European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday september 22,1989 where the roof fell in a debris strewn Myca swimming Pool in the West Rosbun Section of Boston looks like the scene of a bombing after a 20-by-ls-foot Section of the roof col lapsed in an Accident that took place during a swimming class session. Nine children and a lifeguard were injured by falling beams and Cement chunks. Kov Dury 01 books no in 01 a Civ a  Uii Iun  ii Iii Jivu col b this year s pay hikes in . Projected to average 5.3% Chicago a salary increases for . Work ers will average 5.3 percent this year meaning spend ing Power will Likely lag behind inflation for the second year in a Row a compensation consulting firm said wednesday. Hewitt associates said that after taxes the raises will not keep Pace with the increase in prices of goo Sand services purchased by Urban wage earners and clerical workers. Prices Rose at an annualized rate of 5.1 percent through August. The increased income taxes on the 5.3 percent raises would More than offset the Edge Over inflation that salaried workers would appear to enjoy said Eddie Smith manager of Hewitt s direct compensation consulting practice. The projected loss of purchasing Power based on Hewitt  1,260 . Businesses extends a pattern established in 1988, the first year this decade in which inflation outstripped the average Rise in Sala ried workers take Home pay Hewitt said. The loss of spending Power is Small but significant Smith said. It s More of a statistical concept than something the average person is going to feel he said. But if it continues Over time you re going to feel  but Hewitt based in suburban Lincolnshire projected a narrowing of the inflation salary Gap next year. In the Survey conducted last month Hewitt asked a Broad Cross Section of . Businesses How much they had increased their budgets for salaries in 1989 and How much More they expected to budget for salaries in 1990. The Survey did not include wage increases for Union workers who comprise 16.8 percent of the work Force according to the labor department. The salary increases in the study Are substantially greater than those reported by the labor department for wage and salary earners in private Industry because the government s numbers include hourly and Union workers whose raises arc typically smaller than those of salaried workers. The labor department said wages for those workers Rose 3.3 percent in 1987, 4.1 percent in 1988 and 4.1 percent through August of this year. Smith noted that an increasing number of Compa Nies arc shifting compensation dollars to Bonus plans or other incentive programs that Reward salaried employees for achieving stated goals. For a Large number of salaried workers there is a second source of earnings besides salary he said. The businesses reported average increases of 5.3 percent this year and estimated increases averaging 5.4 percent for 1990. Hewitt said salary increases averaged 5 percent in 1988, the first year since 1981 that Hewitt s annual Survey showed an increase in the size of yearly raises for salaried workers. Sex a de found gu/7fy of 5 murders grand rapids Mich. A a former nursing Home aide was found guilty wednesday on charges that she smothered five incapacitated patients in a pact with her lesbian Lover. A jury deliberated five hours before finding Gwen Dolyn Graham guilty on five counts of first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit Mur Der in the 1987 deaths of patients at Alpine Manor nursing Home in Walker. Graham 26, faces mandatory life imprisonment without parole. With a Lack of hard evidence the Case rested largely on the testimony of Catherine Wood who said she was Graham s accomplice. Wood who has already pleaded guilty to second degree murder testified that Graham killed patients because she said it relieved  autopsies were performed on the two bodies that were not cremated but no definitive evidence of suffocation was found. Wood said the two had formed a love pact each agreeing to suffocate patients from january to april 1987, so they would be bound to each other. Defense attorney James Piazza said he planned to file a motion to have the verdict set aside on Legal grounds but declined to elaborate. Graham looked Down and showed no emotion when the six guilty verdicts were read and the jurors were polled. No sentencing Date was set. Stateside ban on fortified wine sales announced by Gallo Modesto Calif. Jupi e. & j. Gallo winery the nation s largest said wednesday it would halt sales of its fortified night train and thunderbird wines i skid Row neighbourhoods. While the company contended that the popularity of the wines with up to 20 percent alcohol Content was a symptom not a cause of alcoholism it said concern about those with the disease prompted theban. Gallo said it would refuse to sell the wines in areas populated by derelicts and alcoholics until authorities began enforcing Laws against Selling liquor to people who arc obviously intoxicated. Gallo. Which is family owned traditionally refuses to release sales or production figures. Gallo makes a wide variety of wines and Market sold in All 50 states. It is believed to be the nation s largest maker of bulk or Jug wines. Aids study in Atlanta focuses on male prostitutes Boston a More than one Quarter of male prostitutes studied in Atlanta were infected with the aids virus and the virus was especially common among those also exposed to syphilis and hepatitis according to a report thursday. Until now most studies of acquired immune deficiency syndrome among prostitutes have focused on females. In the latest work researchers took blood samples from 152 male prostitutes. Overall 27 percent were infected with his the aids virus As were 55 percent who also had syphilis and 37 percent who had been exposed to hepatitis b. Forty six percent of the prostitutes described them selves As being heterosexual. The rest said they were bisexual or homosexual. The Survey was conducted by or. Kirk w. Elifson and colleagues from Georgia slate University. It was published As a letter in the new England journal of Medicine. More teen age males using condoms journal reports new York up More teen age males were having sex in 1988 than in 1979, a National study revealed wednesday and condom use More than Dou bled in that period apparently because of concern Over aids. The study published in the journal of the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that 57 percent of sexually Active males Ages 15-19 surveyed in 1988 reported using a condom the last time they had sex. And condom use More than doubled Between 1979 and 1988 among males Ages 17-19 living in metropol Itan areas from 21 to 58 percent and their under standing of How acquired immune deficiency syn drome is transmitted apparently prompted the Rise in condom use. The study was published wednesday in family planning perspectives the bimonthly journal of the Alan Geltmacher Institute an Independent nonprofit research and policy group. U.s., Italy take Steps to protect securities Laws by the new York times Washington the securities regulatory Agen cies of the United states and Italy announced plans wednesday for closer tics to combat violations of securities Laws in the two countries the securities and Exchange commission and its counterpart in the italian government have agreed to facilitate the performance of Market oversight functions and the conduct of investigations litigation and prosecution in securities matters the Sec said. Italian ownership of american securities has grow from $269 million in 1985 to $1.8 billion in 1989. Transactions by americans in italian securities totalled $656 million in 1988, up from $457 million in 1985. The Sec said the agreement was a preliminary step toward a comprehensive formal agreement Between the two agencies similar to the agreements already in place Between the United states and Switzerland Brit Ain Japan and three Canadian provinces