European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes a Page 11 letters dear  to the fellow with the nmn Ulsie Coupon clipping wife i ran obsessive Combe j our pantry. We have 36 quart downstairs a bottles of soda 20 boxes of frs lspdet1en 24 Rolls of paper towels Etc. At one int we had a basement full of Moths that hatched Soto the oversupply of dry cat food. I do not clip coupons Ann. Its my husband who has one bananas meanwhile the air conditioners Are still in the closet and the Kitchen sink drips merrily under the  Vnus re right about co poning being a compulsion but in a afraid that if he stopped another compulsion Wou d crop up to take its place. Maybe we should put Zug us based in touch with the wife of l b so they Sid indulge in a joint orgy of refunding. Meanwhile i could hire somebody to get the House m shape. I have to close now Ann. My husband just left with a fistful of coupons and i have to go trim the Hedges. P s they have Al anon for the families of alcoholics How about clip anon for spouses of Coupon freaks9 we could meet Exchange horror stories have a Good laugh and maybe Swap supplies. 6 a touching it out in new Jersey dear touching it your chief ally in this no win Battle is your sense of humor. Hang onto it no matter what. Thanks for writing. Dear readers remember the column i reprinted recently a sorry no medal for you kids it started out like this a a teen Ager came up to me and said a gee Good adult Why Arentt you proud of me in be never been arrested and in a a really Good kid. It seems that nobody understands  you brag about How you resisted being a Bandit a dropout or a menace to society. You done to smoke dope or Rob Gas stations. A Well i done to smoke dope or Rob Gas stations either. My Reward is that i done to get thrown in jail. That is also your Reward. You done to punch your teacher and i done to punch my Boss. So you get an education and i get to keep my  that column was sent to me several weeks ago by a teacher in Valdosta a. She did no to know where it came from but believed it deserved a larger audience. I told her it had a larger audience when i ran it several years ago but i would be Happy to run it again. The second time it appeared i received a ton of mail from readers who berated me for not praising the lad for staying out of trouble. They pointed out that teen agers respond much More positively to compliments and recognition than to criticism and put Downs. Even though these readers were aware that i did not author the piece they were angry with me for not praising the teen Ager and encouraging him to stay out of trouble. Then to and behold i got a note from my Good Friend Mike Royko with a copy of his Book entitled a up against it a published in 1967. On Page 9 was the piece entitled a Good teen Ager a  so dear readers i wish to acknowledge that Mike Royko is the author of that piece and if you have any beefs you can write to him at the Chicago Tribune. You re Welcome Mike incidentally a up against it is out of print but Royko has a Brand new Book a Cdr. Rookie you re right a and its Worth its weight in Platinum. Run done to walk to your nearest Bookstore 5� polisher is Dutton and the Price is jlo.95. C creators Syndicate red Cross officer explains Relief policy the letters published by Ann Landers on sunday Are outdated and indicate a misunderstanding of red Cross disaster Relief policy. Since the time they were written the red Cross has decided that All of the $52 million designated for the earthquake Relief Effort will be used in Northern California to meet the current and future earthquake generated needs. Traditionally surplus funds left Over after a disaster have been placed in a Relief fund for future disasters a Trust the american people have placed in the red Cross. But because of the increasing desire of the Public to designate to a specific cause the red Cross is now reviewing its policy. To put the designation Issue in perspective while $52 million was designated for Relief in the aftermath of the Northern California earthquake Only $11.9 Mil lion was designated for Relief to Hurricane Hugo victims. The red Cross is projecting that the Hugo operation a the largest disaster Relief Effort in history a will ultimately Cost $72 million. In addition costs from other disasters in the last few months unrelated to Hugo or the earthquake a such As fires and currently floods and tornadoes in the Midwest and South a have Cost in excess of $20 million. The red Cross is proud of its record of steering contributed dollars to those who need help the most. It is this record of service that continues to generate the Public a Trust and support. A Joanne Jones Public affairs officer american red Cross european area has. Stuttgart West Germany sponsor says Aid to Romania big Success we would like to thank everyone who contributed toward our a project  several weeks ago you printed our letter about help for Romania. The outpouring of generosity was just overwhelming we both received lots of Calls and lots of letters. Also packages kept arriving at my Linda Apo Box just about daily. As a result of All this generosity we were Able to fill one 3/4-ton truck that was taken to a school with 500 children in a Village called Mosna in Transylvania. Shortly before we did that we received a letter from one of the teachers of that school saying that they Hadnot received any help at All yet. This is what started our project. We wanted to help them desperately a and we did with everybody a help. Last week we found out that our truck had arrived at the school and that All the food and clothes were distributed. The children were so Happy they wanted to a kiss their donator so feet quote from the teacher. But this is not All we were Able to do we also filled two containers at the Deutsche Bun Desbah weighing 364 pounds and 734 pounds respectively. Of that 295 pounds of the second Container was food in addition we mailed several individual packages to families in need. To anyone who still wants to help the romanians and wants to Send packages the German postal service also has a program. It costs Money but it is still Worth considering. The prices Are 1 kilogram a do 6.00 your Cost 3 kilograms a do 8.40 your Cost 5 kilograms a do 12.20 your Cost 10 kilograms a do 18.60 your Cost 15 kilograms a do 25.20 your Cost 20 kilograms a do 31.80 your Cost unlike the German rail which had a minimum weight of 22 pounds the Post has a maximum of 20 kilograms or 44 pounds. The postal program is in effect until the end of june whereas the rails program ended feb. 28. If you do Send please remember that food is More important than clothes. The basics flour sugar powdered milk Margarine Rice Oatmeal and baby food Are always Welcome. We still have addresses to give out. Our numbers Are ets 370-7512 Ulrike and ets 370-8385 Linda. Again thanks to everyone for All the help. A Ulrike Schlessmann a Linda Phillips Heidelberg West Germany an unable to Supply closed captioning when i came Over to visit my son and his family i brought my Tele caption unit Over so i could see what they were saying on an television. Now i find the same shows that i watched in the states with captions do not have captions Over Here. I am Only Able to use it with rented movies. Has an determined that there Are no deaf or hard of hearing dependents in All of Europe a Bob Walters Palm Bay Fla. Editors note a Tom Baxter chief broadcast operations american forces network Europe replies the question your letter raises is not one of policy but of technology. Captioning is a service provided in the United states to television networks and Cable systems by the National captioning Institute. The caption code is embedded in the vertical interval of the television signal either when it is broadcast or when the network master tape is recorded. However there Are several reasons Why this service is not available to an viewers a Many programs supplied to an Europe by the armed forces radio and television service arts broadcast Center in Sun Valley calif., Are obtained directly from the program producer. Since the caption code is usually added by the broadcast network or station when the programs Are broadcast the code is therefore not contained in the arts duplication service for stations such As an. A the leased International satellite system used to transmit the arts satellite network programs to overseas stations does not include the closed captioning data in the transmitted signal. A in Europe the leased Deutsche Bunde Spost dip satellite transmission system used to distribute the an superstition television signal does not include the capability to transmit the closed captioning data if it were included in the program from arts. Arts and an have Long been aware of the fact that there Are deaf and hearing impaired family members in the audience. However at the present time it is not possible to provide the closed captioning service in overseas  a and ripes european edition col. Gene e. Townsend Usan commander editor in chief it. Col. Suzanne l. Phillips Usan Deputy commander editor in chief pr5. Klinicki Mert Proctor Deane b. 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