European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday August 31,1987 news updates soviet satellite Moscow up the Sovil Union has launched another in Lon research satellite 10 replace Cosmos 187i, which failed to reach i 5 desired orbit and fell Back to Earth scattering debris Over the South Pacific Ocean in a rare Public failure of the Sovil space program. Cosmos 1871 plunged harm testily into the Ocean aug. 10. The official Tass news Agency said Cosmos 1873 was launched from soviet Central Asia and car Ries scientific equipment which is designed to carry on space re  torching attack new York api Threet a Agar charged with torching a sleeping homeless couple in a Brooklyn Park told detectives they liked to hassle the bums and a fourth suspect has been arrested police said. Sean Sullivan 17 James my dorm Oil in and Louis palanca,17, were arrested and charged  the attempted murder in the attack said police spokesman sgt. Peter Sweeney. The fourth suspect Steven Losco 18, turned himself into police according to police spokes Man detective Joseph Mccon Ville. The four poured gasoline Over Jerry Crayson 25, and Bernadette Crowley 26, set the couple afire and red Mcconville said. Gray ton was treated for Burns and re leased Al the new York Hospital Coraell medical Center bum , who was burned on about 7 percent of her body was listed in stable condition. Hospital killings Cincinnati a the administrator of a Hospital where a nurse s aide admitted killing 21 patients has said the Hospital doubts the confession in at Lea Stone of those killings. The nurse s aide Donald har vey claimed to have helped the patient in question drink Orange mice laced with cyanide. But Jan Taylor administrator of Drake memorial Hospital said medical records show that patient was co Matose. Comatose patients Don t drink said Taylor. Temperatures 7? h Andul 55 to donw 70 ia2luvglu h Lang thai 7t by unl40 74 Mpli-5t pm 73 h european weather it Nam by and in mine in. In fun Wnm Uttah a on a trait i it Gnu Tumpf e menu a u mow. A qua. A my Toto met f Vincow. 0 unleaded fuel sales doubled Over past year cafes reports Mil Tel. My 7-Ofl. Kwi u 39 ouf loot w 4m 4pm no a 70 41 cop a flin. M so m 40 f Tunkl to. P h 73 Sussi g Toffi my Issca a u umdi.1 � n Nign Immel. M my pm. 1 u n 70 pm. I h h by.  in m it � by Charlie Bowden Munich Burein Munich while Overall Gaj and diesel fuel sales remained relatively unchanged Over the past year the percent age of cafes Europe customers buying unleaded fuel More than doubled. We started off the year last septem Ber with unleaded fuel accounting for about 6 percent of our total sales said Walter Kania chief of cafes Europe s automotive Branch. Through july he said that figure has risen to about 17 percent of total fuel sales. Overall the Exchange sold about 52million Gallons of Gas and diesel fuel this year relatively stable from the previous year. Actually i m surprised in has t dropped because the cars Are getting bet Ter mileage now he said. Exchange officials predicted last year that the sates of unleaded fuels would increase significantly As they became More readily available in Europe. That proved True. While leaded super gasoline continues to be the sales Leader for Exchange customers its volume dropped dramatically Kania said. Last year leaded super accounted for about 80 percent of total Exchange fuel sales but dropped to about 65 percent this year. Availability has been the key Factor in the increase in unleaded sales he said. Of Esso s 2,000 stations in Germany about 75 percent now offer at cast one Type of unleaded fuel. Exchanges will continue to sell leaded regular coupons until thai Grade of Gas is no longer available Kama said. Ger Many this year began phasing out production of leaded regular Gas for environmental reasons. It should be discontinued entirely by january Kama said and customer can then get a re fund for their unused coupons. Many of the Exchange s Gas stations this fall have converted from stocking Normal leaded to unleaded super including All three of the cafes autobahn stations. Cafes Europe this week began ils an Nual conversion to a new series of fuel coupons in Germany and the nether lands an exercise designed to protect against theft and Black marketing of the coupons. The coupons also allow Exchange officials to track consumer trends. Customer can use the current coupons through sept. 30 and Tan re deem them until sept. 30,1988. Customer use of Exchange fuel Cou Pons which arc treated As Cash has been a problem during the past year possibly because of the increased number of fuel products offered Kania said. Esso the Exchange s contractor for fuel has Noti fied Exchange officials that some custom ers Are attempting to use one Type of Cou Pon to pay for a different Type of fuel. It s a customs violation to redeem the Coupon for a Grade of Gas other than what the Coupon was sold for Kania said. As a result cafes Europe is Post ing notices at All Coupon setting Points reminding customers of the Rule concerning the Purchase of tax free fuel some of the violations include using coupons to buy fuel for someone else s car. Using an invalid vehicle registration certificate. Making transactions involving the Sale Transfer donation or loan or Cou Pons using coupons at an unauthorized commercial station or in a country where the coupons Are not valid. Using expired coupons. Safety rap dress stressed during deployment phase of reformer 87 by Mark Walsh stiff writer co Vorden. Netherlands in the nerve wracking first Days of moving combat equipment into Germany during reformer "87, a Captain sarcastically muttered lots of  inside the Headquarters for the com Bat equipment in Northwest phones rang sunday in a tense atmosphere of tracking troop and unit arrivals at Sci Phol Airport in Amsterdam four hours away. On the Tarmac of a warehouse near the Headquarters an no briefs safety to the vehicle Drivers. They show signs of fatigue. You re Lucky Sec. Isom Brown tells them to suss the Sun is  the soldiers members of Btry a 461st air defense arty fort Carson,colo., Are at the 20th combat equip ment co. The Kwh is one of four Jisc positioned equipment storage Sites in the Netherlands. At the co Vorden facility $400 million Worth of vehicles tanks and support equipment make up the inventory for the 1987 return of forces to Germany. During reformer s deployment phase the combat equipment companies Issue equipment As safely and rapidly As Possi ble. They draw he equipment from preposition of Materiel configured to unit sets Pom us Sites. Pom us items Are maintained at the highest level of combat readiness for rapid Issue to soldiers. It lakes place around the clock during peacetime exercises and if wartime situations arise. Capt. Linda Truax commander of the equipment Complex is responsible for accountability and Issue of the inventory but said she does t worry it s All signed out she said meaning that everything from ration in a Ivi Lon truck is logged from the facility on a hand receipt. The army recently adopted a program known As the in warehouse fueling sys tem one of the Many changes in army procedure that saves time and Effort. She explained Teal distil pow Ford vehicles arc now Able to be fuelled while stored i humidity controlled warehouses. Before trucks had to be Lowed from the facility. It would normally like four hours to empty a company of diesel vehicles she said. This morning we had a company of diesel vehicles out in one and a half  Whereat inside fueling applies Only to diesel vehicles others must be pushed or towed from the facility. A sergeant from fort Carson who bad been awake 48 hours began pushing the first jeep outside. Sure i m tired sgt. Dennis Newman said. He had been dismissed from forma Tion Only 15 minutes before. But we be got to get this stuff done and on the  Newman anticipated being up seven or eight More hours before finally getting some rest. Reformer 87 is the largest such exer Cise to Date both in terms of Soldier and equipment. This year 5, is i wheeled vehicles and 1,351 tanks armoured person Nel carriers and recovery vehicles will be issued from eight storage Sites in Ger Many and the Netherlands. Other equip Nea will Tohaji fits the United state As part of a massive sea lilt the Eitnie is scheduled to last until sell 12. When Truax was asked  Long would it take in a real War to Issue equip ment she said i Hope we never have to find out 5uum term or. A Only to vhf. A Moth Clau Burma shave act turns Back clock san Francisco a Bertram Minkin knows. That where. He goes. Nostalgia always. Seems to now. Burma shave. On saturday Minkin opened a stage show featuring Hii memorized collection of All 600 rhymes used by Burma shave on Roadside signs of yesteryear. Minkin brings his Burma shave Man show to the museum of Modem mythology a 5-year-old institution that houses example of such Advertis ing giants As snap crackle and pop Buster Brown and his dog Tige and the Jolly Green giant playing the fictional Burma shave Man Minkin tells of his life As an and Vance Man for the Burma Vita co., recounting such Tough tasks As talking Farmers into telling the company use prime stretches of land for its signs. Those signs say a lot about the America of  he says. You read these signs and it s easy to imagine the family out on the Road the kids beg Ging dad to drive faster faster so they can read the next  Minkin invite the audience to re cite Ribeir favorite sign jingles. One of his favourites comes from a woman in her 80s past. Schoolhouses. Lake it slow. Let the Little. Shaven grow Burma  Minkin said that each year the Burma Vila co. Would sponsor con test in which $100 was paid for every Jingle used from the mid-1920s to the Early i960, 7,000 sets of signs pushed the Slick shaving Cream. As an indication of the signs importance in the annals of americana be smithsonian displays this set in this Vale. Of toil. And in. Your head goes Bald. But not your Chin.