A. S. S. ~ Alumni Sandstorm ~ 02/06/23
"Yay, Monday!" Said no one... Ever
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8 Bombers and Don Sorenson sent stuff:
Rex HUNT ('53)
Mike CLOWES ('54)
Karen COLE ('55)
Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Ray STEIN ('64)
Terry DAVIS ('65)
Betti AVANT ('69)
Kevin LINN ('81)
Don Sorenson (NAB)
Next A.S.S. will be published when we have an entry from 5 Bombers
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NEW HOME ADDRESS:
Maren Smyth
144 Briant Street
Gretna, LA 70056
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>>From: Rex HUNT ('53)
date: 1/22/23
Re: Getting Old!
Maybe I am getting a bit senile! Now I rarely go to church and for a good
cause! But over the holidays One of my care takers insisted that I accompany
her to church!
Well I did go and came home with not one but two black eyes!
Now I am a kind hearted person and try to do good sometimes!
So there I was 5 rows back in a very crowded chapel. There happen to be a very
very large woman sitting right in front of me. and about half way thru the
service we were all asked to stand! It just so happens that that very large
lady was wearing a dress of very fine cotton and it was stuck well into her err
ah her gluteus maximus. Now I have had my fruit of the looms get caught up
there and always found it uncomfortable. So I figured that lady was a might
perturbed but just too embarrassed to reach back there and tug it free.
So being the Gentleman that I am, I decided to assist her! I leaned forward a
touch and gently took hold of her skirt and delicately tugged it free. That
woman spun on her heels like a ballet dancer and clocked me one right there in
my left eye. Well aside from being stunned beyond comprehension, it hurt like.
hell. Now I was relating this story to another gentleman and he said, I can see
how you got that black eye. But how does that account for the other eye?
Well I said, That lady was so upset at me removing her skirt from its tucked
in location, she must want it there. So I put it back!
Rex HUNT ('53wb) from Delightful Downtown Hanford, CA where my friend "Monroe
Prewitt" was having a rough time with his wife, Lady Rowena! I just
happen to be driving back from Tulare (this was back before Christmas)
Now I know ya'll have no idea about Hanford [California]. But you could
play pool on about any field around here. Country is flat as Miss
Mueller's Chest So as I approached Monroe's cotton farm I could see him
back at his equipment shed! He was standing there next to his John Deere
and was gently rubbing that left front fender. Now it was all too slow
and delicate to be wiping away any oil or dirt, So I peered a bit harder.
He then moved to the right side and I could see he had no rag in his hand
as he commenced rubbing that fender. Then he stood right there in front
and sort of shrugged off his old field coat, the one he wore about every
day. Now I am damned curious what he was doing, So when I came to that
dirt drive that went past the house and back to the equipment shed. as I
pulled up, Monroe was standing there at the rear of that machine an was
gently cupping his hand around that "power take off" as gentle as a child
petting a kitten.
I yelled out to Monroe "what in the world are you a doing". Well he
looked up at me with a stunned expression and said "I don't know"
What do you mean you don't know?" well that's the truth" I just don't
know!
Well what in the world motivated you to be doing all that?
Well! he says to me. Me and Rowena got into it the other day. And now
she won't let it go! Now I have tried to be apologetic as can be! But
she just won't buy in. In fact she is growing angerier by the day. She
threatened to throw me out the other day. Now I am 81 years old. I am
too damn old to start over, so I been trying to get her to settle down
some.
Well I was getting no where! I was at my wits end. So when Jim came by
the other day (Jim is his oldest boy) He asked me what was wrong and I
told him and that I had no way to calm Rowena down. Well Jim is a pretty
smart boy and he advised me to go to one of them marriage counselors.
Well I decided to try that. Now I want you to know, they charge damn
good money. So after my 3rd visit with absolutely nothing to turn
Rowena's, head, I told her I could not keep coming in with out some
real help of assuaging Her!
Now what I am about to tell you is the God's honest truth! But that
damn woman looked me right in the eye and told me I should do something
sexy to a tractor!
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>>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54)
Date: 1/31/23
For 1/31: A "Happy Birthday!" to fellow Thespian Gene BARFUSS ('53), even
though I'm a day late in submitting this.
For 2/1: "Happy Birthday!" to Carol TYNER ('52) whom I may have met whilst
aiting for the school bus in beautiful North Richland.
Date: 1/26/23
Just noticed on the ol' Bomber calendar that it is M.L.'s ('63) birthday today.
If you see her wish her a "Happy Birthday!" I know David ('65 R.I.P.) would
have.
Date: 1/24/23
Time to wish fellow classmate Sue FARLEY ('54) a "Happy Birthday!" And
not just because the ol' Bomber calendar sez so.
-Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Silverton, OR
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>>From: Karen COLE Correll ('55)
Re: 1950 Columbian
The 1950 Columbian contains pictures of my four sisters. Does anyone out there
have a 1950 Columbian I could buy?
Thanks,
-Karen COLE Correll ('55) ~ Nine Mile Falls, WA
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>>From: Pete BEAULIEU ('62)
Date: 1/20/23
Re: Fake News
Readers take note?this is NOT a ?political? entry slipped past the nose of Her
Ladyship the Censorious Maren I!
No, rather it?s to give credit to where ?fake news? was first hatched?In the
hallowed halls of Col-Hi back in the early 1960s! Conjure up the poster
festivals for ASB elections?And then recall in 1962 when Jim HOUSE ('63-RIP)
was a 1962 candidate for the 1963 presidential office. But, first, a backstory!
BACKSTORY: The year earlier, yours truly (a lowly Sophomore), was recruited by
a lofty Senior to produce something for an almost-lofty Junior running for
Prez. How to get the slogan past the front-office censors (?): ?Don?t Create a
LAOSY Mess; vote [I think] Dave WARREN for President.? A reference to the
front-page pre-Vietnam War in a place called Laos.
Aha, why not a non-literal background turbulence of black, dark gray and light
gray, with the message superimposed in bold red block letters? Nothing actually
violent. It remained on the wall, second floor of MacIntosh Hall. The hall was
clogged with wide-eyed voters and the candidate won.
BACK TO ?THE STORY?: Come the following year, what could ?the poster guy? do
for another ASB presidential candidate? Jim HOUSE (?63) tossed his hat in the
ring, plus his oversized basketball shoes. I was late for the festival, and the
only designated wall space left was the unnoticed and narrow vertical columns
on either side of the hall running west from the front office. Great
intersectionality! At the ceiling level, this: ?Head and Shoulders above the
Competition;? and at the bottom: ?Jim HOUSE, ASB President?. And, stretching
vertically between was a guillotine with a poised blade. Should have been nixed
by the censors, but apparently the front office was clueless about both history
and the gravity of the artform!
Then, with auditorium footlights aimed at his atmospheric persona and Jack
Palance cheek bones, HOUSE delivered the most spell-binding campaign speech
ever heard in Bomberville. Lincolnesque in eloquence and full-court delivery!
No double-drivel there?
BACKSTAB: But, then, a rumor floating up from the underworld?that the speech
was not original, and was penned by a (fictional) attorney linked to a popular
Uptown clothing store, and even to the school board?Not true! FAKE NEWS! But
the damage was done and HOUSE lost by 18 votes?
A wound that would not heal?Nearly 60 years later, when in Spokane succumbing
to Parkinson?s Disease, this ex-Marine still spoke the memory of that loss?more
than of any basketball game. Flagrant foul. The chance to walk the talk had
been in his own words, from the heart.
Richland Theater Thespians take note, it wasn?t his full-court/auditorium
performance, but FAKE NEWS that brought the House down.
Picture: http://alumnisandstorm.com/Xtra/Bea/230206_Gym_House.jpg
-Pete BEAULIEU ('62) ~ Shoreline, WA, aka ?the poster guy;? also the Shanghaied
tenth ?player? for a pickup game below the Gym, probably in 1966. Most
extraordinarily, yours truly can report that he was on the same team as
a visiting Norris Brown, and guarding Jim House who found our one-on-one
matchup most amusing.
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>>From: Ray STEIN ('64)
Date: 2/2/23
I just scheduled my "once every 3 years for the rest of my life medical
screening" appointment. I guess I'm entitled to the screening because I worked
at Hanford in the summers of '66 and '67. I'm no expert, but based on the
number of samples and X-rays that are required, I think it is a thorough exam.
I know there must be others on this distribution who worked at Hanford and I
would recommend that they get this screening. It's free and you see a "real"
Doc (diploma on the wall). You can contact the National Supplemental Screening
Program at 1-866-812-6703.
-Ray STEIN ('64) ~ Mead, WA
Sent from my iPad
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>>From: Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
date: 1/20/23
Re: the show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lL0Iaaq-u2g&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
TDK '65
-Terry DAVIS Knox ('65)
Sent from my Samsung SmartPhone
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>>From: Betti AVANT ('69)
date: 1/20/23
I'll try sending this message again since my last one wasn't included in the
latest Alumni Sandstorm. We are starting up our All Bomber lunches once again.
We actually had the first one on 14 Jan and only 3 of us showed up. They will
be on the 2nd Sat. of the month at Lil Moon Diner, formerally JD Diner, at
noon. You're all welcome for some good food and conversation. The menu is
pretty much the same as when it was JD Diner with the exception the new owners
added their late daughter's favorite treat of fried pickles and I think the
prices are pretty much the same too. Our next one will be 11 February at noon,
see you there.
-Betti AVANT ('69) ~ Richland
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>>From: Kevin LINN ('81)
Sent: 1/26/23
Re: BB&M
A friend of mine found an old seat cushion that said "Perc" Locey Sporting
Goods Richland, Washington.
I did some research through the Tri-City Herald archive and found that "Perc"
Locey Sporting Goods was the precursor to BB&M Sporting Goods.
Percy Locey was the former athletic director at Oregon State College and moved
to Richland in 1954. He had purchased Hank Berry's Sporting Goods at the same
location in the Uptown Shopping Center. Two years later, he sold the store to
three guys who again renamed the store, this time to BB&M Sporting Goods.
My research also solved a personal mystery since my days playing Little League
baseball for Densow's Drugs in the Columbia Little League. We always thought
that BB&M stood for Bats, Balls, and Mitts but our personal legend was wrong.
The new owners were Tony Blazine, Glen Buckner, and Bill Meek, thus the name
BB&M. Makes sense even though our Little League fantasy name sounded good, too.
BB&M, of course, closed several years ago. My lovely wife and I recently
attended a birthday party in the left half of the old store that has been
turned into an event center. I do miss the smell of the old BB&M.
Thank you for reliving the memory. bureaucrats
-Kevin LINN ('81)
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>>From: Don Sorenson (NAB)
date: 1/22/23
To: All Bombers
Passing gas a time honored tradition amongst the younger crowd. For anyone who
worked in the process building in the area knows airlocks are used to keep air
balance for contamination control. For the uninitiated an air lock is a space
with two doors, you enter one then let the door close behind you before opening
the next one. Don't follow the procedure and an obnoxious bell goes off until
one or the other door is closed.
Airlocks can hold up to three people or four, if you are close friends. Every
one knows who enjoys passing gas and avoids sharing an airlock with them. I've
only had that pleasure once after that I just open the next door and not pay
attention to the bell. When I worked at 234-5 we had a power operator on day
shift. Ernie Steel, who kept watch on the air balance. At least once a week
this gravel voice came over the PAX "Get them doors closed!" They should have
recorded his voice before he retired and played it when the air balance was
threatened.
Chewing tobacco natures great poison to many critters. I don't know about
snakes but I do know about lawn bugs. Years ago there was a large problem with
army worms so much so typical lawn poisons were drying up. The only option is
tobacco juice use any old plug tobacco put it in an old nylon stocking (maybe
the ones Mrs. Nichols left on the river bank) and steep it like tea leaves for
a couple days on your porch. Dump it in a hose end sprayer and distribute it on
the lawn. Bye bye bugs, nicotine attacks the nerve system then degrades away.
Keep small pets off the lawn for a bit.
-Don L. Sorenson (NAB)
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