European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday. June 1.1989 stateside Pentagon chief Deputy visit b-2 bomber Plant Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Deputy defense Secretary Don Ald Atwood Nave quietly visited the heavily secured Plant where the new b-2 bomber is being built a spokesman said tuesday. Spokesman Pete Williams said Cheney and at Wood flew to and from Palmdale calif., on Friday to inspect the first of the planes and the Northrop Orp s production line. Cheney has proposed in the Pentagon s fiscal i to budget to slow the Pace of work on the stealth program pending a personal review of the project s Cost and Progress. Including research and development expenses each of the 1.12 b-2s the air Force wants to buy would Cost More than $500 million. Williams said Cheney has made no decisions Alx iut the program but had promised Congress he would make an inspection trip a priority. The stealth bomber designed to evade radar detection was publicly unveiled last fall and is expected to make its first flight later this summer. Schoolboy uses dad s Cash trying to buy Friendship . Tenn. A a to Carold elementary school student apparently feeling he needed More friends decided to buy them with thousands of dollars of his father s Money. No one is exactly sure How much Money the boy spread around the school in his Pursuit of Friend ship although officials have recovered $3,000 from classmates and their parents. The Moncy for Friendship Enterprise was uncovered by Ritta school principal . Jones last week when a student asked him to break a $ 10 Bill. Jones asked where the student had gotten the Money and was told the fourth grader was giving it away. Jones said no disciplinary action was taken against the spendthrift youngster. Officials checked to make sure no coercion was involved in the pay ments but the gifts apparently were made freely. Egg Farmers Haven t cracked troubles despite Good news san Francisco a egg Industry leaders say it s too Early to Tell whether Good news on cholesterol from the government and american health association will boost America s appetite for eggs after dec Ades of decline. Plagued by health worries smaller breakfasts droughts that raised feed prices and losses that drove thousands of producers out of business egg Farmers arc faced with a new twist to an old question. Instead of trying to figure out which came first the Chicken or the egg. Producers Are debating which comes first now advertising or sales after the Best cholesterol reports the Industry has received in years. The . Department of agriculture said two weeks ago it found Large eggs have 213 milligrams of dietary cholesterol instead of the 274 milligrams listed in government reports dating to i 976. That led the health association to raise from three to four its recommendation on the maximum number of eggs a person should consume per week in a Low cholesterol diet. But rather than kicking off a National Campaign to spread the word about the new guidelines or other health benefits producers either can t afford or arc reluctant to spend Money on. Advertising. In some cases they Don t even want to talk publicly. In California which produces More eggs than any other state some 7.7 billion of the nation s 69.5 billion egg output last year Farmers Don t want to talk with reporters after getting a bad rap for a Long time said Robert Pierre president of the California egg com Mission. The egg Industry has been in considerable financial difficulty for a number of years and is unable to finance advertising at the Levels we want or need said Louis b. Raffel president of the american egg Board in Park Ridge Iii. And i d have to say the producers have been a Little late in realizing the achievements they can get from  the National advertising budget is Only $3 million for an Industry that last year had $3.1 billion in sales Down from $4.1 billion in 1984. Meanwhile the producers biggest competitors be real makers spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on advertising Raffel said. Egg producers have a 2 cent checkoff for each dozen eggs to finance National advertising and Are awaiting us a approval of a 5 cent checkoff. Last year was an absolutely terrible year for producers said Ken Klippen. Vice president of United egg producers in Atlanta. Farmers were losing Money on every dozen eggs they were producing As wholesale prices fluctuated from 50 cents to 75 cents a dozen. The drought raised the Cost of feed ingredients Corn and soybean meal while consumption continued downward. Klippen said. The Industry has lost Money for five years in this decade including $280 million in 1988. Said agricultural economist acc Schrader of Purdue University. This year Schrader forecasts a modest profit of $115 Mil lion on sales of $4 billion at the wholesale level. The last Good year for the Industry was 1986, when it made 6.9 cents per dozen for a $400 million profit. The profits this year probably won t come As a Rchull of the cholesterol reports Klippen said. It s Loo Early to say what effects those reports will have he said. They re very positive. We re trying to change the perception of eggs As High in cholesterol but it s very laborious especially when the Consumers Are bombarded with promotions of products that Are Low in cholesterol and cholesterol free everybody hears this  undoubtedly the health Issue has been a Factor in some of the decline in use of  Schrader said but it s very difficult to separate that out of other factors such As changing lifestyles. It s not Clear what the Issue has been. Changing cholesterol Levels Are bound to have some Impact but not a Large  the consolidation of the Industry nationally there arc about 1,600 producers Down from 6.000 in 1979 May help the National advertising Effort Raffel  Are fewer producers to make understand the value of advertising he said. The larger ones arc More  the number of egg laying hens has remained fairly constant in recent years at about 235 million despite consolidation and the decline in annual per capita con sumption from 278 eggs in 1979 to 242 eggs last year. The level was 321 eggs in 1960 when big breakfasts were still fashionable and cholesterol was t a major gunmen wound 2 in attack outside no. School cafeteria East Orange. . A two gunmen accompanied by three other people walked into a High school tues Day and opened fire outside a Busy cafe Teria wounding a student and a Custodi an police said. Drugs were suspected in the shooting at Hast Orange High school said Ray Weiss spokesman for Essex county prosecutor Herbert Tate or. The shootings May have been in retaliation for a fight Between the wounded student and several other students earlier in the Day in the school parking lot. Said police capt. Clarence drown. Custodian George Green. 41. Of Orange was in extremely guarded Condi Tion with a head wound at University Hospital in nearby Newark said Hospital spokeswoman Hilda Goldson. The Bullet went in and out of the head and resulted in a fractured Skull Goldson said. The 16-year-old student who was not identified was in stable condition lie was shot twice in the left leg and once in the right leg. Police said. Brown said the five suspects All males ranging in age from 17 to 25, walked into the school cafeteria around noon and began arguing with the student. The group left the cafeteria and entered a hallway Weiss said. The five were leaving the building when two of them turned took out guns and fired striking the student and the custodian he said. Judge rules . Inmates have right to get married Syracuse . A a Federal judge says the state is violating the constitutional rights of prison inmates serv ing life sentences by barring them from getting married. . District judge Neal p. Mccurn said the state Law violates the inmates right to equal Protection and creates an impermissible distinction Between them and in mates married before sentencing. It is inconceivable to this court. How marital status is in any Way relevant to punishment Mccurn wrote in a decision issued Friday. The state department of correctional services was sued by inmate Richard Langoc and Dari Schmall. Langoc 32, has served about 13 years of a 15-years-to-life sentence. He was convicted of second degree murder for a shooting when he was 18. Since october he has been on a work release program in new York City. Schmall 23, is expecting the couple s first child. She said they have been engaged about five years. The slate attorney general s office has not decided whether to Appeal spokeswoman Nancy Connell said tues Day. Pucker up pachyderm Gunther go bal Williams a performer and animal Trainer for ringing Broth ers and Barnum & Bailey circus kisses one of his elephants tuesday after leading them on u Parade in Phil Adelphia. Ii was a Farewell March for Gocbel Williams mho is retiring after More than 20 years in the Center ring