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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
w, KEHlNlEvvICK PROTESTS dixie PLAN
Boxed In
Proposal
Draws Fire
By HILL WILLIAMS

A group of property owners In
West Kennewick is organizing
to protest being "boXed in" by
proposed McNary dam levees
and a highway fill.
The group has named itself
the Giard Addition Property
Owners club. The section affect
ed lies between this old and
new Kennewick city limits and
is bounded by the Columbia rivs
er and the railroad tracks.
According to announced plans,
the area will be surrounded by
high river bikes to the north and
west, by a fill for an approach
to a river bridge to the east
and by a high hill on the south.
About 165 families live in the
addition. The land is broken up
into small lots with small houses
mostly. The club recently elect
ed officers and numbers 1853
members.
FORGOTTEN POCKET
Fear of becoming the "forgot.
ten pocket" prompted the owners
to get together to do something
about it.
First they talked to Col. Will
liam Whipple, district engineer
to see if it wouldn't be cheaper
for the army to acquire the land
and forget the dikes. Col Whip
pie reported that he had taken
/ lContinued on Page %
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
By I'M GRANT

The preliminary budget re-
leased by Benton County Audi.
tor c. w. Nessley, Saturday
showed that various county de.
partments have asked a total OF
S4O1, 36O.24 for the 1850 fiscal
year. .o
The total includes a 194s gen.
eral fund emergency request for
2,265.24.
The budget estimates for the
coming year show an increase OF
nearly $125,O00 over the 1949
budget.
Nessley also released figures
which covered the county's eX-
penditures for the first five
months of this year. This total
was S1O9,6S1.O9.
Following is the breakdown by
departments with the 1949 bud
get listed first. followed by the
1850 department requests:
Advanced expenditures: $4,000
SO, 900.
Auditor: S35,6SO-S36,360.
Agriculturist: S12,19O-S12,655.
Assessor: $19,28O-S17,9S0.
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s.
~ r-r ~.
Winner

John Perkins, Kennewick high
school senior and 1etterman end
on the Lion football team, won
the office of president in Tues
days student body election, tab.
ulations showed Thursday.
Serving with Perkins during
the coming year will be Roger
FELTON, in the vice presidency
and Leona Simmelink as secre.
tary-treasurer. FELTON, won his
post by a three-vote margin ov.
er Bill Duffy.
Voters in the election were
required to hold student body
cards. These are sold at the start
of each school year for four
dollars and entitle the holders
to all athletic event admissions
and certain other privileges.
In order to make the procedure
as similar as possible to a reg.
ular election, students were re.
quired to register before the
election.
When they came into the polls
their registration was checked
They then signed the poll book
and received ballot. When they
they came into the polls, theil
registration was checked. They
then signed the pool book ane
received a ballot. When they
had finished voting, they gave
the ballot to the judges.
| Election judges were Haiti
Davis, Lynn Slocumb, Bill Con
Trad, Jim Elder, Pat Granting ant
Connie Michaud.
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INTRODUCING
Kennewick's Business
And Professional People
TO THE COMMUNITY

Subject today is John Russell
Vibber, Kennewick druggist.
Mr.. vibber is one of the few
full-grown men living in Ken
newick who were born here. He
and his mother, Mrs. Harry Vib-
Der, own the Vibber drug store
of which John is general man.
ager.
John was graduated from Ken.
newick high school and then
from Washington state college.
He is a registered pharmacist.
The drug store is about 45 years
old and was owned by Johns
father and K. c. Clifford until
his fathers death when John
bought out Gifford'S interest.
That was seven years ago.
Best known outside of his bus.
mess for being a member OF the
Kennewick city council, John al.
so is deeply interested in city
recreation and is chairman o
the recreation commission which
has been planning growing IA
cilities for recreation for Ken
newick. He also is president o.
the Kennewick Hospital associ
alton which is financing the
fund drive.
Johns hobby is boating. HI
owns a fast inboard which HI
operates on the Columbia rive
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
Bike Licenses
Now Available
In kenneWick

A recent ordinance enacted by
the Kennewick city council re-
quires that all bicycles in the
city be licensed, Jacob Jessup,
chief of police, said Monday.
The police chief added that IL
censes will be issued daily at
the Kennewick fire station on
East Washington street be-
tween 3 and 6 pm. They are SO
cents each. e~~,4 49,.
The ordinance further requires
that all bicycles have light on
the front of the bike and a red
tail light, or a two-inch red re-
flector. They must also be
equipped with a stand, Jessup
said.
Bicycle dealers are required to
furnish the police department
with full report whenever they
purchase a secondhand bicycle
and the dealers are not permit
ted to buy from anyone under
the age of Is years, unless the
minor has the written consent Oh
their parents or guardians, the
police chief concluded.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

A Pasco and a Kennewick
committee Thursday was head
ed for the state Better Roads con.
vention at Port Angeles, armed
with three resolutions urging
speedy construction OF north
south highways and another Co.
lurnbia river bridge.
The six.man committee from
Pasco also was instructed to re-
inforce Walla Wallis request for
next years convention. f.:
The convention in Port Ange.
les is Friday and Saturday. How
ever, the executive board, of
which Wendell Brown, Pasco, is
a member, has a meeting sched-
uled Thursday night.
Other Pasco members OF the
Chamber of Commerce commit
tee attending are Chairman AL.
bert A. Allen, Charles Stinson,
Hershel Kidwell, Clarence Shaln
and o. H. Olson. =
:. The Kennewick group is chair.
named by Herb Owens. Others
making the trip are H. E. Oliver
| ]. c. Pratt, C. C. Miller and John
Hofmaster.
Resolutions to be presented in
clude: :.
1. Urging development OF an all
purpose, all-season highway fol
lowing the water level from Van
couver to the Tri-City area
''The Columbia river tier of coun
ties" it asserted, "across Wash
ington will not long survive In
ter-state competition without {
communications lifeline"
2. Urging the Good Roads asso
citation to petition call existing
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

Dramatics classes for Kenne.
wick Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls
and Horizon Club members have
been started by Mrs. Merle Shu-
man, 143 Park View, KenneWick.
Twenty-three girls attended the
first meeting Thursday evening
in the gymnasium of the Kenne-
wick elementary school.
Glasses will be held at z each
Thursday evening and are open
to any interested girl in those
groups.
Mrs. Shuman, VINO is secretary
of the Kennewick Red Cross, has
background of experience in
iunicr theater work. She plans to
produce minstrel show within
the next month or two.
The girls are now busy writ.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

Washington grape growers av'
eraged the lowest price - with
two exceptions-of any producers
in the nation from 1874 to 1947.
California grapes, which most.
ly 60 into wine, brought an av-
erage price of S57 a ton in 1915
and $50 in 1947. Those same
years Washington producers av.
eraged $64 and S66.
The Statistical Abstract of the
United States, 194S," published
annually by the U. S. Depart.
ment of Commerce, also showed
the large concord grape produc.
ing states of the east-New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Mich.
igan-averaged prices about $50
a ton higher than those fol-
Washington grapes.
Some years the difference was
as much as $40 a ton.
Monday, Charles McInnis OF
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Preliminary Budget
For Benton County
For Next Year Up
Clerk: $14,190-$14,2S5.

Clerk: S14,190-S14,2S5.
Commissioners: S15,4S5-S15,-
s35.
Coroner: s2,625-S2,575.
Courthouse: S14,395-S38,395.
Elections: S3,4O0-S41, 900.
Employees Retirement System:
none-S2S,000
Horticultural: S4,S50-S4,770.
Justice Court: S3,O0O-S3, 100.
Justice Court, Kennewick: 3d..
S75-S3,175.
Prosecuting Attorney: $19,95O
-S19,5O0.
Sheriff: $50, 440-S46,665.
State Examiner: SS00-S900.
Jail: S1S,O3O-S1S,135.
Superintendent of Schools:
SS,013.50-SS,015.
Superior Court: $19,396-S30,
$50.
Treasurer: 21,47O-$25. 42O.
Benton County Fair: $500
$500.
Benton County Planning Com.
mission: S750-S750.
Predatory Animal Control:S50(
$500.
194S General Fund Emergen'
cies: $22,265.24.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
Coboret Approved
For Civ Council

The application of Charles w.
and Wallace A. Bateman to have
dancing and entertainment in
the rear of their Kennewick Inn
tavern was approved by the
Kennewick city council Tuesday
night. However, final approval
must come from the Washington
State Liquor Control board.
Approval was granted when
a motion by Councilman j. c.
Bell, which was seconded by
John Vibber, passed by a 3 to l
vote. Laurence Scott voted FOL
the permission along with Bell
and Vibber while R. B. Holden
cast the only negative ballot.
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ing a 15.minute radio skit, and
will also learn to write and pro-
duce other skits, pantomlmes
and plays, and will be trained In
giving brief talks.
Those who attended the first
meeting are. Dolores Haugen'
Ora Lee Kennedy. Claudia Nord,
Fay Grover, Fern Dickinson
Juanita Cronin, Arlene smith,
Shirley Hagen, Bernadine Gallo
way, Yvonne Page, Arlene Glas'
cow, Betty Weaver, Glenda Berg
Joann Lewis, Beverly Kennedy
Corky Williams, Dolores Scher'
ger, Sharon Smith, Larene Will
liams, Janet Vetchy, Sharon
Goucher, Shirley. Fisher, ano
| Sharon Thompson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

Members of the Finley 18th and
9Th grades have entered the pos
ter contest being sponsored by
the Kennewick Com m u n ity
Chest, it was reported Tuesday by
Elgin H. Mclean, principal.
Posters must depict some phase
of the Community Chest activity,
with three prizes for boys and
three for girls of students in the
18th and Sth grades in Kennewick
area schools.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

Engle, both of Kennewick.
"The pickers have assured me
they will 60 to work Friday
morning. They were afraid to go
to work for fear they would ha
beaten up"
Thursday Engle tod d reporter
the pay was not enough. He said
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

fnand for a six.cent raise. He
said the "agitators" were taken
into custody by .sheriff's deputies
and later released after they
promised they would be good
boys"
The strike started Thursday
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morning when pickers protested
the fact they were only getting
II cents per lug. They asked Is
cents in a petition submitted to
the company two weeks ago.
Ludlow said the company did
not intend to take any action on
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

"We're going to sit here until
they treat US like men and wo-
men," he said.
The Church Grape Juice COM
pany is owned by ]. C. Kelley,
publisher of the Walla WalIa
Union Bulletin.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

A strike which idled pickers
In the Church Grape Juice conf
pany's vineyards Thursday was
declared over last night by F. l.
Ludlow, company manager.
Ludlow said the strike was
caused by "agitators" who forced
some 200 pickers out in a de-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23

"Now we're lucky if we make
90 cents an hour. The company
should at least talk to us on this
matter. 1t wouldn't even recog-
nize our petition although it con-
tanned the names of lis pickers. !"
Another spokesman said the
strike isn't over.
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he and his wife were both pick
ing and their combined checks
for ia hours works was S5S.
That's better than what some
of the pickerS are making.
Howe reported that last year
the company paid is cents a lug
and the grape crop was better.
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$4,000 for a plant.improvement
project in Grandview. He said
the California firms pay more
for juice than is paid at the 10.
cal level.
However, a Church Grape Juice
company official reported the
California market merely siphons
off a little of the company's ex.
cess juice. He added the Cali
fornia market pays less than $50
per ton for the grapes and said
/ it is chiefly an experimental
market" .@
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i'm his spare hours.
John was away for the q
when the Courier-R Reporter m,
called for information for IN
article which he got from Jon
mother and employees Of /
drug store.
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the petition.
"We're paying the going rate"
he declared. "If they want to pick
that's fine. If they don't want to
pick then We'll get other pickers."
Ludlow said the two men taken
to police headquarters by depu.
ties were c. L. Howe and Vurgal
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
MEET TUESDAY

The Madonna circle OF lne
Kennewick Christian church will
meet Tuesday with Mrs. Gordon
Hille, 227 Maplewood, for a Il
o'clock potluck luncheon. Mem
beers are asked to bring guests.
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w El:EE:KEllD
vVPOlNTS'
BY ] w. HANSON
Editor, Tie Courier.Reporter

Did you know that a bursting
fluorescent light tube can cause
death? We have it from. Chief
Herb Malchow that Washing.
ton fireman lost his life from
that cause, and SO the local chief
is passing on a warning which
Is being issued by firemen
throughout the state to beware.
Don't break a fluroscent light
tube if you can avoid it. If you
do, be careful not to breathe
any of the white powder which
Is inside the tube:
Calling attention to an ar
ticle by Laird S. Goldsborough
In the Readers Digest this
month. Malchow quotes: "More
than 200 million fluorescent tubes
are now burning in factories,
stores, offices and h o m e S
throughout America. The sleek
cleaning tubes are here to stay.
They give more light for less
current and have a remarkably
long life" We might add that
the tubes being installed now
are much better than the first
ones out. They burn longer and
give off a better light.
Composing rooms In news.
paper plants were dmong the
first to install fluorescent light.
ing, since there is great need
for good light where printers
work. The new light was re.
Elected down the edges Of the
type and it suddenly became
much easier to read the type.
But everybody looked like
ghosts under the tube lighting.
Thot has been corrected. ~
To continue what MalchoW
points out on a page of the
Readers Digest: I" >. Fluorescent
tubes contain a highly poisonous
substance, serious injury may
strike anyone who carelessly
handles a broken tube -" The
article suggests that a warning
should be printed on each tube.
III. y. So
There are a lot of don'ts which
MalehoW can giye anyone inter
ested IN safety on this point
which would take up more space
than we have in this column. Hi
will be glad to explain the dan
gers of mishandling the tube
to anyone who calls on him
There is little danger, if any
when the tubes are handled
right. The main point is not t
- handle them recklessly ant
when one breaks, don't handl
Z the tube with hands and dom
q breathe the dust which may fal
out. "S .
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-09-23
KENNEWICk AND PASC0
Will PRESS FOR new
Span OVER COLUMBIA

adequacy Of the present span,
increased construction tempo
planned by the Atomic Energy
Continued on Page %
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agencies" to expedite construc.
ton of another Kennewick- Pas
CO bridge over the Columbia "as
proven feasible by survey" In
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04

Harold, Mr.. Jimmie and Jimmie
Myles, Mrs. Thelma McGiggs and
Miss Bessie Singleton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
500 Boys and Girl
TO Attend Com
munity Chest
Summer Camps

An estimated 500 Negro boys
and girls of Jackson and Kinds
County will enjoy Red Feather
outdoor camping experience this
season, Mr.. T. A. Turner, Com
munity Chest President pointed
out today. 275 Negro youths at
tended camps here last year.
FOrty-four per cent of the cam
pers in the U. S. from II to IA
years of age.
Many of the summer camps in
this area are made possible as
Red Feather services of the Com
munity Chest as are six day
camps. All of these begin special
programs with the advent OF
school vacations. Opening of sew.
eral summer camps is scheduled
few days hence, and prepare
tons are already under way, &C.
cording to Mr.. Turner.
The Red Feather services which
will have camping programs this
season include: Boy Scouts, Boys
Club, Girl Scouts, YMCA Central,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
Publishers Plan
10th Annual
Convention

Norfolk = The Negro News
paper Publishers Association will
meet in Washington, D. c., for
its tenth annual convention from
June 16to Is, inclusive, Presi-
dent Thomas w. Young announc-
ed this week. Meeting simultan-
eously will be the Editorial, Cir
culation and Advertising Socie-
ties, component units of the AS
ISOLATION.
The Washington AFRO-AMERI-
CAN will be the host newspaper,
and all sessions will be held at
Carver Hall, Second and Elm
Streets, Northwest.
Carl Murphy, president of the
AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS,
Baltimore, is chairman of a Con-
vention Program Committee
which was named by Mr.. Young
following the meeting of the exc
cutive board of NNPA in March.
Mr.. Murphy's committee is map
ping what officials of the organ
ization believe will be one of the
most interesting conventions ever
held.
While details of the program
will not become available for
another week or two, the commit.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
The National
Committee to Free
Ingram Family
Wants To See
The President

New York, May % - The Ma
tional Committee to free the In
gram family has made a request
to President Truman to receive a
delegation of mothers led by
Mary Church Terrell on Wednes-
day, June /. These women want
to present to President Truman
signatures on petitions collected
all over the country, imploring
him to use the power and influ-
ence of his executive office to
free Rosa Lee Ingram and her
two sons.
The Ingram Committee is not
petitioning for a pardon for the
Ingram family which would
imply a degree of guilt. Instead,
it is seeking to win their COM
plete and unconditional freedom.
Mrs. Ingram ISIS innocent, and
did what any mother would do.
She defender her honor, her
children, and her home. The Com
mittee, through it's activities and
literature, intends to arouse the
public opinion Of this nation and
the world to this shocking in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
Reported Revolt
In Ethiopia
Brings Denial

A report that a revolt had
broken out in Ethiopia and that
an attempt had been made on
the life of Crown Prince Asia
Wassan, was denied by the Ethio-
plan legation in London.
The report was carried in last
weeks issue of the Independent
Rome newspaper, II Messagero.
Ethiopian Minister to Cairo,
Tafassa Hapt Mikael, scoffed al
the report. He also told a news
paper man that the mere fact
the account was circulated by A
Rome newspaper makes denial
unnecessary"
aWwis qn.fovBz -nsbeJh
preserves Sugar
Trying one Of the Oldest wayn
Oh preserving tTuit. makes the most
OF the natural sugar In fully r,na
uuit. Fruits 90 not need sugar In
canning to keep from spoilage. but
sugar helps hold davor. coIor enA
sbap9
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04

tee has disclosed that major
official of tn eAmerican News
paper Publishers Association will
address the publishers banquet.
A top-level government official
also will be among the speakers
on that occasion.
Late in April Mr.. Young had
addressed the convention of AN
PA in New York, and was warm.
ly received. He expressed the
hope at that time that a repre-
sentative of the daily newspaper
publishers association would at
tend NNPA's convention. An as.
surance was given shortly after
that such an invitation would
likely be accepted.
The business of the three So
cieties will be transacted all in
one day, Saturday, June 18.
Charles Loeb, Cleveland and CALL
AND POST, is chairman of the
Editorial Society; John T. Bel.
den, Norfolk JOURNAL AND
GUIDE, heads the Advertising
Society; and James H. Murphy.
AFRO-AMERICAN, directs the af-
fairs Of the Circulation Society.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
SWank Westover
Girls School To
Admit Negroes

Middiebury, Conn, May 80 -
For the first time in the history
of Westover School, one of the
nations leading girls boarding
schools, the rolls were opened
today for Negro students.
louise Bulkley Dillingham;,
head mistress of Westover, ex-
planned the change in the schools
admission policies.
It's as simple as this" she
said. If we profess democracy,
we should practise it.
"The war, which was supposed
ly founght for democracy, has
forced us to think about these
things. We can no longer evade
the ISSUE"
Westover, which was founded
in 1909 and has 155 girls from
Is to 10, has never had a Negro
student, Miss Dillingham; said.
She does not believe the school
should discriminate against any
application because of race, re-
ligion, or national origin.
Miss Dillingham; presented the
question last weekend to $50
members of Westover School Alu-
mnae Assn, at their annual
They had no apparent
objection.
Miss Dillingham; said she did
not think it would be fair to ad-
nit a lone Negro girl. The stair
would be to sever, she said. 1t
would be more advisable, shse
said to admit a small group of
Negro girls" which would give
them a chance for more initial
companionshipl.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04
Negro Men Held
In Search For
Rapist With
Foreign Accent

Meridian, Miss, May 81. =
(SpeciaD - Although the victim
is reported to have told police
that the man who attacked her
had a foreign accent, police
here are holding five Negro men
and many others have been ques-
toned since the rape of a young
white woman here Sunday night.
According to police the young
woman reported she was drug
into the woods not far from the
Meridian Junior College campus
while enroute to her home after
attending a meeting at the Col,
lege and raped despite her strug-
gle, pleas, and offers of money.
She described her attacker as
dark complexioned white man
or Negro, adding that he had
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-06-04

justice.
1t is the hope of the Commit
tee that the president will receive
the Mothers delegation, and
grant their request, as this would
be in keeping with the spirit of
his Mothers Day Message to the
Nation. Representative from the
church, fraternal, civic, and
trade union organizations are in
vited to join the Committee in
it's efforts.
The Committee plans to contin-
ue the petition campaign after
Memorial Day until a million
signatures have been collected.