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CLARErNCE ALFREDS and Friends_
Heights Children Love Shorty,
Their Driver for 13 Years
ad)¢ lagoon and drain Shorty In five foot one and a half
ditches 1n the vicinity of Stewart —not five by Ave —but Be tar as the
Park by dragged who
o loch kids at Cayuga Heights are con-
teday George
sea Poch,cbers wyc now onbe- cerned, he's as popular as the song,
lict•e . and Alm
Raymond 7yoF son If you asked a youngster there
of 201 and litre ctde Fonda
Of P01 Lake St., met death by � It he know Ciarince Alfredo, he'd
drowning, probably scratch his bead In per -
The boy has been missing since j Plexlty and wind up by saying "no."
Sunday, and was last seen by a But If you, asked if he knew a fel-
nefghbor's child near the entrancd low named Shorty; he'd Immedl-
.��y$wTf'�. Park ,shortly berorb ately Identify him as his genial
Q41-K _l� i;tit_ 4 bm aNalaJle school bus driver and friend, He
dence be was preparing to wade has transported Heights children
in the shallow surface waters be! ; for the last 13 years.
tween N. Cayuga St. actension sad Shorty's "family' of school chl-
the railroad. dren has grown to 90 this year
Channel Covered from 12 back in 1930 when he first
Searchers Tuesday afternoon dis-I covered the route in a Packard
covered that the water in the mos- car. Then_ the number expanded
quite control ditch just east of the to 15 and 16, and the chauffeur al-
LebIgh Valley right of way, dug most had to stretch the automo-
out during the winter to provide a bile to get all his wards into It In
diversion channel for the damned 1934 buses were purchased, and
UP waters of Fall Creek, was five Shorty has been the man behind
-'feet deep, and that the presence, the wheel of one of them ever
Of the channel itself is obliterated since. The other bus has had sev-
by knee-deep surface water which era] different drivers.
covers the footpath and the area; Fond of Charges
westward "You couldn't get me to swap
r
Several groups of seachers„ that run," Shorty said today. ".Iworking under the direction of have ben asked two or three times
Chief William Marshall and Frank if I didn't want to change to the
Monroe, caretaker at the park, cov- regular city lines, I like children.
ered much of the water areas Tues- I think as much of some of those -
day with drag lines and pike poles. kids as I do, my own. I like ;a
Additional dragging equipment was watch them grow up. They surely -
obtained from the sherlff's office grow up fast."
today and larger areas were to be Sborty explained that some of
covered the children he first carried to
Ditch Searched school have now gone through High
Despite the many volunteers School, Boynton Junior High, and
searching in other sections of the the Parochial School, as well as to
Park and vicinity, the missing boy's the Cayuga Heights School•
father confined his efforts Tuesday `Htlfnnr' Returns
afternoon to the mosquito control The bus driver is glad tti see his
ditch which runs from the black "alumni" when they return. One
Iron bridge of the Lehigh Valley, young man who is away at college
to the inlet of the Stewart Park came to see him recently when
lagoon, Other searchers with hip home and so did an Army lieuten-
boots were covering the Cayuga. ant, The drop i Bird Sanctuary which is r a chat. P n on him at the
water, with numerous deeplholeyer school
diminutive bus
ver has
The youngster left home Sunday two children, a son, JaoldEdward
afternoon to go to the park, end Alfreds, who when hhise failed to show up by 10 High School, land a daughter, s in ]30ynton uMrsl.
1cer ny of nteemother rs halve enled isted ed Rosemary
He also has three
(Harty) Lynch of Zth-
their sert'ices. grand-
children. So Shorty readly admits
he h
Similar af®!!
other quartets
ct lizens.
as two sizable "families" to
look after,
He has kept his eye on the school
kids so well as they get on and
alight from the bus that they have
never had an accident in the years
he has been driving.
"I have a lot of fun With the
kids while driving them to school
and back borne.
"I don't have any trouble han-
dling them,
Every Christmas Shorty passes
out bars of candy to the young-
sters. And they remember him
With
all sorts of nice presents, he
said.
"I don't see many faults in chil-
dren," said Shorty, summing up
the situation. "Maybe I have been
With the kids so long I don't notice
their errors,"
—The Journal SULH
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