European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 18, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 17 Blanchard addresses 500 delegates sri approach to Awag outlined  writer Berchtesgaden Germany sets american women i Germany have been told to try the nato Way of solving their problems with  Gen. George s. Blanchard Usa Eurand seventh army commander in chief presented the sri approach in his address to the 21st annual conference of the Ameri can women s activities Germany Awag. Addressing almost 500 delegates and Board members the keynote speaker offered sri rationalization standardization and interoperability As a solution to organizational  listed three Broad problem areas that he said continue to exist Formant wives clubs and Volunteer organizations defining what needs to be done As Sessing capabilities and raising Money. In keeping with the rationalization principal of not doing something that someone else is already doing Well the nit s logical the wives1 dubs should be focusing their full energies on providing Spe Cial on Post services not already being performed by our Community or base sup port structures Blanchard told them. He said that standardization could Hel with the second problem by preventing duplication of functions and that by applying interoperability to the third problem the clubs would Combine their total resource for their fund raising projects. The general also cited four challenges he feels Are facing Awag t to recognize and keep up with what Community commanders Are doing to improve Quality of life support services for soldiers and their families 2 making the army Community serv ices acs a focal Point to help in publicizing activities so entire local populations will know who is doing what for whom and when"3 getting More Young married cos and their wives involved in voluntary activities 4 using the total resources of the clubs in a joint Effort to avoid duplication. Most of us have been in the travel Inland living overseas business for quite a while and it is almost second nature for  arriving at a new Post to Survey the surroundings look at housing the pm. The commissary and local Community serv ices and then Roll up our sleeves and go to work in those areas which we perceive Are being neglected Blanchard  we All remember the truly Pood programs that worked so Well i Washington or it. Bragg we say to our selves i know i can make it work Here however he cautioned them that communities Over Here Are not the same a those Back Home. A plan we have developed to further improve our Community command Struc Ture is the us Arete Community life program " he said. Its purpose he explained is to upgrade Usa eur s life support services by raising the Standard of a Community to a higher More uniform level. Industrial he baked a cake for 27 hours output grows some in april . Edward . Puts icing on a a relations  Bureau chief Crail sheim. Germany Sis a 28-year-old baking Engineer assigned to the 1st army div worked 27 hours in his Quarter to put the icing on German american relations  sol Edward s. Hardie. A Baker As signed to the 1st in 51st inf at Mckee bar Racks Here baked a Mammoth birthday cake for the 300 guests attending this City s700th birthday Celebration. The germans ate it up both figuratively and literally said a. Richard s. Kent the battalion s executive , of Deer Isle Maine said his commander u. Col. John a. Renner asked him if he could bake a cake that the americans could present to the medieval City for its birthday. I Lay awake in bed most of the nigh until i finally came up with the idea of making a Multi layer yellow cake. I baked eight 10-Inch round cakes two 18-Inch Square cakes and two 15-Inch  said Hardie who has never been to a formal baking school. I started baking it on a sunday in my quarters using my own pans and 1 finished it on  said he has baked Many birthday cakes but never one celebrating a 700thbirthday of a foreign City. I wanted to put everything from Crail sheim on that cake that 1 could. I Deco rated it with White frosting that had Afancy Leaf Green Border. I did the City s Crest in yellow and Black  Sai Hardie who serves As the battalion s night Baker. He added that he used six Gallons of stocks closing . Stock Price through the Courtesy of ache Halsey Stuart inc. Yellow prepared cake mixes and 30 eggs tomake the cake. You have to get your idea in your head before you Start to bake something like  he said. After you have your  it s a matter of patience. 1 Don t have any Good cake recipes of my own. I us prepared cake mixes. Nowadays they Are so Good it s hard to beat them."300 guests on band the colourful cake was presented to the City s lord mayor Helmut Zundel on behalf of the american battalion. Zunde invited the 300 guests attending the birth Day Celebration to have a piece of cake Asa Symbol of togetherness and Good neigh worship from the City s american Friend sat Mckee  Hardie works from 8 . To 4 . Six Days a week at the consolidated dining facility at Mckee Barracks turning out pies cakes donuts Rolls cookies and other  is something i just got interested in he said. Now i bake cakes for wed dings unit parties. People Call me at the dining facility or see me on the Street and ask me to bake something for them. I enjoy it. All i ask them to do is Supply me wit the ingredients. Baking is a Trade that the army Lias taught me. When i retire i want to open a cake catering service Hardie said. Snow slide kills 2 climbers Lecco Italy a a Snow slide rum bled Down the Rocky peaks rising above Lake Como Here and killed two climbers Ata 6,509-foot Altitude. Two other italians tied by rope to the victims were  said rain and a Rise in tempera Ture had loosened the Snow. 1 5 most Active Newyork up Reni Mot Active York Slor Exchange composite trading at 4 in tues address Groh Allied Che Mamsen Alcoa Arda Hess am air Attr am airlines am brands Abc a Cinco am valid am Al per am Home am motors am Nat res att Ampex Ashland Oil at Rich Avon Baeckl w Bella. How Bendix Beth steel Joelna Borden Brunswick Burroughs celanese Chase Mann chel a. 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The increase in Industrial output com pared with gains of 1.4 per cent in March and 1 per cent in  Federal Reserve Board said gains in output were widespread throughout Industry with the exception of autos. It said Auto assemblies which had shown Sharp gains in previous months declined 4 per cent in april to an annual rat of 9.3 million units. It said the decline reflected strikes at some Auto plants and a apparent reluctance by automakers to add to their existing Large inventories of Small cars. Production of other consumer durable goods merchandise with a life expectancy of More than three years continue to Advance strongly the Board said. But because of declining Auto production Overall output of consumer durable goods declined three tenths of one percent. Production of nondurable consume goods such As foods and textiles in creased by six tenths of one per cent i april. Production of business equipment increased eight tenths of one per cent an construction supplies advanced seven tenths of one per Cen the continued increase in production was Good news for the nation s  continued Strong gains in output Are translated into More jobs and increased sates and profits. The Federal Reserve Board said its Industrial production Index in april stood at 138.1 per cent of the 1967 average. Conversion rates Brussels Upil tuesday s closing ales of the . Dollar to european currencies. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies to dollars a 17 britout Pound German Mark. French Ranc. Dutch Guilder belgian franc. Llali Ellra. _ owls Lurenc Grem drachma. Turk Snura.  Are commercial banking rates and in most cases Are not available to the Public at the exact rate indicated. The Sale of Marks to . 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