European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes dad s Homecoming echoed m prize essay by Ron Jensen Sis it writer ii was the Christmas when daddy came Home. War time 1944. The memory is vivid to Jolene we lick fear. Her idling of that special Christmas was Strong enough to Lake first place in the stars and stripes essay contest my favorite  of car. A fourth Grade teacher for department of de sense dependents schools in Vicenza Italy says the Holiday Homecoming of her father from the War has come o mind every Christmas season since Ihnn. It was a thrill she said during a Telephone inter View. There s nothing quite As wonderful As having your dad come Home.". Marion Forrest Weller was in the Marine corps stationed in the South Pacific when the Holiday season rolled around. His stay at Home that year was Brief hut memorable. In her essay Fehr tells of the Low expectations for that Christmas. Her father was away and her Mother was working in the City. She and her sister were living with their grandparents on the farm. But her Mother was Able to catch a bus to the farm and As the family members said their prayers they asked please god bring daddy Home Safe  the prayer was answered the next morning. News briefs a-10 crashes in Britain Pilot ejects from Jet safely , England is Alt a to Thunderbolt ii crashed thursday m a Field near its Home base at Raf Alconbury air Force officials said. The plane was on a approach to the base when k crashed about 3 ., said master sol. Mike Divinc n spokesman for 3rd air Force at Raf Mildenhall. The Pilot 1st i Frank a. Cavuoti of the 51 Ullh tac fighter so. Ejected from the plane. He was taken to the Josh tac fighter Wing clinic at nearby Raf Upwood for observation Devin said. One local resident said the Plant went Down outside the Village of wilting am about nine Miles cast of Fth base. The crash comes three weeks after an a to from Raf Bent Waters crashed in  Germany killing five people on the ground and the Pilot. This is the first a to from Aleon Bury to crash since the base received the plane this summer. Divinc said the plane was on a training mis Sion when it crashed. -. Bomb threat forces Jet to make emergency Stop Rome a a British airways Trist armade an unscheduled Stop in Rome thursday after an Anonymous caller said a bomb had been planted on Board officials said. Authorities closed Rome s main Leonardo a Vinci Airport for 20 minutes while the Passen Gers disembarked and the plane was moved Toan isolated area where the aircraft and the lug Gage were  146 originated in new. Delhi India and stopped in Kuwait before heading toward it destination in London said Carla Rossi a Brit ish airways employee at the Rome Airport Lilande at Rome about 4  The plane was carrying 242  said someone called the airline s London office and said a bomb was on Board the aircraft. . Budget passed . Pays part of dues. United nations a the general Assembly has adopted a budget unanimously for the first time in More than 40 years and the fiscal plan includes financial reforms backed by both the United states and soviet Union. The  responded to wednesday s action by paying nearly $30 million of the More than $500 million it owes in Back dues to the world body a . Official said. The budget adopted by consensus wednesday allocates j1.76 billion for 1990 and 1991, about j22 million less than the revised figures for the 1988-s9 budget of All the christmases it was the most special Fehr said when contacted about her prize there was t any reason to believe he would get Home and he  for her Effort she wiil receive a j100 gift certificate from the local stare and stripes Bookstore. Fehr s essay was judged the Best out of More than 200 received in the annual contest. Entrants came from All across Europe and from civilians service members and children. The whining entries appear on pages 14 am is the second prize Winner was written by cd Arnold of the 196th station Hospital in Mons Belgium who told of a snowy Christmas at grandmother s farm i Iowa. Stranded travellers stalled by the storm were invited to the Home where strangers shared a special  memory earned Arnold a $75 gift certificate. Winning $50 gift certificates for a shared third prize were Thomas a Howerter of Wil Ryburg and Vickie Prater of ludwigs Burg. Howerter remembered a Christmas spent during a break in the combat in Vietnam in 1968. Prater re members the birth of her brother on Christmas Day 1975, just a few Days after the family s Home had Bee destroyed by fire. The entries were varied in their Appeal and sub stance. Stories of love and sacrifice of Light hearted events and of sadness were told. One writer told of moaning about a Christmas to be spent in Snow less warm saudi Arabia but suddenly realizing she was near the place where tech Lidny started where Jesus was bom. I swear an especially Brilliant Star  cd Dah saudi Arabia that year she wrote. Another writer told of an attempt o bring the family dog in for Christmas. But a Nice Bath blow dry and powder turned he dog Inlo a fuzzy whirling itching nuisance. A particularly poignant essay told of christmases past spent under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The writer and her husband have left those habits inthe past however and  straight Holiday they enjoyed together is her most memorable. Second hand gifts did not mar the Joy of Christ Asfor another writer whose family was having a difficult time in 1968. A husband remembers spending three hours at the Airport waiting for his wife s daughter to arrive. The couple endured the wait for the delayed flight amid stares dressed As or. And mrs Santa Caius a firefighter s daughter wrote of her father s attempt to Rescue a Little girl from a burning Home. The girl broke the fireman s heart when just before she died she held up a piece of the nativity and said look or. Fireman i saved baby Jesus just in time for his  a. Of  the Viil to civil As of in notified v la Ppd   ton  Ion that a Loti Inbe a 5, u it in unidentified Irti virtual  j i a. Diplomatic facility in euro pc and Suud  Putteti within to next two  there would be a bombing cd ten it in Rains. A fan american aircraft try Irig Troia Frankfurt to the \ Torii of d Stilt be a the t a reports that the reliability of the information cannot 5 be assessed at this Point but the appropriate polic  1hnvc Jeroen notified and Ore pursuing the matter. Pin an has Tilso t to ten notified."".1 -.v-. .1 of -. R. V a in View of the Lack of confirmation of this inform nation Post. . To the discretion. Oj�d.t.vidvi-"tra-,-tlcff�  cet.itipi.s-2-1 on altering personal travel plans or changing to another$5 Amor lean Carrier. This does not tuba old the Travo fir from. A ii Yin Crumn american Carrier.  a this 10-Day-ow memo distributed to Ante Riotut dip Loraas in Moscow clearly warns of a bomb threat dual nil a pan american aircraft an the Frankfurt to new York run. Wednesday pan am Jimbo Jel handwriting on the Wall bound for new York crashed in flame on a scottish tillage about an hour after leaving London s Heath Row Airport. All 259 people aboard the plane died and 12 on the ground were killed