European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday july 16, 1959 a Saker orders crackdown on customs Heidelberg Germany is Usa eur he has ordered com Manders to take Steps to prevent violations of the customs free gift mailing privilege by personnel in this circular 65-5, just published and sent to the Field spells out the tougher enforcement of the provisions of the . Public Law that authorizes the duty free entry of Bona fide officers have been told to take these actions 1check up on current postal customs procedures and take corrective measures if needed. 2indoctrinate postal clerks an authorized patrons that Only Bona fide gifts May be mailed under deform 427 customs declaration and certificate for Bona fide gifts and Post office department form 2966 customs declaration. 3advise personnel that false statements on do form 427 subject them to prosecution under Federal Law As Well As under the Universal code of military justice.4 ensure that the customs forms Are not Given to unauthorized persons.5designate Only a limited num Ber of customs certifying officers who May sign do form 427,the circular Points out that the gift mailing legislation was enacted As a morale measure for servicemen overseas and is subject to renewal periodically. It warns that the customs free privilege May be lost to All servicemen if abused by a adjutant general postal offi Cial said several suspected violations Are now being investigated in this command. Under the Public Law service men overseas May use. Do form427 to Send Bona. Fide gifts Worth up to $50 to the . Free of customs duty internal Revenue taxes and customs fide gifts not exceeding $10 in value May be sent free of customs duty and tax by both Mili tary and civilian personnel when accompanied by pod form 2966. This form does not require certification by an is no limit on the number of times an individual May use the customs free privilege the circular notes As Long As the value of anyone shipment does not exceed $50. The value will be determinedly . Customs appraisers the circular says. The appraised value is not necessarily the Price paid bythe donor and v. The amount determined to be in excess of $50in value will be dutiable regard less of the Purchase Price. Gifts must be purchased in or through authorized agencies of the United states armed forces or purchased in accordance with Rule Sand regulations prescribed by the major geographical commander Usa eur listed seven instances of unauthorized use of the forms. They include shipment of Mer Chandise to friends or relatives for safekeeping not As gifts sending gifts to persons who actually paid for the articles the shipping of mail order merchandise to Pur chasers in . C us t o m s area with fraudulent do form 427 at and foreign civilians and commercial shippers using deform 427 and the military mail system shipping of articles Underd form 427 while visiting abroad on leave military personnel mail ing items for civilians. The circular also has added a list of recorded trademark Ander Dename items that May not be mailed to the . Unless the names of the trademarks have been completely removed or obliterated. I1" 3&1.v Gen Twitchell cites 4 medics at Wiesbaden Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial four . Air Force doctors were presented certificates of achievement by maj Gen Haroldh. Twitchell Safe surgeon for completion of one year of resident training in aviation Medicine. Honoured at Wiesbaden s Usa Hospital were it col Robert n. Reiner Harris tire a. Maj Johnr. Pfrommer Lafayette ind. Maj Louis l. Johnson Gloucester mass. And capt Robert h. Lang Kerrville Tex. " resident training is a vital Partin a five year program to make the officers top experts in aviation an space Medicine. It is the first be " Rod of practical work after completion of Scholastic studies officials say. Safe is one of three locations air Force wide authorized to con duct such training. The others Arkwright Patterson air Force base Ohio and the school of aviation Medicine at Randolph fab Tex. During the 12-month period the four doctors performed practical work in the command wherever aviation Medicine is applied. This included working directly with Jet pilots duties in the Hospital and the Safe surgeons office. Their work changed every Mon thin order to include All phases of the modern medical specially. The four doctors honoured her previously graduated with masters degrees in Public health completed Jet flying indoctrination and finished a one year tour at the ran Dolph air Force medical school. In the final phase of the five year program they will now under go supervised practice under a senior flight surgeon. � Peale Given tour of templehof a � b e r Lin special Norman Vincent Peale noted minister author and lecturer was Given a tvs Ort tour of the air forces p7tempelhof air base wednesday. The unscheduled tour of build and underground. Passage s arranged after an invitation the base to or. P e a 1 e and party. " 4dr. Peale who is Enro Ute to the from a Palestine visit is a ?anie4 by his wife and theiry three children. Awarded Rifle medal f Heidelberg Germany Spe til Beety e. Williams a Stu cent at the Heidelberg american. School member of Thi Idelberg Junior sharpshooters i been awarded the expert Rifle die Darby the National Rifle re he medal is the second is Ward in american Junior ins Competition � tank ride for assistant Secretary climbing out of m48 tank after a Brief ride is assistant Secretary of the army George h. Rod Erick. Rendy to give him a helping hand is Sec Aulton d. Spruill tank commander and col John w. Carlson co of the 3d army div s combat come 0, Roderick earlier viewed demonstrations of Field problems put on at the Friedberg training area by the 3d army div. Is photo by Bane takes Long route to . Army citizenship nears for Baum older of c by Howard Colby staff writer Baum older Germany is pfc Gerrit j. Diepering of mortar Btry 26th inf says being born inthe Netherlands having grown up on an indonesian Plantation and. Making a student Exchange visit to the . Resulted in his being in the army today. But it really was my dutch school s requirement that i study foreign language abroad that did a he trick the Young Soldier said. Diepering left his native Hollandt an Early age when his father moved the family to the dutch East indies where he served As a government territorial on a tropical Plantation was fun to the youngster until world War it began expanding. The japanese invaded the territory and placed his entire family in a concentration Camp. This was duplicated later when the rebellious indies natives be Gan uprising he said he saw Les than six months of Freedom in. More than three said his father helped organize the indonesian govern ment for the nation s Independence in 1949, after which Youngs duper i t i -i1" ing attended College in the nether lands where he added English French and German to his already adequate dutch and two dialects of indonesian. Already fluent in six languages his school s requirement to com plete a language thesis in country of his Choice sent Diepering to the . As an Exchange student. The . Bill of rights fitted my Way of thinking the Soldier said so i filed but before he could emigrate hews drafted by the Royal dutch army. He was released from duty however when the papers were approved. Diepering now is awaiting citizenship. While serving with the 26th in Germany he has the Opportunity to visit his parents i Holland where they settled after his father s retirement from government service. Farrell views co change at 14th army Cav Fulda Germany special of e. F. Graham assumed com Mand of the 14th army from col William e. Potts in Cere monies staged Here wednesday. Included in the change of com Mand ceremonies was a 15-Gunsalute in Honor of it Gen f. W. Farrell 7th army cd who witnessed the command change. Potts departs for his new assign ment As g3 Vii corps. Graham a 1937 graduate of West Point arrived in Usa eur last May from Washington where he was stationed in the office of the Secretary of defense nato standing group. Col Hamrick takes Post with Usa eur medics Heidelberg Germany is col William a. Hamrick has succeeded col James h. Mackin a executive officer of the medical division at Usa eur he. Mackin has left for a new assignment As executive officer of Letterman army Hospital in Sanfrancisco. Hamrick reported from it. Sam Houston Tex., where he was director of the department of administration at the army med ical service school. Col Adam. J. Rapalski Susareu consultant in preventive medi Cine is scheduled to depart Earl next month to become co of the army environmental health lab oratory at the army chemical Center in Maryland. His successor will be col Robert l. Callison now serving As preventive Medicine at 2d army he it. Meade my. Skydiving club being formed Stuttgart Germany special a skydiving club is being formed in this area. Known As the Stuttgart Ameri can skydivers the club is headed by maj e. R. Reed of Vii corp she. Those interested in joining the club should Contact Reed go Sec Tion Vii corps Apo 107. Com z units move 4,845 tons in cargo handling exercise la pallice Frances a More than 4,845 tons of cargo was unloaded from the uses in a three Day new off Shore discharge exercise Node at la re Pentie Beach near Here. Twas the secon d Small scale Node of the year. Three com 2 units used amphibious trucks and Landing Craft to move the cargo to the Beach where trucks took it to a nearby Railhead for further movement to the cargo including 60 2 i ton trucks eight i ton trucks and Gen eral cargo was unloaded by the 460th amphibious truck co 570thterminal service co and the 81st boat co. A transportation spokesman said in the la St seven years there have been 33 Large scale Node operations on the West coast of France he said the first Cise was carried put in May Jan that additional Small scale cargo exercises will be conducted every other month
