European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 22, 1958 the stars and stripes Page a _ Rili a Cru Vine. Variety to Mark yank thanksgiving activities am Tala har a i is non i Mir Irtira 4. To i i _ 41.  i. I americans i Germany will Cele brate thanksgiving next thursday in a variety of ways. In Many cases military installations will share their traditional Turkey dinner with local orphan Ages. In other places the trim mings will include Turkey bowl football games pumpkin pie Bak ing contests Tours concerts an social events. 7th army it Gen c. D. Eddleman cd of the 7th army will attend thanks giving dinner at 7th army has coat Patch Barracks in Vaihinger. Two afternoons later the company will also give a luncheon and Chicken dinner for 100 orphans of the Krontal orphanage. The 7th army symphony unlike most other military units will be on the Road presenting a thanks giving Day concert near Dusseldorf. At Krefeld Stuttgart area German children from the Stutt Gart area will be entertained at a typical thanksgiving dinner nov.27 at the Hamman service1 club in Moehringer As guests of Vii corp she. All service clubs in Luck Wissburg and kor Westheim will join in Atour of the porsche automobile fac tory in Stuttgart on thanksgiving afternoon. Patch Barracks will tour a Candle factory while Schwaebe Schwall will visit the Mercedes Benz factory also in Stuttgart. At the same time the Kelley Barrack club from Moehringer will tour a Champagne factory. The Terrace service club a Ulm will feature the German spat zen children s chorus in a afternoon program. The Stuttgart Interlanguage club will get an Early Start in thanksgiving festivities with a German american party at Thebo Eslingen service club monday night. On thanksgiving eve the Junior red Cross of the Heilbronn elementary school will visit an old people s Home to sing traditional German and american songs. On the following Day 30 children from the Weinsberg displaced per sons Camp will be invited to party at the Heilbronn service club at Wharton Barracks. At Crail sheim the 1st medium tank in of the 4th army div-37th Armor and the 2d howitzer in of the same division s 78th arty will share their thanksgiving with 85 children from the Mistela orphanage. Naco special thanksgiving service shave been slated in the North Ern area come. Many of the protestant services Are scheduled for11 am thanksgiving morning. Catholic masses will also be held and jewish Sabbath services will stress the thanksgiving theme. Darmstadt Post soldiers will Holda thanksgiving afternoon party at the Hornet s nest service club for 50 underprivileged children from Darmstadt. In Schweinfurt and Wuerzburg similar activities Are planned. The 684th trans truck co and g37th Ord co of Schweinfurt will enter Tain 27 children from the Marien Flegg children s Home of Grafen Kleid at a Turkey dinner. Children from a German orphanage in the Wuerzburg area will be treated to a feast at Leighton Barracks Spreadby "3d inf div he co. A group of approximately 30 first Sac so ends training Forl rms Huntsville Ala. Up graduation exercises were held Here for the strategic air come s first intermediate Range ballistic missile Squadron As Well As offi cers from North Atlantic treaty organization countries. About 70 officers and airmen of the 846th strategic missile so completed courses in launch control and maintenance of the Jupiter missile. The training was Given at Redstone Arsenal Home of the big rocket. The Squadron will be equipped with the army developed Jupiter Over which the air Force has operational control. Air Force personnel Are trained to use the Jupi Ter by army officials Here. Five nato countries the first classes of trained mis Sile experts from Belgium and France were also graduated by the . Army ordnance guided mis Sile school. The graduates bring to five the number of nato coun tries whose Pioneer missile units have been schooled at the Spac Academy at Redstone. Sixty officers and men of the Royal belgian air Force and the French army received their diplomas two Days earlier. They had trained for More than a year in the Nike Ajax and Nike Hercule antiaircraft missiles now being deployed to bolster nato defences. There were 30 graduates from each nation. The first missile students from Denmark and Norway were graduated from the school during the Spring and summer. Other units from West Germany Turkey and the Netherlands Are still in train ing. The French contingent of 30officers now moves into the unit training Center of the missile school Here for practical exercise Sand manbevers As a tactical mis Sile unit. Wethersfield awards us boy Model f100d Wethersfield England Spe the 20th tactical fighter Wing has awarded a Model of an f100d to a 12-year-old British boy Gavin f o w k a of esd Morton Middlesex. The boy visited the base with youth group from Edmonton and wrote the Best essay on my visit to the american air base  Gorman City officials in the Hann area will be honoured guests at a thanksgiving dinner sponsored bythe 568th engr co of Hunan. A football game Between the let hard Cav Black horses and the 14th army Cav Fulda Cavaliers and an open House Are in thanks giving plans at Fulda Post. Naco special service clubs inthe area Are planning a number of activities including floor shows thanksgiving quizzes and dances meals and games for the Holiday. Air Force events the Hilltop service club Aspan Dahlem air base will hold n pumpkin pie baking contest on thanksgiving afternoon with judg ing slated for 3 pm. In the evening there will be Buffet it the club at. Which the pies among other thanksgiving delicacies will be served to base personnel and families. At Sembach air base the Chap lain s Section in cooperation with the officers wives club will Dis tribute 100 food baskets to airmen in the lower grades who Are mar ried and living on the Economy. The baskets will contain turkeys Jet takes off from Forrestal Tois v