If the United states becomes afraid to take any risks then we need to find out who s going to Lead the world and follow them he said. The Mission will be a test flight Hauck said noting that the shuttle has undergone 210 modifications since the challenger tragedy. Although mechanical failures could occur he does t believe any would be life threatening. We clearly could not afford to lose another vehicle much less another Crew Hauck said. I Don t think the manned spaceflight program could withstand an other challenger on sts-26 his flight. That s High stakes but i m not concerned that that s going to happen. In the last year and a half i be seen How we be modified that machine and How we be done business. So i feel very comfortable with the  officials of the National aeronautics and space administration have been hesitant to set a Date for the often postponed launch because engineers still Are grappling with two problems that developed during a test firing of discovery s engines on the launch pad at Cape canaveral on aug. 10, Hauck said. But he added i m not aware of anything that might get in the Way of a late september  one problem was a Small leak of Hydrogen Gas detected in an area where the orbiter is joined to the external fuel tank. The other is the apparent sluggish Ness of three gaseous oxygen valves in the fueling sys tem. Although Nasa officials have said they Don t think either problem is serious they still wanted to lest both systems. They Hope they can announce resolutions and a launch Date this week. The astronauts main goal will be to deploy a communications satellite. They also will conduct 11 Sci ence and technology experiments. The other Crew members Are air Force col. Richard o. Covey the Pilot and Mission specialists George Pinky Nelson and John m. Lounge. Sinclair s shocker the Jungle to be published in uncut version new York a the original uncut version of Upton Sinclair s novel the Jungle will be published in october eight decades after the original shocked the nation with its expose of squalid conditions in the Chicago  Cut his original manuscript by a third for the 1906 Doubleday Page edition to make the Book More marketable according to Gene Degruson a professor and curator of rare books at Pittsburg state University i Kansas the new York times reported monday. Degruson said he pieced together the original novel from a truckload of rotting paper Given to him in 1980 by a Young Man who had been hired to clean out the cellar of a farmhouse in Girard Kan. The Man recognized Sinclair s name on the business records memos correspondence and other material and brought the boxes to the University Library instead of the  Jungle had been serialized for seven months in the newspaper Appeal to reason published in Girard. The House where the material was found apparently belonged to a Friend of the managing editor of the Appeal. When Doubleday published the Book it caused meat sales to slump and spurred president Theodore Roosevelt to order an investigation that led to the nation s first pure food and drug act. Considering the material that was expunged it s amazing that the published Book had any Impact what Soever Degruson said. Revision was drastic Degruson wrote in the introduction to the new edition due in october from St. Luke s press of Memphis Tenn. Sinclair changed the ending to make it More upbeat and added a love Story among other revisions he said. Most of the deletions pertained to the socialist party which Sinclair joined in 1902