European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Rte Iitto Vanderport on in old fashioned to night Rator for close work. Ass Story and photos by Tracy Baker maybe some old soldiers lode away but28 years Ahei touring from 1he army sgt Russ Jurat keeps clipping along today when mos Barbers Call items Clos hair stylists c9-Yoar-Otd Russell Vando poit Aioli red army sergeant first class still Calls himself o Barber his Basic haircut for your Basic Buck policy emphasizes flattops mulches and Cre culs. Just Tike culs he gave in his Days As an induction Center bar or in Detroit thank you very much and that la be our Bucks please Only three fifty if you re retired or a kid. There s a steady Stream of customers into the bar Ber shop he bought in 1960 Oiler completing 23 years in the army. And he s not even thinking act about retiring from his second career. About half his clients Are retirees he estimates drawn by what he Calls his old Limer s Cut. Tapered and shaved at the spend an afternoon in his shop and that seems about right. But he s recruited a Hetty corps of Loyal regular still on the paying Inlo Side of social Security Loo. That sgt. Russ he s number one says Frank Saez while Vanderpool who still Calls himself sgt. Russ on lha sign outside his shop brushes hair trimmings out of Saez s Collar and justs him with Talcum powder. Of. Kid. A look 20 years rejoins Huss Gruff Friendly removing Saez s bib and collecting s4, " set outta Here and i la see a in three weeks Saez stands runs his lingers Over his fresh or Cecul. Twenty years younger but i m Only 22." a Mut ters under his breath Asha leaves Vanderpool s shop. Vanderport joined the in Landry in de Cember 1936, when he was Only 18, when soldiers still wore Brown shoes mules still pulled machine gun carts and most americana worried More about the great depression than the seeds of world War ii germinating in Europe and Asia in those depression Tough years when food was Scurco. Money and jobs scarcer still especially Tor a 15 year old orphan he turned first to work at a civilian conservation corps Camp Tor survival Ihen enlisted in the army. His first hitch ended. I was getting three squares a Day. And i thought to Mysell i Ain t Getlin out of this " hero upped. After serving in Hawaii Iceland and Michigan where to met and married Vandt part intranet at my Barber shop in Tauton Taftt ii his Detroit born wife in 1943, Vanderpool joined the cadre of the 103rd inf Der in Texas. Landing in Marseille in 19, to Anc his outfit slagged North toward France s Vosges mountains ought their Way into the Black Forest punched through c i away irom his school he Mel Iho major commanding the Center who Olferd him his rank Back and a Job clipping along with s Basic haircut for your Bas Page 14 the stars and St Lopes tuesday
