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Show 1 2 Sunday, August 3, 1947 SUNDAY HERALD Housemaid Willed $250,000 In Will of Nice Gentleman BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Aug. 2 (U.R) A housemaid who became acquainted with a "very nice gentleman" gen-tleman" sitting next to her in a movie was left $250,000 in his will, she revealed tonight. . JMrs. Madge Conrad, 54, who has done nothing but scrub and sweep and polish all her life, said she was just plumb "up in the air" to learn Paul McKerne, 52, Veterans Hospital Construction to Be Trimmed Down f WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.R) Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans veter-ans administrator, revealed today to-day that VA's $772,702,845 hospital hos-pital construction program will be drastically modified because of. "runaway construction costs." In a letter to deputy administrators, admin-istrators, Bradley announced that non-essential hopsital space in structures under design will have to be reduced so far as possible. Target date for completion of 75 new VA hospitals was originally orig-inally set for 1948. Owing chiefly chief-ly to rising costs, the date was postponed to 1949 and again, recently, re-cently, to 1951. Only two hospitals hos-pitals have been completed Bradley said that a hospital costing 85 cents per cubic foot in 1945 would cost S1.80 "at today s excessive prices." Bradley said VA will go ahead on eight hospitals already under partial or full construction contracts. con-tracts. One will be located at Grand Junction, Colo. Construction of 14 other hospitals, hos-pitals, for which drawings are almost al-most complete will be delayed approximately 30 days, or in a few cases, as much as six months. These will include one at Miles City, Mont. Eleven other hospitals either will escape revision or be unaffected un-affected by delays in the cost construction plan, Bradley said. One of these is at Spokane, Wash. Modifications to be made in 37 hospitals will cause a six months delay in their construction. These will include those at. Klamath Falls. Ore., and Seattle and Phoenix, Ariz. realtor killed in a wreck two years ago, left her a fortune. Considerable mystery surrounded surround-ed her story. No such will was listed in probate court. The coroner's cor-oner's office failed to list the death of her fiance, and she said the attorney who advised her of her good fortune had sworn her to secrecy on his name, the location loca-tion of her benefactor's son, or, the name of his son. Mrs. Conrad, a widow with eight grandchildren, was walking down. Wilshire boulevard a poor woman last Sunday when an attorney at-torney stopped her: "I've been looking for you for months." He took her to his office, they sat down and he broke the news to her. "Mr. McKerne and I became engaged and were going to be married. Then he was killed in a collision. I met him in a picture show three years ago. He commented com-mented on the newsreel and I replied. And then he introduced himself to me, and I, to him. It was quite proper," the heiress who receives the quarter-million Sept- 1 under terms of the will. said. Mrs. Conrad declared she would continue to work at the Beverly Hills home she could now buy if she wanted it, but it was not long before she was being treated like a celebrity. Her employer was answering the telephone, announced: "Mrs. Conrad is out. She can not be disturbed. Also she will jnot answer any more questions.' I With the prospects of the Sep tember windfall. Mrs. Conrad said she was not going out to buy anything on the strength of it: "Maybe I could open a charge account and buy things, but I don't like to owe anybody any thing. I'm going to buy a home first and move my daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Rose, and her five chil dren out here from Omaha. When I get the money." The money is all cash, from liquidation of McKerne's $500,000 properties, she said. McKerne's son receives the other half. Inflation Hikes Chemical Value Of Human Body EVANSTON, III., Aug. 1 (U.R) Inflation has pushed the value of the chemicals In the human body from 98 cents to $31.04, a Northwestern university uni-versity professor said today. Nick Dallas, curator of the university's chemistry department, de-partment, said he based his estimate on the prices Northwestern North-western now pays for the chemicals that are present in the human body. He said calcium phosphate, which used to have almost no value, now retails for $5 and the human body contains 2.8 pounds of it. "Only the price of water has remained stationary," Dallas said. Letters To The Editor BAY STATE CASHES IN BOSTON (U.R) Massachusetts Massachu-setts collected $166,272,280 in taxes during the fiscal vear 1947, S14, 150.000 more than in the previous year. Legal Notices Probate and Guardianship Notices Consult County Clerk or the Respective Re-spective Signers for Further in formation. NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF STELLA B. HAR-MER, HAR-MER, DECEASED: Creditors will present- claims with vouchers to the undersigned Administratrix with Will Annexed Annex-ed of the estate of Stella B. Har-mer, Har-mer, Deceased, at the office of Attorney I. E. Brockbank. Suite 211 Knight Building. Provo, Utah, on or before September 27, 1947. HELEN S. THALMAN Adm. With Will Annexed. Published in The Sunday Herald' Her-ald' July 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17. 1947. NOTICE OF EQUALIZATION Notice is hereby riven that the work has been completed pursuant, pursu-ant, to contract in Street Paving District No. 40; that the assessment assess-ment lists have bi-cn completed on said propcry in said Street Paving District No. 40, to-wt: Fourth South Street from the State Road to the East side of Wasatch Gardens Subdivision. Wasatch Avenue from Ninth East Street to Utah Avnue. Utah Avenue from Fourth South Street to Wasatch Gardens, Gar-dens, Plat B, Subdivision Tenth East Street from Third South to Fourth South Street. ' Ninth East Street from Third South Street to Wasatch Gardens. Gar-dens. Plat B, Subdivision The costs and expenses of making mak-ing said improvements will "be paid for by special local assess ments levied upon all lots, pieces and parcels of land within said Street Paving District No. 40 to-wit: to-wit: All property abutting on both sides of. Fourth South Street from the State Road to the East siae of Wasatch Gardens Subdivision. Wasatch Avenue from Ninth East Street to Utah Avenue. Utah Avenue from Fourth South Street to Wasatch Gardens, Gar-dens, Plat B. Subdivision. Tenth East Street from Third South to Fourth South Street. Ninth East Street from Third South Street to Wasatch Gardens. Gar-dens. Plat B, Subdivision. Said assessment will be made to the full depth of said lou. The Board of Commissioners of Provo City, Utah, sitting as a Board of Equalization and Review on the Tax proposed to be levied on the property within said Street Paving District No. 40 will meet in the City Commissioners' room on August 12, 13. and 14. 1947 and will be in session on each of said dates between the hours of 10:30 and 11:30 o'clock A. M., and will hear and consider s.ny objections and make corrections of any pro posed assessments which said Board may deem unequal or un just. That during said days be tweeti the hours of Q- o'clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P. M. the assessment assess-ment lists of said property will be open to public inspection at the office of the City Recorder, Provo City, Utah. By order of the Board of Com missioners, Provo City, Utah, dated July 30, 1947. I. G. BENCH. Provo City Recorder. Published in The Sunday Herald Her-ald August 3. 1947. RESENTMENT AROUSED BY REPUBLICAN POLICIES Editor Herald: It was pleasing, of course, to have my recent contribution bring such an early reference, as for example, Mr. Ford's friendly comment. A letter manifesting a sort of 'blanket' disdain for all politics and politicians. However, it is necessary at the outset to- prevent the pith of this delightful controversy being thrown on to the rubbish heap, I refer, naturally, to the thoughtless thought-less generalizing so many sur render to in putting all politicians in one class. arouD or sort. Clear ly the fact that from the very beginning some never got along in the least with some others, proves the existence of decided differences. Also, Mr. "Ford's dissatisfaction with the recently displaced Democrats Demo-crats (he also infers the Roose velt regime) and their "unpro ductive" 'reign would compare very mildly in its sense with the word the Republicans have to de scribe their feelings toward their predecessors. For the Republicans have moved heaven and earth to undo or otherwise sabotage any and all measures they found on the statute books, which the Democrats, out of their un-Re-publican impulse to help people. had managed to put there. For there was not a thing left to the Republicans of the kind Re publicans could use. So that, as the unfolding purposes were soon to reveal to us, there was not to be a spot or a tinge of an idea that smacked of the hated regime the people had "mandated" the Old Guard to clean out. It seems to me it is impossible not to see the totally opposite spirit of those now in. from those who, with Roosevelt, strove mightily to give the country what it had so long hungered for. True, the job had not reached any state of perfection by the time the gods willed a change (albeit the gods were fickle), but the frantic efforts ef-forts of the Republicans to reverse every breath of these improving horizons their disgracefully frantic efforts ought to prove, even to disillusioned Republicans, that the game was being run very much against the will of the party of perfectly organized selfishness. It seems unbelievable, further, that any (who care) should not see in their (the Re-1 Takes Death Plunge From Starlight Roof After Dance NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (U.R) John W Trick, 27, of Redwood City, CaL danced a last dance at the Waldorf-Astoria 'Starlight roof last night, told' his friends goodbye, then leaped 18 floors to his death on swank Park avenue while Guy. Lombardo played a love song. His family said his health was failing. His friends said he was broke. His mother asked police today to arrange for the cremation crema-tion of his broken body. Frick went to the Starlight roof last night with three casual friends, Mrs. Beatrice Campbell, Charles Frey and Darius Taly-arken. Taly-arken. They sat at a table a few feet from the French doors open ing onto a seven-foot terrace above Park avenue. The four ordered dinner, but Frick only nibbled at his. While the other ate he drank four Tom Collins. He asked Mrs. Campbell to dance to the music Yellowstone Lake Claims 5th Victim In Week's Time YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Aug. 2 (U.R) Yellowstone lake today was believed to have claimed its fourth and fifth vie tlms in less than a week as Her bert J. Kleine, 47, Altoona, Pa., and M. C. Baldwin, 57, Lawton, Okla., were missing after a squall capsized their fishing boat. Kleine s 16-year-old son Rich ard swam two miles to shore late yesterday to report that his father and Baldwin were clinging to the overturned boat. A speedboat search of the huge lake revealed no trace of the missing men or the boat. Meanwhile, rangers under the direction of Park Supt. Edmund B. Rogers used grappling hooks in an effort to locate the bodies of three Elk Basin, Wyo., fisher men who disappeared Monday. The three Robert Clark, Her man Hutton and Gene Reidiman failed to return from a fishing trip after a storm on the lake. publicans') fanatical interpreting of a freak poll result to be an all-but-holy mandate, was but a ruse to blind the public to the all-out sabotage campaign they even then possessed the plans for. Mr. Ford is seemingly convinced convin-ced of the "Republicans' attitude of non-sympathy for the public weal." While that is putting it all too gently, I commend him for this much of an open-eyed view of a reality, and a forthright forth-right statement of a fact. But, in furtherance of a properly courageous cour-ageous opposition to what is clearly wrong, should we not all better declare against support of; a party sworn to defeat the public; interest and who blatantly and; without fear of criticism from' that same public, turns to serve the interests whose very existence, exist-ence, in the midst of their multiplied multi-plied wealth, flouts the spirit of godliness. That without which a proper performance of decent politics and what other do we as Christian people want cannot be. LEONARD A. WILLIS of Lombardo. When they returned re-turned to the table lie bowed, kissed her hand and said, "This is the last time 111 be dancing with you. Then he turned and told the two men goodbye. They told police today that they thought he was acting. They had told him during the evening to cheer up. Frick walked n onchalantly onto the terrace and while two horrified waiters watched, vault ed over the parapet. He landed at the feet of two strolling soldiers who took one look and fled. Police located his mother, Mrs. Florence Frick. at the Hotel Pierre. Employes there said they checked in Thursday. Frick, who was usually a free spender, asked for the cheapest rooms available, they said, the rooms cost $9 day each. His father, William H. Frick, a retired accountant, said in Red wood City, that Mrs. Frick flew to New York Thursday when their son telephoned her that he was sick and despondent. Frick said his son attended San Mateo Junior college and entered the merchant marines in 1939 He was bombed several times during the war. "It was just a case of war nerves, the lather said. Sailor Received Injections For Atomic Poisoning CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (U.R) A rep-! resentative of the U. S. atomic; energy commission declined to comment today on a former sail or's claim that "navy injections" had cured him of radioactive. poisoning. 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