European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 8, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 is photo by Joe Mapother porcelain Berlin Freedom  Berlin brigade sends $14,000 to Aid crash victims families Berlin the . Army Berlin brigade forwarded a Check for $14,000 thursday to Aid the families of 502nd inf div soldiers killed in the Gander Newfoundland air plane crash in december. Eleven porcelain replicas of Berlin s Freedom Bell accompanied the Check. The Bells Are gifts from the City of Berlin to the families of the 11 victims who had served with the Berlin brigade before assuming peacekeeping duties with the 101st airborne div in the Sinai. Sixteen million americans contributed to the construction of the Berlin Freedom Bell which has Hung in the Schoeneberg town Hall of Berlin since 1950. The Check includes contributions from the German and american communities of Berlin. Money from a a Volk fest presented to Berlin districts Berlin Berlin brigade commander Brig. Gen. Thomas n. Griffin or. Presented a 5,000-Mark $2,242 Check to each of the six District mayors of the american sector thursday. Part of the German american Volk fest proceeds Are donated each year to the six districts. The checks to the mayors Are used to support German american activities i their respective districts. This year s contribution of 30,000 Marks represents the largest donation presented by the . Command. Recruiters seek warrant officers to meet critical shortages Schwet Zingen Germany critical shortages of warrant officers exist in Engineer equipment special operations land combat missile systems repair automotive Marine maintenance and military intelligence technician Fields officials said. A recruiting team seeking qualified applicants will interview people in grades e-5 through e-9 in Germany March 17-28. The team will visit the following areas on the dates listed. The Telephone number to Call for an appointment also is listed Frankfurt March 17-18, ets 320-7475 or 5806 Kaiserslautern March 19, ets 483-7604 Heidelberg March 19, ets 370-7791, 6476 or 8971 Heilbronn March 20, ets 426-2468 or 2576 Nellinger March 21-24, ets 421-6521 Neu Ulm March 24 25, ets 427-6225 Augsburg March 25, ets 434-7225 Nuernberg March 26, ets 460-7387, 6808 or 6605 Grafe Woehr March 27, ets 475-7181 or 6283 Wuerzburg March 28, ets 350-6100 or 83942. Mystery boxes tilled with clues help pm find whose place is whose by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau Pitburg a Germany hint it has a Well known brewery and was visited by president Reagan last year. Members of elementary school classes in three . Cities recently pondered a Box filled with clues like this. They were trying to figure out where the children live who assembled the Box. The contents which represent significant aspects of life near Pitburg were collected by sixth and seventh graders at Pitburg a and Span Dahlem a. It helped us take a closer look at the local culture said Mary Micallef who teaches a sixth Grade talented and gifted class. I never thought of some of the sounds for instance that make living Here  students made cassette tapes of Church Bells cuckoo clocks and farm animals As hints for the stateside classes. They also sent photos of Rol Laden the rolling blinds that cover windows of German Homes. Included in the Box were weather reports and phone Book pages with town names Cut out. We had an easy a medium and a hard to figure Box said Jennifer Rippy 11. The hard Box had an Advent Calendar a picture of a Gingerbread Man a St. Martin s Day lantern and a Straw window Symbol meaning Friendship. We included note cards in sealed envelopes that told More about the things in the  an easier clue was a sticker with crossed German and american flags and the slogan Deutsch amerika Nische  in Exchange for their boxes the students received boxes from three mystery schools in the states. Mical Leps sixth Grade class received a Box with a picture of a Bird a football schedule and a City map with no name. A River on the map however bore a Indian name. While class members looked through encyclopedia for the origin of the tribal name Robert Dorian 11, found himself looking at familiar mementos from his Hometown of new Claremont . He kept saying i Don t believe this " Rippy said. Once he saw the map everything was familiar  when they solved a Box s mystery the classes exchanged them with each other and went Back to work. One Box kept a class working for two Days before they narrowed their Choice to five cities. Answers provided in the boxes identified the other two cities As Elizabeth town tenn., and Seneca to. Is photo by Jean Albright Jennifer Fiumara left and Jennifer Rippy Check clues. There Are advantages and disadvantages about Liv ing Here Micallef said. This led us to some Good discussions about the Way we live and we ended up feeling proud of some of the disadvantages we  Many students had never realized How interesting their life in Germany really is said Jennifer Fiumara when we brainstormed about living Here and com pared it to living in the other cities it changed some attitudes she said. The Box Exchange was the idea of Scott Johnson a University of Connecticut doctoral student studying the education of gifted children. Since his idea caught on teachers have been making connections for exchanges through their own teaching acquaintances. Since the boxes were to be from american Stu dents it might have been a Surprise to see things from outside the .," Micallef said. We followed up with letters from each student about living Here to satisfy the curiosity that the Box must have  Humphrey to seek another term by the associated press Hubert h. Humphrey Iii announced thursday he would seek another four year term As Minnesota attorney general but he refused to Rule out a bid in 1988 for the Senate where his father served for 24 years. Campaigns for the Senate meanwhile were being launched thursday in Vermont by former gov. Rich Ard Snelling and in South Dakota by rep. Tom Daschle the state s Only member of the House of representatives. There has been widespread speculation that Humphrey 43, is gearing up for a Senate race in either 1988, when Republican sen. David Durenberger s term expires or in 1990, when Republican sen. Rudy Boschwitz faces re election. Humphrey said he was not going to Rule out any response to people. I be had a number of people ask me to look at any number of  but. I want to make certain my commitment is to serve the people of Minnesota and that s what i intend to do in the next four years said the eldest son of the late Hubert h. Humphrey jr., a former vice president and . Senator from Minnesota. The younger Humphrey served in the state Senate from 1973 through 1982, when he was elected attorney general. In Vermont Snelling was to announce his bid to unseat popular democratic sen. Patrick Leahy at a thursday night rally attended by former president Gerald Ford. In South Dakota Daschle taped a Campaign announce ment to be broadcast thursday night by All five Commer Cial television stations in the state. Daschle 38, will face the Winner of the Republican primary Between sen. Jim Abdnor and gov. Bill Jank Low in the november election. The Democrat faces no opposition for the Senate nomination from within disown party. Anonymous callers say radio Liberty editor is in Moscow i Titi