European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse He a oys hot and cold by James Gunter is Munich Bureau chief Peter Hartmann is on the Tennis courts seven months out of the year and on the ski slopes the other More than a half Century of daily sports it is Small wonder that he i always in the Pink. Hartmann is the oldest ski and Tennis instructor at the Garmisch armed forces recreation Center where he has Bee working for 23 years. He will be 69 on july 28, and to look at him you d never know it. "1 have never been sick he said his keen Blue eyes shining. Born in Munich Hartmann Learned Toski and play Tennis As a boy and then became a ski instructor in Switzerland where he worked until Hitler stopped issuing German among his brightest memories Are ten Nis games with King Gustav of Sweden who played him in Garmisch in 1941,and with big Bill Tilden. "1 still serve like Tilden showed me a Power and slice service he said. Hartmann is one of 14 instructors who take to the ski runs during the cold months and teach americans during learn to ski weeks. When the weather warms he is out on the Tennis court again with learn to play Tennis weeks. My Tennis is a Little slower with the feet and played More with the head nowadays he confessed. Standing 5 feet 8 inches and weigh ing a trim 145 pounds Hartmann said he eats whatever his wife puts on the table. "1 smoke about 15 Cigar ets a Day but1 Don t drink except for a Glass of Beer with an occasional meal he said. His wife Lucy also has skied All he life. Small wonder that their 17-year-old daughter Tina won a place on the National Alpine ski team of Germany. Regarding the 8th Grade kid who signed himself privacy needed and complained be cause the lady teacher kept busting into the boys Toile looking for smokers i can understand the boys Embarrass ment and you were right when you said the investigating should be done by a male but As a lady teacher who has had to do the investigating because no male is around to do it Mayi present my position smoking is. The least the Devitry going on in Junior High school toilet rooms. The boy empty the ground soap contain ers and throw the stuff allover the floor. They fill bal loons with water and pour it into the Hall trash receptacles. They drop Rolls of tissue into the toilets and Stop up the whole works. At a school where Friend of mine teaches the boys actually Tore the plumb ing out of the Walls. Recently we had the Bath rooms painted and one of the boys told me i had to com with him and see the funniest thing in the world. He took me into the lavatory and there on the ceiling were Greasy Black shoe prints. Several boys must have held one kid upside Down to achieve this startling you strive for realism i thought you might like to hear from someone who is Page 14 Able to Tell it like it is. Unwilling intruder dear unwilling i appreciate your letter and am print ing it at the risk of giving the Little demons new ideas. If the Greasy shoe prints begin to appear on freshly painted Ceil Ings All Over the country you and 1 must accept the still say a male should do the investigating and lad teachers should stay the Heck out of boy s bathrooms. 1 am writing in behalf of my7th Grade son. The boys in his class Are making life miserable for him. Here s the reason. I wanted to be a helpful Mother so i typed a card with the names of 56 men who signed the declaration of Independence. He then memorized the names for a test and took the card to Days later my son came Home crying. He said two boy sin his room had roughed him up. 1 went to school the next Day to talk to the teacher. She told me the reason the boy were mad at my son was be cause he had cheated in a test copied some names off a card. 1 did t believe it and still Don t. The boys were just mad because my son got High Grade. I was so upset after talking to the teacher that my Hus band decided to go to school the following Day. He did t get on with her Worth a then talked to the boys who had hit our son. As a result of that conversation the boys went Back to the teacher and told her my husband had called her and the whole class liars which was not True. The next Day the teacher made my son apologize to the class in behalf of his father. Now my son hates school Andis mad at us for getting mixed up in what he Calls his Don t you feel it is the responsibility of parents to see that their children Are not abused or treated unfairly we d like your views. 100 per cent Parent dear 100 per cent Here Are my views but i Don t thin you la like the. Your son is justified in feeling that you should not have become mixed up in his business. In the future Don t Type up any More cards for him Don t go to school and fight his Bat Les with the teachers and Don t become involved in his Squab Bles with other children. I m not saying the teacher handle this incident too Well but the important thing for you to re Alize is that kids who have too much done for them became dependent and indolent. Copyright 1968. Publishers Hall Syndicate the stars and stripes one Quahog Lover after another i read with great interest the letter from or Sid Whin i genuine new englander who went to some length to up this version of Clam chowder. The to or Mot he is referring of course to the Cape cod variety which must admit has its merits. However for those of us from it Corner of new England the original and unadulterated Stvil still the Best. " " first of All we would never use clams Mya Arentria Dpt in a chowder. Those Are saved for steaming and am i. E Delight by themselves. We would use another Orr it Pes which the indians called Quahog Venus Merce naria and Are a larger and Rounder Type of Bivalve a hard a sometimes measuring 5 or 6 inches across. The skillful too of a thick bladed knife will Render these into two halves the contents Are then removed from the Shell and put through food chopper. V Rouse to the chopped Quahog and their natural juices Are added Xai pork chopped onions potatoes Cut to convenient size and water to a pragmatic Roch islander the addition of milk and butt Ito a chowder would lie Jait affectation. These have no place in already delicious blend. V an i will make no attempt to quote amounts or percentages As the receipt varies from household to farmstead along Narra Manset Bay. Nevertheless the resulting repast is fitting for either a feast or to satisfy the sophisticated palate of a visiting head of state. " s to by the Way we Lay no claim to the upstart commercial variety containing unknown quantities of tomatoes and sometimes labelled Rhode Island Clam this we equate with the Type sold in yes establishments and which contains peas and Corn among other incongruous things. Sgt. Ralph w. Carlson Berlin another genuine new englander licensing foreign Mode Jalo pies i be heard disturbing rumours that a Gold flow plan is in the works that will deny Usa eur License plates to pos not manufactured in the . Obviously this would work a hardship on the Many Low ranking pm who use inexpensive antiquated european built Jalo pies to get Back and Forth Between Economy quarters and work. Is there any possibility this will happen dependent on wheels editor s note Usa eur he says there is no basis in far for the Rumor that Only .-made cars will be eligible for Usa eur License plates. Movie audience behaviour i wonder what the army and air Force motion picture service a amps would have to say if they read about that Bunch Oil clowns from the 24th inf div who during a showing of Bonnie and Clyde in Augsburg just about ruined the evening for me and my Friend. Anyway Here s what the division newspaper the Taro Leaf had to say in an editorial in the april 26 Issue How much intelligence and Courtesy does it take to sit through a dramatic movie without catcalls obscene comments and crude laughter the Bare minimum one should think. But even that was lacking during a recent showing of Bonnie and Clyde. Civilian guests of the military attending Cavern Heaters must form a very poor impression of american soldiers from actions of a the editorial said laughter and comical ? comments came from a group of Taro men during a scene in which Buck Barrow Clyde s brother was fatally wounded in the head and his wife was shot in the Eye and began to scream hysterically. Estelle Parsons received an Oscar april 10 for her perform Jance As mrs. Buck Barrow in the film. 1 surely her Talent and efforts for our entertainment deserve better than crude abuse the editorial said. But if appreciation for Talent is too much to ask we can always go Back to common Courtesy. It takes no great intelligence to act i maturely. And some immature actions and lewd comments or raucous laughter a embarrasses the ladies present and makes it impossible to be
