European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 10,1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 draw me a picture write me a note by William j. Bartman n Bureau Washington thut Laerci honesty innocent humor and a feeling of Csc Ift Matt Mark inc letters from a fifth Grade class Al school in Chandler. Ariz., to sailors on Hicban Taihi Iowa. The Effort might seem cult but not can to inc average civilian bul the Navy says let i think it s neat you joined the Navy i would never join the Navy. Because i m Valerie a fifth grader Art extremely important to is people at sea especially important arc letters irom family men bars who As with so Many people just Don t wnj#1 often As they d like to. For this reason support officials would like to buy a Leitert tiling in from the woman who prompted the letters from inc Arizona class. A i d like to buy i but i a l have any Money right now said u. Cmdr,.jfalie Hitchborn of inc Navy s family advocacy office. We really like it. The communication a wifi the kids while the dad s Al sea would be but Lack of Syroney has so far prevented even a Lessing of Tho pro ism which called for an initial 500 kits Cannon the Easi and West coasts Hitchborn said ag4"she can t say when or if the program will begin. Rie kit s creator. Milanic Rahn of Chandler Hopes to put together a kit for the army and air Forte As Well. But while the reaction has been favor Able army and air Force officials say there s no plan to do anything the product is nol particularly expensive unless you compare it to inc far cheaper Cost of buying simple stationery the Kils Are Neally bound Vinyl packet thai in the Caw of the Navy kit known As ship to Shore run from 112.95 for a three month package to 124.95 for a six month kit Rahn s kits Are specially set up to k owing on a weekly basis with act not to less the writer More than five Minu make longer. For kids is Fine Rahn said. And some they need to discuss real heavy import wings. Well to children it s the everyday Tojo Nhat the Kojl Combine coif a lined stationery with a Piaf monthly arts and . And other Mutt to make letter writing car and fun. One piece of stationery for example a clues to Cir Cle to show How the weather has beef Litsun. Rain Clouds and in for tit. The letters also come with a space in which uie return letter can be written. On such idler has us _ sections Reading draw me a picture and write me a Hilch bom who with her Navy husband has five children has recommended that Rahn s fledgling m creations inc. Look into marketing the kits at the military exchanges. Rahn got into the business of helping people write tellers to each other accidentally when she put to Gether a Kil to help a divorced Friend keep in touch with his child. While inc program has gained Rahn some attention through newspaper articles and even an appearance on a National television program it has l come close to making her Rich. Despite endorsements from psychologists and such groups As the National Council of children s rights National Congress for men. And mothers without custody Only 4,000 copies of first Kil the written connect lion a llm1 in use mostly by divorced parcs Multi i some cases grandpa rents. Qty Force psychologist said the program is a Tessie but he added that he must be very care Ful in making it sound As if his service is endorsing a Why did you pick the Navy do you feel proud i sure from a Chandler elementary student product. Despite inc Lough going Rahn presses on. She approached a leather Al Sirrine about having his students write to the Iowa Crew members after meet ing some of the sailors in Norfolk a where she s trying to sell he Navy on her kits Hij Iever thought Aboul the Navy very Rahr Falls. But t was just captured by them by seeing Wal they put up Wilh on those ships How they re out Bike defending Rahn said Smaw the letter writing project for Sirrine As a Waytt Spud share this Pride Wilh All these a while the letter Rilin Uro Jarl for the Iowa was typical of what Rahn tries Ido As a profession bring people together through users her main aim is to gel parents and kids to comm a letter if s a part of a persons joke making homemade Jelly or knitting an afghan to Jilin rays. I think our society wants that a presidential hopefuls in Iowa for debates Des Moines Iowa a the major Republican and democratic presidential hopefuls converged on Iowa sunday amid controversy Over whether past marijuana use should do an Issue in the Campaign. Wilh six Democrat and four Republican hopefuls in he Kiaie for a round of debates and party festivities attention entered on former Arizona gov. Bruce Babbitt and Tennessee sen. Albert Gore or. Two democrats Back in the pack in Moil polls Here. Both Babbitt and Gore revealed sat urday that they had used marijuana in their younger Days bul they said they regretted be illegal drug use and said voters should not hold in against them. The acknowledgement of past Druit use by the runners was prompted by supreme court nominee Douglas gins Burg s withdrawal from Contention in the Wake of his admission of marijuana use in the 1960s and 1970s, Florida democratic party chairman Charles Whitehead said sunday the Issue could Hurt Gore in the South where he expects to win much of his support. I Don l think it killed him. Bul it did t help Whitehead said. The marijuana Story overshadowed a lot of inc Good things we be been but Iowa democratic party chairwoman Bonnie Campbell downplayed the significance of the revelations by Babbitt and Gore. The Only questions 1 have heard have come from the Media she Lold report ers adding Hal Babbitt and Gore Are of a generation in which marijuana use us mid spread. On College Campus Young people everywhere were experimenting with marijuana she said. Thai prompted reporters to us another democratic hopeful. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri Why he had never used marijuana. I went to school at Evans Lon. Ii. At Northwestern. We had trouble gelling Gephardt replied. Joining Gephardt in saying they had never used marijuana were fellow demo cratic hopefuls gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts the Rev. Jesse Jackson and sen. Paul Simon of Illinois. Republican hopefuls who said they had never used marijuana Are vice president George Bush sen. Bob Dole of Kansas former Delaware gov. Pete Dupont and rep. Jack Kemp of new York. Asked whether he had used marijuana. Bush replied. No but i d hate to speak for my the remark Drew laughter from several Hundred College students and sup porters at Wartburg College in Waverly. Simon. 58, said marijuana was not As great a temptation during his school years. When i went to High school. I think 1 knew what was going on. 1 can t remember even hearing of anybody using drugs Simon said. If people were going to have a wild Lime they would sneak off somewhere with a six pack of Beer ant really live it sen. Ibert care elks with inc Rev. Jose a Teluan in Miami Beach fun saturday. Up. I did do that 1 hate to id i you. I Hope that does t disqualify me As a candidate for president Babbitt told 7,700 democrats Al the Iowa democratic party s annual Jefferson Jackson Day dinner in pcs Moines that Al Gore and i have spent a lot of Lime explaining what we were doing in College. I must say there is one thing we now agree on the statute of All six democrats spoke at thi1 dinner while republicans Dole do Pont and Kemp appeared at a saturday forum sponsored by the Home builders association of Iowa. Bush campaigned in North cast Iowa flipping a Coin to Start a col lege football game in Waverly. On sunday the democrats gathered in Des Monics for a debate on Environ mental issues. At the saturday dinner. Gore broke ranks with the other hopefuls and criticized the importance of the Iowa caucuses in selecting the democratic presidential candidate. There is something inherently wrong with a nominating process that gives one state the loudest voice and then produces candidates who cannot even carry that state Gore Suid when he look the podium As the final speaker Al 11 20 p. M. Saturday. Gore has been taking a More conserva live position than the Oiler five major democratic hopefuls on some military matters and foreign policy. Some studies have shown thai Iowa democrats who attend the party s caucuses Are generally More Liberal than the nation s or the state s population. I will not Baril a m beliefs to win Voles Here or elsewhere and neither would you if Vou were in m place lion said if thai is what lakes to win the low.1 caucuses i won t do t Ampbell defended Iowa s rok1. The process is specifically designed to narrow the Campbell said. Iowa will eliminate some thai makes me sad i be grown to know them and like them. New Hampshire will eliminate some and inc South will eliminate some More. That s the Way the system
