European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Is photos by Guenter Schuettler and Wayne Dixon thick electrical arc paints own picture in Munich show. By James Gunter is Munich Bureau chief lightning not Only strikes twice inthe same place it hits the same spot Many times in less than a  information is passed out during a High voltage show three times daily at Munich s Deutscher museum where technicians manufacture lightning right before your eyes. Spectators gather around a Meta Fence which encloses a sort of electrical circus ring to watch the lightning Showa 11 a.m., 2 and 4 . A uniformed Man at a control panel pushes Button releasing up to 1.1 million volts of electricity which Span the space betwee two electrodes with crackling fire like that of a vicious  prolonged the White hot Light Ning bolts Flicker like flames. When thick Sheet of Glass is pulled Between the two connections the lightning dances around the edges of the Glass in wild patterns. Small wonder that for thousands of years people were terrified of Light Ning and thought it was a weapon of the gods. The heavenly bolts kill persons and cause untold damage every  starts about 7,500 Forest fires and strikes about 180 persons dead Ever year in the United states alone. Meteorologists Point out that most of the per sons killed took cover from rainstorms under Trees. They warn that the mos dangerous Refuge of All is a tall isolated  museum guard who takes a part in the Deutscher museum demonstration shows none of the usual terror at the fearful lightning around him. In fact he looks bored with the whole thing when a Little round Cage is lowered from the ceiling and he crawls inside to sit in a Small  a Way to make a living his expression seems to say As the spheres hauled aloft once More. Then he sits there yawning As thousands of volts Are unleashed at the Bottom of the Metal Container which is called u  after Michael Faraday an English scientist who made Many discoveries about electricity. The museum guard is perfectly Safe in his Metal Ball because the Stream of current arcs around the outside of it an disappears in a Stream of electrical fire at the top. Lie emerges unfried an strolls away without even taking a Bow. One wonders whether he likes his work fog 12 c a million 3isj or -. ,.- a Sheet of Glass placed Between electrodes sends current a edges. Youthful visitor protects his ears As artificial lightning Bolt strikes Model House while ignoring the Church beside it. In and what he told his Mother when Betook the Job. Electrical explosions go off like giant firecrackers and Force visitors to cover their ears during the exhibition. Light Ning generates extreme heat up to 50,000 degrees fahrenheit. This expands Theair suddenly and sets off sound Waves Thunder  one Point the museum apparatus actually releases a Bolt of lightning from a Rod hanging from i a Model House Bell a Little Church next gains a lightning does not. A Njamin Fra Ion a Kite string ii in is electricity the Clouds. Nol my for a Long time. Filing. It strikes ways avoiding the House con Ile the Church with his key11751 that Light Vicurn plates incas Learned Faraday proved that an electric cur rent could be generated by steam driven Spray against a water surface however and this led to the theory that lightning is the result of friction when winds animist blow against the Earth s surface or maybe against dust particles in the atmosphere. Since rain conducts some electrical current from the upper atmosphere tothe Earth it is usually after a Long dry spell that the stored up electricity in the sky leaps from Cloud to Cloud or strikes the Earth in the form of  Sheet lightning is nothing More than a reflection of Zigzag bolts Over the horizon. Ball lightning is a phenomenon in which a fiery Ball floats near the Earth s surface. St. Elmo s fire the electrical Blaze which is Seenon top of mountains and at the end of a ship s masts during a storm is also classified As a kind of  professor named Ogden n. Rood proved by photography that a Flash of lightning which is seen As a single sequence by the human Eye actually is a irregular series of flashes each lasting Only a few thousandths of a second. Special fast camera recorded lightning which struck the Empire state building in new York 11 times in less than one second. Grounded Metal Fence Shields visitors fro the stars and stripes  i i in i of T. A Gard in Faraday Cage is unharmed by current surging around him. Rico charge but does t hold the sound in As Gleeful boys demonstrate. Guard y k1968 the stars and stripes Page 13