Evening star. [volume], June 30, 1946, Page A-20, Image 20

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Frank Cleary Ends Long Career
With Agriculture Department
By George Kennedy
Sprays of flame gladiolas stood |
in a vase on his desk. Prank J.j
P. Cleary, 70, oldest employe of
the Agriculture Department, was
retiring after 54
years of service.
“It went awful
ly fast,” said
Mr. Cleary. A
big man with a
large head cov
ered with an
iron - grey
thatch, he said
it again and
again as he
jumped from
his chair and
shook hands
with each caller
who stopped in
h i s office t o
Mr. Cleary.
wish him well. Mr. Cleary's eyes
lighted up at each handshake.
You could see that Mr. Cleary
didn't want to go. He was losing
his other home. Retirement at 70
is compulsury.
First Raise in 20 Years.
"And I’ll tell you why" Mr. Cleary
said in his friendly w'ay. “I got a
real raise about two months ago.
It was the first real raise in 20
years. I d like to enjoy it a few
months."
Mr. Cleary is in the Publications:
Division, head of the Distribution!
and Inouirv section—a big opera-!
tion. He has put out 48,000.000!
pamphlets. There a*e 500,000 ad-!
dresses in the mailing lists in his'
office.
‘ How about that pamphlet on the
love life of the bullfrog?” he was
asked.
“Agriculture never put' out any
such pamphlet,” Mr. Cleary pro
tested earnestly. “That story came
from a speech the late Pat Harrison
made in the Senate. We nailed him
on that. It seems someone at Mary
land University mimeographed a
paper on the subject—written in a
lighter vein.”
Started in 1892.
Sixteen years old and in short
pants, Mr. Cleary came to the old
agriculture building—a brick affair
with a mansard roof in front of the
site of the present administration
building—in 1892, with a letter to
Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah
M. Rusk. He was given a job as
messenger in the Publications Divis-1
ion at $25 a month. That was in
the Benjamin Harrison administra
tion.
"The story was that Rusk and
President Garfield both were on the
towpath of the old Ohio Canal and
that when they met they used to
hitch their mules and wrestle," said
Mr. Cleary'. “When Garfield be
came President, Rusk, a breveted
'brigadier general from Civil War
service, called on him and asked him
for a job. Garfield offered to make
him Minister to Paraguay.
“‘Where m hell is Paraguay?'!
Rusk asked the President. When he'
heard he wouldn't take it. He be-1
came Governor of Wisconsin. Har
rison appointed him secretary.” !
Mr. Cleary had a lot of stories
yesterdaifAhow Civil Service Com
missioner Theodore Roosevelt used
to stop in the offlcd to see young
Cleary’s boss in the early 90s, how
in his zeal to deliver messages he!
almost knocked a man emerging
from the secretary's office off his
feet. It was President McKinley.
Mr. Cleary recalled a more leisure
ly day in Government service when
4 p.m. was quitting time and the
secretary's smart looking team and
victoria were in front of the door
every day at 3:30 to take him to
the ball game.
What’s he going to do? “Oh, I
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may practice law,” he answered.
Mr. Cleary finished night courses
in law at Georgetown University in
1906 and joined the District Bar.
He may return for the first time
to Neagh, Tipperary, where he was
born when his father, a* United
States Army surgeon, was back pro
tecting his rights in a leasehold.
He spent his first seven months
there. v
Mrs. Cleary telephoned'during the
interview. She has been able to
devote much of her time to him as
they have no children. "That's my
manager,” said Mr. Cleary as he
hung up the receiver. "She’s wait
ing to take over on a 24-hour basis.”
Each adult inhales a gallon of air
per minute and consumes 30 ounces
of oxygen daily.
G. W. Veterans Name Hall
For Alumnus Killed in War
Student veterans at George
Washington University have voted
to name their new dormitory after
First Lt. Courtney Rogers Draper,
law 8lumnus, who was killed aboard
a Jap transport sunk in the China
Sea in December, 1944, the univer
sity announced last night.
The decision to call the dormitory
at Twenty-second and G streets
N.W. Draper Hall came after the
veterans determined by popular vote
to honor an alumnus of the uni
versity who lost his life during the
war.
Lt. Draper, whose sister, Miss
Gloria Draper, is employed in the
office of Senator Thomas of Utah.
received his bachelor of laws degree
from the university in 1937 while
serving as an auditor in the Gen
eral Accounting Office.
The 31-year-old lieutenant was
captured on Mindanao in the
Philippines after rejecting a chance
to escape in order that he might
supervise the removal of nurses and
flying personnel. As American
forces closed in on the Philippines,
he was put aboard a Jap transport
bound for Japan. The ship was
sunk by American forces.
175 Police Boys Start
For Camp Tomorrow
One hundred and seventy-five
members of the Police Boys’ Club
will leave No. 5 Precinct at 9:30 a.m.
tomorrow to spend a two weeks' va
cation at the club’s summer camp
A SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY -
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applications for part-time employment (up to twenty-four hours
a week) from student veterans who are qualified as clerks, typists,
draftsmen, bookkeepers, Jaboratory assistants, library assistants
and in other fields.
Apply to
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during July and August.
The camp, under the direction of
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