European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 1,1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 metrics gaining in . Despite feds Washington is Are pounds win Ning out Over Grams Miles Over kilo me ters have those who swear by quarts rather than liners and fahrenheit instead of cel Sius succeeded in braking the . Move ment toward metric cation if the Snail s Pace of the Federal govern ment is the Benchmark then it May be so june 1977. Federal Highway adminis Trator William Cox announced that his Agency is abandoning its plan to Start next summer to begin converting All Road signs to metric measurements. June 1977. . Commissioner of Edu cation Ernest Boyer Calls the country s move to metric cation regressive. It Gresback to Continental control of this coun  August 1977. Duane s. Cooley chief of the technical procedures Branch of the National weather service announces that the weather Bureau has indefinitely delay edits proposal to begin reporting tempera Tures wind speeds rainfall and other meteorological information Only in metric  Federal government is lagging far behind other areas of the country i switching Over to the metric system. Those who would cling to pints and pounds assume folks Clung to the horse and buggy Are losing out to Industry and state govern ments. The Stark fact is the change is happen ing and the Federal government will have to follow Evan Johnston a metric move ment Leader in new England asserts. For example general motors Vic chairman Richard l. Terrell announced at a directors meeting a few weeks ago that with the 1978 pm cars which hit the Market next month general motor passes the Halfway Point in changing to metric standards. Pm announced in 1973 that it would begin using metric measurements rather than inches feet and pounds and its 1978fleet Marks the Point at which the cars Are More metric than they Are no metric. A major manufacturer like pm creates Ripple effect in Industry. When it decided to go metric it notified its 47,000 supplier that it would begin using Only metric sized gaskets rods panels and other  47,000 companies had to adopt metric measurements. \ to its Surprise pm found that convert ing to metric was quicker and cheaper than it had expected. The Cost says pm has been almost  All pm sections were told to keep track of expenses incurred in changing Over to metric but some stopped doing so because the record keeping Cost More than the metric conversion Edward j. Janis a project Engineer with pm s metric planning activity reports. At least 15 governors have appointed metric coordinators to oversee the conver Sion in their states. At least four regional groups involving perhaps half of the 50 states have been established to coordinate the changeover. About 40 states have begun teaching metric measurements i schools. Virginia is one such state. Despite the seeming reversal in some Federal agencies this summer Virginia is moving apace. Edgar Edwards jr., state supervisor format who Heads Virginia s metric Educa Tion program says that about 75 per Centof Virginia s schools now teach metric measurement. A series of workshops Are being held around the state next month to instruct in service training personnel in How to show teachers of All disciplines from English to science How they can inject metric instruction into their curriculum. California is another state hell Bent for leather going metric As Robert Tardif head of the metric educational Effort in it schools describes it. California is so far Down the Road with metric education that beginning in 1979, the state standardized tests Given to it school children from third graders to High school seniors will express measurements Only in metric terms. Pints pounds inches and fahrenheit will be a obsolete As the Model to. In some phases of everyday life of course metric is becoming routine. Some soda pop and liquor manufacturers Are marketing drinks in liter bottles. Some roads signs in 24 states give metric Dis Tances and speeds. Several Washington area Bank signs and radio stations give temperature readings in celsius As Well As fahrenheit. European countries Are pushing the .toward metric cation. Beginning next april the common Market nations have announced they will not accept imports which Are not in metric measures. The . Is becoming the Only major nation in the world not using the metric system. Australia and Canada Are quickly changing next month All Road signs in Canada will use metric speeds and Dis Tances Only. Letters to the editor thes Home such a Beautiful word one year. Three Hundred sixty five Days. It seems like it has been an eternity since i raised my right hand and swore to protect my country from enemies abroad and  that Day i be seen my family and friends for 24 Days. I miss them. I miss them very much. At night i sometimes lie awake thinking about them and . It s such a Beautiful word. Happy birthday Cathy. My 13 years old already. How time flies. Is the business going Well dad How Are you doing in baseball this year Danny and Jimmy there is no one there to answer. Nothing but silence. Then i remember. I m away from . It s such a Beautiful word. Pain. Pain and the ache that accompanies me Ever time i think of Home. It weighs me Down the Way that the world weighs Down Atlas. I am Moody. I am de pressed. I am Down. I am away fro Home. Home. It s such a Beautiful  letter from Home. A remembrance of my past filled with words and thoughts love and affection. I wonder what news they have for me. Dear Tom Uncle bodied today. Of god Why could t i have been there i never got the Chance to Tel him that i loved him. I wish i was Home. Home. It s such a Beautiful  i really Call Germany my Home i am away from All things that make me fee loved. My friends my family. How can i Call this place Home yet when i look around me i see people who care. People who laugh when i laugh smile when i smile Hurt when i Hurt. People whom i love and who love  whom i Call Friend and who Call me Friend. People that care for me. People who cry when i  i Call Germany my Home yes. Yes i can. It has All the ingredients of Home but with the faces of the people whom i love changed. Yes Germany is my Home. For a . It s such a Beautiful word. Pfc. Thomas p. Ega Heidelberg Germany Security needed with the increasing terrorist threat inthe world today the need for Airport Secu Rity is extremely important. The use of Metal detectors and a Ray machines is Standard at airports around the world. No different is the Mac air Ter Minal at Kheiri main a. These precautions Are taken to protect you people but it never fails for me to hear at least a dozen complaints a Day about the so called hassle the terminal people Are giving them. Grow up people it is no hassle it s for your own Good. These people Are trying to make your trip a Safe one. I say hats off to the personnel that help make the airports we travel through a safer place to be or. Airman Michael a. Colett Rhein main a Germany reminder All letters to the editor must contain full name and address of the writer an must be signed. Unsigned letters will not be considered for publication. European edition col. Billy e. Spangler Usa editor in chief Ltd. John c. Taylor Usan. 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