Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-20
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You Know
Bus Drivers Kindness
Deserves BIO Orchid
BY WILLIAM FLEMING

BY WILLIAM FLEMING
There isn't a name on this, II
happened too quick But he is peo-
pie people like TO know. 1t hap
pened at Cass and Davenport. A
DSR bus driver stopped his bus and
went out to help a blind man
across the street. He didn't have
do to il but he did a guy like
that deserves more than an orchid.
There Is never much love lost
between the Detroit Corporation
Councils office and Michigan's
public utilities. AT the present
time a beautiful enmity. based on
mutual admiration. is springing
up between Richard A. Sullivan,
the city's public utility analyst and
Harry Snow, controller OF the De-
troit Edison Company.
"Wln, lose or draw" says
Snow, Eve never had more fun
In my life working with any ono
than with Dick Sullivan. He may
worm q lot of information out OF
me about Edison profits, but I
know he'll use IL fairly"
And Dick says:
The reason I like 10 Aght
with Harry on these rate cases
10 that he's such q nice fellow,
and he knows all the answers"
The only trouble is, both oi
them mean every word they say
Fine thing. Ell!
Mrs. John Racey has q problem
on her hands. II seems she woulc
like 10 give a hand crocheted pure
silk sweater 10 the silk hose sal
wage program now being conducted
by stores. The thing is pure silk
and all that but the Wayne County
salvage committee says no soap
They say IL isn't the kind of sill
they want and the only place they
can get that kind OF silk is in silk
stockings.
The boys around town are bet.
ting two 10 one that Sgt. Victor
Kendall Will make the grade ir
Officers training school. Before his
enlis Kendall was an "Inl
Monkey" on one of the downtown
papers. He is taking his training
at Fort Monroe, Va.
Mrs. Frank coates wax elected
vice president of the Detroit So
Iciety for the Hard of Hearing the
other day. Mrs. Ralston q. Johr
was reelected president. The SO.
ciety is clearing house for the
problems OF the hard of hearing
II conducts free classes In lip read
ing.
Miss Penny Julian, on reading
here that a group of war working
girls were planning on making vi
a theatrical group, called in TO say
she would like 10 join them
She lives at 6Sl6 Charlevoi,
avenue.
You can't trust a tonsil. Judge
John p. Scallen is out at st. 10.
seph Mercy Hospital trying TO ge'
over having the tags" OF hi
shipped. The tonsils themselves
were removed some time ago.
Neighbors out around $50 Glad
stone avenue have been having
them a time during their monthly
war meetings. These meetings are
arranged by Miss Frances I'm
mons, assistant sector warden
They borrow the chairs from
Temple Beth FL and sit in the
basement of the Gladstone address
Last night they heard Philip Blair
who was in Honolulu at the time
OF the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor
Blair and his wife helped care fol
the wounded.
Inspector Sam Throop of Can
field Station and Patrolman RAY
Stringari were returning from IN,
funeral of Miss Harriet Lodge
sister of the councilman, wher
they bumped into the back of q
car double-parked on Mack ave
nue. between Brush and John r
Sticking out of the car were two
slot machines-so obvious yol
could have put nickel in them
The officers waited around anC
finally Kenneth Patterson, IS, oI
Dayton, Ohio. claimed them anC
they claimed Patterson on {
charge of having gambling equip
mont in his DOSSPSSiOn