Word: hazlett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last salute was sounding for an old and good friend, Captain Everett ("Swede") Hazlett, U.S.N. (ret.), who died last week of cancer. A high school chum of Ike's back in Abilene, Swede spent many an hour at the Belle Springs Creamery playing penny-ante poker with Night Foreman Eisenhower during the long, lonely night shift. It was Hazlett who persuaded Ike to try for a military career, helped him cram for his Annapolis-West Point competitive exam. (Ike went to West Point because he was too old for Annapolis.) At his old friend's funeral, the President...
Last week, after one of his white male teachers had been hit by a Negro pupil, School Superintendent James A. Hazlett finally brought the mess into the open. The story, as Hazlett and his teachers told it, was one of basic hooliganism aggravated by racial friction. Strong-armed bullies of both races extort nickels and dimes from young whites and Negroes alike. But when an argument starts, the races close ranks. "A fight might not be caused by racial issues in the beginning," said Hazlett, "but before it is over, you have a white-Negro problem...
...blew off a fortnight ago when Preston Young, 16, a Negro pupil at Central Senior High, punched Richard Powers, 28, a gym teacher. Outraged Superintendent Hazlett last week prodded the board of education into expelling Young for the rest of the year, asked for the right to expel any disorderly pupil for up to a full semester. Hazlett called for the names of juvenile extortionists and weapon carriers, planned to make their parents "answer to the central office why their child should stay in school...
...stepped forward, the center of attention for Mamie, his son John in dress blues, and his four grandchildren, including 13-month-old Mary Jean (whom Ike had rescued from an upstairs room to come down to see the ceremony). Another Eisenhower guest was retired Navy Captain E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett, one of Ike's good friends from the early days back in Abilene, who once had waxed long and enthusiastically to a happy-go-lucky youngster named Ike about the delights of a service career. ("Calm, frank, laconic and sensible," Swede Hazlett once termed...
...HAZLETT JR. Captain, U.S.N. (Ret.) Forest Hills...