European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 6,1988 profiling a new Racket Julie Barnes a technician with the wit son Tennis equipment company nukes a final Quality Elwick on the new profile Racket turned out in the manufacturer s research and development Laboratory in River Grove lit the wide body Frame represents the first major breakthrough in Tennis rackets in nearly a decade. Every Catalon listing May not be of import but it helps exports Washington a better or otherwise this Mousetrap uses neither Springs nor Poison of that does t strike your fancy How about a kit for making your own four sealer plane could you use a few dozen cow gallstones All this and More can be found in a fed eral government Catalon designed to help peddle . Goods around the world. Among the other novelties listed in the monthly publication commercial news Usa is a machine Tor making miniature doughnuts. And there s genuine Kiowa Indian beef Jerky. The department of Commerce sends110,000 copies every month to . Mis Sions in to countries but does not Dis tribute them in the United Stales. The Magazine has an Index in French and Spanish As Well As English and some missions translate the entire Issue. The foreign agricultural service of the agriculture department takes inquiries from other countries and makes the available through computer information networks to americans with farm products to sell. Some Are published in the journal of Commerce a business daily in new York. Earlier in the 1980s, the inquiries included such exotic items As the cow Gall stones for use in chinese Medicine As Well As four Leaf clovers and Turtle eggs. Foreign agriculture published monthly by the department says in do snot know what the Clover and Turtle eggs were used for. It quotes Stan Barrett one of the department s marketing specialists As say ing it now prefers to concentrate on More mundane products like wheat Wood beef and poultry. Last year the countries with the mos requests were Taiwan Japan Britain Kuwait Oman the United Arab Emi an crates Egypt Bahrain West German Canada. Manufacturers pay 1150 to get a Imal Black and White photo and a Brief description of their product in commercial news Usa. The miniature doughnut machine called lil  is considered one of the Magazine s Success stories. Janet Erncr its program director said in a interview that its mention in the mag Azine brought $600,000 Worth of Busi Ness for the manufacturer in Minneapolis. He had visits from interested agent sin West Germany and Thailand and negotiations with a japanese distributor. The Mousetrap works this Way the mouse crawls in to get the bait tips the trap and causes the door to lock behind it. It costs 42 to to cents wholesale and can be either reused or thrown away wit the mouse inside. The do it yourself air plane kit costs$40,000. The manufacturer claims the resulting plane when  together from the instructions that come with it Hai a Cruis ing Speed of 200 Miles an hour a Range of1,000 Miles and a useful Load of 850  Jerky is marinated dried meat in thin pieces about an Inch wide. The word comes from the quechua indians in Peru but the version now being Export Dis made by a Kiowa Indian from Oklahoma Robert Rowell. He sold a contract to harrods depart ment store in London after being helped by the foreign agricultural service to exhibit at a British food show it goes Well with Beer said dug Wharris of the High value products Divi Sion at the service. They drink a lot of Beer Over  labor chief Calls minimum wage hike a Job loser9 Washington a Labai Secretary Ann me Laughlin said monday that the across the Board in crease in the minimum wage sought by democrats is really a Job , speaking on Abc to s today show defended Republican support for a sub Mirum training wage for to can Agurs. Vice pics Ideal George Bush is generally opposed to raising the $3.35-an-hour minimum wage. His running male. Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana has led the opposition in the Senate to a democratic Bill that would raise the minimum and Peg in to inflation. Quayle last week said he now favors an increase inlhc$3,35 minimum coupled with a training wage. Bills Are pending in the Senate that would raise the hourly minimum to j4.55 by 1991. House legislation would raise it to s5.0s by 1992.the democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis favors raising the minimum wage which was seat s3.3 5 seven years ago. Mclaughlin said she was on the same Wavelength As  re sort of talking the same thing. There is an interest in increasing the minimum wage but there s greater interest in having some kind of a training wage she  increasing the minimum wage docs not address Young workers need for better education and training she said i think the idea of some kind of a training wage that might allow us to gel particularly our Young peo ple into a Job learn about coming 10 work coming Back the next Day and learning a Little bit about what it lakes to hold a Job might be helpful she said the minimum wage increase across the Board a in s being discussed by la democrats in Congress is really a Job loser and potentially inflationary said Mclaughlin who was in Cleveland. She was marching later in the Day in the Barberton Ohio labor Day Parade. She questioned the logic of an across the Board in crease when there Are some places right now thai Are suffering from Job shortages and you can t get a Job fors7 or is an hour and there Are other places m our. Country you d love to have a Job at $3.35. Marines in . Shrub off thorny Security problem Havelock . A always looking for ways to improve Security the Marine corps has planted a hedge that will sprout thousands of razor Sharp thorns said to be Strong enough to Slop . About 60,000 Bushes bearing the Brand name living Fence have been planted at the Marine air station at Cher by Point to increase Security around flight lines storage areas for explosives and the military Kennel. Once the hedgerow is fully grown you d have to use a Chain saw or explosives packed Bangalore torpedo to get them out said la. Col. Stephen Shivers Provost marshal of Cherry  Plant s scientific name is Trifoliate Orange. The Bushes which grow abundantly in the Hills of East Tennessee sometimes extend to a height of 20  shrubs mature about five years after planting harmless looking Green hedgerows at Cherry Point will conceal 3 to 5-Inch thorns that make the Barrier nearly impossible to climb Over Orcut  enhance our Overall Security pro Gram we thought we d give these Bushes a try shrivers  said a common nickname for the Bush is . That stands for the pain and terror inflicted on anyone who tries to break through the hedge he  marines that work on it have some a quotable names for it Shivers said. The Bushes marketed by Barrier concepts inc. Of Oak Ridge tenn., Cost about $1.50 apiece. San Fary District contest sets off round of name Cal ing Chicago a the metropol Itan sanitary District of greater Chi Cago is trying to clean up its image witha new  in s doubtful employees will want to be known As sludge bus ters or Scummy can  people hear sanitary and the think garbage " said James Kirie the District s finance commissioner but we reclaim and purify Waleran control floods that s our  Kirie 77, decided to hold a contest to find a better Moniker and is personally offering a 11,000 first prize. Letters poems and Dummy logos scrawled in Crayon or professionally typeset have spelled out Cleverand Noi so Clever suggestions. Metropolitan sludge Buster treatment department groovy and pure Channel District Coo county Waters r us and scum my can cleaners were among the suggestions. Some came up with names that suggested a theme Park Clearwater county Neptune s Angels and everything  one woman thought Aqua fix captured the essence of the department while one Man thought washers of water wow " summed in up Best