European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 the stars and stripes Money matters monday june a 1994 today s rates following Are fixed rates at which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell foreign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound .1.56 dutch Guilder. 1.79 German Mark. 1.60 greek drachma. 239.1758. Note Trio Ratos above apply with in he heist country. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rates that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign currencies austrian Schilling Ltd Ste Taesu tto Sta eat Bahrain Dinar belgian franc .33.91 British Pound 1.5177 Canadian Dollar 1.3864 danish Krone a dutch Guilder. 1.8472 French franc. 5.6315 German Mark. 1.6473 italian lira 1,596.55 Kuwait Dinar norwegian Krone portuguese escudo. A saudi fat. A Spanish peseta. A Swiss franc 1.40 turkish lira note figures Are expressed in do Flara to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quota $383 60 an ounce Sliver quote $5.35 an ounce sources merchants National banh amp Trust co., the associated press United press International fast food purchases jump study says Chicago up a americans love affair with fast food is growing statistics released by Nielsen marketing research showed. Nielsen of suburban Northbrook reported that americans increased the number of dollars spent on fast food last year by 6 percent to $64.1 billion compared with $44,4 billion in 1985. It was the eighth year of the past nine that spending on fast food increased. The love affair is so pervasive it s even seeping onto College campuses and into grocery stores. On the College front schools like de Paul University in Chicago have hired food service management companies that include offerings from Taco Bell and pizza hut along with the usual cafeteria fare. Stephen Brady vice president for strategy and marketing for Codex to said that adding branded products to the usual assortment of foods was the logical thing to do to keep students on Campus for meals. Quot for years students Young kids grew up eating at Burger King or Mcdonald a. Once they got to College they said Why do i have to eat cafeteria food a Quot Brady said. . Summer travel season to be busiest Ever by Jonathan Jay Gib in United press International the american automobile association says it expects this Summers . Travel season will be the busiest in history with More americans taking Shorter but More frequent trips to beaches or lakes visiting casinos and booking cruises than Ever. One reason for the expected increase is that the Cost of travelling by car air or ship is a bargain said Graeme Clarke the Aaan a National vice president for travel. Quot the Cost of living has increased by about 20 percent during the past five years Quot Clarke said. Quot but hotel prices Are up by Only 10 percent. Meal prices Are up 7 percent and the Cost of automobile vacations and aaa booked air travel is up by about Only 9 on the Down Side Clarke said the Quot engine that drives the train of travel is air fares Quot and As they have decreased the demand for Auto rentals has increased. Quot Over the past year or so the automakers have Cut Back significantly on the number of inexpensive cars they re making available to car rental companies a Clarke said. Quot As a result there will be less availability of rental cars and probably higher Clarke said the five most popular driving destinations for aaa members this summer Are Orlando Fla. The grand Canyon Ariz. Yellowstone National Park Wyo. Williamsburg a. And Washington . The rankings Are based on routing being requested. Clarke also said the proliferation of gambling resorts and gambling riverboats is also drawing Many travellers. Quot in a amazed at the apparent infinite capacity of gambling a he said. Quot for example the Casino in Ledyard conn., continues to be the biggest travel draw in that state. I done to think any place that offers gambling does badly at cruise ship travel is growing at 15 Perr cent annually Clarke said noting that 20 years ago about 200,000 people annually took cruises. Last year that number had grown to 4.5 million Jerry Turk a spokesman for the Aaan a Ohio motorists association the nations oldest aaa affiliate said Overall vacation planning has changed. A people now take several Short vacations each year Quot Turk said. A and the old two week summer vacation no longer exists. For example three and four Day cruises Are becoming very popular especially since the Price includes air fare lodging and meals so you done to Nickel and dime yourself to but Turk said about 80 percent of All . Vacation travel is by automobile. The aaa says an average family of four should expect to pay about $215 a Day for a motor trip this year and that a about 30 cents below last year for lodging meals and automobile expenses. Its the first time the average Cost of an automobile vacation has declined since 1989. A some Day Chicago a Microsoft corp. Chairman Bill Gates says he plans eventually to give away 95 percent of his nearly $8 billion Fortune. Quot in a saving that for when in a in my 50s,�?� the 38-year-old software magnate says in an interview in the july Issue of Playboy Magazine. Gates said hell give the Money Quot to charitable things scientific things. Don t Tell people to write me letters. It s a lot to give away and its going to take As for any children the recently married Gates and wife Melinda French might have Quot i done to believe in burdening any children i might have with that a he said. Quot have Gates owns 149 million shares of the company based in Redmond Wash trades at around $53 a share which makes his stake Worth $7.9 billion. Quot its Only through multiplication that you convert what i own into some scary number. Its a ridiculous number a he said. Gates said he expects to remain chairman of the company he founded for at least 10 More years. Gates the Slock currently gatorade seeks a gift Chicago apr pursued by upstart competitors sports drink Leader gatorade has jumped into a new Market by uncapping Sunbelt a fruit Flavoured morning drink with a dash of caffeine. The new drink also contains carbohydrates and a Days Worth of Vitamin a said Quaker Oats co., the maker of gatorade. Quaker will sell Sunbelt under the gatorade Banner. Gatorade in contrast is a thirst quencher that claims to replenish bodily fluids lost during exercise. Quot gatorade is a sports drink to drink before during and after the game. Sunbelt will get you going in the morning a Donald r. Uzzi president of gatorade North America said at a news conference in Chicago where Quaker is based. An 11.6-ounce bottle of Sunbelt contains 58 milligrams of caffeine about the same As a five ounce cup of instant Coffee and less than a five ounce cup of Strong brewed Coffee Quaker said. It will be marketed first in convenience stores in the Northeast and will be sold in three flavors Orange Grapefruit Orange and Berry blend. The Orange flavor also will be available in a decaffeinated version. The Orange Flavoured Sunbelt served at a news conference tasted something like Tang an instant Orange Flavoured beverage. Gatorade commanded an 85 percent share of the estimated $870 million . Sports drink Market in 1993, Down from 86 percent a year earlier according to research firms packaged facts inc and beverage marketing corp. Competitors such As Pepsico Sall sport and coca Colas Power de Are gaining in the expanding Market. Gatorade is quakers Best Selling Brand with sales that will exceed $1 billion worldwide in the fiscal year that ends june 30, Quaker spokesman Ron Bottrell said. The new product intrigued analysts but some wondered whether Sunbelt will encounter the same sort of resistance As Pepsi a.m., a Quot breakfast cola that Pepsico inc. Tested and dropped in the late 1980s. This just does no to sound like something id Rush out and buy and use a said food Industry analyst Roger Spencer of pain Webber War Era yets of Federal service still on Job by Mike Causey Washington Post Washington what a approximately 48,000 years old has 1,394 legs is steady generally healthy and likes to w Ork those Are the combined stats a More or less a of the 697 men and women who have been in Federal government service Here 50 or More years. Most were in their 20s, or teen agers when they came to work before a Day. They have been on the Job longer than the average american has been alive. At a time when the Federal government is pushing Early retirement and paying workers $25,000 bonuses to leave people who stick around for 50 years stick out. Some Are the institutional memory of their Agency. A the club members were on the Job before president Clinton was born before to or cd or pcs surfaced and when the outcome of world War ii was still in doubt. Their Washington was a Boom town where movies were run night and Day to accommodate shift workers and where women vastly outnumbered men in most government offices. Most walked or took the trolley 10 cents to work. About that time the Washington Post launched a a government girl plane drive a the idea was to get $1 from a girls that was a Legal term in those Days to buy a warplane for both the air corps and the Navy. The White House supported the drive. Each aircraft was to be named government girl and each would carry a Logbook with the names of All donors. Donors names were posted in front of the Post building. It was a different town and time. One who remembers is Bernice Watson. She a with the Federal mediation and conciliation service and Marks her 50th year in government service in mid june. Like thousands of other a girls she was recruited from a Small town to come to Washington. Many planned to work for the duration of the War. Then go Home. A lot of them Are still Here. Watson from Magnolia miss stayed and added to the City. Her son Lawrence Thomas is now a lieutenant in the metropolitan police department. She still lives in town. Why has she worked so Long Well i had a Good reason i needed the Money a she said. Now she works because otherwise Quot id go crazy you have to be out of the
