The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-06
I.ood Evenlng.

When he lands the
 Boat Docks . Out of the haze that obscures the NarroWS the Queen Elizabeth arrived last week with 14 86O troops aboard who were well worth the threehour gun salute that heard all over lower Manhattan Staten Island and Brooklyn. Five transports arrived which brought the number of returned to 17,00O men and women in the Armed Forces These are great days and great events Every ship that into port is hero or is it heroine carrying the thousands of her pines and heroes aboard. The wild acclaim, the dem- onStrationS the pomp, not too much in conSidera ton of the sacrifice made by those returning follow ing one two three and four years in the foreign the aterS The arrival of the Queen Elizabeth it is said occasoned the greatest din since VIE Day. The first three whistle salute the introduction to medley of whiS- ties each in it's own key and as the Queen Elizabeth ap peared out of the haze there was literally bedlam let loose Folks visiting New York that in the midst of the celebrating something the for wear, but said they wouldn't have missed the sight for anything.
 For the Record . That's all right no harm done says the lady of the house. when you drop four five of her best records type plastic record is being improved by recording company guaranteed not to bend, scratch break, offend the That's fine, especially the last part of it.
 Sgt Michael F. Wallace son of Mr. and Mrs Michael Wallace 84 Laval street. is spending 3O-day furlough here He shipped in October 1914 with tAe 27h Combat Engineers and served with the Ninth Army in its push from LeHavre France to the Baltic Sea. The 277th built the longest Heating Bailey bridge the Rhine Prior to entering the service in October 1943 Sgt Wallace was principal of somersvle High school Somers ve Connecticut and also served director of the U S. O. Club in Houlton, Maine He is brother of Senator Patrick J. Wallace.
 Ed Leamy former telegraph editor and contribu- tor to the Democrat columns weekend visitor in town. Ed has been with the New York World Telegram since he left Waterbury. Eds easy literary style will be remembered in his contributions to the Tower and the Radio columns.
 The first day of school always brings to the mind of this writer golden September day when were ad mitted for the first time to country schoohouse the outskirts of the city, The structure nestled at the foot of sandy hill and bordered side by singing pines and the other by bubbling brook Dur
 ing the warm months the brook provided all kinds of n- teresting games for the imaginative youngsters who found it fascinating from their kindergarten days through to graduation winter while the pigtailed girls and heavily boys busy with their les sons, the pines moaned loudly Though much of those glorious days of yeSyear has been blurred the pass ing of time yet here and there remains vivid recoec- ton of incident that could only in country schoohouse There was for instance that Huckeberry Finn of the lower grades who ate the teachers lunch while ncarcerated in the book closet for naughty deed
 And another when the same prankish rascal placed squrmng black snake in the top drawer of the teach CTS desk Lasting too, the memories of those derfu hours spent in wandering the meadows and countryside that surrounded that little white school house The first arputus and the first chestnut brought end of joy The earliest puSSywow meant the end of the arduouS one-mie treks sometimes ten-foot drifts back and forth to school Then the thaws when the mud swallowed wagon wheels to the hubs and the children skrted the roads through the meadows and woods with their eyes peeled for those wood wagons that always offered friendly lift. There movies roerskating rinks and playgroundS for the youth of yeSteyear They anxousy looked forward to the ing of the good old summertime which provided care free and joyous days beside the old swmmin hoe where the mud was knee-deep and the pollywogs wggled through the yellow water And wonder if that ole swmrnn hole didn't provide fun than all the tiled pools in Hollywood!
 Since commenting the other evening on the grow ing popularity of Fish and Game" columns in news papers and radio programs, we have been supplied with interesting little bit of statistical information concerning the farflung influence of former Water burians contribution to the pubcs education fish, ing and hunting Jim Hurley is the coauthor of pro- gram broadcast Wednesday evenings over WATR and the American network. Tonight at 1850 program of local origin arranged by Gene VallOn of WATR staff will be heard and several local fish and game groups will De tuned in. As measure of popularity of Jim Hureys program read the following release:: Letters