European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes thur toy set mar 7, 1967 burgers n dogs favorite lunch for dependent scholars . Students in Europe. The hamburger for lunch Bunch. Is photo by Cole by Mary Neth staff writer As any military mom and dad knows the cafeteria lunch one finds in most schools in the United states is practically nonexistent overseas. So what do the Grade schooners who can t go Home do Well we buy our lunch at the Aya or we bring it said a studious look ing 8-year-old caught sheepishly chomp ing on a Candy bar at the Wiesbaden usually buy a hamburger or a hot dog he noted in seeming apology but today or the line was sort of most of the kids prefer buying their lunch to taking it from Home. They Don t mind the steady diet of burgers and dogs but if occasionally a local Aya snack bar comes up with Chicke the kids really Elbow up to the counter. I kind of wish they had More Choice said one red haired 10-year-old. But i Don t care that much. It is rather bad though when they run out of one of them have just hamburgers for not every kid buys his lunch of course. Gee i Don t get that much allow Ance said a Spunky looking fourth grader sack lunch in hand. "1 usually bring mine and buy some French Fries for sack lunches lunch pails with cartoons Are used 9nly by the youngest kid they usually include the Standard fare tuna fish cheese baloney or pea nut butter sandwiches. Lots of kids Are Able to go Home for lunch. I think they Are sort of Lucky. They usually have some Good stuff like some cookies and Nice leftovers said one Young scholar who commutes by school bus. And who makes the lunches that retaken to school mostly it seems mom turns them out. Especially if she has lots of kids said one girl. But sometimes we make them often the comment on opening the sack goes like this darn ooh i hate tuna fish and she knows it. Why did to get Peanut butter lots of the kids remember the cafe Teria fare they were accustomed to in the United states with sort of a hungry nostalgia but just As Many prefer things As they Are. Compared to the mess Hall fare Mili tary dads get it might seem the kids Are getting Short changed but they Evi Dently Don t look at it that Way. We had to eat everything on our plates at my school Back Home said one boy grimacing. They always had vegetables and some sort of icky pud him two plates of Fries Are the greatest All that s does his mom think Well i m sort of glad i can t go Home for too far away. She s awful funny about food. She makes me eat eggs Andall every at that one seemed to hear a Gas of Relief from the world s nutritionists. 3stejtk, editor Ujj \ bookworm Survey shows teens read about sex but avoid sensationalism by Sid Whipple staff writer do american teen agers read the kind of books adults think they should through a Survey of teen agers Reading habitat the . Dependent High school in Wiesbaden capt. James r. Murphy staff transportation offi cer at Safe he has found that sons and Daugh ters of american military families Are mature intelligent and Murphy further found that the male student naturally exhibit a stronger interest in sex than the female students but carefully avoid scandal and lascivious oriented material and that neither sex is Overly interested in s Survey translated into a thesis that won him a master s degree in education at the University of Southern California school of Educa Tion was made in rebuttal to statements by . Educators which seemed to him to malign american statements which Murphy sought to Dis credit was that of John q. Adams who five year Sago declared that his own study of Leisure time Reading preferences of ninth Grade students at Hawthorne calif., made apparent the tremendous interest in sex sensationalism and escape from reality found in our adolescents Murphy s Survey through questionnaires re turned by 420 students of the general h. H. Arnold High school in Wiesbaden was made with the assistance of eight instructors Counselor and librarians and six sets of parents of at least one teen Ager. This Board established a system of Quality rat Ings of published material available to adolescents including newspapers magazines comic books paper backs and novels. The ratings ran from 0 least desirable to 100 top Quality the investigation was limited to the teen agers Leisure time Reading preferences. They also were asked about other things such As the fre Quency of Reading books magazines and newspapers. Here Are some of the conclusions from the 420completed questionnaires ninety nine per cent of the students read news papers of which 84 per cent read them often or regularly. A total of 401 students read paperbacks an novels about half of them regularly and the other half in Reading comic books is Strong among the younger ones but among the senior the boys seem to have put away childish of the 420 boys and girls questioned 333 place the stars and stripes at the top of their Reading list. Among the boys there seemed to be a steady readership of magazines dealing with mechanics and the sciences. But surprisingly the girl showed a greater interest in these technical publications than the boys. Senior boys and girls expressed Little interesting Romance magazines but More interest in stage and screen publications. The Young men seemed to scorn Home Mak ing magazines while the gals were their steadies customers. Weekly pictorial and news magazines had readership of approximately 75 per cent. A majority of the students expressed keen interest in settling Down for an evening with the National geographic Magazine. Are
