European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 fading Light of Day a fading Sunset illuminates Clouds Abo c the North sea As they float past a Light House on Germany s Eider sled Peninsula. Originally consisting of three islands Widerstedt has been connected to the main land since 1489. Many residents raise cattle horses and sheep in the sparsely populated Region. Canadians Hope to keep students in Dodds by Joseph Owen staff writer Gidel Dorg Canadian officials arc hoping inc United states Hill continue to accept Small numbers of Canadian students in defense department schools abroad despite a new Law which weakens their claim on such spaces. If the american government decides Dodds schools Don t have room for foreign students next fall parents of several do in Canadian students in Heidelberg and Ramstein May be faced with unpleasant alternatives said Francis w. Bussieres director general of Canadian forces dependents education programs. The Canadian dependents Are among 6,000 students who As members of families not associated with the . Military pay tuition to attend Dodds schools overseas. About 1.500 of those students arc children of foreign Par , interviewed during a semiannual visit to Canada s nine european schools said Dodds now accepts Canadian students on a space required basis that is the . Schools make room for any Canadian student eligible logo in arc. Dod lawyers recently questioned the department s authority to accept tuition paying students however so this fall Congress passed a Bill which allows Dodds to do so. But the new Law which takes effect at the beginning of the 19k6-87 school year allows Dodds to accept the addition Al students Only if there is space available for them. There s a lot of american children who Are involved As Well said Bussieres. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is expected to decide which groups will Rill that space and the canadians Are hoping to retain their priority standing. If Weinberger denied Access to the canadians in Ger Many Bussieres said Canadian officials either would give parents funds to educate their children where they wish or would bus the students to Badin soc Lingen for the students in Heidelberg thai would mean spending three hours or More on a bus every Day. I m reasonably confident that the decision of the Secretary will be  said Bussieres who visited Dodds director Beth Stevens last summer to lobby for the Canadian students. I be asked that they be admitted on a space required tuition paying basis and i m waiting for the Secretary s reply he said. Although most of the affected Canadian students Are us Heidelberg and Ramstein he said others Are sprinkled around the world at locations where canadians Are attached to american government facilities. Dodds provides instruction for about 151,000 Stu dents in 270 schools in 20 countries. Canada s dependents education program has about 15.000 students at 66 schools including nine in Europe. Is elementary pupils share Early thanksgiving by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Sermersheim Germany  elementary school pupils got a sneak preview of thanksgiving wednesday sharing a mass produced Turkey dinner will soldiers who have adopted their school. Germ Rosheim army depot dining facility workers who assumed the added daily duly of feeding the Chil Dren when the new school opened in september festooned he dining Hall with appropriate Holiday Deco rations. The children also watched a videotape of thanksgiving interviews they had conducted with each other earlier in the Day As part of a classroom project. The dining Crew whipped up the dinner for the sol Diers who have helped the school during the year. The dinner was also the Crew s latest demonstration of sup port fur u Liny school that is thriving with the Benefit of such assistance. The soldiers of cob 63rd signal in have helped move furn Ilure and performed of her types of manual labor Al inc school during inc past few months. They provided manpower to do a lot of inc things the school did nol have the facilities  said 1st la. Rose he run Borg. The dining facility officer. The department of defense dependents schools established the  school District five years ago honouring requests from parents who were dismayed that their children were Riding buses an hour one Way to an american school in Karlsruhe said principal Cindy Gossling. The germ Rosheim school which includes grades one through six first operated in an off Post building in  until the new school opened Al the army depot this fall. All of the pupils travel to school there by bus As there arc no family quarters on inc Post. Gossling said the school has plenty of benefactors since its opening. Co b offered its continuous services As part of Usa eur s adopt a school program. Parents have turned out in Force to Volunteer As unpaid lunch monitors. And the soldiers dining facility located two buildings away began doubling As the school cafeteria because the five room school has no cooking facilities being barely big enough to hold inc 120 pupils attending classes there. The school children normally cat lunch from 10 30 to 11 15 . Leaving about is minutes before inc soldiers arrive said sol. . Raymond Walker the dining facility manager