European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse .1 we tuesday december 17, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 letters of mias found in . Mission s trash a. York up a woman whose win3,"T Wils a cd us Mihi a in Ion in a i vi"70 says she found a Barbag can full of letters Mosi of them unopened addressed to mias in care of Vietnam s Mission to inc United nations. A spokesman fur the Mission said such mail is routinely thrown out because there is Loo much of it to be processed. R juuy.,w 5 58 min or of a cafe in Atour building Complex that houses the Viet namese . Mission said she made the discovery when she arrived at work sat urday and owned a garbage can to remove Beer cans for local children who return them to earn deposits. A guard and i were gelling inc cans out. When i saw a whole Bunch of unopened it Lars one addressed to capt. So and so one to pal so and so Lewis said. Lewis said she found about 1,000 letters postcards Large Manila envelopes and Small parcels sent from All Over inc United Stales most were mailed this month she said. I was very she said. Finding inc mail she said reopened an old her husband Frank an army colonel was shot Down in a helicopter Jan 6. 1970. She said. Lewis who has four children including a 19-year-old son at West Point said she still Hopes to Nimr thai her husband is alive. This is Why i m Noi remarried Lewis said because 1 think Lex much of him. I Goi Over the grief More or Bui she said i m every Day hoping for news. You never our Mission has a Small staff and we can Only briefly read some of inc cards and it Lars Hal come in said Tran Khanh a spokesman for inc vietnamese Mission. We cannot possibly read All the he said the Mission responds to it Lars when we find in necessary or useful bul said Mosi of the correspondence is thrown we have to throw them out after we have looked Al what we Khanh said. In is not possible to Send these letters to one envelope addressed to Vietnam s . Ambassador came from girl Seoul Troup 199 in South Clinton Iowa and contained Christmas cards drawn and write in Wilh brightly coloured crayons. A postcard. Addressed to a la. Cmdr. Michael Dunn was inscribed in Bright red Crayon. You re nol another card addressed to Arthur g. Eckland. Read simply a Christmas holidays in full Bloom Paul Blackman Waters some of the More thin 1,000 poin Sclifas Al the Jekyll Island authority s greenhouse operation in Georgia. The Poinc Tutu will be used to decorate millionaires Village and the collages on the Island for Christmas. An 8 fool Piik Tia Christmas tree also will be Dis played. Pratt & Whitney strikers of pact Hartford. Conn. A Union machinists voted overwhelmingly sunday to acc Cpl a contract and end a 13-Day walkout by some 5.000 workers at a lire Pratt & who Lucy Jet engine plants in Connecticut the workers voted 4.785 to 604 for the contract that Union and company negotiators had agreed to Friday and were to begin returning to work at Midnight said Union representative George Almeida. Almeida said the contract offered improved Job Security an Issue the Union had cited As the main reason behind the walkout which began dec. 2 Al plants in Southington North Haven and midd Clown. The agreement includes limits on Sublon traebing. Protection against Job loss due to technology and re training of workers displaced by automation Almeida said. Machinists local president Dean White said inc eco nomic provisions of the pact were the same As those the company offered before inc strike. Those provisions included a s300 Bonus special wage pay cols of 3.5 percent of Gross earnings and a general hourly increase of anywhere from 17 cents to
