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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
OK Ordinance
To Regulate
Taxi Drivers

Ordinance SAT, regulating the
operation of taxicabs in Kenne.
wick, had its first and second
readings at the council meeting
Tuesday night.
The ordinance, suggested by
Police Chief Jacob Jessup, pro-
vides that owners keep records
of all their trips and that each
record be open to inspection by
the police.
Each cab operator will get a
license for each cab at cost of
SIS per year. 1T may be renewed
when approved by the chief. All
drivers are to be fingerprinted
and will be obliged to take med.
ical examinations. The photo
graph of the driver will be post.
ed in the cab he drives, and
drivers will be subject to exam
nations to determine their quail
ifications.
Parts of an original ordinance
which is amended by 547, make
the violation of the ordinance a
miSdemeanor and provide a
maximum fine of $100 for viola
tionS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
City Park Is
1Keewoydin'
Officially

The city park near the high
school grounds has name CIV
en- to it when it was dedicated
many years ago, -
: The official name is t.Keeway-
din" an Indian name, although
it has been called all along
merely the Getty park" Miss Flor
ence Oliver Of the, Courier-Re.
porter recalls the day. it was
dedicated. She has promised to
dig up the history of the dedica.
ton and how the park was origf.
mated and to write it for next
weeks issue.
The name "Keewaydin" is EN-.
bedded in the stones at the gate.
way to the park. Miss Oliver
says she can't understand why
it isn't called by its name. This
is to be the beginning Of cam.
paign to get the people of Ken.
newick to call their park "Kee.
waydin," it's rightful name.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Postal ReCeipfS
Increase A guin

Postal receipts In Kennewick
doomed the past year, figures
released yesterday by Postmaster
Walter Woehler showed.
Receipts for the year ending
June 80 totalled $76,721, COM
pared to $54,530 the previous
year. The gain was slightly more
than 40 percent and was gain
of more than 300 percent since
1914, the year the war started. In
that year the total of postal re.
ceipts was only $18,664.99.
Except for a falling off Of re.
ceipts during the last quarter
from the previous quarter, the
record of postal receipts in Ken
newick is one of steady and
rapid growth. The June total was
Continued on Page g
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Booklet To Give Multitude
Of Points About KennewicI<

People who don't know their
Kennewick are going to have
some help.
The assistance is to come from
the Chamber of Commerce in
the form of a booklet being COM
piled at the chamber office UNI
der the supervision of Manager
Ross Frank.
If, for instance, some stranger
drops in and asks you where the
name Kennewick came from,
you will fish out the booklet,
open it and find on one of the
first pages that long ago the
Indians camped on this spot be-
cause it provided water and
grass for their ponies, fish for
their families, and waterfowl.
They called it Kennewick be-.
cause that means winter para
disc.
This is only one OF the his.
torical paragraphs to be includ-
ed in the booklet. There also
will be information on form of
Government. population, area,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Queen, Court
Busy Fourth

Queen Barbara Wells and Prin.
cesse Joi Slusher, Marilyn Oliver,
10 Ann Bacon and Marilyn Pur-
ser, represented the Benton
County Fair and Rodeo at four
neighboring events on July 18th.
In the morning they attended
the air show in Prosser, where
they were welcomed by Mayor
Dick Heald. At noon, the Queen
and her Court accompanied by
fifty members of the Benton
County Sheriff's Posse and Aux
Hilary, all mounted, rode in the
Prosser parade.
Going then to Toppenish, the
group at 4 o'clock rode In the pa.
rade featured by the Pow Wow,
and at 1880 following their Grand
Entry into the Toppenish Pow
Wow Rodeo, as guests witnessed
the performance from horseback.
Chaperones for the Queen and
her Court were Mrs. Elmer Smith
and Mrs. Arthur Stromme.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Moving City
Hall PIunned

City Councilmen ard City SUI.
perintendent r. C. Rector have
been discussing the moving Of
city hall equipment into the part
of the city building now being
used by the National Bank of
Commerce.
1t was announced at the meet
ing of the city council Tuesday
night that the bank would be
ready to occupy its new building
on Kennewick Avenue in about
two weeks. Eddie Pacot bank exc
cutive, said no definite date had
been set for the occupancy yet.
A grand opening is being plan
ned for later date, however, he
said.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
5000 900 Listed
For New School

Word received from Olympia
this week is that 100000 has
been listetd by the state super.
intendent of public instruction
for the academic section of q
new high school for Kennewick.
It is generally. expected this
will be erected this fall in time
for use during the coming school
term, although probably not for
the opening Of school. Also list.
ed with. other school construc.
tion was an elementary unit
for the Benton Kiona school at
a cost of 100000.
It Is expected that the amount
listed by the state superinten.
dent. will be enhanced by sums
applied for from the atomic
energy commission, although no
definite word was available on
that angle.
The total school building pro.
gram in the state of Washing
ton will top the IL million mark
during the current biennium.
Some of the construction is not
expected to be possible this
year. Total of SO new buildings
or additions are to be built in
the state. The local school dist.
riots are expected to furnish &c..
1863, 900 Of the amount spent for
school buildings In the state, and
$5,826,O0O is to come from the
state on a matching basis.
In releasing a list of new
school projects planned
for the next two years the state
superintendent said they are
preliminary estimates and may
be changed.
The preliminary estimates
showing the districts, projects,
estimated total cost, local dist.
riots share of the cost and est.
mated state aid include:
Soap Lake, addition to ele-
m Ell tary, building, sos, 900
$51, 500, $51 500.
Harrington elementary unit,
$500, 900, $50, 900, $4,000.
Brewster, addition to elemen.
tary school, $4,000, $18,SO0, $21,-
200.
Oroville addition to elemen.
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Tour Streets
To Determine
Repuir Needs

Members of the Kennewick
council street committee, City
Superintendent R. C.. Rector, and
City Street Commissioner Joe
Stradling, were making a tour of
the city yesterday to determine
just where street repairs are
needed most.
The tour was planned at a
city council meeting Tuesday
night after county road super
visor Lou Keene said he needed
road equipment for county road
work. He has been doing the city
street repair work. Keene said
there was about Is miles of
county roads which were badly
in need of repair. Rector said
he believed that the city's work
could be ended soon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07

Climate: Exceptionally mild
with 40 frost free days per year,
average mean temperature of
53.6 degrees, and average an
nual rainfall of I'll inches.
Assessed valuation is S2,547,-
915 on January 1, 194S. Increased
to S3,100,623 on January 1, 1919.
Benton county valuation was
Sl6,OOO,O00 on January 1, 1913.
The municipal tax rate is Is
mills, maximum state tax is 40.
Bonded Indebtedness: General
bonds, $4,000; sewer revenue
bonds, 100000; net bonded in
debtedness, S2O4,500.
There are 1850 telephone SUBJ
Scribers, IL churches, total pop
lation in trade area, is 10000.
three railroads. two airports, bus
lines, state highways, district Ii.
brary with headquarters here,
nursery, grade and high schools,
unlimited water power, out
standing agricultural produc.
ton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Grosshoppers In
Seven Counties

Localized outbreaks of grass.
hoppers are threatening crops in
q seven.county area.
David Brannon, Washington
State colleges extension ento.
mologist, reported today that
grasshoppers are attacking
wheat, oats, other grains and
alfalfa as we'll as garden crops
in localized areas in Adams,
Columbia, Garfield, Kittitas, Lin.
coin, Stevens and Whitman coun-
ties. He said the pests are also
a possible threat to fruit areas
along the Snake river.
The continued dry weather Is
forcing the 'hoppers to move
their feeding operations from
dried.up range and scablands
into cultivated areas where
crops are greener. The extension
agent, who is also state leader
in grasshopper control, said the
warm, dry spring has favored
gIasshopper development.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Crash, Bong!
Nobody BudIy.Hurf

Herbert Lobl Of Kennewick
last week called himself q
lucky man. Driving along
State HighwaY 40 last Thurs
Day evening. q truck in front
suddenly turned off the high.
woY and Lobl's car crashed
into it. cdYeened off the gyode
and rolled over twice. When
the car cdTne to q stop. Lobl
crdwled out slightly bruised
but wolked away otherwise
unframed. He put in a cloim
Tor damages against the truck
owner.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
No New Bridge For 2 Years
Official
Plan Is 81.
Revealed

Community leaders VIII o
have been worrying about
where that new Columbia
river bridge will be located,
today turned their attention
to the question of when it
will be built.
Mayor Urban Keolker,
Herbert Owens, and others
were in Olympia yesterday
comforting wi h Governor
Langlie over the location of
the bridge, but Keolker said
before leaving that the dele
cation would also discuss
the question 'when?".
That there is practically no
hope of any actual construction
before the year 1851 is well un-
der way, was revealed in a letter
to property owner here whose
land will be taken over by the
state highway department under
present plans. -
The letter came from the office
of 7. P. Doyle, district engineer,
in Yakima, and said no funds
were available for the bridge for
the next two years. 81 S
The letter was to Mrs. Char
lottee Aguilar of 1904 Imnal1a
Avenue, Garden Tracts, in reply
to one she wrote to ask whether
to drop plans for paintings be-
cause of highway work ap.
preaching. 1.-THE work being done
in that area by this department
at the present time is in the form
of preliminary surveys to estab-
lish the location of a new high
way from Richland junction TO
Pasco, together with traffic inter
changes to provide connections
to Kennewick and to the Ply
mouth highway" the letter said.
"Wtile the major routes are fair
ly well fixed, the location of the
various parts of the interchange
are still in the formation stage"
at is therefore impossible for
us to advise at this time what
lparf of the above tract may be
required as right of way for the
final development" the letter TO
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
New PofroImen
And Two Given
Higher Rank

Patrolmen John Dickinson and
o. c. Lincoln of the Kennewick
police department have been
promoted to the temporary rank
of sergeant to take effect imme-
diately. The appointments were
made by Mayor Urban Keolker.
Two new patrolmen have also
been added to the police force.
EgsleJ are Louis v. Boscola Ir.,
'Hnd Afthur L. Elsner.
Police clerks that have been
appointed recently by the mayor
are Richard d. Houston and Rob.
ert DARCY.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
400 Volunteers For The Hospital Drive
Horton Tells
OF Need In
Dinner Talk

Four hundred volunteer
workers will give their eff
forts to the Kennewick Hos
pital Funds Drive for $780,
600 during it's two month
duration, Page Carter, the
campaign director, said
yesterday. ". ''
The volunteer aid will
come from Kennewick citi-
zens who, under the guild
ance of the KenneWick
Hospital Association, will wage
the campaign to secure funds for
a hospital to serve their com.
munity. .... 1884,.
Persons with offers of volun-
teer work will please contact
campaign headquarters by tele.
phoning 1921, or calling at Room
19xof the Bateman building,
Carter added.
The drive was given an en-.
thusiastic start at the kick off
dinner held Friday, at the Riv.
ieria Supper club. Close to 100
Kennewick business men and
women met with hospital asso.
citation and district officials to
open the campaign. Hugh Hor.
ton, Kennewick attorney, deliv.
cred the keynoting address,
stressing the Importance of hav.
ing a hospital in a growing city.
with the growth of any will
age to a. city, we acquire prob.
lens as well as benefits. Tonight
we meet one of our most pressing
Observation-Disclosures and op.
Grafton Of a community hospital
in Kennewick," Horton said. He
said that 1t was a problem for
Kennewick to meet and handle if
I'VE are to obtain DIR rightful
status as a great city.
"You are of a select group" he
told those at the dinner, "and
you have been the pioneers who
developed this area from a small
village to the small city it is
today. You are the builders of
progress which is making Ken
newick the fastest developing
city in the state"
He said that the only way to
finance a hospital is ito get
money"
Horizons speech reached the
radio audience through station
KYLE, radio time being donated
by Keolker's Mems Store. His
speech, Page Carter said later,
aroused much interest and the
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Population Agoin
Is Questioned Here

A change in the population
figures on the highway signs
coming into the city of Kenne-
wick has proved to be not as
easy as statements made at re-
cent chamber of commerce meet
ings would indicate. It's more
than merely asking the state
highway department to substi-
tute the figures offered here.
Chamber of Commerce officials
have decided the change. prob
ably will have to wait until
figures are made public by the
United States Department of
Commerce which was scheduled
to complete a census of the area
this week.
Post Master Walter Woehler
said figures suggested recently
at chamber of commerce meet
ing are too low for Kennewick.
The chambers figures Were H.
600 for Pasco and II, 700 for Ken
newick. Woehler says Kenne-
wick's population is more than
$1,000.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07

bonds, consolidate the two sys.
TENS, and to improve and ex.
pand them to take care of all
the domestic water needs of the
community. .
STILL UNDECIDED
Members of the irrigation dis:
trict board said after the council
meeting last night that they
were undecided as to what
means should be used to get the
sentiment of their people-whe.
Their to hold mass meeting,
take a postcard poll, or hold a
legal election. Objections to q
general election by the people Of
the district is that it would con.
sumo too much time.
The irrigation district board
,(Continued on Page g.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
KID Water
Deal Near
Completion

Kennewick City Council
and Kennewick Irrigation
District board agreed Tues
day night on the sale of the
KID water system to the city
for $4,000 plus the cost of
IA water hydrants being in
stalled. II
But the KID board acted
with the proviso that the
sentiment of the people of the
district be learned before the
deal becomes a fact.
The councils plan is to buy
the KID and the Pacific Power
and Light company's system, to
issue million dollars worth of
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Deputy Says
Thanks To
Fire Fighters

Deputy Sheriff w. L. Foraker
yesterday said he wished to ex.
tend thanks of the sheriff's of.
flee to those persons who ans.
wered a radio appeal on the
Fourth of July for volunteers to
battle a Horse Heaven fire.
The blaze was brought under
control after large group of
people from the communities
nearby fought for several hours.
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
installation
For I.O.O.F.

The LOOT. will hold a semi.
annual installation Of officers
Monday, July II.
The following is a list of those
to be installed: Noble Grand,
Hugh Lucke; Vice. Grand, A. L.
Erickson; Commander. Frank
Brown; Ward, Ralph Nicoson,
Chaplain, Bruce Lucke, RENG,
Ernest Johnson; LSNG, Earling
Lande; IG, George Taylor; OG.
Bill Slocumb; RSS. John Num-;
LSS, Bruce Ashby; RSVG, Alva
Lucke; LSVG, Donald Hornmell;
Past Grand, Henry Smith.
All OddfelloWs in the area are
invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
WEEKEND
VIEWPOINTS
By ] w. HANSON
Editor, The Courier Reporter

A youngster shooting fire.
crackers on the Fourth, ran into
a wire in the edge of a grape
vinyard' in the Highlands, slash.
Ing his eyelid so badly that
medical attention was needed.
Take him to the hospital" his
mother cried. "Tl. ere's no hos.
pital in Kennewick," another re.
piled, "but take him to Rich.
land"
In those few statements you
nave q picture Of what hop.
pens frequently In Kennewick
ond vicinity. You find sudden.
y the great need Of well.
etosted hospital to take your
loved ones when they are In.
JuSed or suddenly become 30.
!1ouslY III. "No hospital" In
times like these Is about the
soodest words anyone con
speak. i takes the slsids right
out from under the ones whose
A0veo ones are In Danger.
y
One often gets into a discus.
sion with persons who are con.
cerned with the newspaper you
are working on, usually be.
cause you have friends who
want your paper to be as good as
1t possibly can be. 1t may be
because the person is interested
In you personally or because he
has become personally attached
to the sheet itself. In any event,
suggestions for improvement al.
ways will be appreciated. After
some 30 years experience, the
writer believes that only one
kind Of a newspaper succeeds in
the average American commune.
ty-the kind that tells the true
story of what goes on in the
community, leaving out the pet.
ty things, printing the news of
the things which are important;
the kind Of newspaper that COW,
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
Asks Cooperation
On u. S. Census

A request has been made by
census officials that the full CO.
operation of persons contacted
be given when the U. S. depart
ment of commerce census is be-
ing taken. 1t has been pointed
out that all personal information
given is confidential and that
it is against the law for a cen
sus taker to divulge any of that
information. S,ras,,,,,-.-,-.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
DISCUSSION SET

FEonk Lompson. member Of
the KID board. sdid late yes
terdoY that q full discussion Of
the proposed sole would be had
at q meeting Of the Highland
Improvement club at 8 o'clock
Monday night. Lumpson sold
questionndiTes would be sent
out to members also.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07
ROAD CONTRACT

ROAD CONTRACT
Among road contracts let by
the state highway commission
recently is one for cleaning and
painting four bridges in the
state located in Kittitas, Benton,
and Franklin counties. The con-
tract was let to Larsen Brothers,
Tacoma, for $25,136.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-07-07

TOP ANTI-AIRcRAFT HoNoRS by Richards own
Battery of the National Guard when from Washington
Oregon Idaho assembled Yakima Center
ending so MN
brigade of IL rounds in As seconds and the only
Sleeve 20 by foot nYlon
left Robert Woods
Arland Francis Fisher Al
bert
William Miller LIST L. Kkwood of the Yakima Unit and
Charles philip Lewis photol $3.50. ..
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Laws Tells OF Citizen
Obligations asCiviians
Honor 10 Students

Those wiling 10 direct their
talents and efforts toward A.d.ng
fellow individuals. tire community
and the Nation. even /: i entails
SELF sacrifice, perSonify the III
most N good citizenship. Chie.
Judge Bolitha J. Lass o; DIS
trict Court told honor Students
here last night.
Judge Laws spoke on the OBJ
legations Of . Citizen" during q
dinner OF the ctvitan Club o.
Washington In the Mayiover Ho-
tel. The dinner was high lighted
by the organization ..nnual
Honor Key Awards 70 10 District
high school students.
Bases of Selection.
They were selected FOR the
honor because Of outstanding cit
izenship, scholarship. leadership
ability. initiative. loyalty and ex-
tra-curricular activities.
The students are Donald Ro-
vegno. Anacostia High School:
Oscar I. Dodek. jr.. Calvin Cool
idge: Patrick Henry Clark. Gen.
tral; James c. Miller. Eastern:
Robert A. Brungs. Gonxaga.
Donald c. Simpson. Mckinley:
Werner Maske. Theodore Roose-
welt: Conrad j. Grant. st. John 5:
Evening star., 1949-05-11
Irish Resolution Urges
British 10 Leave Ulster
ey .hs AsseSieis9 pfsss

DUBLIN. Ireland. May IA
resolution asking Britain to get
out OF Northern Ireland was
adopted unanimously yesterday by
the Irish Republics Dali tParlia-
mento.
Prime Minister John A. Co.'S
tello introduced the resolution
He sent British Prime Minister
Clement Attlee an official notice
that he had done 80.
The British government and
people were called on TO end the
present occupation Of our SIX
Northeastern Counties and there
by enable the unity OF Ireland TO
be restored and age-long differ
ences between the two nations to
be brought to an end"
The occasion for the resolution
was the opening Of debate on the
so-called Ireland Bill. introduced
recently in the British House OF
Commons. One of its clauses says
Northern Ireland will remain q
part of the United Kingdom unless
Its Parliament decides otherwise
Evening star., 1949-05-11
.Vieki Evons to Murry
Race Horse Owner

LOS ANGELES, May 11.-Vicki
Evans, the dancer who was ar
rested last August with Robert
Mitchum and Lila Leeds In q
mariuana raid. will be married
next month.
She confided yesterday she is
very much In love and will wed
Matty Ryan, race horse owner and
jockeys agent. They'll move to
Pittsburgh. her former home. 1t
will be her second marriage and
Mr.. Ryan'S first.
Mitchum and Miss Leeds served
50-day jail terms on narcotics
charges stemming from the raid.
Miss Evans was acquitted.
Evening star., 1949-05-11

Gently from the xloop Amethyst.
trapped by Red shore guns On the
Yangtxe between here and Man
king
The British source added that
as far az I know" eTewnen we're
still aboard and adequately sup
piled. About half the crew OF
$50. including wounded. earlier
had reached Shanghai.
The spokesman said he knew Of
no plans or negotiations under
way to remove the crippled Ame-
thyst from its present location.
Three other British ships. in
cluding the cruiser London. were
driven away by Communist artil-
lery when they tried 70 aid the
Amethyst last month.
Some - British sailors we're
killed id the fighting.
Evening star., 1949-05-11

Paul II. Baaxer. Western. Ard
Rorrry Z. isnney. woodrow WI.
son.
Judge Laws SA1c there Is 'trw-
:nendcGs need for those exempt.
tysng gocc citizenship because iris
IS period os 'chAllsaSe&
Warns Of Prenaganaa.
The i&r4st warned the Sst!aen IS
10 beware Of an EsaxaciclGs pgop& =
sanc& which. ne said. IS ira1.ra, =
ing into our ooIieges with the ar.
o. creating u different form O.
approach 10 our way q! life
Isaac B, Goac. pTessoen; 0! Ire
Washington CiyitAn Club. ex-
tended words OF welcome and In
trooaeec special guests. including
the parents of the students receiv-
ing the awards. principals ard
assistant principals Of the high
schools they represented.
Evening star., 1949-05-11
itchy Plnpies
XIII Romance

Many shattered ronances may be
traced directly to scratching Of skin
blemishes. Why tolerate itching of
pimples, eczema, angry red blotches
and other irritationS when you can
get fast relief with soothing Peter
sons Ointment? 40c all druggists.
One application delights or money
refunded. Also for tired cracked feet.