European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stars and Stripe of o a t u s e o t i o n Headquarters building goes up in Shadow of Sicily to Titian workmen powr Concrete for Navy installation near vast building program Engineer supervises construction of numerous installations in Mediterranean area Kirkpatrick to at or base located near Athens in eth one of the Scenic of the world u a the reaches of the historic personnel of the army corps of engineers in Are currently adding new facets to the operations of the largest construction Agency in the from this Tuscany port stems direction of the a army Engineer South the Southern District was activated aug ust 1 under the Mediterranean division and immediately assumed direction of the corps building programs in and Crete and through administrative supervision of the Middle East and the Morocco also shouldered the responsibility for work in and selected to head the far Flung operation which was to administer contracts in six countries from Gibraltar to the red sea and from the Alps to the mountains of was col a Veteran of construction endeavours lit Many parts of the under Kirk Patrick the Southern District tackled programs and projects previously started under the joint construction Agency and in its 9 months has steadily grown to encompass much of the Mediterranean recently projects in Sicily were added to the southerns construction in Sicily began late last year with the award of contracts for the construction of a Navy installation near one of the two largest cities on the with the beginning of work in the Foothills of the still Active the Southern District added its seventh major area of operation to an area of responsibility the size of the personnel assigned to the sicilian office Are representative of Many working with Southern District commuting to the District Headquarters is infrequent and about the local Economy in a Community at first but one 1959 the stars and stripes which affords americans Many beneficial the Catania office is the nearest Resi Dent office to leghorn outside of Italy travel must be by plane and train covering 600 Miles and requiring eight business with the districts other offices must be transacted Over still greater distances but most within the Range of one travel by programs in Turkey Are administered through an area office in a tvs commercial train and air accommodations via Rome tie the office to us Home base in 17 the greek construction schedule is maintained Miles away through the Athens area work is being done in Athens and on the Isle of engineering and construction personnel must travel 950 Miles to projects of the Middle East District in and traverse a distance equal to the breadth of the to reach the districts most far Flung outpost in Miles in Casablanca is located the nearest com Mercial air terminal to the Morocco District Headquarters in it is from leghorn and requires a Day to most of the major program of con currently for biggest the air will he completed this much of it at bases in North with the exception of family housing Only recently Bosun and relatively minor other the Gigantic Morocco air base construction program started in 1d51 will be closed out this a contract waa awarded in March for the construction of 500 family housing units at three locations in major work at wheel a air near will be substantially com plete this the million project wan initiated in 1951 with subsequent programs extending the base and req ulring seven years to u