European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 the stars and stripes tuesday August 27, dear Ann Landers my Sis Ter has entered her 15-year old daughter in a Beauty con test and it is making us All sick. Bettylou is built like swedish 20-year-old, if you get the picture. She gets a s fro the men teachers and is flunked by the women teach ers. I Hope you get that Pic Ture too. All the emphasis has been on the looks and figure and sex Appeal and the poor kid is going to end up a professional party girl if some thing in t done to open her Mother s night we were at my sister s House for dinner. There were 10 of us present All family. My sister said Honey Why Don t you Model the bathing suit you re going Tower in the contest it will be Good to practice five minutes Bettylou was Sas haying through the living room in a Bikini that did t have 50 cents Worth of material in it. I like Beauty As Well As the next person but i Don t see anything Beautiful about a 15-year-old girl showing her be Hind to the whole world. Pleas print this letter so my sister can see it. Shell know it s former and i Hope it helps. Doris dear Doris Here s the let Ter but Don t expect it to change anybody s mind. I feel sorry for any girl whose brains Are in her Bikini. Obviously Bettylou s Mother has encouraged her along these lines and one Day the chickens will com Home to Roost. Dear Ann your frankness is refreshing and i admit i enjoy it when you Tell a Reader horizon Tat,1. Headgear 4. Cicatrix 8. Scottish Arctic navigator 12. An enzyme 13. European shark14. A noun suffix15. Recreations 17. Window part 18. Pei for Malone 19. To let fly80. Size of Type 22. Network 24. A Challenge 25, new Jersey city20. Salutation 30. River i Montana 31. Japanese statesman 32. To Holdback 34. An old testament people35. Leander loved her 41 36. Entertain 37. Volcano on Martinique 40. 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Teddy is a Good husband and i am trying my darn est to be a Good wife. His Job has brought him to this foreign country which i Hope you will not name be cause i would t want to in sult the people. Teddy signed up to stay Here 18 months. Four months have passed Andi am so miserable i could die. I can t speak the climate is wretched. Liv ing conditions Are food is dreadful. The prices Are High. The people Are not Friendly. I have considered going Backhoe getting a Job and saving some Money. Teddy has begged me to stay. I should Tell you he is very attractive and the women Here have that look in their eyes when the talk to him at social gather Ings. What should i do need your Wisdom dear need some people Don t know when they be got it Good lady. You should read the letters i get from wives whose husbands Are fighting the War in a neighbouring coun try. They would give their Eyeteeth to be there with them in the wretched climate eat ing the dreadful food and paying those High prices. Get off your Back porch an quit griping. Learn the Lan Guage and make yourself use Ful. The orphanages and hospitals Over there can use Strong healthy american girl. Copyright 1968, publishers Hall Syndicate editor turtlenecks recently i tried to go to the movies at Kelley Barracks dressed As follows Shine shoes clean and pressed Slacks and expensive Ballon Pullover with a a neck and a sewn in Turtle neck. I was refused ticket because i was improperly dressed according to the Mana Ger and when i asked Why there was t a sign stating that this was t allowed he said they had t had the time tomake one. If this theater is Here for these of the soldiers then How can a Soldier be refused ticket when dressed neatly if this is an army Regula Tion As the manager says it is then Why has t a sign Bee made stating that this is improper so people who have travelled a distance will know and this won t spoil their entire evening out the manager said i could buy a ticket because my shirt did t have a Collar. I said the Turtle neck is a Collar and he said he meant a Collar like Ona dress shirt because when you go out for the evening you should have a shirt Collar. The evening out consists ongoing to the theater under the pm club where we listen to theban rolling Beer bottles and chairs moving around in the club overhead. I have personally seen sol Diers go into the theater Wear ing Khaki uniforms that Loo Kedas if they had them on for a year. Please Tell me since when does a Collar constitute at the movies neatness men have Bee turned away because they 2 a sweater pulled Over Collar shirt but the Collar not visible. Why does this inn Lar hn1 l _ in this wee pals i got rhythm Baboo Yeam i m grooving i m Beautiful on Funkybroadway-1 got that inner feeling of goodness of yeah pm Dom my thing cause i dig Kaba i gut it soul is music to g o movie fan Stuttgart Germany editor s note a Kelle Barracks official said prs Post regulations require collars and specifically state turtlenecks Are not sice table. Within reasonable limits Post commanders set the rules on civilian clothing acceptable for local troops off duty As Well As their dependents. As a Conse Quence the civvies Standard varies from one place to an other. Cases in Point Are Robinso Barracks and Grenadier Cavern where a spokesman for the Baden Wuertemburg support District said Turtleneck pull overs Are acceptable at the movies. Decent life where will it All end this mess Over riots civil rights an restrictions on where one is to live and to seek free Opportunity without interference in the Pursuit of Liberty Equality and m reminded of the words of a famous Man of the past Arough rider i believe who said and not to quote his say Ings verbatim but it goes some thing like this any Man who is called upon to Lay Down his life in defense of his country in order to obtain these rights Toa decent Way of life should be granted open mind edly All these things. No Man should ask for More but no Man should receive less a. Sgt. Joseph Pryor Turnau Germany new faces i have been enjoying is for two years More so since All the new columns have been added. You know of course that your paper is widely read out Side of Here in sunny spam our children have baseball softball swimming lessons and teams girl and boy scout activities and a Host of other things. Actually everyone keeps pretty Busy. I imagine the Sames True in England Morocco Turkey and wherever the stars and stripes is to follow your modern living column one gets the impression that these things Only happen in German How about some different places and faces Torrejon Reader the managing editor replies our Man John Krweger and a photographer will hit Spain Morocco soon. Get your stories ready. Not eggs aptly i would like to know the existing records for the most eggs eaten and the number of Sticks of gum chewed in a specified time pfc. Gary f. Culley Meckenheim Germany editor s note our Library clips reveal no account of a Champion egg eater by a Stra com Soldier european record for 150 Sticks of gum in 1 minutes
