European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes june 194 repair shop saves million in 8 months scientific tools get overhaul at Furth Futh medical repair shop Here has saved the taxpayer More than a million Dol Lars since last the army medical has the shop repairs All types of medical ranging from a diagnostic instrument contain ing parts smaller than a baby Fingernail to huge portable it averages a saving a set up in the shop has gradually taken Over All but a few of the delicate repair jobs that used to have to be returned to the it also specializes in combining three or four worn out instruments into at least two usable Stanley com Mander of medical depot the shop is said one of his most common problems is xray machines wrecked by the fluctuating German and austrian electrical voltage which is supposed to be fixed at 220 May waver from 160 to in for current varies from 40 to 70 Cycle while most american machines Are set for a steady 60cycle Bremerhaven has finally put in its own 60cycle generators to guarantee steady the variations Are Apt to continue until electrical control facilities destroyed during the War can be Darling the shop has a Fleet of portable repair vans ready to go out into the Field for emergency jobs at few minutes they can provide repairs for All of functions for which a medical depot is set t the dental repair Section works with a Hodgepodge of German and american instruments and dental several army dentists have told the repair shop they prefer the cannibalized chains put together by the shop to the new much of the work the done by German technicians supervised by medical corps technicians been especially useful in the delicate adjustments of precision instruments such As analytical adopt Hal Light repair work is performed at the hospitals by technicians trained at the maintenance shop itself accepts Only heavier repair pig Iron produced from Taconite Minneapolis University of Minnesota announced that it has produced pig Iron from Taconite for the first time in v head of the University mines Experiment Sta said the very successful experiments showed that the nation is to be obtained after Minnesota present High Grade Ore supplies Are he Eaid now it will not be necessary for steel to obtain their Iron from Taconite Rock from which the famous mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota be it contains about 25 per cent Iron As compared with the 52 cent in Normal Davis said the finished pig Iron was produced from Taconite in experiments which climaxed More 20 years of University work with the Low Grade Davis said there Are countless Iron bearing Taconite in the Lake Superior District of Northern a technician at fhe medical departments maintenance shop at is sitting on the Edge of a big portable sterilizer and holding an ophthalmoscope in his hands by Way of showing some of the tasks undertaken both Are routine jobs for the capitols scrub women face loss of annual vacations by Harman Nichols Washington lot of a scrub lady can be or not according to where she if she slops her mops and pushes her brooms around a restau rant or bake chances Are Shell go Home lugging a heaping sack of Turkey unused vegetables or donuts and Sweet of the j but the poor gals who work at the Library of Congress dont even get a Good Book to they work As hard As the there int a Book or a Spittoon out of take it from my Friend its no simple task to books every and what do Susie and her girl friends get ninety cents an hour for working from 6to 9 in the morn susies not under but what has her in a Tizzy is the Way Shes getting jostled by her Rich Uncle some old Nosey govern ments general accounting office got to poking through the payroll and complained that the Char As temporary were not entitled to the 26 Days of annual leave Treyve been get their John Andreas director of the administration department for the jumped to the defense of his what do you mean temporary he some of these gals have been Here for even Are about years june 1943 British bombers raid Cologne for the 116th 1944 in Normandy troops fight within four Miles of the West coast of the Cherbourg june 1945 Okinawa the 16th Marine advances 700 Yards in heavy june 1946 a Tornado sweeps the Detroit killing 14 june 1947 mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City ends his 30year Rule turning the office Over to his Frank Hague fewer americans trying to Purchase new Homes ready to retire on do you Call that sir the accounting Man didst answer that All he he is that according to the rec the scrub gals Awethe gov eminent a of Money for time off they didst some of emas much As which is a lot of Long Green for a woman with six like our who makes about on weeks when she Doest work when the word got the charwoman stacked their mops in a Corner and called a Chapel meet Susie at quitting time one scrubbers burst from the Many Library exits and fanned out in All directions to the Senate and House office Many a senator and congressman found himself being buttonhole by a lady in who was Sautton did the Only thing he could under the the filed a formal protest with Lindsay the comptroller filled with things like and there the matter my Friend Susie has missed a few Corners Shes a this was to be Start of her new Type made of plastics devel i Ozment of a new resulting from a marriage Between plastics and rub has been announced tie new known haste strength of but will not split under the blow i of a Lumberjacks according to scientists of the rubber it is expected to have Industrial but also May find its Way into the the substance was result of two years work in the laboratories it is corrosion a proof and can be folded in any color or shape in various Degreer of one of its first possibly for the be a plastic pipe for plumbing it is according to the another application May be ital use As a cutting lock for the neighbourhood grocer or for Industrial cutting a americans Are Cooling off some on the idea of buying new also to a lesser the number in the Market for new houses has dropped 20 per cent from a year a Federal Reserve Board Survey shows for the number has dipped one per there wont be either enough houses or cars built v this year to meet the demand of those still planning to and people As a whole Are so buy minded that at least one out of each four families will overspend its income veterans spend heavily these findings stood out in a Reserve Board report on a Survey it made of consumer finances and buying the Survey also showed that veterans Are heavier spenders than and that in the to a year income classes Are More buy minded than those the people generally Are willing use past savings or credit to carry out their spending the Sofr vey report observing More families or individuals living alone cashed the last of their government Sav Ings Bonds last who bought fur Wash ing machines and like last did so on the instalment twice As 23 airlines avoid fatality Chicago Hundred and eighty thousand times around the Globe a fatal 7 in is the combined safety record compiled by 23 air lines through figures released by the National safety Council the lines completed More than seven billion passenger Miles without a single a passenger or Crew a 24th american honoured for completing passenger Miles Between 1945 and june without a fifteen of the 24 winners of the councils 194t aviation safety awards not Only went through 1947 without an but completed fatality free records ranging from two to 18 other billion mile winners besides pan american were Amer ican and Northwest travelled Pas Senger Miles since it last fatal Accident Northwest travelled 000 passenger Miles since its last fatal Accident May j Many As used credit the year yet consumer incomes As a whole Rose More than 10 per last year and the number getting a year increased out of a total of 000 spending these units consist of living together and pooling comiss or individuals living alone the population to Here Are highlight finding the the 20 per cents drop in the number of consumer unite to the number figuring on doing so re upwards of and ably exceeds expected new House j on the Consumers pet to pay for a Houft thai is says the than the average actually paid last year and than people expected to pay last year persons or Ilies with incomes under year appear to have priced out of the House buying cars averaged Down one cent from a year the Numberg of consumer units planning to buy new or used cars this year upwards of on the they expect to 5 pay about for a average actually paid last Yeay 3 was or less than people j figured on paying when that year Wash ing wards of expect to buy some of these goods this year spending an average of on More than actual aver age spending last Federal Reserve Board j expect the number who actually buy these goods in 1948 to be Sider ably greater than the Man her who think they for the 3 simple that people plan ahead very accurately on these similar surveys showed has considerably outstripped planned buying for the last two last ended up making purchases when Only a maximum of sex peeled to do so when the year was 16yearold wins 125mile Gallop year old Jack Moore of ghz Wona horse race to Bil Lings in 15 hours 40 minutes 12 it second place was Billy Stew Riding a horse owned Tim Iriona of Miles the winning horse is1 owned by Ethel Matheson of it had two endurance horse races to Wyoming last f i stripes 194 june Edito Rinchley managing editor sports executive chief of Bernard news bureaus rank surf 2281322814 Stuttgart Berlin 848681 846680 Vienna 2228022202 Munich Grafe Wohr 438 the edition is Dally at for the occupation forces under the auspices Portne troop information and education division the stars and of Ungstad correspondence Snoma be addressed 7744thstarsand stripes Apo new York office sent to this is not an official publication of the s army reentered As second class matter sept 22 at the Post office at new under 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