European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes g Vessey cites Progress in Mia talks Page 2 d v corps 3rd annual youth entertainment contest Page 16 q cards Clinch tie for no East title sports Page 21 Utmos Kiick unofficial pub cation Fob the us. Wed Force vol. 46. No. 167 Friday october. 19b7 ssib�.is., 0 8693 a quake hits s. California 3 dead scores injured los Angeles api a severe earthquake and 15 major aftershocks jolted the area thursday crack ing buildings and freeways and wiling Oft dozens of fires. At least three people were killed and More than 100 injured. The . Geological Survey in Golden Colo said die quake registered 6.1 on i lie Richter scale making in the strongest tremor to hit the los Angeles area since the 6.4 Sylma quake of 1971 that killed 64 people. The quake was recorded Al 7 42 . Local Lime entered about nine Miles South Southeast of Pasadena at the North end of the while tar Elsinore Faull. Over the next three hours Al least 15 aftershocks measuring 3 or More on the Richler scale followed. Damage appeared to be worst in Whittier the Clos est suburban area 10 the epicentre. Marsha Andersen a spokeswoman for presbyterian inter Community hos Saa quake on Page 28 officials left Survey the destruction and a daily journal employee right conducts business amid he rubble in s office investigating disaster As some teachers go without pay by Dave Walczak education writer the defense department inspector general s office is investigating what one in official called the greatest disaster in Modem history As far As Dodds pay is concerned hundreds of department of defense dependents school employees in Germany went without their first paycheck of the school year and hundreds of others were paid less than they were entitled. Army finance and school officials Dif Fer on the number of people who remain unpaid since the 1987-88 school year began. Estimates Range from 56 to 350. Navy capt. Bill Liege Man director of the defense department in Europe re Gion office in Wiesbaden said thursday he is heading a two stage probe aimed at resolving pay problems before looking into the wider question of who blew this after they re paid by the close of business tomorrow Friday we re going in he looking into Why tins has heroine the greater disaster in mourn history1 As far As Dodds pay is interned Liege Man Saij. The Captain said he would meet with Usa eur finance officials next week to give them Lime to fix the pay prob Lem before fixing he gave no indication when his investigation would be Complete. School principals who visited the army civilian pay operations Center in september said they went away with the impression thai pay problems were solved Only to discover later that they weren t. One High school principal said wednesday he twice brought the Spiik documents to the Center yet Hill Haj it or 1s teachers who have not been paid. I have one teacher who had to sell savings Bonds just to survive he said. He described the army finance Center in Climen Germany As an office 1 would not want to work in. There Are papers stacked up All Over the place and when you ask a question they go from one Slack of papers to another trying to find the document you be asked a school system District official said. There s a perception that the whole sys tem is Bolen. 1 Don t cure who s con car Neil. There s 3 perception Here in the see disaster on Page 26 poll shoves Jackson As demo front runner Page 9
