European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. August 20, 1936 the stars and stripes Page 3 Birds drop problems on Hanau residents by Connie Dickey staff writer Hanau. Germany the housing areas in the Hanau Community have gone to the Birds. The Community it hauling with pigeons and  that arc making life miserable for residents by pelting ears balconies and people with droppings. In late april he Eric Nice leased housing area began fighting Back. We Are prohibited by German Tjw to Sel imps for the pigeons but since they arc not protected and Are not an endangered species we were Able to come up with a  said Chris Tian cot Schalk agronomist at the directorate of housing. Gottschalk said the pigeons would sit on the Edge of the roofs and windowsills and leave their droppings be Hind. Some of the residents said they would be on their balconies and pigeons would hit hem on the head with their  he said. To alleviate the problem the Engi neers put two steel bars on the Edge of the roof and windowsills and put a thin Nylon thread Between the bars. When inc pigeons try to come in for a Bud ing their feet i inc thread and they Fly off. After two or three tries the pigeons realize that s not a place they can land. Now they Are roosting on the top of the  Gottschalk said. The residents of the new Argonne housing area have not been As Lucky. Their problem started in Laic May with swallows. Unlike the pigeons swallows Are a protected Bird and that keeps the engineers from doing anything with them. We called inc Hess in stale Bird Proi Calion Agency to Sec if they could help us. By Law we cannot do  a harm inc Birds we will be fined about 10.000 Marks $4.750 Colts Chalk said. Some occupants of new Argonne housing have As Many As four nests above i hair balconies and one building has As Many As 23 swallows As Resi dents. Some occupants have Lold us they enjoy having the Birds nest around their balconies but More residents have put in requests to have the nests  he said. The occupants object to having their balconies gelling Messy to nol being Able to sit on the balconies and to their cars Gering hit. The Bird Proi Calion Agency suggested placing cardboard under the nests an covering cars but forbade removing the Ness. We Are going along with the recommendations Gol Schalk said. There arc babies in the nests so we Don l want to endanger their lives and re moving the Ness is nol going to solve the problem. Next year the Birds will build new Ness. All we can do now is be pattern. The Birds should be migrating South in september anyway in s funny. Germans want to have swallows around their House because they eat Flics and mosquitoes Colts Chalk said in fad they order houses for swallows which will bring them to i hair House bul americans Don l seem to want to have them around because of a Little mess battalion chaplain pedals his own kind of it by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Neu Ulm Germany it May be the common army acronym for physical training but some 2nd in my Field arty soldiers might Start using it to mean pedal  battalion soldiers occasionally get to forgo their nor Mal morning exercise ritual by participating in an 18 a mile bicycle ride through a dozen Rural communities near Wiley Barracks in ecu Ulm. Capt Robert e. Seed banal Ion chaplain said he invited individual batteries on the morning rolling retreats after noticing the Large number of bicycles owned by battalion soldiers. One of our objectives was to enhance unit Cohe Sion seed said it s really paid  the ride also serves As an introduction to the neigh boyhood because most battalion soldiers arrived in Germany within the past few months in a cohesive operational readiness training cohort mass troop movement. The chaplain Drew 42 participants monday for the 7 . Ride Sel up for Btry b. Seed already had Dis patched 15 spotters in an Advance party to direct Bicy Cle traffic at intersections along the route. He gels a pretty Good turnout. People borrow bikes to do it said pvt. 2 Michael Ray Riding the circuit for the second Lime la Breaks inc Monotony and you get to see a Little bit of the  the route takes advantage of several established bicycle paths for inc Sake of safety and riders Are directed to travel in groups of two or More. That docs l Rule Oul accidents however As sol. Victor Reveles discovered when his front wheel Hil a Small rut. The Impact snapped the wheel off and  to the ground. He suffered scrapes on his head and shoulder that required medical treatment. The Accident was t due to inexperience. I be done plenty of these bicycle Tours before me and my wife just to ride a  Reveles said he s been our Only injury Oul of 160 people who have been on this so far seed said. Safety also is a prime concern on a downhill half Sis photo by Jud battalion chaplain capt. Robert or seed left meets troops for a Bike rid through the German Countryside. Miles curve which seed appropriately Calls dead Man s  "1 put on my brakes and i busted one of my Brake cables Ray said of the Hill. I you Don t watch in you could be killed. There s cars coming up  most bikers took a break in inc Middle of inc Rouzic at Tiffenbach where wives of battalion members provided them with Rolls and juice. A few riders skipped the break striving for a fast finish. The chaplain said the fastest recorded time to Date was i hour and 10minutes, although unofficial limes have been As Quick As 54 minutes. Seed assigned to the battalion for the past 2 i years said he has organized rides Only at the Bailery level so far bul he Hopes 10 Siage a battalion wide trip in october after the soldiers return from training in Grafe Woehr. Wii anti tank arms uncovered at . Base Herzog Nakrach. Germany Sis although a Crew had been dig Ging for weeks installing phone lines at Herzo base in was t until Friday that it uncovered world War ii German Ann tank rocket launchers. There s hundreds of hem Here said Mai. Bill Hardy Deputy  for the artillery base located 15 Miles Northwest of Nuernberg. Hardy said no one has any idea How inc panzers Check ended up next to the Bass education Cenich. It s strange finding infantry weapons at an old air base Hardy mused. The germans used the property As on air base during the War. The . Army began using Ilas a military intelligence Post in 1945, and in became an artillery base in the 1960s. German ordnance disposal personnel have taken charge of removing the Racket launchers which Hardy said arc unloaded and not dangerous. They n deteriorated no museum Quality pieces he said. The germans brought in a Crane to assist them in the digging and expect to finish Friday Hardy said. The work did t disrupt base routine. But people Stop by to look he said. Heroin was smuggled on soviet ship dutch say Rotterdam Netherlands up the largest Cache of heroin Ever re covered by police in Europe was smuggled into Holland aboard a soviet vessel authorities said monday. Nearly 500 pounds of heroin was seized Al dockside As in soviet ship the Captain Tomson unloaded its cargo in Rotterdam May 28, police spokesman Jar Djong said. The ship sailed from the soviet Basic seaport of Riga Rotterdam detectives said they Dis covered the drugs hidden in two containers of raisins from Afghanistan where they believe the heroin originated. The seizure was announced in May but the ship s identity was not disclosed until monday. Justice department spokeswoman Toos Faber said no protest had Bee made to soviet authorities about the Case. We think it is a criminal ques Tion nol a political one he said. Police arrested three dutch citizens after seizing the drugs. They were charged with importing heroin and released pending trial