The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-07


 Except Tor the promise of Easter mOrnI E4 EM
 HayOld L. FentOn is home on furIOugh from Mississippi Ernest Marggram sends word rom % sea he Is enjoying hts experience He writes he IS wtn fine bunch of radOmeI and we are just like one Dlg happy family Richard F Iustan s, IS nov eaTns FIusIling L, l., Dan ZdanOwicZ is with the Navy sub division in Panama.
 Jehn Arnold is home on leave from service in the South Pacific . . Edwin Alexander sends an Easter card from somewhere ill the Middle East. Aetnea Fiseher has entered the Navy Cadet Nurse Corps at St. Eiigabeths Hospital, Washington, D. c. Edmund Waller has been transferred from New 1ork @ So Cs e from Gainesville, Florida, to Orlando, same state
 The rsme of Private william A. Rogers, son of Mrs Alice Rogers of 07 South Main Street. has been added t0 the honor roll of the Second Congregational Cnucn tErd class with a naval amphbiOus group, writes from overseas that his outfit took part m tne VaSO" of the Marshall Islands.
 Mrs. Frank renevicn is postcardng her friends from nw o xGs Ssr Gy sS ps was inspection tour of LaGuardia Air Field Private Ernest J. Rhodes IS @ Company I2h Infantry TTang Baai0n son. of o Mrs Harold J. Quinn, left last week for Fort Devens' Mass He passed highest in the city last October %nen S he took his Army Air Cadet exam He was one or egnt cadets called from Connecticut
 Staff Sergeant FIank HOrrigan of Willow Street has just arrived in India from Egypt He is with the a42nd Air FOrce Squadron and in V-mall letter tO admirers temperature was over 100 degrees. He was informed that was the end of the winter and now he IS wondering what the summer has to promise Slnce ncs going year ago the elongated sergeant mas been in Africa, Sicily Italy Egypt and now Ano'a
 "non,tcha know there's a war on?" says the soda fountain girl to you you politely criticize her for pass ing you dish of skinned milk ice cream with dr!y thIb firmly planted top of the ice cream to steady it on the plate So, you take 1t with Shrug ana say to yourself "We that's certainly excuse for your inefcency stupidity and discourtesy" Of course you ike t0 tO only last week you nsulted one of the girls there by asking for little extra sugar for your coffee That one Gaed you in front of everybody by holerng at you, "Don'tcha know there's war on?" Gradually you are building up mental list of places you won't patronize after the War-ever. There's the watch repalrer for example, whorl you tlmidly hoped would repair your alarm clock because it's the only one in the house ana the whole family depends on it to get to Work lie aan several times produced the curt statement I'm not tax ing 1t any more work" And so it goes Everybody knows there's war or. Perhaps it's not so well known to some as to the recently discharged wounded Guadal canal veteran read about some time ago who asked for extra sugar in his coffee and met with the usua VDon'tcha know there's war on?" But why this now trte, maddenAng statement and its different versions which mean the same thing is an excuse for neffcency and discourtey is beyond us The OPA has neltner rationed nor Put ceiling on courtesy. The war has made it difficult to give service and impossible to give service M instances, but pleasant words like: i've are very sorry" We will do everything can for you" and "Tank you," though used less and less are still not illegal.
 Staff Sergeant Herbert B. Spencer is expected to recover IrOm tne serious WOunuS SuStalLcO MarCu S Roth legs were fractured and he will be in cast for some time Adding insult to injury he is also pneu' m0nia patient. His hospital address is (HOspitaD Central Directory P o. SOL of postmaster, San Francisco, California
 Norma Teinn, sporting one of the highest averages of the senior class at Crosby High expects to enter smith College after receiving her heepsn from the East Main Street institution but hasn't definitely decided in what she will major Zeke LaVallee working seven nights week at the Benrus Watch tells me his brother, Cap yaln Oscar, intrepid nigh diver has retired from that dangerous trade to really enjoy terra rma at his farm m Norwich
 Raymond J. Beeman, son of MT, and Mrs, Ray Aeeman of Sl COsset Street. recently promoted t9 the grade o technical sergeant according to announce Ment from s. Army Headquarters in the Middle East Sergeant Heeman IS now serving at an Air TIanspQVE Command base in West Africa where he is assigned t9 duty as warehouse supervisor Prior to entering the service with the Air Corps he was employed by the Se0vill Manufacturing Company as machine operator.