Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Cairo, Egypt January stars and by Ralph Coten it a stat anything that the Post exchanges it was what they gave away that produced some of the broadest smiles of the year throughout an editor in a chaplain on Tite Gold a special service officer in Central Way Down the line to you and you and even like swallows that came Back to part of the Money plunked Down on x counters by personnel of this com Mand has found its Way Back to i theater Exchange tapped out on his adding the total of dividends for 1944 the two column cartoon on the right is the artists Conception of Post Topmost dist rib if the Regma new Pool table in your Day if theres a new curtain in the if your base or unit heaved a Beer Binge where everything but the bottles was on House theres where the pm profits the end of every month is pro fit sharing time at the i Cooper and this is How the Cash goes homing to its customers although each Exchange is part of a Middle East Chain which somebody once remarked make Walgreen with envy the stores operate Pri extracurricular businesses and profits disposal ideas Are their the individual Exchange officers have two Pui delights army regulations and the theater Exchange after inventory the Post Exchange officer determines his available profits and pays the sum 1 n to the Post Trust from also paid for Worth of Pool tables at Roberts Nile boat trips sponsored Tov Camp Huck the sunday ice Cream served in Tripoli the free distribution of yank and stars and stripes at the Post wide party at Accra Rolls in dough As a general most items not contained in special service kits Are bought with pm kick during a seven month be the Exchange officer at Accra signed out checks for to special the backs Heesh Lucre paid for palaver movie projectionists Tive lifeguards free photo graph facilities Tennis rackets parties contest prizes rec Hall and Library books empires and score Oeners instruments tables 200 Peru piment gains radio nation Ibone Aro of the fact that pm dividends Are intended for their Ricknell Points just As there is no store service exclusively for so is there no dividend allocation exclusively to officers their organizations Are sup ported by the dues of its Mem in the fruitful pm gis reap benefits not Only from pro fits but also from the Alexandria store Sells those stub there the benefits sift Down to by 15cent bottles of Beer at the i through the Central Post special service and unit what Are some of the benefits in addition to the dozens of a Nimrod scandal sheets ground out by there Are several Post papers sugar added by pm of among them Are Payne Fields Asmara Zero and the Accra a those Beeran pretzel blow outs every saturday night at Khartoum Are paid out of the pro fits cigarette Money has you can slip a nut covered banana split at hucksters Fountain for and when a Fountain pen costs minimum markup there is no uniform Price throughout the general policy is not to sell above the average drugstore or grocery store Post Exchange offi cers can juggle retail figures at their own discretion so Long they keep the profit ceiling at monthly reports Are cleared through the theater Exchange of and if Tjie c Mark is torrid replies snap Back to the overcharging officer from Bucknell a former auditor for Firestone retail which Cost Are sold at per pack at several locations due to the native cur Rency such As the Piaster which does not add up to an even since pm practice is not to profit on other Pri Ces Are trimmed to the Piaster jingling i will Shell out for pigs but Only for gum and an at ground crewmen once complained to his pm Pilicer that because of the Low prices he was spending More Money than he could it fools he you walks in and you finds everything so cheap that you buys the House then you gets Back to the Barracks with your hands full but your pockets big Trade in Knickknacks stateside items Are not the Only Money savers the Middle East Chain offers its Soldier which started in As a couple of shelves of Wal lets and inexpensive filigree in most has boomed into a dominating attraction in these Patron Saint of the souvenir ser vice is Mcmanus who will swear on a stack of ration cards that in the past year he trekked Miles and guzzled 150 Gallons of turkish Coffee and persian his Job in june 43 was to Dis cover new souvenir sources arid find better and Al though the native handicraft on Sale throughout us anime is per haps the widest and most colourful selection offered to gis anywhere in the Mcmanus Hast stopped looking for so far he has Learned that Ceylon produces better Ebony than Indian Ivory is Superior to Khar and Palestine or Syria or India feature finer filigree work Nan ship than where child Ren Are usually with the Aid of at transport Mcmanus has made purchasing pilgrimages to the per Sian near East coun a Wobu Menov of de tries and Africa Bush As a result of shrewd horse trading and an ability to hold his the onetime manager of Sears Roebuck stores has enabled gis to mail Home brocaded Silks from Horn handle cutlery from italia made lighters from Gold filigree from the Gold Ivory statuettes from Ebony carvings from Olive Wood and Mother of Pearl mementos from leather goods and perfumes from Bone bracelets from gains if Alhout i gaining has a dazzling venire at its 1 highest Quality at the continues the Heaters specialist there will the adventurers who to strike out for themselves in the native Quarter rather than Trust in the even a Dever Soifer change also Young in the Middle East at Tite time went the Way of All stopping for a swagger he was offered one by a sidewalk the Price one found that four dollars in after an embarrassing session of haggling and Young proudly walked off with the stick for go he later visited he Cairo pm and saw it of the counter marked 25 piastres Bruno manager of Camp hucksters believes no amount of caution will prevent gis from venturing into native he simply cams shoppers that they buy there sure to pay a Owoundi and a half extra for the wants egg in his Many shortage problems have been solved by sponsoring the local production of d Eritrea aluminium Giters not Only met All Middle demands but answered re quests from pcs in adjoining Heaters As at Bucknell is negotiating with a palestinian firm for the Manu lecture of an inexpensive wind troop lighter similar to a Type popular in the shortages or no you can never please asserts Casimir Counterman at then he proceeded to relate about the i who breezed into the ate some iop Cream and Vanilla topped h off with a ordered a car of a couple of nestles writing paper and what color do you want asked the Blue or Blue Black came the we dont have apologized the the i slammed his purchases on the counter and that the trouble with these Damn never have anything you want souvenirs on Safe throughout us anime Are usually of the same variety in each How several stores feature Large displays of local mementos which cannot be Mas produced for d Tributino to other As the Leopard skins at the miniature Bazaar with tote Baedeker sounding names above a Sample of the variety most pcs offer at Only 10 a touch of the Orient is the lesser concern of us anime exchanges main if a of camels and Hershey bars and col rates Are strictly from theft Menf Iff considered Post Exchange musts and can be found1 on the shelves from i a managed bars in this theater go two better ice Cream and
