European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 1988 the stars and stripes Page & of Mot Balling California shuttle facility by the to Angeles times Vandenberg fab Calif. The air Force will Mothball the space shuttle Complex Here until the 1990s, a move that will save the government about $60 million but result in 1.000 layoffs almost immediately the base commander announced Friday. The 1,000 Lockheed space operations co. Worker originally were to have been Laid off next june. In addition according to maj. Gen. Donald Al Dridge 400 Martin Marietta aerospace employees willbe Laid off next Spring several months earlier than previously planned. Original plans called for tests involving bringing the shuttle Columbia to Vandyn Borg and placing it on the pad with fuel tank and solid rocket boosters attached. Tic decision to delay the tests and put the j3.3 billion shuttle facility in Mothballs was made As the House and Senate in Washington sliced millions in shuttle funding Oul of the military appropriations Bill under consideration said John Doherty an aide Tore. Robert j. Lagomarsino a Calif. The funding that would have been used to maintain the facility until next year in essence was taken Oul Doherty said. The savings of putting the facility in caretaker status were estimated in july at 1100 million a year. After the Jan. 28 challenger disaster a shuttle launch that had been scheduled at Vandyn Borg this year was rescheduled for 1992. Both Lockheed the shuttle ground servicing con tractor and Martin Marietta chief designer and in Staller of ground system have been laying  shuttle workers since january when the program had its Peak of 4.300 civilian employee. Last week the number had been reduced to 2,100. Lockheed will Transfer some of the employees who will be Laid off to other locations where the company has contracts said . Oppliger. A vice president of the company. Doth Lockheed and Marietta will build up their work Force again at Vandenberg before the next scheduled launch. We knew we were going to have layoffs. They be just come sooner than we expected Doherty said. Checking things  Chandai the Milwaukee county zoo s while Bengal user is positioned for six nys port of a medical checkup. Zoo vets had put the animal under anaesthesia to treat an Eye irritation. While 11 was  they gave it a Complete checkup. Navy Supply system blamed for lost items valued at $320 million by the los Angeles times Washington the Navy acknowledged Friday that severe problems in its Supply system caused it to los track of $319.7 million in aviation spare parts aboard its 14 aircraft carriers last year Bui in releasing an audit detailing the shortcomings of inc massive system. Navy officials said new reforms would reduce inc inventory variances aboard carriers to less than �75 million in fiscal 1986, about half of a Nav wide total of is 60 Mill Ion. The study by the naval audit service was ordered 13 months ago after the Dis closure thai a san Diego Cem Rcd ring of thieves and smugglers had penetrated the Supply system to steal millions of Dollar sin aircraft parts needed by Iran in its War against Iraq. Rather than theft though auditors blamed the inventory adjustments on poor bookkeeping mismanagement a Lack of modern computer equipment and i shortage of trained personnel. The problems developed they said during a period of rapid growth in the Quantity value and complexity of mate rial stockpiled on aircraft carriers. The typical aircraft Carrier now has unauthorized inventory of $2.8 billion More than triple the level of 10 year Sago the report said. In addition it said the 66,500 line items aboard the Smalles Carrier exceeds the 55,000 line items locked at the largest air station on the East coast. The auditors said in the report delivered to Congress Friday that the Navy did an excellent Job in developing a 149-Point list of Supply system improvements and has made reasonable Progress toward completing its  Bui the auditors said solutions May require months or years to be simple army ousts 8 maps on sex charges West Point