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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, September 30, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 30, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3at least 47 dead 777 injured after typhoon pummels Japan Tokyo up a a typhoon packing 120-Mph winds and torrential Rains Cut a Swath of destruction through Japan on saturday killing at least 47 people injuring 777 and flooding More than 10,090 Homes authorities said. Officials said typhoon Murcille the 19th typhoon of the year caused More destruction and left More casualties than any other storm in 1991. The typhoon pounded Kyushu the southernmost of Japan a four main islands on Friday and saturday and then ravished the northernmost main Island of hokkaido before dissipating saturday night. Police said eight deaths were reported in Aomori prefecture seven in Fukuoka prefecture five each in Akita Hiroshima and Kagoshima prefectures. Authorities sunday recovered the body of a Crew member of a South korean freighter that sunk off the the port of 11a-Kata in Kyushu after Waves smashed the vessel into a breakwater Friday. Three Crew members remained among a total of five people still missing. A spokesman for the maritime safety Agency said patrol boats rescued six members of the 10-Mcmbcr Crew saturday. A 55-Ycar-old woman in Nagasaki 590 Miles Southwest of Tokyo died when a piece of tile struck her As she looked out of the second Story window of her Home authorities said. Her husband was seriously injured and hospitalized police said. Officials said Many of the deaths were and Yamaguchi prefectures and four in caused by High winds. In Kumamoto a Nagasaki prefecture. Three deaths each Man blown Over by Strong gusts hit his were reported in Tottori and Kumamoto head on the pavement and died. A naga prefectures two in Shimane and one Saki construction worker was crushed to was working in collapsed. The fierce winds and torrential Rains hooded 10,665 Homes and destroyed or damaged 723 others. The typhoon caused Power outages affecting almost 6 million houses or 36 percent of All households in Kyushu 52 percent in Akita prefecture and 13 percent in Niigata prefecture electric companies reported. Fourteen Homes and two other buildings were destroyed by a fire that started at a construction company office but spread quickly whipped by the Strong winds. The dry gusts sent temperatures soaring in prefectures facing the sea of Japan causing fires that destroyed another 16 Homes in Oyabu. The famous Itsu Kushima shrine on Miyajima Island was badly damaged. At Ken Okun regarded As one of the most China hokkaido Assn i 200 pm. Aps amps each in Yamagata Osaka Kochi Oita death when Beautiful gardens in Japan 50 Trees were blown Down including a 200-Ycar-old fir. A prefabricated building he the Garden was closed saturday the first unscheduled closure since it was opened to the Public in 1875. Transportation officials said 193 airline flights were cancelled affecting 29,000  Farmers storm Paris by thousands Paris up up to 200,000 disgruntled Farmers egged on by right Wing extremist Jean Marie be pen marched through the French capital sunday to dramatize demands for greater financial assistance from French president Francois Mitterrand a socialist government organizers said. Farmers Union leaders Raymond Lacombe and Philippe Mangin led the procession that set off peacefully from the place de la nation under sunny skies. In All 200,000 Farmers were believed to have come to Paris for the huge protest including 20,000 stuck in buses choking the ring Road organizers said. Some 1,000 buses were used to bring the demonstrators in from the provinces. Before the March started thousands of the Farmers gathered at the Bois de Vincennes where they ate picnic lunches washed Down with wine to fortify them for the  s party leading in Bremen voting Bremen Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohls party scored impressive gains in elections sunday in Bremen the country a smallest state Early television projections showed. The state elections Are being closely watched As a barometer of Kohls popularity while he strives to keep the Economy booming in the West and to revive it in the East. Sundays projected results Mark a turnaround from earlier this year when Kohls Christian democratic Union lost control of both Hessen and the chancellors Home state of Rheinland Pfalz. According to Adf television projections the cd gathered 32.2 percent of the vote up from 23.4 percent in 1987. The leftist social democratic party went from 50.5 percent four years ago to 37.9 percent sunday the projections  to get new numbers on tuesday by Crystal Laureano staff writer Worms Germany a standardized Telephone numbers for some commanders key staff organizations and facilities will go into effect tuesday As part of the reorganization of army communities in Europe 5th signal come officials said. Offices of similar responsibility in each Community will have the same Telephone number except for the individual Community a prefix. The new phone number system coincides with the army a shift of its 37 communities in Europe into 12 Hub communities called area support groups. Most of these comprise several communities called base support battalions. The bibs handle logistical support activities. All area support groups and base support battalions fall under the new Telephone number system. In most cases the number is made up of seven digits using the current european Telephone system ets prefix and four digits standardized for a particular office. The Only exception is in Fulda Germany which has a tour number ets prefix. For example All area support group commanders can be reached by dealing the Community ets prefix and 1300. All base support battalion chaplains can be reached by dealing the Community prefix and 1570. The standardized numbers also can be reached from a civilian Telephone by dealing the military to civilian conversion number and the four digit standardized number said Del Horton chief of the signal support division. The standardization began As a suggestion from someone outside the 5th signal come organization Horton said. Planning for the new system has been ongoing since May. Identifying which numbers should he standardized was one of the first tasks he said. A we looked at things the customer or family member would have a lot of interest in calling a Horton said explaining the selection process. The standardized numbers Range from the following Are the standardized Telephone numbers for area support groups and base support battalions in the Hub communities of the . Army Europe. Like offices in each Community will have the same number. Only Community prefixes will differ. Area support groups 1 1 base support battalions 1300 commander 1500 commander 1310 executive officer 1510 executive officer 1320 sergeant major 1520 sergeant major. 1330 Security plans and operations 1530 intelligence operations a pts 1540 Supply 1340 services and material Dol 1550 adjutant 1350 personnel and administration 1560 engineering and housing Dupca 1570 chaplain 1360 engineering and housing 1580 Provost marshal 1370 chaplain 1610 Headquarters detachment a 1380 Provost marshal 1600 Public affairs office 1450 Headquarters company 1630 civilian personnel service Center 1400 Public affairs office 1640 information management service 1410 resource management Center 1420 inspector general 1700 billeting 1430 civilian personnel office 1710 Community counselling Center 1440 information management 1720 dental activity 1730 finance a emergency numbers 1740 1750 Library medical activity 116 ambulance 1760 red Cross 117 fire 1770 schools 114 military police 1780 1790 tax Relief office vat theater 1800 transportation motor Pool the standardized phone numbers can be used Only in support groups or base support battalions Are located their ets prefixes Are communities in which area those communities and 468 Ansbach 475 Grafe Wohr 360 Netherlands 434 Augsburg 322 Hanau 460 Nurnberg 323 Aschaffenbur 370 Heidelberg 495 Pir Masens 490 bad Kreuz Nach 426 Heilbronn 354 Schweinfurt 469 Bamberg 466 Hohenfels 420 Stuttgart 485 Baum older 483 Kaiserslautern 243 United kingdom 332 Berlin 376 Karlsruhe 476 Vilseck 342 Bremerhaven 633 Livorno 634 Vicenza 348 Darmstadt 334 Mainz 337 Wiesbaden 320 Frankfurt 380 Mannheim 326 Wil Flecken 3213 Fulda 440 Munich 350 Wurzburg 343 Giessen 361 nato shape 494 two Brucken 425 Goppinger support group ski Suvino h. 1300 to 1800 and Are numbers that were never before used in the ets system said Leroy Mullen also with the signal support division. Therefore no it s customers will lose their phone number through the standardization. The 5th signal come has published a Booklet that lists the Community ets prefixes  numbers and civil Ian to military Exchange or discs  
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