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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-06-28

Due to the tremendous amount
of discussion pro and con in regard
to the proposals for a Columbia
Valley Authority, the Courier-Re-
porter is beginning this week a
department which will be contin-
ued as long as the argument lasts.
It is hoped that all individuals or
organizations that wish to be
heard on the subject will contrib
ute to this feature. A full dis
cussion may help to q solution
that will satisfy the greatest num-
Der.
Below are printed a series Of
questions and answers submitted
by the Washington State Recla-
nation Association. The copy was
prepared by Lars Langloe, con-
sulting engineer:
q. Have there been disagree.
monts and clashes between the
Army Engineers and the Bureau
or any other federal agencies over
who should plan or execute any Of
the numerous federal projects ia
the Basin.
A. No. Each agency has per-
formed the tasks assigned to il
by Congress. Thus at Coulee Dam
the general plans were prepared
by the Army during the 1903 in
vestigations." The task of con-
struction was assigned to and per-
formed by the Bureau of Recla-
nation. No clashes or hair pulling
resulted from this arrangement as
far as anyone knows.
q. Does that mean that in all
probability no differences Of opin-
ion ever arose. or are likely 10 rise.
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essee, Idaho, Lars Lande of Pot
- We. - = w. YINr.A Cos,a
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Fourth
During the war years, the
Fourth of July has become only q
much needed holiday. Gone are
the big celebrations, the pyro-
technic displays, the millions Of
cars heading for resorts, the vari-
Gus kinds of fancy observances.
But It has lost none of its mean
Ing. It it still the day when every
Americans heart swells with pride
in his country, when he pays hon.
age to the Founding Fathers.
This year, with little extra "a
gas, there will be a tendency to
travel. But gasoline still should
not be wasted. There is still q
war to be won.
The Fourth can be adequately
celebrated right at home. There
is a fine park for a family picnic,
there will be a ball game at the
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Hospital
Kennewick is going to have a

Kennewick is going to have a
hospital.
It was staggering blow when
the plans for an all-federal hos
pital went awry. But local boost
ers have rallied and the Hospital
Association is now hard at work
on another plan which not only
promises success but also offers
a plan which will be much more
satisfactory in the long run.
The Association is now collect
ing signatures on petitions for the
formation of hospital district
embracing eastern Benton county.
With the promise of a federal grant
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-06-28
S YEARS AGO
June ~. 1910

Miss Jean Luni, petite horse
woman, will wear the royal robes
as queen of the July 9TH Rodeo.
Louis Happy is among the vet
Grams with 30 years of service to
be honored at the p p & L 30th
Anniversary Celebration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Benson Of
Finley left Sunday for st. Louis
where Mrs. Benson will be a della
gate to the Townsend Convention.
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Lewis and Clark
The Great American Odyssey
A Condensed Story of
the Historic Expedi-
ton of 18O4-6
Copyright 1915 by
Walter Meacham
CHAPTER I

Inc urge OF U1k0OWu A0l1OS uoS
ever turned mems footsteps to-
ward the West. The land and wa
ter trails of long ago were travers-
ed by men Of vision, courage and
determination. The West was q
great unchartered expanse with
no state boundaries to consider
and no fences to obstruct.
Thomas Jefferson, third Presi-
dent Of the United States, was q
man of vision. He was keen1y
interested in the country which
lay in the far Northwest. He fore
saw that from North Pacific ports
a great trade with the Orient
would be established. He wanted
that trade for America. In 1888,
he wrote to General George Rog-
ers Clark regarding the POSSIBLE
ity Of Clark leading an expedition
to the West. In 1885, while JET
ferson was minister to France, he
talked over the matter with John
Ledyard, one of the best-known
American travellers whose ambi-
ton was to found an American
colony on the Northwest coast Of
America.
Jefferson's ideas took on new
life when he received news that
Captain Robert Gray, an American
captain on the good ship Columbia
had discovered the Oregon, the
Great River of the West, in May,
1892. He then planned to send
out an expedition under Andre
Michaux, a French botanist, but
fate interviewed and that honor
and glory were not for Michaux.
However, the vision remained and
the idea grew for Jefferson could
not stand idly by and allow a
foreign power to gain a foothold
in America.
In a secret message to Congress,
January 10, 1903 Jefferson, now
President of the United States,
urged that trade with the western
Indians be cultivated and that an
expedition be sent to explore the
country as far as the mouth Of the
Columbia River on the Pacific
slope. Congress received this idea
favorably and voted the sum of
s., 500 for the expedition. Today
this sum seems insignificant for
the commonest kind of an investi-
cation would cost many times that
much. But, we must remember
that those were not the days of
high prices and large incomes.
Most Of the men served as soldiers
for small pay, and all of them
'lived off the country" as they
went along. They carried some
provisions, of course, but the main
part Of their living came from the
wild game they encountered on
the way.
It was necessary that the real
purpose of tn expedition be kept
a secret because the country lying
between the Mississippi and the
Rocky Mountains was held by
Spain and was known as Louisi-
ana. If a foreign power should
this territory without per-
mission, it would be considered
an unfriendly act and might re-
suit in war. But before the expe-
dition was equipped and ready
to start, Louisiana was purchased
from France, which had secured
possession from Spain, and secre-
cy was no longer necessary.
Go Be Continued
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PICNIC ON FOURTH

FAMILIES OF the East Kenne- ,,ek
Women's Club are reminded Sy
Club picnic at the Park on ~.
Fourth. Let us have a large az
tendance. ae
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FIR: ;}:{u53:(3
TIRE BUSINESS

AFTER MORE THAN half century of
service during which The National Bank
of Commerce of Seattle grew from small
institution in pioneer community to the
18th bank in point of size in the United
States, none of it's policies has been more
frequently demonstrated as wise and
sound than it's friendly, neighborly con-
siderafion of small businesses.
Time and time again customers for
periods during the banks 50-odd years Of
participation in regional development
have grown from exceedingly modest
origins to enterprises Of tremendous size
and importance.
: This, for example:
In January 1888, Harvey S. Firestone,
founder of The Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company, launched his career by keeping
Ohio. That was an interesting job, as he
said. Yet he longed to do something more
active.
That something" developed soon after
ward when the coal company gave up busi-
ness and Mr. Firestone became salesman.
The Zine" offered him consisted Of an
odd combination of patent medicines and
Aavoring extracts. He enjoyed telling how
stage fright almost spoiled his budding
career, the first time he mustered enough
courage to call upon prospective GUS
toner.
But the medicine troubled Firestone's
innate honesty and that was worse than
the stage fright. He doubted the claims
made by the makers and could not bring
himself to offer such medicines. II made
up my mind right there" he said years
later, that never would present any
thing for sale unless absolutely knew it
was honest and according to specifca-
TONS" This maxim ruled Firestone's en-
tire business life and became the dominant
force in the growth from an exceedingly
modest start of an industrial empire that
encircles the earth and now is an I'M
portant, valued customer of The National
Bank of Commerce of Seattle.
That story of the humble beginning OF
the great Firestone's career, is just one OF
the many reasons why small businesses
receive friendly, constructive considera-
ton at this bank.
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high school field, the theaters will
run a matinee.
Let's keep it safe and above all,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-24

down at the same table and report on bits OF
gossip and small and large events Of the day
before.
Pretty Miss Reathal Odum White House SEQ
rotary and general compendium of encourage
suent and good sense for the ladies Of the Tru-
man family See what Reathal thinks about IL
Ask Reathal What Mrs. Catfish sad 10 her.
almost always dimes with the family
Since the President and Mrs Truman and Mar
Earet are not permitted TO accept many party
invitations, It often happens that I is MISS ocuIn
who brings IN tales Of golngS on at a dinner or
dance 10 the breakfast table
Anything funny happen last night the Presi-
dent VII ask Miss Odum. What Gid the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-09-24
WASHINGTON Repent
Pretty Roe'hoI Odum
Keeps All Three Posted
1rumons Always Talk
II Over OF Breakfast
by HELEN ESSARf
Central Press Col4nHISt

. WASHINGTON- Truman family. residence 1000 FennsyA
,anta a,en!a. talks things over at breakfast. There Is 10 separate
eating from travs IN the bathrooms. The menbers ot NE family sit
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-06-08
|Nazi Industrialists Plot

The future didn't look gloomy t,
them, they told correspondent VIII,
found them there. Whatever wa
ahead, the products of the Farbel
factories would be needed. And thos,
factories were ready to start produc
ing again. Yes, sir. They still haC
the 1870 of their former working force
who were German and they could
manage without the $50 who haG
been foreign forced laborers.
All that was necessary to get Far
ben chimneys smoking merrily again
was some coal, which the Americans
could supply. They had some coal
stored away STILL but not enough. In
the meantime the American army,
when it pulled out, could just leave
bbehind its trucks to provide highway
transport for the Farben supplies and
products. That would be the most
efficient way to handle things. The
let them restart production quickly.
After all, thousands of Farben work
ers in Frankfurt had to work or they
couldn't eat
The correspondents asked how they
sized up their postwar prospects.
Good, very good indeed, they told him.
There was a great future in plastics.
Thew orld would have tremendous
markets ready to absorb Farben plast-
ic products. Take India, for instance.
That would be good market.
OF course, they pointed out, they
were assuming that the Americans
and English were really going to re-
store order and justice to Germany,
as had been promised. And the one
who acted most often as spokesman
said that the nazis had never dictated
to them in policy matters. 1t was al
ways they who had told the nazis
what was wanted and what to do.
There was really much to be thank
ure, if only there was sensible CO.
operative attitude, they said. 1t could
have been so much worse. Now if
1t had been the Russians who came
in, there would have been no hope
here" one of them said, lighting a
cigar. We've got to stick together
now, working to save the world from
the bolshevist horde"
The same song was sung for Amer
lean ears in Cologne by Herr Robert
Hans Schmidt, manager of the Ford
plant He had received part of his
training in Detroit He
knew American methods and thought |
ne knew Americans.
With few additional tools and a |
lew days time the plant could be at |
work producing at many as so fin
shed cars a day-it was that little
damaged, . What a lucky break for
Herr Schmidt and the owners.
My contact with civilian conquered |
Germany suggests strongly that the
lbsence of any sense of guilt is most
marked among the upper classes-the
officials, merchants,
owners and proprietors of
he reich. THhey are the ones who
peak English and who are usually
n a position to make contact with
he incoming military government
And among them all the most I'M
epentant, unregenerate and auda-
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III ...:.+'
DD''1 fMs
F.U.C.T.A..
What Manner of Man?
Dad. Pioneered 1t.
He Should Knowi
So Anderson Told 'Em.
OF Fighting Stock.

Because his attitude toward then
will have much to do with their post
war problems, farmers are interested
in the sort of man who is to be the
new Secretary of Agriculture. Par
ticularly are farm co-operatives anx
ious to get a line on him, for with
the fight being waged against them
by the N.TE.A., and with the hope
of support for their own national bar.
gaining agency, under the proposed
National Agricultural Relations Act, a
| friendly Secretary of Agriculture
would be a welcome ally. This is not
to say that Claude Wickard who re-
tires to become head of the R.E.A.,
has not been in support of the farm
program. 1t is only saying that we
might do worse and we hope we are
improving the farm status.
Perhaps mans background helps
us to understand him and this, en-
braced in the published biographies of
Clinton P. Anderson, representative
in congress from Albuquerque, New
Mexico, now named by Pres. Truman
as Secretary of Agriculture, gives a
glimpse of the type of man he is.
These sketches of his life tell that
he is a farm boy; that his father
homesteaded out near Cottonwood,
Jackson county, S. d., in an early
day and, in an area not overly kind
10 90 ;,,o 40 oypff 20 cit oh
out. Jackson county is not far from
the Black Hills, beyond the big
Muddy" and was part of the Sioux
Indian reservation, where in 1890, the
Indians rose in rebellion behind the
leadership of messiah" who came
to drive out the white men and bring
back the buffalo and the antelope.
They were crushed at the battle of
Wounded Knee, not distant from the
Anderson farm home, which was
established in $780, So Dad Ander-
son did his pioneering the hard way.
He came all the way from Sweden
to buck the Indians, grasshoppers and
coyotes. In politics he was a Popu-
list.
Young Anderson did not get the
full brunt of pioneer conditions that
his father got. He couldn't-he was
born in 1895, just when the Populists
took over in North and South Dakota.
He managed to get a good schooling
Dakota Wesleyan U. and U. of
Then he got job-he
says it was reporter-on South
Dakota daily. After that his health
required that he get to another less
severe climate and he went to New
Mexico Down there he got elected
state treasurer and later headed the
Federal Relief Administration and the
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Opinions Of
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against their God and humanity
When congress passes the MVA,
power companies will have to come
down on their high prices, which
would benefit all the people. That
is why they are fighting the MVA Sc
hard ARE YOU going to vote to
protect the predatory interests, or the
interests of the people, you have to
decide one way or the other, or not
vote at ALL On June 5th VOTE
AGAINST the bankers bill for s12,-
100000. The MVA will make more
work. 1t is rather inconsistent that
those against the MVA want to have
the people to pay high rates of in
terest to these bankers for years to
come.
The republican Christians of Mon
tana have done a tremendous amount
of damage to the Christian church
in Montana, spiritually, and otherwise
by voting wrong, voting against the
general welfare Of the people. The
MVA will be among the great bless
ings of mankind, which all Christians
that have the true faith must support.
Selfish groups that are working
against the MVA are working to
tighten their grip so they can collect
more tribute from the people. MVA
will put at least one dam on Powder
River in Montana, and one on the Big
Horn River, and one the Yellowstone
and in other parts Of Montana. Do
not forget that it is imperative to
back Leo G. Graybill as he stands
1000 for the people, and disregard
those $1,000 month men operating
in Montana for the benefit of the
power trust We are slipping as
nation when we tolerate the corpora
lions spending millions to defeat a
peoples project like the MVA. The
people have the power to "sit down"
on them when they use unfair tactics.
We must elect men to congress who
will stand with the administration and
also are in favor of Breton Woods
and Dumbarton Oaks.
RANDOLPH DEIBEL, SIR.
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IfoAAA aAS OhCt
The Ford works at Cologne suffered
| little serious damage.
plants in the Frankfurt area - with
hundreds of buildings, sheds and big
yards-escaped injury almost entirely
The central offices of the corpora
ton, mile from the center of Frank
furt, were almost untouched, despite
widespread destruction of the city.
Here was the major nerve center for
the I. G. Farben international indus
trial empire-with its cartel links to
Imperial Chemicals in England, du
Pont and Standard Oil in the U. S.
and other affiliates and subsidiaries
in Latin America and elsewhere.
The director left in charge when
the Americans entered the town COM
planned bitterly about foreign slave
workers trespassing in these magnifi-
cent offices. His underling refused
to open doors until Yank soldiers
threatened to blow off the locks, re-
fused to open safes until American
dynamite was brought in. Even in
nazi defeat, Farben influence was
strong in Frankfurt What Farben
directors wanted was done easily,
what they didn't want done the Amer
lean military men had trouble getting
done.
But the payoff is the true story of
a card game in the comfortable bomb
proof basement of the I. G. Farben
office building. The players were
four directors of Farben. Three of
them were fluent in English. and in
their ideas Of the shape of things to
come for them
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provided only for the payment of the
royalty interest to letters which had
been paid to him.
June 2nd-Pritchard Petroleum Co
v. Farmers Cooperative Oil and Sup
ply Co. and others. Appealed from
Pondera county, Conrad Unanimous
opinion of the court prepared by Dis.
trict Judge William R. Taylor, sitting
in place of Justice Albert H. Angst
man, disqualified.
Held: The supreme court affirmed
a Judgment of the district court which
Judgment had quieted title to certain
gasoline storage tanks in the plaintiff.
the Pritchard Petroleum Company.
(The determination of the case in
volved. the law of fixtures)
NOTICE
ORDER made June first, effective
as of August l, 1916 The supreme
court reinstated full effectiveness to
Section 4 of Rule II of it's Rules.
which is as follows:
Number of Copies Required for
Court. Six copies of each transcript,
brief, motion, paper, pleading or docu-
ment, other than original exhibits or
original documents, must be lodged
with the Clerk of this Court for filing.
II typewriter, two of the six must be
originals (not carbon
copies} for permanent filing in the
Clerks office and the State Law Lii
brary, and the other four may be
plainly legible carbon copies"
Prepared and Released by:
PETER MELOY, Marshal
Montana Supreme Court
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REPORT OF WORK
I'm SUPRE
COURT FOR week

May 31st-katherlne r. ToWne v
Charles w. Towne. Appealed from
Silver Bow county, Butte. Opinion OF
the court prepared by Justice Edwin
K Cheadle. Justice Albert H. Angst.
man dissented. Justice c. F. Morris
concurred in Justice Angstman's dis
senting opinion.
Facts: Katherine Towne sued for
divorce. While the action was pend
ing the parties agreed by contract,
subject to the approval of the court,
that the husband would pay to the
wife $3.50 pei month as support for
the wife and minor child
The divorce was granted and the
court approved the contract. Suisse
quently the husband ceased payments.
The wife brought suit to recover the
payments due. The husband defended
on the grounds that the minor child
had become of age and that the wife
had sufficient income for her own sup
port The district court found in fav-
or of the wife. On appeal the judg-
ment was affirmed.
T1Cius W HdJ Tic VILE ulQ uOL
have sufficient income to warrant,
within the terms of the contract, a
termination of the payments, and (2)
that the fact the child had become of
age did not operate to terminate the
payments since the basis of the pay
ments was contractual and not de-
cretal and the court could not reduce
the amount the husband had agreed
to pay under contract which made
no provision for reduction when the
child became of age.
June 2nd-Percy E. Teters v. Mon
tana Eastern Pipe Line Co. Appealed
from Yellowstone county, Billings.
Unanimous opinion of the court pre-
pared by Justice Albert H. Angstman
Held: This case involves a contro-
versy over the meaning of a para
graph in an oil and gas operating
agreement The plaintiff letters, who
was entitled to a royalty interest,
claimed that under the contract the
operator, in addition to the drilling
expense and payment of royalty, |
must also pay him the field price for
all of the gas produced from the
lands. The supreme court affirmed |
the decision of the district court hold
ing contrary to the contention of |
letters and held that the contract
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Twas Triumph
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Continued
rsked for the satisfaction anger AS Mcclellan
moved in for the KILL his friends and his political supporters
deserted him stood in silence Ed Crumps Memphis
machine refused back him. Then President Truman
pointed Dave Lienthal (Tme, May 14).
Last week. in last flow of thin and bitter accusation
Mcclellan admitted defeat The words read by his fellow
Senator from Tennessee Tom Stewart Mr entha is not
entitled to credit for good work (He) personally
politically obnoxious offensive and Objectionable to each
of We have therefore concluded simply to make this
and to against his confirmation and leave the
matter there"
That was the end of McKelars opposition This week,
Dave ienthas appointment confirmed by the Senate
Time May %, 1915. Reprinted from The Yellowstone.
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ciously insolent-in a cultivated way
are the mouthpieces for big indus
try.
They are indeed receptive to orders.
The kind of orders they expect soon
to be receiving from India and else
where. Orders for the products of
their spared or restored factories in
which, they fondly expect, disciplined
workers will once again be laboring
like eager beavers, while the Allied
military government supplies the
forces to keep order, silence agi-
tators for higher wages and generally
maintain justice, with an |. G. Farben
label.
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Knutson of Minnesota, were telling
the world what this law had done and
would do to destroy the farmers and
bring down the wages of labor. They
may not really have cared about the
farmer or labor, but it made swell
argument against permitting the Pres
ident to increase the reduction of
tariff duties from the present so per
cent to rs per cent About the middle
of the ruckus, Representative Ander-
Continued on Page Four)
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development can be best served by
the establishment of one authority
with full authority to develop and
preserve the peoples interests; there
fore be it
Resolved, That we urge and request
congress to establish a Missouri Val
ley Authority patterned after the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, designed for
the definite purpose of co-ordinated
development of the natural resources
of the Missouri Valley area for the
benefit of all the people.
Yours truly,
JOHN BURDEN, President
Three Mile Farmers Union
Stevensville, Mont.