European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday october 6,198b 81 % of women like to Cook poll shows new York Jap eighty one percent of american women Lite to Cook but 56 percent Don t like cooking every Day according to a Survey re leased tuesday. Eighty four percent accept cooking As one of their responsibilities Accord ing o inc Survey done for Vogue Glamour Mademoiselle self and Bride s magazines. But three quarters of the respondents want o get the task done As quickly As possible. Eighty percent also do the food shop Ping alone whether or nol they Are employed outside inc Home it said. The study also divided american women into four groups with significantly different attitudes toward food shopping and cooking traditional homemakers who make up 31 percent of All women be Lieve it s the husband s Job to support the family. Displaced Home makers 26 per cent of All women have unfulfilling jobs out of financial necessity or be cause of divorce or separation but would rather be a full time Homchak or. Committed careerists 33 percent who see marriage and child rearing Asan interruption of their  free spirits 11 percent who Don t fit any of the other categories. Most reside in Large Urban areas arc relatively Young employed and divorced or separated. Many arc members of minorities. They have the shopping habits of traditional homemakers but Cook like committed careerists. Mark Clements research inc., and National family opinion inc., con ducted the study for Condo Nast publications. It mailed 2,500 questionnaires on . 4 and got Back 1,825 by Jan. 12 from women 1b to 65 years old. The sampling error was plus or minus 2.4 percent. Gao says food prices higher than summer drought justifies stateside erty Spring crop com soybeans. Cotton Washington congressional investigators have found Price hikes on bread pasta beef and poultry have been greater than the increases that should have resulted from the summer drought two lawmakers have announced. Consumers should he aware of this situation and should use their clout through comparison shopping to fight unwarranted Price jumps said sen. Patrick j. Leahy d-vt., and rep. Byron Dorgan,i3-n.d., in a joint shiite men. The Price increase study by the Gener Al accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress showed that pasta prices have jumped More Llian 8 percent since april according to details of the stud released by the pair tuesday. Retail in creases of Only 4 percent to 5 percent Are warranted by destruction of wheat said Morgan and Leahy who is chairman ofic Senate agriculture committee. The Gao also reported that the Price of ground beef has increased 3 percent while the Price that livestock producers gel for cattle actually has dropped ii Pyrc Cal since april. The Gao said fruit prices Rose an average of 12 percent while bread prices increased 4 percent com paring the prices of different brands and even prices in different stores can help prevent anyone from taking unfair advantage of Consumers the two lawmakers said. Food processors and retailers need to know that we Are All watching and they must be held accountable foray food Price increases not directly attributable to higher costs they added. The two lawmakers said the Agency used the same data that make up the consumer Price Index produced by the Bureau of Labur statistics. They stressed thai the figures represent National averages and that there could be differences from one Region to another. In related studies consumer organizations said monday that monitors around the country found no effects of drought on agriculture peanuts suffer poor germination with 111 and irregular growth. Swig leaves gradually be the oldest ones first eventually King it Plant. Forage crops Alfalfa Clover teed Grain and grasses dry out and turn Brown but will recover if sufficient Moi Slife is received in time. Livestock cats and hogs need feed and Large amounts of water to reduce internal body neat extended droughts win kit hem. Poultry Bros Fly kept in biddings. Who Metal roofs die in Large. Numbers unless mimed out to improve Tif  Tebon growth  animate in heat stress grow at slower Rales. West och miscarry and egg toying to reduced. Hertz the Lack of moisture May prevent natural breakdown of wee Kaers residue remaining in Sot the mowing Spring cold prevent germination of new crop. Fruit ind nut Trees peach Pecan Apple and other Trees produce fewer buds decreasing production one Yaar after the drought. Combo Ultsh a fit in source univ Why of Mot Coop Ratt Emir upon Smital Price gouging in july and August but substantial increases in beef and some other agricultural goods in june. The report was issued jointly by the consumer federation of America and inc Washington based Public voice on food health and policy. The agriculture department has been trying local concerns about possible inordinate Price increases in the Wake of the drought. It has estimated that the drought would add 1 percent to food prices this Yea Rand perhaps 2 Pyrc Cal in 1989, bringing an increase of no More than 6 Pyrc Cal in the consumer Picc Index for food next year. 13 hand capped Dod civilians honoured for invaluable work Washington a defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci honoured 13 civilian defense department employees tuesday with outstanding handicapped employee of the year awards saying they have made invaluable contributions to National  i am proud of Dod s posture As a Leader among Federal agencies regarding the employment and advancement of handicapped individuals Carlucci added. The 13 Hon orces employed at a variety of installations across inc country included men and women who have overcome such handicaps As blindness deaf Ness cerebral palsy and spinal Cord injuries. One of this year s winners Kathryn Elizabeth Porter of Waynesboro pa., now is a clerk a Piil with the de sense investigative service in Washington and Over came a hearing impairment mild cerebral palsy Dou ble sclerosis and a congenital hip malfunction the Pentagon said. Another Honor cd Shannon m. Keenan was bom with a severe hearing loss and with cerebral  she conquered both and today is a military  enam incr with inc department of military affairs Minnesota National guard in St. Paul minn.," the department said. Of her Honoreus included Francis j. Boyle of the do of Csc logistics Agency in Alexandria a. John f. Clark of the defense mapping Agency in St. Louis Patrick n. Mcviney of the army and air Force Exchange service in Dallas John a Ebaugh of the de sense nuclear Agency in by Lucida md., and Myra Frank of the Dod inspector general s office in Arling ton a. Also Alice e. Achl of inc defense Secretary s Slaff in Washington Ronald w. Malik of Chanute fab 111. James o. Mane of fort Hood Texas William p. Mcgee of the defense contract audit Jeney in col Umbus Ohio Susan k. Povinelli of the Navy in Washington and Robert c. Rakas of the defense communications Agency in Washington. Agricultural researcher wins $200,000 food prize Washington a or. Robert f. Chandler jr., an agricultural researcher and founding director of the International Rice research Institute in the Philippines was awarded the $200,000 world food prize tuesday  prize sponsored by the general foods fund inc., recognizes outstanding contributors to improving the Quality Quantity  food in he world. Under or. Chandler s guidance Zirri developed and distributed new varieties of Rice with double an triple the yield potential of traditional Rice general foods fund said in a news release. Largely because of this famine in Asia was averted in inc 1970s." 500-Pound Bull Moose roaming Boston suburbs West on mass. A a 500-Pound Bull Moose has been lumbering across Busy highways and wan Dering through wooded areas in Boston s Western suburbs and authorities Hope he finds his Way Back North on his  docs a 500-Pound Gorilla sleep anywhere he likes. Thai s sort of what we re doing with the Moose said Steve Williams a biologist for the state department fisheries and wildlife. Metro Moose was last spotted limping into the Woods in Weston after a car clipped his Hind leg monday morning. It has been seen at least 10 times in five towns 10 to 15 Miles West of Boston during the past week. Animal control officers police and slate wildlife officials say they can t do much for the Moose believed to have wandered from new Hampshire for the mating sea son except try to keep people away from him. Williams said that during each mating season older male Moose Chase younger males away from the females. Michelangelo drawing to be displayed in . Washington a a Michelangelo drawing of the suicide of Cleopatra discovered last August will go on display for Trie first time sunday at the National gallery of  drawing had not been noticed before because it was on the reverse Side of a belter known work that had been pasted onto a backing. It was revealed when conservators removed the better known drawing which also depicts the ancient egyptian ruler because it was nol being preserved properly on the backing. The Well known drawing on the front illustrates the traditional Story of her suicide in which she had an Asp brought to her in a Basket of figs and put in on her Arm. It shows the Snake biting her breast Cleopatra s hair is care fully dressed and her expression is Alan and melancholy. Aluminium Light poles targeted by . Thieves new York. Up aluminium hungry thieves have begun targeting new York City Light poles i their quest for the Metal bringing a nationwide prob Lem to the streets of the big Apple according to a report published  new York daily news said police have thwarted at least one group of aluminium bandits by arresting two men for stealing an aluminium Light pole in South Ozone Park Queens. The suspects. Lucius Shuler 47 and Randall wat son 30, were seen dismantling the fallen pole and they later admitted to police they were trying to steal a said policeman Charles Duffy who made the arrests. The problem of Light pole thefts has already hit Many other areas of the country