European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday decembers 1980 the stars and stripes Page 3 no. 9 in colouring contest Slid ilk Ilen by Betsy Duncan he s making a list and checking it twice this is la ninth of 10drawings in the Stan and stripes Christmas colouring contest. The last picture appear tomorrow. Junior dependents of any one entitled to logistical sup Perl an urged to enter the contest children of stars and strife employed Are not Eli Gible us try to win one of the three prizes to Betwarda in two categories. Here Are the Nilea contestants Are divided into two groups Agni 3-7 and 8-12. Entries must be Post marked no later than dec. 13. Use any medium. Originality is encouraged. Deci Sion of the judges will be final entries become the prop erty of the stars and Stripe. No Endrin will be returned. Hunt forget to include your name and address see below. Mall five of the 10 cartoons not one at time in a single envelope to colouring contest the Sta Sand stripes Apo 09211 the top prizes two Bike will be awarded to first place winners i each category. Second and third place Hutra will receive other special prizes fifteen gift wrapped children s books will also be awarded in each cat  the Rale carefully. They will be published wit each drawing. Happy color ing reminder you citric at of charge eau Watts cart a my. The Apo by  sailors in Europe steadily enrolling in direct Deposit by Wendy Bourlan staff writer the direct Deposit system is slowly catching on with Navy men and women since its introduction in Europe five months ago but enrolment figures already have surpassed the Nav wide average. Forty percent of Sailor in Europe Ace enrolled in the program said in Mark slow Kweku director of military pay at be Navy personnel support activity in Lon Don. Enrolment has been alow but steady he said. Navy finance officials say Only 30 per cent of men and women Nav wide Are using direct Deposit a 5 percent increase since december 1985, the officials say there Are no plans tomake enrolment in the system mandatory. Sailon May continue to sign up a their local personnel support detachment on a voluntary basis. The pay system which became Avail Able to stateside Shore commands in june 1985, re paced the pay deposited quicker program. Under that program a participant could have his paycheck sen from the local personnel support detachment pad to the Bank of his Choice. A do enrollees were automatically switched to direct Deposit. With the direct Deposit system the Sailor no longer Geu a paycheck or hashes paycheck Seal to his Bank by the local detachment. The Navy finance cent Erin Cleveland wines the pay directly to a stateside or overseas financial institution such As the Navy Federal credit Union or an american express Bank. The shape Belgium detachment Hasan enrolment rate of 77 percent Stockwell said. The figure is impressive he said since sailors served by the detachment Are in Bel Gium Norway and Germany. They re not convenient to pad but they want their Money going to the Bank he said. Converts to the direct Deposit system arc confident they be made the right Choice. I just signed up Tor the program yesterday but i Haven t had a Chance to use it yet it i a Good idea said Petty offi cer 2.c. Frank Tardugno an aircraft handler in Naples Italy. I won t have extra Money in my pocket and the Money in the Bank will be making inter at Tor me. Plus if my wife needs my Money she can just write a  but As Long As it remains voluntary Petty officer 2.c. Eric Parrish who works at . European come to a Patch Barracks Stuttgart won t enrol. "1 joined the Navy to see my pay Check. I like to see my paycheck right in my hand he said. I Don t Trust awol fbanks. There been a lot of horror Sto Ries about dissent  another Neucom staff member also feels direct Deposit it not the Way to go. Senior chief Petty officer James Beaver said he used the a do system to put his paycheck into a checking account about decade ago. But he stopped doing it because he thought it caused him to spend the Money faster. "1 tried it for about a year and a half he said. I Don t think 1 can save As much Money with direct Deposit but others at Patch who use the system enjoy the Freedom it provides. Petty officer 2.c. Leonard Clark said he has used it tout his Money into a Navy Federal credit Union account since he was assigned Las year to Patch Barracks where More than half of the approximately 350 Navy personnel in Germany work. I Don t want to go through the hassle of standing in line to Cash my Check Clark  Petty officer 3.c. Beverly Bright said she has no problems with the Stiie since she joined the Navy in 1982. She allo Cates part of her paycheck to a savings account and the rest u a checking account. I be always done it at an my duty stations she said adding that Long Bank lines gave her All the incentive she needed. The More sailors who enrol the More Money the Navy saves. By enrolling 75 per cent of the 599,500 Navy members in the system the service would save More loan $2.5 a audion a year finance officials said sufi Muttari Chick Vacti. Jeff own m j. King Quev Mun Uhd n some Cape cod towns have High cancer rate Yannis mass. A cancer rates including cases of leukaemia in some Cape cod towns Are More than 70percent above the state average Accord ing to preliminary statistics released by Massachusetts officials. The state department of Public health which compiled the figures at toe request of a group called upper Cap concerned citizens issued the results without comment. Joel Feigebaum a spokesman for the group composed of residents from Bourne Fatai outa Sandwich and Mai pee. Laid Friday that the figure showed the towns Ekvald Ameer rate Wen  is taking be department to Long to try to find out Why this is happening he said. Figenbaum s group a but the Hazar Dous flute from  Mili Ury reservation Sun National guard training base and Conner army and air Force base for the High cancer Levi. Engineering comettant have found that some of the More than 1 million Gallons of hazardous materials spilled or dumped at the military base have entered the underground aquifer the Only source of the Cape s drinking water. The health department said it would at tempt to use the data to a Genoino the came of the elevated cancer rates in the upper Cape cod towns and in ban tame. According to the statistics the rate of lung cancer in female residents of fal Mouth and Bourne was 79 percent and 72 percent higher respectively than the state avenge. The leukaemia rite for men and women in Falmouth was 79 percent higher than inc average breast Ltd prostate cancer in Samsta be resident and Colon Aad rectal cancer in Bourne and Falm bulk resident also App sign Vindy above the avenge. Robert & knot the health depart ment s chief of environmental Opu Emio icy id the pres Wen preliminary until they were verified by compote