European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 11,1989 Oil dividend Rule affects Alaska gis residents must return every two years of qualify of. Rut try Virmie in resigned himself to the new Law. It s Ustby Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington Servic members with Alaska residency will be Cul o t from a share of lucrative Oil dividends if they have not been in the slate since july 1,1987, and can t Majc it Back before june 30. Under Alaska Law All those who claim residency including almost 18,000 Servic members get to share in the state s vast Oil wealth through an annual dividend Worth $830 this year. The Money comes from a fund that currently totals $10 billion and is growing at $ i billion per year. But last year the Alaska legislature passed a Law effective Jan. I that requires out of state residents to prove they have been in the state at least once every two years to remain eligible for the payment. . Tangen an attorney in Juneau Alaska who is helping state rep. Tony Martin in trying to overturn the Law said in a Telephone interview that the Law was meant to deter cheaters who claim the state As their residence even though they were not born and raised there and live elsewhere permanently. It s particularly easy for military personnel to claim alaskan residency since the soldiers and Sailor Relief act allows  to simply claim any state As their residence Pentagon spokesman maj. David super said. An Alaska resident assigned to san Vito Sci nor Manni air station in Italy described the state s new Law As discriminatory. Alaskans have two choices they can try to fight it by writing their congressmen or try to get Home which is very difficult especially for service people stationed overseas said air Force 1st it. Lissa Jeffery. Military members would either have to take a lot of leave in order to use a military flight or spend a Fortune to take a commercial flight. I Don t really think they took that into  Jeffery 27, a resident of Fairbanks since 1976, said she found out about the new policy a few months ago when she received a letter from the Alaska department of resident Revenue permanent fund dividend Divi the reason we Haven t been in Alaska is not by Choice she said of alaskans in the military. We re suffering because of something that s directed at people who Aren t really Alaska residents but Are trying to collect the  the Law requiring residents to return to the stale every two years would be totally unfeasible for serv ice members overseas said tech sol.  of the 513lh component repair so at Raf Mildenhall England. For someone who was in the state Only a few years to claim residency i could Sec How that could cause a problem she said. But  said she was raised in Chugiak Alaska and her parents were not connected with the military. Yet she has never been Able to receive the dividends during her four year stint in England be cause of problems in processing the required paper work and difficulties in dealing with the alaskan government while living overseas. John Sckorohod. Drug and alcohol control officer for the Wurzburg military Community said he has trav eled from West Germany to Alaska every two years votes in state elections by Absentee ballot and has an alaskan Driver s License. And until last year he had received dividends since 1979. I have no tics with any other state said the resident of Bethel Alaska. Although he visited Alaska in 1988, Sckorohod said he was denied the dividends in 1988 because he was living and working out of the state. They said if i want to Appeal their ruling i have to cite specific state statutes to support my Case or specific court  the state also wanted proof that he intended to return to Alaska which he believed he had fulfilled by sending copies of his civilian leave papers. I can t do anything if i Don t have Access to Alaska statutes. I m not a lawyer. There s not much i can do from Over Here he said. Spec. Thomas Kollin 3rd in div band said he had resigned jus How it goes said the 26-year-old native of Juneau. It was my Choice to leave the state. I m not disappointed that i m not going to get  in Washington super said the figure of 18,000 serv in members who claim alaskan residency seems far out of proportion to the state s population of Only 525,000. Tangen said to be honest there Are probably a lot of people in that group who just happened to be stationed in Alaska at one time or another claimed alas a residency and just kept it when they were reassigned somewhere else. But that does t give any Comfort to the military personnel outside the stale who were actually born and raised Here and have every intention of some Day com ing  Tangen said that while Martin objects to the new Law in itself he is particularly angry that the first two year deadline was set for this june. Hundreds of men and women in Europe and the far East As Well As the lower forty eight will find it impractical or impossible to make the trip Back to Alaska by the end of june Martin said in a news release. Tangen said there was no indication the two year Rule would be retroactive to 1987 until the Alaska department of Revenue issued the new application forms recently. He said it s is highly unlikely that the Law would be overturned through legislation. We re thinking now along the lines of challenging it in court Tangen said. But it would have to be a class action suit and that Means we d have to find plaintiffs who would be Hurt by the  Martin is asking out of state residents to Contact his office. If we hear from enough people soon enough maybe we can do something about this Martin said. Alaska residents can write to Martin at . Bov Juneau Alaska 99811. Sun writers Gary Millet in Naples. Italy John Mylai in Wurzburg. Won Germany Daryl Green in kaisers Laudorn. Wast Germany and Davtd Tarrant i Darmstadt. West Germany contributed to this report news updates astronaut impostor Boston a a Man who police said posed As an astronaut fooling the mayor of Dublin ire land pleaded guilty to using a credit card fraudulently to pay for a $6,000 charter flight. Robert Hunt 27, was released from jail and put on a year s  Bation after his plea. He had Al ready served three months and 12 Days in jail following his arrest. Boston municipal court judge Herbert Hershfang ordered Hunt to undergo psychiatric treatment and to repay Eastern air charter of Norwood for the air plane rent Al. Fire bombers trial Vienna Austria a three men including a 68-year-old reportedly jailed in 1954 for Neo nazi activity were sentenced tuesday to Between one and three years in prison for a firebomb at tack last fall on an anti fascist me Morial in the Southern City of Graz. The memorial built by Ger Man american sculptor Hans Haacks was part of an exhibit and arts festival devoted to examining Austria s past 50 years. Fuel shortage May have caused a-10 crash in ., report says Bidav Odiehl  Bureau Raf Mildenhall England an air Force a-10 Thunderbolt ii that crashed in Eastern England in december May have run out of fuel about 10 Miles from its Home base at Raf Alconbury. According to a report released tuesday. However the plane had suffered a variety of fuel gauge malfunctions before the crash and the Pilot apparently did not realize his engines were about to flame out or shut Down for Lack of fuel. The plane piloted by 1st it. Frank Cavuoti crashed dec. 22, two weeks after an a-10 slowed into a Row of houses in re Mscheid West Germany killing the Pilot and six people on the ground. Cavoli assigned to Raf Alconbury s 51 Ith tac fighter so ejected safely from his anti tank aircraft before it crashed in a Field. Before the Accident Cavuoti and capt. John a. Keutmann another 511th Pilot were flying a two plane sortie from Raf Alconbury on a training Mission to a weapons Range in South Wisl Wales. About 30 minutes after leaving the Range Cavuoti noticed a fuel warning Light in his cockpit indicating an unbalanced fuel Load in his main tanks the report said. About 10 minutes later his fuel gauge Indica cd thai he still had about 1,500 pounds of fuel in each Wing. Normally the Wing tanks on an a-10 empty first which May have meant that Cavuoti had fuel trapped in his wings or was getting an unreliable Reading from his gauge. It. Cavuoti realized he had trapped fuel in his wings and declared an Emer gency the report said. The report noted however that while the aircraft s full Quantity system indicated the plane had 5,000 pounds of fuel the gauge s left and right Needles were near or at Zero indicating no fuel remaining in the main tanks at the time of inc  Cavoli who was at about 10,000 feet and about 12 Miles from Alconbury at the Lime of the fuel emergency began his descent to land. During his turn from downwind to base leg Cavuoti noticed other lights flashing on his warning panel including Low fuel and fuel pres sure trouble. At about 1,700 feet he noticed his left engine flame out followed quickly by the right engine the report said. Cavuoti realized he did not have enough Alti tude to restart the engines so he decided to eject. The report said a fuel signalling device on Cavuoti s plane had not been mod i cd in accordance with an air Force technical order. This device sends signals from the fuel tanks to inc cockpit fuel gauge the report said. The old aluminium coven on the signalling devices arc being replaced with a Eccl covers which act As a shield to help prevent false fuel readings in the cockpit the report did not say whether this was a Factor in inc Accident. The six Page report is the Only official version of the crash made Public. Similar reports arc made after each aircraft crash for use in claims Legal matters or disciplinary actions. The reports never spec Ify the causes of crashes. Fuel catches fire while being dumped from Jet correction. An article in tuesday s editions on an alleged sexual attack by four teen Ager from Baum older West a Ermany in correctly said the attack was not reported until six Days later. The victim s parents reported the Inci Dent the following Day. Raf upper Heyford England is about 800 Gallons of fuel caught fire behind an of Lyle fighter bomber tuesday when the Pilot dumped fuel before making an emergency land ing an air Force official said. The swing Wing aircraft assigned to the 20th tac fighter Wing at upper Scyford lost Power in one engine shortly after its 7 .  was on its return to the base when the Pilot unloaded the excess fuel said it. Col. Bob Brus a 3rd air Force  fuel ignited from the heat of the aircraft s remaining engine at about5,000 feet and six Miles cast of the base Brus said. He said the fuel sort of automatically ignited. The nozzle is located near the engine s  fuel is a Normal emergency measure for such a Landing. They needed to get the weight Down Brus said. The air Force is investigating the cause of the engine failure