The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-14


family home listed In the directory Salem Ore
ron. On. year later another NOV. fo.ad them
ranch In the Willapa harbor country spot which
was to remain the family home to this very day.
Maxs childhood days divided between the little red
school house. the farm and the which accounts
for his education, his daily chores and his playtime
With but one year to % to finish his high school educa
milk truck driver He then switched to bakery truck and
finally took the operation Of gasoline station
his first business connection found him in charge Of
the garage at the Buckingham apartments Three
later he became partner in the firm of Hostel
ter and kraus, WHY'S dealers.
Last year his partner resigned from The firm make his
home in Pasco and Max took lock- stock and barrel
Our young automobile merchandise has talked too
much in the moonlight and for that is still single
brother, Ernest associated with him at the company
headquarters at 1915 A ST.
II he has any hobbies, your reporter was unable
to put the finger them. Perhaps. II we to
covering just about everything. What leisure time
he has he spends with his folks in the haIbor coun-
He under the head of tall dark and handsome has
plenty of thinking machinery above the collar ine boasts
friendly frank personality and distinct asset to Ia
Temporary Ed!
Ben Cooper executive editor of the Rome Georgia.
News-Tribune and author of the column when In Rome
is of the most stcktotiveness this reporter has
Some weeks ago Ed Knnebrew, our Lincoln district
Nash dealer, was the subject Of . weekly "auto-
biography" Eds birthplace and childhood home was
in Rome and the story this column carried COM
mented upon by Mr.. Cooper who referred to Ed as
Temporary
and Ed came here in 1917 and has been here ever
since!
don't know how Mr.. Cooper feels about it but if had
been waiting "a years for guy to home, I'd have
pulled up chair and taken it easy that's quite spell
for chap from Rome.
However. nobody is 100 per cent not even Mr.
Cooper and the last paragraph of his interesting column
leaves with that empty feeling has when sitting in
deserted theater. quote
"Wen bet Mr.. Nelson thing. Mr.. Knnebrew
may like Tacoma but there's yearnng in his breast
for Rome and the Of red hills Of Georgia that
day will bring him back to the oil plantation to spend
his declining years. All roads lead to Rome, parcu-
larry il the Traveller has ever been here before
Well, Ben perhaps you're right. Maybe Ed viii re-
turn to the of his childhood you've almost sold
on the idea of coming back for spell However if Ed
does go home for his declining years. this newsboy will
never be guilty of reporting his action temporary
visit the old homestead we'll give him for lost and
let it 60 at that.
Time Flies!
War or no war time flies, and our daily mail re
minds that again approaching the new
model Just how much of spurge the industry will
make the 1912 models what with 30 per cent reduction
yoke around its neck, predict but bet
on one thing it will play EN- like il had EN- just the
same.
It's the "od fight that has made the automobile bust
ness what it is of the countrys greatest and it
viii take than lousy to change its disposition