E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the Columbia Basin Herald on May 1, 1952:

Larson tour for visiting Wenatchee-ites

The Queen of the annual Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festival, Virginia Click, and her court, were escorted through a gigantic C-124 Globemaster recently after visiting the Moses Lake High School.

Queen Virginia and her two princesses, Jeanette Bommer and Anne Maria Ware, were met at the main gate by their six airmen escorts, A/2c William E. Scott, James E. Lacey, Pat Nolan, Karle E. Starch, bobby L. Stephens and A/1c Jack D. Horne.

The royal retinue was taken through the Globemaster, glimpsed the ghighly secret YB-52 Stratosfortress from a distance, received a flight and weather briefing at Base Operations and visited the base control tower.

After a visit to the base chapel, a drive through the Wherry Village, inspection of the impressive new airmen's barracks and the base bowling alleys, Queen Virginia and Princesses were entertained at the Service Club.

Square dancers to gather here on FID night

Moses Lake's solitary paved block will be packed with at least 1,000square dancers in gay costumes on the night of Farm-in-a-Day, according to W.E. Hively, chairman of a special committee arranging the event. He disclosed his plans at a Chamber of Commerce meeting last week.

Hively said Ted Powell of Yakima, top caller in the northwest, will bring his own music with him and will call the program. Several feature numbers are planned. The site will be Third Street, between Division and Ash.

"We'll have bleachers on both sides of the street for dancers and spectators," he reported, "and the place will be floodlighted."

If you've never seen 1,000 dancers in their colorful costumes, you have something in store for you.

Alaska movies shown in Pasco

Mr. and Mrs. George Stenson showed their Alaska motion pictures to 45 members of the Sourdough Club in Pasco recently. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clemmo.

The Sourdough Club, made up of persons who have spent at least two years in Alaska, meets monthly in Pasco. The last one was held at eh Tampian Ranch.