European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday april 1, 1936 services to evaluate Dodds cutbacks by Mary Hladkiv education writer the . European come has to cd Lac army. Air Force and Navy in of Victo assess plans by the department a defense dependents schools to delay u next school year s Start by three weeks " make other Cost saving cuts. The component commands pc contacted Friday for their assess Rne a the Impact of the Dodds Omar Tom Connor a Neucom Public Tion officer said monday. Urn " 0 get those assessments Back it will to f ice lotto determine the effect on the Mil a the Neucom action follows a deck s decision by Dodds to begin class nhc1986-87 school year on sept. 1 5 of 0 rehiring of replacement teachers v c remainder of this school year and Bali Lute teachers Only to replace Sci v Liss Doorn teachers but not specialist. Hasart and music teachers. In addition summer school been eliminated strict limits have been on Supply purchases maintenance a Piir budgets have been Cut outdoor c Tio programs have been suspended transfers have been limited and Iii measures have been placed on ration for extracurricular activities Dodds officials had been co most of these Steps for two month of meeting requirements of to Rudman budget balancing Law. When the Survey of the Militar is completed results will be for Chapman Cox assistant Secreta Cring Way my macs a 10 de sense for Force management and personnel. Connor said. The military services completed preliminary examinations of school cutbacks about a month ago when school officials first began Belt tightening. La. Col. William Cornell chief of us afe s dependents schools division declined to comment on Safe s Early reactions. He also said it is too Early to comment on Dodds recent decisions. We Haven t had time to fully assess the actions they have proposed under Gramm rude Nan he said. We Are in the process of assessing that and will have to ask Community la. Col. Tony Slovack Usa eur s chief of Community services said a similar preliminary assessment in Usa eur revealed Little negative Impact on the army. There really in t a negative Impact As far As the military is concerned Slovacek said. Usa eur officials weighed several factors including the Impact of a late school year Start on rotation of personnel Maneu vers use of arc facilities and contracting of buses that take children to and from school he said. Delaying school will have Little Impact on any of these areas Slovacek said. But any More cutbacks will definitely prompt army reactions Slovacek said. Now they have scrunched up the pro Gram in terms of time he said. Any other cuts that will be the big thing. Then you Are cutting a Parent Leader agreed with initial army estimates that delaying the school year is not the worst Fate to befall schools. I would much rather see the opening of school delayed than to see teachers Cut said Michelle Thorn president of the euro Pean Congress of american parents teachers and students. We can survive three weeks but i feel it is necessary to keep the number of teachers we one of Thorn s big worries is that extra curricular activities will be gutted to reduce transportation costs. I think that could Hurt a lot of our Stu dents she said. If they Cut Back on extra curricular activities that will be a sore Point with while the military weighs the Impact of cuts Dodds regional officials Are asking their Headquarters in Washington for clearer information on How they Are supposed to implement them. We re trying to get clarification said Bob Vansuch chief of executive services forthe Atlantic Region. His biggest worry Vansuch said is How much of the first three weeks students will be required to make up and when they will Doit. It orders from Washington does t say when the school year will end or How Many Days it will be. Do we Cut our vacations he and other regional officials said de laying the school year Start is their biggest concern because they implemented most of the other Cost cutting measures in february 2 Pilot communities testing Vone fund7 As new Way of manage Naf activities by Brenda Hoste staff writer Frankfurt Nuernberg Delberg will be the test com Mutt rope for a new concept of Mana i Propri ated fund activities beginning " one fund is merely an a method that eliminates Gavirio funds for each activity said i Isaacs director of european fice . Army Community support Center. It allows the installation take the profits of certain help defray the expenses of others one fund pools the Revenue Mander controlled Nona prop re activities and will help Elini making Competition betwee Isaacs said. I Lei Liu Nap a.,. Ming irate i Der iof Unity Irto ,1 an torn i fund profit. Ivies that Competition is not a very Pru Dent Way of managing business. Why hand cuff a commander by not allowing him to concentrate where his firepower is he said. One fund will put More dollars into the Community pot allowing the Community to grow however Isaacs cautioned that not every activity is Revenue generating and those that Are May have to carry activities such As child care centers. If it s a club that s unprofitable then the commander has to see what can be done to make Money he said. If he s exhausted All ways to make it profitable then he May be driven to the decision to close before one fund a commander could not easily take Money from a club system for example and apply it toward a recreation program such As renovation of a Bowling Alley or racquetball court because they were separate funds. There s no major shift in philosophy Here Isaacs said. Our goal has always been to be profitable and Revenue producing activities. Some things we know can t be very profitable so we d like to at least re Duce the Cost of them. And unfortunately there s just not enough appropriated funds to pay for All the one fund concept follows three years of testing at training and doctrine come installations in the United states. Usa eur has approval to set one fund into motion in the two Pilot communities Isaacs said. Their Success will allow other Usa eur communities to seek permission to go to this concept. Hope fully in the future All Usa eur communities will be under this human role in aviation safety stressed \., by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau Span Dahlem a Gerrrpsychologist specializing in a cology monday urged Corm have a role in helping people e a part of their responsibility Jar greater flying safety. Air planes Don t break thai More. Spars Don t break " break said or. Chaytor teaches aviation psychology factors at the University of fornia. So when you get Down to of almost every Accident you there is a human at the Bottom of i Hood and safety seem to exclude in the minds of each he spoke to flight surgeons c and air Crews from Span Dah nand Hahn air bases on Safe studies show that aviators a pay is to up As. X ving .,.h any Don t --., who human Cali analysis Day. Differ ent countries Are More like each other than they Are like other people in their own coun tries said Mason who also is a consultant to airlines Federal agencies and hospitals. They Are a Breed of their own. As a Breed they Are dominant and somewhat exhibitionist. They like to win. Safety is seen As limiting a list of Don Mason said safety consciousness can at tract ridicule. He told the Story of an exp memorial service held for 557th engr in go Darmstadt Germany a memorial service was held saturday for pfc. Ken Neth d. Germain of cod 557th engr in. Germain of hawaiian Garden calif., died March 22 of a heart attack while undergoing treatment for acute leukaemia at Walter Reed army medical Center Washington. He was 21. Rien ced Pilot flying below the minimum Safe flying level in his attempt to see the runway in poor weather. Having been under minimums twice already he heard on the radio that a less experienced Pilot had managed to land his plane. Not to be out done he made an even lower pass killing himself and his passengers. When the surviving co Pilot was asked Why he did t take the controls away from the Pilot after the first or second flight below minimums the co Pilot said that he d never do that. He d never show How Terri fied he was. The first baseball gloves and Catcher masks were laughed at on the Field Mason said. Players were sometimes thrown off the Field for wearing them. Steel helmets for soldiers were invented Long before anyone wore them he said. Germany s spiked helmets were purely decorative and would t Stop a spitball he said. British soldiers in 1917 would have been court Martiale for cowardice forbearing tin hats " after Headquarters asked them to tighten their belts. For All practical purposes we have taken All those actions with the exception of the delay in the school year said Otto Thomas of the Mediterranean Region s executive services division. Even so the final Dodds decisions caused worry throughout the school system As students and teachers prepared to leave for this week s Spring break. There s a lot of discussion about it said one High school principal in Germany. Teachers Are upset. There is a lot of Dis Cussion of looking for other jobs. I m not sure this will help maintain the image of a Quality the Chance that the three week delay will be made up by cutting Christmas and Spring vacations concerns parents and teachers said Marcia Johnson principal of Mannheim elementary. Mentally teachers and children need a break she said. Some principals like James Halley of Aschaffenbur elementary and Junior High said they had anticipated the changes and Aren t concerned about implementing them. It s a better thing to happen than Cut Ting teacher spaces Halley said. This really does t Hurt anyone. Increasing class size would have an Adverse affect. Overall i Don t think Well be in bad a Story on Page 3 saturday concerning a request for additional training areas in Giessen and Fulda incorrectly stated that the v corps commander had asked the. Hessen state government for the land. In fact. Gen. Sam Wetzel has submitted the request for the 2,223 acres to Usa eur. If Usa eur approves the request it will be sent to the . Forces Liaison in Bonn for submission to the Ger Man Federal government. Wetzel however advised the Hessen government of the need for such areas in a meeting of the German american advisory Council March 21. The army would lease the land from the German Federal government. The Story also incorrectly stated that a never damage had been reduced by 60 percent since Wetzel took Over two years ago. It should have said that v corps has reduced the number of battalion size or larger exercises conducted in Hessen by 60 percent since 1983. If the additional land is approved v corps still would need to Send troops to major training Sites such As Wil Flecken Hohenfels and Grafe Woehr and still would need to use some private property for troop exercises. The Story May have implied that v corps would not need the major training areas nor private property if it acquired the local training areas. The stars and stripes regrets the errors. 1-car Accident kills airman near Koblenz Hahn a Germany one airman was killed and another injured in a one car Accident when their car struck a tree Nea Koblenz Germany sunday. Alc. Dale Volg Ersberger a passenger in the car was declared dead at the scene by a German doctor at 7 38 am. Sunday said tech. Sgt. Art Futch a Hahn a spokesman. The 21-year-old airman was As signed to the 50th Supply so. The injured Driver sgt. Jeffery Johnson also assigned to the 50th Supply so was in stable condition in a Koblenz Hospital Futch said. Johnson and Volg Ersberger the Only peo ple in the car were wearing seat belts. Volg Ersberger is survived by his parents Alfred and Freda Volg Ersberger of Library a
