The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-22
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GOOD EVENING.
1 BY THE MAN IN THE Towm

Sunshine and shadows in the Valley, the Naugatuck Valley if you please 1t is never too late to offer con- Eratuations, cheering word, prayer or wish for friends happiness This do tonight although we ap preciate the fact that far as clock time concerneu we are 24 hours late Yesterday was the SSth birthday of of Naugatucks most beloved residents Miss Agnes Heaey of 9 Park Place and she found several reasons to feel radiant with happiness She celebrated her natal day in her own home not in the hospital ward as she reared for time Miss Healey fell several weeks ago in her home which is the residence of her niece Mrs. Frances Shanahan. She sustained broken hip and was removed to St. Mary's Hospital for attention She enjoyed the service given and the attention paid her, but one mght easily suggest pleasant atmosphere for nrtnday paey She returned to find that her friends had missed her and also that they hadn't forgotten the fact that the 21S her birthday So to their expressions o near. warming sentiments may add ours, Miss Heaey, and join in the wish for many many happy returns through out the days the months and years to come And now the shadows It is nice and comforting to know that one has friends soctous friends who will attempt the impossible and locate rent an apartment for you But after all there is place like home Wlfred d. La Point program secretary of the Naugatuck YMCA, was introduced the other evening at the annual meeting as "DP" Displaced Person.. He has swell position, nice friends likes Naugatuck and the borough nkes s all of which are compensatng thoughts but when fel- low needs apartment to reune his family ne IS more than displaced He's dislocated General Secretary her3 Brown assures "Bl that his luck will change soon and then Naugatuck with the of the LaPoins on hand will be another little bit of heaven to them at least
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 FOrerunners of the Yuletide season The ideal gifts" in display windows of downtown stores; receipt of boxes of postal cards from institutions in far.away states with the inevitable appeal for financial help for needy Then we hear G sOIss % nOSs ns SOw S purchase of little Christmas Seals. will put weapons into the hands of the Waterbury Anti-!ubercuiOsls league. It is a worthy cause, so Waterburians get into the fight It may be your next door neighbOr now, it may be you one of yours later the arrNaa C cOlOrful charity seals from the OsteOpaths, & me funds in this go into Student Loan Fund ihey ease the way for deserving young along educational highways. The seals are distributed annually and suggested being appropriately decorative TOT your IaaAo fPnu deliver to one 15O of my friends crate of Floraas @lOyeliest oranges" for much box. Well, IS commitment to think that even in Florida nas sr idea that we have "one to 15O friends" and the wherewith to buy them week or mOmths suPpy Ol orange juice. . We also get letters telling now easy is to borrow few hundred dollars to spend on Cnst mas gifts. But beyond that tempting picture are twelve lean months of 1947 and the paying back process grows painful at times. However, us nlSe nairhbOrly spirit and hope to be duly grateful when Thanksgiving day rolls around next week that sucn opportunities are at least ours for the asking'
 If vou think smartly and correctly in highway emer- eencies you have chance to live If you make move or take step in the wrong direction under similar CIT cumstances you most likely to become suDJect o post mortem probe Here's how the statscians of Con nectcut appraise pedestrians chances: step or two at the wrong time in the wrong direction often IS te margin of difference between death ana narrow w ev completed by Highway Safety Commission A survey oi the l34 pedestrian deaths in Connecticut in 1945 copet ed as part of the Pedestrian Protection ProJec snowS that stride or two would have changed the result in oZ percent of the years fatalities critical study or the oint of contact between vehicle and pedestrian indicates that few false steps resulted in fatalities for 70 persons In 49 instances the offending car was swerng away rom the pedestrian at the moment of contact and in 2l - stances the pedestrians into came into contact With the side of the car truck body Of the 49 swervg contacts 33 with the side of the front lenders ana 10 with the rear lenders In 59 instances is known that the front of the the point of contact The re- mainng six were of the hand-run type With point ol contact not determined Vulnerabiy ot the pedestrian is shown in the survey There were 58 traffic ac- cdents for every nonpedesran fatality in l945 and dur ing the period there were only IA pedestrian trai accidents for every pedestrian fatality"
 GOOD NIGHT.