European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The a fwd i berths Are their Mats has task of allocating on carrying travellers to duly stat Tatt Mabie staff writer v Mol not a Mcm a Moor of Mats in tha Mediterranean car tailed last month because of the Lebanon the Are rep cited to of Tim again later month or Vird the military i Tuftan m up Thevee been concerned with space Al Down in Long before Uip world heard of the group charged with the problem is called spa com less mysteriously known bus the military Soa transportation service space assignment m it and spa com has always had a hectic time fulfilling a minor aspect of their dealing with department of defense personnel applying for famous and pretty hard to get Mediterranean like similar committees at Bremer Southampton or leg horns spa com is to Jet official travellers in pc Iii Tina on to ships will 1nnj to their duty to do spa com Bonimy to on policy and inst where and on the More popular than in eligible but space available on cruise and it is up to spa com to Deal with the request1 and to help Happy to who does and docs not go on the mod cruise depends on Runny thing mainly on space or the Lack of but briefly the system works something me this each Quarter Isaki and the Navy determine How Many spaces they will need aboard Mats ves Sels in the Mediti Romean fire for official these figures go to where authorization percentages Are sent to capt John an of destroyer Sailor now Heads the naval Mats unit at under Fellows is his cmdr Ben Jamin Franklin chairman of spa Bailey gets the word on How Many spaces each service May have on any Given each committee member then selects the names of those who will go on a Given those names Are passed on to it Lloyd passenger fountains Job is to take the names he gets and fit them into the spaces he if then Ore spaces left spa com then considers the med cruise actually there Are two med cruise runs a Short cruise and a Long the Short cruise departs and returns to Casa Blanca touching leghorn and Naples in route there Are no problems on this cruise since you have to be in a Nisi or end to and for those stationed in Europe this is not the problem child is the Long this once month tour touches Stan and Izmir before returning to Casablanca and this is the ship that makes the popular Mediterranean Here is Why not Many space available types make it there is an average of 400 to 450 Cabin spaces on the ship but the spaces have to be open for the Complete tour of the Mediterranean before they May be filled by cruise there arc normally Only Between 100 to 150 spaces open for tie Complete the others go to official in before the Mideast for there were 110 berths in although there was no Only boy scouts of troop Check in for Mediterranean on Page september 1958 it Fountain and Yeoman Webb double Check passenger the stars and stripes 11