European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 17, 1978 the stars and stripes Pago 9 City inspires american artist Iii Vav i i i i i a i a i pc Ellie Haga s Mainz How it sings laughs by Leah Larkin to me the buildings sing and launch Kollic Haga is a woman whose artistic they Are members of a h Lea Lark travel writer Mainz. Germany love Mainz. Ilove the Dom i Cathedral and the Market place with All the fantastic Flowers an smells. Even on n Rainy Day. It gives me a Happy feeling. Mainz is a Happy  City so inspired Ellie Haga. An american who lives in the nearby Taurus Region that she painted it. Her painting obviously inspired others City officials an executives at opel who Are now using photographic prints of the painting As offi Cial gifts to special visitors. Haga is an effervescent Ever smiling Happy person but even i get  she said. " when i do i take a drive to Mainz. One time As i was driving across the Bridge into the City t saw the Steeple through the dreary Gray Haze. I decided then i would do a Blue Gray painting  finished product of course she had no idea that the finished product would gain , it was seen by friends of her Hus band. Hank Haga. Director of styling for opel. They liked it so much they asked if they could use copies As gifts. It would make a perfect memento for their executive guests who usually stayed in main while on business trips to the firm s head quarters in Russel sheim. They Felt. Ellic Haga was delighted. Especially since her husband always thinks i crazy to Start these projects like painting two meter Long  Day last Winter she accompanied a group of opel visitors on a tour of main the guide saw one of the prints of her painting conducts Tours i loved it said Barbara Rupp who con ducts Tours for the City tourist office "1felt it would be a shame if no one else saw it. So i showed it to others and everyone loved it. People in the mayor s office saw it. They fett it would be a Good idea to havens a  the City had been using a print of a traditional old fashioned painting of Mainz As a gift. Rupp explained. It was Felt that Haga s painting was More representative of Mainz As it is today. So. Now the Cit uses both As gifts. I feel As an american living Here an Loving it. It s great to be Able to contribute in some  said Haga who moved to Germany from Bloomfield Hills mich., four years ago with her husband and two sons. For the use of her painting she received Check from the City that she donated to a kindergarten in  Blue Gray painting ended up with tones of Pink and Coral among these Domi Nant colors. I realized there really was More color in the City. The  she explained. Stylistic simplicity the painting has a stylistic simplicity an almost childlike Charm about it. When German plants a tree it s perfect said the artist. That s Why i made the Trees  under the original painting which hang sin her Home she printed the saying Mainz Wie is sing und  i Mainz How it sings and laughs i it s a carnival saying associated with the City known for Fasching fun during the Rose Montag Parade a writer probaus Dies at 70 new York a Salvador Loui probaus an associated press writer for More than 40 years died at memorial Sloan Kettering Center Hospital after a Long illness. He was 70.probaus was a native of Argentina where he began his journalism career inthe late 1920s, writing for the a Bureau in Buenos Aires. He transferred to the Newyork world service desk in 1936 and worked As reporter editor and translator on the latin America desk until his retire ment in 1973. To me the buildings sing and  Haga. So i thought this would be a  Many of to people who have received prints of her painting appreciate her impressions of the City. I be had let ters from people who lived in Mainz during the War and knew the destruction. They Are so grateful to Sec a painting that repro scots both the old and new " Kali Ilag Uhos talents arc not limited to painting in fact most of the time she is Busy with an Acety Lene Torch welding scraps of Metal into modernistic sculpture or tying knots that become elaborate macrame Plant hangers or Wall decorations or making furniture or clothes or jewelry or helping her car collector husband with his pet project restoring a Bugatti the t Bugatti club an recently drove one of the antique cars too. Kilometres during a six Day rally i France. But. January is when she finds time Roget out her brushes and easel. It s a Terri ble time of the year i always try to paint place i like  next january maybe a View of Trecastle at Kronborg Eule Haga an american artist displays her mural of Mainz Germany which has become a vip gift. S4s, Jim Arwine Pronto Toni s knows no barriers by makc1a . Germany just ask anyone around Here where Antoni Chiamulera s German american club is and you la probably get a Blank  ask for Pronto Toni a and you la probably get immediate directions 10building 4414 Toni s is the civilian labor group s cog club run on Concession by Chiamulera. Three units the 8909. 4506and 8040 cog support the 25-year-old club where meetings classes and parties Are held. In w71. Toni took Over for his Cousin Luigi. Who had been running the club since 1960. Toni was no newcomer to the Foo business. He d spent almost half his life working in restaurants around  Best thing about the club is it s atmosphere. Toni feels. Not in the traditional sense of candlelight and soft music but that everyone feels comfortable. Woman can come in alone and 1 guarantee she won t be  is especially proud that he runs a club where officers and enlisted personnel sit together and socialize with nothing be tween  have suggested to Toni that he dress the place up a Little but he says. If use White Linen tablecloths a Guy won t want to come in if he s All dirty from fixing truck. The place is a club first and 1 have to make the soldiers feel Comfort Able born in a Small italian Village near Cor Tina population 150. Toni left Home at 15"in Italy there were no jobs. We did t have enough to eat what could you do he  was t easy for a teen Ager coming to a foreign country by himself. He spoken German or English had Little Educa Tion and no training As a waiter. Toni re members. For my first 10 years in Germany 1 just worked no vacations no Days off and bad pay. But i remember How i Felt and 1 would never make anyone work for me like  Toni retains his italian citizenship an returns to his Home town. Nebiu. At least once a year. He has no family left there and most of his childhood friends have moved away but he says. There s Only one place in the world that s Home and you have to go Back there last month he took his entire soccer team to Nebiu for an exhibition game let Ting the people there know they Are remembered. Americans Are great people to work with Toni said. He thinks italians Are too hard they expect More from a person than he can do. Germans Are sometimes not familiar with italian food and have to be taught to like  he said. But americans Are use to it. And it s easy to make them  about the name Pronto Tonis the italian word for hello is Pronto and Toni is Short for Antonio. So the phone was an swered. Pronto. Toni  and the name  who has seen Toni move at lunch time can appreciate How appropriate the name is. Hutch Orlyn u  and blur m pm Community Tim tit l tool unite As be preside Over a lunchroom crowd at Pir Masens. Army Paula Jane