Bainbridge Review 1946-11-29

              
November 29, 1946

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The Old Man Says


Group Would Bar Office-Holders from County Demo Championship

Lincoln P.-T.A. To Hold Meeting Tuesday at 2
Tag: Education, Bainbridge Island


Auto Licenses Go On Sale

Two Islanders Given Rainbow Honors

John G. Claytons Greet Seven-Pound Daughter


A. K. Fisken Found Dead
Tag: Death Notices, Bainbridge Review

Graveside Rites Held for Islander
Tag: Death Notices, Bainbridge Review

Postoffices Stay Open Saturdays

No Upset in Final Count of Election

American Legion Sponsors Movie of Atom Bomb

Garden Club Sets December 9, Date

Masonic Officer Here Saturday

Winslow Dock Repair Near Completion

Six Little Girls Protect Pupils On Highways

Basketball Season Here
Tag: Education, Bainbridge Island

Bus Travel Ends For Pt. White Seabold Riders

Funeral Service Held for Aged Island Pioneer
Tag: Death Notices, Bainbridge Review

VFW Holds Dance at Stanley Park

Rainbow Girls, Mothers Meet on Monday

University of Wash. ~
Vl?lMON
ATTtS. WASHING
^u^et Sound
MBUB
LAST WEEK I was. for a little
while. Just an awkward, skinny
kid, climbing up the hill from the
Connecticut River ihto Hanover.
N. H. There were 124 others—the
largest c l a n , up t o that time, to
e n t e r Dartmouth College. We were
f r om all over New England. We
were green, but we didn't think so.
Up to the last war the classes
each had more member* t h a i ^ t h e
e n t i r e college a t t h a t tim«». F o r t y
years a f t e r I climbed that hill one
of my boys climbed the same Kill.
He and I can celebrate our class,
reunions together, which Is good
figuring in any man's language.
With the meeUng last week of
Dartmouth men, 1 met the f i f t h
president I have known. When I
went to college Dartmouth had
morning chapel a t 8 a.m. I t was
compulsory. The winter costume
of those who lived nearby was
simple, usually a pair of boots-and
an overcoat.
I remember how the acting
president of t h a t time broke up
one chapel service. The day before
i t had been announced t h a t the
college had been l e f t a legacy. I t
was also known that the wife of
the acting president had present-ed
him with a baby boy.
So the prayer was interrupted
by the Joyous laughter of the un-godly
students when the president
gave thanks in l\is prayer for the
" l i t t l e succor which had been
sent."
Dartmouth doesn't have com-pulsory
chapel anymore—not be-cause
the boys are not aa religious
as we were, but there is no room
big enough to hold them all.
The new president of Dart-mouth,
who wre here the other
day. is President Dickey of t h e
• class of 1929. He Is an answer t o
the prayer, "give us a tall man.
' sun-crowned, who Uvea above the
fog in public duty and in private
thinking." He is six feet five inch-es
In height and when he made his
t a lk we knew the rest was true.
He told of the problem which
every college and university In
t h i s country has t o face now.
Dartmouth can t a k e care of 2.400 ,
men. Now they have about 3.000.
Dartmouth had 14.000 applica-tions
for t h e 3,000 places.
There are so many of the GIs
back who have married—and
places have to be found for the
men and their (families in what
was a man's College before. The'
college Intends t o g e t back to be-ing
a man's gollege again but it
will t a k e about six years he aaid.
Numbers is Just one of, the prob- ,
lems.
President Dickey went on t o
say that t h e colleges of the coun-t
r y have a vital place in the his-tory
of the next f ew years. With
t h e advances of science, civiliza-tion
aa we know it may be de-stroyed.
I t may be even l a t e r now.
t h a n we think. The business of the
colleges today, is to t r a i n men and
women who can go into commun-ities
all over America and be able
t o help people to »ee the right of
way—the way for t h e greatest
good to- the greatest number as
against the selfish ends of the
few.
To t r a in students along the
present way Dartmouth is also
giving courscs in Russian aa well
a s other languages. Dartmouth is
giving a required course for sen-iors
in " t h e knowledge .of world
a f f a i r s . " This course la t o be ad-dressed
'by leaders from all over
the world.
Dr. Dickey made a very stimu-lating
talk. I t sent me back to an-other
president, the second one 1
knew a t Dartmouth. Dr. Tucker.
The lnaugral of Dr. Tucker took
place our freahmen year. One of the
t r u s t e e s told how he, with others,
finally went t o Dr. Tucker's house
t o get his answer t o their invita-tion
t o be president of the college.
They were met a t the door by
Dr. Tucker's daughter. (She a f t e r -
wards married one of my class-mates.)
They asked h*r what her
f a t h e r ' s decision was t o be. She
whispered "He Is upstairs, praying
for guidance, but the f u r n i t u r e Is
all packed." , .
After Dr. Dickey had apokvi I
thought of another incident t h a t
happened my freahman year. In
our dormitory there Uved a senior.
He was editor of the "Dartmouth."
One day he came into my room.
"Here. Freshman, read this," and
he handed me a telegram. I t read.
"Come a t once, sister '*
and waa^signed "Mother."
I said t h a t It was t o bad.
' T o o bad, hell!" he exclaimed
"I have used all my cuts and I
want t o get away over the week-end.
I Just wrote it, does It look
n a t u r a l ? I'm going to show this
to the new president." And out he
w e n t
I n an hour he was back and I
asked him how the telegram
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BEST WEEKLY IN THE NORTHWEST
.n1b rl»t ratM B Ur itoMt7o, ifl cMuMMi fti BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1946. Vol. XXI, No. 31 8 PAGES, 8 CENTS
GROUP WOULD BAB OFFICE-HOLDERS
FBOM COUNTY DEMO CHAIRMANSHIP
• A group within the Kitsap
County Democratic p a r t y has de-clared
itself In favor of eliminating
any person holding public office
f r om the chairmanship of t h e .
L»einocratlc c e n t r a l committee
when it Is reorganized a t a meet-ing
expected to "be called In the
near f u t u r e . /
This wai revealed last Saturday
when a group .of a half dozen
Democratic p a r t y members niet in
Bremerton and discussed the out-look
for the f u t u r e of the" p a r t y
here.
There was open criticism of the
f a c t that an office-holder. County
Commissioner F. L. (Ted) P r u l t t ,
now is chairman of the p a r t y or-ganization.
The group opposes
office-holders in the position of
p a r t y leadership bemuse, they
argue, a chairman who is an office-holder
may find it difficult t o di-vorce
his official or personal inter-ests
from those of the party.
Attending the meeting a t the
Business Center Cafe last Satur-day
were S t a t e Rep. Bob Ford,
Ralph Purvis, County Auditor Ed-garr
D. Smith, John C. Lindberg
and Curtis Fortney. Also Invited,
but unable to attend because he
was out of town, was S t a t e Sen-a
t o r J a c k Rogers.
The group Is Interested in sup-
LINCOLN P.-T.A.
TO HOLD MEETING
TUESDAY AT 2
• Lincoln School (Window) Par-ent
Teacher Association members
will meet Tuesday afternoon a t 2
o'clock, Mrs. A. O. Nyhus, Rolling
Bay. group president announced
this week. The meeting will be
held In the school cafeteria.
A panel discussion of allied ,
school topics will be offered In the
program with Mrs. Perry Bovee.
Rolling Bay, leading the reports.
Also on the program are numbers
by the high school band directed
by H. J. Eickhoff. Yeomalt.
An attendance prize will be
awarded t o the school room with
t h e largest parent representation.
AUTO LICENSES
GO ON SALE
• Island motorists may secure
1947 automobile license plates a t
the Balnbridge Motors. Winslow,
Monday morning. Walt Keys,
Owner, said this week. Mr. Keys
urged all Islanders to secure plates
on the Island, If at all possible.
Applicants are asked t o bring
old registration cards for licenses,
it was explained. Both title and
registration certificate* are r e -
quired in cases of t r a n s f e r of
name or ownership of an automo-bile.
Early applications are urged.
New license plates must be on the
car a f t e r J a n u a r y 1, 1947.
TWO ISLANDERS GIVEN
RAINBOW HONORS
• Signal recognition for organiza-tion
work was given Tuesday of
last week when an. Ialand girl and
a local matron were awarded high
honors in Rainbow Glrla achieve-ment
Presented the "grand cross"
were Mr*. Robert Schmidt, Island
Center, mother adviser of the
Island organization, and Marilyn
Kleist. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Kit 1st, Rolling Bay.
The presentation was made by
the Bremerton Assembly in Brem-erton
with traditional ritual for
the honor. Nine other Kitsap
County members of the order were
given the award, the highest honor
granted by the lodge.
John G. Claytons Greet
Seven-Pound Daughter
• Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon
(Dolores Hawk) Clayton,. Fletcher
Bay. a r e the parents of a daugh-ter,
born In a Seattle hospital on
November 14. The girl, who
weighed seven % pounds 11 ounces,
has been named Ran die Celine.
Paternal grandparents 1aJ-e Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Clayton, Fletch-er
Bay. The maternal grandmoth-er
Is Mrs. Max Ward, Rolling Bay.
TWO BIRTHDAYS PARTY
• Mrs. Robert Green, Crystal
Spring, entertained Sunday overl-ing,
honoring birthdays of her
sister, Betty Erlcksen and her
grandfather Walter Oakland, both
of Winslow.
porting anN Independent candidate
for chairman of the Democratic
p a r t y when the next central com-mittee
meeting 1s held. It was
pointed o u t
John Lindberg, retired naval
shipyard Apprentice School super-visor,
was present a t the meeting
and he was asked If he would c3n-slder
accepting the position as
county chairman. While Lindberg
declared himself In sympathy with
the aims of the grdup, he declined
t o be considered as a candidate.
I t Is understood that the name
of John C. Merkcl, who Is assist-ant
city attorney, has been ad-vanced
as a possible aucccasof to
Chairman P r u l t t . Th% f a c t l - t h a t -
Merkel holds a position on the city
payroll brings up the same objec-tion
as that voiced against P r u l t t ,
t h a t he Is a public office-holder.
A. K, FISKEN
FOUND DEAD
• Alfred K. Fisken. Wing Point,
died on November 26, medical
authorities declared a f t e r the dis-covery
of his body early this week.
Heart failure was given as the
cause of his death.
Mr. Fisken's body was discovered
in a bedroom of his home by his
brother-in-law, T. K. Blnnle, Wing
Point. Concern was not felt when
Mr." Fisken had not been seen
earlier in the week but relatives
and friends became concerned
when it was known that Mr. Fis-ken
had nbt been seen either in
Seattle or around his home.
Funeral services were held In
Seattle this morniifg with crema-tion
following.
Long a well known Seattle and
• Island pioneer. Mr. Fisken was
born in Helensborough. Scotland,
In 1870. He camasfio Seattle in
1888.
In the early 1900s Mr. Fisken
founded an insurance business and
was active until his retirement
, four years ago. He still continued
to a t t e n d to general business m a t '
ters a f t e r retiring, and r e t a l - „
memberships in the ' - * t t l e
Chamber of Commerce .,e Munic-ipal
League, the ** ..uier Club and
the Elks C I - ' .
In 1°Z. his wife died. I n her
mei.iory Mr. Fisken maintained an
a t t r a c t i v e garden s i te near the
Wing Point golf course. Gardening
was a hobby he pursued for many
years.
SurvlUng a r e a son. S t u a r t Fis-ken.
Manzanita; a daughter. Mrs.
John Warren. Midland. Texas: two
aiatirs. Mrs. Mabel Blnnle. Wing
Point, and Miss Bella Fisken, Se-attle.
and four grandchildren.
GRAVESIDE KITES
HELD FOR ISLANDER
• Graveside services for James
Allen Earl, Port Blakely, were-t
o be held a t 12:30 o'clock this
afternoon a t the Port Blakely
cemetery. Mr. Earl, 58 years old.
died In the Marine Hospital, Se-attle.
on Ihiesday.
Overtaken by Illness while In
the Pacific, Mr. Earl was sent t o
Seattle f r om Manila, P. I., ar-riving
here on a hospital ship
three months ago. He was a
fireman in the merchant marine,
and a vetrean of World War L
For many years he made his
home with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
V. Beasley Port Blakely. and
moved to the Island with t h a t
family. There were no Immediate
relatives surviving.
POSTOFFICES STAY
OPEN SATURDAYS
• Balnbridge Island postofflces
will remain open Saturday a f t e r -
noons until 0 o'clock, f r om Decem-ber
7 through J a n u a r y 4. 1947,
local postmasters 'announced this
weel^ Reason for t h e extended
service was the growing Christmas
ruJh i t was said.
Postofflces adopted a t h r e e and
four o'clpck closing hour on Sat-urdays
some months ago and will
return to t h a t schedule a f t e r the
holidays, it was declared.
HERE FOR WEEKEND
• Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Skurekl.
Spokane, are h e r e for the holiday
weekend, a t the home of Mrs.
Skurskl's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Stephen R. Pigott, Rockaway
Beach.
NO UPSET IN
FINAL COUNT
OF ELECTION
• Despite possible upsets f r om ab-sentee
ballots for the general elec-tions,
all successful candidates
maintained their positions with the
final tabulation of votes on Mon-day,
the county auditor's office re-ported
this week. Four hundred
and twenty-five absentee ballots
were counted when the election re-suits
were certified Monday.
Unannounced until the final
count. Island precinct committee-men
were listed by the auditor.
One racc, between Richard Shaw
and R. J . Lundgren, both of Eagle-dale,
remained a t i e for the Repub-lican
position. The county Repub-lican
committee will probably
name that official by lot.
Following is the auditor's list of
precinct committeemen:
Eagle Harbor: Alfred Long. D.;
O. L. Myers. R.; Ferncllff: Oliver
Runchey, D.; Maurice McMicken,
R-; Ialand Center: James B. John-son,
D.; Mervyn Williams, R.;
Liberty: Lewis Daughters. D.;
Richard Shaw, R. J . Lundgren
(tied), R.; Pleasant Beach: Elmore
Ross, D.: Rachel Hilstad. R.
Port Blakely: F r i t z Haagland,
D.; Charles Hoodenpyle, R.; Port
Madison: Kenneth Thatcher. D.;
Richard Gray Robinson, R.; Roll-ing
Bay: Gertrude Johnson. D.; J .
F. Lldral, R.; Seabold: Glenn
Hundley, D.; Harvey Rogers, R.
AMERICAN LEGION
SPONSORS MOVIE
OF ATOM BOMB
• "Operations Crossroad," a navy
film of the atom bomb test, will
be shown Wednesday evening a t
A ? ® o.'clp^k . a t t h e W i r . i ' l ow P a r k
recreation huiiniHgj .nembers of
the American L*^ion announced
this week. Th» complimentary pro-gram
Is o-«a> to members of the
Leglo*- and their friends.
. technicolor film, the motion
picture was made under s t r i c t
naval supervision. A navy technic-ian
will bring the film to the Island
and handle the projection.
The program is being sponsored
on the Island by Colin Hyde Post
No, 172, the American Legion.
GARDEN CLUB SETS
DECEMBER 9, DATE
• The Balnbridge Island Garden
Club will meet on December 9,
Mrs. C. M. Sigle. Wing Point, pres-ident,
aaid this week. Mrs. Gerald
Peabody. Ferrt cliff, will be the
hostess.
" Noting the Christmas sesson.
members attending a r e asked to
bring a plant aa an Item for a g i f t
exchange. ,
A speaker for the program will
. b e announced next week.
MASONIC OFFICER
HERE SATURDAY
• Grand master for Waahinrton.
Guatav H. Schultz, Seattle, will
be present for a special meetfhz of
Renton Lodge No. 29. F. h A. M..
a t the Masonic Temple. Port
Blakely, Saturday evening a t 7:30
o'clock, i t was announced this
week. The special meeting will be
of great interest, the announce-ment
announced.
All local Masons and visiting
Masons will be welcomed to the
SIX LITTLE GIRLS
PROTECT PUPILS
ON HIGHWAYS
' • Six little girls, in cute yellow
dresses, spend their .time near the
Island schools and are doing a fine
Job protecting the other school
children, observers reported this
week. On the job for the past three
weeks, neither the snow nor sluah
prevented them from slowing down
motorists.
Placed adjacent to the three
Island grade school buildings by
Deputy Sheriff John Walkup, the
three girls (wooden figurinea)
have an automatic attraction for
motorists, according to observers.
Seen a t a short distance the girls
secern almost human and the car
drivers slow down immediately.
The figures arc similar t o others
being used throughout the s t a t e .
BASKETBALL
SEASON HERE
By BOB SIOLE
• The 1948-1947 Balnbridge
Spartan basketball season gets off
to a* f a s t s t a r t when the Spartan
hoopatera meet Overtake In their
f i r s t game next Friday evening and
then travel t o Port Townaend to
play in the annual Olympic League
Jamboree on Saturday, December
7.
With a squad of 33 boys. Includ-ing
six lettermen, Coach F r i t z
Knotll confronts himself with an
unusually large turnout. A cut in
players may be necessary to ac-comodate
the small gymnasium.
Recent turnouts have resulted In a
b a t t l e royal for positions on the
team.
Overtake, which won the District
"B" tournament last year, has lost
several players from t h a t cham-pionship
squad, but they are due t o
present another strong t e am and
will be a atern test for the Spar-tans.
Game time for the preliminary
second t e am contest Will be 7
o'clock and the main event will fol-low
immediately a f t e r . ,
The Jamboree In Port Townaend
will begin a t 8 o'clock and many
strong teams, such as South Kit-sap.
Port Angeles, North Kitsap
and Port Townaend will partici-pate.
Other teams. Including Bain-bridge,
which will compete are
Central Kitsap, Vashon and Se-qulm.
Returning lettermen for the
Spartan squad, are Tom Woodman,
Bud Lundgrfh, Doug Nichols, Pete
Ugleslch, Don Nadeau and Bob
Sigle. Other players ranking high
in the turnouts are Bob Barnes,
Tom Beach. Dick Berg, Don Beck.
Sam Clarke. Don Christie. Dave
Coe, Ken Eickhoff, E. Hefty, Larry
Holm, Murray Kleist, Selmer Mlck-elaon,
Larry Morrill, J im Morriaon,
J im Nadeau. Bob Olaen, Bud Plehl,
Bob Seko, Bob V e r t Roy Seko,
Dale Wallace. Bob Woodman. Mel
Anderson. Don Barnes, Larry
Loomls, Charles Searcy and Dick
Sands.
MOVING TO SEATTLE
• The W. J . La Vemes. Rolling
Ba>', are moving to Seattle tomor-row.
where they will make their
home. Their Isand residence h»s
been sold.
WINSLOW DOCK REPAIR
NEAR. COMPLETION
• Despite weather upsets and t h e
difficulty of maintalng a passage
way for passengers and motorists
bound for Seattle, the work on the
Winslow f e r r y dock will be com-pleted
within a short time, it was
learned this week. A nearly com-plete
resurfacing and reinforcing
pipject Is being carried o u t
New timbers are being placed on
the dock and approach to replace
worn and rotted boards. The dock,
in noticeably weakened condition
in recent months,-has not had re-pair
work in several years.
CORRECTION
• Miss Patricia Skinner and her
mother, Mrs. Nell 8kinner, Battle
Point, will leave for the east De-cember
20 (qstead of November 20
as reported In The Review last
week. „
Legion Auxiliary
LUNCHEON
Benefit Local Dis-abled
Veteran
and Family.
BUS TRAVEL ENDS
FOR PT. WHITE-SEABOLD
RIDERS
• The Seabold-Point White trans-portation
service provided by
Island busses was discontinued l a s t
week despite the protest of a num-ber
of commuters. The commuters
concerned a t all, concerned over
service, It was said, nor t o guar-antee
sufficient patronage to con-tinue
the transportation.
Established as a wartime meas-ure
t o enable workers t o get to the
Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremer-ton.
the local bus company provid-
. ed two trips, one leaving Seabold
a t 6:15 o'clock each morning and
returning from. Point White a t
5:33 o'clock each evening.
No other bus schedule change is
contemplated, Henry Thompson,
Rolling Bay Island manager, sahl
as the curtailed service was an-nounced.
FUNERAL SERVICE
HELD* FOR AGED
ISLAND PIONEER
• Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon In the Rolling
Bay Presbyterian Church for Tor-ger
(Tom) Neas with burial in the
Port Madison cemetery following.
Mr. Ness, 94 years old, died No-vember
22 in Seattle, • where he
had recently made his home.
Mr. Ness had lived on the Island
for most of the time since 1888,
ahortly a f t e r coming to the United
S t a t e s f r om his native Norway. He
was a fisherman and had been a
widower f r om 1919.
Surviving relatives include two
nieces, Mrs. John Knutaon, Mrs.
Ann Anderson; a nephew, Paul
Jorgenson, all from Balnbridge
Island, and a great niece, Mrs. K.
S. Loen, Seattle.
VFW HOLDS DANCE
AT STANLEY PARK
• Stanley P a r k will be the s e t t i n g
for the Veterans of Foreign Wars
athletic benefit dance tomorrow
evening. Proceeds of the a f f a i r are
to be used for equipment for the
organization's basketball and base-ball
teams.
In charge of the dance arrange-ments
is Rosa Carson, Wing Point,
with V. E. Uhrich. Winslow. and
other members in charge of the
advance ticket sale. The Ladies'
Auxiliary will be in charge of the
checkroom.
Good music has been secured,
the committee has reported, with
the request of Island support for
the entertainment.
Rainbow Girls, Mothers
Meet on Monday
• The Balnbridge Island Rainbow
Girls Assembly will meet a t the
Masonic Temple, Port Blakely. a t
7:30 oclock Monday evening with
an election of officers as the busi-ness
t o be conducted. All girls a r e
urged to attend.
The Mothers' Club will hold their
regular monthly meeting a t the
same Itme. All mothers of Rainbow
Girls are eligible to membership-and
a r e asked to a t t e n d the meet-ing.
Exquisite
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GIFTS
•
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