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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
GIRLS PARTY

The Business Girls club met with
Velma Nevlow at the home of her
mother Mrs. Neva Zwanzig in
East Kennewick, instead of with
Ella Linn as announced last week.
Miss Leone Skeen presided in the
absence of Mrs. Linn and Miss
Sherk. Miss Marie Speigelberg
gave very interesting report of
the "pot luck dinner" she attend
ed with several of the Kennewick
girls at Pasco Thursday evening.
After the business meeting a So
cial hour was enjoyed in playing
games and cards under the able
leadership of Lillian Crowley, and
delicious refreshments were served
by Florence Ring and Bertha
Fricke. The next meeting of the
club will be on December Is, the
annual Christmas party.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
LAMPSON TO HEAD
COMMERCIAL CLUB
v. Nj. Ward to Be Second in Com
mand Other Officers Are
Selected

Lee Lampson will guide the des-
TIMES of the Kennewick CONNER
cial club thruout the coming year,
having been elected to that posi-
ton at today's meeting Of the club.
V. NJ. Ward was elected vice
president; G. H. Shanafelt, treas
urer; M. M. Moulton, chairman Of
the irrigation and land settlement
bureau; E. C. Durdle, agriculture
and markets; C. C. Williams, roads
and tourists; j. H. Siegfried, trade
relations; C. L. Powell, publicity;
A. F. Brown. finance; H. G. Fyfe,
membership.
On account of the next meeting
falling on Thanksgiving, the reg
ular luncheon will be ommitted.
The following week will be the
clubs annual meeting, with install
lation of officers and annual re-
ports from the secretary and the
treasurer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Gas Field Work
Is Coming Nicely
New Well Down Six Hundred
Feet May Start Delivery
i'm Spring

Unofficial reports from the Ben
ton County gas fields indicate that
the development work there is pro-
crossing at very satisfactory rate.
Unofficially, too, report has it
that Kennewick patrons will be en-
joying the use Of natural gas by
the first of this coming March.
The final test well which the
Northwestern Natural Gas Co. is
putting down has reached depth
of over six hundred feet. Owing to
its location, it is expected that the
drill will have to be heightened at
least two hundred feet TO hit the
gas strata in this well. The gas
flow was obtained in the other
wells at around eight hundred
feet.
By the time the well has been
sunk to production the company
will have received the franchise
now being asked for in Walla Wal
la. Following the granting of the
permit, the company plans to rush
the pipe line construction.
Other producing companies are
cycling this field, too, as is indie
ated by inquiries received last week
by local men interested in the field
relative to the sale of their hold
ings.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
TO ASK UMATILLA
ROAD ACCEPTANCE
Delegates Go to Good Roads Con-
vention at Wenatchee Today;
Umatilla Road Endorsed

w. HI. Switzler and L. E. John
son went to Wenatchee today to be
present at the annual session of
the State Good Roads association
which will meet there Friday and
Saturday. They will attempt to
have the Umatilla road endorsed
as part of the states highway
program during the coming bien-
MUM.
One of the principal efforts of
the good roads enthusiasts this
year, in addition to recommending
that the state proceed with the
proposed paved loop highway, will
be the reduction to q flat fee of
automobile licenses, with an in-
crease in the gas tax.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Things Happen in
"A Dollar Down
Business Girls Play Will Be
Presented December 10;
Get Tickets Now

If you want to see three acts of
hilarious comedy unraveled to a
happy ending in a modern Amer
lean family, get. your ticket for "a
Dollar Down." Managed and acted
by the Business Girls, this play
will be presented December 10. Re-
hearsals have been going ahead
rapidly under the able direction of
Miss Eva Leibbrand, who is taking
the part of Betty Watts, the
daughter.
Margaret Hawkins is handling
the ticket sale. The, cast is as fol-
lows: Dayl Miller, Ella Linn, Myr-
tie johnson, Eva Leihbrand, Leone
Skeene, Odile Shepard, Lillian
Crowley, Esther Hatch, Bertha
Fricke.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Expert Coming to
Give Pruning Talks
Program Arranged for Tour
of County Early in
December

j. T. Bregger, extension horti-
culturist, will be in the county on
December 13, Is, and Is to cooper
ate with the county agent in the
holding of a series of pruning
demonstration meetings covering
the various varieties and ages of
fruit trees. It is planned to give
more time than it has been pos
sible to give in the past to these
meetings so that more discussion
can be had this year.
One very important feature that
Mr.. Bregger brought out last year
was due to his experience in old
er orchards of the east, and show
ed the necessity for more spur
pruning and the proper fertiliza-
ton of trees in connection with the
pruning to bring about a fairly
uniform crop Of fruit year after
year This work can be enlarged
upon this year and we believe
many growers can profit by the
suggestions made by Mr.. Bregger.
Some of the leading orchardists Of
the county last year were very fav-
orably impressed by this new angle
of the pruning problem.
Tentatively the program as ar
ranged, is as follows: Saturday
forenoon, December 18th, White
Bluffs and Hanford; Saturday aft
'ernoon, Ringold and Franklin
county; Monday forenoon, Decem-
Der Is, Benton City; Monday aft
ernoon, Prosser and vicinity. Tues
day forenoon, December 18th, Ho-
yer and Kennewick; and Tuesday
afternoon, Richland.
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No Hitch i'm
Highland Plans
Final Details Being Put in
Shape for Early Con-
struction Work

Work on the Highlands project
can be started soon, it is hoped by
directors of the district. A confer
ence between M. M. Moulton, at
torney for the local district and
Earle C. Barnes, head of the irri-
cation and conservation depart
ment for the state and the federal
reclamation officials at Portland
has indicated that both the state
and the federal governments are
anxious to have the work commence
and that satisfactory progress is
being made in the preliminary
preparations.
The contract drawn by the state
for the transfer of the lien on the
water rights and dam property has
been approved by the directors ami
the federal men are now search
ing the abstracts. Following fav-
orable report from the western
men, it will be submitted for the
approval of the secretary of inter-
Tor at Washington. Then the state
can issue its bonds and the con-
tracts for the actual work begun.
According to the directors, the
plans are working out more to the
advantage of the district than had
been hoped for. The new rate of in
terest and the inclusion in the re-
issue of the bonds of the twenty
thousand dollars of delinquent in
terest will make a decided differ
ence in the districts financing. The
apparent interest Of both the stale
and the federal government in adj
vancing the progress of the work
is proving highly satisfactory to
the directors.
Already the work has added a
stability to conditions in the dis
trict and created renewed interest
in the project. 1t is hoped that by
another year a substantial change
will have been made. AS pointed
out by State Grange Master A. S.
Goss, the lower end of the Yakima
valley, with Kennewick as its CEN
ter, has been this year, the bright
spot from an agricultural stand
point, in the entire Northwest.
Work on the Highlands viii but
add to this condition.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
To Plant More
Grass This Year
Konnewick's Early Crop
Is to Be Made Greater
One Best Bet

Tbats there should be at least
ewo thousand acres in the kenne-
wick district planted to asparagus,
!. tbe statement made today by H.
" Desgranges, local manager for
The Big Y, in speaking of the meet
mo which is being held tonight at
the Y warehouse.
The possibility of starting a
cannery at Benton City or even
at Kennewick for the purpose OF
putting up asparagus was very
remote, according to Mr.. Des-
oranges. st would take hundreds
If acres more than we now have In
cultivation to make such ven
4ure profitable" he continued. "We
needn't worry a bit about secur-
inc a cannery here. just as soon
az we have tonnage enough to
support such an institution - in
deed long before We have ton
mage enough, we will have an OPP
pertunity of getting a cannery.
However, most people who have
lived for any length of time in this
section will agree that asparagus
offers the growers their one best
bet. Now that satisfactory CONNER
cial fertilizers have been diseov-
cred, there need be no limit to the
size of the paintings. The only
difficult part of a greatly enlarged
plan will be that of securing labor.
At a normally busy period, growers
will find it more or less of a prob
lem to secure help in harvesting
very large acreage.
40ur meeting tonight will be
mainly for the purpose of secur-
ing suitable plants for the new
acreage which will be put out
hare in the spring. Indications are
that our growers will increase their
paintings by at least two hundred
acres this year. Probably twice
amount viii be put into new as
psragus fields this coming year.
The problem of selling the
grass is not difficult one as
some growers seem to feel. We
have in this state total of about
700 acres. In California over fifty
thousand acres are in bearing. We
need have no fear from that stand
point. Grass is coming to be one
of the staples from this section,
and I look to see the acreage vast
y increased as soon as the rehab-
ilitated Highlands area becomes
more settled"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
MRS HANRATTY DIES

Mrs. Hugh Hanratty, &c, died
at the Pasco hospital Wednesday
evening, after a long illness. She
was born in Spokane, where her
father, c. L. Glover, still resides.
She was married TO Hugh Hanrat-
ty November 6, 1922 at Lewiston,
Idaho, and leaves to mourn her loss
her husband and three children,
Raymond z, Margaret 5, and
Charles 2 l-2, one brother and four
sisters. The remains were taken
to Spokane Thursday. Funeral SER
vices will be held Saturday with
Father Callahan, of st. Joseph's
parish, Spokane, in charge and the
interment will take place In that
city
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
KENNEWICK TO PLAY
PROSSER FRIDAY

The Kennewick football team
goes to Prosser Friday to play one
of the best teams of the upper
valley. Prosser boasts one of the
best quarterbacks in the valley. He
is nominee for the Inland Empire
team to play in Spokane in the
Shrine game. Kennewick also
boasts two nominees in Liebel,
guard, and Hatch, center. It should
be interesting to watch the three
boys work. A good crowd of Ken
newick people are planning to go
to the game.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
RED CROSS FUND

Last winter when the first COM
munity drive was made, the Red
Cross organization was allotted
$4,000. The regular annual Red
Cross drive is being made at this
time in other communities, and H.
Shanafelt, local representative Of
the Red Cross announces that 2
500 check from the Chest fund
is this week being forwarded to the
Yakima Valley chapter of the Red
Cross as Kehnewick's quota. This
entities Kennewick to 100 menu
berships.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
CLUB MEETS

The Kennewick Woman's club
met at the Commercial club rooms
Friday afternoon, with Mrs. u. J..
Aldrich, president in charge of the
meeting. Group singing of patria-
tic songs was enjoyed, led by Mrs.
Vane Wilder with Mrs. H. N.
Brown at the piano. Mrs. j. Earl
Thornton Of Seattle gave very
interesting talk on the Christmas
seal sales and explained to what
use the seal money was put. Miss
Marcia Day, county nurse, who has
resigned and her successor, Mrs.
Cullen, we're present. The hostesses
for the afternoon were Mrs. F. j.
Arnold, Mrs. A. r. Brown, Mrs.
w. j Barnes and Mrs. p. F. Cress-
well Tea was served at charm
ingly appointed table with Mrs. G.
w. Sherk and Mrs. II. e. Hunting
ton pouring.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
FYFE CHOSEN HEAD
OF KIWANIS CLUB

Harold Fyfe was elected presi-
dent of the local Kiwanis club at
the meeting held Tuesday of this
week. Vane Wilder was chosen
vice president and President Moul-
ton automatically becomes trustee.
The board of directors is as fol-
lows: /. N. Mueller, James Bockius,
Clarence Yedica, Tillbury, r. E.
Reed, Frank Green and Art Veg
ner.
The club has arrangements made
for serving hot soup at the Wash
ington school again this winter.
The service will start as soon as
the weather turns cold enough 70
justify.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
TheI Official Out
Look to Observer
Showalter Bill Coming Up;
Legislature Up Against
Hard Problems
By Jimmie Kay Brown


The state electorate has placed
Its approval upon the amendment
to the constitution providing for
legislative Redistribution of pro-
perry for tax purposes.
The fact that the amendment
mas been ratified has to some ex-
: tent changed the program of the
Governors Advisory Tax Commit
zee. 1t may alsa upset the pro-
gram of the state department of
education which had planned to
submit the so-called Showalter
bin.
Just what will be the result will
not be known until the legislature
gets under way next January.
The Showalter bill is but little
known outside of the tax and some
school circles. A brief summary of
Inc bill. follows, showing how it
aH1ers with the present existing
laws:
Inc county board of education
terms are decreased from five to
three years. The board members
are nominated in two ways, first,
oy petitions signed by fifty voters,
OF second by the sticker method or
writing names on the ballot. I'm
oer the present system the county
superintendent appoints the first
board members. Under the new
system the county election board
does it.
School elections are changed to
second Tuesday in March instead
december. Special elections
must De approved by the county
board of education.
The financial setup is entirely
changed. -
5. me minimum attendance credit
increased from 1000 to $500
eays: attendance of pupils resid-
,e on the property of the nation
government, in the old bill,
uaaWs % cents additional from the
4 STATE m the new bill one and one
halidctual attendance.
LEGAL tax limits, ten mills levied
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Town Team to
Play at Football
Ex-Stars From Here and Pas
CO to Show w. s. Ct How
to Grab World Series

For the laugh of your life, at
tend the football game at Pasco
next Sunday afternoon. A team
made up Of ex-players from Ken
newick and Pasco will oppose each
other on the Pasco field at two o.
clock Sunday afternoon. The fol-
lowing Sunday (if the players sur
vive) return game win be played
on the Kennewick field.
A wonderful lineup has been ar
ranged for the Kennewick team.
Each man has been a star in the
position he's listed for. And the
Pasco team will be made up of the
same sort of luminaries. Slim
Hatch has been selected as secre-
tary-treasurer and Penny Ferrill
is manager in chief. In fact he's
responsible for the whole mess.
The following men win make up
the team from here, ends, Witt,
COttman, Henke, Walt Johnson and
L. Carpenter; guards, Fritz Brem-
Burns Brown, Scott, Frazier;
tackles, Woods, Taylor, Big Boy
and Garrett; center, Kerschell;
backs, Linden, Shorty PEBBLES,
Ward johnson, Boyer, Lincoln,
Crawford, Richter, Gibson, Brown.
Efforts are being made to interest
Skinny Hutchins as a running mate
for Shorty PEBBLES. So far, at the
time Of going to press Skinny is
still pulling an Art Shires.
This thing ought to be funny
enough to give anyone regular
series Of belly laughs. The team
will do the first practice Sunday
morning and the team work in the
afternoon ought to be hilarious.
Pasco, at 2 o'clock and possibly
Kennewick the following Sunday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20

The Althea Rebekah lodge will
hold an all day district meeting
and convention at the Masonic
lodge rooms Tuesday, November
25, with delegates from all the vail
ley towns from Naches to Pasco.
The state president, Lillian Paul
son, of Spokane will be present. A
six o'clock dinner will be served in
the Christian church in the eve
ming.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
~. CELEBRATES

The Big Y gave their annual
party at the close of the season,
Saturday evening at the Valley
clubhouse, with about 300 people IN
attendance, and report it one Of
the most successful parties ever
held. Mrs. C. A., Crawford was in
charge of the program Of the eve
ming with several special numbers
of tap dancing. The social hour Of
the evening was spent in dancing
and delicious refreshments were
served at a late hour.
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O~00N00OO
MERRY CnRfSIMAS

tirely turnout the county.
This will be accomplished by a
team of workers as it is desired
that every person in the county be
given an opportunity to buy seals.
Five thousand trained seals will
appear in Benton County shortly
after Thanksgiving Day. These
particular seals are hardly larger
than your thumb nail but they
flaunt gay Christmas colors. They
appear publicly only during the
weeks preceding Christmas, but
they perform quietly and efficient
ly the year around. They are the
best trained seals in existence and
they perform the interests of a
great cause.
You have probably guessed that
these are the Christmas seals that
fight tuberculosis. Each one has
been trained to act for a penny and
will stick on holiday letters and
packages when put into action by
some one inbued with the true
Christmas spirit of helpfulness TO
others. Since the first performance
inaugurated by a Danish postal
clerk over quarter of a century
ago, these seals have presented a
united front against that ancient
enemy, tuberculosis and unceasing-
ly and cheerfully have carried on
a fight to wire it out. And the re-
suits?
tuberculosis deaths have been
cut in two in the nation. But the
seals still have a tremendous job
ahead. tuberculosis remains the
principal cause of death in the
most important years of life
from Is to 40.
Purchase of Christmas seals is
a simple and Inexpensive act, yet
each contribution added to millions
of others aids in building a pow
erful defense which means pro-
lection to each of us, and which
promises in time to completely
vanquish the enemy.
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
GET GOOD DEER

Mitchell Kershaw and Jules
Moret had the distinction of bring
ing out the valleys first deer from
the Kittitas country. 1t was a per-
feet four-point head from mule
deer. It's transportation thru the
various small towns up the valley
caused more or less interest along
the streets.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Larson Predicts
Fund for Valley
Chamber Leader Forecasts
Appropriation of $1O,O0O.-
900 Asked For

At least $4,000, 900 of the $780,
100000 federal appropriation
sought for reclamation develop
ment will be for Yakima valley
products, Yskima Chamber OF
Commerce leaders thought yester-
day, after learning that DR.. Ell
wood Meade, reclamation commits
sioner, began discussions in Wash
ington, D. c., dor the appropria-
ton. It was believed that the con-
struction Of the Gle Elum dam and
the completion of the Kittitas unit
would be included in the program.
"There is no question but that
Yakima valley projects are consid-
cred in the appropriation" A. E.
Larson, chairman Of the chamber
reclamation committee, said.
money for the Gle Elum dam and
to complete the Kittitas project is
almost assured. -
Obstacles Cleared
His belief was strengthened by
the telegram received Wednesday
from r Representative John w. Sum-
mers, which said that obstacles in
the way Of construction work on
the dam had been cleared and that
contracts would be awarded late
this winter, with construction work
to start early in the spring.
Other information received in
Yakima also revealed that work to
ward starting construction on the
dam was progressing. Water con-
tracts for the dam supply had
caused a controversy between the
government and the forces seeking
to have the dam built, but it was
indicated that these had q been
cleared and the government was
ready to start work.
Plans Completed
Plans for the dam, have been
completed in the Denver, Colo
RADIO office of the reclamation bur
eau and it appears that work viii
start early in the spring, Larson
said. Already $780, 900 has been
appropriated and it was thought
that the new appropriation asked
would include another 81, SOC, 900.
ssStarting work on the dam
means the completion of it." Lar
son said. 'The Gle Elum dam is
the key to the development of the
Yakima valley system. The stor-
age dam would hold 435, 900 acre
feet Of water and would provide
enough for the Kittitas unit and
the Roza system, as well as others.
Discussion Started
Larson said that half million
dollars in the appropriation was
for the completion of the distribu-
tion system Of the Kittitas unit.
DR.. Mead started discussions
with q house appropriation commit
tee Thursday relative to a $751;
0OO, 900 appropriation for other
government reclamation projects.
The committee will prepare appro-
priation measures for the short
session Of congress which opens on
December HERALD.
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DANCE DATE CHANGED

The Highland Women's club has
changed the date of their Turkey
dance at the Highland club house
to November p, instead as an
nounced last week. The Ragadors
will furnish the music. They ask
everyone to come.
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SCOUT MEETING

There viii be meeting of the
local Boy Scouts next Monday eve
ling in the basement of the Metho-
dist church to make plans for next
years scout work. Any adult in
terested in the Boy Scout work is
cordially invited to attend.
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The Thursday Bridge club met
with Mrs. Leland Barbee, $40 Ken
neWick Avenue, today, honors go-
ing to Mrs. Ronald Hatch and Ms.
James Bockius. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Ward johnson,
Is South Dayton, on December l..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20

UNION SERVICES

= Union Thanksgiving serv-
: ices will be held at the Naz-
+ arene church Thursday, Nov.
: ~, at 10 o'clock in the morn
+ ing. Services will be held one
+ hour only thereby enabling
= everyone to get home in time
: for dinner. Pastors Morton,
+ Aldrich and Edwards will
= speak. There will be special
: music. Every one is urged to
= attend.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Thanksgiring Bali Announced

The annual Thanksgiving ball,
one of the big dances of the season,
viii be held at the Highlands Club
house on Thanksgiving night,
Thursday, November %. Many of
the students away at school viii he
home on this holiday, and take
this means of meeting their
friends. Join them there. The Rag
adors will furnish the music.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-11-20
Christmas Time is
Seal Sale Time
CHEEKY Little Seals Are
Trained to Perform
Campaign Now On

The annual Christmas Seal Sale
to begin in Benton County on Nov.
% will be under the direction of
Mrs. j. r. Ayers, who was elect
ed county chairman of the Seal
Sale committee At meeting last
spring.
In accepting the responsibility
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The Needle club will meet Fri
day at the home of Mrs. f. r.
Carnahan, 1913 Cascade Street, with
Mrs. Sarah Neel as hostess.