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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 no key unlocks this map s secret Bismarck . A the 1986 North Dakota map will ill you How la get from Here to there but it does t identify the smiling Man who is depicted holding a Golden key and saying the stale holds Many secrets. Officials forgot to include the name of gov George a. Sinner. Thai map was proofread by just about 10 people i suspect and everybody looked at it and recognised that my holding the key and never thought to look Down and see if his name was there said Jim Fuglics director of state tourism promotion All 500,000 copies of the map tilled discover the secrets had been primed before the mistake was discovered according to the tourism office which publishes the map with the slate Highway department. The Printer called us from Kan Sas City and said who is that Guy with the key on the Back or your map " Fuglics said. We said Well it s the governor they said Why did t you put the name on theret " underneath sinner s picture is a paragraph thai begins Welcome to North Dakota our state holds Many secrets for the traveler and this map can help you discover  we re a Little embarrassed about it Fuglics said. The staff told us it was one of the Best pictures of the governor they be Ever seen. Everybody loves to see a by Sci Yucra make a mistake and we made a doozy Fuglie said. Director of selective service nominated for top a Post Washington a president Reagan turned to a retired major general and Veteran of two wars to take command of the veterans administration the govern ment s largest Independent Agency. Thomas k. Turnac 62, inc taciturn director of the selective service system was chosen monday to run the j27 billion a year Agency. The nor Senate  nomination h subject to like most a administrators Turnac is a combat Veteran. He served As an infantry offi cer in world War ii joined the National guard in California in 1949 and was recalled to Active duly in 1950 and sent to Korea. During the late 1960s and Early 1910s, when Reagan was he governor of California. Turnage was inc Deputy adjutant general of the slate s army National guard. He re turned to Active duty in 1979 and worked in the Pentagon s Reserve affairs office. Turnage has directed inc selective service system since october 1981, maintaining a Low profile while heading an Agency whose Job is to ensure that 18-year-old men Register for military service. There is no draft hut the names and addresses of Young men Are kept for use if a Call up is needed. Criticized by Halfide Turnage. Came under fire Early in his ten ure when sen Mark Hatfield r-ore., accused him of ignoring significant opposition to registration. Hatfield said he was Dis Turbed by Turnac s All Empl to portray opponents of registration and the draft As an insignificant Force in american society Al that Lime an estimated one Quarter of the nation s 18-year-Olds had t registered. Last week Turnage said 97 percent of men aged in to 25 had signed up. Barry Lynn a lawyer who frequently opposed Turnage on draft registration is sues describes him us unbending and combat re Loran Thomas k. Turnage Tough minded and not always willing to debate his critics. I found that he just did not want to discuss the merits of his program with critics because he was so convinced thai he was right said Lynn the legislative counsel for the american civil liberties Union and the former head of on anti registration coalition. He s one of the few people who ended up so disliking me he would t shake my Navy to seek private Public bids on two West coast ship overhauls by Norman Black Washington a the Navy complying with a congressional directive said monday that it would soon ask Pri vate and Public shipyards on the West coast to bid against each other for the right to overhaul two ships. The Competition Between Public and private Yards was ordered by Congress As a test program in the pentagons fiscal i9b6 budget authorization. Overhaul con iraqis for Ai East four Navy vessels must be offered competitively during he cur rent fiscal year the Law Stales. Assistant Navy Secretary Everell Pyatt said monday that the fort Fisher an amphibious Landing ship and the o Calla ten a frigate had been selected for a test Competition program. He said he Navy is 31 Hurt in evacuation in Yang to determine what other ships will in included in the program. The Navy has shipyards at Long Beach Calif. Mare Island Calif., near san fran Cisco puget sound wash., and Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The Competition requirement is Artex tension of a test program thai began last year. In that program a private shipyard and a Public Yard on the West coast will each overhaul identical ships with the Navy monitoring heir performance to de Termine which docs the Best work. The results of that Competition arc not expected until april 1937. Currently the Navy sets aside a certain amount of its overhaul work for the eight Public shipyards to keep them Busy then asks private Yards to compete against each other for the rest. As a Rchull the Navy normally docs not require the Public shipyards to submit bids against private companies arguing that the Public Yards must be maintained for combat readiness and to overhaul nuclear powered vessels. The division of work Between private and Public Yards has attracted new con Gressional scrutiny however because the amount of Navy work is decreasing at the same time that private Yards arc Strug gling for survival. Commercial shippers have virtually abandoned american Yards far lower Cost foreign companies forcing private Yards on both coasts to close. Smoke forces Jet to return to Miami Miami a a pan am jumbo Jel bound for Venezuela made an emergency return to Miami International Airport min utes after Takeoff monday when smoke infested the Cabin and cockpit. Thirty one people suffered minor injuries during the evacuation officials said. The injuries were mostly bumps and bruises and most were related to sliding Down emergency chutes after the boeing747 with 225 passengers and 15 Crew Mem Bers landed according to Mclroy Dade fire Rescue i. Tony bared. Eleven people were taken to hospitals. Bul none of the injuries was believed to be serious bared said. The head flight attendant notified the Captain that there was smoke in the Cabin shortly after flight 445 look off for Cara Cas at 2 40 p-m., said Mike Clark a pan am spokesman. Al the same Lime the Pilot noticed smoke in the cockpit and decided to return to the Airport Clark said. The plane was in the air for just Over 10 minutes he said. James Bolender a marketing manager from Lindenhurst 111., was aboard the four engine Jet. I wanted to get off right away but we had to wait about two minutes after the plane landed he said. I saw people coming Down the slide and watching. When i hit the ground just kept  passengers returned to the plane to pick up their carry on Luggage about an hour alter the evacuation. Passengers then were scheduled on a later flight. There Wos no lire on the plane said Ann Whyle a company spokeswoman in new York. Officials did not know what caused the smoke said Federal aviation administration inspector Dan Hilchings. Hand Lynn said. Turnage did nil return a reporter s Lele phone Calls. If confirmed by the Senate. T urn age will become the third a chief of the Kcal inn administration. He would follow Harry n. Wallers a former Wisl Point fool Ball player who was highly regarded by the american legion and other powerful organizations rep. Resenting veterans. Walters was the first v a chief who did nol serve in com bul Reagan s first a chief was Charles Limnio. A California Friend of it presi Dent who Drew accusations from Vic Mim veterans thai he was insensitive to their special concerns. Under Turnac the selective service system has used social Security Hiss Drivers lick Csc registration records and College loan application pm to miracl Down those atm have not registered. Turnage said they arc encouraged to Register before they arc prosecuted. The policy of the system is registration not  Turnage said. Word of Turnage s nomination was met with Surprise by some close to the a. Officials i some of the service organizations and the veterans committees to con Fross said they be had few dealings with urn age and some Vietnam veterans advocates said they had urged the while House to name one of their own. Facing Lauti Lime noting hat Turnac will assume com Mand at a time when the a faces retrenchment because of budget cuts. Disabled american veterans director Butch Jock cd said the a is going la face really Tough limes. I d Hale la be taking it Over and nol even knowing people at the service  the chairman of inc House veterans affairs Corn Milice rep. . Sonny Montgomery d-miss., praised Turnac. He s an excellent Choice Montgom Ery said. I feel Good Aboul it. More peo ple than Ever have registered and he de serves credit for  Turnoge is a native of Texas with de Grees from Urcla and George washing Ion University. He also is a graduate of the army War College. He and his wife the former , Smith have two grown children. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 29. 1946 a French witness Al the War crimes trials in Nuernberg de scribed a night of horror at Auschwitz concentration Camp when children were thrown alive into cremation furnaces because the nazis ran Oul of Gas for the execution Chambers. 30 years ago today. Jan. 29, 1956 in Prague Russia and its Eastern satellites formally admitted East Germany s new army into their military Alliance. 20 years ago today. Jan. 29,1966 actress Hedy Lamarr 56. Was arrested and charged wild shoplift ing $86 Worth of dollies and cosmetics from a los Angeles department store. Police said Lamarr had checks totalling 114,000 in her Possession when she was stopped by the store detective. 10 years ago today. Jan. 29, 1976 the Senate has con firmed president Ford s Choice of former cop National chairman George Bush to succeed William Colby As director of the Central intelligence Agency  
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