European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page in special insert to the stars and stripes Friday april 18, 1986 Iceland azores the map at left will give some idea of what it is like to deliver the stars and stripes to you every Day. If our press were in Denver instead of Darmstadt you can see that every Day we would be sending the paper from Denver to Texas Bavaria and to Alaska and to Baja California. Our truck Drivers Roll up about 11,000 Kilometres every night bringing your morning paper to you. If Darmstadt were in Denver. In Darmstadt Germany stars and stripes truck Drivers Start pulling away from the loading Dock at 10 every night with the three Star edition headed for dark highways to make the connections that will bring you your morning paper in time for breakfast at Ansbach bad Stoelz or Birndorf. When the 50,000 copies of that edition Are on the Way some new pages Are being made ready with fresher news for the two Star edition. Just after Midnight the trucks Start leaving to carry this later edition to such places As Miessau Wackenheim or Birkenfeld. All newspapers print different editions to bring the freshest possible news to readers. How fresh your news is depends on How Long it takes to get the paper to you from the time it comes off the press. About 30,000 of our readers get the one Star edition. While All the trucks Are still on the Road in Germany a Crew of editors comes to work at 4 . To Start working on that edition. The news deadline is 8 35 in the morning which lets us get that night s sports from the states on its Way to you at once. This one Star is the paper which goes to Turkey Greece Italy Spain and the . It goes by truck to the Frankfurt Airport and then by plane and rail and truck to our most Distant readers. Then we Start All Over again for the next Day. We do this seven Days a week 363 Days a year. We take Christmas Day and the fourth of july off so you do not get a paper the Day after those holidays we know that some of our readers Way out on the end of the line get the paper later than we would like to get it to them but you can be sure we Are always trying to find ways to get them fresher news faster. You can Tell what edition you Are Reading by looking just to the right of the Date on Page one. You will see one two or three Black stars there. The  stars on the pages inside the paper Tell you what edition that Page started in