European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Arm Landers dear Ann Landers have you lost your mind i could t believe it when you asked your readers to be consid Erate of Telephone marketing creeps because they Are trying to make a  i pay for my Telephone. It is in � my Home for my  should i be at the mercy of v anyone who wants to make a sales pitch these people Are in truders and do not deserve to be it treated with Courtesy. New Brunswick no. Dear new Brunswick a great Many More readers sided Tith you than with me. T did not expect so Many hostile responses. Read on Columbus Ohio you once told a Reader you Are a Tew bricks Short of a full  your recent defense of talc marketers suggests that perhaps you May have the same problem. Please Tell me what right does a phone salesperson have to Wake people up out of a sound sleep get them out of the Shower off a ladder up from the basement or Down from the attic and make them listen to a sales pitch Washington . Why Aren t those Telephone Sale pests informed about the hearing impaired who have a device on their phone that flashes a Light when a Call comes through close friends and relatives have a Sim Ilar device that dashes a written message on a Small screen. It is a common complaint among deaf people that they run to the phone when they see the Light an then get a voice Call which of course they arc unable to hear. When they hang up the pest Calls again and again which is terribly frustrating. This has happened to my elderly father and it makes him furious. Detroit Selling products on the phone is bad enough but now they arc marketing political Candi dates. Some Jerk called me at 10 30 . To ask whom i was going to vote for. When i replied Herbert Hoo  he let Loose with a string of four letter words that would have made a Sailor s Parrot Blush. Please Tell me Why i should be considerate of such a person. Lexington by my wife has been fighting cancer for three years. Last week she received a Call from a woman Selling cemetery plots. It Shook her up and made me angry. And you say we should be polite to these creeps Evanston Iii who Are you to give advice on How to treat Telephone solicitors you with your Battery of secretaries and i la bet plenty of help at Home who screen your phone Calls. Stick to what you know. This is Ann again. I surrender folks. You readers have made a Good Case but i still say it costs nothing to say sorry not  thanks to All who wrote. Dear Ann Landers i have been living with Scott for sin years. We have an 18-month-old son. Six months ago a woman telephoned to say that she also has a son by Scott. He is six months older than mine. I never knew about this other woman and was truly Hurt. It turns out that this woman named her son Scott or. Also. Should i change my son s name even though thesis a big City there might be a lot of confusion later. Double dealing in Alabama dear Alabama sounds like there s a lot of confusion now. You Hare bigger problems than your child s name. You need to gel your relationship with the baby father sorted out. Why Are you settling for half a Man insist that he level with you or see a lawyer about Sepa rate maintenance and child support. Letters Reader decries Media personality ploys on one of the signs held up by someone s Mother in the bins Cohurst Section of Brooklyn was printed we Are All god s children death hurts us All. What a simple yet profound truth. The local ministers and people of the immediate neighbourhoods arc attempting to diffuse an ugly Situa Tion and to work out a Christian solution to their prob lems. It May be top late. Enter the Media personalities. King Jesse Jackson White is apparently not a color in his Rainbow coalition proclaims that one of the reasons for Hawkins death is the portrayal of Blacks on to As Lazy not hardworking less patriotic and  1 shall never again watch Oprah Winfrey. Knots Landing. Today tour of duty the Cosby show a different world or Matlock what a Bunch of unpatriotic Lazy and violent bums those Damn Hunt abcs. The Rev. Al Sharpton of Tawana Brawley Fame places the family of us of Hawkins on display to exploit their deeply Felt grief for the Sake of Media hype while he rants and rages with All the sensitivity of pro wrestling manager Jimmy Mouth of the South " Hart. I actually have More respect for or. Hart than for . At least Hart is paid to act disgustingly obnoxious. What s Sharpton s excuse the honorable Louis Farrakhan nation of islam also made a Brief appearance. How Many people were converted to his Faith is Bensonhurst now a Republic of the nation of islam i think not. Did either of the communities involved ask for these non elected Media event chasing personalities to help them through these troubled times i think not. Have any of these self proclaimed leaders invoked the spirit of Christ love forgiveness or dare i say brotherhood and peace no from the exploited peach pickers in Georgia to the crack wars on the streets of . New York and Miami these three maintain a relatively Low  marches passionate fiery speeches or photo ses Sions unless there is some political situation to be exploited or political Points gained. As ministers they should know too Well that. We Are All god s children death hurts Usall. Garret o. Ownsby Kitzinger West Germany charges for computer repairs explained i would like to express my dismay with the Exchange system s repair support of the computers sold in Exchange retail stores. I own a Commodore 1280 computer which is or has been sold in Many exchanges for approximately $500, a reasonable Price. I certainly Don t expect the Exchange to repair an item when the warranty has expired however the Exchange pickup Point ought to offer repairs at a reasonable rate. When i finally got the local pickup Point to realize that the Central repair facility would repair computers. I sent my ailing machine thinking that certainly replacing a Cou ple of defective chips would t be very expensive. Two weeks later i got the machine Back with a Bill for $ 18.50. Happily thinking How reasonable that Price was i was shocked to learn that the machine had not been re paired and i had to pay that Price for their estimate which was $ 150 for parts and $ 100 More for labor. I have two questions to the Exchange system How is it that a mail order repair company can fix my machine and make a profit for $70 when your Central repair facility quoted $250? and do you really think that $500/hour is a reason Able rate fora computer repairman it took 12 minutes to replace the two defective chips in my computer. Name and address withheld editor s note i. Col. Lemuel j. Cato chief Public affair ill cafes Europe replies the $250 estimate for repair was based upon your statement of the problem and the technician s inspection of the unit. Since the estimate exceeded 30 percent of your stated Dollar value of the computer the unit was returned a repaired. The $18.50 estimate Cost would Hare been credited if the computer had been repaired. An evaluation of the unit and the resultant estimate is just that an estimate. In Mast instances actual Cost to repair is lower than the estimate. Also included in this repair is a Complete Check of the system and any other repairs necessary in order to guarantee the item for 90 Days. Labor rates for our repair plants Are based upon sur Veys conducted in the area. Aafes1 Rales Are set at 5percent to 20 percent below the average of the Survey. As a note cafes is not subsidized by the govern ment. We Are a non appropriated fund organization whose aim it is to save our customers Money and provide earnings to the army and air Force morale welfare and recreation programs. History of Coffee rationing reviewed we Are approaching our sixth year in  commissary we go to has a different policy on rationing German Coffee. We understand Why Ameri can Coffee is rationed but Why the German if we can buy it on the Economy docs this have to do with Theta on the item being taken off please clarify the policy so i know when to show my ration card and when not to. Maureen Gargan Caldwell  West Germany editor s note col. Paul a. Phillips com Mander . Army troop support Agency european commissar Region replies the Sale of certain items including Coffee and Tea is controlled through the use of ration curds in Usa Eurand Safe retail sales facilities. When the supplementary agreement to the status of farces agreement sofa was established in 1959, it included provisions for the control of certain items because at the time they were in Short Supply and prone to Black Market activity. Ii has been suggested several limes in the past thai the ration control of Coffee and Tea be discounted be cause they Are no longer in Short Supply however to make such a change is difficult since it must be done on the basis of making Many other changes to the sofa through diplomatic channels. Our policy regarding rationed items is prescribed by Usa eur regulation600-702 and is the same in All commissaries. Whenever you Purchase instant or ground Coffee be it German or american you must present your ration card for marking. According to the regulation however Solu ble Tea and Coffee mixtures that Are not predominantly  or Coffee for example those with sugar and flavor inns arc not rationed. Community commanders May approve commissary purchases of Coffee and Tea for office groups and private associations so that individuals do not have to use their ration cards for this purpose. European edition col Jeffrey m. Cook us commander editor in chief it col Suzanne l. Phillips Usan Deputy commander editor in a Tref Marie Kominicki Mert Proctor Deane b. Mcdermott production manager managing editor circulation manager this newspaper is an authored unofficial publication Lor members of the military services overseas. Contents of the stars and stripes Are not necessarily Trie oficial views of. Or endorsed by the . Government the department of defense or the . European command. The appearance of advertising in this publication. Including inserts or supplements Dous not constitute endorsement by the department of de. Lense or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised. Everything advertised i this publication shall be made available Lor Purchase use. 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