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WHERE IKE WAS BORN . . . This six-room house in Denison, Texas, is where General of the Armies Dwirht D. Eisenhower was horn on October 14, I8M. It is being turned into a shrine by the peo ple of Denison, with even school children donating pennies and nickels to raise the money. Deroson Wastes No Time Converting Eisenhower Birthplace into Shrine By JTAIII Features. DENISON, TEXAS.?Birthplaces of great men are revered by the American people, and Denison lost no time in acquiring the house where General of the Armies Dwight D. Eisenhower was born. They expect Gen. Eisenhower to go down in history with Washington and Lee, and are prepared for it. n#noral CicAittmuior wo? A here October 14, 1890, in a neat white frame house a few yards from the railroad where his father worked. It was in the best part of town then. Across the street was the may or's home. Next door was the house of a prominent lumber dealer. Both have burned since then, but the Eisenhower home still stands in the center of two large lots six blocks from the center of town. A civic committee has bought the six-room one-and-a-half story home for $3,000 and will repair and re '? MOVING IN . . . Mils Jennie Jfsefcsea (left), who held Bab? Ike rs her lay, and Mrs. E. L. Hsiley sU in refsnlshing Che general's I irth place. rore it to its original appearance. Furniture of the 1890s will be vied. The living room, bedroom, dining room and kitchen will be typical of the '90s, even to the kitchen uten sils. Miss Jennie Jackson, a school teacher who bounced Eisenhower on her knees when he was a baby, is in charge of the restoration. It is hoped that many of the gen eral's personal articles will be on display for posterity. Deaisoa Barm' to Co JUter Basiness DENISON, TEXAS. ? Here is a town with a population of 19,000 that la looking forward. Denison is no war-boom chmp. It processes cot ka, makes mattresses, saws, cheese, candy and furniture, shells nuts, dehydrates eggs, kills cattle and dresses meat. The M. K & T. railroad repair shops are still the largest source of income. Lake Tesxna, made possible by the Denison dam, impounds the wa ters at the Red river and Waushita river. The dam is three miles long and the largest earthen-rolled fill dnm in the world. The project is a casnblnalinsi flood control and hydroelectric installation. But Denison is not satisfied with all this. It is after more business. Mg business, big industry. Denison wanks to manufacture fertilizer, pfasOc, ayidheftr rubber and chem ^ ica la, among other things. It has the raw materials, the electric pow er, and believes it can find or im part the labor necessary. Produc tioo casts in Denison will be lower khan fa crowded cities, it believes. The decentralization at industry is ??fag and when it comes Denison wants s segment of it to come ^jro?s-dfaho^wiUh. mm >WIATION NOTES CAP HELPING AIR FORCE VETS SECURE JOBS The Civil Air patrol is co-operat ing with the air forces in a nation wide program to organize AAF vets in placements in all types of civilian jobs requiring skills similar to those soldiers used while in service. Jobs for air force vets do not nec essarily center on aviation work. Many trained mechanics can work on other engines, while electricians and radio men have skills that may be turned to many fields. In Den ver alone the CAP has placed over 60 AAF vets in jobs. ? ? ? FLYING PERSONNEL CoL Weldon E. (Dusty) Rhoades, who served for IS months in the Pacific as personal pilot for General MacArthur, recently joined United Air Lines and also has been ap pointed director of air navigation traffic control of the Air Transport association. . . . Earl Gray, who operates an airport at Leesburg, Vs., recently bought a de luxe Fair child 24 L. Smith and Bob Wiley of Philip, S. D., have shot more than 300 coyotes from a plane while flying over Haakon, Jackson, Meade and Pennington counties and expect to get 100 more before summer. . . . Capt. Charles W. Bolton and WLilian David Horn, veteran TC pilots, purchased the Bennett flying service at Pocatello, Idaho, from A. A. Bennett. . . . Roy H. House and W. D. Smith have purchased an Aeronca champion for their flying service at Liberty, Texas. ... A student at the Evans ton, Wyo., airport is the Rev. Sid ney Hoadley. ? ? ? AIR-FLOWN EGGS Eggs from Massachusetts, which will be used to build up the poultry flocks of the world, are now being shipped by plane to South America, South Africa, Australia and China. Russia is also interested in secur ing eggs for hatching. ? ? ? TO MAKE MOVIE How a boy of 13 or younger can be taught to fly is the theme of a motion picture to be produced by a group of veterans who have set up in the movie business. Star of the picture will be 13-year-old Mar vin Whiteman Jr., who recently completed 61 hours at the controls of his father's Ryan S-T. Young Whiteman began taking lesions at the age of eight. Marvin's sister, 11-year-old Lynn Carol, is also teaming to fly. The New Culver Model. ? ? ? SURPLUS PLANES Over 300 surplus Fairchild PT-Os were aold in the flret IS days they were pot on sale at tfarad prices ranging from $900 to $1,179, the war assets administration has reported. There are mors than 800 PT-Ss in surplus stocks still, moat of them at Cape Girardeau and Union City. Surplus AT-11 Beech twin-engine aircraft, formerly sold on the basis of allocations to priority holders, now can be bought directly from salts storage depots without an al- , location. HIS MODELS WERE THE TOPS . . . Flying Officer Carl Freeman, Luke Field, Ariz., is shown with the model planes which won first and second prizes at the model airplane meet held at Lukt Field. Record 61.2 mph. The army air force has a program to encourage the build ing and flying of model planes not only among enlisted personnel and officers but also among civilian groups. Many aces in World War II became interested in aviation while building model planes. FAST FEEDING . . . Jimmy Slyter, 19, receives food through tube from thermos bottle during his Los Angeles-Catalina island swim try. The navy veteran was forced to abandon his attempt after two hours and 49 minutes of paddling, approximately five miles short of the 22 mile route. He was polled aboard exhausted. Judges believe that he struck his head on boat which caused collapse. COLONEL SERVES SERGEANT . . . When Sgt. Bass H. Lewis Jr., Cotaunbns, Ga., went overseas he expressed the wish that ?pea his discharge he cewid hare a suite at the Astor and hare his enlenel serre him breakfast in bed. He got his wish. CoL Cecil Retledge, Buffalo, N. T., is shown serving former Ser geant Lewis. SLEEPY HOLLOW HAS TWINS . . . Bmr Hollow fan at Saa Ad setano, CaHf.. la prow* of twins, Reftna and Res, foaled by mare owned by Ella and Dtefc G la steal. Birth of twins In horse dim Is a rare oe ssiisnso. This was the Irst set of twins delivered by the veterinar ian ta M years. REAL COURAGE . . . Eddie Kama, 15, whose lets have been twisted by infantile paralysis since he was two, is shown at his position as pitcber on Carbondale, Fa., team. He never asks favors from opposition. THE HAT ... Fiorello H. LaGuar dla, New York's former mayor, re cently climbed to the top of the wheat ladder to five the farmers a few facts of life. At Farto, N. D., he asks for wheat for En rope. MARRIED ... Remember Fred die Batholomew, child star of yes terday? Press stories tell os that he ran away from his annt, eloped and married his press agent. She is six years older than Freddie. BIRTHS GOING UP . . . Statis tics aren't what David Rothman, left, ZZ-months, and Marianne Price, 13-months, are interested in. They'd rather have action to cov er their tiny bottoms so they can to places. They have received promises from the OPA officials that they win soon be covered. ELECTION IN MEXICO .. . Ma leu peasant stands beside the pester el Miguel Aleman at Masat taa. Aleman Is making the most vtforons eampaifn In Mexican history tor the election. Kathleen Norris Says: j Moratorium on Divorce Bell Syndicate.?WNU Feature*. "Poor Roy! He wants sympathy, petting and understanding. He has had a pretty tough time." By KATHLEEN NORMS ALL the time he is away, and /\ for six months after he *? gets home, it ought to be made illegal for a soldier's wife to ask for a divorce. If we had had a law like that for the last four years, hundreds of American homes would have been saved. And as the saving of the American home is as im portant as the saving of Ameri ca, this would have been a wise law. Soldiers are subject to hundreds of laws, some good, some petty; they must obey them all or suffer humiliating and painful penalties. A mah doesn't ask to get into the service, he is drafted; it may mean the loss of an arm or a leg, or of his eyes, but he has no choice. It may mean that he comes back from years of service to discover that the sweet and gentle woman of whose love he has been dream ing has taken on another lover, that she wants a divorce, that the babies whose little crumpled snap-shots he has been treasuring through many an hour of danger and loneliness, are to be his babies no longer; he has lost home, wife, children at one blow. But he has lost much more than that. His morale receives a dead ly stroke. He is tired, disillusioned, perhaps embittered, perhaps sick ened and saddened by the long bout with death, by the sight of crushed bodies and torn limbs. Of Course he doesn't come home the sunny, un analytical, easy-going young fellow who went away. Of course he needs great doses of af fection and silence and patience, if he is to be cured. Decision in Two Days. He doesn't get them. "Roy had only been home two days," writes a Seattle wife, "when we knew it was no go!" Two days! After 31 months in the inferno of the South Pacific, after risking his life over and over and over, Roy comes home to his dream woman, and finds she isn't a dream at all, but a quite human,' faulty, aggrieved young thing who believes that she has had just as hard a time as he has. His children are grown out of recognition; finances are in an unstable condition; Anna knows he ought to go back and finish his law course, but good gracious, she can't live on a government allow ance all that time ? and what on earth are the Bakers to do? Poor Roy! He wants sympathy, petting and understanding, he wants the appreciative attention of all his old friends he has had a pretty tough time. Instead, no one takes any particular notice of him, and Anna poses a new problem every other day. "Roy had only been home two days when we decided it was no go," Anna writes. "All our friends agreed that he was simply impos sible." In 48 hours she had time to dis cuss him with all their friends, ap parently. Roy knew he was unpopu lar, and that didn't help. Roy Married Again. But there's another half to this story. All this was a year ago. Anna "fl* w mo ekotcm." . . . ' got her divorce and the care of two small girls. Roy married a woman who has quite a little property out in the country and is having a good time managing it. Miraculously, he finds himself loved and useful; Anna is out in the cold. "I've always loved Roy," her let ter finishes, "and is it fair that I should be left to raise the children, with no help from him?because he has no money ? while he has a glorious time running three ranches?" Thousands of wives have de manded divorces from servicemen during these years. And almost equal thousands have wished they were back-with the original mate. A few months of patience, a genu- * ine desire to understand what a man is feeling, a careful preparing of the children's minds, and before you know it, the strangeness of the re adjustment wears away, and the man and woman find that they still want to be companions in the ad venture of life. If you are one of those wives who met your man with good news, with a hopeful plan, with a heroic fac ing of the unavoidable changes and difficulties, then you have done your job for America as well as he did his. If you are not, you may be among the thousands who leaped into war time or postwar time divorce, you may already be feeling, as I feel, that a wartime moratorium on divorce would save a great deal of heartbreak. Among other funda mental stupidities, we humans very often don't know what we want. New German Chnrn A novel German continuous but termaking machine, which may be more efficient than American churns, has been brought to the United States for testing. Results of the test will be made available to American industry after research is completed. In about three to six months. Continuous buttermaking machines have not been used com mercially in the United States. The German machine is reported to pro duce 1,500 pounds of butter per hour. PATIENCE AND AFFECTION \ Naturally it is difficult for a returned veteran to slip right back into familiar civilian life again. He has had all sorts of hardships and painful experi ences. His nerves are raw from danger and discipline, or per haps a siege in the hospital. When he comes back, expecting his wife to be ready to soothe him and to make up for all the misery, he is frequently disap pointed. She probably has had a hard time of it, trying to manage on a small allotment, or working part time. Housing shortages, food rationing and other homefront problems had worn her down. There may be children to care for after a tiring day at work. No wonder she is not quite as sweet and young as he antici pated. All too often these disillusion ing homecomings end in divorce. Quick tempers and frayed nerves bring on quarrels of various sorts. The only remedy seems to be in separation. Hasty action quite often causes lifelong heart breaks, where a little patience and affection would solve the problem, says Miss Norris.
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