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RAVELER OF THE MONTH
By
TOMMY
BARTLETT
En route to her ancestral home in Westfield, Indiana, Mrs. Hazel Ganaway and her helper Paul Jackson visited Chicago and NBC's Welcome Travelers.
Patsy, one of our attractive usherettes at Welcome Travelers, cleared the aisle for little Paul Jackson, a solemn but bright-eyed ten-year-old, as he pushed the wheelchair up to our NBC microphone.
Mrs. Hazel Ganaway, the woman in the wheel-chair, had only one leg. She is sixty years old, and has been confined to a wheel-chair for the past nineteen years, ever since diabetic complications made the amputation of her left leg necessary.
Life had never been easy for the widowed Mrs. Ganaway, but it became almost unbearably difficult after the amputation of her leg. She wanted to work and had to work, but people were dubious about hiring her, so she managed to rent an old house, which was converted into a rooming house — but her instinctive love for unfortunates kept it from being profitable. If her tenants could pay their rent, that was fine. If they couldn't — well, Mrs. Ganaway could understand. She'd been in the same position, herself.
Finally, she began taking in wash
ing to augment her meager income. Now, however, Mrs. Ganaway's life was complicated by eye trouble. She's completely blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other.
Washing and ironing weren't too difficult for Mrs. Ganaway, but hanging up the clothes to dry was almost impossible. A couple of years ago, she got a helper to carry the laundry bundles around, run errands for her and make himself generally indispensable.
The new helper was Paul Jackson, a neighbor's boy. Every day after school, and all day long on Saturdays, Mrs. Ganaway and Paul worked and talked together in an employer-employee relationship that went far beyond money — although money was of desperate and immediate importance to both of them.
But happiness meant more to Hazel Ganaway than money, and she felt that she owed little Paul a debt that money couldn't cancel. Over a year ago, she began talking to him about her old home in Westfield, Indiana,
where her family had been poor but highly regarded by the community. She told Paul about her grandparents, run-away slaves who had fled to Indiana and settled in Westfield before the Civil War.
Any kind of trip would have been an adventure to Paul, but Mrs. Ganaway made this trip seem like something out of a storybook. Together, the woman and child began to save money for a vacation that they would remember the rest of their lives. The money came slowly, and there were setbacks like the time Paul lost a tendollar bill through a hole in his trousers pocket, but before either Mrs. Ganaway or Paul quite realized it, their money mounted to a point where they dared to think of it as a reality.
They planned their trip carefully, cautiously, but with determination to grasp everything within their reach. "For once," the woman declared with vigor, "dreams are going to come true." And for Mrs. Ganaway and little Paul Jackson, for once they really did come true. ""
Tommy Bartlett emcees Welcome Travelers M-F at 10 A.M. EST on NBC. Sponsor: Procter and Gamble.
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