European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 Aid flights to Sarajevo grounded allies seeking Safe passage after shrapnel hits c-130 by Kevin roil non staff writer Allied Airlift operations into Sarajevo Airport were stopped saturday in response to recent shelling of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina that damaged an american c-130 aircraft wednesday . Official said. As a prelude to halting the Sarajevo Airlift joint task Force provide Promise officials grounded All flights into the City thursday and Friday according to a , european come statement. A . Communique sent to Muslim and serbian military officials said that Relief operations would cease until All factions have Given the United nations proper assurances there will be of further attacks jeopardizing the safety of . Operations at the Sarajevo Airport the Neucom statement said. Saturday s formal announcement that the . Airlift of humanitarian Relief supplies into Sarajevo was temporarily halted came from adm. Mike Boorda the commander of the joint task Force provide Promise another cease fire disintegrates Page 13 As Well As the commander of nato forces in Southern Europe and the . Naval forces Europe. Provide Promise is the code name for the . Humanitarian Relief Effort to the former Yugoslavia. The Allied Relief Mission also involves planes and aircrews from Canada Germany France the United kingdom and Norway the Sarajevo Airport was closed wednesday amid continued extensive serbian shelling of the City that has killed at least 31 people since Jan. 1, according to the associated press. About 1 33 . Central european time on wednes Day a . C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 435th air Wing at Rhein main a Germany was damaged by shrapnel from a 128 my mortar round that exploded about 165 to 300 feet from the plane while at the Sarajevo Airport said it. Col. Suzanne handle a spokeswoman for . Humanitarian Airlift operations at the air base. . Personnel suffered no injuries during the attack Randle said. However the c-130 immediately took off for Ancona air base Italy to assess damage to the aircraft she said. A 3-Inch Gash and a 1-Inch Hole in the Aileron of the left Wing were found. An Aileron is a Pilot operated air foil or Flap that controls the rolling movements of the  . Plane returned to Rhein main on wednes . Before the halt of Airlift operations into Sarajevo we had been flying three to four aircraft sorties a Day out of Rhein main a with two landings at the City s Airport Randle said. We Are still flying six to eight Airdrop missions a Day from Rhein main involving nine ., two Ger Man and one French aircraft she added. I can t say exactly where the Airdrop missions Are going in bos Nia and  the . Humanitarian Airlift was the main source of food and Medicine for Sarajevo s 380,000 residents according to the associated press. Every dog has his Day at base Salon by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Oesterberg a Netherlands even though the dog Days of sum Mer Are months away and the last Wolf hound won t leave Oesterberg a until september january is the end month at the base grooming Salon. To celebrate the shop is offering a 20 percent discount for dogs whose ends Are adorned with docked or no tails. Such novel discounts Aren t new to the morale welfare and recreation activity. For example december was White dog month october Black dog and spooky Toenail month and september poodles and pit bulls  the Zany discounts were introduced by Kristine Helgeson a dog Groomer and Trainer who for about a year has pampered pets at the Home of the 32nd fighter group nicknamed the wolfhounds. The Salon will close because Helgeson is heading for Span Dahlem a Ger Many with her senior airman husband Kenneth. Because Oesterberg a is drawing Down she won t be replaced. Helgeson who studied advertising de sign in College said she began offering 20 percent monthly specially discounts More for her regular customers than to attract new clients. I m just trying to give them a discount to make it a Little cheaper because grooming is not cheap she said. Prices Range from $18 to $50, depend ing on the Type of dog. Most dogs require cuts about every eight weeks. Some dogs qualified for discounts in several months. A Black terrier for example could have come in october re turned in november for terrier month and joined the rest of the stump tailed canines in january. In August zips month any dog s owner could have received a bargain. That month Helgeson gave a break on Boot Camp style shaves to help dogs beat the heat. Then there Are the toenails. A lot of women if you ask them if they want the toenails done they say no because they Don t know what their Hus bands Are going to think Helgeson said. When she asks the men directly she said they bark no like angry bulldogs is Rosemary Sawyer Kristine Helgeson pretties up a patient customer recently in her dog grooming shop at Oesterberg a Netherlands. No Sissy dogs for them. But if i do it and just Send the dog Home that Way they love it she Saint they think i did this extra special thing for  for spooky Toenail month Helge son painted the dogs toenails alter a tingly Orange and Green. December meant a lot of red and Green toenails. For the fourth of july this was the Best i did red White and Blue toenails on All the dogs Helgeson said. We did t even ask owners we just did it each dog received red and Blue rib Bons to match. Helgeson proudly shows bottles of Doggy Nail polish in White yellow Green Light Blue dark Blue red and purple. Purple happens to be one of my favourites because it looks Good on any dog she said adding that it s especially Nice on White dogs. Tilly s sporting the red today and so is Roxy Helgeson said pointing to her Friendly american pit Bull terrier Attila and shy Fox terrier. Along with the Toenail treatment Hel Geson brushes clips and bathes her four legged clients with color enhancing  the red shampoo brings out the Gold in red and Brown dogs and the Black shampoo makes Black Coats shiny she explained. She acknowledged that she s unconventional in her approach to dog Groom ing which she Hopes to continue at Span Dahlem. I kind of like to make them look Dif Ferent do something different she said not a lot of people let me do that  s. European a units win awards Naples Italy is air Force and Navy journalists in Southern Europe have taken top honors in two service wide Media competitions. The air Force and Navy have separate journalism contests under which individual journalists newspapers and radio and television stations arc judged based on samples of their work. The air Force named senior airman Sean Lehman from san Vito Dei nor Manni air station Italy broadcaster of the year. San Vito s american forces network affiliate also garnered first place for its information program on base closure and for its locally produced safety commercials. Second place honors went to san Vito for local new casting and sports stories. San Vito took five of 12 air Force. Awards. The an affiliate in Aviano Italy was named tops in local new casting and staff sgt. Mike Burnette who works at the affiliate took top honors for radio entertainment. Sgt. David Johnson of Iraklion Crete came in first for radio spot production. Det 3 american forces european broadcasting service at Lajes Field azores took first in radio feature news Story and second place in the entertain ment and information category. Petty officer 2nd class Mary Lloyd a journalist with the Navy broadcasting serv ice det in Simonella Sicily placed second in the broadcast journalist category. Simonella also came in first for local television new casting and grabbed Sec Ond place honors for special radio pro Grams and television news feature stories la Maddalena Sardinia took top Hon ors in the Navy for local radio newscast ing. Naples placed third in the Navy s category of special radio program to in formation series. Commander Fleet air Mediterranean s Nav eur Magazine took first place in the Navy s information and entertainment series. The Magazine tied for third place for sports features. �