European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday june 13, 1980 mail Survey shows faults harm Baum fio Der deliveries found of be erratic by  Easley staff writer Hahn Germany is mail serv ice for this military Community of 13,000 americans can be erratic and fails to meet Usah standards according to a Surveyor Apo service. The stars and stripes Survey of first class mail service made to Check claims by is readers that mail service to and from Hahn was slower than that provided for Many other Apo locations in Europe was conducted april 29-May 5. A letter was mailed each Day to five individuals at Hahn for five Days a total of 25 letters. The individuals marked the Date of receipt and returned the letters to Darmstadt. For comparison an identical number of letters were sent to five individuals in Baum older Germany Over the same five Days. Baum older was selected As a Survey location because it is approximately the same driving time 90 minutes from Darmstadt to Hahn. For the Survey week first class mail moving Between Darmstadt and Hahn a was slower than mail moving Between Darmstadt and Baum older. Mail service Between Darmstadt and both locations failed to meet transit standards established by Usa eur and Safe. It. Col. Robert Earlewine commander of the 7025th air postal so. Said sorting errors problems with truck schedules and other difficulties could have been at fault for erratic mail service at Hahn. Ernie Smith Deputy chief of operations for the army postal group Europe Page said erratic mail delivery in Baum older was probably not the fault of the Apo system. Smith said that much of the mail handled by army Apos gets to soldiers through a Chain of unit mail clerks tacking on an extra Day or More in some cases. In april Usa eur announced that 95 percent of the mail handled by army Post offices met consistent transit time standards. Earlewine said a week later that mail handled by Safe Post offices met similar standards. Just about any place in Europe with the exception of Italy should have a Day of transit time a sgt. Charles Harrell Coic of Page s operations Branch said in april. During the Survey period both Apos lagged behind the one Day Standard. Of the 25 letters mailed to Baum older 15 60 percent of the letters met transit time standards set by Usa eur. Of the 25 letters mailed to Hahn 10 40 percent met the standards. It. Col. Charles Turner Deputy com Mander of the Page said the 95 percent one Day Standard is from Apo to Apo not from the original customer to Destina Tion. Since Darmstadt is an army Community Earlewine said that mail travelling from Darmstadt to Hahn an air Force Community went to the army mail distribution Center in Offenbach then to the air Force distribution Center at the Frank Furt Airport before being trucked to Hahn the Baum older Survey letters did not have to Stop in Frankfurt though they moved through the Darmstadt Offen Bach and Kaiserslautern  the Survey one of the letters mailed to Hahn arrived the same Day it was mailed nine arrived after one Day of travel eight took two Days four took three Days and one letter had not arrived after More than a month. Two letters were received three weeks after they were mailed from  the letters mailed to Darmstadt from Hahn during the Survey 12 arrived after a Day of travel seven look two Days two took three Days three were not Post marked and one had not arrived after More than a  to Earlewine transit times for the trip to and from Hahn should be the same. When asked about the differences in transit limes with the Hahn mail Earlewine said it s a very difficult ques Tion to answer. The letters could have missed the connection to Offenbach some body could have Mispel Tchad the letters. There arc a lot of  with letters travelling to and from Baum older 15 of the letters mailed to Baum older arrived after one Day of travel five arrived after two Days three took three Days one letter took tour Days and one had not arrived after More than a month. Of the 25 letters mailed from Baum for one a Mortensen moves to . Shift brings less contusion Tor an by Ann Keays staff writer Frankfurt is an head quarters Here will Hay one less Frank Morton san to kick around now a colleague joked As the network s Long time technical Branch chief prepared to leave for a new position in Washington . Frank c. Morton san who joined an in 1948, was to depart Friday after taking part in More than three decades of Broad cast technology. Mortensen 59, said that e. Frank mor ten san. An news and sports director is a newcomer who joined the network in july 1978. The two men Are not related but their names have caused some confusion at the an switchboard and wit their mail delivery. Morton san was a radio and electronics technician in the Navy during world War ii. He spent most of the War aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. Then in 1946 he joined the army signal corps As a civilian and worked As a Point to Point radio communications transmitter at orly Airfield in Paris. An was five years old when he joined it two years later. We had More than enough people in those Days but there was never enough korean rioters have longer to turn in arms Seoul. South Korea up South Korea s military rulers have extended by 10 Days the deadline fur rioters to turn in fire arms and explosives Sci cd in the provincial capital of Kwangju. The Extension of the deadline Means some of the weapons captured during the Kwangju uprising in May arc still missing or in the hands of rioters who arc believed to have gone underground. Those who turn in or report weapons by the extended deadline will be pardoned the decree issues by the martial Law command said. Those who fail will be punished severely it said. Money for equipment Morton san said. We made do with signal corps equip ment left Over from the War. And we did have a few Early German tape recorders the old Magnet phones. It was really an advanced piece of equipment and we were Able to use magnetic tape for the first time at  it. Col. Robert p. Bubniak an Europe commander said Frank Marten san lakes with him 32 years of institutional memory which simply cannot be replaced. We will All miss him Mortenson supervised the construction of most studios and transmitter Sites including the Headquarters building and main studios in Frankfurt. He also i Frink Morlton san reeled the installation of new equipment including the am and pm stereo radio systems and was responsible for the tech Nical operation of color television studios Here said Bubniak. Morin san has also represented an in negotiations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Mortonsen said that although he tried to Lake an to the maximum number of viewers in Europe he feels people watch too much to. They Aren t talking to each other enough especially with their children he said. There s just not enough personal co Lac be Ween  Mortonsen said he did t think to would Ever replace newspapers in response to a question about the effect of Tel Etc an innovation being tested now in which viewers read their daily news and sports on the television screen. With a newspaper you can clip features or go Back and read them  Morton san will Lake a technical supervisory position at the american forces radio and television service arts i Washington . Danish girl fatally Hurt As German truck hits bus Ghent Belgium up a danish girl was killed and 13 other schoolchildren were injured when a German truck crashed into a coach in heavy fog on the Ghent ant Werp Motorway police said. The coach was taking three teachers and their students from a danish private school Home from a trip to England. The bus was driven by one of the teachers. The truck crashed into the rear of the coach which swerved off the Road police said. Anita Hansen 14, from Copenhagen died in a Hospital. Thirteen children aged Between 12 and 14, were injured three of them seriously officials said. I Holder to Darmstadt 16 arrived after one. Day of travel six took two Days one took four Days one letter was not postmarked and one had not arrived after More than i -5  revealed by the Survey were not limited to transit time irregularities -. The included though the letters were numbered and mailed in sequence two Hahn Survey j participants received letters out of sequence. That s not an unusual thing to happen in the postal system Earlewine said. That s a fact of postal life. Trying to explain what happened to these individual unregistered letters is impossible. To presume the postal clerk u going to receive five letters just the Way you handed them to him is not the Way it i going to be  both Apos allowed letters to pan through their Apos without cancelling the Stamps during the Survey three through Hahn and one through Baum older. Turn or said this was not a major problem it s just an error a for cubic he said. Capt. Alex Sovitsky a fighter Pilot stationed at Hahn for More than a year received Only two of the five letters mailed to him. Though his address was Correct and Hahn Apo officials were informed of the problem the Apo returned Sovitsky i mail and one of the five letters sent to Bun had not arrived after More than a month. A Check with the Hahn personnel locator revealed the Apo had no record of the Pilot. Sovitsky said that despite not receiving the letter he has had no unusual problems with mail service at  the Survey four of the letters destined for Hahn were missant to Frank furl instead of  before the Survey t. Set. Richard Wargal chief of the Hahn Apo said the Apo was facing manpower Short  Apo s 12-member staff has experienced problems delivering the package newspaper and Magazine portion of their monthly Load of 110,000 pounds of mail War Alsaid. At least four times a year during base combat readiness alerts three members of his staff Are pulled out of the mail room and assigned to the base s Security polled Force leaving the Apo critically Short of manpower according to Wargal. During the alerts Wargal said his staff is unable to deliver All the mail. He said first class mail moving through the Hahn Apo has never been part of the backlog of mail. Earlewine said problems uncovered by the Survey could be the fault of the Mili tary postal system. If we re talking about transit times mail moves through several postal facilities so really it s not his War Gal s responsibility he said. It could be any one of the Apos