Mediterranean Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1962, Naples, Naples                                The Sterrs and today Hafife 9 daily to Greece and Turkey. A stripes truck carries the papers to Frankfurt air port. From there they Are flown commercially to Athens where the shipment for Greece is dropped. The rest Are placed in another plane and flown to Istanbul. In Istanbul the shipment again changes planes and proceeds to Ankara. Here the Adana papers Are picked up by taxi and taken to a bus terminal. A bus carries stripes Overland to Adana 312 Miles away and the papers Are dropped at the terminal there. In Adana another vehicle owned by a private contractor takes the papers to the air base 30 minutes drive away thus end ing a trip. Meanwhile another division of the new York office maintains Liaison with major . Publishers and Book houses. More than 400 tons of merchandise including different . Books and periodicals Are received and transshipped from the Brooklyn army terminal every month to Darmstadt and London the major redistribution Points. From these places the material is shipped to a network of 18 circulation offices which in turn distribute stripes., other newspapers books and magazines to individual Newsstands. Stripes is published under the jurisdiction of the . Command head quartered in Paris. . Neucom has delegated operational responsibility to the Usa eur commander in chief in Heidel Berg. The Usa eur Public affairs division is responsible for staff supervision of stripes while Day to Day operating responsibilities far to the editor in chief currently army co. Ridgway p. Smith or. The Deputy editor in chief is air Force it col John j. Caulfield. Governing the Complex stripes organization Are two committees the stars and stripes fund Council and the editorial policy Board. The former which meets quarterly to study financial statements and approve expenditures is made up of the editor Tive each from one of these major military Headquarters Usa eur Safe 7th army and com z. The latter also meets quarterly in Darm Stadt to review editorial policies. It is made up of representatives from stripes an and the top army Navy and air Force commands in Europe. Stripes differs from privately owned metropolitan dailies in the . Only in that there Are no ads or editorials. It does not seek to influence Public opinion. Its goal is simply to give its readers factual unbiased news coverage plus As Many entertaining features As possible. It serves As a Hometown newspaper away from Home for readers from All the states and territories and of All political persuasions. It has received Many tributes for its impartial reporting. Reps. Edward Hebert d-la., and William Hess a Ohio for example had this to say of stripes after a fact finding tour of Europe for the House armed services committee if we could have our Choice of the newspaper we would prefer to have on the breakfast table each morning the one that would win hands Down would be the . Military s stars and stripes. From the standpoint of unbiased reporting there is none  staffer Marty Gershen with or. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. Jsu below Morf Gudebrod cover ing exercise on French coast. England Berlin is Germany Erin Mannheim f r a n c e t u r k v Izmir Casablanca Morocco legend bureaus offices Page 10 stars and stripes 20th anniversary supplement april 18, 1962