Capt. David Gorgol, 29, who is stationed at Camp Hanford, is being held under observation at a San Francisco hospital after admitting he shot a taxi driver in that city for no apparent reason. He was decorated for his service in World War II. His wife and two children live in Kennewick. "I don't know why I did it," Gorgol said.

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Lamb-Weston's Connell potato processing supervisor plant has a problem. A worker was injured when he fell off a toilet seat at the plant. Now the supervisor must fill out a form that asks questions such as whether the employee had been instructed in the proper use of the equipment. Meanwhile the employee is being treated at a hospital for a back injury.

The federal government's cheese giveaway was expected to be over in the Tri-Cities today as volunteers at Pasco's Salvation Army center and the Tri-City Food Bank finished doling out 2,862 five-pound blocks.

Another March of Dimes container fell victim to thieves in Kennewick when the Two Boys Café on Avenue C was broken in to in the early morning hours. The proprietor said the container was quite full. The juke box was also broken into and about $5 in nickels was also stolen. Entry to the café was made by forcing the back door.

Mammoth bones uncovered at a construction site on Ironton Drive in West Richland are one of the best archaeological finds ever discovered in the Mid-Columbia. "The neat thing about this site is besides the mammoth, we're finding rodents, frogs, birds, rabbits all close together," said Jim Martin, University of Washington archeologist.

Five sticks of dynamite, being used to clear a channel in the Yakima River south of Richland, "backfired" yesterday afternoon and blew a hole in the deck of one lane of the Bailey bridge. General Electric was trying to relieve ice pressure on the piling of the bridge with small blasts, but the charge "blew upward."

Chad Adamson couldn't wait to drive. He took the wheel at age 2. His mother left him in the car at Poplar Heights Mobile Home Park in Kennewick with the motor running while she ran in the house to get her purse. He slipped into the driver's seat and took the Pontiac LeMans through two right turns, between two mobile homes before running into one.

An estate in New York is being settled in court and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Jesberger of Kennewick have a good chance of receiving some of the proceeds therefrom. The estate is worth two billion dollars. The owner of the estate, Mr. Edwards was an uncle to Mrs. Jesberger's grandmother. (In 1925 there were 32 billionaires in the United States.)

Victor Vandershoro, 2 1/2, of 1118 W. Nixon, Pasco baffled police for an hour claiming his name is "Goodboy." He was reported lost by Mrs. Margaret Simmler, 1515 W. Sylvester, and claimed shortly after Betty Reed called from 1128 W. Nixon saying he was gone. He told officers his name was "Goodboy" and he lived at 1811 S. Vine.

Mrs. P.A. Toothig, 615 Bonneville Street, Pasco, recalled entertaining Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1909 at her home in Seattle. Her first husband engaged the Wright brothers to appear at the fair with one of their first planes. "They brought the plane west by freight, giving exhibition flights, 25 cents per person, " she said.

"Sell cars? We can't even find the things," said one used-car salesman looking at his snow-covered lot. "If someone's really interested, I'll dig one out," he added. He said the bad weather was hampering car, camper and trailer sales.

An attempt by some teen-age boys to buy some "dynamite makin's" from a Pasco pharmacy brought a warning from the police department. Officer Okie Miles called other Pasco druggists and learned that similar purchases had been attempted by teenagers. The druggists all said they would only sell such chemicals to authorized instructors.

Rev. J. H. Martin, superintendent of the Washington Children's Home Society was in Kennewick today and says the society has a lot of splendid boys and girls for whom he is anxious to find homes. He requests that any family that will consider taking a child communicate with him in Yakima.

Letter to the editor: It is time the American people woke up to the realization of what is going on and put a stop to the financier Communist-Marxist control of our whole economic problem in this country. - Dan Brashear, Pasco.

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Letter to the editor: Regarding Tri-City Herald publisher Glen Lee's opening sentence last Tuesday night, "Everybody is wondering what comment I have to make.." (about the Magruder textbook). Such colossal conceit in a smart-aleck publisher who is able to sell his semi-literate sheet only by filling it with the lowest form of sensationalism and demagoguery.

The city of Kennewick has approval of the Federal Communications Commission for their municipal police radio station. Police Chief Ward Rupp said telegraphic acknowledgement was received yesterday. Bids for the new station call for a central station, four mobile units and one motorcycle unit.

Holly Smith's tree house is still standing and Richland doesn't like it. As a result the city is taking Holly's parents to court for violation of setback requirements, if they can get the letter summoning them to court delivered to the right Smith family. The first letter went to the wrong Smiths. The Smith's live at 1724 Hoxie Street.

Michael Alexander, 21-year-old Richland sailor, was aboard the intelligence ship Pueblo and is a prisoner in North Korea, his parents said. Alexander graduated from Richland High School and has been in the Navy since 1964. While in high school he was well known in the Pacific Northwest among amateur radio operators.

Elmer DeVaul, White Bluffs rancher, aged 46, was found dead today in an abandoned irrigation pumping sump. He was found next to a moonshine still that did not have sufficient ventilation. It is believed that he was asphyxiated by fumes from the stove.

Walla Walla police took a walking arsenal off a bus from Pasco. The man is accused of taking a billfold from a man on Lewis Street at 1 a.m. When the thief was taken off the bus he was carrying a fully loaded Colt automatic, an army .45, two knives and a bottle of whiskey.

It has been impossible for the Hover ferry to operate for some time on account of the ice which filled the river. The ferry is now running. During the rest period, work was done on the boat and it is in good condition to float on the river for some time to come.

After losing all of their belongings in the flood last spring, the Blitz family has lost their home in Richland when oil stove exploded and burned everything but the clothes on their backs. Mrs. Blitz and her son were outside painting a trailer when the accident occurred.

A total of 3,203 cases appeared before Judge Earle W. Brown in Richland justice court during 1951, of these 2,971 were results of traffic citations and the rest were principally cases of drunkenness, public nuisance and larceny. Major offenses handled by the police included one rape, one aggravated assault, 35 burglaries, 540 larcenies, and 12 auto thefts.

Sea Scouts of Pasco and Richland are to receive surplus boats from the Bremerton Navy Yard tomorrow. The Pasco boat is a 28-foot motor lifeboat, while the Richland Scouts will get a 26-foot whaleboat. The boats were donated under a government program to make surplus equipment available to Sea Scout units. The boats will arrive by train.

Navy and Atomic Energy Commission investigators are still trying to find out who and how many men wrote letters home last fall telling about the world's biggest nuclear explosion at the heavily guarded Enwetok Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands.

R. A. VanHoy, employed by the Pacific Power & Light Company as the caretaker of the Pasco substation was killed when with both hands he caught hold of a high line carrying 66,000 volts. He was found on the ground with his clothing aflame. The line had been shut down earlier in the day and he apparently thought it was still out of commission.

The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy will speak at several events honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Tri-Cities tomorrow and at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.

Lee Semon has been to Prosser to retrieve his goods now that the trial of the thieves has gone past the danger of appeal. All of the clothing and goods are wrinkled and some of them soiled. They require a thorough cleaning before they can be put back in first class condition for sale at this store.

Kennewick firemen are flooding a basketball court at the east end of Keewaydin Park for the public to use as an outdoor ice skating rink as an alternative to unsafe ice on the backwaters and ponds along the Columbia River. City workers in Pasco attempted to flood the tennis courts in Sylvester Park but kids ran on it before the ice was set.

Officers of the Franklin County sheriff's office will wear the uniform of pink trousers and brown shirt adopted by the Washington State Sheriff's Association, new Sheriff Ted Harter announced. In addition they will wear tan Stetsons and tan ties. The deputies will have to buy the uniforms out of their $3,600-$3,780 annual salary.

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The new six cent stamps still have not arrived and the post office is "very low" on one-centers. "We only had 7,000 one-centers left this morning," said Bruce Taber, assistant postmaster. Most Tri-Citians have been using a combination of a five-cent and a one-cent stamp for their first class mail.

It is doubtful if there is another town in the state of like size that has more of its young people in higher institutions of learning than Kennewick. The roll call of graduates of Kennewick High School who were home for the Christmas holidays showed 35 young people enrolled in the Universities, colleges and normal schools of Washington and Oregon.

Letter to the editor: I have a 1950 Mercury sedan. When I bought my 1952 license, the price was$29.25. My friends with various other makes of cars say their license cost a couple of bucks less than last year. This makes me very mad as I could have well used that two bucks to pay some other equally outrageous overpriced confiscatory tax.

Fred W. Bremmer of Kennewick received a nicely engraved certificate from his Uncle Sam, containing a promise to pay him, on January first, nineteen forty-five, the sum of fifteen hundred and forty-five dollars for his services in the army during the recent European unpleasantness. It is the first of the policies to be received here.

Lexi Brockway, Miss World-USA, will fly to Los Angeles to tape a show with Sonny and Cher. Miss Brockway, a former Central Washington State College student was in Richland recently to spend time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Brockway.

Editorial: Those little iron lung boxes have made their appearance again on the counters of stores in the Tri-Cities and they should serve as a reminder to citizens that the battle against polio is a daily fight in which there never is a let-up. Join the March of Dimes.

Two missing parking meters have been found in the brush alongside the road east of Pasco. New Year's eve celebrants unscrewed them from their posts in front of the bank building. The coin boxes had not been damaged.

Police agencies in the Pacific Northwest are searching for two robbers. One took the store manager of Pasco Sigman's IGA grocery to the store to clean out the safe of $10,300 while the other man held the manager's wife and children hostage at their home. The pair also robbed groceries in Baker, Oregon and Livingston, Montana.

A frozen and burst water pipe on the second floor of the Howe building did considerable damage to the Washington Hardware & Furniture Company in Kennewick. The water ran through the ceiling, drenched many articles in both the furniture and hardware departments and the reserve stocks in the basement.

A 32-year-old Prosser man was placed in a two-year homosexual rehabilitation program designed to change a person's criminal behavior but not to eliminate homosexual behavior. The man had been in jail off and on since he was 13.

Probably the most disastrous and discouraging fire that Hover ever witnessed burned the recently completed high and grade school building to the ground last night. The property is reported to be worth in the neighborhood of $25,000. Three other buildings have been secured to serve as classrooms for the present.

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A math teacher from Iran, Akbar Hassani will visit Pasco schools for six weeks to view the school's mathematics program. He will stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Crose, 12126 N. Meridian Ave., while in Pasco.

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S. L. Nelson, manager of one of the processing operations at the Hanford plant says that atomic furnaces for home or industrial heating are possible in the future. The benefits would be no smog, ash or smoke. He said the technology for these applications was available today.

Rev. and Mrs. Storms and son Jim, and their granddaughter were driving from Wallula to Payette, Idaho. While driving through the mountains in the middle of the afternoon Mr. Storms became drowsy and fell asleep. The car ran off the road and rolled two or three times. A passing motorist took the party to the hospital at Pendleton but none were found to be seriously hurt and were able to leave the hospital the next day. The car was wrecked quite badly.

Over 80 underprivileged children were taken on a shopping tour by Jaycees and Jaycettes. Each child was given $5 to spend on presents. They had a ball. Some of them came from homes where up to last week there was no heat. It was one of the most touching Christmas scenes a person could encounter.

A Tri-City post office received a letter to Santa requesting a "record called The Monkees and a Lost in Space suit," carefully printed on the back of a Washington State University Department of Veterinary Microbiology monograph called "The Effect of Immuno-suppression on the Clinical and Pathologic Manifestations of Marek"s Disease."

Some thief is going to have peanuts in his Christmas stocking, if nothing else. The Benton County sheriff's office at Kennewick reported somebody took the peanut machine from Mac's service station on W. Kennewick Avenue.

Officials of the public works and recreation unit say there will be ice skating at Wellsian Lake in Richland if children refrain from throwing objects such as rocks on the ice and if the freezing weather continues

What school district would chuck a school bus to make room for a lawn mower? "We need room for our mower, and that school bus has to go," said Al Meneely, Finley school superintendent about a 1950 9-passenger bus. The school has 15 acres of grass.

946 youngsters are expected to participate in the hayride-caroling jaunt around Richland tonight. Robert J. Smith, Hollywood, Calif., photographer is in town to photograph the event for Town Journal and International Harvester Co. and Black Star Publishing Co.

Several of the boys of Wallula went for a walk on the cliffs about a mile down the river. Without thinking of the harm that might be done, they began rolling rocks down the hillside, one large rock lodging on the O.R. & N tracks. Tommy Maxwell ran into town and called Mr. Howard the section foreman who went down and rolled the stone away, just as No. 254 hove into sight.

Rev. Joe Harding of the Central United Protestant Church, Richland is encouraging his congregation to bring small flashlights to the Christmas Eve ceremony as Richland Fire Marshal Hank Carrick sent a letter to all churches prohibiting hand-held candles.

Music followers in the Northwest will welcome one of the country's best known artists this month when John Phillips Sousa and his band tours Washington. He appears in Spokane Dec. 21 and in Seattle Dec. 26 and 27.

More than 5,000 pounds of warm clothing was shipped out of Richland bound for New York and eventually to Hungarian refugees in Europe. Another clothing collection was carried on Saturday by Columbia High School students.

Annie and Robert Osborn of Milton-Freewater are celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. They were married in 1886. She is 96 and he is 99. Both are in a nursing home but are alert and active. They settled in Milton-Freewater in 1936.