European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 25.1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 military round trans corps conference Ball scheduled july 7-8 Ober Ursel West Germany the 1989 european trans corps conference and Ball will be july 7 and 8, organizers have announced. The conference will be held at the Schuetzing in non commissioned officers club from 8 30 . To noon july 7, the Ball will begin at 6 . July 8 at the a i Rick Henry Village officers our in he incl Berg. Maj. Gen Samuel n. Wakefield chief of the army transportation Branch and Comman Dant of the transportation school Al fort Eustis vs., will be inc guest speaker the Ball costs j28 per person. Attire is formal. The conference and Ball Are open to transportation corps officers warrant officers sergeants first class and above and their guests. The theme for the two Day Celebration marking the corps 47lh anniversary is cos the spirit of the those interested in attending the conference or the Ball can Call maj George Lee Al ets 325 2608 or 27.13 or German civilian 06171-61608. The registration deadline is june 12,. 3 at Izmir cited for work in Safe Sawr program Izmir air station Turkey three peo ple in the morale welfare and recreation Divi Sion at Izmir have been named Best in their Fields in the . Air forces Europe for i98s. Huseyin Eye is outdoor recreational manager of the year. \ pc is responsible for outdoor recreational opportunities for the american Community in Izmir. In-.1984, he was Safe s out standing m or Supply manager of the year. Annie Tany Cri is financial operations supervisor of the year. She manages Money for 17 activities that generate More than s2.2 million in combined annual revenues. Hollis Nelson,1 who manages the officers and no clubs at Izmir is open mess manager of inc year. Ankara unit to compete for of s Gerrity award raw Stein a West Germany the . Logistics group at Ankara air station in Turkey has been named to represent inc . Air forces Europe in Competition for the 1989 Gen. Thom Asp. Gerrity memorial award for logistics management and logistics. Col. Richard l. Jaeger of the 48th tac fighter. Wing at Raf Lakin Halh England will rep resent the command in the individual category of inc air Force wide Competition. The Gerrity a Ard is Given annually to Lac organization and individual who demonstrate Superior performance for logistics support of the air Force Mission by a c k s u m m i f s i o w to r n o u t minimized As test of Success new Orleans a the Afri can american Summit 89 can t be judged by its lower than expected at Tendance says the chairman of the three Day gathering of Black leaders Over the weekend. The real isl Wilt be whether hero Are some things that come out of Here that have a relationship and meaning for the lives of millions of people in this country who right now arc in Cri Sis said Richard a idler former mayor of Gary ind. Summit participants issued a Call for greater government action on Edu cation housing Black employment and drugs among other things Jesse Jackson s saturday speech and Louis Farrakhan s fiery sunday morning address Drew the Confer ence s largest and most enthusiastic crowds estimated at 1.000 at the new Orleans convention Center. Only a week before organizers predicted a crowd of at least 2,000. And 17 years earlier 2,700 came to a Simi Lar meeting Hatcher organized in Gary. Delegates however expressed Little disappointment Al the turnout. The significant thing is that became logs Ier said Sheldon King a Delegate from Chicago. s invitation to Farrar Han a controversial. Black Muslim minister prompted at least one Black Republican Leader Fred Brown of new York to Boycott inc conference. Conservative Blacks who boycotted because of Farrakhan lost a Chance to have their voices heard King said the meeting ended sunday wild distribution and discussion of the Summit s social and political Agenda for the next decade. Several delegates complained Dur. Ing the closing session that the seven Page document failed to address All problems with specific solutions. But Hatcher stressed that the. Agenda was. Far front fire Ishad and that the Summit steering committee would continue to work on Al the preliminary Agenda included Calls for preservation of Black family life. More government involvement in providing housing for the poor including a reduction in red tape in making federally foreclosed housing Avail Able for private ownership by the poor. A Call for increased government spending on education and a halt to the Rush to implement testing certification schemes and other devices de signed to basically eliminate Black teachers from the Louis Farrakhan addressing new Orleans conferees Public school systems support for government and private programs designed to increase Black employment and business investment opportunities. Work to end apartheid in South Africa including support for economic sanctions against that nation. Reparations o comic Isaic Blacks for hundreds or years of slave labor and poor economic conditions. What form such reparations should take was not specified. A full scale attack on drugs that should not begin and end Al inc Borders of the african Ameri can communities youth education Center to be built in Dachau Dachau weit Germany a after eight years of sometimes bitter controversy. Bavarian leaders Are plan Ning a. Youth Center in Dachau to help teach younger generations of the nazi horrors Hal occurred in. Its notorious concentration Camp. Bui deep Philosoph Ica i Florences re main Over just How the Center will pass. On its bitter lessons. Politicians Here in highly conservative Bavaria want Center to be under government control. They envision it As a youth Hostel that would com Bine instruction about the nazis with a Chance to learn about the modern Day City Dachau. On the other Side an association that has members in several countries argues. That the leadership of the Center should reflect More diverse views and be More International in scope. -. The association for a Dachau International youth meeting Center says the guest House should serve almost exclusively As a forum to Analyse the nazi past and its implications today. Jirgen Yarusky a Leader of the association said he sees dangers in govern ment control. That Means everything must he under government Protection so that the past Prcin cd As a formal history1 lesson Yarusky said. Both the person Al Imp jul and the search for meaning for today won t be presented As strongly. Yarusky a 30-year-old doctoral Candi Date in modern history who s lived in Dachau for three years said his group feels unfairly excluded from the pro Rel because local conservatives fear this could a leftist direction the concentration Camp site including a museum and memorials. To the dead already attracts about a million visitors a year Twat thirds of them for Eigners. The site also contains watch towers barbed wire. Fences a reconstructed Barracks and the crematorium where the dead were once burned. Dachau which is about five Miles North of Munich was the first of a siring of nazi concentration be this Cut Cerminn lion of jews mostly in a Chambers in world War i. Official nazi records say that 20fj,000. Prisoners were Kepi at Dachau although the actual turn bar is believed to be much higher.1".- nazi records say hat nearly.32,000 prisoners died there but thousands of other deaths were not registered. The nazis set up the concentration Camp at Dachau two months after Seiz ing Power Jan. 30, 1933. Us prisoners included jews communists social democrats clergymen and other oppor Nants of the nazi officials opened the Camp As a memorial in a i after agreeing to cooperate with the Brussels. Belgium based International Dachau committee in supervising the site. The committee made up of former Dachau prisoners has representatives on the Board of trus tees of the association that wants an International youth Center. The association was formed in 1981, after three years of efforts by a local com establish a place where Young people could meet and spend the night. The plans ran into vehement opposition from the conservative Christian so Cial Union officials at Dachau s cily Hall. They repeatedly have maintained that such a Center would unfairly create an extra Burden on a City already saddled with a notorious past. " in "1987, members of the state parliament in Munich filed several motions seeking to take the matter out of local a Way to find a solution As a result the bavarian education minislrj1 this past september approved a plan for. Creating the youth Center with sleeping accommodations for about 100 people As Well As meeting rooms for. Both West germans and foreigners
