European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 21, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 military civilians share spirit of Good will from surrogate families to a Highbe a by Connie Dickey staff writer Christmas and giving go together. Throughout Europe american service members and civilians arc giving their time Money and love to brighten someone else s Holiday this year. Orphanages and an old folks Home have been adopted by soldiers and airmen stationed in the United kingdom and Germany. Since Many troops cannot spend the holi Days with their own families they adopted the less Fortu Nate As surrogate families. In Frankfurt soldiers threw their eighth annual Christmas party in the suburb of Hoschst and gave toys to 31 needy children and orphans. We can Only afford to give them very Small toys said sister Odilia who works at the orphanage. If it weren t for the american soldiers they would t get much for  the toys included new bicycles Little red wagons and dolls. Soldiers from the combat support in. . Come. Berlin hosted a Christmas party for residents of the Kreuzberg senior citizens Home in Berlin. And three companies of the 4th in 502nd inf will Host a party monday for about 100 orphans and underprivileged Chil Dren from the Schoeneberg District. The children 4 to 11 years old will be treated to games snacks gifts and a visit from Santa Claus. Soldiers from cod 23rd engr in 3rd army div became big Brothers and Sisters to 35 children of the Kinder Kris him orphan go of Steinheim when they gave the children a Christmas party and provided food gifts and a visit from Santa Claus. Disadvantaged German and american children were selected by soldiers of the Junior enlisted Council 8lh Maint in 3rd support come Wiesbaden for a party during the holidays. The children 1 to 14 years old were from housing areas around Manau. The Council funded the party from profits made Selling food and ice Cream at a City festival in october. Expanding their families to include 47 disadvantaged German children from the Kaiserslautern area the sol Diers of he Del ,17th trans group invited the group to join in their detachment Christmas party. The children sponsored by the  und Spiel stub. A local social Center and educational facility ranged in age from 3 to 1 5. The detachment raised 5520 for the party through bake sales and auctions of services. Following one auction the adjutant polished an enlisted member s boots and the group executive officer relinquished his parking space for a week. The spirit of giving was not just Felt in Germany. Almost a Ion of toys clothing school supplies household goods and a $9,000 Check found their Way to a girls Home in Moron Spain this Christmas. The shipment is the result of a yearlong Effort by the men and women of he european information systems div of Kapaun As. The air station division has sponsored operation Sleigh balls for the past 30 years. The $9,000 was collected from monthly Chili lunch cons paper salvages a Booth at the rams Cin a air show and Church donations. The Sisters of Filipena who run the Home for 65 girls said the Money will be used to buy food typewriters sewing machines and a computer and for building repairs. The first priority for the Money is survival for the kids said capt. Mark Williams Sleigh Bells president. They re living pretty much Day to Day and so the nuns first have to buy  the children of the Wick children s Center in Wick Scotland will have a merrier Christmas thanks to the first class association at the naval communication station Thurso Scotland. After hearing that the Center s Christmas activities might be limited because of inadequate funds the association held a sock hop to raise Money for the children who Range in age from 3 to 16. More than ,200 was collected. No forgetting the needy military families in Ger Many the spearhead chapter of the noncommissioned officer association presented a Check for is .000 to army Community services representatives of the Frank Furt but Bach and Hinnau military communities. The donation is to assist acs in aiding families during the holidays. Besides the  parties held during the holidays for children students from main elementary school have cheered up cd Dcarl residents of a nursing Home Tor the past five years. While at the Weifert Jan Heim the fourth and fifth graders Sang Christmas carols gave homemade cards and spent time talking with the residents of the Home. Helping out the boy scouts is How the soldiers from the 93rd engr co. 565th engr in decided to spread some Christmas cheer. They a Tel to the Black Forcel town of bad Herr Calb to Cut 600 Christmas Trees for the scouts who sell the Trees to support their summer Camp program. The scouts started obtain a tics in a Baden Wuerttemberg slate Forest on their own about 10 years ago said Community spokesman Hans Joachim Hoffner. About four years ago the Snow was shoulder deep. The program almost went kaput he said. The soldiers then assumed the task As a Community service project he said. Extending his thanks to the local Community for at tending his theater a theater owner at bad Hersfeldt invited 230 children from the american elementary school to be his guests to see Santa Claus an Ameri can film starring Dudley Moore. A real Santa was on hand to give out presents. All on Post Barbarossa travel agencies in Germany Are having Christmas parties with Candy for the Chil Dren on Christmas eve morning. The Public is invited to visit the offices before noon tuesday. Berlin dorm warming up to Sun Power heat system by Joe Mapother staff writer Berlin like giant Iclal intestines nearly a half mile of pipes Snake across the roof of a 70-room dormitory at Tempelhof Central Airport to form what air Force officials claim is the first passive solar Energy system of us kind in Berlin. The pipes arc filled with a Saline solution that picks up heat on the roof and circulates Down to the basement. There the heat is transferred to tanks that provide hot water to the building said air Force capt. David Luders 7350th civil engineers. Although Berlin does not get a lot of direct sunlight annually Luders said the system will operate eight months a year. A conventional heating system takes Over during the Winter months he said. After monitoring the system during its first i to months of operation Luders was optimistic that the Pilot project would Ful fill expectations of cutting the Airport Energy consumption by 6 percent. The solar powered setup is expected to save 8,800 Gallons of i Csc fuel annually and Cut More than $17,000 from the air port fuel Bill Luders said. We anticipate the system will  for itself in about 16 years Luders said. The passive solar heating system Cost $80,000 and was designed and installed by the Heinrich Schwa Etc firm of Berlin. It was designed to provide 40 Gallons of hot water for each resident in the 44,683 Square foot building at the Eastern tip of the main Airport building. Outside Power is needed to operate the system. Electricity drives the washing machine size Transfer unit in the dormitory basement and the pumps needed to gel the Saline solution up to the roof Luders said. The system is shut Down when the Cost of driving the Transfer unit and pumps exceeds the amount of heat Energy Gath ered on the roof he said. The system cannot operate when the outside temperature dips below 27 degrees fahrenheit because of the danger that the Saline solution might freeze Luders said. A s2.5 million building renovation project sparked the plan to install the passive solar Energy system Luders said. Com plete gutting of the building made it easy to install the pipe system that gathers the heal. A total of 35 Semi private Baths that draw hot water from the solar heat system were included in the plans. Officials will decide next year whether the system is successful enough to warrant installing it in other Airport buildings. This solar Energy system is just one of the Pilot projects we re trying out for alternative Energy sources Luders said. This Spring the Berlin firm we Scaltro Nick will set up a wind Generator to Supply the Power needs of a Small building where used Auto parts arc sold Luders said. The space age Windmill is expected to generate 10 kilowatts of Power per hour. It s really a no risk venture on the air Force s part Luders said. This firm just wants to set it up and have someone be a Guinea  the Small building slated to test the wind Generator project Graze one of Tempelhof Airport s oldest alternative Energy projects. The flock of Sheen that first came to the Airport in the Early 1950s continues to keep the grass Well below Wing tip level. Aids cases reported in zambian mining town Lusaka Zambia a at least two people have died from aids in the mining town of Ndola and several additional cases have been discovered the times of Zambia has reported. The fatal disease is reportedly wide spread in Central Africa. Some countries have censored reports on the disease by. Cause they fear the information might dam age tourism. Sign language Brenda Mallery a Volunteer for the Sal vation army in Harrisburg pa., holds signs to replace the traditional sound of Bells used by i be Charity organization. Because some shopping malls object to the Bells. Salvation army volunteers have devised other ways to attract donations during the holidays