Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote D Azur Friday May la 1945the stars and stripes Page 7 Apo Mon give extra attention to contest mail letters entered in the stars and stripes War Bond contest Are receiving special treatment at Apo 887 to expedite delivery to contest Cornin it fee Headquarters. Apo 887 has set aside a separate l of for entries which is emptied As often As six times a Day. In several cases an entry has. Reached the contest committee an hour or so lifter it arrived at the Apo. A Ugis who enter this contest Reed have no fear that their letter wont reach its Mark a said t/5 Walter Al Lawing of Fayetteville n.c., clerk in charge of operations at Apo 887. A we handle hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail Here each Day but with the special receiving Box set aside for the contest there is no Chance of a letter of entry going Lawing estimates from observing the return addresses that of the hundreds of contest letters that have passed through the Post office thus far 65 percent were from combat and Forward Echelon troops and the remainder were from army personnel in the Paris area. Three enlisted men have been assigned to handle the contest mail. They Are t/4 John Roche of Monmouth 111. T/4 n. D. Chew of Evanston. 111., and pfc Walter Groth of Chicago. Major Ervin w. Boettcher of Chicago postal officer of Apo 887, gave the official View. He said a Apo 887 is most Happy to cooperate in this worthwhile contest. We feel that from it will come Many ideas to Benefit not Only the members of the army themselves but the United states As the contest is open to All army personnel male and female in the Eto who have a class b allotment or have purchased a War Bond since Alay i when the Competition began. All that is required is a letter of from 50 to 250 words on the subject a my savings and postwar ten first prizes of Chevrolet automobiles or trucks Are being offered with Frigidaire As the award for the ten next Best letters. Skeezix joins s amp s comics the stars and stripes today reintroduces the homely characters of a gasoline alleys to its readers. A gasoline alleys is a comic strip in which the characters actually grow older As time passes As they would in real life. So today a sequence actually May be said to have started feb. 14, 1921, when a baby named skeezix was left on the Doorstep of Walt Wallet a kind hearted Bachelor. Skeezix was the child of mme. Octave an opera Singer and col. Coda. 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