European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse By de Freakley staff writer in main a Germany mail service at Apos Back to Normal monday and air Force postal offi Laid in Europe have been at Lal standstill All week be of the heavy snowstorm in 7ork, dispatch Point for 90tni of . Forces mail to Snow which crippled new caused cancellation of flights which normally bring 80,-000 pounds of mail to Europe each weather has improved on the other Side of the Atlantic an officials say Apos will work sat urday and sunday to catch up with the backlog. An air Force spokesman said Safe Apos will be open both Days to distribute mail to personnel. The army reported from Heid Elberg that mail clerks will pick up mail sunday for distribution. However this does not mean army Post offices will be open for the general Public the spokesman said. He said that will probably de Pend on local commanders. The first flights bringing Mai since feb. 8 arrived wednesday with Only 2,500 pounds. About 30,-000 pounds came in thursday night but Only 5,000 pounds of this was letters. The rest was Force col. Harold w. Bra cont. On pages a col 3 stars unofficial new paper of . Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East vol. 27, no. 301 saturday february 15, 1969 to if 21855 a 5 daily 10 sunday earmuffs order of the Day inter chills Central Europe ick to work today takers . Accept contract w York a Newcity longshoremen Fri ratified a three year con t that will return them to k saturday and end a 56 strike that has tied support of new York. Vote of More than 3 to 1 for cation was reported Uno Fly by Union sources As news waited for official Confirma at offices of the inter nation longshoremen s association. It from Maine to Texas other along the Atlantic and Gulf to remained strike bound a action by new York Long Emu May Force shippers at ports to agree to Union de ids Ila leaders in new Yor because of the competitive advantage put on shippers another ports by the reopening the docks Here. Forecasters expect cold to continue Frankfurt is frosted windshields Frozen radiators congealed engine Oil and earmuffs were the order of the Day As Central Europe awoke Friday morn ing to the coldest weather of the year. According to Werner lamp forecaster for the Rhein main weather fair to partly Cloudy with occasional very Light now. Partly Cloudy Witri pos Tible now towers and continued cold sunday. High 25, Low 12. Temperature recorded Friday Icet am pm 36 57 41 12 12 18 10 57 Adana p 59 Athens c 45 Aviano. P 14 Berlin p 25 Brussels. C 19 cop of in. C 21 p cd Clouds am pm so m London p 10 43 Madrid p 27 25 Munich cd 23 28 Parit c 30 34 pre twice cd 46 57 Rome p 61 64 Wheelu p partly Cloudy 2nd weather Wing casualty an unlucky Motorist in Darmstadt Germany needed help from passersby after his Frozen Auto refused to Budge in the face of near Ero cold. Is Efty go pay raises possible iwas ii ing tons stances for a military raise in be pay of As much As 14 per Junt and government civilian Sal increases averaging 10 per set Are now distinct pos Sibili a based on government find is of significant wage gains Ini vate Industry. The raises will take place jul unless Congress changes two resent pay Laws pm 90-206 Andl 90-207. These Are aimed at ringing government pay in Lin that in the civilian Economy. Earlier estimates by govern Lent pay experts placed the civil ervice raise for this year at 9.1 or cent and servicemen s at 12.6 or estimates on the size of in raises result from a Burea Tabor statistics bus Survey showing that Industry pay of Nirich Federal salaries Are based Idor the comparability Princi ple Rose an average of 5 to it per cent last year. This coupled wit the fact that Federal pay already lags about 4 per cent behind Industry salaries indicates the next raises will average Between 9and 10 per cent for civil service and 13 to 14 per cent for service men. The exact size of the raises will not be known for several week because of further studies that must be made by the director of the Bureau of the budget and the chairman of the civil service commission. They will then meet with representatives of govern ment employee unions before sub m i 11 i n g recommendations to president of the exact size however the next raises Couldwell be the largest since 1963. Last year the bus released its findings about this time of the year but the recommended pay tables were not made pub Coni on Puga sol. T a detachment of the 2nd weather Wing below freezing cold blanketed the entire area except for coastal regions of Western France. The frigid temperatures Are expected to persist throughout the weekend according to lamp with occasional Light Snow show ers falling in widely scattered areas. Frankfurt boasted the dubious Honor of having Central Europe s lowest thermometer Reading Fri Day morning with the Mercury hitting the 3 degree Mark. Scandinavia reported the lowest temperatures in All of Europe wit readings of 13 below Zero in cont of Page #4, col. 51 9no control9 counsel claims Sirhan acted in trance lawyer says los Angeles a Sirha Bishara Sirhan s counsel con tended Friday that at the to meat sen Robert of Kennedy was shot Sirhan was out of Contact with reality in a trance in which he had no voluntary control Over his will his nude ment his feelings or his action. The 24-year-old jordanian was pictured As an immature emotionally disturbed and mentally ill youth who wrote in a memo Randum at the time of the 1947arab? israeli War that he wants to be recorded by history As theman who triggered off the last War Emile Zola Berman one of three attorneys defending sir Hau on a charge he murdered Kennedy told the jury in open ing arguments that Sirhan had fantasies in which he was often a hero and Saviour of the in the realities of life How Ever he was Small helpless isolated confused and bewildered by emotions Over which he Hud no control. He was unable to plan or think clearly unable to maintain any meaning Ful direction to his life the cent on Uyei Coj. I
