European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 23, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 budget dollars flow in for training so Safe planes can Fly in september by Deedee Arrington Dok Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a West Germany Safe train ing flights will not be halted As planned during the last half of september following congressional approval to Transfer Money for the flying from other air Force accounts command officials said. Congress recently agreed to allow the air Force to compensate for an unexpected january budget Cut of $2.3 billion service wide by transferring Money from acquisition accounts and research and development into accounts for operations and maintenance and Mil itary personnel. As a result Safe s tactical forces budget has recouped $11.8 million. Of that $3.3 million has been reapplied to the flying hour program $4.8 million has been redistributed to Safe s numbered air forces and $3.7 million will be used to pay higher than expected flying costs per hour accrued earlier in the 1988 fiscal year. In addition. Safe retained roughly $8.5 million Worth of Jet fuel supplied by the air Force that the command had proposed to Cash in to pay for Quality of life needs. That brings the total value of financial Bene fit to Safe to $20.3 million and restores flight train ing valued at $ 11.8 million. The $3.3 million for late september training flights plus the Jet fuel translates into roughly 8,500 flying hours and an average of four to six sorties during the two weeks per air Crew member said col. De Pickrel Safe chief of fighter operations and training. After the dust settled essentially we went Back tour original plan Pickrel said. Over a space of three or four months the picture always changes. With the exception of one or two wings we just Resti tuned the  if training had been curtailed in september Pilot generally would not have lost certification standards nor would it have kept them from meeting minimum training requirements Pickrel said. However after a two week Layoff. You want Mohave a fairly non demanding Mission before you at tempt a Complex one he said. You just can t pick upon the first of october where you left off the 15th of  training missions to Italy Spain and Turkey to us weapons ranges had not been targeted for cuts under the original Cost trimming plan. Safe which began the fiscal year with about$100 million less than in 1987, was forced to Deal with an additional $100 million Cut in january after con Gress passed the much delayed defense appropriations Bill. The bulk of the lost $200 million to Safe about $180 million affected the command s operations and maintenance accounts which pay for aircraft and facility maintenance training temporary duty assign ments utilities and local contracts. On most Safe bases the cuts meant Only Emer gency communications and civil engineering work or Ders such As overflowing toilets were handled. Prob lems such As Leaky roofs often could not be repaired said it. Col. Sherry Sims chief of Safe s budget division. In addition the command Learned that its flying program already was going to Cost about $3.7 million More than originally budgeted. Under the umbrella of a plan called Creek recovery Safe reduced its flying hour program by $ 11.8 Mil lion to pay for Quality of life needs such As Leaky roof repairs and dormitory furniture Sims said. In a separate fund shortfall Safe experienced a $1 million need for medical supplies which the com Mand covered by deferring several base projects. With the Start of fiscal year 1989 about six weeks away Safe officials Are optimistic that the financial picture for the next year is brighter than the last. We re looking at some growth Sims said. It s no much but it s not a reduction which is kind of  3 men woman flee e. Germany by swimming River Berlin a three men and a woman fled East Germany sunday by swimming across a River to West Berlin narrowly avoiding a patrol boat an clambering up a River Bank to safety news reports and West Berlin officials said. West Berlin police said the woman in the group injured a foot in the Early evening swim of about 260 feet across Berlin s spree River. The others were uninjured. West Germany s Ard television showed video footage of the escapees swimming the last 10 feet to the West Berlin Bank just As the East German patrol boat approached a few Yards away. Ard said the film was taken by a briton who happened to be on the Western Bank at the time. The report did not provide the names of the escapees or of the person taping the scene. The Wall separating the soviet sector from Westerlin is located on the Eastern Side of the River at the spot where the escape took place. However the Western Bank of the River is the actual order with the water in East Berlin territory. A West Berlin police official who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity said East German Border guards did not shoot or otherwise attempt to Stop the escapees. No shots were fired from the patrol boat. Police said they did not know How the four got Pas the Wall which is 10 feet High in most sections. The three Western sectors of Berlin Are controlled by the United states Britain and France. East Ber Lin is the soviet sector of the City which is 110 Miles East of the West German Border. A West Berlin official with a Walkie talkie helps exhausted couple to an ambulance after their swim. Preaching student suspended on 1 St Day Back Marion . A a Street preaching 11-year-old was suspended minutes after arriving for the first Day of school monday after he stuck a Bible in the principal s face and told him you logo to hell the boy s father said. Duffey strode 11, had taken Only about 10 Steps on school property before the confrontation with Jim Gorst Princi pal of Wastfield elementary school the father said. David strode said he then took Al three of his children Home and did not know whether he would take them to school tuesday. Earlier Mcdowell county schools superintendent David Ricketts said he another school officials dreaded the first Day of school because last year the strode children had preached about whore mongers and  we cannot go through another Yea like we did last year he said. Ricketts on Friday notified  and her husband David in a registered letter that they were barred from the school grounds. He warned them that appropriate action would be taken if they came onto school property. Family friends had planned to escort the children from the Gate to the school building but officials instead ordered the deputies to take the children. The father said the trouble began when a sheriffs Deputy took the hand of Pepper 7, who started screaming and Duffey became  Gorst then asked strode to bring his children into the school. Strode said he refused and walked away with the three children. At that Point Gorst asked him to bring the younger children Back say ing Only Duffey was suspended strode  officials did not immediately return phone Calls from the associated pres Duffey and his brother Matthew 6, were preaching on their Way to the school grounds strode said. Pepper who did not preach last year yelled repent a couple of times he said. Last Spring Duffey a fifth Grade a Stu Dent came to school one morning in March and stood near the Back Entrance shouting Bible verses. When teachers and students passed Duffey shouted verses about whore mongers and fornicators. When the Prin Cipal asked Duffey to come inside the school he refused. Soon after Kinde Gartner Matthew did the same thing. First grader Pepper accompanied Matthew but did not preach