lowegian Centerville, Iowa
DEC 14
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WAF from Genua ny Tells
T/SGT. MISS JESSIE FORD of the WAF, and her tiny French-made Renault car at the Ford garage in this city. Garagemen got a kick out of small imported machine.
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"Germany! is Rehabilitating itself in the z|ne# other than Russian at a rapid jiate," is the statement of T/Sft Jessie Ford of the WAF, who drove into Centerville Thursday from New York City in her tiny French Renault car.
Miss Ford has been stationed at Weisbaden, Germany, for the past five and one half years with the U. S. Air Force. During that time she has watched Germany change from a somber, depressed and hopeless nation of underprivileged people to a rapidly awakening and comparatively prosperous country.
Miss Ford said that much of the battered and beaten empire is now rebuilt. Prior to the time when the German mark was stabilized, there was little in the way of produce, clothing, or materials or goods of any kind to be had except on the black market. Then when the mark was stabilized at approximately the equivalent of an American quarter, goods blossomed out on the bare shelves of stores almost overnight They came off of the black market into regular channels of trade.
£GT. FOHD POINTS TO TINY ENGINE in her Renault ear. It Is located in the rear compartment of the machine, where the average American car has tools and suitcases, not to mention the spare tire.
Reds in Bad Shape
The WAF also stated to a newsman that there is a growing accord between the German people of the American and English zones and that in the zones other than that held by the Russians, that Communism has been taking a beating. In the time that she has been in Germany, Miss Ford has seen the Communistic ticket at the pools get fewer and fewer votes each year until in the last election the Communists failed to seat a single candidate.
In addition to working with the American forces, Miss Ford has been enabled to tour practically all of the European continent as well as much of the Holy Land, Turkey, and so on.
Miss Ford will appear in an Interview on the Around Town of the Air to be broadcast over radio station KCOG of Centerville Saturday evening, December 15, at 6:30.
Her tiny Renault car with the engine in the rear attracted much attention here Friday. She sought to get a heater for the car but was unable to do so as no A-merican-made heater available here seemed to fit the machine.
The small car, made in France, was brought from Europe by Miss Ford, transportation free.
In place of the word "gasoline" mi the dash gauge, it carries the vord "essence." The speedometer •eads in "kilometers" and the nachine gets about 42 miles to he gallon of American gasoline.
Miss Ford is planning to leave oon for reassignment to duty, robably in the U. S.
