European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday May 24. 1977 is writer re 8th div integrated ships Over a Navy chief by Mike Spear staff writer bad Kreuz Nach Germany is the 8th in Oil did something monday morning in its Headquarters that May be a first with the division. And that s not really surprising if you know the 8th. It s a combat ready proud and Gung to military outfit. Spend five minutes on any facility in the division and that becomes what the St did monday right in the heart of Pathfinder country was con duct a shipping Over ceremony. That s a military shindig that is foreign to most army men. But foreign in name Only. It s the Navy term for re enlisting an probably comes from the Days of sail when sailors shipped Over from one ship to an other upon reaching port after Long sea voyages. What the pathfinders did was ship Over chief Petty officer Brad Durfee. And on hand to conduct the ceremony was no Les than the top Pathfinder himself maj. Gen. John r. D. Cleland division commanding general. But Why was an old Salt like Durfee ship Ping Over in a general s office hundreds of Miles from the sea even the Swift flowing Heln was More than 15 Miles to the North. Old salts in we Spac Western Pacific would no doubt shake their Heads in disc Clef thinking what is it with Durfee anyway there weren t even any ships were Rhein barges to be sure but comparing a Barge to a ship is like com paring a Deuce and a half to a tank. Durfee was Quick to comment on the irony of the situation. Said he the Only sea duty i be had in the last three years is crossing the Rhein on the ferry at Oppen him about once a the old salts would smile and reconsider however on learning that Durfee chose the heart of one of Germany s Best wine areas to ship Over. They would see the Wisdom in that. But there were other considerations too. The St is part of Durfee s beat As a re Porter for the stars and stripes. He like the division and As he approached 20 years service he figured the place to ship Over for three More years was in the 8th. I Deal with these Guys All the time he said in his clipped new England accent. I like them and wanted them to conduct the $5-bi./on break for individuals Carter signs tax Cut Bill Washington a preside Tcarter signed into Law monday a Bill he said will give individual taxpayers $5 Bil lion of direct and immediate Relief with lower tax withholding rates expected to take effect next signing tax legislation that was part of his once broader plan to stimulate the nation s Economy. Carter told his Whitehouse Rose Garden audience of congressional bigwigs one of the most pleasant things for a president or the Congress to do is if a measure can boost the Economy at the same time the president said. That was an added the next 28 months the new Law is expected to produce estimated tax reductions of pm. 1 billion. At the same ceremony. Carter signed measure authorizing $223 million in Grants and Loans to help drought stricken West Ern communities Drill deeper Wells build viaducts and Deal in other ways with the effects of the prolonged dry spell. Carter noted that Alt projects under the drought Relief Law must be completed by next april which he saw As a Harbinger of speedy assistance. The president took pains to acknowledge the presence of some key Congress members who helped expedite passage of both Bills and actually turned Over his microphone to chairman Al Ullman d-ore.,of the House ways and Means committee and sen. Quorum Burdick. . Ullman said he thought dealings be tween Congress and the White House on the tax measure demonstrated that the president has he said rethought the new Law established a Pat Tern of working relationships Between con Gress and the president that should Serveas a prototype for a lot of legislation coming Down the Bonn Chi of ? year offer Dulles flights began of cop Union Faa says set backed spy suspect by most near Airport Hamburg Ufi Security official said monday they believe inspector Rolf Grunert used his Post As chairman of West German policemen s Union to spy for the East. They opened an investigation to deter mine whether Grunert had made secret trips to East Berlin to report to the stat Security service the East German secret police. Grunert was taken into custody Satur Day night after he returned from a Union meeting in West Berlin. Security official said he had been under constant observation during this meeting and had not left West Berlin. Officials said in his Post As inspector inthe Hamburg police personnel department he had Access to few secrets. But they Saida head of the federation of German civil service criminal investigators he had been consulted on Many police matters including Anvil terrorist federation represents 8.500 of the 18.- 000 West German policemen engaged i criminal investigation. The 51-year-old in Spector has been head of the Union since1972. As Union head Grunert often criticize West German police on the grounds their Security measures were Loo lax. It s just a feeling we have but we find it hard to believe he is a a Union spokesman office of the West German chief prosecutor in Karlsruhe said a search to spy suspects began monday throughout West Erwin Fischer the office s spokes Man said the search had no connection with the arrest of Grunert. Washington Dpi the concorde has won friends during a year of flights to Dulles International Airport and a majority of people living near the Airport now approve of letting the supersonic trans Portland in the United states the Federal aviation administration said monday. In a news conference on the eve of completion of the tint year of commercial set landings at Dulles the Faa said the con Corde also has proven no noisier than predicted and has shown itself to be less of polluter than had been anticipated. Faa environmental chief Charle Foster said Public opinion surveys taken before and after the concorde started . Operations show More people approved of Prince Charles now Knight of the Thistle Edinburgh Dpi Queen Elizabeth ii has created her eldest son Prince Charles a Knight of the Thistle Scotland oldest order of chivalry in the City s ancient St. Piles ceremony came in the Middle of the Queen s Silver Jubilee tour of was watched in one of the Cathedral s Side chapels by the Duke of Edinburgh Queen Mother Eliza huh and members of the order Clad in traditional Robes with Lack velvet hats crowned with White installation was broadcast Over loudspeakers to the congregation packing the main body of the Cathedral. The air plane after they heard it than before they heard the Survey taken before the first British airways and air France set landings at Dulles May 24. 1976. Showed 45.7 per cent of the Airport neighbors questioned approved of a decision to let the concorde in on a trial basis. It showed 36.9 per cent Dis approved and 16.7 per cent had no opinion on the subject. A second Survey taken during the Winter after months of set landings showed 50.3 per cent approved of concorde operations while 26.2 per cent disapproved and 23.1 percent had no opinion. The Faa has conducted extensive Moni Toring of All concorde nights during the past year for both noise and pollution measuring some other subsonic jets during the same period for comparison. The Agency said it is now launching permanent program to Monitor All flights at Dulles. The results of the concorde monitoring to be Analysed during the next four months while the set continues to serve Dulles on a trial basis will be used to de Termine whether the concorde gets a per manent License to serve the United Stales a similar 16-month trial at new York s John f. Kennedy Airport has been delayed by local opposition but a Federal judge has ruled the Airport operators must let the test proceed and transportation Secretary Rock Adams has said he intends to allow it to proceed if the local Roadblock can be cleared away see Story on Page 6.1 Foster said monitoring at Dulles con firmed the predictions used in authorizing the tests at both Dulles and Kennedy ceremony. This division has one hell of a group of Good soldiers. You la see the be there. They ought to Parade the Guys from the St before the rest of the troops in Ger Many so they can see what Good troops s a Case of Mutual admiration and when Cleland heard of Durfee s wish hews Happy to do the honors. In fact it was something Lio had experience at. He had re enlisted a chief Petty officer in Thailand several years monday Durfee entered Cleland s office shortly before 9 . Wearing a newest of khakis that he purchased a week ago at holy Loch Scotland on a news gather ing swing for stripes. His wife Sandy and More than a dozen friends from around the division and from stripes accompanied him. Journalism 1 like when everyone was in place Cleland dressed in fatigues said As far As i concerned Brad Durfee s kind of journal ism is the kind of journalism that i like Tosee. I feel that too often journalists forget the people who Are doing their jobs in the military and civilian life and concentrate on freaks and those unusual things. I think Brad has got a Good be gotten a lot of Good stories about pathfinders who Are doing their Job fro him. He s emphasized the positive aspects of military life but never feared to printout needed improvements. Our association with you. Brad has been first class and we consider you to be a july Durfee will Complete three years As a stripes staff writer and move on to Harrison ind., to become a senior instructor in the department of de sense information school. Cleland urged Durfee to push his Brand of positive journalism As an instructor there. Pathfinder ritual when Cleland completed the re enlist ment ceremony he presented Durfee with a certificate of achievement then the Woof them went through a ritual that has become a Pathfinder already at attention made a Snappy Salute and said briskly Pathfinder sir Cleland answered in words that resound across the division every Day combat ready heading Back to Darmstadt for a Cele bration afterwards Sandy said Well Durf you said you d never make 20 adhere we go probably for another 10." to which he replied and by then our daughters he has two will be ready to enter temperatures1 h 61 14 Albany 40 to Albuquerque 5t 11 Amarillo a n Anchorage it n asnevme61 n Atlanta 40 71 Allan cfly64 is Austin 56 u Baltimore 41 71 Bill rugs 44 71 Birmingham 4 76 Bose a 64 19 Boston 76 u Brownsville be 99 Buffalo a 71 casper3 a 70 b1 Charleston . 17 Charleston. W. 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