European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday september 21. 1985 capt. Derryl 1. Sullivan base Engineer at la Field azores oversees construction Wrork at the air Force base. Millions being spent to improve Quality at Usan base in azores by j. King Cruger . Bureau Lajos Field azores an enormous building pro Gram is under Way to transform this strategically important but physically neglected base in the Nonh Allan Ticino a first class facility. This base was really neglected for years and facilities ran Down due to Low funding said air Force capt. Derryl l. Sullivan chief of programming and projects coordinator for the base s civil engineering Squadron. Most of the buildings at Lajos Field Date Back to the mid-1950s. The air Force has realized that we Are unique out Here in that we have no alternative facilities to turn to and now we easily have a $200 million construction project going on Sullivan said. The construction which includes a number of big ticket items such As $60 million Worth of dormitory additions renovation and construction and a new $10 million commissary will transform the base dramatically. Construction is due to Start in december on a new 16-Lanc Bowling Alley that should be finished in january 1987. An addition to the base Auto Hobby shop will be completed late this fall. Upgrading the base gym and adding racquetball courts will be finished by june 1987. The commissary is scheduled to open in july. The old commissary will be transformed into a base Exchange that will be far larger than the current shopping facility. The commissary and base Exchange plus a new child care Center and temporary lodging facility both Are scheduled to open in the Middle of 1987will All be located in our new Community Center area Sullivan said. Dormitory projects and construction of on base hous ing eventually will allow 90 percent of Lajes Field personnel to live on base he said. Now 559 families or More than half the 1,026 . Military families assigned to Lajes live off base. Dormitory projects include an addition to the senior no quarters that will be finished next june quarters for 200 enlisted personnel to be finished in March 1987 the upgrading of enlisted quarters with completion Possi ble by next february and quarters to House 40 officers. One of the largest building programs at Lajes is the three phase construction of family housing. The three phases already partially completed include housing for More than 600 families and will Cost More than $40million. Youngsters also have something to look Forward to. Construction is Well under Way on an addition to the High school that will double its size. When construction is finished elementary and High schools will be in the same Complex. We have a lot of construction going on at Lajos and much More in the planning stages said air Force Brig. Gen. Donald a. Rigg commander of . Forces azores. Each project Means a great Deal to everyone at Lajes. From the improvements to the unaccompanied personnel quarters to the new family Community Center each project will significantly improve the Quality of life at  rationing tightened for is in Korea by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington to help fight Black marketing . Forces Korea has ordered tighter rationing of instant Coffee Mayonnaise face Cream and cigarette Sand Cut by 15 percent the amount customers May spend at the commissary and Post Exchange each month. A special 8th army panel discovered existing ratio limits were Loo High causing excess purchases of goods to flow into the civilian Economy via the illegal Blac Market said a spokesman for the troop support Agency which oversees army commissaries around the world. Under the new rules a single Soldier without separate rations but who qualifies to buy in the commissary an Exchange May spend Only s235 instead of s275. The spokesman said that is the total the Soldier May spend in. Both facilities each month. A family of four May spend $725 instead of $850. The single Soldier May buy Only one j a of face Cream instead of two 48 ounces of Mayonnaise instead of 64, 12 ounces of instant Coffee instead of 20 and 60 packs of cigarettes instead of 70 each month the spokesman said. Families of three or More May buy three jars of face Cream instead of two 96 ounces of Mayonnaise instead of 64, 24 ounces of instant Coffee instead of 44 and 100packs of cigarettes instead of 210. The spokesman emphasized that the commissary does not Sel ration ceilings but implement policies set by commanders. The panel removed two items ground Coffee and soda from the list of rationed items because the study found they were being purchased at Levels far below the control limits it said. The new limits were set according to the number of authorized family members in a household in the com Mand the spokesman said. The other commodity limits a family of two two jars of face Cream 64 ounces of Mayonnaise 20 ounces of instant Coffee and 100 mks of cigarettes. V the other total Purchase limits one person with separate rations $320. Two persons $470. � three persons $580. Five persons $835. Six persons $915. Seven persons $980. World today like father like son in t always the Case it seems Glastonbury England a traffic Warden Les Whitcombe gave a parking ticket to a Frau on. Wheels Volunteer who had delivered lunch to his 87-year. Old father minutes earlier. Whitcombe refused to listen to the pleas of Betty Cox who got the ticket when she ran into a Bank to Deport Money collected on her charitable delivery rounds in lie nearby town of Street in Somerset. But after hearing How Cox was on her meals on Wyeth round magistrates in Glastonbury dismissed her ticket for parking next to a bus Stop. Soviets unexpectedly admit violation of swedish airspace Stockholm Sweden a in an unexpected reversal the soviet Union has acknowledged that ont o its bombers entered swedish airspace last june and Laid it regretted the intrusion the foreign ministry Laid. The soviet Union previously denied the violation. A foreign ministry official who spoke on condition be of be identified said the admission was highly unusual tit might indicate a More flexible foreign policy under the new soviet Leader Mikhail  Sweden complained to the soviet Union in Early july about an alleged 3.2-minute violation by a Tu-16 Badger bomber on june 26 near the swedish Island of Gotland in the Baltic set Birds nesting in Gas fire flue killed couple inquiry told Hamilton Scotland a Birds building a att killed an elderly couple by blocking the flue pipe of their at fire an inquiry in this Southwest Scotland town has been tout Agnes Ferguson 84, was found dead and her husband unconscious beside the fire in january the inquest bed. William Ferguson an 80-year-old retired Steelworker or vivid in the Hospital for 55 Days before he died. The two sons of the dead couple broke into the flue Aid found Birds nesting material Robert Ronnie a representative of scottish Gas testified. The blockage extended for about one  there was no protective Cap on the top of the flue pipe the inquiry was told. Sheriff Frank Lunny returned a verdict of death by accidental Carbon monoxide poisoning. Italian police arrest German for carrying homemade bomb Venice Italy a police in the town of Mettle near Venice said they arrested a West German who in carrying a homemade bomb. Johann Wil Ctm Muller 47, of Koeln Kalk Wai picked up during a routine Check for documents earlier this week at a takeout pizza parlor police said. The German was seen trying to hide a bag while to Lect checked the identity papers of a group of egyptians in theban police reported. When police searched the bag they found the Home made bomb together with a 9mm Bullet and a set of too they said were used to break into houses. Ami terrorist detectives said it was not be Clear what Muller planned to do with the bomb. In 1983, Muller was convicted of shooting a Man dead to the coastal town of Carole 40 Miles North of Venice pot said. Muller was released on parole before the end of Al three years and eight months in prison he received to tie slaying police added. They said an initial stiffer tfx Ofin the murder Case was reduced on Appeal. I 2 pieces from Jet s Landing go Fly off hit House no one Hurt a Ndon up _ two Small pieces from the Lud Fatt gear of a Twa jumbo Jet in route to Chicago fed of shortly after Takeoff and hit a House but no omm injured and the plane landed safely aviation official my he Ketman for e parts was not discovered by the Pilot until the plane stopped in new York to refuel but the pm posed no danger the spokesman said. The two pieces of debris each less than a fool to. � in Pooley Hon Wraysbury mmh.,k. By Heathrow Airport but no one was injured. Fitt Weck a Man walking his dog found a 10-Fbomoafnap irom a jumbo Jet Wing in Woods about 40 Milt of Tom rut Avi Ion official have not been Able to from which the piece came