European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday May 17,1989 for lust $350, you can Dine in prohibition Nook new York a file this in the Only in new York category. Where can diners walk through the bar into the Kitchen Down a Steep flight of Steps to the basement and through a narrow hallway to a Small room for the privilege of paying a mini mum ofj350 per person for dinner at the 21 club. The club s secret wine cellar where prohibition guests downed drinks behind the Protection of a 4,000-Pound secret door opened monday night As a Sanctuary for Well heeled diners. Inside a single table set with sparkling Silver and a Floral Centrepiece sat amid floor to ceiling Racks of wine bottles and a wooden Booth where High living mayor Jimmy Walker used to Knock Back a few in the 1920s. But intimacy nostalgia and a six course sup per Don t come cheap in the Midtown manhat Tan restaurant s one table Sanctum that can accommodate up to 12 gourmets. Prices Start for dinner at $350 a head and that includes a selection of wines we would recommend said Ken arc sky. Chairman of the 21 club. A tap on the Wall indicates nothing unusual. But when chief som Mclick Matt Sicgel Sticks a Long slender steel Rod into a tiny Hole voila the secret 4,000-Pound Brick door opens. During prohibition Federal agents once searched 10 hours for the secret door Sicgel knocked on the Walls and lit matches to find a draft but never found it he said proudly. Physical fitness is Best cure for chronic Job absenteeism Washington a smoking and drinking do not affect worker absenteeism rates but physical fitness does with out of shape workers Likely to miss More Days of work according 19 a study released tuesday. More physically fit individuals experience fewer work absenteeism and employer initiatives that in crease the level of physical activity among the work Force May indeed have a positive affect on employee absenteeism said the report from the National chamber foundation. While the foundation the research Arm of the of Commerce found attendance differences based on individual characteristics such As income education and physical condition it said group absenteeism projections based solely on race or gender arc groundless As Well As discriminatory. The variance of absenteeism patterns among individuals is so great As to make characterizations based on group behaviour of no value to the employer the study foundation based its results on 33,000 responses to surveys conducted in 1983 and 1985 by the . Government s National Center for health Statis tics. All of the respondents included in the study were 18 years of age or older and had jobs. The study was released a week after the Center for health statistics using some of the same data released a study of its own saying sickness keeps women away from work about one Day More a year than men. The authors gave no reason for that finding but a 1985 labor department study said women have higher rates of absenteeism in their childbearing years. The foundation did not dispute those findings say ing when gender alone was the variable in determining absenteeism that women were More Likely to miss work than other single variable comparisons the study found the probability of work loss dropped with increases in age. Dropped As education Levels Rose. Was higher among married workers than those who were single. Was lower among non Whites than Whites. Was lower As family income increased. Was lower among those who reported High Levels of physical activity. Carlos e. Bonilla the foundation economic analyst who directed the study said those variables were chosen because the information is readily available to employers when considering applicants for jobs. The re searchers then also factored in alcohol and tobacco use to determine if they affected absenteeism. Bui of the three lifestyle characteristics examined by the study smoking drinking and physical activity Only physical activity was found to have a statistically significant Impact on work attendance. Those probability rates were determined based on one characteristic alone age or gender for example but when All of the traits Are combined no Clear Cut trends about population groups develop the study said. In reality groups defy objective comparison Bonilla conventional Wisdom holds that Many employee characteristics most notably gender serve As predictors of an employee s potential for absenteeism the study said. What May be True for single trait groups has no bearing on the behave roof the chamber group which provides consulting for business said any employers who took an applicant s race gender or age into account when trying to deter mine Likely work attendance a key variable in profitability not Only would be violating . Anti discrimination Laws but also would be using a faulty theory that May very Well deprive the employer of Well qualified researchers said a far better gauge of potential absenteeism is an individual s past work record. But it said Many employers Are reluctant to give detailed references about former workers because they fear being sued even if the information is accurate. City health official s injuries treated finally St. Louis a the City s no. 2 health official says she s shopping for a new medical insurer after being refused Hospital treatment and spending four hours to gel care following a bicycle Acci Dent a newspaper reported tuesday. City health commissioner Dian Sharma 41, suffered a broken right Arm and had five front Teeth shattered in an Acci Dent. She said a car ran her off the Road Friday. The St. Louis Post dispatch reported tuesday that she had to visit three Hospi tals for her medical emergency. One hos Pital turned Down her insurance and an other could t provide the proper care. Sharma underwent several hours of Den Tal surgery saturday and was scheduled for surgery on her right Arm tuesday. Sharma s first Stop after the Accident was St. John s mercy Hospital where she was Given a painkiller and examined by an or those dist. The Ortho Peist determined that the fracture needed specialized care. Sharma was referred lost. Louis University Hospital but when she got there after an hour s drive she Learned that her City paid insurance program group health plan would not pay for treatment of her injuries. After about a half hour they said we can t see you Here. Group health plan won t authorize us to set your Arm because you Are not 65, " Sharma said monday. I said gee this is the first time Ever wished i was old " Sharma said. Sharma s injuries were finally treated at deaconess Hospital four hours after the Accident. Exxon says Captain might have been sober before spill new York up1 Exxon corp. Chairman Law rence Rawl says company interviews indicate the Cap lain of the Exxon Vaidez Tanker was not drunk before the Alaska Oil spill. Rawl said late monday that company attorneys and executives held discussions with Exxon personnel Sug Gesting that capt. Joseph Hazel Wocl was sober before the March 24 Accident the worst Oil spill in . History. We be had attorneys on the site from Day one. All i can Tell you is based on those interviews that s what we be heard Rawl said. Attorneys that have interviewed people that saw the Captain indicate that he was not drunk prior to the spill Rawl said. I Don t know about people who were on the Bridge with he said the interviews were conducted not just by our attorneys but by Exxon shipping company Rawl noted that coast guard blood tests administered eight or nine hours after the Early morning spill showed that Hazelwood had an illegally High level of alcohol. The leak sent nearly 11 million Gallons of crude Oil into Pristine Prince William sound. The coast guard tests raised the possibility that Hazel Wood May have started drinking after the Accident. Third mate Gregory cousins who was said to be at the Helm when the Tanker crashed into a reef in the sound has told the Tampa Tribune that Hazelwood did not appear drunk. There was no indication there was anything wrong the Tampa resident told the newspaper. Sales could be hopping it looks As though Roger Rabbit has been framed again As the movie character poses with an Anima Tion eel from the film who framed Roger Rabbit at a rehearsal auction monday at rotheby s in new York. Some 500 original animation eels or celluloid transparencies will be up for auction june 28
