European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 13 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3kitzingen, Wurzburg to get Cable to by Dave Melancon Wurzburg Bureau Kitzinger Germany residents of. Kitzinger and Wurzburg military communities Are getting English language Cable television this fall. A Beavis and butt head Are coming to Wurzburg a said capt. Donald Smith Wurzburg area support team commander. Smith was referring to the slow a witted animated characters made famous on mtg. According to plans both 417th base support in communities will be wired for Cable he said. Speaking at the Kitzinger Community town Hall meeting wednesday maj. Steve Torelli the kit Zilig in area support team commander said workers Are already wiring the 683 apartments in the Marshall Heights housing area. Work should be completed by the end of september. The 18 Bachelor enlisted and officers quarters 26 family housing units in Cordelle Circle and 16 units in the Richthofen family housing area will be wired in november he said. Junior enlisted soldiers living in single Soldier quarters have not been forgotten Torelli said. Talks Are under Way to get the Barracks connected to the system. Families living in leased and Economy housing or government rental housing program quarters will not receive Cable under this program he said. Negotiations Are going on to get Cable for leased housing he said. Results Are expected by the end of August. Those residents May want to consider purchasing a satellite receiver or sign up for Cable in their communities if it is available. In Wurzburg residents living in the sky line and Lincoln housing areas will be getting the Complete picture too this fall Smith said. Barracks at Gie Belstadt army Airfield Are satellite ready said an operations noncommissioned officer. Company commanders have to Purchase receivers with unit funds there Are no plans to wire the off installation housing areas he said. Wurzburg a neighbouring military Community Schweinfurt has had Cable television in its family housing area since october said George Ohl spokesman for the 280th base support in. Subscribers pay 37 Marks about $24.50 a month for up 18 English language and european channels. A tenants have two weeks to decide on signing a contract with Cable television a Torelli said. The monthly fee for Wurzburg and Kitzinger subscriptions will be 38 Marks about $25bruno Kochenburger sales manager for tvs Cable systems of Kaiserslautern told the town Hall meeting. There a no charge for installation. There is a five Mark $3.31 late fee and a 30-Mark about $19.86 reconnection fee. The company will establish an office at Larson Barracks in Kitzinger to serve Kitzinger and Wurzburg communities. The office will receive payments set up subscriptions and handle customer problems Kochenburger said. Some buildings May ave already been wired but Are not receiving a signal he said. Workers still have to Complete junctions and install signal amplifiers in some places. A within the next two or three weeks some buildings will have Clear reception a Kochenburger said. A workers will Start installing at the end of August and the Job should be completed by Christmas he said. Cable system representatives will be meeting with Community leaders and residents to explain details. An television will be sent free to All quarters Kochenburger said. Telecasts available on television sets designed for the United states include cartoon network in country music television travel Channel Enro sport Cable news network British broadcasting corp., mtg and Gal vision. Those with Multi system televisions will receive an additional eight european stations. Lapp alcalde2 Europe workers in Competition for Fop no title in commissaries Kaiserslautern Germany a amps a philippine american and a Pennsylvania Man will represent the defense commissary Agency Europe As they vie to become the Agency Stop worldwide enlisted personnel of the year. Navy chief Petty officer Mauricio Alcaide and air Force staff sgt. James Lapp were recently named the european regions senior and intermediate enlisted nominees for decals annual worldwide enlisted personnel of the year awards. Alcaide works in Naples Italy As a commissary management specialist at the Mediterranean District office and is also temporary manager of the store in Athens Greece. A. A a. A.  a i was really surprised a Alcaide said of his selection. A i mean with the military draw Down in deca it seems to me sometimes in a the Only one military member  the Mediterranean District encompasses 13 commissaries and numerous smaller retail outlets from saudi Arabia to the azores or an area larger than the Continental United states. Lapp an administrative assistant at deca Europe Headquarters has created a data base to track All military members assigned to the european Region. By virtue of his daily routine Lapp is in Contact with senior deca officials and hears the verbal a pats of the  but he said he was pleased his work was recognized. Alcaide and Lapp As Well As the nominees from decals six other worldwide regions will attend the american logistics association conference oct. 26-29. The commissary services senior enlisted managers will narrow the Field to Only the winners at the conference. Officials restart pest inspection of outdoor gear before moves by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau do you store personal property outdoors in Germany if so expect a customs inspector to visit you before you move Back to the United states. The . European come has resumed inspecting All outdoor items among household goods shipments of departing americans who live in military communities in Germany. The renewed scrutiny is designed to prevent asian Gypsy Moths and their eggs from getting transported to the United states according to the commands customs executive Agency in Mannheim Germany. The Moths Are a menace because in Caterpillar form they eat the leaves of Many kinds of Trees sometimes causing the Trees to die. The caterpillars have overrun parts of Central and Southern Germany in the past two years and have moved into France As Well. For people who Are shipping their belongings this month the customs inspections will occur on the Day movers come to collect the goods. For shipments due to be packed after aug. 31, when the Moths no longer should be flying inspectors will make appointments to visit sometime during the 10 Days before pickup. The inspections Are in essence about the same procedures that the commands military customs agents were conducting until Early this year. The agents whose primary task was to intercept contraband items reduced their inspections from 100 percent of All household goods shipments to a random 3 percent plus a thorough Check of suspected customs Laws violators. That reduced Effort still met the needs of the customs service but it compromised the . Agriculture departments Effort to keep the Moths out of . Ports. Stateside agriculture inspectors began finding Moth cocoons and live Moths in shipments arriving at . Ports. So the department de certified a european come self inspection program in april and stepped up inspections at-. Ports causing costly shipping delays. Then after negotiations with the department in july the command set up the new inspection program. Inspectors Are looking for egg masses on such items As camping gear Garden tools Lawn furniture and children a toys said Norman w. Kaucher of the customs Agency. Most Barracks residents probably wont be affected unless they keep a bicycle outside he said. Also pre clearance briefings at local transportation offices should Weed out other people who have no outdoor items. Outdoor goods Are listed on the shipping inventories and packed together. Agriculture officials still conduct some spot checks of such goods when they arrive in the United states he said the agriculture departments interest in the inspection program is More Broad based than the Moth com Troverso might make it seem Kaucher said adding that inspectors also will be trying to keep european land snails weeds seeds grasses and fungi off american soil. A a  a a a Quot a a a a a a. A a the Gypsy Moth is generally the tip of the iceberg a he said. Court blocks Faulkner s Citadel bid Charleston . A a Federal appeals court Friday blocked Shannon Faulkner a bid to become the first woman Cadet at the Citadel in the state funded schools 151-year-old history. A three judge panel of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals agreed with a school request to delay a lower court order that allowed Faulkner to enter the corps of cadets next week. A a she a not going into the corps. She a going into the Day program. Shell remain a civilian until next year a said Bob Black an attorney for Faulkner. Faulkner 19, of Powersville has attended Day classes at the school since january under the order of . District court judge c. Weston Houck. Last month Houck found the schools ail male policy was unconstitutional and he ordered the school to accept her As a Cadet. She had been scheduled to report monday with other first year cadets. Fridays one Page order granting the stay was issued by judges Paul v. Niemeyer and Clyde Hamilton judge Kenneth k. Hall dissented saying that a by All rights is. Faulkner should be preparing to enter her second full year of military instruction and training As a full fledged member of the corps of  a South Carolina stubbornly maintains that a system proved by the nations service academics to work is unworkable. Meanwhile As Faulkner views the Drill Field from afar the state continues to deny its daughters the education that is rightfully theirs under the Constitution of the United states. That such a situation could be tolerated in the nineteenth Century is not surprising but we Are about to embark on the Twenty first a he said the judges said they would expedite the Case and planned to hear arguments during the december term. The Citadel accepted Faulkner last year after she asked a High school guidance Counselor to delete references to her gender on her transcript. The school later rejected her when it discovered she was a woman. Faulkner then sued. Although Houck ordered her into the Cadet corps he granted the schools request to give her the same a Buzz haircut Given to All other cadets. Her lawyers and Cut those from the . Justice department which had intervened on her behalf objected. They said it would stigmatize her. Houck said however that there was no Legal basis to deny the schools request. The Citadel also had planned to House Faulkner in a room by herself in the school infirmary