European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes August 1985 private travel agencies overcame transition problems a photo Darryl Ruht carries a dog that survived l1011 crash from Page 1 during a storm at about 6 the which began in fort was to Stop in Texas be fore going on to los some witnesses said the plane had been struck by Light and officials said they would study whether wind Shear an abrupt change in wind direction and Speed had played a the Airport was equipped with a wind Shear warning the cockpit voice recorder revealed two main Bursley there is no Low win Shear Alert warning received on Board the he the pilots conversations do not suggest that they had any real con Cern about what was going Nosb investigators saturday took the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder from flight 191 to washing officials said it could be several Days before a Tran script of the recording is flight 191 was making its final approach to the Airport during a heavy storm Friday when it went Down near the airports Northern Boundary and the plane bounced across the Highway and a clipped one or two water tanks and skidded across witnesses a Man in a car hit by the plane was the wreckage was strewn in a  straight with the Tail Section intact at one chunks of the plane ranged in size from Large pieces of fuselage to by Charlie Bowden staff writer despite the Early monetary the switch from american express travel outlets on military installations in Germany to two German travel firms has not been without its Barbarossa travel service and Sun after win Ning exclusive commercial travel contracts offered by the army and air faced almost identical Al though different in in the Case of with a contract that became effective March owner Wolfgang Scherer had the task of expanding from four offices to More than 40 within 60 Sun Tours general manager Herbert Slesinger had to expand from two locations to also within 60 after he was awarded the air Force since it was became the pacesetter for the concessionaire contract in found himself in need of Telephone sched ule books and a source for airline tickets and computers to meet the obligations of his new All were in Short interviewed at the grand opening of his office in the Abrams building in said he expected some but both he and military officials have described these problems As growing pains nothing that could be considered of major army officials monitoring Barbarossa operation say its problems primarily Stem from operating such As inexperienced staff in some and manual booking those two combined with a travel hungry military Market entering Peak vacation resulted in Long waiting lines at Many Scherer admits that lines were a an estimated customers visited Barbarossa outlets since the firm began operations in army communities in although some Only wanted Scherer others came to buy roughly airline tickets and about rail to Deal with the Long Scherer doubled and sometimes tripled the size of his staff at certain High traffic his staff now numbers More than in some such As in rail inexperienced agents were scheduled for special classes offered by the German Federal other complaints concerned instances of Barbarossa travel clerks quoting inaccurate airline schedules and military officials believe these problems will decrease significantly As the agents gain experience and receive specialized and As computerized ticketing systems Are the contracts for both the army and the air Force require the travel firms to install electronic ticketing systems within six officials believe the provision will ensure that the military travel Market will not be shortchanged on service when compared to other Seg ments of the travel the july 18 deadline for installing computers has come and but almost All of Barbarossa offices Are still operating Scherer says the situation is a result of circumstances beyond his besides haying to make a million commitment for a computerized reservations Scherer ran into delays with the German postal ministry in installing the necessary lines for the the first four offices equipped with the Delta air lines computer system came on line last week in the Kaiserslautern area and More will follow said conducted by Delta specialists from is already under the reservations known As data is in Scherer pointed and does not favor Delta Over other after four months of Scherer is conf his organization is additional offices Are or will open by increasing the Barbarossa network to 50 travel his efforts now Are focused on giving the Best service possible to the for the foreseeable he he intends to plow Back earnings into improving service and Slesinger and the air Force benefited from the ground broken by the army and Sun Tours with a Little More time to plan and fewer offices to open could be More selective in hiring that extra Slesinger gave him the Opportunity to take a different his plan Organiza Tion offices one of his Early Steps was to hire an american As his marketing another priority was a sound accounting that and with 11 offices operational in Ger Slesinger like Scherer wants to concentrate on service to the for both haunted by the 40yearold ghost of american this includes a marketing Campaign to sell their firms and their services to military 2 people 20 Hurt by fireworks at disco Italy a fireworks exploded at a disco killing two Young men who were preparing a Pyro Technics and injuring 20 authorities re the two who were in their Early were on the roof of the seven up getting ready for the Midnight when the fireworks causing part of the roof to said police in a coastal town 50 Miles Northwest of the police said the injured were not seriously Hurt in the travel from Page 1 lost to Barbarossa in bidding for the army contract and did not bid for the air Force contract offered the last of its travel offices have been shut Down since american express travel officials pro tested certain aspects of the bidding pro but the company appeals were rejected by the army and later by the general accounting one key element of the concessionaire contract was the military offer of exclusive rights to operate a travel Concession on army and air Force in Exchange for exclusive Access to the defense department civil ians and their the contractor agrees to pay a percentage of its profits to local morale support under the terms of the air Force con percent of ble singers Revenue is turned Over to local mar offices to sup port its Barbarossa contract with the army gives a 3 percent commission to local mor ale support american express did not have a con tract with the military to conduct a travel the Early returns have been a pleasant Surprise to army morale support who say the Revenue thus far is greater than officials believe this is a Good indication of higher earnings in the among army the Stuttgart area was with about received from Barbarossa in both May and Bill contracting officers representative for Barbarossa in the Stuttgart predicts firs year revenues of from the four Barbarossa offices in the idea of a travel concessionaire reflects a change in philosophy that put the military Leisure travel Market in line with other on Post in commercial travel businesses would be treated like any other Concession and must share its profits with the Dan Stuttgart Bureau contributed to this report temperatures August 3 l h 59 83 Albany 68 82 84 los Angeles 75 90 Miami 64 78 Atlantic City 64 78 Boston 64 86 Chicago 64 86 82 Minneapolis 76 92 new Orleans 65 81 new York 74 90 Orlando 77 100 104 Phoenix 82 59 Denver 62 86 Detroit 75 90 Honolulu 76 96 Houston 72 87 Kansas City 76 104 Las 85 Philadelphia 84 62 Pittsburgh 58 75 Portland 64 95 Salt Lake City 58 72 san Francisco 68 86 Washington gop Hopes spoiled in Texas District Dallas a Democrat Jim Chap Man won a narrow Victory saturday in a Runoff election in the 1st congressional Dis thwarting gop newcomer Edd har Getts bid to become the districts first re publican congressman in 114 Chapman received or to Hargette or per according to final results from the districts 20 counties compiled by the Secre tary of states the Northeast Texas District historically has been yellow dog Democrat and Republican leaders viewed the race As a test to determine True Republican strength in Rural a conservative lawyer and former District attorney from Sulphur says he does not toe the line or the National democratic of an Engineer who played in the 1968 Cotton bowl for Texas switched to the Republican party and entered the race at the urging of Phil another former the Winner will succeed former Sam a Democrat who stepped Down to accept a Federal the Runoff election was forced june 29 when Hargett got 42 percent of the vote cast for an eight candidate and Chap Man ran with 30 european weather forecast for monday Cloudy skies with Gusty winds and High temperatures from the mid to upper lows in the High Sunset monday Sunrise tuesday Outlook for tuesday mostly Cloudy with continued Gusty winds and Light temperatures will stay the temperatures recorded sunday 4am 4pm i r f p p r f p p r cd by 75 55 77 70 55 52 54 88 61 84 84 68 60 59 det m p 7th weather 4am 4pm 54 61 55 70 54 55 63 100 57 66 57 66 72 84 Graben other worldwide temperatures High Low f r cd cd f 99 57 66 88 90 73 52 57 64 64 f f cd cd cd High Low 77 52 72 54 66 49 79 50 n 99 by the associated of far a Cloudy partly Cloudy mostly Cloudy