Evening star., 1944-09-03
Ex WACS and WAVES
Sought 10 Fill Jobs
Meeting the Public

| EXWACS and ex-WAVES are in
demand for meeting the public"
type Of jobs here but most of the
woman veterans are going back to
their old jobs or taking advantage
of veterans preference in Govern
ment.
/ Donald G.. Stanley, senior veter-
ans employment representative of
the United States Employment Serv-
ice here, said he'd had number of
calls from private employers who
felt the X-ServiCeWomen had
good background for Office work
dealing with the public but he's
been unable to meet the demand.
He has sent cards, he said, to
approximately 200 woman veterans
asking if they need help in securing
employment but most of them have
responded that they didn't.
Have Definite Ideas.
/ The X-servicewomen who have
come TO his desk, he said. have very
definite ideas on what they want
and sometimes have to be led gently
into other fields of endeavor.
! There was the Irish eX-WAC from
Boston. A shipping clerk in small
manufacturing company for Is
years before the war. this 37-year-
old woman veteran yearned TO drive
a truck She had learned how TO
drive truck in the Army and that's
what she wanted to do for the rest
of her life.
Mr.. Stanley told her there were
openings for woman bus drivers but
she wasn't interested, She ad-
mitted she probably wouldn't be
able to drive an express company
truck-the trunks would be little
heavy for her-but a department
store had delivered package to her
door via truck and she decided she
could handle store truck job easily.
/ Finally Takes Clerks Job
I'VE finally got her junior clerks
job in the Government Mr.. STAN
ley reported We explained that
after the war the truck jobs would
be going to men and she'd have
more security with veterans prefer
ence in the Government
But" he sighed, Il think she still
wants TO be a truck driver
Then there was a girl, described
by Mr.. Stanley as Just a little
tyke" who had been an airplane
mechanic in the WAVES. She ex-
planned the Navy had taught her to
be a mechanic and she thought at
first she ought to take advantage
( of her learning She was definite
/ on one point-Whatever she did, she
/ didn't want desk job.
Mr.. Stanley found her a job at
ServicemenS club which she liked
because she was meeting people
Then she was put in the auditing
section and soon she was visiting
Mr. Stanley again. BY this time.
she'd decided she wanted a night
/ Job so she could hold down two Jobs.
She had worked out an arrange
ment whereby she could get an
apartment rent free simply by being
on hand to answer the telephone all
day.
Wanted "NeSt Egg"
She needed the extra money. she
explained. because her sweetheart
was in the Army and she wanted
to collect nest egg before he
got out. Mr.. Stanley placed her as
reservation clerk in Union Sta
ton working nights.
One eX-WAC was able to make
good Use of her Army training.
Shed been studying biology before
she entered the service. The Army
trained her as technician in
/ the Medical Corps. Mr. Stanley
promptly found her a 81 400 Job as
doctors receptionist- -technician.
/ A WAVE officer was routed to
War ManpoWer Commission ma
tional headquarters for a statistical
job and an enlisted WAVE. trained
as a laboratory analyst in the serv-
ice, is to be branch manager here
for a Ddint store