European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1978 planes lose touch with site of rays coast guardsmen reach William us he clings to a raft being Rescue on runaway raft swept Down Boston he and to children were playing on the Rait when the mooring rope the other two jumped expected to save million yearly Dod revises moving firm program by John Hart  chief Washington Sis a change in the Way the defense department selects moving firms for International shipment of household floods is expected to save 150 million Pentagon officials say that the depart ment has proven 11 can save Money by awarding contracts by a method known As the competitive rate program Paul a Deimy assistant Secre tary of discussed the cup with a congressional committee on the cup is a procurement technique for the International shipment of household carriers who offer the you won by the Stan and stripes Yvonne Wilson of where Are you weve been unable to mail the prize you won in our Christmas colouring contest because we Lack your Complete so if youll drop us a note with your full and Well Send off your prize by return lowest Rales Are awarded a prescribed percentage of the Ritey said that a competitive rate was first applied in january it involved a shipment of household goods Between Oki Nawa and the after one the competitive rate saved the government reduced transit improved onetime and reduced loss and according to he Bald the experience gained from the Okinawa trial1 led to the development of the put into effect in no vember included household goods shipments Between Okinawa and the and Germany end the by july the cup had resulted in a savings of almost 26 Riley said he Sale that further expansion of the pro Gram to include the the United Alaska and Hawaii is set for May f with further expansion to other Over seas Riley said that Dod Antici pates an annual Cost savings of Over 150 that savings is based on a projected annual worldwide shipment of 430 million pounds of household Ottawa up the depart ment said Friday 11 has lost Contact highly radioactive spot in Northern believed to Mart the impart site of at least part of a nuclear powered soviet satellite that fell from Canadian Hercules aircraft searching for contamination from the soviet Cosmos 954 satellite that disintegrated tuesday re ported a highly probable Contact thurs Day in virtually uninhabited Tundra 200 Miles West of Baker Lake in the Northwest Richard a scientist with the Lawrence Laboratory in told reporters the Gamma Ray radiation was much More intense than that from any natural source that we can imag but a spokesman for the defense department said Friday that despite three separate Survey subsequent flights had not spotted any Trace of the rays reported by the earlier Carter oks More Europe air routes Washington map president Carter has approved a revised package of airline routes that greatly expands service to the White House said the revision gives ii american cities and three airlines deut and first service to the document signed by the president thursday was essentially in line with orig Inal recommendations made by the Clint aeronautics Wilh two major except Carter sent the original document Back to the cab and requested that it award Branoff instead of pan american world airways authority to Fly nonstop from Dallas fort Worth to he also directed the Board to add Frankfurt an Amsterdam to National airlines the Braniff award raised a cry of poli tics from pan but the White House denied politics was although Carter had been under heavy pressure from Texas congressmen and slate officials to select Texas based Carters signing gives Delta air lines a new route Between Atlanta and London National new routes from new Miami and Tampa to Paris and West airlines the right to Fly Between nine Northern cities and Lix european a it also Renews trans world airlines existing authority and extends it to six additional in addition to Dallas fort Atlan Miami and the cities receiving new nonstop service to Europe Are Cleve Kansas to Pittsburgh and is Riley rejected an allegation by some sources that cup discriminated against Small business he said that the evidence shows a steady increase in the number of Small business carriers participating in the the number of Small businesses participating in the program now is compared to nine on according to this steady increase would make it difficult to demonstrate that Small businesses Are being Dos advantaged the competitive Riley Soldier gets jail for Possession of hash Germany a Soldier from Rath Maint 7lst main has been found guilty of Possession and attempted Sale of Grams of an army spokesman said 4 Charles Back was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 90 forfeiture of All pay and a bad conduct Dis charge As a result of trial by general court he speculated the source of the Radia Tion May be underground and therefore emitting radiation in a narrow conical pattern that is hard to a Osman learn of scientists and nuclear Accident team members were on standby 200 Miles from the site while experts in Edmonton Analysed die latest radiation Mea if the information from the Hercules flights remained a Chinook helicopter loaned with sophisticated Radia Tion monitoring equipment and cameras was prepared to make a Low level flight Over the although experts held out the possibility the radiation might not be from the Satel Canadian foreign minister Donald Jamieson said in Tokyo the debris of the soviet satellite has been to Twentyfive including six radiation specialists and the 11member i dear Accident support Wene ferried thursday to Baker the nearest settlement to the Mcdonald said it would be unlikely an actual visit to the site would be attempted before Mcdonald said no one would speculate on the but be noted radiation could be dangerous even at Low the danger from radiation increases with the time of temperatures 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