European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 23, 1967 yes denies accusation on concessionaires continued from Page 1 entry warned its customers of such a time statement that the paper has on several occasions pointed out to yes Headquarters that servicemen Are often subjected to Sharp treatment by concessionaires and that the Exchange takes a lenient attitude toward the concessionaire system with Only occasional corrective action be ing taken yes maintains action is far from reports it earned $2,986, 272 in fiscal year 1967 fro Concession and Agency income. Of this amount $259,397 was from car sales while $3,828 was from car financing bulk of Concession income was from its Auto repair Barberan Beauty shop tailor shop laundry and dry cleaning of the huge system May place complaints at anytime yes says and once received they Are thoroughly checked and answered. When irregularities Are discovered be maintains corrective action is taken in behalf of the customer and Steps Are taken to insure that similar practices do not re occur. In its copyrighted Story the times alleges that yes has re fused to take action against concessionaire loan company cited by the army for irregularities in its dealings with serv ice personnel. But yes say there has been no cause to re View the firm s the times charge distorted the Exchange system notes that the firm which makes Loans for automobile purchases must comply with defense department regulations concerning interest rates fees charged and the Complete and fair disclosures of charges. Intensive audit of finance agreements made by the firm with military customers has revealed yes says that the com Pany in every instance has charged interest in accordance with its contract and in a few cases has charged less than a to suggestions by the times that concessionaires have had Topay to obtain yes contracts the Exchange Points out that eve the times admits this is hear say and yes denies knowledge of any such undercover arrange ments. Should such payment at any time be detected the yes statement said severest penal ties permissible under appropriate regulations and Host country Laws would be in answer to a times charge that some concessionaires employ salesmen with Long rec ords of bilking american servicemen overseas yes Points tothe Security Check undergone by each . And foreign citizen working for a contract com a contractor desires to hire an american he asks themes Provost marshal s office for a so called letter of introduction. Within one working Day yes forwards a records Check request to the . Army investigation records repository at it. Holabird my. If anything derogatory is on file a summary is forwarded to yes. Lemay Calls Viet Fence nonsense mount Vernon Ohio a retired air Force Gen. Curtis e. Lemay termed As non sense thursday the defense department s plan of building Fence Between North and South Vietnam. You might As Well use Kite string the former air Force chief of staff declared in a sur prise visit Here to the National Headquarters of the Lemay for president committee. Members of the committee staff had asked him what he thought of the plan to build the Barrier. Lemay added that you can twin any War with a defensive he stopped in mount Vernon Only briefly before departing for Washington on business. His Home is in California. The local committee has Bee pushing the presidential Candi Dacy of Lemay. While not discouraging the Effort the general has said in effect he would run Only if the american people wanted him. Art Painter Robert Dattolo applies the Brushton Model Brigitte Vacek 24. The occasion was a psychedelic body painting contest in san fran Cisco s hippie land. A photo snipers fire on steel trucks Jackson Mich. A gunfire cracked along highways in Michigan Pennsylvania an Indiana Friday As the steel Industry shuddered from the Impact of an eight state teamster Union dispute. In Michigan snipers firing from cars flattened tires on six steel hauling trucks along an 80-mile stretch of interstate 94,the main Road West from Detroit to Chicago. No one was injured however in the state s first real taste of the violence that erupted i Ohio and Pennsylvania sept. 12 and has led to layoffs an production cutbacks in some steel Mills with More planned. In Indiana flying Glass slashed William Ward 27, of Gary in the face and neck when Bullet hit the Windshield of his steel Laden Rig near East Chica go. Pennsylvania state police re ported one truck tire flattened by a Rifle slug near Somerset on the Pennsylvania Turnpike not awol sought for quizzing in fraud Nuernberg Germany is military authorities Are seeking a 23-year-old Soldier absent without leave since sept. 11, for questioning about the issuance of false vouchers that May have Cost the government More than $10,000. According to a com z spokes Man in Worms the irregularities were revealed in an audit of the books of the 14th finance Sec Tion Here to which the missing Man was assigned As a clerk. The spokesman said the awol Soldier is spec. 5 Robert Godden. German police Are assisting army Cid agents in a command wide search for the missing Man. Kosygin promises n. Vietnam further assistance in War Moscow up soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin Friday promised North Vietnam further assistance to help the War Effort against the unite states. The pledge followed a recent Kremlin statement that it would match each . Escalation of the War with an increase in Aid to North soviet news Agency Tass said Kosygin and visiting North vietnamese Deputy Premier be Thanh Nghi met and Exchange opinions on the situation which is taking shape in Vietnam i View of a stepping up of Ameri can aggression. They discussed the develop ment of soviet vietnamese relations and practical Steps to retaken by the soviet Union to give the vietnamese people further assistance to repel . Aggression and the requirements of thedry North vietnamese econ omy Tass Here said the pledge of further assistance almost certainly indicated a forthcoming increase in the vol ume of soviet military and eco nomic Aid to North said the Kremlin meeting was marked by a spirit of Mutual understanding cordiality and far from where a trucker was shot in the stomach tuesday night. Some stoning incidents also were reported. In All the Michigan incidents which occurred from Ann Arbor in the East to West of Kalamazoo Drivers said shots apparently came from passing cars westbound like the trucks. The violence stems from dispute among owner Drivers who get a 73 per cent share of the fee for hauling steel under contractor lease to major truck ing firms. As teamsters they Are demanding the Union reopen contracts with the trucking companies and gain an increase in fees to 79 per cent plus extra for time spent in Mills wait ing for loads. As violence mounted so did reports of Impact on the steel Industry. Republic steel one of the largest in the nation Laid off 300 workers at its Cleveland work Sand said another 2,500 of the Plant s 7,000 employees would bridled by the weekend. Lukens steel at Coatesville,pa., said 75 per cent of its truck deliveries had been halted forc ing a switch to rail shipments. Local nationals and third coun try citizens employed by con tractors Are handled in the Sam manner except that requests Are sent to an intelligence Agency at Usa eur he. According to army and air Force times a concessionaire was offering last year Mutual funds that May not be sold to americans because they Are no registered with the . Securi ties and Exchange commission Sec. When the times asked questions according to the Story brochures for the unauthorized Mutual fund disappeared Over night. The Exchange system acknowledges that this May have been possible at one time but it i highly unlikely that it would happen again. The Mutual fun contract is one of the most rigid held by yes the Exchange Points out. The concessionaire s activities Are subject to control not Only by yes but by the Sec. The firm mentioned in the time Story yes says was once a subsidiary of a company Selling for eign securities and has since merged with a . Concession contracts according to yes Are subject to review every two years and Are put out for competitive bids every five years. Built in controls yes maintains Are de signed to preclude any irregularities in the awarding of these contracts. Answering a times charge that salesmen formerly employed by phony car firms went to work for other firms holding yes con tracts when the Exchange entered into agreements with the american big four Auto companies yes says that of the 574 salesmen presently working for contract firms 400 were employed prior to 1967. Files on Al have been reviewed and new letters of introduction checks have been made on All newly hired part in his statement Scott Points out that concessionaires Are a vital part of yes. They oper ate under contracts designed to control the scope of their activities standards of service offered and prices charged he operations Are subjected to continuing outside Agency and yes management surveil Lance programs As Well As regu Lar periodic command inspection. The yes commander continued this is not to say that irregularities do not exist but the Type referred to in the time article which May have existed and have been detected have either been corrected or Are under Active ask anyone who has knowl Edge or evidence of misconduct or wrongdoing by any element of yes or its concessionaires touring such information to my weather . 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