European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse German resort grows in in s hands by Sterling lord 3 4 8 10 22 americans and american Money invested in Garmisch have helped Germany afo Ritz become a year round playground which has attracted visitors since september 1945 11 17 16 10 14 19 21 22 23 24 2 2 r Garmisch in the most popular recreation Center in the american zone of there is an army Regula Tion that prevents a visitor from stay ing More than fifteen there Are military police of the 521st my com Pany there to enforce and they Are pretty firm admit doing it in spite of the rules and in spite of the there Are a few like the Furstenfeld Bruck air Force sergeant who came Back from a forty fineday stay there in the Middle of who find temptation too Strong and manage to evade the As the sergeant enthused on the train there Are just too Damn Many things to do in almost one thousand visitors every Hundred gis and the remainder officers and civilians ire playing in this picturesque Village with its mukaled houses with overhanging re tiled roofs set along winding they come by car or or they come on one of the fits daily trains leaving Munich for resort at the foot of the Wetter Stein and they come the in american which is really the twin Village com it Unity of developed from the Winter sports that was once known As Ger i St to a year round t designed to enter Tain visitors Day and twelve months of the it has been a development not without expense to the to German Economy and to the estimated visitors who have been pouring fees into the army commandeered facilities since september and into the Gar Misch recreational Center funds since february when the Center was first organized from personnel of the thirty fifth Field artillery and the third army athletic the development involved construction of an elaborate open air night Casa and a one Story Brick sport Center with lounge and Shower and reconditioning and repairing innumerable summer and Winter sports Many of which had been erected and used for the Winter olympics in construction and revitalization to make facilities for Twenty three sum Mer and Winter sports available to gis was accomplished against a natural backdrop of tallest Mountain in Germany on which year round skiing is against two natural lakes and the winding Loisch All of which Are utilized in the Garmisch of the great number of americans whose ideas and efforts have gone into the development of this Yankee resort on vacation in Europe weekend presents the first in a series of articles on Continental foreign one has been so closely involved in the project from the be ginning that he is known to Many of the 117 German employees under him As the american Burgermeiste of he was first wave of tenth armoured troops that entered the town on april if the Light that comes into his Eye when he talks about his town is any Indica hell probably be the last Amer ican to he is a dark haired bespectacled Dartmouth graduate named Scott Arthur who has been everything from motor officer to Public relations officer and sports and training officer in the Garmisch Scotty likes for most americans in the front line troops that swept across was another unpronounceable German to Scotty it was much More than hed first heard about Garmisch when he was going to prep school in Shaker in As he pored Over the sports pages of the Cleveland Plain whose columns were with thrilling tales of the performances of elis Vik Lund of the Ruud Brothers of Norway and the British hockey who were All competing in the Winter olympics in this tiny German for eight Een Vearold Scot and particularly Winter sports and the excitement surrounding the International competitions made sound Tike something just a Tittle Short of that was his first knowledge of i but in the when he started at he Learned More about it from Jack and Dick americas top skiers who had been raised in and from Dave Bradley and Warren Chivers who had skied in the olym War soon after Scotty left and with the army he came to sometime in the late Winter of he sloshed into Germany with the tenth from the moment his outfit crossed the Scotty was hoping that the fortunes of War would carry him to this Little Valley at the Junction the Partach and Loisch that they did carry him there is typical of Scotts Good today Twenty eight year old Scotty Rogers is Public relations and sports events supervisor of Garmisch recreational technically he is head of one of five sections working under lieutenant colonel James arc others Are Supply and headed by Captain John Only other army officer in the organization hotels and and the visitors continued on Page 20
