European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1948 the stars and stripes Page 5 distribution service speeds news to dec readers new Fleet of 1 to trucks serve 378 Newsstands the stars and stripes Cele Brates its sixth the this distribution service is observing with Pride its Lith month As a fail grown since taking Over Magazine distribution from the army Exchange june the service has More than quadrupled the sales pared the lapse Between on Sale dates in the and and added More magazines and Mcguigan books to its sales it has built up an efficient rucking service and established a transportation network worthy of Iny stateside chief of distribution Bernard Liguigan says his organization has i we try to anticipate the Reading demands of zone personnel and meet them in he the expanded service began in March 1947 the stars and stripes circulation department asked the army for permission to take Over Magazine distribution from when the request was Mcguigan went to new arranged for a new York Liaison office to provide prompt shipment of the priorities on shipment were at the switchover june the j magazines were being sold mostly i me Shalis and 1 the staff was Small and not too Well today there Are 378news stands throughout the the lag Between the on Sale n new York Andin the dec has been Cut from 710 weeks to about 18 there Are 15 District distribution with americans in and indigenous employees have been increased from about 200 to Home delivery of the stars stripes is an accepted fact in 13 dec the newsboys soon will have it is to Speed that the department is continually experimenting in an Effort to meet the tastes of its besides increasing the variety of magazines and starting the Sale of Bantam plans Are being made to establish Complete Book stores in four or five towns by july it is will Stock in demand fiction and earlier delivery constant Effort is being to get earlier delivery in cities farthest from troubles says there Are a sometime we cant get enough of certain magazines to meet the he when some of these Are damaged by carelessness in ship loading or in the j Public is so Are j Road and trucking problems Are not what they were at the begin the Snow ice not so bad last an efficient staff Drivers has been and the motor Pool in Vised by Kenneth h o w 1 a n d keeps the vehicles 170 vehicles All the Organ has j70 new stateside panel station wagons and there Are a few two and on half ton trucks for the Long express says is probably the largest commercial Fleet of stateside trucks operating outside the they cover Miles of european roads a month an provide the additional problems of obtain ing gasoline and tires and spare they run mostly at which Calls for More lights and better yet there were Only continued on Page 12 motor express truck relay rail haul unit pickup news bureaus circulation offices put Igstadt Hei Deibero to the new York office by plane this Tributino service blankets zone of Austria penetrating the Iron curtain to Berlin and Chart by Bert Marsh typical newsstand in operation off this in the Rotunda bar of the Neucom Headquarters is typical of Acue x 378 operated by the stars and stripes distribution similar Newsstands Are located in snack hotel lobbies and at other convenient Points throughout the stripes had Many Homes in its wartime wanderings continued from Page 2 Tifental Paris building of the new York Herald Tribune on the Rue de when the Dijon edition went into relations Between the two branches were cemented and together they produced editions in Nancy and from Liege to Germany set up an advanced operation in Liege to serve troops of the and 9th it was this edition which later expanded into Germany to set up the first Plant on enemy soil in present Home of the the of Ungstad edition began publishing in april just be fore the next month it moved on to near turn where it remained printing in the Plant of Julius stretchers Antisemitic Der until december 1946 when it re turned to make of Ungstad its permanent efficient business today the stars and stripes is an efficient business out and directed by a combined staff of soldiers and not a Small part of its operation is the in to the daily newspaper and the weekly of magazines and books from the now it publishes 12 pages daily and 16 on sundays in a modern plan built from the foundations up under direction of stripes by the inefficient equip ment of War which made every Days Issue a new Miracle of is being replaced by stateside a Fleet of new Amer ican trucks delivers daily to All zones of the from Trieste to sent to a areas stripes receives the daily news reports of the associated United press and International news service by direct it maintains its own bureaus in new to cover stateside news in Wiesbaden Trieste and photographic services Are sup plied by Acme news International news and stripes own staff of features and comic strips Are Rhosen from among the Best Avail Able to newspapers Allied nationals play part in organization nationals of three Allied countries play an integral part in the Stadt organization of the stars and Many holding key jobs in such diversified departments As radio and person transportation and club Man the roster in of Ungstad alone lists 16 British men and eight addition to four europeans holding passports As British there Are four six dutch and