European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 military Roundup warrant officers group schedules annual meeting Heidelberg West Germany the unite states army warrant officers association will hold its annual membership meeting in Heidelberg oct. 24-29. The conference open to All Active duty retired and Reserve warrant officers is held to Exchange information and provide for professional development in the army and the warrant officer corps. Usa eur commander Gen. Crosbie e. Saint i scheduled to be the keynote speaker during the Confer ence s professional development Day on oct. 25. The week s activities also will include speakers on variety of topics and conclude with a Ball oct. 29. For further information Contact chief warrant officer 3 David c. Adams european Region president at ets 370-7514. 3rd army div units win marksmanship honors Hohenfels West Germany three 3rd Arm div units placed in the top five during the Usa eur marksmanship Competition at the Hohenfels training  15-member teams representing each major command in Europe vied july 9-14 for top honors in the annual event begun in 1982. The winning team from the 3rd in 36th inf 3rdarmd div set new records in both the live and night fire categories and edged the 2nd in 6th inf 1st Arm div by 1.5 Points. The winning 3rd army div team was the Only entry to achieve the maximum score on the forced Road March event with a time of two hours 20 minutes and 41 seconds surpassing the required time by one minute 19 seconds. Members of the winning team were spec. Floyd , spec. Joseph l. Shelnutt and spec. Stacey r. Galloway All from co a 1st it. David r. Sullivan sgt. Brian r. Cram sgt. Joey Garrison and Cpl. Dale l. Evern from cob sgt. Richard Melnick and  w. Fritz from co a spec. Joseph m. Petty spec. Mark w. Mccasland spec. Ramon a. Gomez spec. Bobby m. Dillon or. And staff sgt. Thomas j. Knight from cod and spec. Michael w. Little from  teams competed in seven events. Team winners of each event were army physical fitness test 2nd in 6th inf 1st army div. Personal weapons qualification m16-a2 3rd in 325 inf Southern european task Force. Personal weapons qualification squad automatic weapon 1st in 48th inf 3rd army div. Combat proficiency course 2nd in 6th inf 1st army div. Night fire 3rd in 36th inf 3rd army div. M203 grenade launcher tie 1st in 30 inf 3rd inf div 4th in 8th inf 8th inf div 5th in 8th inf 8 inf div. Squad automatic weapon 10 meters 1st in 48th inf 3rd army div. Live fire 3rd in 36th inf 3rd army div. China consumer prices Rose 19 percent in past year Beijing a consumer prices jumped 19 per cent in the past year the government has announced acknowledging the biggest such Rise since China introduced Market reforms a decade ago. Zhang Hongji a spokesman for the state statistics Bureau blamed the Economy s inability to satisfy con Sumer demand for the Rise. But he said middlemen who Hoard goods and control their distribution also Are responsible. Zhang also told a news conference that Grain production stagnant for the past two years is not expected to improve this year. Dod Bill gives takes from spouse Job Hunters by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington military spouses looking for government work will gain a Little and lose a Little under provisions of the fiscal 1989 defense authorization Bill recently approved by Congress. Lawmakers corrected a minor technicality by extending hiring preference for military spouses to the government s gs-1 Pav Grade the lowest step in the pay scale system. Until now spouses have had prefer ence for All grades except gs-1. Pay for the gs-1 Grade ranges from $9,811 to$12,275 a year. Less than one tenth of 1 percent of All general schedule jobs within the defense department Are in that Grade 654 out of a total of 678,901, according to Pentagon statistics. But the authorization Bill also puts a Stop at least temporarily to the practice of allowing spouses to a Volunteer Legal work while trying to find paying Posi  government is barred by Law from accepting such services but some military Legal assistance offices mostly at overseas bases have ignored the ban and allowed spouses and in some cases retirees to work As Volunteer lawyers clerks and paralegals a House armed services committee staffer said. The Senate version of the authorization Bill contained a provision that would have changed the Law and sanctioned the practice but the House believe the Issue needed further study. That View prevailed in conference. There Are a lot of questions to be answered before we can move ahead on this the staffer said. We think it would be Best 19 wait and get More information before making a  the report accompanying the authorization Bill directs the defense department to provide a study by feb. 15 on the need for and the specifics of a Volunteer Legal assistance program in the military. Among other things the study must include an evaluation of the current Legal assistance pro Gram and the extent to which it needs to be bolstered by volunteers to meet the needs of the military Community. The number of lawyers clerks and paralegals who have offered voluntary services in the past and who might be expected to Volunteer in the future. The minimum qualifications to be set for volunteers. The anticipated number of and costs associate with civil lawsuits that might result from the rendering of Volunteer Legal assistance. The authorization Bill report also wants the study to include information on whether such a Volunteer concept could be made to work in the Field of military Medicine and other helping  opening the Annex new York City mayor Edward Koch opens the hidden door disguised As a Bookcase at the famous Annex where Anne Frank and her family and friends hid from the nazis during world War ii. Koch visited Amster dam s Anne Frank museum wednesday on the last Day of his trip to the Netherlands. Ice Cream firm stymied by soviets no rubles Moscow a an american company brought the number of ice Cream flavors from two to 33 in the soviet Union on thursday but foreign not soviet tongues will be doing most of the Licking. Suf Takin Robbins a Glendale  Cream manufacturer opened an ice Cream parlor in Moscow s Rossiya hotel across from the Kremlin. Baskin Robbins a subsidiary of Lon Don based Allied Lyons pc said in a press release it was bringing a taste of America to the soviet  but the ice Cream will be sold Only in currency that can be traded on world markets which Means soviets who generally have Only the non convertible Ruble will not get a taste. Bernard Brown Baskin Robbins vice president of International operations told reporters his company is negotiating with soviet officials to sell the ice Cream in rubles. For now Baskin Robbins is Selling its 31 flavors of ice Cream to tourists another foreigners at the huge Rossiya hotel under a franchise licensing agreement with the Moscow City coun cil Brown said. He said it would contrib Ute to improved soviet american ties. We see relations with the soviet Union becoming much better. It s a Large country and people Here love ice Cream Brown said. The ice Cream is being trucked to mos cow from a Baskin Robbins Plant in London. Soviet ice Cream generally comes into flavors Vanilla and chocolate. Asked if any special flavors would be introduced at the Moscow parlor Brown quipped we re working on Kremlin