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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

will hereafter be a favorite stopping
place for travellers. -.
That E. T. Newbry and family
are now living in the Kennewick
Market building on End street.
That-Kennewick is now grow
ing town of nearly 800 people with
every line of business well repre-
sented in modern we'll constructed
buildings.
The Courier-Reporter of Dec. Is,
1912 stated: zass... .--s..----..- .
That-Kennewick was to celebrate
Made in Kennewick Day" on Dec
II. Every local manufacturer had
agreed to make a special window
display of his goods. Among the
local manufacturers were Twin City
Ice and Cold Storage Co., Kenne-
wick Harness Shop, T. v. Decker;
Kennewick Grain and Milling Co..
j. A. Corder; Censor Shoe Factory;
Kennewick Sheet Metal Works;
Coats & Marks Basket factory; Co.
lumbia Clay Co., and the Columbia
Valley Creamery Co. .
That-Benton County Crop Inn
|provement Association was organized
at Prosser. ~~.. -,
That-Among the new officers OF
the local Commercial club the fol-
lowing ames appeared L. e. John
son, president; H. w. Desgranges,
first vice president; M. M. Moulton
was director, A. F. Brown, trustee.
That-PlanS were underway to i'm
prove and pave the street to the
SP&1S depot. g. a..
That-The PPSSL Co. had prom
ised to install a new pump, which
had double capacity. - F..
1922
According to the Courier Reporter
for Dec. IA, 1922 we learn:
That Richards two general mer-
chandise stores were entered by
thieves, on Monday night one store
entered and $50 stolen from the
safe. The next night the Yedica
store was entered and small change
stolen and contents scattered over
the floor. They used Mr.. Yedica's
supply of morning kindling to start
fire, selected the choicest canned
goods from the grocery stocks,
opened them and ate lunch.
That-Pacific Power and Light Co.
announces lower rates to become eff
fective on next months reading. The
company had been doing business
in this district 10 years. The current
used over minimum to cost 6.66
cents on the new schedule. ~
That-Ed Frauen was elected CO.,
lumbia Irrigation District director.
That-Kennewick was to have an
evening west bound train leaving
Kennewick at TBS over the MP. RR.
It was to fill long-felt want.
That-Minute Women selling an
tt tuberculosis Christmas Seals with
Mrs. Lane K. Larson in charge.
That-Mrs. M. M. Moulton was
hostess to PEG.
That-Miss Dayle Miller was
spending a week in Spokane.
That-Finley and Hover residents
were begging for a rabbit drive.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

The drift of the times is toward
socialism. Many of the New Deal re-
forms are socialistic In their ten
denotes and in their effect. The
general trend isc to take from the
have and give to the have nots. It
is natural that in the general appli-
cation Of such principle that many
who have acquired savings through
long years of sacrifice, self denial,
and hard work are going to see these
savings dipped into by the tax
gatherer and given with lavish hand
to those who have never made a
pretense of saving, but have spent
as they went. The new order seems
to attach stigma to the haves
and to, glorify the have nots.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

The powers that be have an
nounced that farmers shall be al
lowed all necessary gasoline TO get
their farm products to market and
supplies to the farm. This is as it
should be. Keeping the farms rum
ming is every bit as important as
keeping the defense plants run
ming. A few favors on the side of
the farmer will not come amiss since
he is going to have to work longer
hours at considerably less pay than
his brother in the neighboring de-
tense plant.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17
CHRISTMAS SEALS

In the year Of 1843 there Is going
to be a material increase in tubercu-
losis under wartime conditions, it is
believed. Consequently such an ex-
pansion of this work done by heads
of associations who endeavor to con-
troll tuberculosis calls for all of us
in Kennewick to join in the 36th
annual Christmas Seal campaign
Many have already mailed their holi-
day greeting cards and purchased
the seals as the usual accompani-
rnent The mortality rate for tuber-
culosis is on the decrease in our
country, We know, but lack of good
health can produce a condition
which would find us again
striving for a foot-hold in control.
It isn't too late to buy your Christ
mas Seals.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17


railroad. Health Certificate,
presented to Harrison HuShes , Were
Use Mccoy and Wilma Tucker I.a LOU.
Blanche Young and Dorothy NV 1.ysef;
Finley; Eileen olbrich, Do nrua o.
Bechtel Of Kennewick ana 'O, ~
Dilling Of Grandview. ray
That-Temperature for tho
week had been Sub-zero with psst
below zero being the lowest ei 1a
ficial temperatures from The S Us
port on the PaSco side showed ~ al. an-
what lower minimum. "O'''es
That-Mrs. F. S. Mcclure uo.
Hampton and c. J. Dahlin s nsFy
on the ditch election. ''''eo
That-The OAR. met with ~,
j. II. Siegfried. AafS'
That-W. S. Green, master =, 4,
Masonic lodge, was guest az Nh. siie
at PaSco lodge, where he had Ls0'
invited to give a paper. en
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

The self-imposed censorship OF
the American press is every bit as
effective as though the censorship
were imposed by edict. A half a
hundred editors of the country have
known for weeks that a certain i'm
portant U. S. ship was sunk in the
Southwest Pacific in October yet
no mention of the name of the ship
has appeared in any newspaper
The press is aware that mention of
the sinking would be valuable in
formation to the enemy. After the
ship has been replaced by the navy
no harm can come from revealing
the sinking. AS long as the fact
of the sinking is not known the
enemy believes the ship still to be
in action.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

They stated there were thousands
of rabbits and they were destroying
crops.
That-Mrs. K. c. Clifford was hot
ess to the bridge club.
That-The Horticultural club met
with Mrs. G. w. Sherk.
That-W. E. Johns, deputy horti-
cultural inspector, was attending the
annual meeting of the state horti-
cultural association.
That-Members of the local COM
mercial club had been invited to at
tend meeting of representatives
of three railroads in a publicity
campaign to be launched in the
spring. The railroads were spend
ing $1,000, 900 to boost the Northwest
That-The 40-mill tax limit league
holds its first state meeting.
1892
The Courier-Reporter of Dec. Is
1892, reports:
That Ice in the Yakima river
caused a jam seven miles long
threatening Fallon bridge. The jam
forced the water to find new outlets
and covered numerous acres Of farm
lands. Most of this land had been
frozen over and the water rushed
along under ice piling up here and
there in great jagged piles. A band
of 400 sheep was marooned by flood
waters with no way to get them to
safety. Considerable winter hay
stacked on the lowlandS was also
in danger of being swept away by
the rushing waters.
That. A. Tweedt was elected
to the board on the Columbia Irri-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17
"REMINISCENCES
Being Items Culled From Our
Files Of Ten, Twenty, Thirty and
Forty Years Ago.
1902

1902
In the Columbia Courier for Dec
10, 1902, it says:
That-Next week the Special Holt
day Edition mentioned some time
ago will appear. It will consist of
Is pages, eight of which will be
descriptive of Kennewick and its
environment, present and pros
pective.
That - The Hampshire House
opened this week with G. r. STAN
yam as proprietor. This house has
been put into first class shape and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

President Roosevelt made public a
decision which is popular through
out the country when he announced
that no more deferrments from the
draft will be permitted eligible men
who are in government employ
merely on the basis that they are in
federal employ. The only .excep-
tions will be those highly and spe-
cially trained men who cannot be
replaced.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

There is nothing like good hard
earnest work. In addition to its
many other well known virtues it
keeps ones mind off his short gaso-
line ration, his dwindling fuel oil
supply, his thinning tires, his empty
sugar bowl, his income tax and the
war. Truly honest hard work is a
blessing.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-12-17

70 INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS. ERATERNAL BODIES,
OTHERS WHO MAY WISH TO AUGMENT
THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT BONDS
In Fund Committee
especially ureeev citizen 20 do his utmost o
an oushn the December War
krgety etunderak by the
Bonds we a o
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Evening star., 1942-09-21

mark and the driver set OF for the
salvage depot.
All over the Northeast and South
east sections the story was the same.
The scrap rolled in.
With the scrap came many a relic.
At downtown salvage depot, in
the shadow Of Union Station, boy
proudly flourished sword which
dated back to the Revolutionary
War; its donor had told him. Other
boys found other swords, some cere-
monial and some military.
Historical Items.
Hardly salvage depot was with
out Its collection Of historical items
pistols, rifles, gun stocks, bayonets,
shells, helmets and other mementoes
Of other wars. And in most places
those in charge could not yet bring
themselves to the point of calling
such items scrap, but placed relics
IN separate piles, apart from more
prosaic items.
Indeed an unbiased onlooker
might have suspected that some
souvenirs, turned In with a slight
pang OF personal regret by pa
triotic donors, might not yet join
the fight against the Axis. Too
much admired by their young finders
were some of these relics and what
a young boy has been able to find on
scrap pile always has been fair
booty.
Stories that items placed on yes
terday's scrap pile might tell would
not all be of past wars, however.
There was, for instance. the 5000
pound scrap pile in front OF the
Evening star., 1942-09-21

A turn around the block and
Bryant street yielded folding bed.
an electric iron, water heater,
stoves, skates. curtain rods, copper
tubing, old automobile licenses and
sundry more miscellaneous metal
items. Two more turns and the alley
in the 300 block between Ascot place
and Bryant street saw the trucks
load piled higher and higher. Two
iron folding beds, several long
lengths Of iron fence, two hot-water
tanks and water heater, stack
of pans from bakery, compressed
gas tank and gasoline drum were
added in few minutes.
There still was a little room for
more. so the driver tried the 200
block of the alley between Ascot and
Bryant, adding, among other things,
another vacuum cleaner, more water
tanks, a bicycle frame, a toaster, a
hot plate, shower bath. At the
turn into Second street a house
holder eyed the vehicles load of
miscellany.
I'D better get my '36 sedan OF
the street or 7 won't have it very
long" he unused.
Hey, look at Ray" he added to
a neighbor. Hes even bringing out
his lawn mower"
I'm glad he is" the neighbor re-
piled. 1--WE been running that thing
for eight years on my lawn and I
know he needed new one"
The truck rolled on, adding more
lawn mowers, stoves, metal furniture
and a radio in the 200 block OF
Bryant street. BY this time the load
must have been we'll over the 3-ton
Evening star., 1942-09-21

out on porches and sidewalks to
join in getting in the scrap
At Third and Adams streets NE,
where the trucks first trip OF the
morning had ended with a capacity
load, a castaway gas stove joined
the war against the Axis. On top
of one scrap pile was a bright.
reshly-discarded tin coffee can. not
the kind of scrap wanted in yester-
days drive, but welcomed by the
trucks workers, who proclaimed it
a most excellent vessel for drinking
water.
Housewives Do Part.
The truck swung up the alley be-
tween Adams street and Ascot place,
in the 200 block. A housewife ap-
peared at her back steps with a pair
Of bronze book ends. A helper ran
to get them, admired them for
moment, then sighed and tossed
them among the trucks growing
cargo. Across the way another
housewife did her bit by providing
water for the drinking can. A vac
uum cleaner, a skillet, a coal scut-
tie, two toy automobiles, bed
garden bench. a pickax and sundry
items of kitchenWare were added as
the truck swung around the corner
and down Ascot place.
Evening star., 1942-09-21
D. c. Gives Its Scrap in Festive Mood
Crowds Watch Force of Collection Trucks Swing Into Action
Like Army Meehunized Unit to Pick Up Donations

Washingtons response to its first
all-out salvage Sunday yesterday
was not only patriotic, not only en-
thusiastic; it was downright festive.
Early in the morning trucks and
men were brought together at con-
centratlon points. Supervisors
checked lists and assigned crews.
Engines roared. Men leaped aboard,
three to a truck in addition to the
driver. The vehicles swung out. for
all the world like an Army mechan-
lied unit getting under way, and
charged forth toward their objective,
the eastern half of WASHINGTON.
Heads appeared at windows and
passers-by stopped, lending a sort of
parade atmosphere to the launching
OF the Districts concentrated metal
scrap drive.
Holiday Mood.
Following one truck on it's rounds
to get a cross-section picture of a
salvage collection, the reporter
found q, Northeast neighborhood in
patriotic holiday mood. Everv-
where along its line of march" the
small parade-truck and trailing
coupe-drew a crowd. Small bows
were IN the fore, but not by far did
they outnumber their fathers and
mothers and big sisters who were
Evening star., 1942-09-21

In the middle of the block there
was a pause for the photographer
to get to work as a 3-year-old boy
ran from his home to send broken
toy tank into real battle. Gal
vaniZed pals, water heater, a
metal chair and various lengths of
pipe joined the scrap pile on the
truck, which rapidly was becoming
a rolling example of the list of scrap
items the campaign committee had
suggested householders might be
able to produce.
At Ascot place and Third street
there was a pause to wait for a
young housewife, barefoot on the
summer morn, who was dragging a
long cast-iron pipe down the side
walk. A couple of right turns
brought the truck into an alley off
Bryant street, where another house
wife's call from an upper window
brought another pause, and added
to the load.
A man came from his garage and
tossed a set of skid chains to one
of the helpers. He went back, then
emerged again.
Il haven't got any tires to change,
so you might as we'll take this, too"
he said, passing along an automo-
bile lack.
Evening star., 1942-09-21

Domican House Of Studies on Michi-
can avenue across from Catholic
University. Atop the pile of old
stoves and broken pump equipment
was box feet square and about
that deep, filled with what appeared
to be the inner workings OF half a
dozen radio sets.
A priest volunteered the history,
That's a Phi. D." he said. II
don't remember the students name
or what his problem was. But he
had to work out the theory first
and then prove it. That's probably
the first Phi. D. any one ever threw
on a scrap pile"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15

elled tie and shirt, l happened to
notice Dawn's Christmas goldfish
who were still swimming gauntly
around their various pond weeds,
Indifferent to the lateness Of the
hour. noticed them, not be-
cause l shared my daughters en-
thusiasm for them, but because
piece Of grey notepaper was
propped against the aquarium
wall.
l moved stupidity across the
room and picked up the paper.
In my daughters round, solemn
hand, l read:
GOLDFISH ARE NICE. AS
ARE SKIS. BUT A SHIP-IN-
BOTTLE is NICE TOO.
The function OF this simple
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15
XVIII

XVIII
4 GOT my drink. Almost all
the inhabitants Of Fallowfield
seemed 10 have been aroused by
Karen and the fire. had a dim
impression of their various voices
chattering around me in the
darkness as they guided me back
to the house have a clearer
impression of David Rowley pour
ing me the much needed shot Of
rye. Someone, | believe, called
the fire station. but | was beyond
caring what happened or didn't
happen 20 the barn. Someone
else had rescued my overcoat
from it's key position on the inn
provised rope. | kept it over my
shoulders Rowley found me a
pair of his shoes in place of
those which | had left behind in
my undignified departure from
the loft.
They were all madly eager to
know just what had happened
and why Even Karen herself
had only the shadowiest idea of
the motives behind her near
cremation. But / couldn't cope
with questions any more. II was
very late and my fantastical
leap in the barn loft had left
me physically and emotionally
spent l swallowed my rye
hedged vaguely and then ex-
pressed firm intention of going
home.
Karen came to see me out of
the front door She looked pale
but very beautiful l felt my
hand in hers. She squeezed it
and said softly:
II can never be grateful
enough. You saved my life"
she paused. And you tell me,
how on earth did you get out of
the loft without help"
stared back at her rather
foolishly. Il shall go on wonder
ing about that myself to my
dying day"
l had TO retrieve my car from
its strategic position the-dfrt
track leading 10 the barn. That
maneuVcr exhausted what little
energy | had left suppose |
should have called Cobb for l
had a whole raft Of new and cru
Cial .matcrIai for him But did
nothing about II. Tho moment |
reached home I tottcrcd YEARLY
up TO my room.
As l tuGgcd off a very dishev-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15

literary exercise was not hard,
even for my bemused brain, TO
appreciate. Dawn, splendidly inn
pervious TO horror and sudden
death, was still thinking exclu-
sively OF Christmas. And tomor-
row was Christmas Eve. the last
shopping day. She was going to
get that ship-in-bottle if it killed
her or me!
AS sank into a deep, heavy
sleep, two thoughts scampered
after each other through my
mind like squirrels in a tread
mill. Somehow must get Dawn
a ship-in-bottle before Christmas.
Continued on Page Id
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15
CONTINUED from Page -

fully Keep your feet against
the wall 10 break your weight
The blankets are none too
strong"
III get help" Those were the
last words / heard her voice
low and passionate. Whatever
alppcus IN get you out. M"
fThc sentence faded There
were dim confused sounds as she
lowered herself down out into the
Lail.l.css. Then there was moth
ing unth, miles away il seemed,
! heard her Gallon
The signal that she had
reached the ground in safety!
! hadn't rehshed those mo-
meuts when | was to Doe alone i'm
that little sitting square Of
darkness above the rumbling
chaos Of fire below But, oddly
enough, now that the burden OF
karcu's danger was lifted, now
that there was only myself 90
consider. l felt almost calm. /
know that no help which Karen
could bring from outside would
Doc Of any use.
Already. behind me. at tho fire
end Of the loft room. a tongue OF
flame was licking through the
floor. This was crucially "A qucs-
tion Of time. and there was no
time for outside aid ! had To get
up that smooth wall 10 the win
dow. Somehow ! had TO do that.
My sole hope for salvation was
summed up in that one sentence
II had to get up 10 that win
dow.
AS l stood there coughing. my
eyes smarting from the smoke |
thought with certain grim sat
isfaction that at least the muir
derer's plan had been foiled The
entire purpose Of this trap had
been 10 kin Karen. the last Of the
Shipton grandchildren, in a SEEM
ling accident With Karen still
alive all his murderous hopes
would go for nothing. And not
only that with Karen alive. the
whole plot would be exposed.
BY throwing me into the trap
at the last moment the murderer
had defeated himself For with
out me. the plan would almost
certainly have worked. Without
me and my use As a ladder, Ka-
rem would never have reached the
window and safety. Without me,
Karen might we'll have been as
dead atthis moment as if he had
put bullet through her head
That realization brought not
only satisfaction but the extra
flip Of determination I needed
No longer was this merely ques-
tion of saving myself BY saving
myself. could bring about the
complete rout Of the murderer.
And once was free, / would not
rest until I had my revenge.
The prospect made me oblivi-
Gus to the smoke, Obvious to the
fact that the fire was eating into
the floor behind me. oblivious TO
the fact that, in "A matter Of
the whole loft would in
evitably collapse and plunge
down into the sea OF flames be-
low.
l was calm, prcnaturally calm
with an almost superhuman con-
fidence in myself | moved TO
the wabbly, ladderback chair. I
flashed my torch up for one last
ook at the window | placed the
,hair Immediately beneath it.
Then slipping off my shoes, l
dropped the flashlight, stepped
onto the chair II quivcred under
MY weight Gingerly, clutchlng
At the wall above me. l worked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15
Good news for you! 1t means gentle
Ivory Flakes care can help all your nice
things stay lovely

THIS EXCITING series Of Ivory Flakes test washngs
points the way! It's real evidence Even our bright
eyed Consumer Jury of Saesgirls were amazed,
Listen: 1T took careful eye to detect the washed
one THAT sky-blue color hardly shows all that
washing" Can you imagine! 50 washngs and
still so beautiful It's Ivory Flakes for mo-
WHAT A GOOD THING TO KNOW :. that gentle Ivory
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15
LOVELY NIGHTIE STILL PRETTY
AS new after s. WASH|NGS
That's the verdict of Consumer Jury of SaIesgirls-
on this exciting Ivory Flakes test

Flakes washings take such wonderful care Of
your pet ~ashahIes. These days that facts worth
money. More than ever you want TO get all you can
out OF your clothes Investments
" YOU WANT your prize prettes TO keep their lovely
freshness, washing after washing try the simple
Ivory Flakes recipes on every Ivory Flakes box
Lady what luxurious rich suds- and in water that,
a .0'e lukcvarn. Mid suds -. Oh, gentle The
New Ivory Flakes are wonderfully mild!
TRUST your nice things TO gentle care with New
Ivory Flakes. You'll love the results.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15
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'DoVsias With water anything else when you groom
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the ,vascnc Hsi, Tonic METHOD described beio) Your
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15

Which was more than the
truth, since / was only half there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-15

Great Br"n E1shts Ec,,rcd.
Evening star., 1942-12-06
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AND WE HAVE STAR-STUDDED GROUP
roophonoerop has the floor
Look how Click
when Everything Schubes
Unfinished Symphony the
there's artists
entertainment anyone And
ostorddd General Electric Pco cA
Magnificent models
bright idea for the oiNs Christmas gift eveDbodys
Radios, Floor, Bldg, The Hecht Co.
Evening star., 1942-12-06

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Rayon lose Broken sizes z pr 81 <
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These but few Of tle Many bargains of
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Sale