European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 20, 1978 w by Jim Coles Iii a schools reporter Berchtesgaden Germany is a new approach to meeting education needs of Usa eur soldiers and civilians As a Means of improving combat readiness will make its debut soon. Dubbed Community integrated training and education program Cit edit was the main topic at the recent army continuing education system aces conference Here. Richard Kneisel Usa eur director of continuing education said it s a key step on the Road to readiness. It is broadly de signed to pull together All agencies within military communities which have some in cited focuses on education needs of soldiers civilians As Means of hiking combat readiness Terest in education. That includes schools learning centers colleges libraries Chap Lains recreation centers and army train ing  what we re trying to do is Cut Down on the overlap and duplication that exist now. We re trying to Pool and coordinate use of these assets so the user can get maximum Benefit of existing and developing pro Grams Kneisel said. One of the major goals of cited is improving military training. Kneisel said set testing has shown that Many soldiers Don t know their jobs Well enough to ear promotion. But using military training aids to their fullest supplementing them with mos libraries education Center programs an facilities he said will significantly raise the level of training and proficiency. Brig. Gen. John r. Galvin Mainz Community commander said today s army is an up or out army that puts tremendous trains on career oriented soldiers. The Way to ease those strains is through goo training and education. Army polls have shown that mos people enter the army to better them selves not because of a burning sense of patriotism or spirit of adventure. When they say better themselves they really mean  Galvin continued there s a lot of possessiveness by educators and trainers within communities. Many of them Haven t Learned to think Community in their efforts  Galvin said Only Mainz and Heidelberg have working programs right now. A commander the general stressed has to realize that he has the needs assets and Means to meet the Community educational needs. We Don t need More assets but to marry up everything behave going for us. Cited in t really a set Structure. It san attempt to get people in this business to talk to each other to say Here s what have How can we share it to do the Best possible Job " slump in vocabulary Reading scores declines Washington a. A 14-year de Cline in average Reading and vocabulary scores for the nation s College bound Stu dents has levelled off the College Entrance examination Board reports. The Board said that the average verbal score of the approximately one million High school seniors who took the Scholastic aptitude test sat was 429 last Spring the same As the previous year. From 1963 to 1977, the average score had dropped 49 Points from 478 to 429. A decline in math scores continued How Ever the Board said. It said the math Sec Tion of the test showed a two Point decline from 470 to 468. From 1963 to 1977, the math scores dropped 32 Points from a High of502. The Board also reported that average High school grades Given students who took the Board tests declined for the second consecutive year. Sometimes we see wobbles in test scores from year to year so it s impossible to know whether these Are really major changes in the trends said Robert g. Cameron director of the College Board s admissions testing program. But there is considerable evidence among school peo ple that they be been Able to make some moves to tighten standards. We May be seeing the effects of  Cameron said the leveling of sat verbal scores May reflect efforts to raise High school standards As Well As the arrival of a More serious generation of students a More traditional group than you had Sev eral years  Call taxpayers dummies making $400,000 off cows they have a beef Fremont Mich. Up Mick and Dick Kokx have found the Silver lining in Michigan s pub Cloud. The two livestock Farmers who fell Short of earning $20,000 last year have already topped $400,000 for babysitting livestock condemned by the state in its attempt to wipe out the last residue of the 1973 contamination disaster. The Brothers get $2 per cow per Day for storing condemned animals on their 600 acre Newaygo county farm. The state pays for the storage and for mileage in hauling the animals that Are Well within Legal limit sin other states. Even though taxpayers Are footing the Bill the Kokx Brothers Don t have Many kind things to say about their benefactors. They said they would gladly Butcher and eat the animals they store and the Public has in effect bilked itself. Is the Public getting ripped off by this Dick asked rhetorically. I guess they Arent since they were the dummies that wanted this in the first  state officials finally found some one willing to hold the animals until burial its were ready the Bill was not expected to exceed $30,000. But delays from Legal actions and other complications have led to a Windfall for the Kokx Brothers they take the Money gladly but they Aren t too impressed with the final  s a Doggone waste taking so much Detroit newsman Dies Detroit a Allan e. Blanchard 48, Washington Bureau chief for the Detroit news died sunday in Washington. He had been ill three weeks the newspaper said. Meat and sticking it in a Hole in the ground Dick said. There Are people starving in the  pub a toxic fire retardant accidentally was mixed with livestock feed in 1973 and shipped to Farmers statewide. Making two Points new Jersey senatorial candidate Bill Bradley Lefta former pro Cage Star in the National basketball association holds an unguarded conversation with Jersey City mayor Thomas Smith Center and gov. Brendan Bryne prior to taking part in a news conference in the mayor s office. Up Over 65% Rise in 4 years Bank says foreign investment in . Leaps new York a foreign direct in vestment in the United states has jumped More than 65 percent in the past four years a major new York Bank says. The Book value of these investments Morgan guaranty Bank adds has grown from $20.6 billion at the end of 1973 to $34.1 billion at the end of 1977. Foreign enthusiasm for . Ventures continues apace this year the Bank notes in its monthly Survey of the . Economy it is significant it observes that the stake of foreigners in the United states has been growing at a faster Pace i recent years than  direct investment in  a key reason for this trend the Bank finds is that with the Dollar depreciation against other major currencies Many european and japanese firms that earlier had built substantial exports to . Now find it More advantageous to serve the american Market from  some companies growing protectionist sentiment in the . Has been a fur ther stimulus to setting up or acquiring operations in this country. With the . Stock Market depressed in recent years equity prices have been Low relative to the value of underlying As sets encouraging foreign takeovers of american  Morgan guaranty estimates that euro Pean nations accounted for two thirds of foreign direct investment in the  at the end of 1977 and Canada for about 18 per cent collectively representing 84 percent Hud gives contract to Sulc Washington a the depart ment of housing and Urban development has awarded a $75,000 technical assistance contract to the Southern Christian Leader ship Council to enable the Council to coordinate with local officials in planning Low in come housing. Hud said the 9-month project will allow the Council s Church and Volunteer groups to help local governments in the Southeast identify Low income housing needs an plan for meeting those needs. Of the total. The Netherlands held first place with investments of $7.1 billion closely followed by the United kingdom and Canada with holdings of $6.3 billion and $6 billion respectively. German Swiss and French holdings ranged from $2.5 billion to $1.8 Bil lion. Japanese investments amounted to 5 percent of the total. Open countries whose direct investments were mainly in real estate and finance accounted formless than 1 percent. Morgan guaranty comments that mid dle East Oil countries have played a minus Cule role in direct investment contrary to concerns in some quarters a few years ago that billions of government owned petrodollar surpluses might come Back in wide scale takeovers of . Business and property. Instead open nations have placed their funds mainly in . Treasury obligations commercial Bank deposits and portfolio investments involving less than 10 percent ownership of . Firms. German investments have been rising faster than those of other major investors