European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus golfers feel trapped cozy clubhouse by Jeffrey Bair the associated press the news Cut into the boys at the clubhouse like a 6-Iron into Bluegrass. Some budget slicing whippersnappers tried to shut Down Pittsburgh s Schenley Park Golf course Heck this place was t just for Golf. It was camaraderie for about 100 crusty old Guys. It was hearts poker and crazy eights and linoleum tables bag lunches and flannel sleeves rolled up to the elbows. Perhaps More importantly it was a place to get away from their wives. Or from a different perspective it was a place for their wives to Send them if they lurked too Long in the living room. Quot it s just like i m on Remote control. I get up in the morning and shoot right Down Here Quot said Jake Carr 65, a retired firefighter fan of Argyle cardigans and 40-year golfer at the City owner course. Some of Carr s fellow golfers showed up As usual one Chilly november morning rattled the doors and found they were locked out. Disoriented they perched themselves on benches and began yapping away As they had for years. Quot they had nowhere else to go Quot said Edgar Krause 78. In a City that is suffering the same fiscal slings and arrows that All cities face Schenley had become an easy target. The City gives the course $250,000 a Edgar Krause Center and friends play Gin in the clubhouse of the Schenley Park coif course in Pittsburgh year. City finance director Ben Hayllar said few of Pittsburgh s 370,000 residents play Golf and it s unfair to make them All pay for the 1,000 people who want Schenley open. Quot we need to be putting cops on the Street not duffers on the greens Quot he said. Quot it is a question of where your priorities  so in mid november Schenley closed. Shutting Schenley Down was like taking san Juan Capistrano away from the swallows or putting plywood in the windows of the Barbershop where the regulars hang canes on umbrella stands and Lay Odds on each other s cancer treatments. But this tale is not one of woe. No these Guys Are too resilient for that. Enter Bob o Connor the City Council member who leads Council s Parks committee. He persuaded mayor Sophie Masloff s administration to rent the clubhouse to a private golfers association for $850 a month at least until the Spring thaw. Club Schenley reopened on dec. 1. Quot it beats a bar. It beats hanging out in a Corner Quot said Vince Caliguiri 33, who Learned Golf from old timers at the clubhouse. The building is just that a a clubhouse like the ones that 8-year-Olds build in Trees. One almost expects to see a Quot no girls allowed Quot sign on the Wall next to the senior scramble results. The course is open and everyone plays for free a if they can shake off weather cold enough to make Hardy Young golfers leave their Drivers sheathed in fuzzy club  his part Krause said Only a Hurricane could keep him from golfing. A few years Back he Carr and other die hards whacked soggy Tennis balls with their Irons in foot deep Snow. This respite May not last forever. Hayllar said officials want private operators or a nonprofit group to take Schenley off its hands and a decision is expected by Spring. During the weeks that the Schenley was closed Krause found other things to do. In his free afternoons he was left to take his wife fran to movie matinees. They caught sister act and other films. That was of but. Quot Don t get me wrong a i enjoyed that Quot Krause said. Quot but i enjoy being Here  Lin deadline for old Apo numbers q a i keep hearing on both an to and radio and have read in the stars and stripes about a feb. 15, 1993, deadline for changing to the new Apo numbers. I keep hearing Reading about using the new Apo numbers a even though my zip code did not change with the new Apo a format. However i now use a car number followed by my Box number. What i want to know is if a letter is mailed to me after feb. 15 using Apo by 09056, will it be forwarded the postal service has always insisted that mail sorting is based on the zip codes. Did someone at the military postal service change this procedure so that it is now based on unit or car number Thomas Hoffecker Mannheim Germanio Barbara Lutz postal service analyst . Army postal group Europe replies the deadline of feb. 15,1993 a today a applies Only to mail using an incorrect or outdated Apo number. Mail using the Correct Apo number will be delivered regardless of whether the four line address is Complete. In other words mail which does not have the new univ car number or mail addressed to Apo by instead of Apo a will still be delivered As Long As it displays the Correct Apo number. The . Postal service Apo realignment program implemented by All military sen ices in 1991, changed about one third of our Apo numbers. Personnel stationed in Europe have been allowed to use both the old and new Apo numbers to receive mail during the transition period. After today the . Postal service will not Forward any mail addressed to the old Apo number instead it will be returned to the sender. If personnel have not changed their addresses to the new Apo number they must do so immediately. If personnel Are having difficulty changing their addresses they should Contact their local postal officer for assistance and for postage free change of address cards. The . Postal service sorts military mail by Apo number before forwarding it overseas. It plans to eventually use automated mail sorting equipment which is Why unit car numbers were added to our addresses. Readers action line which appears mondays and wednesdays strives to answer questions about life in a military environment. If you done to know where to turn for help write readers action Une a eco the stars and stripes unit 29480, Apo a 09211. All letters must be signed. Please include address and phone  take the Lead in City scout troops by James Dao the new York times when Sharon Sockwell a single Mother from Brooklyn enrolled her twin sons in the boy scouts character not camping was her prime motivation. Quot i wanted them to have a positive male role Model Quot she said. Things have turned out almost As she had hoped. Her 11 year Olds have Learned about pitching tents surviving in the Woods and Black american history. And the scoutmaster for troop 621 in Bedford Stuyvesant is As Good As they come demanding but patient hard Worling dedicated and in a Drill sergeant sort of Way funny. A a the scoutmaster is also a woman. Quot i was a Little disappointed at first Quot said Sockwell 38, Quot but we tried to get men involved. We Learned we had to do the Best we could without  scouting has been growing steadily in new York and other Urban areas in recent years especially among Black hispanic and asian boys. And As More and More join that classic american bastion of the male Virtues an increasing number of scout troops Are being organized and led by women largely because an increasing number of boy scouts have no fathers. Quot this is a recognition of what s going on with families and where kids Are at Quot said Brian Archimbaud a spokesman for the greater new York councils of the boy scouts. Quot lots of households Are headed by women and there Are lots of instances where men Aren t  every year since 1988, when the boy scouts first allowed women to serve As scoutmaster the number of female headed troops has risen steadily. At the end of 1991,35 of 459 scoutmaster in new York City were women. Nationwide there were nearly 1,400 female scoutmaster More than 3 percent of the total and More than double the number from the year before. Many female scoutmaster Are married. Some were involved in the cub scouts which has allowed women to be cub masters since 1976, and simply graduated into being scoutmaster for the boy scouts. Some have taken Over troops where male scoutmaster have had to quit because they work Long hours or hold two jobs. And in Many cases there simply have been no fathers available. Bov scout officials say the growing number of female scoutmaster has not adversely affected its programs or its mandate. Female scoutmaster receive the same training As male scoutmaster. Scouts Are still taught skills like knot tying Wood carving and fire starting. And they Are still inculcated with the values expressed in the boy scout Law trustworthiness loyalty obedience deaf Liness and bravery. What has changed is the acceptance of the notion that women could teach those Virtues. Quot i know a lot of parents who cherish the idea of a positive male role Model As scoutmaster Quot said Anthony Soriano a District executive with the greater new York councils. Quot but with the ideas we re teaching does it matter who is teaching them family responsibility to yourself your Community cleanliness of mind and body. They Are human ideals american  a Thi stars and stripes o monday. February 15,1993