Alumni Sandstorm - AGAIN ~ 10/07/21
	So Happy It's Thursday
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3 Bombers sent stuff: 
Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
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FROM THE EDITOR: 
Ok. Here's the deal. When i fell out of my chair on August
4th, I had been sitting in my (old) trusty secertarial chair
with no arms. The "leather" covering was all off. ANYWAY, when
my daughter found out that I had fallen out of that chair, she
actually put it out for trash!!! Imagine that?? So, at the
moment, I'm waiting for Amazon to deliver my new chair (with
arms) so I can be comfortable when working on my laptop. It is
supposed to arrive sometime "between October 5 and October
13th. I think I will be spending more time at the computer,
once the new chair arrives. What is here now is from the
kitchen. It has no arms and the seat is HARD.

-Maren
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)

Re: Health!

Well got some good news and some bad news

Good news, Looks like I wont die from my terminal lung
cancer.

Bad news!!! looks like my bad heart is going to kill me
before the cancer can do its thing.

On the Bright Side I most likely won't have to go thru another
Presidential election.

Whether you think the election was good, bad or indifferent
was the most acrimonious election, ever. And I had thought the
Nixon election was about the most foul! 

Degradation has become our NEW MANTRA!

-Rex HUNT ('53wb) ~ from Beautiful downtown Hanford, CA where 
	we have lost Sears, K-Mart, Gottschalks, Mervin's, The 
	Saddle and western clothing store, J.C. Penny's --- But
	 we did get a Jamba-Juice. so all is well. 
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)

[for 10/2/21]

To paraphrase Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive): "It lives! It
lives!" Yes the Alumni Sandstorm is still going!

Now, as to the 1700 e-mails that Maren won't be able to get
to; some of them may have been mine wishing various and sundry
members of The Class of '54 and a few others felicitations on
birthdays and anniversaries. I may have also tooted a horn for
the Homer Davenport Family Festival in nearby Silverton and
Oktoberfest here in Mount Angel. Both came off fairly well
even though non-masked individuals were seen walking about. I
may have been one of them, but corn-dogs are hard to eat
through a mask.

[for 10/5/21]

Just an ordinary sort of entry from me today. There are a
couple of fellow classmates that are having birthdays today.
With that in mind, "Happy Birthday!" to Jan Bondurant and
Regina Williams (Both '54).

There's not much other news, except that we are expecting the
fall monsoon season to start any time, and that the leaves are
changing colors and beginning to fall.

-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) - for 10721

Re: August in Richland

This posting is not two months late, but now ten months early!

For those who have not purchased a copy of Paul Beardsley's
reissued "The Long Road to Self-Government-1943-68," here's a
short-list of stuff, highly varied and sometimes shortened or
annotated, for August:

1945: Aug. 6: An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
at 9:15 a.m. The announcement was made by President Harry
Truman. The bomb was made at Oak Ridge, TN and Los Alamos, NM.

   (note: From other sources, the Truman announcement
   came sixteen hours after the event; the
   destruction was so total-communications were so
   decimated-that the rest of Japan did not know the
   magnitude of what had happened until Truman's
   announcement.)

Aug. 9: Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Bomb
was made at Hanford and Los Alamos. This ended World War II
with Japan on August 14, 1945.

   (note: From other sources, the bomb components
   arrived at Tinian two days early, such that the
   scheduled leaflet warning arrived at Nagasaki one
   day late. . . It had been estimated that the
   fatalities would be 20,000, not the unexpected
   80,000 when residents remained above ground. In
   his biography, the popular historian David
   McCullough ("Truman," 1992) remarks that Truman
   himself did not know of the closely-spaced second
   bomb (Nagasaki) until after it had already been
   dropped.)

1946: Aug. 1: President Harry Truman signed the Atomic Energy
Act of 1946, which set up a 5-man Atomic Energy Commission who
were David E. Lilienthal, William W. Waymack, Lewis I.
Strauss, Dr. Robert F. Bacher and Sumner T. Pike.

1947: August 7: A suit was filed by the State Department of
the Division of Municipal Corporations for the dis-
incorporation of the old town of Richland. . . .

Aug. 16: Work started to smooth out the rough spots on the
mile-long dike which was built to save the village during the
June flood. . . .

1948: August 30: The 1948-49 school year began with 5,500
students and 224 teachers.

1949: Aug. 1: Increase in rents was announced by AEC designed
to reflect three factors: closer conformity to surrounding
rents, adjustment of rent among various house types and
differences due to desirability of location. Tenants will
assume (!) minor maintenance such as fuses, faucet washers,
broken windows, etc.

Aug. 11-14: The 2nd Annual Atomic Frontier Days was held. . .
	(the 1st was in Sept. 1948; the 3rd August 1950, etc.}

1951: Aug. The report of the Scurry Panel (a group of experts
in housing and city management retained by the AEC in the fall
of 1950) recommended disposal (sale) and incorporation of both
Richland and Oak Ridge.

1952: Aug. 2: Said the Wall Street Journal: "Richland, like
Great Britain, is finding that it's a lot easier to dive into
socialism, that to wriggle free from it. Plans are underway,
however, to turn Richland into an ordinary city. The next
session of Congress is expected to finally free Richland from
the federal apron strings. But meanwhile, the first steps are
kicking up an awful furor. . . most everyone agrees that seven
years of government ownership and control have created a SNAFU
that won't be easily untangled. The whole thing is shaping up
as a $100,000,000 headache for United States planners and
taxpayers."

1955: Aug 1: City Council outlined transition program (issues:
coordination, minimize loss of key employees, decide class of
incorporation, mortgage funds, schedules, negotiation with
AEC, ordinances and regulations, study of transitional
problems, study of facility transfer, public relations)

Aug. 4: Public Law #221 passed by Congress (... ) provid(ing)
five years (until August 4, 1960) for Richland and Oak Ridge
to become incorporated (... .)

1957: Aug. 11: School enrollment was 7,168 (... .)(see 1948)

1958: Aug. 9: Census enumeration started, to be used as basis
for revenue distribution. Official Census Count-22,789.

1959: Aug. 1: Library transferred to the city.

1964: Aug. 3: Annexation of Island View and Richland Y
proposed.

1965: Aug. 1: Federal Building was completed and AEC and their
contractors were to start occupying offices.

1966: Aug. 1: W.E. Johnson appointed commissioner, U.S. Atomic
Energy Commission.

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) - for 8/4/21

To: Don Sorenson (NAB) and Bob Carlson aka Mike CLOSE ('54)

Re: Yakima River Railroad Bridge

Martha Berry Parker ("Tales of Richland, White Bluffs &
Hanford 1805-1943," Ye Galleon Press, 1987) reports: "The
bridge on Highway 240 south of Richland is located at the same
site as this one was in 1910 [photo and caption, p. 158]. The
Yakima's ice jams kept taking the wooden ones like this one
out. New bridges were built in 1905, '06, '07, '10, '17, and
'20."

Photos of the existing steel railroad bridge, already well in
place during the 1948 and 1949 floods, appear on page 18 on
Paul Beardsley's "The Long Road to Self-Government" (1968). In
1948 "(a) )65-foot section of the wooden highway bridge had to
be removed due to an ice jam."

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shorline, WA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ for 10/6/21

Re: Ye olde Richland history Sept./Oct.

Just a few highlights from Beardsley's "Long Road to Self-
Government" (1968):


1943: Oct. 13, Benton County Chapter of the Red Cross
organized and moved to the tract house at 510 Barth.

1944: Sept. 26, the first "pile or reactor" began operation in
the 100-B Area. (Closed Feb. 15, 1968.)

1945: Sept. 5, the first Richland Day Celebration; later
Atomic Frontier Days.

Sept. 28, Richland Office of Price Administration (Ration
Board) closed, and Richland residents had to go to Kennewick
for their ration stamps.

Oct. 20, Major General Leslie Groves, etc. were in Richland to
present the Army/Navy "E" Award (for excellence).

1947: Priority given to the construction of barracks and a
trailer camp in North Richland which would have a population
of 16,000.

1948: Sept. 20, Planting of 1,500 trees began in the shelter
belt west of Duane St. (now Goethals).

1949: Oct. 7, Richland dial telephone service began.

1952: Sept. 1, Electric meters installed eliminating the flat-
rate charge for electric service.

1953: General Electric announced the proposal to build a Dual-
Purpose Reactor at Hanford.

1954: Community Council asked the AEC to contract for a study
and survey of the future needs of a municipal corporation
(departments, personnel, equipment, pension implications,
accounting).

1955: Federal Housing Authority (FHA) began individual
property appraisals.

1958: Sept. 17, Freeholders completed new "City Charter" for a
council-manager form of government.

October: A total of 11,106 babies had been delivered at Kadlec
Hospital since it opened in June 1944 (an average of two per
day).

1964: Sept. 8, Special election as a result of referendum
petitions protesting sale of alcohol in neighborhood business
districts.

1965: Sept. 24, Richland Post Office relocated into the
Federal Building.

1967: Sept. 4, Atlantic-Richfield Hanford Co. awarded contract
to take over Isochem Inc. (chemical separations). Also planned
to build a convention center, a meat packing plant, cattle
feed lot, and organize a risk capital investment company.

Oct. 27, Battelle Northwest Technical Research Complex
dedicated.

Pete BEAULIEU ('62), Shoreline, WA. 

As for the 1945 Army/Navy "E" Award, above, may we presume
that, upon her recent return to her duty station, the loyal
Sandstorm Readership hereby awards Maren Smyth the coveted
2021 ALUMNI "E" AWARD for excellence in all things great and
small, whose "performance reflects great credit upon herself
and is in keeping with the highest tradition of United States
high school Webpage Commanders" (somewhat as the expression
goes).

	THANKS, Pete!

-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shorline, WA
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