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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-09-19

friends at a dancing party. The
Smiths were presented with a gift.
Harvey Osborn of Post Falls,
Idaho is visiting at the home of
his sister, Mrs William Price.
Mr.. and Mrs. Odes Slian have
moved into their new home, the
old Arthur Walker place.
Lee Lampson and friend, David
Leach of Coulee Dam visited Sun
day 1.-THE Mrs. Lee Lampson home.
Mrs. Lee Lampson jr. and daugh-
tiers are guests at the Bruce Lamp
son home on the Highlands.
The Fourth Friday club will meet
Friday, September 81 at the home
of Mrs. j. S. Kennett in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Schuster and
daughter, Miss Betty Lou Schuster
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Kennett are
spending this week at the home of
their daughter at Harrington
Mrs. Florence Turner OF Pasco
visited at the home OF her BROTH
er j. Bryson Brown Saturday.
Miss Irene Pace is staying at the
Bert Perkins home while her par
ents are away in apple harvest.
Neil Lampson, VINO has been cutie
sick wi TIL Observation-Disclosures
sick with the flu in Portland Is
able to be up again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Odom of
Connell visited Tuesday at the @.
A. Rupp home.
o. T. Holton spent the weekend
at ProSser looking after property
interests.
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Game Inspector Visits
With Teacher Here

BENTON CTTY-E. A. ChitWood
left Tuesday after a short visit with
Mrs. Chitwood, high school instruc-
tor, for Charleston, where he will
be stationed during the hunting
season. Chitwood is with the state
gam commission.
Leaving wednesday for Teton to
work in the apple harvest were Mr.
and Mrs. OrVal Montgomery (Wil-
ma Chapman) Delbert Montgomery,
Pearl Montgomery and Lawrence
Kendall.
Local grape growers who con-
tracted their crop to Church Grape
Juice company at Kennewick start
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Valley Grange Awarded
1889 PLAQUE by State

Kennewick Valley-The Pomona
grange met Saturday at Buena
Vista. Kennewick Valley grange
was awarded the 1889 plaque by the
Washington State Grange, having
complied with all requirements of
the National grange.
Mrs. Russell Elliott entertained
the Baptist circle today (Thurs-
day. at her home.
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ed picking this week.

ed picking this week.
Jack Wilson left Tuesday for
Pullman to enroll for his Junior year
at w. S. c. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Grady Wilson took him over by
car, returning the same evening.
Mrs. William Lund and son, Vir-
gil, returned Sunday from Selah
where htey spent a week with Mrs.
Lund's mother. Mrs. Fred Christen-
sen.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Waldron of
Seattle were here for hte Weekend
overseeing the harvest of their grape
crop.
Several local Odd Fellows at
tended I. o. 0. F.. ladge Monday
evening at Kennewick. Those max
ing the trip were Roy Henson, Rolf
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Anderson, A. A. McAlpin, Harry
Kendall, John Burliss, Eric Cooper
and D. L. Henson.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Simonton of
Prosser, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Simon
ton and daughter of Harrisburg, Ill.
were Tuesday evening dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Roop.
Wallace Kennett of Naches was a
weekend visitor here returning
home Sunday with Frank Orndorff,
who left for Selah to pick apples.
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of Portland spent the weekend at
the Mike Schuster and Russell FL
lott homes. Mrs. w. B. Elliott, who
has been guest at the Russell FL
lott home for several weeks, return
ed home with them.
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Card OF Thanks

We wish to express our slnOs =,
thanks and appreciation 70 q
many friends for the many k l,sd
nesses shown and for the Desa sNs
floral offerings at the time o.
loss Of our loved one.
J.F. Scott and family.
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LIQUIDATION NOTICE

The First National Bank o. !, IN me
newiok, located at Kennewlck, = rs
State of Washington, Is cloSn e,Nsr
affairs. All note-holders ana V ~.
creditors ale hereby notified = ,d,rus
sent the notes and other Ci
agains: the association for pasl aT-T,
o.. ,o.,o A. president
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Smiths Celebrate 10th
Wedding Anniversary

KENNEWICK VAILEY-Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie j. Smith celebrated their
fortietht wedding anniversary by
entertaining about htirty of their
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
MOTORIST PAYS FOR ROADS
Tamna Tribune

p,;,dine If HIGHWAYS in this country has
been a major item in construction actiVlty LOT
the past two or more decades. SO many Old
roads have been improved and new highways
built that motorists have been lulled into a
feeling that the roads over which they travel
have come to them as a gift. Few realize they
are paying their own way.
This self satisfaction that the highways are
free. except that the other fellow must foot
the bill, has enabled tax assessors to pass along
claims to the motorists in such a christmas
box form that little opposition has been regis
tered to the seemingly painless method of pay
ment extraction.
Motor vehicle owners of the country contri-
butte annually more than 81, 900, 900, 900 in taxes.
Of this amount, some s1,1s0,000,0OO is in the
form of special taxes levied on highway users
by the state for road purposes. These imposts
include motor fuel taxes, registration fees and
motor carrier special taxes. The remainder is
made up of federal excise taxes, personal prop
erty taxes, and taxes on bus and truck oper-
ators.
This huge total which vehicle owners pay
does not include state sales taxes,
or taxes paid on garages, filling stations, bus
and truck terminal facilities and other closely
related and dependent properties.
Large sums have been diverted from these
revenues to other than highway purposes. Rec
ords of the public roads administration show
that in a recent year s161, 413, 900 was diverted
from state inpoStS on highway users. Inc COM
missioner of public roads, in testifying before
the house roads committee, stated that the
monies diverted, being more than 10 per cent
of the total road revenue, if properly applied,
would have cleared all outstanding road debt
obligations.
Opposition to the policy of diversion has
been definitely expressed in a number of states.
In some of these, the public has had an op-
portunity to voice its disapproval through popu-
lar vote on constitutional amendments and re-
ferred laws. The results of these votes indis-
putably point to the conclusion that the public
is opposed to the practice when given an OPP
portunity to express it's opinion on a clear-cut
issue.
Assessment of special taxes against the mot
orist is, in principal, fair; but arbitrarily to
take such a large sum of money each year
for other governmental purposes is unfair.
The measure of the farmers gasoline tax is
the distance he lives from his market. That of
the salesman, businessman, or laborer is the
distance he must travel by in his
daily occupation. If that tax is to be used ex.
for the construction and maintenance
of the highway over which he travels, it is
not inequitable; but if it is diverted to other
purposes, it becomes a case of special assess
ment against a particular class.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
FOR A CLEAN HARBOR

A READER touched by the effort OF the
"A stor-News to spur new thought for the
Improvement of Wilmington, suggests that
cleaning up the harbor and its borders "ouio
be a worthy undertaking.
Sunken barges, fallen wharfs and other
debris not only give the harbor a bad appear
ance but are a potential menace TO na'lsa'
ton. he declares. Logs and other things, NOV
ing into the river at high water, might cause
serious amage to vessels. 1t is his thought
that while the war department might invoke
the law against offenders, or the harbor mas
ter take steps, it would be far better and
preyent embarrassment if waterfront property
owners performed the necessary work them
selves.
It may be said, without too severe violation
of metaphorical privileges, that the harbor is
the front yard of the city, and like all front
wards. gives the visitor his first impression
of tie home according to its neatness or IN
tidiness.
Persons arriving in Wilmington by water
will form their opinion of the city on what
they behold as they approach, and that i'm.
preston will linger and possibly outweigh all
later impressions. If the harbor is neat, the
stream clear of Obstacles, it may be taken for
granted their opinion will be favorable. Nat
urally, that is the way we want everybody
to think of the city. If the impression is the
opposite, no garden tour or hospitality and
will dethrone it.
This for beauty. For safety, it is obvious
that floating debris cannot contribute to its
maintenance. As our reader suggests, the
stream should be clear at all times and
buildings and wharfs kept in such good re-
pair that no part of them will become a haz-
ard to navigation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
VANDALISM AT GREENFIELD

The reported epidemic of vandalism at
Greenfield lake calls for severe repressiye
measures.
Unless it is halted promptly there is no
telling where it may spread.
Thus far it has been confined to defacing
and wrecking signs warning against parking
between road and lakeshore, and to breaking
bottles and scattering glass where it will cut
tires. Soon it might extend to shrubbery and
trees. Or even be carried beyond the park
and leave private gardens and buildings
marred.
It is hard to believe that grown men would
yield to an impulse to deface property wan.
tonly. The w%rongdoing is more likely the
work Of mischievous youngsters. But whoever
is guilty, and whom affected, the police have
a duty to perform. All clues should be inves
tigated, all transgressors hauled into court
Greenfield park is too fine an asset to be
placed in jeopardy BY irresponsible juveniles
or malicious adults.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
A WORLD

With Sweden refusing material aid, with
the United States House of Representatives
banking committee delaying its decision on a
Smelling Viipuri, Finland calmly proceeds with
the destruction of another Red division and
the capture of much war equipment.
Has the world ever seen such heroism in
the face of tremendous odds? We doubt it.
Yet it is impossible to avoid the thought that
however great its determination to carry on,
however magnificent its defense, however
doomed unless its friends come to the rescue.
1t cannot long stand up under the pressure
of Russian numbers and Russia's unlimited
armament.
1t was thought that Finland's conquest
would require but a few days. 1t is not &C.
complished after two and a half months.
Without outside aid, it cannot long be de.
layed.
What is the democratic world going to do
about it? Debate Finland's sad plight and
wish things might be different? COP forbid.
This war in Finland is not alone between
Russian and Finn. 1t is between despotism
and liberty, between the worlds gangster and
law and order.
The forces of freedom have this to consid.
er: A conquered Finland will become a
springboard by which despotism may leap all
bounds and overrun the earth.
A Russian flag captured by the Firms shows
an arrow piercing Sweden and having it's tip
on Norway. Still Sweden turns DOWN Fin
lands plea for help. And Norway engages in
hot dispute with Great Britain when one oil
Englands cruisers enters it's territorial wat
ers to rescue 300 prisoners held in a German
vessel, instead of recognizing the threat OIL
that arrow point. Germany is Russia's ally
and Russia has Norway on its black list.
Surely there is something crazy in the
world, when so many Of it's people, including
our own house banking committee, cannot SEE
the menace of communism and take the nee
essary step to remove it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Voices Opposition
To Road Funds Diversion

LAURINBURG, Feb. 20. - (P -
Lieut.. Gov. W. P. Horton of Pitts
boro, gubernatorial candidate, ex-
pressed opposition to the diversion
of highway funds, in a speech to-
night before the Lions club here.
ours is quite properly a state
system of highways he said, "but
we must also make adequate provis-
ion for our lateral roads as well as
the principal highways.
THE safety and well-being of thou
sands Of school children demand
that u secondary roads be ade-
quately maintained. Let us not over
look the necessity of sufficient pro-
vision for what might otherwise be
termed the forgotten roads in our
state"
Horton said he voted against high
way diversion-the transfer of money
from the highway fund to the gen.
eral fund-in the general assembly of
1895.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
CLUB

Play is so much a part Of the healthy de-
velopment of childhood and, if directed prop
erly, SO capable of helpful training for mind
as well as body, that the organization of a
play unit at AGNES McRAE PARSLEY recreation
center for preschool-age youngsters is a prof.
ect Of which adult Wilmington may we'll be
proud.
Three mornings a week, for three hours
per session, the club will gather for games,
songs, handcraft and stories. The tots will
learn to play and, in their little undertakings,
work together; to be courteous, to think of
their playfellows and consider their rights;
to be happy citizens Of a world all their own.
It is not easy to vision a program which Of
fers richer rewards; difficult, too, to think of
any means offering greater aid to plastic
minds and more relief to harried mothers.
With the younger children of one district
thus provided for, and the example Of achieve.
ment for incentive, it is possible to foresee
the day when every neighborhood will have
it's play centers for children ranging from
infancy through adolescence. And that will BIZ
q great day for Wilmington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
A NEW THEATER

Announcement by Mr.. GEORGE W. BAILEY
that bids will be opened for a new motion
picture theatre on March 4 is another sign
that Wilmington is on it's way.
The theatre, which will be on the first
block of North Front street, will be in the
modernistic mode witt all the newest con.
veniences for patrons and best developments
of science for the running of sound pictures.
Architecturally, it will be distinctly attrac-
tive, and vastly improve the appearance of
North Front street.
Wilmington Theaters, Inc, and Mr.. BAILEY,
the lessee, are to be congratulated for their
determination to give film fans the best to
be had in entertainment emporia.
The advantage to Wilmington in thus &C
curing a fine theatre extends far beyond
the actual building. AS a decoy to draw other
modern buildings to it's neighborhood, it's pos.
sibilities are unlimited.
Builders, investors in new projects, nat
urally drift to the most highly developed
neighborhood, where the value Of their own
property is enhanced by the surroundings
1t is not difficult to vision other construction
projects springing up in the vicinity of the
theatre.
The vision IL particularly clear right now
with Wilmington reawakening to its oppor
tunity to move ahead on the wave of return
ing prosperity.
1t is no secret that several industries are
seeking sites hereabouts. Within the year i
is altogether likely that Wilmington will ls
greater manufacturing assets than it has evel
known. All this means big construction.
1t is stimulating to find the theatre inter
ests moving in the vanguard, typifying thu
new spirit, the go-ahead determination O
progress.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
George William Fryar
Dies In Sampson County

CLINTON, Feb. 20.-George Will.
liam Fryar, 45, died at his home
in Lisbon township this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock after a short illness.
Funeral services will be held from
the home Wednesday afternoon at
8 o'clock with the Rev. Louis Nor.
gan, pastor of the Clinton Baptist
church, assisted by the Rev. Mr..
Delton, Methodist minister, official.
ing.
Interment will follow in the fam
lily cemetery.
Mr.. Fryar is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Ethel Register Fryar;
one son, William H. Fryar; six
brothers, J. T., J. E., J. A., r. E.,
and H. V. Fryar. of Clinton; and
L. S. Fryar, of Danbury; five sis.
tiers, Mrs. L.. NJ. Blackburn and
Mrs. G. E. Fryar, of Clinton, Mrs.
D. V. Hairr, of Roseboro, Mrs, J..
H. Merritt and Miss Clyde Fryar.
of Clinton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government,
under CouncilManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports n Industrial
Shows.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension of City Limits.
35toot Cane Fear River channel, Wid-
err Turning Basin, Nth ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank
south Of Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, vid
orion Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through sustained-yteld methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Pro-
m1otiomaz Agency, supported by one,
countrywide tar.
Shipyards and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
adequate hospital facilities for Whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm emit OF mdtiUe grape groacing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis Sdndtorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Roosevelt Studies
Problems Of Defense

ABOARD THE Z. S. S.
LANG, AT SEA, Feb. 20-(R
Via wireless)-Still studying
problems of Inter American de-
Tense, President Roosevelt
cruised through Pacific waters
today in the vicinity of the
Panama Canaz Zone.
During the afternoon he drop
ped his studies long enough to
try his hand at sailfishing from
Inc Z. 5. 5. Tuscaloosa, his
cruise ship, near small islands
off the Costa Rican coast.
MIR. Roosevelt was interested
particularly in a broad policy
of hemisphere defense, he told
a press conference yesterday,
explaining that his trip bore a
special relation to distant
rather than nearby canal pro-
lection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
TURKEY TO FIGHT
If BALKANS HIT
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would tour Thrace, frontier region
in which Turkey is rushing new
Notifications to oppose a possible
thrust at the vital Dardanelles.
Plans were announced also for
spending SIS, O0O, 900 of the recently
g r a e d British-French loan for
rapid construction of a port at Ere
gil, on the Black Sea. At present
Turkey is without a Black Sea har-
Dor adequate as a base for naval
operations.
Turkey is not seeking war and
would fight only if imperilled,'
Yeni Sabah said, but added point
edly:
eff Germany attacks the Balkans
she will find us facing her on the
side of the Allies because such ag,
gression would directly menace us.
ITO reach Istanbul it is necessary
to cross the Balkans. Our country
will not await her turn with folded
arms while the Balkans are crushed.
That is one mistake we shall not
make"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
Services Held
For Mrs. Sarah Todd

Funeral rites for Mrs. Sarah Jane
Todd, widow of the Rev. Da-.iel
Todd, Of Ash, who died at her home
Monday morning after a lingering
illness, were held at Simpson Creek,
5. c., yesterday morning at 1880
o'clock.
cemetery.
She Is survived by a daughter.
Mrs. w. j. McLamb, of Ash; three
SISTERS, Mrs. Lizzie Coston, Mrs.
Dora~ Edens. and Mrs. Lucy Hud.
son; and two brothers, ". ]. Hollis
and ]. D.. Hollis, all Of Holly Ridge.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
LEADS JONES
IN LOUISIANA VOTE
Continued From Page One)

ers who had refused to sign tally
sheets in the first primary because
of alleged irregularities. Other vot-
ers charged they were not permit.
ted to sign poll books or that watch
ers stood too close to polling stands.
Jones, 42-year-old Lake Charles
attorney and novice in politics, vot
ed early at his home town then mo-
tored to New Orleans to lelrn
whether the electorate had heeded
his plea to sweep "Longism" from
the governorship for the first time
since the late Huey rode to power
in 1928. Long remained in the cap
ital, Baton Rouge.
Lines formed at many polling
and balloting continued br:skly in
cool, clear weather right up to the
I p. m. closing, bolstering pred.c-
tons of a half million total.
State Senator James A. Noe, one.
time ally of the slain "Kirgfish'
but a bitter foe of Earl Long, cruis-
ed the city at the head of his Jack
son Brigade a poll-watching group
of ex-soldiers against whom Longs
mobilization order chiefly was di-
rected.
But instead of fights the ~brigaders
found smiles as they made the
rounds of the booths which were
guarded by 1900 special. armed cleo
ton police as we'll as by city Off
GERS.
His procession produced overtones
of slapstick comedy as the camera
bearing sleuths trouped along fol-
lowed by motorcycle police and
squad cars filled with officers -
some of whom seemed highly anus
ed at the elaborate precautions.
Noe himself was the center of sew
eral fistfights in the Jannary 16
primary in which he was a candi-
date. In that test Long led the field
of five with 226,3S5 and Jones won
his way into the run-off with 1884,
936. The remainder of the 553,666
ballots was split among Noe and
two other anti-admipIstration can
didates.
The nominee chosen today will be
/ confirmed in the governorship in
the general election purely per
functory in one-party Louisiana
and will take office for his feur-year
term May IA.
Makeup of the next legislature,
already pretty well purged OF its
supine legislators that gave the ma.
chine its chief source OF power, was
decided today as well as the offices
OF lieutenant governor, attorney gen.
eral and state superintendent of pub.
lie education. Other statewide races
were decided in the first voting.
Generally overlooked because OF
the fury Of the gubernatorial cam.
paign was slection of the democratic
central committee which will be the
one that may pick Louisiana's 20
delegates to the democratic national
convention in July.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-21
CREECH BROTHERS
BELIEVED DROWNED
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that the bodies might be recovered
in the breakers tomorrow morning.
All hope that the men had sur.
vived was abandoned today be-.
cause it was believed that if they
had managed to come ashore after
their boat capsized, they would have
gone to the coast guard station at
either Oak Island or Bald Head
A coast guard plane flew over
the vicinity in an effort to locate
the bodies, but early tonight report.
ed no success.
Coroner Caison said that it was
supposed that the boat had capsiz.
ed at the mouth of Bald Head
creek at a slough going out to Fry.
ms Pan shoals.
James Creech has a wife and two
children. He and his brother lived
in Southport.
Searching parties, which return.
cd from the hunt tonight, plan to
resume their hunt tomorrow morn.
ing,