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Daily Press, Saturday. February 6. 1982 Naval Records Mask Sloppy Bookkeeping State y--. 1 vyMHj 1 i 4 i I 'j i i NORFOLK (AP) Four naval supply facilities in Norfolk, South Carolina and Florida faked computer and inventory records to conceal sloppy bookkeeping during fiscal 1979, the Naval Audit Service has charged. Computer manipulations and improper report preparations masked the inaccuracy of in-' ventory records, hid the magnitude of the problem from higher Navy commands and kept some customers from getting their supply needs filled, the Norfolk-based auditors wrote in their most recent report.

The report did not speculate whether criminal actions were involved. It made no allega- tions of theft or fraud. The November report, obtained this week by the Norfolk Ledger-Star under the Freedom of Information Act, begins: "The adequacy and integrity of the physical inventory program for the Navy's $14.5 billion supply system is questionable." The facilities audited were the Norfolk Naval Supply Center, the Norfolk Naval Air Station, the Charleston (S.C.) Naval Supply Center and the Pensacola (Fla.) Naval Air Station. Auditors reviewed the records of six other supply depots'but did not visit them. Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee's Military Readiness Subcommittee announced it would hold hearings in Norfolk Feb.

19 to explore systemwide problems, including the loss of $330 million in supplies during fiscal year 1981 at the six U.S. supply centers. In its report, the Naval Audit Service found: The four facilities overstated by more than $400 million or 36 percent the value of the goods they claimed they inventoried. The facilities in several instances reported inventories that were never taken, the auditors said. There were "discrepancies, improper practices and deviations from prescribed procedures" which hindered the way goods are accounted for and the Navy's ability to get supplies to those who need them.

Because data reported by supply facili-' ties is "substantially inaccurate," their commands did not realize the problem. The facilities concealed the true number of bookkeeping errors by "fictitious transactions." Although auditors reviewed only 10 supply operations with assets of $6.4 billion, or 44 percent of the Navy supply system, during the 20-month study, there were indications that the problems they found were systemwide. The most frequent way of manipulating figures was correcting old record adjustments when there was no evidence an error had previously been made. The auditors said the facilities also prepare dummy receipts that indicate a warehouse received an item it did not, correct valid inventory adjustments and make paper transfers that improperly bring records and counts in agreement for certain items under scrutiny but leave discrepancies for other items. The value of goods inventoried was overstated by several methods including computer transactions which "caused reports to appear as if physical inventories had been made when none were," the report stated.

Blame was also placed on improper preparation of reports. Auditors found $17.2 million worth of goods erroneously taken off the records during earlier adjustments. That forced users of Navy supplies to shop elsewhere and supply manages to stock up on items they already had in their warehouses. The auditors placed much of the blame on inventory managers at the facilities: "Navy managers apparently do not actively and aggressively monitor the physical inventory program. Basic reviews and analysis of summary reports would or should have" alerted higher commands to the problems.

Coast Guard Rescues 7 III Mil AP Pholo David Boatman joined long lines of stamp collectors to pick up his Big Lick postmark. From Wire Services NORFOLK Coast Guard helicopters pulled six people off a fishing boat grounded in Chincoteague Inlet Friday and rescued a seriously burned crewman off a tanker sailing 57 miles off Cape Henry. The 105-foot clam dredge Lonely Man ran aground Thursday night in dense fog in Chincoteague Inlet. The six-man crew reported the vessel was taking on water and called for help. A Coast Guard helicopter was sent from Elizabeth City, N.C., but it had to wait until 3 a.m.

for visibility to improve before being able to hoist the crewmembers off the ship, the Coast Guard said. No one was injured, but the boat remained aground awaiting the arrival of a commercial salvage Rescued were Jerry Storey, Wesley McDonald, Walden Knox, Patrick Keith Hor-mar, Roy Copper and Curt J. Thomas, all from Virginia's Eastern Shore. In the other rescue, the Coast Guard was called to the aid, of a 20-year-old crewman aboard the 609-foot tanker Marine Eagle. The unidentified crewman suffered first-and second-degree burns over his chest and back while working on a defective steam valve.

A Coast Guard helicopter from Elizabeth City, arrived at 11:30 p.m. Thursday and hoisted the patient from the vessel. The patient was transferred to an ambulance at Norfolk International Airport. In Washington, meanwhile. Sen.

John Warner, R.Va., a $46 million supplemental appropriation bill on Friday that he said would pull the Coast Guard out of the budgetary hole it faces. Congress has reduced the Coast Guard's funding by $46 million, prompting proposals to close several of its stations in Virginia and its licensing and examination center in Norfolk. A cutter based in Portsmouth also may have to be decommissioned because of the cuts. But Warner said that if the proposal he and 16 other senators introduced is passed, it "will preclude those drastic steps." Big Lick Celebrates 1 00 Years New Closing Date Set For NORAD Site cilmembers, purchase of 20 acres for a cemetery and gave council power to tax and finance public improvements. Sales of less than five gallons of whiskey, brandy, wine or other intoxicating drink without permission of council were forbidden by law.

In the first year of Roanoke's existence, the council pondered substituting plank sidewalks with stone on Water Street and gave the Lutheran Church permission to hold services in the Town Hall for $1.50 a week, including Sunday school. These and other tidbits of local history are being dredged up for the education of Roanokers as the city celebrates its 100th anniversary. Events are planned throughout the year. Those for this month include a free musical gala featuring local artists, an art show and lectures on the city's future. Stamp collectors were able Wednesday to have stamps canceled with a Big Lick postmark.

president of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad and a vice president of the Norfolk Western Railway. In fact, a meeting of Big Lick residents voted 57 to 17 in favor of naming the place Kimball. When he was notified, Kimball telegraphed this reply: "On Roanoke River, in Roanoke County, name it Roanoke." But the junction of the Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk Western railroads oh June 18 was considered "the real inauguration of the town," according to a writer 10 years later. Big Lick, chartered Feb. 28, 1874, -covered a square extending a half mile in each direction from the old Atlantic, Mississippi Ohio Railroad depot, reorganized as the Norfolk Western in 1881.

Under the Roanoke charter, the boundaries were extended from that square mile to an area almost 3 '4 times as large. The charter act for the city provided for a mayor and six coun- ROANOKE (AP) In the dusty days of 100 years ago, there were no galas and no community hoopla when Big Lick became Roanoke. The town was called Big Lick on Feb. 2, 1882, and it became Roanoke the next day. Minutes of the town council meeting give no hint of celebration.

But a little friendly persuasion, nothing like the $100,000 worth of hospitality laid on last weekend when the General Assembly visited Roanoke, may have been needed to get legislative approval of a change in the town charter. Expenses of $22 were authorized for a trip to Richmond by A.S. As-bury, a Big Lick councilman, in early January. On Jan. 17, 1882, the council again asked Asbury to "go to Richmond and urge the passage of the charter by the legislature." Big L(ck, chartered eight years earlier, almost became Kimball, after Frederick J.

Kimball of Philadelphia, is behind schedule, forcing the Ft. Lee station and others to remain open apparently until at least early 1982, a NORAD spokesman and Pentagon sources told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Just last week, the Ft. Lee facility tracked two Soviet Tu-95 "Bear" intelligence aircraft. The planes, flown out of Cuba, were shadowing the nation's newest aircraft carrier, the USS Vinson, during sea trials off the Virginia coast.

Navy jets in Norfolk, under the Ft. Lee station's control, scrambled to intercept the Soviet planes. FORT LEE, Va. (UPI) The major North American Air Defense Command tracking station for 18 states. Washington, D.C., and 2,000 miles of Eastern coastline will be placed on a new timetable for closing, Air Force officials said.

The Defense Department said nearly three years ago that the 20th NORAD headquarters at Ft. Lee would be closed by mid-1981. The Air Force is phasing out six regional air defense cilities in favor of a single headquarters at Tyn-dall Air Force Base, Fla. But construction of the new headquarters (( TIMEX COIN STAMP SHOW HAMPTON, VA. FEBRUARY 6 7 SAT.

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