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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
F. F. A. Boys to Entertain
Fathers at Banquet

The F. F. A. boys met Wednesday
afternoon for a business meeting.
They planned for a father and son
banquet which will be given on Fri
day, February Is at the high school.
Committees were appointed to work
on invitations, program and the
home economics department will do
the serving for the banquet. The
boys are also making plans to in
vite E. M. Webb, state teachers SUI
pervisor of w. s. c., who will show
pictures on outstanding projects of
F. F. A. work. Victor Rogers, in
structor of this group of boys also
states that several fertilizer exper-
iments are going to be conducted on
different farms in cooperation with
the state college as soon as wealth
er permits.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Ferry Landing Road
Proposed in PrOsser

Benton county commissioners on
Tuesday took under advisement the
proposal Of the Prosser Commercial
club road committee and Frank
Hogue Of Paterson to allot money
for the construction of road from
the ferry landing near Paterson to
the end Of the Paterson Prosser
road. The road between Paterson
and Prosser will be developed by the
state highway department and resi-
dents here believe it will result in
heavier tourist travel in this part
of the valley. The ferry landing is
two miles from the road.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Lincoln Day Banquet

The COP elephant, beginning to
show signs of recovery, is well
enough now to want to eat, appar-
emily, for the Benton County Re-
publican Central Committee has
dated Lincoln Day banquet for
the 18th. Republicans from all
parts of the country are being invit-
ed and splendid program has been
promised.
B. M. Huntington, president of
the Walla Walla Chamber of Com
merce, will be the principal speaker
for the occasion. The banquet will
be held at the Arrow Grill and all
party adherents are invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
City to Provide
Free Parking Lot

Since the passage of the two-hour
parking limit on Kennewick's main
street, there has been more or less
agitation for public parking lot.
Tentative arrangements had been
made for clearing up the property
back of the Penny store to be used
for this purpose, but that property
has changed hands since then and
that deal is now off.
However, the city owns piece of
property, no further from the main
street, surrounded on three sides by
alleys, shade is already there and
the ground is already in turf. This
property would make an admirable
parking lot, city officials think, and
SO as soon as practical, the little
park on Benton street opposite the
E. G. Smith Motor Co. will be OPEN
ed as a free public parking lot.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Feature Story

Starting in another column on
this page is an interesting art
icle on the Matanuska Project in
Alaska, written by Clell Ashby Of
Hover, who spent q couple Of
years there, in charge of the
tractor crew. Inasmuch as he
was not one of the cOl0nists, he
has less biased viewpoint than
one of the actual settlers would
have. and his descriptions of con-
ditions there make interesting
reading. The accompanying IL
lustratiOns are from pictures
taken on the project. One shows
the town of Palmer and the other
two are settlers farms and build
ings. These are but q few of the
big bunch of pictures which Mr..
Ashby brought back from Alaska.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Benton Auditor Issues
Nine Licenses to Wed

Members of the Benton county
auditors force issued nine marriagl
licenses in January compared witt
IL for the same month last year
records showed Tuesday. Those oh.
tanning marriage licenses recently
were: Merle G. Radelmiller, Al, ant
Lucy Mae Wilcox, 80, both of Pasco
Richard G. Allaway, Is, Of Pasco
and Mildred Carter, q, of Marys.
vile, California; Thomas Wells, SIS
of Prosser and Laura Marie Wells
81, Of Toppenish; S. A. johnson, le-
gal, and Aileen Price, legal, both Of
Sunnyside; and Charles H. Wood.
ward, 80, of Amboy and Evelyn VIII.
liams, TO- of Brush Prairie.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Scouts and Fathers
Will Banquet

Troop q and % of the local boy
scouts will hold their annual father
and son banquet Wednesday eve.
ming, February 9, In the Highlands
clubhouse. The banquet will bt
served by the ladies of the High.
lands Woman's Club. Chief exc
cutive o. E. Hoover of Walla Walls
will be present and following the
banquet a court Of honor will be
held. Some of the Dads will be un-
able to attend this banquet and any
Kennewick man wishing to volun-
teer to take their places is asked to
get in touch with Frank Mason.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
This Session MAY
See Umatilla Dam
Authorized
H. G.. West Tells C.. of
c. River Development
is Nearer

Changed economic conditions
have made the building Of the Una
tilla dam closer to a reality today
than ever before, according to Her.
bert O. West, who was a guest at
the chamber of commerce meeting
this noon. Mr.. West is executive
vice president of the Inland Water
ways Association, and has but re-
Gently returned from q visit to
Washington, ID. c., in an effort to
secure further development Of the
Columbia river.
Drought conditions in the Middle
West, the. need for further develop
ment of the country's resources and
the need for governmental expendi-
lures are all having their influence,
Mr.. West stated, in making, possible
the continuation of the river de-
velopment.
1t is the Associations plan, he
stated, to work for a continuing de-
velopment Of the river rather than
to work for one project at a time.
He said that because of the changed
viewpoint of the administration, the
complete utilization of the river de-
velopment must be undertaken.
Completed, the plan calls for slack
water transportation from Lewiston
to the sea. The Umatilla dam, to-
gether with four dams in the Snake
river and some characterization,
would complete the project as now
outlined by the army engineers.
Irrigation and power develop
ment incident to the construction
OF the dams are also having their
influence on the general acceptance
of the plans now being considered
by the army engineers, MIR. West
said. ~
Following Mr.. Vests outline Of
the work Of the Association, mem
bers Of the chamber and several in
vited guests were permitted to view
the official government movies
showing the construction of the
Bonneville dam. Each stage of the
work from the clearing of the land
to the completed work, was grafficly
shown.
B. M. Huntington, president OF
the Walla Walla Chamber of Com
merce, was also a guest of the club
and spoke briefly, stating that his
organization was ready and willing
at all times to help in getting roads.
specifically the continuation of the
North Bank Highway to Kenne-
wick.
In addition to the Walla Walla
man, masters of all the nearby
oranges were invited and the fol-
lowing were guests of the cham
Der: Guy Story, master Pomona
grange; VIM. knight, master High
lands grange; H. s. Hughes, master
Of Finley grange; G. G. williams,
VIM. Blair and Bruce Lampson, To-
cal growers, were also present as
was Curran Chellis OF the newly or
ganized Kennewick Implement Co.
County Commissioner Jay Perry,
and also member of Kennewick
Port District, was also in attend
ance at the meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03

the "St. Mihiel" showed through
the waves on her 1000 mile voyage
to Seward.
Alaska! Thrilling name! A land
of magic contrasts. A combination
of fertile valleys, lofty mountains
hot springs, mighty glaciers, TO-
nance, disillusionment, loves and
disputes which constitutes the
Overwhelming greatness of the last
frontier.
On q May morning the est. Mi
hiel'' steamed into the harbor of
Resurrection Bay and made fast to
the dock at Seward, the terminus of
the government-owned Alaska rail-
road.
All the colonists, as they were
dubbed by this time. were out on
deck for their first view Of land
they were to call home Of
them happy, q few disguised, some
homesick and quite q few still sea-
sick, as the mighty Pacific had been
in one Of her most majestic moods.
It was decided by the officials In
charge. Of the Aatanuska project
1.-THE official named being the Al
|aska Rural Rehabilitation Corpor-
ation) that the male members Of
the colony should 60 on ahead OF
their families to help with the
erection of tents to make temper
airy shelter for the 200 families.
The wife OF one coIonist, finding
she would have to live aboard ship
for q few days longer, deplored the
fact very strenuously. A colonel,
high in the affairs Of the railroad,
tried to pacify the lady. Finally, be-
coming slightly enraged, he sought
to awe her by do you know who
I am? I am Colonel !" II
don't care who you are" replied the
irritated matron, you look like q
nobody to mel" The husband and
his family made the trip to the val
ley together.
Several hundred transients were
also hired in California to be en-
ployed as carpenters, mechanics,
truck drivers, "cat" drivers and lab
orers, so soon the tent city was
erected and the colonist families in
stalled in their temporary homes
and drawings were made by lottery
for their forty or eighty-acre tracts
of land.
AS soon as the drawings were
completed the families were to
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Junior Students to
Present 3 Plays

The Kennewick Junior high
school students will present three
plays, "Blus Plate Special" apple
Pie" and "The Pest" in the high
school auditorium Friday evening,
February II at 8 o'clock.
The shortest Of the three plays,
Blue Plate Special" is a clever
comedy with poppy plot dealing
with the complications that four
young people become involved in
while trying to earn college money
BY means Of roadside inn. Mem
bers Of this cast are Yvonne Davis,
Barbara B0ehmer, Delbert HeSSler,
Warren Giles, Betty Higley and Bob
Taylor.
Apple Pie" is novelty enter
talnment Of several fast-moving
scenes that portray the trials and
fluctuations Of young husband,
Logan Long, who IS trying to man
ase housekeeping just one day for
0e benefit Of his charming wife,
Joyce Mulkey, and their mischeiv-
os ION, Richard Foraker. Support
ms members of the cast are:
Cnaries Tramel, Sidney Brownell,
smiee Campbell, Anna Marie Bein-
nsit. Yvonne Davis and Betty Hig-
ley.
Inc Pest" is q farce comedy
dealing with the life of James Ken
yoa' an orphan long ON nerve but
seminely short on gray matter,
plAyed by Charles Tramel, who has
zen adopted by Mr.. Dean who is
~ IN the air" most of the time
sao ne soon finds out that his pro
W IS one of the greatest pests he
siss ever had around. Other men,
Iefs OF the cast are: Winifred Hawn,
eau eau Osborne, Sidney Brownell,
Geraldine Shaughnessy, Ethel Ann
campbell, Melvin Pulliam and
sunice Campbell.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Income Tax Man
to be Here Feb. z

United Statee Deputy Collector of
Internal Revenue, D. p. Hayes, will
visit Kennewick on February, z am.
only, for the purpose of assisting
taxpayers in the preparation of their
1887 income tax returns, it was an
nounced by Thor w. Henricksen,
Acting Collector of Internal Rev.
enue for the District of Washington
and Territory of Alaska. Deputy
Collector Hayes will be located at
the Kennewick Hotel.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
sugar Beet Acreage
10 be 500 Acres in 80

.vn aae utah-Idaho Sugar company
soss e's 70 have more than $4,000
tha ~ the Yakima Valley during
hae.. coming year producing sugar
avs ans tor their factory. Of this
Kans i' ooo acres will be from the
ran0us district, according to the
At ~ made at the annual meeting
ac,a. ppenAsh last week. A similar
Wa,,S - expected from the Walla
indio dc country this year, the report
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Townsend Club

A large delegation from Kenne-
wick attended the Townsend Mass
meeting at Pasco Sunday afternoon.
DR.. Long reported a steady increase
in membership, and greater in
terest in the plan than ever before.
There will be q round table discus
sion at the local club meeting Mon
day night. All business men inter-
ested are invited to attend this
meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Property Owner Sues
to Recover on Taxes

Suit to recover $26O.44 in taxes
was filed recently in Benton county
superior court by G. w. Durocher of
Kennewick against Benton county.
The complaint charged that the
realestate involved in the case was
SO excessively assessed as to consti-
tute fraud on the part of taxing
officials.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03

Those days have passed and Pal
mer has progressed from tent city
to one beautifully laid out, modern
buildings comprised of twelve staff
houses, garage to care for the "a
trucks used in connection with the
colony, a repair shop for the 10
tractors, an electric power plant,
post office, berry and vegetable
canning plant, creamery, farm
machinery shed, machine shop, a
$l25, 900 school and community hall,
warehouses, a 45,OO0-gallon water
tank, a 22-bed hospital Zone of the
best equipped in Alaska), a barber
and beauty shop, dormitory, an
administration building, blacksmith
shop, a lumber yard, a sewerage
system, q poultry hatchery, fair
buildings, q drug store, three gen.
eral stores, two apartment houses, a
hotel, two restaurants, two liquor
stores and five churches Catholic,
United Protestant, Lutheran, Ad-
ventist and the Matanuska Mis-
sion.)
Some Of the other government as
sisted colonies like the ones In Flor
ida and Arkansas, were located on
land wholly or partially developed.
But not so with the Alaskan pro-
ject. It was q case Of scratch from
the start, even for garden spot.
The area In which the colony is
located was heavily timbered with
spruce and birch and in some To-
calities. cottonwood. In some areas
the tree count averaged three hun
dred and fifty trees of an average
diameter Of four to fourteen inches
to the acre. A large number of the
colonists were not very adept to the
why's and wherefores Of that serious
tool, commonly known as an axe,
and had to cut down their stands
of timber under a heavy handicap.
When colonist had cut down and
burned the wood on piece Of
ground, the corporation tractors
would move in, pull and pile the
stumps SO they could be burned.
Then another tractor, breaking pillow
and disc would follow this opera
ton and the seed bed was ready.
When the colony was formed the
management was farsighted enough
to include and put into a reserve
several thousand acres of wild hay
land adjoining Cooks Inlet.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
"scotty" Hammil Dies

Robert Hammil, better known In
Kennewick as "Scotty" died Tues
day morning following an illness Of
about a month. He was sentenced
to a life term in the state peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla ten years ago
for the murder of his wife at their
home on the River Road west Of
Kennewick. It Is believed he was
close to 65 years of age.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
Colored HOOpsters
= Put on Show at
IFS. Gym, Feb. 9Th

p.oole who enjoy topnotch bas-
.ssil who like vaudeville and who
s.,,eht in real entertainment, viii
80 ! hill to their liking next Wed
.sday night at the high school
-, when the town team will tackle
~ ~. famous Harlem Globetrotters
BASKETBALL team.
Mt that the town team is such
.cream. at that, as they will mere
:, furnish a background for the
.ro,,n of colored basket tossers who
s.soe the real show. The Globe
srotters have toured the United
s.ates annually for eleven years
snd have proven the outstanding at
traction every place they have
shown.
besides being wizards with a bas-
retball they have a whole raft OF
.r,cts and stunts which they spring
syerv few minutes during the game.
THE colored experts recently showed
~ r,,ensburg, the local paper hav-
tho the following to say the day
after the game:
aRusan was the shooting star OF
,he club and also put on an exhi-
hilton or two of change OF pace
dribble that was a beauty. But he
mos only one act of the show. Ted
strong a powerful, tall young negro.
tossed the basketball around in
hands as big as hams as if it were
baseball. And Zach Clayton, Jim
HAYNES and Bill Ford all came up
With exhibitions of sparkling floor
NAV passing and shooting. All had
ereat speed and all handled the ball
perfectly, whipping it around SO fast
that for minutes at times the
wildcats never laid a hand on it.
"The Trotters had bag full OF
tricks that required exceptional CO.
ordination and an immense amount
of practice but they made them all
look simple. Jackson climaxed them
with a perfectly timed stunt OF leap
ing up to bat a goal out of the hoop
after Ivan Dorey had dropped 1t in
on pretty shot.
"Their show included a dozen
other stunts that drew roars from
the crowd which packed the college
gymnasium. They lined up in foot
ball formation. Rusan performed
some sleight-of-hand stuff, left the
ball on the floor and scooted off,
fooling his checker so completely
the latter didn't realize the dusky
star was without the oval until he
showed empty hands under the bas-
ket. Another time they went into a
huddle, leaving the ball free on the
floor, and stayed in their ring until
the Wildcats had carried it down
and executed an unopposed scoring
play.
During the intermission they
fooled around with trick shots, tops
In which was Strong's successful
execution of a one-handed shot
clear around behind his back"
The game will undoubtedly be
one of the high lights Of the local
season, both from sport and an
entertainment standpoint. We'd
nesday night Of next week at the
high school gym.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03
CARTER-ALLAWAY

Miss Mildred Carter of Marys-
vile, California and Richard G.
Allaway Of Pasco were united in
marriage Monday evening, January
81 at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. v. Shattuck of Kennewick. Mr.
Shattuck, pastor of the Kennewick
Assembly of God church, was the
officiating minister. The newly
weds will make their home in Ken
neWick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-02-03

Continued on Page seven)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-29
TODAY II
roDAy,S ANNIVERSARIES

1745-Oliver Ellsworth, ConnectlcuI
LAWYER. member of the Continental
CONGRESS, senator, chief justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court, born at VIVA
sor. Conn. Died there, Nov. 26, loo'
1S3O-Adolph H. ]. Sutro, Calltor-
MIA prospector and mining engineer
San Francisco mayor and bibliophlle'
born in Germany. Died Aug. 8, 1898.
1S41-Edward R. Sill, California and
Ohio poet of high rank, born at WIND
sor, Conn. Died in Cleveland Feo'
q, 1887.
1S6O-Lorado Taft, Chicago's famed
sculptor, among the worlds foremost
born at Elmwood, Ill. Died oct. 5o'
1886.
1S7O-John w. Summers, Wal!a
Walla, Washington's noted congress
man, who served seven consecutive
terms, born in Orange Co., Ind. Died
Sept. 25 1887.
1877-Thomas A. Dorgan CTad)
sports writer and cartoonist, colner
of American slang, for the last ten
years of his life an invalid at home,
born in San Francisco. Died near
New York, May 3 1929.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-29

navigation project, with Public Works
Administration funds.
The Carolina Power & Light, the
South Carolina Power Company and
the South Carolina Electric & Gas
Company asked the high court to re-
view a decision of the fourth circuit
court of appeals, which affirmed a
lower Federal court dismissal Of the
suits. ..,.'' .e..'
The action was directed against the
South Carolina Public Service Author
ity and its members, Secretary Ickes,
as PWA administrator, and Works
Progress Administrator Harry Hop
kins.
President Roosevelt told reporters
he would stand on his comment of
last Tuesday, when asked his reac-
ton to formation of a new Progress
sive party by Governor Philip La
Toilette of Wisconsin.
At his Tuesday press conference,
the President said the more liberal
forces organized to promote progress
sive policies and actions, the better It
would be for the country.
The President nominated Richard
Patterson, Jr., of New York, to be an
assistant secretary of commerce. Pat
terson is vice-president of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company. He
was named to the post vacated by
Ernest Draper, recently appointed a
member of the Federal Reserve Board.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-29
TODAY IN HISTORY

1S02-Congress, by legislative act,
postponed term of the U. S. Supreme
Court-to keep Court from meeting
for ii months, for political purposes.
1916 = Gen. Townshend with an
army of 5000 British and 5000 Indian
soldiers surrenders to Turks after
143-days' siege in Mesoptamia.
1921. S. Attorney-General an
nounces discovery of plot to kill high
Federal and State officials as part of
Communist May Day demonstration
in behalf of peace with Russia.
1925-Dr. Florence r. Sabin of the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re
search chosen the first woman mem
Der of the National Academy of
Sciences.
1926-France agrees to fund her
debt to the United States over a pc
Rod of 81 years.
1927-Red Cross looking after 200,-
600 refugees in Southern flood coun-
try.
1931-Excursion train in Egypt with
cars flaming fire keeps going for miles
while engineer unaware of fire and
passengers throwing themselves out
of windows.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-29

stronger word should be used) of a
situation.
The stock-watering and over-bond-
ing dates back a generation or two.
Innocent, unsophisticated suckers
loaded up on the transportation lines
securities at the time, their children
inherited them and today the sack
is held mainly by the original buyers
grandchildren.
And figures run into the billions.
Railroad Proposals.
Talk of putting intrinsically inso!-
vent rails through the bankruptcy
"wringer'' is all very we'll
1t would make for better conditions
100 years hence-but at present?
Rail homogeneous want to increase
passenger and freight rates to meet
their overload of obligations. That
would advance prices of everything.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's view is that this would curtail
buying, and consequently reduce ship
| ments, reacting disadvantageously up
on the railroads themselves.
Rail arrangements also want to
slash ges-which would reduce the
workers buying power, and harm bus
mess generally. .o,o
The issue is one of about 1888, tack
led under circumstances of 1888.
And the railroad jam is a major
factor in connection with the current
recession.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-29
Railroad Jam Big
Factor In Slump

(Collttr u,.i. froIn Fuge One)
make money cor at worst, break even)
on the basis of q supposed invest
ment immensely larger than ever was
put into them.
Railroads Deny.
| made this statement myself
Nhoueh without Budds background
of specialized information) some time
ego.
1t was promptly challenged by the
Association of American Railroads
press bureau. If the roads ever We're
watered, the bureaus representative
assured me, the juice was squeezed
out of them in the far distant past
Well, in fairness, | put out their side
of the story-endeavoring to make il
clear that it was their version. For,
candidly, l didn't believe it.
Bu9d Mckillips, however, speaks
Nth plenty of authority.
He refers to the Association of
American Railroads "press releases
as "tripe, which is fooling no one who
doesn't want to be kidded."
Nevertheless, it is a dickens ca