The Hanford Sentinel from Hanford, California • 32

Page 16 P-A Sat Ftb 4 1178 br Hauforh rtitnu'l II (s id out i a I Co 1 1 ag(s A Labor of Love enough room, the residents will stay in their rooms They will become isolated and thats what we dont want The residents pay $303 each per month for their room and board The project is privately funded and no tax monies are involved in the housing program Each resident is expected to help with normal daily chores and they all work in the rehabilitation workshop Costa said there are more applications than vacancies for the there are no plans for more houses at this time money The first house was built for an estimated $24,000 By the time the third one is completed, the cost will run to approximately $35,000 when it is furnished. The projected cost of the fourth house is about $40,000, Costa said The cottages are built for eight residents, two to a room. They have a living room twice the size of most houses and two bathrooms You need the large living rooms You must remember there are eight adults (four men, four women) living in one of these homes, he said If there isnt Ernie Costa is not really in the construction business, but along with a lot of volunteer labor, he has helped build two cottages and a third is currently under construction Costa, who 15 the director of Kings Rehabilitation Workshop, draw's the plans for the four-bedroom cottages and Regional Occupational Program students from Hanford High School help build them Not only are they built from scratch, but most of the furnishing are also Anything we can build, we build, said Costa The three cottages are just off of Hanford-Armona Road near the workshop A fourth one is in the planning stages and is expected to be completed in 1979 If there is a demand for it and financial support, he said, then we could probably begin construction sooner Although the cottages are built with volunteer labor, they still run into some labor to house Workshop clients Work has begun on a third cottage, with piping being laid Each cottage houses eight people ith room for the house parents WE build anything we can is the motto of the Kings Rehabilitation Workshop and these days, they've been building lesidential cottages The cottages, such as this one, were built with community donations and volunteer His Dream: To Have a Country His homeland is now under communist role and his birthplace is in a restricted zone But Captain Freeman Captain is came said, recalling his first visit here. It was a Sunday and I stopped at a gas station on the corner of Sixth and Harris, he continued I asked the man wiun he thinks of the town and he said it was a fine town I asked him why there were no people on the streets and he said it was because it was Sunday I went to eat at a little restaurant The food here was delicious I was sold on the town by the food Freeman moved to Hanford and out again three different times over the years, but he always came back It was a friendly town and I had a lot of friends here, he said Each time, I came back to Hanford I made more friends. He retired in 1975 after operating Captains Furniture Store for several years and moved to Lemoore, where he now lives a trailer home modeled to look like a ship Want to know why my name is Captain9 he asked It is because I lived a boat in San Francisco and I was always the captain when we played sports China Freeman now spends his days fishing and traveling, but he is waiting for the time when he can return to visit his homeland his legal first name wants to return to Harbin, China where he was bom in 1910 Ive been planning to go back to visit, he said My birthplace I cannot get to because it is now a restricted zone Harbin was in Manchuria but now it is Red China Even though he would like to return, Freeman said he would probably be disillusioned with China and he would definitely not want to stay I would like to visit but I would be disappointed because the old China is not there anymore Old China was beautiful, he said I would just like to visit because there is no country like the US The US is the best country in the world every way Freeman, who as a youngster learned to speak fluent Chinese and Russian, graduated from an English high school in Tiensin, about 100 miles north of Peking However, he was not happy there His parents were white Russians and they did not really have a country to call their own, he said after his mother came to the US in 1929, he decided to immigrate Freeman came here 1938 when war between Japan and China broke out One reason why my dream was to come to the US was my dream was to have a country, Freeman said Not to have a country is the most horrible thing there is Reflecting upon the people in China, Freeman said It is hard for us to understand their philosophy.

They are very honorable people Any merchant who couldnt pay his debts would commit suicide to save face But it was not all easy coming to the especially at the tail end of the depression. He roamed the country for several years before settling in San Francisco Freeman worked at a furniture store there until he decided to enlist in 1942 and it was while he was in the military that he became a citizen of this country During World War II, he served as an interpreter for Chang Kai-Sheks Chinese air force, and although Freeman never met him, he did work closely with several of Chang Kai-Sheks top generals After the war, Freeman returned to San Francisco and operated several furniture stores while living on a houseboat In 1948 he decided to come to Hanford By accident, I heard there was a store for sale in Hanford. I had always wanted my own store I never heard of Hanford, but I looked at the map and From Teller To Executive Working for a more Beautiful Kings County! HELPFUL AND FRIENDLY FOR 49 YEARS Low Shelf Prices Garden Fresh Produce USDA Choice Quality Meat Serving Kings County Since 1929 MILDRED HUDDI ESTON Featuring! PAINT Morwear-InteriorExterior Olympic Stain Ditzler Automotive Paint Custom Finishes Mildred Huddleston of Fresno began her banking career 35 years ago the traditional womans role as teller Today, she is executive vice-president for Guarantee Savings, a position she has held since 1961. It is also a position generally regarded as a mans. Operating out of her Fresno office, the 1939 Hanford High School graduate oversees 22 branch offices and 450 employees Huddleston also serves as president of Guarantee Savings data processing service called GESCO.

When asked if she has experienced discrimination because of her sex especially since she was in her position before the womens liberation movement was in full swing Huddleston said. I feel I have not been discriminated against as a woman. I feel very strongly in the idea of equal opportunity for all." Although she is the only woman in an executive position at Guarantee Savings, she said women within the organization are rising to management positions and someday there will be more women with executive duties. The business world has deviated from the seniority system which stymied womens growth, she said. We have many bright, young women here who are doing an outstanding job.

We are promoting on competency rather than seniority. Huddleston started her career banking with the company at the height of World War II. She had attended 4 Cs Business College Fresno prior to her employment. The firm at that time had five employees and each were expected to do work in the different departments When we first started out, we were very small, Huddleston said So naturally one person did everything As the organization grew, so did she, being promoted from within the system up to her present level. Now in her mid-50s, WALL PAPER WallTex Worthy Sanitis Wall Clad FINISHES STAINS Carver Tripps Tungseai Heirloom Varathane Rust Oleum RINSE 'N VAC Betty Riley Coral Mattel Paint 1, Sundries Wallpaper Huddleston offers this advice for young women starting off a business career Set both long and short range goals Without goals you cant go very far With women, society has moved a long way accepting us in high level positions We should develop ourselves and become qualified, because today only the qualified will succeed.

Away from her office, Huddleston is wife, mother and community worker Her husband of 37 years, Earl, is also in business working for the Minnesota Mining Co. Her son and daughter graduated from California State University, Fresno My husband respects my position and career with the same amount of respect I give his There is no competition to see who can go farther, she said After working hours I become a wife." When asked who does the cooking, she said I do," Huddleston also serves on the Board of Directors of the United Way campaign and she is a member of the State Center Community College personnel commission FREE ESTIMATES WALLPAPER CLASSES WINSLOW AL -r Russ Arnold Automotive Paint Variety Quality Service WALLPAPER 415 West Lacey Blvd. 584-5506 Hanford OSH BankAmericaro ihthi GEORGETTE RICHARD I.