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 Nov. 13, 1952:

Wage increase okayed at Dam

Approval by the wage stabilization board of new wage rates for hourly employees working for the Bureau of Reclamation at Grand Coulee Dam was announced there last week by Supervising Engineer A.F. Darland.

The new scale includes increases of from eight to 19 cents per hour as agreed in negotiations early this year between the reclamation bureau and the Columbia Basin Trades Council, the bargaining agent for all crafts working for the bureau on the Columbia Basin Project.

Involved also is double time for overtime in excess of the 40-hour basic work week and abolition of the 10 percent night differential pay. Provisions for time-and-a-half for work in excess of eight hours in any one day are not affected.

Dennis note: Sure wish this article would have stated the base pay, instead of just the increases.

Yule decoration funds solicited

Larry Lemon was appointed chairman for soliciting funds for Christmas decorations when the retail trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce met Friday noon in the hub Café.

It is hoped that the funds raised will be matched by the chamber for purchasing cross-street decorations, committee members said. Last year’s side street decorations will be used. The Boy Scouts will put new greenery on them.

Quincy wants gas

City council retains William P. Harper & Sons, Seattle Investment House, to begin investigations on serving area with natural gas.

Get parallel parking

City-wide parallel parking was adopted by the Soap Lake City Council following numerous traffic accidents in angle-parking areas.

Larson planes complete airlift to Puerto Rico

The last of four C-124s of the 62nd Troop Carrier Wing returned last week from Tactical Air Command’s month-long airlift of two strategic air command reconnaissance wings rotating at Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico.

Coordinating with 514th Troop Carrier Wing from Mitchel AFB, N.Y., the giant Globemasters played a major role in moving more than 1,200 men and 2 million pounds of equipment since the two-way airlift began Oct. 1.

It was the first use of troop carrier for the air movement of strategic air command wings. On flights leaving Ramey, C-46 and C-124 aircraft carried the men and equipment of the 55th Reconnaissance Wing to their new station at Forbes AFB, Kans. Troop carrier aircraft flying at Ramey from bases in the United States, carried equipment for the 72nd Reconnaissance Wing now based in Puerto Rico.

The C-46s carried most of the personnel and smaller loads while the Larson-based C-124s were used for special loads that could not fit in smaller airplanes. One of the Globemaster flights carried six jet engines, each weighing more than 2,500 pounds and on another flight, a 39,000-pound mobile training unit was airlifted to the Caribbean base.

Women’s Club plans Thanksgiving meet

On Thursday at 1:30 p.m. the women’s Club will meet in their clubhouse. They have planned a Thanksgiving program and the members will be in Puritan dress. The program will include special music.

62 new members join Peninsula School PTA

Sixty-two new members were enrolled and plans for an open house were made at the Peninsula Parent Association meeting in the school cafeteria Nov. 5 with a record attendance of 123 members.

Open house for the Peninsula school will be held Thursday, Dec. 4, to give the public an opportunity to visit the new school. Students will provide the entertainment and program, with refreshments being served at the close.

Mrs. Harold Parker was elected secretary. Mrs. Fred Lycan was appointed freshman chairman.

A report on the district PTA meeting held in Grand Coulee Oct. 17 was given by Mrs. Howard F. Houser. Next year’s convention will be held in Moses Lake. Ed Hull talked on the curriculum in Moses Lake schools.

Nine dozen plastic cups will be purchased by the PTA for the cafeteria. A collection of $44.43 was netted to be used for this purpose. There are now 486 students enrolled at the Peninsula School.