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MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 33. 1963 Todays Germany Is Divided by Barbed Wire, Land Mine Strip By RICHARD H. GROWALD United Prets Intimation! Frankfurt - OiPD - The sin gle most compelling fact about Germany today is that it is a divided country. The western two thirds of Germany, as big as two Ohios, is divided from the eastern part by a Communist barb ed wire and land mine strip running from Hof near the Czech border to Luebeck on the Baltic. West Germany's 56 million citizens have democracy, the strongest economy in West ern Europe, a $225 a month average wage and what Ger mans claim is the best beer on earth. East Germany's 17 million citizens have communism, the sickest economy in the East ern block, a $125 a month av erage wage and their best beer is imported from Czechoslo vakia. Find Few Scars In Bremen, Stuttgart, Co logne and other West German cities gutted during World War II bombing it is difficult now to find a scar. Whole stretches of Dresden, Liepzig, East Berlin and other East German cities give the im pression the war ended the day before yesterday In Cologne, the West Ger mans have just finished re building one of the Western world's great churches. In East Berlin the biggest Lu theran church in Germany re mains with rubbled walls and bricked up doors. On the outskirts of the great neon spangled indus trial cities of West Germany, such as Stuttgart and Essen, massive low rent apart ments sprout like Iowa corn. In East Berlin's showplacc Karl Marx (formerly Stalin) Alee, drab workmen toil to repair the drab show piece Communist apartment houses whose balconies sag and whose tile walls peel off. Ulbrlcht Rules Reds In East Berlin spade-beard-ed Walter Ulbricht, speaking with a Saxouian honk, rules the Communist regime with a grip that even won Stalin's applause. In the West German capital of Bonn, aging Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer uses four score and seven years' political sagacity to lead the lively, rambunctious, ambiti ous but Democratic govern-1 mem oi nesi irermmiy the death strip that separates the two Germanys. But in West Germany communism is outlawed and the parties are all anti-Communist. They in clude Adenauer's generally conservative Christian Demo cratic party, West Berlin Lord Mayor Willy Brandt's soft line Socialist but hard-line anti-Communist Social Demo crats, and the much smaller, middle-of-the-road Free Dem ocrats. Julius Caesar conquered the Germanic tribes - praising them as "fierce warriors' There Is onlv one party. shortly before he the Communist party, east of i n v a d e d Britain. Mid dle ages princes patched Germany into the Holy Ro man empire for a thousand years until the country was broken into hundreds of pet ty states during Europe's Prot estant Catholic wan. To this day South Germany still Is chiefly Catholic and the north Protestant, mostly Lutheran. Martin Luther, who ignited the rebellion against Rome, also wrote a Bible giving the Germans a common written language and the urge to na tionalism. Napoleon helped it along centuries later and the "Iron Chancellor," Otto Von Bismarck, completed 'he job a century ago by walloping Aus tria, Denmark and France in the world's first blitzkriegs. Wilh.lm and Hitler Kaiser Wilhelm 11 and Adolf Hitler in turn took comm-nd of Germany, which in a generation had mush roomed from a backwater farm nation to one of the world's great industrial pow ers, rivalling the United States and Britain. According to the West Ger man government, 50 million persons died in the Second World War. Slightly more than 7 million were Germans. Former Nazis arc still being Jf-s"VK"",L I IllllPltlllf Mil vv OREGON FOOD STORES AND OTHER LEADING MERCHANTS IN THE MEDFORD AREA WISH THAT EACH OF OUR WONDERFUL LADY PATRONS COULD REIGN AS QUEEN FOR A DAY. SINCE WE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE ALL OF YOU, ONE LUCKY LADY FROM EACH OF OUR STORES WILL BE CHOSEN FROM AMONG ENTRIES AND WILL TRULY BE TREATED AS QUEEN. LOVELY JEW ELRY FROM WEISFIELD'S JEWELER; A FABULOUS DINNER FOR 2 AT THE COLONY RESTAURANT; FLOWERS FOR MY LADY; A CAREFREE EVENING OF MOVIE ENJOYMENT AT THE CRATERIAN THEATER; PLUS LEA MOTOR CO., MEDFORD RAMBLER DEALER, WILL PLACE A SHINY CAR AT THE DISPOSAL OF EACH OF OUR QUEENS FOR THE ENTIRE EVENING. DRAWING FOR OUR QUEEN WILL BE FRIDAY, MAY 31st at 9 P.M. YOU NEED NOT BE PRESENT TO WIN. REMEMBER ... WE WILL HAVE ONE QUEEN FROM EACH STORE. 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Center W Rcxiva The RisM Te limit Prictl tffttlivt threuitl Senear, Miy I6lh tried in West Germany, far rightwing political parties are dead at the polls end the mil lions of Jews displaced or killed by Hitler's minions still He heavily on the nation's conscience. Of 47 German Nobel win ners, only three took peace prizes. Germans have won 10 Nobel chemistry prizes, 12 for physics, seven for medi cine and six for literature. Among the winners were the man who invented the x-ray and Albert Einstein who later fled to the United States. Germany has produced com posers Wagner, Beethoven, Bach and Brahms, writers Goethe, Lessing, Schiller, Heine, Mann and Brecht, the first operational jet airplane, guided missiles, the dicsel en gine, the world's largest can non, the first national social i security system, zyclon gas, modern architecture, modern city government organization, philosophers Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, the dirigible, the gasoline automobile, the gaso line carburetor, the gasoline engine, smokeless powder, printing, color printing and soap. West Germany alone has 30 opera houses. Soccer is the national game. Gaiaway For War East Ger m a ny ' s 41,046 square miles are part of the great European plain which stretches east to Russia's Ural Mountains. 11 has been the gateway for war from the ponies of the Huns to t h e Tiger tanks of Hitler. It has few naturcl resources except for rich coal. It has no friend ly border. Besides the death strip along the West German bor der and the eight foot wall and barbed wire around West Berlin, East Germany also maintains machinegun and pillbox lines on the frontiers of Poland to Ihe cast and Czechoslovakia to the south. Armed patrols man the Bal tic Sea coastline. East Germany's 17 million citizens have dwindled from more than 18 million at war's end although the Berlin Wall has ebbed the flow of those East Germans who chose free dom by "voting with their feet." They have no had a free election In 30 years. For the average East Ger man, life is a thing of peel ing wall paper, shared bath rooms, hcatlcss bedrooms, cardboard window panes and the big brother pressure ot the party directing your work, your recreation and your fu ture. Enjoy New Life By contrast West Germans never had it better than in recent years. West Germany s massive cool reserves and enormous steel indus'ry take great cred it lur the postwar economic miracle. More goes to Ger man elbow grease. It is said the British go to work at 0:30 a.m., the Italians at 0, the French at 8:30, the Scan dinavians at 8 and the West Germans arc on the Job at tl. The good Hitler promised has been realized, under Democ racy-More bcr is drunk in tier many per capita thim any where on earth. Duelling scars remain a status symbol, though officially frowned upon. Germans like to cat, drink, sing. They are almost as fond of dogs as the British. And they put work above everything. Falwell Promoted By Gas Company Edward M. Falwell, em ployee of California-Pacific Utilities company at Mcdford, has been appointed division auditor and credit manager of Ihe gas company's Southern Oregon and Shasta (Cali fornia) divisions, according to V. V. Lyman, Southern Ore gon and Shasta division man ager, Mcdford. Falwell has been employed by Ihe gas company since March, 1030. He has served as division chief clerk with head quarters In Mcdford. His new duties of division auditor and credit manager will encom pass a larger scope and respon sibility for accounting and credit matters. Mr. and Mrs. Falwell and their two children reside at 348 Pennsylvania ave., Mcdford. C 9 Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Witkini a.iuu-t t Trnmnt syndiciu, ! 'Oil Bugs' Turn Petroleum Into Rich Protein Product Not impossible at all anv oil station could have a colony Of "Oil bUBS" in the harlc room or even under the park ing apron, always hungry and even eager to eat up all the "iu on uie station has to throw away. Sounds fantastic, but oil bugs do exactly that. In fact, they have been ever active under blacktop pavements eating away from the bot tom. In land near oil wells, where the land is smirched by an overflow of oil, the bugs have disposed of the messy residue in a short time, to the amazement of oilmen observ. ant enough to notice, and it's all due to the peculiar tasta for petroleum of the oil bugs. These "bugs" that cat and digest oil arc microorganisms, and what's more important, as well as amazing, they turn messy oil Into protein a nu. tritious protein concentrate, as rich as any food we know anything about. They work in complete silence, absorb, ing petroleum and producing a food product; quite an ac complishment. Nobody Knows Even the scientist who dis covered this microorganism, and later put them to work and found how very valuable they may be to supplying protein for an exploding hu man population, doesn't know exactly how the little things work; It's enough to know they can, and do. As a source of protein for man and ani. mal, the oil bugs promise wonderful possibilities. Man has always depended on meat as a rich source of nutriments; protein is neces sary to human health and well being. To supply ample amounts of protein, the house wife serves generous amounts oi meat, as well as other foods known to be rich in this ele ment. There arc many areas in this world where the human population is terribly short of most protcin-nch foods; in some of those countries there are ample amounts of crude oil. What colonics of oil bugs could do for such areas is said to be sensational. The time may come, even in rich America, when a top heavy human population will have to seek other sources. aside from land farming, to fill hungry stomachs. So it is not too early to begin to look for other sources of sup ply. The world's oceans play an Important port in tomor row's food supply, and now oil bugs have been discovered to offer another important contribution: microorganisms that can "feed on low grade, or even crude oil and petro leum products, and turn them into protein. Many Varieties As is natural with microor ganisms, bacteria, mice or song birds, there are many varieties, and science care fully selected the one kind of oil bug that worked the best and produced the resultant proteins In the greatest amount. Once they knew what strain was most willing, they began raising them in a laboratory, and the reported results are almost unbeliev able. Oil bugs can turn cheap, crude oil into valuable pro tein about five times as fast as a well fed steer can syn thesize grass and clover into protein. And the oil bugs arc always ready, willing and eager, and it costs little to make them happy. The re sultant protein from tlie oi! bugs' efforts will first be fed to livestock, and perhaps lat er used as human fond. And when, and if, It all works out as hoped, what a thrill It may be. Instead of eating on a pot roast, we In gest a food synthesized by oil bugs, microorganisms that be came edible because they had an appetite for petroleum products. Sfafe Property Tax Payment Being Held Up Springlitld, III HrH The Illinois Stele Journal today printed Ihe following letter to the editor on its front pigei Editori Today I received In the mall my personal property tax in the amount of $39.18. I am only IS years old end do not even own e bicycle. I am waiting to pay It be ceuse I want to tee what my titter's will be. She it four yean old. 8he owni tri cycle. Carol Antonaccl, Bprlnglleld. III. Medford Man Pleads Guilty to Charge Howard Dcrrlll Todd, 31. of 205 North Holly St., Mcdford, was sentenced to five year to life term In the California state penitentiary Monday In Siskiyou county superior court on a charge of armed robbery. Todd pleaded guilty to the holdup of the Safeway store In Weed, Calif., on May 4. He and Richard Edward Humeri, 35, of Oakland, were arrested by Medford city police In Mcdford f following day. Hustcd, who admitted being with Todd about the time of the holdup, but denied any part In It, pleaded Innocent to the charge. His trial has boon scheduled June 23. ' a e t . e , r- -i n n i
