European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 1938 the stars and stripes Page 9 ruling could Benefit Dodds teachers Flora Grants housing benefits to 2 by Imok Walczak education writer a caches Union Hopes that a Federal labor relations authority decision will translate into travel Anil housing benefits for some longtime teachers hired locally by the military overseas school system. Ron Austin general counsel for the overseas education association in Washington . Said thursday thai the decision will help end a longstanding inequity in Hon Caus paid to teachers working for the department of defense dependents schools. The Jon. 29 decision upheld a ruling by Federal arbitrator Charles Bracken in which he said that iwo teachers were entitled to the benefits after being Irani furred from Germany to Pacific Region schools. Dodds officials had appealed Bracken s ruling to the Flora. Austin said inc Union has proposed to the school system thai in Grant the Here its to All locally hired teachers who have transferred to other than their originally assigned school. He estimated that the proposal would Talca no More than 50 these arc not your everyday local Austin said. These Are teacher who have stayed with he school system and not gone Back to the suites with their spouses after three or four years. These arc teachers that Are naked to the world As far As benefits arc Eon Austin estimated that 40 percent of the school system s 9,600 teachers Are locally hired. A Dodds spokesman said thursday that the school system had just received copies of the Flora decision and had no immediate comment. Austin said the Flora ruling does not necessarily have broader interpretations but that the Union will pursue widening the decision if Dodds tries to limit the benefits to Only the two teach ers who filed the original grievance through the sea. The onion will not seek retroactive allowances for the teachers unless the school system limits the changes to the two teachers. We Hope that Dodds will accept our proposal because going Back through personnel records for All those years would be a burdensome problem for everybody Austin sea originally filed a grievance on behalf of Mary Owen and Lora Dorcy. Who began working for the school system in Germany in i96� and 1974. Respectively. Since they were hired locally neither was eligible for travel and housing benefits paid to stateside hired transferred to Okinawa in 1982 and Dorcy to Korea in 1985 under the school system s Transfer program. In his ruling. Brocket cited inc Dodds trans Fer program in part As reason for granting the benefits arguing in effect that the teachers moves were management initiated. Maps note increase in smuggling through mail Mannheim Germany Sis smuggling agricultural products in stateside bound mail from Europe has increased in the pan several Morichs. And violators could fare stiff fines n military customs spokesman said Friday. At a minimum violators May have to pay a j500administrative Fine from inc department of agric i lure for failing to declare the item. Said staff sol. Murk Bloom of the 43nd military police group customs. Additional punitive actions Are usually determined by the Scricc member s commander he said. Because of diseases or pests that could by carried inside some products certain food items Are prohibited from entry into the United states. Attempting u sneak them into the country is a intercepted packages mailed by Scricc members contained meal products. Any Type of fresh meat including popular German sausages is prohibited Tram entry into the United Stales Bloom said. In the acc Cal cases the customs declaration forms attached to the intercepted boxes were falsified an act which constitutes smuggling. Bloom said Bloom said his unit did not have exact figures on the number of costs but he speculated that the figure was High. The department of agriculture alerts an overseas customs Agency Only when a Large number of intercepted packages originate from one area he said. Polygamist Don Leader pleads innocent in Chapel bombing Case Salt Lake City api Addam Swapp. Who led a polygamist clan s i May standoff with authorities pleaded innocent thursday to Federal charges Stem Ming from the bombing of a mormon Chapel. Swapp s appearance in Federal court came just hours after he was released from a Hospital where he military Roundup sex billiards Champ reclaims Safe title Torrejon a Spain three time Safe billiards Champion chief master Tolis regained his title by defeating an army staff sergeant a base spokesman said. Tolis of inc 81st tac fighter Wing at Raf Benl Wolers. England Defeated Stan sol. John Moore of the . Army nato Del in Izmir. Turkey 150-1-to sunday. Tolis held inc Safe title in 1979. 1980 and i9s1. Moore lost to Tolis 100-81 in a semifinal round then Defeated Mai. Bill Whiston of the 48lh tac Fighier Wing. Raf . Eng land in the losers bracket to face Tolis again Lor inc championship. Twelve players from throughout Europe competed in inc much held at Torr Jon a. The army held no european billiards championship this Jear. So Moore was allowed to com Pete in the air Force tournament. Staff sgt. Roger Hooker of Del 11, 7200lh management Engineer so. At Simbach a Ger Many had the tournament s High run with 81 straight balls. Stamp and Coin club to meet in Heidelberg Heidelberg the Heidelberg stamp and Coin club will hold a show from 9 . To 5p.m. Sunday in the Middle school gym in Patrick Henry Village. Vendors from 50 countries will be at the Thow and visitors will be Able to buy sell and Swap coins and Stamps with others from All Over Europe. Spent a week recuperating from Bullet wounds suffered in the Climax of the standoff. Authorities said members of the clan opened fire on officers killing i. Fred House of the state department of correction. The five other adult members of the clan including matriarch Vickie Singer. Swapp s Mother in Law were arraigned Jan. 28. All but Swapp s wives Heidi and Charlotte were denied release 10 Federal Halfway houses during detention hearings this week. The 27-year-old Swapp closely watched . Magis trate Ronald n. Boyce As the judge read from a grand jury s four count indictment charging Swapp with pos session of a destructive device use of a destructive device aiding and abetting and assault on a Federal officer. He pleaded innocent and a detention hearing was set for feb. Ii. Vickie Singer faces charges identical to Swapp s. While her daughters son John Timothy Singer and Swapp s brother. Jonathan were charged with one count Cash of being an accessory after the fact. John Timothy Singer left paralysed from the Waist Down by a logging Accident three years ago Isa suspect in the shooting of House and the state was exp iced to file a homicide charge by week s end authorities Laid. A nun who identified himself As Swapp phoned a television station a Day after the Jan. 16 bombing of the Kamas stake Center claiming responsibility for the explosion which he said was revenge for the shoot ing by Law enforcement officers nine years ago of the clan l patriarch John Singer. Authorities acknowledged wednesday that two at tack dogs were used to try 10 capture Addam and Jona than Swapp As they attempted to silence a pair of police loudspeakers hours before the shootout. The plan ran awry much the same Way it did later thai same miming said Tom Wii Man agent in charge of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and fire arms in Salt Lake City. The swaps saw the dogs charging and tired a shot at them just As the falling speakers detonated a harmless flush bang explosive buried in the ground. A few hours later. House released a third attack dog ii the Swapp Brothers As they ventured outside the main family Cabin to a Goat pen. The dog hesitated and House was felled by a sniper s Bullet As he stepped into inc open to coax the animal on. Unclaimed baggage Offenbach Germany warehouse personnel arc trying to locale service members and civilians in Europe who have nil claimed their unaccompanied baggage according to a v corps left unclaimed alter 300 Days is subject to in postal she following persons should Contact the Offenbach warehouse Ito Box 44. Frankfurt Mil itary Community. Apo 09710, or Call Frankfurt ets 320-5008 or 7309. The Fath Bomi do
