European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Ann Landers dear Ann Landers More than 65,000 people Are tilled or injured in ires each year in this country because most of us Don t know what to do. Did you know that when you Are asleep you lose your sense of smell and no matter How bad the smoke is you won t Wake up unless there s noise did you know that a fire i dark and not Light in a real tire you won t be Able to see your hand in front of your face. Please Tell your readers what they can do to plan to gel out alive. Steven , Golan Harris communications chicag Odear readers Mcdonou i has joined the United Stiles Fin administration Tod first Alert a manufacturer of Moke alums to Teh people Bow to to out of i fire Mure. Hek by mme lips install smoke detectors near each sleeping in. Most Ore deaths occur at night alien while people an sleep draw a floor Pun of your borne. Show lit possible exits from each room. Discuss the escape routes with your family Mike sure everyone knows the Telephone number for the fir department or the local emergency number. Sleep with your bedroom door closed at night. Closed door a Ltd net Stow the spread of lire smote and heat. When fallowing your escape route be sure to close All Doon behind you. The smoke Detector will sound the alarm to Wake up you and your family. When Yon hear it Roll out of bed a inc Hoar. Letdown on your hands and Knees crawl to Jour door and open it Don t atop to get clothes papers or jewelry. If the door feels Cool open it crack to Check to smoke u there is none leave by your planned escape route. Remember to crawl Low and keep your head Down. Cleaner air is nearer to the ground. If the door feels hot when Yon touch it do not open it. Do not panic. Escape ont the window or Ose your alter Nate exit ii you can t leave your room or apartment Seal melts Aroud doors and vents is beat you can using wet labels if possible. Open a window at both top and Bottom. Stay Low to the window to breathe fresh air. If there s a phone Call the fire department and Lell it exactly when you ate in the building. Of your clothes catch on fire Stop Ebert you Are. Drop to the ground and Roll Over and Over to put out the flame. Do not no. Running fans the Lames. Teach Small children never to bide under Beds or in closets in Cue of fire. Gather at a predetermined meeting place outside year Home Well away from the building and take a head count. Once outside stay out. Once you re sketched your escape Puia and discus edit with your family and neighbors practice. Involve every member of he household. By planning ahead and practising your Home tire escape plan you can protect yourself and your family. Remember the Best Protection to prevention. Dear readers every now and then i run across a Sermon in a few a gtd. Here s a Good one silence is leaned from tie talkative tolerance from the intolerant generosity from the stingy and kindness from the  la Mai Miami our Max. You Page 11 letters people missing Opportunity Reader says we moved to Germany three years and i rec stripes ago. Germany was our first Choice mainly because of thet Raveling we phoned to do. With toy husband s salary and my Groo Ety bagging Job we have managed to see almost everything we came to see. The one thing that bothers Roe most about living Hen is seeing All the opportunities people throw away. They sit at Rome Haling Europe when they Haven t even seen Europe outside the commissary and exchanges. Not enough Money -4 that s not a Good excuse. Not enough time Thal i even worse. I have seen too Many people with a Umil or Lasc a attitude concerning their leave i think the main problem is Lack of planning and imagination. In three Yean we have visited London Paris twice Israel Egypt Rome twice Sweden Den Marie Salzburg Garmisch four tines and All those countries in Between Luxembourg. Belgium Switz Erland Holland. The tour bus stopped at expensive restaurants we went across the Street to a grocery store and bought loaf of bread and Bologna. And we had a blast. We limited our souvenir buying and instead look lots of photos by the Way it works Hosl on Tours i you keep a Sheet of numbered paper and write Down the name and explanation of each Polo you Lake. A Bunch of pictures of statues will mean Little unless you remember he meaning behind them All our favorite one Day vacations were our Castle Hunting trips. Every Down Day we would pack a Pic Nic lunch grab the video camera pick a. Spot on our castles of the arca Maci and drive. On some of those half Day trips we would Sec and Tow As Many As six castles. We had a close Friend who spent $300 on a two Day trip to Paris my husband and i spent Only half that and did t have but one to shirt to show for that trip. Food is expensive again Lake that suitcase of food so americans spread your Money put and visit More of Europe. Get to know the continent you Are now part  Only Way we could begin to afford these Lou sfas top on and use our imagination., for example everywhere we travelled we took one i can t imagine anyone visiting Nusch Ganslein suitcase of clothes and one suitcase of food. Instead Castle and still hating Europe of buying Little bottles of $ i water in Paris we had our own commissary water for Only pennies. When Becky Brill Pitburg West Germany Reader says raise guarantees Price hike i Call it a very obvious Assumption that there is going to be a Price change on military installations where there Are cafes dining facilities clothing stores and commissaries. The president just approved a 4.1 percent pay raise for Federal employees and Active military. It is also obvious that these customer service outlets and facilities wait to hear what our pay increase percentage is got Oglo be before they decide to figure their Price increase. Their actions will leave us All wonder ing what pay raise maybe we do gel some kind of pay increase each year but by the time the on past facilities increase their prices right along with thai pay increase our expenses leave us with just As thin a  in a different tax bracket. Everyone the military personnel and customer serv ices could get a. Fair Deal. Why can t the customer facilities like cafes and the commissaries figure out their Price increase needs before the decision on the pay increases is made i would say someone Here has the cart in front of the horse. Just maybe the Active military pay would not be so far behind res civilian counterpart Igwe could reverse this action at least once As an Experiment. If you Are truly Happy with giving up your pay in crease each year to inc Price increase that follows then you arc one of few. 1 am not looking for counter comments or remarks i am looking for an answer to the question Why i he Price increase after the pay increase sol 1st class Delbertw Edmonds Katterbach West Germany editor s note re. Col Charlie while pub Lic affairs officer he cafes Europe replies we regret that you think Price increases come automatically. The truth is thai cafes prices Are continually adjusted both up and Down. Cafes pricing policy is to provide Yon an Overall Sav Ings of 20 percent below that of commercial Price Lite actual percentage of Sirine varies defaulting on the Mer Chandise Yoo Purchase. For example there to a higher markup for luxury items than for necessity hems. Since 1979, cafes to used the a. C. Nielsen company in conduct a retail Price comparison to ensure we arc meeting our stated objective. The results of the last Survey conducted in february of this year showed if you shopped it cafes on a continuous basis you would have an Ater Bojc savings of 24j percent. Our cafes buyers shop the world Market therefore Price fluctuations will occur from time to time. Some Are based on Exchange rates some discounts received lot Pur chasing in volume and some an adjusted for inflation. Cafes adjusts its prices based i Market cored Yeturu. In some instances us Cost of an item will increase Buta Afes will try to hold the Price Down As Long As possible. We at cafes do our Best to reprint serve members with Che Best merchandise at the Best prices possible. Some time Market omd Iliot will keep us from that goal. But you on be assured that we try to achieve our goal whenever it is in our capability to do so. Our Case in Point is this any Price increase made Bya Afes Are not related to a pay raise approved by con Gress. 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