Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                October 1941 the by army to titter the port it printed by Paul october 1045 Frank publications Richard editor Dean Spotte Alt in Gap Amy that job1 t1 r f j Issue or cars stresses 1 a v i for Auto mechanics by Milton Sutton York first sunday after the end of gasoline rationing states was a Field Day spaced every Yards along the sides of the nations highways were thou Sands of crippled these co axed from the garages where they had Long been proved unequal to the opportunities for unrestricted lining the roads that they were a graphic advertisement which might have been labelled help Auto automobile repair shops have been hard hit during the Gas plus the ban on new Cut Down sharply the number of autos on the Many re pair men answered the Call of the War plants and the draft bit sharply into the ranks of those remain ing these figures Tell the Story before Pearl Harbor the average Auto dealer employed mechanics in his repair by late 1943 he was left with Little More than half this repair which managed to hang on in the face of these Erener ally found itself overloaded with motorists watched Over their cars like anxious listened to every suspicious sound and frequently sought the Aid of mechanics to keep some semblance of life in feeble oversupply danger Patching up automobiles will furnish a Large Field of employ ment in the postwar the number of Auto mechanics will keep Pace with the increasing flow of 1946 Model cars from reconverted Detroit our civilization will move on As Well As on and it will be up to the Auto Mechanic to it Roll there is sonic of an oversupply of trained repair the armed services trained Well Over a million mechanics of All Many of these will turn this skill for a civilian Liveli Hood with the resultant risk of but the promised increase in our Standard of and billions of May Well be factors stepping up the number of dollars to be spent on building Auto owner to a new against these prospects Are arrayed Fig ures showing a declining trend in the total employment of Auto mechanics Over a ten year from in 1930 to in Auto mechanics can find employ ment in automobile factories As Well As repair most of the factory jobs Call for Block car engine ignition experts and lighting and starting wage rates by far the proportion of Are found in the repair shops of Independent Gara Ges or automobile sales Here there Are the familiar duties of repairing ignition systems and taint ing and general in the larger mechanics May be specialists in repair of individual Auto the automobile Mechanic May be paid by the Job or by the hour or where hourly rates Are in they Mav run anywhere from to the higher rates generally apply to men organized in mechanics on federal1 civil service Rolls draw from to a educational requirements in this Trade Are not although a High school education is a desirable the Man who wishes to supplement Bis military or civilian mechanical training will find an abundance of courses offered by vocational while still in lie May enrol in usaf1 Auto repair courses or take advantage of the training Given under the army education Bird Well mix up All right now Ann 19yearold double and her she believed dead when she married his embraced joyously this week in it was their first Reu Nion since War shortened their honeymoon two years everything is All its All right liar Duvell told Bis blonde wife As she stepped from the the an Aerial gunner who had been reported killed in action in the reached Den ver three Davs ago Lor a medical checkup preparatory to a 90day Birdwell and Jack Marshall were married 12 Days before news arrived that Birdwell was still the marriage has been an Washington a new the stamp Camp will carry the Yor Trah of the late Al the Little Flower holds no grudges new York mayor Laguardia Lias sent to yes Chester county his personal Check for 5x cents in pay ment of tolls for official cars which escorted Jonathan Wright on a visit to the county one of the nations the mayor had been notified that the City had not met its Obi and with the wet the following note May i take this Opportunity of stating that any time police of West Chester county Are escort a distinguished guest from your county into our we will be very Happy to extend All Courte sies and not submit a Bill for toll to the county of Henry Arm Etta Dies san Henry a italia born stage and Feiven actor died sunday of a heart attack at mercy Hospital shortly after collapsing at Russ auditorium Whf re he was Ajo Pear Inu in a Senate has voted to cancel indo tiie taxes on the War time pay of All enlisted Obj committee Senate and House still have to approve agreed that Nien in the armed for Ces  to pay income taxes on their wartime it that officers should have an extra three years to meet taxes on their Revenue loss to the Treasury was described As very slight because servicemen Al ready get an extra exemption above that allowed separate medical corps Ghi Baigio a separate medical coitus for vets and expansion of present Veteran Hospital facilities were promised by Omar Brad vet administration speaking before the disabled ame rican veterans on a National said earlier at san Francisco that by 1966 a Peak Load of to vets would he under treatment in comparing this to to vitalized Twenty years after d War there Are now men in administration Milton Dav National told the convention John is blocking legislation for disabled by keeping such prob lems before a minor Cohn urged that Veteran affairs in our National legislature be handled by a major committee in both Senate and seniority Issue closes Plant a seniority dispute Between vets of the two world wars closed the Ryerson and Haynes Auto Access Ory factory was announced As sett led by of world War i picketed the Plant protesting super senior Ity granted an Eugi hired after they were the normally employing was closed Down when Cio United Auto work ers Union members refused to Cross the picket the Union claimed Span shame rican and world War i vets were discharged during Plant reconversion but a world War ii vet was Glen company pre said he had no alternative under the i Bill of rights hut to employ the sergeant told general Washington a sergeant asked a general appearing before the Senate military committee How come he want an Bernard of new York is a sound projector repair Man at he said he had been surplus with no thing to do for More than a month but  get released even though he had More than two years and was disqualified for overseas a witness the Senate committees in into said hearing just one Side of the it appears a mistake has been and promised to have army service forces look into the j never too old to learn Perry Veteran of both world has entered Hobart College As an undergraduate under the ii Hill of he will major in pin Stripe Parade fort entertain ment ranks depleted by the War Are getting Back some Lanny former stage and screen got out of the army Ross was in charge of ail us shows Atma Arthurs South Pacific in san the naw announced discharge of former Juve Nile movie Star Jackie and Tommy radio father of Hetty got before 1 c v aft it store it been lot of one huckster wait told Sands Ripon summing up the year and a half overseas for the gals now even when things were Tough and work was piled up All Over the gis at Huckstep will miss the All Are Friendly and have a keen sense of the article goes on to Tell the detachments history from the Day of its activation at fort february seven swell pictures show the girls in Khaki at ease and at including a shot of top kick Lillian Graham with the smile you see when the girls ask for a out of 78 was now at 32 states Are new Pennsylvania have the largest Cali Minnesota and do pretty Well for themselves Benja min and Huckstep Keith have paid warm tributes to these ladies of the Middle by dogsled dust rag mushed its Way into the department this week to report that the Well known Abadan weather has dipped to 62 for the coolest Day since last win Ter and High temperatures during this period teetered Back and Forth around Winter must be creep no up on us if its getting Chilly on the persian Berrr sky master asks a burning ques Tion of the moment what occupies the overseas vet sweating out shipment to the states their re Porter trailed after a few of them by that Bear beaten he meets a he inquire world Trade what for Chow mutters next we see him out Side the is he asking about the latest congressional Mes Sage on veterans rights give a mail today he we find him after dinner in his is it the russian five Yea plan evidently for he raises his head and Calls to a nearby cellmate whats at the show tonight these Throe mail arc the axes of his As Danny Kaye would theres one thing every Friday he hustled to the pm and buys stars and stripes and scans the headlines for discharge editorials in depo dope Are in variably a re cent one is titled what do we fear in Europe the editor recalls How Europe was closed to the outside world from june 1940 to june fall of France to the Normandy this was the time for much thought on the part of eur ropes the editorial when they considered the weak Nesses of their own leaders and reporters with the invasion noted new ideas and new concepts among the liberated Peoples who wanted no More la anti semites and reactionaries in Poland or income Tant monarchies in Yugoslavia and and asks the Why do we fear these people our own nation fought tyranny since its beg we going to forget our past in fear of the very people from whom we derived our great Ness and Progress we pinched ourselves and rubbed our but there it was in front of big As Only a month ago we reported its demise but Here it is going Strong the same four pages and healthy As can antics is on our desk once More and things humming along As usual at Eldouina theres a contest for a base Insi a football season getting off with up bang As the hot rocks smear the brass hats and an editorial sniffing the Crisp autumn air of the states and wishing we were All the ghost walks lightning Flo Ridas Pepper quoted by said most men will be Home by he is exerting pressure on the prop Wash lists pet Mir for a particular then finding youre on cd the night it slavs and and arriving sleep eyed at the mess Hall two minutes be fore closing on1to find a wide awake up beat the gun by those same two picking the winners each week in football prizes Are bar books at the Pink elephant to celebrate with when you win that i Black headline in Stenul Sitck step was Ifoma Marieville claims the worlds shortest rail it is two blocks Long and two the Wolf by Sansone ims 67 Uon Iid so unit Diin bulted to no Piper Thill make the fifth wedding weve gone to know of Eny More