European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Oops Bill la Porte demo Paul ucello race with shovels of mud Al heres mud in your pol by Jules Loh associated of Tom politicians Art nothing but a Bunch of right on a recent sunday gang of politicians gathered in the Park at they brought their families and picnic lunches and also hauled a Load of line red dirt from beside the Road and piled it in the Shade of a big Maple they fetched buckets of water from the Nark Pond and mixed it with he their children with obvious Feught and soon it was the kids squeezed it through their fingers and a the politicians look up handful of the stood Back and let they Slung mud at one the children Slung mud at the the politicians at the everybody ran around Sling Slaty said Paul dem Muddy but said Bill la when it was Over the politicians clasped each others Slimy slapped each others splattered laughed at each others Grimy faces and beaded for the you enjoy it asked Tow Eling off his meet Bunny Shes the nut Over whose Kitchen table tills crazy idea was Husmer shaking mud put of her the Challenge was issued forthwith to the democrats and accepted not Only to a mudslinging contest nut also to a tug Twar across the Park at a time when the dirt of less literal and Baa not yet worn Oft the american politicians there they the towns school Board zoning commissioners and All their out on a sunday afternoon cooking hamburgers and playing in the ludicrous it was a Joy to in u years the watched this Towa grow from la about said councilman we not Only grew we grew apart this is the tort of town event that can get in All i think it a great idea even it it waste Republican Laporte in a Small your political opponents Are also your politics has never been dirty in Laporte we go after each other on but we work id like to see us work together and make this an annual for the the democrats seemed to get the worst of the mudslinging but re deemed themselves in the the rope stretched across a Comer of the Laporte gave a rousing Pep talk to his Stalwart ucello did but also donned a life jacket were Stuj around think of to to take it was we a when in Deaty we up us Ito of hat was so silly we figured it Bright rope held the republicans picked himself up and presented ucello with the grand a toy ele Laporte Why dont we invite the muckraking reporters they can prepare the mud a july 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13