European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Arin Landers dear Ann Landers. Will you please Prim this essay in your space it was inc last column by Bud Lee who retired dec 27, 1985, after 28 Yean at county director and farm adviser University of California a great admirer of has and yours dear great in bal will pleasure. It s who it Tittl executive in overalls what is a Farmer firmer ire found in Fields blowing up seeding Down rotating from planting to fertilizing with spraying for and bar Sung of. Wives help them Little boys follow than City rela Tives visit them salesmen detain them Metis wait for them weather can delay them hut nothing can Stop Heto a Turner it Paradox. He is Art oven cd executive with his office in his Home. He it m scientist who uses fertilizer attachments a purchasing agent in an old lira hat a personnel director with grease under his fingernails a dietician with a passion for fresh fruits Ana vegetables a production expert faced with a sur plus and � manager battling a Price Cost squeeze. He manages More capita than most of the of Stoess men in town. He likes Sunshine Good food county fairs dinner a noon auctions his neighbors his Shin Collar unbuttoned and above All an above average annual rainfall. He is not much for droughts ditches freeways weeds the eight hour Day. Dusty roads development insects diseases freezing weather or helping around the House. Nobody else gels so much satisfaction out of Modem plumbing Good weather automatic furnaces elec. Trie blankets and homemade ice Cream. Nobody else has in his pockets at one Lime a three bladed knife a Check Book a Billfold a pair of pliers and a Combina Tion memo Book and general farm guide. A Farmer is both Faith and fatalist. He must have Faith to meet the challenges of his capacities amid the Ever present possibility that an act of cod a Tore Spring an Early Frost. Hood drought can bang Bis business to sudden halt. To j can reduce his acreage but you cant diminish his optimism. Might As Well put up with him. He is your Friend your competitor your customer your source of food and tiber. He is your countryman a Denim dressed business Wise statesman of nature. And when he comes in at noon having spent Ike Energy of his hop Sand dreams he can be recharged anew weft the magic ads Tot Market s up dear Ann Landers a question of etiquette if you please is it proper to put postage Stamps on the return envelopes for wed dim i stat Kwh replica if my memory aaes me. Year Asp Dan Tow Dej Maik in was Cwb dered poor the Lodo this. The implication was that the recipients not or could not spend their own Money on. Have limes changed please Al toe know. Our l wedding 1 con if of and we Doit wan to Mother the Bride in grand rapids Kaheau o. In sir Aai Aav a at saturday october 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 11 army air Force address Extension rumours i would like la question a Rumor that seems to have everyone talking my husband and i Are being told that if you re not having a permanent change of station pcs or expiration or term of service ets before Jon. I. L9b7,you la be extended for another year. If this is so it s not Lair know they bad mentions this year but they Only extended them for three months so Why Are they extend ing us for one year our ets Dale is oct. 7, 1987. My husband had planned to re enlist for six More years. Bui if the army makes him do four years instead of three years Over seas he s thinking of getting out a few other people we be talked to have also said they la get out if the army goes through with this one year Extension. Plan on leaving at the first of the year. I m going Back to the slates to have our baby and find us a Home. So if the Extension goes through it would mean my husband would not Sec our baby until it is Ivi years old except when he get leave Lime this could change a hit of Plain we have made. F this it True about the one year Extension we would like to know Why and who would be affected by it. Bread Allbritten  Germany editor s note Mij. Mary e. Jackson. Office of lie Deputy chief of Suff personnel he Usarek re plies we appreciate do Opportunity to address this widely ipod Ranner which was compounded by the sept. 29 Issue of army than. To la Reasee we being considered among Many other actions Aad initiatives in a attempt by a department of the army Lonu a a rather site ate con ares Khial Cut in the department of defense pcs budget for focal 1987. I wish could give the writer and Ere now else a definitive answer on which 1mm, if any trill be length ened and when the Extension will take effect. As of this Date contrary to the article in army times the Secre tary of the army he not made that Dedsion. It should be pointed oat however that since the Bud get cats Are being made in fiscal 1987, any actions directed at spending reductions will also have to take effect dining fiscal 1987. There is a wave of near hysteria sweeping our base and others in the United kingdom. Is there anyone who will come Forward and set the record straight whether the answer is the one we All want to hear or not anything would be belter than the web of rumours that seems to have ensnared All of us who Are due to make a permanent change of station pcs during july to october 1987. The rumours to which we refer Are those concerning involuntary exle Wini. We have heard from several sources that extensions Ore planned again for those who Are scheduled to pcs next summer. The length of the rumoured extensions Range anywhere from two to six months we Are of voluntary Jour year hours. With a link More than 10 Molln kit until oar Date Fig Ink to return from overseas Deros. We an trying to Pun ahead for our next pcs move. Some of our plans in pen perils i in 36 Nom we would pin pen gift Sirut a to gig. My Tabbita re Wang. My Etc ind bowl Wal. A Hon Rait mum to dose Lucid i tin ii ii of mgt 0, i we ukr by not arabic. Pomi m n Foff from Vul 4 b Una exp a by do i sum elude such things As buying and Selling houses family finances and relocation of school age children. Ii seems a bit strange that a Rumor would be so widespread with no basis in fact we hive called our on Baw Rumor control and have been assured that there Are absolutely no Plant for any extensions at this  we did find their news reassuring until Reading a Teller in the stars and stripes called budget cuts Are Nightmare Reader  that letter refer to extensions of six to nine  we assume there must be truth in what was said As there was no com ment made refuting any allegations in the letter. Please set the record suing Hal the uncertainty is far worse than the answer we d least like to hear. Staff set Tot inn. Dave g. Saw Uhl tech. Sgt and mis. Stuart m. Moyst Raf Ben Twaiten England editor1 note col Ronald e. Smith director 4 assignments personnel he Safe replies Etta appear to be another ease of More mag Mack Wane than reality. It is the that badge cats in a Nightmare Bat As of Bow jew Renoi cont fat la the air Fane has not Lantela Tebet an Rantha Tarjer Extension program far fiscal 1987, Tad we Bare Aat Beard any does Mem Abom a is to Alne Moon sex Trnka. 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