European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes a Cit flying saucers fans no not really but the men airman . Victor Stroetzel left and sgt. Rick barns Are member of the Hahn air base chemical team. Decked out in their impermeable suits the men Check the area for deadly or toxic gases. The team is undergoing extensive training in Case they Are Ever need Din defense of the base. Of photo renovation sends Ramstein jets to Sembach a Sembach Germany special ithe first nine rf4c phantom is of the 38th tactical recon Naissance so at Ramstein a touched Down Here recently an the rest of the Squadron arrived later. Now using the Sembach run Way Are f102 Delta daggers of the 526th fighter interceptors t33 shooting stars of the 26th tactical reconnaissance Wing and the rf4cs from the 38th jets will be using the Sembach runway for the next several months while repairs Are being made on the ram Stein runway. Hahn a Germany Spe Cial according to the 17th air Force s command fire incident loss report this he s grateful to americans mayor recalls by Nick Stavriotis is Nuernberg Bureau chief bad Mergentheim Ger Many is Elmar Mauc celebrated his eighteenth birth Day in 1945 with a gun pointed to his head. H was the fourth time Mauch Elmar Mauch had been captured by the Ameri cans during world War ii. Looking Down the barrel of the gun i did t think of trying to escape again the 41-year-Oldmayor of this City recalled i raised my hands to my headband Only thought it was a hell of a Way to be celebrating my birth Day perhaps my Mauch was taken out of 0w�any and brought behind the Wes to France where to washed a pow from 1945 to 1947. Before being taken to France Mauch expected the worst he of pos t0ld of mistreatment debt of gratitude to a prisoner of War though fraternization with the enemy was strictly forbidden on both sides we All wanted to talk to each within six months of his Captivity Mauch was on wha Fie Catlen Friendly speaking terms with As an interpreter in the pow amp i got to know american officers and we would talk of the War and about our families and friends and the ones we american manner was open and Frank and it fascinated is still fascinated by the american Don t think germans should try to mimic everything that comes into Germany from the United states but i think germans should learn to relax More like americans and develop More of their tolerance of differences Between German Sand americans Are fruitful differences Mauch says but these differences must be understood army data unit Mission is dealing with people not two years Asae War however i wat by the Ameri ice. Becoming mayor of this828 hi8tw la w and interim. Spin in Mauch Hasto return in some Way this Heidelberg special the with data processing unit Here does More than digest an prepare facts and figures. It deals with word of nearly every army personnel action in eur Ope Africa and the Middle East Oes through this Usa eur ande Venth army Headquarters of fice in route to the Pentagon data support come. Every Soldier is personally affected by what goes into his computer oriented records Saidt col. R. C. Brannock co of the 65th Dpi. The importance of accurate and timely reporting of individual statistics cannot assignments medical services dependent schools family hous ing and accounting for strength of different commands by individual units All of these a reprogrammed in the army computer of 12 worldwide army data processing centers feeding information to this system the 65th candies about 42,000 morn ing reports and 9,000 personnel data reports each unit s personnel master file is updated three times each week a process involving the correlation of information fro morning reports personnel data cards and input from Usa eur and seventh army s four person Nel service companies. The data traffic pattern at the65th becomes even More complicated when information fro International sources must be processed. Each month the unit transmits to Washington More than a million cards simultaneously receiving More than a half million cards from the Dat support come and the other 11 worldwide data processing Cen ters. There Are three Basic sets of equipment Here a 1005 card processor with 28 pieces of associated equipment a 501 com Puter that includes seven tap stations a 600-line per minute Printer and a 301 computer wit six magnetic tape sections and other components capable of1,000-line per minute printing. The 501 has a 67,000-Charactermemory storage capacity and a write read capability of 33,333characters per second. Used primarily for input output operations the 301 has a memory Stor age capability of 40,000 characters. Brannock also expects to receive in the near future a second smaller 301. This will have memory storage capacity of 10, 000 characters one tape station a card read punch machine and a High Speed Printer. Days properly and interest in the should be there is no More room hit his world for intolerance he smiled and looked out the window of the 400-year-Oldtown Hall and added even in eating the uncomplicated Way i which americans conduct a thanksgiving dinner for example is something that would be impossible in Germany if Yon want Coffee with your potatoes or whatever but i reflects your informal manner and i think germans could learn something from it. Of course we Are fighting years of tradition. But i think the younger generation of Ger mans is not As stiff As we it is a healthy sign he says. Trying to promote better Ger Man american relations in bad Mergentheim became a major problem for Mauch when he took Over As the City mayor. There were no americans Liv ing among the 13,000 inhabitants of this picturesque City in the Tauber Valley. So Mauch decided to import americans. Working closely with the America House in Stuttgart and the 3rd inf div band and glee club in Wuerzburg Mauch organized bad Mergentheim s first German american cultural week in 1963. The week featured american music Art lectures and com Mercial exhibits. The tic response by the towns people has now made it an an Nual week Long event conduct. De for the past five years. The 3rd inf div band is also invited periodically to play Dur ing the year at Fasching another Holiday occasions. One sees hundreds of euro peans Here filling the concert Halls in the City and at the Spato listen to american Folk music and Broadway reviews few americans however Are seen in the need More americans Mauch says. Base had Only one fire during the 1968 fiscal year. The re port shows Hahn fire rate Isth lowest of All 17th of bases. Hahn a Germany Spe Cial a Survey is now being taken by the base education enter to see if Hahn person Nel would like to have thei College classes presented on television. Negotiations Are presently in Progress with the Chicago City College to con duct accredited courses on film. Interested personnel Are asked to Contact the base Edu cation office. Span Dahlem Ger Many special the new co of the 7149th combat support group and Span Dahlem a is it. Col. John r. Span Dahlem Germany special . Luigi j. Massotti is the new sergeant major for the 7149th tactical fighter Wing. Pitburg Germany special cats. John Al Herrington and Temple c. Klett of the 22ndtactical fighter so became the first f4d phantom Crew Here to surpass the 1,000 hour Mark in that plane. Sembach Germany Spe Cial it. Col. Mack d. Wolst or. Is the new co of the 601stusaf dispensary Here r e placing it. Col s. A. Cheese Man who has been reassigned to Pitburg a. Hanau Germany special spec. 4 Paul e. Rice has been named Soldier of the month and Soldier of the head Quarter of he & he co 2ndsupport brigade for the fourth Quarter of fiscal 68. Kaiserslautern Germany special it. Col Paul m. Fenech has been elected president of the Kaiserslautern Ramstein District Mili tary Council of Catholic men. Up in for exhibition in Karlsruhe Karlsruhe Germany is new Art form and Means of expression will be on display Here this Friday. The one hour exhibition is to be held on the Carni Val grounds adjacent to the head quarters building of the former Karlsruhe subdistrict. Balloons three feet in diameter and up to 275 feet Long Are to be inflated with chemical smoke of various colors and floated about 700 feet above the ground starting at dusk. Artists on the ground will then change the shape of the balloons by pulling on strings attached to the bal loons. The exhibition is to be illuminated by lights borrowed from a German antiaircraft unit. Otto Piene of Dusseldorf who works with prof. Hans Kinder Mann at the Karlsruhe states Art Academy is the artist exhibiting the new form of Art completed courses in visual studies at . In Cambridge is famous for his sculptures
