European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday june 11,1987 update License revoked Topeka Kan. A Kansas has revoked the License of the Lead Engineer during construction of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Kansas City where 114 people were killed in a 1981 collapse of skywalk. The keen of Jack d. Ilium was revoked by the state Boon of tech Nical professions. Ilium surren dered the License voluntarily to avoid a lengthy disciplinary hearing. An administrative Law judge act ing on complaints by the Missouri Board for architects professional engineers and land surveyors had ruled the two in Guetis showed conscious indifference to the Wel fare of the Public through their Wotton the Hyatt. Temperatures. ,Iajpar-40s. Sun thursday u4. By Stoa Rilday is. Of Oak to h it u6s Lunga a of my him in allans. A no. P 4am 4pm 63 66 Copan Tagan p46 a Rama 66 61 unc fun d83 n had. P64 68 . I so 63 pans do 46 61 rom. P 4am 4pm so 61as 46 639 76 Cairo. Quoin. D id s4 Vic our. D 86 s4 77 63m m 66 m39 it supp Tad by he aug Jim press Tif Etc Saljr. A party of outta. A ran. Correction the army promotion hot of major generals printed in a recent edition omitted Brig. Gen. John . Sealts name. Sewall chief of the policy and programs Branch shape Belgium since 1984, will become the army s director of strategy plans and policy in Washington . An article on Page 28 in wednesday s stars and stripes incorrectly stated that the fran fun to Berlin duty train was delayed when someone chained burning tires to the train tracks. The train was travelling from Bremerhaven to Berlin. No ousted by of for weight loses round in Federal court by Chuck Vinch Washington Breid a Federal court in new Hampshire has dismissed a suit an no filed against the air Force which had discharged him for failing to meet weight standards. Former tech. Sol Clifton Peters an aircraft technician who weighed As much As 346 pounds in his 17 years in the serv ice filed suit March 18 claiming the air Simce sect very enforced weight regu lations and engaged in Handicap Dis a i bin no of his obesity according to com records. Peteri wanted the us. District court in Concord near his last assign ment at Pease fab to make the air Force Fri Milf him in his military Job give him a Chi wages and pay his court costs Lexius show. The court drank re the Case so that Peters could exhaust a available administrative Peters will shortly petition the air Force Board for correction of military records said his attorney Susan Donenberg. But that Board is not noted for mov ing quickly so it could be a Long while before they make a decision she said. If no accommodation is reached with the air Force Peters is free to refile his suit the court ruled. Denenberg declined to give Peters weight at the time of Bis discharge his current weight or Bis height he has told me he d rather not talk about it to the press she said. He just did t think this thing would get a the attention it the maximum height listed on current air Force weight standards charts is 6 feet 8 inches for which the maximum allowable weight is 254 pounds. For each additional Inch in height the service Al Dod expands eligibility for receiving dislocation lows another six pounds. Court records show Peters weighed 346 pounds in March 1986. He dropped to 303 pounds in the next three months but then gained nine pounds and was unable to make further substantial Prog Ress. That led to his honorable discharge March 20 of this year. Peters based his Case on the fact that the air Force let him enlist in 1969 even though he was 25 pounds Over the weight limit at the time according to court re cords. He had been overweight virtually his entire career but was repeatedly Given waivers and allowed to re enlist three times records show. Peters suit churned that his obesity did not affect the performance of us Mil itary duties in any Way and in fact he continued to perform his duties in an outstanding the suit accused the air Force of ens Road or waiving weight standards it in Liefl on the individual involved. Guidelines allowance by William j. Barman Washington the department of defense has expanded the eligibility requirements for service members to receive dislocation pay although Tor now there win be no advances for such pay Motiff if Tel i Rimml other than for evacuations service members can no longer receive Advance dislocation allowance the Pentagon s per diem travel and transportation Al Lowance committee said. The no Advance stipulation was an oversight on Congress part last year however and is in the process of being corrected. But that legislative correction is not expected to take place for several months too late for the summer military transfers. The broadened eligibility areas for Dis location pay cover these situations when two consecutive Tours Are seem at the same location and the serv ice member a family either leaves or arrives there under orders for the second tour. When an overseas tour changes from accompanied to Una Compa when a serve remember s family must leave an overseas location before the service member is reassigned because it is considered in the Best interests of the service. When the service member Dies or is missing for More than 29 Days resulting m any surviving orders. When the travel orders of a service member or Fanti or my both an revoked cancelled or modified As a move is i Progress. Under this situation if a family has moved and in Hlahol m residence and then the order is cancelled the serv Tion allowances. Lines can be made retroactively to Cove moves that began nov. 14. A Senate armed services committee report said the new rules would be use sparingly provided that the military properly manages travel orders. Defense officials expect the broadened eligibility rules to affect fewer than 3,000 service members a year. From students Acorn pro eco 100 saplings grew for Munich Munich s4sj John Chapman would be proud of Charle Bobrick s students. Chapman a frontiersman who died in 1845, became an Ameri can Folk hero for his trips throughout the Midwest planting Appletree. He s better known As Johnny Appleseed. Bobrick s group of 23 Munich elementary school sixth Grade students did t Plant Apple Trees but they did Surprise a Munich fors Meister with a gift of More than 100 Oak saplings they Rai Sedas a class project. The had my class do Plant projects before Bobrick said but never this Many. We thought it would be Nice to raise them and then give them to the fors neister As a sign of the project began Early in the school year when the students gathered acorns from an Oak tree in the schoolyard. Todd Petrie,13, was project manager. I was mainly in charge of watering the plants and feeding them. Be said. We Dinu have any of the plants die although afew turned Brown and a couple had sting Weed Start growing in fors Meister Helmut Hansel visited the class tuesday apparently expecting a couple of Young Trees. What he received was about 100 Young Oaks about six to eight inches Tan. The Trees will be planted in a protected area in the nearby Terlacher Forest be said telling the students that Many of the Trees in the area were being damaged by Industrial pollution an Auto fumes. The donation was arranged by Host nation teacher Gabi Lang Hammer. Unclaimed bag Offenbach Germany is warehouse personnel ate trying to locale service members and civilians in Europe baggage not claimed after 300 Days May be d the following persons should Contact the Offenbach warehouse Ito Box 44. Frankfurt military com Annily Apo 09710, or cafe Frankfurt military 320-5008or 7309. Baggage Ted Ariae after 60 Days Stephen boxy by Joefw Curry Mihata mrw Rstom a Cal Paui i Crystal Jannson Mola Almarah dross Jonns Nonor _ Cha Thama Raymond Travis i Titard Laura Wak Oam Embanks Kara Natoka jul Devouna babble Ken Ned after 120 Days Norman Bau Utsu Soo Abadan we be been discussing the ecological problems of Germany in in classes Langhammer said. This project worked in perfect of i and what did they learn it s not hard to grow plants or Trees Todd said. You just have to water and feed Tharau moans pm e. German flees to West 37th escape of the year Hannover West Germany a a 41-Yeai old East German Man fled Over his country s fenced and guarded Border to escape unhurt into the West German state of lower Saxony police said tuesday. Police said the Man gave his profession As a labourer. The escape brings to 37 the number of East germans who have escaped from East Germany to the West this year
