European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                9 letters to weekend the Beal Stoby of it Joe sirs i read with Rurh Tiit fast the account of i Joe inthe april 10 week you a War has left american troops in Tripoli Only nobody to be suit exactly what happened to but the Story goes that he once went along on a flight in a ninth air Force b25 to the plane at a front air Field and Joe liked it so Wen in Italy that he stayed there working in a pm for five what exactly happened was Joe landed in Sicily with an infantry Divi was wounded in the ankle and was flown Back to North in a Hospital it was outside Oran that Joe attached him Elf to As i was Supply officer at toe eighth replace ment depot and had charge of five All which appealed to and he did stay around the pm a great Deal of the x recall very Well when the soldiers would make a beeline for cover at Joe would Rush out and announce the hag and stand at attention until the last he was a food example to the rest of us in that respect i Joe and a Blac Cocker Spaniel were familiar sights driving in the Back of my jeep in North finally an order came Down from higher Bead quarters getting rid of pets and mascots and in that Deal i lost go Joe and a Fine it cot former partner sirs r beading your weekend of april under the description picture of a roller skating act attracted my my skating Sturg my return last year to Germany i Java triad in vain to get hold of her x won Der if you could help me to get in touch with we two used to have an ice skating having a roller skating act i do think Ibe act has another her Priver name la thank Hedy few Rorr wee Cemi it Jose c2stauerf mag be reached at tace Treut which Htu to be let codes f t weekend Miter Dick jokes Sterling lord Jokn Shablik Art director Bay i Kwan Richard Cohen Oliver Greet Howard Grace Schmidt Betty Lurta to  Tufty Trun Guk Taqi Julia Edwards Vaccaro Joseph Fleming  hcuudaer0 Jenec Berlin letter bit Lin jobs sex u6yux Arthur Noyes Uto Tadt Frankfurt we Ziair Koctor i new York when a town of 5200 popu found that almost 5 per cent of its population had no place to live and that 110 War veterans families were in single rented something had to be done about it so Nyack got Busy and solved its housing problem without building even a single Nyack did the Job with a Community mobilization that enlisted the help of everybody and created new and modern apartments out of old mansions and of Are in iffy space that no one realized tiie town like Many other Hyack was Reading about listening to speeches and pondering ambitious Faming the few new houses being built in the Vicinity Cost too much Lor the average War Veteran to no rental housing was being built and the towns housing shortage Hemming More acute some citizens got together and called an old fashioned town they organized the mayors emergency housing Jill Homes canvassed it tee major a Call for volunteers to conduct a Doort door  local civic groups answered the the american legion and veterans of for eign the boy scouts and Giri scouts and other local Church every piece of property in Nyack was checked and every owner was urged to Register any space be would be willing to have remodeler and tented to when problem was Tance invariably base outbuildings entire a nitty were registered for a new York contributed his country Home in Nyack to the cause and converted it into eighteen architects inspected each registered property and Drew up plane snowing How the space could be converted at a minimum hit of a Dormer window in an the raising of a Section of the fee installation of it a Hellri t Here was nothing Cary Abbot work site entire program woe carried on a permanent basis Mineral Wool insulation was used to make snug in attics and in Many Atrue Tures the ins ution was blown into Wall spaces in where studding was a covered with building materials were considered to be in critically Short Supply when Nyack launched its scribing the fit was sur prising to discover How much Good material was on hand in shops with 110 Homes As the original slogan 110 or bust was emblazoned in Barber Beauty dentists offices and on movie within a week the program was in full swing and within four months eighty Remote eng jobs had been completed and veterans were occupying new within six months the goal had been reached and passed and mayor Cia Niino announced that forty additional apartments had been the Cost of remodelling ranged from to and each Job was financed by local Banks with Federal housing administration remodelling the apartments rented for from to Salt Lake City f George Jackson were alive today hed be amazed at what has happened to the prospecting George was from a Cousin of kit Carson and the prospector whose discovery of Gold in 1858 helped turn most of Colo Rado into a roaring mining hed not Only be amazed at prospecting equipment fancy sleeping camping gadgets the what really would curl his lip is the school for sourdough organized by George founder of the great american prospectors after wartime suspension Watson to Start the school again As soon As the prospector today needs More knowl Edge of mining and geology than Jackson because new deposits Are harder to a speck of Gold in the pan Doest As much As it did when mfr fun in his first Nugget at Chicago but dont that a rids Nave it used to seekers tramp been Watson declares that anyone who says so the West has seen Many a mining slump broken by one Good the fact is that prospecting is just a Dif Ywit of business every summer Gold today its travel of its Rock on but their chances of hitting a strike Are about one in a the Pliay Etui who hits pay dirt these Days must be wining to spend a Greet Deal of time in intelligent and about fifteen years ago Watson noticed that prospecting was new discoveries had nit a a great Many were bottoming and Gold deposits petering out he an educational Campaign from now on the sourdough has to be a Little Keener to Prosper and carry on his work in the for any pel1 Ami Stol interested in oncoming a Here Are a Taw in addition to a fair knowledge of geology and Rock plenty of stamina is Tor its a rugged Ato required Are an a few picks and pointed a blowpipe outfit making a rough analysis of minerals in the Scove of  in Asp humus Burros Are the automobile will Nevet replace Bat nit too Ofiu ttzu2xtfu Sof Flat Tuff own  the Burro has led Many a prospector to some valuable the mining slump of 1900 was broken in Nevada when a straying Burro led Jim Butler to one of the strikes since the Comstock is at Tor the Ocen Patton under st of new