European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday december 21,1989 service members get a break on Christmas mail by Crystal Laureano staff writer army and air Force Post office customers in West Germany will gel a second Chance to receive last min Ute Holiday cards and packages saturday the Day be fore Christmas eve. Thanks to operation Santa Claus. Additional army Ruck runs to deliver mail have been scheduled for saturday allowing unit mail clerks to hold a second mail Call that Day said Bill Tyler army postal group Europe spokesman. Military Post office customers in West German should Check with their local Post office to confirm the service. Air Force postal workers have been working Lon hours to prevent a backlog of incoming mail at the Aerial mail terminal at Frankfurt International Airport. The terminal the largest in the military system is the first destination for mail coming from the United slates to West Germany said la. Col. Edward Stan Ford commander of the 7025th air postal so the 7025th receives and dispatches All mail within one Day. Mail arrives Between 8 . And 2 . And is dispatched Between about 8 . And 5 . On trucks from the army s 37th trans come. Stanford said. During the Peak Holiday season trucks leave the Termi Nal As soon As they arc Lull he said. In a one time attempt to bring As much mail As possible overseas before the holidays a cargo plan chartered by the . Postal service brought 31,000 pounds of military mail to the Frankfurt mail terminal sunday. Stanford said. Operation Reindeer was de signed to help off set any drop in mail delivery from the slates caused by reduced cargo space on passenger planes during the Holiday season. Postal officials also said that Friday is the last Day to mail express packages to the United states before the holidays the program guarantees that packages will arrive in two or three Days depending on the zip code of destination or the sender can reclaim the Cost. Us press mail is delivered every Day. Including holidays. Santa remember mail room staffers Santa s Mai i bag mail clerks staff ski. . Simmons and spec. Willie Jensen from Lanau West Germany arc handling so Many letters to Santa they sent one of their own. Please bring me the Complete beatles record set and bring Willie a new guitar. We will set out the chocolate Chip cookies and the skim milk at the brigade mail room on my  other letter writers arc listed below. Marvin by d Brian mat anti Nicole Bigg Joanne Jones Matthew Wiggins William Padar Natasha Simons William Jones Sonia Stevenson Lisa Jonus Chris Galanie Andrew Warber Anna Franklin Jennifer Ormand Eric of fro Geol Rey tons by r Kate Piper Matthew booked Jake Piper _ _ r. Christy Marn weather Troy Fassbender Courtney bout Oil jumbo Hayden Ema Tny Kent Smith Hanse main Evelyn Anthony or Tatam Jakes Charles Burdett Chad Sonon Nicoto Lolanda Robed det ton spec c Turch Sajona Joseph Kris Mali chm Parmelee Staci boat Jason ten in Mefi Aspalto Thomai Qai Legot Lauren Ell s Hudor Feim. Nora v  Mckenna Ken smile Joey Keating Carol Adams Annie Hollan Christopher Renee Klofanda Waterm Crum ale Laura c Hughes Laurah Mej by boat Anjanet Hutc Runson Amanda Terrell Susan Clou com Backer Queitha Felix Danny Snart Dan Alonto k. Laws Amanda Jaan Spirer Simpson s the cored Grade Spon Kim elementary Shenna Rowland morn Cath me Robbie Murray Tyheem Hun Meimary Pader Jamie Pabon Catoma co Mayo Brittany  Jason Ca Guath Domino Chesier Zack fians vane a Mcdonald Daniel Holsheimer Daniella Dunaway Kyle Sonon Katie Carr Andre Lolanda Chris Novak Regnal Joseph Manasa England Amanda m Cru Art Bowlin Matthew Terrell  Eter Nathaniel Cooter charter Becker Kristal fell apr Gallegos Audey Sib Brandon m Beverly show and Tell pfc. Tom Callager of the Frankfurt army regional medical Center talks with his brother in Kansas City mo., through a video Hookup in the Gin Nchim Tower in Frankfurt West Germany. Fourteen people were selected by . Sprint to nuke a free 20-min ulc Call to the United states during the program. Wondering about ingredients in your egg nog Here they Are by the stars and stripes americans used to seeing ingredients listed on their food labels won t find an explanation of what s in the traditional Holiday drink of eggnog. Commissary items that come from the United Stales whether a can of Beans or a to dinner list ingredients in order of predominance As required . Law said Adam Cohen spokesman for the de sense subsistence Region Europe. And food products produced by cafes in Europe such As bread and ice Cream also follow . Guide lines for product Labelling said la. Col. David Ham mond distribution Center manager for the cafes depot in Grain slant West Germany. But products produced on the local Economy for Sale in both european stores and military commissaries arc labelled in compliance with applicable euro Pean economic Community standards. These standards vary by item. Some products Are required by local Law to include a listing of ingredients while certain Dairy products such As fresh eggnog Are not required to identify ingredients Cohen said. Although the defense subsistence Region Europe could require local vendors to list ingredients experience has shown that prices usually increase some times significantly. If you re still wondering about that eggnog it includes milk fat non fat milk solids egg Yolk sugar Vanilla extract or pure Vanilla essence Strum and egg yellow colouring plus emulsifiers and stabilizers. Psycho of Sis say nicotine helpful to alzheimer s disease sufferers London a nicotine the drug inhaled Byci Maretic smokers can help sufferers of alzheimer s disease psychologists reported tuesday. Giving nicotine resulted in the patients becoming More Alert responding More vigorously and doing bet Ter on a variety of mental tests Reading University psychology professor David Warburton told the Lon Don conference of the British psychological society. Research carried out at London University s Institute of psychiatry by Warburton s colleagues or. Bar Bara Sahakian and Gemma Jones matched 39 Alz Heimer s patients with a group of elderly people of the same age and intellectual ability. Compared to a Placebo giving nicotine resulted in the patients who were suffering from premature senile dementia symptoms associated with alzheimer s be coming More Alert but nicotine did not improve their memories the psychologists said. Warburton said he would not prescribe cigarettes to his patients. My colleagues and i have never at any time recommended patients smoke  the psychologist said. We were experimenting with Safe ways of giving nicotine for example through a specially impregnated Patch on the  Warburton s report was one of 150 papers presented at the two Day conference held at London University s Institute of education. Richard Raskin presented the results of his five year study of jewish jokes which identified the frequently occurring elements of self disparagement and laugh Ter through  a recent discovery he said is that with Many jew ish jokes the listener alternates Back and Forth be tween quite different interpretations of the Story. Jokes told by jews about jews arc always affectionate and have two sides to them while anti semitic jokes High Light negative aspects such As parsimony said Raskin a new yorker lecturing at aarhus University in Denmark. Humor has a very important place in jewish Cul Ture. Many of the jokes can be traced Back More than 100 years to Eastern Europe he said before telling the conference his favorite joke mrs. Markowitz was walking along the Beach with her grandson when suddenly a wave came and washed the 3-year-old boy out to  of. Lord cried the woman. If you la just bring the boy Back alive i la do anything. I la be the Best person. I la give to Charity. I la go to the Temple. Please god Send him Back at that moment a wave washed the child Back up on the Sand Safe and sound. His grandmother looked at the boy and then up to the heavens. " of she exclaimed so where s his hat " the conference also heard that diets Don t work and usually make the Dieter depressed. Jane Ogden. A postgraduate at London s Institute of psychiatry followed 23 women through six weeks of dieting. Ogden told fellow researchers she found the women became increasingly depressed and were preoccupied with food. Ogden said the women had very Strong urges to overeat and toward the end of the six weeks the women started to feel eating was out of  researcher said she suspects dieting induces slates of mind which usually ensure that the diet won t work. If you try to diet mood changes will occur and make you cat More Ogden said. She said the women lost an average of Only four pounds