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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-17
little STORIES Of the WEEK
BY FLORENCE OLIVER
,..,. news to Kennewicl 2442 before Tuesday noon
Nv FLORENCE OLIVER

Bolton, Montana, accompanied by
Miss Grace Warner of Olympia.
were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee Boutelle.
Mrs. Mae Shanafelt of Seattle
was a visitor last week at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Ralph
Reed.
Mrs. Marjorie Wilson, ON yaca-
ton, left Friday to spend several
day in Naches and Seattle.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. T..
Huntington last week end were
Mr.. and Mrs. Miriel Huntington.
son Jack and daughter Belle. and
Miss Adele Huntington from Sum-
ner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Rupp, with
children Christie and Billie, ar
rived Friday from Tacoma for a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Al
trogge. Mr.. Rupp returned to the
coast Sunday and the family will
remain here for two more weeks.
Sunday visitors of DIR. and Mrs.
II. G. Curry were Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Lobb of Seattle and Mrs. Ef-
fie LaBlanche from Boise, Idaho.
Entire Nous was entertained last
Wednesday by Mrs. r. E. Reed.
Honors were won by Mrs. e. H.
Behrman and Mrs. Lou Miller. At
the guest table Mrs. G. f. Winken
werder held high score.
Mrs. Ole Herrold Bertha Witt
arrived Wednesday from Davis,
Calf, to visit for two weeks with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Winkler, 400 Garfield, and her
sister, Mrs. Gus Reese of Horse
Heaven.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Slighten are
entertaining friends from Topeka,
Kansas, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Clark,
who are here for a ten-day visit.
On Sunday the Slightens and their
guests drove to Yakima and also
visited the Indian reservation at
Toppenish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Orr and
sons Charles and Richard are here
from Stockton, Calf, visiting Mrs.
Orr's cousin, Mrs. T. w. Payne,
who went to Walla Walla last
Thursday to meet her cousin and
family and in G d n tally was
caught in the ablack out"
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Brown ar
rived Monday from Moose Jam,
Sask., Canada, to make an extend
ed visit with Browns brother, "A.
F. Brown, and Mrs. Browns sis
ter, Mrs. T. B. HauschiNl The
Browns are former residents, hav-
ing gone to Canada some Is years
ago. The brothers were former
partners in the local telephone
company and later A. G.. Brown
was partner in the Columbia
Electric Co.
Mrs. Jean Tarbett was honored
last Sunday afternoon with a
shower of anticipation" gifts Civ
en- by the Kennewick telephone
operators.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Roberts are
visitors at the Gus Henke home
this week.
Visitors arriving last mid-week
at the A. G.. Anon home were Mr..
and Mrs. John Wroe of Union,
Oregon.
Betty and Harold McClimans
left Wednesday for their home in
Cashmere after visiting for a week
with thir cousin Mrs. Ivan L.
chelt and their grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. e. cClimans.
Mildred Brown, who has been
spending her vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Bryson
Brown and other relatives, re-
turned to Seattle last Saturday.
Barbara Johnson, whose home
is in Spokane, has come to spend
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-17

~ It is with real pride that we announce
the opening of this enlarged Display and
Retail Sales Store, as we feel it is in keep
ing with Kennewick's growing Importance.
Our old Sales Store, built in 1908, was
designed to adequately care for the needs
of builders and home owners of that time.
Since then many new faces have come to
Kennewick. It's population has increased,
and it will continue to grow in size and in
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-17
A Word of Thanks
To Ny Cusiome rs

US On the opening of this new store, l
feel deeply grateful to you, my customers.
It is you who made this expansion pos
sible
Ever since came. to Kennewick
stranger in 1886, to take charge of this
yard, you have been most kind. You have
made me one of you, and l have enjoyed
the confidence you have bestowed upon
me. During the war years, when mat
erials were scarce and hard to obtain, you
were most understanding and cooperative.
Now that the war is over and ex-
pansion is possible, the greater shopping
convenience that this new store offers is
my way of saying: Thank you, and may
we always live up to our obligation to you,
my loyal friends" [@lg,& - ~
e. WALTER F. HANSON. 8.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-07-17

industrial Importance. And Potlatch grows
with it. e.
This new store will display attractive
ly the many new items YOU expect to find
in a progressive Building Material and
Fuel Store. It's fixtures and arrangement.
are designed to give greater convenience
in shopping, and it displays the new trends
in home appliances and modern building
methods You'll find it an ideal place to
shop.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Crop Report Awaited
Today as u. 5. Expert,
Assess Prospects

Agriculture Department crop ex-
perts met today behind barred doors
to assess reports from all sections
of the country on the state of 1947
crops, and in particular the prospects
for the corn crop.
The overall report, which is issued
monthly by the departments Crop
Reporting Board, will be released
at 3 pm.
The experts findings on corn will
be watched closely by Government
officials concerned with foreign food
relief programs as well as farmers,
grain traders, livestock feeders and
others.
A poor corn crop may mean less
meat at higher prices next fall and
winter, may reduce livestock and
poultry feeding and could prevent
the Government from meeting ex-
port needs for grain.
A late spring and subsequent
floods have dashed any hopes for
another bumper corn crop equal to
last years 3,287 000, 600 bushels. And
little hope is held out for crop OF
5000 900 900 bushels the Govern
ment's goal for this year.
| officials say a crop of at least
| 2 300, ,Oo0, 900 bushels would be es-
sential if a cut in livestock feeding
and meat supplies is to be averted.
They add that the corn should be of
good quality.
Best advance guesses were that
the crop would be somewhere be-
tween 2,600,0o0,0O0 and 00,o00,o00
bushels.
Monthly crop reports are COM
piled in secrecy to prevent any ad-
vance leaks" that would permit
speculation on commodity markets.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Union Officials TO Leal
Racial Discussion al
Fisk University
BY the Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 10
Union leaders from both the AFL
and CIO were on hand today to lead
a general discussion of problems OF
race relations in the field of labor
at the institute of race relations at
Fisk University.
Speakers for the day include
George Googe of Atlanta, represent
ing the American Federation of
Labor; Kermit Eby, education di-
rector of the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations, Washington;
and Paul Christopher, CIO State
director, of Knoxville, Tenn.
Changes in race relations in
America in the last 10 years were
discussed last night by Lester B.
Granger, executive secretary of the
National Urban League, New York
He listed the introduction of
more than a million Negroes into
industry during the war as "the
most lasting achievement that has
occurred in the last decade ."
and said this gain will endure"
Passage of discrimination
legislation in employment by four
States was also named by Mr.. Gran
ger as one of the positive gains Of
the. present day. The passage o1
the anti-discrimination laws rep.
resents a new conception of civil
liberties" which has developed
within the last five years and which
few years ago was not even
dreamed of as remote possibility
in extending Democratic practices,
he said.
DR.. Marie Jahoda of New York
social psychologist for the Amer
ican Jewish Committee, in evalu-
ating the effectiveness of various
media of interracial education, gave
a high rating to the discussion
group" method.
Public opinion polls have been
found by our investigations to be
unreliable in assessing the amount
of racial prejudice which the public
may have" she said. She advo-
Gated the use of indirect methods
of determining the degree of pref
udice and the effectiveness of diff
ferent methods now used to reduce
Evening star., 1947-07-10
.Wind-Driven Brush Fire
Fatally Burns Idaho Man
BY the Associated Press

JEROME, Idaho, July 10.-Freak
winds whipped up brush fire to-
day, trapping j. B Stocking of
Jerome, who burned to death, and
blew the hangar of the Jerome Air
port onto a nearby highway.
Mr.. Stocking, Irrigation Canal Co.
watermaster, was trapped when
twisting winds caused the burning
brush to encrcle him.
AS the winds tossed the small
hangar, power lines snapped and an
airplane housed in the structure
was damaged.
Hundreds of acres of prairie, OF
little use except for grazing, were
blackened by other range fires in
this Southern Idaho area.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
|SiciIian Robin Hood
Again EIudes Capture
By the Assoeiaied Press

PALERMO, Sicily, July 10.-A
drive against banditry in which
soldiers, carabinieri and police took
part, today and netted 10 followers
of Outlaw Salvatore Giuliano, but
Sicilys naughty king of the noun
tains" remained at large.
1t was the second time this week
that Giuliano-a thorn in the side
of the new regional government but
sort of Goth century Robin Hood
to the country folk of the area
where he operates-had eluded cap
ture.
Tuesday police thought they had
him surrounded in the 'Fossa di
Longo" gulch, but when they in
vaded it he was gone.
dispatches to Rome news
newspapers said Giuliano, fleeing
from the gulch, left behind
scarecrow bearing placard
which read do not eat the grain
that God has reserved for the
people,
Sicilian authorities are particu-
Evening star., 1947-07-10
St6,0O0,OO0 Suit Charges
Phone Book Monopoly Plot
By the Assoeiated Press


NEW YORK, July 1O.-The Amer.
lean Telephone & Telegraph Co.
81 affiliated companies and the Reu.
ben H. Donnelley Corp. were named
defendants in a $16,000000 anti.
trust suit filed yesterday in Fedora
Court.
The plaintiffs, the Independent
Directory Corporations of New York
Chicago and Los Angeles, and vii,
liam Oleck, an officer of all three
charged in their complaint that the
defendants, in an effort to obtain 8
monopoly of the business of pub.
fishing and distributing classified
business directories, entered into 8
conspiracy which has greatly di.
minished and In many places de.
stroyed" the business OF the Inde-
pendent Directory Corporations.
The corporations in Chicago ane
New York and Mr.. Oleck are suing
for $5,000,O00 each, while the Cali.
fornia corporation seeks $1,000,0O(
damages,
Evening star., 1947-07-10
Court Divides Home
So Couple Can Live Apart
By the Asseeiated Press


LOS ANGELES, July 1o.-By
authority of the court, DR.. Felix
We'll, 40, and his estranged sculp-
tress- wife, Helen, 27, may live sepa-
rately-if peacefully-in their six
room Santa Monica home pending
settlement of their martial diff
culties.
Judge Louis w. kaufman gave
Mrs. We'll exclusive right to the
master bedroom, assigned Mr.. We'll
to the library and guest room and
classed the remainder of the house
community domain" The couple
must refrain, however, from annoy
ing or molesting each other.
DR.. We'll, economist and f1nancier
has sued Mrs. We'll for divorce and
she has filed a separate mainte-
nance suit against him. She has beer,
awarded $3.50 a month temporary
support.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
40 PIeuts in q Kilt

Settling an argument over the
number of pleats in kilt, it was
announced in Scotland that the 7th
and 9th Royal Scots have 40, the
Black Watch 81, the Gordons 80,
and the Gordon pipers only 10.
Evening star., 1947-07-10

f'.1ly hot efter Giuliano just now
because he recently has set himself
up as the leader of an anti Com
munist drive in the island.
Evening star., 1947-07-10
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The union times., 1947-08-16
Another Reason Why Musicians Support Petrillo

< The Middletown Musicians Local announces that it will sponsor street dance Tuesday, August 18th, which will be open to the public free of charge.
 Dancing is planned from 8 to Il o'clock and music will be furnished by a 17-piece band comprised of city mu- sicians.
 A site for the dance has not yet been selected but it is expected to be in front of the City Hall or near the Y. M. C. A., according to the Local.
 Money to cover expenses of the dance will come from fund of sev. eral hundred dollars recently for warded to the Middletown Musi- clans Local by the National Union headquarters.
 The union 1evies a special tax on record transcriptions used in juke boxes and over the radio and the money raised is distributed equally to locals throughout the country. The union stipu1ates that the locals use the money to put on dances for the public
 The Middletown Local said that the dance August 10th is the first of series here which will be open to the public free of charge.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Yale & TOwne. Office Workers
 Are Negotiating
Polishers Win Same Pro. visions As Machinists Union Security
 Approved

Yale & Towne and Local 23, Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers and Helpers Union, AFL, of Stam. ford, have concluded a new wage agreement for some 200 workers including the same provisions re- gently won by some 2,7OO machin. ists at the lock plant.
 The polishers will receive a six-cent hourly wage increase, plus three ad- dltional paid holidays, making a total of six. Also new incentive plan will be installed immediately. to which both sides have pledged full coopera- ton for furtherance of production.
 Union security in the form of voluntary irrevocable checkoff, is also included in the contract.
 With wage agreements concluded for three of the four unions at Yale & Iowne's Stamford Division, nego- tiatlons have also been in progress or
The union times., 1947-08-16

from the NLRB because of the Taft Hartley slave labor act.
 NEW YORK-OhiciaI AFL and CIO support for Pres. Truman's aid-tO-Creece program was voiced here in messages of greetings to Clinton s. Golden, labor adviser to the American Mission to Aid Greece.
 WASHINGTON-The Bureau of Labor Statistics figures the average US. factory workers pay envelope in May, l947 reflected for the first time the second round of wage boosts won by their unions, touch ing $48.46 per week. But buried on an obscure table in the same BIS report was another set of fed eral figures showing that the $48.46 represented only $26.49 in terms of l939 dollars (taking into consideration taxes and the present cost of living) for a worker with no dependents.
 BUFFALO, N. Y.-Threat of 2 general strike in this city's fiou1 milling industry, largest in tho world, won victory for 2,6OO strik ing AFL flour mill workers. The 3-week strike of Flour Mill Work CTS Local 2l,O2l against seven ma jOr mills came to an abrupt enc after 5,4OO workers in non-strucE mills had indicated they might joir the walkOut and nine AFL union. in the Waterfront Federation pledged full support in such a1 eventuality.
The union times., 1947-08-16

St. PAUL, Minn.-Jurisdictional disputes can no longer be allowed to block fullest labor solidarity, the St. Paul Trades X Labor Assembly declared in unanimously adopted resolution calling for cooperation with all groups supporting labor. The action followed establishment by the St. Paul AFL and CIO of a joint legislative action committee with the prime objectives of defeat ing Sen. Joseph Ball and Rep. Ed ward J. Dewitt, both Republicans, and waging an unrelenting battle against the Taft-Hartley law.
 WASHINGTON = The United Textile Workers (AFL) won victo- ries in five NLRB elections in which its representation claims were cha1- lenged by the Textile Workers Union (CIO).
 WASHINGTON Field Director Oscar s. Smith and Associate Direc- tor John P. Chapman have resigned
The union times., 1947-08-16
Conn. Restaurant
 Institute In 2nd Year

The Connecticut Restaurant Insti- tute of 169 State Street, New Haven, the only vocational school in these parts offering concentrated courses in restaurant and hotel fields, is prepar- ing to launch its second successful year, with the enviable record estab- lished of having placed every former student in well paying jobs in some of New Eng1and's finest restaurants and hotels.
 Enrolment for the fall term which opens September 9th, is being limited to 75 students, size which the staff of the Institute believes can best be handled for individual instruction. Ap- plications or requests for details on available classes may be obtained now by writing to the Director of the In- stitute 16o State Street, New Haven. Each applicant will be given per sona1 interview and screening test be- fore acceptance.
The union times., 1947-08-16
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The story in coal is similar. Opera tors arbitrarily put another "bite" on consumers, despite record profit mar gins. For instance, one of the biggest operators in the feld-Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company-re- ported profits for the first quarter of $5,55,227, a rise of more than 200 per cent over the corresponding period of 1946.
 Could Cut Prices
 It was the same with General Motors. Its profits for the six months hit a spectacular total of $147, ,628,834, compared with loss of 1o,804,0o0 in the first half of 1946.
 Union officials have charged that G.M. earnings were so great the com pany "cou1d we'll offer price reduc- tions several times as large as the price increases which it has now in f1icted on the consumer"
 Many other major corporations put out earnings statements which dis closed increases of 100 to 200 per cent, and more, over 1o46.
 Even business publications are con- cerned over the trend and are warn- ing that "the higher prices go now the harder they will fall later" Buying Power Shrinks
 The magazine ''United States News" declared per capita pur- chasing power has dropped by $8l in the past year and de- scribed this as ''danger signal.''
The union times., 1947-08-16
Profits Hit Record
 But Prices Climb

Likewise, Business Week" cau- tioned that consumers may not have enough purchasing power to keep our economic machine going on even- keel" particularly after foreign ex- ports dry up and business spending for new plants and other capital goods be- gins to shrink.
 ''Public-Be-Damned''
 Meanwhile, what's the reaction to all this on the part of those Tory solons who were mainly responsible for wrecking price control last year
 The best clue was given by Senator Kenneth .Wherry (Rep., Nebr.), who led the fight to give profteers a free hand. He took a "pub1ic-be-damned' approach, when questioned by news men.
The union times., 1947-08-16

NEW YORK-The Intl. Ladies Garment Workers Union (AFL) in structed its local officials to continue signing no-strike agreements wherL ever employers agree to maintain the union shop and solve disputes through arbitration. Pres. David Dubinsl1y said he still considered the Taft Hart ley law vicious and negotiable" but told his union members they should try to work within the framework of the law.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Tearnsters Win 6O-Day Strike

PITTSBURGH = (FP) = This city's 60-day strike by 2,500 AFL truck drivers ended last week with acceptance of compromise settlement.
 Members of Local 24o Int1. Bro. of TeamSters, at meeting in Carnegie Music Hall approved a wage increase of 171ac an hour without the six paid holidays they had previously demand ed. The vote on acceptance was 47Q to 173.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Direct Action Pays Off

Cleveland -(FP)-Frank O'Black, member of the Int1. Typographical Union here, believes in direct nego- tiations.
 Tired of waiting for a new auto mobile, he wrote personal letter, air mail special delivery, registered, to Henry Ford II.
 He now has new Ford.
The union times., 1947-08-16
Many Evictions Called Illegal
(Continued from Page One)

presented to the Aldermen. Two of the resolutions providing for the necessary steps to obtain assistance from the State in building moderate rental housing were adopted at the A1dermanic meeting on August 4.
 The third resolution authorizing the City to loan funds to the Hous- ing Authority for the building of additional housing was tabled. The Housing Council will decide what further steps should be taken in reference to this third resolution which it feels very strongly should have been adopted.
 All persons who are interested in the clarifcation of the new federal and state rent control laws and in New Haven's housing problems are invited to the meeting.
The union times., 1947-08-16

the same point between the company and Local 90, Office and Clerical Workers, AFL, representing some 500 workers.
 Local 9O's contract called for re- opening of wage provisions during July and negotiations have been in progress on union request. The full contract runs until July l, 1948. An early settlement is predicted.
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Vets Housing
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from all sponsibility-moral respon-
sibility, at least-in connection with
the sale of the property, and officials
of the Veterans Administration are
hopeful after the meeting held last
week. that an arrangement will be
worked out by which the purchasers
of the homes will be saddled with a
more or less negligible burden of adj
ditional cost to them.
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gton-FP-General approval
of the Truman voluntary food conser-
walton program was given by CLIO Pres.
Philip Murray Oct. 6 with a warning
that the "eat less" program would not
shortages, hunger and high prices.