European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 30, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9songwriting contest Winner Hopes music s in his futures amps Jim Derheim capt. Jonathan Shippey Winner of the Usa eur keepers of the peace songwriting contest. By Rosemary Sawyer staff writer capt. Jonathan Shippey says he works Best under pressure and the deadline crunch paid off in the Case of the keepers of the peace songwriting contest. Just three Days before a tape of his song was to be in the hands of contest judges Shippey was penning its last lines in the Light of his cards Glove compartment. Two Days before the deadline he was camped out at a friends House so he could use the friends electronic keyboard. A i have song ideas going around my head All the time a Shippey said. A but if i have a deadline i do  Shippey did do Well with his pop Ballad a a american a  it was chosen this month from among 60 entries to serve As the theme song for the . Army in Europe. For winning the 26-year-old commander of a medical company at the army Hospital in Heidelberg will receive a round trip american airlines ticket to Nashville tenn., and a weeks use of a Hertz rental car. Shippey said head had the song in his head Long before the contests oct. 19 due Date but he had just failed to get it on paper. A a in a been trying to write the lyrics off and on Here and there on scraps of paper a Shippey said. It Wasny to until the return drive from Munich with his wife Kim that he put it All together. Shippey has written songs before but he a never had one published he said. A a american a bests should be broadcast Over american forces network radio and performed by the Usa eur band a command spokesman said. Music has been a Way of life for the officer from Warner Robins a. His Mother was a Church organist and Shippey studied violin from fourth Grade through High school. While his biology major at Furman University in Greenville s.c., was far from musical he Hopes to get out of the Aimy next summer and pursue music in Seminary. Eventually Shippey would like to break into the Christian contemporary music Industry he said. He even Hopes to make a few contacts with gospel music companies while in Nashville. But Shippey a not unrealistic about his chances of making a living As a professional musician. A a it a kind of a hit and miss Type thing a he  her America s Best by Jonathan a. Shippey in be been Here for you my Friend though maybe you be never seen my face. And ill be Here with you until the end Side by Side in Freedom s race. Chorus i left friends and family to live for peace in foreign lands. I gave up much to help keep others free. And for their Freedom i will stand. Chorus counting the Cost it was Worth it All now that we be lived in peace so Long. We be responded to a Noble Call As Freedom sings a mighty song. Chorus / Bridge through the dark nights on the Border guarding All alone and on those holidays when i have been so far from Home still i gave my Best i was Here for you. Chorus America sends her Best and that a Why we re Here to let the Light of peace Shine through. We be opened windows in the Walls of hate and fear. America s Best is Here for you. Last time the . Army Europe is Here for you. If recording studios and concert Tours Arentt in Shippey a future hell pursue a Church music ministry he said. He and his wife currently Lead the music program at Benjamin Franklin Village Chapel in Mannheim. Winning second place in the contest were sgt. Gary Keehner of the 3rd inf div band in Wurzburg Germany and his wife Digna. They received a four track cassette recorder compliments of the your future Job placement company. Bad Tolz elementary school teacher r. Allan Hoffman won third place. He received a weekends stay at Munich a Holiday inn South and use of a Hertz rental  stockpiles in Berlin to be sent to soviets Berlin apr Germany will Send the soviet Union huge food reserves that were stockpiled to help feed West Berlin in Case of a repeat of the 1948-49 soviet blockade of the City a top government official said thursday. The announcement regarding the so called Berlin reserves was the latest in a series of German actions aimed at helping the soviets. It was made by Horst Teltschik chief foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Also thursday the German red Cross sent 37 tons of emergency food supplies on an Aeroflot plane to the soviet Union starting what officials Hope could be a daily Airlift to the soviet Union. A telethon on Germany Szof television wednesday night netted pledges of j o million Marks $2.6 million to help soviets burdened by the Onset of Winter and empty shelves in state stores. Other campaigns Are collecting millions of dollars More in donations and goods. If the Pace keeps up the Relief Effort could become the largest  humanitarian action Germany has launched. Teltschik who just returned from talks m Moscow told reporters that Kohl had agreed to Send the Berlin reserves to the soviets. He said details would be worked out next week. The massive stockpiles of Grain canned fruit and other foods and supplies Are valued at up to $1.6 billion. Officials in West Berlin had built up the reserves in Case of a repeat of the blockade that Cut off All but air travel to and from the Western Side of the divided City. A .-led Airlift broke the blockade in 1949. A worker on thursday stacks gift parcels donated by residents of Dresden Germany for citizens in their sister City of Leningrad. Berlin officials urged that the supplies be sent to the soviets As a sign of Good will in the current Era of improved relations Between East and West. In Bonn the German Branch of the care International Relief organization said thursday it would soon be sending the first Batch of 20,000 food packages to the soviet Union. The packages contain  items As chocolate Rice and meat. Care packages sent by americans were vital in feeding germans after world War ii and the memory of the Welcome Aid has become part of National history. Germany has been leading International efforts to Aid the soviets. Kohl and foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher both have appealed for private donations for the action. A please help relieve the need in the soviet Union. This is a work of Charity and of Good neighbourliness a Kohl said in an Appeal broadcast wednesday night on Adf television. Kohl also called to mind the soviets role in Clearing the Way for German unification less than two months ago. A we All have to thank the soviet Union in these months a Kohl said. A i am certain that we All Are ready to  Genscher has said widespread hunger in the soviet Union could Lead to instability that in turn could threaten the rest of Europe. Teltschik was in Moscow this week discussing ways to get the German donations into the soviet Union and to keep the goods out of the hands of Black marketeers. Teltschik said president Mikhail Gorbachev promised to expedite customs and visas for the Aid and germans could accompany the Aid deliveries. On Friday Large trucks and buses also filled with supplies Are scheduled to head to the soviet Union along with 16 red Cross workers said Botho Zug Sayn Wittgenstein head of the German red Cross during an interview with deutschland Funk radio. He said the food would Start to reach the most needy people a those in retirement Homes and Homes for the handicapped a by the weekend. Red Cross officials said an enormous Relief action is planned although they could not give precise figures until they know the amount of private donations and government support