European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers letters dear Ann Landers the advice for that Mother in Springfield whose son refused to visit a dying relative was right on the Money. I know because i have been there. When i was 14 my father died As a result of an Accident at work. I went to the funeral but i refused to get close enough to the casket to see him Laid out looking so natural As some people said. The most shattering memory of my entire life is my Mother Yelling at me  give your father one last  i told her i did t want to. She kept insisting if you love your father you will kiss him goodbye i could t make myself kiss that Corpse and no amount of pressure was going to make me. Many years have passed and my Mother still gives me digs about How i refused to kiss my father goodbye. She makes frequent references to my Inadequacy As a son and uses that incident As  i was so pleased when your consultant or. Harold Visotsky said that children should be permitted to do As they please when it comes to attending funerals. Some can handle it others can t. Those who can t should t be made to feel guilty by relatives whose ideas Are a Little different. No name no town . The response to that letter was surprisingly heavy. And almost everyone applauded the advice. No Way could i put out this column without the Gener Ous help of my consultants. Bless them one and All. Dear Ann Landers the column that described How unsafe it is to Fly pets made me write my first letter to a newspaper. I work in a Kennel in Southern California. We Fly Pup pies and Kittens All Over the world. They have gone As far North As Alaska and As far South As Florida. Recently we sent two Himalayan Kittens to saudi Arabia. Not once has an animal arrived sick or injured. No animal in our care has Ever disappeared. What some shippers Don t know is that you can t just shove an animal into an Ordinary crate and forget about it. The crate must be made escape proof. Here Are some helpful hints use bread bag twist ties to fasten the door even though there Are locks on it. Take four bungee cords stretch rubber with a Hook on each end and Hook them from front to Back and Side to Side. The last Cord should  across the door. It will then be impossible for an animal to escape unless someone lets it out. This is How we be been doing it for 20 years and our Success record is 100 percent. Michelle g., Upland Calif. Dear Michelle nobody can argue with a 100 percent Success record. Your letter should serve As a guide to animal shippers everywhere. Thanks for writing. Dear Ann Landers you Are wrong when you say that most women know when their husbands Are cheating. My husband and i had breakfast and dinner together several Days a week. He never went anywhere in the evening without me. We were together every weekend. So when did he have time to fool around you guessed it. Lunch. For 10 years he met this Dame at noon for a quickie. She supplied the apartment and he brought the food. I never caught on because i never dreamed there were people who would Settle for so Little. Is my Saga unique fooled in . Dear . Unique no. When it conies to sex Man s imagination knows no Bounds. And the same can be said for woman an television scheduling explained i want to talk about an. To me an is not the superstition like they want to be called. The station called by that name is Tbs in Atlanta. I Don t consider an anything but a loser. It receives All the cancelled shows from the networks in the United states maybe a few programs that Are on top but mostly cancelled programs. I want to know Why they stopped showing ". Follies a very Good show just to air a cancelled show like the slap Maxwell  Why was the Daytona 500 Lascar race not shown it was shown live in the states. Instead they chose to show a College basketball game with no significance. The Daytona 500 is the Premier Lascar Auto race and Auto racing is the no. 1 Spectator sport in the United states. Then on the Day when we were watching the Indi Anapolis 500 Auto race an did t have the Courtesy to the racing fans to show the end of the program. I know that when it is the world series Aba championship or football games an goes out of its Way to show every detail of the game. It is unfortunate that an is the Only game in town. They say in one announcement an the one to watch but we know that it is the Only one to watch. It is a shame we have no Choice. Jose l. Caraballo Crail sheim West Germany editor s note Tom Baxter chief television operations he an Europe replies the term superstition refers to a television station distributing signals via satellite. The department of de sense uses this term to describe the system used by an and other . Military broadcast networks. Tbs at Lanta win Chicago and Wor new York Are also  the armed forces radio and television service broadcast Center arts in los Angeles negotiates with program distributors for the right to broadcast  Grams to the world wide arts system. Over the last few years arts has supplied Over 90 percent of the top 70 series on . Television. Of course not every . Prime time television series is a  Given the nature of the . Three network Competition Only one program can win any time period. Inevitably two programs must be runners up. That does not Stop 20 million or More americans from watching most of the runners up each week. We re pleased you enjoyed ".  an broadcast virtually every episode supplied to us despite the fact that ". Follies did not make Usa to Days list of the top 100 series from the 1987-88 sea son. No additional episodes of the program Are available to an. You will be surprised to know that of the top 45 . Prime time series for the 1987-88 season As reported by Usa today an has broadcast or is broadcasting 39 of them. Five of the six series we do not have Access to different world the wonder years heat of the night my two dads and Aaron s Way premiered in the 1987-88 season and arts is working to obtain the rights to broadcast those programs. Arts is also working to obtain rights to the second season program Matlock we have broadcast the current or past seasons of these top 1987-88 series the Cosby show cheers the Golden girls growing pains who s the Boss night court "60 minutes murder she wrote Alf moonlighting "l.a. Law amen family ties Valerie s family Dallas head of the class Newhart "227," Molly Dodd Hunter knot s Landing designing women Hooper Man perfect strangers Kate and Allie Highway to heaven facts of life magnum p.i.," dynasty Falcon Crest and Miami vice As Well As various mini series and mov ies. We will have additional seasons of these series when they Are made available by arts. We have had other lower rated prime time series. After All More than 100 series make it to the air each year. No single Channel in the United states has a lineup this Good. Americans coming to Europe have had at least 31 television channels available for viewing. We realize that our single Channel to service can never satisfy audience members As Well As the simultaneous broadcasts of the five main . Networks including pcs and Fox or the dozens of Independent stations and Cable networks. That makes common Courtesy and respect for the tastes of your neighbors and colleagues important. The 1988 Daytona 500" was not made available to an for broadcast. The Indianapolis 500" was broadcast exactly As it was supplied to us our coverage concluded at exactly the moment arts ended it. We did not have any addition Al segment available with which to carry on the Broad cast of the "500." the winners Circle portion of indy coverage was not provided by arts. We would like to be Able to completely satisfy your wants and needs but we must also take into account the wants and needs of the half million other an viewers. We broadcast the Best programs we have available in the Best Way we know How. Please have consideration for the other viewers who depend on us to Supply the programs they Are also interested in. Reader concerned about child safety for the Reader concerned about child safety Here is your answer if you live in the Ramstein housing area i am one of the parents in your neighbourhood who had a child recently hit by a car. Pen pals i would like to correspond with people All Over the world. I am 21 years old. My hobbies Are playing sports collecting baseball cards listening to hard Rock music Reading and watching movies. I hate politics. If you Are Between 14 and 30 years of age please write to me. Michael j. J. Watkins ii 28835 Lake Vista or. Agoura Calif. 91301 i would like to write to people All Over the world. I am 28 years old. Noel Carlos finance & acct. Dept. King Khaled int l Airport . Box 22531 Riyadh 11416 kingdom of saudia Arabia in our Case it s not the Parent. I constantly re mind my children to look both ways but my son had a split second lapse in his memory when Cross ing the Road. He failed to look both ways. Believe me we Are very fortunate his Accident was t More serious. But Don t blame the parents. You can Tell a child about wrongful things until you Are Blue in the face but sometimes it does t sink in. I am not a bad Mother. My son is the firs to admit he was wrong. So please Don t blame the parents. Just make sure you and All parents stress How dangerous it is to Cross without looking. Hopefully you will never have a policeman come to your door with news such As this. I Don t know who was More scared me my son or the Driver. Mrs. E. A. Smith Ramstein West Germany the Star  to european edition col Jeffrey m. Cook Usa commander editor in chief it col Suzanne l. Phillips u8af Deputy commander editor in chief Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deane b. Mcdermott production manager managing editor circulation manager this newspaper is an authorized unofficial publication for members of the military services overseas. Contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily the official views of or endorsed by the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. 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