European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 10, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 civilian employees targets air Force plans alcoholism study by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington is the air Force will soon begin a Survey to determine How Many of its estimated 250,000 civilian employees May have a drinking problem and How it affects the Mission. To the Best of our knowledge this will be the first such Survey administered to Federal personnel said Neil Galloway chief of the air Force civilian employees relations Branch. While a number of such surveys have been conducted in the private sector Little formal research has been conducted among Federal civilian personnel Gallo Way said in an interview Friday. A research team from the air Force Institute of technology fit in Dayton Ohio working with the Usan directorate of civilian personnel will conduct the study. The findings will be used to evaluate and improve air Force policies and programs Galloway said. It. Col. T. Roger Manley professor of management and organization behaviour is in charge of the three member fit team. Our objective is to determine the Prev Alence of alcoholism and alcohol abuse among civilian employees Manley said Friday. The data from this Survey is considered critical to assessing the degree of alcohol ism and alcohol abuse Impact on the effectiveness of the civilian work Force and air Force Mission Manley said. We re not on a Witch Hunt Galloway said stressing that 17,000 randomly selected employees from 50 stateside bases will be asked to Volunteer for the Survey. Manley is hoping to have groups of 80 employees to respond to the Survey when it is administered at the bases. We Are stressing that the participants be volunteers and that they be assured of anonymity Manley said. He explained that the Survey would not be administered overseas because there Are fewer employees to Volunteer and for that reason anonymity May be jeopardized. The volunteers will be asked to answer inflation serves a Good cause stun woman Kitty o Neill shows her style As she adds yet another record to her list of 60. She sits Low in her inner tube As she paddles the 50-meter swim apparent suicide Ming Pool in 56.25 seconds to establish a new world record in the 78 tooling olympics at los Angeles. Those paying to see the attempt were assured of seeing a new record set since there was no old record. Her prize Money was contributed to the muscular dystrophy association. Up photo death of racing heir is confirmed new York up James t. Wood Ward 31-year-old member of one of Ameri Ca s leading turf families died last Friday in an apparent suicide plunge from a ninth floor Manhattan hotel suite it was Dis closed Friday. The death which was not announced by police at the time was confirmed by Wood Ward s brother William Woodward Iii a candidate for the democratic nomination to the new York state Senate. Woodward was said to have been under psychiatric treatment As a result of two year s of duty in Vietnam during the War. Woodward s body was found on the roof of a building next to the Mayfair House hotel where he kept an apartment. Shortly before the plunge he had talked to a desk Man at the hotel who described him As cheerful. Woodward did not leave a suicide note. A Bachelor who worked As a Carpenter specializing in building renovations Wood Ward was the son of the late banking heir William Woodward ii owner of the Bel Aire stable and breeder of the Racehorse s father was shot and killed in 1955 by his wife Ann a former Copacabana club showgirl who said she mistook her husband for a prowler. She appeared before a grand jury but was not indicted and was never brought to trial. The senior Woodward left his wife and two sons nearly $13 million. The Mother italian a photographer Dies Rome a Giuseppe Pino Anastasi a former associated press photographer for More than a decade who specialized in covering the italian political scene died Here after a Long illness. He was 51. Lived in obscurity Here and in Spain after the shooting incident. She committed Sui cide in her fifth Avenue apartment in 1976, one Day after an excerpt from Truman Ca Pote s Book answered prayers was published detailing the sensational death of her husband. James Woodward was an army my in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, but returned greatly disturbed by his tour of duty there. William Woodward said he had seen his brother the Day before his death and did not find him depressed. He fought a Long Battle to try to get Over the wounds of the War not the phys ical wounds. He had his ups and Woodward said a private memorial service was held for his brother last tues Day at St. James episcopal Church follow ing burial last saturday. In addition to his brother the deceased is survived by his grandmother. "109 what if questions dealing with Alco holism and alcohol abuse Manley said. Union officials in Washington have Given their support to the fit Survey. Any improvement to accelerate the benefits of identifying and treating the problem is most Welcome an official of the american federation of government employees said Friday. Of course we support this research Effort to identify and Deal with the prob lems of alcohol abuse an official of the National federation of Federal employees said. Fit expects to mail the surveys to local civilian personnel officers by oct. 10 and to have a draft of the study completed by january Manley said. Bank dealings aboveboard Rafshoon says Washington up White House image maker Gerald Rafshoon denied thursday there was any impropriety in financial dealings Between the Carter presidential Campaign and the National Bank of Georgia headed at the time by former budget director Bert , Carter s former Campaign advertising manager and now a White House aide responded to a report in the Atlanta Constitution that said a Federal grand jury in Atlanta has subpoenaed re cords of financial transactions by presi Dent Carter and Rafshoon with the Bank. The newspaper said the subpoenas were issued As an outgrowth of an eight month grand jury investigation of Lance who re signed As director of the office of manage ment and budget last year while under investigation by several Federal agencies Over his personal financial dealings. That s old ground Rafshoon said of the Constitution Story. There is absolutely no impropriety in what we were involved in. We received no Loans for the Campaign. We had a Normal banking relationship with neg. Our records document the newspaper said Lance arranged for a $4.7 million loan in two separate transactions to Carter s Peanut warehouse Busi. Ness in Plains while he served As president of the Bank. It said the Carter presidential Campaign also deposited Money at neg along with 39 other Banks. Danco of time sept. 10, 1948 russian soldiers and soviet sector German police fired into a crowd of anti communist demonstrators after the germans hauled Down a red Flag and stoned a soviet jeep. Sept. 10, 1958 the air Force Dis closed that a Lockheed x-7 Ramjet missile has been flown in excess of four times the Speed of sound to become the fastest air breathing missile in the free world. Sept. 10, 1968 a letter to the editor from Ben Waters England about a Beer drinking Marathon which appeared in the stars and stripes brought a prompt warn ing from Usa eur that such Elbow Bend ing contests Are against regulations
