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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                How do you keep pm Down on the farm after they be seen Hamburg by Georce Boehmer associated press or Many we German Farmers bad weather and Complex government pricing policies Aren the Only problems finding a wife is another Parl of of i problem Wilh German women is the liberation movement said Helmut Mol Schmart. A 53-year-old Farmer in Rugendorf. They All want la have their own jabs they get divorced they Don i want to live on a Arm. Tha worm has  Golschmann whose Tirol wite died 10 years ago is now married to a 35-year-old woman irom the Philippines i could t find a German woman who was interested in Arm lire Golschmann said at his Home in the upper Franconia Region of Bavaria he country s southernmost stale. The Lormer Mercedita Santos smiled As her husband Lold of their meeting and marriage seven years ago. Asked How she Tell about Jarm life in West Germany mrs. Golschmann replied in English it s  the couple has a 5-Yoar-old son Christopher. The bavarian slate Farmers women s association in Munich says a Survey it conducted shows a shortage of women in the Rural areas parity attributed to economic problems in the farming sector. We found that for each 100 men there Are Only Between 76 and 80 women said association director Helde Marie Seffner. We also found that while the Young Farmers Are learning their trades their mothers Are at Home of take care of hem so Iney Don t look for a wife. Then suddenly the Mother is old lha son is 30, and the Young women Are already married or have a Job in the  Erich Thiesen spokesman Lor the Schleswig Holstein Farmers association says problems finding a farm wife in that Northern stale Are the same. We have no accurate statistics on it but there Are More than a dozen advertisements carried in our weekly newspaper placed by Farmers looking Lor a  Thiesen said. Martin Gripp single and 31. Runs a Dairy farm in the wetterhorn District of Scalfi swirl in Karin. Shout 25 Miles North of Hamburg. To agrees finding a Bride is not easy Lor a Aimer. It s because we have so Little time the Long hours most women today Don t want to put up Wilh  Manfred Petersen 34, finally got married in july but Only after a Story Aboul his trouble finding a wife appeared in a newspaper nearly two years ago. Afler but team sonntag West Germany s sunday tabloid printed the Story in february 1986, Cornelia and i met when she came Here on vacation Petersen said of his wits who is 27. Many West germans Lake vacations on farms. Peterson runs a Dairy farm near the Remote Village of Brande Harner Kirchen about 20 Miles not in of Hamburg not far from Gripp s Homo. Peterson said most of the 30.000 single men among the 300.000 full time Farmers in Wesl Germany Don t gel a Chance to meet women because farms Are in Remote areas. Berndean Deenen a professor of sociology in Bonn completed a recent study at 420 single Farmers Between the Ages of 18 and 27, and 500 single women Between the Ages of 17 and 25 on their attitudes on farm marriages. There Are a number of reasons Farmers have problems finding wives Deenen said. One of them is that people Don t see farming As a career Wilh a Mure because More and More Farmers Are going broke or have to Lake on another Job to  be said the problems faced by Farmers who wait until they re 30 years old to look for a wife Are even More complicated. For Young flirts 18 to ?1, a Man of 28 is already hopelessly old and the available women his own age have  he added that Many women Don t realize the life of a farm  changed dramatically from what it was 20 years ago. Today with All the modern appliances and machinery a woman does t have to work from Dawn to dusk mowing in the Fields As they did then but lha image still  today s crossword acboss1 car Tot Vioet � arts partner 12 Eye Veggie 13 pertain ing to ethnic down1 Lulla a capital2 on 8 had feelings 4 greek Vowel 8 time when to ethics Fldeles-16 measuring id  in Oun 20 monopoly need22 Chew 24 and the like for 37 accordion parts Luggage 40 hard heroine 42 baseball Bat material 44 film unit 45 course Hazard Sabiu Reynolds new Plesz Baltimore player Sefl esome 11 luge s55 dozen Kin thirteen 12 butler57 advantages serving solution Tolmei 24 num. 18 Aetna go Between 21 brat29 German sex clamation24 goad is Uno plus due T muitt.prent."7 a station,6 stuff Erv item Chancre it Superb sen Ngung Ned 10 so Long aul Jird set jew limit sometime 33 pod unit34 radon . Of so b233s q Jedi arms Isis j Zysek canon41 Wasp s  Captain 27  drink nosj1T jshggfrgalboipi7 Unwin Kunst to Wal Al Rel  it petition output Yutt Tiff t Tunrer lt-14 53 communist 11-14 the far Side i we of pc joke. A Sung a 33 he gets is dog on me web Ollie Pago in the stars and stripes saturday new Nebr 14,1987  
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