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PAGE TWO MONROE EVENING TIMES, MONROE, WISCONSIN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1948 MONROE EVENING TIMES FOUNDED OCTOBER IS. MM. Ibmroe Journal absorbed 1027 Published dally except Sunday by MOXBOE EVENING TIMES CO. Emery A- Odell, President. Entered at the Monroe, office second clui matter.

FCIJ. LEASED WIRE BEPOKTS THE ASSOCIATED fKESS Member of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asaociated Press entitled ei- clnsirelj to the oae for republlcatlon of all the local news printed in this newspaper, aa well as all AP newa dispatches. By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS April 30, 1917. Glancing Backward Interesting Items From The Evening. Times Files EDITORIAL Orville Wright Orville Wright's death re-emphasizes the amazing fact that within the short span of one man's mature life the world has taken to the air and every aspect of transport and warfare has undergone tremendous upheaval.

Generations which have grown up since that day in 1903 when Orville Wright and his brother flew the first practical plane take today's airports and sky liners pretty much for granted. Flying has become a part of everyday life, at least for a part of the world's people. Inventors and scientists for centuries loyed with the idea of a flying machine. Their crude devices ranged from feathered contraptions to fairly fundamental gliders. Professor Langley of Smithsonian institution built a powered plane launched from a riverboat and for decades dispute raged over whether Langley or the Wright brothers deserved the aviation laurels.

Fortunately in recent years the issue has been settled to satisfaction of all but the bitterest partisans. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, typified the spirit of adventure and persevering genius which made 20th century America the world's greatest" nation. Wilbur lived only a few years after their triumph and never saw more than a suggestion of the great developments wrought by the invention. Orville carried on the task of "selling" America and the world on the airplane and spent many productive years in research tsnd assistance of aviation pioneers. His retiring nature prevented him from realizing fully on the laurels attached to the name Wright.

His dignity and poise, however, kept that fine name before the world in the best possible light. This country would not have been nearly so close to leader" ship without the Wrights, the 10 YEARS AGO Unusual recognition is accorded rural drama FEB 2, 1938 groups in Green county Browntown, Woodford and Albany Homemaker club presentations will be given at state festival during Farm and Home week Sister Mary Clementine suffered fractured ankle in fall on ice Helen Campbell and George Waligorski are wed Death claims Jacob Hanny Medical science loses when death comes to infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Angliker. 25 YEARS AGO W.W.W.

glee club given concert at Turner FEB 2 1923 hall for benefit of Union church building fund Gilbert R. Albright, Juda, opens implement office here E. Jasper Williams, Cadiz native, expires in New Mexico First National bank at Davenport, is destroyed by fire Frank Soddy jr. and Miss Elsie Dieckhoff apply for license to wed. 40 YEARS AGO G.

T. Hodges, president, presides at conven- FEB. 2, 1908 tion of Green 'county democrats to elect delegates to state convention, Miles T. Gettings, secretary-treasurer, delegates elected, W. H.

Hudson, Albany; J. F. Miller, Juda; Louis Laubc, Brodheud; John E. Litel Albany; Fred J. Blumer, Monroe; Willis Ludlow, Monroe; John Theiler, New Glarus Mrs.

Maria 91, dies in Cadiz, widow of Jesse Raymer, who settled in Cadiz in 1849 Funeral of Mrs. J. V. Richardson, held at Brodhead Ogden H. Fethers retires from law firm of Fethers, Jeffries and Mouat, Janesville.

'School Safety Unit Starts Traffic Patrol High School Student Council Sponsors A traffic safety patrol began functioning this morning to guard the street crossings at the senior high and Lincoln school buildings. Gilbert Kleckner, chairman of 'the student council's safety com- jmittee, issued final instructions to members of the patrol at a meeting late last week. i Alan Prisk, also a member of i the committee, will be patrol cap- I the country she thought the Copyright. RtWft DlirribuUd ttna Ftafum CHAPTER ONE It was ten minutes past five on the afternoon of November the thirteenth when Catherine Lister left the doctor's office on upper Park Avenue. The sun had gone and dusk was sifting down over the city.

Traffic was heavy on the wide dim street, but the pavements were almost empty. The lights were beginning to come on. In Membe i David Eley, Hans Sulzer Thomas Goetz. Serving -ass leaves would be gone ana the branches would be black and I against the sky. But it was a on the lovely hour in New York The Not Too Excited Congress May volution of the machine and the conquest of time and space.

Orville Wright was one of the last surviving figures of that great age which wrote its accomplishments in brilliant, glowing letters on the pages of history. We can only hope that those who follow can emulate their inspirational force. Groundhog Fable Arrival of Groundhog day heralds the beginning of winter's retreat, by the calendar, at least, and spurs hopes for early spring which seldom materialize. The popular legend has it that if Mr. Groundhog sees his shadow on emerging from hibernation this day, he scurries back for another six weeks of sleep.

That is supposed, to mean six weeks more of winter. If he casts no shadow, spring is right around the corner. The groundhog experts never held much faith in that fable. They know any groundhog is likely to resume his snoring whether he sees a shadow or a snowstorm. Even the Punxsut- swney.

boys look upon their annual groundhog ceremony as just a lot of fun. Regardless of foundation, however, everyone enjoys guessing at weather prospects and they grab at this annual chance for a little traditional help. Meanwhile, they can expect to keep their overcoats buttoned tightly for six weeks and more. Symphony Will Have Six Guest Chicago (rP) The Chicago symphony orchestra's trustees announced today that six guest conductors will be engaged to lead the orchestra next year, replacing Arthur Rodzinski, recently dismissed as musical director. Cyrus H.

Adams, vice-president of the orchestral association, said Bruno Waller, Busch, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy and George Szell will lead the orchestra during the 1948-49 season. The present assistant conductor. Tauno Hannikainen, will remain with the orchestra, ''continuing in his present duties," Adams said. Corps Will Portray Prominent Citizens Oshkosh (VP) Prominent men of early por-' trayed by members of the Wis-' consin civil air corps, will fly into Madison this summer as a feature of the state's centennial. Edward Konkol, Madison, corps president, announced the plan formulated by the organization's directors here yesterday.

The-32 chapters will par-, ticijiate. I Raise Wages By James Marlow Washington (ff) There's talk in congress ot raising, the pay of government worKers. it's not very evcited talk. i Theodore Thorpe will act as one patrol alternate, but others i are to be selected later to tjwell Uhc reserve ranks. i The matter of cerating a safety of where the top government patro to make school zone streets pay goes: for school children was turn- Next to the president, the ecl over to thc sluc cn council highest paid person is thc chief two weeks ago At the insistence justice of the United States.

He' of the veterans of Foreign Wars gets $25,000 a year. The other; safety committee, a patrol had eight supreme court justices get, been ope rated on a tentative $20,000, or $5,000 a year more basis at Lincoln school last than the cabinet members. but it was not revived Some ambassadors get ltnis year 000 a year, too. I with Nat G. Preston acting as The manager of one of the facuUy adviseri the council ap- ivernment's atomic 11 1 a r.nmm<tt^a take government's atomic plants gets $18,000.

pointed a safety committee composed of Kleckner, Prisk, Roger That's $500 a year more than Schwaiger and willard Bender the $17,500 salary of the chair- to study the matter of the atomic energy com-; Thursday afternoon, at an mission. The other members of sem bly meeting of the junior cij' cvwccw. Lo.ua.. i 4. nnn wrmlri include those tne commission get $15,000.

and sen i or high school bodies, and over S1UOUO The job of chalrma of. 0 8 'the project was outlined by Ed- under and over board used to a year. The $10,000 is pretty much a dividing line. No one can come up through the government's civil service system and, while still a civil service worker, make more than $9,975. That's tops.

For example: 1,790 people make $9,975. majority of bureau chiefs, like tne heads of the census bureau and bureau of standards, make that. To make $10,000 or more an official has to be elected or ap- civil aeronautics board used to win president of the get $12,000 a year but in 1942 counci i. ce chief J. H.

congress cut it down to $10,000. Schwaiger and Nathan Burgy, President Truman has been try- state highway police officer as to get a good, man to fUi; well as Kleckner and Preston, that job now. i i aborat ed on the plan, explain- The undersecretary of state jn He can't be in civil pointed, service. For example: The three commissioners who run civil service were appointed by the president. Each makes $10,000.

There are 1,360 who make $10,000 or over, including the president. Today in the government's executive branch, and that includes the president, there are 2,422,229 workers. people who work for congress or around the courts. They're not in this story.) The average pay of a government worker is between $2,800 and $2,900 a year, according to the civil service commission. This will show the range of pay in the civil service system: It runs from the lowest $1,756 for typists and messengers and $2,168 starting pay for $9,975 for bureau chiefs.

Those civil service workers get paid according to the classification in which they work, since pay for each of about 14 per cent! enough" for the community of 50 inhabitants. there's a fixed Civil service raise of about per uem a year in 1946 from congress. Postal workers got a little more. There are bills in congress now to give the civil workers, and that includes postal workers, another raise. Agriculture Secretary Anderson told the senate's civil service committee that those getting $10,000 and more should get a raise.

Why? To get good men to work for the number making $10,000 a year have quit for better pay in to meet high living costs since some of those jobs have been frozen for years. For example: Since 1874 the pay for collector of customs in New York has been $12,000. The president's pay is $75,000 a year. It's been that since 1909. Pay for members of thc federal trade commission has been 810,000 since 1914.

And the pay for members of the president's cabinet has been $15,000 a year since 1925. In 1946 congress gave itself a pay boost from $10,000 a year job, one of the most important in the government, pays a year. i Dean Acheson quit that job the conduct expected of stu- thc patrol is operat- last year, after years of serv-; 1-Year-Old DOV DUfflS an intn nrivnte law rjmC- To Death at Appleton ice, to go into private law practice and mate more money. Minnesota Storekeeper Shoots Up Board Meet Duluth, Minn. (JP) An-! gered when his request for beer tavern license was reject- ed, Joe A.

Contanzi, 32-year-old Minnesota crossroads commu- 1 nity storekeeper, shot and kill-; ed three members of the El-i mer, town board, I wounded a fourth member and Dannaher was tops in his particular lino, had said, that Nicky was ifoinK to bo all right. It take six months, it a year for his fractured while, he was doing very and they could bo married any lime. Dannaher had said, "Marriage is exactly what the Captain needs. It will give him a sense of permanence, of security." The verdict had been an enormous relief. Catherine was deeply content.

She thought, surprised. Why, I'm almost happy. Nicky, Captain Nicholas Bray, the man to whom she was engaged, was waiting for her, blankly. She and Nicky had been going to have dinner at Lenrico's, in the village, because he was hungry for Italian food. He was looking down at her uncertainly.

His light-hearted expression faded. "If you don't want me to meet the boys, I won't, Catherine. To heck with it." He reached for her, arm. She drew bnck, laughing at him. "Don't be an idiot, Nicky, of course you must meet them.

I wouldn't dream of your not." She wasn't going to go and stand in that particular corner, with a dunce cap labeled jealousy crammed down over her head. It had happened once before, out at the rather, Nicky thought it had, although he had been mistaken. Gathering her things together, her visit at an end, she hud picked up a compact that slip- to discover that it wasn't hers. The compact was an expensive one, of gold, with onyx corners and a tiny inlaid medallion in the middle. Nicky had reclaimed it, stuttering a little, he always did when he was nervous, and saying, "That's Rosalie Cotter's girl friend.

She was here seeing Joe and she stopped in for a minute to say hello and scattered things all over the place." Nicky hadn't returned the compact. It was in the pocket of his topcoat. She had seen it pacing up and down beyond the that morning when she was ranonv with his lone-lesfied ner-! motr-rios She canopy with his long-legged ne; vous stride. The doctor had seen him before he to her. Nowadays, since he had gotten out of the hospital, Nicky was sarching for matches.

She wasn't concerned with Rosalie Drumm or her belongings. What did bother her was that Nicky had felt he had to ex- always going somewhere in i a it was part of his illness, jrry or planning to, even The rac ured ll he had a hurry when he was slumped on the! brought "back" from a plane end his spine in an armchair. She tightened the knot of soft fur at her throat. His restless- crash in the Pacific wasn't the only trouble. He had been badly mauled psychologically as Appleton A.one-year- old boy burned to death in the family's trailer home near here yesterday while his parents helplessly looked on.

His father had tried desperately to save him. He was Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Garvey, who ness disturbed her, but it wasj well as physically during the natural enough. After four long months preceding peace, zor-edged years of combat fly-.

and he fi inche from imaginary ing, civilian life must be very He must never fu nc dull to him, and insipid, and! wifh hei very often meaningless. Nicky caught sight of her. Ho with her. She grimaced up at him tossedI his cigaret into theVut- i mock rancor thinking how like ter and missed a nurse wheel- was, with ing a perambulator by inches in his impetuous paign ribbons on his tunic. lived fourteen miles northeast had hi discharge was was stl11 unlfcrm his smooth cheeks and very advance.

The blue eyes, in spite of aU he had nurse merely smiled. People did, been through Go and meet iMirkv lonkine at our old al and fair head and at the cam- who cares. But Nicky, she then committed suicide. The fifth member of the of here until their trailer destroyed. Michael's father helped Mrs.

Garvey and their daughter, Susan, 2, through a window. The exclaimed, a hand on his arm, "you've been dehospitalized a week you won't stay out late showing anyone the town." Nicky looked at her. He cov- like despair. Why couldn't she feel for him now what she had felt, or thought she had, when they first became engaged? His masculinity, his sureness, his gaiety, had drawn her irresistibly then. Had too much time elapsed, had they been separated too long? Nonsense! She retreated from dangerous ground.

Nicky saw the shadow in her. He said quickly, demandingly, "What is it, darling? You're worried about something." She was touched and a little frightened by his perceptiveness where she was concerned. He was the one who must not be worried. Emotional stability was the thing they had to strive, for. Dannaher, all the doctors, had stressed that.

She said lightly, "Don't flatter yourself, Captain. I'll be glad to be rid o( you for this evening. I've got a lot of work to do. I'm going home and get at it." He wanted to put her into a cab, but she said she'd take the bus, and they parted at. the corner, Nicky going south to Soldi's and Catherine west toward Fifth.

It wasn't until she had crossed Madison that she noticed she was on Sixty-fourth street. She was seldom in this neighborhood, but when she was, she instinctively avoided it. Her uncle, John Wardwell, had lived in the wide handsome house near the corner for years. His death, of heart failure, in the winter of '43 had been sudden and" shocking. The house had been closed since.

Angela, John's wife, couldn't bear it after his death. They had been married twenty years, and she spent her time at one of the Wardwell places in the country, the ranch in Arizona or farm in Brookfield. As Catherine approached the house, she saw with surprise that it was lighted up. Her aunt had said nothing in her last letter about coming to New York, but she must be hone. The dark- blue Bentley that was the family had been a Bentley for as long as she could parked at the curb.

Catherine liked her aunt much more than she had ever liked her Uncle John. If Angela wasn't; the most brilliant woman in the world, she was always warm. and kind. It would be rude not to stop in and say hello. She startecl across the" street and came to an abrupt halt before she had taken more than three steps.

Hat's roadster was drawn up in front of the Bentley. Hat, Harriet La Mott, was Angela's niece. Her father and mother were had died when she was an and she had lived with the Ward- wells practically all her life. From the beginning, there had never been any love lost between the two girls, cousins by marriage. Catherine considered Hat spoiled, vain, shallow, mischievous and arrogant.

What had happened in the distant December shortly before John Wardwell's death had sharpened Catherine's dislike into actual hatred, for awhile. Hat La Mott had reached out and appropriated Stephen Darrell, the mart with whom Catherine was then in love. She had done it calmly, wantonly, that was what had rankled with complete success. Stephen Darrell no longer mattered; the place he had once occupied was filled with emptiness. Catherine couldn't easily forgive the girl who was her cousin by courtesy.

There was no reason why she should go where Hat was, voluntarily. She could see Angela tomorrow when Hat wasn't with her, she thought. Swinging around sharply, she stepped up on the pavement and collided with a man standing on the curb and looking where she had been looking a moment the Wardwell house across the street. (To Be Continued) The English flag was planted at the southern tip of Africa, near the present site of Cape Town, in 1620. Their INJURY Your Responsibility Could yon prove in court that your home was a SAFE place for visitors? If someone were Co slip on your sidewalk, trip on the stairs, be struck by a falling tree limb or injured in any of a hundred other ways, that accident could be grounds for a damage suit Comprehensive Personal Liability insurance protects you.

Lanz Agency Phone 14 ered her hand with his. "Cath- board, fleeing amid the shooting, escaped uninjured and hid in a snowbank. The shootings took place Saturday as the board concluded a hearing on the slayer's license application. Slain were Frank Svoboda, 35, township clerk; Emil Makela, 35, board chairman, Albert Dupac, 65. Louis Ringhofer, 53, who was shot in the left arm, was in serious condition at Hibbing, general hospital.

Albert Bernsdorf, 35, who owns the only, tavern in Elmer, said the board refused Contanzi a tavern license because "we workers got a believe one tavern was Monticello By Mrs. O. D. Curtis, no, but upon reaching safety he found Michael had slipped from the armful of blankets without his knowledge. By that time the trailer was enveloped by the blaze.

"At last!" he walking up to her. "I thought you were never coming. Thatj er nei you're an angel," he said old pot certainly kept huskily. "I don't know what I've how sick I am of cos!" dooi- was blocked by flames. Lord how sick am medi-1 done to rate you Gaivey bundled the baby into his arms and escaped the infer- Catherine stood there for a Mrs.

Raymond Disch's Condition Improved The condition of Mrs. Raymond Disch, Brodhead, former Monroe resident, seriously injured Jan. 6 in an automobile- train crash at Nora in which her husband was killed, is somewhat improved. She will be hospitalized from four to six weeks longer. Her sister, Mrs.

Alvin Grebner, Warren, will be released sooner, it is expected. Both are at St. Francis hospital, Freeport. Mrs. Disch has a broken pelvis and a possible His eyes were unnaturally moment i the fading light with bright in the shadow of his Nicky hand on hers.

She want- and there was more color in his ed to draw her own hand away face than usual. Catherine won-. Tnat was it) she thought, with dcrccl whether anything had touch somc thing almost happened to upset him. So i many things car backfir-, ing, the sudden clamor of an; ambulance, the throb of a plane; overhead. She did what she had been.

instructed to do, what she would have done in any ig- nored his mood. "Let's go and have HELP CHICKS MAKE MORE MONEY FOR YOU! GIVE THEM GERM OZONE where a we cocktail somewhere can talk," she pro-: Mr. and Mrs. C. M.

Stauffer, fracture of the back along with Mrs. Anna Stauffacher and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Krieg, were guests of the New Glarus firemen at the program' Thursday at the William Tell hotel. Mrs.

Frederick Steinmann and Mrs. Wallace P. Barlow, Wednesday attended a cancer society meeting in Juda. Wallace P. Barlow was a business caller, in Madison Thursday.

Mrs. Barlow and son visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L.

Zweifel, New Glarus. Mrs. Edna Schuler was in Madison Thursday. Mrs. Emil Blum and Misses Margaret and Carla Blum visited New Glarus Wednesday.

Mrs. Blum and Margaret also were Wednesday callers in Monroe. Miss Fannie G. Benkert arid Mrs. Rosa Roth were Madison callers Thursday.

to about $15,000. In doing so it! awrence Blum raised the pay of the speaker 1 of the house from $15,000 to $20,000. New Glarus, visited his mother Mrs. Emil Blum, Wednesday. And it boosted the pay of the vice president, who presides over the senate, from $15,000 to $20,000.

But the vice president was the only one in the govern- Thursday' ment's executive branch who i 1 got a ra'ise from congress then. Bills are being readied in congress now to raise those and-over people from $1,000 to $5,000 or more a year. But that doesn't mean congress will ever do anything about the bills. This will give a sketchy idea Mr. and Mrs.

R. W. Woelfer were Thursday business callers in Dubuque. Mrs. W.

D. Elmer and Mrs. John Elmer were in Madison lacerations. Mrs. Grebner had both ankles broken and facial lacerations.

President Nominates Three as Postmasters Washington (IP) President Truman has sent to the senate these postmaster nominations for Wisconsin. Claude A. Thomas, Forest Junction; Norbert I. Lehmnnn, Hustisford: Donald L. Schulz, Irma.

posed. "I want to tell you what Dannaher said. He's really sweet." "A cocktail? I'd like one, but i Nicky looked at his wrist watch. "I'm afraid I can't. There won't be time.

At least He told her about his re-! cent encounter. "While I was waiting for you just now, Blanchard came Blan-i chard. He was our tail gunner! in England in '43. He's quite a lad. I'd like you to meet him I some time.

He and a couple of the boys from the old Eighth i getting together at Soldi's "at five-thirty, and he wants me to, join them." Catherine said, "Oh," a little FLU? was during that dreadful tpidnnic that M-K originated and auceenfully used by an Illirfois Doctor became Thousands of persons and praise m-K for its prompt action in loosen, ing hard-to-expel phlegm, making breath- ng easier, thus relieving coughs due to cold! No chloroform. Get Give your chicles the best chance 10 make money foe you. Put Germoxont in their drinking water. Hu helped save chicks from many costly bowel troubles for 45 them rrcke money. Works first in drinking.

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Wife must devote 3 hours each morning at light house work. On paved highway. Bus and school bus at door. Garden space. Fishing and recreational privileges.

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