European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 24, 1966 the stars and stripes Page 3 army Cooks changing Slop slinging image by Bill  fort Lee a. Up a hairy lat Looyd Arm slinging Slop Ohio a cold plate held by a wary Soldier is inc glum image Many people have of dining in the . Army Bui army food while at times still considered edible at Best is changing in a big Way. La s a Long Way from inc hash and Beans of the old Days to the pc tits fours and muffin sculptures of today but in is the route taken by army Cooks baking up a new image. We be still got inc acc Lac Bailey image to some extent Simiti maj. Neil h. Nation a British army officer brought to America As pan of an Exchange program to direct inc culinary skills division at fort Lee where the army Imine ils Cooks. Army Cocks today Ore taught How to prepare a sols like chefs in any restaurant Kitchen with a pub to Ward better nutrition. Never however of the expense of just like Home treats such us the pastries thai even Lough army cools Lake great Pride in. The thing that anu7.cs people i the army is taking the Lead nationally and inlcrnalic.? july in food Prepa ration nation says. Indeed the . Army culinary arts to in a col Lection of the Best do in Cocks in the army beat Oul the finest res Laurall chefs in the nation  year to win he grand prize at America s Premier cooking show the  culinary arts Salon and exhibition in Chicago. One member of the team received n special Gold medal for an exquisite wedding cake and other pastries in addition the . Army team was the Only group of military Cooks invited to inc International culinary olympics last fall. Still the efforts of inc Cream of the army s 19,000 Cooks do not necessarily represent typical army food. It s Alt Par of our Effort to raise the image from the Sloppy stuff says Hilton. We Don t do this every Day but it shows it can be  for army Cooks in All begins at port Lee 25 Miles South of Richmond a. Students come Here never having cooked before Hatlon said. The first two weeks they arc instructed in things like what is a Carrot what docs it look like How do you boil it real Basic  food has always been a hot although sometimes nol very tasty topic in the military. But solutions were Tough to come by. The real change in null ask came when the draft was dropped and the Volunteer army was ushered in Hal ton says now i think Many people join the army because they arc looking for a Trade and they want to learn How to Cook. Besides 1 Don t think Many people arc going to be Able to gel a Job firing a tank after they get out of the  to boost the new Altitude toward cooking in 1973 the . Army began an Exchange program with the British army in which a major and two instructors from each nation Swap places to get a fresh look Al army cooking the results have been remarkable with last year s National culinary show being the highlight. Bui hit is the army not a cooking school and there arc difficulties in working within the military regimen. Nation s 86 instructors have Only eight weeks to train raw recruits in the Art of cooking. Then that Bunch is off to an assignment and a new group comes in. About 2,000 students go through the Basic cooking training each year. Eight weeks is far too Short Hatton said. Teach ing someone to Cook can take years. All we can do in eight weeks is Basic skills and Hope they go on to get More  the training Brief As it might be is intense. Says Lawrence while 20, of Kalamazoo. Mich., a student whose previous encounters with food included eating it and sweeping the floors at a Mcdonald s when i first got Here i was lost. Bui you gel into the swing of things real  after learning about carrots students Are taught How to read recipes As Well As lessons in paperwork and maintaining food supplies to feed an army. Too thin too fat blame your genes study says Boston a whether people grow up to be fat or Skinny depends in Large part on i hair genes and seems la have nothing to do with the Caling habits they learn As Chil Dren a new study concludes. The conclusion helps to explain Why some people remain overweight even when they diet constantly while others stay trim no matter what they cat fatness and thin Ness Are in their genes. The findings were based on a study of adopted children. They often grew up to have the body builds of their biologic parents slim offspring frequently bad slender natural parents and overweight children had fat ones. There was no evidence that they mirrored inc shape of he adoptive parents who raised them. Many experts believe that heredity plays at least some role in obesity. But they also often theorize thai fat people gel that Way because they learn bad Caling practices Early in life. The Surprise is that the adoptive family has no Impact at All As far As we can Tell said the study s director or Albert j. Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania i had certainly thought that Early child Hood eating habits have a lot to do with becoming fat. They May not. Authorities have Long argued whether nature or nurture is the Ley to obesity that runs in families. Or. Theodore b. Van ital lie of is. Luke a Roosevell Hospital Center in new York says the study appears to resolve that controversy however the study published in thurs Day s edition of the new England journal of Medicine was not intended to imply thai people have no control Over their weight or that calories Don t count. What has been shown Here is that there is a Strong genetic Factor said or. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University. What in t dealt with is what has society done to permit the maximum uncovering of this Gene thanks to fast food and so on the fullest Impact of obesity is now visible As never  in an interview Stunkard cautioned that his findings certainly Don t mean thai the War against excess weight is hopeless. Many people with two fat parents Proba Bly the highest genetic risk for obesity take off weight and keep in off. Instead he said the research helps explain Why it s More difficult for some peo ple than for  if you re born with the right genes like a lot of people you really doa t have to pay any attention to your weight and nothing happens he said. Stunkard said the research also has implications for child rearing. Many parents worry that if their children col too much they will become fat adults. However the new research suggests that if the parents Are slender they probably Don t need la worry. But if the parents Are overweight heir children May have inherited a tendency toward obesity and they should control the youngsters eating. The study was conduct cd on 540 people in Denmark who were adapted Between 1924 and 1947. In found a Strong relation ship Between the weight of the adopters and the weight of heir biological parents but not their adoptive parents he sees the Light hand Sake go 71, is in the debt of i general electric bulb that be says has burned for some 60 years in his Lillo repair shop in Salinas Calif. He says the bulb was there when be opened Harry s garage in 1936, and be retails it bowing in the 1920s, Long before he bought the building. A be sales representative uld be stopped nuking Tutt Type or Low Watt bulb in be Isiora. Air Force May repossess Wii Era Memphis Belle Memphis Tenn. A the air Force is threatening to repossess the Mem Phis Belle a famed world War it flying fortress that was once a movie Star but is now in danger of turning into junk an offi cer said. To be honest with you if i was doing my Job i d be jumping up and Down be cause the Memphis Belle is tilling out in the weather col. Richard Uppstrom director of the air Force museum in Daylon Ohio said wednesday. I d come Down there with my big helicopter and a Hook and Fly in Back up  the Boeing k-17 bomber named for a Pilot s Memphis Girlfriend has been exposed to the Sun rain and vandals for Al most 40 years. The Belle was the first american bomber to Complete 25 missions Over enemy territory in Europe in 1942. Afterwards the Belle and ils Crew returned to the United slates Tor a Bond Selling tour. A wartime movie the Memphis Belle depicted the bomber s missions Over Ger Many and occupied France. The b-17 was brought to Memphis As a War memorial in 1946. For More than 25 Yean it Sal on a Concrete Pedestal in front of a National guard armory where in was virtually stripped by vandals. In 1978, the Belle was moved to Mem Phis International Airport. The Memphis Belle memorial association began restoring the plane with the help of inc Tennessee air National guard and vocational school students. The Belle s restoration is 90 percent com Etele but attempts to raise 1110,000 Lould a shelter for the plane have been unsuccessful. The air Force retains ownership of the plane according la Uppstrom. The colonel has Given the association until inc first week in March to show Prog Ress on the building. Otherwise the air Force will take it Hack. The place for he Belle is in Memphis Uppstrom said. But if the people of Mem Phis Aren t interested in it Hen we have an obligation to it. This is Only one of iwo b 17s with a combat record that Are still  association chairman John Emerson said he Hopes to meet with potential donors within the next few weeks. He said he Al ready has promises of donated labor and Concrete but the group will have to Pur Chase structural steel and other materials maybe col. Upp Krom s letter will get some people interested Emerson said. The Assoc lion Hopes the Belle will eventually be the focal Point for a museum Emerson said that plane exemplifies a lot of people who gave their lives for this country he said it would be a shame to let it Roi