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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21

Teachers Face Bumper
Crop Of AZ School Kids

with the hope. of making it the
greatest educational year we
have ever had"
He invited all parents to bring
their problems or questions
relating to school matters to the
attention of school officials, so
that they can be worked out to
the mutual benefit of all con-
cerned.
The school cafeterias will be in
operation on the opening day.
An August Is action of the
school board approved the addi-
ton of bleachers seating 1000 for
the athletic field, Black dis
closed. It is planned to have them
ready for the opening football
game with Gonzaga High on
September 20.
Other schools Of the area also
announced prospects for a busy
Observation-Disclosures year.
The Bethlehem Lutheran School
on Benton Street near Third
Avene, will open Monday at
9 a. m. offering for the first time
school program accommodating
all the elementary grades, from
one to six inclusive and full
junior high program for grades
seven tonight inclusive.
In improved and re-decorated
class rooms, teachers will offer
a course of study in line with
the suggested state course OF
study, with the addition Of the
most important fourth r.
religious instruction for all pu-
pills, plus foundation course in
Latin for ninth garders, accord
ing to the Rev. NJ. C.. Kauth.
The Riverview, High school
and the Finley Grade school will
also open their regular school
year Monday morning at nine
o'clock.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
City Gets Bids
On Field Lights

At Tuesday evenings council
meeting, bids We're received from
8 companies garding the pro-
posed installation of 1000
feet of cable for Vista Field
lighting purposes. The bids have
been turned over to Dick Rec
tor, who will submit them to the
CAA for specifications approval.
Final action on the bids will
be taken next Tuesday.
Don Doyle, representing the
Active Club urged that the city
council continue its recreation
program on an even larger scale.
The council also accepted the
work performed by the c. and E.
Construction Co. of Yakima and
Spokane Asphalt and Paving Co.,
in the recent city street resur.
facing project. The program cost
city SOS,
The possibility of taking a
local census in the near future
was. discussed. Mayor J. c..
Pratt stated yesterday that a
revision of present census figures
would allow Kennewick q more
proper proportion of state funds.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21

Leaders from Kennewick civic
organizations and veterans groups
met Wednesday evening in the
City Hall to acquaint themselves
with a proposal that ore or more
units of the National Guard be
established in the tri-cities area.
The group will meet again Fri
day night at 8 o'clock in the Coun-
Gil chambers of the Pasco City
hall with Brigadier General e. M.
Llewellyn, adjutant general of
the Washington State National
Guard.
General Llewellyn and his par
Friday afternoon, Walt woehler,
chairman OF the Kennewick par
Elephants revealed.
1 The General will be accompan.
led by Colonel Lutes, anti-aircraf,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
Man. Trapped
BY Car. Escapes
Without Injury

Vern Adolpson of $40 Avenue
F. is back on the job this week
with no apparent injuries from the
freak accident that late Satur-
day afternoon pinned him to the
earth Of his driveway.
Adolphson had taken. off the
right front wheel of his car, and
was installing a new muffler,
when the car slipped off its jack
dropping the muffler across his
throat and rendering him UNI
conscious.
Police, summoned to the scene
by passing boy, put through
an emergency call to the Fire
department. Fire Chief Herb
Malchow raced to the home, and
aided the officers in freeing the
trapped man.
Officer John Dickinson, Fire
Chief Malchow reports admin
istered artificial respiration for
a time, before Adolphson was
loaded in the chiefs car and
sped to the hospital.
Why the car slipped off the
supporting jack is not known, al?
though it is theorized that heavy
traffic passing on the nearby
highway might have set up vi
brations strong enough to dis
lodge it.
Adolphson was discharged from
the hospital about an hour and
. half after he was admitted for
emergency treatment. Examining
physicians discovered no, ser
ious injuries.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21

diagnostician, in response to re.
quests from his audience, Phe.
Ian smilingly cautioned his listen.
ers mot to ask an Irishman Ques-
tons, unless you expect to get an
swers."
The answers he gave were can
did and straight from the Shout
der. you're coasting!" he told
the. retailers.
Phelan gave his honest reaction
to his Kennewick visit-first since
pre-war days. "Your business dis
trict needs soap and water, lot OF
it, and it needs it badly"
Suggesting that retail merchants
of the city might sponsor and car
ry through a paint up week for
business centers of the town, he
continued: "You ought to do some
thing with your windows; you're
not selling merchandise in them"
Although Kennewick is Shan
gri-la, surrounded by a land of
increasing competition its mer-
chants must take steps now to
counter the competitive inroads
of aggressive sales organizations
that are sure to come, he coun-
Seled.
Remember" Phelan said, "this
is only one hour from Seattle.
AS transportation costs diminish
in the future, this factor must be
reckoned with more and more.".
He described the determined
sales progress of large mail order
houses, whose stocks are revert
ing to pre-War plentitude. "Rep-
resentatives from these companies
are covering every farm home in
your area right now" he pointed
out. They're after business"
The Retail Merchants Associ-
alton, chairmaned by John Neu-
man, gave proof today that Phe-
lan's friendly, but hard-hitting,
criticisms Of Kennewiclk had been
accepted in the spirit which they
were given.
"We have problems today that
deemed settlement" Neuman
stated, and we must confront
them and solve them now"
Outlining the simple aim of
the retailers organization as a
ambition to build a better bust
ness center, Neuman predicted
that the association, though new,
will expand its membership and
act effectively for community
betterment.
"Our association is not limited
to any select group of business
men," he said, 'sbut requires the
support of evefy enterpriser in
the city. Nothing less than uni
fled action now will cope with
the demands of our rapidly
growing area economy"
Neuman renewed his previous
Invitation to all retailers Of the
city to become members Of the
association.
Attending the Tuesday evening
meeting were Hal Brutzman,
Austin Simmonds, Urban Keolker,
DR.. ]. T. Boyd, Olav Otheim,
Hazel Hawkins, Fred Bunch ST.,
E. A. Silliman, Chef Durdle, Ross
Frank, Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. Ran
dial, Dick Rector, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson.
So sss-r-,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21

Walking heads-up into the
problem of schooling bumper
crop of war babies, just coming
of school age this fall, the
teaching staff of the Kennewick
public schools will be on the job
Monday morning at nine o'clock.
Ten new teachers will occupy
additional positions, created this
year by school officials to meet
the demands of the expanding
school population. They will be
assigned to congested class rooms
throughout the system, at the
elementary. junior high and
high school levels.
Noting that the augmented
teaching force was necessary to
relieve over-populated classes at
the close of the last school year,
chool officials considered it too
early to predict whether the
added strength would prove
adequate for the on-coming en-
rOllment.
Appearances, however, verged
the possibility into virtual
certainty that the 1947-48 popu-
lation of pupils will exceed that
of previous years.
Amid the looming contingencies
of Hanford expansion and Nc
Nary Dam construction was one
fact. School District Number II
has already opened a school for
primary grades in Plymouth,
arranging to transport students
above third grade age to the
Kennewick system via bus.
From a staff viewpoint, first
event Of the new school year
will be a get-acquainted picnic
for teachers on Saturday after
noon at the Kennewick city park.
The picnic will follow q teachers
meeting, called for 100 o'clock
Saturday afternoon.
Pupil-packed buses will arrive
on the school grounds Monday
morning at nine o'clock for q
full day session, Superintendent
E. S. Black announced today. He
requested that parents, who bring
their children to school on the
first day, arrange also to call
for them at school closing. He
explained that this help. from
parents will avoid confusion on
the buses.
Bus arrival time at the schools,
after opening day, will be $3.50
a. m, so that students can take
advantage Of the pre-class home
room period.
"Our teachers are approaching
the challenge of this school year
enthusiastically" Black said,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
Daring Jump One OF
MANY Festival Events

Officers of the Kennewick
Grape Festival to be held on
September Is, 10, and 20 have
announced success in their. long
search to find a man willing
to ride an eleven hundred horse
power rocket across the skies of
Kennewicks
Leaping from an airplane
above Vista Field on Saturday
September 20, the mystery flier
will attempt for the first time in
mans history to ride a rocket
to death or glory while thousands
of spectators watch from below.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
BUILDING PERMITS

Building Inspector Herb NAL
chow reported this week that
the following building permits
have been issued:
Ben Shapler, house at Seventh
Avenue and Ivy, $500; Jacob
Lee, house on North Garfield
Street, $4,000; addition to the
church at Third Avenue and
Benton, $4,000; and a recreation
building for the city of Kenne-
wick at 10 Kennewick Avenue,
East. $4,000.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
The Sidewalk
REPORTER
soUAwK CLUB
KENNEWICK COURIER

A generous number of strangers
v,are seen at the weeks session
~ the eroaners' organization. Not
th.t they were strangers to Ken
newick. They were just large
number of usually happy souls
who seldom join in the funda-
mental American pastime of COM
nIaining. There were several who
sttempted to serve as spokesman
for the group but one purple
shirted and moustached individual
seemed to have the edge. "We've
donned these colored shirts" he
shouted. "We've tickled our wives
with these hirsute adornments.
Butwhat we really want to know
IS lust what in tarnation are we
ooinp to have in the way of enter
fainment or what else at the So
called second annaul Kennewick
crane Festival?" At this point he
dramatically twirled the care
fully waxed ends of a neat pro-
duction on his upper lip. '.In other
words, well 60 along with what
everybody wants, but we want to
know what that isl"
uNuTENTIoNAL
II was not intended that the
public should be kept in the dark
as to Festival plans. We ribbed
the boss (who is himself a men,
her Of the Festival board about
the above complaint. He assured
us that as soon as plans are COM
pleted they will be published for
all to see. In fact, many plans are
completed this week and publicity
is being spread to the four corners
Of the Fourth Estate.
Some unusual publicity is re-
ported by dependable operatives
TO the extent that a Sunday al
sternoon broadcast from Olympia
that was sent out over the state
wide hookup spent 10 minutes in
telling Of the glories IT the Grape
Festival. However, the announcer,
in the adopted fashion OF those
who are careless Of facts and
snobbish Of details, placed the
festival in some obscure corner
Of the state in a community we
believe he called ''Pasco" or some
thing like that.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
Ne4u An,ieaA.

At. Virginia Lee Hospital:
Carrie Ann, on August "a,
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Clovis
Ratliff.
Terence James, on August II,
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley
Perkins.
Judith Jane, on August II,
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Ed
wards.
At Our Lady Of Lourdes
Hospital:
A boy, on August Is, to Mr..
and Mrs. Guy Mentor.
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er will not be revealed until the
success or failure of the Specta-
cular attempt has been proven.
Mayor J. c. Pratt, Festival
president, announced today that
the officers and many committee
men are developing tremendous
.pdogram of special events for
the big three-day celebration.
New shows, acts and exhibits are
being added daily to the already
extensive festivities. The pro-
gram, when complete, will in
clude many educational enter
tanning and thrill-packed events
to more than satisfy the 100000
visitors expected to be present
during the 1947 Kennewick Grape
Festival. f
| The three days have been
named and rapid progress is be-
ing made in the scheduling Of
of highlights Of interest to every
one.
Thursday, September 10 will
be Governors Day" in honor Of
Governor Mon. c. Wallgren Of
Washington. The Governor and
his party will review the colorful
float parade scheduled for Thurs
day and will lend a touch Of Of
ficial color to the gay and festive
occasion. A new "Queen Of
Queens" will be crowned to reign
for year on this first day Of
the big three-day celebration.
Friday, September 10, has been
set as Reclamation Day." Julius
"Cap' Krug, Secretary of the In
lterior, and number of his key
staff men have been invited, and
it is expected that an important
address on the future of the Col
lumbia Basin will be made. "Rec-
lamation Day" is of great signif-
Iicance nationally. AT Kennewick,
for this year, the Grape Festival
theme is a "Preview of the Col
umbia Basin" All the exhibits
from Concord grapes to livestock
will demonstrate how the touch
Of Columbia river irrigation wa
ter brings fertility and prosper
lily.
Saturday, September 20, will be
"Mayor's Day" On this day,
Mayor j. c. Pratt will lead to the
reviewing stand a colorful parade
of mayors from Washington, Ore
gon and Idaho. Some of the most
famous political personalities in
the Northwest are expected to be
present for this day in their hon
or. In addition, Saturday will fea-
ture a kids pet parade when
youngsters from far and wide in
appealing costumes will lead
their dogs, cats, ponies and other
pets. A football game, bringing
together the strong Spokane John.
Rogers High team and the Ken
newick High gridders, will be
featured. Providing an additional
thrill to the day will be one Of
the greatest air shows ever held
and will add to the other plans
to be announced for the Satur-
day program Of events,
The main attraction of the
three-day celebration viii be an
nounced shortly and promises
many names from Hollywood IA
nous throughout the entertain
ment world.
In a nutshell, the September 8,
9 and 10th 947 Kennewick Grape
Festival promises to be bigger
and better in every way-even
to housing the important show
in huge fireproof tent.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
FARM LABOR NEWS .

The labor situation In the Ken
newick area has improved some
this week but. the Prosser Office
reports q ve1v slow week. We
have an adequate supply Of labor
however and WIN have until
grapes start being harvested:
Mint harvest and the PICKING
|of peaches il well under way
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-08-21
ALMA CIRCLE

Alma Circle will meet for a
o'clock luncheon next Monday,
August 25, at the home of Mrs.
w. S. Green on the South High
lands. Assistant hostesses will be
Mrs. Ida Stone, Mrs. Eunice Wash
burn and Mr.. Clara Belle Stafford.
election of officers will be held.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Picard Exploration
OF Sea Delayed Again

ANTWERP. Belgium, Dec. 3
(NANA).- Prof. Auguste Piccard's
planned exploration of the ocean
bed in a revolutionary underwater
balloon" is facing further delay.
The descent some 2l2 miles into
the waters of the Gulf of Guinea,
off the West Coast of Africa, was
originally scheduled for mid-Sep-
tember. Since final preparations
and calculations were not quite COM
pleted when the time came to start
fitting the mother ship Scaldis, she
was sent by the Belgian government
to fetch a cargo of wood from
Finland.
The Scaldis scraped rock and
had to be repaired. 1t was an
nounced that the dive would take
place in December. Then 1t was
found that the cargo she was to
load wasn't ready. After that, the
freighter was further delayed by a
strike of Finnish longshoremen. 1t
is now expected that she will reach
this port in time for refitting to be-
gin about December Is.
The work of removing hold bulk
heads to accommodate the strange
bathyscaphe, of fitting up cabins
and laboratories. will probably last
through to mid-February. How
ever, the months of March and
April are tornado time in the Gulf
of Guinea. So the expedition will
be still further delayed.
But, as Prof. Picard points out
philosophically, 1--WE been dreaming
of this undertaking for 40 years;
so a delay of a few months isn't
SeriOIlS -
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Observation-Disclosures
Trial Asks Retirement

Theodore F.. Vollten, suspended
Montgomery County detective chief,
has applied for retirement to the
Police Trial Board on grounds of
disability. it was learned yesterday
A hearing on the application will
be held by the Board at a m. TO-
morrow in the Rockville Courthouse.
Board members are Civil Service
Commissioner 10 V. Morgan, chair
man; County Commissioner Wesley
! |. Sauter and j. Douglas Bradshaw,
Takoma Park attorney.
Although Mr.. Vollten refused to
comment, it was reported he has
been examined by physicians and
that he will claim a heart ailment.
If the application is granted Mr..
Vollten. who now receives $4,000 a
year, will be retired at half pay.
It also was reported that if the
Police Board acts favorably on the
request, Police Chief Charles M.
Orme will drop his charges against
Mr.. Vollten. The charges are sched-
uled to be heard at $50 am. next
Wednesday before the Police Trial
Board in the Rockville Courthouse.
Mr.. Vollten, veteran of II years
service on the police force, held the
rank of captain when he was sus-
pended by Chief Orme october %.
He was charged with failing to su-
pervise the work of his subordinates,
failing to keep proper records and
using a county owned car on private
business. He is represented by At
torneys Joseph B. Simpson, jr., and
Miss Vivian Simpson
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Asian Se|f-HeIp Plan
Presented by u. 5. 10
U. n. Economic Group
BY the Associated Press

BAGUIO, P. l., Dec. 8. - The
American delegation to the United
Nations Economic Commission for
Asia and the Far East ECAFE to-
day began unfolding an economic
rehabilitation program which OBJ
servers said resembles the Marshall
plan for Europe.
Monnett B. Davis, chief American
delegate, said the plan was based
on the principal that Asian ma
tions. if given proper assistance,
could pull themselves up by their
own bootstraps to an extent not
possible in Europe.
u. S. Aid Moot Point.
His statement stressed that
Americans here have not been in
structed specifically on the point
of external assistance" And it
added that nothing in this state
ment should be interpreted as in
dicative of whether the United
States Government will or will not
be prepared to extend financial
support" to Asian countries.
Each nation was asked, however,
to prepare a detailed statement
covering loans and conditions under
which both foreign and. domestic
capital operate and indicating the
extent to which profits can be re-
mitted.'
The first step toward implementa-
ton of the American plan was pro-
posed in the form of resolution
asking the ECAFE to recommend to
member governments and nonvotlng
associates a food program for 194S
and 1949. 1t also asked that the
ECAFE and the director general OF
the Food and Agricultural Organi-
zation GAO establish party OF
experts to visit areas of food produc-
ton and shortage.
Surpluses Seen Possible.
ASIA and the Far Eastern coun-
tries possess rich natural resources
sufficient to provide not only salts
factory living standards, but sur
pluses," Mr. Davis said.
He asked a general lowering OF
tariffs to bring in more foreign ex-
change for the purchase Of machln-
cry and suggested potential borrow
ing nations encourage saving by
their own people to create a loca
pool of capital to support domestic
enterprise. He said this would at
tract foreign private capital.
Part of the American statemen
was a declaration that the Unitee
States favored establishment o.
"adeouate consultative arrange
ments between the commission ano
control authorities in Japan ane
Korea"
Evening star., 1947-12-03

Lane and Victor Cavendish-Ben-
tinck, American and British AM
bassadors, respectively, here until
early 1a47, as among those supplied
antistate information by members
of underground bands or by con-
tact committees.
Also named as receiving informa-
ton were Col. Thomas Crimson,
British military attache in War;
saw, Mai. Peter Winton, assistant
British military. attache, 1t, Col.
Edward j. York of San Antonio,
Tex, and 1t. William Tonesk of
Washington.
York Former Air Attache.
Col. York formerly was air at
tache Of the American Embassy
and 1t. Tonesk, during Mr.. Lanes
ambassadorship, was assistant naval
attache.
On trial are Mrs. Maria Martyow-
Evening star., 1947-12-03

The indictment said the defend
Evening star., 1947-12-03

ska, 81, former translator for the
British Embassy; Miss Halina Sos
nowska, Wladimierz Marszewski,
Adam Obarski, Stansilas Sedziak,
Wincenty Kwiecinski and Waclaw
Lipinski.
All are accused of working in
contact committees with the Polish
underground organization, of hav-
ing carried on espionage against
the Polish state" and of treason.
The indictment repeatedly charged
that activities accused in concert
with the outlawed organization
WIN, meaning freedom and indie
pendence, was aimed at creating a
breach in Polish Russian relations
and overthrowing the Polish govern
ment by force.
Activities Covered Year.
The Indictment said the defend
Evening star., 1947-12-03
i Poles Go on Trial
On Charge Of Giving
Dala 10 u. s., Britain
By the Associated Press

WARSAW, Dec. 3.-The govern
ment, opening the trial of five men
and two women accused of high
treason and espionage, today
charged that the United States and
British embassies in Warsaw had
received information from the un-
derground which sought to over
throw the Polish government.
The Indictment, read by the pre-
siding jurist of a three-man mill
tary tribunal, named Arthur Bliss
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Symphony Well Received
In Schenectady Concert
Special Dispafeh TO The Sfor

SCHENECTADY, N. Y, Dec. g.
The National Symphony Orchestra
was we'll received here tonight as
it played for the Civic Music Asso-
citation in it's third visit to Schenec-
tady in three years.
The appearance, under DR.. Hans
Kinder, was termed in one descrip-
ton fully as polished and clean
cut in performance as the earlier
two liked concerts.
The program included Brahms
Fourth Symphony" Mozart's Sym
phony No 49," a Pacific Nocturne, !"
written during the war service of
Composer Philip Henry: an arrange
ment by DR.. Kinder of "Chromatic
Fantasy" by Jan Pieters Sweelinck,
and q Scriabin "Etude."
Evening star., 1947-12-03

ants activities ranged from early
1916 until their arrest before the
general election January 10, 1947.
The group was accused of collect
ing economic, political and military
information. including data on
Polish fortifications and troop dis
positions.
Leaders of the espionage ring, the
indictment said, received large
sums of money in American dollars
from anti-government Polish cir
cles in London.
The FIST defendant called was
Kwiecinski, "a. He told the court
he was guilty of espionage and de-
scribed in detail how information
was collected throughout Poland.
Evening star., 1947-12-03
Tokyo Shuns Shakespeare

TOXIC P.-Shakespeare isn't
doing so we'll in Tokyo. Theaters
showing Japanese dramas are
packed, but Hamlet" plays to an
almost empty house in the down.
town Imperial Theater. The cast
of Hamlet" got so tired playing
to nobody that it walked out of
the theater and staged it in a pub
lie square.