The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-03-24
WEEKEND VIEWPOINTS
By James w. Hanson

WEEKEND VIEWPOINTS
BY James w. Hanson
IL flood should strike in this part of the valley again.
Avenue would be of for time That would mean
that the heavy traffic load which that street would De
Avenue Last Avenue had TO De raised
during the emergency before couo pc USED
This year be high enough Keep well out OF
water but it being in shape to take this ac
burden needs few days work to put it IN shape WIDEN
ing Avenue would be useless step by any means
and leveng snoring the sides in some places also
would help.
Don't fret you are going build and you are stopped
doing something want to do by the city new Oo
ing code We have just some figures on ire losses ana
they are APPALLING When you with the city bug OF
fetal remember that there losses totang seven Daon
dollars last year of fires building code isn't
playthng for city officials by Most kennewck
councen are business property owners and tney
were quick to catch onto idea that you going to
reduce the destruction by fire. the to DO IS to prevent
fires fire department handle the situation
when the breaks out The building code is designed 10
cut down the number of times the frernen are called
Grandma can't sit UP at the for her daily drink when
bars come back to Kennewc They have ruling that says
women must before they be served hard
Now that of will make it respectable Wnen 1or III
stance today tells the story OF her lie to her
grandchildren years hence she say mo Sir young
and young lady, never have put my foot up on brass
rail leaned the bar for drink was always down on
chair with my elbow table, Another grandmother now
dead who way past the century mark some years ago
was speaking 101s birthday and this what she sal
"You judge by what goes in his mouth and what
comes Which of the two grandmohers would you
rather have?
New moves being made the direction of Harvesting
the power in the flowing in the streams OF the u
and it's territories indicate that only the surface OF what to
be been scratched The engineers have
that survey Alaska has been authorized ito accomplish
in Alaska been done in many river basins through
United States When looks out across the vast
dry of the Western United States he cannot help but
have the feeling that hence man WILL be
ing the rivers for not only power its flood control and
navigation but also turn millions OF acres into productive
ty Eventually all those vast will produce They will
have produce to feed the ever-ncreasng population
The National Association of Manufacturers whose prop
uganda always interesting but sometimes mis-
leading worried has been for some time that we are
going socialistic beyond necessity What the N a. NJ
and others fail point out is that changes erected IN
certain economic the changes
the political AS long as we nave our
constitution safeguards Of the rights and liberties OF
individuals always change back when things don't pan
Aep all the economic changes that have been made
we republic with many personal liberties as we
ever had. That's an important point to remember.
The Chamber of Commerce offering trade $3.50 for
few good ideas That actually is the and substance OF
what the chamber doing in its dollar word contest
announced last wants find out how improve
the shopping facilities Of the city is willing to out
good Tor the IDEAS But us lneres IS III goo souu
IDEAS not who enter the contest will
be in for keen competition all the way round.
So far radio station KWIE has been relief from the
general run broadcasng stations Hal Clark appears to be
about as good of the fairly good the big net
works on news We would him ahead of Gabriel Heater
who it is said heavy following Hal had radio broad
casting training Denver before coming to Kennewck and
had two years and half shouting back the printers and
onerators at Courier-Reporter which training
course in ITSELF