European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Hiring freeze gets added exemption Heidelberg Germany a the defense department has granted an additional exemption from its hiring freeze for family members of service members and civilian workers in Europe. Before nov. 8, Only spouses of service members entitled to the military spouse preference could be hired for defense department jobs in Europe. The program gives a one time top priority in overseas hiring to spouses of service members. The latest exemption applies to family members of All civilian employees As Well As to military family members and spouses who have used their one time hiring privilege. Under both exemptions Community leaders May fill one position for every two vacancies As needed. The exemption applies to family members of non appropriated fund employees As Well As appropriated fund workers. Also included in the exemption from the freeze As of nov. 8 Are defense department employees returning to the work Force after having recuperated from work related injuries. Persons with severe disabilities such As blindness deafness or partial to Complete loss of use of limbs Are also excluded from the hiring freeze. Officials of the . Army in Europe requested the exception to the freeze in june based on the commands need for More flexibility in filling openings. An earlier exception that permits government employees to move internally Between defense department jobs did no tease hiring difficulties because Europe a is not a big Dod Community a said Jim Biggs of the Usa eur civilian personnel division. The command also sought the exception to be fair to family members of the civilian work Force a facing the same employment circumstances As their military counterparts a Biggs said. Saturday november 24, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 3 Crews Are cleaning up after Barracks Oil leak by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a dozens of Stuttgart firefighters Are cleaning up an area contaminated by an Oil leak at a Patch Barracks heating Plant. The sunday Accident poses no danger to a nearby Pond that serves As a Reserve municipal drinking water Reservoir City officials said. The incident occurred in an installation that provides heat for the entire army Post the location of . European come he. The Stuttgart military converted the heating facility from Oil heat to natural Gas and turned it Over to a City run Utility the Tec Nische Werke Der Stadt Stuttgart a. The Gas burners went into operation oct. 1, but the army also wanted to Burn off an unspecified amount of Oil remaining in two outdoor tanks next to the building Utility Engineer Dieter Grosshans said. On sunday clumps of Oil from the tanks apparently collected in a pipe inside the Plant. This caused a pump to build pressure in the pipe and forced Oil to spurt through an overflow valve and into the heating plants cellar. Stuttgart firefighters responded to clean up the Sticky mess. City and army spokesmen said they did not know How much Oil had escaped. The City environmental control office discovered at 2 . Tuesday that the overflow Oil had seeped into an artificial unnamed Stream behind the Post. By 5 , cleanup measures had started. The Stuttgart fire department sent about 50 professional and Volunteer firefighters to the site wednesday to scoop up Oil that also was running out of a drainage pipe downhill from the Plant fire department spokesman Dietrich Bockle said. The firefighters also removed Earth that the Oil had contaminated Bockle said. The soil was taken to a hazardous waste disposal facility. A firefighter also descended into the remains of an old sewerage system under the building wednesday to Block up drains that officials say May have provided the Oil with an escape route from the building. The cleanup still Wasny to finished Friday though. Grosshans visiting the Accident site late in the afternoon said the City environmental Protection office has ordered the removal of a Stream bed. That work is expected to begin monday. The Oil did not reach nearby Katzenbach Pond which Stuttgart uses As a Reserve drinking water Supply Grosshans said. The contaminated Stream flows in another direction into gems Brook. That Brook flows through Western suburbs of Stuttgart into the Enz River which empties into the Neckar River. Quebec planning reported Ottawa up a Canadas finance department and Central Bank already Are gearing up for Quebec a possible secession including monetary Union Between English and French speaking Canada a leading Quebec economist said Friday. A Pierre Fortin economics professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal said the finance department was calculating Quebec a share of the National debt estimated to be $400 billion while the Bank of Canada was considering a future monetary Union. A they Are doing their Homework. Competent managers should be prepared to face the worst scenario a Fortin said. Fortin estimated Quebec would be responsible for 23 percent or 24 percent of the National debt but would get credit for its share of about $120 billion Worth of Federal buildings and other assets scattered across the country. A there is a stunning ignorance outside Quebec of what is happening a Fortin said adding that nearly 65 percent of Quebe cers now favor sovereignty. A a there a a big train coming and the momentum of that train is very Strong a he said. A spokesman for the department of finance in Ottawa said he was unaware of any special project concerning Quebec a possible autonomy but did not Rule out the possibility the government was working on it. A spokesperson for the Bank of Canada said a the Only thing i can Tell you is the Bank keeps up on different Points of a commission sponsored by the Quebec government which is to report next Spring on the provinces political and constitutional future is expected to Call for sweeping changes in Quebec a relationship with Canada. Boys girls you can win a Bike the stars and stripes annual Christmas colouring cd starts nov. 26th a bicycle awarded to each first place Winner in both categories. 34 other prizes
