European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday november 8, 19b5 of sergeant claims harassment followed warning of overpricing stateside Washington a an air Force sergeant say she was harassed by his Superior at California base after he tried to warn that the entice we paying far too much Money for some air plane parti. It was really discouraging for me to put out All the Effort to try to save the government Tome Money and then All hey did was put out Effort to keep the problems fro being solved sgt. Thomas Jonson told a House Luscom mime  discovered that to try and save Money i had to endure apathy bureaucratic red tape and eventually per Sonal retaliation Jonsson told the Energy and Commerce investigations  is stationed at the military Airlift come unit at Travis fab near Fairview  year in testimony before a Senate subcommittee headed by sen. Charles Grassley a Lowa forum revealed High prices for a Range of spare parti including $7,622 for a  of sen. Grassley s letters to the air Force i was not criticized when i returned to my duties Jonsson said. Last summer he testified he discovered the service a paying s670 each for Pilot armrests for c-5a piano when it could have nude the parts on the base for about $25each. Jonsson Laid he had tried to warn the service previously that it was overpaying for the  said his problems at Travis began following a sept. Ii news conference i Washington with rep. Barbar Boxer d-Calif., daring which he criticized Pentagon buy bag  was after this time my personal troubles began he said. Although the air Force did not hold up my promo Tion to sergeant they did Denutte me in Job position re quire me to be accompanied at All times and make me get special permission before i went on  earlier in wednesday s hearing Well known whistle Blower a. Ernest Fitzgerald who three years ago was returned to his air Force oversight Job by a court after being tired told the subcommittee the air Force thereafter blocked him from pursuing waste in weapon Pur chases. I Don t have the authority that Wai granted to me or agreed that i would have when reinstated Fitzgerald Laid. It makes it very difficult to carry out any work plan if your authority s been  air Force Secretary Verne Orr sitting next to Fitzge Rald said he has. Ken items to make sure Fitzgerald is Given a free hand to expose waste but admitted that some people Down the line Don t always do everything they re supposed  was fired in 1969 after he told Congress about Cost overruns on the giant c-5a cargo plane. He sued to win hit Job Back and was reinstated following a 1982 court ordered  has complained since then that his attempts to halt waste have been hampered by opponents within Theair Force. Orr defended Fitza ram while reiterating that the air Force was trying to years in which employees deliberately or accidentally destroyed taxpayer files including a few returns. Irs officials in the Agency s 10 regional offices put together the report to commissioner Roscoe l. Egger or. Following unsubstantiated allegations earlier this year of wholesale destruction of tax returns. The new report indicated perhaps several dozen returns were destroyed in that period. This is not something we take lightly irs spokesman Ernest Acosta said thursday. But when you arc talking about an Agency with 90,000 employees and i billion documents a year to process it s not that bad. However our internal Security division monitors these things continually and we have taken adequate disciplinary measures. We feel the problem is under  report obtained earlier this week by the Phila Delphia inquirer under the Freedom of information act Isth latest chapter in what irs employees Call the wont year in the Agency s history. Processing of millions of individual tax returns was delayed for several weeks be cause of problems with a new computer system some refunds still have not been mailed. Among the incidents outlined in the report to Egger. A clerk in the Fresno Calif., service Center hid 39 bags of mail including $800,000 Worth of checks from taxpayers in his Home in an Effort to hold Down his Back log of work. He pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was sentenced to three years probation. Ninety two tax returns were dumped into the trash atthe Philadelphia service Center last year. O a Revenue agent s car was stolen and with it the tax return of a taxpayer he was auditing. Six individual and two corporate tax returns were inappropriately discarded with several other pieces of tax payer mail in the Austin Texas service Center. A worker in the Kansas City service Center destroyed individual returns on several occasions before  already had acknowledged two incidents of destruction of taxpayer correspondence but not tax re turns at the Austin and Fresno centers. In Austin Between 4,000 and 6,000 letters from Busi Nesses asking the irs to adjust their tax accounts were destroyed last december without the approval of top officials the unit manager involved resigned. As Many As 63,000 letters from businesses a connection with past due uses were destroyed prematurely at Fresno. The irs said those cases had already been closed and the documents were shredded As part of an Effort to reduce the office s work backlog. Gay veterans not entitled to March in new York Parade judge rules new York a an american legion Veteran Day Parade is a privately sponsored event and homosexual veterans Are not entitled to March in it under their own Banner a Federal judge has ruled. Us. District judge Constance Baker Motley said wednesday that because there is no governmental involve ment in next monday s Parade the american  runs the event May bar members of the Cay Veter ans association. The homosexuals group charged that its members right of free speech was infringed when the America legion refused to allow their delegation to March under the organization in Anner. Legion officials had noted in court testimony that the organization received no City funds for the Parade and that it paid All costs for the event. John Paine president of the homosexual group voiced his disappointment with the ruling and said it would be appealed. But there Are Only two court Days before the Parade. I to a patriotic Veteran. I never realized americ would turn its Back on me like this he said. Francis l. Giordano a lawyer for the legion said of Motley s ruling i think the i Correct in her decision and i think Shell be  he also said the Gay veterans group was not a bonafide veterans  headed for the deep amid a Shower of balloons the nuclear attack staut Oklahoma City a Edca Down the ways at Newport news sep Bumbic in Newport Newt a. The 360-foot Loans Eles class fast attack submarine is the i6th h in Dass to be built at Newport news. Rock Hudson s Only survivors companion omitted in his Witt los Angeles a the will left by actor Rock Hudson who died of aids a month ago omitted  survivors 12 cousins As Well As his longtime compan Ion Tom h. Clark. The document left Hudson s estate to a Trust he established 11 years ago but it contained no details about the Trust and did not set a value on the estate other than being More than $10,000. It was amended in August 1984 to eliminate Park who had been named in an earlier will As. Recipient of the actor s cars furniture motion picture collection and other personal items. Illinois officials flushed with Pride at makeshift voting Booth idea Springfield. 111. Up democracy prevailed lathe Illinois capital despite the late delivery of voting Booths voters cast their ballots in the privacy of teamsters Union restroom. Fred Spier of the Springfield election commission Saida contractor who was supposed to deliver voting Booth to a polling place in the teamsters joint Council 65 bunding dropped them off at the wrong Union Hall. When we discovered what happened we generated anew Stopgap system so people could vote Spier said. The Only place they would have any privacy was  Spier said regular voting Booths were delivered to the Hal within an hour after the polls opened up but four Voten already had exercised their rights in the makeshift  said he was not aware of anyone inconvenienced by the action. Ambulance service to change its name from aids to ame whither Calif. A an ambulance company named aids is changing its name after 30 years in to Sines because of widespread publicity about acquired  syndrome. Originally the company founded by Joan Woehr Maimin 1955 called itself aids medical enterprises inc. For attitude integrity dependability and service. Ths.n5 a i1 ame i acronym take from aids medical enterprises. Employees have encountered jokes or taunts Mccaa of the old name and some patients had worried that the company specialized in transporting aids victims in its40 ambulances spokeswoman Peggy Hoskinson said