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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Superintendent to
Be Hired By City

An ordinance empowering the
mayor to employ a full time SUI
perintendent, subject to the ap-
prevail Of the city council, was
given its first and second readings
Tuesday night.
Salary for the position was not
discussed.
Mayor Pratt said today that he
has several applicants for the job,
and that he will make his selec-
ton soon after the ordinance Is
approved and the necessary I'VE
days after publication have clap
sed.
It Is expected that the ordinance
will be passed by the council at
the August II meeting
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Office Keeps Open
or egisiraion

Voters Of the Kennewick area
will have their last chance this
week to register for the primary
elections on September IA, and
the Office Of the city clerk win be
kept open overtime for their con-
venience.
Regular Office hours, Mondays
through Fridays, are from 8 o.
clock until noon, and from l to 5
o'clock in the afternoon. In adj
dition, the Office will be open to-
night and Friday night from 2 to
8 o'clock. The Office will also be
open on Saturday from 8 am. to
S pm. with the exception OF the
noon lunch period, and from to
8 Saturday evening.
The registrations Of residents OF
the Hover Fountain Park, Vista
Homes and CARRIER Additions, re-
Gently annexed to the city, will
be transferred to Precinct 2 OF the
Second ward, said Mrs. Winifred
Campbell, city clerk.
The registration books will close
Saturday night and will not be
reopened until after the primaries.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Red Cross Elects
Officers, Awards
Plaque to BAIL

The Kennewick Branch of the
Benton County Red Cross Chapter
met Monday night to hear an adj
dress from an outstanding Red
Cross executive, to award plaque
to julius M. BAIL in recognition Of
his services as 1948 fund drive
chairman and to elect officers for
the ensuing year.
E. C.. Smith was reelected
Branch chairman, Phil Heffelfin-
ger was elected vice president,
and Mrs. Don Skirving was chosen
secretary-treasurer.
The plaque awarded to BAIL
bears a Red Cross on white
background, and an inscription
recognizing his achievement as
fund drive chairman.
Speaking at the annual meet
ing, Richard Hill, Red Cross exc
cutive attached to the National
Disaster staff, outlined the three
phases of Red Cross work that are
receiving emphasis in 1913. They
are, said Hill, the new national
blood program, the ever increas-
ing need for service to veterans
and their dependents, and the dis
aster preparedness program.
Paying high tribute to the Ken
nwick disaster preparedness COM
mittee chairmanned by d. S. Will
kinson, Hill said the work accom-
plished before and rduing the re-
cent food disaster equaled, and
In some instances excelled, the
work Of much larger organizations.
The meeting was held at the
Episcopal parish hall.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
BY Hill Williams

Four combines moved slowly
around shrinking field Of wav-
ing wheat as the big-red sun sent
its last rays fiat across the plateau
high in the Horse Heavens.
The harvest crew was working
late Monday night on the Henry
and Carl Smith land. They had
started 180-acre piece In the
morning and were out to finish it
by dark. This was an especially
trying day for the crew, because
about 6 pm. several members OF
the Courier-Reporter staff climbed
up on the combines and began
riding them around the fields.
Two big tractor-drawn combines
cutting a 16-foot swath OF wheat,
and two smaller self-propelled
Massey-Harris combines followed
each other around the field. The
revolving blades pushed the brit
tie stalks into the blades and the
grain was whipped into the sep
arator. As the straw came flying
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Wafer Line Asked
To Garden tracts

A petition signed by - resi-
dents of the Garden Tracts was
submitted to the city council Tues
day night by Dudley Beall, sani-
tartan Of the Benton-Franklin
health district.
The petition requests that wa
ter lines be laid to supply the
homes with domestic water taps
and fire hydrants.
Four of the homes are entirely
without water, and the remainder
have an insufficient supply, Beall
said.
The PP&L has promised water
deliveries as soon as pipe is avail
able, which is expected to be
within the next three to four
weeks, he added.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Post Office will
Get More Worlsina
Space, Less Lobby

Workmen will begin Monday
morning to make the lobby Of the
Kennewick post Office smaller.
The size Of the lobby win be
about 8 feet wide by 20 feet long
when the alterations are COM
pleted. The parcel post window
will be moved forward about six
feet and boxes viii be extended
out almost to the front door.
The postal department is send
ing a mechanic to do the work
as result Of our request last fall
for more working space" Walter
Woehler, postmaster said. "But
the extra working space will be
at the expense Of the patrons, I'm
afraid. The department says this
is all it came to do at this time"
The post Office has been in its
present site for nearly 80 years.
Woehler said that annual postal
receipts have increasd from SIS
900 in 1923 to SIS, 600 this year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Knowles and Reid Recall First Year
0f Huqe Richland Construction Job

It was just one year ago Sat
urday that these two Kennewick
men, one an ex-air corps staff
sergeant and the other an ex-in-
fantry tech sergeant, kicked open
the door and started a bonanza
which turned this peaceful COM
munity into a bedlam of house
trailers, clanking cranes, towering
derricks and roaring cues.
Don Knowles and Bill Reid were
the first two men hired by the At
kinson-Jones company, and their
job was to hire and hire and hire
some more.
A lot of water has passed under
the bridge since that August z a
year ago and the two are still
with the company. Reid Is still
in the personnel Office, while
Knowles has been transferred to
the field where be acts as ma
terial coordinator for all types Of
construction material.
But both still remember a year
ago, when out Of one old green
army barracks, they started the
biggest construction Job in the
country.
. There is also some old saying
about its the sergeants who do the
work. Il
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Council 0kays
Park Buildings
or Benton Fair

The city council Tuesday eve-
ming passed an ordinance provid.
ing $1,000 from the construction
fund fop the construction OF per-
manent buildings on park pro-
perry near the Kennewick High
school.
The buildings will be used this
fall, Sept. "a, Is and 26, by the
Benton Fair Association for farm
produce and livestock exhibits.
Bids for construction of the
buildings are to be submitted
August "a at 8 pm. in the Ken
newick city hall.
Complying with the will of the
Kennewick chamber OF commerce,
expressed at the Thursday meet
ing, a resolution favoring the ex-
penditure Of city funds for per-
manent fair buildings was filed
this week with the city clerk.
THE Kennewick chamber of
commerce does favor the construc-
ton Of permanent buildings to be
used by the Benton Fair Asso-
ton for conducting the fair" the
resolution reads, "and does hereby
ask the Kennewick city council 10
provide ways and means Of financ-
ing construction Of buildings and
grounds Of permanent type. Con-
struction to be started as soon as
possible to take care Of immediate
needs Of the Fair to be staged Sep
TENDER "a, Is, and g."
Dated August 5, the resolution
was signed by Don Solberg and
Ross Frank, president and manag-
er respectively, Of the chamber.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Extension Office
Grape School to
Be Held Aug. lS

Grape growers will have an op.
portunity to bring themselves ur
to date on grape producing on Wed.
nesday, August Is, said Frank
Webster, Benton county extension
agent, this morning.
The grape industry has expand
ed tremendously during the last
few years and this year we are
taking an entire day to study and
discuss the latest in training
pruning and trellising Of grapes
DR.. John c. Snyder, Extension
Horticulturist from the State col
lege, will lead the discussion.
Those planning to attend the
tour should assemble at the city
park at Kennewick across from
the high school at 1000 am Day
light Saving Time. The tour will
60 out Kennewick Avenue, making
two or three stops for DR.. Sny-
der's discussions. The latest vine
yard equipment will be demon
strated during and following the
noon hour at the Highland club
house.
Lunch can be purchased at the
club house and will be served by
the Kennewich Highlands Women's
club with Mrs. Joe Watkins, Mrs.
Lionel Cox, Mrs. Frank Lampson
and Mrs. Jack Switzer in charge
Of arrangements.
During the afternoon, a visit
will be made to cover crop plant
ings which are being carried on
by the irrigation Experiment Sta
ton. DR.. Joe Jacobs viii have
charge of the discussion. Tie
caravan will proceed to an area
where sprinkler irrigation Of
grapes is carried on.
Following inspection Of the
Church Grape Juice plant in Ken
newick may be made. p
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

ordinance at the next
meeting of the council:
SEWERS Follwoa 2 Col LEAD.
The bonds will be purchased
by the Charles N. Trip company,
investments and the Fordyce and
company, investments firms Of
Portland, and by the Pacific Ma
tional Bank of Seattle.
Six firms submitted bids for
construction of the Beech street
trunk sewer. Bids were sought
on the basis Of completion with
in 80 days, and also on compile
ton within go days, because Of
the urgency Of providing sewer
service to the Anderson addition,
south of the schools, by October
i.
There bids were: (.
Georig and Russell, Seattle $74,-
$4,000, for completion In go days:
Bailey Plumbing and Heating
and Mokler Plumbing and Heat
ing, co-bidders from Kennewicls,
$113,189.s4, for completion within
80 days, $500 to be added for
the so day contract; Statewide
Construction company of Seattle.
34,455.00, for 80 days, $25,0 900
to be added for go days; Mala-
pinannapoli cimpany Of Seattle,
$94, 124.60, for 90 days, with ST.
600 to added for go days: State
Construction company of Seat
tie, $70.645.o0, for 90 days, $25,-
600 to be added for 60 days; Val
ley Construction company of Sc
attic, $143,592.90, for 80 days,
$40, 900 to be added for go days.
Bids for the Highlands trunk
sewer were invited on the basis
Of a 120 day completion period.
since it is not considered vital
to supply sewer service to the
area before December. The fol-
lowing bids were submitted:
Bailey Plumbing and Heating
and Mokler Plumbing and Heat
ing, co-bidders from Kennewick,
sl41, 939.23; Statewide Construc-
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
City Puts $1,000
Into Sewer und

An ordinance providing for the
loan Of $4,000 from the general
tax fund to the sewer fund was
passed Tuesday evening by the
city council. The loan is to be
repaid out Of revenues from the
sewer system.
With the $4,000 already on
hand in the sewer fund, the loan
makes possible retirement Of the
mainder of the sewer bonds issued
by the city on December /, 1945,
which mature on December I,
1852.
The action was necessary to re-
move the existing lien on q por-
ton of the sewer system and make
the sewer revenue bonds, soon to
be sold by the city, a first lien on
the system.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

BAIL, general chairman,
announced today after an
early check of ticket sales.
AS soon as all outstanding mon
les have been collected, the fund
will be turned over to the Ameri-
can Red Cross for flood relief in
in the Pacific Northwest, he said.
Expressing his appreciation to
the many firms and individuals
who gave their time and services
to the community event, BAIL
specifically mentioned the Ray
D-Ant Cleaners and the Town
House, through the courtesy Of
whom a movie quiz show was
broadcast from the Benton stage
Thursday evening, and the WASH
ington Hardware and Furniture
company, who provided the direct
wire to the Benton lobby for the
Tuesday evening broadcast Of the
premiere.
Clarence w. Miller Of Pasco
supplied the sound systems used
for street sales of tickets, and the
J. c. Penney store gave space In
their entrance for the ticket booth
BAIL added.
The newspapers and radio and
the employees OF the Midstate
theatres in the Tri Cities were al
so highly commended by the gen.
eral chairman.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

'clslOn as to when and
where a bridge will be
built in the Kennewick-
Pasco area rests with the
state highway commits
sion.
Following the Thursday Meeting
Of the chamber, Mayor Pratt wir.
ed Congressman Holmes as fol-
lows:
"You are aware of the need
and desire Of Kennewick and
Pasco for a bridge across the Co.
lumbia to facilitate health, well
fare. safety and better commune
cations.
''It has been announced at Spo-
kane by Acc that such q bridge
is being planned adjacent to Rich
land, apart and unrelated to
these two communities.
rs anything being done for q
new bridge for Kennewick and
Pasco?
can acute traffic congestion
has existed here for a number Of
years. This will continue. Please
advise what can be done in view
Of this recent announcement and
our situation"
Congressman Holmes at once
wired:
Talked with Acc again Just
yesterday concerning bridge prob
lem between Pasco and Kenne-
wick. As a result Of your tele-
phone call received this morning
contacted them again. They knew
nothing Of Spokane report. Have
asked them to check and re-
check. You will hear from me
further"
The results of Congressman's
Holmes further investigation was
contained in a wire sent later
the same day which reads:
Following up information con-
tanned in your wire, checked with
Acc and find that whole pro-
gram for new bridge is being
by State Highway Com
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Swim Classes 10
Start on Monday

Swim time for Kennewick kids
starts Monday, under the sponsor.
ship Of the Kennewick Branch Of
the Benton County Red Gross
Chapter.
No charges are made for trans.
portation to and from the Pascc
swimming pool, for swimming les
sons, or for entry into the pool
And, although an especially warm
welcome is extended to children
swimmers from 6 to 80 are invit-
ed to participate in the classes.
A few more registrants can still
be accepted. Persons who wish
to register themselves or their
children may do so by calling al
the Red Cross Office in the J. c,
Penney building.
Buses will leave the Methodist
church at $3.50 am, and at APP
proximate half hour intervals
thereafter. The return trip will
be indefinite for the first few days
until it can be determined how
long it takes the children to dress
and get ready for the return.
Red Cross officials stress, more
over, that the safety of children
will be guarded and that, after the
second day, parents can be inform.
ed of the exact time Of departure
and return to Kennewick.
Anyon who has not otherwise
been notified should be at the
Methodist church Monday morn.
ing at $3.50 O'Clock, supervisors say
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
kiwanis Hear Talk
On Racial Differences

Two shares Of stock in the Ben
ton Fair Association were pur-
chased by the Kennewick Kiwan-
IS club at the regular monthly
board meeting Monday evening.
Kenneth Serier has been desig-
mated as its representative to the
association.
AT the Tuesday noon meeting
OF the club, DR.. Erna Gunther of
the anthropology department OF
uSne University of Washington,
IL on the racial differences of
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Subsiahon Will
Open Monday at Y

Another substation to the Ken
newick post Office will open Mon
day at the Y Mercantile at IA Y
Road, Walter Woehler, postmaster
said yesterday.
Clerk in charge will be James
A. Clark. The station will sell
postal notes, stamps, money orders,
accept parcel post packages but no
deliveries will be made.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

If you are one of those who
would have liked to see Kenne-
wick. Pasco and Richland remain
as in the good old days with no
hurry and hustle about, no high
rents or housing shortages, no loud
clamor of construction, the above
-sergeants are the ones to look
for.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Speaker Stresses Need
For Safety Training

The Pasco-Kennewick Rotary
club heard an address on "Safe:
ty" by Pasco police Captain r. E.
Broughton Wednesday noon.
Captain Broughton stressed the
need for establishing safety in
struction in the public schools.
K. A: Macmillan of the Mac
MILAN Construction company in
Kennewick, was a guest at the
luncheon meeting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12

Holmes Says Bridge Is
States responsibility

A spirited discussion, set off Thursday at the
chamber of commerce meeting by report that Acc
influence has been exerted toward construction of
brought denial this week from the nations capital
Replying to telegram from Mayor j. G. Pratt,
Congressman Hal Holmes wired that the entire de-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Bids Opened on Two
Trunk Sewer Projects

The Kennewick city council Tuesday night open
ed bids for the construction of the Beech street and
Highlands trunk sewer lines, and signed contract
for the sale of 100000 in bonds, con-
tingent upon final passage of the authorization of
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-08-12
Pre111ie1-eS Receipts
In Excess of $4,000

The flood benefit premieres presented Tuesday
evening III the six theatres of the Midstate Amuse-
ment corporation in Kennewick, Richland and Pasco
brought in receipts in excess Of 81, 000 Julius M.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14
Name Perry for Work
With coIored Farmers

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10.
(ANP)-Dr. E. w. Perry, promi-
nent pastor here and vice presi-
dent Of the National Baptist con-
vention, has been appointed a
collaboration to work with the as
sistant administrator of the i'm
portant marketing and production
administration, serving colored
farmers throughout the south.
DR.. Perry, who is pastor of the
Tabernacle Baptist church, is vice
president at large O fthe National
Fraternal Council of Negro
churches and a director of the
Oklahoma School of religion at
Langston university. He was edu-
Gated in Mississippi and Oklaho-
ma, taking his college work at
Bishop college, Marshall, Texas.
For 20 years he served as a re-
gional vice president of the Ma
tional Baptist convention.
1.-The production ad marketing
administration is n of the most
important divisions of the U. S.
department of agriculture and it
is felt certain that additional
representation will augur we'll for
the interests of Negro farmers.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14
Charges Election
Year Politics"

Senator J.. Howard McGrath,
Of Rhode Island, chairman of the
Democratic National committee,
today charged the Republicans
with playing election year politics
by their refusal to act on a plan
to make the Virgin Islands self
supporting.
The Republican dominated
House Ways and, Means commit
tee, the Senator pointed out, has
shelved a senate measure which
would have furnished a much
needed 100000 annually to the
Islands by returning to the Is
land government taxes collected
on liquor produced there and ship
ped to the continental United
States. That is the same treat
ment now given to Puerto Rico on
rum tax revenue, McGrath said.
The proposal was advanced by
Governor William H. HASTE, form
err Dean of Howard university law
school and the first Negro chief
executive o fthe Islands, Senator
McGrath explained. The funds are
needed desperately, he said, to
pay for hospitals, homes for chill
dren and the aged, school lunches
and other administrative costs.
Despite favorable testimony by
a number of Republicans as we'll
as by the administration, the Re-
publicans on the committee voted
to take nc action on the plan,
thereby putting the Islands, which
r one of Americas strategically
vital possessions in time of war,
in desperate financial straits, Nc
Grath declared.
could it bea coincidence" he
asked, "that this urgently needed
aid was actively considered by the
Republicans only until President
Truman received such a tmultu-
Gus ovation from the islanders on
his recent visit there?"
The bill was passed by the Sen
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14
Vote Buying Case
Dismissed; Witnesses
Refuse 10 Testify

CAPE GIRADEAU, Mo-, May
ID. (ANP)-Because IL witness
e for the prosecution, most of
whom were Negroes, refused to
testify against three white de-
PENDANTS in a federal court trial
charged with conspiracy to buy
votes in the 1916 general election,
the case was dismissed. On trial
were Charles Blanton, Jr., Skies
ton newspaper editor; N. E. Fuchs,
Sikeston automobile dealer, and
Grover C. Baker, Scott county
collector.
Specifically they we're indicted
by a st. Louis grand jury last
January, as co-conspirators in the
establishment of a $500 fund,
from which payments of II a
vote were to be made in the cleo
ion races for U. S. senator and a
member of the house Of represen-
tatives.
The II witnesses, though not
indicted, had been named in the
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14

grand jury's true bill. U. S. Dis
trict Judge Robey M. Hulen up
held their refusal to testify on
the grounds that they were within
their constitutional rights not to
incriminate themselves. However,
Judge Hulen pointed out it was
lust as much a violation of the
law to accept money for voting
as it was to pay it out.
The dismissal of the case was
asked by Lafayette Broome, as
sitant attorney general, who said
that the government had no case
without the testimony Of the IL
witnesses.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14
Los Angees Loan
Association Assets
Reach $1,OOO,O 900

LOS ANGELES, May IL. GAN
p = Total ossets of more than
$1,OOO,0OO were announced this
week by the Broadway Federal
Savings and LoLan association of
Los Angeles at a dinner meeting
at Alena's Tea room.
This firm, the second Negro
federal savings and loan associa-
ton in the country, reached the
million dollar mark only Is
months after it's opening, January
II, 1947. 1t now has 1902 mem
bers.
President H. A. Howard said
the company's aim is to double
its membership and it's assets. DR..
H. Clyde Hudson was POSTMASTER
at the dinner program.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1948-05-14

ate and referred to the House COM
mittee in July, 1947. Representa-
tive Harold Kuntson, Republican,
Minnesota, chairman of the
House Ways and Means commit
tee, said then that he would not
bring the matter up until the reg
ular session. Hearings on the leg
islation opened before the House
committee February 8, 1913. Gov
ernor HASTE, at the solicitation of
Representative Fred Crawford,
sponsor of the legislation, testi-
fled at the hearing as did Sena-
tor Hugh Butler and Representa-
tive Sterling Cole of New York.
Walter White, secretary of the
NAACP, Ashley Totten on behalf
of Virgin Islanders in New York
and Ward Canday of Toledo,
president of WHY'S Overland, all
endeavored unsuccessfully to get
the legislation reported out of
committaa =