Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/08/16
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4 Bombers sent stuff: 
Anna May WANN ('49), Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Wayne MYERS ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64)
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BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Adele PAULSEN ('63)
BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert LOVE ('66)

BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar
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>>From: Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49)

Re: Saturday 9/10

Want everyone in the classes of the '40s to know that lunch
will be available at the Red Lion in Richland.

Dale GIER ('48) has set up the arrangement to "whomever wants
to attend". This is not a part of Club 40. This is Dale GIER
and anyone else in town who wants to have lunch with us
young'uns from the classes of the '40s. This is our chance to
get together and renew old friendships.

Come join us 

WHEN: Saturday, 9/10
WHERE: Red Lion in Richland
TIME: 11:30 - 2:00

-Ann Thompson, aka Anna May WANN ('49) ~ from Rainy Bothell 
        looking forward to the drive over on Friday.
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)

Re: Gene Bernard

When Bernard showed up at Chief Joseph Junior High School,
the few transplanted Lewis & Clark Grade Schoolers asked him
in class what job he had done over the summer. He claimed
that he landed an "overseer position with some 200 people
under me." This seemed quite a stretch for a grade school
teacher, and on further questioning he snickered that his
summer job was as the grounds keeper at the Richland cemetery. 

I also recall being one of five who at the same time received
spats in the hall from Bernard for not toeing the line in
class. Ed QUIGLEY ('62) was another, and actually got away
with the trick of stuffing a magazine in the back of his
pants. An unearned Purple Heart, or purple whatever.

Bernard's spoken fantasy as a science teacher was to someday
load an out-of-state boulder on the back of a pickup truck
and then dump it out in the middle of nowhere. He imagined
that some well-funded scientist, a thousand years hence,
would wonder about this anomaly and then build an entire
geologic theory around how the boulder got there. The reality
was greater than fiction -- a series of pre-historic and
catastrophic floods inundated eastern Washington and was
finally awarded scientific acceptance only a few years later
(early '60s). Between 40,000 and 15,000 B.C., or so, flood
waters from Lake Missoula repeatedly broke free from an ice
dam and scoured out the pot holes and Scabland coulees across
eastern Washington on their toward the Pacific (e.g., NOVA,
"Mystery of the Megaflood", 2005). 

One of the many long-debunked clues was the ice-floated (not
pickup-truck) boulders, termed "erratics," still scattered
all over the place. In his devious imagination Bernard was
spot-on, more right than he knew, but a few millennia behind
the times...

Bernard's ample Elvis hairdo, however, was very contemporary. 
 
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA   safely across the 
      Cascades from Scabland eastern Washington.
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>>From: Wayne MYERS ('62)

To: Jim Russell ('58)

Yes, Jim, the Herald was afternoon, the Columbia Basin News
was morning, as was the PI.

The most coveted job for those of us under 16 was delivering
the Herald. In the late '50s I delivered for the CBN because
there was a long waiting list for the Herald route in my
neighborhood. I delivered all through the terrible winter 
of 4th grade, getting up every morning at 4:30 to fold the
papers in the exact prescribed way before I headed out on my
bicycle to deliver. By spring time, my teacher, Mrs. Laney
(?), became vey worried because I was falling asleep in
class. She conferred with my parents -- I was never so happy
to quit a job.

I remember that the Herald was non-union. Supposedly the CBN
had been started to compete with it. The worst part was being
harassed constantly by the man who ran the delivery boys to
sell subscriptions. Door-to-door sales I hated far more than
4:30 AM in the snow.

Three years later I convinced my parents that I was old
enough to stay awake in class (I needed money more than
sleep), so in 7th grade I took over a morning Seattle PI
route. There were so few home delivery customers, that my
route covered an enormous area. Tired by the time I finished
my route, I stopped on my way home every morning at the
Spudnut Shop for a cup of hot chocolate & two cake donuts
with chocolate frosting--25 cents for my morning delight, 
but I remember it as money well-spent.

Who else remembers those before-breakfast bike rides in the
dark, or dawn, depending on the season?

As I recall, the CBN was $1.25 per month. Collecting that
cash from all your customers every month was another tough
task. I remember one family that absolutely would not pay
unless it was the last day of the month; by the 2nd I had to
carry the debt till the next month.

Last month my daily subscription to the Jacksonville, FL,
print edition expired. They want $518 to renew for a year.
From $15 to $518 for a year of print-newspaper home delivery.
Gotta love such changes.

-Wayne MYERS ('62)
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>>From: Bill SCOTT ('64)

Re: Tri-City Herald

To: Jim RUSSELL ('58)

Yes, the Columbia Basin News was a morning paper and the Tri-
City Herald was an evening paper back in the day. I had a
paper route from age 12-14 with the CBN, so I remember all
too well getting up at 4:30 a.m. to deliver, then trying to
go to Chief Jo and concentrate. I knew even then it was a
lousy paper. The only thing that kept it going as long as it
did was that it was propped up with union money. (ITU, as I
recall). 

Re: the Seattle Times and the P. I.: 

The Times may have switched to mornings to grab audience from
the P.I., but they did show some largesse many years ago when
the P.I. was on the verge of folding. The Times bought the
P.I. to keep it from going out of business. 

This all jogs my memory on an unrelated note. Back in the
'50s or very early '60s, a group called The Hollywood Argyles
came out with their one memorable hit, "Alley Oop". The song
begins with the line, "There's a man in the funny papers we
all know..." Trouble is, there wasn't. My dad subscribed to
the P.I. and to the Herald, and Alley Oop wasn't in either
one. So I had no idea who they were singing about.

-Bill SCOTT ('64)
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