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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-09-12

| Over $50 former PaSco Nava
Air Station men from some five
states had already signified thei1
| intention last week of attending
the first reunion, Sept, ~ and 28
of all personnel attached to the
base during it's wartime life. Jack
Gordon. former Sky Writer editor
and now Seattle newspaperman
| is heading the committee OF foul
Seattle men who are promoting
the affair. 8
That the idea is catching on rap
idly is indicated by the tenor OF
the letters which are coming IN
to the Seattle headquarters at I'LL
Seneca. Groups are being made
up for the trip to PaSco and all
are anticipating the pleasure OF
seeing their buddies of war days
again and renewing the ties made
during their stays here.
Locally, plans are being made
to fill every hour of the two days
so full of fun and other interest
ing events that every vet will feel
well repaid for the trip here. Some
of the plans are still in the making
such as the possibility of getting
the famous Jackie Souters band
to return here for a dance. This
band was a most popular outfit in
war times here and has now been
reassembled and is playing in Sc
attle.' Banquets, picnics, dances,
carnivals, athletic events are only
some of the things planned for the
entertainment.
Housing will be in the hands OF
the Junior Chamber and will be
accomplished by appealing to To-
cal homes. Prospects are that
there may be as many as 1000 re-
turn for the event. If this is re-
allied even in good part, the job
will be a big one.
But housing is not the main
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-09-12

commander to succeed James M.
Greene of'Cashmere. ]. S. Cooper
of Colfax was elected east side
vice commander and F. r. Suther-
land of Anacortes was named west
side vice commander. Cooper re-
places Jack M. Baldwin of Spo-
kane and Sutherland takes the
place of Glenn Mack of Vancou-
yer.
Other officers elected were Ed
ward c. Macy, Jr., of Seattle, his
torian; Rev. Laird v. Glasscock of
Ephrata, chaplain and Walter M.
Michael of Seattle, sergeant at
arms.
The new east side vice comman-
der is past commander of his post,
Codd French No. Al and for the
past two years he has been state
chairman of the Americanism
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HOVER NOTES
BY Mrs. Harmon Wilcox
Phone news to Kennewick 12x9
before Wednesday

Hover Benefit club will meet
Sept. Is at 2 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Bill Num-.
r. S. Mcintyre made a business
trip to Seattle last week end.
Several friends and neighbors
attended the wedding Tuesday
evening of Lottie Mills to Merle
Wright at the .Nazarene church.
They plan to make their home In
Walla Walla.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. R. Ayers re-
turned Thursday from their sum-
mer vacation. They spent .tlve
weeks in the Albert S. Goss cabin
16 miles up the Kalama river
from Kalama. From there they
crossed the Columbia at LongvIeW
going to the coast via Astoria, Ore.
They spent three days at TIlla-
nook looking over the beautiful
valley and visiting the cheese fac
tory. Recrossing the river at Van
couver the trip home was made
along the Washington coast and
through Gig Harbor where they
visited the F. M. Cole family, for
merly of Finley and Pasco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Num- visited
at the Henry Piert home last We'd
!nesday.
Mrs. Lenna Fredericks and
George called at the Bill Num-
home Sunday afternoon.
Louise Laudel and Eva Rose
Num- attended the Rainbow Girls
meeting Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Ely and family
called at the Bill Mum home Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Franks of
Portland, former residents, were
dinner guests at the Frank Monta-
que home Sunday.
M. and Mrs. Ayers attended the
Sunday school committee meeting
in Kennewick Monday evening.
Mylissa Spedlberg of Finley was
an all night guest of Alice Monta-
que Saturday night.
Mrs. Swarft of Kennewick, f.
H leader, visited Mrs. Frank Mon
tague Thursday.
AllcQ Dc1IcL1OduSA VI Wd11d
Walla called at the Ayers ranch
Monday. @
Edna Whitney of Finley visited
the first of the week with her sis
ter-in-law and nephew, Mrs. Carl
Whitney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Los
Angeles arrived Thursday at the
Carl Evans home and left Friday.
Mrs. Smith is Mr.. Evans aunt.
Mrs. Edith Cromwell of Grand
view visited at the E. r. Hatch
home this last week.
Miss Eva Rose Num- was an ov-
ernight guest of Christine Haw-
kins in Kennewick Wednesday
night.
Lloyd Donnally of Dayton call
ed at the Bill Num- home Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Hatch and
grandson Robert Sapp called at
the Jake Adams home in Finley
Tuesday evening.
Carl Whitney left last week for
Seattle to receive his navy dis
charge.
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Kenneth Bunch Serving
With OccupatiOn Forces

Pfc. Kenneth J. Bunch, 21-year-
old paratro0per, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred S. Bunch, 335 Ave. c
East, Kennewiclk, Washington, is
now dispatcher and clerk with
headQuarter and service company
motor pool of the 127th Airborne
Engineer Battalion of the 18th Air
borne Division. He is stationed al
Sendai, Japan.
Bunch joined the paratroopers
in November while he was with
the 836 Aviation Engineer Bat
talon of the new deactivated 9th
Division. He joined his present
outfit at Sendai on December 1,
1945. He took his training with
the 9th class to 60 through the
18th Airborne's Jump school at
Yanome Airstrip near Sendai. He
completed his training and made
his fifth and qualifying jump on
January of this year to earn the
silver parachute wings of a United
States Paratrooper.
He recently made his sixth jump
to extend his parachute jump pay
on for another three months. He
expects to make at least one more
before he takes his trip across the
briney deep to the States.
Bunch has been working as 9
coach on the 127th Airborne En-.
gineer Battalions softball team
and it seems his efforts have not
been in vain because of the en-.
vious record they have piled up
this summer. They have won IL
out of the Is games played to date
not a bad record in any mans
league.
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Pasco TO Be Scene Of Reunion OF
Air Station Men F rom I i've States

thing the boys are thinking of as
is indicated by Fred Marquand OF
Bellngham, who says, Il will plan
on going over. I think have a
place to stay but if not-what the
hell-the reunions only for two
days-who's got time to sleep?"
William c.. Zehm of the Spo-
kane fire department writes: 81
think it is a swell idea getting to-
gether again and I wouldn't miss a
chance of seeing my old pals so
try and keep me from being there!
I am sure you remember me at
the firehouse from 1912 until I
went over in 1914. I have been
to number of places but ! have
found none that would compare
with Pasco Naval Air"
Gerald O. Summers, Seattle, adj
resses the four Jacks: "Just who
would think that the four Jacks
would think up such a swell idea
as a reunion like this? Sure
would appreciate it if you fell
lows would drop me line telling
all about the reservations and
what else a fellow has to do. I
suppose headquarters will be at
the Bucket of Blood"
81 want you to count me in on
being there cause I'd sure like to
attend the reunion and am send
ing you my name and address"
says Chester Smith of Washtucna.
The SIPS will be there too, but
in different mood than of old as
indicated by the letter from Chief
H. T. Armstrong of Seattle, Ar
cade building. Twill be there with
bells on and without the SIP arm
band. Three of the former SIP
crew are in Ephtata-Gi Gilman,
sheriff; Fred Anderson, deputy
sheriff and Al Bjork, police de-
partment Of Moses Lake. Was
with them last night and all are
planning on making the reunion.
I am on the road all the time and
if you will write me a few Of the
high points will pass the word"
C. M. Grove, Sunnyside, offers
his wholehearted help and states:
eff there is anything can do to
help in any way, feel free to call
upon me and I will do the best
can. Regarding the Seattle boys,
give my regards to Charley Han
cock and eFlash" Gordon and any
others who may remember the old
printer, better known in the Ad-
ministration building as The Ma
jor.'"
Local arrangements are in the
hands of several service clubs and
every effort is being made to make
this first affair successful and en-
joyable to the visitors. And plans
are already being talked of its be-
coming an annual event that will
draw men and women from ev-
cry corner of the United States to
Pasco once a year.
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DELIVERED AND SOLD

First of the Higgins boats to
reach Kennewick arrived in the
city Tuesday, and has already been
delivered to Carl Casey of the
Casey Hatcher in Pasco, Mrs. G.. E.
Hunt reports. Case has announced
that he will be glad to show or
demonstrate the 17-fo0t utility
craft, powered by rs hip. motor,
to any interested persons. More
of the boats will be received in
Kennewick, Mrs. Hunt says, but
delivery dates are not yet certain.
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Red Cross Needs First
Aiders or Home Nurses

The Red Cross needs First Aid
or Home Nurses who have taken
the Red Cross Courses, to help
man the First Aid and Rest Center
during the Grape Festival. Any
one having a certificate, or who
has had one, whether it is expired
now or not, should contact Mrs.
Richard Rector at the Crap Fes-
tival headquarters in the Pacific
Power & Light Co. offices or call
her at Kennewick 2911.
The Red Cross will have their
First Aid and Rest Center during
the Grape Festival i'm the front of
the old S G. J building. The Red
Cross is welcoming anyone with
any spare time, even if it is only
an hour a day, to help on this
much needed project.
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The Mukkimmeunk c,n
girls met September IN p FL.
guardians home. Presiaaa,,.. thet
VIA Black called the meeti,SS W
order. Secretary Betty M. aSg b
ness took roll call. We n meGuh.
our Skit and talked bpa,ascllce
Grape Festival and sanU t tie
songs. We planned to be,ss SON,
next meeting September ~ oU
work on our doll house. The an an
ing was adjourned by pr Pr NEE
Sylvia Black. freSlde
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commission for the American Lee
gion. He is a World War / veteran
with nearly two years service ov-
erseas in the Army to his credit.
Cooper is an income tax collector
at Colfax.
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Wscs

WSCS will meet Wednesday,
Sept. 18th in the church parlors
of the Methodist church with q
fellowship dinner at / pm. The
board meeting will be at 1870 with
the business meeting and program
following at 2 pm. Please bring
dish to pass, sandwiches and table
service. Circle No. 2 will enter
tain.
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Virginia Led in popu,...

In the first three census !, !.
United States, taken in ia,o q tn IL
and 1880, Virginia led All !, isl
states in population. In tho Olhe
S Sus OF 1910 New York to aS ' e,
lead, which it still holds '0Ok III
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-09-12
American Legion
Officers Elected

At the state convention of the
American Legion in Bellingham
August "a, Roy O'Hara of Brem-
erton, planner and estimator in
the Navy yard, was elected state
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Twenty Million zlorssshoss

According to Sideways, TWEEN
ty million horseshoes were sold in
1943 at an average price Of us
cents shoe. A factory in Joliet,
Ill, accounts for more than 20
percent of all horse shoes made.
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Beginning Of Bro.deasaina

Radio broadcasting actually be-
gan on November 2, 1920, when
the Westinghouse station in Pitts
burgh, Pa, KDK, broadcast the
returns Of the Harding Cox cleo
ton. The Red Book.
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TOWNSEND CLUB

The Townsend club will meet
at the Christian church for a pot
luck dinner at $3.50 Tuesday eve
ming, Sept. II. Visitors welcome.
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Too Late to Classify

FOR SALE-Warm Morning Heat
ing stove, practically new. Tele-
phone 1882, 227 Maplewood.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
Along The Cape Fear
MASSIVE :

MASSIVE MACARONI - Some
new information about Whining
TOMS two old volunteer fire de-
parGnents has fallen our way.
The other day we told about how
these old fellows used to fight
fires-or, Father, how they didn't
fight them Their principal oc-
cupation, we said, consisted in
fighting one another to see who
would have the honor of getting the
first stream of water on the fire.
To accomplish this they would
smite one another over the head
with f~ire-axes and chop n an
others hoses in short lengths. re-
sembling massive macaroni.
The result was that as they aH
lay unconscious on the street amid
severed hoses, the house they were
trying to save burned down to the
very ground.
FRIENDSHIP PHALANX- Well,
the new information we have sheds
an amazing light on the old boys.
We have known for a long time
that human nature is contradic-
tory. 1t was Walt Whitman him
self. an old %fire-eating poet, who
said: do I contradict myself?
Very well, I contradict myself. I
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
ACT
IN POLIO BATTLE
State And County Physi.
clans Seek To Halt
Disease Spread

Although there have been nc
cases of infantile paralysis report
ed in the Wilmington area, authori-
ties of the consolidated health
board are taking every precautior
to prevent spread o fthe Gripping
disease.
simultaneously with announce.
ment of a ruling by DR.. Carl V
Reynolds, of the North Caroline
Health department, DR.. A. H. Ell
lott, director of the city's Con
solidated Health department an
nounced yesterday that quarantine
measures will be instated in thu
area.
State Ruling
The state ruling, originating il
Raleigh provides that no children
under is years of age will be per
mitted to enter North Carolin;
from the Florida or San Antonio
Texas epidemic areas. Those al
ready in The state Will be subject
ed to a two-week quarantine.
Outlining the local prevention
program, DR.. Elliot said that health
department nurses will call at the
homes of all families lately arriv.
ed from the epidemic areas to ad.
wise them of the regulations.
Quarantine Period
During the period of the quaran,
tine, he said, chiludren will be ex-
pected to remain within the limits
of their own premises. He added
that the effectiveness of the safe
guard would depend largely Oh the
vigilance of the parents.
Questioned on local occurrence Of
the disease, DR.. Elliot explained
that there is no poliomyelitis ac-
tive within the precincts of this
department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
ROYALISTS FLOUT
PLEBISClTE RULE
10 Persons Die In Violent
Naples Demonstra-
ti0ns

NAPLES, June 7.-P-Violent
demonstrations by several thousand
Royalists killed one soldier and in
jured at least 10 persons in Naples
Friday, while in Rome police club
bed down n~onarchists shouting
Long Live the king!" and Down
with the republic!"
The new outbursts III Naples by
House of Savoy sympathizers, dis
satisfied with the plebiscite reject
ing the monarchy, broke out after
fighting late Thursday night in
which one person was killed, eight
injured and Catholic priests were
Maltreated. Priests were con-
spicuously absent from the streets
Friday.
Troops Cruise Streets
Heavy police guards, reinforced
by troops, cruise Naples streets
in light tanks and Jeeps armed
with machine guns. Early Friday
night gunfire continued and some
so persons, many of them women,
had been placed under arrest.
A soldier riding in the open tur-
ret of a tank was killed when police
fired a volley into the air IL an
effort to disperse a crowd near
the University of Naples. A hand
grenade was tossed during the
manifestation, Wounding at least
10 persons.
Friday afternoon leaders of the
Monarchist party in Naples, called
to police headquarters, asserted
they had not organized the demon
stratorS.
Police Use Clubs
In Rome police used clubs to
break up a demonstration by 200
Monachist in downtown streets.
Socialist Minister of the Interior
Giuseppe Romita insisted, how
ever, that tranquility reigned in all
of Italy with the exception of
Rome and Naples. Government
sources in Rome denied catergori-
cally reports that armed support
ers of the king wer gathering in
Naples.
Crowds surged through the
streets of Naples all day shouting
"vivai!" for King Umberto II as
many as 5000 passed through the
railway station on at least two oc-
casions. They shouted also that
the plebiscite was fraudulent.
The demonstrators forced stores
to close at 10 am. in this city
where the Royalists outnumebered
Republicans 4 to l in the plebiscite.
See ROYALISTS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
And So To Bed

No man Of stiff Formally
despite his three-star rank,
Lieut.. Gen. Raymond A. Wheel
er sat on a piano-stool In the
cocktail lounge of the Ocean
Terrace hotel last night wait
ing for the North Carolina
Society Of Engineers banquet
to begin.
But he didn't sit long. The
$50 members and guests OF
the society soon spotted his
three stars and his famous
black moustache. AS they con-
verged upon him by the score,
he was forced to relinquish
his leisurely cross-legged
position on the piano-stool and
shake everyone's hand.
One young man, observing
the generals predicament,
finally approached him, shook
his hand, and said:
'FYou must be awfully tired
of standing up and shaking
hands,
"On the contrary" smiled
the general. mo Job is too big
for a U. S. Army engineer"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08

am large. l contain multitudes."
The old Cape Fear firemen were
members of the Whitemanesque
tradition in every sense of the
word.
Because after they regained con-
seriousness, picked themselves up
from the wet street, and bandaged
their smashed helmets and ~lacerat-
ed crania, they shook hands hearth
ly and trouped together in a solid
phalanx of friendship to the near
est tavern for refreshments.
THE SAME OAT-BAG-In other
words, they were true examples
of the old phrase, "Friendly Enc
miles, or, you might say, "Foe-
like Friends" Anyway, the only
time they fought was when the
fire-alarm sounded. As soon as
the fire was out, either because
they put it out or because there
was nothing left to burn, they for
got their rivalry and buried the
hatchet where it belonged-in the
fire-wagon.
incidentally, those fire-wagons
we're propelled by horses. We don't
know whether the horses felt the
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
$50 Hear Army Engineers
Chief AT Wrightsville
Banquet
LARRY HIRSCH

An all-star assemblage Of men,
bers of the North Carolina society
of Engineers, their wives, and
guests-over $50 persons in all
packed the Ocean Terrace hotels
huge banquet hall at Wrightsville
Beach last night to hear three-star
Lieut.. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler,
chief of the U. S. Army Corps OF
Engineers, delive4 the main adj
dress of the society's big 18th
annual two-day summer conven-
ton.
Packard Welcomes
The informal but festive affair,
opening with an invocation by the
Rev. Edgar Halleck, pastor of
St. Johns Episcopal church, was
turned over to the toastmastering
gaiety of W. Paul Lyman, Raleigh,
vice-president of the society, by
D. B. Packard, Jr., president OF
the Wilmington Engineers club,
who welcomed the gathering to the
banquet tables.
Lyman introduced the prominent
members and guests Of the con-
vention, among them Bri. Gen.
James B. Newman, chief of the
South Atlantic division of U. S.
Enineers; T. J. Hewitt, Whining
ton. president of the society, and
Mrs. Hewitt; Leroy M. Keever,
Raleigh, secretary and treasurer
of the society, and Mrs. Keever,
and Hamilton Hicks, Wilmington
engineer in charge of convention
arrangements, and Mrs. Hicks.
Gillette Presented
Lyman then presented Col.
George w. Gillette, district chief
of U. S. Engineers, an old friend
of General Wheeler.
Colonel Gillette, speaking BRIEF
ly of General Wheeler, an en-
~gineer's engineer, and no stranger
to the Wilmington district" then
introduced the world-famed SOL
der who engineered the U. S.
Army to victory in World War II.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-06-08
GROUPS TO HOLD
TRIPLE MEETING
Three State Associations
Convene AT Wrights-
vile Beach

Scheduled to run c%oncurrently
the conventions of the Credit Won
ems Breakfast club, the Nortf
Carolina Merchants association
and the Associated Credit Bureau!
of North Carolina will open Sunday
afternoon at Wrightsville Beach.
Delegates of the Merchants meet
ing will be welcomed to the beacl
by Mayor W. Ronald Lane of Viii
mington. Clyde R. Boone, as
ISOLATION president will preside a
the groups two day gathering.
Cherry To Speak
Among those speaking at the
merchants meet, will be Governor
R. Gregg Cherry. Other speaker!
will include Walter Morrow, presi
dent of the American Retail Fed
GRAFTON; c. w. Green, director o.
the Public Relations Council O
the American Bankers association:
S. P. Vecker, Raleigh, vice-presi
dent of the Carolina Power ane
Light company; DR.. Howard Der
olzheimer, economist of the Ma
tional Tax Equality association
and DR.. I. G.. Greer, Townsville
president of the North Carolin;
Good Health association.
Symposium
A Symposium of Merchants
Problems" with a discussion o
state automobile trade by L. A
Raney, Wilmington, will be con
Quoted during the first afternoon o
the convention.
The annual banquet Tuesda,
night will see new officers elected
for the coming year. Activity
reports by Tar Heel merchants ant
the awarding of loving cups ant
trophies will bring the convention
to a close.
Mixed Meeting
Many of the meetings of the con
vention will be attended by mem
bers of the Credit Bureau ~associa
ton and Women's Breakfast club
In between sessions, the two
groups will hold individual meet
ings to discuss problems pertinen.
to their organizations.
A tea from 5 to 7 p. m. Sunday
will open the three-day convention
of the Credit Women's Breakfast
club.
Miss Goley Presides
Miss Vivian Goley, president Of
the Women's club, will preside
at a Monday noon luncheon to be
held at the Lands cottage.
The group will hear an address
by Mrs. H. H. Kesiah, Charlotte,
who will speak on Fright Thinking
See MEETINGS on Page Two