The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-17

The Winter-weary will be happy to hear our tele- scope high up in the tower magnifies the glad tdings blanketed valley. . A huge yellOw-green spray of fOrSythia blooms the desk of Bill DerWln Tn the Park Department Office city hail. They found root in the cityS greenhouses, Bill says. Here and there at high yesterday hearty male ventured forth without his muffler or tOpcOat Wait until the wife hears of that. . Buds discernibe the towering elmS the Green. The lassieS are Haunt ing those pOsycOvered chapeaux that suggest lovely nOsegay. And unmistakably Paw is beginning to worry whether the coal pile will last until April l5' since open windows now taboo
 Heard in passing . The Golf Lots fires this past winter have occasoned lot of comment from motorists and bus riders who watch the big dump blazes with siderable interest the flames have roared skyWard
 Cancellation of the dog show to have been held at the State Armory Hartford this afternoon big blow to Connecticut dog fanciers, including number from Waterbury and vicinity The show called off, due to ODT regulations Tax Collector Humbert Mangn1l nm office to aid taxpayers during the rush days when they seeking to settle up their old age assistance taxes and water rents.
 tribute to Johnny week ago Monday Water bury lost of it's well known and beloved citizens He always had smile for everybody and was always thinking of others rather than himself speaking of "Jack" called him as John Miller, the late engineer of the M J. Daly Company. May he rest in peace. Amen. A Fervent Reader. . guess your sentiments will find echo in many heart, Friend Reader for Jack did leave large number of loyal friends to mourn his passing. James Shell of Oak
 
 ing at the Sampson Naval base at Sampson, N. Y has been ordered to remain awhile longer and to specialize fin naval signal trainings. Niver w. Beaman editor of the Greenwich Time and former local newspaper man, spoke at legislative hearing in Hartford this week. Mr. Beaman among those opposing the sys- tenn in Greenwich of allowing the town clerk to retain fees annual salary. bill is being considered to place the town clerk on an annual salary basis Waterbury formerly also had this SyStem the clerk retaining portion of fees did not go either to the city state. At the present time the office is straight annual salary basis
 dispatch from Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, brings interesting concerning Waterbury youth It service decoration The official story follows Private First Class Joseph A. Steponats 24, of MT. and Mrs John SteponaitiS, 230 Chipman Street, Waterbury, presented this week with the golden laurel wreath sleeve insignia individual clta ton accompanying the mertorous Service Unit Plague which given his medical squadron at TruaX Field, AAF Training Command installation. Highest unit recognition for Squadrons stationed within the United States the plaque awarded the medical group for achieving high degree of military and professional efficiency" and for the individual conduct of it's per- tive and technical records and outstanding level of dis cipline and morale" Before entering the service Pfc. Steponaitis was an ordnance inspector.
 Archbishop Francis J. Spelman of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York notable for his prose and poetry Just recently in his appeal for foster board ing homes for $50 Catholic children in New York he wrote the following lines:
 Somewhere place matters not-somevhere
 saw child. hungry and thin of face
 Lips that dead to laughter's eager kiss
 Yet parted dercely to crust of bread
 the child saw. hosts,
 Of children in world at play with death
 May die or. living live in bitterness.
 O God, today, above the cries war,
 Hear Thou Thy ch1dren's and grant
 Thy and Gods peaceand bread starving