The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 10

THE EVENING INDEPENDENT, MASSILLON, OHIO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, ELEVEW T. SHEf AN (1820-1871) Sherman wrote to President Lincoln, "with' a 1 city as Christmas gift." In middle. November, 1864, Sherman and his army disappear'ed: Communication lines were cut. 'AH connection with the rear was -severed. Sherman started for the Curing next, month Georgia was turned into a desolation.

Wai- must made, believed. To it. homes were burned, towns destroyed. ")fc' 1 Sentinels," gaunt brick, chimneys, still mark 'the march from Atlanta to the But Sherman was. right.

The through Georgia.brought an earlier end to. the. Civil War. On. .22,.

Sherman's army" entered Savannah and in a letter he offered tlie city to As a boy, Sherman wanted to a. He graduated with from West Point, took part "in the Mexican War and resigned. He practiced. law at Leavenworth, Kansas, and failed at that. Chief Payinaster, $360,000 Missing Woman Government Engineer Does Her Own Housework, Too By JANE EADS WASHINGTON, (AP) Hilda Edgecomb had started the washer going with her weekly laundering.

She was also beginning to prepare dinner. "I like to keep house," she lold me in midst of these goings- on. "I had my own home in Boulder, for a long time before coming to Washington. I never knew how wonderful a sink was until 1 had to do without-one for a while." Homemaking, however, is onlyiof i secondary concern to Mrs. Edge-j lumbia Society of Professional En- comh now.

Her friends know herjgineers, which boasts only one better as "Engineer Edgecomb." tllerwoman member; take most of One of the few women of that profession in the government, she's He was a failure in business, in finance. He was far from a success president the Louisiana State Military academy. The 'South seceded. This Ohio boy was- offered a commission 'in the Confederate army. He refused and hurried to Washington-' and was commissioned ft colonel.

He became one of Ohio's immortals in the war between the SUnton, Sheridan, Ouster, and a score of others. SHERMAN FOUGHT at Vicksburg, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. marched' from Atlanta to It was in 1880, in Columbus, that' he -made the remark that will always be quoted, "War is all helh" Sherman died in 1891, an illus- Itrious Ohioah who brought honor to his state, his nation, and himself. The home in which Sherman was born, built in 1811, but now somewhat altered, still stands at 137 East -Main 'Street, Lancaster. It is a two-story frame house and is privately her time.

BORN IN TEXAS, the daughter of a rancher, she says the height of her.ambition on graduating from the Amarillp- high school was to interest, in the registration of i be a Latin teacher, women her-service! "I think it was mostjy because on the board of the District of Co- 1 so adored my own teacher dt-'high -an'engineer's job for the Rural Electrification Administra- tion Power Division of the Department of Agriculture: The job, her school, for when I went to the University of Colorado, I majored in math and physics and found myself hankering to be an engineer," she said. She taught math and physics it Sargent, high school a couple of years, then returned to university for her A. B. and IB. S.

E. E. degrees, which she won with honors, though her education interrupted during World War I when she Uught code work. to 'draft men training in auto me- 'chunks and such. i She was the first woman en- railed in the student training course at the Westinghouse Elec- trie Co.

where she also worked im research laboratory. Later, after earning a doctor's degree and while working, tor power company Colorado she was married to Arthur L. Edgecomb and retired to homemaking. Upon his death, 13 years later, she worked with the U. S.

Engineer Corps in Denver, waiting for in opening with the KEA which eame in 1943. "You feel you're doing so much good with the REA," ihe explained. "During the list war it helped produce food for everybody. 1 don't see what the country could do without it." Mrs. Edgecomb'J job in the transmission of power division is to check plans and specifications of transmission lines, substations and related facilities, for accuracy and adequacy of design, right struc- ture and solution for any situation to keep expenses'down." More widowen thin remarry.

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Francisco Franco's War Ministry' reported 'missing with at four million" pesetas' Army officials' said £he. Captain Wiled'to 'return. 1 Aug. from a leaye. An iri- had prev pared a passport and, otjier; travel for extended unknown.

1 forests cooler tha.n -they usually are warmer' at. night-because hold of heat. SMILING Karol Ann Dragomir of Benton Harbor is Michigan's choice for "Miss Michigan" in the "Miss America" contest in. At- Igjitic City, N. J.

She sings; has had two years at Benton Harbor Community college, plans to enroll in. Michigan State this She is 19, atands 5-6, weighs 122,. and. is a blue-eyed blonde. (International).

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