European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday november 12,1988 wholesale inflation rate fell to Zero Washington Iarj wholesale Price inflation slowed to Zero last month As food costs dropped for the tint time since february reflecting an casing of the effects of the summer drought the government said thursday fresh fruit prices plummeted 9.2 percent to Lead a 0.1 percent decline in food prices on the wholesale level the labor department said. Large drop also occurred in prices for vegetables pasta fish beef pork and cooking oils. Food prices had been climbing at an news updates protest considered Miami a Republican . Rep. Connie Mack Iii was making plans for his transition to he Senate on Friday As rep. Kenneth buddy Mackay and democratic party officials considered a Legal Challenge to Mack s narrow Victory. Mackay refused to concede thursday even after Absentee bal lots gave Mack the Victory. Mack s Victory decided the last of this year s 33 Senate races. I Means the democrats will have a 55-45 majority a gain of one seat in the new Senate. Mack will re place retiring three term demo cratic sen. Lawton Chiles. The associated press tally showed Mack with 2,0,57svotes, or so percent to Mackay s 2.014,924, or so percent. The mar Gin is More than enough to avoid an automatic recount. Mystery disease Moscow up a mystery disease that has struck 114 Chil Dren in the town of Cherno Visy causing them to hallucinate and lose their hair has been linked to rare poisonous chemical Clement carried by acid rain from neigh Boring Poland or nor Oania soviet newspapers said thursday. Rumours that have swept the Ukraine that the mysterious ill Ness which mainly hits fair skinned blonde haired and Blue eyed children was caused by residual fallout from the 1986 Cherno Byl nuclear Power station disaster have been dismissed by soviet experts and the National Media. One of the most notable effects of radiation sickness is loss of hair. A local health official in the Tex tile milling town located in the Southern Ukraine said from mos cow that children have been advised to go outdoors Only when absolutely necessary Ana to Wash several times a Day. Annual rate of 8 percent before the re Versal. While the turnaround indicated the initial effects of the driest summer in decades on food prices Are Over analyst said Consumers can expert a second round of drought related increases next Spring when shortages of meal and pork appear because of earlier than Normal Slaughters this year. Wholesale Price increases for food have totalled 4,5 percent Over the past 12 months paralleling inc rate of consumer Price inflation in general. But including Energy and other products wholesale prices Overall arc Only 2.9 percent above a year ago. Energy prices Rose a slight 0.3 percent in october As a 4.6 percent increase in natural Gas prices caused primarily by shortages in the Northeast was offset by a 10.1 percent decline in Home Healing Oil prices and no change in gasoline prices. Energy prices Are still 5.7 percent below what they were a year ago and analysts said they expect them to begin falling again by Spring. Before the seasonal adjustments the labor department s producer Price Index for All finished goods including Energy and food Rose 0.6 percent to 109,5. That Means that a hypothetical Selec Tion of goods costing $100 at he whole sate level in 1982 would have Cost i 09.30 last month. The same Basket of goods would have Cost ii 08.60 in sep tember and $ 107.70 a year ago. Bush s budget deficit problem leaps by $21 billion Over earlier estimates Washington new taxes during the Campaign. As examples of pressure for increased spending they Point to Public demands that the government do More in the fight against drugs and to estimates topping$50 billion for the Cost of bailing out hundreds of insolvent savings and loan institutions House speaker Jim Wright on thursday said the first signal on whether Bush is serious about reducing the budget deficit is Likely to come from his appointment of two members to the National economic com Mission a bipartisan advisory group Cre ated to come up with a blueprint for Eli i a Tingle budget deficit. Will they be pragmatic people will they be realistic people will they be peo ple dedicated to finding a True solution to this enormous budget crisis Wright a Democrat asked i think that May be his first  officials said the main actors boosting the deficit estimate were the drought which slowed economic growth this year and High Ethan  interest rates which raised the Cost of financing the j2,6 trillion National debt. Soldier acquitted in fatal american girl 16, sought As runaway Kitzinger West Germany is military police arc looking for a 16 year old girl who reportedly ran away from her Home in the Marshall Heights housing area Laic thursday morning. Charity Killcy a student at  school leu a note saying she was leaving and not coming Back according to her Barents Sec. Richard m. And de Borah stockard. Charity is 5 feel 6 inches Tail his Short Brown hair with a layer Cut and has Blueeyes. When last seen she was wearing a Large White Coal a Blue and Green but torn own Collar shirt and Black faded Denim jeans. Anyone with information regarding the girl s location should Call he Stock ads at German civilian 09321-24647 or military police at ets 3554608 or 8855. Of husband by Crystal Laureano Suff writer Mannheim West Germany a Soldier charged with premeditated Mur Der in connection Wilh the stabbing other husband was acquitted thursday m a court martial a 21st theater army area come spokesman said pfc. Arlene Moore 22, of the i87lh personnel services co at Mannheim s Funari Barracks was found not guilty by a panel of three officers and five cos. Moore was on trial for inc june 15. Stabbing of spec. William Moore also of the 187th personnel services co. Arlene Moore Slabbed her husband in the Chesl in their Sandhofer apartment with a tvs Inch Kitchen knife and he died july 13 after being in a coma for nearly a month according to testimony. Arlene Moore told the court thai her girl scouts a Junior Al Karlsruhe High school has received the Gold award the highest achievement in girl scouting. Marye Halvorsen 15, has been in scouting for 10 years. While a member of troop 2 of Brussels Belgium she earned her award by organizing a project to clean up the grounds of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints Chapel. Halvorson and other volunteers spent More than 200 hours trimming shrubs mowing the Lawn and planting a variety of Flowers around the Chapel Halvorson also is a member of inc school volleyball team and plays the flute in the school band she is the daughter of maj James m. And Mary b. Halvorsen. Apartment husband had been trying to throw her out of their House following a Dis agreement. After a physical confrontation in their bedroom Arlene Moon went to the Kitchen and grabbed a  stabbing occurred As the couple struggled in the Kitchen she said. Prosecutors said Arlene Moore was guilty of premeditated murder because she had time to contemplate the decision to get the knife during the time she walked from the bedroom to the Kitchen and had Opportunity to leave the apartment. Arlene Moore s civilian attorney Joel Cohen called witnesses from the moors company and from the United Stales an expert witness on blood slain pattern interpretation. Other experts on forensic pathology and psychology and spouse abuse also ten tiled during the we Klong trial. Co workers of the Moores including their first sergeant and sergeant major testified that. Arlene Moore Wai quiet and timid and that William Moore could be aggressive and confrontational. A former Girlfriend of William Moore contradicted that picture of him. Jacquilyn Jenkins of Philadelphia had met Moore in High school dated him for seven Yean lived with him for two month and gave birth to his child in May 1986. She and he was a peaceful person and thai she had never known him to be confrontational abusive violent or aggressive 1 however Jenkins said he could be a. Little jealous.". Or. Mai David Hause who per formed Lwilliam Moore s autopsy  regional medical Cen Ter said the cause of Moore s death was adult respiratory distress syndrome resulting from a punctured left lung. Julie Young in a former Heidelberg High school student also recently received the Gold award. She has been involved with girl scouting for 10 years. To earn her Gold award she planned and organized a weekend event for Ca Dclute and senior girl scouts from throughout Central Germany in the fallow 1987. During the weekend at bad lie Benzell West of Stuttgart the scouts worked on projects and participated in a variety of physical activities Young who graduated from Heidel Berg in june is a freshman at the University of Maryland Munich Campus. She is the daughter of David and Leeann Young to attain the Gold award a Gui scout must Complete at Lett four inter est projects and fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership career exploration and self awareness. She then must plan and Cany out a Gold award service project that usually involves at least four months Effort.  -. I third Grade student at accent in  was awarded the girl scout Bronze Cross nov. 7. The award is for set ills who perform extraordinary acts of heroism. Charloe Mace 8, received the Bronze Cross for saving her 2w-year-old brother Ben from being hit by a car while he was crossing a Street near their Home in Brun sum Netherlands in the Spring. Charlotte is a member of Brownie girl scout troop 99 of accent and is the daughter of Gilbert and Elizabeth Mace