European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 16 the stars and stripes thursday october 12, 1967 of nurses line up for Vietnam duty win praises for Good Job in Europe a. A a a it &.&.���. Shortages of nurses plaguing Many american hospitals so far have not affected the air Force nurse  be been fortunate said col. Ethel r. Kovach chief of the of nurse corps during a interview at Rhine main Germany following her three week tour of Safe and Usa eur hospitals. The air Force maintains about 4,000 nurses atall times and we Haven t had to lower any of our standards to keep that  the of recruiters look for women and men there Are 400 male nurses with past nursing experience an Good educational backgrounds. One major reason the air Force attracts nurses believes col. Kovach a Veteran of 26 years is Job satisfaction a desire to  i joined the service during world War ii it was out of a desire to help our men Over seas. This is still True. We have Long waiting lists of nurses anxious to go to Vietnam.  want to go. They have to wait their turn. We have 155air Force nurses at one time in Vietnam who stay for one year Tours. They serve at our one big Hospital and at various casualty staging units where patients await air evacuation out of  by Mary Ann Reese staff writer her phone of work talk round the clock London special Britain s Best known talkers rugged and said i just can t help  miss Patricia Simmons 47, is the woman who Tell millions the time Over the Post office Telephone sys  123 any time of the Day and you will hear miss Simmons talk and talk and talk on Wax of course. She never stops. I suppose you could say i m the top of the pops she said. My disc has been going non Stop since 1963."that was when miss Simmons armed with a Jug of water and Throat sweets spent three Days re cording her Long player. She made endless separate announcements like at the third stroke it will Beten thirty one  it was quite frustrating. You can t put much Emo Tion or expression into telling the time miss Sim Mons said. But i managed to get a bit of a kick into precisely i was always interested in talking. I just can help it. I was a Telephone operator for 30 years so i guess i got plenty of  Simmons was selected As the voice of time out of a Competition with 9,000  were looking for clarity and warmth a sort of Friendly voice she said. We were Given cod letters to mask our identity and the first tests were to unseen judges Over the Telephone. Then a selected few had to make a Complete recording. It meant an awful lot of talking but that did t bother  was born in London s East end but has none of the Cockney Slang normally heard in that  took elocution lessons to help me in Amateur theatrical work and Don t have any accent now she said. The funny thing is that when i act in a play i m invariably Given a Cockney  Small drum on which miss Simmons voice is recorded rotates endlessly in its Glass Case at a Post office building in London s Kings Cross District. Sometimes callers ring up to say it is telling the wrong time miss Simmons said. But they Are Al ways  is a daily automatic Check by the Post of fice times signal department she  Simmons a plump woman with Blue eyes is now a travelling supervisor. She visits Post office clients and discusses their Telephone problems. Other programs attractive to nurses Are the Aero space nursing program and flight nursing. Until recently our nurses have received higher salaries than their civilian counterparts. And i think that will be the Case again within three or four years predicted col. Kovach naming another incentive. I signed up for six months she recalled it s turned into a pretty Long six months but i be loved every minute of  Many things have changed since those Days. We get promotions along with the regular officers now and we get much better chances for furthering our educations now. In the Early Days we Only had relative rank. We were called second lieutenants but we did t get equal pay or Bene fits. We weren t allowed dependents. In 44 we began offering More educational benefits and now it s common to Send our nurses to a University for . Kovach s tour of american . Hospitals in Greece Turkey Spain England and Germany which employ 500 nurses generally showed we Don t have any big problems. We have an outstand ing group of nurses. Their first interest is giving Good nursing care. I m proud of  uth nursing chief. Whose Headquarters Are inthe Pentagon notes also of nurses soon will get a new White  nurses still have the White Cotton uni forms. We Hope to get uniforms in materials easier to care for and a new design for flight nurses  col. Kovach plans to retire next year and Star my other career that of being a housewife. She was married in june to col. Winfred w. Scott ret. Both Are ardent golfers and Hope to spend some Leisure hours on the greens in Washington. Is photo by Schuettler col. Ethel Kovach. Soon to retire in favor of second career. Housekeeper at military hotel says hard work keeps you fit at 80 Marianne Weber. It s been a Good  is photo by Wesley by the time most people reach their 80th birth Day they have been retired 10 or 15 years. Not miss Marianne  her 80th birthday late last month she took time out from her Job As chief housekeeper at the american arms hotel in Wiesbaden Ger Many where she oversees 67 chambermaid another hotel personnel to blow out candles and share Coffee and cake with her ? no i Don t plan to retire As Long As they will let me work said the pert grand old lady. I be always said it s responsibility and work that keep you  hotel directors have no intention of asking Weber As she is called by her friends to retire. I can t imagine this place without her Sai Theo. H. Faust chief of billeting in the . Mili tary hotel which houses an average 550 persons each Day. She s been with us since we opened the arms in 1961, and she s simply amazing. Never sick never a clock puncher a hard worker. But most fall a real House Mother. She has a Knack of making everyone feel at Home. I can t imagine this place without  miss Weber a native of Aachen Germany near the Belgium Border has worked for americans the past 22 years. Part of that time she was housekeeper for some of America s top military leaders including Gen. Curtis e. Lemay and Gen. Lauris Norstad. She was housekeeper for Lemars and governess to their daughter Janie for three years. They still write me and visit whenever the Yare in the area she said with Pride. I be had a Long Rich life says miss Weber who now lives with her sister in an apartment near the american arms. When i was Young wanted to see the world and i was always Lucky with jobs. I did a lot of travelling. Crosse the Equator 13 times. In 1930 she was governess for the family Ofa business tycoon in Nairobi Kenya and later worked six years As governess for children of the German ambassador to Buenos Aires. If she would live her life Over again i d Dothe same thing. I wanted to get to know people who lived differently from me. And i had the wanderlust. I did what i wanted. It has been a Good