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Responding to the call for additional men to join the Mountain Troops, 30 College undergraduates have registered with the War Service Information Office and will be interviewed shortly by Charles M. Dole, chairman of the National Ski Patrol System. Under the new system recently announced by the Ski Association, men accepted for service in the mountain forces may apply for voluntary induction or be drafted directly into this special Army branch without undergoing the usual prescribed training period at Fort Devens or its equivalent...
According to the War Service office, the first troops accepted into the 87th Mountain Infantry, some of whom are on duty in Alaska, have shown themselves so valuable that it has been decided to form an entire mountain division of about 15,000 men. As before, the Ski Association of America has the duty of selecting and recommending qualified applicants for this service...
...names of those men it feels to be best suited for this arduous work, basing its decisions in each case on a candidate's general experience in outdoor work and any particular qualifications he may have. "Men who have lived and worked in the mountains are preferred; if they ski, so much the better," states the official Ski Patrol bulletin on this subject. However, applicants who can show exceptional fitness as raw material, although without previous outdoor experience, will be considered...
...Ski meets of the caliber of Lake Placid's will be few. But New England can boast the cream of European ski teachers. The world's most famed Skimeister, 52-year-old Hannes Schneider, is continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...
Rockies. In Colorado, site of some of the country's most hair-raising ski runs, resorts are enjoying an unprecedented boom. Reason: within fairly easy reach of its skiing terrain are 13 Army posts, including Camp Hale (training grounds for U.S. ski troops), Camp Carson, Fort Logan, Buckley Field and Lowry Field. The huge Colorado Hotel at Glenwood Springs, where Teddy Roosevelt often tarried, is now full for the first time in years...