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OTHELLO, WASHINGTON
THE OTHELLO OUTLOOK
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1974
rom
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Telephone Link Just First
An editorial last week calling for toll-free
telephone service for Othello area residents
to the county courthouse offices in Ritzville
received some quick response.
However, while the free telephone located
at the county building department is a step
in the right direction, it really isn't the final
answer to the problem.
The county's solution, as described on
today's front page, is to make a telephone
and office available for local residents
wanting to call a county office. In some
instances this may work, but far more often,
we would imagine persons having'a need to
contact county offices for information or help
will find it easier just to use the phone at
their office or home, rather than taking the
time and gasoline to go to the county
building office.
The real need is for some type of a Zenith
or special number such as is used in Grant
county. Granted, the Grant county court-
house has an advantage over Adams county
in that it now has a central telephone system
with a single receptionist answering a single
number and then directing the calls through
a switchboard.
We realize that such a change-over for the
courthouse at Ritzville might be costly, but
feel it is worth investigation if it would
provide local residents with a direct link
with their county officials. For example, the
switchboard might be placed in one of the
existing offices, with the receptionist also
able to handle other duties between calls.
The county officials are to be commended
for their quick action at moving to provide
some toll-free service for Othello area
residents, but we hope their efforts don't
stop there. Investigations into ways of
expanding the service into something that is
really useable should be continuing. : :
By ROBERT
CUMMINGS
Principals in Senate Leadership
Battle Appear Headed for Re-election
OLYMPIA...Because of the desich., wouldn't do much grieving if
two key figures in a conflict primary and Steve Stafford, Greive should be left home.
within the Senate majority are who opposed him for the But assuming he will be back,
involved, the reelection cam- Democratic nomination, got he lacks the power he once
paigns of Sens. August 2,863. This adds up to 6,695 wielded so effectively.
Mardesich, D-Everett, andDemocratic votes against the During the early days of the
R.R. Greive, D-Seattle, are 2,335 polled by Nancy Buff- 1973 session, Greive and five
We will welcome all identifying information, particularly corrections which readers
have to offer for pictures appearing in this column. Just call The Outlook 488-3342 or
Gladys Para 488-2812. The pictures are provided by the Museum and Arts Society with
Mrs. Para providing the text.
receiving more publicity than ington,
usual. If either could be
flescribed as- a "neck-and--
:neck" race, it would be
expected.
Mardesich is the current
majority leader in the Senate.
He ousted Greive from the
position nearly two years ago
after the latter had held the
post for 16 years.
But neither of the reelection
contests is really that close.
Defeat of either would be a
major upset.
Verbal Assault Waged
Mardesich's race has at-
tracted attention chiefly be-
cause of the running verbal
attack Greive has been
carrying on against the new
majority leader ever since
Greive came up on the short
end of the caucus vote two
years ago.
Some interest also was
generated, however, by the
fact that Mardesich's Repub-
lican opponent, John Nance
Garner, is the cousin of the
former Vice-President of the
same name.
But the primary vote, for
what it may be worth, showed
Greive's Republican
challenger who was unop-
posed in the primary.
But the Stafford votes are
interpreted as "anti-Greive"
votes and Republicans expect
many of them to go to Mrs.
Buffington.
On the other hand, this
district like the 38th, is
historically Democratic. It
hasn't sent a Republican to the
Senate in the past 32 years,
and has sent one to the House
only twice during that period.
Greive undoubtedly is in the
toughest campaign since he
wrested the Democratic nom-
ination from an incumbent to
start his career in the Senate
28 years ago.
But he is a tireless
campaigner. Few believe he
can be unseated.
No Change In Script
If the seemingly impossible
should occur and both men
should be defeated, it wouldn't
change the control of the
Senate.
With 18 holdovers who were
elected two years ago, the
Democrats have enough "safe"
seats to retain a comfortable
NEWLY FINISHED - The A.M. Rayburn home upon its completion in the spring of
1918. Built by a contractor from Connell named Waiters, the house, painted a creamy
yellow with white trim, and with a huge water tank in the back, cost around $6,000. The
building crew was boarded by Mrs. Rayburn. A distinguishing feature of the home,
besides the interesting roofline, was the beaded siding used throughout the interior.
According to those who know about lumber, this must have meant that a finishing mill
had been established on the coast previous to this construction, probably by potlatch.
Otherwise such material, although common enough alter it became available, would have
been far too costly to ship any greater distance. The four roofed conners between the
upper rooms were the roofs of four large walk-in closets.
.......... %i!ii!i!ii!i!ii!iiii!i!iill
FAMILIAR SCENE- The old house became a landmark on the highway east of town,
and even though it was rented out briefly at various intervals [explaining the T.V.
antenna] its weather-beaten appearance and dying yard made it a photographic
attraction. This scene was taken at sunset by the Gallery of Pullman.
For most of 34 years "the ....... ~.:~:~:~,::::~-:.:-:-.:~ ........................... ,~ ........... • :
TEN YEARS AGO Lyle Johnson,
October 24,1964 tional agricultural
Merlin Elmore, a Royal The American
Slope farmer, claimed the was presented to
1964 Othello Conservation NationalFFAq
Farmer of the Year awardin Kansas City at the
during the highlight of the meeting, Oct. 5.
joint Chamber of Commerce *************
an.d Jaycee banquet here last
Thursday evening. October
Other features during the Farm land in the
event held in the High school Basin is still brin
corridor saw Chuck Way take prices if the public
over the reins of the Chamber 611 acres of
for the coming year and guest in Grant county for
speaker R. Lyle Johnson, state any indication. The
legislature candidate, empha- sold by the land
size the agric(flture theme of ot Ephrata las.t
the dinner by pointing out the Prices ranged from
importance of good con- for 48 acres a
servation practices to the $1,891, to unit24 in
healthy progress of the consisting of 78 acres
Columbia Basin Project. appraised price of
Elmore, who operates a One family
Hansen, Ida., was
haying operation along with
cattle and sugar beets on the
Slope, was named for the top
farmer award during the
Jaycee section of the banquet.
The partnership operation
of John J. and Tom B. Para
was selected as the runnerup
in the 1964 competition and
other constestants were Gall
Sanders and Merrill Dye.
Installation work on a new
drive-in window facility at the
Peoples National Bank in
Othello got underway this
week, with officials reporting
that the new addition should
go into use in about 30 days.
A40-yard scoring pass with One out of
19 seconds remaining carried Americans was a
the Othello Huskies to amember. Over 33
stunning upset over Eastmont alumni are
here Friday night and left the the 4-H motto
Huskies right in the thick of Best Better.
the battle for the 1964 North
Central Washington Confer-
ence championship. Reserve Ph-rma¢,,__.,
quarterback Rod Barrie
Mardesich with a margin of
more than 1,600 votes. Neither
had opposition in the primary.
Mardesieh polled 4,795 votes;
Garner, 3,126.
True, Mardesich's vote was
considerably less than the
total compiled by two Demo-
cratic candidates for the two
House seats in that district.
Closer Than Usual
Rep. Richard (Dick) King,
running for reelection to
Position No. 1, received 4,941
votes and his challenger for
the nomination got 1,589, for a
total Democratic vote of 6,530.
For Position No. 2, Rep.
John Martinis polled 4,567 and
his Democratic challenger
1,589, for a total of 6,156.
Donald E. Ice, the lone
Republican candidate, receiv-
ed 1,666.
majority.
Neither would it make any
significant change in the
leadership. If Mardesich
should go, he probably would
be replaced as majority leader
by either William S. Day, Spo-
kane and former Speaker of
the House, or Gordon Wal-
gren, Bremerton and now
chairman of the Senate
Transportantion and Utilities
Committee. Both are key men
in the present leadership.
Greive's Wings Clipped
It isn't any secret that the
present majority leadership
This would indicate that the The Othello Community
Senate race is closer than Schools Program is now in the
usual, second full year of successful
Democratic Stronghold operation.
Three Seattleites, Reps. like most of the area's original
Jeff Douthwaite, Donn Chalgn- homes, that was all that could for 38 years.
Icy and Al Williams, are be said for it.
making noises already, and Soon after the death of his sharing the slightly larger Othello. ,
nearby home of his widowed Rayburns health began to
another, King Lysen, has a father, the family moved, mother and increased the size fail in the 30's, and upon his
tendency to wander from the problem-solving opportunities by two more ,children. death in 1940 the farm
fold. ~ Oneofthedaughters, Hazel, equipment was sold, but
Still another from Seattle, without restriction as to
former Rep. George Hurley, is clientele, facilities to be used, now Mrs. Harvey H. Burgett ownership of the land and
or time of day. of Spokane, says, "I canhouse was retained by the
certain to make his presence Can We Afford Community remember sleeping in a tent in family. After holding out
felt in the Democratic caucus.
An ultra liberal who served in Schools? summers, but the rest of the during the hard years of dust
the House in 1943 and 1945, he 1. It may be better to ask year we made do with a sheet blowouts, crop failures and,
was noted as a table pounder "Can we afford not to have partition in only two bed- one year, catching grass-
long before' it became the them?" The community that rooms, hoppers to feed the turkeys
has the resources to build, Upon completion of the new which were that year's only
practice in International dip-
lomatic conferences, staff, maintain and program house in 1918, the three oldest cash crop, the farm's later
schools for approximately 1/6 children were of high school productive years enable Ray-
of the time, should be able to age, and so had to live away burn to be the first in his area
cooperate with other local from home in order to attend to put up his wheat in bulk
educational, social, and re- school- firstin Hatton, then in tanks instead of sacking it in
creational resources to pro- Lind, and finally five children the field,
vide extended services during were living in Cheney for the
extended hours, school year, coming home Part of the total acreage was
2. It makes good sense summers to work and to enjoy sold to Thomas Booker, and
economically to better utilize the spacious house. The part was rented to William
youngest, Dale, was the only Krug, whose sons Wilbur and
existing public facilties and to child to complete high schoolin Edward still farm it.
invest available money in
of the community and then
assisting in the development
of leadership, programs and
facilities to fulfill those wants
social programs in the in:
But this district, the 38th, The Othello City Council and needs and to attempt to
historically votes heavily in and Othello School District are solve those
"the Democratic column. It partners in the financing and
hasn't elected a Republican to sponsorship of the program.
the state Senate since 1946. Perhaps no single ed-
That was the Republican ucationalconcept has received
landslide year when the wider attention and general
"revolt against the O.P.A." acceptance by public school
paved the way for a Repub-
• lican gain of nine seates in the
Senate and 35 in the House.
That still stands as ~ne of
the biggest turnovers in
Washington legislative" his-
~ry, second only to the
oosevelt landslide of 1932.
Some Grief For Greive
In the 34th Legislative
District, which embraces
West Seattle plus Harbor Is-
land, Greive faces somewhat
more difficulty than Mar-
educators, recreators, adult
educators, extension workers,
social agency representatives,
government officials, business
leaders, and the lay 'public
than has the Community
Education philosophy.
Community Education is a
philosophy and a method that:
1. extends the role of
education from the traditional
concept of only teaching
children to that of identifying
the wants, needs and problems
problems.
2. expands the traditional
school role from a formal
learning center for 5-18 year
olds open six to eight hours per
day, five days per week and 36
weeks each year to a "Human
Resources Development Cen-
ter" virtually "round the clock
all year long."
3. greatly increases the
stitution that is most con-
venient to the most people.
3. Community Education
emphasized that problems are
solved by pooling of available
resources. Experience has
shown that this arrangement
greatly enhances rather than
restricts programs of related
agencies and helps make
economical use of limited
budgets.
utilization of the largest tax Much credit for operational
dollar investment in most success must go the Director
communities by making the Mike Lang.
facilities more readily avail- The actual participants in
able to those who have paid for the activities and the vol-
their construction and main- unteer' instructors are the
tenance, fortunate ones.
4. provides a wide range of The Advisory Board is to be
educational, social, recrea- congratulated for their con-
tional,cultural and community tinuing good guidance.
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But the road ahead could be which they lived for six years
rocky, depending upon thesize with first one child and then
of the majority. Several four children, fulfilled the
members of his caucus may be government requirements for
hard tokeepin line, especially a claim "a house with
among the Seattle delegation, windows to be lived in for a
Trouble From Seattle minimum of five years" - ~but,
November, but she has shown
pretty clearly she has a mind
of her own.
What was once known as the
"Solid Six" could now be
referred to as the "Futile
Four." Frank Connor, another
Greive supporter, didn't file
for reelection.
Straight But Rocky
With the Democrats also
apparently destined to retain
control of the House, Leonard
Sawyer, Sumner, appears set
for another term as Speaker.
No effort to unseat him has
surfaced within his party.
This year it received a new
lease on life when it was pur-
chased and moved by Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Andrews to their
property near Bruce. Al-
though their plans include
complete redecoration of the
interior, the basic outline of
the house will be retained.
Andrew Mack and Nellie
Rayburn, married in 1898 in
the Willamette Valley, Ore.,
came to take a homestead
adjoining that of his father,
John Barnett Rayburn, in
1902.
The two-room shack in
AREA PIONEERS- Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Rayburn. Mrs.
Rayburn, the former Nellie Murphy, was bern in Oregon in
1873 of parents who came to the Willamette Valley from
Illinois in covered wagons in 1852. Mr. Rayburn was bern in
West Virginia in 1871, atended college in Oregon and
taught in several country schools in Oregon and
Washington, including the "Stephenson" school on
Cunningham road. Gradually increasing his farming
operation beyond his homestead claim, Rayburn raised a
family of six children and made his home in the Othello area
followers, who became known Rayburn place" has stood,
as the "solid six," managed to empty and dark, eight miles
block the majority on several east of the Othello city limits
key votes. But before the year on what was to become the
was ended, their number was highway to Pullman. Well-
reduced to five with thebuilt and well-designed, it was
resignation of Robert Ridder. a remarkable house even in its
Ridder's wife, Ruthe, was ruinous years, there being no
elected to succeed him last other like it for miles around.
II
An early interest in small
bugs as a youngster was
instrumental in earning the
American Farmer Degree as a
bee keeper for Kenneth
Caylor, charter member of the
Othello Pioneer Future Farm-
ers of America. It is the first
degree of its kind to ever be
presented for Future Farmer
work and, it is also the
first time that an Othello FFA
member has been so honored;
thus making it also a first for
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
october 22, 1959
The Othello Branch of the
Peoples National Bank is
nearing completion of a
$30,000 expansion of bank
facilities. New construction on
the bank building will increase
the floor space one third. The
entire bank will be air
conditioned, according to Mike
Livingston, bank manager,
:: and will include a lunch room,
:: lounge, proof department
room, bookkeeping room,
storage room and office.
have
in block 44. A
was $7,124.
The state health
ment does not
justify building a
Othello before 1960
officials toldan
committee and
hospital district
ers in Ritzville
evening. But the
hospital district has
will do "whatever
help provide interim
facilities for Othello,
conneqted with wingback Jim
Maw to let the Huskies rally
from a 20-19 deficit and grab
the big victory over the
highly-rated Wildcats. The
victory was only the second in
history over Eastmont for the
Huskies. Othello beat East-
mont the year after the East
Wenatchee school was opened,
but hadn't won since then.