European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 homeless americans find matchless Friend in German Hotelier by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer wresting a rental apartment from the Vise like housing Market in Mainz West Germany is Only a partial Victory for Hannelore Heinz. After landlords say i do to renting to the americans whom Heinz assists in House Hunting she brazenly asks whether they would consider throwing in a new Kitchen a few curtains and Light fixtures for Good measure. Honestly they must think i m a Gypsy or something Heinz said of her requests for extras. But it works. Those i think this is something anybody should  Hannelore Heinz people Don t actually need it curtains fixtures. They take it out and they Don t even know what to do with  Heinz meets her american friends when the soldiers and civilian employees stay in the hotel she and her Hus band have owned and operated for 20 years in the Gonsenheim Section of Mainz. Americans usually fill about two thirds of the hotel s 23 rooms. While personnel on temporary duty sometimes stay at the hotel Wald Horn most of its guests Are new in West Germany and face the arduous task of finding a place to live. Enter housing matchmaker Heinz. At her own expense she places weekly apartment wanted ads in a local paper. When landlords respond to the ads i act like i am looking for a Home or a House Heinz explained. So whenever people talk to me they think they re talk ing to the maybe new tenant. And then i Tell them that i do have people staying Here and i do have an impression of these people that i can really say they Are Lovely  lately Heinz s Success record has suffered because of the Scarcity of available housing a situation aggravated by the influx of ethnic germans from the East bloc. But the tight housing Market Force Heinz to work smarter. For example Heinz mentioned a luxurious but pricey eight bedroom Home she recently found. Because its 3,000 Mark rent about $1,700 places it Well out of most people s Means she toyed with various combinations of single serv ice members who might want to share the place three captains or two majors or two captains and one major three War rant officers and on it went. Heinz hates to see a rental go unused. Heinz accepts no Money from Ameri cans for her help. However she does ask one thing of them when they move out she wants to know so she can fill the place again. Heinz realizes she could probably earn a lot of Money working for a German real estate company but she said her conscience would never allow her to charge renters fees of one two or three times the monthly rent. They make an awful lot of Money Heinz said. I hate to have real estate people involved by the ten ants unless it is on their own wish to have one. I hate How fast they make their  after Heinz secures an apartment she begins phase two of her tactics getting the renters their Money s Worth and More. Heinz began a recent talk with a House owner i have a Little bit of a problem. I have heard that there is no Kitchen in your Beautiful  if the owner won t install a free Kitchen Heinz will then suggest a Small raise in the rent to cover the Cost of the improvement. You would have a Kitchen in there and whenever this family moves out an other family would take Over she Rea sons with them. And besides she says it is More convenient for you instead of having nails in the Walls to hang up the cabinets. It makes everything look so  As for the curtains i Tell them if american families move in they won t have curtains for a Long time because most american people in the states have just windows and Side panels and so they take forever until they get some curtains in front of the  and it usually works Heinz said As no respectable German would want his neighbors saying see there must be an american family living there. No  along with helping americans find apartments Heinz shows guests How to ride Public transportation where to shop for inexpensive household goods and introduces Veteran hotel guests to new  twice a week the Henzes serve dinner for present and past guests and is Lynda w. Sparks Hannelore Heinz. Accepts no Money from americans for her help they hold a Christmas Celebration for guests stuck at the hotel Over the holi Days. Heinz who reluctantly agreed to be interviewed said she does t deserve any fanfare. I think this is nothing special Heinz said. I think this is something anybody should  logistics management specialist Mary Powell stayed with the Henzes Back in 1984 when she started with the tactical vehicle Fielding team in Mainz. Although Powell ultimately went to a real estate company it was t be cause Heinz did t give it her Best shot. Powell looked at about 25 apart ments and Many times Heinz was by her Side to interpret. She struggled with me everywhere. I Felt i always had somebody i could ask Powell said of Heinz. Along with the apartment Hunting help Powell said she appreciated the hotel s family atmosphere remembering the Henzes even gave her teen age daughter a birthday party. They just go out of their Way for peo ple said Stanley Kennedy a retired army colonel who commanded the Mainz army depot from 1983 to 1986. I Don t think they d know How to do Italy other  Heinz said she takes time to sit Down Over Beer or Coffee with new american guests or helps them with the Streetcar because she can imagine what it would be like to visit a foreign country with no knowledge of its language. If i were to go to Russia i would t even understand yes or no if someone were to speak to me she said How wonderful that would  rites close Case on go missing since 1945 Wausau wis. A nearly 44 years after he disappeared on a Remote Island in Alaska s Aleutian Chain the remains of Cpl. Carl Bud Houston were returned Friday to a final resting place in Wisconsin. About two dozen relatives and friends attended a Brief private funeral for Houston whose remains were found last summer by biologists studying geese on the Island. Uncle Bud is finally Home and i look Forward to meeting him some Day in the hereafter said Jay git chel who was four months old when his 21-year-old Uncle disappeared. T although he never met his Uncle Gitchel said older relatives m the family spoke so fondly of Houston that Gitchel named his son after him. Houston who grew up in Manitowoc county in Eastern Wisconsin disappeared March 3, 1945, while hiking on bul Dir Island where he was one of five volunteers assigned to operate a weather station. For years army officials and the family believed Houston was caught in a landslide on the coast of the snowy rugged Island. His body was never found de spite ground and Aerial searches by his four fellow team members. Jacqueline Gitchel Houston s sister and closest surviving family member said relatives never thought his body would be found because it was assumed to reburied. But mrs. Gitchel was surprised to learn last summer that a . Fish and wildlife team found a world War ii Vintage my Rifle and skeletal remains farther i Landon the 4,250-acre Island. The remains were found by a woman looking for a Stone to Pound tent pegs mrs. Gitchel said. After an army investigation military officials con firmed the remains were Houston a mrs. Gitchel said. Mrs. Gitchel said she hoped Friday s service at a mausoleum at the rest Awn memorial Park in North Central Wisconsin was the final chapter in her brother s Story. Mrs. Gitchel 69, remembered her younger brother As a Young Man who liked to Hunt and fish. He had worked at a number of jobs taken classes at a univer sity of Wisconsin Extension and worked at a Manito Woc shipyard before enlisting in 1942. In the army he received Arctic survival training and was assigned in 1944 to a weather observation squad Ron in the Aleutian islands. Once he volunteered for duty on the Remote Island the family heard Little from him because mail was picked up Only about twice year mrs. Gitchel said. Mrs. Gitchel said she believes her Mother once thought Houston May have been captured by the Japa Nese. I think she was sorry she did t have a grave Totake care of mrs. Gitchel said. Before he died in 1980, Houston s father talked about going to see the Island where his son died and wrote to shipping companies asking about passage without Luck Gitchel said. The father made a real Strong Effort to get to bul Dir. I Don t think he realized How Remote it is he said