European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1948 stars and stripes Page 7 links in the Chain of command Otis Ivl Ccormick William Summers Maurice Kirk Nooci Otis Mccormick left is the Neucom chief of the troop information and education the stars and stripes is the i in the in command of the stars and stripes As its military head As Well As its editor chief is William Summers the business head of the enterprises is Maurice Kirkwood executive photos two originals still on staff there Are still old timers aplenty on the stars and by Only two who can boast of hav ing been there when the first eight paper was turned out in Lon Don on april they Are Russell wies Baden Bureau and Warren Berlin District circulation Jones helped Start the original worked on the Belfast stripes pm perform jobs of soldiers Mcdonell Jones and did another hitch with stripes in later he re turned to London and became a combat correspondent with the 1st army As it drove across France to Srmsh the Siegfried after the War Jones went Back to the i and but by april 1946 he was Back with stripes As an editor in the new York he returned to Ger Many in february 1947 and since then has been Bureau chief in Frankfurt and later in Mcdonell was successively circulation business Man Ager and general troubleshooter for virtually Al 1 of stripes european he stayed in the and on the february then he took a few months off in married a French and decided it was time to go to work so he came to i indigenous employees the stars and stripes employs indigenous mostly in its various depart John Van Der a dutch is chief of the indigenous personnel some of the germans have been working t their jobs since the paper first started in continued from Page 2 the go photographer for stripes who was killed in the crash of a b17 near in Sprague was on assignment searching for a missing c47 when his plane crashed into the South Peak of White horse Ridge and some routine jobs other stripes personnel have More routine administrative the mess for sex is Henry Filip Veteran of 27 years army Supply Section handles purchasing in Europe the Supply and procurement department of the stars and stripes j is staffed by american and Allied directed by Vincent Maz Mary a Raj is his administrative John Johnstone Heads the planning and procurement Section Avith James Simmons As his As operating Branch chiefs within the Section Are William Van and Breginus he handling the procure ment of transportation and production Stock records Are maintained by Walter and James Walter super vises the Supply 17 years in the Chow depart the top kick of the organization is Cornelius for Merly personnel sergeant at West i As Well As civilian laundry and dry Are handled by David Supply four of the pm and two of the officers have their families Summers leads the list with three Summers and two while Billy Henderson has his wife and son in recent two of the ser Geantt Sanford and Max photo greeted infant others with their wives in of Ungstad Are and Wattie personnel weekend began life As 12page supplement by Morton staff correspondent More than americans in the dec plunk Down their dimes every week for copies of the re bordered 24page Maga Zine that than two years a Pul paper sunday supplement to the stars and its popularity with the and civilians of the american occupation forces is attested by the fact that it by copies the most popular of the stateside magazines available on the first Issue of 12 pages of tabloid size Vas brought out on May the staff consisted of three William James Mclean and Sterling Mclean and lord both continued with the Magazine As civilians the and the leading were devoted to what was then an amazing Novelty in the european theater dependent families arriving from the carried sport stories it also carried a sports Story a feature on the town of Rothen some canned movie publicity with and a crossword compared to the Glossy weekend of if was a pretty amateurish looking but it was a Good one considering the difficulties under which it was the stars and stripes was then being published in but the presses there could not handle the extra Load of printing so the weekly was edited in Altdorf and printed in some 200 Miles to the which involved some fancy tricks on the part of the circulation department to get the folded in with the sunday issues of the stars and 1st editor left but weekend kept in december of the same Mclean returned to the states and the Editorship was taken Over by Dick a wartime i who came Back to the of stand As a civilian and with a lot of ideas about Magazine Jones introduced Pepper up the Art work and went out after fresh material and began campaigning for the manpower and budget that would lift weekend out of the sunday throwaway the Issue of 1947 was the first to appear in by this time the stars and stripes and weekend had abandoned Altdorf and returned to stripes original German base in outgrew offices the amount of building alteration required to accommodate weekends rapid growth was originally established on the second floor of the editorial weekend began to grow faster than carpenters and masons could tear Down Walls and build new this went on for until a natural limit was so weekend recently moved across the where it now fills nearly a whole floor of a Large As the Magazine grew in it jumped from 12 pages to 18 when it went into and to 24 a month editorial staff grew with today Jones has a staff of 12 in addition to artists and clerical now an associate is the Only Mem Ber of the staff who has been with the Magazine since its first but his fellow associate John Sharnik and Oliver Gregg Howard were wartime staffers of the stars and As was Ralph assistant correspondents in bureaus through out Europe act As contributing goes on its own last summer it became apparent weekend had grown Way beyond the sunday supplement and would have to earn its own Way if it was to continue buying mate rial from established writers and producing a weekly publication of the same High standards and Quality As an advertising supported american last july weekend went on its own As a 10 cent longer a stars and stripes supple but still a stars and stripes after the initial slump caused by the its circulation continued to even Slier the most popular stateside magazines were made available in the econ message Center serves 28 16 districts the message Center of the stars headed by s Sam has problems that most message and postal centers Seldom Weissberg is responsible not Only for circulation of messages and mail to 28 stripes department in but must also handle messages and mail to 16 District offices bureaus scattered throughout Western assisting Weissberg in his complicated Job is pfc William Thomas and seven indigenous Dick Jones editor of holds an editorial conference in of Ungstad with associate editors John Sharnik left and Sterling the Walls of the magazines offices Aie decorated by an eve growing frieze of weekend photo