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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Umatilla Dam is
Seen as Certainty
Since FDR Speech

Construction of the Umatilla dam
is seen as more than a possibility,
following President Roosevelt's IA
dio speech Monday morning from
Bonneville. The president stated
that the further development Of the
Columbia would follow and that the
other dams would be built to COM
plete the plans for the Pacific
Northwest.
The Umatilla Is one of four dams
In the comprehensive plan Of de-
velopment for power and transpor-
tation on the Columbia. It should
be next in line for construction, as
neither Of the others would be of
value without it.
Completion of these four dams
would give slack water transporta-
ton from the ocean to Lewiston, as
well as furnish additional power
facilities to a vast inland area.
During the construction period
this area would receive great i'm
petus In business, local citizens be-
neve and would probably mean a
resumption of traffic on the river
which has slumped In recent years.
Construction Of the Umatilla dam
would give slack water up to the
mouth Of the Snake river on the
Columbia. The surveys Of the chan
mel recently completed at the UNA
tilla site as well as Homily Rapids,
is taken as an indication that these
projects will be started in the COM
paratively near future.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
|Pas-Ken Orchestra
to Have Mcdowell
as Director

Tell iem about the Pas-Ken
Philharmonic orchestra starting on
its sixth successful season." asked
F. F. Beste this week, of this news
paper. So 80.
After five years of organization
this group Of locol musicians is
again planning to get together for
the winters musical season. About
thirty-five former members will
form the nucleus of the organiza-
ton, and they invite all musicians
who care to, to join.
E. A. Mcdowell, a musician of
outstanding ability, who is teaching
band and orchestra in the city
schools has agreed to direct the
adult orchestra this winter and an
unusually successful season is an
ticipated. ~
All who desire to learn more
about the orchestra are invited to
get in touch with Mr.. Beste.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Bangs Testing
Work Proceeding
Rapidly in County

The "area testing" in Benton
County for Bangs disease being
handled by the two federal veter-
inarians, DR.. T. D. Rosenhoff, work.
ing out of Prosser, and DR.. L. L.
Rush, working out of Kennewick, is
proceeding rapidly and the farmers
are cooperating very well in this
cleanup campaign.
Some farmers in the past did not
feel that there was much use in
having their animals tested when
there was contact with neighbors'
cattle which were not tested. The
compulsory features of this test now
take care Of that situation, says w.
w. Skuse, county agent. Further
more, the new arrangement for re-
endorsement oftentimes gives the
farmer nearly full price for a re-
actor animal.
The veterinarians state that due
to the large amount Of testing done
over the past two years in this
county that even in the worst In
tested parts the percentage Of re-
actors is running very small COM
pared to the original figures. This
is naturally to be expected, how
ever, as the same conditions held
true on the old T. B. campaigns and
while the cattle are tested for T. B.
every two years the last test show
ed less than one-fourth Of one per-
cent of animals affected.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
HermiStOn Fails
to Score on
KenneWick Lions

The ,Kennewick Lions took the
second game OF the season from
Hermiston last Friday on the local
field, with a score OF 14-0. Thus
the comparative dope between Ken
newick and Pasco stands with the
1876 victory against the same team
the week previous across the river.
The Hermiston team was heavy
and hard-hitting aggregation who
deserved a better break than the
score indicates. Kennewick took
the first score following q 15-yard
penalty on the visitors which took
the heart right out of them.
Early in the first quarter a long
pass, Doyle to Michner put the ball
on the Hermiston 13-yard line. Fol-
lowed the penalty which put the
ball in scoring distance for the
Lions. Try-for-point was good.
Neither team seemed able to make
consistent gains and but few first
downs were made by either team.
Hermiston smacked the Lions line
time and time again, but failed to
get the breaks. The experience was
good for the locals who will come in
for more Of the same in the game
with Yakima tomorrow, according
to all the dope.
Kennewick's second touchdown
came in the fourth quarter when
Quasi intercepted a Hermiston pass.
carrying the ball to the six-yard
line. Two line bucks failed to make
yardage, but short lateral pass to
Rowland put the ball over. The
try-for-point was good.
Tomorrow the team plays its first
away from home game Of the sea-
son at Yakima under the flood
lights. A considerable number or
fans plan to accompany the team,
many stopping off at Sunnyside to
see Pasco play in the afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Khan Issue Revived

Washington, D. C.-With at least
one group Of investigators PINNED
for q searching inquiry into the Ku
Klux Khan, following the revelation
Of Justice Blacks alleged affilia-
ton with the order, the issue Is ex-
pected to loom large in coming cleo
lions. A number Of high Federal Of
ficials, several Governors and at
least two Senators are listed as
members Of the order at one time
and possibly still are. Interest in
the matter is increased by the ap-
pearance Of former Senator j. Thos.
Helm Of Alabama as a contestant
for ex-senator Blacks seat, altho
Representative Lister Hill is viewed
as the next senator from Alabama.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Benton REA Signs
Contract for Juice
from PIP. &L.CO.

The Rural Identification Admin
istration today approved contract
between the Washington Water
Power Company and the Inland
Empire Rural Identification Incor-
porated; and one between the Pa
cific Power and Light Company and
the Benton Rural Electric Associa-
ton, for supplying wholesale cleo
trio energy for the new lines. This
action is the elimination of long ne
gotiations to solve wholesale rate
problems which had blocked rural
identification projects in the Pacific
Northwest for months.
The new rate schedule on which
the new contracts are based were
filed with the Department of Public
Service of the State of Washington,
which today telegraphed to REA
that it has ordered them into effect
Immediately without insisting upon
the statutory waiting period. The
Department also informed REA that
the same rate schedules have been
filed in Oregon and Idaho, where
cher REA-financed projects will
benefit from them.
These new rates average 3 to 5
mills per kilowatt-hour lower than
schedules offered previously. The
projects listed below will save a to
total of $4,000 a year in charges
for wholesale energy because Of this
new schedule.
The new contracts include, in adj
dition to the lower rate schedule,
terms and conditions which meet
REA objections to former offers. AL
most equally with the rates, the
terms and conditions proposed had
caused REA to withhold approval
of wholesale contracts until now.
Two other projects have signed
similar contracts, which are being
sent to Washington for approval.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
MASONS INSTALL

Kennewick Rose Croix Masons
held installation ceremonies at the
lodge hall last Friday evening, fol-
lowing a dinner in the banquet
room. w. S. Green acted as in
stalling officer and the following
were indicted into their offices:
L. @. Spaulding, VIM, l.. E. john
SON, S.W., j. K. Bockius, j. W., M.
N. Hudnall, secretary; and II. @.
Fyfe, treasurer. Appointive officers
were also seated at the ceremonies.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Fire Prevention
Urged by Local
Department Head

Help save life and property by
preventing fires before they start.
BY being a good shop or housekeep-
er, and keeping your eyes open for
fire hazards, you may be relieved of
a call to the fire department, says
Fire Chief Carol Pratt in urging OBJ
servance of Fire Prevention Week,
October 80. ... F..
Appoint yourself Fire Chief, and
inspect your own home, or shop, or
business-check basement, kitchen,
bedroom, bathroom and store room.
Look for accumulated dust, old
clothes, old oil stoves, poor wiring,
chimneys with cracked bricks, NOR
tor or plaster, trash, ashes, old
books and papers or coal that stands
and causes spontaneous combustion.
Then stage cleanup, which is the
first aid in preventing fires.
When installing heating plants,
either coal or oil burning heaters
or new wiring of any kind or ex-
tension wiring, be sure it is property
installed before using.
In case you do have a fire call
central, who notifies the fire de-
partment. Then try to control the
fire till they arrive.
What do you do when you hear
the fire siren?
Do you park your car too close
to the fire hydrant?
Do you run q race with fire
truck?
Does your curiosity prompt you to
call central before she has time to
notify the department of the loca-
ton Of the fire?
Do you know where the closest
hydrant is from your residence or
business?
Do you know that the city council
and the fire department are trying
hard to change the city insurance
rating from a 7th class to 9Th
class, thereby giving each home in
the city Is per cent cut in insur-
jance rates?
We can all help to make Fire
Prevention Week success.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
TREES WANTED

j. A. NicholauS, caretaker at the
park, is sending out plea TO,
trees. A double row is to be plant.
ed on the south side of the road 70,
a windbreak and the caretaker says
that trees planted this fall will gel
six-weeks' start on those planted
In the spring. Locust trees will be
accepted, but maple trees are de.
sired more. Those having trees to
spare, or who will get them from
W.S!C. are requested to contact Mr.,
NicholauS at once.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30

Members Of the Business and
Professional Women's clubs are
asked to tune in on the Columbia
network Thursday, October z at
4:15-4:30 eastern time and hear DR.
Charles E. Merriam Of the Universe
ty of Chicago and Miss Celia How
ard, recording secretary Of the Ma
tional Federation, discuss "Our
Towns Business" This is the no
tice sent out by the executive sec
rotary from New York and our time
If broadcast will be at Ills
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Special Session Looms

washington, d. Car from be-
ing deferred from calling a mid-No-
vember session by the Black Incl
dent, the President is expected to 60
ahead with his plans for a special
session OF Congress at that time. AL
tnough ne expects some public state
ment from Justice Black on the Ku
Au0 Khan question, 1t is said that
ne never asked the new Justice of
ms e. e. 4. connections because his
senate record spoke for itself.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
WIS
@he
WEEK
by
FOSTER GlLRoY
The Week in Business

The Week IN DusihcSS
british and Dutch growers tnls
mock launched a s1,Ooo,OOO adver-
Using campaign to promote the sale
If tea in this country. Their 11g-
,re shows that our per capita con-
sumption of a little over half q
r no,,nd year is less than a tenth OF
80 average drinking of an Eng
S VEL The new 16-cylinder
pa,timore g. Ohio steam locomotive,
,aroest of its kind ever planned, Will
develop 5000 horsepower and Will
he capable of pulling fourteen Pull
man cars at speed of 100 miles per
hour The President has ordered
the abolition on December 31st OF
the national Emergency Council,
established in 1888 as coordinator OF
emergency agencies. The Budget
bureau takes over the Councils rec
ords and duties :. An executive Or
der allocates 100000 from the
1898 relief fund to finance the led
eral unemployment census headed
bv John D. Biggers, president OF the
Iibby-Owens-Ford Co. -. The bus
mess world can expect a series OF
"tax balloons designed to test
public opinion on the reconstruction
Of the governments tax structure.
The first was a proposal to deduct
at the source the tax on all incomes
below $1,000. In few weeks anoher
viii be released providing for a sug-
rested reversion to the Treasury OF
all excise levies gasoline, tobacco
and many other sales taxes), with
certain rebates to states affected.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
War Talk Scarce
in France Says
Returned Visitor

Miss Ann Mocaer, who has but
recently returned from a trip to
France with her family, told men,
beers of the local Kiwanis club Tues
day noon about the things she saw
in that country.
She said they took the family car
across the ocean with them, and in
some of the towns they visited, the
school was let out so that the kids
could examine the car. She said
that in q town as large as Kenne-
wick there would perhaps be three
or four automobiles, very few radios
and no mechanical refrigerators, no
electric service and no doctors.
In the rural sections there has
been no change during the Is years
the family has been in this coun-
try, Miss Mocaer reported, no i'm
provements in the homes. or the
methods of farming or manner Of
living. .-......
Virtually no war talk whatever
was heard while in France, she said,
replying to questions which the in
terested clubmen asked. Til e
Frenchmen feared Italy more than
Germany she said, although the
peasant class did not anticipate war
in the near future. ..-sat-
She said that the general run Of
citizens in France strongly favored
Premier Blum, for he had promised
many of the blessings Of the more
abundant life" but that they feared
the rising costs and inevitable taxes.
Miss Mocaer has returned to her
work as nurse In the DR.. Spaulding
office.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Brim Gets Diploma

T. Armand Brim, Of Kennewick,
was awarded Life Diploma OF
Teaching from the University OF
Washington at the end Of the sum-
mer quarter. according to word re-
leased by the registrar.
This year there were 40 degrees,
teaching diplomas and nursing GER
tificates given in comparison to 387
In 1896.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
BOOSTER NIGHT

The Highland grange held its reg
ular meeting Thursday. They made
plans for Booster night to be held
this evening. The program plan
ned Is to include skits, community
singing and outside speaker. The
new coffee urn which Was won by
the grange was received.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Radio sCzar,. Predicted

view York City-Following the
leao OF the baseball, movie and liq-
uor industries in appointing chief
stoitrers OF conduct within their own
ranks It IS rumored hat M. H. Ayles-
nortn, former head Of the National
oioaocasting company, may be
named oy the big broadcasting COM
lanes TO untangle differences in
saue tne industry. Even Wall Street
= weighing the matter of a super
''pei o. Stock Market operations.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Japan Curbs Planes

Marking, hina-Facing stern OBJ
jections to ruthless aerial warfare
from the United States and Great
Britain, and an ultimatum from
Russia that any damage to the Sow
let Embassy would result in i'm
mediate reprisals, Japan has given
half-hearted assurances that her
bombing planes hereafter would be
confined to beligerants only, and
not conferred upon civilian popula-
tions. Throughout England a de-
mand grows for general boycott OF
japanese goods. The mass bombing
Of this city resulted In only small
loss Of property and life.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
The Hitler-Musso6ni Meetinv

p..,, MuSBOnm Meeting
Deln Germany-Although all
n Germany turned out in honor of II
u ,,.V, visit Of state to Chancellor
. .sier, diplomats expect nothing
. = IN the way of action beyond
.eaailrmation of the common
purposes OF fascism and nazism
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-09-30
Radio Stars to
Appear in Person
at PascO Show

Pasco is in line for one of the out
standing entertainment programs OF
the year, in the opinion of r. H
Skill, district manager for the Pa
cific Power & Light Company
which is cooperating with all local
radio dealers in sponsoring the 1898
Radio Show" scheduled for Satur-
day, October g.
II have been in close touch with
the radio Dealers" said Mr.. Skill,
"and from all indications the show
will be success in every way. The
showings of the startling new radio
sets for 1898 will be the most COM
plete ever held in Kennewick OF
Pasco. And the entertainment pro-
gram that has been worked out is
exceptionally fine"
The 1898 Radio Show" will fea-
ture the personal appearance OF
outstanding radio stars of KEW
KEX. Every one Of the well-balanc-
ed entertainment group has had q
great deal of radio and stage exper-
fence. Clarence Tolman has ap-
peared in Broadway musical comedy
successes and has starred In some
Of the leading radio programs Of the
Pacific Coast, among them Cap
tain Dobbsie's Happy Time Re-
vue."
Nora Lou Martin, singing Sweet
heart of the West" not only is the
Northwest's champion yodeler, but
she has q long list of vaudeville and
radio appearances to her credit as
well. Gearge Kristich, stellar &C
cordionist, has been q favorite Of
many leading night club revues. and
has been featured on number Of
radio programs. Civilla Bunnell,
coloratura soprano, is q talented
young radio discovery, and Shirley
Martin, noted for her sparkling pi-
ano interpretations, Is an exper-
fenced radio performer.
Admission to the entire show is
free. There will be three perform
anceS.
The radio stars will appear on
the afternoon show at $3.50 pm. and
again in the evening show at 7::30
pm. and 900 pm. At each per-
Torrance the entertainers will pre-
sent a program exactly as it would
be broadcast from q radio station
with full sound effects.
The daily independent., 1937-07-22
Cotton Picker Runs
Amok, Killing Two

Litchficld, Park, ARR, July 2l.-
U.R)-A Mexican cotton picker, in
censed because he had been fired
for drunkenness, went berSerk in
a cotton camp near here today,
killed a camp foreman and a
deputy sheriff and then was kill
ed by another foreman.
While 200 terror-stricken work.
ers huddled in crude ShackS and
watched the killings, Jose Maria
Castellano, 35, Mexican cotton
picker, shot and killed his fore
man, J. R. Murdoch, 81, then muir
deled Deputy Sheriff E. j. Rob-
erts. SO, when the latter rushed
to the scene TO arrest him.
Ed c. Meyers, 60, foreman of a
nearby camp, raced to the death
camp in his car when he heard
the shots. Stopping about $50 feet
away, he levelled a high-poWered
deer rifle and shot Castellano just
above the heart. Castellano died
about 30 minutes later.
The daily independent., 1937-07-22
Make Your Plans
For Fall Business

be highest since 1929. The income
of twenty-four million farm fami-
lies should be at the rate of S12,-
100000 per week higher than last
year. Wage-workerS are receiving
a cmobin2d increase of $4,000 ,OOO
more weekly than last July. In
vestorS' dividend checks are more
than S1O,O00.000 higher every
seven days than a year ago while
vacationistS' spending is up an
other S2O,OO0,000 per week. This
tremendous gain in consumers
income will, of course, pour into
retail trade, and from there back
to factories. jobs. and wages.
LABOR TROUBLES are ap-
parently on the wane for 1887.
CIO has shot its bolt for this year.
Snow squalls and labor squalls do
not go together. But we have not
heard the last of the CIO by any
means, although the spectacular
1887 showdown between labor and
capital is about over.
CONGRESS is getting set to
The daily independent., 1937-07-22

that cannot help being optimistic
on Fall trade prospects. To back
up my bulliShneSS. I am discussing
ten reasons why business should
press further toward prosperity
after Labor Day:
CROP PROSPECTS are eXcep-
tionally good. Big harveStS Of
grains. fruits, vegetables. cotton,
tobacco: high egg and milk
yields: good feed conditions for
livestock: these all point to the
best year on the American farm
since 1929. Activity IS already
picking up where the harvest is
underway. More traffic for rail-
roads: step-up for farm and
rail equipment: brisker retail
trade: increased business for farm
products handlers of all kinds will
be the result.
PURCHASING POWER should
The daily independent., 1937-07-22
CITIZEN LEARNS
HOW WAR DEBT
DELAYS OCCUR

Detroit, Mimi. WE-George
H. Crosby, Duluth automobile
dealer. knows something about the
difficulty of collecting war debts
For 18 years the United States
has owed Crosby war debt. And
only recently was he able to get
anything on his claim.
The government became indebt-
ed to Crosby during the war when
at Uncle Sans beheSt, he lost q
large fortune in the production OF
manganese.
Manganese was sorely needed as
war material. The government
urged Crosby to produce the ma
| terial, despite a financial loss in
volved in it's production. He wa;
promised that the government
would indemnify him against loss
And on that basis he entered upor
the venture. In the course Of two
years he lost several hundred
thousand dollars.
After the war he looked to the
government to make good.
Iii 1919, Congress passed a law
designed to reimburse Crosby to-
gather with other persons similar
ly situated. But the reimburse
ments were hedged about with Sc
many restrictions that the claims
remained unpaid.
Later the claim was reduced tc
100000. Last year Congress
amended the law to expedite pay
ment.
Finally Crosby was notified that
check awaited him. But insteac
of the 100000 he had expected
only S65.O00 arrived. He was in
formed the government had helc
back $4,000 until treasury Off
cials rule on whether or not there
is a tax against the payment.
The daily independent., 1937-07-22
Roger Babson Cites
Ten Reasons for
Autumn Pick Up
Nv ROGER W. BABSON

BabSon Park, Mass, July 21,
1887 - Sentiment has improved
noticeably in the past fortnight.
The gloom OF early July is gradu-
ally lifting and confidence is
slowly healing. Doubts are still
expressed about Fall business,
however. Many feel that when the
current backlog of orders, built
up during the Winter and Spring,
finally runs out, business will let
down which is more than seasonal.
The BabSonchart reading today
is 5 per cent above Normal, COM
pared with 10 per cent above Nor
NAL IN May.
Nevertheless, there are so many
encouraging signs in the outlook