European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 23, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 Peter Siebert s my Abrams tank and m977 heavy expanded mobility tactical truck models left. Sgt. 1st class Larry lain s version right of an m113 armoured personnel Carrier. German student models top prize from scratch Story and photos by l. Emmett Lewis or. Staff photographer Fulda West Germany sections of drinking straws from Mcdonald a bits of children s toys pieces of medical Gauze and Odds and ends of Sheet plastic Lay strewn around some tables in the recreation Center. Under the skillful touch of Modeller Peter Siebert a 24-year-old German engineering student the straws became truck exhaust stacks and part of a Mobile Bridge s Hydraulic system. Green painted medical Gauze was convincing camouflage netting for a 1 35 scale Model of a truck shaped from Wood and plastic. You can use everything in making models said Siebert who built several of his models from scratch instead of kits. While this Cut the Cost of making the Model it increased the time he said. Siebert said he used water based paints for his mod Els mixing a Black Wash of color to bring out de tailed shadows and a dry Brush technique with White paint to add highlights. The result is a realistic Dusty Matte effect close to the color of vehicles that have seen some use in the military. Mud splashes Are care fully painted in the same direction splashes normally would occur. Siebert who started building models five years ago As a pastime in the German army won first place saturday in the Armor category of the Blackhorse Model show and Competition in Fulda. The Competition stressed modelling skills and attention to detail accuracy realism and modifications to the vehicles and kits according to Mike Tyson the Fulda arts and crafts director. Tyson a Model builder himself compared his judging of the models to judging Art in some ways and in others like judging architecture. You re judging both the artistic and the technical  sgt. 1st class Larry lain of the 69th brigade sup port element said his prize winning 1 72 scale Model of an armoured personnel Carrier was an exception to his usual Model building. He built the Carrier and crafted its detailed Interior just for fun he said. I mostly collect models of porsche lain said. I have Over 500 in storage in the  clues found to Riddle of Soldier who vanished from Island in 45 Anchorage Alaska up clues to the mysterious disappearance 43 years ago of Cpl. Carl e. Houston from his world War ii Post on a Remote Alaska Island have appeared out of the Island s Mist with the discovery of remains surprising old War buddies and surviving family members. Of my god where in the world did they find him exclaimed Joseph c. Nichols jr., Leader of the five Man station on bul Dir Island who led the search for Houston when he vanished after a Short hike and who had to explain the disappearance to military officials and to Houston s parents. Bul Dir has finally relinquished its missing Soldier but the desolate Island holds onto the secret of How the 21-year-old  re calling him the unknown Soldier of bul Dir the forgotten Soldier from a forgotten Island in a for gotten War said Mike Boylan Federal wildlife Refuge manager on Adak Island. Military archives official correspondence private War time letters and interviews with bul Dir veterans confirm that Houston was the Island s Lone War casualty. But military officials will not confirm the identity of the unknown Soldier until work under Way at the army identification lab in Hawaii conclusively identifies the remains found in july. Wildlife biologists stumbled upon the remains hidden for 43 years among Mossy boulders on the 4,915-acre volcanic Island of treeless Rock and Tundra uninhabited except by Birds and sea Lions. The Island is near the Dis Tant Western end of the  Aleutian Island Chain where Houston considered himself Lucky to be assigned according to his letters Home. Discovery of the remains transformed wildlife Biolo Gist Elaine Rhode of Anchorage into a detective and she turned up the nearly conclusive evidence that the remains Are of , who spent several Summers on bul Dir said biologists sitting around Camp at night often wondered loud about Island  her quest to learn bul Dir s untold history now May put the Island s ghost to rest. Few americans remember or even know that world War ii reached alaskan soil six months after the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor Japan invaded two islands Kiska and Attu on either Side of bul Dir. Perhaps even fewer realize a deadly Battle was fought on Attu where Snow and Tundra soaked up the blood of several thousand japanese and american soldiers. Almost no one knows that a tiny outpost on rugged bul Dir gathered weather data for . Warships and planes. Even the definitive history of the Aleutian Campaign the thousand mile War fails to mention bul Dir. And no one knows what happened to the Soldier who seemed to walk off the face of the Earth vanish ing from the 4 /2-mile-Long, 2 la mile wide Island. Houston s parents now dead had a difficult time accepting the disappearance. They thought he d turn up there on that Island that he just got lost and if the military looked enough they d find him said Wayne Gitchel Houston s brother in Law. We just assumed he had fallen off a Cliff and washed out to sea Nichols said. We hunted As much As we could in All the nooks and  found Inland some distance from bul Dir s Formida ble Cliffs in the Shadow of it. Eccentric a 2,150-foot High Volcano Lay skeletal remains of a Soldier his boots still on his my army Rifle still at his Side along with Many spent shells perhaps fired to attract Atten Tion to his  was a comb the word Victory on it. Biologists recovered uniform fabric a Belt buckle a knife an army pocket watch a 25-cent Coin a Wallet with indecipherable identification and a few other items said Boylan who helped retrieve things from Between boulders top big to , then and now is that Houston out hiking became lost or injured and could not make it Back to  army established bul Dir As a five Man station three weather observers and two radio operators and began sending groups there in october 1943 for six month Tours. Canadian 57, wins whistle off again Carson City Nev. A a train Brake Man battling a bout of stomach flu whistled Blue eyes crying in the rain sunday and emerged As the world s Best Warbler for the fourth time in the Lith annual International whistle off. People ask me All the time How to whistle and All i say is pucker up and Start blowing " said Roy Thoreson 57, a Canadian Pacific rail Way brakeman from Calgary Alberta. I really think whistling is a god Given gift like opera singing said Thoreson who topped the Field of 30 contestants for the grand championship and a trip to Mexico or the Caribbean. Whistlers from 15 states and Canada competed. Thoreson also whistled Sweet Georgia Brown in capturing the title in the Solo popular male division. The juggling and magic acts he performed while whistling Day at fair earned him Sec Ond in the Novelty division. He whistled Brahms hungarian dance no. 5" and placed third in the Solo classical male division. Thoreson who also was the event s grand Champion in 1979, 1980 and 1984, said he began whistling when he was 6 and practice 40 years before getting on stage in 1977. I can hold notes and i be got Good breath control Thoreson said. But basically i just whistle and have fun. A lot of it gets Down to the shape of your Mouth and i m blessed to be a natural  French philosopher Dies Paris a Jean Paul Aron a philosopher and self proclaimed Dandy who announced last year he was suffering from aids died saturday. He was 61