European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters saturday september in 1994 today s rates la following Are fixed rates at. Which Community banking and credit Union facilities will sell foreign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 1.59 dutch Guilder 1.70 German mark1.52 note the rates 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 a. Austrian Schilling. 10.962 Bahrain Dinar. 0.377 belgian franc .32.13 British Pound. 1.5428 Canadian Dollar 1.3713 danish Krone a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 6.163 dutch Guilder 1.7472 French franc a a a a a a a a a 5.3395 German Mark. 1.5583 greek drachma a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a 233.55 italian lira 1,589.00 Kuwait Dinar .0.29675 norwegian Krone. 6.8475 portuguese escudo. 158.81 saudi rial 3.75 Spanish peseta. 129.55 Swiss franc. 1.3033 turkish lira 33,800.00 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote $389.50 an ounce Silver quote $5.45 an ounce sources merchants National Bank 4 Trust co. And the associated press new York Exchange Quot new York apr sales. 4 . Price and net change of the 15 most Active new York Stock Exchange issues trading nationally thursday. Name volume Lett chg. Page. 4,678.300 23% a Hanson ads 4,670.000 1914 a % Walmart 3,742,400 25 % Chrysler 3,592,800 47% a a Philllp morals 3,248,400 61 i i nays Oil. 3,109,900 17v4 % telex ads. 2,700,300 64 i Kmart 2,660.300 18 v. Glaxo add 2,630,300 18% % 20centlnds 2,493,000 9% -314 Citicorp. 2,421,700 44v in Niao pow 2,247,400 12h a am Barrack. 2,244,100 24 4 a express a 2,240,700 30v a a . 2.138,400 25 -1 american Exchange new York apr sales closing Price and net change of the 10 most Active american Stock Exchange issues trading nationally thursday. Name volume last chg. Echo Bay 601,600 12% a Twa voting. 593,500 3 13/16 % excl Ltd 562.600 1 3/16 unch Ivan up 546,300 20 a Gaylord ont 528,900 6% % Lacomb a j a 503,700 33 unch us Alcor f 496,300 3 a Royal Oak y 373,300 4h-1/16 Chrystl s. 334,300 12 unch Enz  299,400 12v % Dow Jones new York apr Dow Jones closing Range of averages on thursday. High Low close change 30 industrials 3926.96 3872.46 3908.46 up 22.21 20 transport 1629.11 1605.66 1613.48 Oil 4.14 15 utilities 184.55 181.58 183.17 up 0.40 65 stocks 1341.41 1322.18 1332.45 up 3.36 shoppers spend Little grieving Over Kmart store Dallas apr ask shoppers what they re going to miss about the Kmart that a closing Here and the answer is a not much. A it wont be devastating a Gigi Carter said As she browsed through the quiet stores shoe department thursday afternoon. Earlier in the Day Kmart corp. Announced it would close 110 stores and eliminate 6,000 jobs As it struggles with intense Competition in the retail business. Sure the Dallas store is convenient but the 10 area smarts Are far from the Only game in town. Several shoppers said they also frequent competitors including target and Wal Mart. A a they re All pretty comparable a Carter said. Roderick samples in fact can to really think of anything that makes Kmart special a i come Here every now and then when i want to get something close to the House. The prices Are All about  that perception appears to be a big problem for Kmart. Leonard Berry director of retailing studies at Texas a amp a University in College station where the local Kmart is closing said retailers must always ask themselves whether customers would miss their stores if they disappeared overnight. A a v a if the honest answer to that question is no then its a store that probably needs to be closed and sooner or later will be closed a he Sai. Kmart also announced thursday that it was replacing the head of its super Kmart division. Super smarts have a supermarket in the store. There Are 44 existing super smarts and the company plans to open an additional 26 by years end. A a. A a a a a a a. Ain 1990, the struggling company based in Troy mich., announced a six year $3 billion plan to relocate some stores modernize others and close 150 outlets. Kmart employs about 260,000 people worldwide. The new round of closings includes 12 in Texas which tied with Indiana for the highest total among the 31 affected states. A a a a a Kmart spokeswoman Mary Lorencz said Many of the stores Are in Small markets. A a a v a a a a a. A a a a a a a a they re All being closed because the company a sales profit and return on in vestment requirements Are not being met a she said. In other words they re not making enough Money. Wal Mart super centers exist in several smaller Texas towns where the the smarts Are shutting Down. Both Early and Sulphur Springs where about 40 jobs will be lost have had the Wal Mart super centers open in the past year. Scheduled visit of Pope inspires souvenir artwork wings it Hon la to keep festival a richly in the family Sandusky Ohio a Honda workers this ride s for you. Cedar Point amusement Park will be closed to the Public during its annual summer run for the first time since 1983 so Honda manufacturing of America inc. Can give its 10,300 Ohio employees a free ride or two. Honda administrator Larry Jermyn said the company expects about 30,000 to attend the a family  the company sponsored such play Days the last three years at another amusement Park. A Qantas airways Boeing 747-400 takes Art to new Heights thursday Over Hong Kong. The planets design is made up of 1,156 irregular dots and uses 13 colors of paint. The plane is the australian airlines Way of sharing its nations Arit and cultural heritage with the Many countries to which Qantas Flics. A by new Day new York a the archdiocese of new York is mulling whether to Hawk such souvenirs ast shirts mugs and Rosary beads outside St. Patrick is Cathedral when Pope John Paul ii visits the new York Larea next month. A. -.  that archdiocese arid the archdiocese of Newark n.j., have been inundated with proposals for Memorabilia featuring the Popes image ranging from fris Bee s and record albums to a Telephone credit card and Fanny packs. But they have rejected most of the ideas choosing instead to sell slightly More restrained items that they deem More tasteful than most of the outside. Ideas. A. V a a a. The question remains however whether to sell the items outside St. Patrick a rather than just by mail order and at giants stadium when the Pope Speaks there. A. / a a a. The archdiocese of new York is preparing to Send mail order forms next week to nearly 1,000 schools churches hospitals and nursing Homes. Its items in elude $10 to shirts $25 hooded sweatshirts $10 hats mugs and possibly holy water bottles. The Newark and new York archdiocese each Hope for up to $100,000 in profits to help defray the costs of the Popes visit which May amount to $1 million in each archdiocese.  teems that Are a Good value and in Good taste a said Vincent a Heintz general manager of institutional commodity services the purchasing office for the archdiocese of new York. He said Bishop Henry Mansell the vicar for administration will probably make the decision on whether to sell the official items outside St. Patrick a when the Pope gives a prayer service there oct. 20. There will no doubt be Street vendors there Selling products anyway a Heintz said. A if we. Are doing it there will be a certain amount of Quality  of course there is no Way to prevent Street vendors from offering pretty much anything. But officials Hope their items Wilf attract the crowds. Calif to get area code for cellular phone users i Airt i to a in r vilify rain in per fir of a la Smyrl  c re a a a. N. Los Angeles a California is getting a 14th area code one designed especially for users of cellular phones and pagers in the los Angeles area. The 562 prefix is called an a a overlay area code and will be assigned to cellular and pager users in the current 310 area where available phone numbers Are rapidly dwindling. The new prefix originally was scheduled to go into use in March 1996, but Pacific Bell and get California said wednesday that it would be activated As Early As september 1995. A the demand for Telephone numbers in area code 310 has been spectacular particularly for cellular and paging services a said Gene Sherman Pacific Bell vice president. In the past three years More than 4.2 million Southern californians got new area codes As 909, East of los Angeles and 310, on the South and West sides los Angeles were introduced. The new code will initially be assign exclusively to new pager and cellular c towers in the 310 area codes Region 1 companies said. The 562 area code will be the Sec overlay for portable users in the coi  1992, area code 917 was Staci atop codes 212 and 718 in new York