ll.

certainly hope they are minor and wish him a speedy reocvory. «e's It certainly
looks as-if tho Army is determined to give us a sight-seeing tour of Germany; ,
we've beon shifted from tho Nannover area down to the Mannhein-Heidolberg zone

. where for the present we're ‘occupation troops. Everywhero.we go, however, seem.
to be full of places of historical interest. je stayed several weeks in Hamelin
where the Pied Piper raised a bit of ned long ago (too bad he doesn’t come around
every fow years in the 20th century - it'd save the world a lot of grief) and I
retraced his route just for the kicks. Hamelin is, for the most part, undamaged
and one can see the quaint architeoture of the smaller German towns. Hamelin, by
the way, has writton city records os far back as 784 A.D. ee

_ “Heidelberg was olmost a disappointment to me, mainly beoause I suppose I'd
expected a beautiful university like K.U. That I didn't sees. The countryside 49
lovely, but so are a million other spots on this globee » « « Athletics. are: playing
a most important part in our plans to keep the man ocgupicd.. We're lucky in having

a big modern swimming pool in our aroa and if it will over quit roining.and warm
up the men will really so for the pool, In addition to swimming, we have several
ball fields, volloy ball courts, boxing facilities, and a string of 20 horsess «6 ».

"No you remenber Fred Wickham, Doe?, Ho went to high school with Bob- and me}.
his, father, a major, was up at Fort Leavenworth then and the family lived in ‘the
1000 block on Mississippi Street. Later Fred lived at my hone while attending
K.U. I. got a note from his. wife, whom he married after he left West Point, in.
which she said ho was still listed as missing on a bombing mission: over. Sofia, |
Bulgaria, on March 1944, oven tho the grave of one of his crew members had-been .
located. « « e e« I seo by the papers where you ond Ure, -.llen have left 801 Loe .
That change will be hard to got used to, after so many years of dropping by» « e"

Rusty, we are not moving until Septerber, Urs, Allon bought a home at. 831 —
Louisiana Street, from Rose lloColloch, Mit ‘ond Isabel lived there while Mit ~~.
completed his-law course at tho University. © She his’ since*been: renting it to.
Mr, Lloyd Purcell, the vice president of tho Konsas Electric Power Company, We
will move there in September, 80 you come to” see’ us’ in” the bungalow.- The latoh
string is always out to you and our other boys». and the. phone. numbor is still...
tho: BpMe, 300, ce poe natn ge pee eee ne oe a ae au Es oe ay teheiuk

Lt. Stanley Stauffor, iC, the son of Mr, and Mrs, Oscar Stauffer of © Topeka
writes a very interesting epistle from Will Rogers: Field, Okla, Oscar Stauffor
is chairman of the Board of Regents and? aditor and owner of a chain of newspapers,
including tho Topeka Capital, Stan writes; “tT wont: to oxpress my appreciation
to you for including me on your mailing list of Rebounds and to tell you how much
i have enjoyed" reading’ the last three issuos. .. You certainly: prepare thom well and
_ they really contain obout everything that we Jayhowkers. wont to: hear about. To"
realize how much of your time it must take to get them out every nonth, but itis -
certainly time well spont, .In your last edition, I especially enjoyed ‘your reply
to iiayne Clover's request for statistics on East-West cage competition. For al--
though I practically roomed four years with Clint Kanaga, the Phi Deltts Grantland
Rico, ‘I can't scem to remenber. game scores beyond the current seasons.

"7 wish that I could toll you some interosting yarn about the CBI or the reids
on Tokyo, but all the conflict I have seen in the last throe years -is the Texas.
grid. classic betwoen 4. & Mf, and’ tha Longhorns. | From tho time I left: the University
in the spring of '42 until the first of this year I was. stationed ‘sonewhore- in that
great Lone Star state. I honestly forgot that they ovor named a hotel or a theater
anything but ‘Som Houston’, *Davy Crockett’, ‘ilano', 'Texag', or "Lone Star’, - and
if I hadn't been:recciving the: Topekn paper I would have sworn that they had re~
.pealed-tho draft Jaw in all states but, Toxas for according. to the Toxas presse

accounts, the ‘Longhorns? were winning the war for tho United States on all fronts.