Inside ESSAYONS 4 d .. k fL r. .: . __ u ,. , =_ it,S..,ex', ; Fdanoriais 1r Opry For Scouts p9 e School Funding Community Calendars p12 .. 58th Trans Contest .w4. -a:....Ta ... "' ._. Student Council p10 Pro Wrestling Returns p13 Haunted Ft. Wood p9 Volume 1 Number 22 Published in the interest of personnel at Fort Leonard Wood Thursday, October 27, 1988 " n M' - ";pv...M'} n per-. NLhN^"'u'hN4',h" l \' Nriefs 1 a': SPECKER SHOPPETTE CHANGES HOURS Effective immediately, Specker Shoppette will change its hours of operation. The shoppette is now open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Autumn TRAVEL SERVICE CHANGES RATES training The Scheduled Airline Ticket Office was replaced Monday by Ask Mr. Foster-Alexander Travel. Travel Against an autumn service will continue operations from building 460. New background, B-3-10-3 telephone numbers are: for official travel, 329-4141; for soldiers receive hand unofficial travel, 329-3231. For more information, call Pat Ray at 368-2193. grenade in struction step-by-step. Below, FALL BACK TO STANDARD TIME SUNDAY Sgt. Reginald Lewis, Central Standard Time officially begins 2 a.m. Sunday. D-3-1O3, spects a Remember to set your clocks back one hour. soldier for brass and LATINOS TO HOST MASQUERADE PARTY ammun ition during a Club Latinos Unidos is having a masquerade party segment of Basic tomorrow from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the NCO Club. Rifle Marksmanship. Costumes are not required but encouraged. There will be a costume contest, a dance contest and lots of games. For information, call 774-6476, 329-4013 or 329-3406. Jeffrey Peyton DEH AWARDS CONTRACTS IN HOUSING A contract for removal of vegetation from powerline Moving vehicles right-of-ways in family housing areas has been awarded. Work will begin Monday in family housing areas. A contract for the replacement of area transformers, overseas easier secondary lines and service drops in the Kirby Street area has been awarded. Work should begin Monday. Con- tractors will notify residents 48 hours in advance of any power outage - no resident will be without power for more New rules will soon go into hours POV service is not than four hours during any 24-hour period under this effect making it easier to available; strict compliance contract. move a privately-owned with established operating A contract for the removal of existing gas range lines vehicle (POV) overseas to hours is mandatory. and the installation of new electrical service for electrical your next military No telephone number has ranges has been awarded. Work should start Monday. assignement. been established as yet. Contractors will coordinate with residents for access to On Dec. 1, 1988, the MTMC will provide further quarters. Military Traffic information, direction and Management Command will map to the Granite City SAPPER GRADUATION SET OCT. 31 begin operating the first Processing Center to Per- The graduation for Company C,5th Engineer Battalion, inland, continental United sonal Property Shipping 136th Engi nee° 6iagade.r:nm the apper Leader Course States, privaLeiy-owned Offices in the near future. will be at Training Area 147 at 1:45 p.m. Monday. The vehicle processing center at These offices will give that graduation ends 28 days of intensive training. A live Granite City, Ill., for information to soldiers demolition mission is planned. movement of POVs world- planning to ship their POVs Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Access roads TA wide. from or to St. Louis. 147 on Indiana Avenue will be closed at 1:50 p.m. and no The center will offer Soldiers are also now one will be permitted to enter the area. service and convenience for authorized to ship POVs to POV turn-in and pick-up to Germany and the FAMILIES TO HOST STUDENTS soldiers going to or returning Netherlands without International students in training at Fort Leonard Wood from overseas assignments. removing the catalytic are away from home during the holidays. Families can be The Granite City converter. There is now American ambassadors by housing a student during the Processing Center will be ample unleaded fuel November and December holidays. For more information located at the Charles M. available in these areas, on the ,rogram, call Staff Sgt. Igor Gil or Sgt. 1st Class Price Support Center, making removal of the Tapley, 8-8842. Granite City, Ill., across the converter unneccessary. Mississippi River from the Lambert-St. Louis In- Catalytic converter LAUNDRY FACILITY TO CLOSE OCT. 31 ternational Airport. The systems must be checked The post laundry and drycleaning facility, building 2352, center will be in building 400 annually while overseas to will close Oct. 31 for inventory. Inventory is due to con- between C and D Streets. ensure leaded fuel has not version to a new contract. The facility will open under the Commercial limousine and been used in them. A final new contractor, Robertson and Penn, Inc., Nov. 1. For taxi service is available check is required 10 calendar Jeffrey Peytoni more information, caY Dennis Taylor or Ken Morehouse at between Lambert-St. Louis days prior to the POV being 368-2910. Airport and the Charles M. turned in for shipment back Price Support Center - to the Customs Territory of NOT TOO LATE TO PLAN FOR COFFEE these facilities are about 20 the United States. This It's not too late for you to plan to attend the St. Nicholas miles apart. requirement will ensure that The Department of campaign, Secretary of Defense is joining ther Benefit Coffee. according to sponsors, the women of the Business hours for the POV the vehicle conforms to Defense Frank Carlucci government agencies, 43rd Adjutant General Battalion and the Staff Judge Ad- Center will be: Monday Environmental Protection noted, "Drug abuse has Congress and private vocate. The coffee, for which admission is a Christmas gift through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 Agency Federal and reached epidemic propor- organizations to observe isplanned p.m. except for federal Regulatory Emission Control tions in our country. The for a needy chid, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Dec. 1 National Drug-Free America at Walker Recreation Center. holidays. Emergency after- Standards. effects of this abuse on our Week, through Oct. 30. The families, communities and For more information, call Kathie Mackey at 329-5959 or campaign theme is "What society are devastating in C. J. Lamb, 329-5207. Bridging cliasses set Works - Next Steps." terms of the loss of human FAMILY ACTIVITIES CONSOLIDATES The Army plans to start In a memorandum urging The second phase of top military and DoD civilian See "Drug Free" Community and Family Activities has consolidated all bridging classes near the training will be conducted at officials to support the Continued on Page 3 administratives offices into one building. Administration confluence of the Gasconade the bridging site near Her- offices for community operation, recreation, family and Missouri Rivers near mann. support, financial management, services and assistant Hermann, Mo., effective "This is a unique place in Can you quit? director are now in building 376. next spring. Missouri," Jones said. "The Unit funds and check control functions are on the second The classes are scheduled students can practice on the floor of building 376. The only telephone number that has to begin in April, according Gasconade, which is a Great Amiierican Smoke Out changed is for Services Division chief; it's now 368-4744. to Sgt. 1st Class Larry R. relatively slow river. Then The miliitary Equal Opportunity Office has moved to Jones of Bay City, Mich. they can move a few feet upstairs in building 385. Jones is the chief of the down and practice again on campaign starts ov, 17 tactical bridging committee the Missouri River, which is of the 132nd Engineer very fast." Fort Leonard Wood will be Cancer Society to encourage Brigade. The classes will not close recruiting supporters for a smokers to give up cigarettes Jones said about 240 down river traffic. new campaign on Nov. for 24 hours. Last year students will use the site In addition to the students, 17, when the Army joins almost 24 million American April through October. The about 10 instructors, 20 staff forces with the American smokers participated in the bridging classes will begin at members and some 30 Cancer Society to observe 12th Anniversary of the countdown Fort Leonard Wood with military vehicles will use the the Great American Smoke Smoke Out by quitting or toti n about 30 students per class site during the training Out. cutting down on Smoke Out spending seven days training period. The Department of Day. at a manmade lake here. Fort Wood representatives Defense is concerned about A variety of activities are to genera! election "The students will learn will visit the site and the the high rate of smoking in planned on Fort Wood to still-water training and Hermann area over the next the Armed Forces and the assist smoking personnel in familiarize themselves with few months to prepare for Great American Smoke Out their efforts to quit. 11iid ays our new combat-support the classes. They will also is a positive way to reduce Some of the events at Fort boat," Jones said. The 27-foot determine if the area can those rates. Wood include: booths will be long craft with two, 220- support the Army with food, The Great American set up at the commissary, horsepower engines, is used lodging and other necessary Smoke Out is sponsored each See "Smoke Out" extensively for bridging. accommodations. year by the American Continued on Page 3 Page 2 ESSAYONS, "Let Us Try" Thursday, October 27, 1988 k'a:e 2 SAOS LtUsTy hrdy Otbr2,18 "doom JR, ja Spouse abuse common problem n U.S.