European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Usa eur enlisted men due for promotion this Quarter Germany the army department has authorized Usa eur to make temporary promotions to grades e4 through e7 during the Quarter end ing it was announced these allocations Are in addition to 122 made for boosts to the new super e8 enlisted Grade for the same the boosts to grades e4 through e7 Are fewer this Quarter than last when authorizations were and 200 were authorized for boosts to this quarters allocation gives e7s a there Are 64 allocations for boosts to e7 this Quarter As against 10 last one Hundred seventy four pro motions to e6 Are authorized for this Quarter As against 196 last there Are appointments to e5 for this a cutback from the approved for the Quarter that ended another reduction was noted in to for this Quarter have been authorized As against last military occupational specialities Are Frozen this no promotions will be made to e6 or e7 in any of the follow ing military occupational special ties or sets up Pentagon duty selection plan Germany special to Safe is setting up a new coding system to insure Only its Best Quali fied airmen specialists Are sent to Washington for duty in the Penta airmen assigned under the new facilitates selection of the Best available men Tor the work in the office of the Secretary of the joint chiefs of the air staff and the office of the Secretary of the air personnel to be identified by the code system will include those serving statistical services data processing electronic data proc Essing programming administrative stenographic and personnel three  airmen will be listed on the returnee forecast report As 1 recommended and a Volunteer for duty with Usan he or c2 recommended and not a Volunteer and 3 not qualified recommended for this for selection to work in the an airman must be Quali fied in his air Force conscientious and his manner of performance must be exceptional and his appearance and military bearing the new system will be used by All major overseas commands be ginning with returnee reports for March which Are due at Usan he of rules outlined to help Speed pm Gas service Germany Usa eur he has outlined rules for using government filling stations to supplement regular quartermaster Gas station services for privately military registered while quartermaster stations Are located generally to provide essential services for All authorized Usa eur he pointed sometimes quartermaster stations Are crowded or a Long Way from the local commanding office have been Given five conditions that must be met before their requests to use government filling stations to augment quartermaster stations can be the five conditions servicing private cars does not interfere with service to government vehicles or with other official military activity or with Pri mar Mission training of units or servicing private cars does not require additional the government station does not have to lengthen its work ing Day solely to serve privately owned no military personnel Are assigned to the project full time except those whose wartime duties Munich Amity week Munich federa Tion of German american clubs Here has begun plans for next years German american Friend ship to be held May for a Quick snack Way up would be handling gasoline or other fuel it is understood that the additional services Are authorized As a convenience rather than As a pos level support project local cos who already opened government Gas stations to privately owned cars have until 1 to discontinue the service Bunjes they can meet the five essential visitors to Spain reminded to take Winter uniforms Germany special air Force personnel planning travel to bases located in Spain should be prepared to Wear the Winter according to officials at Safe the uniform schedule for air Force personnel in that country is As follows at Torrejon and Zaragoza air bases Blue uniforms Are worn 1 to april the uniform is optional from 1 to personnel at Moron and san Pablo air bases must Wear the Winter uniform from 15 to March the optional period for these installations is from 15 to october testing air Force survival m sgt George Post opens the Hatch of a Ballet shaped sea Surat if capsule after floating for 72 hours in a testing tank at Wright Pattap son air development near the intended to protect airmen downed at sea from prolonged expos wrote Sun and press Safe Drivers reduce Highway Accident rate Cial Drivers Germany Spe of government Leo Whitehair demonstrates the air forces new Way of feeding sea during Hig Altitude a highly condensed food is toothpaste Belike Container and is forced through the fliers mask Tato his Whitehair is one of four testing the at  air Zaragoza a helps Spanish villagers Spain a helicopter from Caragoza air base played Angel to the Angel of the statue atop the Church Steeple in the Spanish Village needs and townspeople didst know How to get at the 300pound which haunt been Down from the Steeple in 30 servicemen from Zaragoza air who vacation at the Mediterranean said they might be Able to enlist some they talked to col Lloyd base and he agreed to help the j vehicles in Safe scored a no fatality record during the first six months of this Safe ground safety officials said four Drivers were killed in accidents during the corresponding period last the number of military injuries in accidents involving government vehicles dropped from 68 during the six month period of 1957 to 45 this a 34 per cent ground safety officials attributed the favourable development in government vehicle operations to a renewed emphasis on Safe driving practices both in education and enforcement in the command Dur ing this vehicles covered almost 36 million equating 80 roundtrip to the Moon on their runs on european roads and highways during the first half of in one out of five accidents the Safe Driver was not at officials at the Halfway Mark this ground safety statistics also showed a decline in the number of private vehicle accidents to command compared to the number of injuries but fatalities reported this year were a dents in which 25 military sonnet were killed and 229 Ian this was in comparison to 190 accidents which resulted in 17 ties and 250 injuries during first six months of joins Spain in Jet air Spain and the joined in presenting the first Al air festival of the Jet be staged the 3973d air base up from tvs 16th air forces joint base at Moron aided the air Force and the Royal Aero in organizing the after flight St aircraft manufactured in acrobatic teams from Italy and the Demon step their an estimated persons gathered to see the new Book gives answer got some questions about the a Washington a if you want to know any perhaps about to Days  a new Book just but will provide the the seventh edition of ships and aircraft of the Fleet Bridges the Gap Between Wilburn ing ships and nuclear powered ves Sels of the present and the first issued 20 years is a Standard though non official reference for the it was compiled and published by James this is its first revision since the week the korean conflict the old edition contained almost nothing about in the new rocket weaponry of the present and future take up consid Erable the new edition is As up to Date As the voyages of the Nautilus and under the the Book contains such advanced information As How the navys Polaris submarines will look and How their 1500mile ballistic missiles will be launched from under it says the Navy has 69 missile ships in its immediate five now in that More than 100 missile launching ers Are the new edition notes tie known such As the in 1956 of nine american sweepers to the soviet the ssh were among 34 vessels the russians during world Fahey notes also that minesweepers have been turned to the chinese tool group at Safe France special men from this air base have plated the finance and course at Safe he la 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