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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
City, C.A.A.
Cooperate
On Project

A plan to spend $4,000 to
improve Vista Field, a link in
a growing East-West air traf-
flee, was announced yester-
day by City Superintendent
r. G. Rector.
The improvement project
will be carried out in a tie-up
of the city with the Civil
Aeronautics Authority under
provisions of the CAA to
afford assistance to independent
fields. Rector said the city had
budgeted $4,000 for the purpose
and that the city council is count
ing on $4,000 from the CAA.
Brandt Gessel of Walla Walla
will have charge of the work.
Among the improvements plan
ned are a new administration
building, a new parking area,
barriers, fences, landing aprons,
some maintenance work on run
ways, and a cleanup job. He
said the council expects the work
will be done in June.
''We are getting the project in
shape as fast as we can and want
to get it done as soon as pos
sibie," Rector said.
The administration building
will be small in size but Rector
said it would be a well-construct-
ed structure planned to allow en-
largements later when the city
will be in better financial condi-
ton to make them or when more
outside money is received.
Chamber of Commerce offici-
ais who visited the field recently
urged that an Improvement pro-
gram be carried out at once.
The city has also in mind
identifying the area around the
landing field but that is to come
later, Rector said. There may be
some paintings this summer, he
said.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
to Build a New
Catholic Church

Plans have been completed for a
new Catholic church to accomo-
date the approximately 1000 res
idents of the community of that
faith.
Announcement that new
church would be built came from
Rev. FIR. McGrath of st. Joseph's
Catholic parish who said the new
structure would be located just
west of the elementary school
and Immediately north of Arbor
Homes
Seating capacity will be 400
or more, compared with the cap
acity Of only 100 in the church
at the corner of second and
South Washington. The old
church building will be offered
for sale, Father McGrath said.
Contracts for the new structure
will be awarded on bids.
The new building is to be in
the form of ct" with the main
part 40 feet by 95 feet and the
other part IS feet wide. It will
conform primarily to the Gothic
style of architecture. The walls
will be of pumice block. There
will be basement IS feet by
40 to be used for recreational
and organizational needs of the
parish.
Father McGrath said this inn
provement not only eliminates
the dream of the people affiliated
with the church but IS necessitated
by the needs of a steadily In
creasing congregation. j
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Richlund Invites
More Newspapers

conforming with a statement
of intentions made several times,
the General Electric Company at
Richland is issuing invitations to
newspaper publishers who may
express a desire to construct and
equip their own plants and oper-
ate newspapers in Richland.
The announcement. which came
from the Commercial Facilities
division of the company. said
sealed bids would be opened july
IL, and any bidders who meet the
terms OF the invitation and bid
form may, if they choose, oper-
ate a daily, weekly, or semi
weekly newspaper in Richland.
This was taken to mean that
more than one newspaper besides
those now published in Richland.
may be permitted to publish. Tw,
are now published there. The
Richland Villager, owned by a
corporation, and the Hanford
News, the General Electric Com
pany paper which is circulated
among employees.
newspaper publishers whose
plants are not located in Richland
and who desire to establish cir
culation, advertising and news
gathering offices in Richland NAV
also submit proposals to con-
struct their own office buildings
or to rent any building space
which may later become available.
from investment builders In
Richland. If was announced
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Festival Is
Joined with
Fair Plans

The Beton county Fair as
ISOLATION, the K en- n e w i c k
Grape Festival association,
the Benton county Sheriff's
Posse, civic, fraternal and
farm groups will all join
hands to produce the big an
nual event scheduled for Ken
newick on August 10, 20 and
II at the new fair grounds on
Mob Hill.
Tentative plans include an
afternoon rodeo, an evening
vaudeville show, carnival,
fair and allied events.
At a meeting Monday night the
Grape Festival association agreed
to join forces with the fair board
with some details of financial
matters to be settled.
In last years event, the fair
association and the festival group
acted independently. A concensus
revealed that most members Of
both groups believed a joint or.
ganization would be most effec-
tive.
"There will be plenty of work
for everybody" remarked c. C.
Miller, manager of the event.
The afternoon rodeo will be in
charge of the Sheriff's Posse
That group has alrtady starred
construction of grounds that will
provide seating for at least 5000
, The rodeo will be of the highes,
calibre, complete with all events
and a queen and court. I'll.
The Far association is max
ing rapid Roadway in developing
a fair OF greater magnitude than
has ever been held in this area.
Festival board members have
pledged full support to the pro-
gram a1d have promised TO aid
in every possible way.
Miller has Investigated mater
ial for the entertainment fea-
lures, planning an event similar
to the show which proved SC
popular last year.
It is expected that planning
for the event, with special activi.
ties can be launched Immediately
Miller expressed confidence
that with full community cooper.
alton the event can be carried tC
a successful conclusion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Not Tusty, Wafer
Otherwise Okeh

Domestic water from the Ken
newick irrigation district lines,
which serve west Kennewick and
the Highlands, doesn't taste the
best in the world because of the
amount of chlorine used, but
tests show it not to be dangerous
to drink.
That was the comment re-
ceived from Dudley Beall
of the health department yester-
day. He said two tests were be-
ing made daily On the water ana
all have been found to be mega
tive. He agreed, however, that
excessive chlorine plus an un-
usual amount of sediment didn't
make it particularly desirable
as drinking water.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Wifi Named Assistant
School Superintendent

Carl q. Witt, prlnclpal OF the
Kennewick Junior High School
the past two years, has been a
pointed assistant superintendent
by the Board of Education to take
over his new duties at the Open
ing Of the term next fall.
Donald T. Coates, former coach
here and, Senior High principal,
will succeed Witt. Coates has
been in California the past year
taking advanced college work.
Witt will be in the office of
Supt. E. G. Black who held a
meeting of the heads Of the school
system with board members vest
erday on the eve of the end Of
the present term.
Students of the schools are
rounding out the work Of the
year preparatory to a final few
hours in class rooms again Fri
day, and then vacation three
months of it.
With a Baccalaureaute service
and one graduation program out
of the way, the big event of the
schools tonight is the Senior high
graduation program at the High
School Auditorium at 8 o'clock
tonight.
Students of the high schools
and grades will not return to
classes today. It will be work
day for the teachers who will
be rushed into the night to COM
plete papers and report cards to
be passed out Friday when stu
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Memorial Service
ToHonor War Vet:
Stores to Close

A Memorial service in which
the American Legion and the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars viii
join, win be held at Riverview
Heights cemetery Monday.
The post office. National Bank
of Commerce, and city hall viii
be closed for the holiday. Most
retail stores viii be. closed during
the day as has been the custom
in Kennewick.
A monument, the gift of Mr..
and Mrs. r. l.. Nelson, in honor
Of their son Harold Nelson and
other service men from this To-
cality who lost their lives in
World War II, is to be dedicated
at 1000 o'clock on Memorial Day
at the cemetery.
Robert Ely Post No. 80 of the
American Legion and Thomas
Hembree Post No. 1927 of Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars will join
in conducting the dedications
service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson, formerly
in Kennewick, are now
living in Yakima where Mr.. Mel
son is state dairy inspector, COW
ering this district. MIR. and Mrs.
Nelson will not attend the serv-
ice as they have been called east
by the serious illness of Mrs.
Nelson's brother. Relatives of the
honored service men are especi-
ally invited to attend.
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BOUQUETS

BOUQUETS
This week marks harvest
time" for Kennewick's finest
crop" in an area famous for
many fine crops. Flowers are in
order for every one Of the gradu-
ates of the local schools and best
wishes from all of us to all of
them in whatever pursuits they
choose to follow. Congratula-
tions, too, to the teaching staffs,
who have brought these young
people through their courses in
the face Of very difficult and
overcrowded conditions.
CONFUSION
Growing pains" is no longer
4 phrase that adequately describ-
es the overall picture in Ken
newick now. Tempers are be-
coming frayed, charges, both
with and without foundation, are
being made, residents are justly
impatient over domestic water
conditions, street lighting, road
construction and many other
things that directly affect daily
living.
PATIENCE @
On many occasions I have
counselled patience. At the same
time I have urged people to make
their wants known to the proper
authorities. Certainly no orderly
solution to the many problems
of the city and the community
can be attained when authorities
directly involved are at swords
points. That condition can only
result in stalmate.
DEMOCRACY
AS has been said many times,
democracy is always cumbersome.
Like the mills of the gods. it
erinds slowly. In many cases it
is extremely costly in dollars and
cents. The American people have
many times expressed a prefer
ence for this kind of government,
even when fully aware Of its
cost. Let's make democracy work
in Kennewick. That means that
Continued on Page 81
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Open House
Prait's Garaqe

Benton county farmers and
their families have been invited
to an open house to be held Fri
day at 1870 pm. at Pratt's Gar
age.
Two new motion pictures fea-
turing advantages of mechanical
farming will be presented, as well
as demonstrations Of the new
Ferguson Tractor and its system
of implement linkage and by
draulic control. Free refreshments
and entertainment will also be
provided.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Local Boys Exhibit Beef;
Local Merchants Buv

For the first time in years Ken
newick high school Future Farm
ers of America have exhibited
in Spokane Junior Livestock
show. All stock was bought by
Kennewick merchants.
Seven steers were exhibited al
this show and sold on auction on
Friday, May Is. Each steer was
purchased by a Kennewick mer.
chant and each animal will, there
fore, be consumed locally. The
highest price was paid by j. r
Kitchener of the Michener's Food
store and locker plant. He bough,
a steer owned and exhibited by
Bob Spurgeon. -.
Kitchener was also the only
Kennewick buyer who was pres
ent at the show. The others had
their bidding done by some other
agency represented there. For
this animal, Michener's Store paid
291kc pound On the hoof. The
steers of the other boys were
purchased by Kennewick buyers
as follows:
Vernon Granting, Angus, weight
$50 pounds, j. H. Currie, Kenne-
wick Country club.
Norman Kaas, Angus, weight
805 pounds, Sigman's grocery.
Jim Elder, Hereford, weigh,
700 pounds, Tri-City-Food Center.
Bill Baird, Angus, weight 755
pounds, Wild Bills Market.
Gordon Kaas, Angus, weight 745
pounds, General Iron Works, Herb
Owens, vice-president and man
ager.
Pat Granting, Angus, weigh,
$50 pounds, Kinney's Fine Foods
The steer of Vernon Granting
was first in choice in his class.
According to Victor D. Rogers,
vocational agriculture instructor
who was in Spokane during the
week of the exhibition. and sale,
to the large number Of local
buyers who were in there bidding,
can be credited the good prices
that were received by each OF
the boys.
Each steer has been carefully
grain fed for about six months.
The livestock judging team
which competed on Thursday
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
PLAN $4,000 TN IMPROVEMENTS FOR VISTA FIELD
Car Gets Loose.
Rolls into Ditch

Parking his car at Lampson
Homesites Monday night after
returning from a drive. Cliff
ford Mortenson stepped out to
get a stone to place underneath
a wheel. VII
Hearing a noise. Mortenson
looked around. saw the car
speeding downhill. Before he
knew it. the car plunged into the
irrigation ditch. He explained
after neighbors had come to the
rescue and pulled the car out.
that he thought he had left the
car in gear. The headlights ra-
diator. and tenders were dam
aged but Otherwise there was
no damage, II was said.
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council-said "these boys have
done wonderful job"
The attacker was councilman
Fred Bunch, ST., who often does
MT see eye to eye with the other
council members. The defender
was Arthur w. Campbell who
was replaced by Bunch in the
last city election.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Sendte Bill Would Pay
Kennewick Women $1,000

The United STATE Senate
passed and sent 70 the White
House Monday a bill to pay
Miss e. La Rec Smoot Of Ken.
nswick $1,000 for injuries suf-
fsred IN, wartime explosion Of
q flame thfowo1 At the Madras.
Ore. Army Air Base. Miss
Smoot was q civilian emploYs
at the air base when the OK.
plosion and fire occurred. No.
vember Is, lsl3. She suffered
permanent injuries In the exc
plosion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26

Bunch asked whether the city
council was ever. going to get
away from the present 'pay-as-
you-go policy" said he. didn't
think so with the council as it
is. He said he felt there should
be some more cleaning out.
Campbell, in a short talk, an
Continued on Page 81
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
Bridge to Richlund
Double Spum Now

The new Bailly span of the
bridge over the Yakima river be.
tween the Richland "Y" and Rich
land was opened for traffic
shortly after noon yesterday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26
City Councilman Attacks Council:
former Councilman Defends Body

The city council was attacked
by city councilman.
It's almost like the man biting
a dog, but it happened, right in
the middle Of Chamber of Com.
merce meeting last Thursday
noon. -
To make it more a paradox, q
former councilman defended the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-05-26

holding
which exhibited
from May to H. AL boys from Kennek High school All
Kennewick
Kennew
follows Bob Sturgeon Kitchener
Elder TriCy Food Center; Vernon Granting
General Works.
Granting KinneYs Fine Foods Bill Baird Wild
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-28

14-Chinese Reds take Canton.
15-Wholesale arrest conducted by Com.
munists continue in Czechoslovakid
20-Yugoslavia elected to U.N. security
council over Soviet protests.
23-George Bidault becomes French
premier, ending crisis.
29-United States consul and staff
seized by Reds at Mukden.
November
dutch, Indonesians agree on terms
for sovereign Indonesian' state.
7-France and Canada team up TO urge
nations A-bomb pact.
14-Indian extremists hanged for assas-
sination of Gandh;. Britain delays
date for Matchmaking steel. Chinese
Nationalists shell US. merchant
ship. Chinese Reds ask U.N 10 oust
Nationalist delegates.
16-Washington refuses 10 recognize con-
troll body created for Danube by
Russia.
20-President Chants of Panama ousted
22-Fate of American consul-general ar
rested by Chinese Reds lies with
peoples's court in Mukden. Ousted
Panama president leads demonstra-
ton in Panama City. West imple-
ments Paris plan to ease controls on
West German republic.
23-Chinese Reds release US. consul
general Angus Ward on suspended
24-Panama supreme court re-seats
President Chants, but police chief
forces him out again. DR.. ArnuHo
Arias becomes president.
26-Chinese Reds arrest us. vice-con-
sui, William Stokes, in Mukden.
2e-Cominform asks unseating of Yugo-
slavias Tito
3o-Chinese Reds take Chunking. nation
alist capital.
December
1-Western defense area divided into
five groups in Paris meeting.
2-Nationalist China warned by US.
upon ship attacks.
7-U.N. declares Jerusalem an inter-
national holy city. us. will meet
Reds terms for release of two
Americans held in North Korea.
8-Chinese Nationalists abandon capital
at Chengtu and flee to Formosa.
party defeated in Australia
elections.
Korea Reds free two Yanks
after 81 days detention.
12-Angus Ward and staff, freed by
Chinese Reds. board ship for U. S.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-28

ll-World welterweight champion Sugar
Ray Robinson successfully defends
title from Havana's Kid Gavilan.
| l2-American league All-stars defeat
National League team, III.
3l-San Snt I'D takes Western Open goli
championship at st. Paul
August
l0-lSzzard Charles successfully defends
heavyweight championship by de-
feating Gus Lesvenich.
19-Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japan, sets
world swimming records of 1919
minutes in l,500 meter free style /;
4:33.3 minutes in 400 meter free style
and $685. minutes in 300 meter free
style.
20-Coaltown. Steve Brooks up, sets
world record of 1:34.4 in winning
one-mile Whirlaway Stakes.
September
l-U.S. retains Davis Cup, defeating
Australia four matches to one item
nisl.
3ACharles Coe, Oklahoma City, wins
US. amateur golf championship in
Rochester. NY. Joseph De Bona,
Hollywood, wins Bendix air trophy.
5-Bill Odom, speed record holder for
round-the-world flight, crashes into
a house in Berea, Ohio, during Ma
tional Air Races in Cleveland, kills
self, two others. Silver Cup Trophy
in motorboat racing goes to Bill Can
trell, driving Horace Dodge's My
25-Louise Suggs, Carrollton, Ga, takes
US. women's open golf title in Land
over. Md.
October
5-9-New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn
Dodgers in World Series. four games
to one.
29-Capot beats Coaltown to win Balti-
more's Pimlico Special.
November
1-1949 major league al-star AP base |
ball team team announced.
15-Eddie Vann scores fastest heavy |
weight knockout on record in Lon |
don bout with George Stern az sec |
onds, first round)
21-Cleveland Indians sold to a syndi- |
cate of Cleveland business men.
Williams, Red Sox, named |
American Leagues most valuable
player.
December
3-Notre Dame defeats Southern Meth
odist to end season undefeated and
lead football pack. Army, Oklahoma
and California remain undefeated.
l2-Kentucky and Oklahoma bid for ma
tional cage leadership.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-28
Top Ten Spot News
Stories of 1o49

These are the 10 biggest
news stories of the past year, as
selected by a representative
group of weekly newspaper edi-
tors speaking through an on
nuol poll conducted by The
Publishers Auxiliary.
!. Announcement that the
Soviet Union possesses atom
bomb.
2. Sweeping victories of
Communist armies in China.
3. Trial of II top Commu-
nists in the US.
a. Coal and steel strikes and
subsequent events in nation.
5. Marshal Tito,s successful
defiance of Russia and Comm
form.
6. Story of Kothy Fiscus fall
ing into well and subsequent
rescue efforts.
7. Failure of congress to re-
peal the Toft-Hortley labor
law.
8. Ending of the Berlin
blockade by the Russians.
9. Bitter inter-service dispute
between the army and navy.
10. DevoIuotion of pound in
Great Britoin.
Laurel outlook., 1949-12-28
PaMozaMsa

| III Z JJonuoy .,,,.,-.., ;.
| China total 20 million
| Is million Of whom
| were made homeless by war with
| Japan.
l 15-Air Force submits to Defense Secre-
tary James Forrestal proposed pol
icy to discontinue racial segregation
in ranks.
2e-Repairmen overhauling the White
House open the building to reporters
who found parts of 1t near collapse
February
e-Film star Robert Mitchum and ac-
tress Lila Leeds sentenced to 6O-day
prison terms in Los Angeles court
on marijuana charges.
23-Grady, inquisitive COW of Yukon,
Okla, plunged into silo, achieved
bovine fanra while nation -acked
brains for four days over problem
of how to get her out.
25-General Motors announces wages
of 341 900 employees will be reduced
under cost-of-living contract with
2s-Axis Sally begins defense at treason
trial by saying treason cannot be
committed by mere words u"
March
--latest get-rich-quick scheme TO
sweep America is Pyrapcid club,
which works on order of chain letter.
NU.S. births reported Dy fuDllc
Health Service to number 3'559.ooo
in 1948.
2e-Axis Sally sentenced from 10 to 30
years in prison for treason.
April
6-President Truman says he would not
hesitate to use atom bomb under the
same circumstances il was used on
Japan.
16-Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
predicts slight drop in prices, in
comes, production for 194e.
28-Russia completely jams Voice OF
America" broadcasts to the U.S.S.R.
containing accounts Of negotiations
ending Berlin blockade.
Moy
2-Atlanta city council bans public
wearing of masks except for festive
occasions. This is blow to Ku Klux
Klan.
Io-Frank Hague's a2-year rule as boss
of Jersey City ends when Hague ma
chine is swept out of office.
27-Movie star Rita Hayworth is mar
ried to Prince Ally Khan.
June
2-"Wall Street Journal survey re-
veals used car prices melting like
snow under hot spring sum-
6-American Medical association gags"
its chief spokesman and comedies
US. needs adequate public health
plan.
IS. .Jrney General Tom Cl2rk orders
F.B.I investigation of terrorism In
Alabama where several have been
beaten or intimidated by hooded
night riders.