European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes sunday May 5,1991 Navy begins fleets to 5 a Ning Susanne m. Schafer a military writer. Washington a the Navy said Friday it will station an aircraft Carrier Battle group in Everett Wash., and will assign More than 40 ships to four other new a Home ports under development around the country. A Navy spokesman said no specific Carrier from the Fleet has been chosen for the move to the base located in Everett but reps. Norm Dicks and Al. Swift d-Wash., said they had been informed the Nimitz would be moved from its temporary berth in Bremerton Wash. A a a a a. A. A. V .7 a v Everett is located in Dicks congressional District. He is the senior member of the House appropriations subcommittee on defense which must approve the Pentagon s annual budget. Besides a nuclear powered Carrier the port would be the base for two guided missile frigates two destroyers and two guided missile destroyers the Navy said a Carrier has a complement of 5,000 to 7,000 sailors and airmen. Each destroyer has a complement of around 300, and a frigate 200 men. The other Home ports Are located in. Staten Island n.y., Mobile ala., Pascagoula miss and Ingleside Texas near Corpus Christi. The Texas port will get a Fleet of 14 mine countermeasures ships eight min Hunters and three frigates used As training ships for the reserves the Navy said. A a a a a. A. A a a sen. Phil Gramm a Texas said the decision will bring up to 2,500 Active duty military people to the Corpus Christi area and ends speculation about the Fate of the nearly completed Home port which had been up in the air for months. One of two vessels originally slated for the Texas site the Carrier Lexington is being decommissioned. And defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants to Mothball the second the Batti ship Wisconsin later this year., the Navy said it intends to station a Cruiser two guided missile destroyers two Reserve guided missile frigates and three frigates used for Reserve training at the Staten Island port. In Mobile the plans Call for two Reserve guided missile frigates and frigate trainers. Pascagoula would gain four guided missile frigates the Navy said. A one ship has arrived at the Staten Island Home port and the other facilities Are in various stages of development. V. A a in Mobile and Pascagoula for example the first ships arc scheduled to arrive this fall v the strategic Home porting program was developed in the mid-1980s when a 600-ship Navy was planned and the Pentagon citing strategic concerns wanted to disperse some of the Fleet away from the four Chi sting Home ports. Last month the general accounting office arguing the new Navy Home ports arc no longer needed recommended that they be scrapped to save taxpayers $593 million now and at least $57 million in annual operating costs. _ but the Gao report said the Navy now is projecting that its Fleet will decrease from 545 ships in fiscal 1990 to 451 ships by fiscal year 1995. Storms fury a Man walks by a damaged hangar at the Shreveport la regional Airport which recorded 3,6 inches of rain in six hours Friday. The storm flooded streets produced Hail and of up to 90 Mph for two hours. No injuries were reported. At the Airport three hangars were destroyed and another 10 hangars damaged. Four aircraft were destroyed and at least six others were damaged. A the wind picked up freight containers weighing 100 to 150 pounds each and threw them around like Dice a said one Airport official. 40-year deserter Given discharge Alameda Calif. Apr a homeless Man who spent nearly 41 years on the run As a coast guard deserter was spared a court martial and discharged Friday. Daniel Villalon 68, served in the Navy for six years from november 1942 to october 1948. During the War he served As a fireman assigned to the South Pacific. He joined the coast guard in May 1950 and walked off the Cutter Winona on aug. 22, 1950, while the ship was docked in port Angeles Wash. He remained absent without leave until april 17, when san Francisco police arrested him for vagrancy and found he w As wanted by the coast guard As a deserter. Villalon was turned Over to the custody of the coast guard which gave him medical care a haircut a uniform food and a place to stay Over the past 2vi weeks while his Case was reviewed. Since there is no statute of limitations on desertion Villalon could have faced a court martial. But following an administrative review of his service record capt. Winston g. Churchill recommended that Villalon receive a general discharge due to misconduct. Coast guard Headquarters in Washington agreed. Villalon told officials he went awol because of personal problems and feelings of torpedo buried in Pearl Harbor from wire reports Pearl Harbor Hawaii a a world War ii Vintage japanese Aerial torpedo was scooped from the mud neatly 50 years after it apparently missed its target in the dec. 7, 1941, attack on the . Pacific Fleet a Navy spokesman said. A i suppose you can make the Assumption its been there since the attack a said Joel Keefer a spokesman for the naval base. The Harbor near Ford Island was being dredged when the torpedo was scooped from the mud Keefer said thursday. Workers notified Navy explosives experts who moved the torpedo to a safer area he said. The ordnance team will determine if the torpedo can be disarmed Keefer said. If not it probably will be carried out to sea and destroyed. Quot Pearl Harbor was closed to tour boats following the discovery and trips by the Ford Island ferry were suspended for a time Keefer said. He said the torpedo was in the area where the Oklahoma sunk on dec. 7. Workers flush Coyote litter Tucson Ariz. Apr the last thing the lumbers expected to flush out of the Drain was a Itter of Coyote pups. But that is exactly what they found when they cleared a 16-Inch Drain pipe at the Westin la Paloma resort. Workmen were called last week after the Tennis courts flooded from a backed up Drain. They used a High pressure Hose and flushed out a pile of Sand and leaves along with three Coyote puppies about 6 to 7 weeks old. The water leaves the Hose with about 2,000 pounds pressure per Square Inch but Al Pfordte a Roto rooter manager said the pups weren to Hurt. A a a. / \ a a it just washed out the dirt and mud probably with them rolled up into it a he said. The animals were turned Over to Arizona game and fish officials and were reported in Good identified Honolulu a two . Servicemen killed during the Vietnam War whose bodies recently were returned to the United states were honoured at a military ceremony Friday. / theirs were the first remains among 18 returned by vietnamese authorities in january and March to be identified. The bodies were identified As those of Navy capt. Peter w. Sherman of a Ebay Village Ohio and Petty officer 3rd class Thomas l. Plants of Medina Ohio. Sherman was listed As missing june 10, 1967, when he failed to return from a Mission in North Vietnam. Plants was listed As missing june 2, 1965, also in North Vietnam. Their remains were to be flown to Travis fab in California on Friday and will be turned Over to their families. Juice no longer fresh Washington a Citrus world inc. Has become the third food company to agree under pressure from the food anti drug administration to Stop using the word a a fresh in its product name the Fra said Friday. The Lake Wales fla., company will drop the word from its Cartons of Citrus world fresh no natural by june 6, said Fra spokesman Jeff Nesbitt. Labels on plastic jugs will be changed by june 20, he said. The Fra said use of a a fresh to describe the Orange juice was false and misleading because its made from agreement follows a similar arrangement with Procter amp Gamble and Rug foods Tunnel closed Houston up a a water main burst and flooded a downtown pedestrian Tunnel before Dawn Friday turning the underground Walkway into a virtual River that reached Depths of More than 5 feet. The main apparently broke about 4 . And dumped water into the Tunnel running Between the Harris county civil and criminal courts buildings and a county administration building
