European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 09, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday. October 9, 1985 Many cos killing any Chance of promotion official says not updating records is like cutting own Throat a boxed Munich . Go Ninny sum no m k arc cutting their own rims uhen comes time to Coin Pete for promotion according to the per son he enlisted personnel re cords. Manj Nick assume that someone else usual i the might personnel office is pet Tnp their records ready to meet army promotion Hoard. That is Only Piir tally True col Donald g. Hall com Mander of the army s tin listed records evaluation Center it tort Benjamin har Rison. Ind. If a Soldier were petting ready to before a local , that Soldier would make every Effort to be the sharpest sol Dier possible i Hill said during inter View at the annual personnel and administration symposium sponsored by the Al personnel co and. Hut when it comes to the can Trail de boards where Only a folder of information Inbi a Soldier and his or news update Bunker search ends Gossl Aust a experts have Given up the search for a nazi Bunker beside Lake toplit7, the Long rumoured treasure Chest of the third there can be nothing left this said Andreas Lect head of Austria s main bomb a causal team. The group had begun digging at the purported Bunker site looking for buried world War ii explosives. 1 hey turned up Only remnants of a wooden Structure and bits of tarred roofing material. Lccy said. The search was broken off after their bulldog or hit sheer Rock a Cliff the Southwest Side of the Lake near this Hamlet about .10 Miles Southeast of Salzburg. Falklands future London a David steel Lender of Britain s opposition Liberal parly has urged the conservative government to open talks with Argentina the future of the disputed Falkland islands. Earlier steel met privately with Argentine Percsi Donl Raul Alfonsin while the two were Madrid attend ing the Liberal International con Gress which awarded Alfonsin the prize for Freedom for his role re storing democracy Argentina. There is now every Opportunity if the government so desires to Start discussions with Argentina the future of the falklands steel told re porters his return to London. Tainted drinks kill 7 Tokyo a a 50-year-old Man has died after drinking a tainted beverage he picked up at a vending machine southwestern Japan bringing to seven the number of peo ple who have died from poisoned drinks taken from machines police said. Mitsugu Tsuboi died from respiratory failure caused by poisoning after he drank a beverage sept. 27 that he had taken Home four Days earlier from a Roadside vending machine Wakayama prefecture stat police said. A police spokesman said Tsuboi took Home two bottles of a health drink from the machine one lie had bought and one he had found already the machine s delivery Slot. He became ill with diarrhoea after drinking one. Her career Many soldiers records arc o Nirri up Short virtually killing Iny Chance percent third highs among the major commands. Hall said the photo is critical because it is the first thing a Board member sees or is supposed to see when opening a folder. The Soldier cannot appear before the Board so the photo series a .1 substitute Hall said. Hoard members generally stand the photo before them As they re View the folder Lopel a menial picture of the individual s Chance for selection drops dramatically when there is no photo or obviously outdated photo such As one with the Soldier wearing the wrong rank. The results of the fiscal i"x6 ii-9 Board showed that Only 1.7 percent of those Eligi ble were selected for promotion without a photo their compares with 4j percent of the selectee who had a current photo. The selection rate drops As the age of the photo increases 29 percent for a year old Pic Ture 14 percent for 2-year-old pictures and 12 percent for a 3-year-old photo. You can draw your conclusions Aslo How important a photo is or is not Hall said. Hall is touring Arney communities Germany to Brief officer1, and cos the importance of the 1 k a cents the enlisted promotion file. Although the photo is the most visible item. Halt said Pas members of promotion boards agree that the most important document is the evaluation with the Rater s comments singled out As the most critical the form. For soldiers who arc not selected halt said it s not the death Knell for their Ca reer. Unlike officer promotions. Hall said cos can recover and become More competitive Over a longer period. Citing statistics from the 1985 e-7 selection Board Hall said there was a 24.5 percent selection rate the first time the primary zone. Although the rate dropped by the Simc a Soldier had been passed Over for seven years the Chance for promotion still hovered around 10 percent. The key Hall said is to do whatever is necessary to get competitive. The opportunities arc there. All you really need to do is look at your folder get cleaned up identify any gaps and get them ignored violations of labor Law cheat . Workers Gao says Washington a Many of America s lowest paid workers arc being cheated out of overtime pay and minimum wages because the Federal government t enforcing important labor Law the Gen eral accounting office says. The congressional watchdog Agency said a report to a House labor subcommittee that the Justice and labor departments often ignore violations of the fair labor standards act because penalties arc Light and investigators feel their time is better spent other projects. The maximum penalty for a first conviction a Fine of up to $10,000 is not considered to be severe by department of Justice officials and because of higher priority work. Justice is unlikely to prosecute Flea violations said the study re leased last week to the subcommittee labor standards. Based the Low priority Given by jus Tice officials to Flea violations. Labor s position of focusing civil rather than criminal remedies appears reasonable i concluded. The report surveyed labor department records Washington As Well As Field offices Boston Chicago Dallas Atlanta Kansas City and san Francisco. Most of the affected workers do piece work the apparel Industry or arc employed Light manufacturing. The study requested by subcommittee chairman Austin Murphy d-pa., followed up a 1981 investigation that reported non compliance with s minimum wage overtime and record keeping provi Sions was a serious and continuing prob that previous also reported thai employers who violated the labor Law often went unpunished and that the labor Depar Lenl frequently failed to seek maximum comic Asalion for employees who were due Back wages. The new report concluded that Little has changed four years. Our current review showed thai Rosl investigations were not updated before Scull Emcil and firms who previously Vio lated Flea were usually not being monitored and re investigated the report said. To help Correct the problem inc Gao recommended thai government prosecutors routinely seek heavy damage payments addition to Back wages from employers who break inc Law. Murphy who is still studying the report had no comment. Assistant attorn by general Lawrence Wallace responded to the report a Leller saying that stiffer penalties might induce Federal prosecutors to More actively pursue la violations. Gao May wish to recommend it report to Congress amendment to the Flea allowing a term of imprisonment for convictions when a repeat offender has been subject to a prior civil judgment under he act Wallace wrote. As inc Law is now written imprisonment is option Only after employer s second conviction. The maximum sentence is Nix months. Labor department spokesman Vernon Lou Vicic said monday night his Agency would have no immediate comment. But Deputy undersecretary of labor Susan r. Sci Singer said a letter the department concurs generally with the Gao recommendation that prosecutors seek civil damage payments from employers who violate inc Law. She added Hal inc Deputy solicitor for regional operations has issued instructions to to regional offices to implement this policy the Gao study said recent reductions labor department staff and a feb. 19 supreme court ruling Hal expanded Flea to cover millions of stale and local government employees would probably Worsen the Situa Tion. It appears unlikely that labor will be Able to implement our prior recommendations to update investigations and Monitor and re inc Stigalt firms that had Vio lated Flea the report concluded. 59,000 for fund to assist Nicholson family berlins a More than s9 offt Rwy sent Titi /.,4 d.,. A i u the american military Community .�,?.?.n Mcd ils new Library $9,000 has been donated to a fund started to Aid inc family of Arthur Nicholson jr., who was killed by a soviet Scnory Easl Ger Many March. Nicholson was posthumously promoted Cpl. 19 from major to lieutenant colonel Ina Pentagon ceremony. Nicholson was assigned to the . Mili tary Liaison Mission when he was Shol while a surveillance Mission. The majority has been donations ring ing from $1 to j50," said maj. John Esch Rich who has handled the fund at the Liaison Mission. Most of the Money came from persons stationed be. . He said. The contributions from literally All Over the world said Eschrich. One disabled american Veteran living Wisl Ger Many sent $1 with cup Layalion Hal was All his limited bin coils would allow Esch Nch said. A British Mili Lair cell
