European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Folding 1 m sgt James Castle and German worker at collating machine t sgt uttam and maj of Safe printing Plant r pm supplies 133 from Norway to Pakistan staff write photos by Ted Rohde Book trimmer Ronald Gorder and Ludwig Haw hoc 18 19m tucked away in Corner building the Kastel Supply near a Small group of men Are doing a big Job in meeting Safea the building contains the Safe print ing and publications Plant which prints everything from Dos 15 million in one year to language books for air Force the plants printing standards Are controlled by the joint committee on printing in the Plant supplies 1s3 air Force accounts stretching from Norway to North Africa and each 25 Mil lion Are a unit is one 8 by a better of monthly output can be determined from the following if the paper Strung out on a line eight inches it would extend Miles and weigh the second largest printing Plant in the air is operated by maj Hal Bilyeu and capt Kenneth depot Supply personnel consist of one Walter Frazer 46 airmen and 99 among items printed Are of the stars and stripes Telephone radio facility personnel travel text books of the the radio facility Chart Book runs about 200 pages and contains All the data that a Pilot needs to know to land a plane any where from Norway to saudi Arabia and Twenty two thousand of the books Are printed monthly to keep up with the of Are flown to the states for overseas bound As for the of a handful of copies Are flown Over from Washington and then the Plant gets to work on them to Supply Safe printing the Reg Here saves the Cost of shipping untold numbers from the the majority of the enlisted men at the Plant Are Veteran m sgt James Castle is officer in others include t sgt Wil Liam lithograph t sgt William my classified and s sgt Roy c majority of the printing i done on 8 by the facility charts Are prepared by personnel of the 1350th Aero Chart so and brought to the Plant then the printing process gets under Way the charts Are photographed and re produced on Zinc plates about three Square the plates hold 16 reproductions or then the printing begins on the plants four letter presses or 14 offset an ingenious system has been devised that allows the Zinc plates to be used Over and the plate with the impressions still on it is placed in whirling Basin and hundreds of Ball Bear Ings Are scattered Over the operation lasts 20 minutes and at the end of that the plate is As the sheets Are printed one of the Large presses turns out an go to the cutting and trimming Section and then to collating the automatic Collator sorts 16 pages at one time and eliminates the need for the work to be done by classified is handled in Mccabe and eight airmen work in a windowless room handling documents labelled binding the legs and Dos Are packed and shipped by rail and truck All Over the command and to attaches behind the Iron Page 13