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Show Like a Trip To Tripoli? Lady 'Civilian Recruiter' Offers Job With Travel NEW YORK, N. Y. Anybody want to be a plumber in Alaska or a refrigeration mechanic in Tripoli, or a stenographer in Saudi Arabia? Blanche Kranz, who's never been to any of these places herself, wishes more people would develop a wanderlust. She's supposed to recruit re-cruit civilian personnel for civil service overseas assignments with the United States air force, and business, at the moment, is lagging. "We had 364 vacancies last week, compared to an average 60 vacancies vacan-cies a week in July," she said, wistful, wist-ful, eyeing the door to watch for any applicants. "Where there are military there should be civilians." Europe is the most popular spot with the applicants. Guam, said Miss Kranz, is at the bottom of the list. "Two different women I interviewed inter-viewed yesterday said they wanted to go to Europe so they could see Paris," she said. "Then I had a letter let-ter from a girl we had just sent to Alaska and she said the sunsets were the most beautiful she'd ever seen. So you see once you get them there they often like it. Miss Kranz, who is an attractive brunet with a streak of gray in her hair, was frankly amazed at one man who requested a job as a mechanic me-chanic in Saudi Arabia. "It gets up to 150 degrees over there," she said. "But he'd been there before and wanted to go back-" |