European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 11 Buchwald Washington every once in a someone comes up with a magic word that will end the Energy the latest one is it is now possible to make fuel for cars from Grain potatoes and practically anything that can be grown on a several major Oil companies Are starting to get into the gasohol since we Are the largest Foo producing nation in the Energy experts Are very optimistic about the future of the new but food experts Are and with this is what could happen in the next few years on a farm in Nebraska a buyer from an Oil refinery and one from a Grain dealer show up at the same Well your whole the refinery buyer tells the wait a the Grain dealer we need that wheat for gasohol is More important than the refinery buyer the More fuel we can make at the less we have to order from european edition Rose Usa Usan Deputy editor Michw Mert maim fan 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go hungry this the refinery Man people would rather have a full tank of Gas than a full you cant waste Good wheat on the Farmer keep talking i aint interested in any other the refinery Man Well give you and throw in two Large harvesting machines As a we cant compete with the Grain Man Well pay a Bushel and paint your the refinery Man Well give you a Bushel and a two week vacation in the Farmer do i hear the refinery Man ten the Grain Man is about to slug the refinery you people Are if we cant feed the this country will go Down the not if they can drive their the refinery Man the Farmer this is getting to be a lot of i think ill resign from the Farmers Union and join the Grain Man All forget the lets talk about your the refinery Man you mean you have too Why didst you say so we can use All the Corn youve i usually sell my Corn for forget the give us the Corn crop and Well make you another so what do people do for meat the Grain Man the refinery Man eat c an flees times Accord ends 10day strike at newsprint supplier Houston a a 10day strike by workers of the Regis paper which supplies major newspapers throughout the has ended with a contract company officials Curtis a company said the three year contract called for an 8 percent pay raise each plus improvements in insurance and Holiday letters to the editor in pcs entitlements in the december 80 Issue of air Force an article appeared which i be Lieve will be of interest to your it was very informative to me and i am going to ensure my representatives Are also in formed of its the following is the pay attention All the teachers in Dodds have at tended or will shortly attend a today mandatory i service training concerning pm credit 1 semester hour from Rhode Island College was available for for any teacher teachers who paid for the formal credit will receive 20 Dodds re certification and teachers who did not pay receive Only re certification the rationale behind this those who pay will be More attentive than those who do not and thus will learn More from the Eureka at last i have found the Golden key All i need to do is charge a fee at the door of my classroom and i have assured attention from All students parents should make sure that their Chil Dren Are placed with teachers who paid the tuition and Are thus More knowledgeable another logical conclusion from this Rea withheld Germany editors note Barbara Dodds cation replies in response to the teacher who has pointed out the apparent inequities in the Dodds teacher re certification there is certainly some credence to the reconsideration of credit values is under Way changes in the regulation could occur this the teacher should be in touch with the Region Al program coordinator about this mat reminder All letters to the editor must contain the full printed name and address of the writer and must be we do not read unsigned but we will withhold your name on request and protect your writers Are encouraged to include phone number and Economy especially if they desire a fast because of the Large volume of mail this column receives letters that Are Brief and to the Point have a much better Chance of being article the various new benefits recently approved did Little to ease the dismal pcs entitlements compared to a government the military member at Transfer time is treated As an unwanted or the civil servant gets a government paid House Hunting per Tempo Rary and real estate the service member gets none of not even toll he Usan some months ago developed a dramatic scenario spotlighting the differ it compared an air Force e7 with a Dod gs9 they Are considered equivalent in both were assumed to have a wife and two children and both were moving from Washington to san the script assumed that both sold their townhouses in Washington and bought Homes in san it then compared their pcs the e7s came to the gs9 got How can this be the gs9s entitlements included nearly for nine and a half Days travel per diem More than for a six Day House Hunting trip to and from san Francisco including air fare for him and his More than for Twenty Days in temporary quarters and 000 for real estate expenses brokers sell ing closing the gs9 also collected in in miscellaneous and 10 in Road and the e7 family they received in travel mileage and in dislocation total since the old scenario the heavily publicized package of new including the percent pay raise and the military travel mileage became one might expect the vast pcs compensation Gap to close somewhat As a not in the Gap has the old scenario found the gs9 out drawing the e7 by a huge to a difference of but in updating the he Usan entitlement experts found that the gs9s per diem and temporary quarters rates had shot up bringing his total entitlement for the washingtonian Francisco move to and the e7 his Auto mileage in creased to and his dislocation Al Lowance because of the pay raise Rose to but he still receives none of the big goodies that the gs9 leaving him with just the difference in 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