The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1947-10-16
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By Hal Clark

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The new fashions Tor municipal
tiles stress the bulge and the bloat
this year.
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While most cities of the North
west are straining at their civic
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of it's britches.
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| It almost looks as though the
town will have to &c measured
for a new suit of clothing. That
brings UP the unpleasant question
of who is going to pay the haber-
dasher:
Perhaps, like careful citizen
Kennewick should make the old
raiment last a bit longer. But
that reach for the pocket can't be
delayed indefinitely.
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Item-the matter of schools. E.
is. Black, school superintendent,
whose vision and foresight pro-
vided the city with an educational
plant, once thought by some to be
as out-sizeds as plow-hand's bro
gans, recently told the Chamber
of Commerce that the schools are
not big enough to cope with their
traffic load.
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Admittedly, the situation has
been precipitated-not by kenne-
wick developments-but activities
at Richland and at the McNary
Dam site. Workers, reporting to
their jobs, bring their wives and
children with them. +.
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Children must be schooled. They
must be schooled regardless of
whether or not this is their point
of origin. What's to be done?
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Those who know Superintendent
Black best are completely conf
dent that he will find source Of
supplementary funds, If any such
funds are available. Suppose no
such monies can be secured.
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The breaking point will still come.
The point at which the physical
capacities of the teachers and the
physical limits of the school sys-
tenn simply cannot accommodate
the flood of students. Unless, as
now seems most unlikely, the
trend is checked or reversed.
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Should that happen, we'll find
that that horrid thing rearing its
ugly head is Bond Issue. There
won't be any other way out. The
necessary mill levy would increase
by about fifty per cent the taxes
paid on residential properties.
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Item-the matter of water sup
ply. With the search for Housing
degenerating into a frantic search
for Shelter, the factor of water,
needed for the development of raw
land into home sites, becomes a
stone wall upon which the pros
/ pective builder bloodies his head
to no avail.
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| We won't need to worry that he
will have to forego his legitimate
profits-in the continuing absence
of an adequate water supply for
Kennewick, although his legitit-
mate profits would contribute to
the financial health of our COM
munity.
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We ought to worry a lot, how
ever, that in-comers to this region
are constantly being deprived of
one of the basic necessities of life
satisfactory shelter for them
selves and their families!
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AS in the case of the schools,
Kennewick and Kennewick people
didn't precipitate this crisis. But
does that argue that it is not to be
reckoned with? It's here; it's a
fact!,
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It is said that long ago, in a
| happier, healthier time, before the
| Great White Father began to par
eel out the mamma, that our citizens
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solutions were found by local peo-
pie for local problems.
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1t is said that we would all be
better if we could win back to
those more independent habits.
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If that's true, then let's get to
the job of doing it!
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We've got the schools item; we've |
got the water item; we've got the
sewers item; we've got the roads
Item.
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We may be short on eggs and
meat and wheat for whiSkey, but
we've got surplus of these nag
ging items
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Let's ge. to the job of solving
them. It's going to take the May
or and the City Council and the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Active Club-and it's going to take
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