It’s Throwback Thursday, and time to flip through past pages of the Bainbridge Review.
Today, a look at the Thursday, March 28, 1957 issue.
Page One
Alert Deputies
License Number Leads To Arrest Of 3 Few Hours after Store Looting
Burglary of Herron’s IGA Foodline, Winslow, was reported early Monday morning to Deputy Sheriff Kellie Roe by two soldiers employed as maintenance help by the grocery.
Mr. Roe called two off-Island sheriff’s officers, Sergt. Stan Brainerd and Deputy Kenneth Berg, to assist him. As the two officers were enroute to the scene they passed a car whose license they recorded because of the early hour.
The car was later identified as the one carrying three Bremerton men who this week were at the Port Orchard county jail for investigation in the burglary.
Mr. Roe reported most of the items including cigarettes, ham, cheese, coffee and beer had been recovered from a Bremerton hotel where the men lived.
Entry into the store was by way of The Village Pharmacy. The burglars broke the door window glass in the drug store and a pane of glass separating the drug store and the grocery. An attempt also was made to remove the safe in the IGA store, Mr. Roe said.
Theft of a watch valued at $45 also was reported this week by Robert Jewelers, Winslow, Mr. Robert reported the watch was taken from a display counter during the day on Monday.
Mr. Rose said several shop-lifting items from Winslow stores had been recovered this week and boys involved had been taken to the Port Orchard Juvenile Home.
Rocks Fly After Blast
A dynamite explosion, used in clearing Winslow Way property, showered rock and rubble for a distance of one-quarter mile and damaged at least two vehicles yesterday afternoon.
The clearing was being done on property, near the Fire Hall, owned by Pern Clifton, Winslow, and James Griffith, Seattle. One rock from the blast ricocheted off the Review Building, one-quarter mile away, and broke the windshield of a parked automobile owned by Art McConnaughey, a Review staff member.
Another car, in which two persons were sitting near the Fire Hall, suffered a broken windshield. The occupants, who included R. H. Liner, Bremerton, a State Patrol license examiner, were showered with glass but not hurt.
Harry Withington, Winslow realtor, said Blossom Brothers, Suquamish, was the firm doing the clearing. He said one portion of the cleared land was being prepared for a service station which would have access on both Olympic Way and Winslow Way.
Page Three
Herron’s IGA Foodliner Advertisement
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FRESH PRODUCE
California U.S. No. 1 medium size
ASPARAGUS 2 lbs. for 27¢
California fresh large green heads
ROMAINE 2/27¢
Good or Choice IGA TABLERITE, lb.
T-BONE STEAK ..89¢
SIRLOIN STEAK ..79¢
KELLOG’S CORN FLAKES
12-ounce Pkgs. 21¢
Toilet Tissue
SILK Rolls
4/29¢
Builders of Good Neighborliness and Prosperity for All Bainbridge Island
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Page Seven
The Open Forum
Editor, The Review
Your paper is always welcome, as a considerable segment of my heart is still beating on Bainbridge Island. A distant reader can easily sense whether the Island is progressing or retrogressing. I was glad to state that Bainbridge is always from center to circumference, on the uppity-up.
I am happy that the Washington Toll Bridge Authority has approved the building of the Hood Canal Bridge, and is now engaged in formulating the financial modus operandi.
The Hood Canal bridge, when built, will be the outer escutcheon of the future trans-Sound Bainbridge Bridge, the two together constituting the fulcrum for the shortest line of automobile transit between the North Olympic Peninsula and the business district of Seattle.
It is utterly inconceivable that the citadel State of Washington would commit the abysmal error, not to build the future trans-Sound Bridge at the only centripetal focus for this Bridge in Puget Sound, and that is the line between the Rolling Bay Promontory and the Magnolia Bluff.
WILLLICAM C. REICHERT Dayton, Ohio
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