European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Paga 11 a run Landers dear readers Here in a Paul Harvey Broad cast from december 1979. Sever Al readers have writ it id me and 1 think it is Well Worth printing during this Holiday season. And a new pair of shoes How would you like a Job Long hours hard work and Low pay you May have to Settle in Atchison Kan. Population 16,000. You will be paid 5/00 a of week before taxes. You and your a wife will have to live in a Dingy one room walk up. And one pot of soup will hav to last four Days. But there is a fringe Benefit you get a new pair of shoes. And in those shoes you can walk from Here to eternity. You arc a single girl. How would you Lite a Job in Chicago ,.-. Be sure before you apply because you will not work in an immaculate skyscraper office in the Loop. You will work behind a Row storefront patronized by winos and cockroaches and whores and the depraved and the diseased and the desperate. Then Wilt be rodents and More cockroaches. But you will get a new pair of shoes and guaranteed Security Here and forever after. I set out to figure out Why anybody would enlist in the salvation army. Basic training is two tedious difficult years of intensive study and Long hours of training 130 hours of academic courses. If there is any spare time trainees work As janitors in and around the school. When a Cadet graduates he is commissioned As an ordained minister and certified social worker. But All that certifies him or her for is another one to three years of internship under studying other officers. The salvation army s Cost containment record is the envy of All Industry and most charities. Ninety percent of All income goes to help feed and clothe or care for some desperate destitute somebody. You As an officer of the army will be expected to support yourself on the take Home pay of less than $10 a Day. And it s a seven Day work week. And they Are 16-hour Days. And yet while our nation s military services Are unable to fill enlistment quotas with much higher pay limitless benefits and generous retirement the salvation army has never in its history had to advertise for recruits. It is still an Honor to be accepted and it is considered an accomplishment to graduate and a treasured privilege to serve in the salvation army. It s got to be those shoes. This Christmas when you see a selfless lad or lass from the army standing in the cold beside a Kettle whether you drop a Coin in or not you will be. Greeted by a Beautiful fair faced smile. Smile Back. And then glance at those Beautiful shoes. They walk where you and i would not dare to. We Alt want to go where they Are going without having been where they have been. Good Luck to us. Dear renders my Taugh for the Day this ton Mot by Jim Eason if you want to look Young ind thin hang out with old rat people. Reader grounded in space a flight Flap Airlift Wing cell Leary at life com replies a passenger is questioning the Correct procedures for travelling space available based on conflicting recently while on leave i decided to travel to Greece Crete and the United Stales. I signed up for both destinations at Rhein Mah Mac terminal. Both destination had different sign up dates. Well i travelled o the states and Back with no prob lems and minimal waiting Lime. The nut Day my fam ily and i took space a id Athens Greece. Upon arriving in Athens 1 re signed to return to Germany. We then took commercial transportation to Crete. After a two week slay it was Lime to return Home or so we toot a Mac flight from Crete to Athens and there the Nightmare began. 1 was told that my previous sign up Dale of 212 was invalid because 1 had used space a from Crete to Athens and that i had to sign up again Date now 22$. I was told that once you use space a travel you come off All space a lists world wide even though you did t Fly out of that terminal. Prior to my leaving Athens for Crete 1 was told that i could re sign for Germany bul i could not Fly space a to Crete because i would be pulled off the lists. However i could fill out my cards and take commercial transportation to Crete and Fly Back to Athens on space a and retain my previous sign up Date. I spoke with the senior military person in charge at Rhein main by phone and the officer in charge in Athens. Both stated the other was wrong. My question is which system is Correct in Accord Ance with Mac regulations and procedures Rhein main procedures where you can sign up Tor different destinations on different dates and remain on the list for the other destination you did t use or Athens where you come off the list if you use space a travel anywhere in the world a me withheld Frankfurt West Germany editor s note it. Col Kent l. Shields Dep Uty commander for air transportation Liq 435lb toe Tine information received1 from passenger terminals Rhein Maln a West Germany and Athens Greece. The regulations governing apace available travel Al though specific do leave room for questions and interpretations in certain situations. After reviewing the regulations and discussing the circumstances surrounding this passenger s travel in us United slates and Europe with our Headquarters it adj determined that both stations did not fellow the Correct procedures. The specific procedures questioned relate to the following signing up for space available trawl. Space i Able passengers con have Only one sign on record at a passenger terminal registering for a maximum of fire countries. This record can be changed at any time to include adding or deleting countries a passenger wants to travel to bul no passenger should have two records with separate information. Removal from space available registers. Per macr-76-1, vol 1, Chap 14, once passengers Are selected for a flight their name will be removed from he standby Register for All this removal from he Register applies Only to the station from which the passenger was selected far travel and for All requested destinations regardless of the Dale time of sign up. Therefore when this passenger was selected for bin flight to the untied Stales he should have been removed from the standby Register for Greece at Rhein Nln. On the other hand his sign of in Greece far Germany was valid As Long As he was not selected for a flight Fram Greece to another destitution ills space available travel Fram Crete to Greece his no effect on tits ranking for travel from Greece to Germany in the standby Register. Both stations Are aware of their errors and Ore including this particular subject in their training programs to preclude recurrence. Tax on food not a vat7 Reader learns would you help me understand Why retirees in eng land who use the commissary Are required to pay value added tax vat on their food purchases vat tax is not required on the Economy on food. I called the tax office British and was told in was illegal. Why then must we pay in when we shop in the base commissary incident by i do understand the charge in the sex Chang but not on food in the commissary. Jean Edwards ,. Greatworth England editor s note Thomas p. Keenah Jan Spe Cial assistant for Natol a i affairs la Safe replies t Welcome the Opportunity to explain the . Lax. Regime applicable to purchases made by us. Military retirees in us. Commissaries and exchanges in that country _ ,. " that regime which resulted from More than three years of prolonged negotiations Between representatives of 3rd air Force and her majesty s customs and excise h Meas tied to obtaining United King Dom permission far. Retirees1 Access to and use of the commissaries and exchanges. Such permission was necessary because of the nato sofa which author the us. Forces to operate such retail establish ments and at the same time limits patronage to Active duty members of the Force civilian employees and their dependents. The rationale for that limitation is that for the most part the products sold Are free of the . Taxes that Chuld otherwise be charged absent the sofa priv lege i.e., vat import duties and excises As Well As taxes at various Levels of. Production. Consequently the United kingdom would Only agree to permitting retirees Access to and use of the commissaries and exchanges if All applicable . Taxes were paid on their purchases. Rather than itemize each and every tax applicable to each purchased. It was agreed that a Flat uniform Rale which approximates the aggregate taxes due would be charged. This rate 15 percent just happens to coincide with the current . Vat Rale. The document memorializing this agreement be tween 3rd air Force and Homce explicitly Stales that this Flat Rale tax does not constitute vat but. Rather is in Lien of vat and any applicable taxes that would otherwise be due and payable on the purchases. Food items bought in the commissary by retirees therefore Are not subject to . Vat but instead Are subject to this mutually agreed fixed rate. Pen pats pm ii m my Mitt him in Leo Kiwi pop Plum i a As Wold women i Tabbita Iri cooking Dine Rudrow ind t i to find torn my full. 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