European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 elevator is one of staffs favorite haunts Bremerhaven Hospital sounds in Good spirits Story and photo by Rick Maze staff Germany Isth army Hospital Here haunted while officials can explain the eerie sounds and footsteps heard in the Halls of the Hospital at they say they cant explain Why the elevator apparently works Steve who works a 3 to 11 p shift at the said he hears All kinds of strange sounds at arid he feels the Hospital is visited by you might sit Here at this desk for a couple of Days or even a week without hearing any but sooner or later you he 5 Didi Atkins works the graveyard shift at the there is something going on Here at but in not scared ghosts and spooks dont scare but id rather Sec them than just hear the oddest witnessed by Atkins and have been the three times an elevator came Down to the first floor by an impossibility be cause of its phantom elevator operator when it happened i didst think any thing about i figured someone upstairs was playing around and had sent it Down after thinking about it for i realized the elevator cant come Down unless there is someone in or someone on the first floor wants to use William son Atkins said whenever the elevator comes Down at she looks for some one to step when no one i just if that 1 wish they show James w the Hospital com recalled a similar incident where the dumbwaiters serving the dining facility was said to be working itself they found there was someone in the basement pulling the Blunt has no explanation for the elevator working he does the Hospital int but its something to talk the Hospital was built in 1939 for use by the German Blunt said that like other old the Hospital does make noises in Strong it is the tallest building in the and since there is an attic running from one end to the other with Only a tile it makes lie the footsteps heard at night when there is no one there Are explained As just the echoing of footsteps from some other part of the but Atkins said she Doest consider that a the haunting army medical facility at Bremerhaven has a spirit of its especially after the staff there int anyone else in this Side of the she there  be any footsteps to be whenever i hear footsteps at Call upstairs to the Ward and ask who moving around its spooky when they say there int anyone moving Willi Amson 1 dont believe m the ghost stories about the but i must admit when 1 get called in at night to do an x i always whistle stomp my feel when i walk and slam doors when 1 in into a 1 turn on All of the lights right said 5 Robert who added he didst believe in ghosts but was just being when i hear these 1 get fright ened if i go to a mystery i always find out in Advance what is going to Pourpasand Williamson thinks the noises originate Between the third and fourth floors in the main Wing of the when i first got i was sitting on the Steps and heard footsteps upstairs he when i asked what that i was told not to worry about that i would hear lots of strange Michael Wallace said of the Possi ble haunting of the i dont be Lieve the wind is blowing the windows or there Arent any Wallace lives in the Barracks inside the he said he has never heard any ghosts but knows people who say they Pourpasand said people in the obstetrics Ward think they hear footsteps in the attic and the maps came Rushing to the Hospital one night when the alarm went off in the hospitals arms there want any thing was it spooks he some nights the lights arc left on in the Hospital and when asked to turn them the often heard answer Here Why  turn them off when there done the past lives again in sensitive works of Art Story and photo by Dan Synovec  Bureau chief Germany the yesterdays of Germany hold a fascination for artist Monika through the soft strokes of her Pencil or she is Able to persuade us that the past is a  the drawings and paintings of Heller which depict romantic and medieval can be found in More and More american i draw and paint scenes which Are his said the who escaped to West Germany from Dresden in they arc scenes that people Are familiar of architecture and composition Are i try to eliminate the cars and people from my scenes so the buildings i draw or paint will look As old As who is married to Don a former Dodd eur prep official in has been Selling her drawings and Watt colors in american communities at Span Dahlem and 1 love said relax ing in her studio in this farming Community of 200 about a 25rrunute drive from downtown i live with when i walk into a the first thing that attracts me is and i find it very fascinating to put something Down on paper with the right color and she said that the Art training she received during five years in the East German City of Meissen has finally started to pay americans Are interested in historic they want to take a drawing or painting of Germany Back with them As a i cant sell a drawing of a modern scene to an they like the castles and historic Heller Ole moved to the in 1961 and was hired by a greeting card company in she also met her Hus in the two returned to Germany in and she started her career making Scenic working for the greeting card company helped me a lot with my creativity and color when i was doing por Celain painting in East Germany i was lied to the old traditional we could not be the move to America opened a new Field of an for me it me an artist i Learned to see things differ Heller Ole said a lot of people sit Down and paint or if they Are not Able to see things in the proper they Are not Able to put it Down on Heller Ole has also drawn a number of pictures featuring she said that she likes to watch them at taking Spe Cial note of their hair and then recapture them on i guess 1 can say the children i draw Are i love said the Mother of a 10yearold most people assume because i grew up in East i didst have a Happy but it int i did lose my father in the but my Mother kept my younger brother and me very Busy she made us open our eyes to the she took us outdoors and made us see things a lot of parents Lake their children by the hand and walk through a City but dont explain anything to my Mother took us on walks and explained the Beauty of nature to when she int Busy drawing or being a housewife or speaking to groups of she she paints antique furniture and does Glass Heller Ole is scheduled to be in Heidel Monika Heller Ole and a Portal to yesterday bergs Patrick Henry Village the fourth of july weekend to sell her paintings at a