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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
Hardness Loses
0ld-Time Trophy
For Men Of City

Former residents Of Kenne-
wick got together Sunday for q
reunion at their third annual pic
mic in Seattle's Woodland Park.
By virtue of the late arrival Of H.
E. "Brick" Oliver and w. F.
"Chuck" Neel, honors for the old
est resident went to r. v. "Bul"
Shaughnessy, who came to the
city in 1904.
Nee1 arrived in Kennewick In
1902 and Oliver in 1904, a post
contest check-up revealed.
Mrs. A. c. Hall, nee Mildred
Holmes, was declared a close rum
ner-up to the winning Shaugh-
messy. having come to the city In
1905.
The feature Of the day was the
display of pioneer and modern
pictures of the fast growing city,
comparing then and now. Many
interesting remarks were heard
regarding 'the old school house"
and numerous other landmarks.
Those attending came from Ev-
erett, Port Orchard, Tacoma,
Longview, Vancouver, Kennewick
as well as Seattle.
The present Kennewick resi-
dents attending included, Mr..
M. v. Heberline, Mrs. Annie Mu-
eller and grandson Dick, Mr.. and
Mrs. Brick Oliver and Mr.. and
Mrs. Chuck Neel.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
pTA 10 Discuss
Bonds for School

A discussion Of the school bond
issue is being sponsored by the
Kennewiclk P.T.A. Thursday, Aug
ust Is at $3.50 pm. in the High
School auditorium. This meeting
is to acquaint the general public
with the demand for funds to ex-
pand the present school system.
President Curt Gerards urged
all parents to attend the meeting
to familiarize themselves on the
issue. He stressed the point that
it will be the parents that must
get out and work for the passage
Of the bond issue on Sept. Il.
Mrs. Dale Galloway, chairman
of the hospitality committee, an
nounced that refreshments would
be served by her committee fol-
lowing the meeting.
The first meeting Of the newly
reorganized Kennewick P.T.A.
win be September Is when the
group will hold a reception for
the teachers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26

Some child viii win $500 and a
trip to Daley Brothers Circus win
ter quarters at Gonzales, Texas.
for naming the smallest baby
elephant in America.
The infant will be seen here
abouts when the huge String rail-
road circus exhibits In Kenne-
wick on Monday, September 8
with afternoon and night perfor-
mances at 8 and 8 Pm. Daley
Brothers Circus has "a other big
and little elephants, but the small
est, imported with other rare wild
animals from India Q few months
ago, Il by all standards Of COM
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
Council Awards
Highland Trunk
Sewer Contract

"A contract for construction of
the Highland sewer line in the
amount of 500, s04.10 was awarded
Monday to Hanson and Parr Of
Spokane.
The Goerig and Russell bid Of
$74,384.00 on the Beech street
trunk line was accepted a week
ago.
Easement negotiations are stin
under way. George Cloud, store
keeper for the PP&L, Tuesday
night appeared before the coun-
Gil in relation to the Beech street
trunk line which passes through
the present storage yard Of the
company.
Much heavy equipment must be
moved and the fence must be cut
and left open until work is COM
plete on that section of the line,
Cloud commented.
The land under discussion is
shown on the city map as an un-
developed street, which, unless II
has been previously vacated by
the city, is municipality owned
property.
Representatives of the r. II.
Cory engineering firm were asked
to make a definite check Of the
land ownership and report their
findings to the council.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
Giard Lumber Addition
Requests Annexation

Signed by 81 residents, a petit
non requesting annexation Of the
Cards Lumber Addition to the
Guy was presented to the City
Council Tuesday night.
c. II. Ford and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank r. Shaw, who appeared be-
lore the council, were asked to
secure a plat Of the proposed area
1or the convenience Of council
men.
After signature to the petition
nave been checked, Mayor J. c.
fratt said, the date for q hearing
on the annexation proposal win
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
Island View Residents
To Form Association

Island View residents win meet
tonight at. the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. A. Nyborg to form per-
manent community association.
Officers and directors are to be
elected and action viii be taken
on a constitution and bylaws.
A committee chairmaned by c.
A. Nybcrg will submit the pro-
posed constitution and bylaws
for the consideration Of the men,
bers. The annual membership fee
has been set at one dollar a year.
The objective Of the association
will be to promote the betterment
and progress Of the Island View
community, Nyborg said.
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Black Explains Bond
Proposal to Kiwanians

Urging support for the Kenne-
wick school bond proposal to Ki-
wanians Tuesday, Superintendent
Els. S. Black explained that no
definite mill levy has been fixed
in the advertisement Of the spe-
cial election because bonds would
not then be salable.
The county assessor must be
able to levy the tax at q rate
commensurate with the necessary
payments on interest and prin-
cipal, he said, and cannot be set
In advance.
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Ex-Governor Martin
To Visit KenneWick

Clarence D. Martin win visit
Kennewick today to meet old
friends and new and talk over
personally some Of the legislation
which people consider most i'm
portant to the development Of the
area.
Martin Il a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for COVER
nor In the Sept. II primaries
post he filled two terms from 1888
to l041.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
County Budgets
$500 in 1919
For Benton Fair

The Benton County Commits
sioners this week set up an item
] Of $500 in their 1919 budget for
the Kennewick Fair, and passed
a resolution designating it as the
official Benton County fair.
The Fair Association win con-
duct the 1948 fair on Sept. "a, Is
and rs without county support,
since no provision was made for
funds in the 1913 budget. After
this year, however, county aid will
be available for buildings, lands
and premiums, A. G. Anon, asso-
citation chairman, said.
When the fair was first re-
vived in 1916, it was sponsored
and supported by the Kennewick
Grape Festival association which
had as one Of its purposes the es-
Enlistment and holding of an ag-
ricultural fair in Kennewick. This
provision was written into the
articles Of incorporation by Ken
meth Serier who was one Of the
original trustees of the Festival
association.
In 1947 the fair was held in con-
formity with All district fair
rules so that the state provided
some Of the premium money.
The Kennewick fair has been
recognized by the state depart
ment Of agriculture as district
fair. eligible to participate in state
fair money.
In 1913 it was decided to have
separate association to sponsor
the Kennewick fair. Accordingly
the Fair association was organized
and incorporated with Alfred
Anon as president, Kenneth T..
Serier as vice president and Sec
Rotary, and E. G. Tweet as treas
urer.
The present trustees are Gilbert
Clodfelter, Ray Marsh, Frank
Lampson, H. N. Hampton, Willard
Campbell, Frank Webster, John A.
Smith, c. c. Williams, c. c. Mil
Ter, David James, Oades Sloan.
A. Campbell, Ted M. Clifford
and e. II. Behrman.
Entertainment for the fall cele-
bration win be furnished by the
Kennewick Grape Festival assoc
citation.
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telephone property to the
Interstate T e ! e p h Q n e
Company with general
offices in Spokane.
"This deal has been in the
making for some time," said Mr..
Brown, land has awaited the APP
proval Of the department before
final transfer could be made.
Effective midnight of Friday,
August 20, the Interstate people
assumed full responsibility for
the telephone service in this area.
Earl Thierer, Interstate Audi
tor, is in Kennewick today ar
ranging for the transfer Of ac-
counts and familiarizing the To-
cal force in the handling Of rou-
tines and methods in all three de-
partments, plant, traffic and
commercial. The present local
force will be retained"
Also today, G. E. Hoy, Spokane
general superintendent and vice
president Of the Interstate Tele-
phone Company announced the
appointment Of F. H. Hume as To-
cal manager in the Kennewick
area.
eve are fortunate" said he, ''to
have a man ready to take this
important position at this time.
Mr.. Hume has many years of
various kinds Of telephone work
as a background and has filled
each position to which he has
advanced with credit to himself
and the company. We feel that he
is the right man for the place at
this time. He has had a great deal
Of experience In construction
work, as troubleman, ccmbina-
ton man and installer, and for
the past two years end >, hah has
been very busy as commercial
manager at Wenatchee."
Hume will move his family to
Kennewick as soon as suitable
dwelling can be obtained. He Is
married and has two sons, and
II years Of age and daughter
8 years old.
Although Burns and Mark
Brown will not be associated with
Interstate In management Of the
Kennewick system, their plans
for the future are at present In
definite. They win be engaged for
the next 80 to As days, however,
in closing out the records Of the
Kennewick Valley Telephone
company and putting them In
shape for the new owners.
On Tuesday, q party composed
Of II. C.. Hovis, commercial rep
resentative, Manager Hume, Roy
Continued to page 81
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of the 1947-48 term, lar
gest in the history of the
district.
All Junior High Students
2, 8 and 8, who did not attend
the Kennewick schools last year,
are urged to register at the Junior
high office this week to avoid the
rush Monday, when they will at
o'clock assemble in the senior
high school auditorium for in
struction concerning classes and
general school procedure.
High school students win as
semble IN the auditorium at 10
o'clock for instruction regarding
registration.
In the afternoon, a complete
daily schedule Is to be carried on
with shortened periods. School
win be dismissed at $40 o'clock.
Information Of value to new
Junior and senior high school stu
dents Is that q s. book deposit
fee Is payable on the first day Of
school. The fee Is refunded at the
close Of the term, II all books
and lockers are In good order. An
additional supply fee Of 81 Is
not refundable.
Associated student body tickets
are sold to junior high students
for $ and to senior high students
for "a. Providing admission to
most school events. The tickets
reduce the average cost Of each
event to less than eight cents.
The ticket price includes state
and federal tax. Although the
tickets win not give fun admis-
sion to senior high school basket
ball games this year, they do per-
NIT a substantial reduction In
the admission price.
Mrs. Mary e. Miller has been
engaged to replace J. w. Curtis
as teacher Of Spanish and Latin.
Curtain has been released at his
own request, because he was un-
able 10 find satisfactory apart
ment or house Accommodations.
Mrs. Miller has taught In Spanish
speaking areas and has studied In
Cuba as wen az the United
States.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26

washington law is I'M
derstood to require that a
special election cannot be
held until 80 days after
the closing of election
books. The Mayor, upon
being presented with pro-
perly signed petitions,
then has 10 days to set a
date for the election,
which must be advertised
ID days in advance. The
election itself must be
held not less than 80 nor
more than 120 days be-
fore the next regular
Municipal election.
The Kennewick city election
will be held December z. There
fore. If the Mayor should adver-
tise the election today, the Is
day requirement would push ell
ection day beyond the last pos
sible date that would permit
holding the election the required
80 days before the city election.
City Attorney Kenneth z.
Serier was requested by Mayor
J. c. Pratt to prepare a ruling
on the law.
Council action to hire a super
intendent came only few hours
after Mayor Pratt had received
petitions bearing the names Of
approximately 500 citizens, re-.
questing special election to set
tie the City Manager issue.
The petitions were circulated
under the leadership CT the Pas
co-Kennewfck branch of the Am
erican Association of University
Women.
AS passed, the ordinance does
not contain the clause providing
that the superintendent viii ouly
possess powers mot heretofore spe-
officially delegated and ASSIGNED
to other city officers and en-
ployees Of the city" (See GAS
Tempus Fugist" inside).
Critics Of the provision have
pointed out that such a clause
would definitely strip the super
intendent of any authority over
city affairs.
The approved ordinance pro-
vides that the superintendent
shall have control of all CITY ar
fairs and business, under the dir
ection Of the city council. not
heretofore made by ordinance or
state law the duties and specific
occupation of any other CITY Of
deer or employee.
Councilmen commented that
any ordinances In conflict with
the powers given to the super
intendent can be repealed as de-
sired. Powers conferred on CITY
officials and employees by state
law cannot be delegated to the
superintendent.
Mayor J. c. Pratt, commenting
that the move to hire a full-time
administrative employees for the
city is long overdue, said that a
superintendent will be appointed
as soon as r,ocr;t1o
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
AssIsrANr POSTMASTER

Jack Nolan Of the Kennewick
post office has been promoted to
assistant postmaster, according to
an announcement from Acting
Postmaster Walter Woehler. Nolan
is a veteran postal employee.
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Telephone Sale
Now Completed

Burns Brown, general manager and co-owner
with his brother, Mark Brown, of the Kennewick
Telephone company, today announce the receipt of
an order from the Washington Department of Pub
lie Utilities approving the sale of the Kennewick
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
IS Teachers Prepare
For School Monday

With advance registration of new pupils already
under way, the Kennewiek schools will begin the
breaking staff of IS teachers will report for duty.
Indications are that enrolment will exceed that
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26
HOSPITAL DISTRICT

The Benton County commission
ers this week approved an order
placing the question Of the forma-
ton Of q hospital district for the
Kennewick area on the November
ballot. The names Of Glenn FELTON,,
A. W. Ayers and Francis Ludlow
have been proposed for the posi-
lions Of directors.
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Manager Plan
Apparently Lost

With the movement in Kennewick for City
manager apparently killed by legal time element,
the City Council Tuesday night passed an ordinance
authorizing the employment of City Superintend-
ent at salary of $500 a month ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-26

The City Council win meet
Friday night to open bids for con-
strucdon Of permanent fair build
ings for the Benton County Fair.
Evening star., 1948-10-20
congress Battle ..
Cut Party Lines, Taft Says
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Oct. 20
The differences between President
Truman and the Eightieth Congress
were not party matters" Senator
Taft, Republican, Of Ohio said last
night.
More than half the Democrats in
Congress. he said, voted to overrule
the President on Chis veto Of the
Taft Hartley Act and on tax reduc-
ton.
The Senator spoke here in behalf
of Gov. Dewey, Republican candi-
date for President. He devoted most
of his adderss to q review Of the
friction between Mr.. Truman and
the Eightieth Congress and to crit
icism of the President.
There is one great issue between
the Republican Party and the Presi-
dent" Senator Taft said. land that
it whether. progress in this country
shall be based hereafter. as in the
past, on American principles Of
freedom and justice, or whether We
shall adopt the road to totalitarian
government by a vast Federal bu-
reaucracy with unlimited power and
unlimited money"
Evening star., 1948-10-20
Greece Scores Denial
That Reds Killed Polk
BY the Assoeiotei Press

ATHENS, Oct. 90 Constantine
RENTS, minister of public order, de-
MED today assertions by the Com
munist Free Greece Movement
that George Polk, the American
broadcaster, was murdered by nor
Communists.
Mr.. Polk was slain in the Salonika
area last May 8. Miltiades Porphy-
rogenis, justice minister in the Mar
kos Vafiades regime, asserted in
Prague yesterday that he had q
complete record of the killing and
that the killers were not Commu-
nists, as the Athens government
charged Sunday.
Mr.. RENTS said that if agents of
the Greeks, Americans or British
had killed Mr.. Polk, then Gregory
Staktopoulos would not have been
held for trial. He said that if anti
Communists had plotted the mur-
der, they would have followed Com
munist tactics and killed Staktop-
oulos, q leftist acquaintance of, Mr..
Polk.
The minister said facts disclosed
so far in the case came from Stak-
topoulos' confessions. He said all
data has not been obtained and it
is up to court investigators to sup
ply missing parts.
Mr.. RENTS said there were dis
crepancies in the Communist radio
accounts of the supposed death of
the supposed trigger man, Adam
Mouzenides. One broadcast said he
was killed in March and another
said April. The guerrilla newspa-
per Exormissi added to the confu-
sion by reporting the death on
June Is.
Evening star., 1948-10-20
Palestine
Continued From First Page.)

Truce Commission is now faced with
an accomplished fact and the Jews
are in a position to bargain for
assurances of guaranteed open
supply route, or else hold their
newly won control points.
Premier David -Gurion's war
cabinet was considering the United
Nations cease-flre instructions at
sessions today. but political spokes-
man said no real action was ex-
pected until DR.. Bunche implements
the Paris decision with An actual
cease fire order.
Dr. Bunche ordered a cease
fire before leaving Palestir> for
Paris, but at that time Israel re.
jected it,
Although officially the Jews claim
they took up positions on the south
ern front as result of an Egyptian
attack on southbound Israeli truck
convoy, there are indications here
that the Israeli move was carefully
planned in advance.
Editors note: Forty-four words
deleted by censor.)
Tel Aviv had its first practice
blackouts in more than a month q
day or two before the Negeb fight
started.
Mr.. Ben-Gurion is reported un-
officially to have insisted on the
Israeli attack to burst open the
southern road in the fewest possible
days OF lightning action, justifying
his stand by alleged United Nations
failure to require Egyptians to let
the Jewish conveys through to the
south.
GAIA, a grubby grey town of 10000
Arabs, has had a bloody history of
war from Genesis to World War I
Israeli Army, artillery and bomber
planes have pounded the city since
October Is. Jewish infantrymen are
within rifle shot of the date palm
groves Of Gaza's suburbs.
Mentioned in Genesis (x.19) AZ
the southernmost city Of the Canaan
lite Kingdom, GAIA was biblically
noted as the place where Samson
was blinded and imprisoned.
1t was sacked and rebuilt innu.
merable times. Alexander the Grea,
besieged it. Genghis Khan and
Napoleon played roles in its history
The British stormed it In early
November, 1917.
GAIA became world renowned 2O0C
years ago by its production of lighI
cloth OF peculiar quality. This GAIA
cloth" went into the English Ian.
guage as gauze.
In another phase of Israel,
troubles, 1t was disclosed that ths
leader of the disbanded Sterr
gang, Nathan Friedman Yellin
will be tried before a military cour,
early in November on charges o1
forging military documents and pos.
session of illegal arms.
Il Friedmann- Yellin and his aide
Evening star., 1948-10-20

further away than q CAF-4 worker
And so 1t goes, with the elite being
those in the professional grades.
As a result, lower grade employees
must walk about a half-mile from
their cars to the Pentagon each
morning and back in the evening
Pentagon officials say that the
system is the "fairest one" they
could devise. When the Navy De-
partment shifted its activities to
the Pentagon the parking space
problem became acute and q new
system had to be devised, it was
said.
The military personnel also are
parked according to rank. That's
why you see buck privates and
stenographers trudging the long
half-mile path every day, while
the generals and the top-bracket
civilian officials have to take only
about two short steps to reach the
building.
MISS PERKINS-Civil Service
Commission officials We're buzzine
yesterday over report that Com
missioner Frances Perkins has been
offered a high-paying position as
labor relations advisor with a lead
ing New York department store.
Miss Perkins said she has nc
definite plans in mind.
X 4
POSTAL PAY-Postmaster Gen.
eral Donaldson is prodding Congress
to increase mailing rates on publica
tions to permit the granting of an
additional $3.50 pay raise for postal
workers.
Mr.. Donaldson chided the past
Congress, declaring:
In an election year nobody ir
Congress is going to do anything te
raise postal rates and salaries In
the service"
He spoke before the National
Association of Postmasters.
Postal workers received a $3.50 pay
boost, but Mr.. Donaldson said that
was not sufficient to keep pace
with rising living costs" He said
the increase should have been $500
At that, postal workers Jared bet
ter than the rest of the Govern
ment's employees, who only received
$3.50 wage increases.
(Be sure and listen every Sum
day at 1l:l5 am. ouer WMAL,
The Star station, for Joseph
Young's Federal Spotlight broad
cast, featuring additional neUs
and pie,Us of Government affairs
and personalities
Evening star., 1948-10-20
National Democrats
Barred His Party on
Ballots, Wright Says
Ry the Asxosinfad Rrass

SELMA, Ala, Oct. 20.-National
leaders of the Democratic Party
have kicked the States Rights cam
didates of the ballot in several
States, Gov. Fielding Wright of
Mississippi declared at q County
Farm Bureau Convention here yes-
terday. ~
The vice presidential aspirant ON
the States Rights, ticket said Okla
homa, Maryland and Indiana were
among the States where this has
happened.
He pointed this out, he added, in
answer to charges that Alabamans
are being denied the right to vote
for President Truman in the No.
vember election.
Says Radicals Named Truman.
Commenting on charges of bolting
that have been made against
Southern Democrats, Gov. Wright
declared:
Truman Is not the nominee Of
the Democratic Party in the South
but the nominee Of q group Of rad.
icals who seized control of the party
at Philadelphia"
AT the same rally, four Of Ala
bama's II Democratic elector candi-
dates reiterated that they will not
vote for President Truman in the
Electoral College regardless Of any
possible court action.
The electoral candidates are
pledged to the Thurmond- Wright
ticket Gov. James E. Folsom has
said he will join in a court action
seeking to force them to support
the National Democratic Party's
nominee.
One Says He Prefers Jail.
Referring to Gov. Folsom's threat,
Walter Givhan of Stafford, president
of the Dallas County Farm Bureau,
said:
Il still say I'll 60 to Jail before
I'll 60 back on my promise to the
people to vote for Thurmond."
Said Horace Wilkinson of Birming-
ham: Il ran on platform that I
wouldn't vote for Truman. ! still
won't, court or no court"
Il would resign before I would vote
for Truman" Edmund Blair of Pell
City said. I'D take any alternative"
Il stand by my pledge" commented
State Democratic Chairman Gessner
T. McCorvey. 1T will be kept"