Bainbridge Review 1946-01-25

              
January 25, 1946

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The Old Man Says

Chamber to Elect at Dinner Meet


Army Chaplain Speaks Sunday
Tag: Religion, Bainbridge Island


Charles Hoodenpyle takes First Vacation
in Five War Years


Milne Visits 'Teen' Clubs

McDonald School P.T.A. to Meet Tuesday

Republicans to Watch State Vote

Indian Legend is Feature of Movie Matinee

Robt. H. Jones visits Thordarson; Answers Review News
Asking Address
Tag: Bainbridge Islanders in the Armed Forces
Tag: Education, Bainbridge Island

Footsteps to Freedom

Group at seattle Rainbow Ceremonies

VFW Takes Over Drive for Clothes


Dimes campaign Adds More Names to Fund Seekers

C. Vann Bucklin Named President of Sports Club


JUNIVEK.m or W;<p.ttlN3TOH
M».«w«k.Ubranri>M
i SAICUVO(- o£ Sowuf SEATTl.i.WASMlM^roW
BEST WEEKLY IN THE NORTHWEST
| y G ARE HERE tn Washington,
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25. 1946. Vd. •Di C. Jt haa grown no much • XXI, No. 39 B PAGES, 8 CENTS
sine* tiie last visit. People talk
about tier* being 2,060.000 here.
Including "the suburbs. The last
tlm« we -wer* here there were some
MW.OOO:. " .1 '. • ' -
- It la M hard for the stranger to
find Ma way around aa It used to be
though. The city waa laid out by a"
frenchman and. the "main streets
originally ran w t from the center
of. the town like' the apokea of a
wheel from the hub.Now there are
so many spokes to'so msny wheels
one la cohstahUy 1 oat—if the one
is me. Why, I could get lost in a
village of only one street.
To make it worae, here in Wash-ington
every little while a street
nine into a circle—and if you don't
look out ybu turn into some other
street than' the one you thought
you were oh when you entered the
•Circle. These clrdes were put in
the main streets when the city was
lakl out originally. They were In-cluded
-for purposes of defense and,
I believe, formerly held cannon
pointed to defend the capitol.
The citizens of Washington do
riot have any vote, even about local
affairs. The affair* of the city, or
rather those of the district of Col-umbia,
are managed by a .Congres-sional
committee. The people have
to pay taxes, but of course Con-gress
spends more money for
bridges, etc., than the city could
afford to spend on Itself.
The reason the people do not
vote la because it was originally In-tended
to b« the Nations Capltoy\*!Y"£
ami ao the Conrrru wished to con
.
CHAMBER TO
ELECT AT
DINNER MEET
• An analysis of accomplishments,
problems and projects facing the
Bainbridge Island Chamber of
Commerce and Business Associa-tion,
featured the meeting of
members of the • latter bojly
lh spedsj session at the Wins-low
Park recreation hajl Tuesday
evening. The special meeting was
called following failure of a' quo-rum
to assemble January IS.
An election of .officers at a Feb-ruary
dinner meeting of the Cham-ber
of Commerce was agreed upon,
with Henry Anderson." and Ray
Williamson, both of Wlnslow, and
Harry Ingalls, Ferncliff, named on
a nominating committee.
As a move believed to promote
closer relaUonahip between Cham-ber
of Commerce m&mbers and the
Business Association, a change in
the by-laws, permitting sny Cham-ber
of Commerce member a' place
on the board of directors', was vot-ed.
Previous regulations ruled that
only members of tl
group could be elected to
- CHARLES HOODENPYLE
TAKES HRST VACATION
IN FIVE WAR YEARS
• On his first vacation .In nearly
five years, Charles Hoodenpyle,
Shorewood Beach, partner-man-.
ag'er of the Bainbridge Shurfine
Store, Pleasant* Beach, left for
California Wednesday morning.
Accompanied by Mrs. Hoodenpyle,
he anticipated, a stay of. two or
. three weeks.
A highlight of the trip will be
a family reunion, when Mr. _Hood-eapyle's
three sisters, whb live in
Texas, and two brothers will
gather together for the flrft time
in more than- 40 years; It will be
the first tfiite that some of the
families have met in that length of
time.
Mrs. Hoodenpyle has sisters In
California and they also plan' a
family reunion.
and so Congress trol th« ctiy as such and did not
want any Interference from the
people who happened to live here.
There is a bill now to give the peo-ple
living here the right to" vote
on some local affairs.
Also. 11 understand, there is
every little while a movement to
mak« the District of Columbia a
separate stat%This idea la not pop-ular
with the people that live here
because they know ea soon as It
becam^ a state .the rest ,pf the
states would move the Capitol to
some more central location such
as St Louis.
The people who live here are Just
ordinary regular people apparently
t at the rush hoars—then
The nominating committee will
present candidates for the Cham-ber
officers, several directors to
replace those whose terms expire
this year, and will also present re-com
mendati ons regarding by-laws
and their revision, according to in-structions
from th« president of
the association, Jim Walganaki.
Dinner arrangements were plac-ed
_ln a committee headed by Phil
Slsk. Wing Point, who will name
others to serve. The date has been
set for February 13, but the Ume
and place will be announced later.
Review of the work of the organ-ization
during the past year Includ-ed
reports on the livtn Memorial
drice. clothing <Jrlve sponsored by
the group a ysar ago; and other ac-
MILNE VISITS
TEEN' CLUBS
• On a combined business and
pleasure trip. Rev. Charles P.
Milne, Wlnslow, left this week for
several daya He will visit former
pastorates and friends and will
study recreational facilities pro-vided
for young people of various
communities.
Bainbridge Islsn<Ts lagging Juv-enile
recreational activities will be
revived within a short time, Mr.
Milne said, stating that formation
of a teen-ager's club and other act-ivities
will be begun early in Feb-ruary
. \
Plans, though tentative, ihclude
the organisation and administra-tion
of a lactl young people's club
by teen-agers, a practice which has
proved successful in many com-munities,
it wa« reported. Upon the
minister's return he plana to take
several Island young people to
visK several of the more active dMSaBw*** •at-or bemlt, No n | M loV M-. • nifl) Alio. WIIXIOT/SU'V £ttlv, T»« >>"
n or color.' Too .or, h»v. to b. u ' L - , „ <*•" for K " . » . U-rough
or rugged to get a taxi or a
street car. I haven't seen any gun
or black-Jafk uaed, but I would
not put It past some of them.
I was just stepping Into a taxi
last night when three women, led
by an A mason who gave ma the
elbow, rushed in the taxi apd slam-med
the door. I pulled my noae
back Just la tiipe to save it.
We were down by 1600 Pennsyl-vania
Avenue yerterday^Juat as-
Harry came home with his police
escort and secret service cars. I
waved to him but I donlt think he
saw me. I suppose he had Just been
up to the Capitol putting tacks hi
the Congress seats, for he came
from that direction. The White
House looks well kept and the
lstfves had been raked up in the
yard.
There are, of course, miles of
public bullrings, annexes and addi-tions.
even though the war Is over.
Nobody seems to be going home.
It seems that.if acme department
let* somebody out, he or she walks '
over and goes t o work some where
else In another department. I heard
a rather good ohe the other day. It
sestns that before the war some
department' was established Where
people who had no Jobs or thought
thsy should have a better one, .
could aply for a Job.
There were no Job# so all that
the men in the department had to
do was to listen to these applicants
get their.names and addresses, and
nod their beads with sympathy and
understanding. The head ot the de-partment
got sick of 'it after
suthlle. So did the assistants and
tha secretary. They were talking
over at lunch one day. bow much
they were fed "up with *he whole
business 'whan* ohe of them .had a
- bright idea. -
Tfcey had a messenger who look-ed
caUtsr maturs and he was in- .
clined to - sit rather than mqve
about any more than he could belp--
8o they called him In and explained
that all ha would have to do would .
be to sit and nod his head wlUi '
sympathy and' understanding. He
V They got him some
" l "put him to-wcatfr.
He sat In the office day after
day, having the people fill out
^ his head with
appointed by county
era. was asked to bring further In-formation
regarding the establish-ment
of commercial areas on the
island, at a subsequent meeting.
ARMY CHAPLAIN
SPEAKS SUNDAY
• Chaplain (Capt) Theodore Port-er
Ball, a chaplain serving aboard
a troop transport now In SeatUe,
will be in charge of Episcopal
church services Sundsy morning
at 11 o'clock. Captain Ball is on
leavs from J'
Rev. Vincent H. Gowen. Port
Blakely, who Is regularly In charge
of church services, is on a speaking
tour of Northwest stataa.
Captain Ball is referred .to as
one of the outstanding young min-isters
of th« country. It waa report-ed.
A full attendance of the con-gregation
and friends of the church
has been requested.
• Howard Orsbom, SeatUe, is
visiting hi, parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fr&fc Orsbom. Pleasant Be+ch
land schools and affiliated organi-sations
have recently sponsored
Saturday afternoon motion pic-tures
and there Is an afcUve pro-gram
conductea through the mgh
school. Work on ths part ot ths*
Island committee was abandoned
last spring, according to reports,
with no activity taking place as
originally planned.
While Mr. Miln« is gone he will
visit In ths Palouse, Big Bend.
Pullman, Spokane and Almira
areas where he haa held pastorates
and has many friends. Recreation-al
groups will be visitsd In Seattle.
Klrkland and adjacent areas.
McDoooM School r.-T-A.
To Moot Tuosdoy
- • A BMeUnf ot tb« McDonald
School Parent-Teacher Associa-tion
has been called for .7:$*
o'clock Tuesday evening. Members
were asked to assemble promptly
at the early hour aa there waa a
conalderaGle program to be dls-
A speaker from SeatUe will be
oo the program which was de-clared
to be of special Interest
Refreshments will be served.
Onelday Harry Hopkins ruahed
in and demanded to know wfarf was
, in charge. Ths ex-messenger ad-mitted
he was and then Harry Hop-kins
said, Tou have the' applica-tions
of these p«Jple?" "Oh. yis.
sir." "Well,'send for them and glvef
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REPUBLICANS
TOWATCH
STATE VOTE
• WASHINGTON. D. C.—Repub-licans
this week surveyed the First
Washington. District as part of a
naUonal batUeground st the polls -
this fall.
Specifically, they marked Rep.
Hugh De Lacy. SeatUe Democrat,
for defeat en two scores: (1) he
won In 1944 by a 3.5 per cent mar-gin;
((2) his voting record In the
session of Congress' which ended in
December..
. If De LaCy Is the Democrat nom-inee
this fall. Republicans will ask
him to explain some of these votes
as reported in the official Congres-sional
Record:
On the proposal to cut 1946
spending of the Stats, Commerce
( and Justice Departments back to
1945 levels, De Lacy voted "no":
on the proposed ellmlnaUon of the
European appropriation of the Of-fice
of War Information after VE
Day, De Lacy also voted "no".
Other De Lacy first session
votes:
Repeal excess profits tax, "no";
reconversion tax adjustment act.
"no"..
Transfer food control from OPA
to Agriculture Department, "no;"
give small meat packers relief
from OPA, "no"; Give Secretary
of Agriculture a veto on OPA food
regulations, "no"; make OPA pen-alties
reviewable in Federal Courts,
"no".
Work-or-flght "slavery" bill,
"yea."
Insurance antitrust moratarium,
absent; railroad rate making pro-tection,
absent
Defer farm workers from draft,
"no"; kill an amendment barring,
the War Labor Board from acUon
'in farm labor disputes, "yes".
Non-partisan Pearl Harbor In-vtffttgaUflR.
absfnt; give either
hoaae the right to veto President's
reorganization of executive agen-clea,
"no"; return employment ser-vice
to state control, absent.
Refuse UNRRA aid to foreign
nations which do not have a free
INDIAN LEGEND
IS FEATURE OF
MOVIE MATINEE
• "Thunderpird", a movie featur-ing
the story of Indian life in th»
Olympics, will be the principal
picture on the "Saturday Matinee"
program tomorrow afternoon at
2:15 o'clock. Because of the locale
and the story, the picture was said
to be of exceptional interest to
•people of the Island.
A cartoon picture "The Calico
Dragon'' and a short called "Ice
Carnival" will complete the pro-gram.
The three pictures will fill
the usual program, being of great-er
length than moUon pictures
shown previously..
Interest In the Saturday events
has been shown by the .crowds at-tending
the showings In the Wlns-low
Park, recreaUon hill. More
than 150 children- attended last
week's matinee.
FOOTSTEPS
• TO
FREEDOM
a Sergt. Gordon Clayton, who was
discharged from the army after
three years ot service, Is staying
with his wife at the home of his
parents, Mr. and. Mrs, Charles
Clayton, Fletcher Bay. During'his
war service he was overseas 21
months, in action at Northern New
Guinea, Southern Philippines and
Luzon. Suffering from slight ma-laria
complications, he will stay at
home for a time before returning
to civilian employment
• • • • s
• First Sergt. Sven C. Gunnarson.
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. Gunnarson,
Eagledale, received his honorable
discharge at the Fort Lewis sep-aration
center January 9, and is
at the honW of his parents. Mr.
Gunnarson was in service for four
years, nine months, stationed at
La Junta, Colo., and, for the last
year, overseas -with the 40th In-fantry
In Korea. After a rest and
vacation at home he plans to re-turn
to work with his former em-ployers
In SeatUe.
• s • • »
a S/Sgt Herbert H. Worrell,
after spending more than a year
with the ATS Army Air Transport
Service in China, arrived home last
week on a 90-day furlough. Serge-ant
Worrell is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Worrall. Port Madl-a
Capt David B. Logg. USMCR,
haa been returned to the United
States and Is now stationed at
Camp Joseph Pendleton. Calif.,
where his wife, the former Maxlne
Ford, Columbus, Miss., has Joined
him. Captain Logg has returned
from his second trip oversees, hav-ing
been oversee a from December.
194X unta November. 1944. and
again with forces in the South Pa-cific
and In Nagasaki from March,
1945, until the present time.
a Second Lieut John Horton.
whose wife Is Mrs. Edna Horton,
Wlnslow, was honorably discharg-ed
recently from th« Santa Ana.
Calif., military separation center.
Lieutenant Horton served for SS
months with air forces in Tunisia.
Italy, and French Morocco.
GROUP AT SEATTLE
RAINBOW CEREMONIES
• Several Islanders attended In-stallation
ceremonies held in Seat-tle
Friday evening by the SeatUe
5 Assembly of Rainbow Girts.
Ths Seattle group were active in
the organisation and Installation
ceremonies of the Rainbow Girls
Assembly recently founded on the
Island.
Among those attending were
t Barbara Clarke, Ferncliff, and
Shirley Woodman,-Wlnslow, of the
local lodge: Mrs. Robert Schmidt
worthy adviser of the Island assem-bly.
and Mr.. Schmidt, Island Ceht-er;
Mr and Mrs. Hurley Boggess,
Pleasant Oeach; Waiter Robertson.
Battle Point: Mrs. Lena Lad row
and Mr. Wilbur Tuell, Pleasant
It e a
• . Ml JOIN TIE IAICI Iff DIMES
JJUI.14-31
Your support it needed—give when solicitors
-call—-Donate at containers at Merchants' Stores.-
THE WINSLOW I. G. A. STORE EAGLE HARBOR MARKET WINSLOW WAY
33*
a Robwrt Henry Jones, the 1937
Bainbridge High Sghpol graduate,
who^e diploma was found In a Ma-lOIa"
bafck vault a* army; dcmollUor.
.crews.searched for military papers,
has been found. His story was a
. modem, saga of adventure which he
told Supt. of. Schools Roy Thor-darson..
Wlnslow. Wednesday af-
HOBT. H. JONES VISITS THOBDAfiSON;
ANSWERS REVIEW NEWS ASKING ADDRESS
.Search for the young iptn began
Hn an Issue of The Review January
' • fourth. The day before Mr. Thcr-darson
reported a letter from a
former serviceman who had fouled
ths diploma'and-was seeking the
. owner. School Information revea}-
' ed that he'.had entered ths local
'. school during his" senlqr year and
' graduated in .1937- A#lde from his
. address and parents' names. <no
other InformaUon was known.
On Wednesday .ths young Ser-viceman.
a technical sergeant In
ths combat Infantry'who is now on
convalescent leave from Madigan
Hospital at Fort. Lewis, recited a
tale of.adventure during.the war.
StaUoned In the Philippines as
a sergeant of the regular army, the
f young man was on Corregidor
when he was captured by the Jap-anese.
He, started with other pris-oners,
oh the Bataan "Death
March" when more 'than 15,000
prisoners were reduced to less than
5,000 by cruelty and privaUons. .
- After traveling" some 20 miles.
Sergeant Jonaa escaped from the
other prisoners'and returned, to
Corregidor. There he waa captured
a second Ume and Imprisoned at
Cabanatuan. some 100 miles north
ot Manila*. Hs remained, there unUl
July 2, 1944. when he-«(as taken to
Japan and put to work In coal
mines. Work In the mines, he aald,'
was "pretty rugged".
Hla release iJld not fome unUl
more than 30 daya after the end of
ths war. Hs was returned to the
Uffltsd States via Okinawa and ths
-Philippines, arriving here on.-Oct-ober
18, 1945 and sent to Madlg*n
Hospital.
Seemingly in'good health despite
his adventures and hardships, the
young sergeant wears the Combat
Infantry Badge, four Presidential
Unit cltkUons. the ' -rtirple Heart
ribbons for the Asiatic-Pacific.
pre-Pearl Harbor, and first Philip-pine
campaigns, and has seven
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VFW TAXES
OVER DRIVE
FOR CLOTHES
a Baflibridge Island Post VFW.
will sponsor the Island's clothing
collection In the national drive for
the gathering of garments for
destitute poonkM ofNother, nations,
it was anndtmced yesterday by V.
E. Uhrich, Wlnslow. Appointed; to
the veterans' committee to lead the
drive were Francis Gagne and
James Nelson, both of Wlnslow.
Plans outlined at the post meet-ing
Wednesday evening call for the
cooperation of local schools, post-offices,
and the fire station as
clothing depots, with the commit-tee
members assuming the re-sponsibility
of carting and ship-ping
the clothing to SeatUe head-quarters.
The drive will begin this week
end. with, donors asked to deposit
clothing at the fireball or local
postofflces. A collection of cloth-ing
by achool children will start
Monday. There will be no house-to-house
canvas other than that made
voluntarily by school children.
It waa believed, the committee
members said, that the drive would
receive full support from the
Island, judging from the many In-quiries
about the collection made
during the past week.
Fire Chief Slnnett volunteered
the use of the flrehall. reporting
that the staUon would be open at
any Ume for donors to deposit
clothing. Postofflces received a di-recUve
from national headquar-ters
some time ago, stating that
clothing could be deposited in
tboee places.
The drive will end on Friday.
February 1. when the committee
win turn over the collection to Se-attle
headquarters.. The old Wlns-low
library will be used as a col-lection
depot and clothing may bs^,'
brought there.
DIMES CAMPAIGN
ADDS MORE NAMES
TO FUND SEEKERS
a Several more solicitors for the
March of Dimes drive were named,
by Mrs. A. N. Johnson, Island
chairman, as she reported progress
of the drive this week.
Mrs. James Hestilow, Seabold, .
will assist ladles covering that
area. Mrs. Dan McLaughlin, Plea-sant
Beach, Mrs. Charles Olson
and Mrs. Troy Dye. both of West
Blakely, will assist the drive in
the south end of the Island.
Increased Interest in the county
was reported by Austin Clark,
Bremerton, drive chairman. All
publicity material has been dis-tributed
throughout the county.
Mr. Clark said, with more calls for
containers, posters, and advertis-ing
material than ever before.
Local bus drivers were reported- 9 |y boosting the campaign in an In-formal
contest of their own. Coin
containers on each bus were point-edly
placed to attract attenUon
with each driver vlelng for the
honor of• collecting the most In
funds.
Monday of this week It was re-ported
that r^Jady passenger on
the Point-Wtyte-Wlnslow bus put
on a drive of her own. urging each
passenger to contribute to the cash
box.
G. VANN BUCKUN
NAMED PRESIDENT
OF SPORTS CLUB
a c. Vann" Bucklin, Crystal
Springs, was elected president ot
the Sportsmen's Club at Wednes-day's,
meeting at the New Brook-lyn
citibhouse. Henry Rodal, Roll-ing
Bay, was ehosen vice president
and Dopgla* Raber. Manxanita.
will serve as secretary-treasurer.
Lieut R. S. Katxenburger,
Naval Radio StaUon, Was named
for a three-year term on the board
of directors.
Other business of the meeting
Included ths naming of Mr. Buck-lin.
Bert 8tretch. Wlnslow, retiring
president and Thor Anderson,
Pleasant Beach, as delegates to a
meeting of Kitsap dbunty sports-men's
groups February 6.
Cart Pratt WJnslow, wss placed
In charge of Installing electricity
In the clubhouse, and plans were
' proposed for hiring permanent
resident caretakers to be • housed
In newly completed quarters.