European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I army publications. Front. From 11 letter presses 7 linotype1 machines and supporting equip no it  of 68,000. A new factory is now being built and is expected to lie ready next september with occupancy Likely before the end of h 59. Ii will to located on the Auto Kiihn at Rodel Heim half a mile North of the Frankfurt North turnoff. Chief of the printing Brunch is i i. S. Johnson while the chief of the publications Branch is p. J. O Nell. The training Aid Center is directed by d. M. Bout Man. Demand for training aids is constantly rising. Orders must be met quickly and to accomplish this the Center has taken stops to eliminate As much delay As possible. Through u process of bypassing the Cente has made it possible for outfits at com Pany level to Deal directly thus eliminating considerable paper work and delay. A training aids committee composed of representatives of nearly All usar Kur commands has As its function the review ing of proposals for visual aids. The group determines if they Are necessary who should get them and what Quantity should be produced. The Center is trying to gel. Away from cumbersome kinds of training aids mock U.S and charts in favor of u very Small  flexible training Aid which is re alerted on a screen. Miniature parts Are moved about like pieces of a Jigsaw Puzzle yet Are Able to Tell the Story As Well orbit tier than lockups. One such Aid is the tactical transparency training device which provides unit comm Enders at squad platoon and company level with a flexible training Aid designed to present graphically and simply All Tacti Cal situations. This Aid facilitates the effective critiques of training and Man Euver problems and also provides a Clear explanation of Field training problems prior to the conduct of the actual Field test. Another Aid which causes considerable comment is the Lens tic Compass which is used to Leach rap Reading. The Compass is mounted on an adjustable tripod to facilitate its use for instructional purposes. It. Reproduces the actual equipment i scale and operation. The printing Plant came to Hoechst in 194g. It was Small then and was used to Gether with 44 requisitioned Gorman plants to Supply army needs. The present consolidated Plant was established in 1948. Center is to move next year from present Plant of Rodel Heim factory. Right col l. W. Teter co gives briefing on the train ing aids Branch. Below men at Center put the final touch to big tank mock up. Reland s expanding peat Industry this milled peat harvesting machine is especially designed for its Job. Vast Boora bog will have 50 Miles of Light Railroad to haul peat to Power Larff. Equipment is provided with  treads to keep it from sinking in bog. From time immemorial visitors to ire land have been Struc k by the wild Beauty of the country s bog lands. Covered with Heather and Fern these areas provided cover for grouse and other forms of wild life while the marginal areas provided Fuelin the form of sods of turf laboriously taken by hand and dried in the Sun. Apart from the fuel Workings of local cottagers and Farmers the vast Interior regions of Ireland s bogs were desolate wastelands. There Are tales in Irish Folk lore of persons wandering into these areas and never being seen or heard from again. Only the wary Huntsman would venture in and even he would not go too far. It was impossible to walk any great distance be cause the Irish peat bogs Are 93 per cent water and Only seven per cent solid matter. Thanks to native ingenuity a great new mass production fuel Industry has Arisen in Ireland which promises in time to re claim the thousands of acres of bog lands for agriculture or forestation purposes while at the same time providing fuel for Home and Industry and creating thousands of jobs throughout the land. The organization charged with the task of developing Ireland s peat Industry is called bord a Mona and was set up in is photos by Mulready 1boora Boss Rhatigan right checks plan with Engineer. Machine with 40-ft. Blade pushes milled peat into ridges for Harvester. By Brendan p. Mulready staff writer 1946. Bord i Mona started in business with authority to expend up to $40 million in Public funds All of which is repayable with interest. The bog areas taken Over by the author Ity includes approximately 100,000 acre if these areas Are now producing fuel at Ali rate of nearly four million tons annual additionally a half million Bales of pea Moss for horticulture purposes is produce annually for Domestic and Export use. Or. C. S. Tod Andrews bord a Mono managing director sees a Bright future of Ireland in the development of the peat fun Industry. In effect said he what w Are doing is stripping off the turf foot b foot until ultimately we will be Down do.1 to shale. Then the land can be planted i,1 agricultural purposes. I even with anticipated production in creases there is enough Good fuel right on Ireland s Doorstep to last the next 40 years by that time the world should be Well into the age of atomic  at bord a Mona s Boora works in to 3central county of offal a typical develop ment covers 15,000 acres of the Western most reaches of the heretofore useless area of Ireland s Central Plain called the Bozof Allen. Thi stars and stripes Boora s Boss is Lewis j. Rhatigan a Man in his late 30s, whose 450-Man Crew produces 800,000 tons of fuel annually. Most of our employees Are local people who have grown into the Industry said Rhatigan. What is happening Here is that a Rural Community is being industrialized without   Boora produces milled peat 2,000 tons of which is delivered daily to a nearby Power Plant which in turn feeds its electricity into the National Grid for distribution throughout the nation. In the Power Plant the fuel is literally blown into the boilers and burned in suspension. The first operation after surveying is drainage. Drains Are Laid out symmetrically i at 4vi-foot depth 50 feet apart and the excess moisture is channelled off to the sea. After the bog has drained sufficiently to support the equipment the next operation is to Mill the surface to a depth of approximately a half Inch. A 40-foot Blade then pushes the Loose peat into ridges and an other machine comes along and collects All the smaller ridges into 10-foot High piles. By using mixtures of Light,-.medium and heavy milled peat we can make this material into briquettes for. Home use said Rhatigan. We have already started on construction of a briquette Plant Here at  possible uses for peat and peat products were demonstrated at a bord a Mona exhibit held recently at which Sean Lem ass Ireland s minister for Industry and com Merce was principal speaker. A general purpose of the exhibit was to further acquaint the Irish with Industrial uses of peat. In his talk Lem ass pointed out that there were still some people to be con Vinced As to the merits of the Home produced fuel. He cited the Case of a particular Industry which used 12,000 tons of turf fuel annually and which not Only had a Good Home Market but was also Able to Export profitably in the face of stiff com petition. But said he there Are other factories in the same area which show Little or no interest in the local product. And these Are some of the very people. Who complain of Lack of support for Irish  " apart from Home uses the main Export markets for Irish peat Moss As differentiated from fuel Are Britain the -U.S. And West indies and countries bordering the Mediterranean. ,. Peat burning Power Plant at Boora feeds electricity into the National Grid. Ireland  h of mar 19, v958 s a id Fri by or a the stars and stripes Page