Friday, March 3, 1978 9 University Daily Kansan GIs' financial plight worsens in Germany BONN, West Germany (AP)—Senior American commanders are urging German landlords to lower rent to help low-ranking GIs and their families survive the collapses of the dollar, and military families are chipping in with donations of food. “It’s never been this bad over here for our Gls,” Army Maj. Bodyr Burkholder said yesterday as the dollar was fixed on Friday, when it reached over two marks, half its value a decade ago. The Army, which promotes the advantages of a European assignment in its enlistment brochures, also is considering a proposal to allow wives and children of soldiers to eat regularly in the mess halls to make sure they did have an adequate diet. The dollar's drop affects all 200,000 U.S. troops stationed in West Germany, but its impact is hardest on those who can least afford it—young soldiers in the bottom pay grades. In the last year, the dollar has plummeted from 2.6 marks to about two marks, and some dealers predict it may drop to 1.9 marks by the end of March. Under current regulations, those servicemen are not allowed to bring their families to West Germany at government expense and do not qualify for free housing, but have a $1,000 low-working. GIs have brought their wives and children here at their own expense. They must house them in German apartments and pay their rent in marks. Every time the dollar falls, their rent, the payment, decreases faster than their pay and allowances. The low-ranking GI's and their families are free to use American post exchanges and commissaries, where prices are quoted in dollars and are lower than in the United States. For Germans, the annual inflation rate has been about 3.2 percent. But for Americans in Germany, the annual rate, or 1.9 percent, is lower. His slide, have been close to 20 percent. Gen. George S. Blanchard, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe has proposed allowing GI dependents to eat in mess halls to reduce their financial hardship, paying a share of their disposal proposal has been referred to the Department of the Army in Washington, officials said. Most of the 50,000 American civilians in West Germany, including businessmen, students and journalists, have no such insurance and are not shielded against the dollar's fall. Blanchard also has asked the Army to increase cost-of-living and housing allowance so lower-married GI's with an income in the same rate as higher-grade married soldiers. Evacuees sheltered MARIANIA, Fla. (AP) - For five days, families evacuated after a train disaster have sleep on hardwood floors, killed time on the job and worried about abandoned pets. But instead of complaining about their temporary home in a National Guard armory, the rural north Florida inhabitants said yesterday they've been drawn together because they know that sent clouds of chlorine gas drilling over their homes, killing eight people. "I'THOUGHT I knew most of the people in Fountain, but I've met a lot of people I didn't know," said Loraine Stanley, who runs a beauty shop near the dermal site. "It's going to bring us a lot closer, the fact that we've been through this together." the towns of Youngstown and Fountain, both in the Florida Panhandle, were Emergency workers hoped clean up effec- tion and help people return to their hospitals today. The last of the chlorine from the tank car punctured in the derailment was neutralized THE 125 EVACUCEES bedded down at the armory were some of the 3,500 people who fled when the 120-car Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad freight train deralied about three miles north of Youngstown. The doors of dozens of local homes were opened for other evacuees. Some of the homeless stayed in motels at the expense of sheriff's office, railroad spokesman is to buy how many. Six elderly evacuees, who require bedrest and nursing care, were taken to the infirmary at the state-run Dozier School, an institution in Marianna for delinquents. LIKE MANY of the evacuees, Mrs. Stanley, 58, helped with housekeeping at the armory. She scrubbed cooking pots after 350 people were fed a free breakfast that took 60 dozen eggs, 25 pounds of bacon, 15 quarts of meat, 10 boxes of rice and eight gallons of milk. "I couldn't believe something like that could happen," she said. "I didn't know they had anything so deadly on those trains going through town," she said. Council elects ASHC officers Officiers for the 1978-79 All Scholarship council were elected last night by the ASCH. Mike Webb, Wichita sophomore, will be president. Other officers are: vice president, Jane Calacci, Glendale, Mo. sophomore; treasurer, Mark Myers, Endcott, N.Y., freshman; and secretary, Mary Halsig, Wichita freshman. The ASHC is the governing body of the scholarship halls. Officers are elected by the 16 members of the council, which is composed of a representative and the president from each hall. Kent Ervin, past ASHC president, said ASHC guidelines called for election of officers by the council rather than by general voting by the 400 scholarship hall residents. A committee set up last fall to review the guidelines did not suggest a change in the "The rationale, correct or not, was that the members of the council have done the work and have seen the people working on the council." he said. Snow causes leaking in roof of Lindley Hall Wastepaper bags at the University of Kansas are usually full of trash, but in 428 Lindley Hall the paper baskets are full of water by the end of the day. 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