Global War News Briefs From London to Moscow
RAF bomb threats hit Berlin with fires seen far away as invasion plans unfold in Europe. Soviet counterattacks gain ground while German forces face strikes in France and the Eastern front. Roosevelt sails for a rest while gas curfews and Nazi goods bans spark domestic debates. Chemical and ads campaigns rise as unrest spreads from Stockholm to Ankara. Queen Elizabeth marks a quiet birthday in London with a family picnic.
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Expect Largest School Attendance in History
Superintendent Black projects the largest opening day attendance in Kennewick history, with 840 students last semester and a bigger total this year. New Mack buses carry 58, staggered start times from 8:30 to 9:00, 3:30 to 3:45, and an extra teacher brings staff to 30.
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Black
Mack
Civic Leaders to Hold a Kennewick Pasco Breakfast
Kennewick business executives and Pasco leaders will attend a joint breakfast Saturday morning at the request of City Chapel Inc with Seattle headquarters. The meeting aims to raise morale and mutual understanding and to foster national defense through moral and spiritual unity. About a dozen Kennewick men and an equal number of Pasco businessmen are expected.
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Pasco
City Chapel, Inc
Seattle
Northwest Farmers Marketing Association backs marketing bill
Spud growers from Kenewick and Benton City join executive committee in Wapato to endorse H R 5372 Bonner Bill imposing potato marketing quotas. They urge immediate start of the potato diversion program to raise prices as the state-wide group pushes parity pricing for farm commodities. A general meeting is set for Friday August 8 at Sunnyside Austin's Cafe to elect officers and set policy.
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Frank Lampson
Kenewick
Chas. Johanson
Bob Johanson
Joe Triesch
Harry Fleming
Benton City
Northwest Farmers Marketing Association
Wapato
Lou Mesge
Sec.Treas
W. B. Meyers
Harrah
Sunnyside
Austin
Misses Rochat Visit Jacot Home in Saint Maries
Misses Mabel and Lois Rochat of Saint Maries Idaho are visiting at the Julius and Lucille Jacot home.
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Mabel and
Lois Rochat
Saint Maries, Idaho
Julius and
Lucille Jacot
Kennewick Women Blitz Silk Stockings Spark Shortage
Kennewick retailers faced a nationwide fever for silk hosiery with J C Penney The Clothier and The Lady Lure reporting depleted stocks and only broken lines remaining. Managers noted rapid sales, rationing fears, and hopes for restocks as nylon and rayon supplies shift to stockings and new sheer cotton hose.
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Kennewick
J. C. Penney
Clothier
Both Canneries to Start Next Week
Local canneries announce operations to begin next week pending ripe tomatoes. Walla Walla plans 2 to 30 tons daily with lima beans and corn trials, starting with 40 women and 20 men, expanding as needed. Kennewick will process all tonnage offered and can string beans with tomatoes, employing as many as warranted. Mrs. Klitten reports a new air conditioning plant, while Walla Walla shifts from asparagus to tomatoes.
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Walla Walla
Kennewick
Advertising costs across products revealed in study
The report shows ad costs vary by item. Bread wrap costs more than loaf. a five cent soft drink allocates 1567 in a million to ads. soup can ad costs 0.035 cents. California fruit ads push oranges to 0.0278 cents each. shirts 0.064 cents of retail. soap 0.2 cents. gelatin six cent package 0.26 cents. Before national ads, gelatin sold for 12 cents.
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California
Farm Security Group Named for Benton County
A Benton county Farm Security Administration council of eight leaders in agriculture and community affairs was announced by County Supervisor J A Brantingham. Appointed by Walter A. Duffy the council includes Carl C. Williams F Elmer Dilling Dorman D Hall Charles F Fletcher Edna J Scott Victor D Rogers and Waldo W Skuse. The group will coordinate rural distress drives and aid county FSA staff, meeting July 30 in Spokane with state and county officials to study problems of disadvantaged rural families and set policy goals.
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Benton County
J. A. Brantingham
The
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Brantaingham
Walter A. Duffy
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Carl C. Williams
Kennewick
Washington
F. Elmer Dilling
Grandview
Dorman D. Hall
White Bluffs
Charles F. Fletcher
Richland
Edna J. Scott
Prosser
Victor D. Rogers
Waldo 'W. Skuse
Brantingham
Spokane
Delinquent Driver Licenses Prompt City Arrest Warnings
Patrolman Todd warns car drivers who have not recently renewed their licenses that they are delinquent and subject to arrest. About half a million licenses are affected. City officials say Kennewick drivers can renew at City Hall Friday morning and all day Saturday, with Saturday renewals only thereafter.
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Kennewick
City Hall
Grangers Invited to Picnic in Prosser
Grangers and families are invited to a county picnic by the Pomona at Prosser park on Sunday August 19. A pot-luck dinner starts at one. City clerk William Guernsey will welcome in the mayor’s absence. State Grange Master H P Carstensen will speak. Rattlesnake Grange will present a program. Ice cream and cold drinks on sale. Lynn Colley of Yale arranged sports after the program. Pomona Master D L Henson will preside. all grange members and friends welcome.
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Rattlesnake Grange
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Yale
Power Workers Adopt Sabotage Precaution Cards
Pacific Power & Light employees with duties at substations or plants now carry personal ID cards as a defense measure. Each card includes a photo and signature copy. National program led by the federal Power Commission closes power stations formerly open to the public to visitors. Utilities nationwide cooperate in the defense effort.
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R. H. Skill
Federal Power Commission
State Softball Tourney to Be Held in Pasco
Pasco prepares for the first official State Softball Championship with August 15 opening. District winners from Spokane Chewelah Yakima Bellingham Vancouver Everett Tacoma Bremerton will be decided by Friday the 8th. Army air corps teams Ft George Wright and McChord Field join. games start at 3 30 Friday. Housing and tickets are being arranged through the Active Club and local merchants.
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Pullman
Coulee Dam
Fort Wright
Dunn Lumber Co
Seattle
Spokane
Chewetah
Yakima
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Tacoma
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Twin Cities
River work recommended for Kennewick port district site
A congressional letter quotes the chief of engineers through the secretary of war urging further river improvements on the Columbia above Celilo Falls. The plan calls for removing obstructions between the Snake and Kennewick and creating a six foot deep approach from the Columbia to the Kennewick terminal, with the congressman pledging to push approval.
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Port District
Chief of Engineers
Secretary of War
Geo. D. Peters
Knute
Columbia River
Celilo Falls
Snake River
Kennewick
Weather Returns to Normal After Cooler Past Week
Weather gauges show a tenth of an inch cooler than the prior week and cooler than the same week last year. The report details figures for rainfall amounts and temperatures over the past seven days.
Anti Tank Unit Spends Night in Kennewick Park
Six hundred six five men of the 76th Field Artillery Brigade anti-tank battery a National Guard unit plus selectees sleep in Kennewick Park on their way to Camp Lewis for late week maneuvers. They travel from Fort Warren Wyoming in 57 trucks three command cars and eleven jeeps with five kitchen trucks and ample artillery gear. The group is an experimental mechanized anti-tank unit expected to upgrade 75 guns to 105s at Camp Lewis. They arrive in three sections guided by a scout car and coordinated for fuel food and milk supplies from Pasco dairies.
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76Th Field Artillery Brigade
Camp Lewis
Fort Warren
Wyoming
Caldwell
Idaho
Renton
Ellensburg
Snoqualmie Pass
Kennewick
Pasco
Petition to Build Road Up Jump-Off Joe Mountain
A petition for a road to the top of Jump-Off Joe mountain south of town is submitted to county commissioners at their next meeting. The plan, long under consideration, aims to provide Scenic Interest and access for locals and tourists with a west side route deemed feasible by sponsors.
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