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...Foul. In Pasco, Wash., the State Magistrates Association passed a resolution calling on the legislature to outlaw jail-breaking, which at present is not illegal in Washington...
...Chalmers moved into town last November, Benton City, Wash. (pop. 1,200) had not had its own resident doctor for 24 years. After he had been there only a short while, the people in Benton City and the surrounding territory (including the fast-growing towns of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco) wondered how they had ever got along without...
...John Wall Lykes (66) and nephew Charles (37). The Lykeses who also own the Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., largest shipper under the U.S. flag (54 cargo ships operating out of Gulf ports), have recently started to concentrate on concentrates. They control Dade City's $15 million Pasco citrus-processing plant, biggest in the state, which in 24 hours can turn out enough fruit products to fill three 50-car freight trains. On an average, the 83 members of the Lykes family are worth some $2,000,000 apiece...
Richland, a complete new town of 24,000, had sprung up on the desert at Washington's Hanford plutonium works, and two others-Kennewick and Pasco-had been virtually reborn as a result. Years of steady construction had ringed and dotted Seattle (pop. 525,000), Spokane (pop. 180,000), Portland (pop. 436,000) and dozens of other smaller towns with new stores, factories, and miles of freshly painted houses. The poorest of the houses boasted green lawns and flowers...
Publisher Lee sent a reporter to check up on a group of $7,500 houses in Pasco that the Columbia Construction Co. had sold to veterans. A group of tenants led by disabled Lloyd Kestin, a Pasco schoolteacher, had refused to sign their mortgages, claiming they had found building defects. While the Tri-City Herald investigated, the builder sued Kestin to compel him to sign. Next day, the Herald broke a series of stories supporting the veterans' charges...