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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10
Bank MoUes to I Temporary Site
Mac" McKiI1nis
Dies Sunday In
Crash Of Plane

Funeral services were hello
yesterday afternoon at the Mu.
eller chapel for M. M. 'Mac'
Nc Kinnis, who died instantly
Sunday evening when his plane
struck telephone and power line:
and crashed $50 feet away. The
Rev. John Kopp officiated.
Physicians and nurses were
still battling to save the life Of
his passenger, John Tannes Of
Richland,. who incurred grave in
juries in the accident. ...
Nc Kinnis was flying low te
buzz the Don Knowles farm hou.
sc, where he and his wife were
staying until water receded from
their Avenue c home, when hi:
wing tip encountered the stee
lines. His death was witnessed
by friends, and, according to re-
ports, by Mrs. Nc Kinnis.
He has been a resident of Ken.
newick for the past five years
For some time he was associated
with John Sawyers in the opera.
ton of the Twin City Airport
now owned by Herb Henne.
He was born October. IA, 1902
in Lyons, Kansas. He is survived
by his wife, Iris, by four sons
Robert and Stewart Of Kenne.
wick, Dick Of Molalla, Oregon
and Donald Of Pennsylvania; by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. james
Nc Kinnis Of Long View, Wash
ington; by two step-sons, Doug.
las Nc Lean Of IKennewick and
Jackie Nc Lean of Oregon; and
by three sisters.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10

the corner OF KenneWick
Avenue and A u bur n
Street, and the adjoining
building to the east has
been awarded to Neil F.
Lampson Of Kennewick,
said Tweet. He is expected to be-
gin work Immediately to make
way for construction of the new
building. Douglas Pravitz has the
contract for moving equipment
and fixtures from the old bank
to temporary quarters.
An ample vault, burglar
alarm system, and other safety
measures already have been in
stalled in the recreation building
quarters. Fireproof cabinets and
files will be moved in this week.
end.
The vault was built not only
to house present safe deposit
boxes, but will accommodate near
ly 500 new boxes on which de-
livery isasexpected in about 90
days. The new boxes will be Of
the small. popular size in urgent
demand to meet the needs of the
community.
Part of the furniture and fix
lures in the attractive temporary
quarters, including lighting, will
be new. The remainder will be
transferred from the old build
CONTINUED on Page 10)
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BULLETINS
FIRE THREAT

FIRE THREAT
Ksnnswick Fire Chief Herb
Malchow today pointed again
70 the fire threat Of tinder-dry
stand Of chsst grass surrounding
frsilsrs and trailer parks. Trail
or park operator win Be given
the assistance OF the fire de-
msnacing fire hazard, the chief
msnacing fire hazard. the chef
said, II they Will call the fire
department. Individual trailer
owners. who are parked In iso-
lated locations. should take mea-
su1eS 10 eliminate the cheat
growth themselves. Firemen can
not be dispatched TO locations 10
protect single trailer owners.
Chief Mslchow explained.
RIcHLAND BOY browns
Ten year old Kenneth Parchen
met death yesterday when ne
slipped from an inflated inner
tube and was drowned in the
back water of a flood-swollen
drainage ditch at Richland. Hos
pital attendants applied artificial
respiration for two hours in fu-
tile attempt to revive the young
ster. Two police officers made re-
peated dives into the ditch before
they recovered the body in is
feet Of muddy water.
DIETRICH APPOINTED
The Kennewick flood control
Office today announced the ap-
poinfmenf Of John Dietrich of
the Twin City Garbage Com
panY 10 supervise the pump.
ing out Of flooded Easements.
cess pools and septic tanks In
the Kennewick area. Other OPP
orators approved by the Benz
fon-Franklin Health District
may register with Dietrich,
who viii assign them 10 work.
control officials said.
ROAD CONNECTION
State highway officials We'd
nesday approved the construction
Of a short connecting link OF
roadway near the Pardini farm
Continued on Page 1W
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New Officers Elected
For Legion Auxiliary

New officers for the 1948-49
term of the American Legion
Auxiliary are Maria Billingsley,
president; Dorothy Ely, vice
president; Barbara Oliver, Sec
ond vice president and Ruth
Simmelink, secretary.
Other officers elected are Ma
bel Richmond, corresponding Sec
rotary; Carrie Nc Claimant,
treasurer; Mae Mosher, histor-
ian; Hilda Erickson, chaplain
and Ethel Harris, sergeant at
arms.
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unds Auocaied
School. Districts

The seven school districts of
Benton County received the fol-
lowing apportionment Of school
funds for the month Of May:
District Sixteen, $13,554.16;
district Seventeen, $24, Cos. 16;
district Thirty-six, $1,369.38; dis?
trict Fifty, $445.93; district Fifty
two, $3,966.37; district Fifty-three
$2,718.19, and district Four hum
dred, $52,143.09.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10
Contract Let for
Countrywide Road
0iling Project

A contract for oiling roads on
a countrywide basis was awarded
this morning Monday to Nc
Aztec & Heathe, of Spokane, al
low bid of SCI, 1880.
Six bids were received. Work
is scheduled to start within two
weeks according to Engineer
Num-. ..a..#
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Lampson , Pravitz Get
New Building Contracts

As the first step in its expansion program, the
SXennewick Branch of the National Bank of Com
merce will move into temporary quarters in the city
for business there on Monday morning, E. c. Tweet,
assistant vice president announced today.
A contract to rae the present bank structure at
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10
County Receipts
Are S570,e53.H

Receipts for the month Of May
in the County treasurer's office
were $570,653 and disburse-
ments were $494,131.92.
Treasurer c. w. Nessley an
nounces that three parcels Of land
In 1928 win be sold at county
sale on Saturday, June 10, at
the front door Of the Court House.
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nesday'S reading STOOD at
BAG.
If the water continues
to rise, bus service across
the Kennewick-Pasco bridge win
have to be discontinued, said
Richard Rector, flood control of
ficial.
Rector explained that state
highway officials and municipal
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Anon, Corey Call For
Flood Control Action

That more than one mind often comes to the
same conclusion was proven again this week in Ken
newick, when A. C. Anon proposed at the Tuesday
evening meeting Of the city council that representa-
tions be made to the u. s. Army Engineers for an
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10
Flood Near. Mark
Of Initial Crest
Photo by Days Studio

The renewed assault of Columbia river flood
waters Wednesday pushed the river.stage to within
nine tenths of an inch of its initial high crest
The first disastrous rise reached sea level
reading of 34455 in the Kennewick area, and We'd
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-06-10
The Sidewalk
REPOR TER
by The
KENNEWICK COURIER
soUAWK CLUB

tinue to grow to such monentous
proportions that the small minds
of the Squawk Club find them
selves totally incapable of cop
ing with the situation. A num-
Der of small complaints bobbed
up in desultory fashion at this
weeks session, the first in the
summer quarters. For instance,
they took a dig at the dogs run
ming loose, kids riding bicycles
on Kennewick Avenue sidewalks.
speeding cars and thoughtless
pedestrians. Only once did they
get to something of any size
when they cracked sbQ stx the
condition Of streets In the city.
And then the complainer went
clear over his head. He did for a
Atact. He stepped off a curb and
INTO a hole that had been mined
for the past year by pounding
auto wheels. He might have got
out all right with the assistance
of rescue squad If it hadn't
been that the bottom of the hole
was filled with seepage water.
Officials are looking for his rela-
tives.
STREETS
It seems downright unfriendly
to complain about the condition
Of local streets when the city is
still facing the terror of flooded
homes and displaced families.
However, complaints Of the brok-
en- pavements continue to pour
in to the KCR office and many
remind that lot of that con-
dition existed long before the
flood was thought of.
FINANCE
A visitor from Richland sug-
gests that the local police are do
ing a good job of picking up all
possible revenue. According to
his version, he parked his car
on Dayton street in a non-park-
ing meter area. When he re-
turned he found the car moved
to Kennewick avenue in front Of
red-flagged meter and what's
more there was a ticket on the
bus. He can't explain how the
car moved and took the thing in
pod humor.
DISRUPTION
It seems almost impossible that
so many people in business or
otherwise, should be affected by
a flood that stayed completely
away from their own doors. The
touled up transportation accounts
Tor much of this, but citizens in
all walks Of life find themselves
affected in various ways. Bust
ness in general has fallen off to
near nothing. Groceries, pop and
beer are holding to high levels,
however, and a check reveals
that the marriage and baby BUSH
ness are proceeding at close to
the normal level.
FLYING
In spite of a couple of flying
accidents during the past two
weeks, the air business has
flourished and planes of all de-
scriptions have been doing an
excellent job of providing emer-
gency travel and handling small
freight. In fact many of the
people who have been predicting
that the airplane will some day
replace the auto are pointing to
the present emergency as proof
OF flying superiority.
SONG OF THE WEEK
Some Kennewick people are
hurnming River Stay 'Way from
NY Door," and unhappy house
nves are warbling MUDDY Wa
ters." W."
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Objects are exploring every pos
sible means Of providing a wa
ter-free approach to the bridge.
Much attention is being given
to the proposal, considered by
the city council Tuesday even
ing, for up-building Avenue 3
to a point above the flood waters
Estimates were given at the coun-
Continued on Page 1O
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10 BUILD Ave. B

Mayor J. G. Pratt late Yester.
day notified the Xennswick
Courier Reporter that road
crews viii begin the constfuc.
ton Of the Ave. B and Gum q.
approach 10 the Kennewiek.
Paseo bridge today. The street
win b 1sadY for travel By The
week end. he predicted. State
county and city crews viii work
on the Xsnnswick approach.
Franklin county crews viii work
with Paseo construction men on
the Paseo side. State equipment
win b assigned 70 the two ends
Of the bridge In the places need.
ed Throughout the job. he said.
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SONG OF THE WEEK

Some Kennewick people are
RUNNING River Stay Way from
wy Door," and unhappy house
k'mves are warbling "Muddy Wa
ters."
Evening star., 1948-11-07

Glass Works Glass Comes OF
Age" Also election of officers.
Friday.
American Society Of Agricultural
Engineers, 11:50 am. Room 6962
So. Bldg, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. DR.. Harry
w. Won Loesecke, Principal Chem
ist, Bureau of Agriculture and In
dustrial Chemistry, Some Prob
lens in Food Processing"
Saturday.
Biological Society Of Washington, 9
pm, National Museum, 10th and
Constitution avenue, DR.. Olaf s.
Evening star., 1948-11-07

Resistance by Additions of Alloy
ing Elements in Small Amounts ~
Dinner $50 pm. Dodge Hotel.
Tuesday.
American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers, 8 pm, PEPCO Auditor
ium. Lyman c. Fisher, Associate
Chief of Mechanics Division
Naval Ordnance Laboratory. "Su-
personic Wind Tunnels of the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory"
Columbia Historical Society, Sis
pm, Mayflower Hotel.
Wednesday.
American Society for Mocha nical
Evening star., 1948-11-07
NovEMBER = I91s e-' - Wv ~~

Knights Of Columbus Hall, 920
Tenth street NV.
First days meetings will be from
noon to 8 pm. at the hall. Mass
will be celebrated at 8 am. Sunday
at the Franciscan Monastery, 140O
Quincy street NE, by the Rev.
Joseph Flynn, national chaplain of
the Catholic War Veterans.
Ofhcers elected at the convention
will be installed following the mass.
Department president Is Mrs. Olivia
IC. Peters,
Evening star., 1948-11-07

Engineers, 8 pm. Christian Heur-
ich Brewery. Smoker for mem
bers.
American Society of Heating g. Ven-
tilating Engineers, 8 pm, Old
New Orleans Restaurant. John w.
Norris, vice president, Lennox
Furnace Company, Marshalltown,
Iowa. "Air Distribution Problems
in Domestic Forced Warm Air
Heating Systems"
Thursday.
Chemical Society Of Washington,
8:1S pm. Cosmos Club Auditor
ium, Harold G. Vogt, Corning
Evening star., 1948-11-07

Sciences. All meetings listed are
open to the public.
Monday.
Institute of Radio Engineers, 8 pm,
PEPCO Auditorium. J: z. Miller,
Radio Research Engineer, West
ern Union Telegraph Co., "Appli-
cation Of Microwave Radio Tech
niques to Telegraphy and to
Sound and Video Program Trans
mission" Dinner at $50 p m, Old
O'Donnell's Restaurant.
American Society for Metals, 8 pm,
Garden House. Dodge Hotel. r.
L. La Que, Changing Corrosion
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Science Calendar
Technical Society
{ Meetings Listed

The scientific and technical So
eiety meetings listed here were an
nounced for the coming week by the
Joint Committee on Press Relations
Of the District Council of Engi-
neering and Architectural Societies
and the Washington Academy of
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Catholic War Veterans
Auxiliary 10 Meet Nov. Is

The second annual convention of
the District department of the Cath
olic War Veterans Auxiliary will be
held November 13 and IA in the
Evening star., 1948-11-07

Aamodt, Department Of Agricul-
ture. 1.-THE Soils Of Alaska in
Relation to Vegetation. First of
q series on Alaska.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

playing tiddleywinks with the
burning problems Of the peo-
pie.
Out of Humans attempt to
embarrass the COP on price
control and the Republicans
counter-maneuver on civil
rights will come. exactly moth
ing when the session adjourns.
And that's just the way the
Wall Street string-pullers
want it.
Did they forget for a mo-
ment that this November the
people have a third choice?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07

Angry delegations visited his
office, pickets paraded around
City Hall, and Illinois Progress
sive Party bombarded him with
protests.
To put it mildly, Mayor Ken
nelly was on the spot this week.
He had put himself there. Now
the problem was: what did he
intend to dc about it? :
~
MONDAY: sProgressive Party,
in a strong Statement directed to
Mayor Kennedy, charged the
mayor and the City Council with
deliberately blocking construc-
lion Of non-segregated public
housing units.
PIP claimed that delays in site
selection for the 1000 units of
relocation housing already plan
ned and financed were not tech
nical but political" and result
ing from fear that "some of the
people who might live in those
homes will not have white skins"
TUESDAY,: More than 200
angry Negro property owners,
members of South Side civic. or
CARNATIONS, and members of the
Progressive Party, crowded into
Mayor Kennelly's office to pro-
test the announced slum clear
ance program of New York Life
Insurance Co. in Chicago's South
Side.
Incensed and frightened by the
mayors announcement that the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Double talk
president TRUMAN and
his staff have a division

president TRUMAN and
his staff have division
of labor.
He makes the pretty speeches
and they tell the hard cold
facts.
Last week, Harry waved his
magic wand over jim crow in
the government and in the
armed forces. But shortly after
wards, Gen. Omar Bradley told
the press: The Army will keep
segregation"
Truman's recent; message to
Congress was very impressive
on the subject of initiation. But
last Friday, his Secretary of the
Treasury, John w. Snyder,
frankly told the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee: II am
not in favor of price controls"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Bedroom farce

CCANDAL, spies and sex
- has been a sure-thing
Hollywood formula for years.
In Washington this week the
tiresome old plot was being re-
enacted with the hoop-la of a
world premiere.
However, the feature presen-
tation failed to live up to the
coming attractions.
Billed as a glamorous blonde
spy" Elizabeth Bentley turned
out TO be dumpY. chinless
brunette with no resemblance
to Lana Turner.
Hers was a sordid story in
the series entitled II am a Red"
spiced with bedroom details
which she obviously enjoyed
telling, and naming names" of
dozens of people she had picked
up around Washington.
These important facts stood
out:
. Her testimony was con-
sidered entirely unreliable even
by the people who presented
her, since the recent indictment
of the II Communist leaders in
cluded no charges of espionage.
. The repeated mention of
the name of Henry Wallace in
her testimony was the tip-off as
to what this nasty little farce
was all about.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Wooden nickel

TOLD onto what's left of
i your pocketbooks! There's
plan to create new &c coin.
You have three guesses why.
Rep. John w. Mccormack,
Democratic whip in the House
has just filed a bill to create
the coin.
1t seems the Hearst papers
are reported to be considering
a possible future increase in
prices-a nickel isn't enough
any more, although Boston
papers recently went from &c to
SC after making more money
than ever before in their his
tory.
So local Hearst reporter
was sent to Washington to see
Mccormack and others about
pumping a little initiation into
the nickel. Mccormack obliged.
The politicians think it might
be great for fare boosts, candy
machines and other pocket
picking devices.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Bank moves to
evict tenants

In a suit for injunction to block
eviction Of tenants at 683O-32 S.
Paxton filed by the Chicago Area
Rent Office this week in Fed
eral Judge Walter J. LaBuy's
court, the LaSalle National Bank
was named as the property
trustee.
The bank is seeking to evict
tenants and sell apartments I'M
der a cooperative plan. How
ever, the rent law only per
mits eviction in such cases if IS
per cent of the residents are
members of the cooperative.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Dear dairy

CHICAGO papers last week
" headlined the fact that
eight Chicago milk companies
have been indicted by the gov
eminent for price-fixing.
Consumers received the news
skeptically, knowing that this
would be just another case add
ed to the long list of govern
ment "anti-trust" prosecutions
which are like fleas on the ele-
phantine American monopoly:
Were the big milk companies
terrorized by Tom Clark's big
stick?
They answered by raising the
price of milk another cent
quart.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Eviction stopped
Literary career S no
help to this landlord

The tenants at 4756 N. Dover
had the last laugh.
But, for awhile there, things
did look pretty grim for them.
After all, how would you feel,
if you picked up the May 1913
issue of Landlords Guide and
read this:
Take long look at the three
story, department building on
the southwest corner of Lawrence
av. and Dover st. Those three
corner units each contain five
rooms. In few months they will
each contain three two-room
apartments each with kitchens
and baths, making a total of nine
units from three units"
Hey. w-w-wait a minufe!"
gasped the Ass N. Dover TEN
ants. THAT'S where we ive!"
THE ARTICLE outlined a plan
for Cd remodeling each apart
ment into three apartments, ca
evicting tenants, go tripling the
landlords rents.
The plan was .feasib1e-under
the loop-holed riddIed l948 Hous-
ing and Rent Act. But, this time
it fell through.
Municipal Judge We dell
Green turned down eviction pro-
ceedings against the Dover TEN
ants in his courtroom last week.
when attorneys Irving Steinberg
and Lester Koenissberg pulled
an ace out of their sleeves.
The landlord-busy with his
Landlords Guide" article-had
forgotten to get his Femodeling
permit renewed.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Ordower, Woodard
head Wallace vets

PHILADELPHIA - Chicago's
Sidne y Ordower, Progressive
Congressional candidate in the
9th District, was chosen with
Isaac Woodland to be one of the
two co-chairmen of the Pro-
gressive Party's veterans di-
vision.
Woodland is the young Negro
vet who was hrutally blinded
by South Carolina cop. The
election of Ordower and Wood
ard took place at a veterans
meeting attended by some 800
ex-GIS.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
'Foscist' leoder
oids trusts

WASHINGTON-W. Homer
Hartz. treasurer of American
Action Inc. who recently was
appointed TO + h Chicag
Board of Education by Mayor
Kennedy. has b e e n reap
pointed chairman of the man
ufacfure department commit
tee of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce. The committee
advises monopolies on meth
DDS of evading antitrust laws.
American Action was formed
by american fascists." Rep.
has charged in Congress.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Rather be President

A MBITIOUS Harold Stas-
N sen b &c a m e President
this week-but not the way he
had planned it.
AS prexy of the University of
Pennsylvania he will guide the
destinies of 5000 students, in
stead of 1870 million Americans.
With Gen. Eisenhower filling
a similar post at Columbia, it is
not hard to see the outlines of
Wall Streets program to con-
troll the minds of Americas
youth.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
Tenants, owners unite to fight
3 Kennedy housing schemes

area from 31st to 33rd between
South Park and Lake was to be
purchased by the Chicago Land
Clearance Commission, cleared,
and sold to New York Life, resi-
dents of the area have organized
to defeat the plan.
"Our homes are well kept up"
Mrs. Mary Whit assistant
minister of the Progressive Com
munity Church, told the, mayor,
land most of us have spent hun
dreds of dollars keeping them in
good condition. If this project
displaces us, the rentals in the
new units would be from $85 to
$135 a month, which is more than
most of us can afford"
Headed by Emmett Gordon,
businessman; Mrs. Alice Brown
ing, housewife; the Rev. Mary
Winters; Albert George of the
Progressive Party, and others, the
group asked the mayor to come
to a meeting Aug. IL in the area
to discuss the plan.
The mayors attitude seemed
best expressed in his quiet aside
to Mrs. Browning as the group
left his office. you seem to have
great deal of influence with
them. Keep them quiet. We're
not going TO wreck all the homes
at once"
WEDNESDAY,: A picketline or
ganized by the Westside Tenants
and Home Owners Council pa
raded around City Hall, demand
ing that % the city and federal
government assume joint respon-
sibility for providing homes for
those 1000 people to be evicted
on the site OF the planned West
Side Veterans Administration
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-08-07
a personal letter from
the Executive Editor

same ideo. You don't like phones. Thot's
why you ore the backbone of the Progress
sive Porty. why you have turned your
backs on the two old porties and ore help
ing mobilize new support for Henry VOL
lace. You ond both need The Stor 10 do
our Job.
: But we need money, and need it right
owoy. to CORY our fight. So I'm asking
you to rush every doIIor TO US immediately
ActvolIy. I'm asking you TO help yourself in
This common eoUse in which The Sfor is a
muior weapon.
want to keep on fighting. for peoee
and security and equality want Chicago
TO have one printed voice for Henry Wal
lace and the genuine democracy which is
The soul Of the Progressive Porty. ! want
TO drown out the siren songs of Jezebe
Trumon and Loree Dewey.
How about you? And how much will
you give-foday-to keep The Stor shif.nc
in these foiefvI days before the November
elections?
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS