The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-11
GOOD EVENING.
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

About Town: It has come to this! A well-known about town who is highly respected in military clrce dropped into central restaurant the other morning ana ordered his favorite morning meapancakes After the waitress had carefully placed the order the counter ana fanked it with coffee and the necessary gear fork and spoonhe former soldier surveyed the approvingly Then oblivous to all eyes, he reacneo no a pocket of his coat and extracted bag 1t contaned quarter pound of butter He very carefully measured and cut several slices and plastered his pancakes rom the bottom layer to the top and then smothered It wn the traditional molasses syrup. However, before he undertook the task of consuming the tempting caKe ne dipped into another pocket and came with small mea contaner and very carefully extracted several small taD lets which looked suspciously like saccharne Two or three of them were deposited into the of coee Ana so the stage set Silently so we imagined the eX1 GI murmurs attack and the offensive was on In run scae Boy, and didn't he enjoy it. One wonders what he had in his pockets for the noon hour lunch
 Mr. and Mrs. Homer c. Crane of 21 Hillside Avenue will christen their son of Oct. A. Stephen Charles. Dan Powell will speak at the Coombs FelloWshp meet ing Sunday afternoon at at the Second Congregational Church. MT. and Mrs. Al Affeft of of Wolcott ceie brated their sixth wedding anniversary last week. The latter is the former Betty Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morrssey Sunnysde Avenue had four candles on their wedding anniversary cake yesterday. Bob is the genial assistant to Accountant George Connors while Mrs. Bob is the former Helen Hurley
 It's all in the point of view This weary, old world of or would come to sad end if the Republicans should ever win another national election. That's how some "New Deal" Democrats feel about it. And this whirling globe would come to grinding stop ii the Cardnas ever
 
 in Boston and perhaps down in Brooklyn too As mat ter of you write prediction about some one giving an unexpected sme donation helping hand to hasten the often repeated prediction the end of the world Most people give definite reason as to what will cause the final curtain but Gordon Atwater curator of the Hayden Planetarium has five reasons Winch means he is about five ahead of lamentng water burians Mr. Awaters fvepoint seectlve course says the final act would follow of the following caas trophes CD Collision between the earth and major comet (2 Ht-andrun crash between the and star (3) Explosion of the sun; (4) Cooling off the sum- and (5) plunge toward the earth by the So you see the Republicans can't hurt and the goes for mil lion other little daily fears that cloud the sunshine of hap pness Here here let's pull ourselves together or we will be giving lengthy datribes psychiatry or something!
 Pacific Note Book. A little careleSsness worked out satisfactorily for the member of the of an am phban tractor during the campaign in the muddy Jun gle of Bougainvlle. (ncdentaly, with most other types of vehicles begged down. tractors proved worth their weight in gold in carrying supplies and food to the weary Marines in the fluid front nes) young lieu tenant decided that there had been too much prOmlscu ous firing the tractors machine guns during trips to the front and gave orders that the were to be e1t strictly alone unless Japs actually sighted Dur- ing mission forward, crewman started working on his light machine gun, mounted atop the tractor and sure enough it fired burst. The shavetai rush. ing over ready run up the gunner for violation of orders But just he started toward the offending tractor there crashing of branches few yards ahead then thump. The accidental burst had killed Jap sniper lodged in tree. The young oOey, knowing he licked started back to his tractor without word.