European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse , � 5= 4 am copt Bill Solley right supervises test As West Berlin policeman watches. Pinair Driver tester by Ernie Weatherall staff writer a Gadget resembling a pinball machine now being tried out by the Berlin come s traffic safety school May soon be adopted by Usa eur to train Drivers. The German made machine was first demonstrated during a conference of safety officials last year. Berlin come s safety director. Weldon h. Chandler liked the new visual Aid and ordered the first machine to be used by an american traffic safety school. A switchboard controlled by an operator sets up All sorts of traffic problems on the Light panel it includes streetcars trucks bicycles of carts pedestrians even idiot Drivers turning the wrong Way or cutting in front of other cars. When the panel lights up the student is Given a Brief moment to observe and write the Correct appraisal of the situation. The new machine has attracted safety directors from other commands. They have come to Berlin to watch it in operation. It is used not Only to teach new Drivers but those taking refresher courses because their licenses have been suspended for traffic violations. Berlin Good has been running a school to rehabilitate Drivers for the past two years. Brig Gen Charles s. D Orsa cd of the command is determined that All americans be Safe Drivers so there will be no substance to the communist propaganda lies that monstrous american cars callously run Down helpless West result is that the command has one of the Best safety records in Usa eur. Pushbutton a create traffic crises. 4 Goren on Bridge both vulnerable. East deals. North4 k 7 3 2 vkq842 43 4qj1085 a v none ak1092 East 6763 South a94 v a j 1095 West north19 Pouble 4f pass pass i ing Lead Queen of you realize that theart important Mes thru that is then a their common la Law witness today s hand 5 a / " after South s opening bid West was faced with a mild problem. A Mere Overall of one Spade would not do Justice to the hand and might he feared even result in failure to reach the Best con tract. After due consideration West elected to double. North s preemptive raise to four hearts was Well chosen de spite partner s opening bid the chances were that his Side s de fens Vic strength would not de very formidable. The Best tactics seemed to be to place the pres sure upon the adversaries to make the Correct guess. East could take no action and West was up against it he Felt he was being talked out of something but any bid by him might prove disastrous. " it will be noted that East and West could have made five clubs but it would have required Mas Ter minding of the first order to get three in the face of the barrel Cade. The Queen of Spades was opened. Declarer won in Dummy with the King and Drew three rounds of Trump. The eight of clubs was permitted to ride to West s ten and the Spade return taken by Declarer s Ace. Now the remaining club was ruffed Sawfly and a third round of Spades put West Back in. He led the eight of Spades and Declarer discarded the six of diamonds and the enemy had no Way to score an other trick. The Lead of a 1 Black card would permit a Ruff and Dis card and a Diamond return would be into South s major Tenace had Bast hopped up with the King of clubs when that suit was led from Dummy and shifted to a Diamond he would have Defeated the contract for South Couri no longer project the end play ourt i in put 1 he c it of Tribune add Reti All letters lot b bag editor the stars and stripes Apo 175, . Forces. In elude name and address name will be deleted find kept confidential in request i. Totters May be condensed for publication provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the Orgl nil. Babies attend late movies my wife and i attended a late showing of i want to live along with a few Hundred others at one of the local army the aters. We find it very disturbing when the parents of Small Chil Dren do not have the common decency to leave their seat after the child has disturbed those around him by a continual exer. Cise of his recently acquired to. Cal chords. This is a continual annoyance with no apparent so Lution unless parents were prohibited from bringing babies to the late showings. The theater is a place supposedly of relaxation and escape from the problems of daily living. But for some it is a Sanctum where manners Are forgotten. Most of us Don t mind the noise of an occasional Candy wrapper being torn off or the crunch of Popcorn or the whispered words that pass Between couples. But there is no reason for the continual repeat perform Ance As specified above. by request editor s note the follow ing reply was received from Headquarters army and air Force motion picture service Europe responsibility for the operation of army and air Force Heaters is that of the installation commander through his appointed theater officer in Accord Ance with paragraph 11, usar eur circular 28-125, dated oct i 1958. The following guidance for the Ater officers is contained in Para graph 24b of the a amps a manual of procedures no. 2-1, theater operations dated oct. I 1958 "24b. Maintenance of order. Disorder Rowdy ism loud talking and other disturbances will not be permitted. If a polite request from an usher or other theater personnel to refrain from such action is insufficient the assist ant manager or theater officer will attempt to Check such disturbances quietly and unobtrusively. The orderly behaviour of an audience is the True test of Good theater Best results in such cases will be obtained by the theater Patron if he will discuss his problem with the installation theater of icer. Home of record when i enlisted i did so in the City where i had been attending school some 1,100 Miles from my Home. The Recruiter asked me where i lived and i gave him the local address where i was living at the time. This information was entered on item 6 of do form 4, enlistment record. It was not initiated by me As some of the other items were required to be. Now i am about to be released from Active service and find that this entry is unquestioningly considered my Home of i have in my Possession letters from my Home town Hall and draft Board certifying my Perma nent and unchanged residence there., but my unit s person Nel office tolls me that these let ters plus a lot of paper work will have to be sent through army finance Headquarters in the states before my records can be corrected for travel pay and assign ment purposes. Time is very Short and i stand to lose both a fair amount of Money and the first semester of College at my Home state s University where i am resuming schooling All of this is due to assignment and travel pay allow i r f v a Ance based on information proven erroneous. Can the process of correcting my records be seeded is my personnel officer authorized with the documented information at hand to Correct the erroneous entry what refer ence s applies name withheld by request editor s note Usa eur he replies As follows the Home of record can Only be changed when it can be shown that an error was made in recording the Home of record at time of current entry into service. Any such. Correction must be fully justified and the corrected address must be the actual Homo of the Mem Ber upon entering the service and not a different place selected for his convenience. Any correspondence requesting correction of errors or changes must be forwarded through nor Mal channels with appropriate recommendations to the depart ment of the army under the pro visions of paragraph 1150-3, joint travel regulations. In the event there is insufficient time for this correction to be accomplished prior to the sol Dier s rotation Date the individual should request final action report be sent to his Home of if the final action Indi Cates approval the individual May Contact the nearest Active or Reserve army Headquarters for assistance in claiming additional pay for travel. Hotel service charges 1 would like to know Why my husband was docked $16.95 last month from his pay. Finance told him it was quarters allow Ance taken off for the five Days my two children and i stayed at the hotel at Mcguire air Force base our port Call was for flight 427 on nov. 27. 1958. We arrived 5 hours before our flight was to leave i was told my passport was not there even though i applied for it oct. 1 they had sent my port Call anyhow. I was then told to Check into the hotel on base. Being thanksgiving the Washington passport offices were closed until the following Mon Day. They would not even notify my husband of the change of flight. I had to pay $23 to phone him before he left to pick us up in Frankfurt. I also paid $2 a Day for our room plus All our meals. Monday afternoon they traced my passport to Washington where they had failed to Send tout. Thanks to the red Cross my husband knew of my new flight,1 As the air Force never notified him before i could even come Over Here my husband had to have a place rented for us so that took our quarters allowance so being As it was no fault of my own Why should we have to pay for someone else s mistakes name withheld editor s note Safe he replies As follows the deduction was necessary to meet require ments of exec order 10204 implemented by afm 173-20. The serv ice charge was not for the quarters but for additional items such As fresh Hen room cleaning and bed malting. It is noted that the deduction is Correct for five Days and the letter indicated departure on the sixth or later Day. It appears deduction should have been computed to include the charge for the Day quarters were relinquished. Wednesday july ,1, it in
