European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2back Home there a nothing quite As fair As a Bright fall Dayjohn Windrow the Little boy sat atop the big Blue Ford tractor straining at the steering wheel. The lady stood alongside keeping an Eye on him. He turned to her with his most pitiful pleading look. A i Wanna Start ithe said. She was unmoved. A you know Only daddies and grand daddies get to Start these things a she said patiently. He did know. I could Tell there was no doubt that he knew. He looked again at the soaring rubber wheels the Chrome and steel engine the dazzling dials. Then he looked to heaven for help. A i Wanna Start it Quot he groaned. The boy and the lady were in the midst of an Ocean of farm equipment spread out on a Green Hill at the Minnesota state fair on a Golden autumn Day. Machinery Hill the locals Call it. Men in jeans and Caps with grins and squints burned into place by the Sun ambled about and looked the machines up and Down leaned against them kicked the tires peered at the wheels rods gears and valves. It was All there enough to Plant nurture and Harvest the great Plains. Tractors com Carol Barkalow looks at West Point and army life from a woman a View. Page 16. Bines and Corn pickers that looked like something out of a Star  plows disks harrows silage cutters manure and fertilizer spreaders dozers mowers planters trucks irrigation equipment balers Hay bunks and huge fans  for dining com. But if the fair is aimed at any one thing it is the stomach. Perhaps that s Why it has found a special place in so Many hearts. Near the Midway people milled about like bees buzzing the food Booths i hear America eating. Pronto pups bratwurst Barbecue ribs Snow Cones ice Cream big beef burgers hot dogs French Fries French Fried Popcorn French Fried ice Cream Veggie Fries italian French Fries to Bones roast pork and meatloaf with whipped potatoes polish sausages italian sausages Turkey on a stick grilled pork chops so mores what a a so More a a it a a Graham Cracker a Hershey bar a toasted marshmallow and another Graham Cracker a said a pretty woman with a Lush red Mouth and purple sunglasses com on the cob Kabob Caramel apples burritos Tostada hawaiian shaved ice lemonade German style Root Beer cold pop All the milk you can drink for 50 cents and of so much Beer. The Little old ladies sit in the Cool Beer Garden out of the Sun and sip and talk about the folks at the other tables just like they do in deutschland. Fish and chips lobster shrimp Apple sundaes funnel cakes egg Rolls Fried Rice Indian Fry bread made by a genuine Arizona native american in a Cowboy hat cinnamon Rolls deep Fried cheese curds doughnuts chocolate eclairs Cream puffs and new Orleans Catfish and hush puppies a sold by Black folks in Mardi gras colors a gyros Reubens onion rings Black Walnut Taffy and pancakes. One Booth offered cholesterol tests. It was on contents to plus is a weekly supplement of the stars and stripes. Editors John Taylor Sarah Bottorff Art director Sharon Kilday production Lisa Williams Denise Adams editorial assistance Louis Pierce Marian Hamilton cover Macaulay Culkin is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a trip in a Home  Page 9. Observations .3 flies bathrooms and other mysteries this world needs some real heroes fast track.4 a la. Law so Douglas talks on videos. 6 a Betsy s wedding a every dads Nightmare to talkback.7 what a new in a a paradises Rais weeks films 8-9 Home alone a great new Holiday film Complete cafes circuit listings on television______________________10 Willie Nelson and Delta Burke a winning pair television listings. U-14 local Cable and satellite schedules Home front .15 computer basics see Dos run what a Best about life in Europe books. 16.17 How to Cut deals and hit records James j. Kilpatrick cracks Down on a a drug science and the world �?z.�?z18 indians digging up their past at a glance Iraq. Odds amp ends ______________19 piece of cake better than sex genealogy and Horoscope last laugh .24 Dave Barry cartoons from around the world the wrong planet. In a Glass Booth in the Dairy building an artist was sculpting a bust of Princess Kay of the Milky Way. She is the Winner of a Beauty contest for Dairy Farmers daughters. She was sculpted in 85 pounds of real butter. She appeared to be no stranger to butter. The life size bust is kept in a chilled area. The Princess posed in a ski jacket and mittens on a rotating dais at 38 degrees while a crowd observed and made comments. Back outside by the pie stand a politician was campaigning in his shirtsleeves working the crowd with his wife. A Young woman followed them taking photographs of the candidate with everyone he greeted and then handing the citizen the photo which developed in a few seconds. The candidate was eating pie and drinking milk. He had the common touch. A across the Street a polka band with a bubbly accordion was playing an oomph tune that evidently had Only one Lyric. A you Are my baby doll you Are my baby doll you Are my baby  before i left i strolled through the livestock bams reliving my boyhood Happy to think i no longer arise in the dark to feed cows. In the cattle Bam grizzled seam faced old boys in Check ered shirts Caps and boots slept on cots in the Sweet Hay. Beautiful girls in to shirts that said hard Rock cafe Amsterdam held their noses and picked their Way past Fawn coloured dappled Guernsey and Brown Swiss cattle with names like Quebec Bubba Louie Arlene and Marcy. I even got to see the biggest boar in Minnesota snoozing in his regal Straw bedding. His name was Orville and he tipped the Scales at a Sublime 880 pounds. Of autumn Why does Winter have to come John Windrow is a former stars and stripes editor now living in Minnesota. Kevin Costner directed and stars in a dances with wolves a part of Hollywood a attempt to give a clearer picture of Indian culture than old Cowboy films Ever tried to. Page 5.c to plus sunday november 25,1990