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Coulee City News
JOE and VIRGINIA PIERCE, Publishers.
Volume 1, Number 2
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Not Quite News
That loud noise you heard was the Sportsman's Club yelling "NO" at the auxiliary's proposal to buy curtains for the new clubhouse. They'll buy china and silver, but no curtains, the auxiliary agreed.
Perhaps you know that the new club cost the Sportsmen just $5 for labor. The 20 x 30 building was put up entirely by the members, except for a small bit of assistance one day on the chimney.
Eagerness to see J. L. Tucker get home has almost gotten his dog into trouble. He stands pressing his nose against the big living room window watching the street - "but his nose streaks up my windows," Mrs. Tucker protests.
"My wife is certainly a good man to have on a committee," says Don Wilson. It was she who typed those 400 letters for the VFW.
Cecil Adkins and Tom Twining each have had two shattered windows, and there are no little boys with slingshots to blame for it. Blast concussions caused the damage for both.
If you want to help a busy man, you'll ask your correspondents to use your postoffice box number. With the Christmas rush coming up, that will help Postmaster Alf Twining and his asistants get the mail to you faster.
One member of the city council said he'd like to see more people 'come to council meetings and gripe their heads off. That's the only way to get action -- let us know what you want.'
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The council's regular ... ing is held first Wedn ... night of each month at ... city hall.
The Harold Jensens ... a quiet, but busy wee ... getting their house ... for electricity. The ... be ready when the P. ... line reaches them ... spring.
It seems this are ... doing its share in ... ing Europe's needy. ... Lutheran ladies Aid ... Hartline has adopt ... family and is send ... package a week. Two Co ... City organizastions, ... Westminister Women's As ... iation and the Women's ... are sending boxes to Fr ... children.
We can send him anyth ... except nylons or toba ... Irma Boyd was saying a ... the French boy the Wom ... Club is aiding.
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Council Opens Bids On Bond
Opening of bids for revenue bonds to finance construction of additions to Coulee City's sewer system will take place at a special meeting of the city council at the city hall at 8 pm Wednesday.
Bids for construction of the system were opened Wednesday night this week (too late for report in this issue of the News.)
The bonds will be retired by receipts from operation of the city water system.
The city had one bid on the bonds when construction of the additions was first decided upon, but the bid was considered too high and was rejected. The request for bids has been advertised.
Wm. P. Harper & Son of Seattle bid $95 per hundred par value, interest at 3½ percent. That company prepared the statistical information required for issuing of the bonds, at a fee of $750.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT
The chamber of commerce will meet in special session Monday night to consider the Bureau of Reclamation's proposal for an access road to town, President Chris Larsen announced.
The chamber will also discuss Christmas decorations for the town. Meeting will be at 8 pm.
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Open VFW Subscription Driver
Pledges for $500 will be presented to the VFW at their open meeting at 7:30 pm Monday at the Recreation Hall at Coulee Dam Center.
Marking the opening of the subscription campaign for the Joplin-Gilden memorial hall fund, the meeting will be highlighted by presentation of a $200 check from the Auxiliary to the VFW, and a pledge of $300 from the Women's Club.
Other offers to the post include a lot on the south part of Fourth Street, from C. J. Weller and James Grigwire, and a lot at Fourth and Washington, from Art Lewis.
Members were to discuss proposed sites for the building at a special meeting early this week. As yet, no lots have been accepted.
The goal set for the building fund will be announced, and Elbert Wagoner, commander of the post, will appoint a collection committee at the meeting Monday evening.
The public is invited.
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CHRIS LARSEN ELECTED TO HEAD COULEE CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chris Larsen was reelected president of the Coulee City Chamber of Commerce at the regular monthly meeting last week. Other officers elected were Mike Radak, vice president; Allan crumb, secretary; and Tom Twining, treasurer.
George C. W. Hartmann, Guy Stafford and Ralph Thomson were elected to the board of directors.
Discussion of progress in the chamber's campaign to obtain re-routing of the highway was the main topic at the meeting.
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BUREAU REJECTS ROAD PROPOSAL
Will Consider Access Road
Excessive cost of building will preclude any possibility of getting a permanent road put through from Dry Falls junction to Coulee City, chamber of commerce representatives were informed Tuesday morning in a meeting with Frank A. Banks, supervising engineer of the Columbia Basin project, and other Bureau of Reclamation officials at Coulee Dam.
However, bureau officials indicated they will consider seriously a substitute proposal to construct an access road directly into the town from the point near the Bair & Crick camp where the present detour begins.
WILL AWAIT STATEMENT
The bureau will begin a survey to determine whether such an access road is practicable on receipt of a written statement from the Chamber of Commerce that this plan will be satisfactory to the merchants of the town.
Cost of constructing a road from Dry Falls Junction to the town would be in excess of $200,000, local representatives were told.
Attending the meeting from here were Chris Larsen, Mike Radak and Guy Stafford. Chris Ottmar represented the St. Andrews Grange.
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ACCESS ROAD FROM HIGH ... TO BE CONSIDERED
Mr. Banks said that ... bureau expects to compl ... the permanent road over the dam in the spring of 19... and pointed out that the road would provide a dir... route from the west s... into the outskirts of ... town. Only two harves... would have to be trucked in over the present ... tour if the road is c... pleted by then.
Fred Ludolph, county ... missioner from this ... trict, was present at ... meeting, as was Mr. Ja... of Wenatchee, represent... the state highway depa.. ment. Mr. Jayne said ... highway department ... planning to re-route ... Mansfield road to bring ... into the Waterville high... further and gi... people coming from th... direction a direct rout... into the west end of th... dam. He said plans must ... to Olympia for fin ... approval.
The access road propos ... by the bureau would ent ... town near the school, and would cut about a mile o... the distance to Soap Lak ... and Waterville.
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CONNELLY COMPANY WORKING ON ROAD TO
BACON TUNNEL THIS WEEK; 75 EMPLOYED
About 75 men are employed at present by the T. E. Connelly company on the Bacon tunnel and siphon being constructed near here.
Work this week has been on the road being built in from the north to the tunnel. Three crews are working at present digging into the north end of the tunnel, and when the work reaches its peak next spring with approximately 300 men employed three shifts will be working from both north and south into the tunnel, according to R. M. Buker, controller.
Completion date for the project which includes the 11,000-foot siphon is March 7, 1949, 900 days from the contract beginning on September 19 of this year, and the company expects to be through before then, Mr. Bucker stated.
Housing and feeding facilities for single men will be established at two camps, the North Portal camp, now operating, and the South portal camp, to be established when the project reaches full employment.
Competition between shifts, and between camps when work is started from both ends, will be strong, Mr. Bucker predicted.
Contract for the tunnel and siphon is for $3,494,420. W. D. Connelly is general superintendent.
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Ralph McLean Elected Head At Mold Telephone Meeting
By Mrs. Nathan Gander
At the telephone meeting Saturday, Ralph McLean was reelected president and Hollis Rommel was reelected secretary and treasurer. Russell Hunt was elected vice president to succeed Archie Barry.
Most of the homes here have been wired for electricity which, we hope, will be available soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Olin have moved to Coulee City.
Mrs. Lee Pitts and Imo Jean visited Mrs. Dale olin Sunday while Lee and Jimmie went to the turkey shoot at Coulee City. Mrs. Nathan Gander was a guest of Mrs. Lizzie Hennigh that day.
A miscellaneous shower was given Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hayes, newly weds, at the Grange hall Saturday night. Among the 70 guests were Mr. and Mrs. James Edgemon and daughter, Jean, of Coulee City, Mr. and Mrs. Art Dressche and daughters, Ilene and Lorraine, of Mansfield and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hayes and Carroll of Ephrata.
Margaret Leander assisted Mr. and Mrs. Hayes in opening the gifts. Mrs Hayes is the former Sherry Whitehall.
A mock wedding was staged with Edwin (Bud) Miller, Ruth Weimerskirch, Carl Malone, Elsie Bell, Bill Bell, Hollis Rommel, Mike Weimerskirch, Margaret Bell, Dale Leander and Claribel Gander participating.
Recent Spokane visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Weimerskirch and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nilles and Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hunt and Terry spent a couple of days in Wenatchee last week.
Mr. and Mrs. David Barr and family of Spokane visited the Vance home.
Hollis Rommel took his mother to Clarkston Wednesday where she will join brothers and sisters in a family reunion as some members are there from Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trimble went to Waterville Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Whitehall, Kenneth and Forrest, and Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hayes and Mrs. Mary Hayes were Sunday guests at the Dale Leander home.
Mrs. L. J. Leander and Mrs. Dale Leander went to Wenatchee Monday. Mrs. Paul Cooper of Waterville accompanied them.
Due to Pomona at Waterville Saturday, Grange will be held Friday night.
The annual Christmas party that the Auxiliary gives to their husbands ... other Grangers was ... Wednesday. Homemade ... cream and cake were ser ... Gifts were exchanged.Mr. and Mrs. Arch ... Barry and family visited her family at La Cross.
Mrs. Retta Davis ... Raymond of Okanogan vis ... her daughter, Mrs. Nat ... Gander Thursday.
Imo Jean Pitts, who ... been working in Tonask ... has returned to her home here.
Jimmie Pitts went .. Spokane Saturday ... Volley Pitts and Amb ... Carson of Bridgeport.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold S ... and son visited the B ... home Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Smith and son, Wes, and grandson Vernon Jones, went to Friday Harbor to visit her daughter, mrs. Viola Nicho ... and family.
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Council Discusses Garbage Disposal
Disposal of garbage was the principal topic discussed at the regular monthly meeting of the city council last week. Jim and Mike Borst appeared to request that the council take action toward securing a proper place to dump garbage.
The Borst brothers reported that many people are asking them to haul off garbage, and that there is no place at all to dump it, except in the county road. Dumping in roads is illegal, and the Borsts requested that the council provide a dumping ground.
The council informed the Borsts that it has had an offer of a lease at a nominal sum of a tract to be used for dumping. The proposed dumping ground is about four miles southeast of town, and leases are now being drawn up.
Councilman George Jessop indicated that he would favor the city taking over the collection of garbage if some means could be arranged to finance it. This was discussed, but no formal motion made, or action taken.
OPEN CROSSING
C. J. Weller appeared to request that a railroad crossing be opened at Fourth street. The council approved the request and instructed the city clerk to obtain permission from Northern Pacific to open the crossing. Fourth street is the north-south street which runs by the postoffice.
The council unanimously passed ordinances vacating portions of Third street.
City Attorney Ned Kimball presented a letter he has received from Congressman Hal Holmes of this district concerning the cutback in the housing project.
Congressman Holmes stated he had contacted officials of the Federal Public Housing administration on the matter. The FPHA says that the cutback was nation-wide and was made necessary by increasing building costs and the consequent using up of funds which had been appropriated by Congress.
Mayor George C. W. Hartmann appointed Councilmen Leo Lavin, George Jessup and Elbert Wagoner as a committee to investigate vice conditions in the town.
Present at the meeting were Mayor Hartmann, Councilmen Lavin, Jessup, Wagoner, P. R. Brown and Oscar Larson, City Clerk Tom Twining and City Attorney Ned Kimball.
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KINDERGARTERN TO OPEN EARLY IN JANUARY
Rev. J. E. Bach announces plans for a kindergartern class, to be organized in January when school classes resume
The school will be open to the public, and will be for children four to six years old.
Classes will be from 9 until 11:30 am, Monday through Friday, in the Lutheran church building. All children will be expected to attend Sunday School, if not regularly attending elsewhere.
A tuition fee is voluntary. It will consist of a $5 registration fee and $1 minimum per month. Rev. Bach will teach the group.
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Mrs. Gander Is Correspondent
Mrs. Nathan E. Gander of Mold has accepted the job of correspondent for the Coulee City News. She will report all activities of that community for the News, and residents of Mold and vicinity are urged to turn in their news items to Mrs. Gander.
Mrs. Gander is an experienced correspondent; she formerly reported Mold news for the Coulee City Dispatch until that paper was suspended in 1941, and at present is correspondent for the Wenatchee World and Waterville Empire-Press.
Mrs. Gander is postmistress at Mold, and operates the Mold telephone exchange.
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Telephone Exchange Being Constructed
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company last week began construction of a new dial telephone exchange building in Coulee City. The building will be located just east of Fleet Service Tire Company.
Sound construction company of Seattle is contractor for the building, with Charles Updegraff in charge. About four men are working on the structure now. Updegraff says he hopes to finish the building in about a month, provided that materials are available.
The building will be of brick construction, with double walls. City council approved the telephone company's application for building permit at its regular meeting last week.
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HOW AND WHY OF NEW PRINTING PROCESS IS EXPLAINED HERE
Just a glance at the News is all you need to know that here is a new kind of newspaper. Perhaps you would like to know the how and why of the new kind of printing you see on these pages.
First, the why: newspapers in towns as small as Coulee City are often not good newspapers because the editor, who is also the publisher, the printer and the advertising salesman, just doesn't have the time to make it a good newspaper. He is so busy with the mechanical details that he has too little time left to write good news stories and prepare good advertising.
Then, too, the average small town newspaper cannot use many pictures and illustrations in the news and advertising columns, because of the high cost of engraving and mat services.
The News dodges these difficulties through the use of the offset printing process. With this equipment we can use black and white pictures, except photographs, freely and at no extra expense, and can use photographs at small cost.
Our press operates automatically at high speed and our news stories are turned into type through use of an electrically operated typewriter which sets type into columns ready for photographing. This machine is about twice as fast as the more conventional linotype.
After the news stories and ads are set into type they are pasted up on cardboard sheets in exactly the form in which they later appear in the paper.
These sheets are photographed, and the image then impressed on a flexible metal plate. It is from these plates that the pages of the News are printed.
The photographic work is done for the News by Photo-Lith, Inc., of Seattle, who is also temporarily printing the paper until our press is delivered. After that, all except the photographic work will be done in our own shop.
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BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
Pastor--Rev. J. Einar Bach
Sunday School--10 am
Divine Worship--11 am
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Hartline Cagers Open Conference Play Tonight
The Hartline high school basketball team will open its conference schedule tonight, playing at Marlin. Tuesday night the Hartline team will play Grand Coulee at Hartline.
Hartline plays in the Grant county league with Grand Coulee, Wilson Creek, Marlin, Ephrata, Quincy, Warden and Moses Lake. The league has scheduled a double round robin ending February 11.
Hartline had five warmup nonconference games, and up to this week had won two and lost two. Last Saturday Coach Earl Heathman's boys beat Mansfield, 38 to 15, at Hartline. Creston was scheduled to play at Hartline Tuesday night. Warren Scheibner and George Kelly led the scoring against Mansfield with 12 pints each. Bob Chappell, Rodney Garred and Junior Jensen were the other members of the starting lineup.
Earlier in the season Hartline won one game from Almira and lost two to Nespelem.
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KIEHLBAUCH HOME FOR PARENTS' ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kiehlbauch of Sunburst, Montana, parents of Howard Kiehlbauch of Coulee City, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Sunburst Sunday. Present for the occasion were all five children.
Mr. Kiehlbauch and his daughter, Teresa, left Coulee City last week to go to Sunburst, and returned Tuesday.
Another son of the couple presented the local church with a Hammond electric organ, in honor of his parents' anniversary.
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