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 Feb. 14, 1952:

New electrical appliance firm open today

Reiter’s, a new electrical appliance and wiring supplies store, opens for business in the Kirkish Block this week. The grand opening is today and tomorrow.

Operated by Jack Reiter, the firm will feature, the Hotpoint, Bendix, Hoover, Estate and Speed Queen lines in addition to handling radios and a full stock of wiring supplies.

Reiter, who stands six feet seven and weighs 250 pounds, is a former star athletic at Auburn High School, Modesto Junior College in California and University of Idaho. He played semi-professional football with a Seattle team for a year after finishing college.

The new store proprietor was a salesman for Van Waters & Rogers in Portland before World War II and then went into the Army serving as an instructor in light artillery at the Aberdeen, Md., proving grounds.

After the war he was a department head for six years with Harper-McGee, wholesale appliance firm in Spokane. For two years prior to coming to Moses Lake he was Spokane District Manager for the Kelvinator Manufacturing Co.

Parent-Teacher group will honor founders

A founder’s day program will be presented at the meeting of the Central School Parent-Teacher Association on the evening of Feb. 21 in the school cafeteria, according to Mrs. Lloyd Connell, president. The meeting will begin at 8 o’clock.

Ms. C.B. McFadden will give a talk on the founding of P-T-A.

Boy and Cub Scouts will be honored at the meeting, Boy Scouts putting on a flag ceremony and the Cubs doing a skit.

Parents of junior high students are especially invited, Mrs. Connell said. Round table discussions of school problems will complete the program.

Program given by Snead firm

Farmers and their families were all-day guests of the Snead Tractor & Implement Co. on Monday, marking the annual John Deere Day program. New equipment was on display in the morning at the Snead store and demonstrations were given.

A free lunch was served there at noon, and at 1:30 the program moved to the Ritz Theater for the showing of seven films, most of them shorts on agricultural and equipment subjects. Feature picture was “Galahad Jones,” starring Richard Crane and Marjorie Lord.

Award is given to C.B. Supply

C.B. Supply Co., Nash dealer, was awarded a bronze plaque and Nash’s highest honor, rating as a “10-point select dealer,” at a dinner party Thursday night in Elmer’s Café. The plaque was presented to Dave Jones, C.B. Supply manager, by Paul Pursley of Seattle, Nash zone manager.

Attending from B.B. Supply wee Mr. and Mrs. George Wicks, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nishi, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rhimer, Sgt. And Mrs. Bogan, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Norman Brandon and John Behr. Other Nash representatives were William Pearce of Spokane, district manager, and W.C. Thompson of Seattle, service manager.

Scratch play at Bowl Sunday

A scratch tournament will be run off Sunday at The Bowl, according to Proprietor Dudley McLean. Singles will be the only event, and it will be a no-handicap affair with each entrant rolling six games.

The following weekend an open tournament for doubles, singles and teams will be held, with bowlers invited from throughout the state. It will last for two days, team events being scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23, and doubles and singles the next day.