European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday May 12,1988 thanks to army ailing 4-year-o/d is a general fort ind1antown Gap a. A Given the Chance to be anything they walled tar a Day Many kids might choose 1o become president of the United Stales an astronaut Ora performer. But not 4.ycar-old Jamie Dayhoff who was recently Given such an Opportunity by dream come True an Oreana Javion that gives seriously and Ter Minally ill children trips Girts and celebrity visits. Jamie who has Lymphatic cancer always said he wanted to be a Soldier so when army recruit l is commissioned him d one Star general Mon Day he was ready he stood tall As he was outfitted in a tailored badge dress uniform Cap general s Star a com Bat infantry badge and dog lags. Doggie tags Woof Woof Jamie said As the id lags were slipped Over his head. Woo they re  he swore to support the Constitution. Against All enemies and saluted la. Col. Robert Thorlakson commander of the Harrisburg in . Army recruiting come. I m Here to be a general a i Joe a Good Guy Jamie said before asking Thorlakson s advice on what orders to give his soldiers. Tell them to stand straight March Good run fast and be Good boys Thorlakson said. Crashes prompt Navy probe of a-6e Jet training program Seattle not alarmed by six plane crashes and 10 deaths in the last 16 months the Navy has begun tin investigation into the raining program for a a Jet bombers based at Whidby Island Mas North of Here. In the last three weeks two of he j32 million planes have slammed into the Cascade mountains during training runs in which hey Fly just above the i tops at speeds of 450 Miles an hour since 1980, 21 Navy fliers based at the Whitbey Island station in puget sound Bave died in 25 accidents involving the a-6e and a Sirn liar plane the ea-6b. Losing lives is obviously a lop priority said rep. Norman d. Dicks a Wash but from a taxpayer s Point of View we be lost Over 1180 million Worth of equipment id the last year and half. They May be push ing these kids a Little  four of the last six accidents occurred in training runs Dicks who asked congressional investigators to look into the program said inexperience and inadequate training might be responsible for a-6e crashes. The plane made by Grumman aerospace corp., is the Navy s main medium sized attack bomber. It is used primarily on aircraft carriers. The most recent Accident occurred last thursday when the bomber on a Standard night training run smashed into mountains near Mossyrock Wash. Killed were the Pilot. It. John 0. Calhoun 24, of Sayvilla ., and his navigator cmdr. Richard j. Hobble 37, of Babylon  The plane carries a Crew of two. In training runs in Heads Oul Over the Pacific at 20.000 feel then drop to 500 feet As it circles Back and Heads Inland up and Over the mountains toward a bombing Range. The lest runs designed to Leach Low flying radar evading tac tics Are conducted up to a dozen times a Day by h Many planes. Preliminary Navy investigations have found no link among the accidents according to Mariana Graham Whitbey Island Nas spokeswoman. An assistant to Navy Secretary William l. Ball said the investigation would look at any technical or human error similarities among the recent crashes. Dicks in a letter sent to Ball tuesday and consigned by rep. A Swift d-Wash., suggested that something in the training routine might be responsible. We re concerned that the frequency of these Acci dents and the similarity among Many of them indicates a common thread that needs to be addressed the congressmen wrote. They ailed Ball to specifically examine training Levels of the a-6e pilots Dicks in an interview said the Pilot involved in last thursday s crash had Only 44 hours of night time. If you make just one mistake with these planes you re in trouble he said. An investigation of ea-6b crashes from Whitbey Island in the Early 1980s concluded that Loo Many of the pilots were inexperienced and were forced to make sudden critical decisions. Its training program was changed in 1982, and there have been no further Acci dents at the station. Suspect held in plot to kill san Antonio mayor san Antonio Tenas a police have uncovered a plot to kill mayor Henry Cis Cras and another official and have arrested a former congressional candidate. Officials arrested Parker e. Abell on tuesday and charged him with hiring a hit Man to kill Cisneros and Texas comptroller Bob Bullock for $5,000 each. Abell was being held in Bexar county jail wednesday with out Bond police said. Abell sought the 23rd congressional District seat in 1982 As a libertarian and told detectives he was now Leader of the american patriots a political extremist group. Officers said they found in Abell s car execution warrants containing Blanks to till in names of Public officials to be killed. The above named traitor or traitors Are to be executed on sight read the warrants. Each accused has Given Public proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt that he or she is a traitor to the people of the uni cd slates and the United states  san Antonio mayor Henry Clenens officers arrested the 74-year-old Abell at a super Market pay phone. He appeared before night Magis trate Quon Lew on charges of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder jail records showed. Abell allegedly solicited this officer As a shooter for himself and unknown associates wrote John velt Kamp an undercover investigator for Lite Bexar county District attorney s office. Veltkamp posed As a hit Man. Authorities seized a .22-Calibcr Rifle with 12 rounds records said. The mayor said he has never met Abell and docs not recall receiving threatening letters from him. We get threats on a regular basis not always with a Price. That s what makes this a Little More serious said Cisneros As he returned from an award banquet at the Tombal school District near Houston. Veltkamp said he did not know if More arrests would be made. Abell is from Natalia about 18 Miles Southwest of san Antonio. House rejects Bill on dodos hiring priority rules by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington the House has rejected a Bill that would have lowered the hiring priority for Mili tary spouses applying for leaching positions in the Mil itary s overseas school system. Pentagon officials applauded the move claiming that teacher Quality already is High and that the Bill would have Cut thousands of military spouses Oul of jobs and Cost the school system millions of dollars. The House Bill Defeated 262-157 tuesday was sponsored by rep. William Ford a Mich. It would have Given first consideration to teachers already in the system with stateside hires nest in line. Locally hired teachers Many of them military spouses would rank last in priority. The current system gives lop priority to local hires followed by teachers already in the system and then stateside hires. The failed legislation would have Given teachers Al ready in the school system until May 13 to apply for vacancies for the next school year. The department of defense dependents schools would then have had 30 Days to recruit stateside hires. After june 15, teachers could have been hired locally. Military spouses hired locally would have been Given some Security through a provision prohibiting them from losing their jobs w someone with a higher priority. But they could have lost their jobs if sponsors were reassigned or out of the service or if the teacher got a divorce local hires who Are not military spouses could have been bounced from the system after one year. There Are about 9,250 teachers in the Dodds sys tem including almost 2,300 local hires. Of the local hires about 2,000 Are military spouses. The Bill was approved in late april by the House Post office and civil service committee which Ford chairs and the House education and labor commit tee of which Ford also ii a member. A staffer said the Vole on the Bill came As a Surprise because the backing of those two committees Madi it seem As thought there were enough support to push it through the Fuu House. But members of the House armed services com Mittee which has Long supported expansion of employment opportunities for military a pours had a hand in turning the tide against Ford s Bill said a com mice staffer. Pentagon and Dodds officials were Adamant in their opposition to the Bill. Dodds director John Stremple said that the Quality of Dodds teachers has been rated consistently High by outside agencies. He called Ford s Bill a cure worse than any imagined  it would wipe out employment for 3,500 spouses and would Cost about s27 million a year for teacher transfers and for moving stateside hires to overseas schools said Barbara Pope assistant Secretary of de sense for family support education and safety. That Money would have to come from somewhere in the Dodds budget so it would be Money taken away from  the higher costs would have resulted from the transportation expenses for stateside hires and because those employees arc entitled to a living quarters allow Ance of up to 18,000 a year which local hires Don t get. The Bill also would have Given greater benefits for local hires adding to the Overall increase in costs. Even the overseas education association the Union representing four fifths of Dodds teachers has been lukewarm on the Bill. Jack Rollins sea president said the Union s support for Ford s legislation u a Trade off. We Don t support giving stateside hires higher priority for jobs than local hires he said. But this Bill would give in a guaranteed Transfer program and Correct discrepancies in benefits for local hires which arc things that we really  Ford said in hearings that while he is aware of the employment situation for spouses overseas he is concerned about the Quality of Dodds teachers because local hires can bypass the Lough Competition for positions that stateside applicants face. The practice of local hiring via intended to offer a Short term solution to the problem of in Forsen vacancies by allowing the schools to tilt those vacancies quickly Ford said Ai a hearing last october. In was not intended to create a competing method for select ing Long-4errn, regularly employed  Ford is not sure whether he will make an Effort to reintroduce the Bill in different form at a future Dale his staffer said