European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. December 20. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Faa expands airline inspection program Washington i the Federal aviation administration expressing concern that some safely prob lems May do slipping past its regular Insp Clors. Will begin a syst Omatie examination of maintenance and operating procedures Ai More than 100 airlines Early next year officials said  the disclosure came is officials announced that Faa inspectors have been put aboard virtually All Arrow air flights As pan of a stepped up surveillance since the crash of one of the airline s military charter flights in Newfoundland. The officials said the inspection program is to assure a regular examination of those airlines operating larger air Craft and will go into operation As soon As manpower is available. They said it applies Only to Domestic airlines. Faa spokesman Stephen Hayes said the new program docs not necks Sarilu involve any increase in inspections town chips in replaces gifts Lono View. Texas up an Anonymous Santa Claus and a town full of Good Samaritans arc replacing what a Cir Inch stole Christmas gifts collected for 250 poor families. Thieves broke Init i building sometime sunday or Mon Day taking More  s.i.000 Worth of toys collected Dur ing the past two months by the  Jay cacs through its Santa s helpers program police said. We got wiped out completely Billy Clay a spokes Man for the organi Ai Iuit. Said tuesday. I Don t have the words to describe How somebody could be this Low to do something like this Clay said. Any body that would steal from underprivileged homeless Chil Dren would steal from their own  As news of the theft spread residents of , about 140 Miles East of Dallas donated Money to help replace the gifts. We be had Calls from everywhere trying to help us out. With everyone s help we might still be Able to make Christmas Happy for 250 families Clay said. One Man who asked that his name be withheld offered $2.350 to allow the kids to have a Happy Christmas said Mack Brewton who is helping with the collection Effort but will give the Agency a National schedule by which each airline w ill be examined in detail the general accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress Crivici cd the i a last summer for a surveil Lance program thai gives Greal attention to sonic airlines while others escape detailed inspections the Faa s Slep cd up surveillance of Arrow air. A Miami based airline involved in the crash last week of a carrying . Soldiers Back from the Middle Mast began this week officials said. All 2-1s soldiers in the plane and eight Crew members were killed in the crash. The cause of the Arrow air crash dec. 12 has yet to be determined. The airline which this ear has a $1.1 million contract with the defense department to carry military personnel and cargo has continued its government flights As Well As other Charier service and regularly scheduled flights be tween puerto Rico and several Mainland i s. And Canad an cities. Faa officials said they have no basis on which to con Sider suspension of the airline which prior to the  in Gander Newfoundland had not had a fatal Accident. Faa inspectors have begun flying on virtually All of the airline s flights and will continue to do so until Earu Jan uary. Hayes said. He said Faa inspectors also Are keeping a close Eye on the airline s maintenance operation. Aviation safety experts have questioned whether the Agency has enough inspectors to keep close watch on nearly 400 airlines from the giant major carriers to Small commuter lines. Under the revamped inspection program a nationwide inspection schedule has been developed and teams of inspectors will examine air carriers perhaps staying three months or More at some of the larger airlines flying High at 50 about 1,000 former Douglas aircraft co. Employees and Santa Monica residents gathered tuesday for a re enactment of the first dc-3 night 50 years api. About 2,000 of the 10,62s .-produced  Are still in use. The cargo plane was designed in 1935 and world War ii production an 18.5 Craft a Day. Sex convict seen As successor to slain mob Boss new York Al i an sex convict with a zest for work a violent temper and a fear of flying appears to be a leading Candi Date to succeed slain Paul cast Llano As the Leader of the United slates largest mafia family according to Law enforcement sources. Castellano and his bodyguard were gunned Down monday night on a Busy mid Manhattan Street when they got out of their car in front of a restaurant. John Golgi. Identified by the Law enforce ment sources As Castellano s Likely Succes Sor is a Capo or Captain in the Gammon crime family that cast Llano headed. Law enforcement sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity described him Asen aggressive Leader of a Crew that special i is in hijacking Loans harking. Gambling and murder. The 45-year-old Gotti is a protege of Foi mar Gambino family und Cross Aniello Dellacroce who died dec. 2. Casillano s Legal problems he was on trial in one Case under indictment in another and faced with two additional indict ments might have been a reason for his murder by fellow mobsters. Got i has Legal troubles of his own. He was one of 10 Gambino members and associates including Dellacroce indicted last March on Federal racketeering charges. Got i also is scheduled for trial Jan. 31 on a new York state assault charge. The Federal indictment charges got i with engaging in a pattern of Racket car ing Over nearly 20 years beginning with two thefts of truck shipments at Kennedy Airport in 1967. It also charges him with two armoured car robberies in 1980 that netted $1 million and with the 1973 murder of a hoodlum named John Mcbratney. Mcbratney reportedly was killed in retaliation for the 1972 kidnapping and murder of a Nephew of Carlo Gambino. Castella no s predecessor. Got i pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1975 and served half of a four year prison term before his parole in 1977. Cast Llano lived in a mansion in Stalin Island. Golgi owns a modest two Story Frame House in Queens. Gotti and his wife Victoria have two children. A third child was killed five years ago when he was hit by a car police said. Police cleared the car s Driver a neighbor Hood resident of wrongdoing but he disappeared several months later and has not been seen since. Cruelly s very furry Christmas Sanas of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Dec 20.1945 president Truman called for a merger of the army Navy and air corps into a department of National defense. Under his plan a civilian would head the department and each service would be headed by a military chief of staff. 30 years ago today. Pongo of boy i be no time to play now it s Christmas eve of / Pear we can t let Santa leave without the toys 20 years ago today dec. 20, 1965 Gen. Charles de Gaulle won a new seven year term As French president with a Victory Over leftist opponent Francois Mitterrand. 10 years ago today. And dec. 20, 1975 vowing to treat Rich  poor alike John Paul Stevens was sworn in to the supreme court. He re placed Justice William o. Douglas