European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday september 12,1990 s4s l. Emmett Lewis or. A amps Susan Harris houses near the flight path of Rhein main a aircraft can to escape the Roar of powerful  noise upsets Rhein main area residents by Helge thele staff writer Mai Felden West Germany a Ursula Emmerich of mor Felden has been spending the late night and Early morning hours lately Reading or watching television. Shed rather be sleeping. So would other residents of communities near Rhein main a where the number of military Airlift flights has jumped from 30 a Day before operation desert shield to about 120 missions daily. And the noise from huge cargo planes like the c-5 Galaxy and c-141 Star lifter has some German citizens in an uproar. A they Fly especially Between 10 . And 2 a.m.,�?� said Martin Kessel of Walldorf a Village less than a mile from the runways used by the base. A sometimes there Are planes Landing and taking off every five  Kessel is a spokesman for the 25-member committee called flu Hafen 2000, a grass roots organization that would like to see flights restricted to daytime Only. A i have two children 9 and 12 years old. They re afraid of War. We Wake up in the Middle of the night. At first we do not know Why because the plane is already gone a Kessel said. Ludwig Klein also of Walldorf said the . Air Force should conduct some of the Airlift operations from Hahn Span Dahlem or Pitburg air bases. A at Hahn a for example there is no big City around and there is no commercial flight traffic like in Frankfurt a Klein said. A it is not Only that we complain about the increased noise. We Are also afraid of another c-5 crash a Emmerich said in reference to the aug. 29 crash at Ramstein that killed 13 service members. Baldur Schmitt a county official from Gross Gerau said newly arriving pilots sometimes fail to adhere to official flights routes. A we Are not against the Airlift but we would like to see that the . Pilots Are Given a More exact briefing about the flight routes they have to stay on a Schmitt said. Officials at Rhein main a however dispute Schmitts claims. A we keep records of flight route violations but so far there have been no written violations a said senior master sgt. Basil Kuzyszyn a Rhein main spokesman. Pilots Are thoroughly briefed beforehand Kuzyszyn said and the airways Are strictly controlled by German air traffic controllers who would notify the base if an approach was incorrect. However Wolf held a commissioner assigned by the Hessen ministry of economics to Monitor flight noise said that some . Pilots have missed the official flight routes. A but today they Are Here and tomorrow they Are somewhere else. It is difficult to identify them a he said. Two flight routes for . Air Force pilots Are being used in the Airlift held said. Transport planes that must stay Over nato territory on their Way to saudi Arabia take off toward the Southwest which puts them Over the town of Gross Gerau. That path eventually take the planes Over Luxembourg France Italy and Greece held said. A this happens when they have military equipment like tanks and helicopters on Board a he said. When the aircraft Are transporting Medicine and food they can leave the Frankfurt area via the South flying Over Switzerland and Austria. A this Means that communities like a Drelden Walldorf and Gas Senhausen Are affected by the increased flight noise a held said. Emmerich said there May be Only one solution to the noise problem. A perhaps we will move somewhere else a she said. Contributing to this report staff writer Randy Pruitt in Darmstadt wast is Many Eagle scout Ramstein a West Germany a Eddie Seibert 16, has been promoted o Eagle scout the highest Honor in scouting. The Ramstein High school Junior is he son of Edward and Debra Seibert. For his Eagle scout project he As listed the base veterinary clinic by conducting a customer Survey. He compiled and reported statistical data on the pet population on the base and identified customer concerns. His Survey helped the base veterinarian estimate the number of a vaccinated animals on Ramstein. Seibert who has been in boy scouting for 10 years is a member of troop 12. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Munster my being tried on charges of suffocating his 9-month-old so correction the memorial service for kindergarten cached Mattie l. Perkins is scheduled or Friday at 4 . At the Wiley baracks Chapel in Neu Ulm. By Ron Mckinney staff writer Darmstadt West Germany a a military policeman went on trial tuesday on charges of suffocating his 9-month-old son last Christmas eve. Pfc. Douglas Hailey assigned to 6th my co at Munster is being tried by a military judge col. Peter e. Brownback Iii in a general court martial at Darmstadt. Hailey is charged with premeditated murder by Means of suffocation. Prosecutors say the son Jeremy t. Hailey was suffocated with a Pillow in the family a apartment in Babenhausen. Last Christmas eve Hailey carried the baby into the couples bedroom and told his wife spec. Caroline Hailey that the child was no longer breathing his wife testified. The couple used car on the child. But they failed to revive him and took him to a Hospital in Gross Umstadt where he was pronounced dead. During tuesdays session the prosecution attempted to show that the child a death was the culmination of abuse. Or. Maj Lawrence Deutsch an Ortho medic surgeon at the Lan Stuhl  regional medical Center testified that Jeremy had suffered fractured Bones on at least five different occasions before he died. A in my opinion its child abuse a Deutsch said. Doctors began to suspect in october that the child was being abused. On  named to head institutes of health Washington up a or. Bema Dine Healy of the Cleveland clinic foundation has been picked by health and human services Secretary Louis Sullivan to fill the Long vacant Job of director of the National institutes of health officials said monday. Healy a appointment requires approval from Senate. Healy 46, who could not be reached for comment monday would replace or. James Wyngaarden who resigned As Nih director on july 31, 1989, when the Bush administration indicated it wanted to choose its own chief. 4, Jeremy was flown to Lan Stuhl  medical Center suffering from a severe Skull fracture. Hailey told police that the child fell from his  while he was making baby formula at Home. He said the child jerked fell Back and struck the Back of his head on a Kitchen counter. Jeremy spent three weeks in the Hospital at Lan Stuhl. Or. Col Richard Swengel a neurosurgeon at Lan Stuhl said he did not believe the explanation. A to have a Skull fracture with a depression of this magnitude is not consistent with the explanation Swengel said. He compared the extent of the fracture to an injury that a child would suffer in a fall from a second Story. During her testimony Hailey wife a disputed that he had abused the child. A the was a Good father a said the wife who is also assigned to the 6th my co in Munster. A the showed off Jeremy and took care of him so i could get things  testimony continued late tuesday with the defense Cross examining mrs. Hailey. The trial was expected to conclude wednesday