Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/06/15
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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)
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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.
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>>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
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>>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.
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>>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 
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>>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.
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>>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)
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>>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
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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
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That's it for today. Please send more.
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