European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday Augu of 24, 1959 the stars and stripes want More statistics . Government Book has pm memo to Moscow 56 million do own cars Washington. A if Comrade Nikita s. Khrushchev will kindly turn to Page 823\ of statistical abstract of the United states 1959," we will get on with the lessor. Khrushchev you May recall is reported to have snorted in disbelief last month Kheiri vice president Richard m. Nixon told a russian television audience that . Families own 56 million automobiles. Fhe statistical abstract a government Btu Bathe latest revision of which is just off. The presses has to Coin a cliche new for him. It says right there on Page 825 that 56, 871,000 automobiles and taxicabs were registered in this c6iui.try in 1958. Nixon did t even mention the , the Book says 49,390,000 of the 51.1 my lion Homes in this country have electricity and 35 million of those 49,390,000 Homes have vac uni cleaners. Also 23.5 million . Families own automatic coffeemakers 18.5 million own heating parts 24.5 million own food mixers 48 million own refrigerators 31 million own electric shavers 45 million own electric washing a " Chines and this will Bug him 3 million own motor driven , mind you Are just the number of families who own such appliances not the total of such appliances in use. It quite possible for example that some families May have More the in one heating . Of course if Khrushchev wants to make an Issue of it to can Point out that Only 9million families own electric blankets 2 million have built in electric ranges and Only 10.5 million have food . The statistical abstract is full of such statistics. It has 1,226 tables of facts and figures some of which show that . Airlines surpassed railroads in total passenger Miles for the first Lime in 1957. Three out of five female workers in 1958 were married compared with 2 out of 5 before world War ii. There Are More civilian Federal employees in California 235,000 than in the Washington. D.c., area or in any other state. Persons 15 years old or older smoked an average of More than if Cartons of Cigar Els during 1958 three years ago at cow Khrushchev told diplomats whether history is on our Side. How could that he n reception in mos a group of Western Yon like it or not we will Bury Page 929 of the abstract shows that the life expectancy of a russian at birth is 63 years for men and 69 years for women while in the . It is67 i for men arid to i j years for women. Envoy to make Green thumb Germany trip by Robert j. Dunphy staff writer Washington is a vet eran foreign service officer with a Green thumb will leave Here this week to deliver a gift of Squash from president Eisenhower to an International gardening convention in Dortmund Germany. James m. Macfarland of the . Information Agency served in Frankfurt and Hamburg from 1953-57 and created quite a stir in gardening circles by introducing the first Squash into West Ger Many. The gift from or. Eisenhower will come from the president s farm at Gettysburg a. Extensive visits Macfarland will make the trip on his own time and will travel under the auspices of the presi Dent s people to people program. He will visit scores of gardening friends in Hamburg Frankfurt Schleswig Holstein Bavaria an the Ruhr. An Amateur Gardener of Long standing Macfarland of Mountain lakes n.j., received an invitation to attend the convention in his capacity As the leading american in the 2-million member German Garden club. In 1957, Macfarland provided Germany s popular to chef Clemens w i 1 m e n to a with 100 packs of Squash seed to distribute As samples following his program demonstrating How to Cook the vegetable. The show proved so popular that within three Days the station was swamped with 10,000 requests for Squash seed 200 of these from the East solved the problem with the help of the w. Atlee Burpee .co., of Philadelphia which agreed to provide the seed in the a new Angle on Dock shipping interest German american defense dept. Job filled Washington up presi Dent Eisenhower has named j. Vin cent Burke jr., a Pittsburgh pa., attorney As general counsel of the department of defense. A special Man Euver sends a huge floating1 Dock through the flood Gates at Bremerhaven Ger Many the Dock was the same Width As the Gate so 15,000 tons of water were pumped into port Side compartments tipping the floating Dock at a 22 degree Angle so it could move through Gates. Up germans enjoying Over employment Frankfurt a West Ger Many is suffering from a new kind of economic ill and most germans love it Over employment. Unemployment is under a Quarter of a million. Most of those Are unemployable or people changing jobs. It used to be a regular thing for the same Job to be kept in one German family for two or three generations. Now half a million change jobs every month. Newspapers carry pages of help wanted not Only classified columns but Large display ads. The government employment office re ports that in some districts there Are 30 jobs for every applicant. Employers have to keep hopping if they want new help or even if they want to hold the help they have. All sorts of fringe benefits Are being offered free movies bus service and maybe a loan to build a House. Another Novelty for the wage earner is to receive for a fictitious "13th month or even a "14th month at the end of the year. The manners of foremen Are re ported much improved. Coffee Breaks and even a bit of time clock manipulating Are tolerated. Some firms Are offering employ Esa Bounty for recruiting new ones 26 escape plane mishap Burbank Calif. Up a converted c46 passenger plan with 26 persons aboard crashed into a parked aircraft Here when its brakes failed upon Landing. All aboard the plane escaped injury. Tackle Alps harass film stars elephants big news on italian scene Rome up a lot of elephants in Italy Are getting into the Hannibal act Ever since Young jumbo of the Turin zoo became a Star. Some of them Are doing More or less what jumbo did to become number of them also Are milling around in a Field outside Rome performing in an italian produced movie Hannibal and his elephants Star ring Victor Young elephants in an italian travelling circus named Menta Toni and Cora have set out from Bergamo with three attendants to try to do in reverse what jumbo could t that is Cross the Clapier puss which an English professor reckons was Hannibal s Entrance into Italy about 2,000 years elephants have been creating a ruckus on the set with mature and his leading lady Rita Gam who plays Silvia in the and his elephants Are recorded in his tory historians arc vague about Silvia. But miss Gam who makes Hannibal forget the importance of his elephants for awhile in the movie will probably make future historians fill in the by something elephant actor Toni made a one elephant charge across the set with his trunk High in the air trampled Silvia s tent underfoot and frightened the life out of the on the set said he was Joist scared by the Bright suddenly. Lights when they were turned on they did t make an excuses for the three other elephants who angrily Tore up a eucalyptus tree and devoured it on another occasion 10 Marks $2.50 when the new Man shows up 30 Marks More after he has been working three months. There has been Little labor Trou ble to Cloud the picture. As con tracts expire they Are replaced by new ones More advantageous to labor. Bonn acts to halt cat dog Slaughter Bonn a the West German Cabinet has approved a Bill to pro Hibit the Slaughter of dogs an cats for human consumption. A spokesman said the Bill was being sent to parliament because Slaughter of these pets was Offen Sive to humane and moral feelings. In some parts of Germany the belief persists that the fat of cats or dogs is specially effective entreating Many diseases. Many druggists Stock these animal fats. The Bill provides for fines or imprisonment up to six months for slaughtering or for stocking or Selling the cat or clog products. Manchester guardian changes its name London a one of Brit Ain s greatest newspapers the Man Chester guardian has announced a change of name. From n o w on it will be just the guardian. The idea is to remove the Provin Cial look from a newspaper which has won a worldwide reputation Over the years As a Champion of Liberal causes in Home and inter National affairs. Railroad irked by kids game of Chicken Bootle England a British railways has appealed to the children of Bootle to Stop putting their Heads on the track in front of approaching trains. Locomotive Drivers Are getting so nervous Over this practice that Many refuse to operate trains go ing anywhere near Bootle said an official of the state operated rail Road system. Drivers have reported that youngsters line up along the track put their Heads on the rails and Issue challenges to see who will stay there longest. The Drivers refuse to enter into the spirit of the thing , we have to Stop said Motorman Albert Pribe. But the kids just run farther up the track and get their Heads Down again. And that s not All. Sometime they Heap junk like old baby carriages and motor tires on the rails. When we get out to Clear the track they Pelt us with Flemming to head panel Gettysburg a. A presi Dent Eisenhower has designated Secretary of welfare Arthur s. Flemming As chairman of the new Federal radiation Council. Or. Eisenhower created the coun cil by executive order aug. 14. It functions include advising the president on radiation matters an coordinating government measures to protect people against ionizing radiation. The president directed Flem Ming s department to intensify it radiological health efforts. In addition to Flemming Mem Bers of the Council Are Secretary of defense Neil h. Mcelroy Secre tary of Commerce Frederick and chairman John a. Mccone of the atomic Energy com Mission. Chicago Dallas in 114 minutes Chicago up a 707 Jet Airliner inaugurating service be tween Chicago and Dallas made the flight in one hour 54 minutes claiming an unofficial commercial Speed record. Japanese paper eater pulps Pound a Day Fukuoka Japan up Yoshihiko i Huyashi 5k, a rag Pickerin this Southern Apan City has gained a measure of notoriety by devouring nearly a Pound of paper a Day. To said lie s been eating paper since la was a child and no needs 100 grains about nine tenths of a Pound every Day to satisfy his most Savory paper is thin japanese i Issue paper he re ported. Foreign paper in t to my liking.1
