European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 17, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 army tests credit cards for travel costs b Chris  staff writer . Germany the  military Community and  Headquarters arc taking Par in a test to determine whether the army should use commercial credit cards for official travel a Sari or spokesman said. Special application forms to diners club will be issued to frequent travel ers who Volunteer for the test said Sec. Michael Donohuk in the office of Usa eur s Deputy chief of staff of resource management. He said frequent travellers Are those who travel at least Liee a ear. The card will be used fur hotels meals rental cars and other travel rup cases the test is being conducted on several installations in the United Stales and Korea. Frankfurt is the Mil Community in Germany that will be used in the the t. He said that 100 to 150  will be issued in . Donohuk said the Lem will Start on oct. I and end Jan. .11. But card holders May keep their charge cards after the test is Over. During this test period we re going to be collecting certain pieces of inform Granny s no Slowpoke eighty two Yefto of Maria Ruoff of Driver s License in 1938, bought her first Wauer Adorf Germany figures that at and Only motorcycle in i he Early 40s her age it s smart to hurry. The Energey and has been Riding this Veteran 2-horse k bavarian grandmother who got a Power Dow now and then Ever since.  he surd. After that we will no longer be to Lleaine the information but they can still use their  As part of the test the Heidelberg scheduled airline ticket office and the rank furl transportation office will be using the diners club  in purchasing commercial ticket for travellers. Diners club will Issue the card to test participants without an credit checks. The card Holder will be responsible for paying the diners club Bill the army will reimburse i Ravel costs under the same voucher so Lern now used. The one change in reimbursement Wilt be in Advance a ments for travel Dono Huc said. A card howler will be auth Fri de an Advance of Only 40 percent of the a Thori de per diem and 100 percent of the other reimbursable allowances diners club will be responsible for ensuring that card Hilliers make their pay ments. All transactions arc Between you and diners club Donohuk said. The army has no requirement to police the  card holders will receive All Normal diner club benefits Donohuk said including $150,000 in traveler s life insurance if a ticket was purchased with the card and automatic baggage insurance. Faulty piping confirmed As cause of Salmonella Chicago up a five month study released saturday on the nation s largest Salmonella outbreak confirmed suspicions that tainted raw milk entered the Hill farm Dairy s piping system and was mixed with pasteurized milk. All of the available evidence Points to the crucial problem occurring in the pasteurized skim blending line the study concluded. More than 17,000 cases of Salmonella re lated illnesses and six deaths were traced last March to tainted milk processed at the Melrose Park Dairy owned by jewel Fixx store. Even after five months of study however officials Frt i the Salmonella task Force said experts could not reconstruct the exact sequence of events that led to the outbreak. The report did show the Salmonella Bac Teria was first found at the Plant sometime in 1984. There were two other smaller out Breaks of Salmonella in 1984 that were tra ced to the Dairy Only after the larger out break in March. The Dairy Plant remains closed and store officials did not indicate when the Plant would reopen. At a news conference saturday Illinois inspector general Jeremy Margolis emphasized such a serious outbreak was not Likely to happen again. Margolis said the circumstances that Al Lowed the raw milk to blend with pasteurized milk were highly unusual and called the defective piping system an engineering  or. Bernard Turnock director of the Illi Nois department of health said health officials acted properly in alerting the Public Given the information they had. I think they made the right decision with the information that they had turn Ock said. I think they could have gotten the information they needed  critics claimed the health department and jewel food store were slow in releasing prison population up 5.6% through june washing ten up the Popula Tion in the nation s already overcrowded prisons increased at the rate of 1,000 in mates a week during the first Sis months of 1985, the Bureau or Justice statistics re ported sunday. The Bureau said the number of prisoners in state and Federal institutions grew by 5.6 percent from 463,858 on Doc. 31, 1984, to 490,041 by june 30, 1985, an increase of 26,183. That was almost equal to the 26,610 increase for All of 1984, thai s the equivalent of adding 1,000 additional inmates each week said Law rence Greenfeld the director of correctional statistics for the Justice department. While nationwide crime totals Are Down state and Federal prison populations continue to Rise in part because of a nationwide cutback in court ordered Early release pro Grams Greenfeld said. There has also been an increase in the variety and number of mandatory sentencing Laws and generally tougher sentencing practices he said. Both state and Federal prisons already Are overcrowded or Confeld said adding that he sees no respite from the recent in crease of prisoners. We Don t do any forecasting but it looks like we should have a very High growth rate in the rest of 1985." the average state prison was operating at 10 percent Over capacity on dec. 31, and has risen another 5.3 percent since then. The population of slate prisons on june 30 stood at 452,372. Many states Are vigorously going about a prison construction program or Confeld said. The nation s 46 Federal prisons holding 34,263 inmates on dec. 31, were operating at "120 percent to 125 percent capacity Greenf cd said. The population of those facilities has swelled by 9.9 percent since then to 37,669. Norman Carlson the director of the department s Bureau of prisons said the fed eral system is expanding with new prisons being built and other buildings renovated in the face of the increase. More than 467,000 of the nation s 491,041 inmates Are male the study noted. In addition the study showed Southern states hold 44.7 percent of state prisoners More than twice the number of any other Region North Central slates hold 20.2 per cent Western Stales hold 18.8 percent and northeastern Stales hold 16.4 percent. On dec. 11, 1984, 188 of every 100.000 americans was a sentenced prisoner. By june 30 the figure had risen to 197. The Salmonella information Lothe Public. La Cali officials realised an outbreak was under Way March 29, but they did not warn the Public Aboul in until april i and the Dairy was not closed until april 9. The Only health official to take a fall for the outbreak was the Illinois health is part mint chief Thomas Kirkpatrick jr., who was fired by gov. 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