European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. October 24. 19b8 the stars and stripes hous no Areca mayors smooth ouf probe it by Connie Dickey staff writer Hanau Germany when folks in the states Nave complaints about their Community they often take their beefs to the mayor. In military housing area sin Germany resident also go to their mayors. But these elected civil servants More often than no the wives of servicemen Are unpaid volunteers work Anglo male life easier for their fellow residents. Being mayor is a full time Job said Shirley la Page last year s mayor at the leased housing area in Bischofsheim. I would get up at 4 30 to work and then would calmly Deputy after she got her children Oft to school. Front then we would be Busy All Day. Sometimes i Felt like r lived with the phone in my she Aid. And we did t quit until 12 30 at night or later hid Ann Stevens last year s Deputy mayor at Bischofsheim. The mayors have found out that problems in lease housing Are different from those in government hous ing partly because the leased housing May be far away from the Community housing busted me to decide things in the build ing Lapage said. For instance a woman Here needed a door replaced because her pet Bird had pecked holes in it. Mousing said she would have to pay for it she thought it should be replaced at no Cost to resolve it. Homing asked me to look at the door and decide. 1looked Al it and believe me the woman bought that communities throughout Germany use the mayoral program. In Hanau the 18-Momh-Oid program has grown from mayors in six housing areas to mayors in12 areas said Ruth Grouell organizational effective Ness Allicer. The Community recently elected new. Mayors Whin mid october relieved he women who had served More than a year Grouell said. She Laid that before the mayoral program began wives from housing areas could bring up their prob lems to the Community commander through the women s advisory Council but they were not a focal Point to getting things accomplished general Rhame challenged Shirley Lapage to be come part of the solution and begin the program. She was the first mayor Grouell said Brig. Gen. Thomasc. Rhame was the Hanau military Community com from left Shirley Lapage Lut year s i Janine to Wazma sex Deputy mayor to i do Sun Bona Bif needs. Note it so to vim in a r at Blicht Fth or a hot us Alice Short last year i major at gather to Mander from october 1984 to july 1986. The mayors Are our the command s link with the people in the housing areas they hear the concerns of the Community and let the command know. In return they take information to the Community from the com Mand she said. Grouell meets with the mayors monthly to hear their problems and to help them plan How to get Mes sages out to their people. The mayors work behind the scenes getting thing accomplished. Many times their a flirts won t be acknowledged because the accomplishments come later like bicycle Racks and picnic tables in the housing areas and getting parking lots paved. Alice Short last year s mayor at Flieger Hont said her work was easier because of the support of 10 build ing representatives in her housing areas. We met once a month and we discussed problems what we would like to do and How to gel those things done. They were always ready to help she said. Both mayors and their deputies said they Fdl their jobs were to educate the people Irving in housing. Stevens add younger couples Are told garbage about what they can do and How to do things. Some of the others either Don t know How either their Hus bands Are in be meld and Don t Tell them How or the husband has been doing things wrong i can Tell them How to do things How logo about gelling things done and who to talk to but lome of them Don t listen or just Don t do it period then they come Back to us Stevens Thompson last year s Deputy mayor at Flie Ger Horst said Lota of time people come to i to find out where they need to go and who to talk to when they need something done because they Doitt know. We get them pointed in the right direction. If they cant get things resolved then they comeback to us and we see what we can do she said. We had Good Access to the people in the different agencies and they trusted us enough to take our word if we Felt they needed to do graphic video is used to warn gis about aids by Richard c. Grossup military writer Washington the army fighting to protect it troops from deadly aids is using a graphic video tape showing Bow the disease can nit heterosexuals and encouraging Safe sex officials said wednesday. Homosexuals Are conspicuously absent from theban of characters in the 30-minute production called "nobody1 Lape a meant of make people think said maj. Stephen while of the army surgeon general s s meant to scare item. It s not hard dry and cold. It � nol your Basic army training emphasize thai heterosexual Are susceptible to i was like kid with him utter of Candy. I Coolin get enough says the Soldier who later contracted the and behaviour modify aids exposure confirmed in 17 philippine prostitutes Ila Philippines a seven found with the aids antibodies duri he Mode a dreadful horrible mistake and it exist him his life say his film Fiancee. The tape doses with a doctor advising nol to have sex with a prostitute to know your sex partner and to use a condom because it May be helpful in avoiding aids. Details of the tape were disclosed As surgeon Gener Al c. Everett Koop held a news conference to warn against free Wheeling casual sex that spreads the virus thai causes aids which wrecks the body s Natu ral defences against Ai the Walter Reed army Institute of re search in March the color tape features staged monologues by Young men and women about How lives an destroyed by aids contracted in these cases through Contact with prostitutes or intravenous drug use. The underlying inf map is simple and ominous aids is claiming new casualties who Are not homosexual or bisexual men or drug Only Chance we be Tot right now is education an r modification while said. Most people associate the disease with being homosexual another army official said. We want to make Tun that we explode that tape has been sent to army installations wound the world the film was made available to army medical of Clitie in Europe Early this summer did it. Col. Car Oline Rakiewicz Community health nurse consultant for the 7th medical Comet the film a strictly an army production and is shown to Al Active duty soldiers before they Are screened for aids the told the Stan and slopes thursday. And since in is based on Reft life Sil it gets them sensitized to the disease and get them. Thinking about it with slides or View graph also a shown to the sold Cert the packet which must be viewed before or after the film gives them More information about the
