European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1941 w i 1 population in 1950 expected to be 148 million National census starts in april the census Burrau is pre paring theres work in getting for a chines1 10 tabulate the in with hold work s knocking on the Cen sus theres no of the one in 1350 Kight inv the Pond Lazion is about in will be about the census has to be taken 10 the Constitution the reason to find out How Many representatives each should have in the a states representation is bused on the census Bureau does the it has persons about 700 around the coun the director of the census is he was appointed by the president in census taking the director picks manager for each then brings All 48 to Wash there trained each state is divided into a number of census districts with a Distria supervisor for each the manager trains them and they go Back to their districts Ami Truitt those hired to take the Cen the door  Start out april with questionnaires in forms Abou inches 40 inches Long and 50 lines for questions on each  ask questions like these state when married or widowed or employed if so in what kind of in How Many years of you wont be asked whether you Road or write although that used to be the Cen sus Bureau says it dropped that because now Only 1 per cent of Nifte people cannot write or it will take about 30 Days to finish the the Bureau then will need about three years to Complete an analysis of All the information its Field workers have data in 1951 Bui it will have the figures on the population of the before the end of president will give that information to the Congress which sits in using the population will make any changes necessary in the number of representatives in the this will be done in time for the elections of if theres any change in number of House Are 435 wont go into effect till the new Congress sits in the was taken in the population then was marshals and their deputies did the Doort door their Job was they asked the name of the head of the Houi hold and the number of per son living a ik10 a census started on the number of manufacturing pins in this and what kind in 1840 a census on farms 6urud How Many num Ber of kinds of and so in instead of asking just the name of the head of a House the census taker began get Tine the names of All those in v and More questions As she years moved whether a per son could read or write month and year of birth sex in what state born whether foreign Horn if where when came his until the president appointed a superintendent of Cen sus but his work took Only about three the first director was appointed in mis Job is a pretty steady year in and year besides the population and the census on farms and manufacturing the census Bureau also checks periodically on in 1940 a census on housing was the Bureau publishes various books of if you want the Best Allaround its called statistical abstract of the United states for this Book is published it costs and you can buy it by writing to the superintendent of cocktail skirt by path Paris designer Jacques Fath displays fhe hem of one of his own modelled by his Yvie the iwo Are for six the ankle length cocktail skirt is worn with a simple sweater like Black in Bright yellow overlaid with doffed if fits snug at the hips and has five layers of net and taffeta flounce Al the wide official bulletin the following is published As an official bulletin in compliance with Section circular 3april in reference to institution of an official bul Letin column in the european edition of the stars and stripes to provide rapid Aid dissemination of certain official announcements to All personnel of the command subject registration of privately owned firearms the provision of Neucom Cir Cular subject control of fire dated 1 March which requires the registration of privately owned firearms prior to 1 May is hereby modified to extend the deadline Date to 1 june registration must he accomplished prior to 1 june baby gets head Start 12weekold daughter of and has a head Start on most Young ladies her Sally was born with a head of five inches her parents say it has grown even Road building Cost mounted in 1947 construction in the in 1947 Cost s or 63 cent More than in the Federal works Agency reported costs were higher in and the physical volume of increase avas Only 43 per the 1946 physical volume was the lowest for any peacetime year since the Agency said construction on Federal id Highway programs in 1947 accounted for More than half the new television tube enlarges Small image new York of a miniature designed to make Large screen television cheaper and available in a smaller set has been the new tube has a face of Only by but h will produce images of 12 by 16 it operates through the use of four development was announced by the North american Philips at the annual Conven Tion of the Institute of radio much longer Washington of living to a Ripe old age Are getting better All the according to the National Bureau of vital government statisticians report that the death rates in the have been going Down steadily since 1933 in every age the average age of people who died in 1933 was by in it was years and in the period covered by the Federal mortality h was women still outlive on the and by an even bigger margin than they did Back in 1933 when their average age at death was years compared with for the hardier in women average was years against for the the biggest improvement re occurred among children one to four years of the death rate for this group dropped from per in 1933 to a decrease of 62 per the smallest relative drop in death rates was reported for per sons 75 years of age and in that out of every died in 1933 compared with in a decline of to per next to that the highest mortality rate was found among infants less than one year where deaths averaged per in 1933 and in All the mortality tables excluded stillbirths and deaths among the armed forces Over april 1943 the reveals the aircraft Carrier since sunk by the was ship from which 16 b25 under Jimmy raided april april 1944 a Large Force of planes attack the invasion area in Northern France in april 1945 1st army troops capture Germany fifth largest april 1946 the government orders a 25 per cent Cut in wheat con sumption to help fight famine april 1947 King Christian x of Dies a 35year 2 Harbor projects urged Washington engineers have recommended construction work on two West coast Harbor on half Moon near san and the other on Coos near the project would Cost a total of address All letters to b bag 774jth stars and stripes Apo include name and address names Are deleted on due to space limitations letters May be Cut for publication provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the orphans were not germans in a recent Issue of your paper an article was published about rive German orphan children who were emigrating to the under the sponsorship of the com Mittee for the care of european we presume that you based your article on information received from the associated press1 As we had an interview with one of their reporters at Rhine main air there fore cannot judge where the error was made and maybe we blame your paper for a mistake that was made by someone we would like to Point out that the children we emigrate to the Are never German the Only ones eligible under the present emigration pro Gram Are displaced turns of the nazi we in formed the reporter of this Situa Tion and gave the histories of the the fair Piret the estonian amongst what you called five children was not accepted for emigration by the consulate because her father was an estonian minister being purged by the but because of being forcibly evacuated by the germans during the the father was indeed deported by the but it is the persecution Fay the germans that made her eligible for emigration to the under present Regula Van sergeant misquoted in your Story of March 20 quoted me As searching for an emergency exit on the c47which general this wife and seven others bailed out was the Story quoted Rne As saying if there was an Emer gency exit on that plane i  find to be completely the quotation should have there was no emergency release mechanism on the main therefore i had to Force the open to let passengers bail out1 in Ordinary circumstances there is a red handle which you pull and the door Falls but on this plane there was no such handle the plane was upholstered on the inside and it was necessary for me to Force the door i am writing this letter because fee report was technically in Ray Dudley editors note the stars and stripes regrets this who is in the 3s7th station Hospital in certainly to be commended Jot his in forcing open the and thereby making escape from the plane he dislocated has right the stars and stripes i3s editor chief managing editor sports editor april William Summers Ken Zunwalt e11u executive chief of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Bernard Mcguigan news 8466s1 846680 48146 Bremerhaven bureaus Stuttgart b 37184 Wiesbaden 76027590 Munich 481520 the european edition is published daily at for the occupation forces under the auspices of the troop information and education division Frankfurt the stars and correspondence should be addressed to 7744th stars and stripes Apo mall to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington this is not an official publication of the reentered As second class matter sept at the Post office at new under the act of March