European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes Friday april 13 2007 cafes gasoline prices continue to Inch up by Matt Millham stars and stripes heres something youve heard before Gas prices Are going up for the 10th straight week Gas sold by the army and air Force Exchange service will Cost More come Midnight Friday this weeks increase cents for regular mid Grade and Premium gasoline and 5 cents for diesel follows the us trend to the Penny since the beginning of february that s added up to 64 pennies the latest increase also will push every Grade of Gas except regular sold Only in Germany above a gallon and to their highest Mark since september 2006 motorists in the United King Dom the Netherlands Turkey and the azores also Are facing the increase according to the us depart coming sunday an i depth look at How cafes new pricing policy compares with f he old one ment of Energy the average Cost of a gallon of regular Gas is a Shade Over cafes Cost is higher because it adds it local dispensing costs 166 cents in that since feb 1 when cafes began to adjust its fuel prices weekly rather than monthly regu Lar Gas has gone from a fraction More than per gallon to Al most per gallon prices for super unleaded Range from about a gallon in Germany to about a gallon in the Netherlands where super is the lowest Grade available but cafes prices still Are below Many areas of the us in California for example the aver age Price of a gallon of regular Gas is according to the Doe in the Netherlands prices for All grades of fuel including diesel were set at the floor Selling Price according to an cafes news release such prices occur when the Price cafes pays for fuel exceeds the sum of its own costs plus the average of prices in Theus email Matt Millham acc More military families eligible for reduce Price free school lunches by Allison Batdorff stars and stripes Darmstadt Germany More military families with schoolchildren May qualify for free and reduce Price lunches through department of defense dependents school Europe Dodds officials announced this month that the us depart ment of agriculture approved their request to make qualifying easier by switching the stat based income guidelines from Hawaii to Alaska the switch raised the salary Cap a few thousand dollars allowing More families to fall under it for example a family of four used to earn or less to get free lunches for their school age children now the same family can earn and qualify the new Rule applies to schools in Germany Bel Gium the Netherlands Italy the United King Dom Spain the azores Turkey Cuba South Korea Japan and Okinawa according to a depart ment of defense Educa Tion activity news re lease it Doest apply to schools in puerto Rico or Guam the release said Dodds Europe spokes Man David Ruderman urged eligible parents to apply lunches can take an economic bite out of the monthly expenditures Ruderman said its not a tremendous amount of Money but for the folks who Are budget conscious it does make a difference especially if they have More than one child in school for example full Price lunches at the elementary schools Cost while reduce Price lunches Are 40 cents the us a lunch program is run by school food authorities which provide nutritionally balanced meals to the local school population and offer the free and reduced program to Eli Gible families cafes Navy Exchange service command and Marine corps Community services Are designated authorities for Dodds cafes manages the food program in nine countries it sup plied a number of military families with free and reduced lunches in Europe even before the new guidelines said gaffes Europe spokesman it col David Korop according to february numbers gaffes provided 315830 school lunch meals 21 percent free and 22 percent reduced in Price about 30 percent of enrolled students in Europe schools qualified for free or reduce priced meals in february Konop said yet Many families who qualify dont fill out an application at their installations Ruderman said not All the families who qualify take advantage of it and they should Ruderman said email Allison Batdorff at in the lunch line Here Are some of the new Eli Gible annual income Levels a family that makes the listed amount or less would qualify free lunches family of 2 family of 3 family of 4 family of 5 family of 6 reduce Price lunches family of 2 family of 3 family of 4 family of 5 family of 6 source us department of agriculture plans in the fore ground show a rough Foo plan of what the room behind the future Iraina room of the Darmstadt military history museum could look like by july fourth Matt Millham stars and stripes history on the move in Griesheim private military museum finds new quarters and Hopes to reopen july 4th by Matt Millham stars and stripes Griesheim Germany of if s a mess by july fourth George Robinsonjr Hopes to get it looking like a Pigsty or at least part of it the main room of the future Darmstadt military history museum is littered with broken Tele phone equipment stained card Board boxes and other assorted refuse from another decade for years the space a former workshop for stars and stripes has been vacant except for this junk but in his spare time Robinson who works for Darmstadt s child and youth services is transform ing the space from a Haven for old forgotten junk into a Home for old unforgotten military relics the Centrepiece of the exhibit will if All goes right be a room with dioramas depicting scenes from Dif Ferent eras including the courtyard of a 1945 German farmhouse with a stuffed rooster that crows and a Ceramic pig most of the material for the museum belongs to one Man Robinson a lot of people collect military paraphernalia some collect old uni forms or patches or documents or equipment or photographs or Furni Ture get the picture Robin son collects All that from 2001 until october Robin son and about two dozen of his Rhein Neckar military historical society buddies ran a museum at Babenhausen Kasheme in Babenhausen Germany there seven exhibit rooms displayed thousands of articles his garage is packed with so much More stuff that we could probably fill it two to three More times he said and he wants to share it All with us or rather keep sharing it with us when Babenhausen closed the collection of military artefacts going Back More than a Cen Tury was left without an Audi ence late last year Robinson got per Mission to move the collection to an unused space next to stripes euro Pean Headquarters in Griesheim the space was More or less Given to them he said the least we can do is give that Back the Memorabilia including the antiaircraft artillery piece belong to society members not the Militar ies of the us or Germany collecting preserving and Dis playing these scraps of history is not just a Hobby for the society Robinsons father fought in world War n his wife father and his two Brothers did As Well but on the other Side the losing Side Hes the one who really got me going Robinson said of his a ther inlaw both sides of the second great War Are represented Here As is the first great War and every other major us conflict since our Mission is to try and pre serve the military history of the United states and Germany As it re lates to both countries the society web site states in this Endeavor we will do our utmost to support the us army Garrison Darmstadt and its military Community we will fur ther Endeavor to Honor fee veterans of both nations past present and future their motto Robinson said is preserve history for history Treyve done that by offering their personal collections and their time to anyone interested and though the museum does have some out pocket expenses we dont charge people to come in Here Robinson said or they wont anyway reopen in july email Matt Millham at