THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JAM. 24, 1945
PAGE TWO
Missing Button
Game Hatcheck
Girl s Bright Idea
By Mary Lain?
(United Pro Staff Correspondent)
Chicago B Mrs. Josephine
Kelley arrived at the Wrigley
building restaurant nine years
ago as merely a hat-check girl
and wound up becoming an insti
tution of the place.
It all started with Charlie
Grimm, manager of the Chicago
Cubs, and a missing button. When
he checked his Burberry overcoat,
Mrs. Kelley noticed that it was
minus both a regular button in
the front and the extra button in.
side. Another guest's Burberry
yielded an extra button and Mrs.
Kelley transferred it to the ball.
player's coat. She was tipped
handsomely for her good deed and
an idea was born.
However, Mrs. Kelley decided
that taking a button from one cus
tomer to please another was hard
ly conducive to good-will all
around. A customer rejected her
proposed plan to save buttons,
suggesting buying new ones and
started her off with a dozen each
of several sizes in black, brown
and gray.
Now Mends and Cleans
In the eight years since then
she has sewed on an average of
SO buttons a week and her depart
ment has been expanded to In
clude mending and spot-cleaning
services and just pleasing the cus
tomers generally. In the summer
she removes about two spots a
. day, and all year round averages
three mendings a day and sews on
about 80 tapes and chains for
hanging purposes each week. Her
supplies cost her on an average of
$100 a year.
Petite, red-haired Mrs. Kelley
does her work while the guests
are dining and doesn't mention it
to them. If it goes unnoticed, she
doesn't mind, but usually It's dis
covered eventually, which is one
of the reasons why the florist is
frequently ringing her bell.
Her supply of service buttons Is
limited, since she cannot buy
them. Those she has were given
to her by servicemen and she has
some GI buttons taken from her
husband's uniforms when he be
came on officer. He is handsome
1st Lt. Francis Patrick Kelley,
serving somewhere in Belgium.
She also has a son serving in the
army air forces at a Virginia field
and another, . Johnny, who is a
junior at an Illinois military academy.-,
. Chock Without Cheeks fc
Although she's sewed qn many
buttons and chevrons for service
men, it's something she's never
done for her husband, because he
was always away when promoted.
And young Johnny complains that
his "buttons are always hanging
loose" while she cares for the cus
tomers. . .
Incidentally, servicemen are
asked to keep their tips. .
Mrs. Kelley is well-known, too,
for her ability to keep track of
coats and hats without checks,
and newcomers to Wrigloy's often
are the goats of bits that' she
never misses. Her system requires
keen observation. She takes a
, quick look at a customer and then
writes initials or makes little
marks on a slip of paper, which
mean anything from "funny wool
tie and tall" to "slender with type
writer." When customers come In
together, she checks their things
together, and has one slip for the
group. One was marked "R Kt S
& DK," which stood for "red knit
tie and short and dark."
"You might nay," she pointed
out, "that lots of men wear red
knit ties, but it's unlikely that
each is with a short and dark
man."
Peace Scare in Capital Hits
Rents, Othman Gleefully Finds
By Frederick C. Othman
(United PrMi Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 24 (IB There
seems to be, according to my
bride who now qualifies as an
expert, What the financial writers
would call a peace scare in the
capital real estate markets.
The Russians are getting close
to Berlin, the hard-boiled babies
with the houses for sale at prices
that ought to include diamond
studded door-knobs are putting on
the pressure, and the homeless
Othmans are laughing in their
homely faces.
There'll come a time and appar
ently It Isn't far away when any
body who tries to get $30,000 for
a three bedroom house will be
locked up, either as a nut or a
robber chief. That time hasn't
come yet, because one of these
babies tried to peddle us such a
house at such a price yesterday.
My bride told him she was string
ing along with Stalin.
She said she d stay put In our
cubicle, no matter how many
bruises she got climbing like an
Alpinist over the furniture, until
the war is won and the standing-
room-only signs come down from
the District, of Columbia.
She's been here now since No
vember, spending every waking
hour looking for a place to live
in topsy-turvy town, anu now
that the highbidders seem to be
getting frightened over the pros-
lects of peace, l think the time
las come to make a formal re
port:
One apartment house still has
a waiting list of 2,000; another has
500 and the only flat my bride
actually saw vacant was built
Over a two-car garage: rent $80.
She soon gave up trying to get an
apartment She turned to houses-
for-rent. She found one, or half
of one, for $90, but she said she
wouldn't live In lt dead. (That's
the way she talks when she gets
excited.) She looked at another
In the country, the ad said, and it
certainly was. No bath. Water
from the pump, but the pump was
frozen the day she called. Rental:
$65 a month.
There was one nice house that
she liked until the man calmly
mentioned the price. He said he'd
let her have it on a two-year lease
or $350 a month. If she'd had her
umbrella along she'd have hit him
between the eyes.
Eventually she gave up trying
to rent a house. She thought may
be she'd better buy one and by
actual count, she has inspected
52. She has concluded that a
$7,000 house sells for $11,000; a
$10,000 number for $18,950, and a
$15,000 domicile for anything up
to $34,500. For reasons best
known to themselves the capital
realty owners like odd figures.
Our best bet we thought, was
a house belonging to a lawyer
who had moved to California,
about the time we left there. He
said his house would cost us $18,
000, which sounded steeo, but we
said we'd look at it when we got
here. ,
We did look at it, but our mart
said he had misjudged the market.
He said the price now was $26,500.
He advertised it in all the papers
for a week and, I regret to report,'
got what he asked.
The boys now are rallying
around, with house after , house
for sale and imploring looks in
their big brown eyes. We are tell
ing 'em to read the headlines. Its
fun, watching 'em cringe.
Oregon Counties
Seek Road Funds
Salem, Ore., Jan. 24 (IBThe
counties' share of the gas tax
revenues taken In by the state
highway department would be
boosted from 15.7 to 20 per cent,
and the minimum unned to $2,-
800,000 from $2,000,000 under the
provisions of a bill before The sen
ate Introduced by the roads and
highways commission.
The bill, originating- with the
Association of Oregon Counties,
according to committee members,
is a continuation of the biennial
struggle Jor a share of the bounti
ful gas revenues.
OthVMmpbrtant biys '. introducer)-yesterday
included two by'
the Benton and Lane county dele-'
gations which would clear the
way for construction of new dor
mitories and other buildings on
the campuses of the state system
of higher education.
BUIh Listed
Other bills introduced nrovlde
that:
Vehicles must stop when pass
ing an unloading school bus, in
stead of merely slowing down.
A county court may appoint
either a republican or democrat
when filling a legislative vacancy.
At present tne appointteo must
be of the same political party as
the person he succeeds.
A holder of public office may
be a delegate to certain conven
tions. At present, an official is
not allowed to be a delegate to
tne conventions mentioned.
tlon. The meeting will be held In
Portland Feb. 7.
Attending the Saturday meet
ing were: Mrs. Maurice Roberts,
president, Redmond; Mrs. R. L.
Lewis, secretary, Redmond; Mrs.
Hugh Cole, executive secretary,
Bend; A. W. Westfall, second
vice-president, Bend; Mrs. W. H.
Coahran, county education chair
man, Bend; Mrs. Lloyd Smith,'
health education chairman, Red
mond; Mrs. E. O. Adams, mem
bership chairman, Redmond; Mrs.
Walter Emard, public health, ac
tivities chairman, Bend; Mrs. C. I.
Dunlap, .junior past president.
Sisters; Miss Zola McDougall, pub
licity cnairman, Bend; and Mrs.
Edith Kostol, past executive sec
retary. ' .
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New York, Jan. 24 IP Lowell
Thomas, National Broadcasting
company news commentator, to
day held radio daily's all-American
news commentator award.
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the reich's last important arse
nal." The Germans were reported
from Moscow to have laid waste
the Sllesian towns and villages
marked for seizure by the red
army. i
Bolstering Moscow reports that
the Soviet trap was closing on
East Prussia, the German com
mand said that in the western end
of the province Marshal Konstan
tin K. Rokossovsky's forces beat
down stubborn resistance and ad
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transport junction in the Baltic
coastal area and gateway for any
evacuation of the battered defend
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