The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-12
WEEKEND VIEWPOINTS
By J. w. II.


WEEKEND VIEWPOINTS
BY ]. w. H.
Persons who read the article "From Bombs Toward
Power" weeks Business Week. won't need to read
this Those who didn't read the article get set for some
humping facts Listen Ths countrys atomic program now
good shape Doesn't sound much like what polite
ans and some newspapers are saying but listen more
hat encouraging conclusion be drawn from examn-
alton Business Week has just completed of the So billion IN
dustry which grew of the wartime work the atomic
bomb" Read this next paragraph.
It says Production rolling smoothly; and it looks like
assumption that the supply of fashionable material will
begin by the end of this year The bomb itself
somewhat effective And top of that may have
peace With the lifting of the blockade there is much better
chance for The Russians merely be changing their
tactics while making change their detectives but danger
Of the incident is much less.
Yes the Business Week article says that operations got
of Joint extent following the end OF the war; but
living present. past gone All there is lies
ahead Says Business Week. ut tackle such normal
managerial problems how to reduce COSTS how to speed
tagging operations how keep the whole thing in
you got caught in the recent layo at Hanord maybe
was seasonal Maybe the result of temporary shift in
the employment totals which any large scale
ton Maybe will happen again. And it appears to
have run its course. u -.s. >.> IT. -l>
Bigger construction operations to and we
expect unemployment of many who have been laid off
and the hiring Of others he serious problems chemical
article ut the long time lag has thrown the
strction of the whole utonum plant out of synchroni
zaon and will delay its completion On the original construc
ton schedule the chemical supposed start early
this year will be late in 1949 before the engineers
have the blueprints ready"
Maybe that the rehrng expected to start
on fairly large scale after beginning of the fiscal
year July y will be may be August, Septembe or
October But everything the summation above indicates
that construction will get under way Again
Business Week. has separate contract
with running into the tens Of Millions for rehabta-
railway lines Hanord and for construction of
additional waste storage tanks That's just one job
Everything that points at Hanford points the direction
Of bigger construction things to And maybe will be
producing for commercial purposesmaking things
which will be designed to prolong human e not destroy it,
things which will add to the happiness Of fellow morta
the misery of this tortured world things which will
upt humanity and bring closer walking the light
Of mutual helpfulness.
One of the things which every family America needs
be happy is the feeling that the bread that keeps them
going snatched away That is why this probing into
Hanford and Rchand That is why every fragment of infor
nation which this community about the scale of the
atomic project is thing of interest We depend upon the
continuity this project much right keep the
munity going We have had goose here laying golden
egg Why should try to kill that goose? Why not feed it
with hepfuness with cooperation with the promotion
Of good will?
Do you know what section of land looks like? The City
Kennewick has been extended section and half in
since March H. 1885, according to figures compiled by City
Superintendent Dick Rector section mile square Some
Of this lies west of the old city limits the east
and the south The Columbia river has blocked
pasion the north With talk already going about
tending Kado Road sights lifted farther
out fartheres end of Rudn Road day will
be the west end of Kennewc Avenue then there will
be talk Of extending the street through the grape vineyard
which lies to the west That the of growing
uny Every step Of expansion suggests new STEP Where
win we wind up? That depends on many things.
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