European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday novembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 profile go makes his say in Germany an Active one by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Buret Neu Ulm. Germany pfc. Jeffrey m. Slum or has up Cal his first seven months in ecu Ulm proving a Soldier does t have to use up All his spare time hang ing around the Barracks and bars. It really bothers me when people say there s nothing to do around Here " Lormer said. The prob Lem with being in Europe is that there s too much Todo. Stormyr 23, is a Man of three uniform. He wears an army Battle dress uniform while working As a material control and accounting specialist with the 55lh Maint in at the Nelson Barracks tech Supply warehouse. He dons a boy scout uniform thursday nights to act As assistant icon master for troop 114 in Neu Ulm. And As a vol. Unter with a local ambulance service for 10 or 15 hours each week he frequently wears an emergency medical technicians uniform. That leaves Lormer Only another 10 or 15 hours a week to participate As an officer in Neu us refs 85 Mcm bar Kontak club. It also explains Why he always carries a pocket cassette recorder with him to re mind him where he is supposed to be and when. Stormyr grew up in slate College pa., where his father works As safety director at Pennsylvania slate University and his Mother owns a yarn shop. He joined the army Reserve immediately after graduation from High school because of a combination of a sense of duty which 1 had been raised with and a Way to my Way through he went into Active service last february. When a conversation trips across subjects that inter est the freckle faced Stormyr his hands Fly up his feel wiggle and his eyes bulge. On the one hand i Don t like to blow my own Horn. But on the other hand i m the Only one who knows the tune he said with enthusiasm. The go attributes Many of his skills and interests d his is years of association with the boy scouts. He said scouting introduced him to first Aid essential to his present service As on emt and it taught him everything from knot tying to the value of citizenship to prepare him for his Entrance into the army. The scouting motto be prepared still prompts him to carry a bag of emergency medical equipment wherever he goes. A former cardiopulmonary resuscitation and red Cross first Aid instructor he is enrolled in two Sis photo by Joweph Owen pfc. Jeffrey m. Stunner works at the Nelson Barracks Lect Supply warehouse for 55th Maint in in ecu Ulm. City College of Chicago medical courses. Stormyr studied German in High school and College. And his grasp of the language has helped him work with German medical officials and participate in the Kong at club activities. Lormer said he continues to devote time to scout ing because As an adult the attraction is that i got so much out of it As a boy that i feel 1 have an enormous debt to ." he said he wants to capitalize on his present Loca Tion by helping set up a historic Trail for scouts link ing Ulm s historic Sites in a comprehensive Chain. At first his boy scout involvement raised Mure than a few eyebrows among other Gas in his Barracks. The first night i went to a boy Seoul meeting in uniform there were All sorts of comments he said. But his fellow soldiers grew to accept his activities he said. My lifestyle and the of hrs Don t conflict. They re too divergent Stormyr said. He said he even has convinced some people in his company to join Kong at stressing its function As a forum for cultural Exchange with germans. I be made the Point that it s not just a place to gel cheap Beer and meet Fra Pulcins he said. Many line up in British cities for bargain vacations London a hundreds of people spent sunday night on the sidewalks in British cities waiting for travel agents to open and Start Selling bargain vacations in a Price culling War. Cash lottery prices and even flights in the concorde Lup Cronic Airliner arc being used to attract business. The beat All offer was from Harry Shaw travel of Cov entry who offered to give its first 100 customers 5 pounds $7 to spend 10 Days for nothing in a trailer Camp near St. Tropez on the French Mediterranean coast. The Only condition they must travel on May 2,1986. We thought we might As Well nuke the Roost of it and let a piece of travel history said director Robert Shaw. Nat holidays charged 1 pounds for a similar vacation and managing director Warren Sandral said i m offer ing it As a protest on behalf of hundreds of tour operator and travel agents who Are furious at the escalation of the Price but Paul Brett managing director of Thomson holidays Britain biggest package Holiday company said the Only a copy complaining arc Dave Turney. A 36-year-old electrician facing sunday night on the sidewalk at Enfield North London told a reporter i Don t care How cold it is How could i miss my sunday roast and warm bed when i have this kind of Opportunity he was looking Forward to paying 20 pounds $28 to take his wife two children and himself for 10 Days to a trailer camping site on the French Mediterranean coast in May. The Normal Price is 288 pounds $403. A Man beside Turney who would t give his name said he was at a cafe across the Road when he saw the line asked what it was and ran Home to get an armchair so he could join it in Comfort. I could t believe it he said. Five quid pounds for a Holiday in the South of France a monday morning breakfast of smoked Salmon scrambled eggs and Champagne was offered in Wealdstone Northwest London by est travel Ltd. To the Lucky first 100 hopefuls in line for one week 25 Pound $35 vacations in european sunspots it was Selling for Thomson holidays. Two weeks Cost 35 pounds $49. The big operators admitted bargains were being used to draw customers so they could be sold something else. The War started wednesday when Harry Goodman s int Asun group sold 500 Sunshine vacations in Europe for 32 pounds $44.80 each and took another 20,000 Book Ings the same Day. By the end of the week Goodman said he d had 320.000 bookings. Thomson s responded with its offer provoking cries of alarm from some sections of the Industry who said the cuts could drive Many Small travel operators to bankruptcy. Even before Thomson switched on its giant computer at 9 . Monday it claimed to have achieved a level of business never known before in tour operating. The company said it took its 500,000th booking for next summer last week seven times the number of people who booked at the same time last year and Worth 115 million pounds $161 million. Rogers quoted on possible removal of chemical arms Frankfurt a Gen. Bernard w. Rogen. Supreme Allied commander Europe said in a newspaper interview released sunday that chemical weapons conceivably could be withdrawn from Western Europe and brought Back Only in a military or ii. The Frankfurter Rundi Chau daily quoted Rogers As adds Hove Thal the us. Congress first would have Toap Praw production of new binary chemical weapons to a Woinov weapon could be stored in the United state in Umerto peace the Mundschau quoted Rogers Asu a in the interview at nato headquarter in Bel 8""if they weapons were needed for deterrence for in ample in a Lime of crisis or confrontation with the soviet led Warsaw Pacl Allian Cewe would consult our allies on whether we bring them to Europe or not the Mundschau quoted Rogers As saying. If chemical arms production were resumed in the United states for the first time since the late 1960s, it could Sicri oily be considered whether the weapons now Here in Europe could be pulled out Rogers told the newspaper. They would have to be brought Back to the United state and demilitarized deactivated there the four Star general was quoted As saying. He said nato would always need a credible defense against a chemical weapons attack on a member country. But added that the Atlantic Alliance would never be the first to use such arms according to the . The existence of . Chemical weapons in Wesl Ger Many which would be at the front line of any East West conflict is an emotional often debated Issue. The opposition social democratic party has called for a chemical weapon free zone in Central Europe. But the conservative government has said Only a worldwide ban negotiated by the United Stales and soviet Union would be credible. The Mundschau interview with Rogers was to appear in monday s editions of the newspaper but was Tel exed in Advance to other news Media
