European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes armed forces supplied with fuel by 500mile franc Germany pipeline by Henry staff writer Germany a 500mile pipeline extending France and into Germany is now supplying the armed forces with gasoline and Jet a spokesman in the projects Section of the construction Usa eur Engineer said the great engineering which starts at Donges on the Bay of Biscay in has reached and has Cost begun in May the pol line reached the Ger Bersheim terminus last but Good Deal of work is still to be storage tanks Are in and fuel Oil and gasoline being three storage tanks at Hauenstein and Are issuing but pump stations along the Wermers Heim and we Bruecken pipeline have not been the spokesman three proposed construction projects in connection with the pipeline Are now under one is across the Rhine River East of Wermers another is storage tanks near Hutte Helm and the third is a pipeline to connect Sermersheim with the River crossing and the crossing to the the pipeline will be Laid under the but must be undertaken at a time when the River is the pol pipeline and storage facilities in France consist of Mil Lions of barrels of bulk storage and 400 Miles of pipeline from the coast to two Miles of sub merged Marine line extending off Shore at a Point on the French coast has a capacity of thousands of barrels for unloading the largest tankers into great storage tanks the rail tank car and tank truck loading facilities Are provided at each bulk storage three of fuel the pipeline handles three types of fuel Jet Gaso line for tanks und and Katholine for Piston driven the different tops of gasoline Are through the and drained off into separate storage tanks at the Point of an officer in the construction Section said the plan to place underneath the Rhine at the Low water which is usually during november and would mean the have october 7th a my opens fou part to lower rate of aircraft accidents Germany special seventh army aviation officials have begun a vigorous four pronged attack on air officials Here have goal of the drive is to reduce the commands Aerial mishap rate even the rate is already below the army wide the fou Point program consists of a retraining a 7th army wide safety the appointment of Field aviation safety officers and published resumes of All Accident handling the Campaign against accidents is maj Arne aviation safety officer of the staff of col Edgar 7th army aviation our Campaign is off the ground and Eliasson our Sno use letting it go to waste Snow removal Nan never been a problem for the 17th air though it looks like it in this where wheel Uii air base has what is probably the Only Salt mine in the the product is the result of seawater evaporation on Flats within the Force photo scout Leader praises military k i s c i o r m n n v i t i n t i i i t g c r m a n y i show that military people Are i military leadership in tally concerned with the welfare o Majk Liff in t in bout 20 Days to do the it would have to be done Europe has Ixon Foremost in accounting for the Rise in member ship in of american boy scout said Hay scout executive Here for the annual com missioners conference of the trans Atlantic Council boy scouts o one of nine scout executives attending the con went on to say that the american boys in this Over with minimum interference to Usa eur engineers believe that when the task is it will represent one of the most monumental projects Ever undertaken by the army in program represent half those eligible to this fiure is 100 per cent higher than of percentage in the he will inc to serve he cited the excellent leaders of the army and air Force i tary personnel who serve As vol i Teers in the scout an their work in promoting the r Cruit ment of in my Many years As a Profe signal Matoy m observation has been con Fife that military leadership produce More results than civilian leade he went on to say that record Heidelberg engineers meet Germany a j Gen Emerson chief of engineers of the department of the will guest of Honor at a joint meeting of the Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern posts of the society of american military engineers Here Christmas Seal fundraising drive to be opened by Safe next week Germany Spe fifty eight Christ Mas sponsored by the Ameri can tuberculosis will made available next week be to Safe personnel through unit and organizational personnel services officials announced the association now participates in the National health agencies fundraising which will be held in january As a part of president Elsen Howers approved program for fund raising within the Federal payment will not be made at the time seals Are in those who desire to do so May earmark contributions for the National tuberculosis during the National health agencies donations help make possible americas fight against the disease by financing including the development of an effective the maintenance of an adequate service for finding and rehabilitating tuberculosis and the eventual eradication of the their Matoy also noted that military parents Are much More willing to serve in the scout program Over seas than their civilian opposite in the discussing the growth of the boy scout program among Amer leans in Matoy said the program continues to grow each year despite the rotation of scout flying tigers Back from Libya bomb firing stint Germany special the 53d tactical fighter Sis Fly ing tigers have returned Here from their annual bomb firing stint at during their 28 Days of emphasis was placed on High Angle and Over the shoulder bombing plus Airt ground Straf ing leading the High Angle category was 1st it William Higginboth while capt Alfred took overt he shoulder maj Jackson Squadron said the operation was highly successful and As the combing missions the coring continually during the training pilots Lew More than 700 hours to com plete 60 taking part were 30 34 officers and three technical Kirch Gorns plans Bazaar Kirch Germany Spe Ial a Christmas Bazaar for the i army dive combat come a l take place at Wainwright gymnasium 31 from noon to and 1 from 10 am to 8 it is sponsored by clubs and in the and the great distances involved which make administration the transatlantic Council admin stirs to scouts in 13 countries o North Africa and the mid die new program set the conference formally opens Friday morning and will continue through in charge of the arrangements for the Parley is col Donald chemical officer for and Council com Friday Matoy was to speak on the transatlantic Council and later there were to be discussions on How the Council serves each unit in talks by Var Ous commissioners and color slides on site of the inter National scout Center in scheduled for saturday Are Dis Cussion periods on the work of the commissioners and on a new explorer scout program for youth 14 18 years the new program is scheduled to begin in Michigan players set German tour Frankfurt special the Michigan state University players will Start a second autumn tour h rough forces establish ments in Western Germany when they present the tender trap at the sky View service Downs the College theater group toured bases Here Early in after the Fulda he mus group will be in wild Lee kens loft service club the evening Star theater at 3ioneer Cavern the Hor nets nest service club at Cambrai Fritsch a final showing at the service club in Friedberg retraining program for pilots army has nearly 950ms Runn in every aviation steadily proving the professional qualify tons of our fliers and Cutlif Down Little the big single Accident Pilot i seventh army aviation Council is now meeting month bringing together Foll cd from All the corps and and the major aviation Council meetings Are at thresh out safety keep units up to Date on the Accident prevention every aviation unit is now quire to appoint an aviation Sale officer to the commanders staf Eliasson pointed these Safe people Are responsible to their for constant surveillance of Al More than any other they can be credited with the 7th army Accident educational work the fourth Factor in the Campaign is the educational carried out through the put resumes of each Accident a the resumes give 7th army Pilot a Chance to stir the Accident that happened i other Guy so it wont happen Eliasson using approximately 650 a 7th army pilots Fly from and 33 scattered Tiroui out Southern they l cumulate More than hours each bad weather haunts every in the Winter novel through extensive a Force weather studies have Shoi the Best German flying weather be in the Stuttgart we instruments Are required 28 cent of the Germany Best is barely bet than americas area where instruments Blind flying Are necessary 30 cent of the time during the we seventh army Souply weather conditions Are found the Hoppstadter sector near Bai where instruments Are us 52 percent of the time novel through despite the however and the Short Low level Mission with Many takeoffs and landings Flyings two greatest hazards and despite the primitive Flek often used during Maneu vers training 7th army men kept their 1957 Accident my to accidents per Flyte this compares to the army rate of 465th so champs in division rocketry contest Tyndall air Force i 465th to receptor Squadron from Yorks griffiss air Force base won the championship in the scorpion class at the world wic weapons meet held the Squadron Pih up a total of teams from All Over the to took part to evaluate the Al ulveness of the free worlds defense the f102 Delta Dagger Pion ship was decided when the 326th from Richard Gebaur Sas topped the stand with highest individual scorer of meet was the 125ths Cal of Bussac arc director France special Paul formerly signed at is new red Cross Field director her replacing Johnny Las been transferred to