European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes macs inaugurates new network by Robert j. Dun phys of writer Washington is Secre tary of the air Force James h. Douglas tapped a Gold Telegraph key at his desk in the. Pentagon Here to signal the opening of anew global communications net work linking air foce stations throughout the world. Inaugurating the network Douglas sent his congratulations to members of. The air Force s air ways and air communications service macs at Hickham fab Hawaii As the Pacific phase of the fully automatic High Speed communications Center went into operation. A similar Center opened simultaneously at Fuchu air base Japan 5th air Force he. The two enters together will be capable of handling an initial volume of 15million words per Day. Later this year the stations at Hawaii and Japan will be joined by new centers at Croughton eng land san Pablo Spain and in Sie Gelbach Germany at which time the worldwide macs will reconsidered Complete. Air Force officials said the five enters will be capable of handling up to 60 million words daily at full Peak and the entire global network will have the capacity of 130million words per Day. When completed the global net work will cover a distance of 450, 000 Miles. The Domestic segment already completed comprises a private wire network leased fro Western Union which links 250 air Force stations throughout . Safe hits trickery on try orders by Joseph f. Mcbride staff writer Wiesbaden Germany is a number of instances where temporary duty travel authorizations being misused by personnel within Safe has prompted a command message from transportation officials concerning the matter a Safe spokesman said. The message concerns issuing dual sets of special orders to Cir cum vent certain restrictions on flying via military air transport service aircraft. One order is bonafide the other involves subterfuge to permit dependents to accompany the  for example a Man stationed at Wiesbaden sent to London on to decides to take his wife. He receives try orders then request Ordinary leave orders to bring his wife along on the  is not the intent of the directives transportation official said and is a misuse of try authorization. Pcs violation sin another instance some personnel assigned on permanent change of station pcs where dependents cannot join them Are circumventing directives by re questing dual sets of orders. This has happened when a Man assigned from the states to an area in France where the depend ent is restricted because of hous ing shortages or other reasons uses the second set of orders to get his wife into Germany. He then can visit her on leave or eventually. Bring her into prance to live near his  is considered illegal entry into the country France an again violates the  officials said that these improper actions could re sult in the withdrawal of the privileges to utilize space available accommodations via Mats. Navy packing exhibit Washington special a Jet age exhibit designed to acquaint Navy personnel with improved techniques in household packing matters has been shipped to 60 m a j o r naval activities throughout the world it was announced Here. School administrators will meet next month Berchtesgaden Germany special army and air Force de pendent school administrators rescheduled to meet Here in August for their annual educational conferences. This year the . Army and army building .5 million Gas depot Hanau. Germany up  army has begun construction near Here of its largest gasoline depot in Europe. The station will Cost $1.5 million and will have eight Large tanks. Construction is expected to refinished by next june. German and american officials took part in the ground breaking ceremony for the new 7th army depot. Attending the function were the mayors of Hanau Gros nauheim and Gross Kratzenburg. Col r. F. Hartman. Deputy quartermaster of the 7th army and col c. T. Riordan. Co of the 6th a map represented the army. Contracts have been awarded tothe German firms of Gruen & Bull Finger Siemens Weiss & Frey tag and Klee for the construction of the storage area. Usan to close base in England Wompole Park England is the . Air Force base Here is scheduled to close by dec.25. According to 3d air Force  Mission of the base is the 125-bed regional Hospital on of the largest Usan hospitals in Britain. Hospital facilities will be transferred to the Mildenhall Laken Heath Complex with the obstetrical department opening at Mildenhall about dec 1, and other depart ments opening at Lakenheath prob ably in the Spring. The base will revert to the air ministry which in turn will return the property to the private owner. A flow set Vriends South Ruislip. England special the phone rang in an of lice of the 3d . Air Force he Here. I m a Boac Pilot the voice said. My Friend and i Are  Fly in the daily mail London to Paris race for 5,000 pounds $14,000 "first.prize. Of a re scheduled for tomorrow. Trouble is we were going to use the private plane of a greek shipping magnate. Now in View of the High Speed Marks set Al ready he s withdrawn his permission. Claims it s no use.", he 0.8. Air Force officer blinked. What s this got to do with us he asked. There was a Short silence r look old Chap said the voice tensely can you lend us one of your Flois _,lj5he request was politely but firmly declined. Air Force school systems have planned their conferences in close coordination with each other twas announced. V the Safe dependent school conference will be held from aug. 6-12. The army dependent Educa Tion group Deg will Convene aug. 17 through 21. Divided into 2 parts the Safe meeting will be at tended during the first three Days by some 15 administrators serving in the command for the first time. They will join More than "70-schooladministrators for the second part of the command wide conference. I approximately 150 educators  expected to attend the army s de conference. In several instances both educational conferences will share consultant personnel and current educational display material Lowell b. Fisher past president of the North Central association of colleges and secondary  Spencer Myers superintendent of schools in Flint mich., Are scheduled to address both conferences. One of the highlights of the army s Deg conference will be an address at the closing session by James b. Conant. Conant former . Ambassador to the Federal Republic of West Germany presi Dent emeritus of Harvard University and author of several books on education including the american High school  will Alk on the development of talents in Europe and the United  keynote address other speakers slated for the army s Deg conference Are John l. Steele director . Army Deg who will deliver the keynote address and maj Gen Philip f Linde Man assistant chief of staff go Usa eur Safe conference chairman Scharles Ross Deputy superintend ent of Safe schools while Dona Nolder audio visual specialist at  army Deg he. Karlsruhe is conference chairman for the army group. The . Army Deg overseas operates 120 american elementary and secondary schools located i Germany. France Italy and Afi Ica. The a schools Are staffed by More than 2,000 americans and about 400 local National teachers. The provide educational facilities for 60.000 dependent children of .military and civilian personnel. . Missile Effii intent gets Rock n Roll test Huntsville Ala up mis sidemen Rock n Roll every Day at the army ballistic missile Agency to test sensitive equipment. The Agency is using a giant shake table for testing missile components and supporting equipment the table can handle vehicles up to 50 feet Long and weighing 30,000pounds. It puts equipment through a rotary shake action designed to detect equipment deficiencies through controlled vibration. Squadron gets Nev Patch s sgt Kenneth o. Munson a Crew chief with Tho 525th fighter interceptor so at Pitburg air base Germany holds the Squadron s new Mascot Patch a pedigreed English bulldog whose real name is Al Man s Helen of Troy and which was Given to the Squadron by. It departing commander it col Raymond s. Brown. Air Force photo wac is elected to Post with Aras for 1st time Trieste Italy up the association of regular army sergeants elected officers including member of the women s army corps at its convention Here. The wac m sgt Elanor Howe of Rochester minn., is the first of her Branch of the service to reelected to a National executive of fice of the Aras. She was . Second vice president. Re elected to the presidency was sgt Larry e. Livingston jr., of Farragut Iowa. Other officers were m sgt , of Haverton pa., first National vice president m sgt Michael w. Telesco of Charleston n.c., second National vice presi contest reports High scores to Eslingen. Germany Spe Cial contestants in the 7th army support come s Driver proficiency tests were reported pushing their scores to record highs. Out of a possible 485 total these running scores were reported pfc William i. Gregoire 6th pm up 440?, with a 2v 3-ton truck.sp4. John j. Renicke 10th  up 466va in the 5-ton cargo class.sp4 Bobbie r. Williams 10th trans up 472 in the Sedan Cate gory. Named safety director Mannheim Germany special Jack b. Har Din department of army civilian was recently As signed to 7th army % support come he As safety director a graduate of Virginia military Institute i Lexington va., Hardin commanded a Field artillery in in Europe during world War ii. Dent sgt maj Ray g. Whisenand of Cheyenne wyo., european first vice president m sgt William , of Lockport n.y., euro Pean second vice president and Sec William a. Johnson of Downers Grove 111., . First vice president. Garmisch Drivers top Saco tests Munich special Garmisch Drivers took first place in the Southern area come finals of the Usa eur Driver proficiency con test with a total of 5,557 out of a possible .7,690 Points. Stuttgart was s second an Nurnberg placed third. High Point Man was sp4 calving. Limbaugh of Munich who scored 412 Points in the Sedan class. Other winners were jeep with trailer Sec Edward , Garmisch 2ms-ton truck sp4 Donald k. Bowles Garmisch and tractor-trailersp4 John d. Resales Stuttgart. 7th air div Captain to attend staff school Oxfordshire England Spe Cial capt Milton e. Kosa base staff judge advocate at this 7th air div installation of the strategic air come is the Only staff judge advocate in Sac to be selected to attend the 1960 class of the com Mand and staff College at Max Well air Force base Ala. Kosa entered the service seven years ago after graduating from Creighton College in Omaha neb were he received a b. A. Degree in Law