European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A hostages land in sea of yellow for joyous reunion with families a staff member at Wiesbaden air Force Hospital bursts into tears left As the 52 former hostages leave the Hospital to goodbye with tears and smiles Board a bus for Rhei main but the plane that was taking them Back to the freed captives Are All smiles right As United More Page they wave goodbye to Germany from the photo by Didio and a 14 months of waiting finally Over by Grace Blancett Washington Bureau chief West the Long Gray line want Gray it was thousands of yellow ribbons and american flags waved in the sunny Winter sky in this Small town where 52 released hostages and their families were reunited after More than 14 months of the former hostages landed on Ameri can soil sunday to a heros Welcome and reunion with their families following 444 Days in Captivity As prisoners of iranian the dubbed Freedom carrying the americans landed at at Stewart fab in 17 Miles North of West Point where the reunited families will stay until the hostages walked from the plane into the arms of loved ones who were Gath ered at the foot of the wild cheers went up from thousands of people in and around the Airport As the plane touched the a hostages had a emotion Al reunion with their relatives in the air port terminal amid tight Security before continued on Back Page authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 281 i5c daily and sunday january 1981 if 21855 a returnees get Happy sendoff Barefoot on the ice thaws out Des Iowa a golfers rushed to the students strutted in Parks and a softball team held its first prac Tice three months ahead of schedule As weekend temperatures turned toasty Over much of the country in several youths took off their shirts and walked on the ice Bare footed at ledges state it was the silliest thing youve Ever seen in said one passerby in the All of with temperatures in the 60s and 70s compared to Normal readings in the and basked in a january thaw on record and near record High readings were posted As far North As Minne even International traditionally one of the coldest spots in the a reached a High of 47 saturday one degree shy of a record for the but the mild readings were Short lived temperatures cooled a Reading of 57 in the Paul area on saturday was 8 degrees higher than a Mark set in Sioux reached a High of 70 degrees 12 degrees higher than the previous record for the Date and most of Iowa had highs in the 60s under sunny other Balmy readings for a Winter week end 52 in 65 in 68 in Kansas City and 74 in some gardeners in Iowa were fearful their perennials would be fooled into Mak ing an Early Start on and then to Frozen by More Normal temperatures in coming the coach of a Des Moines softball determined to get a jump on the called members of his club and held batting practice with the dozen players who showed there were other perfectly Normal happenings that were perfectly absurd for the Middle of the Driver of a sports car stopped on an interstate Highway and triumphantly put the top people in shirt sleeves hooked up hoses and washed their cars and golfers tried out their Christmas there were a few accidents As Ponds that normally have a thick coat of ice this time of year began to a Des Moines Man died when the Dune buggy he was driving crashed through thin ice at a gravel cars also plunged through the ice in the Iowa great lakes we pulled four cars out saturday one official we Haven had any injun people Arent used to dealing with thin ice around Here this time of firefighters reported an unusual number of grass its unheard of to be fighting grass fires this time of we had a dozen fires on saturday said a Des Moines fire say farewells at Rhei main by Mike Spear and Bill Walker staff writers Rhei main Germany americas 52 returnees from Captivity in iran said their farewells sunday morn ing after four Days at the air Force Hospi Tal in they left for the United states shortly before 11 aboard a Mil itary Jet named Freedom hundreds of Well wishers at the Hospital and on the Tarmac at the air base gave the group a rousing sendoff for their trip to and a reunion with their the farewells at the air Force Hospital and at Rhei main were at the Hospital in the Gray which dawned with a coat of ice clinging to could in no Way Dampen the As Dawn new signs were going up on the Balcony Over the emergency Entrance to the Hospi they read god bless auf Wie continued on Back Page