European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It thursday May 26, 1994 us. The stars and stripes Page 9 care sweetest in Washington apr americans spend millions of dollars every year on Home improvements and maintenance but older Homes done to necessarily get the most attention. A the location of the Home and its value were major factors in determining fix up and repair spending according to a new report by the . Census Bureau. A while older houses May need More work generally speaking people in older houses Are not any More Likely to make improvements than people in houses that Are relatively younger said Barbara t. Williams of the bureaus housing  a a a a \ her report on the work done on american Homes in 1990 and 1991 found that residents of the Northeast were More Likely to spend Money on Home improvements and maintenance than peo pie in other parts of the country and that they also spent More. Spending on Home improvements was highest in houses built in the 1950s, at $2,342 Over two years. By contrast Home improvement investment was $2,174 Oyer two years for houses built before 1919. Regionally spending on Home improvements was $2,409 Over two years in the Northeast while southerners spent the least improving their Homes �?$1,874. Residents of the West were second investing $2,370 Over two years while midwesterner spent $1,897. A the South contains a relatively Large number of Mobile Homes and newly built Homes and lower income households All Home fix  spending on Home improvements Over two years by regions $1,700 $1 500 to pm la f North West my South East West a amps groups with lower rates of maintenance and improvements a Williams said. The study said 66 percent of Northeast homeowners spent at least some Money on maintenance and improvements in 1991, compared with 64 percent in the West and Midwest and 56 percent in the South. The report also said northeastern homeowners spent the most on Home maintenance $400 a year followed by $360 in the West $286 in the South and $253 in the Midwest. Suburban residents spent the most on Home improvements an average of $2,246 Over two years compared with $2,120 in Central cities and $1,743 in Rural a areas. V a a Quot a a a a a a a a a spending on Home improvements generally increased with the value of the Home $779 Over two years for houses valued under $10,000, $2,267 for Homes Worth $100,000, $3,333 for Homes in the $200,000 Price Range and $4,843 for houses Worth $300,000 or More other findings of the study a homeowners aged 45 to 64 spent the most on Home improvements. A More than one third of homeowners 37 percent spent nothing on Home maintenance during the year. Cavendish it. A Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn was to begin his Long trek Back from exile wednesday to confront the political chaos that has replaced communism in his beloved Russia. The writer predicted Long ago that communism would fall during his lifetime and that he would be Able to resume life in his Homeland. And he has planned such a return for nearly All the 20 years he has lived in exile first in Europe and for the past 18 years in Cavendish a Small town of 1,325 people in the Hills of Southern Vermont. A i Hope that i can be of at least some help to my tortured nation although it is impossible to predict How successful my efforts will be a Solzhenitsyn 75, told the people of Cavendish in a Farewell message delivered at the annual town meeting in March. Those May Welt be the writers last Public words in Cavendish where he himself has said he has done some of the Best work of his life. One of his sons Solzhenitsyn Ignat said earlier this week that his father expected Little More than a goodbye wave when he and his entourage pulled out of the family a isolated wooded compound. A the said his goodbyes a Ignat i Solzhenitsyn said of his fathers town meeting message. The elder Solzhenitsyn has committed himself to his writing during the past two decades completing the red wheel. A melt volume historical novel of Russia during his Vermont years. Blit it was one Day in the life of Ivan Benisovich the first Circle and the gulag archipelago that exposed the terror of Josef Stalin a Rule and challenged the silence of his contemporaries. Cancer researcher Dies in blast Woburn mass. Up investigators wednesday sought to determine what caused an explosion that killed a Young cancer research assistant in a biotechnology Laboratory North of Boston. Authorities said Thomas of Neill 22, of Rockland died tuesday night when the highly pressurized machine he was using blew him 20 feet into the air at the Aphis corp. Plant in Woburn. A there a a lot of pressure in that machine and it just went off a said fire capt. Dennis Devine. Of Neill was using the machine to extract a cancer fighting drug from Pine Needles at the time and suffered massive trauma to his Chest and head when it exploded. O Neill was alone in an enclosed area of the lab at the time. Sheriff s candidate wants to shoot it out Fargo . Apr a candidate for sheriff has challenged his opponents to a shootout calling it a test of a Law officers ability to protect the Public. A clearly being the Best shot does no to necessarily make you the Best sheriff but i think it proves a Point a Ken Schwab said tuesday. Schwab wants the four other candidates i to meet him june 1 at a local shooting Range with the gun of their Choice. Each will fire 24 rounds at targets to determine who is the most accurate Schwab said. Schwab who works As the Cass county probation services coordinator said incumbent sheriff Don Rudnick has declined the offer saying it would be nothing More than a circus. Candidate Steve Dawson an assistant states attorney said he will be there. Budd Warren a Deputy sheriff did not return a phone Call seeking comment. Another candidate in the june 14 election Ron Brakke a a Well known local tax protester is a convicted Felon and thus prohibited by Federal Law from. Pos. Sessing a firearm. A country antique auction 28 May 1994 7p.m.-? preview auction items 10 00 a.m.-7 q0 Pra. Make a night of it have some univ Jelweh club is crying foul Over ban against focal matter Washington apr a Federal requirement that meat inspectors trim away every speck of focal matter on beef is costing Consumers More and May be causing health problems Industry officials say. The governments a Zero tolerance Standard in effect since March 1993, might seem to be a right step toward ridding the carcasses of possible sources of harmful bacteria. But Industry officials told a Senate panel tuesday that the extra work could be posing extra health problems. Under Zero tolerance anything that even looks like it could be focal matter milk or undigested food must be trimmed off. All that foreign matter can carry potentially deadly bacteria such As the sometimes deadly and crippling e. Coli. The Industry officials testified that carcasses now Are being handled too much As inspectors probe carcasses and that inspectors May be spreading invisible bacteria from one carcass to the next. The trimming knives carry germs. And the delays in getting the carcasses into the chiller May cause bacteria to grow they said. A this strategy in effect is failing to deliver Consumers safer beef and asking them to pay More for it a j. Patrick Boyle head of the american meat Institute told a Senate agriculture subcommittee. Tests inside 15 major meatpacking plants have found an increase in microbial contamination including e. Coli since Zero tolerance was imposed he said. 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