ARTICLES BY DENNIS L. CLAY<BR>HERALD COLUMNIST<BR>
They became the calss of 1965
Mystery photo, left: From the back of the photo: Back row: Lonnie Hart, Jimmie Hammonds, Mike Myer, Ricky Klobucher, Pat Gaffeney, Jimmy Teaball, Leo Carl Beck, Alan Ray Moulton, Randy Balger. Middle row: Kenny Kline, Jimmy Pippens, Mary Jo Hall, Sandra Whitmore, John, Ruth Mann, Dianne Leslie, Terry Brown, Jimmy, …
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Steamboats worked the river until 1911
It is difficult for me to imagine riverboats on the Columbia River, but we have featured such photos in this column in the past.
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Sam and Ben Hutchinson; tall men in Adams County
Notice how tall Sam Hutchinson is compared to the 6-foot tall cowboys in the photo above. Sam and his brother Ben have been mentioned in the history of Othello. Just how tall was Sam and his brother Ben? The answer next week.
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Cannawai; a region, a town, a baseball team?
During the last two weeks or so we have been discussing an area known as Cannawai.
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Mystery photos from last week
They were Ritzville hotels: The mystery photos of last week were hotels in Ritzville. The ads appear today as they did in the Pioneer Edition, published by The Ritzville Journal-Times on September 15, 1949.
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Globemasters win
Globemasters, from the Herald: "The Larson Air Force Base Globemasters won their opening game in the World-Wide Air Force softball tournament now in progress in Maxwell AFB, Ala. Larson smacked Lackland AFB, Texas, 14-3, Saturday. The Globemasters won the Northwest Air Force Conference tourney to qualify for the Alabama trip. …
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1979 Odessa Golf Course ad
Last week we featured the front page headline from the Aug. 3, 1979 Columbia Basin Daily Herald. The ad, above, is also from the Herald on the same date. Golf all day for only $5.
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Evel Knievel in Moses Lake
How many Columbia Basin readers saw the Evel Knievel movie recently on Television and saw the sequence titled "Moses Lake, Washington 1965?"
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E-mail from Cheryl
Facts from the past gleaned from the Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:
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Mystery photo identified
Doctors identified at clinic groundbreaking: Left to right: Drs. Gruwell, Fallon, Lowell, Doyle, Macon, Soldin and Freese.
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Nurses helped, too
Nurses identified at clinic groundbreaking: Left to right: Vicki McGrail, LaDawn Garwood, Ina Bush and Micki Stanhope.
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Remembering the Philco Bendix Sunshine Center
Where they offered "custom dry cleaning sensibly priced." The ad appeared in a cookbook published by the Moses Lake Woman's Club. We will feature recipes and ads from the book in future weeks. The cookbook is courtesy of Bill Ecret.
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Remembering The Turf Cafe
Where customers could visit the smoke shop and purchase ammunition during a meal. The Turf offered "Sizzling chops, Tender broiled steaks and tasty sea foods," according to the 1965 telephone book.
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Mystery photo
Who are the men and why would they have shovels and be digging while wearing suits? Let me know if you have the answers.
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