European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Del Miller a staff writer if you want to talk to someone inbred China the Pacific Telephone co. Will be glad to oblige but Don t Counton getting through. The chief operator in Shanghai is a very firm  Little known voice radio circuit be tween Oakland and Shanghai has Bee set up for an hour3.30 . To 4.30 . Every Day for the last 20 years buttery few Calls have been completed. The Cost is $12 for three minutes pay Able Only if the Call goes through. Most curious americans who Call ask for Mao tse Tung. Invariably they Are told that no such person is listed eve though he is the de Facto ruler of the people s Republic of  tried it the other Day from Oakland with a Call to the Shanghai weather Bur eau. The Shanghai chief operator an swered promptly in fair English an laboriously recorded the Call. She made the Oakland operator spell out each name letter by letter. Then she asked the purpose of therall. She was told that it was an inquiry about recent Sunspot  minutes later she replied that the Call could not be completed without the name of the person being called. She rejected the designation of anyone who can speak  previously an inquiry Amon friends and acquaintances in san fran Cisco s Chinatown for the names of per son who might be called brought expressions of fear. I could t sentence any one to death was the usual response. The Day i tried to reach the Weathe Bureau a to network put in a Call for a specific radio station in Shanghai. Twas not completed either. Pacific Telephone s Oakland station Isone of three overseas stations in the United states. The others Are in Newyork and Miami interrupted by world War ii it was restored in 1947 and has been in exist ence Ever since. When the chinese nationalists were driven off the Mainland and the communist regime was established in 1949, the Telephone Channel was left  few Calls do go through in both directions. Patricia Abbey traffic operating manager of the Oakland overseas of fice said her records showed two Callstrom Shanghai to san Francisco chinese were completed last june 18. In each Case the calling party had supplied the name and number of the person in Sanfrancisco. The party could not be reached on another incoming Call injure. The record of outgoing Calls showed17 placed in four months with none completed. The Telephone company do snot know the nature of the Calls completed but the word in Chinatown i that they concern family affairs nothing that might get a red China resident int trouble. In contrast with the China Channel the writer was Able to dial directly the Sydney Australia weather information service and get an immediate report on conditions and  prediction was for Chilly winds some rain. Ann Landers dear Ann Landers our 18 year old daughter is very at Tractive and has always Bee popular. We sent Marylou to a Fine school last year where she joined a sorority. In june i drove up to bringer Home for tin summer. When she left the sorority House she was noticeably upset and ran out in a hurry avoid ing farewells. When we drove off Marylou broke into sobs and i could t get her to talk for half an hour. Finally she removed her head Scarf and i was horrified. Her hair had Bee Cut Short and the letter w was shaved on the top of her head. Marylou tells this Story the night before she returned from a Date inebriated and the passed out. When she awakened she discovered what her sorority Sisters had done to her. She claims it was because she had dated a fellow who had been previously pinned to one of the girls. Frankly i wonder about this. Now the question should Marylou return to that school so i wants to go Back but notto the sorority House. J say she is ruined on that Campus an would be better off elsewhere. Page 14 what is your opinion . Dear . The decision should be hers but i am inclined to agree with you. The sorority girls sound vicious and cruel and you can be sure that the barbering episode received wide coverage. More to the Point however Marylou will do no better else where unless she swears of the sauce. A girl who gets smashed and passes out is Lucky if nothing worse happens to her than a shaved head. Dear Ann Landers pleas print this message to All parents of children who have emotional problems. I am a girl 18. For a longtime i was depressed and unhappy. I asked my Mother i she would Send me for coun seling but she refused. She Saidi was going through a stage and i would outgrow it. I knowhow that she did t want to Send me because it would make her look like a failure As a Mother. Finally i was afraid i might commit suicide so i went to my teacher. That wonderful woman arranged counselling on the sly. After eight months of handwork no miracles have been accomplished but i am learn ing to live with myself and with others. I am determine to continue the sessions As Long As is necessary because i havea Beautiful future to work for. I feel no bitterness toward my Mother i am sorry for her. I am deeply grateful Tomy teacher and my Counselor and to a family Friend who spaying for my therapy. One Day i la pay her Back please Tell All parents that if their kids ask for help to Swal Low their Pride and let them have it. After they reach adult Hood it May be too late. On my Way dear on your Way when parents ask me if they should agree to let a child get professional help i always encourage it. The child who asks is half cured because he wants to Bewell. Thank you for your letter Honey. I am proud of you for meeting your problem head on and slugging it out. Confidential to so in love t1iis is love you can t stand him when he s drunk and Pecan t stand you when he s sober. Forget it doll. The stars and stripes the happening by Ellsworth Curry Bantam i know you re wondering Why i brought you All Here to Day. Max Irving help yourselves to cigars. We re going to make a new movie. Something different. Something new. Some thing so far out an astronaut la need a Transfer to get there. Even got a name we re calling it the  a satisfying Din of approval goes up around the chartreuse trimmed conference table from the crowd whose paychecks resigned by the speaker Well Start with a typical California teen age orgy Star realism on the Beach and All that but it la be set to Florida help boost their tourist Trade Down there. We pan in on these four sur shot Taurus Herbie and a Broad Sandy. They get together and Start out chasing this Little kid an wind up kidnapping his old Man Call him Roc Delmonico. Actually Delmonico kidnaps himself being More of an expert in such matters by. He finds that nobody really wants him when it comes to cashing  Angle he so he and these four kids Start putting on pressure Here and there and everybody squirms. It All buildup to a stupendous finish that la Knock pm dead what s that Max you think people la get the mistaken idea the happening has something to do with happenings Max baby we Hope so. We certainly Hope  subsequent novel in t going to win any International prizes but it s fun Reading on a Cool evening. George Eberl nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandeya Signet Twenty years ago India declared its Independence. For the510 million people living in India it has since been an Uphill Battle against faulty government planning drought flood famine an disease. Last August India s prime minister Indira Gandhi with irony told her countrymen we Are in deep  two years of drought have caused such severe Grain shortages that Only massive imports of food have staved off full scale  Markandeya uses understatement and a simple narrative approach in describing the poverty stricken lot of Village India and the attitudes of a people toward a land that has denied so Many so Little for so Long. It is not a protest novel and there Isa minimum of philosophizing. What she does present to the West Ern Reader is a Basic insight into elementary principles of vedic philosophy that have enabled her people to not merely endure but prevail Over a Long history of human suffering. Nectar in a Sieve also gives the Western Reader a dra Matic sociological account of the conflicts and attitudes growing out of the split Between Village India with its traditional centuries old customs and Urban India restless educated and International in  this account of a simple peasant woman married As a child Bride who sees one of her sons die from starvation her daughter become a prostitute another son beaten to death Markandeya does not preach bitterness. She implies that it is Only through acceptance As opposed to resignation that Man is capable of prevailing Over his misfortunes and the benign indifference of nature toward human suffering. Life she says is passive and in the final analysis it is Man who must give it meaning. The novel is a moving drama written from the heart and to the Point. Nick Stavriotis by Sheila Sardinia Nana Eliza Beth Taylor s handsome brother Howard is making his movie debut in her current Pic Ture the milk train does t Stop Here anymore from play by Tennessee Williams. The film title May be , a successful business Man is 22 years late facing his first film camera. His Mother mrs. Sarah Taylor did Herder nest to get her boy into National velvet with sister Elizabeth. If you can imagine Howard was even better looking than Liz. But he was so determine not to be an actor that after his Mother had landed a role for him in velvet he went to a Barber and got  of career. Now bearded and a father office Taylor is playing a journalist who has a fight wit Richard Burton his real life brother in Law. His glamorous sister went to the producer and got him More Money and Spe Cial Billing. The Burtons will be Takin two Days off from the film this was written into the con Graham tract with producer John hey Man to Fly to England for the premiere at Oxford of Rich Ard s doctor  Elizabeth appears in the film in Many guises and without speak ing a word. In addition to play ing a silent Helen of Troy Sheds also a figment of Richard s imagination remember he Hassold his soul to the Devil a hag a vicious Witch and a Sil Vered lady. The premiere at Oxford in mid october Wil Benefit the University drama  is not All work for the Burtons in Sardinia. They have had some parties on the Good ship Karizma. Tennessee Wil Liams is still dazed from the winding they threw for  Joe l o s e y comes aboard regularly to eat drink and be merry but also to Dis cuss the film which started three Days late because Eliza Beth had bronchitis. J3ut Losey the fastest director anywhere made up for the delay on the first Day with 16 setups in credible when most directors Are glad if they finish two or three. Thursday september 21, 1967