European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paffie 2 the stars and stripes wednesday March 8.1sb9 Bank offers proof of pay Merit options for customers having rent Utility audits. By Khimji Tiec. Ink Dow  of. Community Hank. Customers who must prove they be made rent and Utility payments in line with their government Ataman to have several options now thai the Bank has stopped returning cancelled checks with monthly statements.-.  merchants National Bank the Mili Lary Hanking contractor in West Germany Greece and the Netherlands said they have reached an agreement with army and air Force Headquarters in  will allow customers to use any number of  As proof of payment when annual audits Art  housing benefits. " Yvnnne Wise Public  for the Bank said the Folk Ming methods cart be used copies of Banic of ailments showing automatic withdrawals listing a landlord s or Utility company s Nam Candiff a noun paid ". Signed statements from landlords. Carbon cd Jim own  that the data be blotted out.  employees overseas have los How their pc Sonn offices proof of rent and. Utility payments at least once Lyev so that it can be a ctr. Mined whether government housing allowances paid out were More than a customer s actual expenses in inc past Many people used their cancelled Checkas proof of payment. Amy Boardman personnel management specialist with the Usa eur office of the Deputy chief of staff. For personnel said this year s living quarters allowance audit already has been conducted. She said the revised rules about what methods Are acceptable As proof of payment will apply to the next audit which is Cupic cd to take a acc in february or March of 1990. News updates leaded Gas Price up los Angeles. A  of leaded gasoline jumped More than a Penny per gallon Dur ing the Pasi we weeks an analyst said. I. The increase play signal a Long expected Deci Jpn by dealers lop ass on losses ustain cd by higher wholesale comi Trilby  sunday. It s taken yes Adf Serif cd. Or Jucs on March 3were tio7 cents a apr Gailon for Reg ular unleaded sips of for Premium unleaded and b6.2 j for regular invaded. Ujj full ser jct prices were s1.1s57 for regular 11 a leaded ji.3u08 for orc cum. Una Cauca and. Is 419 for. Regular leaded j soviet Convoy hit islam and. Ski an a afghan guerrillas attacked tin emergency con Vij hound for Kabul Afghanistan and set fire to is vehicles but inc rest of the trucks arrived Buff Ujj in he afghan capital Over the weekend. Radio Kabul said. J the More than 50 trucks with 6.qoq Loni of of Hajj and fuel. From the soviet Union Yak hit As they travelled South on the strategic. Salary High stay fro  Villa Border the Slan sunday the Broj East i monitored in Islamabad said 13 tank trucks and two trucks carrying wheal were set on fire b attacking rebels. Correction an article yesterday about a Canadian military1 trial included the wrong age and misspelled the name of the victim. An Tonnette Charcel was 20, he i a pied i 3er a k. N excl s y up London a wintertime an the living is easy in the kingdom of rat Tus non cd ficus. The common Brown rat that has become uncommonly numerous around Britain. Complaints about rats arc up As much As 70 percent in parts of London which has had just a Louch of slush during a very mild Winter. Similar increases have been reported in Bristol Manchester another Large cities. I be never never known such a year said Stuan Slater chief Environ mental services officer of of Jaberg District Council Northeast of London. "1 Haven t had a saturday Oil since the end of  Norman Foster health officer for themed Suffolk Council said he received -1,323.rat complaints last Winter. This year he had matched that Lota by late Decem Ber before Winter had officially begun Rento Kil one of Britain s largest exterminators has doubled its sales of Poi sons this Winter said Peter Batman the company s director of Public relations with inc increase in rats there has been a growing concern about Weil s disease which is spread by rat urine in water. The ailment used to be seen mostly in miners and sewer workers but eases have cropped up among water skiers and canoeists. The reasons for the rat s Prosperity Are various. We be had mind Winters before with out having More ruts said Graham Twigg retired senior lecturer in zoology Jit to Al Holloway College at the University of London and author of schol arly books on vermin. Certainly in towns one aspect of in is the Lack of Good Hygiene said. Twigg who has done research on rats in Coal mines and Caribbean Cane Fields. It s one of Trio so things a general Lack of  he Aid. This country Isar City  Hilary King spokeswoman for the institution of environmental officers said decaying victorian sewage systems in big Cit ies have contributed to the problem. She also blamed the illegal dumping of garbage and the spread of fast food restaurants. Efforts to Poison rats have been frustrated by the Rich menu of trash and de Bris especially from fast food restau rants said Angela Moon environmental health officer for the Borough of Lam Beth in South London. They would rather cat that than our Poison she said. The sewers Al least have their defend ers. There have been a lot of stories around recently a Story which comes up year after year . That rat populations Are in creasing and sewers Are decaying. I Jusi say prove by said trip Clec Daniels spokeswoman for thames water which is to x i5i by for a thousand Miles of sewers in an around London if there Are More rats about she said we believe they Are above ground  in Bristol an Industrial City in Western England the sewers Are taking the blame without dispute. The sewers Are crumbling because Flack of Upkeep and inc rats Are find ing in increasingly easy to get out said Peier Archer. Bristol s assistant chief Environ mental health officer. My delivers wife s baby in Gas St Jlon Stuttgart West Germany s&5 a Gat station became a temporary maternity Izard monday morning when a military pole Ryan s wife gave birth to a baby in i hair car Jacqueline Singeltary. I and her baby an Annam Cove Pound is punch boy were in Fine hah by the time they reached the nearby Arne Hospital at bad Canstatt later in the Dik said Cape. Pc acc Mango Spok Suomu for the Stuttgart military Community. When her labor pains started shortly before Daybreak her husband Fiji 2 Kenneth Singeltary also 19, set Oul Voth of her to drive 10 Miles across Stuttgart from i Aich Barracks where he is stationed to the army Hospital. But the became stuck in traffic Mongo said so us told ice pulled i nto the Gas station and enl into inc office to Telephone for a ambulance. His wife marked screaming to Jutt when her labor pains Intel sized Nikii he could t hear her she lean on the car Horn. The Soldier Clu retd to the car just m time to help Dalj Ipanis new son at 7 41 . In the front Assinger seat. The boy is the Lou Irittia couple s second child. Police spokesman arwed Weis Schuh said Llu in Cidon occurred on Bur Stafl Sirp Rtin inc is Ulgart Koi Illi District. By be Lime police arrived in response of the Soldier s cad Wei Schoh was t much the officers ambulance look inc Mother and baby to nearby Marion Hospital for observation and they were transferred to the army Hospital later he said Mongo said Kenneth Singeltary was declining interview requests he s gotten a lot of Calls from every body in the world including the German Media she said. Legislator urge a scoring Contra military Aid Jackson miss. A con of needs to restore military Aid to the set Lyls battling Nir Arafura s in Lisl govern Cal. A congressman said sunday flowing a visit with 15,000 Contra i props in Hon Duras of Congress should jut Only continue giving humanitarian Aid to the contrast who arc rightie luf the communists but should also restore military funding said rep or Montgomeryd miss. Monijame-rj1 led a sic member bipartisan House delegation that spent two Day on the nicaraguan honduran Bor Der last week meeting with the contras at their base Camps Congress has created a real problem by not approving More military Aid to the fandom fighters Montgomery said s voted in february i9ss to Cut offis jury Aid but agreed to continue $27 a Feiri in humanitarian Aid for food and  april. They Are a Hufi fighting Force but itis a whole new a Idamc for them no because of the Lac of military Aid Montgomery said of la con Ras. They just Don t have the mean Fly keep fight ing the fight is at a standstill a c Lack ammunition to keep fighting. Song has got to be done he said. Tefius arc excellent and their numb Haven t decreased in fact they Are gains ing More troops but in May when the food stops com ing who knows what will happen Montgomery said the delegation Dis cussed options including bringing the contras to the United Stales or joining the honduran government in forcing them Back into Nicaragua to survive the Busl Way they can he said the group agreed that the Best option is to push for continuing humanitarian Aid and to ask Congress for new military Aid. We created the contras to overthrow the communists in Nicaragua and 1 Don to think we should walk away fro that commitment to i incr r said. Joining Montgomery on the trip were tips Bob stump. It Ariz. John Paul me Schmidt a Ark. Royd Harris a Earl Hutto a Fla. And Bob Mcewe or Idaho