The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-07-16
Notes of Benton
County Men in
the Armed Forces
Dear Friend:

Dear Friend:
Greetings! We all think so much
and SO often of Kennewick. We fin
ally get to doing what we have
wanted to do for a long time 4.
send for the Courier-Reporter. We
are anxious to get the news from YOU
folks.
As for us, we are all well now, al
Though Mrs. Lucky is not too strong
yet. She was in the hospital for Is
days ending May II and will he some
time really getting her strength back,
I guess. She had a strep infection
in the blood stream with other SER
ious complications. Paul was also
sick for many weeks with a strep in
lection in his lymph glands, and I
was also hospitalized for a week. So
you see we had our share for this
spring. We cannot complain, tho,
for we certainly have not had so
very much sickness.
The work here is very challenging
and interesting. The building of our
new church may be held up for a
while, though, due to- war condi-
tons, in spite of the desperate need
for it. O.
Long Island is an interesting place
to live. We are about % miles from
down town New York, close enough
in to get down without too much
trouble, and far enough out to he
more or less in the country, though
even here it is heavily populated. We
live in a restricted area, however, so
we have no fear of large buildings OF
apartments coming in. Baldwin has
a population of approximately 10000
Nearly all of these people, lie. work
ers and heads of families, etc., are
commuters to the city, except those
who are needed here for retail, etc
There is no industry or business In
Baldwin except one plant, and the
necessary banks and retail bust
neSseS. 49,. s..s.-. ~.
The commuters go mostly via Long
Island r. r. to Brooklyn and Penn
Station in N. Y. The trains are cleo
trio, and there are So every day here
averaging 10 cars each (more in
rush hours and fewer in lean hours)
Each car holds go passengers, and
they are nearly always filled to ca
pacity, sometimes with standees.
We live near a lot of famous
places. Examples: Home, Sweet
Home" home of the author of the
song which is very well preserved
and visited by many, Belmont race
track, and Jamaica track (havend
visited them yeti, and others. The
oldest Episcopal church in u S.. is
near us, and has the original char
ter from King George dated 1744
Many old cemeteries, also. I make
regular visits TO a house built in
IT'S, and have visited older ones
Have had two funeral services in a
home that was formerly Gilda Grey,s
residence. Have gone deep sea fish
/ ing twice, but not since the war
broke out The subs are too close
to us here. J.. r.
That reputation that the Brooklyn
Dodger fans have of being very
rabid is nothing at all compared to
the real situation. It cannot be ex-
aggerated. The fans certainly are
red hot. Once in Hampstead I saw
a traffic cop arguing with a hand
cart pusher Zone sees quite a few
hand carts on streets here and par
ticularly in N. Y. City, They We're
both waving arms and talking loud
I thought the man would get traf-
fic ticket and maybe worse, but as ]
walked close enough to hear I heard:
81 tell you he is the best short-stop
in the league" That may not be typ
ical, yet is not far off. Il
The Brooklyn brogue is not imag-
ination either. Not all have it, but
those who do have peculiar pro-
nounciations. Examples Oil is "earl";;
pearl is poll; point is "pernt", etc
These are not just approaches to the
sounds indicated. They are plainly
spoken exact opposites of what used
to. Also idea is "idear," etc. Most
tpeople here drop their .'r's!" H. .
Long Island is practically. free
from tourists and travellers. People
who come East as tourists see all
they need to see in New York City
without coming out on Long Island
Statesmen usually stay in the city, OF
farther out ON the island (which is
lib miles long.) have not seen a
single tourist camp on Long Island
and Furthermore there is not q
single hotel in Baldwin or Hamp.
stead population, of each about
30,000.) However, Long Beach about
8 miles from here, has many hotels
for city residents often live here al
summer, and then commute to work
We live about three miles from
Mitchell Field. Roosevelt Field Is
close too. The population of Nassau