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FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1948,
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Nobody Loves Forever 25
By Morgaretta Brucker Guwmoed oy wex serme i :::.1
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XXV
Jessica took ‘her- purchases to
she kitchen and found Betsy
perched on a chajr beside the ta
ple with an apron tied about her
peck and a smudge of flour on
the end of her snub nose.
«I'm helping,” she said proud-
Iy, displaying , a grubby bit of
dough. “For Daddy.” She indi
cated the pansbgqisae her. .
Jessica tossed -the' bag of gro
ceries on the table and swept
Betsy off the ‘chair. “You'll be
sick,” she scolded. “It’s time for
your nap.” She swept a sobbing
Betsy from the’room.
Would this day never end and
the next pass_so that she could
get away and leave behind this
feeling of uncertainty and ap
prehension? Nothing could hap
pen now to change her plans,
nothing should, she determined,
as she stripped clothes from a
weeping baby. |
“We're going,away,” she whis
pered coaxingly. |
Betsy said, “Den’t want to go‘
away,” and wailed and refused
to be comforted.” =
In Jessica’s thoughts she an
ticipated the day When she could
divorce Betsy from the subtle in
fluence which <her grandmother
exercised upon her. “Daddy’—
just a ‘word ;‘o,,,@etsy, which
would soon be “‘forgotten, but
which in the m Qgtime could an
noy and irrita ';;J?sica to the
point of hyster; *’K :
8 aie
Saturday waii @ ‘busy day with
last-minute preparations. Lucy
went off with a hurried explana
tion that she {&q:d ‘a date with
some girls at ¥, Jessica was
too absorbed in her own plans
to have any interest in the other
girls but befor@sliuey left Jessi
ca drew her inw& room and
said goodby, th d her for her
kindnesses and_then, as a last
minute thought,'“Try to make
Tom understand, Luey.”
“Tom will néver understand,”
said Lucy bitterly.
There were . tears in Lucy’s
eves as she turned: and left the
room hastily.
For the rest of the day Jessica
tried to recapture, the high spir
its of the day when her father’s
letter came. She was going home,
she assured herself. She remem
bered how sheé had longed for
this moment, and- now it was
here. " i
Mrs. Blake showed no inter=
est in her movements. She seem
ed lost in thoughts of her own,
slipping in and out of the house,
prowling up and downstairs, in
and out of Lucy’s room. Later,
refusing to eatyhéf supper, going
off again in spite of Jessica’s re
mark that a storm seemed im-
Finally the old house was
quiet except for the wind out
side which shook the house and
rattled the shutters. When Jes
sica went to ;bed a cold moon
rode high in the sky. Against it
the skeleton branches of trees
stretched black and bare and
writhed in the wind. Wind. It
made her nervous and kept her
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wide-awake for hours. Then she
dozed, and awoke startled by a
sharp peal of thunder.
Down the hall a door swung
shut with a bang. Rain lashed
the windows. Jessica grabbed a
robe and went out into the hall
and listened.
Had Mrs. Blake come home
She tiptoed down the hall past
Lucy’s door, which stood ajar,
and opened her mother-in-law’s
door and peeped inside.
A flash of lightning revealed
the bed smooth and unoccupied.
The curtains blew straight out
and Jessica crossed the room to
close the window.
A sound arose above the roar
of the wind and the slashing
rain. The siren high and shrill!
‘A wild wail carried on the wind.
‘The 'fire siren, repeating over
and over, its blast of warning.
Fire! Jessica leaned out of the
window, with the rain and wind
tearing at her hair as she listen
ed. Fire! Was Mrs. Blake out in
this storm and would she rush
off to the fire when she heard
the siren?
Surely not. She must have
been caught in the storm and
spent the night with friends.
She wished Lucy were at
home. Jessica closed the window
and looped back the soaking cur
tains. Lucy would be out in the
storm, too. Possibly there were
shelters for hikers in the hills
beyond Akron.
She returned to her own room
to find Betsy sitting up fright
ened and sobbing. Jessica lifted
her out of her crib and into her
own bed where they snuggled
down close together. ;
L Just. a storm, 'darling)” = she
told the baby.
. Through the closed window
she heard the siren again, faint
but shrill and persistent. Again
she slid out of bed and went to
the window and lifted it. The
rain had ceased. The air was
damp and chill. In the distance
bells clanged and cars swept
down the street. The blackness
of the night was pierced by a
dull glow on the horizon and
againct it the™are trewmavere side
houetted darkly, #§ =% ".I",‘l
rir'e, a vau one. Where was
Mrs. Blake? thought Jessica un
easily.
Lights sprang up in Doris’ bun=
galow across the way and she
saw Doris and her husband
standing together on the steps.
She ran downstairs, clutching
her robe about her, opened the
front door and called, ‘“Where’s
the fire?”
Doris pointed toward the glow.
“Way downtown,” she shouted.
Silly to worry about a woman
who had an obsession for fires,
but now she could understand
Lucy’s uneasiness for her moth
er. Mrs. Blake meant nothing to
her, and yet. . . .
T'll make hot coffee, Jessica
decided. She‘ll be drenched if
she comes back.
If she comes back. Her own
words terrified her. Why
shouldn”t she come back? What
could happen to her?
(To Be Continued)
Browned flour, used for
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HAL BOYLE
The Poor Man’s Philosopher
OLD SAILORS READ COWBOY
STORIES IN “SNUG HARBOR”
STATEN ISLAND, N. Y, —
(AP) — The ships stand out to
se&, and the oid men sit on
benches on a broad green lawn
and watch them go. b
Elderly men like these, done
with the sea, have been doing
this for 115 years on a tree=
shaded 100-acre boardering New
York harbor.
They are old salts washed up
on this grassy beach after a life
‘time'on the deep. Their last an
chorage is called “The Sailors’
Snug Harbor.”
And it is a snug harbor indeed.
Because of it retired Mariners
here are like millionaires in one
respect — they have no housing
shortage. 'There actually is a
shortage of old’ sailors willing
to spend their last years together
on the cuff,
“In 1915, our peak year, we had
925 men here,” said the home’s
governor, Capt. Henry R. Patter
son, a retired naval officer, “Now
we have less than 400.”
The “Sailors’ Snug Harbor” is
a multi-million dollar investment
and affords its occupants a pleas
anter life than many enjoyed in
their years at sea. The home has |
fifty buildings, including eight
main dormitories and mess halls, |
its own hospital and medical staff
and a dairy with sixty milk cows.
It also has its own cemetery.
Of the 9,000 seafarers who have
retired here, few have left. More
than 5,000 are buried on the
grounds.
The men get free food, quarters,
clothing and a pound of tobacco
—either chawing or smoking—a
month. Those who want to can
also earn $5 to sls a month
spending money doing odd jobs
around the home.
It is one of the world’s most
unusual charities, It was created
by Captain Robert Richard Ran
dall, a privateer, who died in 1801
and left $7,500 and a 20-acre
farm in Manhattan to found a
home for “aged, decrepit and
wornout sailors.”
The will was drawn by a fa
mous landlubber — Alexander
Hamilton— and he drew it so
expertly that relatives tried for
30 veers in vain to break it. The
home was opened in 1833. .
It expanded steadily on the
vast income from the property
left by. Captain Randall, which
borders lower Fifth Avenue and
has grown to great value. Rent
ON THE AIR-WAVES
Jane proves again - she’s got
Mr. Ace “in the hollow of her
head” on the WGAU-CBS “Mr.
Ace and Jane” show this evening
at 8:00 p. m. The constantly har
rassed Mr. Ace shuttling be
tween his headache - crammed
advertising agency job, and his
headache - crammed home life
with -the incomparable and in
comprehensible Jane, is drawn
against his better judgement in
to a new fiasco dreamed up by
his better half.
“Beautiful Constituent” is
Robert Carson’s romantic story
of an ex-GI, elected to congress
in spite of newspaper opposition,
then falls in love with the pub
lisher's daughter. This humorous
episode is a WGAU-CBS musi
comedy on Raymond Paige’s
show, 1340 on the dial this even
ing from 9:30 to 10:00 p. m. The
daughter, an ex-WAVE, and the
newly elected congressman con
tinue their romance in spite of
the fact that the publisher
doesn’t want the ex-GI in his
‘own house anymore than he
does in the House of Represen
tatives. .
National A. A. U. track and
field events will be aired over
WGAU-CBS at 4:00 p. m., from
Marquette University Stadium
at Milwaukee Wisconsin. Again
at 5:45 p. m,, the ALA.U. champ--
ionship meet will be heard at
1340 on the dial Saturday.
Turf broadcaster Joe H. Palm
er calls the Carter Handicap
from Aqueduct Saturday after
noon at 4:15. This is a special
'sports feature from WGAU-CBS
at 1340 on the dial, for you
Athens turf fans following the
“‘sport of kings.”
.~ “Saturday Night Serenade” is
WGAU-CBS’s marathon riussical
starring baritone Vie Damone
and soprano Hollace Shaw as it
moves to a new and earlier time,
7:30 to 8:00 p. m. beginning Sat
urday. evening on your dial at
1340. “Saturday Night Serenade”
will celebrate its twelfth birth
day in a few months, and has
never missed airing a show dur
ing its unique run. Coincident
with the time switch, handsome
young -PDamone celebrates his
first anniversary as the star of
the show. Recently voted radio’s
BensorisPread
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
paid by Mark Twain and Grover
Whalen for houses or apartments
built on the old farm site have
helped swell the fund’s income.
The original trustees apparent.
ly had some hope of winning the
retired Mariners from the wild
way of their youth, for they built
a huge church and a chapel. But
a sailor is a hard man to reform
at any age.
“The church has become some
thing of a white elephant to us—
it is so expensive to repair,’ ad
mitted Capt. Patterson. “And
only about thirty of the men at
tend services each Sunday.”
Their favorite recreations are
shooting pool, playing checkers,
swapping lies, or just sitting on
the benches watching the ships
plow seaward.
There is a library of 6,000 voi
umes, but 70-year-old Capt Fred
Healy, the librarian, said only a
few old sailors asked ‘for ‘“good
books.”
“They don’t read sea stories
much either,” he said, shaking
his head. “All they want is west
erns — cowboy stories.”
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Dorsey Reunion
Set For Julyll
At Mossy Creek
John T. Dorsey, of Marietta,
secretary of The Dorsey Associa
tion, announces a membership of
zpproximately 500 persons of
Dorsey descent, who will hold
their annual reunion at 10:00 a.
m., at Mossy Creek Campground,
White County, Georgia, on July
11;
Mossy Creek Campground is
located on U. S. Highway 29 and
about 15 miles north of Gaines
ville.
He states that family records
are kept of each branch without
dues or assessments, expenses be
ing paid out of voluntary con
tributions,
Basket dinner, furnished by
heads of families, is spread to
gether at noon, and it is reques
ted that all of this and =zllied
families be present, whether or
?ot they have attended hereto
ore.
In the history of evolution,
birds are more closely related to
the crocodilians than crocodilians
are to the turtles.
most promising newcomer in
“Radio Mirror’s” poll of readers,
Damone skyrocketed to stardom
after an appearance on “Arthur
Gorfrey’s Talent Scouts”
From 9:30 until 10:00 on Sat
urday evening 1340 airs the
“Vaughn Monroe Show” from the
Sandy Beach Ballroom, Indian
Lake, Russels Point, Ohio. Col.,
Stoopnagle and the Moon Maids
are with the singer-maestro on
the WGAU-CBS show.
Saturday night becomes the
dancingest night in the week for
WGAU-CBS listeners at 1340 on
the dial, as America’s young
people step out on ‘parlor, porch,
playroom floor and out-door
terrace to the music of our na
tion’s greatest dance-bands. Fred
Rcobbins emcees “Let’s Dance,
America“ as it premieres this
evening at 10:00 p. m. Tex Be
neke and Skitch Henderson are
the aggregations opening the
series. The show expands to a
full hour next week on July 10.
Robbins interviews the maestros
and asks them to play dance
melodies they aré closely asso
ciated with, hits they launchad,
and tunes currently in high pub#
lic favor.
WRFC introduces a new pro
gram tonight at 7:30 when that
ropuler star of stage, screen, and
radio makes a quarter-hour ap.
pearance by transcription. Vic
sings the popular numbers of the
day accompznied by one of the
nation’s top orchestras.
Tomorrow at 5:30 in the morn
ing, WRFC broadcasts “Echoes
from Broadway.” Johnny Mur
ray, jovial WRFC chief announc
er, emcees the program and gives
interesting sidelights on the best
tunes of famous Broadway stage
shows. It's good listening!
Peewee and Peggy, the har
monious brother and sister team,
close WRFC’s schedule of hill
billy programs at 1:45 today. This
duet has gained a tremendous
reputation for good music since
beginning on WRFC some time
ago. The country music starts to.
day at 11 o’clock with the Geor
gia Playboys, continues with the
“Chuck Wagon,” “Dixie Follies”
and the Oconee River Boys and
ends with Peewee and Peggy.
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pature to a 8 White Sox contract in Chicago. The 20-year-old left
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Athenians Attended
Conference At
Bessie Tift College
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Seagraves,
Mrs. J. M. Crawford, Mrs. E. B.
Coile and Rev. H. R. Burnley,
Pastor of East Athens Baptist
Church, spent the week of June
20 through June 25 attending
the School of religious education
at Bessie Tift College, Forsyth.
Bessie Tift College is an ideal
setting for such a school of spir
itual uplifting, being an old
Southern Baptist Institution and
still retaining the charm, beauty
and hospitality tiep is the South
ern tradition.
The Charter was first granted
to Bessie Tift College at Charles
ton S. C. in 1847. Two years
later the charter was re-issued
and Bessie Tift was established
at Forsyth, Ga., where the cen
ennnial will be celebrated next
year, 1949. 3
Dr. T. W. Tippet, former pas
tor of Prince Avenue Baptist
Church and who is well known
and loved by Athenians, pre
sented a most inspiring program
tqroughout the week.
- Present were many outstand
ing leaders and "teachers from
throughout the South. ’
Among them were Dr. Louie D.
Newton, Atlanta; Dr. J. A. Wil
The Bright
Promi f
. .. finds fruition in sturdy bodies
only when the spirit is healthy
and sound. Your child’s mind is a
fertile field upon which to sow
the seeds of trust and belief in
our Almighty Father . ..
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liams, Nashville, Tenn;; Dr. J.,
M. Price, Forth Worthk, Tex.; Dr.
J. H. Buchanan, Birmingham,
Ala.; Lawson Cooke, Memphis,
Tenn.; Dr. Findley Edge, Louis~
ville, Ky.; Columbus Roberts
and many other distinguished
and talented men of God, each
bringing messages to enlighten,
inspire and to give the audience
a "conception of the world need
of Christianity and the need of
an expanded program. |
L. C. Alexander of Alexandria,
La.; was director of the School]
of Church Music. Mr, Alexanderi
will be remembered a$ having
been associated with Dr. Tippet
during his pastorate here. '
Throughout the program spe
cial singing was rendered by Mr.
and Mrs. L. C. Alexander and
the famous Grace Note Trio of '
Atlanta. |
Social Security |
Important ;
ToThe Family |
“The Social Security Act places
emphasis on the importance of
ithe family and gives special pro
tection to woman with young
children; said A. B. Cocnran,
Menager of the Athens Social Se
curity Office. =~ 2 T
“Some women callers,” Coch
ran continued, “think that bene
fits are paid only to 65-year-old
widows. When a qualified worker
HIS Holy Teachings are revealed to children in_terms they can
UNDERSTAND—and PRACTICE at an early age—by REGULAR
attendance at the Sunday School. Be sure to enroll your child THIS
Sunday!
of any age dies and leaves a
widow -Wwho was ljving. with -him
‘at the ‘time, of his death, .she; is
immediately eligible to recéive:
1. Monthly payments for her
self and their unmarried children
under 18, or
2. A single cash pzyment if
there are no children.”
Many women seem to think
that in the event of their hus
band’s death that they can get
Leck only the few dollars paid
in social security premiums. It
should come as no-surprise to a
widow to learn that she and her
minor children are gligible for
regular .mopthly payments, Many
sucl} .benefits are now in force.
These monthly bénétits frequent
ly mean for ¢hildren:the ditfer
ence between going to work and
going to school. Monthly = benefits
to widows have been:the means
of keeping many families fogeth
er and homes intact.
C. Proveaux
Named Health
Engineer Here
Curtis L. Proveaux was elected
by the Athens and Clarke County
Board of Health late Thursday
afternoon to the position of Public
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PAGE FIVE
Health Engineer succeeding Fred
E. -Johnson, who has accepted a
vosition with the: Georgia State
Department of Public Health,
Mr. Proveaux graduated from
the University of Georgia. in June
with a Bachelor of Sciencé “in
Agricultural Engineering Degree. "
After graduating from Scriven
High School, Scriven, Ga., in'l939,
he worked for the Agriculttral’Ad-’
justment Agency (AAA) in Wayne
county until ’42. Then he worked
in the State AAA office: here: for
a year before being made the&d—,
ministrative Officer of the Hart
County AAA. He held the position
in Hart county until Septéember of
44 'when he entered the Univer
sity. A e s
At college” he was’treasurer of
the “Engineering Club”,was editor
of the “Georgia Ag Engineer” for
two years, and business manager
of the “Georgia Agriculturist” for
two quarters. : X
Also in college he was a member
of Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary
leadership society; X Club, honor
ary service club; Demostherian
Literary Society; and Lambda Chi
Alpha Fraternity, in which he held
the offices of president, vice-pres
ident, and secretary. Also Mr. Pro
veaux was a member of the Geor
gia Glee Club during his entirs
college life. A ;
He has been living in Athens for
the past six and half years except
for the time he worked in Hact
county. = VA v
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