Throwback Thursday | THE BAINBRIDGE BLAB

Published 3:13 pm Thursday, November 19, 2015

It’s Thursday, and time to step into the WABAC Machine for a look at Bainbridge via the Thursday, Oct. 21, 1948 issue.

Front page

State Plans No Ferry For Eagledale

Eagledale will be eliminated as a stop on the Seattle-Winslow ferry run, when the state-owned Puget Sound ferry system is established, the State Toll Bridge Authority disclosed in Olympia Tuesday.

Details of the state’s plans for going into the ferry business were outlined for the authority in a report by the W.C. Gilman Company, a New York engineering firm, proposing rates and routes.

Under the recommended rates, passenger fare between Seattle and Winslow will be 50 cents in 1949 and 1950, and 45 cents in 1951. The 1951 figure represents a 25 percent decrease from the present rate of 60 cents, or an increase of 29 percent over the 1938 fare of 35 cents.

Automobile and driver recommended rates for 1949-50 will be $1.40, and for 1951, $1.30. The later figure is a decrease of 16 percent from the present rate of $1.55, and an increase of 30 percent over the 1938 fare of $1.00.

Who Done It?

Mayor’s Mix-up In Coat Trade

Men’s fashions feature the “bold” look this season but Eric Pousard, Winslow, complained that his new topcoat had the “old” look after last Saturday’s St. Cecelia Guild dinner part at Winslow town hall. Reason: Mr. Pousard’s coat, a purchase of this month, was missing as the guests departed so he had to go home in an older coat, albeit one of similar color and texture.

But the mystery was solved early this week when Winslow’s Mayor Herb Allen realized that he’d made an inadvertent exchange at the party. Mayor Allen returned Mr. Pousard’s topcoat and recovered his own, with the nicest kind of apologies.

Opinion

Firemen Prove Themselves

Recently, there has been much discussion about a proposal to invest more money in three costly fire trucks which would be garaged in communities away from Winslow, the present location of the fire district equipment.

The Review has yet to determine for itself whether this is a solid idea worth all the money. But, once again, we have seen it demonstrated that the fire district does not lack for courageous and capable firemen. The way our fire lads battled that dangerous conflagration at the Winslow shipyard the other evening is just one more notation to be written into the golden book of bravery and human competence being complied by the Bainbridge Island Volunteer Fire Department.

The equipment may need renewal or expansion; but there’s nothing wrong with the firemen.

Reviewing the News with Walt Woodward

Sheriff…I wish Pete Henderson would come around and let a Bainbridger take a look at him, for I hear he is well-respected. But I know Dean Jones and believe he would be a good sheriff. A vote, then, for Dean Jones.

President and Vice-President of the United States…Alben Barkley wouldn’t make a bad vice-president but that’s about all I can see among all the opponents that Tom Dewey and Earl Warren have. So here is as big and black an “X” as I can make for Dewey and Warren.

Spartan ‘Teen Talk

Donnie Anderson is the invalid of the week. He broke his leg during football turnout and is now “resting” at home.

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Highlight of last week’s junior mixer, “The Schmoo Shindig,” was Valerie LeBlanc’s hilarious impersonation of Betty Hutton, during intermission. Valerie plays a Hutton record and accompanies it with characteristic contortions. May we add, no one that we can recall has received so much applause and so many encores at a mixer. New couples noticed: Arnie Amdal and Jeannie Griffiths, Norma Egaas and Jack Thomas.

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Johnny Johansen and Donnell McNulty are sporting neat looking blue and gold jackets nowadays!

Friday, October 22, and the following Monday saw a few junior and all the sophomore girls initiated into Girls’ Clubs. Mona Eikrem, who was in charge of the whole deal, really put the kids through their paces. Besides doing individual stunts, they all had to go without lipstick and with their hair in rag curlers on Monday.

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Spartan of the Week: Marlene Hilberg, A.S.B. secretary, Spartan Life assistant editor, Rainbow worthy associate advisor, and the blondest blonde in school, is a member of that up-and-coming junior class. She certainly doesn’t fit into that “dizzy blonde” category, either, being a second year member of Torch. And fellows — she loves to sew!