European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday february 11,1989 january wholesale prices took biggest jump since 81 stateside Washington up the year got off to a bad Start for inflation As higher costs for food and Energy sent wholesale prices up 1 percent in january the sharpest jump in nearly eight years the labor depart ment said Friday. The 1 percent seasonally adjusted increase for finished goods in january followed More moderate advances of 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent in november and december the department s Bureau of labor statistics said. January was the worst month for wholesale inflation since april 1981, when the increase was 1.1 percent the Bureau said. For 1988, wholesale prices Rose 4 percent. If prices continued to Rise at the january Pace wholesale inflation would total 12.7 percent by year s end the Bureau said. Over the 12 months ending in january the Index Rose 4.4 percent while prices for intermediate goods moved up 6 percent and crude goods were 7.8 percent higher than the year earlier the Bureau said. Wholesale inflation was even worse farther Back along the production pipeline with prices for intermediate goods jumping 0.9 percent and crude prices advancing 3.9 percent on t9p of a 3.4 percent increase i december the Bureau said. The Bureau said wholesale inflation at the finished level was Broad based with Energy prices turning up sharply and food prices also moving up More than in recent months. Before seasonal adjustment the producer Price Index for finished goods Rose 0.9 percent in january to 111. For consumer goods Only inflation was 1.1 percent after adjustment for seasonal variations led by a 4.9 percent jump in Energy prices. Gasoline prices turned up sharply following a drop in the previous month and the costs of Home heating Oil and natural Gas climbed even More than in december the Bureau said. Food Cost 1.1 percent More in january after virtually no change the month before. Prices of pork eggs Rice and Dairy prices were higher while the costs of Chicken fresh vegetables fish and Coffee dropped. Excluding the volatile food and Energy prices wholesale inflation for consumer goods was a More moderate 0.4 percent in january held Down by a big drop in the costs of tobacco products the Bureau said. Car prices however turned up 1 percent after sea Sonal adjustment for the second month in a Row. Wife of convicted spy loses bid to suspend 24-hour watch Rochester Minn. A a . Magistrate refused to suspend around the clock surveillance of the ailing wife of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard despite her doctor s Contention that it aggravates her prob lems. She has no dignity at All or. Edward Goldberg said thursday of the 24-hour watch which includes trips to the bathroom. I. Think that is the added complication to her condition. At worst it is punitive. At Best it showed either inexperience or in  Anne Henderson pol lard who is serving five year prison term in connection with her Hus band s crimes is being treated at the Federal medical Center for gastrointestinal problem Henderson Pollard that Haye reduced her weight to 90 pounds. In a lawsuit against the Center s Warden Joseph Bogan she charged that she is being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because doctors have been deliberately indifferent to her  at thursday s hearing her lawyer former water Gate prosecutor Hamilton Fox asked for interim Relief from the 24-hour watch. . Magistrate Jan Symchych denied the motion saying medical opinion is divided on the value of the surveillance. Symchych recessed the hearing until feb. 16, when Henderson Pollard is expected to testify. The Pale 28-year-old inmate hunched Over during the hearing As the Center s medical director or. Mar tha Grogan said surveillance is needed because Hen Derson Pollard s weight is dangerously Low and she has refused treatment. There s never been a patient who s been so uncooperative Grogan said. Grogan said Henderson Pollard has been examined by 22 Mayo clinic specialists at a Cost of $55,640. She said the primary diagnosis was irritable Bowel syn drome a Little understood ailment associated wit chronic abdominal pain. Fox maintained that his client suffers from a More serious gastrointestinal problem that has been exacerbated by a hostile patient physician relationship. Late last month Jonathan Pollard who is serving a life sentence in a Federal prison in Marion 111., launched a five Day hunger strike to protest his wife s Transfer from a Danbury conn., Hospital to the Roch Ester facility. Pollard 34, was convicted in 1987 of supplying classified . Documents to israeli agents. Henderson Pollard was charged As an accessory to his Possession of the documents. She was transferred to Rochester Jan. 14, three Days after she collapsed at a prison Camp in Danbury. Portland moves to seize cars of Drunken Drivers Portland Ore. A City Council members Jive approved an ordinance allowing the City to confiscate and sell cars driven by people convicted of Drunken driving while their licenses were suspended. Representatives of mothers against drunk driving said the action was a key step toward getting statewide legislation enacted to seize vehicles of repeat offenders. Commissioner Earl Blumenauer who sponsored the ordinance urged the Council to put an emergency clause in the measure so the City could begin lobbying for necessary enabling legislation in Salem. The City Law May not be implemented until similar legislation is approved by the state. 2 Small planes collide while Landing on runway Honolulu a two single engine air planes collided As they attempted to land on the same runway at Honolulu International Airport authorities said. The three people aboard were not seriously Hurt. There were conflicting reports that the planes were 40 and 20 feet off the ground at the time of the collision. Barbara Jackson a passenger aboard her Hus band s Cessna 150, suffered a Bruise. Her husband James was flying the plane and is a Pilot for Aloha airlines. I Jung Kim a student Pilot was flying the Cessna 152 owned by Eveland Aero services. Ages were not available. . To hold lottery for 20,000 immigrants Washington a the state depart ment announced thursday that 10,000 extra visas will be issued in both 1990 and 1991 to immigrants from 162 countries on a random basis. Eligible for the lottery Are citizens of the soviet Union Poland and several other countries whose refugee quotas Are filled. The application period is March 1 through March 31. Instead the applications will be fed to computers and the selections made on a random basis. Immigrants from All the eligible countries will have an equal Chance. Only screening for mental or criminal liabilities will be conducted . Officials said. The state department announcement contained strict rules for applicants. Among them is that All applications must be typewritten. New computer revolution possible with new Chip Tokyo up Toshiba corp. Said Friday that it has developed a thumbnail size memory Chip that May replace floppy and hard disks within three years and drastically re Duce the size of computer systems. Toshiba executives said the device is the world s first four megabit electrically erasable programmable read Only memory Meeprom Chip the highest level of integration Ever attained in this kind of memory de  they said the Large capacity Chip provides an Ultra fast read out time of 1.6 microseconds one microsecond is one Millionth of a second More than 1,000 times faster than floppy disks. It takes 1 microsecond to erase or program data equivalent to or fas Ter than conventional a proms they said. An Meeprom is a non volatile memory device that retains programmed data even after Power is turned off. It also enables users to erase or rewrite stored information electrically. Toshiba executives said the new Chip May replace much larger com Puter memory storage mediums such As floppy disks or hard disks in three years time. They said the Chip has the advantage or not requiring any rotary drive mechanism such As floppy and hard disk drives and this May Lead to Sharp reductions in the size of com Puter systems. Sex rep. Hays disgraced by sex scandal is dead Belmont Ohio a Wayne l. Hays a former congressman whose affair with a . House clerk in 1976 touched off a payroll sex scandal in the nation s capital and destroyed his political career died Friday. He was 77. A family Friend at the Hays Home who would not give her name said Hays died at 1 30 . At a Hospital in wheel ing w.va., across the Ohio River fro this Eastern Ohio town. The woman who spoke by Telephone from the Hays residence said Hays apparently suffered cardiac arrest about noon Friday As he read a newspaper at Home. He died at the Hospital with his wife at his Side the woman said. The Hospital refused to release any in formation but Becks funeral Home in St. Blairsville confirmed that Hays had died. Hays began his political career in 1939, when he was elected to municipal office in his native Belmont county i Rural Eastern Ohio. He was finishing his 14th two year term in Congress when he resigned sept. 1,1976, to Stop a House ethics committee investigation into his conduct. Public hearings were to have begun 2 la weeks later. I think he did it to save his family Carl Albert then House speaker told reporters after receiving Hays resignation letter. The ethics committee then voted to end its three month investigation of the scandal on grounds that Hays no longer was a congressman and no longer under the panels jurisdiction. The Justice department which also was investigating decided not to prosecute. Department attorneys said they lacked evidence corroborating the account of Elizabeth Ray the House clerk and her relationship with Hays