Rocco Nobile moved in Saturday morning.

On Saturday afternoon, his two companions rented a vacant store a block from the city's piers and two blocks from the old yellow brick City Hall. A hastily hired sign painter erected a large sign over the windows.

THE BAY CITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION :

ROCCO NOBILE, STANDARD BEARER

Two young women were hired to staff the office. They were told they were to act as a clearing house for city residents seeking information on federal aid programs, about welfare, about Social Security benefits, about recreational programs available. The ex-

istence of the new office was announced the following Wednesday with an advertisement in the small twice-weekly paper which was Bay City's only media link with civilization.

Two days later, the Bay City Improvement Association announced that it was making plans to open a privately funded day care center to watch over the children of working parents. A day later, Rocco Nobile, standard bearer of the Bay City Improvement Association, announced that he had received a contribution from an anonymous donor which would enable the association to set up a free medical clinic for Bay City residents who could not afford private doctors.

After a week of such announcements, it should have begun to get through to the drink-sodden editor of the Bay City Bugle that something unusual was happening in Bay City, but it hadn't.

As he was sitting in his regular tavern for his morning eye-opener, the drinker on the next stool said to him: "Hey, that Rocco Nobile is something,

hah?"

"Who's Rocco Nobile?" the editor asked as he waved to the bartender for another stinger on the

rocks.

"That guy you keep writing about in the paper who's doing all those good things."

"Oh, sure," said the editor. He smiled. Maybe his friend would buy the drink if he said he liked Rocco Nobile. "A great man," the editor said. "I'm going to do a big feature story on him."