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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
Airplanes Scour
Wooded Area for
Richland Pilot

Fast flying search planes from
army units and private airports
last night returned from a day
over the heavily wooded noun
famous areas around The Dalles,
reporting no sight Of William Guy
Holiday Of Richland whose plane
vanished Saturday. a <
The young aviator, who flew
out over the Columbia river Sat-
urday noon from Twin City air.
port on what was supposed to
have been a trip to visit his par
ents in Oregon City, Ore, had
become the concern Of the entire
nation and the object Of a search
which had extended over much
of the area Of two states.
Seasoned pilots who secured
the area flew high and low in an
effort to get a glimpse Of the Is
year old flyers plane.
Fred O. Switzer Of Yakima, dis
trict search coordinator for the
Washington state aeronautics COM
mission, arrived Tuesday morning
at the Twin City airport to assume
personal direction Of the far-hung
aerial search.
After day of fruitless search.
ing, the rescue center moved We'd
nesday to The Dalles. !.
According to Herb Henne OF
the Twin City airport, Holiday
made arrangements last week to
rent four-place, radio equipped
Stinson Voyager for flight tc
Oregon City, where he planned
to visit over the week end with
his. parents.
Checking the weather In ad.
vance of take-off, the young pilo,
found reported cesfssH of 4,50(
feet and a six-mile visibility.
An ominous note In the flyer.
prolonged absence is found in hi:
possession of two-way radio, or
which he might have called tc
full-time short wave receiving
stations were he able to do so
Observers pointed out also that he
should have walked out to popu.
lated territory in the hours since
his disappearance If he was un-
hurt in a forced landing.
Kennewick flyers and observ-
ers Joined the search for the miss
ing pilot Monday, covering an es-
timated area Of 1000 square miles
in 20 hours Of flying time. Bob
Neuman scanned the Prosser Hills
locality; Joe Wilson, flying Bill
Wesley, covered the country to the
north and southwest; Bob Worth,
with Chef Eggleston as his OBJ
server, checked southeast to The
Dalles, veered toward Yakima and
returned; and Ebert Pettijohn,
Herb Henne and Walt Knowles
carried out an extensive search in
a twin engined Cessna plane.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12

The city councils special COM
mittee to inquire into the death of
Floyd Virgil Taylor following q
night in the local Jail issued its
report Tuesday night, generating
the police department for hand.
ling the case in a routine man.
ner but censuring Police Chief
Kershaw for permitting the man
to 90 without medical examin-
alton and aid for such Q long
period of time"
The report said that "the city
has in its budget set aside funds
for such medical attention for
prisoners to be used whenever
needed" and added that "the COM
mittee can assure the family (Tay-
lor's family and the public that
such an experience shall never
again occur in our city Jail"
With statements in possession
of Mayor j. G. Pratt and the COM
mittee from DR.. r. M. debit, who
examined the patient and order
ed him to the hospital; Harry
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
Idaho Man Killed
In Auto Accident
Near Richland Y

Frank J. Spaulding, %, OF
Nampa, Idaho died in Rich
land hospital Tuesday night of
injuries he suffered when his
car skidded ana turned end over
end into the ditch.
The tragedy occurred four miles
west of the Richland "Y" on the
ProsSer road.
A report turned in at state
motor patrol headquarters short
ly after the accident, said that the
car in which Sullivan and q COM
panion were riding evidently was
travelling at a terrific rate Of
speed. The car, a large late
model sedan capable of 100 or
more miles per hour, turned over
at least six times, the report said.
Riding with Sullivan was Hen.
ry Hinzman Of Richland who was
still IN the hospital with unde-
termined injuries last night.
The twisted mass Of steel was
lowed into the Pratt garage In
Kennewick yesterday. Most Of
the glass was broken out of the
doors and the windshield was
battered out. It appeared that
Sullivan and Hinzman were
thrown through the doors. The
top of the car was bent down.
ward and to one side and the
wheels were twisted.
Patrolmen said that Just be-
fore Sllivan died he was trying
to tell attendants about a third
party in the car at the time OF
the wreck. On Investigation. Il
was found that the party be
named was in Grandview at the
time of the wreck.
The body Of the dead man Is
at the Mueller funeral home in
Kennewick and is to be forwarded
to Nampa, Idaho, tonight for
funeral services and burial, He
is survived by his wife and young
SON who are in Nampa.
Sullivan was employed by 9
bridge gang and was working out
of Grandview.
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Job Diversity Marks Meisiersingers;
Will Sing Here on February 10th

Variety in occupation Of the or
ganization's some 20 members, as
well as in their repertoire, key
notes the spirit Of the Richland
Meistersingers, who win present
a full evening Of entertainment
when they appear in q concert in
Kennewick on February 20 at the
high school auditorium, under
sponsorship Of the Pre-School p
ia.
A glance at jobs held by the
officers Of the group alone, re-
veals that the famous atomic city
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
March Of Dimes
Nears Its Goal

A total Of $4,000 was collected
this year in the Kennewick area
for the March of Dimes, Area
Chairman Mrs. Lena McCamisb
announced today. I'VE would have
gone over our $500 quota IL Il
hadn't been for the lack of thought
and consideration shown by the
people who stole some of the
boxes placed in business houses. .
Mrs. Mechanism said.
Anyone still wishing to donate
can either mail checks to Mrs.,
Mechanism at the grade school On
leave them at the Courier-Repor-
ter office.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12

day after a long distance
phone conversation with
Hal Holmes, representa-
tive from the Fourth
Congressional district.
Testimony in support Of the
project viii be introduced by Jay
Perry, chairman of the Irrigation
Projects committee, and by Lee
Boutelle and Frank Lampson, al
so representing the committee.
Lampson is also q member Of the
board of directors Of the Kenne-
wick Irrigation district. The par
ty will leave Kennewick in ample
time to report TO the Washington
hearings.
In addition, Perry will act for
the Columbia Basin committee,
through which an about drive
has been launched for compile
ton of northwest power and re-
clamation projects and the Gre
alton of a 100000 loan fund for
Columbia Basin settlers.
A promise Of support for the
Kennewick project came as well
from the office of Art Carton,
director Of the Washington State
Department of Conservation and
Development. I'VE will appreciate
being advised as to when the
hearings are TO be held in order
that one Of our Representatives
in Washington, DC. might also
appear and offer testimony in be-
half of the appropriation" he
wrote E. j. Brand, Kennewick IT.
Irrigation district secretary.
Carton gave assurance that ri.
nancial support from the commits.
sion would be forthcoming to aio
in defraying Perry's expenses
Financing for the other delegate.
will come from irrigation com,
inittee funds. rs .r.
Members of the Kennewicl
committee expressed the opinion
that the hearing in the nation.
: capitol may lead to early actor
on the long sought appropriation
for the Kennewick protest.
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Council Committee
Reports on Jail Death

Schafer, Inter-City Bus driver;
Chief Kershaw, and from sons Of
the man who died, the committee
said they had made thorough
investigation of the matter.
They reported:
"Mr. Taylor had been visiting
his sons in Richland and a grand
SON accompanied him to the In
ter City bus on the afternoon of
the Goth of November, l947. Mr..
Taylor had apprehension and be-
came unable to get off the bus
at the Avenue c stop. The driver
assisted him from the bus and po-
lice were called to care for the
man. Meanwhile the bus driver,
thinking it was a diabetic attack,
tried to give him fruit juice with
little success.
1.-THE police took Mr.. Taylor to
headquarters and placed him IN a
cell on the floor on his side, the
chief thinking il was a case Of
drunkenness. A mattress was
placed under him and he remain
ed in that position, breathing
heavily, until he was seen by Dr..
debit at about 4::30 pm. on the
9th. The doctor ordered him TAX
en- to the hospital pronouncing his
trouble tspastic paralysis on the
left side,' the doctor also stating
that neglect did not cause his
death
There is no evidence that Mr..
Taylor had been drinking. This
stroke came as he rode the bus
and entirely incapacitated him. He
had to be carried from the bus.
This stupor and incapacity and
the smell of the fruit juice caused
the police to jump to the conclu-
sion that he was intoxicated. This
may be a natural conclusion on
their part and we feel that they
could not be blamed for routine
handling of such a case. However,
the chief is to be censured for per-
hitting the man to 60 without
medical examination and aid for
such long period of time.
1.-The city has In its budget set
aside funds for such medical at
tention for prisoners, to be used
whenever needed, and the COM
mittee can assure the family and
the public that such an expert
ence shall never again occur In
our city Jail"
The report was signed by the
Mayor and committee. Others on
the committee were Councilmen
r. B. Holden and Lawrence Scott.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
Crowded Agenda
10 Mark Retail
Merchants Meet

Retail merchants Of the entire
KenneWick community were
strongly urged today by Ross
Frank, manager Of the Kennewicl<
Chamber of Commerce, to attend
meeting of the Retail Merchants
Association at the Farm on Tues
day evening, February II, at 8
o'clock.
Outlining a crowded evening
agenda, Frank stressed the meet
ing's importance according to n.
r. Hicks. Twenty-Five business
heads from the rivor road and
the Richland Y will attend the
meeting, and r. e. Standley pre-
diets an attendance Of Is from
the Avenue. G business district.
Included in the early order Of
business will be an election of
officers, Frank said, explaining
that the existing practice of de-
signaling as president, the cur
rent chairman of the retail mer-
chants committee of the Chamber
of Commerce is to be discontin-
ued. Henceforth, all officers of the
association will be elected from
its membership.
Offices of president, vice pres
ident, secretary, treasurer, and
directors of the board will be
filled at the Tuesday meeting.
The establishment of a COM
munity better business bureau
will also be considered. The high
rate of business activity in the
Kennewick area is attracting
many outside interests, and some
effective method must be devised
to control undesirable forms Of
solicitation, Frank commented.
Merchants attending the meet
ing will also outline plans for
community wide spring mer-
chandise opening at date to be
determined at the meeting. An
other aspect of the seasonal show
ing will be cleanup week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
COP. Dinner To
Be at Prosser

The Republican Lincoln day
dinner February IL, will be held
at Prosser in the Methodist
Church at ZOO %. m.
Speaker Of the evening will be
Owen Clark, prosecuting attor-
ney Of Yakima county, former
president of Washington State
Young Republican club.
Reservations are not required,
but anyone wishing to make re-
servations may call Kenn. 1851.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12

tstruction would be depen-
dent upon the availability
Of funds as provided by
Congress for the big job
that will cost a total $227
million dollars per year.
Colonel Ellison described the
project at the Tuesday noon
meeting of the KenneWick XII
wants club. The multiple pur-
pose dam will provide irrigation
water for 100000 acres of land,
will improve navigation and will
produce ultimately more than a
million kilowatts of power from
IA generating units.
At its peak the job will en-
ploy between $500 and 1000
workers.
The speaker was confident that
the Engineers plan for a road
way on top of the dam would be
approved. This would be a mile
and half long, with double
bascule type bridge across the
ship canal. The roadway and
sidewalk will follow the down.
stream side of the dam with a
service deck on the upriver side.
From the service deck cranes
will operate to handle the gates
as well as to pick up lodged deb
ris.
- n II
spring, according to Col. Ellison,
and it is expected that pouring
of concrete on the locks and
spillway will start by October.
Most of the employees will be
housed in the permanent town
and the. adjacent temporary conn
munity on the Oregon side, he
said and added that the engineers
do not contemplate housing more
Continued on Page 81
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McNary Power in 81;
Pour Concrete this Fall

Power from three generators operated by Nc
N.rv Dam waterfall may pulse through the trans
mission lines of the northwest by September OF 1854,
corrding to It. COL William Ellison Of the Portland
office Of the u S. Army Engineers
He qualified the prediction by stating that con-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
Hearing Set For
Irrigation Bill

A legislative committee of the house Of represent
tatives will open hearings on the Kennewick High
lands irrigation project bill in Washington, c. on
February 26, Frank Maupin, secretary of the lrri-
cation Projects committee, announced late Wednes-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
The Sidewalk
REP0R TER
by The
KENNEWICK COURIER
souAwK CLUB

pedestrian Protective association
Gaining recognition by brandish-
mo their shiny Dick Tracey
badges. Chief complaint was the
matter of speeding motorists,
especially on East Third and
Kennewick avenues. One opera
tive claimed that he made a per-
sonal investigation one morning
early this week and counted at
least a dozen cars travelling at
an excessive speed right at the
time the streets were crowded
with youngsters tripping off to
school. 1T would seem,' he sug-
eested. ''that motorists could have
little more consideration for
the kids and if they are late to
work they ought to get up five
minutes earlier"
PROBLEM use:
Even with the best possible
police patrol of traffic it is inn
possible to catch all guilty mo-
florists. AS one of the officers
said recently, Even with net
you can't catch all the fish," 1t
is an ever present problem here
and everywhere else. But 1t
would seem important to lend
every possible assistance in pro-
tecting the lives of these bouyant
youngsters. The only combination
that can be successful is the
most possible police patrol along
with a little bit of thoughtful
ness on the part OF autoists.
FEW BUSINESS
1.-THE new business department
continues a pace with the pro-
spects for rapidly increased
tempo coming with the promise
of spring weather with a result
ing squirt in building activities.
There are enough business build
ings on the drawing boards now
to build a town if they were all
in one place. And it would be
pretty fancy looking town, too.
OLD BUSINESS
Alfred Anon, who likes to re-
minisce on the old days as well
as any other old timer, was dis
cussing the present "fluctuation"
in grain prices. Which reminded
him of some of the early days
on Horse Heaven. "At that time"
he said, s'it was easier to drag
a wagon across the fields than
on the so-called roads of that
era" And when you had labored
with four horse wagon across
the fields and through the sage
brush into town you got sixty
five cents for your wheat. ..
BOUQUET . 49,.
A posy this week to members
OF the Kennewick Business and
professional Women's club who
nave just successfully completed
a collection of funds for the
March Of Dimes. A lot of suf-
ierlng kids will offer their thanks
for this well done job.
STORY OF THE WEEK
One Of our local sport fans
was riding on an Inter City bus
~ other day, He had turned to
-se sport Section Of a morning
paper and was scanning the re-
suits OF the previous days races
apparently 1t was not his lucky
uay 1or as he came to each result
~ tuin MS language became pro-
ne put down the paper and dis
covered that a minister was
seated next to him. He apollo
elzed for his language and made
1 guess you know that I'm
man who calls a spade q
spade" ~
mo, John," the pastor said, 81
oeheve you would cali it q -
. = shovel
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
YOUNG DEMOS TO MEET

The Young Democrats Of Ben
ton county will meet on Monday.
Feb. 16, at 8 pm. in room 100,
Lewis and Clark school in Rich
land to elect officers for 1048.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-02-12
WV MEETING

There will be a meeting Of
the Kennewick WV Post and
their Auxiliary on the night of
February Is at 800 p. m. in the
local Legion hall.
Evening star., 1948-08-22

A biography of Goebbels, no less
than of Hitler, is inevitably the story
of the entire IL years of Nazi Ger
many. The chief propagandist of
the Nazis was omnipresent. The
very idea of the elevation of propa-
gandist to the status of cabinet min
lister was based on conception that
the political program had to be
guarded at every point from the
light of truth.
Certainly no modern propaganda
was ever called upon to sell such an
unpalatab4e mess to the public 1t
is weakness of Mr.. Riess' book that
he does not go into detail about
what national socialism really was
politically and philosophically
speaking. He does detail the aspects
and incidents which called for the
masters touch to blind the public
but it seems incredible now that
anybody ever believed the lying,
vacillating explanations of the Nazi
program. Perhaps the answer is in
a revealing sentence, curiously in
consistent with the tone of the rest
of the book: "It is safe to say says
MIR. Riess, that in those (early)
years the German people would have
backed the Hitler regime anyway,
even if Goebbels and his propaganda
ministry had not existed" A sordid
thought.
GoebbeS. the active Nazi and
Gauleiter of Berlin where he made
a dazzling success as a party organ
izer) had flashes of genius as prop
agandist but his bad decisions far
outweighed his effective ones. His
most conspicuous success was in
organizing party rallies and setting
the stage for the dramatizations OF
the wild. incoherent mouthings of
Hitler AS an apologist for Hitler's
Evening star., 1948-08-22
What 1t Takes
ToOvercone
.7otuHtoriunism
MAN is STRONG
BY Corrado .Alvaro. (Alfred
Knopt; $3.)
Reviewed by
ROBERT K. WALSH.

A society held together by force
and by fear of people to reveal their
inner selves is made to order for
drama no less than political tragedy
Conflict of that kind offers power
full elements-and weapons-to a
novelist.
This novel, translated from the
Italian of challenging young
writer, has universally and per-
spective that go beyond time and
nationality or fascism and COM
munism as names. It cuts directly
into totalitarianism's evil blight on
the human mind and spirit.
The book, described as an intel
lectual adventure" nevertheless falls
short of its opportunity to resolve
the dramatic struggle of an ideal
istic engineer who returns to his
native country after years abroad.
He Immediately finds that condi-
tions are not at all as rosy as the
dictators declared. and that people
themselves are not the same.
unfortunately ne seems, as
thinker, to be sometimes muddle-
headed. AS a doer he often is aff1ict-
ed with moral blind spots. The re-
suit leaves the reader a bit dis
couraged. Man must be stronger
than that if he expects to overcome
totalitarianiSm.
There can be no complaint, how
ever, against Mr.. Alvaro's effective
ness in establishing the atmosphere.
He is at his best in showing the
suspicion, bounding, fear, hate and
disintegration of human relations
that exist when people develop a
feeling of guilt if they even so
much as think against a dictatorial
way of life.
Evening star., 1948-08-22

acts of banditry-the seizure OF
Czechoslovakia and Poland-he was
only average. He was fiendishly
successful with the Reichstag fire
and is given full credit for the in
ception of the idea by Mr.. Riess
The author. incidentally, does not
say what, if anything, Goebbels had
to do with the most stupid world
relations act of the Nazis in the
early days, the burning of the books
About the British, Goebbels proved
himself through the years to be COM
pletely wrong in general but strange
ly right in many particulars. He
felt they could be knocked out OF
the war, and yet he fired Lord HaW
HaW because he realized that the
traitors broadcasts would only
strengthen British resistance. Rib
bentrop rehired him. Perhaps the
most successful wartime move of
Goebbels' propaganda was stolen
from the British, whose propaganda
he had long derided as "dilettante.
1t was his acknowledgment, after
Stalingrad, that the German people
would have to be told the bitter
truth about the war and asked to
continue it in a spirit of sacrifice.
The whole dramatic story of the
deterioration of the German Army,
people and. finally, their leaders is
here. 1t is familiar in outline and
now seems like something which
happened not three but 80 years
ago. 1t is still worth thinking about,
especially the part which shows what
happens to a country when the
government takes over the press and
radio and silences all opposition.
That practice, unfortunately, did
not stop in Europe when Goebbels
died in the defeat and disaster he'd
done so much to bring about.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
THE LAST OF THE
CONQUERORS

BY William Gardner Smith.
(Farrar, Strous; S2.75J
The story of a group of colored
soldiers sent to Germany after the
war is told in a penetrating first
novel by a Philadelphia youth who
went through the experience.
Mr. Smiths GIs we're amazed to
find a country where there was no
color line, where even the girls did
not discriminate. TIA Dawkins and
girl named Ilse fell in love- That
was in Berlin, where they all had
a good time and their detachment
was commanded by white captain,
who treated them like men, not like
menials. But when Dawkins was
transferred to a provincial town, he
found Southern captain and a
stooge of colored first sergeant
who were quite different.
| Most of the soldiers, mindful OF
how they'd been pushed around all
their lives, were reluctant to &c
home. A few, under orders to re-
turn, deserted to the Russian zone
Mr.. Smith writes Collectively
enough to avoid indignation, sin
cerely enough to enlist sympathy
Sometimes he is discursive, but just
the same, once you've started the
book it's hard to lay it down. He
was only 20 when he finished this
novel in 1896 He shows decided
promise.
Evening star., 1948-08-22
Reading and Writing
Apostle of Conserving Worlds Resource
Says Education Is ] of ; Main Factors
By Mor McGrory

problem, he mentioned the Army
Engineers, his particular "bete noir, I"
who build dams without doing any
thing to prevent erosion in the up
lands. That's just one instance, and
one of the reasons he would like to
see a coordination of the numerous
conservation agencies operating
within the Government.
While he is in Washington, Mr..
vogt lives with his wife, a psy-
chiatric social worker. on New
Hampshire avenue. They spend six
months of every year on field trips
to South America.
Does he practice what he
breaches? Yes. in the small ways
open to city dweller. He drives
small car, which required less steel
to build and which consumes less
gas than large one. And he always
turns out lights not in use and turns
of dripping water faucets.
A Chat With Wallace Carroll.
Since he finished Persuade or
Perish" his new book about psyche
logical warfare in World War II,
Wallace Carroll has been hard at