European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Smile when you say that Mlls dutch cheese is the berries Coil Umed dutch mix will help to serve of Fresco cheese luncheon. Cradle of fresh cheese in placed on the Scales by Guild carriers. J by Mark oath loner staff writer the a Kiffi in the curious weigh ing House lower gleefully ring out 10 o clock. In the Market Square below like so Muny Little balls of us Nihane neat piles n cheese berries await buyers As they have every Friday in Alkmaar Hollund for Acari Pelt the cheese Market once Juit a Neces sary and routine part of dutch life has become such a tourist attraction now thut it scorns Alquist unreal something staged for the thousands who come by truly Bun ind car to Hutch this colourful show. Hut it is real the cheese berries dime from Ull Over Holland to be topped shipped. K tic to d ind sampled by buy run then to a ship a d off in waiting trucks to Chee e wholesale houses and mores throughout the Netherlands. As the Market Upens promptly at it a.m., protective covers Are pulled Back from the Low piles of cheese and the business of buying and Selling begins. Finding the Quality he wants a buyer engages in Lively banter with the Selling agent and when  is finally reached the Deal is sealed with a Good solid whack of hands. Much of the color of this weekly trans action is provided by the cheese cur riders Guild whose men wearing brimmed Straw hats of Bright Green Blue red and yellow Slack purchased  on Cradle like Flats hoist them a i by Means of a leather harness and then Trot them off to the adjacent weigh ing House. The four colors Are worn by four Dif Ferent companies of six Man teams  on put i Chees buyers lest the Quality by pinching slapping and tapping them. Cradles of Chees or carried Between weighing House and Market place. Is photos by Bob mines Tim Day october 13, 1964 Thi stars and stripes tog ii