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January 25, 1946 Page 1 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 (Please tarn ts Page • 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 (Please turn to Page Fly*) 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.
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Title | Bainbridge Review 1946-01-25 |
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Title | Bainbridge Review 1946-01-25 1 |
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January 25, 1946
Page 1
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
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