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THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1344 PAGE EIGHT THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBEASKA Tells Of Highway Work In South Dakota Counties Local Man Finds Mnch Interest Shown in Program and in the Ex tension of System On my recent trip to South Dakota I was greatly impressed by the pro gress made in road building during the past 10 years. Dav county, where I resided be fore coming to Nebraska, in 1917, is located in northeastern South Dakota. It is but slightly larger than our county of Cass, yet it now has completed 540 miles of county roads, well constructed, graveled and prop erly maintained. A commendable performance for a county that only a few years ago was so ravished by grasshoppers, drouth and depres sion that many of its farm families moved away. In order to get first hand informa tion I went to Webster, which is the county seat, and called at the office of the highway superintendent. I was then introduced to the five coun ty commissioners and the county at torney," who were in a business ses sion, and preparing to leave for an inspection trip to a newly construct ed road. I was invited to accompany them and there we viewed a fine new construction job, requiring an SO-foot right of way, with gentle Eloping shoulders, wide ditches and high road bed to prevent snow piling up. I learned that the adjoining land owners donated the additional land requested, but do not have to con tribute to the cost of gravel or haul ing, and the county work crews re move and rebuild the fences. The gravel is secured from both private and county owned gravel pits. Then back to town where we were treated to a fine dinner, after which we were taken to the hoghway sup erintendent's office wher the inner workings were revealed to me, first that the commissioners excepting one have held office for many years. Their rate of pay is on a per diam basis, plus mileage. They usually meet two days each month. They hire the highway superintendent who has complete road machinery and acts as employer of approxi mately 25 men, who work on a year ly basis at a good hourly wage scale. The position of highway superin tendent is an important one. He must ' be an engineer, right-of-way man, mechanic, purchasing agent and all 'round trouble shooter, but Albert Ilerr who holds this versatile job has had many years of practical road building experience and according to the commissioners he is an excellent leader and foreman and with the' capable and efficient office girl a very complete and comprehensive' report is prepared for the commis-j sioners and taxpayers. The inventories showed the county' had nearly $S0,000 invested inj equipment and the report showed exactly what it costs to maintain on comstruct a mile of road, both as to j machine cost and man hours. j Then we drove to the County Fair ! grounds where one large building is ; onverted to a machine shop,- -where county machinery : is stored, over hauled and repaired. A mechanio is given full time employment. The County Fair has been sus pended since tire rationing began, and money saved goes into the road fund. ; , Thi, then '.is the . story, of road building in a progressive community with an over-all plan to serve aU localities, and while the county at torney was giving study to the new federal, postwar farm-to-market bill, it left no doubt in my mind that Day county will be ready to add many allitional miles to the great network of fine roads in the near future. W. F. Nolte. Exiles Rejoice That Paris Again To Be city Of Light French Newspaper Woman Re joices That Home Again Will Bej Bright When Germans Go (Tarisian to her finger-tips, dau ghter and grandaughter of Paris ians, the author of the following dispatch expresses the unbounded: joy of the French at the impending liberation of their "City of Light." Miss Tabouis is one of the best known journalists in the world. She was for many years chief diplomatic correspondent of the Paris News paper L'Oeuvre. Noted as an advo cate of democracy and a staunch enemy of fascism, she was on the nazi black list and had to flee her native city in 1940 for her life.) New York, (UP) By Genevieve Tabouis (As told to Mary Harring ton, United Press Staff Correspond ent) To know Paris is entering up on the moment of her liberation is to be happy again. Paris is not just a city, not just a home. Paris is part of a person. For four years I have been without Paris and that was harder than be ing an exile. I have been lost, an orphan in the world, since May 10, 1940. Now I can go back. I want to walk down Champ de Mars to the Eifel Tower where I will climb to its very top ard see my beautiful city and its green parks and churches and cafes. I will watch the lovers walking through those parks and my heart will be with them. I have missed my little cafe on Champs Elysee where every night before I went to work. I went in for a cup of chocolate. And I want to know if the gargoyles of Notre Dame still look down on us all. The Louvre in each section I shall anxi- ously look to see if the Germans have changed, it. And , what they. Jiave j&tol-. en. I want to" go " to the Palais ,de Justice and think aloud of hov? lucky we are to be free again .' And I shall say & little prayer for justice. n. In the spring of each year since I have been away from my city, , I have worried that the Germans did not care for the Jardin des Plantes an dthe lovely gardens of the Tuiler ies. As for seeing people again, I do not want to see the famous people I used to know, some of whom helped destroy France. I wonder if the concierge of my apartment build ing still lives and the circumstances of Old Jeanne, the flower vendor, who pinned her blossoms on my coat and blessed me every day. As one of my first duties, I must visit the cemetery. It will be good to weep at my mother's grave. She died while I have been away. Sh was the real Paris, light, dainty, yet so strong. Then I shall go to the little park near the Arc de Triomphe where I played as a little girl, waere my husband made love to me before he was my husband, where I took my own two children, and' where I shall take those grandchildren of mine I have never seen. Then I shall go to St. Genevieve's to light a candle and pray. It is the little church of the patron saint of my city and of me. Saint Genevieve saved Paris from Atilla and the Hun and I prayed there during the last war when I was a young woman for my husband wha was a very new husband then and was fighting for France. The love of one's city and one's country is a peculiar thing. , T 3 ; 1 ; ? y x r- - ', - " , ; - - spirit. "America is a magic word fori COUNTY PAIR REVIVED .The very fact that .the Americans i .Clinton, Okla The Custer county have come and we knew, even when' fair board recently began prepara we fled our city four years ago.'tions for the Oklahoma community's that they would come means that! 1944 county agricultural exposition, we French must start over again, J which was revived when the county build new laws, a new sonstitution. j commissioners allotted $3,000 for America has set an example of j expenses and premiums. The county human dignity and moral decency to fair was cancelled last year because the French. HOLDS DOWN MANY JOBS ON HOME FRONT or wartime problems. It hats been tentatively set for September 18 to 21. SONS SPANK MOTHERS It is an indescribable feeling. But the thrill I am feeling is so great I cannot sleep and I weep too much. We French do not dare be completely happy yet. I am afraid to let my happiness have full sway. I am afraid the Germans will do some thing terrible to my city before they leave. The fact that Paris is being lib erated by Americans is tremendous ly important because of what Ameri ca represents to the French thot which is best in the democratic Pittsburgh Charles II. Chance is missing no opportunity to be a home front hero. A veteran of World War I, Chance served as an air raid warden, a military ballot canvasser, a war bond salesman and is presently de voting tnree nours weeKiy as a ' nurses' aid in the men's wards ofi the Presbyterian Hospital, where he! recently finished a course given to , volunteers in nurses' training. j Chance's life is closely bound to war, for he has a son who is an Army ; sergeant, a daughter serving in the Wacs, a sin-in-law with the air forces and a daughter-in-law station ed with the Marines in Pendleton; Cal., with the rank of private first class. j With all these volunteer duties.1 Chance continues his reguar occu-i pation in real estate, his vocation j for the past 35 years. I Chance discoverd htee shortage of nurses earlier this year when he was a patient in a local hospital. Com-i bining his experience of nursing his children through the usual childhood illnesses with his later hospital training. Chance has helped the burden at the hospital. Champaign, 111. Several hundred persons watched nine boys of the witzer park neighborhood here beat their mothers, 14 to 4, in a game of softball. -s SCHOOLBOY MIXES IT FOR 25c Pocatello, Ida. Lyman Horsley, 13, American Falls, Ida., high school freshman, has worked up a highly profitable business. He hitch-hikes daily to the Pocatello air base post barber shop, where he shines GI shoes 15 cents for a regular shine, 25 cents when the shoes require a "special cleaner." Lyman explains his special cleaner is "just one of my mixtures." Your HeaUh, Happiness and Success, Demands Good Vision! Leonard Fitch Optometrist 116 N. 5th. Phone 141 Plattimouth BUY NOW NORGE GAS RANGE Davenport and Chair (Coil Spring) Baby Beds (Steel Spring Nursery Chairs Childs Rocker Large Upholstered Rocker (coil spr.) Utility Cabinets Maple Bedroom Set . . 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