Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/06/15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 Bombers sent stuff and memorial INFO today: Marilynn WORKING ('54), Larry MATTINGLY ('60) Helen CROSS ('62), Dennis HAMMER ('64) "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84), Grant RICHARDSON ('01) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Ron SHELBY ('59) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Becky RULON ('66) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Jim SCHILDKNECHT ('66) WEEKLY BOMBER LUNCH: Mostly '52ers, Noon, Sterling's GWWay (Fridays) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) Re: Fall Dust Storm A friendly reminder to those of you who want to put an article in our Club 40 Fall Dust Storm... Saturday, November 7th is the deadline Send to get it to Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49), our Editor!! Any comment is welcome... well, nice ones we look for... let us know what you are doing instead of coming to our September meeting celebration! -Marilynn WORKING Highstreet ('54) ~ Pasco Club 40 President - 2015-2016 *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Larry MATTINGLY ('60) Re: Housing To: "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84) Thanks for filling in the details. I did not go into them much as I always end up writing too long a piece anyway. But you had it right anyway. I never lived on Long street. But I did live in the other side of your folks "B" with my 2 girls. We moved so they could turn the "B" into a single unit. The only thing I remember about you is your calling a hammer a nanu. You mother was always saying "John don't nanu the door" or the table, or what ever you were beating on with that toy nanu. Please give my kindest regards to your parents. (Vince and Mary if memory serves me...) -J. Larry MATTINGLY ('60) ~ On a cold wet night in So. Tacoma. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) Re: Swamp Coolers When we were with my son and daughter-in-law in Gardnerville, NV, she showed me a modern "swamp cooler", it was a totally indoor unit about the size of a narrow bedside table. She told me it cools the air and adds humidity, as Gardnerville is high dessert. Funny, I hadn't heard that term in ages, and she used it, and then Larry MATTINGLY ('60) brought it up in the Sandstorm. I didn't ask her how it works, if she has to add water, or anything. Re: Fall Color After a thankfully uneventful flight (2 actually) we arrived back in Hope, IN to see the end of the fall color!! http://AlumniSandstorm.com/Xtra/Cro/151106-Hope-Fall_Color.jpg Talked to my brother, Roy CROSS ('65) last night, and he said the fall color in the Tri-cities is great this year. He's looking forward to going to see Terry DAVIS ('65) in a local play soon!! Our kitty and both of us were glad to sleep in our own bed last night, before we head out for a marathon drive to Junalaska, North Carolina to see a friend get the national Denman Award for his lifetime of evangelism as a layman, not a pastor. Harry has led and or funded (as a contract engineer) and been on more mission trips than both Warren and me. As I write this I'm watching the History 2 channel about if Meriwether Lewis was murdered or not. That's how they are spelling it on TV, but I don't think that is right. they didn't prove it either way. I think he was murdered. -Helen CROSS Kirk ('62) ~ Hope, IN *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Dennis HAMMER ('64) Re: Swamp Coolers One thing I really loved about swamp coolers was the smell of new excelsior pads when they were first wet and the air came through them into the house. Too bad that only lasted for what? about two days? I did not grow up in Richland but none of my friends whose houses I visited in the summer had air conditioning or even swamp coolers except one. One friend's mother had a beauty shop she ran out of a small building in their back yard. She had a little portable unit about like a portable heater. You had to pour the water into it when it got low. I was fascinated by it. It was not until summer of 1960 when they were tearing down the flour mill my dad worked at we got a swamp cooler. He salvaged an old one that the pad holders were missing and they had been using it just as a fan. It looked in terrible shape. Let's say my dad was thrifty (I think his patron saint was Jack Benny). He fixed it up with me as his helper. It had a blade fan instead of a squirrel cage and was missing one of the pieces at the back corner running from the top to the bottom. He got a used piece of aluminum sheet and we bent it to fit. Bought some 1/2" square mesh "hardware cloth" and made pad holders with one piece on either side of the excelsior and used wire to tie the three pieces together. It did not have a pump to recirculate the water so had to put a hose on the drain and water the lawn with it. The copper tubing for water supply was also salvaged from the flour mill and was used for poison gas when at times they shut down and fumigated the flour mill. That thing looked terrible, but it worked. I don't know what happened to it. It moved to Richland with us and sometime down the road dad bought a bigger used squirrel cage cooler. I still have a bunch of that copper tubing and brass fittings for it. I did pretty much the same thing myself. First summer after the Navy wife's mother gave us one she had which had been sitting on the ground for some time. The bottom had been rusted through. Someone gave me some, I think he called it, "underwater putty." I used that to fix the rusted spots. It had a pump setup that I have still never another like. The pump sat next to the squirrel cage housing and was pushed away from it by a spring. The pulley on the fan shaft had an extra flange on it and the top of the pump shaft had what looked like a little pulley with an o-ring on it which ran against that flange. I had to fabricate two taps to mount that pump to the bottom of the cooler because they had rusted too much to be used and pop rivet and seal them to the bottom. A few years later I changed it for a pump with a motor in it and was sorry I did. I painted it with Ford blue engine paint and installed it in the "B" house dining room window and left the front bedroom window part way open. I was working swing shift at FFTF at the time and plugged it into a light timer so it went off after we went to sleep and had it come on before I woke up. I always heard that timer click and then heard the blind hit the window screen. They do put a lot of moisture into the house; if you have a bag of potato chips they get to feel a bit soggy and don't crunch when you bite one. I always liked swamp coolers, their neat, you can see them working, they are easy to understand, they cost less to run, and I can fix them. Now days when I have heat pump problems all I can do is call the repair shop and say, "The AC is broke." and prepare myself for writing a big check. -Dennis HAMMER ('64) ~ Back in the days when we used swamp coolers, we also had nine planets. *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84) Re: Old paddle from a Richland school found in Kennewick house I'm sure that the Sandstorm readers could shed some additional light on this! When I was in wood shop at Chief Joe (both in 7th and 9th grades, so 1977-'78 and 1979-'80), the assistant principal, Mr. Barnard, was still using these paddles (with great effect, I might add - I felt much less likely to get beat up on the playground with him on the beat). In fact, he actually broke one during its use! During one of my two years in wood shop class we made a replacement paddle, made from 3/4" thick hard maple, complete with lightening holes drilled through it (also so it could pass through the air faster, we figured) which was an improvement on the basic design. We used the broken paddle as a template, and I don't recall seeing any names on it. -John Paul "JP" PANESKO ('83 and '84) *************************************************************** *************************************************************** >>From: Grant RICHARDSON ('01) Re: Baseball Field My name is Grant Richardson and I am entering my 4th year as the head baseball coach at Richland High School. I took on the project of renovating our baseball field in hopes of giving our players something they can be proud of. This spring I secured several volunteers and work donations from local businesses to renovate our baseball field. It has not been easy and has not come without problems. Working with a budget of almost nothing we have done some good things. I am looking for financial donations from Bomber supporters to help finish our project. I am to the point of rebuilding our dugouts and have an engineer volunteering his time to make the drawings. I have help coming from a few local businesses for some materials and labor. Bomber Baseball needs the help of alumni to finalize this project. I would appreciate your assistance in relaying this message through the Sandstorm. To make a donation you can contact me directly or Bomber Boosters, attention Bomber Baseball. Thank you for your support. -Grant RICHARDSON ('01), RHS Head Baseball Coach *************************************************************** *************************************************************** not a memorial - only INFO today >>Kathy STALEY Berg ('65-RIP) Celebration of L: November, 7, 2015, 2pm to 5pm American Legion Post 115, 908 Dale, Benton City *************************************************************** *************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ***************************************************************