European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday december 12,1991 gloomy prognosis offered for health costs in . By the Washington Post Washington a by the end of the decade the average american family s outlays for health care will jump from $4,296 a year to $9,397, a study says. A this is bad news for America s families a said Ron Pollack executive director of families Usa an advocacy group for the poor and aged which conducted the study. A where will the average family get the Money to afford these skyrocketing health costs a Pollack asked at a news conference. A by cutting Back on mortgage payments by taking it out of their children s tuition a the study was supported by the Henry j. Kaiser family foundation and conducted with the Aid of Lewin if a policy analysis group. The study found that in 1980, the average family nationwide paid $1,742, or 9 percent of average family income for health care in the form of direct out of pocket expenditures insurance premiums payroll taxes and other taxes to support medical expenditures. Employers paid an additional $830 per family in insurance premiums payroll and other taxes or other medical expenditures. By 1991, the study found the average family was paying $4,296, or 11.7 percent of family income. Employers paid an additional $2,239 per family where will the average family get the Money to afford these skyrocketing health costs by cutting Back on mortgage payments by taking it out of their children s a tuition Quot a Ron Pollack family advocate by 2000, if current trends continue the study found that the average family would pay $9,397, or 16.4 percent. Employers will pay $4,514 per family. Pollack blamed the rising costs on three factors. A administrative overhead waste has grown tremendously a there Are 1,500 insurance companies with 1,500 sets of rules a he said. In addition he said a fees charged by doctors hospitals and pharmaceutical companies have been a totally  he also cited a shelter shelter distribution of High tech equipment. Every Hospital wants the latest in High tech and then will make sure that the machinery gets constant use in order to cover its costs. Cigarette Camel matches Mickey in child recognition study says from wire reports watch out Mickey Minnie and Donald. Old Joe the cigarette Camel could threaten your Star status. According to a study published tuesday in the journal of the american medical association old Joe the cartoon character featured in Camel cigarette ads was As recognizable to children As Mickey mouse. Several health associations asked the Federal Trade commission to immediately ban advertising featuring a cartoon character that studies show May be boosting cigarette sales to children. The phone study which surveyed 24,000 adults and 5,000 teens in California is the latest grenade to be lobbed by anti smoking activists. The activists say the study establishes a Strong link Between advertising and child smoking. As part of the study 229 children Ages 3 to 6, were asked to match pictures of 22 logos to the products they represented. Ninety one percent of 6-year-Olds correctly identified the old Joe character almost exactly As Many As were Able to identify the Mickey mouse logo of the Disney Channel. Even among 3-year-Olds, 30angry smoker causes Jet to make unscheduled Stop Minneapolis a a Jet made an unscheduled Landing tuesday after a passenger became angry and began pounding on the cockpit door when he was told to extinguish his cigarette. The Northwest airlines passenger was taken into custody at Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport said Carmen Piccirillo an Fri supervisory special agent. Agents released him without charges because they were unable to interview the Crew and other passengers who had flown on to Detroit the agent said. Crew members were to be interviewed later. Under Federal Law smoking is banned on nearly All Domestic flights in the United states. Percent identified the Camel character. Cigarette makers said logo recognition does not mean children Are buying the cigarettes. A whenever a Young person smokes it is the cigarette manufacturers that Are blamed a not the parents Peers or lifestyle of the Young person Quot said . Reynolds tobacco co., the marketeer of the Camel. On a related subject the medical journal reported that nicotine patches which deliver a continuous limited amount of the drug through a person s skin substantially increase the likelihood that a smoker will quit cigarettes. More than twice the number of patients treated with the nicotine patches were Able to remain away from cigarettes for at least 18 weeks when compared with patients who were treated with a Placebo the researchers reported. The highest dose Patch 21 milligrams provides an amount of the drug slightly less than what a smoker would absorb from a cigarette or. John Hughes of the University of Vermont said. Depression touches half in ., poll says Washington a half of americans in a recent poll said they or their family members have suffered from depression according to the National mental health association. Elisabeth Rukeyser who chairs the association said the poll released tuesday shows that most americans do not realize that depression is a disease that can be treated. A the failure to recognize depression As a disease is most troubling and encourages the misconception that people should blame themselves family members and friends for this illness a she said. A they need to know that depression can be treated effectively in 80 percent of the  the poll conducted by Peter d. Hart research associates inc., showed that of 1,022 adults interviewed by Telephone in october 25 percent Felt they had suffered from depression at some Point in their lives. Another 26 percent said some member of their family has had depression. Depression was considered to be a health problem by 46 percent of those surveyed while 43 percent saw it As a a sign of personal or emotional weakness a the Survey found. The respondents were asked to whom a person should go to receive help for depression. The Survey permitted up to three answers. Forty five percent of those polled suggested help should be received from a medical or family doctor while 60 percent suggested a psychiatrist psychologist a shrink Quot therapist Counselor mental health clinic or psychiatric Hospital. Only 20 percent suggested a minister rabbi or priest and 14 percent suggested a spouse Parent Friend or family  inventor Kearns wins another court Battle from wire reports an Independent inventor won a second big Victory when a Federal jury in Detroit ruled tuesday that Chrysler corp. Had infringed on his Patent for the intermittent Windshield wiper. Tie jury will reconvene Jan. 21 to determine the amount Chrysler should pay in damages. The inventor Robert a. Kearns who lives in Houston won a similar suit against Ford motor co. In january 1990, after which Ford agreed to pay the inventor $10.2 million to Settle claims. The inventor also has sued most of the worlds other automobile manufacturers. Kearns 64, said he invented the intermittent Windshield wiper in the Early 1960s and tried to interest engineers at Ford in licensing it. The wiper sweeps across the window once every few seconds and is designed for times of Light rain fog or Mist. Kearns began his Legal Battle in the Early 1970s.photography Pioneer Dies Monson Maine a Berenice Abbott a Pioneer photographer known for her pictures of new York City and her legendary portrait of author James Joyce died monday at age 93. Abbott died at her Cabin said Susan Blatch Ford who had lived with Abbott for the past 10 years. The native of Springfield Ohio started her career at the Elbow of the noted portrait photographer Man Ray in Paris where she made portraits including that of Joyce in 1928. The Book changing new York which represented a decade of Abbotts work in the 1930s, was her greatest known work. She said she wanted to show the a spirit of the Metropolis while remaining True to its essential fact its hurrying Tempo. The past jostling the present.55 abuse counts dropped farmv1lle, . A prosecutors tuesday dropped 55 charges against a Man accused of sexually abusing children at a Day care Center he and his wife ran but he still faces 128 other charges. After 17 weeks of trial the government also rested its Case against Robert f. Kelly or. Kelly had faced 183 counts of sexually abusing 22 children. The dismissed charges involved 12 children but some charges involving them Are pending. In All Kelly still faces charges involving 14 children. Kelly and his wife Elizabeth owned the Little rascals Day care Center which closed in 1989, in Edenton about 120 Miles East of Raleigh. Elizabeth Kelly and five others Are charged with sexual abuse and face separate  plane disappears Las vegas a a Small air plane carrying five people Back from a sightseeing tour of the grand Canyon disappeared in a Remote area tuesday. The Fate of the occupants was not immediately known. The Piper Navajo chieftain disappeared from radar in the late afternoon. The Ai plane s Emer Abbott gency locator transmitter was sending signals but bad weather was hampering the search said Karen Whitney a spokeswoman for the National Park service. Rescue Crews were sent to the area around mount Wilson a 5,445-foot Peak about 40 Miles East of Las vegas Whitney  patrol scours Park new York a armed with maps and a ton of deadly weapons a posse of Park workers fanned out into Central Park on tuesday. Their Mission to eradicate Pesky packs of rats. Their instructions a take no  a gourmet spread of garbage the result of overflowing trash bins has led to an explosion in the rat population. But Parks commissioner Betsy Gotbaum said the real blame lies in the severe cutbacks that resulted in fewer sanitation pickups