The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 3

FRIDAY. JULY 21. 1944 THE ESCANABA (MICH.) DAILY PRESS PLAN PARKWAY Friend Tells Of Death BERNARD TOBIN ON BAY SHORE Of Escanaba War Hero COMMISSIONED WEEK END SPECIALS! 90-Foot Divided Lane Roadway Planned For Shore Drive Walter OitenMnan, 2 the States Navy, killed in action at Guadalcanal December 4. 1943. lives on in the memory of his a line ex- The Ki'Canaba city council in meetlnR last nljtht formally adopt-1 plans for a wide divided lane parkway for about one-half mile of Lake Shore Drive from the foot of 14th street near the ath-' letic field to Highway M-35.

While the parkway development is part of the overall plan for the South Park area of the city along the shore, formal adoption of the plan permits owners of abutting1 properties to make their plans ac-. cordinKly. The parkway plans include tide walks, eide tree strips, and divided lane pavements IS feet wide, with the 1 center division planted to trees. The city owns a 100-foot roadway through the section and the plan will not require the pur- 1 chase of any additional right of nay by the city. No construction planned, of course, until after the war.

Other post-war plans of the city were evidenced in actions designed to bring construction of a Rrade crossing separation at the railroad and and M-35 near the Hirds Kve Veneer com-1 plant; and the authorization to have the city manager purchase $10,000 in and series war bonds for a city post-war building fund. The grade separation project would be financed entirely by fed-1 funds as a post-war project. In a resolution adopted by the council last night the state high- way department was asked to put the project high on its priority list because of the irreat volume of traffic. The city council also approved a request of the Kscanaba Trades Labor Council for a $7B contribu- assoc lates a ample for all his friend of the canaba war writes Mrs. Ottensman.

the former Hazel Berglund. Mrs Ottensman recently received the Purple Heart medal which was poithum ously awarded to her husband. The letter received by Mrs. Ottensman is from Leonard Martin of the S. Navy, a friend and "tent mate of her husband on fluadalcanal before he was killed by Jap lire.

The letter, addressed from somewhere in the South Pacific area, follows: Dear Hazel: Walter spoke of and was too me to be formal enough to address you in any other way. 1 am a coward. Yes, although the boys call me "Martin the Slave Driver" and Legree" there was one thing I started to do several times hut always refused to finish. I could never muster enouRh courage to tell you about that day. Rut first, some history.

Walter and I were tent mates and friends from the time we left the States until forever. Yes. forever, because some part of Walter will i always in spirit be with who worked with him and knew him well. His absolute thoroughness, ef- ficiencv. and dependability set a you too often a friend for tailing cocoanuts neatly bracketed me as I was shaving outside beneath a palm tree, Since my hair, or lack of it, gave little protection from such aerial attack.

I started wearing my helmet when outside the tent. You can imagine how Walter and the others ribbed me about that. 1 was with Walter when ho was hit. When we left camp that morning we knew the enemy had been shelling that area and most likely would again that morning. Hut work absolutely essential to the war effort had to be done there at that time and we mere the only men and officers available to doit.

When theshelllnc started very- one raced for cover, reach it. One of our group leaving cover to go a wounded man who Nah ma School Head Is Sworn In As Lieut, (jff) In Navy Some didn't was cited for to the aid of was lying in an exposed position. Doctors and hospital corps men were on the scene and even during the shelling did everything possible to relieve the pain of the dying and give Immediate, skillful attention to the wounded. Then those of us whom Fortune favored went on with the work which had to be done, then and there. His was the greater courage because he fell not in the heat, of close combat men's passions give them added strength, but In the faithful performance of a sary non-combatant task area known to be a tar enemy guns.

Will you forgive my procrastination and accept my expression of deepest sympathy? Sincerely, LEONARD MARTIN neces- in an et for Nahtna. Mich Bernard Tobin, superintendent of at Nahma, has been commissioned a lieutenant (jgt In the United Ststes Navy, according to word received here. Tobin enlisted in the I' Navy Reserve last spring. After being commissioned he was sworn in July 12 at Milwaukee. He will report at Fort Schuyler, N.

Y. on August 28 to begin his Indoctrination course Until that time he will reside with his family at Milwaukee. Lieut. Tobin served as superintendent of schools at Nahma bleb ainl bis basket hall and track teams were lOiisistent winners In their class. A graduate of Nahma high school, Tobin continued bis education at thn Northern Michigan College of Education, Marquette, and at Michigan Stale College East Lansing.

I miles of ts occup 30,000 square territory in Norway. The pinto bean Is New No. 1 native delicacy. tion to aid in financing the annual! fine example for all of his asaoci- Lahor Day celebration. The Roving Reporter (Continued from Page One) Hospital Everything is of stone, the barns and cowsheds ar and in exactly the same and usually the same size houses.

They are grouped together around a square. Even stone design as the closely so that a farmer's borne a compact little settlement of buildings that resembles a country estate at a distance. Normandy Is dairy country. Right now the people have more butter on their hands than they know what to do with. It is a stupid soldier Indeed who get himself all the butter he wants.

Rut even though it is a glut on the market, the French still ask HO cents a pound for it. When the Germans here they bought all the Norman but- ates and are qualities which I strive to emulate ns I carry on the work which is assigned to me. Surely, we all influence the lives, to a greater or a lesser extent, of some of the people with whom we come in contact. Being unmarried I have no way of fully comprehending your loss, but I can share your grief. Yes.

in a physical sense he is gone, but in a spiritual sense he will always live on in those who well knew him and loved him. You will be proud, and Justly so. that the influence he left with us, his shipmates. is the constant reminder that it is right and desirable to devoted to family, country and God; to be always and to be thorough in the performance of all tasks, however small. The cemetery where Walter lies is a beautiful spot on a beautiful island.

We all marveled at the magic spell which the moon cast over us there where we frolicked in the breakers and dove from a boat pulled up onto the beach in the lagoon. When it rained we would catch enough water in our buckets to Betty Lindquist. Route 1, Escanaba. is at St. Francis hospital after an appendix operation, performed Monday sft- ernoon.

Mrs. Elrich Lund. Escanaba. 1, admitted to St. Francis hospital July 18 for a major operation, is making satisfactory progress toward recovery.

Dorothy Loritz of Gladstone. Route 1. a patient at St. Francis hospital, is recovering rapidly and is permitted to receive visitors. Conrad Driscoll 1406 First avenue south, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at St Francis hospital Monday, Is getting along nicely.

ImI Believe you mm Nft a 14 tube of goWf (see Page .1) There wasps. are 10,000 of less Suffering Use 'Vaseline' Petroleum Jelly on sunburn and all minor burns. the aid treatment used for barns on our battlefronts! pretty well guess, Just from the character of the people, but never actually knew for sure. ME FIRST CALL ter, and at fancy prices too. Ger- tnke CArt.

of our household man soldiers would ship ii home nome time to come. One day t- their families. And although their new order Is strict and full of promises of an ordered world, the Germans emselves created and fostered the Paris Black Market, according to the local people. Much of butter bought in rtormandy by German officers went to Paris for resale at unheard-of prices. To be honest about it, we can't sense that Normandy suffered too much under the German occupation That is no doubt less because i of German beneficence than because of the nature of the coun- i try.

For in any throttled country i the farm people always come out best. Normandy is rich aericultural- ly. The people can sustain them- selves. It is in the cities that occupation hurts worst. I suspect that when we get to Paris we will hear an entirely different story from the people.

Normandy is certainly a land of children. It seems to me there are 1 more children here even than in Italy. And have to break down and admit one the most beautiful children I havt ever seen. It is an exception when you see a child who isn't exceptionally good-looking. Apparently they grow out of this, however, for on the whole the Norman adults look like people anywhere both good and bad.

One thing about the Normans is in contrast with the temperament we have known so long in the Mediterranean. The peoplt here are hard workers. Some of the American camps and city offices hire teen-age French boys for kitchen and office work, and I've noticed that they go at their work eagerly and like the wind. The story of the French underground. when the day comes for it to be written, will he one of the most fascinating things in all history.

On the Cherbourg peninsula the underground was made up of cellg. five people to a cell. Those five knrw each other, but none of knew any other members of the underground anywhere. It was fun to see the Frenchmen on the day the underground began coming out into the open. They identified themselves by special arm bands that they had kept in hiding One underground man would look at a neighbor wearing an arm band and exclaim in amazement: You too?" In one village we asked some people who were not in the movement If they had ever known who the underground members in then town They said they could SPECIAL! Kxtra Heavy MINERAL OIL 1.39 GOODMAN'S DRUG STORE Bexall Store 701 Lndlngton 8t.

This weird-looking individual is a a U. S. warship. By of a telephone-equipped mask, he can perform hit communications duties, even during a attack. He is using one of countless special kinds of telephone equipment which must be manufactured in ever greater quantities.

Filling the orders of our armed forces 345.000 telephones, 782,000 radio headsets, 1.270.000 microphones in 1943 alone takes just about all the factory capacity, materials and manpower available to telephone manufacturers. why there is a large and growing waiting list for telephone service at home. Orders are tilled promptly for telephones essential to the war or to public health, welfare or security. Other orders can be filled only as present users give up service. A uniform and fair procedure, approved by the Michigan Public Service Commission, applies to the handling of all orders.

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