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By: Stan Jordan
My fellow worker here at the West Bend News, Crystal Rider, took the above picture on December 12th, where C.R. 424 intersects with C.R. 11
She tells me that the female eagle will weigh 12-15 pounds more than the male, but you really can’t tell which is which here. The female’s wing span can reach up to eight feet wide.
I am very glad to get these pictures because it shows their white head and white tail feathers. They are eating a small deer remains that was hit by a car over on the highway.
There were numerous cars in the area with people taking photos of these birds. She figures the birds were there at least 2 1/2 hours.
See ya!
Women are People
By: Stan Jordan
In the last few months more and more ladies are coming out and telling how and when their old boss mistreated them. Some of it was years ago and they are just now telling on that old leech of a boss they had. Lots of people think they are lying because they waited so long to tell their story. But I believe them, it just took that to find an opening or a good reason to come forward.
Some men think women are working in a man’s world and that women are fair game. Let us mull that over for a bit. Men have taken advantage of women on the job for hundreds of years. Even some of our presidents were a little loose in the moral department.
Jefferson was color blind, Ben Franklin was never elected to any office, but he swung a wide loop, he didn’t throw many back. Franklin D. Roosevelt had some girlfriends, Eisenhower had a girlfriend. Kennedy and Clinton both got off the beaten trail, Trump isn’t any better.
The entertainment world is very bad for bosses having their way with young pretty actresses. If you want that job in a film or any other film, it will cost you a sexual favor. That has happened for years.
In the mid south, for years, the main report was to keep their women pregnant and barefoot, that way they stayed at home. In some Asian countries, women are about as valuable as a dog, and are treated that way.
See ya!
Christmas then and now
By: Stan Jordan
Christmas time is here and I’ve got the shivers that a person gets at this time of year. You know, peace and goodwill to all. I can’t write it, but it is here anyhow.
Back in 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s when I was a mailman, people done a lot of ordering from a catalog and the United States Postal Service carried a lot of parcels. A car load and maybe some in the trunk also.
Then they built Glenbrook and people started to go to Fort Wayne and shop and bring the parcels home and over the years, the parcel post business petered out.
But in those years, stamps were a lot cheaper and people sent out many, many Christmas cards. People got mail every day.
Now people order by phone, on line and use a credit card and the delivery service, such as UPS, FedEx and otherwise, drop them off. People order like they used to, shop out of a book or screen.
See it is still the same only different.
See ya!
The Pentagon and I
By: Stan Jordan
More on the construction of the Pentagon
Stimson told U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941 that the War Department needed additional space. On July 17, 1941, a congressional hearing took place, organized by Virginia congressman Clifton Woodrum, regarding proposals for new War Department buildings. Woodrum pressed Brigadier General Eugene Reybold, who was representing the War Department at the hearing, for an “overall solution” to the department’s “space problem” rather than building yet more temporary buildings. Reybold agreed to report back to the congressman within five days. The War Department called upon its construction chief, General Brehon Somervell, to come up with a plan.
Government officials agreed that the War Department building, officially designated Federal Office Building No 1, should be constructed across the Potomac River, in Arlington County, Virginia. Requirements for the new building were that it be no more than four stories tall, and that it use a minimal amount of steel. The requirements meant that, instead of rising vertically, the building would be sprawling over a large area. Possible sites for the building included the Department of Agriculture’s Arlington Experimental Farm, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, and the obsolete Hoover Field site.
The site originally chosen was Arlington Farms which had a roughly pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular pentagon. Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of Washington, D.C., from Arlington Cemetery, President Roosevelt ended up selecting the Hoover Airport site instead. The building retained its pentagonal layout because a major redesign at that stage would have been costly, and Roosevelt liked the design. Freed of the constraints of the asymmetric Arlington Farms site, it was modified into a regular pentagon which resembled the star forts of the gunpowder age.
On July 28 Congress authorized funding for a new Department of War building in Arlington, which would house the entire department under one roof, and President Roosevelt officially approved of the Hoover Airport site on September 2. While the project went through the approval process in late July 1941, Somervell selected the contractors, including John McShain, Inc. of Philadelphia, which had built Washington National Airport in Arlington, the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, along with Wise Contracting Company, Inc. and Doyle and Russell, both from Virginia. In addition to the Hoover Airport site and other government-owned land, construction of the Pentagon required an additional 287 acres (1.16 km2), which were acquired at a cost of $2.2 million. The Hell’s Bottom neighborhood, a slum with numerous pawnshops, factories, approximately 150 homes, and other buildings around Columbia Pike, was also cleared to make way for the Pentagon. Later 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land were transferred to Arlington National Cemetery and to Fort Myer, leaving 280 acres (1.1 km2) for the Pentagon.
