European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes april 1950 German school graduates swell unemployed ranks in Ruhr by Peter Webb Dusseldorf than school children from the Ruhr and its surrounding districts closed their school books for the last time the other Day to join the Long line of Western Germany born in when hitlers re armament backed by generous Loans from the Ruhr first began to solve the problem of the Young Man on the Street they will be thrown onto a labor Market with nearly 600 already at least one in labor officials has almost no Chance of finding less optimistic estimates put the figure considerably the who for eight and a half years have trudged to school with their satchels High on their shoulders like army Are today one of the most serious problems in Western when the school year officially ended German Educa Tion authorities said that were released from elementary schools together with a further from secondary and technical More than half of them were to make matters an estimated Job seekers Are expected to flood into the Ruhr from other parts of Western in the apprentice where labor officials Are urging employers to provide jobs for As Many As there Are at present approximately a mainly in mining and Metal few of them Are for of the girls expected to apply for jobs in the traditional women industries optics and More than Are unlikely to find deterred by Low wages of 30 Marks a month for firs year apprentices and 70 to 100 for Normal unskilled workers in the textile Many May not even bother Tio some will continue their Educa Tion in higher Grade while others will stay at Home or at tempt to find jobs in business offices or retail Posis for women but of the vacant posts in the Rhineland at the end of february fewer than were for Home of the halide stroked Krupp was once described As Germany economic heart now its prewar population of nearly makes it the largest town in the but Only 20 per cent of the girls leaving school Are Likely to find employment for women is an official of the labor ministry said1 recently in our most optimistic estimates say that at least will be added to our list of perhaps for the 15yearold boys who French cast years Liberty Bells Paris Liberty exact replicas of the original now in dependence in Are being cast by the Paccard and sons Bell foundry in an near the franc Swiss ordered by the Treasury will be delivered May 20 to new and then will be one to every state of the Union and the District of the fact that France landed the Bell contract is considered a real coup in foundry the original Bell was cast by an eng Thomas of London to celebrate the 50th year of the common wealth of that was in it cracked during the first and subsequently cracked three times the first three it was recast in american but the last time the huge Ell during the funeral of chief Justice John Marshall of the supreme court in the crack stayed for the 49 Annecy Bells have been cast with the 1835 crack carefully the each weighing about Are almost As delicate As old a special Treasury representative has been sent Down to the Alpine City to supervise their ill be glad when i get them to he new heart operation Philadelphia Delphia surgeons have made medi Cal history by operating on a patients heart through the instead of making the Normal Chest a unnamed instrument was used in an opera Tion Toffee a diseased aortic april the big four foreign ministers in Moscow agree to establishment of a Central administrative Agency for april 1948 a buzzing soviet fighter Plaug dives into a British passenger plane in the air corridor to killing All april 1949 Gen Omar army chief of Calls for a military Aid program to strengthen West Ern Europe and Stop an aggressor before he could overrun the con Navy to invade California coast san Diego Navy has announced plans for mass amphibious operations to be held off the California coast during More than 450 officers from the army command and general staff College at will Fly Here to witness the the training Demon will be conducted by War ships arid planes of the 1st Fleet and by marines from the famed 1st Marine escorts cruisers and auxiliary vessels will be employed in assaults against Clemente Island and against the California new zealand leads in longevity jew York metro Politan insurance has revealed that life expectancy is greatest in new zealand and that Russia trails the by a Genera Tion in new sealanders have an expectation at birth of 67 this level was reached among White persons in the in the a is the most recent formation from Russia places the figure at around 45 left school the prospects Are Little according to German education trying desperately to solve a problem that was Only inverted last year by extending the school term six mass unemployment among boys be avoided Only if the youngsters Are willing to leave Home and take any Job in the Rhineland alone there Are jobs that nobody mostly they Are for miners or manual labourers in heavy in few of the boys Are expected to apply for wages Are Low compared to engineering which boys largely and prospects of advancement Are in Many cases it Means leaving coupled with the difficulty of finding a place to live in districts with upwards of 40 per cent of their accommodations last year employers and Trade associations protested that length ening of school term would Lead to a shortage of today they say they cannot employ the children Are their divided unevenly Between the crude nazi philosophy and a postwar version of democracy set against a crumbling moral background where h is Seldom has done Little More than confuse fifteen years after Hitler prom ised them the Lions share of the the Young Man and his Flaxen haired sister Are once again on the Street eight leave to scale Peak Paris eight Man French expedition has left by air Paris to climb the unexplored Dhaulagiri Mountain in Nepal led by 31yearold Maurice an Engineer in the French Branch of Goodrich rubber the group included another Jean three professional Mountain Marcel a Paris tailor Marcel a motion picture photog and a their three tons of equipment included the most modern Moun Tain climbing including Nylon Nylon and two oxygen All clothes for the expedition were made specially for the group in French we Are going for Herzog every real climber dreams of the feet High the Dhaulagiri is feet High and Man has never attained the Snow swept if the French expedition reaches the their goal for it will be the first time climbers have Ever reached the top of a Mountain More than feet the expedition will go plane to new Delhi via then it will proceed by train and foot into the last French Mountain climb ing expedition to the Himalayas was in when a French group tried to climb the hidden in 600 Miles from the which is in the Center of the they were turned Back by the beginning of the terrifying Mon the South asian wind which turns the Himalayas into a swirl ing death we Hope to be up and Down the Peak Well before the Monsoon which starts m Herzog Neucom ments 15th can stub so no wives club opens Campaign for playground by Virginia Webb the by Blue comprised of noncommissioned officers wives of the 15th co Stab is campaigning for funds for a Thomas Philip Levand were in charge of a baked goods Sale held recently for the there will be a dance May 5 at the troopers club under the chairman ship of Jay and Howard Wheeler the club donated to the recent March of dimes Harry Clark of arrived in Heidelberg last week to visit her daughter and capt and Gordon Knapp and grandson daring this her grit in she and the knapps plan to visit Belgium and the Karlsruhe women club held its annual carnival at the Gerszewski Barracks gym March featuring a character read ing and the Serra club of Heidelberg will sponsor a get together night at the Molkenbur club april 10at 7 a Buffet supper with entertainment and dancing has been planned for the transportation from the bus station to Molkenbur club has been tickets at per per Sori May be obtained from any club entertaining ladies from other organizations each members of the a Culiberg officers wives club played Host to officers of the Furstenfeld Bruck officers wives club at the last monthly Wiitam known to dec audiences As Anthony the voice of and Nina Whitehead were recently married at the Camp Lindsey Chapel in an afternoon capt parcs at a recent meeting of the Munich quartermaster ladies Mauderbach was elected and the Darmstadt Rod and gun club total elect officers april 19 in building m4 at the quartermaster school All members Art requested to in a in this the Date at concert being sponsored by the German american women club of Heidelberg was Given As March it should have been april further details will published pictured above is the cast of Petticoat fever which Lead premiere at the Wilson 130th Sta sponsored by the dramatic group of the american women club of Heidelberg the cast of the play includes left to front Row Robert Carrol Jim Art Back Row left to maj Agnes and the stars and stripes 350 editor chief managing editor sports editor april it col William Summers Ken Zumwalt Phi Taylor executive manager chief of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Louis Al Brown news bureaus Frankfurt 3218132361 Darmstadt Berlin 846681 2104421363 Munich the european edition is published Dally at Lor the occupation under toe armed forces information and education Tel Frankfurt the stars and Darmstadt correspondence should be addressed the stars and Apo mall to the new York office should be sent to 641 Washington this is not an official publication of the armed reentered As second class matter sept at the Post once new York under the act of March