European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 14, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 Page one and plugs Cut Rote Ollie-grams9 new York a a Irani Page and sunday in the new York times offered inc latest Way to express your opinion on the Iran Contra hearings to inc folks in Washington the Ollie Gram. Actually they re called opinion  explained Warren Bechtel a spokesman for Western Union which is running the service. They re reduced Rale telegrams for messages going 10 Capitol  the Wester Union and in inc lower left hand Cor Ner of Page one reads make your voice heard at the Iran Centra hearings. Call Western  a Telephone number was provided. The and was placed in response to inc overwhelm ing number of telegrams sent last week during lie testimony of Marine la. Col. Oliver North at the hearings Bechtel said. On Friday the number of telegrams and mail Grams sent to Washington hit 50,000, a said. Bathtel recalled thai the company ran a similar and in the times during the lax Reform debates last year when Western Union also used radio ads to promote the service. The reduced Cost of communicating with North or your favorite member of the congressional commit tee quizzing him is $5.95 for 20 words acc Lei said. The regular Cost Tor � 20-word message is s10.95. Retraining available for Laid off autoworkers Detroit a when general motors corp. Closed ils foundry in Pon Tiac last month James fill old was among about 1,200 workers who lost i hair jobs. The Plant closing was no Surprise to he 48-year-old Fifield pm had announced it two years ago. Fifield also knows that More layoffs Are coming and he probably will never hold another pm Job. However unlike the thousands of autoworkers who left shuttered factories in the Tate 1970s and Early 1980s to search in vain Tor Industrial work in the South and West Fifield expects to be retrained for a new line of work Here. The fruitless exodus and eventual re turn of Many workers taught the United Auto workers Union a bitter lesson preparation for layoffs must include local Job training and placement. The biggest problem is that some of them Lili Don t believe that this is a per manent Layoff. They feel that they re still going Back to work for general motors sometime in the future said Russ Bressman a Union official who organized a recent recruiting exhibition for Laid off Pontiac workers. Others Are More realistic. They see that the Pontiac foundry is closed there is no smoke coming out of the smoke stacks anymore he said. They Are starting to realize that if i Jon i get training it will be a Long Long time be fore 1 go Back.1" Fifield is among More than 30,000 pm workers who Are expected to lose their jobs in Plant closings by 1990 but can receive training under programs the Union won in contract negotiations with automakers in 1982 and 1984. Workers also ran be matched with in pm Plant closings number of employees affected by location Chicago tit Jne mop source lenoral motors corp. Mediate jobs in their areas under a pro Gram that leaches about interview. Ant1 resumes. But Fifield accustomed to earning $16 an hour was t interested in work that paid $5 or $6. I want to gel into something differ ent something that will be Good until i retire Fifield a millwright said at the exhibition at the Law pm human re source Center in Auburn Hills. Fifield also said he wants a Job that will let him stay in Rochester Hills where he has lived through 24 Yean and two jobs 21 years at a Drill company and three years . The recruiting exhibition displayed 23 training programs ranging from a Tew weeks to several months for jobs from Detroit police officer to travel agent. Al though Many jobs started around s5-s6 an hour recruiters said earnings would increase. Unemployment compensation and additional benefits for Laid off workers with Low seniority last As Short a period As sin months but an employee who has worked for a year for pm is eligible for retraining and can get some form of Liv ing expense assistance when benefits run out. The Law pm program uses Only training companies that Promise to find jobs for at least so percent of the workers who take their courses the companies Aren t paid until they fulfil that Promise. Paul Mitchell a Recruiter for Ross Ca reer schools cited one rapidly growing Field Independent medical insurance Bil Ling services. Many doctors Are going to computerized systems. Some services even handle All doctors1 accounting said Mitchell. Mitchell said his 10-week course lets students study in the morning and work in the afternoon. Most other courses such As travel Agency hotel and Motel management Quality control and Healing and air conditioning require full time study. Tuition for both Active and Laid off workers is paid through a fund negotiated in 1982. Pm pays the fund five cents per hour worked by each employee each year plus so cents for each Over time hour that exceeds s percent of a Normal week. Local unions run additional programs out of a separate fund which pm pro Vides at 10 cents an hour. Beside helping displaced workers the overtime fee is intended to discourage an automaker from ordering too much Over time instead of hiring More workers. Ford motor co s contract includes similar provisions. According to inc Union pm had paid oui j3i million in training benefits for 100,000 Active workers by the end of 1986 in addition 19,000 of 20,000 workers Laid off in 1986 went through some form of training last year according to Ward s Auto motive yearbook the number of hourly workers employed at pm declined More than 30,000, from 441,800 at the end of 1985 to 410,000 at the end of 1986. Missing Marine s wife says Bones not husband s fort Worth Texas up the wife of a Marine officer shot Down 20 years ago in North Vietnam will return what she was told were the Bones of her husband saying she has proof they could not be his remains. Kathryn fanning told the fort Worth Star Telegram she believes her husband maj Hugh Michael fanning is alive and that examinations by two Board certified anthropologists have convinced her the Bones in her Possession arc those of another Man. The remains identified As fanning were resumed to the United slates in 1984. Kathryn fanning 44, had the Bones buried in an unopened casket. Fanning said she plans to give the Bones Back to the government this week at the Laboratory of anthropologist Michael Charney at Colorado stale University in broadcast Pioneer a Stead Dies at 84 los Angeles a William s. Haj Siead an electronics innovator and broadcast Pioneer has died of pneumonia in suburban Woodland Hills. He was 84. His development of multiplex was credited with leading to stereophonic Broad Outing for which he received the society of motion pictures and television Engineer award. In 1940, he installed the first High Way advisory radio system which could be received by cars on the George Washington Bridge Between new York and new Jersey. Fort Collins Colo. I grieved Over Bones that were not my husband s and buried them with great tenderness said fanning a former fort Worth resident who now lives in okla homa City. Fanning s husband was 26 when he was sent to Viet Nam. He was shot Down Over North Vietnam on Pel. 31, 1967, in an a-6 intruder. He was listed As missing in action and inc government declared him dead in August i9s4. It i Jok a Load off my mind fanning said. At last. I could accept the death of my husband and the father of my three children. Fanning however later questioned the military s identification of the Bones. She had the remains exhumed in i9s5 and taken to the Oklahoma slate medi Cal examiner s Laboratory in Oklahoma City. Two Board certified anthropologists at Colorado stale University said the size of the Bones and other factors showed the Bones could not be those of Hugh fanning. The military lied to me Kathryn fanning said. I went through bloody hell with grief when our govern ment through the . Marine corps told me they had identified Bones of my  after the remains were re examined a department of defense Board met to reconsider the Case on May 19. Defense department spokesman la cot. Keith p. Schneider told the Star Telegram the Board found insufficient evidence to support the original identification As fanning and asked for further study. Fanning said she believes her husband and other Viet Nam veterans Are still alive in Vietnam. All five aboard killed in plane crash new Brighton Minn. A a seaplane taking off from a Lake crashed sunday when a wingtip struck the water killing All five people aboard authorities said. Killed in the crash on Long Lake were the Pilot Herman Behrens 73 Coon rapids residents Francis Leahan 31 his two children Kelly. 3, and Ryan 6 and his Girlfriend Amy Westlund 27, ram sey county Deputy sheriff Darwin my vary said. The crash occurred sunday when Beh rens banked the plane shortly after take off at about 9 50 . And one of the wings caught the water Mcvary said. The plane flipped upside Down Leav ing Only ils pontoons above water Wanda Wolf a Lakeside resident said. For a reason cd undetermined the Ai Crad pitched nose up and then nose Down and then went into the water said William Bruce an air safety investigator with the National transportation safely Board in Chicago. Now we have to find out  the Federal aviation administration also is investigating but Faa officials said in would be several Days before they know what caused the crash. Sch runs lived on Long Lake where he Kepi inc seaplane and frequency took guests on pleasure nights Wolf said. Several Lakeside residents who saw the act Idem tried 10 Rescue the victims but it look More than an hour to free Ihm