European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters monday. September 12,1994 today s 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. 1.59 dutch Guilder 1.70 German Mark. 1.52 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 Curren cies. ". Austrian schilling.10.962 Bahrain Dinar. 0.377 belgian franc .32.13 British Pound 1.5428 Canadian Dollar. 1.3713 danish Krone a. 6.163 dutch Guilder. 1.7472 French franc 5.3395 German Mark 1.5583 greek drachma. 233.55 italian lira. 1,589.00 Kuwait Dinar. 0.29675 norwegian Krone. 6.8475 portuguese escudo. 158.81 saudi Hal n.,. 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 & Trust co. And the associated press Mcdonald s Over critics Paris a its image marred by accusations of labor Taw violations Mcdonald s is fighting Back with an aggressive and Campaign depicting the fast Foo Chain As an economic Windfall for France. The meat in your big Mac does t come from America but from Auvergne Brittany Francic comte Midi per nees Normandy and the Loire Valley read full Page ads this week in newspapers throughout France the $1 million and Campaign stresses that the 323 Mcdonald s in France fuel local economies create jobs and give generously to children s medical facilities. It says Mcdonald s supports French Farmers buying $158 million Worth of beef Chicken lettuce potatoes and Rolls Las year. The Campaign originally scheduled for 1995, was pushed into print Early after 12 Mcdonald s franchises in the Lyon Region were charged in july with breaking la Orlaws. Managers were accused of not holding monthly meetings with worker representatives and not posting Job related information. Several employees complained of sub Standard overtime pay and that promised bonuses weren t paid. Another outlet in the town of Massy was hit recently by a strike the first in France since Nacdonald s first started Here in 1979. The chief executive of Mcdonald s France Michel Antolino said thursday that the Massy restaurant manager had been fired. Mcdonald s employs 23,000 people in France and is opening an average of four restaurants per month the ads say. Fifty new restaurants Are scheduled to open in1995. Mcdonald s reported sales in 1993 of More than $900 million accounting for 2.2 percent of All restaurant business in France and 58 percent of the fast food Market. The and Campaign says Mcdonald s financed 76 charitable projects in 1993, including gifts of equipment and other mate rials to cd Ianc centers nationwide. Black owned firms profit from doing it by the Book by the new York times new York let your fingers do the walking in the Black pages and those fingers will find themselves on the pulse of an often unacknowledged world. It s the world of Black businesses owned by Black people said Celeste Morris. Word of Mouth was How Black people in new York used to find those businesses. Now part of that world is i these  Morris 44, is the founder and publisher of new York City s Black pages for Mally known As the big Black Book. The 1994 edition the eighth with a circulation of 75,000, has 137 pages with More than 500 display ads in categories from psychotherapists to locksmiths. It Sells for $1 at 60 distributors City wide including stores and nonprofit agencies. According to a report last month by the University of Georgia in Athens Blacks spending Power is expected to reach $399 billion by 1995, up 33.9 per cent from 1990, compared with a 29.6 percent increase projected for the coun try As a whole. A Large chunk of those Bil Lions is spent in new York City which has about 25,000 Black owned businesses. But you have to find each other to spend Money on each other said Morns also the president of the Black pages publishers association. More than two dozen other cities Haye equivalents of the big Black Book. The Black pages of Atlanta has been publishing for nearly two decades. Morris a native of Brooklyn was work ing for the transit authority in 1986 when she decided the City could use a yellow pages for Black businesses. She pushed her idea 24 hours a Day working Craft fairs on weekends and dance floors by night. She sold 200 ads and stored All the copy in a cardboard Box under her desk. Then the Box was taken out with the trash. After a frantic Dawn search at the dump the targeted truck was yanked off the disposal line and its contents were spread out in front of Morris. Sanitation workers helped tear open bags. The Box was found. Eventually the 200 ads became 400, then peaked at 700 in 1992 before settling to the current 500. Morris offices once located in her son s bedroom now take up a floor of a Brooklyn Brownstone. She employs a staff of three with 10 Independent and Sellers. Space in the Book whose cover is always the work of a Black artist run from $275 to $3,000. I always had Faith in the Book said Elenora Willis the president of Gem travel in Queens who has advertised since the Book s debut. Black businesses were suf Fering and its time had  big at May sign clears the Cash a new service Industry Wallet dubbed Sigi has an Eagle Eye for counterfeit Money thanks to its integrated ultraviolet rays. Sigi shown thursday at the firm wag tech Nik Munchen a Mph in Munich Germany will debut at the City s oktoberfest this fall. Bills Are held to the Bottom of the Wallet and the Watermark is checked through a window in the Coin Section. Southwest other air fares Rise Dallas a in a move matched by most other air carriers Southwest air lines co. Has raised one Way fares up to $5 in More than half its markets. Spokeswoman Ginger Hardage characterised the Small changes As a routine re View and Fine tuning of Southwest s fare structures. Prices tend to be adjusted frequently with minor adjustments she said thurs Day. Hut it has been some time since this Many Long haul routes Hae been adjusted at the same time.". The increases were implemented last saturday in about 400 of Southwest s 725 markets. About 80 percent of the increases came on longer routes and the aver age Price Rise was some 1.5 percent to 2. Percent. Most airlines raised their permanent fares to match Southwest s increases even As the airline Industry also matched Houston based Continental airlines temporary fare Sale for Advance Purchase tickets bought by this Friday. By the Washington Post after months of rallies news conferences and swirling debate about whether the proposed Disney s America theme Park represents a Golden Apple or a Poi soned one for the Washington d.c., area the people had their say saturday. Hundreds turned out at the Prince William a Monty va., government Center some lining up As Early As 3 30 . For a Marathon session of the county s planning commission. Panel members vowed to meet As Long As necessary to allow everyone to have their three minutes at the podium before a vote would be taken. And As afternoon gave Way to evening there was  end in sight leading com missioners to say they probably would delay a decision on Disney s rezoning application for several Days. With nearly 200 people signed up to speak the Park s supporters outnumbered opponents by about 2-to-l. Please listen to the voters implored Veronica Fruehauf of Haymarket the Western Prince William Community near where Disney wants to build the $650 million entertainment resort. Elizabeth Nickens a pro growth activist whose family came to Virginia in 1669and settled in the Haymarket area 140 years ago said that families who live and have lived Here for generations for centuries like my family want Disney s  the Park s opponents who include environmentalists preservationists and historians she said Are desperate to Dis credit the project. But these  t live vote or pay taxes Here. What gives them the right to hold Sway Over the county s decision supporters said the 3,000-acre project which would include hotels 2,281 Homes a Campground an 18-Hole Public Golf course and nearly 2 million Square feet of office and retail space would set off an economic Boom for the suburban Community. Disney s America which would open with the theme Park in 1998, would be the largest private development in Virginia employing 3,000 people and creating jobs for 8,000 others