European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes thursday july 2.1987 Ford subpoenaed St. Louj5 a the stale of Missouri has ordered Ford motor co. To produce copies of complaints thai the company hat received concerning fires and explosions in ambulances Huili on Ford Chassis. An administrative subpoena or Den Ford to produce by july 6 in formation that it has received about ambulance built Between 1982 and 1987. To Niper Puirtt s Riihl Luji a . Cloudy tue a a Miro. P nutty it � a sett n s if Fife 3 k Bwl a 71 71 Iva. P v 1rmmwn, p h 79 a. P a a Annh. P 1 How � to it Mannheim go injured in Stuttgart collusion Stuttgart s4s /97th signal in Soldier injured Money in a traffic Accident involving a Sitf Elcar and an arty vehicle remaine under Obser vation wednesday at it army Hospital in bad Canstatt. / spec. 4 Emma . 27. Of the battalion s to co f Mannheim was a passenger in Ine airy commercial Utility cargo vehicle Hen the Accident occurred at 945 Afi. On Stuttman s neck Artl Rasse a crafting to Vii corps spokesman la Joel. Wiliiam Mulvey. Stuttgart police spokesman Juesgen Blatten said me Driver a 22-year-old sol Dier apparently was trying to make an illegal Kofl Lum off Ahe Busy Multi Lane Street the ouse col tuition occurred. Mulvey did nol identify the Driver but said he escaped injury. Blattert said no one was injured on the Streetcar a Driver training vehicle that was nearly empty. The crash caused about $22,000 damage to the two vehicles he said. Army suicide prevention Kiblan will include on base to car forces by Chuck Vinci Washington Barri Washington army affix gals Bope to prevent some suicides and improve the Way they gather  on. Suicides with a set or guidelines thai will be adopted by All installations. The guidelines to be released in a gust direct every Post to set up a suicide prevention Lask twee that will develop plan filling the needs of each Post said an official with the army Community and family support Center. The task Force also would Monitor All suicide prevention activities. An optional part of the program Calls for the formation or a risk management learn designed to Deal with the aftermath of a suicide and prevention of copycat deaths. The suicide rate among soldiers held steady from 1980 to 1984 at about 84 per year or 11.2 per 100,000. Bui in 1985 that jumped la 116, or 14.9 per 100,000, and held at that Pace through most of 1986, he official said. But some officials question the nun bars. It May be that the increased leg Phasis Given to suicide prevention by inc military has made in easier for some peo a pie to report suicides he said. The number Are not flu Tuhari wildly and the data Lead me to is hat now we re gelling True Nuj whereas suicides May have Beer do arc ported in the past he said. While the army suicide to fac has in creased the Overall a Jay rate has dropped slightly from of per 100,000 in 19b2, to about ice per 100,000 last year. The general of suicide rate is 12 per 100,000. Misiur and civilian officials estimate inv for every suicide there Are 100  attempts. Although ten has been Only one teen suicide Amajak army family members in the past the new guidelines reflect concer nver the rising suicide Rale a users in the civilian sector of the objective of the plan Are Iglo identify situations that could o suicide developing ways id re ice the stress associated with those silk Lions and gathering More information on civilian suicides. Family and marital problems Are by inc most common Ragoni for Soldier. Suicides the official said. Legal problem and Job related tints arc factors in a Small number of suicides. Bui More than half have no Discerni ble cause. Neither the army nor the civilian communities know exactly what causes mime people to commit suicide the official said hopefully the army s new program will help reduce High risk Situa  the other services Are working on Sim Ilar guidelines. The Navy has b proposed suicide prevention program that is being staffed an has been developing local suicide prevention programs for some Lime a Navy official said. Our family service centers Are already doing quite a bit in thai area especially with teens she said adding dial the Initia Tive being staffed will coordinate thine efforts service wide. The guidelines Are expected to be published this fall a spokeswoman Tor the air Faroe sur Geon general s office said officials devel Oping the air Force s suicide prevention guidelines were unavailable for com menu Bill prepared to limit hard Cash pay of . Serv remembers in War zones Washington too much hard american Cash Invar zones would create dangerous Silva Juns that the depart ment of defer says can be avoided with help the Ano Feiling on behalf the de sense def tent recently submitted draft legs lion to Congress that would permit f secretaries of the individual server vol limit the amount of Money paid restly to service members in com bal rations overseas. Intention ofter proposed Law is to the amount of . Currency in r overseas during Lime of War posit cities or National emergency. In combat a Soldier has Little need far Large Mai of Cash and he would have the practical problem at How to safeguard his Money Wayne e. Grant acting assistant Secretary of the army for finance wrote in a letter id House speaker James Wright . Large sums of Money in circulation in a combat area could cause disciplinary problems such As gambling theft and Black Market a Tiv new in addition to these problems if the combat area were in a Lew developed country a Large influx of . Dollars could Lead to economic chaos Grant said. Transporting the Money to the combat areas also creates hazards. Grant said payroll for an army overseas can weigh More than 100,000 pounds and its delivery would involve aircraft vehicles personnel and supplies which could be bet Ter used to ship Materiel needed in combat the proposed legislation would permit the service seckary 10 decide How much Money should be paid directly to service members in a hostile area with the remainder either held or paid to a designated person. Or no Laid such a la would Hurve Ibe dual Benefit of protecting a service member s pay while he is in the combat area and relieving the armed forces of a costly and difficult responsibility to jul they can concentrate on the acc earful completion of military operation Over seas. While no congressional action has begun on the proposal to Date compensation officials Wen confident the plan would become Law. It won t Cost any additional Money from the budget noted one official. 2 Hurt in training area blast moved to . By the Sou Ltd Soiett Frankfurt two More Soldier injured in sunday s explosion at the Hohenfelt training area were transferred wednesday to military hospitals in the United states. Three of the 12 injured when the m 180 entering device accidentally exploded during routine training arc no in the United Stales memorial services for the three i Ith Arrond Cav regt soldiers killed in the blast will be held this morning at the training area. Spec. 4 Joseph j. Mayo 24, of Eric. Pa., was transferred to Waller Reed army medical Center in Washington where pfc. Joseph d. Boles 19, offal ton Ohio also is undergoing treatment pfc. Tadaji Garcua Rosas. 23, of Bay , Texas was transported to Brooke army medical Center in san Antonio Texas. Conditions of several other Soldkin were upgraded wednesday v corps said. Sol. Victor m. Wynot pfc. Richard h. Deisher or. And spec. 4 Kempers Lus Nake were in Good condition and making satisfactory Progress in land Tull army regional medical Center. Sol. Rudolpho Navor was in stable condition in a Nuernberg civilian Hospi Tal and spec. 4 David Siler was in satisfactory condition at tit Frankfurt array regional medical Center. Pvt. I John . Santos remained in stable condition in the University clinic Ert Angen. Remaining in very serious but liable comic tuition in the Nuernberg a my hoi Plaj were pfc. Kevin j. Campbell pfc. Stacey s. Valencia and stats go Bryan d. Occum. A v corps spokesman declined to Dis close the nature of the injuries. The injuries arc consistent with Waal you would expect from an explosion maj Kim Hunt said. Two members of the army s safely Center staff from fort Rucker ala., Are investigating the Accident thai lulled staff sol. Joseph l Dewease sol Joseph m. To Tebaldi and spec. 4 a cite Laroie. 2 Grafe Woehr blast victims still hospitalized Frankfurt Sas two Ord army div soldiers remain in non life threatening condition More than a month after receiving injuries in a Cira Fen Woehr training Accident that killed one Soldier and injured three others a division spokesman said wednesday. Spec. 4 Carl l Milan 30, was killed May 29 when a 4.2 Inch mortar round exposed inside the tube maj. Triad Evans Laid. The Marianna Ark. Of Der was assigned Lohu co. 1st in 3ilh inf. In Friedberg. Milan was pronounced dead at the Grafe Woehr dispensary. Evans declined to release the names of the injured two of whom were flown from the Nuernberg Aimy Hospital to stateside hospitals on june s. One Soldier ii at Fitz Timoni army medical Center. Denver Colo Tod Ibe other is at the san Diego naval medical Center Calif. Two of the injured were released on convalescent leave and one has returned to duly Evans said. Milan is survived by his Mother. Pear Franklin