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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
Chest Campaign
Ready For Start
Here On Monday

With a goal of $500 ahead,
workers of the Kennewick Com
munity Chest committee will
officially begin their "Red
Feather" campaign Monday am
The l947 chest drive, CO.
sponsored by the Kiwanis club
and the Business and Professional
Womans club, will be preceded
by the work Of Boy Scouts and
Camp Fire Girls, who will can
vass the business district Sat
urday to post campaign placards
and signs.
SIN these troubled times" says
Dennis Huntley, drive chairman,
when the attention of Americans
is being directed to the desperate
plight of foreign peoples, we must
not forget to take care of our own"
The rendering of aid to unfor-
tunate families and individuals,
he notes, is an important phase
of Community Chest activities.
Funds used for these purposes
are actually disbursed by social
agencies Of the state and nation,
recipients of a portion Of chest
collections.
Equally important is the sup
port given, through the chest
campaign, to youth organizations,
such as the Boy Scouts, the Camp
Fire Girls, the YMCA and other
kindred groups. Also funds from
the chest contribute to the for
warding of youth activities in the
local area, through the medium
of the Kennewick Recreation
Commission. The commission,
Huntley points out, is playing an
increasingly vital role in the
program Of youth leisure time
activities.
Business firms of the area will
receive contribution cards for
display in their windows, and in
dividuals will be given red
feathers or lapel buttons in re-
cognition of their contributions.
Campaign officials will wear lar
ger lapel buttons.
with a continuation Of the
early support given to this years
chest drive, we can be certain
that we will not fail to reach our
goal" Huntley commented.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
Activians Invited To
Attend Richland Dinner

Members of the Kennewick Ac-
tive club are invited to attend the
dinner meeting of the Richland
Junior Chamber of Commerce on
the evening of Wednesday, Octo-
Der %. s.-.
Although the final program has
not been arranged, Works Man.
ager d. II. Lauder and other prom
inent Hanford Works officials will
be present as guests.
The dinner will begin at z o'clock
in the dining room of the Ameri-
can Legion hall in Richland.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
Recreation Assumes New importance
In Fast Growing City. Scott Says

The experience of wartime
years makes certain the permise,
according to Scott, that intelli-
gent, diversified recreational pro-
grams can do much to alleviate
the problem born of fast-growing
populations. 49,
A forward-looking step taken
in 1945 by the Washington State
legislature, came none too soon,
Scott continues. Appropriating
100000 to finance a recreational
and cultural survey of the State,
legislators began at the time an
investigation of State conditions.
Their survey brought to light:
A state, the population of which
had grown by one-third during
the war years.
A state unrivaled in natural
recreational wealth.
A wartime recreation program
which had stimulated. new in
terested and exceptional activity,
now facing curtailment due to
the loss of federal funds.
Juvenile delinquency, divorce,
crime and family DISCRIMINATION
reaching new heights.
Thousands of returning veter-
ans demanding expanded COM
munity recreation services. "a
Far-sighted people in every
community giving serious con-
sideration to the problems Great
activities. -
Although war did not origi-
nate the social problems plague
ing every community, wartime
conditions accentuated them,
Scott recalls. And, contrary to
expectations, they are continuing
into the post war period, particu-
larly in this part Of the nation.
Recreation" according to Scott,
is in its very essence constructive.
Unless it contributes something
to the development of the individ-
dual, it fails to meet the test Of
a desirable recreatinal activity"
Thus the problems of busy par
ents, money-heavy juveniles, and
a lessening community control
can be attacked whit a double
edged weapon-the recreational
devices that not only discontinue
unsatisfactory social pursuits,
but replaces them with a con-
structive factor. .,.-
The prospect Immediately a.
head in Kennewick is that the
COMMUNICATIVE program of re-
creation must be broadened and
made an even more vital part
of the areas social life, Scott
said. @ s-sszs
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
Meet to Discuss
DRY Land Root Rot

Control Of dry land root rot
will be the topic to be discussed
by two experts from Washington
State college Monday at 8 pm.
at the Locust Grove Grange Hall.
County Extension Agent David
James urges all interested people
to attend this meeting and to
take part in the discussion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16

Survey of available building
sites i'm the community will be
sought, with a view Of hav-
ing them inspected by FILA
authorities to determine
where FHA-insured loans
can be approved.
Once preliminary data is in
coed to negotiate with financ-
hand, the committee will pro-
ing institutions and mass build
ers of homes.
In the opinion Of the committee,
only a mass approach TO the
housing log-jam will be effec-
tive in the present housing crisis.
Unless such action can be initia-
ted the program will fail to
achieve the momentum that is
desired.
Working with Anon on the
housing program, said Mayor
Pratt, will be Dick Clute, Burns
Brown, Walter F. Hanson, Fred
Bunch, Sr, Bruce Lampson and
Hal Clark. LE .#H
With the announcement that a
goal Of 1000 new homes had been
set for the city of Kennewick,
the Chamber Of Commerce last
week entertained representatives
Of major building interests in
Seattle, who proposed to begin
the erection at once of a block
of 500 houses, il suitable sites can
be located. z
A spirited discussion in the
Thursday meeting brought the
home building impasse into sharp
focus.
Land owners throughout tha
|Kennewick community are HOLDING
their prospective sites at prices
that prohibit home building, Gene
Spaulding told chamber members
but they cannot be expected to do
otherwise, when values of land
for other purposes greatly exceed
the price that could be paid for
home construction.
Anon, newly appointed to the
the city administration to plan at
once for an extension Of the sewer
system. The present inadequate
system is discouraging construc-
ton of homes, he said.
Although the committee for a
thousand new homes are fully
aware of the formidable obstacles
to be overcome in the present
campaign for building, Anon said,
the individual members still hold
that solution will be found.
The urge to speculate in land
values is a factor to be reckoned
with, the committee stressed. The
very announcement that COM
munity objective for a thousand
new homes has been announced,
they admitted, may well drive up
ward the prices various land-own-
ers may ask for home sites.
However, they called to point
the experience of other commun-
tiles, in which land prices scared
beyond the capacity of enterpris-
ers for development, with the re-
suit that all elements of the CONS
munity were losers in the end.
when the boom broke.
Emphasizing their desire that
no land owner be asked to submit
his holdings to home DEVELOPMENT
at prices below those offered by
competitive users, the committee
members nonetheless cautioned
that an excess Of idle land can only
breed eventual depression.
When land is held out Of use
too long, they reminded, oppor-
tunity tends to move into other
more accessible fields, with the
result that a, once-stimulated area
sinks back into inactivity. +
Therefore, they maintain, it is
to solve the housing
dilemma with minimum of de-
lay.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16

Planned recreation, John Scott,
lrecreational director for the city
of Kennewick, said this week,
taking an increasingly prominent
role in the affairs of this worker
swollen community.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
MAYOR MOVES FOR HOUSING
A. c. Anon Appointed
To Head Committee

Mayor ]. c. Pratt this week appointed A. c. Anon to
chairman of the Committee for Thousand Homes for
ne city of Kennewick.
First action of the committee will be to devise ways
breaking the present home construction deadlock
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
WScS

WSCS Circle meets Wednes-
day, Oct. % at pm at the home
of Adele Gest. Jimmy Elledge
and Marion Campbell assisting,
and Jean Campbell will have
charge of the devotions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
The Sidewalk
REP0R TER
souAwK CLUB
by The
MNNJEWICK COURIER

Needing warnings of game
protectors as to the il1egality of
transporting loaded weapons, a
group Of hunters descended on
he meeting of the Lower Valley
Gnppers this week. However,
hey were verbally well armed
and all guns were definitely
loaded. One spokesman let 60
WIN an old fashioned double
Mnelled ten-guage platter at
at. This hunting amt what it
3 wa to be-" he shouted. "Used
= De when you took to a field
~ had reasonable chance Of
emng bird. Now there's more
hunters than birds. Everybody and
~ cog wants to hunt. The birds
giving US the bird"
FACT a
u 3 only a naural fact that
Mn tremendous increase in
equation there must of a neceS-
nv Dc like increase in hunters.
= addition hunting was slowed
sins war years by lack of time
. %u ammunition. The latter is
WI mort but there seems to be
usn to field a pretty strong
cam Of hunters. :
2
ATTEMPT .sh.-, ,,..... ...-..
Inc State Game Department is
ne commended in forseeing the
ssased tempo of hunting and
lug 70 do something about it..
az .sct last year the Finley game
n',, % Produced about the same
sIIer Of pheasants. as were
|. israa IN Benton County. ALI game
sanas are, pledged to tax their
ues to the limit and have
- successful in producing a
-. NY crop. But it still falls far
Hoa ~ q the demands of the le-
s"a OF nimrods. ~ a--s -.
MR Ar
il !. birds closely rationed
hu only fair that every game
enfo,ssn should have the strictest
Tvscement. That at least will
Nae each hunter an even shake.
t ;,o hunters will need to take
tood IS az their belts, and like the
satis,;.e conservation program, be
huntaseo with less. After all many
s II proclaim that the fun
Tying regardless of results.
s9ecEsr1on
uos4 y the many who like the
t6ints O., OF shooting guns we still
il M. we have missed a good bet
lsbaJ ' already having an estab-
can't T. zap shooting club. You
it's a It INC a clay pigeon but
G fSs OF fun and good train
\ continued on Page 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06

among needy nations Especially Great
Brittany.
One wise British publisher has had
the courage to blame Britain's crisis on
the United States loan. If Britain had
not been given this relief, he contends,
the London government would have
had to work out the nations salvation,
instead of coming back for more.
Whether this is the whole truth is
not for us to say. But it is an estab-
lished fact that beneficencies, whether
they are called loans, doles, or outright
charity, invariably breed the desire for
more of the same among all recipients.
Mr.. Bevins' proposal is so much
|poppycock. But it serves to illustrate
the above statement. 1t also serves
notice on the United States that the
time has come to give up the pleasant
role of Good Samaritan to the world
and conduct it's business instead like a
business man conducts his, with credit
extended only on adequate security.
Else, the United States will go bank
rupt ultimately just as an inefficient
business man does when he extends
credit promiscuously.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06
An Enviable Record

Secretary of War Kenneth G. Royal
is setting a most enviable record. BY
virture of his presence in Washington
the other day, during the absence of
President Truman and the other Cabi-
net members eligible for the high honor,
MI. Royal was interim President of the
United States.
This is the first time North Caro-
lima has had a President since Andrew
johnson.
1t is not surprising that the Green's
boro News should publish a Washington
dispatch reporting that the Democratic
National Committee is considering his
selection as Secretary of Defense,
should Secretary Forrestal desert the
Cabinet to become President Truman's
running mate next year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06

II the percentage reported from
Caoarrus county holds for the resi-
OF the state, the current re-exam-
lnA.ion for drivers licenses will
reveal that one person out of eight
on the streets and highways of
MS state does not know how to.
drlve an automobile.
mat is the percentage who ar,
failing to pass the examinations
IN Cabarrus county for r~eissuance
OF licenses, and We believe that
the average driver in Cabarrus
county is as skilEeul. courteous.
careful, and laW-abiding as those
OF any county in North Carolina.
1t can be assumed. therefore.
mat the II per CEN of incomoe-
tents in Cabarrus will come verv
neal being sthe average for the
state.
Most OF us who have seen driv-
ers speeding where they should
SLOW down, failing to give them
selves time to stop in emergen-
cles, letting their attention wan
lei until it s-was too late to size
up the traffic situation ahead of
them, and weaving from one lane
TO another would have estimated
tne percentage of incompetents as
lhueh higher than Il per cent.
These examinations recall, , re.
cent article in the Saturday Eve.
r:ng Post, in which the writer
told how he was able to obtain
drivers licenses IN a large num-
Der OF states by merely writing
10 the state highway departments
and enclosing the Zee. Very few
s0ases required him to make a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06
Star Program

State ports with Wlmins.on 1 =" -.
IN p-onortion with It's ~resources' 70 n'
clude public terminals. tobacco s'o1as'
warehouses. ship repair faclaties' nesl.
nv sites tor heavy industry and '9Do'
Cape Fear river channel
City auditorium large enough 70 mee'
needs for years to come.
development Of Southeastern Nortn
Carolina agricultural and industrial re,
sources through better markets ana 'ooo
processing. pulp wood proouetn @no
factories. -
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages. and improvement OF resort
accommodations.
rnnroyement OF Southeastern North
rarolina's farm-to-market and prlnaar3
dads. with a paved highway rom Top
al, inlet to Bald Head island.
continued effort through the City, IN
.ustrial Agency to attract more !"
proper utilization Of Bluethenthal ar
+ for expanding air service.
development Of Southeastern North
ro,ina's health facilities, especially IN
mite. lacking hospitals. n mcluo'
o a Negro Health center.
pemcnt Of the growth OF COM
~uercial fishing.
consolidation OF City and County gov
errments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06
Think Back, Judge

When Judge Winfield Scott Smith
ook occasion to condemn parking
meters in Wilmington he overstepped
he properties Of his office. This Is
id in kindness, and in the hope that
,e Judge, who sometimes discusses
,atters from the bench in no way re-
latinq to the functions OF that court,
will not again transgress in a similar
manner.
Mr.. Smith, whom we regard highly
as citizen and magistrate, was IN this
case at fault in his reasoning. He de-
clared that if parking meters were
abandoned there would be more park
inc places at downtown curbs.
If the judges memory will serve
him right he will recall that before the
meters were installed parking space at
downtown curbs was at a premium
from early morning until after the the
alters closed at night. This was due
to the fact that car owners who work
ed downtown drove into the curb space
nearest their place of employment and
left their cars there until they were
ready to go home. And when they
Went home early theater patrons i'm
mediately took their places at the curb.
Since the meters were installed, with
their limitation on parking time, shop
pers and other persons having business
downtown (but not for all day. have
usually found space>fo parking within
easy walking distance of their destina-
ton. Thus parking accommodations
have been more readily %obtainable by
greater numbers of motorists than be-
fore the meters came.
Some complaint has been heard
from time to time that out-of-town mo-
florists were being tagged by the police
and required to go to headquarters and
pay a fine or else be taken into court,
where costs are added to the fine. The
fact is that the police are instructed
To place on the windshield of visitors
cars courtesy cards explaining the traf-
fic and parking rules and urging the
motorists to cooperate with the city in
it's attempt to serve the motoring pub
lie with co~,~'ete fairness.
It is not We intention that any visi-
tors car shall be tagged, when the car
can be identified as coming from be-
yond the city. There may be some
exceptions, but the purpose of the police
is to afford the visitor every consider
alton possible. And the N clip
them TO do this.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06

third of the member nations of
the United Nations, had "set an
example Of good neighborliness
and international amity. . They
had given notice that in one-third
of the world at least peace will
be enforced by common consent
and any attempted aggression
from without will be met with a
united 'front.'" But, turning quick
ly from this great accomplish
ment of the conference, the Times
notes, President Truman moved
on to the task that lies ahead and
the great responsibility that rests
On the New World. . to assume
the leadership in solving the prob
lens Of the rest OF the world"
This, we take it, is the chief
difference between The views of
the Herald Tribune and the
Times. Whereas the Herald Trib-
une believes the President incap-
able of grasping the implications
of the world crisis, the Times OBJ
viously attributes 10 him a clear
vision of the world situation. Else
he would hardly utter the chal-
longing call to service the last
quoted words from the Times in
dictate it believes he has.
Further appreciation Of the
Presidents views is to be found
in the Times: 1.-The correctness Of
the Presidents approach cannot
be questioned. Establishment of
hemisphere security is good. but
not enough. MI. Truman invited
our American neighbors to go on
from that to a joint effort with us
in application of the Marshall
plan - the announced intention to
respect the rights of others and
to help themselves. Achievement
Of that plan is as essential to the
other American nations as it is
to the United States. They should
be as willing as we are to lend a
hand"
The Richmond Times Dispatch
finds that the Rio treaty 'serves
notice on the world that imperial
ism as a national policy is out
lawed in the Western Hemisphere,
and that those nations which en-
bark upon such expansion, or
serve to aid it. brand themselves
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06

The Independent democratic
New York Times and the indie
pendent republican New York
Herald Tribune agree that Presi-
dent Truman's visit to Brazil and
his address before the inter-Amer-
icas Conference at Petropolis
were eminently worth while but
there is a divergence of opinion
as, to Mr.. Humans vision of the
Americas part, and particularly
the part of the United States, in
shaping world policies.
The Herald Tribune finds that
the enormous and cheering
crowds" which cheered President
Truman through the streets OF
Rio, 'gave gratifying evidence Of
the extent to which the undra-
matte little man from Missouri
has succeeded in rebuilding the
battered emotional content Of the
'good-neighbor policy Mr..
Truman has proved an excellent
ambassador to Latin America,
and his closing address puts a
graceful climax on a conference
which marks a useful step for
ward in the development of inter-
American relations" But it finds
that neither the Truman policy
nor the Marshall fully emissions
the crisis now girdling the earth.
"Much Of what the President
%prescribes - firmness, armed
strength, support for U.N., belief
in human rights-is absolutely es-
sential if we r to meet (the
crisis; but much more than these
largely negative principles will
also be r%equired," the Herald
Tribune comments. "The urgency
of the whole problem is greater
than the President seems to sup
pose; the vital central issue of
Russia demands something far
more constructive than the p1ati-
tudes he is inclined to bring to
it; we cannot always wait on Eu-
rope, and perhaps W. cannot even
count on Latin America unless we
provide in much greater degree
the constructive leadership to
which Latin Americans, and others
might respond"
Of the hemisphere defense
treaty. the Times says the sign
inc DELEGATES ~reneesentinp one
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-06
Hindus Given
9 Big Cite,

WASHINGTON Mn
top dozen cities come v5+s in'l'''
newly-created HINDU Dorainia. he
lnola' notes the National e.,
graphic Society At the s., 9''.
the list the Domiaion 5 ,ss' u
qulred the chief es~st-sas.n.'
coast ports, Calcutta and Bons ss'
with 1000, 900 and 1900. ooo 0G ,as
tants, respectively. 'N'
Madras, the third lsrges \.
city also is included. The t +,a'a
-Hydersbad, in the still io5pn..,
ent princeton of the same 5.r
remains for the present '
least outside both India and ~
istan boundaries.
0 WV CUES with population.
above $4,000 have gone with w,'
lem Pakistan. They are 1sbo..
In the partitioned ard en,,tI,,
Punjab, and Karachi. +oe
ed capital-port on the veq4 "uac'
north of Bombay ''aS,
Lahore. which held nearly ,,u..
quarters of a million peon,a
fore the recent riots, ranked t 9t
among midas urban centeT, Nm
normally has an important cn4..
industry and makes such nsti iva
wares as metal jewelry and ~,
pets. "N
Karachi was twelfth amon =.
dia's city giants, barely allow, Ar "a,
$50 0 figure in 1914, until a'
activities there began pus5in, ~ u
toward its present booming i
reer. 1t is, however. a n5t,,r,,
gateway to the great Indus VsTs,
and the interior hills and nlain,
and already rates as the penin,1
las third port and first Sion a,
international airways.
AS a Moslem center with 4 Jar,,
Hindu population, Karachi, Ton. !,
a striking example of the n,
ligious mixture which long h.,
colored Indian life. In both Hindr
and Moslem territories, mosou,
and m~inarets of the followers A
Mohammed everywhere sbs,
skylines with temples and morr.
ments to the numerous Hjnir
gods.
Along the streets. untrimmH
boards and turbans. cas,a-marksi
foreheads, wells, f@ezzes, and tn.
ditional costumes are outvsr.
signs Of such divergent groups n
Sikhs, caste Hindus, Moslems, IN.
touchables, a n d Pathan warriou
from the hills.
On the Hindu side of the lin,
cosmopolitan, westernized BON,
bay, besides its Moslenl elemsn.
includes an important group d
Parsis. The Parsis account tr
one of Bombay's outstanding land.
marks, the flowers of Silence"
Overwhelmingly Hindu Calcu,t,
where sacred cows roam tie
streets at will, also has a larg,
Moslem population. together with
various other sects attracted 10
this teeming industrial centerI
factories and docks.
New Delhi, former capital d
British India and new government
seat Of the Dominion OF India
brings with it a Moslem heritag.
from the ancient days Of Mogl
dynasties.
Madras. though a stronghold u
Hindu orthodoxy. h a S a MoSlen
minority estimated at nine pei
cent. Hindu Ahmedabad and An.
-ritsar, too, have strong Moslen
accents in people d archltes'
ture.
Amritsar is the heart of the Sikh
faith and site of its most sacred
Golden Temple. Yet before the re-
cent clashes there that resulted in
mass flights OF non-Sikhs and Hin
dus, this city was ninth on lndla'i
population list.