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PAGE TWENTY-TWO THE HERALD-PALLADIUM, Beitai Harto-St. Jtsepk, Mleklga SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1982 The Forecast For 7 a.m. EST Rain II Iacocca Issues bunaay, December 5 Showers Ultimatum For Low Temperatures National Weather Service pr a. Rn ar Talks Nov.

22 are being held in the United States and Canada but are designed to reach agreements simultaneously. U.S. autoworkers also demanded an upfront pay raise in earlier talks, but Chrysler insisted it could not afford such a raise. Workers rejected a tentative contract over the issue, but voted against a strike and in favor of resuming talks in January after negotiations broke off Oct. 18.

However, 4,600 of the 43,200 working U.S. autoworkers at Chrysler have been idled because of production cutbacks due to the Canadian walkout. The strike also is costing the automaker an estimated $10 million to $15 million a week. NOAA. Oept of Comment 40 Warm Fronts: Cold TODAY'S WEATHER MAP: The National Weather Service forecasts showers Sunday in a band from the Gulf Coast to Kentucky.

(AP UNION RESPONDS: United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser talks with reporters Friday afternoon after Chrysler set a deadline of Dec. 13 for striking Canadian workers to return to their jobs or talks would be recessed until after Jan. 1. Fraser said that the deadline was to be expected since the plants. would be shut down for the holidays with or without a strike.

(AP Laserphoto) NEWS OF MARKETS Reagan Still Resisting Public Works Program Whirlpool Names Payroll Director asked once again if he would support an emergency jobs program. "No," he replied. In Washington, Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan said, "The continuing increase in unemployment distresses me, as it does all Contract By ANN JOB WOOLLEY Associated Press Writer HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) Some 10,000 striking Canadian Chrysler auto-workers must be back at work by Dec. 13 or the company will recess contract talks in the United States and Canada until January, Chrysler Corp.

says. "This strike makes no sense at all," a statement, released Friday by Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca said. "It is imperative that we get a reasonable settlement right now and get back to work." The autoworkers struck Nov. 5 after earlier talks broke off when Chrysler said it could not afford the immediate pay raise workers wanted. Iacocca's ultimatum, as new talks wound up their second week, demanded that a new contract be reached "by early next week to allow time for ratification and for the employees to be back at work no later than the first shift on Monday, Dec.

13." "Perhaps this will serve both parties well, to have a pressure point," UAW President Douglas A. Fraser said at a news conference. "It was predictable if you look at the calendar and you calculate the amount of money the company will save by not paying six holiday (days) to 10,000 people at $9.07 an hour." Chrysler must pay workers for the six working days around Christmas and New Year's that traditionally workers get off if the workers are on the payroll then. But the company apparently does not want to pay for that holiday time if workers are not on the job for at least the nearby two weeks before then. Fraser estimated holiday pay for Canadians would cost Chrysler some $4.5 million, amounting to some $450 per employee.

Iacocca did not refer directly to the holiday pay in his statement but did say: "After Dec. 13, it is inefficient to start up the Canadian plants only to shut them down a few days for the Christmas holidays. That would jeopardize the high quality and productiv-ity which have been achieved in our Canadian operations." In Toronto, UAW Canadian Director Robert White said he was not surprised by the deadline, but he still criticized Iacocca. "If Mr. Iacocca would just hold up on the press releases and get his bargaining team to the bargaining table with a decent economic offer, we could have the workers back to work and want to have the workers back to work by Monday, the 13th," White said.

Contract talks that began since 1975. Workinger joined Whirlpool In 1957 and was named supervisor of corporate office payrolls in 1965. He is a member of the American Payroll Association and the American Management Association. A part-time student at Central Michigan University, Workinger is scheduled to receive a bachelor's degree in management science In 1983. He and his wife Kathy reside in Stevensville with their four children.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is resisting a massive public-works program offered by Democrats to combat the surge of unemployment that has boosted the number of jobless Americans to 12 million. Democratic leaders in Congress unveiled plans Friday for a $10 billion jobs program, shortly after the Labor Department released figures showing November's unemployment rate shot up to 10.8 percent another post-Depression record. President Reagan, traveling from Brazil to Colombia Rainy, In 50s Sunday By ASSOCIATED PRESS Southwestern Michigan: Tonight mostly cloudy with an 80 percent chance of rain. Lows in the middle 40s. Light southeasterly winds.

Sunday cloudy with a 90 percent chance of rain. High in the lower 50s. LAKE MICHIGAN South half, northeasterly winds 8 to 16 knots today becoming east to southeast 12 to 22 knots tonight. Mostly cloudy with rain developing tonight. Waves one to three feet EXTENDED OUTLOOK Lower Peninsula Cooler with a chance of rain Monday.

Cooler with a chance of rain or snow ending Tuesday morning. Partly cloudy and cooler yet Wednesday. Highs will be in the low to mid 40s Monday dropping to the low to mid 30s by Wednesday. Lows will be in the mid to upper 30s Monday dropping to the upper teens to mid 20s by Wednesday. Waste Site Rejected By Board LANSING, Mich.

(AP) The state is denying a request to build a toxic waste incinerator and storage site Jn Pontiac Township. The Site Approval Board voted 9-0 against the request, and board members said Thursday that Eres Corp. did not seem qualified to build the project. The board asked the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to draft a denial motion requesting the company's proposal. One group, Oakland Citizens Against Toxic Waste, said the plant would be too close to marshlands and was within 6,000 feet of spring-fed Lake Angelus and spring and river water feeding into seven other area lakes.

He'll Undergo Bar Mitzvah At Age Of 85 FAIR LAWN, N.J. (AP) Roy Sommers figures at 85 he's not too old for his bar mitzvah, the Jewish rite of manhood. Sommers decided last winter to undergo the ceremony when a friend took him to services at Temple Beth Sholom here. "This helped start me thinking. I began thinking that no one in my family my mother and father had nine children, six of them boys had ever been bar-mitzvahed," Sommers said.

"I am the last in line, since all my brothers and sisters are dead now. I am doing it for them, as well as myself." Rabbi Robert Aronowitz, -who will perform the ceremony Dec. 12, said he was pleased to find an octagena-rian eager to study Hebrew and scripture with the 13-year-old boys who routinely are bar-mitzvahed. ODD MONIKER NEW YORK (AP) 'Magneto wall set" was the name given to the original hand-cranked telephones. Woman Loses Bid For Back Wages Alan Workinger has been named Whirlpool director of payroll, pension, and profit sharing, according to Robert Flautt.

Whirlpool vice president and treasurer. Workinger will be responsible for salaried payrolls, corporation and subsidiary pension payment services, and profit sharing operations. He was previously manager of payroll services, a post he has held Market Analysis 1 Dow Jones 30 Industrials Nov. 29-Oec 3 24.00 High 1.03. Low 1,002.86 Closed 1.031.36 h040- H020- 1000-' 1100- 1050- 11 000- ilh 1 1' 1 A SO NO m2 BIG WEEK: Stock prices sagged late Friday, winding up the day with a lpoint loss.

But because of a 36.43-point explosion Tuesday, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials still closed out the week with a big gain up 24.00 points at 1,031.36. (AP Laserphoto) FRIENDLY MURDERS WASHINGTON, C. (AP) Over half the murder victims in 1980 were acquainted with or related to their assailants, according to the FBI. Flurriesf 1 ALAN WORKINGER Payroll director was entitled to work lost benefits for a full three years after she was injured when struck by a car while jogging near her home on Sept. 25, 1978.

Her attorney, Charles J. LaSota of Niles, argued she was owed $21,841 in lost wages because the insurance company had cut off her benefits before she was able to return to work. St. Joseph attorney James Straub, representing the insurance company, contended that Mrs. Bowman had been examined in January 1980 by an orthopedic surgeon hired by the insurance company and he found her medically able to return to work as an office nurse.

Straub also argued that evi-dence during the trial showed Mrs. Bowman had worked "voluntarily" at her husband's former business, Berrien Diagnostic Laboratories of St. Joseph Township, had earned two master's degrees and traveled twice to the West Indies in the time after the accident. Straub told the jury the insurance company had already paid out about $7,000 in lost wage benefits, $7,000 for medical expenses and another $3,000 for other services before benefits were terminated. Mrs.

Bowman had also sought reimbursement for three additional medical bills, but the jury held the insurance company was only liable for one of those a $67 bill for treatment she received at the Southwestern Medical Clinic in Bridgman. Hartford Woman Files Suit PAW PAW A Hartford woman is asking for damages over $10,000 for head injuries she says she suffered in a head-on collision between two pickup trucks last Jan. 10. Cynthia Hathaway filed the suit in Van Buren Circuit. Court against Todd R.

Swarmes and Darryl E. Stockton, both of Hartford. The suit claims Miss Hathaway was a passenger in a truck driven by Stock-, ton and which collided with another truck driven by Swarmes on 62nd Street south of 62nd Avenue in Hartford Township. Stockton was headed south and Swarmes was northbound when the two vehicles collided near the center line, according to the suit SnowfcVg 1 i 'S By STEVE PEPPLE Staff Writer A Berrien Circuit Court jury Friday denied, a woman's request for almost $22,000 in wages she claimed she lost as a result of injuries In an auto accident, and instead ordered her insurance company to pay a $67 medical bill. The six-member jury returned the verdict after deliberating for just over an hour following a four-day trial in Judge Julian Hughes' courtroom.

In returning the verdict, the jury agreed with Citizens Insurance Co. of America that the woman was able to return to work when benefits were cut off on Jan. 19, 1980. Mrs. Dollis Bowman of Berrien Springs had claimed in a suit that she More Jobless LONDON (AP) Unemployment inched up another notch to 13.2 percent in Britain last month, promising a bleak Christmas fo' the 3,063,026 now on the jobless rolls.

JOBLESS TOPIC: Janel L. Norwood, right, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, testifies Friday before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on the jump in the nation's unemployment rate in November to 10.8 percent. Left is Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, who said in Washington Friday the latest unemployment figures were "shocking" adding, "it should finally silence those who have been painting rosy pictures of recovery." (AP Laserphoto) on his Latin American tour, issued a statement calling the unemployment situation "a continuing tragedy." The statement said the rise in unemployment "makes it more important than ever that we press forward in our efforts to create a solid, sustained recovery." It did not reiterate Reagan's oft-stated to "make-work" jobs programs, but said that "Congress should work with the administration to hold down spending and encourage greater economic growth." Later Friday, in Bogota, Colombia, the president was "This is the highest unadjusted rate for November since we started keeping this series of figures in 1956," said Taylor. November's unadjusted rate was more than four percentage points above the level of a year ago, 12 percent. At that time, there were 517,000 unemployed people in the state and 3,798,000 with jobs.

Nationally, the U.S. unemployment rate soared to a post-Depression record of 10.8 percent in November. With 440,000 people joining the jobless rolls, there were 12 million Americans out of work. Bus Riders Slice Up Bills DETROIT (AP) Some riders on city buses are cutting $1 bills in half, costing the city of Detroit $600 a day in fares, officials say. Detroit raised its general bus fare for adult riders from 75 cents to a dollar on July 1.

Dollar bills must be folded for insertion into the fare box and the practice of cutting them in half was revealed Thursday by John Potts, director of the city's Department of Transportation. Potts told city council that buying new fare boxes designed to handle dollar bills would cost $2.5 million. Record Unemployment Has Michigan Reeling Americans." On Capitol Hill, meanwhile. Democratic leaders and their AFL-CIQ allies were pushing the very kinds of taxpayer-subsidized job programs that Reagan has denounced. Senate Minority Leader Robert C.

Byrd of West Virginia said Democrats are drafting a $10 billion program including highway repair and increased jobless benefits to combat the "national disgrace" of the unemployment rate. Byrd said Democrats intend to press for enactment of the plan during the current lame-duck session of despite strong opposition expected from Senate Republicans and the White House. "We've got nearly 12 million people unemployed in this country," Byrd told reporters. "It's a naUonal disgrace." "I am hopeful that we can achieve a compromise with the Senate and take action before Christmas in creating jobs and inspiring consumer confidence," said House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass.

"I urge President Reagan to join this spirit of compromise." But Senate Majority Whip Ted Stevens of Alaska said Republicans would reject such "worn-out, tired attempts to put Band-Aids on the economy." Stevens said massive public-works jobs bills "would increase the burden on those working now" by requiring higher taxes. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said the sharp rise in unemployment "is devastating evidence that the economy is continuing its downward plunge." He said the report "should finally silence those who have been painting rosy pictures of recovery." The Democratic plan would be in addition to a bipartisan program of highway, bridge and mass-transit reDair that would tu financed by a nickel increase iii the 4-cent federal gasoline tax. Some 440,000 people joined the jobless rolls in November as the unemployment rate went up for third con-secutive month. Since February, the jobless rate has risen each month except August, when it held steady at 9.8 percent. The 0.4 percentage point jump from October's 10.4 percent jobless rate went beyond even the most pessi-mistic forecasts of Reagan's chief economics adviser and private analysts and further dimmed prospects for a quick post-Christmas business recovery.

The labor market, which has been in steady deterioration since the recession set in during August 1981, eroded even further last month as post-Depression unemployment highs were established across virtually the whole spectrum of the U.S. population. Joblessness was the highest in four decades for adult men and women, whites, teen-agers, Hispanics and full-time workers. Local Over The Counter Local over-the-counter securities quotations as provided by Wm. C.

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17 17 Natl. Mobile Concrete 7 8V piling records 12 years ago. Retail hiring usually expected to offset unemployment in other sectors is less than normal this time of year, said S. Martin Taylor, director of -fhe. Michigan Employment Security Commission.

Gov. William Milliken said the numbers "outline a human tragedy of immense proportions and indicate that the coming winter months will be some of the most difficult the people of Michigan have ever faced." Meanwhile, Michigan Governor-elect James Blan-chard, a Democrat, said: "If the country had that kind (Michigan's) of unemployment rate, the Congress and the president would be moving much more dramatically" on taking action to fight it, such as a jobs bill. The size of the labor force in November was 4,244,000, and the number of employed people in the state was 3,512,000. In October, there were 686,000 people out of work in the state and 3,573,000 held jobs. The unadjusted jobless rate for Michigan, which does not take into account seasonal fluctuations in employment patterns, was 16.4 percent in November with 699,000 people out of work, the MESC said.

The size of the labor force based on the unadjusted figures was 4,262,000 and the number of employed people was 3,563,000. DETROIT (AP) Michigan has led the nation in unemployment for 18 straight months, with state officials blaming the increased joblessness on furloughs, especially at the auto manufacturers. Michigan unemployment leaped to 17.2 percent In November, rising 1,1 percent from October and eclipsing the previous record of 16.1 percent set in March and equaled in October. The figures were reported Friday by labor department staff economist Edna Biederman in Washington. "These are shameful statistics" and Congress should not adjourn "without doing something real about the problem," said Sen.

Carl Levin, D-Mich. "The President (is) traveling in South America and proposing to give money away for foreign countries," said Sen. Donald Riegle, D-Mich. "I think it's time for the President and the Congress to focus on the issue of getting people back to work." Among the nation's 10 most populous states, Michigan wa the only one showing an unemployment gain of more than one per-centage point during November. The figures meant 732,000 state residents, were out of work, the highest figure recorded since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began com tmS Tf -mM i lit 'WE DELIVER' Jan Blakeman a Marianne Schram, co-owners of new Lunch Plus lunch delivery service in St.

Joseph, prepare for opening of business Monday. Lunch Plus menu includes five different sandwich plates, featuring home baked breads and desserts. All lunches are $3 each and will be delivered anywhere in immediate Twin Cities area without additional charge for orders of three or more lunches, co-owners A delivery minimum of five lunches is required in outlying area, they added. Lunch Plus also features salads and specialty hors d'oeuvres. It is located at 1600 Niles Avenue.

Orders can be placed by dialing 983-0471. (Staff photo).