European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. February 26, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 army Calls 1st Primus clinic a Success 3 More Confra for run facilities to open soon by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the army s first contractor run medical clinic is doing so Well that three More arc to open this fiscal year with As Many As 26 to follow in the next few years according to army officials. All the clinics will operate As part of the army s new Primus primary care for uniformed services pro Gram which provides free walk in care at civilian clinics designed to function As satellites of nearby military facilities said Tansill Johnson a spokeswoman for the army surgeon general s office. The flagship clinic opened last oct. I in Fairfax a. Two of the three planned for this fiscal year also will be in Northern Virginia near Washington . The third Wilt be near fort Stewart a. The patient Load at the first clinic has More than doubled in the first five months of operation said John son. We started out with about 60 to 70 patients a Day and now that s up to about 160 a Day she said. The demand has definitely exceeded our original  she said the program is desperately needed to take some of the Burden off military medical facilities in areas where there arc High concentrations of . Merc in the Washington ., area there arc Man medical facilities at fort Belvoir fort Mcyr boiling air Force base Walter Reed army medical Center Johnson said. But we still have overcrowding and Long Waits even just to get  Johnson said Primus clinics arc open 365 Days a year to anyone eligible for military medical care. No appointment is necessary. There is no charge to the patient for the care or for any prescribed medication. Capt. Paul Mouritsen Primus project officer said the clinics Are designed to provide Only primary care for minor illnesses such As the flu minor injuries such ascus and simple fractures routine physicals for children and gynaecological exams. They won t be Able to do such things As major sur Gery Mouritsen said. If patients have problems that the clinic can t handle they la be referred to nearby military facilities. If it s an emergency they la be handled by the closest major Hospital. Mouritsen said the army has planned an ambitious expansion schedule for Primus. In addition to the clinics in the Washington ., area the army also plans to open clinics near such Large bases As fort Bragg . Fort Campbell. By fort Binning a. Fort Sill okla., and fort Ord Calif. Right now we have the authority to establish two clinics a year Mour Ilsun said. We re asking for authorization to double that and establish four each year up to a total of 30." some officials including . Gen. Quinn h. Becker army surgeon general have voiced concern about whether the army can afford the Primus program. But Mouritsen said it s proving to be much cheaper than the champs civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services system. The Primus program is costing the government about 30 percent less per patient visit than the champs program he said. It s a Good Deal for the  Mouritsen said All physicians at Primus clinics artfully qualified and meet army Quality Assurance Stan Dards. We evaluate All the contractors who bid on the clinics looking closely at the Quality Assurance plans submitted by these companies he said. And we also constantly Monitor the Quality of the care they  teens Perpich 110,000 Job applications court provides discuss striking Surprise Mazda officials Mea packers St. Paul Minn. A six High school students from Austin met with gov. Rudy Perpich this week to discuss the six month strike by Mca packers at the Hormel Plant in Austin. The students supporters of the striking Union were part of a group of 45 students who travelled to St. Paul to meet monday with Perpich. Tim Hinkle 15, said the students were glad Perpich was willing to meet with them but called the meeting very  Hinkle whose father is a striking Union member said much of the discussion Cen tired on Purpich s decision in late january to Send the National guard to Austin to keep peace during the dispute. Jim Getchell jr., 17, said before the meeting that the students planned to pre sent a petition with 1,000 signatures to per Pich asking him to order a negotiating ses Sion Between Hormel president Richar Knowlton and Jim Cuvette president of local p-9 of the United food and Commer Cial workers International Union. Getchell is a Junior at Austin High school. His father is a striking meat Packer. Before going to the Capitol the students stopped at an Al Cio meeting where the governor defended sending National guardsmen to the Hormel Plant. Local p-9 has been on strike for six months in a dispute Over wages and Bene fits. After a four month shutdown the com Pany reopened its Austin Plant and hired remanent replacement workers and some 9 members who crossed picket lines. National leaders of the United food and commercial workers and the Al Cio refused to support the strike calling it a suicide  the local has since said it is willing to accept a wage close to the company s de Mand if the company would take Back All strikers. Hormel has refused. Detroit up Mazda motor corp. President Kenichi Yamamoto said the japanese car maker never expected to receive so Many Job applications for its new $450 million Assembly Plant under construction in Flat Rock , in Detroit monday to accept the Man of the year award from Auto motive industries Magazine said through a translator that the company anticipated be tween 50,000 and 60,000 applications. In Stead More than 110,000 Job requests flooded in to fill Only 2,500  declined to say what percentage of Laid off Ford motor co. Workers would be Given jobs. Ford which owns 25 percent of Mazda has an agreement that its Laid off employees will receive hiring preference. Yamamoto said that Between 700 and 800 salaried employees also will be hired with most from the United states not Japan. Ultimately about 100 will come from Japan but he said the figure could initially be higher because of training  Flat Rock Plant scheduled to build cars similar in size to its current 626 series is geared for Start up this summer with the first car to Roll off the line in the fall of 1987. About three months later it will begin building cars for Ford As Well. Yamamoto said an employee vote on a United Auto workers contract will be held sometime in the Spring of 1988.he hinted that there will be future joint programs in the United states Between Mazda and Ford and added that a Deal Between Ford and Kia the korean car maker partly owned by Mazda would result in a subcompact Carto compete in the Domestic Small car Market that car the festival and is slated for introduction sometime in 1988. Yamamoto also said Mazda would be forced to raise its vehicle prices once again because of the 30 percent increase in the japanese yen when compared to the  has so far raised prices about 5 per cent because of the Exchange  is the first non us Auto executive to receive the Man of the year award from automotive industries a monthly Trade japanese cars . Sales ceilings in millions of passenger cars per fiscal year beginning april 1 sales ceilings 1976 78 80 82 84 "86" note sales exceed ceilings due to pre-1961 inventories in . And Lime lag Between japanese shipments and .deafen sales figures exclude vans japanese Export Selling Chicago Tribune Chart sources motor vehicle minute Durer association automotive news and . Department Ocon Norco publication. The 23rd annual award was Given to him because of his decision to locate Mazda s new Plant at a closed Down Ford motor facility in Bat Rock and involve the Law to represent the 2,500 workers. He also was cited for his development work on Mazda s rotary engine and his role in helping Mazda Avert bankruptcy about a decade ago when it faced a situation similar to Chrysler corp s struggle in 1979. Lawyers fees or Fri agent los Angeles a taxpayers will finance the defense of the Only Fri agent Ever charged with espionage a judge has ruled As he prepares for Richard w. Miller s retrial. Miller s second trial was to begin tues Day in Federal court. His first ended in a Hung jury last november when one juror refused to vote for conviction on any of seven spying and bribery charges. One juror found Miller innocent of three of the most serious charges. $65,000 promised Miller is accused of passing classified documents to his soviet Lover in Exchange for promises of $65.000 in Cash and Gold. Miller 49, had hired private attorneys but paid them Little. . District judge David v. Kenyon last week named the attorneys Joel Levine and Stanley Grcen Borg As Miller s court appointed counsel making them eligible for government payments of $60 per hour for work in the courtroom and $40 an hour for out of court work. The appointments arc retroactive so they cover the attorneys work during Miller s first trial. Miller has been incarcerated since his arrest in october 1984 on charges of passing secrets to Svitlana Ogorodnikova 35, with whom he had been having an affair. Mrs. Ogorodnikova and her Hus band Nikolay 52, pleaded guilty to espionage and have been sentenced to Pris on. Ogorodnikova now says he was coerced into pleading guilty and has asked Kenyon to reopen his Case. Miller contends that he is innocent and was trying to penetrate a soviet spy ing scheme to redeem his faltering Fri stolen Auto parts stolen again this time from police Morristown Tenn. A a gunman in a Devil mask forced his Way into a state police garage and stole a 40-foot trailer and a Load of parts confiscated from the head of a car theft ring then stole Gaso line for his truck police say. The gunman and his accomplices who left a guard handcuffed to a dump truck. Took Only items that had been confiscated from chop shop operator Steven Ander son officer Lonnie Hood of the Tennessee Highway patrol s Auto theft division said monday. The theft occurred sunday. Anderson escaped from Hamblen county jail after he was sentenced in August to 41 years in prison for arson and concealing stolen property. He is still at Large. The thieves drove a Semi truck into the garage after handcuffing the guard then hitched up the trailer and loaded it with Auto parts taken during raids last year Aanderson s farm. Hood said. They also took a smaller trailer a Riding Lawn Mower and crates of automobile wind Shields also taken from the farm. Then they pumped 20 Gallons of Gas into their truck just to top it off Hood said adding that the thieves Only took items that had belonged to Anderson. They even unloaded one car off the Trai Ler that did not belong to Anderson he said