European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 13. 1987 the stars and strikes Page 9 Roundup Horseshoe championships scheduled june 27-28 Schwet Zingen Germany Usa eur will sponsor its annual Horseshoe pitching sin Gles championship june 27 and 28 at he Heidel Berg Rod and gun club in ofter sheim. Competition is open to Active duty . Mili tary members. Entrant must Register through their Community outdoor recreation offices and must Check in before 9 30 . On june 27. Competition will Tan at 10 . Awards for tint through third place finishers win tie presumed after play on june 28. Free camping is available for competitors from june 26 to 28. 3rd army div honoured by Mons Belgium mayor Frankfurt Mons Belgium near the Northern French Border is a liberated City today thanks to the 3rd army div s action in septem Ber 1944. The division was instrumental in capturing the City from toe or mini. On Friday the mayor of Mons Able Dubois and mayors from the surround nth bet Gina and Northern French towns presented maj. Gen to Ornis n. Griffin division commander with certificate of the City. Griffin then presented us mayor with a 3rd army div plaque. A Wreath also we played at the division s me Morial near Mont. The 3rd army div band based at Drake Kern in Frankfurt will be in Mons through tuesday Mervinc u the . Representative in the City s 1987 International music Festi Val. Seven nato countries Are represented by military bands and color guard. Main River raft race set for july at Aschaffenbur the 8th annual mighty River raft race will be held july 18-19 on the main River near As Dudt Enburg. Racing teams consisting of 10 members can enter any of four division men s military women civilian or youth 12-ie years old divisions. Trophies and medallions will be awarded to the first second and third place finishers in each division teams must pay a s30 entry fee which includes the Price of a rail oars and safety equip men teams May Register up to the Day of the race but after july the entry fee costs $35. Entry Fonnis Are available by writing mighty River Rah race Apo 09162. For More information Call ets 32j-8987 or06021-96551/98552. Adm. Hays arrives in China As military exchanges continue Beijing a . Ronald j. Hays commander in chief of the . Pacific come arrived thursday at part of ongoing and increasingly frequent Exchange of top chinese and american military officials. By is to meet senior chinese military officials and tour military units during his nine Day stay in China hit trip follows directly a visit to the United slates by Yang Shangkuan vice chairman of China s powerful Central military commission and an april Tnp by the air Force commander Wang hat. The United states has been sending a steady Stream of senior military officials to China Lea by Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger last october Artyv chief of staff John a. Wickham in november and Marine corps commandant Gen. . Kelley in March. Among subjects that Hays May discuss with the chinese Are future port Call exchanges joint exercise sat sea and the soviet military buildup in the Pacific Region. Other topics of Mutual interest Are the situation on the korean Peninsula the .-Japan defense relation ship Moscow s naval presence in Vietnam and the Protection of shipping in the persian Gulf. Plane s transcript describes efforts to avoid fatal crash Washington a a trainee Pilot flying a Southern air transport cargo plane thai crashed Dur ing an att pled Landing at Travi fab in California last april struggled to maintain a proper approach be fore the plane crashed just Short of Landing documents indicated thursday. A transcript of he cockpit conversation shortly be fore he crash showed the four engine Lockheed her Cule also appeared to lose Power in one engine and then in a second engine before the crash. It was not Clear what caused the engine failures or whether it might have been connected with the apparently erratic Landing attempt. The crash april 8 killed All five people aboard the plane two instructors and three trainee pilots who had recently Ben hired by the company. Southern air transport is a Miami based charter air company formerly controlled by the Cia and which has been involved in supplying the rebels fighting Nicaragua s government As Well As the Iran a ship ment. The Lockheed Hercules had completed its approach and was dose to touching Down on the runway when it pitched up and rolled to the left its nose and righting struck the ground then it tumbled and exploded according to witnesses. The plane which had completed an afternoon train ing flight was being flown during the approach by a recently hired Pilot who had completed ground school1 and was undertaking his first flight training ride in the final second when the engine failures became apparent the instructor took control in an attempt to pull oat of the problem the transcript showed Michael Boyd 45, who had 3,290 hours flying Lime in the air Force was being coached through an instrument Landing As the cargo plane descended toward the runway. He was having problems with the approach giving the plane too much Power and keeping the nose of the plane first Loo High and then too Low according to the transcript made Public by the Nosb. You want 20 knots not 135," the instructor 47 year old capt. John Parmeter Lold Doyd at one Point. Get Back on that  the plane was within a half minute of touching Down on the runway. Of just set the nose Down  t add any Power. We re just doing Fine right Here. Lust raise the nose a Little bit Parmeter cautioned. But 27 seconds before the crash the first sound of serious problems were recorded. The cockpit recorder picked up a sound similar to a wheel touching Down although the Altitude of the plane at that Point was Clear. Then came rattling and Parmeter look Over control of the plane i got it. I got it the Pilot in command advised As the engine could be heard winding Down what the expletive. We lost an engine Parineler exclaimed. Five seconds later a second engine failed. We lost two said Parmeter. The Pilot tried to Battle the aircraft there were sounds of heavy breathing. Of no. Expletive John Boyd an air Force lieu tenant colonel about to leave the military with expectations of flying for Southern transport was heard to say. Three seconds later there was a sound of Impact. Also killed in he crash were Charles Heber 59, flight Engineer instructor. Kenneth Dostal 55, another former air Force Pilot recently hired by Southern air and undertaking Pilot training and David Meyer who was undergoing training As a flight Engineer. Navy washed millions on project for Seal attack boat audit says Washington a the Pentagon s inspector general has concluded that the Navy through Gross mismanagement wasted $10.7 million trying to build the first of a new class of attack boats for its Seal commandos. We believe this report portrays the Anatomy of a fail ure the inspector general s office concluded in an unusually scalhing4 a Page audit released thursday. In car opinion the momentum of this .-.rogrjm, coupled with the Lack of sound judgment the absence of aggressive contract administration and indifference to obvious program management signals caused the failure of this program the audit said. The audit dated june 1, focuses on what the Navy Calls the swim special warfare Craft medium. As de signed the vessel was to be a fast Low Slung 95-foct-Long attack boat that could Rise up on an air Cushion when needed to ferry special operation forces into combat. The Navy s special operations forces Are known As seals for sea air land commandos. The Navy awarded a design contract for the boat in May 1984 to rim inc. Of National City Calif. The service then awarded a contract for construction of he first boat in november 1984, with a goal of acquiring 19 by the fall of 1990 at an estimated Price of$242 million. According to the audit rim went bankrupt in a gust 1986 without completing the first boat even though it had received s10.7 million in Progress pay ments from the Navy on whal was originally supposed to be a $6 million Job. Moreover that first boat if it had been completed would have been significantly overweight causing the Craft to be unusable the auditors wrote adding those problems developed even though Lite contract specified performance requirements that were less stringent than those originally envisioned by the seals. The Navy has spent si0.7 million for a partially constructed nil which As designed will not performs required he audit said it could Cost Between $5 million and 56 million to Complete the Craft which would be at least 250 percent of the Navy s original Cost  the audit concluded with a Sharp dig at top officials including assistant Navy Secretary Everett a Giitl saying the Navy was blaming the program s failure on the contractor and the ship design rather than its own mismanagement. Blaming the problem on the contractor and the de sign plan is tantamount to proclaiming that the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts the auditors wrote of their findings. The Navy in a written statement thursday said Thad repossessed the partially completed Craft built by rim and asserted in would prove a valuable developmental test and evaluation asset for further exploration of special warfare  . Teen s foot run Over by bus. Heidelberg is a 13-year-old boy was injured Friday by a bus pulling away from the curb at the Patrick Henry Village Middle school a Community spokesman said. Nathan Cook was taken about noon to the army Hospital in Heidelberg where a team of surgeons began reconstruction of his left foot which the bus had run Over said capt. Kenneth Allen of the Community pro Vost marshal s office. Cook is the son of master sgt. Jen and Linda Cook. The  occurred when Helmut Brenner a German Driver employed by the Community motor Pool dropped off students resuming from a school Outing Allen said. Children being released for lunch mistakenly assumed Brenner s bus was a Community shuttle bus and began banging on the door for the Driver to Lei them in Allen said. Brenner got off the bus and told the children that his bus was not the Community shuttle bus said master sgt. Efraim Romero  Community transportation division. Brenner re boarded the bus and began to pull away. As the bus pulled away the child s left foot was pinned under the right rear tire Allen said