European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters tuesday july 26, 1994 today a rates following Are fixed rates at which Community. Banking and credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound. 1.57 dutch guilder1.74 German Mark. 1.55 nolo Tho Rales above apply within the Host 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. _ a. Austrian Schilling. 11,1760 Bahrain Dinar. 0.37698 belgian franc 32,89 British Pound. 1,5350 Canadian Dollar. 1.3812 danish Krone. 6.2420 dutch Guilder 1.78 French franc. 5.4338 German Mark 1.5858 greek duct Camci 241-50 italian lira 1,582 Kuwait Dinar 0.29750 norwegian Krone. 6.9360 portuguese escudo. 162.82 saudi rial 3.75 Spanish peseta 131,17 Swiss franc. 1.3460 turkish lira .31,200 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the a British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote s3s4.35 an ounce Quot. Silver quote $5.26 an ounce a. A sources merchants National Bank amp Trust co. A and Tho associated press one sixth of violent crimes occur at Washington a the workplace is no longer simply a place where people earn a living. Its increasingly becoming a place where they fall victim to violent crime a Justice department report released sunday said nearly 1 million. Violent crimes occur in the workplace every year with about 10 percent involving offenders armed with handguns. That amounts to one sixth of All violent crimes in America an. Average of about 971,500 per year from 1987-1992, according to the study released by Lawrence a Greenfeld acting director of the Justice departments Bureau of Justice statistics. A .a. A but that a to be expected said Wesley Skogan professor of political science and. Urban affairs at Northwestern University in Evanston Iii. A the workplace is the place that people in the labor Force spend a very significant time of their life a Skogan said. A a that a where you Are when you re out of bed. A Quot people spend much less of their time walking around on the streets after dark. It could be that As a fraction of your waking life workplace crime is actually quite  an estimated 8 percent of All rapes 7 says percent of All robberies and 16 percent of All assaults occur at work said the report based on data from the National criminal victimization Survey of . Households during those five years. On average that meant 13,100 rapes 79,100 robberies 264,200 aggravated assaults and 615,200 simple assaults happened at work each year. In addition 2 million personal thefts and More than 200,000 car thefts occurred each year while people Are at work Quot when you re at work your property is More at risk than when you re at Home a said James Alan Fox Dean of criminal Justice at northeastern University. Quot your pocketbook is on your desk where it might be taken. That wont happen at home.�?�. A. \ a the Survey has no information on homicides since it is based Only on interviews with victims but it is the image of a rampaging gunman that sends Shivers Down the spines of those who think of work As a Haven information from other studies indicates 4. Percent of All homicides also occur at work. Jack Levin Northeast pm University professor of sociology and criminology said the Overall level of workplace slayings has remained stable with most committed by strangers in the course of an armed robbery. Quot but the revenge murders Are on the Rise a he said. A a that a what a scaring  . A with the demise of Many social ties work has taken Center stage in Many pc pies lives he said. Quot for Many people work is everything and even the threat of Job loss has become the threat of losing everything a he said. A. This hostility is increased Given current economic troubles such As the downsizing of companies said Andrew Chishom professor of criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Quot people Are just generally frustrated and extremely anxious about losing their employment positions and not having ready Access to other types of jobs a Chishom said. The study found that of the 971,500 victims of violent crime per year about 159,100, or 16 percent suffered injuries. That compares with 31 percent of victims of violent crimes away front the workplace. Only 43 percent of people victimized at the workplace reported the incident to police. Some 32 percent faced an armed offender. 94 saugert1hs, . A Ulster county chamber of Commerce director Len Cane is used to the Blank stares he gets at tourism conferences when he tells people he a from new Yorkus Hudson Valley. He s hoping the Woodstock �?T94 concert changes All that a Quot. A a Cane is one of Many in this Region struggling financially because of cutbacks at ism who Are banking on an eco nomic boost from nostalgia Over Woodstock a 25th anniversary and a new concert scheduled for August. A a it a hard to figure the Impact but i think its going to be substantial a Cane said. The High stakes posed by an economic revival have already caused conflict among different interests in the Region. There Are worries that the Boom might be limited to a chosen few. The concert is planned for a farm in the town of Sau Gerties the weekend of aug 12. The town is about two hours North of new York City and adjacent to the arts Community that gave both Woodstock festivals their names. Partners in Woodstock ventures the promoters Are making 250,000 tickets available though sales have been sluggish. Woodstock ventures has estimated the concert will raise $20 million for the state and local economies much of it through sales tax on the tickets food and merchandise. In addition the town of Saugerties will be paid $1.2 million plus a percentage of ticket sales that could raise As much As $700,000, Woodstock ventures partner Michael Lang said. Despite this expected boost to Public coffers a handful of pickets have stood sentry for several weeks at the Entrance to the concert site. Representatives of local carpenters and electrical workers unions complain that Woodstock ventures has been hiring cheap labor from outside the area instead of working with the local Trade unions. Sam Fratto of the International brotherhood of electrical workers said he Sites a lot of vehicles with out of state License plates entering the construction site. He said Many local residents beep their horns in support of the pickets. A a i get the idea they feel a Little bit betrayed Quot Fratto said of local residents. Quot they just feel that the local people Are not getting what they should have gotten out of something so  a dispute Over concert vendors has also caused hard feelings. ,. Woodstock ventures hired Fine Host corp., a Maryland based firm to run All but 30 of the 900 food Booths at the concert. There arc 30 local vendors. Some potential vendors were put off by terms of the Deal promoters outlined food vendors must pay a $3,000 Flat fee and 33 percent of their income to the promoters for the right to set up shop. Tom Bover a Woodstock resident who lost his Job after 34 years with International. Business machines corp., had hoped to sell iced cappuccino and Coffee mugs at the festival and use Money he earned to set up his own gourmet Coffee business after hearing the terms Bover decided it Wasny to Worth it. He will be at Woodstock anyway working with several partners at a Booth Selling Knapsacks and Fanny packs but said the Money earned wont do much to Nelp him Start a business. A a very Small percentage of the population. Will have just a shot at making a Buck Here a Bover said. Woodstock ventures considers the criticism unfair. It says that Many local residents Are working on the concert and that no local company had Fine hosts ability to run the food Concession. And not ail Are criticizing the Effort. Robert Kraus is a local merchant who has seen nothing but benefits from the concert. He runs the flying Watermelon shop in Woodstock Selling to shirts promoting the concert. He estimates business is up 30 percent this year. A file a couple sits atop a Van at the Woodstock music festival in August 1969. Officials and entrepreneurs Hope this year a fast Wil i revive the h us so n Val icy .� Rigio  maker kicks Back at alleged copycat Golden Valley Minn. A general Mills maker of Kix Cereal claims Ralston foods new kids Cereal is a copycat. General Mills inc., based in Golden Valley has filed a Patent infringement lawsuit claiming kids is an attempt to confuse Consumers by plagiarizing Kix. Quot kids is being offered for Sale for the purpose of trading upon the commercial magnetism and Fame of Kix a said the complaint filed last week in . District court in Minneapolis. A spokesman for Ralston foods inc., Patrick Farrell said sunday that the St. Louis based company had not reviewed the lawsuit yet and had no comment. Kids an acronym for Crunchy incredibly delicious spheres is expected to hit grocery shelves in the coming months. Ralston will manufacture the Cereal which will carry various private store labels. The lawsuit asks for a permanent injunction against Ralston a use of kids and other terms and designs similar to the protected Marks and designs of Kix. Like Kix the front panel of the kids Box pictures Ball shaped Corn puffs in a Clear bowl with milk and three strawberries Kix carries a Banner that says Quot kid tested a Mother approved a kids carries a similarly positioned Banner that says Quot great taste kids love a the lawsuit asks for an accounting of Ralston a profits on kids but it docs not specify a damage claim