Award for former Korps man

Press, 13 June 1977, Page 9

Award for former Korps man

NZPA-Reuter London A former German officer in Rommel’s Afrika Korps has been honoured by the Queen for his service amid the ruins of another violent conflict — the terrorist strife in Northern Ireland. Werner Wolfgang Heubeck, aged 64, managing director of the Ulster Bus Comnany, received an 0.8. E. -in the Queen’s silver jubilee and birthday honours list. Mr Heubeck received his award for keeping Ulster’s •buses rolling during the last •seven years of sectarian violence in the Brinsh province * —and making a profit, one of [the few government-run bus [companies in Europe to do ; so. : Mr Heubeck began World 'War II as an explosives I officer in Rommel’s Army, * and ended up in an American . prisoner-of-war camp. He was an interpreter during ;the Nuremburg trials. Naturalised as a British ’citizen in 1948, he went to •Northern Ireland in 1967 to take control of the newlv : formed bus company which had been losing a million oounds a year. Within 12 months the company was making a profit, ; and' it still does, despite the * loss of more than 500 buses destroyed in the present * troubles. Mr Heubeck recently took control of Belfast’s city bus service as 'well. ; ‘Jaws’ netted “Jaws,” the 30cm perch thought responsible for eat- , ing 3000 small goldfish in recent years in a pond in Canterbury, England, is now in a separate pond. It was caught in an electrified net. Earlier attempts to hook it or blow it up had failed. — Canterbury.