European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 30, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3new shop does t Wash with some by Carlos Bongioanni Staft writer. Derheim Germany a the Only Beauty and bar be Shoji in the Derheim military Community reopened Friday amid rumblings of a Boycott against the new operators. Only 17 customers showed up on the first Day about half the Normal business. The facility was closed abruptly aug. 11 by the army and air Force Exchange service which claimed that operator Thalia Smiths a a buy three haircuts get. One free policy violated her contract and denied the Exchange service its fair share of revenues. The shop at Dex Heimz Sanderson Barracks reopened Friday under new management a move that did not sit Well with some it was really messed up the Way they walked in one Day and closed her Down said army spec. Sherri Jur Nett. A a Quot a a a a 7 a7 a Quot a a a a a. A. A. A the Black members of this Community Are really going to be Hurt by this. Is. To a hair care Smiths shop was the Only place we could go for Black hair care a Jurnett said. So far about 160 Derheim residents have signed petitions asking that Smith be reinstated and vowing not to patronize the shop until she is. Melissa Henry who worked for Smith about one month before the shop closed and has been hired by the new operator predicted customers will return. A the Boycott might have an Impact at first but not for Long a Henry said. A i think the convenience of having us Here will override the Boycott. Soldiers always need their hair Henry attributed fridays doldrums to a Lack of advertisement. A a lot of soldiers just Don to know we re open again a she said. Smith said a fest selection of a new concessionaire is unfair. A they have already made a decision on my Case and Haven to even heard my Appeal a she said angrily. A cafes closed Smiths shop without notice and cancelled her contract after monitoring her operation with a video camera hidden in the ceiling the failure to ring up free haircuts Over the previous 16 months had prevented cafes from collecting $67.73 a 5 percent of each transaction Smith said. A a we re talking about pennies Over a Long period of time. If i was really trying to steal from them would i take pennies a asked Smith. A a in a going to get 6,773 pennies and repay cafes just to make a s4s Carlos Bonglo annl Melissa Henry left and Manuela Huber wait for customers to come into the Derheim Beauty and Barbershop. Smith contends she did no to know she was doing anything wrong with her buy three get one free policy. A i contacted Ralf schoffers the former concessionaire manager and told him of the three for one offer when i first started. He did no to Tell me anything was wrong with it a explained Smith. A about four months ago the new concessionaire manager Willie Albright asked me who authorized the three for one offer but did no to Tell me anything was illegal. If i was doing something wrong Why did no to anybody Tell me before it came to this a she asked. According to Henry several soldiers have expressed gratitude that the place has reopened. During the two weeks of fending for themselves however some soldiers found they had gained a Knack for cutting hair. A since there was no Way to get a haircut my Friend bought some clippers and we started giving each other haircuts. We be decided to keep cutting our own hair a army spec. Ryan Waller said. Although cafes has reopen the shop Smith said she plans to pursue action against the Exchange service and fight to Clear her name. She said that cafes had been taking 10 percent of the stores retail sales of hair care products when it was entitled by contract to Only 5 percent. A a what a going to happen to them a wondered Smith referring to cafes. A if what i did was enough to take my whole livelihood away what a the Penally for a fest breaching their contract will their whole livelihood be taken away from them a in Ciurlik has new Hospital in Ciurlik a turkeys amps the new air Force Hospital at incur k after a five Lik a opened last wee month Battle with electrical lems. Prob the staff of the 39th medical group at in Ciurlik began seeing patients by appointment aug. 21, although the air Force had taken Over the $20.9 million facility March 23. The delay was caused by efforts to make sure delicate a and costly a medical equipment could not be damaged by the severe electrical Power fluctuations that plague the area. Once the problem was solved members of the 39th medical group moved into the new Hospital Between aug. 18 and 20, said an official with the group Hospital. No details were Given on How the problem was worked out and the old Hospital remained open while a solution to the problem was sought. A a they be positioned More than. $300,000 in new furniture in offices and waiting rooms in the 117,500-Squarc-foot building the official said a and installation of nearly $200,000 to modular furniture is under Way a a. While the mental health and family advocacy services will remain in the old Hospital building the veterinary clan in and air Force services for f Scep Iione children will move into the new Voon military s peacekeeping chores Hurt wartime training Safe chief says by Effie Bathen Staft writer Kaiserslautern Germany the european air commands newest four Star general says americans Learned much from recent contingency and humanitarian Relief missions but their efforts May be blunting the Point of the . Combat sword. A a we re better than we think we Are and we re better than we look a said Gen. James l. Jamerson who assumed command july 29 of the . Air forces in Europe. However a it is disturbing that we Are having trouble accomplishing the training tasks that we do because a we Are out on guard duty a a Jamerson told the stars and stripes in his Ramstein a Headquarters monday. A a deny right provide Comfort that a guard duly a he said. Such missions compete for combat training time and cause combat skills to atrophy Jamerson said. He cited As an example some skills that fighter pilots need intercepts bomb dropping and air to air combat. A fall of those things they do not do in the course of these other operations a he explained adding that it was a a ironic that pilots do not use combat skills when they Are on a contingency operation such As patrolling a no Fly zone. A you Are not engaging the enemy a he said. Jamerson recalled that he became con earned about be Ujj a stretched tins Shmu alter u 5 lighter planes accidentally shot Luvatis two army Black Hawk Helio pics Sas John borrow Gen. James l. Jamerson troubled by a guard duty in the no Fly zone Over Iraq to april killing 26 people. The air forces in Europe which now numbers about 40, personnel u about a third of the size it was in it is participating to contingency or humanitarian missions that Span three continents a operation provide Comfort a kurd tvs relict Mission m Northern Iraq. A operation provide Promise a a humanitarian Aid Effort in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A operation deny flight a enforcement of the . No Fly zone Over Bosnia. A operation support Hope a help for refugees in Central Africa. The kurdish Protection Mission in Northern Iraq was really the . Military a first exposure to a Large scale humanitarian activity said Jamerson who was Given command of that operations combined task Force at in Ciurlik a Turkey in 1991. He said that initially there was an interesting a near friction Between the . Military and nongovernmental Relief agencies. 2hthe image is that the military blows Ere and we re armed to the Teeth a said Jamerson. But likewise Quot we did t understand the incredible bravery of these people who go into these places unarmed a the air Force will Likely continue to participate in these kinds of combination Kambo and Mother Toreva missions. Jamerson prefers to join other commanders in calling them jump Start missions. However he differs with some policymakers when they say that european based service members Are not answering the worlds emergency Telephone i me. Quot for those who might remember party lines in inc Days when telephones came m party Imes we re on the parly the for my i a a he said and the Calls Are coming in Quot fast and
