European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news update the stars and stripes tuesday August 25,19b7 Gas prices Rise los Angeles up de spite a continued decline in he Price or crude Oil he average con Sumer gasoline Price climbed .66 cents per gallon to More than j1,03 during he past two weeks. A spokeswoman for the Lund Berg Survey a National Oil Indus try newsletter said sunday that As of Friday the National average Price for All grades of self and full service pumps was 103.30 cents per gallon a ,66-cent Rise above the aug. 7 average Price. The new Price is 16.5 cents a gallon higher than it was last a gust but it still is 19.8 cents per gallon lower than August 1985. Self service regular unleaded the top Selling fuel Grade with 19 percent of sales went for 95.78 cents per gallon. Regular leaded whose share of the Market has been shrinking had the lowest average Price 92.20 cents at self service pumps. Premium unleaded an increasingly popular seller due to older cars which require More octane than regular unleaded provides jumped to 109.10 cents my 108.37 cents two weeks earlier. At full service pumps regular unleaded averaged 121.31 cents regular leaded 117.05 cents and Premium unleaded 131.os cents. Temperatures u & � it 54 72 Boom is 73 biugipoit47 u Bunko u u by Togus u 7b cup m 77  Al. 66 u Cut Flodma 71 loud pm a bpm  m 71u n 70 Hgo n so gut 74 a i n m 70 73 b471 n h 77 m h 7 h 75 94sz n 79 1di 40 73 47 71 7 80 u 71m n u 79 44 us4 u 07 7�78 h 7 h is 74s7 70 surf Irma 77 by u h s5 u7 7 sulm wet 4b 71 97 h45 h 74 03 ,_-t_41 74 too 71 h Tucki is h a 77 by n wot u 71 a in i &40vmiw 61 Lou is Tiv flu european weather tar Tori Fedar Cutty him Frt i we my Nind no Camf loctfr9 Rumi Tomii of non a com Ocy 4ofl i Tam i us Iwig Way morning Houri High Urf. &4ft. Pm w 60 ss1 Tun Fey b 2t. Mun m i u iwo Way morning h Truf 830, Loukx Lor a More of  a Buff he i Iti Tui. .  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In one room the teacher had the children hold ing different coloured pompous and she was asking who has the red Pompon who has the Blue one then i went next door and this teacher had lots of jars of Waitr on the table and the children had droppers that they could drop food colouring into the jars and mix colors and actually Dif Ferent colors they  she said giving children an Opportunity to be imaginative and creative As with the jars and water is a Good Way to let them absorb the knowledge they learn instead of making them memorize some thing. She said one important Way to achieve that is for Early childhood educators to listen to children. Three and 4-Ycar-Olds Are honest. They Tell it like it is. You can Tell where they arc coming  children also need the respect due them for being the unique persons they Are she said noting they arc not an Extension of their parents or grandpa rents. They arc products of All of their  learning requires experience she said and children icam from their experience with Rote models parents siblings rela Tives friends and teachers. But to under stand information it has to be meaning Ful to them she said. They have to associate it with some thing in their lives she said. It does t make any difference whether you arc working with infants toddlers older children or teen agers. The same rules apply listen respect them and be Good role  Zavitkovsky s orc to directors coordinators and family child care provider during their monthly meeting. She Baa just written a Book entitled listen to the children and she recounted her own experiences to the group. Wreckage of copter raised from Gulf Manama Bahrain a Crews raised the wreckage of the . Navy helicopter that crashed july 31 in the persian Gulf and brought it ashore Sun Day shipping executives said. Two men were killed and two others arc missing and presumed dead after the so 3g sea King helicopter came in too Low for a Landing on the deck of the la Salic the command ship of the Mideast task Force and crashed into the sea the shipping sources said they did t know if the bodies of the two missing men were found in the wreckage. The sources said the wreckage would Proba Bly be examined in Bahrain then sent to Lite United slates. Five of the helicopter s nine occupants were rescued and treated for injuries. One body was found right after the crash and another was found last week. Heated talk among divers and Crew men aboard a huge Barge and Crane commissioned by the Navy for the Salvage operation was heard on the radio Chan Nels that Are monitored by shipping executives along the Gulf coast the sources said it was possible Iran May have misinterpreted the conversations including the repealed phrase helicopter crash prompting its claim of a new . Copier crash. Iran s official news Agency reported sunday that a . Helicopter crashed in the Gulf but american military and diplomatic officials denied the report. Go regaining use of arms legs after Accident Washington is pfc. Brad icy Hollon injured in a diving Accident last month in Germany has regained partial use of his arms and legs but it will be months before doctors know whether hell walk again. An official with the veterans administration medical Center in East Orange nj., said the 26-year-old Soldier from he troop 11th army Cav regt has re gained about 50 Pew no use of his arm5 and about 10 percent use of his  Holton suffered spinal injuries and was paralysed from he neck Down while diving in the Pford Ler see in an area where diving is prohibited Fulda Mili tary Community official said. He initially was treated at a Kassel Hospital where he was Able to make slight movements with his arms and legs. He was transferred to the a Center in new Jersey aug. I. He is in satisfactory condition but doctors Are guarded about his prognosis. He has been improving but it s going to take three to six months of therapy before we really know How far he can  the a official said. Hell be Here at the Center for at least another eight or nine  injured Power lifter now walking unaided Washington is usar eur Power lifting Champion spec. 4 Brenlin Sewell seriously injured in a stateside diving Accident in june is walking unaided and taking overnight and weekend passes medical officials said Friday. An official at the veterans administration medical Center in Long Beach calif., said Sewell 24, is continuing occupational correctional and physical therapy for spinal Cord injuries that caused doctors to initially diagnose him As a quadriplegic. Obviously he s not leaping tall build Ings the official said. We can t say he s fully recovered. But he is walking without assistance and he is leaving the Center Here for Short periods. He s continuing to Progress  no Dale has been set for a Cuciti re lease from the a Center the official said. He s come a Long Way but he s still got a Way to go he said Sewell of the 3rd in 16th Field arty at Bau bolder Germany was the Only Usa eur participant on the armed forces team in the National Junior  championships in Early june. He won a Gold medal in the 198-Pound division. Gis killed in motorcycle Accident identified v1cenza, Italy the names of the soldiers involved in a fatal motorcycle Accident saturday have been released a military spokesman said tuesday. The Driver sol. Daniel b. Rodgers 26, of Dallas was pronounced dead at the scene of the Accident by an italian physician. Spec. 4 Wesley Baker 21, of Jacksonville fia., was injured and remained hospitalized at a Hospital in for log Ruaro. Both soldiers were assigned to the Lith . Army Field arty Del 559th any group in Longare Italy initial reports indicated that the motorcycle was travelling out of Forto Ruaro in Northeast Italy about 6 45 . Sat urday when it went out of control on a curve striking a Wall said sgt. Maj. Eugene Yusko a Public affairs spokesman for the army s Southern european task Force and 5th support come. The Accident is still under investigation he said. Soldier drowns after falling into canal Nuernberg a 1st army div Soldier drowned saturday afternoon when he apparently fell from a Bridge into the main Donau canal in Nuernberg a division spokesman said Mon Day. Sol. Kevin j. Brown 25, of cod i6lh engr in was with several soldiers from his unit who were swimming in the canal when the Accident occurred maj. John l. Shea said. Witnesses reported that Brown a non swimmer fell off the Bridge from which several of his companions were jumping into the water. Several Rescue attempts made by wit Nesses were unsuccessful. Brown s body was recovered from the canal by the local fire department. The Soldier was pronounced dead at the scene by a German doctor. Brown a native of Taylors s.c., ii survived by his wife Darlene and two children Shea said