European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse By John Krueger staff writer Lorenz Hoffstaetter has proved his Meda in running a $1 million a year family Enterprise i Beuel across the Rhine River from Bonn. The firm of Hoffstaetter manufacture enough medals including military dec orations for both the Arab and Israel armies to possibly pave the autobahn from Hamburg to Munich. The company does big business wit the the Landing of a con tract with the National aeronautics an space administration for a Silver Chain and medal which Nasa now awards tooth american and russian spacemen. The award is called the Pioneer of the wind Rose and was the award winning design of Hoffstaetter artists. They won out Over 40 other International com per cent of the american business in medals is done in Europe said Hoffstaetter who also has a Rich Ard Nixon portrait already on a steel die ready to go for More Bronze Nixon for president coins if necessary next year. The original Campaign coins we returned out in 1960 for the Republican presidential candidate on order from the sports scene medal maker Lorenz Hoffstaetter surrounded by a collection of his firm s production. Nasa medal encloses title below. Is photos by Guenter Schuettler a million Dollar business Nixon medal left from 60, Good for 68? Lincoln medal was White House gift. Republican National committee As memento for generous donors to the Nixon Campaign. Another great admirer of the Hoffstaetter skill was president Kennedy who after seeing the commemorative medallion turned out for his 1963 visit to Germany insisted on paying his per Sonal compliments to Hoffstaetter an to its artist. This one is Kennedy en-thuset1 in admiring the work and com paring the portrait to previous at tempts at Kennedy portraiture on med als. However Hoffstaetter had nothing but Praise or the work on the Kennedy half Dollar. First class he exclaimed. After Kennedy s Assassin Mixior in no vember l j Ili u appeared that a special Meda turned out Tor the Cologne oar Nival the following year would have Tobe abandoned Side by Side on the medal were profiles of the longtime Page 14 postwar German Chancellor Konra Adenauer and the late president. Queries were passed from the Ameri can embassy in Bonn to the White House then to mrs. Felt that her husband had liked the work which quoted his greeting Cologne forever so Well that she gave her permission for the medal to reissued As planned. Almost 50 per cent of Hoffstaetter bus iness comes from carnival Fasching orders. Most feature cartoon humor on topical political issues such As the med Al that pictured a caricatured Chan cellar Kurt Georg Kiesinger a Christian Democrat embracing his grand coalition sweetheart vice Chancellor Willy Brandt a social Democrat. The captions you shall love me for three wild one of the historic occasions com no in orned by a howl Staetter medal was the 1048-49 Berlin Airlift. The company debited Eynikh for every american air Man who took part in the 15 months of missions. Hoffstaetter earned world War ii dec orations As an officer some of the med als produced by his family s , he summed up i have a natural anti medal feeling. I see so Many. It was toward the end of the War and while Hoffstaetter was a prisoner of the russians that Merican troops came sweeping through Germany. In Beuel they discovered the medal works an ordered the townspeople to destroy practically All the original forms fro which the Swastika dominated nazi dec orations were of the Hitler mementos that survived the purge was the engraving used for the souvenir medal minted to Mark Hitler s visit to Rome to conf Erwith italian dictator Benito Mussolini before world War ii. Only three of these were made until Hoffstaetter began Ful filling requests from americans after the War. Of course the most medal omani acal nazi was marshal Hermann goer ing. Even today when ordering their carnival medals local committees will say give me something so Good that the stars and stripes Goering will spin in his grave in today s germans two thirds Don t believe in decorations. Of those who Admire such formal recognition one out of 10 consider themselves Long Over due. Highest honors Are the eight classes of the Federal Republic s order of Merit of which some 30,000 were distributed Between 1951 and 1966. Awards Given for Long service to the government or business firms Are referred to As stick it out. Senility. Funeral orders. Or officially con firmed arteriosclerosis and there Are always those who capitalize on the human weakness for med als. In Cologne a restaurateur shipped in 7.000 from Hoffstaetter and passe them All out As a promotion one new year s eve. He is the same joker who likes to Load his Tai coat with a Bevy of Hoffstaetter badges and dazzle impressionable guests at diplomatic recep gets More Heel Clicks than the ambassadors themselves said Hoff Staetter who at 63 considers himself too Young to be decorated. Sunday september 17, 1967 former heavyweight Champion Jer sey Joe Walcott is working just As hard now As he did in his fighting Days. In Camden n.j., he puts in up to 17 hours daily telling negro youth that keeping out of trouble today will pay off is his own Best example. I Tell them of my experiences inline he said. I walked four or five Miles each Day to get to a gym to work out 1 fought for 15 years before getting a try at the , 53, is Camden s assistant director of Public safety. He has charge of the police department s Community relations unit and its juvenile came to work for the City in 1953, a year after Rocky Marciano too away his championship Crown to Ful fill a pledge he made on july 18, 1951."i said from the ring that night i won the championship that i was going to come Back Here and give of myself to help Young people find their rightful places in life he said. Walcott born and raised in near by Merchantville n.j., has great Faith in Camden a City of 120,000 that has Long lived in the Shadow of Philadelphia directly across the Delaware River. A Champ on the beat by Eugene r. Eisman up staff writer there Are negroes in All phases of this City s government Walcott said during a recent interview. That is Why work so until singly i am trying to make the people of Camden aware of the opportunities that await them Hose opportunities he said Are reflected in the number of negroes hold ing important City posts. The Board of education and the City Council have negro members and the departments of health housing and welfare and the civil rights commission Are headed by negroes. Negroes also head the zoning Boarland the departments of City properties recreation and civil , with one Quarter of its population negro and puerto rican has suffered Little of the racial unrest that spread through cities in North Jersey and the nation this summer. Walcott believes this is due mainly to the fact that one third of the 254 Man police department is negro. The minute a negro policeman shows up at any kind of disturbance the people know they will be understood by police men who have the same color skin he said. Sitting in his Small Plain office on the 24th floor of City Hall Walcott who bears few facial scars from his boxing career admitted that Camden had come close to racial disturbance this summer. A few weeks ago i was cruising the City when there was a police radio Call saying that a racially mixed crowd of 400 or 500 persons was gathered in a Street in a giant Circle he drove to the Street and found a Large group of people watching two youths a negro and a White fighting. I broke up the fight and asked the crowd to break up and go Home. They did he crowd quickly dispersed because the police have made themselves known to the people Walcott said. Contact has been established Wedon t just show up when there is trouble we re there All the Contact with Camden s minority groups is Walcott s Job. He has 16men under him in the Community relations and juvenile units. They patrol the City in civilian clothes two to a car monitoring the police or three of our cars will answer any radio Call along with the uniformed police Walcott explained. His Day begins at 8 30 . In his office with routine paper work. By noon Walcott is on the Street until the Early hours of the next he spends the time talking endlessly with parents youth and Church and civic groups in an Effort to develop line of communications Between the citizens and the police. We want to get across the idea that a policeman is not just to face in a arrest he is for Many things. We visit people with problems people who Don thave the know How to solve the prob lems of delinquent children and we talk with the children themselves. I talk to Young people and try to make them realize that we live in a great country with so much Opportunity Walcott said. I Tell them to get an education keep a Good reputation and that keeping out of trouble today will pay off Walcott urges Young people not to be discouraged by setbacks. I was t discouraged when i had to go hungry and walk Miles to a gym to practice my boxing he tells them. Up Jersey Joe Walcott Camden s keeper of the peace walks streets to head off incidents tells youths keeping out of double today will pay off sunday september 17, 1967 the stars and strips Page 15
