European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Big Rig fans Story i photo by Jim Coles Iii staff writer Germany women in doing a Sis Merly reserved for men Arent because nearly All reids Are open to women so whats so special about Jayne Murray and Uura Ito wort Broad truck Drivers with us Tuth trans co nothing except they Eal january 1976 the stars and stripes Poge 9 2 female who Are overfheroaa1 Drivers sleep and think truck own Mack track Murray from said she has been fascinated with trucks for several but that her educational background almost kept her from doing what she after High school 1 toot a two year course in mass Communia Mai Orang in pretty i just sit through classes any army uttered Opportunity after finishing school she decided she wanted to do something adventurous and the army seemed like the place to do she i was really interested in driving trucks and in coming to the army like the Best Way to do said i had one reason for joining the army i wanted to serve my Murray said that her interest in trucking began several years ago when she took a summer Job with the Washington state Highway department on a Road repair Ive always been interested in mechanical when t was working on the Road Crew As a one of the Guys asked it id like to drive his that when i got during that summer i got to drive a lot of the contractors Freedom 9ie said that driving a big Rig gives her a sense of Power and Freedom that no other Job Shes had Ever comes close a said that she got her interest from a one of my friends had a truck in from Allentown to he asked if wanted to ride with i tried it and 1 liked 1l he even let me drive but when he saw How i he never asked me i was a Little scared of the big when i joined the army i wanted to be 4 Jayne Murray foreground and Laura of the 7blh trans aboard one of toe 5ton trucks they a that didst work out so i took my second which was in glad i they Are not the Only women Drivers but they by their own the most eager to some 11 women Are assigned Here a they but Only one or two others Murray said that since she completed her probation she has had runs All Over sometimes the runs re quire her to sleep she said that pre sents no problems for but drives some people they try to be in Content to sleep on a but they want to lock me away so ill be she the Only complaint either woman has about the unit is the housing there Are no facilities for women at our so we Ore housed at Lee must commute to and from that about 10 Miles each neither Al us has a so they have to come get ii creates problems for Church still has 800 Miles to go on her probation period and looks Forward to get ung out on her both women said they live by the units unofficial crab another gear and keep on Hildegard Susmund of Gor Mischo Patton hotel manager started As a cleaning woman by de Hill stiff tart Burea u Chi Al Germany Sis the manager of the most profitable hotel in arc started Al the Bottom As a clean ing woman scrubbing floors to earn it was ims and we we rent really inter ested in Money because it want Worth said Hildegard manager of the general fallen hotel we needed food to live and a lot of distinguished persons scrubbed remember one Man who had been a famous chemist and had won several times were hard for who came from moved Here toward the end of the War to live with Al that this building was being used As a temporary Hospital for the she it had been built in 1kb As an officers club for the elite Mountain troops and was pretty Idle Rolls Rise again London a unemployment in the United kingdom jumped to this the first time the figure has gone up for five government figures the new equal to percent of the working is above the de Cember when the americans they quickly recognized the building for what it in july of it was reopened with great pomp and ceremony As the 10th army div officers she general Patton was Here himself for the grand Susmund he walked on a red Carpel through the dining mom to his place at the head the Large portrait of him in the dining room is on the Wall overlooking the location of that Bead the menu was Schweinle Bralten with Knodl and to this we have that meal on our in two additional wings of living apace were added to the building and it opened the following year As the Gen eral Patton according to the 200bed hotel has not been changed except for minor in the Susmund was moving her first experience on what makes a hotel lick came while working in the in the i could see the decisions and the she it also gave me a dunce to see the flow of paperwork thai was necessary to no a after managing Tome of the Small vip guest houses she moved up to become the assistant manager of the von Steuben she then went to Bereles Gadea to manage the Alpine the arc facility most religious retreats Are in she resumed Here to manage the general i have tip eople working for me she that includes cleaning administrative More people would Cost Loo much the Genera Pallon has the greatest number of rooms with Bath and we purposely place most of the ski seekers said two William the director of operations and training for that Only part of the reason its the most profitable hotel in an other reason u that Frau Susmund makes very Good use of the resources she one of the problems Susmund has ii maintenance and when the additions were built in they we rent built very she Al that the americans didst expect to be Here More than to were having a lot of especially with its a constant Frau Susmund has a really Good maintenance Raines every she submits More repair work re Tiu ests than anyone else she keen that hotel in excellent Susmund is proud of the hotel and keeps herself personally involved in opera air Force John Lyons my wife and i eat lunch nearly every Day at the general it is not at All Unrau Al to see Frau Susmund waiting on tables or doing other work that other managers wont i enjoy my work very said sur j plan to May Here until 1
