European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Of statistics America by the numbers by Randolph e. Schmid associated Pressw Hether dieting or eating ice Cream skipping school or studying getting Mairich or getting divorced americans everyday unwittingly become statistics it in t done consciously of course but Between government and private bureaucracies the bean counters have compiled significant collections of numbers about life m America what s typical and what in t. In act almost every american from Oklahoma gov. Henry Bellmon to Liny Alice of Assn Jones of Frankfort ky., Erma Bombeck is part of the statistics of daily life in the United slates. Each Day America s 244.427,098 people Asol Jan. 1 Worl and play love and hate and contribute to the endless collection of data about themselves. The Good and the bad the Lun and the tragic this information eventually supplies a compilation of bits and pieces of the things americans do to and Lor each other. Folks lacing the Battle of Iho bulge May Lake some Solace in the estimate that on an Given Day 63.092.400 adults Are trying to lose weight. Of those the statisticians say 51,735,768 iry la do it by dieting while 37�65,660are exercising to trim of pounds. Many of course Are doing both. On Iho other hand americans consume an average of three fourths of an ounce of tee Cream every Day of tha year. Does t sound Lite much does in visit that comes to 18 Yummy pounds of the Frozen confection annually. Americans cot even More cheese than ice Cream Downing nearly a Lull ounce daily or Over 22 pounds per year. Chef John Kramer used a bit More than the average Al West . Last aug. 6, however when he won the Wisconsin slate fair s cheese carving contest. Kramer topped four other compell lors by reducing a 75 Pound Block to a yellow food Coll Geol Wisconsin images including a or Tiv can milk bottle real Seal and we size samples of his work. The average daily american Diel the department of agriculture reports also includes 3.5 ounces of Beol 2.7 ounces of pork 0.6 ounce of fish 3 ounces of poultry. 9.4 ounces of milk. Add to that s.4 ounces of breads a Hall ounce of pasta about the same for break Asl cereals 2.6 ounces of sugar plus 3.8 ounces of com sweetener a Little More than one cup of Coffee 15.9 ounces of soft dinks 2.5 ounces of juice 8.2 ounces of Beer 08 ounce of wine and 06 ounce of liquor it s unlikely hot any individual consumes those exact quantities on any particular Day of course but a Good chunk of food was consumed by elderly South Dakotas last july 30. Mote than 125 braved Joo degree heal that Day for a Polluck dinner at the Piene senior Center. Usually when senior citizens Are mentioned popular retirement areas like Florida and Arizona come to mind but seniors Are in every stale and Community in growing numbers. Indeed. The census Bureau imports that nearly 6,000 americans turn 65 every Day. And. Adds the National Center for health statistics on a typical Day 3,212,857 elderly parents receive phone Call from one of their children did you just buy a new Home you re not alone. On an average Day in America 107,887 people move to a new Home. And that s not All. The Federal government hires 216 new workers and 236 Are hired by stale government 37,514,400 adults get loss than 7 hours sleep 56,061 drive a car after drinking alcohol 337 children Are injured while playing with Loys 1,594 people Are Hurt in Bicy to accidents and 108 men Cut themselves seriously while shaving. Among the younger it on a Normal Day 36,582,990 children attend Public school while 2.951,836 children who should be in school Aren t. For Oklahoma youngsters the statistics on those playing football May change a bit under a suggestion by gov. Bellmon. He has proposed a Rule that students who ail their studies be barred from extracurricular activities suet As sports. Also in b typical Day 6,548 american couples Are wad according to Federal statistics in addition 288 couples decide to live together without bothering to merry and 3,230 couples Are divorced. While Joy and hone for the future Marks the thousands of weddings catalogued daily tragedy was the focus of the Russellville ark., entry into the Federal data Bank. Sixteen people were slain in december in and near that Small Community in one of Trie nation s worst mass murders. Forty Avon year old r. Gene Simmons has been charged in the Case an extreme example of the More than 50 murders that occur daily in this country according to the National Center Lor health statistics. Sukki Wilson served the greatest dessert a lev weeks ago. I rarely oat sweets anymore but you have to know How sensitive Sukkel is when you Don t try one of her creations. It was 90 impressive that i even asked Lor the recipe. I rarely do that As they never turn out Tor to the Way they do when someone else makes them last week my dinner was son of sparse so i thought i d give it a big finish with Sukki s poppy seed cake not having the package of yellow cake mix it called Tor i substituted a Lemon mix on the Shell same thing. Next in called for a package of instant Vanilla pudding. I could have sworn i had a package of Vanilla pudding behind the extra can of Coulee but 11 turned out to be banana Flavoured. Close enough. Sukki s recipe called for a cup of sour Cream. I ask you who has sour Cream silting around getting Souter by the minute there was a Little bit of Bult Ermith Lell in the Carton in the refrigerator but one whiff and i Page 16 the stars and stripes realized in had gone on to a better Lite. Luckily i have been taught to improvise. A couple drops of vinegar in regular milk gave it the curdle in needed. The next thing on Sukki s list of ingredients was a Hall cup of cocktail sheiry. Get real Sukpil if i had a half cup of cocktail sheiry sitting around i d take a Belt and forget dessert. I substituted a cheap White wine. The vegetable Oil and the Lour eggs Wera easy. It was looking Good. But the Neil ingredient threw me Tor a Loop h listed one third cup of poppy seed filling ii sounded like a prescription you had to have tilled at the drugstore. I left it out. The recipe matted Lor the Batter to be poured into a bundle pan but who has one of those so i put it in a regular Sheet cake pan and subtracted 20 minutes trom the baking time. While the cake was Cooling. 1 started to assemble the saturday May 21,1988 Glaze in a bowl substituting granulated sugar for the powdered sugar two More Tablespoons of White wine for the Sherry and grated Orange Lor the Lemon Peel. When the family tasted it my husband asked did you leave something out my daughter said maybe you have to eat it while in s  her brother said is this one of those packaged deals that come with their own Doggy bag when Sukkel called she asked about the cake. She said Sha forgot to Tell me ii was great for a party As ii yielded 12-15 Servings. I told her Sha was wrong. Mine would have served Tho Entile nil. What happened she asked. I did l want to Tell her i thought she Lell something out of the recipe so i Lold her i thought in was my oven