European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes Money matters tuesday november 8,1994 today s rates following Are fixed rates at which Community banking an credit Union facilities will sell for eign currencies to . Personnel for personal use British Pound. 1.66 dutch Guilder .1.65german Mark. 1.48 note the rate above apply within the Host country figures Are expressed n dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar following Are Interbank rate that fluctuate and should be regarded As the approximate value of the . Dollar to foreign currencies austrian Schilling. 10.m15 Bahrain Dinar. 0.37699 belgian franc.31.135 British Pound. 1.6160 Canadian Dollar. 1.2452 danish Krons. 5.9375 dutch Guilder. 1.6975 French franc. 5.1055 German Mark. 1.5145 Creek drachma. 234.37 italian lira. 1,555.05 Kuwait Dinar. 0.29785norwegian Krone. 6.6145 portuguese escudo. 154.63 saudi rial. 3.7507spanish peseta. 126.27 Swiss franc. 1.2670 turkish lira. 38,315.00 note figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other currencies to the Dollar Gold quote $382.60 a ounce Silver quote $5.23 an ounce sources merchants National Bank 4 Trust co. And the associated press Gas prices in us nudge up 1 16 cents los Angeles a the retail Price of gasoline Rose by i cents a Gal Lon during the past two weeks reversing trend of falling prices that began in late August an Industry analyst said sunday. The average  Price of Gas Friday was 122 cents a gallon up 1.53 cents from oct. 21, said Trilby Lundberg whose newsletter conducts a Survey of10,000 Gas stations nationwide. The primary reason for the increase was the federally mandated Sale of More costly oxygenated gasoline Lund Berg said. Prices can be expected to Rise again with the Jan. 1 implementation of Federal requirements to sell reformulated Gas Lundberg added. At self service pumps prices per Gal Lon were regular unleaded 115.28cents mid Grade unleaded 125.93 cents Premium unleaded 134.07 cents an regular leaded 119.60 cents. Full service prices were regular unleaded 148.18 cents mid Grade unleaded 156/71 cents Premium unleaded 164.04 cents and regular leaded 145.08 cents. Big Apple gets a delivery f. In a by the new a Oft times new York the ultimate in convenience food is apparently no longer convenient enough. Accelerating Down the fast food superhighway Mcdonald s has begun making Home and office deliveries from 40 of its Manhattan restau rants with orders taken Over the phone at a single computerized Clearinghouse. Beginning this week it is possible to Call in to a sort of Burger hot line and have a double Bacon cheeseburger or fish Sandwich delivered to one s doors from whatever Mcdonald s is closest Mcdonald s corp., which began Mak ing hamburgers in 1955, now has More than 10,000 restaurants in the United states. It is perhaps a comment on our age that the restaurants which have grown Ever More ubiquitous Are now apparently not ubiquitous enough for Busy customers at least not in new Yor City where delis and restaurants of every Stripe now regularly deliver in Home cooking. .-.-. Mcdonald s and other companies have experimented with delivery networks income smaller markets and individual franchise owners in Manhattan and else where have provided their own delivery service.,-.,- v but this is the first time that Mcdon Ald s or it is thought any major american fast food Chain has tried to link such a Large number of outlets. The first 10 restaurants were to be on line beginning at 8 . Monday with 28 More joining what a company representative called our new a delivery service next monday two new restaurants which Are to open by the end of the year Are also to be part of the Burger network. The service offered from 8 . To 8 p.m., is aimed More at people who Are at work than those who Are at Home. What we. Really tried to do is get at where we had the greatest vertical population where the population swells the most during daytime hours,1" said Paul Facella Mcdonald s regional vice presi Dent. Off ices Are where we want to get " " " a measure of Success Victor Eduardo Basso measures an  Cleanser Container week for new ideas in packaging a baby food Container from during judging for the Dupont awards for food processing France lower left and packaging innovation in Buenos Aires Argentina. Basso Perez with was the top 5? the Ajax Container sol president of an International packaging machinery Man fac. Australia won the  the nonfood ?in2a?Turer, was co chairman of a panel that judged products last Emory. Of no Nipoa packaging cat health peril found among uninsured workers Chicago apr american workers who Lack health insurance Are up to 30 percent More Likely to die in any Given year than workers who Are insured through their employers a study of almost 150,000 people says. The reasons have been Well documented people without insurance get less routine or preventive care and when they it sick face Many More barriers to getting the attention they need said Douglas d. Brad Ham a health economist at the Bowman Gray school of Medicine in Winston Salem . They probably seek care late typically in the Emer gency room Bradham said. They May not receive preventive services and screening services. Without proper screening such As mammography prostate cancer screening and Colon cancer screening their mortality would be expected to be  the research also confirms previous studies showing that the poor die at much higher rates than the Rich. Even if they do have insurance. Of the people studied 69 percent had employer based insurance about 4 percent were on medicaid the publicly funded health insurance program for the poor and about 13 percent had no insurance. The remainder were covered through other Means including the military and disability  controlling for differences in age and income the researchers found that uninsured working men were 30 percent More Likely to die and uninsured work ing women were 20 percent More Likely to die than their working counterparts who had health insurance through their employers. About 9 percent of the working men studied had no insurance. About 6 percent of working women had none. Overall uninsured men including workers and non workers were 20 percent More Likely to die than employer covered men. Uninsured women Overall were 50 percent More Likely to die than employer covered women. The researchers based their findings on Federal Cen sus data taken from 1979 through 1987 on 147,779 americans aged 25 to 64. The Sample was representative of the . Popula Tion but it included top few Blacks for the authors to be certain that the findings represent them As Well a Whites. Medicaid covered americans fared worse than the uninsured they were More than twice As Likely to die As employer covered workers during the course of the study. But an Independent researcher cautioned that medicaid covered people might have been less health to Start with. 3 you Don t know whether mortality differences have to do with the Quality of health insurance versus the tact that people getting medicaid weren t health enough to be in the work Force said or. Andrew badman a professor of Medicine and health policy atthe University of California san Francisco