European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Hubbell plan dropped pay drive pushed lie. unofficial newspaper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East it s just plane amazing How a Southern California s streets and freeways Are getting these Days. Take for example this recent traffic scene on army. Of Laud games Lue push climaxes Man Euver by Jay Ligo staff writer Iseck Germany is True forces rolled the Orange sors Back to pre Man Euver by tuesday climaxing the Ive Carbide tee exercise mock War ended As it had begun to mud As the Friendly troops re established the political Border which the enemy had crossed last wednes the performance in this Kneuver was magnificent said it Gen. Donald v. Bennett Many questions Ivers to probe Leblo seizure 3hington up chair Mendel Rivers said Mon _ House armed services tee would investigate the of the spy ship Pueblo be of Many unanswered ans and ,. Many Mansi Stenvies in the Navy in see Page 5. Ers counterpart chairman _ c. Stents of the Senate led , said last week his panel most Likely would investigate North Korea s seizure of the vessel in the sea of Japan Jan 23,1968. Meanwhile members of con Gress were being flooded with let ters charging the Navy with try ing to make a Scapegoat out of cmdr Lloyd m. Bucher the Pueblo s skipper during its investigation. Rivers indicated he. Font. An Page �4, col. 8 Vii corps cd and the games director. Also High in Praise of the operation was maj. Gen. Rollen h. Anthis who is commander of the 17th air Force and in charge of crested Cap i which included deployment to Europe of four dual based Squadron from the United states. During the past week he said Safe f4 phantom jets flew a total of 707 close air sup port and reconnaissance sorties in support of the array Manev ering units despite the fact that we na4 to operate in som periods of Adverse weather the air Force Effort was an unqualified Success. All air Force peo ple who participated in the exer Cise both in the air and on the ground should take Pride in the Success of the operation. Bennett told newsmen the hardest and most important part of exercise reformer troops immediately began rolling Back to the Grafer Woehr training area where they will by Marc Huet is Washington Bureau chief Washington is the Hubbell plan is being shelved defense department officials announced Pentagon is going to take a completely new look at military pay starting As Early As possible defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird said. The new study will include a review of the Hub Bell proposals. But Pentagon officials say it will go much deeper into the subject of military pay. The ultimate aim win be not Only to encourage making a career of military service but Alsoto pay servicemen enough to end the draft. President Nixon has cited Amend to compulsory military service As one of his goals once the Vietnam War is Over. The new pay study became known tuesday after Laird announced the nomination of Rogert. Kelley vice president for personnel and Public affairs of the Caterpillar tractor co., Peoria 111., As assistant defense Secre tary for manpower and Reserve affairs. Kelley a naval officer world War ii was selected to replace Alfred b. Fitt High priority Laird in making the announce ment said that As soon As Kel Ley takes office he will assign him the High priority responsibility for decisive action to modernize our military compensation this is Essen tial he added for a number of reasons including the need to bring military compensation More in line with the pay of government civilians. Provide a mechanism which serves rather than frustrates the management and objectives of the military services. Take the first step toward reduced Reliance on the draft. For More than two years the defense group under the direction of rear adm. Lester e. Hub Bell has been working on a pay plan that would put careerists Ona salary like civilians instead of the present More complicate system of paying servicemen Basic pay allowances and fringe benefits. Careerists would have received a sizable raise in salary and no careerists would have also been Hubbell plan was aimed to replace the 12.5 per Cen across the Board raise in Milita cont. On Page 2 f. Coz. L Airport Avenue just South of the Santa Monica Airport. Associated press photo spend the next few week scrubbing t h e mud covered equipment. It will be repaired and sent to storage areas in Mannheim Kaiserslautern an Karlsruhe. Bennett said the first of about cont. On Page 84, col. 5 baby Carriage was a Fiche p by Marc Wilson staff writer8embach a Germany is a new twist was added 5 Here monday to the rather common Story of babies being born to military families in helicopters. Kristina Marie h Richard was Bora in her dad s pickup were at Home in Dreissen about 15 Miles from Sembach. The pains weren t really that close together maybe four or five minutes apart but then it started to happen said Susan Richard from her Hospital bed it started to pc tapped late monday night Susan and her husband s. Sgt Gurvis Richard of Del 3, 601st cont. Of Page s3, col s a Wiwi twin a
