The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-10
WOMAN,S REALM
Young HouSewife-War Worker Keeps Busy With Two Ambitions For Each Job
VICTORY IS HER PERSONAL CONCERN
By MARGUERITE YOUNG


 NEA Service Satff Correspondent
 New York. - Young Dorothy Yates has two ambitions. One is to finish crocheting her white bed- spread. It is the one thing she still needs to possess, whole, before she'll fell that the home which she and her 3-A husband, George, built is completely furnished and ready to live in, as they thought of living when they were married two years ago.
 Dorothy had to put away the spread, one-third done, a month ago. That is when she got her job drilling parts of wings for a new fighter plane, the Thunderbolt, in Republic Aviation's big Long Island plant.
 T know can't touch that spread till George gets back" Dorothy said softly. "Now, I put in every spare minute helping George. He is rac- ing to finish our garage. He means to store our car right-and have it all ready except the tires when he comes home from the war. He does have to race. You see, he's just 25, and he's fit; and we know he's no better than the next man and will be reclasisfied and called into ser- vice any time now"
 HOPES TO GRADUATE
 TO CLARA'S JOB
 That is how personally Dorothy takes this war-how personally in hurry she is to get it won. And that's where her second ambition comes in.
 T try to beat my time every day with this hand drill because l expected to graduate from it." she explained. Pretty soon I will = you watch. I'm going to work right on top of the fuselage of the Thun- derbolt, just like Clara Feely does look!-and Clara's husband soon will be bombardier!"
 Clara's job certainly gives her more of a feeling of getting those high flying, fast, heavily -gunned ships Winging. Clara puts together the outer "skin", and thus can see the craft taking shape right under her hands.
 She is perched atop the plane, suspended above the hundreds of men and women who work at floor level, making an enormous racket with machines of all sizes and kinds. Beyond all this, through an open door at the end of the final assembly line, Clara can see fin- ished Thunderbolts rolling out into the sunshine, rising and then re- turning from their test flights, and afterward rising again and soaring of to action. One day one of her Thunderbolts may escort bomber carrying her bombardier = who knows?
 This kind of concern is, of course, one thing that puts seven-league boots on Dorothy and Clara and the majority of the typical women workers in war plant jobs.
 Dorothy Yates is barely 9, and very pretty. She's railroad mans daughter, from North Carolina. She thought she'd go to college, when times were good and they had a farm besides her fathers pay. DEPRESSION BROUGHT
 HER TO NEW YORK
 But the precision hit them when Dorothy was IT. and she guessed six children were too many for a jobless Papa t look out for. So she came to New York and became 8 practical nurse.
 Then she married George, me- chanic. They started their home and she kept working to help pay for it. Practical nursing was 12 hours a day and 1t paid for a month what Dorothy earns now in a week. She had just quit nursing and started her spread and her plans for a baby-when the war began. She was mighty glad to go back to work, gladder still to hear women could get in at the plane factory just about ten miles from her home.
 Their house is white - four rooms with white curtains every