European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Party rest continued from Page 3 states just to see the oktoberfest you d get a taste of German  Dubois prefers late evening visits her Friend Miriam Williams 18, a Maryland business major would rather go Early in the evening. Williams said the festival is so big a visitor can spend 1 i hours just Vaandering around looking at things without spending any Money. She s probably Light. For the stomach twister set there Are 48 different rides including two roller coasters two Ferris wheels and an assortment of slides swings merry go rounds and White water boat trips. There Are 47 shooting galleries a Flea circus Marionette Heaters five haunted houses two three dimensional cinemas a fairy tale Castle and several dozen other amusements. There Are roast oxen a customers gobbled up 79 of them last year. Three quarters of a million chickens wound up on oktoberfest plates in 1990 expect no less this year. Fish and sausage Are also consumed in huge quantities. There is even a milk stand which sold enough milk a St year <25,000 liners to keep 125 cows in constant production. The size of the undertaking also manifests itself in ways casual observers Aren t Likely to notice. The event produced 11,460 cubic Yards of trash in 1990, for example. As a result the Munich City Council voted to ban the use of disposable dishes and utensils and the Sale of beverages in anything but reusable containers. So visitors should be prepared to pay bottle deposits. The proportions suggest that if someone resurrected King Ludwig i of Bavaria and showed him what the annual re enactment of his 1810 wedding festivities had become the Shock might kill him. Even the changes of the last few decades alone Are overwhelming for some people. Quot it used to be much better Quot said . Maloney 67, who moved to Munich in 1969. Quot it s gotten too big a too Many people. Now there s a lot of  Maloney a Bronx n.y., native and retired Soldier who works for the Munich Community s Rod and gun club said he still goes every year because his wife is a Munich native and she likes to go. Quot i Don t hit the Beer tent any More but i like to wander around and look at the rides Quot he said adding that he prefers to leave by 8 or 9 . Quot i m not Down there to drink Beer and by that time it s getting a Little Rowdy. The drunks Start coming out of the  army sgt. James e. Haynes 36, a telecommunications operator stationed in Munich does t expect to go at All. Quot being a shift worker i Don t get much time off Quot he said adding that it makes no difference to him because Quot i could do without the  Many americans Don t share Haynes ambivalence and plan to take full advantage of the festival. The Munich military Community is scheduled to close by next summer so soldiers like spec. Tina Patrick consider this their last Chance to head across towns amps Joseph Owen . Maloney feels the festival has become too big a but he still keeps going. A Crew working near the Spires of St. Paul s Church adjusts the Canvas that will become the roof of a huge festival tent. A amps Dave Casey 4 stripes Magazine september 12, 1991