European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A few Trees struggle upward in Notrees but residents flee by Lisa Belkin new York times n an act of Hope determination or us Plain boredom. Kim Baumguardner and her husband. Sam. Org planning Trees in Iho Causly West Texas own us no roes two tiny shrubs All bul hidden by bar Horl wire Oil in the Center of a newly purchased Pool next to Iho Baumguardner Home. Mrs  s Busl intend used to live Thoro recently Cho moved away nearly everyone has moved away irom Notrees  no Trees. Old timers recall that Shore wort once in viral Hundred people there even As recently is Len last census in 1980, there were 338 no then arc or depending on whether you Cuenl Jurn scr Lii behead s Newborn son. Who has nol yet came hts to from Iho Hospital in Odessa 26 Miles to the Xcvi the Ritin loin spans several Hundred act on both ill l of ski Sivay 303 there arc a Gas elation a Posl Ollick and a Side Sloe is. There used to be several Oil drilling Camps there Loo do Devi die years they moved away and their employees had no reason to remain. Now nearly Ivory Gnu ult i lives in not eos works or the she Oil Plant on Chr Riga of Lown i soy indy should rename it no people quipped Hill sic King who hns worked in the Notrees Posl office Lor i years bul lives in Odessa. There arc Trees some at least but Tiero Aren t no  that were no Trees in Notrees when it was named Back in i m j the Posl of flick department had told Erma Bombeck Blekfe Robertson out Slot is Home in native texts a term at hoi lived Tor 24 fear. He had to chop off la Fop of bib tree Beaute Tow in in Roll of Charlie and Sybil Lovelace s Homo. Nine Yeats ago they paid $72.000 Lor the House the Only two Story slur clue in town and they say hey will be Happy if they can sell it or 440.000. Lovelace worked at Iho Shell Plant Loi 25 years and has lived in Notrees or nine of them. But having retired March 1. To now wants to move Larther East. We want to live where there s drug stores and hospitals and Oliver things people need when they re very Malure mis. Lovelace said. And of course Uherc is mrs. Baumguardner s Garden to two italian Biro cypresses she chose because they were  she says she knows Hal other Trees in Notrees Are dying but insists hers will to different. The other ones arc kind of deserted she said. No one comes around to water hem. No one cares about  she Points proudly to the two Mulbe rvs her father planned years ago. Still thriving in lha troll Yard and to the Cedar and the weeping Willow growing happily out Bock she has watered them once o week Lor As Long As she can remember and now she drags a Hose to the kit Nel door and Waters her now plants every Olhorn Day. It s something Hal will last she said. When Connie Chung did her special on americans love affair with Shnir we Ighel. She confessed not a Day went by thai she did t think about dieting Rii Abath Taylor s weigh has. Been Tho stuff of which comedic and Lithia re earners Are made. And it i Don t hear lion Dolly Parton s talking scale Al least once a week i suffer from severe withdrawal pains Oral Iriri n he ultimate guilt trip my mail is filled with women hogging items Clyl i to death with Chaira by cause they fell of the dessert Carl. So to speak i opened an envelope last week and a Lull Page picture of a Chocol in cuke Lell out with a Nole saying now this is fall attraction Well people stand up. Pul your hand Over you heart and wipe away a Genii Mclat Lear because Diller s Guill is passing into oblivion never to be seen again All the new findings Are going in Hal direction. There Are new statistics thai say it you Are overweight there is nothing to Leel Gully about. One scientist said if one has been provided with a stubby gnarled body encased in layers of avoirdupois Hal have a tendency logo olt in a number of unattractive directions that is the Way one is destined to go through life any Agni fical change is an absolute  m other words. Whal b in you genes at birth will come around again in your jeans in the prime of your Lite in another study there is Prool that slow metabolism is a major cause of obesity and you either have it or you Don t. It s inherited and shows up in Parsons As Young As 3 months of age. So you should t Teel guilty about eating. Those with a Clow metabolism Are most Likely to gain weight and that s a tact even sugar freaks can t feel guilty about scar tag Down All those sweets anymore because scientists have perfected a Way Lor molecules to reverse making it impossible Lor them to Melba glue. Whal we re talking Here is. No calories. In other words All the Joys of sugar Wilt none of the guilt. For those of you who have looked upon Guill As an old Friend there is no reason la panic. Guilt will still flourish. Only now 1 will be directed toward All the mothers who left us a legacy of Thunder hips and Eric Heiden i highs. If they did t want us to be Happy Why did they give birth to us in the first place that one should play for years. I u miss Dieter s guilt but it was gelling out of control. I read the other Day thai Dolly parian Felt so guilty about her fans worrying she is anorexic she Pul on so Pound to prove to them she s not Page t6 the stars and stripes monday. April 11,1988