European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. March 30. 198s the stars and stripes Page 9 capturing the spotlight atm Len at the australian Dalmatian sub unleash their love fur Ihrer try Ltd amines by Westing Apptt or titty  to shirt Ai if Sydney open House. Group number Narf heir drugs last Welt a in not Jne the dry s Vitae roadshow production of Wall Disney s Infa led Mitnit "101  foreign visitors boosting tourism at Florida Sites Miami a foreign visitors attracted by the weak Dollar arc producing double digit increases at Sou i  for the first Lime in Yean. It s like a language school outside my office said Michael Finley superintendent of Everglades National Park when aide dance ii up 41 percent Over ism season. I m hearing French Gorman.   lion country safari he Palm Beach county big tame preserve and Arnus Mcm Park shows St is percent boost Over last year. We were so Busy Over if Washington s birthday week end i stood out All afternoon directing traffic said lion country marketing director Brian of bomb. Ocean world when fort Licud Craic visitors can Pel dolphins and watch Sharks feed reports 18 percent More visitors this season. South Florida tourist officials arc unable to estimate the number of foreign tourists bin International traffic a Miami International Airport was up 9 percent in january compared to the same month task year. We re something different than they be got Back Home in Europe and Japan said Jerome Scherr president of Miami s Parrot Jungle where attendance was up i & percent from january to january. We re subtropical Palm Trees and Glamour. Nigel and Rosy Collins of London visited Miami s sea aquarium. Everything is so warm so clean so new. So cheap Collin said. The couple expected their Wellong trip la South Florida and Orlando to Cost almost half of what they would have paid two Yean ago became of the Dollar s decline against foreign currencies. Of Wing cleans up its runways and its record by Deedee akk1ncton Dok Ekit or Tau in Bureau we Brocken a. West Germany for improving i record of foreign object damage in air Uriel t from a dismal five chargeable instances in fiscal 1986 to none in 1b�1. The 2&lh tsp re conning has been Ionuti d at most improved by usai1 in j 17ih air Force each Honor Carrus a 520,000 prize which will be used fur is Cyl uni Denti f cd Community programs at inc base  dramatic turnaround from its 19 16 status is die Wing with the wont foreign of Liivi la Mac record in Safe Contrail  in 1987 to increased fur Eien object damage throughout usal i the air Force defines foreign object damage As damage caused to aircraft engines by. For example the inc lion of Loose hardware the jamming of flight controls by hardware or left behind tools or damage to ires by object on the ramp or runway. At we Isbrul Ken a construction de Bris from building projects also constitutes a foreign object damage risk. Add ing to the Challenge of creating a foreign of Eccl free environment arc the cars an trucks Iii Ding the taxiways it s a problem you never solve said col. Jim Young Deputy commander i the 26th tac recon Wing. It s like Cut Ting grass. It s always going to be  in i486,  s five charge Able instances of damage meaning incidents that individually amounted in More than s3,000 totalled $119,800. Last year foreign object damage in stances reported were non chargeable and Cost 54.51. Thai comr iils with 1987 Safe to tals when reported foreign object dam age Hil $768.135, up from j41-1,172 in 1986. The primary reasons for add Are pour housekeeping ind work habits said  m. Mineau director of Safe aerospace maintenance in a written response to a stars and stripes query. In terms of numbers of incidences and damage value the Safe foreign object damage program usually docs slightly belter than the other major Corn total value of foreign object damage an  the highest value of damage for on instance in 1987 was More than $42,000. The lowest was $14. Most foreign object damage is caused by Iclal objects Suchias nuts baits and screws. The most rare is personal items Mineau said such at  credit for Owci Bruckn s improvements is going to a turnover in v ii at a St Ppd up emphasis on Preven Tion and increased base awareness of the  for damage. Regular meetings of a base Fod squad incentive awards for individuals who collect significant amounts of for eign objects and turn them in More emphasis on publicity self Insp cimons and regular walks to collect foreign object i torts arc among the tools that Wei Biuzek. In has employed to improve ils record. We knew we had a Chance at winning last year because we had a bad record the year  said sgt. Charles mag Wood 1987 Wing foreign object damage Monitor. A graphic illustration of the Radical improvements made at  a provided by Cape. Ord Stuter Airfield manager. In the fall of 1986, shortly Alicr studier arrived a i a ton truck was called out to transport litter found on the Field the truck had la be filled twice to re move i All Stuter said. The first monthly inspection i did inc report  two pages Long studier a did now it s half a  according to Safe record seven chargeable instances of foreign object damage involving five units have occurred so far during fiscal 1988. The reconnaissance Wing at Owci Bruckn is one of a few that have a perfect record to Dale. New Battle raging Over civil War Battle Sites state College. I a. Iarj More than a Cen Tury after Union and Confederate soldiers spilled blood Over stretches of land from Pennsylvania to Vir Ginia a group is Faatili no developers for the real estate. The association for she preservation of civil War Sites was organised last summer to buy land or development rights of battlefields unprotected by the National Park service or other organizations. All of us have so arched Over he past couple of years As a re Mendat amount of historic ground Hill disappeared said Gary w. Gallagher a Penn slate University history professor who is president of the organization. If something in i done in the nest five years it la be too late he said. Gallagher said the organization has 500 members and has raised More than 110.000, Trie organization received tax enemy a status last month and plans to begin soliciting members this Spring be Laid. Urban up nil from the civil War capitals of want Kirklon and Richmond. Va., has engulfed Many Battle held and threatens others. A targe mall 1m been planned for an important part of the Manassas Battlefield in Northern Virginia where the second Battle of Bull run was fought Annie Snyder who lives on a Iso acre farm Adja cent to the Battlefield earlier this year organized a group called save the Battlefield coalition to fight the mall. Also five parcels of land on the Cedar Creek Battle Field near Winchester a arc for Sale. One of the Cedar Creek Sites has already been targeted 01 a Light Industrial Park and in will be a Light Industrial Park unless someone buys thai ground be fore the end of the fat he said. Many of the former Bailly Fields Are farm or pasture land. Encroaching development has railed real staid prices and Lavict according to Gallagher it s difficult to go to a landowner who Bain l been Able 10 nuke it a a Farmer and in just been offered $2 million for hit land. How do you convince thai person not to Lake the s2 million and run he said Gallagher Sard the formation of the group was prompted last summer by developers who slipped Bull dozers onto Northern Virginia s Chantilly Battlefield in the Middle of the night. Initially the developers had agreed to delay any excavation unlit historical surveying could be con ducted according to Gallagher. Only five acres were preserved to commemorate the Battle he said. The National Park service owns and maintains Sev eral civil War battlefields including Sites in Gettys Burg anti Clam Manassas. Fred Krimburg a Poma Tot and Richmond. Many others remain unprotected Gallagher said. Among them Are Sites in the Shenandoah Valley where Confederate Gen. Thomas Jonathan Sione Wall Jackson staged his i�62 Campaign and at Brandy station in North Central Virginia the site of the largest cavalry Battle in the Western hemisphere. Gallagher said. Gallagher said the organization plans to buy land or  rights and Lum the property Over to his Lorient societies or government organizations to Man Page. We re not talking about buying thousands an thousands of acres. We know some growth is inevitable. We just think there has to be some balance be tween growth and preserving a part of our past he said