European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. January 18,1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Snow Snow everywhere and not a bite to eats a photo by pm go a Lone sheep buries its head id the Germany As freezing weather Contin boat reportedly have been seen forage As temperature and snowy conditions Snow looking for food near Lindenfels lies to plague Europe. Deer and wild ing for food near Small communities hinder food Hunting. Is joking about their cold danish role  Bureau Borris Denmark i knew it was cold when the Danes could t get their trucks started and when their stuff did t run Well it s their country and their  Mai. James Bowden s words were punctuated by the steam riling from his Coffee cup inside the tactical operations Center of the 4th in 2nd army div fwd. His Bat Talion arrived in Denmark for Winter train ing 83 the record setting european cold map hit full Force this week. Wind chill factors that pushed tempera Tures Down to below Zero and froze fuel Linos and faces alike lifted enough by week s cod to allow 4th in soldiers to joke about the heat wave temperatures ranging in the upper 20s fahrenheit but the cold was no laughing matter when the unit arrived at its North sea coast Man Euver Sites saturday from garbled near the North German City of Bremen. Winter weather thai dumped More than three feet of Snow on parts of North Ern Germany and Denmark also froze signal switches and brakes which delayed arrival of the battalion trains by As much As Ivi hours said it col. To Vossler battalion commander. Temperatures of 4 f wind chill Factor -16 f greeted soldiers Al the Railhead As they unloaded 130 wheeled and 140tracked vehicles. Then More than 700 soldiers went to work outside in weather that caused dozens of cold related deaths elsewhere in Europe. Pfc. Randall Sellers 1st pit co a found himself staring Down the barrel Ofa squad automatic weapon and wishing far the warmer environs of Home near san Diego. It s probably 70 or 80 degrees out there. When i go Back i la probably faint Sellers said from the icy perimeter position he and pfc. Harry Johnson occupied for a couple hours Early thurs Day morning i be been trying to keep most of the plastic stuff off of me because plastic clothing gels cold and stiff Sellers said. But that did t Rule out wearing Thermal underwear a sweatsuit Field jacket and much More. If the wind does t Cut through you la be All right Sellers said. Once the wind cuts through you re through Halfway through a two week training exercise 4th in soldiers had not suffered a single frostbite Case. Medics said they had treated roughly a half dozen cases of Frost nip a Milder cold weather affliction but cold weather injuries were surprisingly Low. The cold made life particularly miser Able for the soldiers under the battalion motor Pool sergeant master sgt. Ernes Gravatt. It is not easy to work on a vehicle with gloves on Gravatt said and in Many cases it is impossible. Although the m-2 Bradley fighting vehicles did Well in the severe cold there were problems getting them a is person Nel carriers and five Ion trucks going. Our biggest problem has been condensation in the fuel lines Cravatt said. We have to break every now an then and get the Guys warmed up so what normally would be a two hour task becomes a three or four hour  the situation in Gravatt s motor Pool was repeated elsewhere in the battalion. Things got done but things took longer. The battalion Man Euver areas near oms and Kosbol. Received a fraction of the heavy Snow that beset Inland communities on the Jutland  said that was one big reason the battalion has managed to stick to a train ing schedule the Range targets were not buried under Snow. But roads at both training areas were Glassy with ice which gave Vossler concern As to whether his unit could make it through the second week with the Sam safety record As the Fust no accidents. Another concern voiced by Vossler and one that will take on added significance As the week draws to a close will be his ability to get his soldiers Home in time for the Jan. 2s super bowl. . Celebrates Martin Luther King s birthday by the associated press the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King or. Friday told a group celebrating his birthday she would lobby Congress on behalf of the poor while Rev Jesse Jack son decried economic injustice after another commemoration for the slain civil rights Leader. Corella Scott King told a packed auditorium at the mar tin Luther King or. Center for non violent social change in Atlanta ga., that she will Back jaws to decrease unemployment and hunger stiffen sanctions against South Afri Ca and Cut the National defense budget. On this Day we celebrate Martin s vision and courage and love but we do not celebrate the Progress we have no made she said. The 58th anniversary of King s birth passed  was assassinated in april 1968 in Memphis Tenn. In new York City Jackson said he would not participate in a planned March and Boycott to protest the killing of a Black Man chased to his death by a gang of Whites in the Howard Beach Section of Queens last month. Blacks boycotting White businesses and marching on while communities arc missing the Root cause of the How Ard Beach violence which is economic injustice Jackson said after a Church service marking King s birthday he urged Black leaders to focus Long term attention on larger issues and attempt to change attitudes of those in Power specifically the altitudes of president Reagan who Jackson said set a tone that made Howard Beach possible or. King s was a nine year struggle not a one Day demonstration he said. In other observances of King s birth Dale mayor Edward i. Koch read a proclamation saying the principles of Justice and tolerance thai King advocated must guide people every Day or there would be no  at the King Center in Atlanta rep. Newt Gingrich r-ga., earlier Friday called for a technology based free Enterprise revolution and Cash rewards for literacy to help improve the lives of poor and working people. The no. I thing that has driven american society is getting More Gingrich said. If we offer Cash rewards Topoor children la learn How 10 read they d icam faster than they do for All the dollars we be spent on remedial Educa Tion we could have bribed most people to  also Al the King Center United farm workers founder and president Cesar Chavez received a social responsibility award for his work in the labor movement other awards went to Therman Mckenzie chairman of Atlanta s my products hair care company Cornell Mcbride the company s president and Citicorp chair Man John s. Reed for business leadership and to a former congressman. Fatten Mitchell of Maryland for governmental leadership. A state Senate committee in Idaho where White supremacists have been Active introduced legislation Friday Declar ing Jan. 15 a commemorative Day in recognition of King. The proposal emphasizes the anti racism stand we have taken said sen Mary Lou Reed a similar Bill passed the Idaho Senate last year but died in the House. This year s measure has the backing of democratic gov Cecil Andrus. But Senate president pro tem James risen said Andrus told him he did not want to declare King s birthday a state Holiday because he thinks we do not have space for another state  Congress has declared the third monday in january As a Federal Holiday and a number of states have followed suit