European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 8, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Gas turning to support agencies for Aid from Page 1 is another problem for Soldier. Lafluer said. Most of hem spend it before they get Here Hen hey have to Start paying in Back on lop or other expenses. Thede Clineff the Dollar Jusi Taupe Rale these problem  Susan Sarver an acs consumer affairs financial Counselor in did Wissburg. Germany agree with Law Lucr they be got too Many credit payments she Aid. The finl thing they say is i Don i get enough housing allowance but 99 percent of the time 1 add up bad and Oha and Rind the military is compensating them for living on the Economy. I Tan think of two legitimate Cam where people were not getting enough bad and Oha  costs in the Stuttgart area Are High Sarver  1 see them they already have an established rent and can1 gel out of their lease. But a lot of their hardship depends on what kind of Bills they come Over Wilh. If they re coming without Bills they can afford tomake it but they can t buy anything Over  if a Soldier can show a financial hardship nine Outor 10 times Sarver can work with stateside creditors on a repayment program she said. But some Soldier feeling the Pinch of the Low Dollar Don t think there s enough Money to be managed. Don i ail your phone on. Don t open your refrigerator too often. Don t think about lights on in the House just walk around in the dark with a  s what you re actually going to have to do to survive off the Money Thev give you said spec. 4kevin a Reed of the 238th personnel services co 3rd in div in Wuerzburg then you take your base pay and buy groceries and if you have a. Car you pay your car note and pay your insurance and hat right there will take it All. Suit or Tom Brandt hour com of and Paul a Jbf Corton Tut u Mir port. Low Buck spurs requests for government housing by Connie Dickey stall writer sgt. Lydia Tydingco a 38-year-old single Mother of two wants to move into government housing and she s not alone. As the Dollar to Mark rate fluctuates More Ait More Servic Membert Are seeking he relative financial safety of living in quarters. But acquiring quarters is not always easy. Tydingco is assigned to 3rd inf div s 258lh person Nel services co in Wuerzburg Germany. However up to 70 percent of service families in Wuerzburg Giebey slant Venheim and Kiu Ingen must rent from Ger Man landlords because of the Lack of government hous ing. One of the largest Soldier populations in Germany sin the Hanau military Community which includes Hanau Gellhausen and Buedingen. Public affairs spokesman Hans Blache said the total military Community of soldiers and family members numbers about 28,000. There Are 2,950 Gover Mem controlled housing units and Between 6,000 and 6,500 families waiting for accommodations he said Gregory Brewer Hanau Community housing officer said inquiries about government housing gave in creased. But because of the Long wailing list and the shortage of government housing in the area actual requests Are not significantly higher he said. A Usa eur spokeswoman said there is no Central accounting in the command to see How Many Soldier living on the Economy Are trying to get into govern ment housing. But after taking samples from Large medium and Small installations we do think the re quests have increased she said. In the Heidelberg military Community during a re cent six month period 48 soldiers applying for govern ment quarters based their re quests on the decline of the Dol Lar. Junior enlisted soldiers accounted for 43 of those requests. Air Force families living on the Economy also Are increasing their requests for government housing a Safe spokesman said. But the lower Dollar is Only part of the reason for the increased re quests he said. Although Safe also has no Centra figure across he com Mand one of its larger bases nor Pant Molly has t so requests a month for housing. That base now is receiving 200 requests a month he said. Half of the requests were from families asking for priority assignment because of special needs such As handicapped family members or other medical Rea sons. For the others housing officials have said ,. After checking to see whether Alt entitlements Are being received they be found it s the other costs that a hurling airmen he said for instance paying Utility , 4 Pamela p. Purvis 25, of the 2s8lh personnel services co in Wuerzburg moved into a cheaper housein nearby Vollendorf after her baby was born. Mainly the run and utilities Are eating up every thing said Purvis who is raising her baby by herself. You just manage month to  said she would move Back into the Barracks if it weren t for the  Haze chief of Frankfurt s housing division. Said during the past six months Frankfurt has averaged five requests per month. He cites the decline of the Dollar As a reason personnel want to break their lease in Germany the army requires service members to sign a lease slating they will remain in the Home or apartment for at least one year unless they Are trans  Community commander usually turns Down four of the five requests because the soldiers Are gel Ting enough to make their rent payments Haze said we look at Siow much it is going to help a family to move them into government housing. Many times they will lose Money because the won t get their housing allowance or their bad Basic allowance  now refers the soldiers files to a financial coun Selor before reviewing the requests. Suit Tor we Hon Mui not Tuua to pm upon army calling on Gas to help expose espionage by Richard Hall Ora Washington not the army expects its toll free Call in pro Gram to help catch spies discover pos sible Security risks and train soldiers to identify both to be in full operation by the end of  officials acknowledged Mon Day that the program has a potential for abuse by soldiers making false accusations we re mindful of that said Wil Liam m. Dwyer army civilian counterintelligence official in charge of the Call spy hot line  said Legal and procedural Safe guards had been devised in an Effort to prevent abuses agents trained to recognize genuine signs of espionage take the Calls and prepare reports that Are reviewed by two superiors before a investigation is started he said. Dwyer said reports of inquiries that failed to turn up evidence of illegal behaviour would be destroyed after 90 Days. The army was widely criticized in the Early 1970s for compiling dossiers on civilian protesting he Vietnam War. The program got off to a premature Start in Early March when an article describing it appeared in the army times. Information from the article was used by newspapers and radio stations near army posts. We be gone bananas since then Dwyer Saidt in less than a month Irie toll free number that began operating last year on a test basis has received More than 2,000 Calls. The number 1-800-Call spy 225-5779is an swered 24 hours a Day at a counterintelligence office at fort Meade. A Dwyer said he idea for the coun Ter espionage number came up in octo Ber 1985 in the Wake of charges thai Anavy warrant officer John a. Walker jr., As Well As relatives and a Friend bad pied for the soviet Union. Each of the military services re viewed its Security measures at that time and senior army officers reported an increase in attempts by soviet and East european intelligence services to recruit . Military personnel. Other cases involving members of the armed forces including one in which Marine guards assigned to . Embassy in Moscow Are suspected of spying for the soviet Union a Pearlo have heightened that concern. As part of a Campaign to make Mili tary personnel aware of possible espionage the toll free number was tested a four army posts from March through november 1986. Dwyer said test showed the program could be operated with existing personnel with the Only added Cost being $2,000 a year for Tele phone  said that As a counter spin nage action the response was no overwhelming because none of the tips led to an investigation. But he said the number turned up More cases than expected of questionable behaviour that might make a military person susceptible to approach by a  of the army who drank too much boasted about Access to secret information or fell deeply in debt were reported on the number. Allegation were referred to commanding officers with recommendations that the offender be warned or counselled. White the tests were being conducted Dwyer said the army consulted with officials in charge of a defense department toll free Call in service set up seven years ago to help uncover waste and fraud i military spending or procurement. Benjamin j. Simon supervisor of therod program provided guidance on How to process Calls keep records an handle Crank Calls or callers who just wanted to Chat Dwyer  the end of april when the new program goes into full operation the army plans to give each Soldier along with the monthly pay statement a Liston things that could be linked to spying. They include Short trips out of the country returning secret documents to safes Early in the morning or living beyond one s Means. Dwyer said Anonymous Calls will be accepted but thai people who identified themselves tend to be More  identity of informants will be kept confidential he  said that lips from civilians would retaken Only at the insistence Ofa caller and then would be turned Over to the Federal Bureau of investigation or the local Law enforcement Agency Wilh jurisdiction. Tips pertaining to an other service would be turned Over to that service if the army s investigation turns up evidence of espionage Dwyer said the Fri would be called in. Briton rescues piece of bark initiated by go in ? 944 Alcester England a a British noblemen Taid tuesday he will Send a former american Soldier the piece of tree bark on which the Soldier carved his initials during world War ii. The marquess of Hertford spotted the initials r  the words ". Army \944" on a tree in his 6,000-acre estate in Warwickshire county Southern England. After the marquess publicized his search for the Soldier an englishwoman called the St year old mar quess to say she had befriended the Soldier in England and knew him to be the culprit. Robert Johnson 63, who lives in Carthage n.c.,was wounded during the War and sect to the marquess Home a agcy Hall which was being used As an Emer gency Hospital said the marquess. One afternoon in july 1944, Johnson had been roaming around the estate grounds and on impulse carved out his initials the marquess told a news con Ference. Johnson rejoined his regiment in France a Short Lime Laier he said. The tree is partly diseased and Wilt be felled ii summer and we will recover the piece of bark with his initials on and Send it to him the marquess said. I Don t normally approve of people carving their initials an my Trees he said. But this one Seemi d rather special because it had a link Wilh history