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
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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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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.
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