Alumni Sandstorm ~ 09/08/16 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff: Anna May WANN ('49), Pete BEAULIEU ('62) Wayne MYERS ('62), Bill SCOTT ('64) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Shirley ARMSTRONG ('61) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Adele PAULSEN ('63) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Robert LOVE ('66) BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>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. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>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. ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>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) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* >>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) ************************************************************* ************************************************************* That's it for today. Please send more. *************************************************************