European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 08, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Young George Buchow looks for new weights to lift or " to. Young brute r. Photographs by Arthur Sasse in a 19-month-old new York boy Surprise his parents with his Tarzan like strength. I 1fting ten Pound dumbbells is by now a routine matter with 17-months-old George Buchow or. At birth he had three Teeth and soon showed signs of his prodigious strength by chinning on horizontal bars when Only three months old. His parents or. And mrs. Buchow of mount Vernon new York think they Are an average couple of average height weight and strength and Are at a loss to explain the phenomenon of their baby Tarzan. George s appetite is As unusual As his physical prowess. His diet has built up his weight from eight pounds five ounces at birth to. His present 34 pounds. Fortification provided by canned evaporated milk with added vitamins raw oysters clams pickled and crab cat helped develop his Superior physical condition. As he began to walk the Buchow son started pushing his 107 Pound. Mother around the living room in his discarded baby buggy. At three months George could Chin himself on horizontal bars. Ten Pound Dumbbell attached to Hanger is to lifting problem. Cover in the Hills de Borgia Montana there Happy fugitive Fromi the atom bomb in this North Eastern Montana Mountain town. He s 44-year-old William Keenan who brought his wife and family West to escape the re crazy about this place Keenan said As he worked on his atom Haven in the Timber country the Haven is a two Story combination restaurant and living quarters for the Keenan and their four children. It la be a French Boulevard style restaurant wit Good food and wine he said. The civil Engineer is doing the work himself he dug a Well since this Village of 65 population has no water system and fined the Well with Concrete. All his build ing materials he trucked in fire Brick from Spokane Washington lumber from Mills in this area. Keenan and his family left port Washington new York in october 1948. They lived in Butte Montana for three months while Keenan cruised Over this whole area in search late in december a year ago Keenan found the was looking for de Borgia a tiny Village entirely ringed by mountains. It seemed to offer the Best possible natural Security against total War. Keenan got away from Newyork because he says the City is an Ideal target for an a bomb Keenan at the time of his de parture was widely hailed by the new York press As the first Fugi Tive from the atom bomb though there is Little evidence to show that Bis gesture encouraged to Migrate to the hinterlands but now after having had More than a year to think it Over he says he getaway from a lot More. New York is seven and a Hal million people going mad Kee Nan said. The Long islanders can t escape from the influence either they mow their lawns Cli Theu Hedges everybody watching a everybody else. They get on the Tram Jam into the subway go to work gel Back on the subway the train come Homeland mow their lawns some More. Coast cities Are subject to every whim. They have Gas rationing food rationing they can be easily attacked. There s no safety in a coast City economic or otherwise Keenan Here nobody worries about food. We have a Deer and an Elkin our cooler. There Are fish in the. River maybe a Hundred feet from Here. Nobody worries about milk we have a cow. Nobody worries about taxes even my total tax Bill this year was $1.65. So we re Safe he i claims. Besides the kids la have some thing to remember. If they were brought up in a City All they d Ever have known would be , i came Back from the army engineers and All i had in com Mon with my son was the comic books. A. This Way the children will have something pleasant to re member. They re learning to fish ride horses swim. They la remember picking apples and eating them putting their ears Down tothe track and listening to a train coming they la know about cowhand chickens. These Are the Only pleasant things i can remember. Of childhood. But in a City Why everybody i know in new York wants to get out Only they have no idea How to do it i be had hundreds of letters from people wanting to come out Here. Yet if i wrote them to come i d feel like maybe should help them out and i m in no financial position to do that last time i was in a City i went to Spokane to buy some bricks. I put a Nickel in the Park ing meter. Got Back about five minutes late. Sure enough parking ticket. So. I drove to the police station. Drove around for almost an hour looking for a parking place so i could go in and pay a parking kind of a life is that. About a week after we Gottier i said to my wife let s see what the kids think about this place Keenan said. So i said come on a Start packing we redoing Back East you should have heard the mrs Keenan who was bornand brought up. In hew York is doing a lot of things she never had done before. Makes her own butter bakes her own bread. Last year she canned More than 1,800 quarts of fruit vegetables jams. Jellies and mushrooms. _ " this place looks -.like, some. Thing on a Christmas card Kee Nan says proudly. Little Church school the mountains Trees the he s not particularly com corned with making much of a profit on his Little restaurant though he does take considerable v Pride in offering motorists an at Tractive Wayside eating place. A. R discerning fellow he feels will appreciate his attempt to bring a bit of what he Calls Continental Charm to this out of the Way atom bomb Haven. . Highway. No. 10, which goes right
