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\| $553!? U By I W. 3810808 , Editor. The Connor-a.m.: if some newspaper should blag: it in big headlines that a housing shortage threatens, most of its readers in the Tri- City area probably would rub their eyes and read it again,'ex pecting to catch themselves in error.’But although we do not use the big headlines, it is a statement that can be made in all sincerity. ‘OO O 0 It is doubtlul that even a depression could change the lapid trend towards a state of horns scarcity. The 'l'ri-Ctty area can be compared with Florida during the real es tate boom there. When the crash of 1926 came. real- es tate developers awoke one morning to tind they had a lot of construction on hand _ With no occupants and no pros pects. A low years later there was a housing shortage In Florida. ' ' t e t 0 Real estate developers in Ken newick who have continued their building operations. have been building for the future. Even if there is no expansion of Hanford Works and of the area of irrigated ‘land, present hous ing will eventually all to meet the demands. With .expansion of the farmable area certain and some indications of industrial expansion in the three cities, it is a foregone conclusion that present housing will prove in adequate within another two years and maybe in less time. .-O 0 O O For many years, editorsghave been emphasizing the drudgery of their w'ork. They probably are laced With more deadlines than any class of workers in the world. Details pile on their desks by the hundreds' and thousands. Every day bring a new stack. e .- . ._ . . 33““: that readers might up etc "a glimpse of what goes over the desk, - here is a dose-up one portion of a week: - Dear JWH: Sorry- I couldn't {hone you due to the strike but found I had picked up my ~lasses when I ‘moved and I ' ound them-at home, I'm sorry ‘ {or any trouble. Thanks for looking—Agnes}? , , . . . t _ “Daddy! Chucky. Joe ' and I 9 are in town. Don't go home with -- out us.—EMTY.’P ‘ l‘ - “Note: Girl who‘llvcs in 'the‘ "a Highlands .wants a‘job working film school." a g .. ”Here is a legal from Moulton.‘ lowan & Gess..See that it is run three times—Sept. 16, 23, 30."_ ‘- "l'would like an,ad..,rm go ' down to the station to see bout some em and _ will ' .93!)th we; . mt“!!! “Daddy: I am inth at Eva's. ouseéiDon’t grget to. pick me p._—MY.” . 5.; Don’t forget y school.b,ooks.”. .- 3 ‘Please get in touch with Mrs. . - - - at other office." “This legal runs ‘in place of: he lone Mr. 11, -,- - - sent in by 8‘ e, ' l' Scribbled on the back of an pnvelope: “Was in to see about that matter I talked ,with‘ you about. Phone me as soon as you me in.” _ Picking up the -' telephone thout thinking, “Number . lease." (number. is given). “Is fill! an emergency call?" An 'swering. “I really don’t know; I Was asked to callthis number." .We are not handling any except 'ernergency calls." . _— .1 balgotans Pick A ‘ O. A. Oweson .' Approximately 200 former re gdents of the state of North akota held their yearly picnic In the Kennewick city park on Sunday. Following the picnic, O. A. Otteson was elected presid lent of the organization. . Otteson said the next year’s picnic will be held in Richland 9n the first Sunday after Labor y. r-‘Other officers elected yester day were Art Peterson. Rich. land. secretary; M. Shirado. glchland. director; Milo Candee, aaco. director; Mrs. Jack Han ,aen. Kennewick, director: and u. U. Sand, Kennewick. director .and treasurer. INYRODUCING K ennewick’s Business And-“ Professional People TO THE COMMUNITY ‘- Emeraid A. Silliman, Kenne wick business man, is the sub ject of this sketch..- . Mr. Silliman. who represents himself to be “the world's worst golf player.” was‘born in Min. neapolis, Minn. He came to Pros ser in 1905 and engaged in wheat farming for 14 years be fore moving to Kennewick in 1930 to accept a job with the firm which he and his son Clint now own. He farmed in the Rattlesggtse mountains district north of - ser. Mr. Silliman married Miss Zel ma Case of Prosser in 1914 and now they have four sons, two --married. Kenneth, who graduat ed from high school here last year. will attend Eastern College of Washington in Ellensburg this fall. Glenn is in the navy. Mr; Silliman started working in the Farmers Exchange 19 years ago. In 1934 he bought the _ interest of C. C. Williams and the interest of Alfred Amon ... 1913. Just recently he enlarged 'lw store part of the business r-zrl has made other improve! mom: . lie attended business college. @ll2 Kennemirk Olnurirr- Emmet % VOL. XXXV. No. 25 The Kennewick Lion varsity football team. above. is all set for "their important season opening game tonight when they meet Burlington at 8 p.m. Ilated__ag__gne of the surprise teams Pick Lions - To Conquer “B‘Urlington I The Kennewick Lions tapered off their training program last night and today were scheduled for gkull drill in preparation for the 1949 cast? raiser of the football gens - ‘ They will host the Burlington team Friday night at A 8 p.m. in the first of their nine scheduled Bmm“ the first of the :’ ‘ to open at home this year.” Richland pi agd‘lenntchvee. tomorrow, mm at V .:r. , [mm-eg‘q - ,'* -" mi‘ifié‘iigt? mm.”- W Last year the Lions bowed to the Burlington eleven, but the result is expected to be slightly different this year with the pre game odds favoring the Kenne wick team at 5 to 9. ‘lt‘vvill be model-T meeting model-T, both teams using the T-formation. However, the Lions under the tutelage of Coach George ,Karamatic use, a .modi fied version of the system with the ball usually going to one of “he ..lhacks .in the cross-arm of t e . - ' - ~ Lion players have suffered a minimum of injuries and Kara matic. said he would probably vary the players on the offense and defense. The defense line will average about 200 pounds while the offensive line will top the scale in the 175 pound brack e Fans will see several possible all-Valley players tomorrow night. Leading candidate is Bob “Pogo-Hips" Olsen. at halfback, who is bbing touted for all-state honors. The triple~threat star will rip of: plenty of yardage if he can get away is the feeling of qualified observers. Jack Eads at fullback. letterman halfback Gene Reavis and Ralph Hull at quarterback Will complete the starting backfield. Other players that fans should keep their eyes on are George Black and Bob Pollock, right end and left tackle respectively. Dog: Beste. is expected to stand out in the guard position. Karamatlc has cut the team and is now carrying 30 on the varsity squad. - in Seattle in 1907 and 1908. His hobby is collecting bronze horses and now has a collection of 60 of the metal figures. Speaking of going to college, Mr. Silliman says: “My main school was the school of hard knocks.” E. A. SILLIMAN Kennewick Lion Varsify Is Ready Two Kennewick Lion ends. George Black No. 88 and Gerald Pollock. No. 60 use the helmet of Bob Schrler. guard. as a resting place {or the football between plctures. All Ithree of these players will be in the starting lineup Friday night when the Lions open their season at home by meeting Burlington at 8 p.m. . ‘ :5. . _. 35 Churches Unilinfi-‘fiéi F" RGIIQIou‘s Survey At a meeting. of the Mid- Cplumbia Council of Churches held at the First' Christian church, Kennewick, Tuesday night, it was revealed that 35 churches have joined their forc es together for a great bi-county wide effort to conduct a reli gious survey on Sunday after noon, September 25. The census is one phase of the Fellowship Evangelism mis sion conducted by the Mid. Columbia Council of Churches, with the cooperation of the Washington-Idaho State Coun cil of Churches and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, during the week of September 22 to 29. . According to Miss Gertrude Apel, executive secretary of the State Council of Churches, who addressed the gathering, the mission will bring to the Tri-City area 40 guest pastors and ob-‘ servers from all over the state. and from Oregon and California. The director of the mission is :the Rev. Dr. Harry Kalas of Chicago. Kennewick (ouncilmen o.|(;Waler Bond lsSue“ Kennewick’s city council Tues day night approved the issuance of $150,000 worth of General _Ob ligation bonds as part of the million dollar purchase of the Kennewick Irrigation District and Pacific Power & Light water systems by the city. The $850,000 balance to com plete the purchase will be avail able by the time the purchase is completed, Urban Keolker, may or of the city said Wednesday. The balance is being financed through a syndicate of bond houses. Dick Rector. city superinten dent. added that the purchase would be as of Oct. 1. However. the actuflh exchange may not a! the Yakima Valley antennae. the Lions are figured to beat Burlington. the team they lost to last year in their opening game. 4 who will lead in seminar disq cussion panels for all host pas tors and guest leaders. The mission opens on Thurs day morning with a session at 9:30 a. m. in the 'First Methodist church, Kennewick. where all seminars will be conducted. There will be morning, after noon and evening sesions in preparation for the visitation on Sunday afternoon. Local arrangements for = the mission are in charge of Rev. Eugene Muench, generaLZchairo man. Ministers of the cooperat ing churches met earlier in the day in a special session to hear reports and details'of the plans that have been made for this all-out effort of obtaining vital facts and figures regarding the religious affiliation and back ground of‘ persons and families in the entire area. . This is the first time a mission of this type and'extent has been undertaken any place in Ameri ca. It is therefore more than any usual or {casual effort. take place for another six weeks, the city official said. Bids for the improvement and additions to the systems will be offered as soon as the final plans are approved. The city officials said they believed that..work would start this year. ‘ ‘ The Benton cou 'ty auditor has certified to the tc’kal number of voters in the last general elec tion as 2119. This certification virtually assures the legality of the purchase which had been in doubt because of the low total of votes cast in the specia’i’ elec tion pertaining to the purchase. His action means that a total of 1060 ballots was required and 1086 were cast. KENNEWICK. WASHINGTON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 194? Kennewick Estimates Also Up A tentative budget of $327,000 .for the city of Kennewick, was 'approved Tuesday night by the city council. This budget marks an increase over last year’s fig ure. Largest amount of this budget, Which still has to be ratified, was . for the street department. The a mount "requested . was $75,006. The city’s expanding po lice department submitted a fit of $62,520 for the second ”’"‘ E‘budg‘etc. submitted by the recreatio ‘ ‘ " ents calls tor gnu] _, which in u‘d‘eSl 7, .me services of a' .' A 3- v' J ‘he 'city’s recrea {loll.hW a, e park depart ment. c‘ {pte'ntatively asked for 519,40z,-.:.r~ my. _ , ~ ‘ . Police. $62,520; health, $8,000; tire,'834.300; street. $75,000; air port, 314,000: recreation, $11,390; park, $19,402; administrative. $11,823: clerk's office, $6,775; treasurer's office. $1,280. City attorney, $4.260; police judge. $2.050; city building, $3,600; civil service. $440; plan ning co" missmn, $1,300; miscel laneo $13900; streets and al leys, :1! parking meters, 336400;. . r department, $23,- L Three Months Supply Of Mail .i 2. ° _ This is a photograph of Kennewick Courier-Reporter mail which was held inlthe Kennewick post office for approximately 90 days and released last Saturday afternoon. This is the reason Bids For Kennewick High School To Be Called Soon Smilh Troy Reverses His Opinion - Kennewick area hospital and fire districts and the Mid-Colum bia. library, which serves rural r‘esidents of Benton and Franklin counties, had a new lease on life this week. Attorney General Smith Troy has reversed an original opinion that virtually would have pre vented the districts and the li brary from operating. The new opinion, written Sep tember 8 for Benton county Pro sscutor Malloy Sensney, holds t at: 'f‘Where a portion of a fire protection district or an inter county rural library district is annexed to a city the tax levy upon the annexed territory should include levies for the payment of pre-existing debt service charges of the district but should not include any levy for current operations of the district, and there is no viola tion of the constitution in tax ing the property in the annexed territory at a different rate than is levied on other property of the district or of the city.” This was interpreted to mean that areas recently annexed to Kennewick, but which were ru ral when the districts and the library were voted, could only be taxed to pay debts incurred by those districts while the annex ed areas still were rural. ‘ And since Troy held the an nexed areas could be taxed at different rates than those for the rural territories the three mills available in Kennewick prob ably would take care of this. ~Troy’s originai opinion was that the annexed areas still must pay taxes to the district anduthe library for operating ex-t ”at? ' ” ' " - e briginal opinion also held‘ that taxes must be uniform throughout the areas served by the district's and the library. This 'meant that, since only three: mills would be available for the? hospital, fire district and library; in Kennewick. their requests? must be cut. 1 'However, the new opinion was that the levies for the annexed areas need not be the same as for the areas still remaining outside the city. , Sensney said the opinion was based on a state supreme court decision. P.U.D. No. 1 vs. Supe rior Court. He said the. high court held that ~ where services are different in different areas the levy need nOt be the same, or uniform. Pick Committee To Discuss . Phone Strike Appointment of a four-man committee to join in a round table discussion with labor and management regarding the Ken newick telephone strike was made Thursday noon by the Kennewick Chamber of Com merce. The committee was appointed on the suggestion of Gene Spaulding, president ‘Qf the chamber, after two representa tives of the striking union spoke to the Chamber. leiie representatives were John Doran and J. Rowe. 7 _ 7 Doran told the chamber that the basis of the dispute with the Interstate Telephone Co. was wages. He said a union negoti ating committee has been meet ing with management since last May. An agreement reached by the two and later ratified by the union was rejected by manage ment. wkbi‘ve said the starting scale for a new man in the company is 921,4.»0 an hour. , _ “I have been with the company four years.” It said. “I earn a $1.30 an hour as a combination man. I have a wife and daughter to support. That‘s hard to do here on that salary." _ _ - The committee appointed by the chamber will consist of C. A. Nybourd, Hugh Horten. Glen Sherman, and Frank Maupin. The group will contact both sides of the dispute and see if some local; solution can be worked out. Fire Guls‘ Kennewick Wive In Fire early Monday morning gutted Stone’s Drive Inn at 520 Columbia avenue, Kennewick. Fire Chief Herb Malchow said the blaze was started by a short in electrical wires at the meter box. The blaze started at 1:40 a. m., the chief added. He estimated the damage at $3500. All the fixtures were either destroyed or completely ruined by the fire. he said. Most of the stock of fish that was on hand was saved, and rushed to cold storage. However, most of the balance of the stock was de stroyed. , The fire also got into gas lines that were in the building and created an additional hazard to thg fire fighters. much advertising did not appear for local buslneu men. It also explains the reason that news and all matters W to circulation were not taken cago 01. _ 51: a Copy—s3.oo a Year Building Plans To Go Ahead Bids for construction of a new $1,800,000 high school for Ken newick will be asked in ap proximately three weeks, E. S. Black. superintendent of schools. announced Thursday. Black said the school district's architect. Earl W. ‘Morrison of Seattle, has informed him all de tails are nearly ready. ' One third of the money for the new 800-Student high school is on hand now, Black said.v'l'his money represents $353000 from the Atomic Energy Commission. $172,000 from the state . and $300,000 from the sclmol district. Additional funds will be derived from A.E.C., who have accepted the entire problem and will in clude specific funds for‘ this purpose in their 1951 budget which will be up'for approval in July of next year. 80“!) ISSUE PLANNED A state-wide bond issue which will produce $528,000 will com plete the total amount of funds needed. - The new school, to begbuilt south of the present high school. will relieve the congestion ‘now rampant throughout the. entire Kennewick school system. the superintendent . said. _- . Citing the figure of 3200 as the present school population. Black added that of this number 470 are in the senior high school and 125 in the senior class. However. he pointed out that today there are 360 in the first grade of the elementary schools. ‘Th-is very’ definitely points out that more school space In a,” 3!: mafia ”mgr“ «a; . . . _-‘ . M that needed to give- him a well-rounded edu cation." the superintendent con cluded. Boy, Mother Hurt In Crash Jimmyg 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean ThOmpson of Umatilla, was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes hospital Sunday night with a broken leg. His mother was treated for a cut on the face. Details were lacking but it. was reported the injuries occurred when the fam ilycfi‘ar left the road near Keane wr v - . .