It’s Throwback Thursday, and time once again to crack open the yellowing volumes of the Bainbridge Review for a peek at yesteryear’s news. Today’s look back is at the Friday, March 7, 1947 edition.
Front Page
FERRY MEETINGS ATTEMPT TO HALT STRIKE CALLED FOR FRI., MARCH 14
With the “exploratory” meetings under progress between a federal mediator, officials of the Black Ball Line, and the Marine Engineer’s Beneficial Association (C.I.O), some hopes of preventing a prospective ferry strike was evidenced this week. Harry H. Lewis, commissioner of the United States Conciliation Service called the first meeting in Seattle on Monday.
Ferry travel throughout the Puget Sound Lines of the Black Ball Company was halted last Friday for more than six hours when the engineers stopped work to hold a strike-vote meeting. Last ferry from Winslow at 11:20 on Friday morning and the last Seattle ferry leaving for the Island was the 11:30 departure.
Union members returned to work shortly after 6 o’clock that evening, after voting 60-6 to postpone any strike until 12:01 a.m. March 14, unless an agreement is reached before that time.
Many Island commuters stayed away from their jobs Friday morning, preferring to risk being marooned rather than staying in the city. Others were seen carrying suitcases with the intention of staying in town until ferry service was resumed.
Page Three
HERE FROM MINNESOTA
Mrs. Mary Olson of Oslo, Minnesota has arrived by plane to visit her daughters, Mrs. Henry Christie, Creosote and Mrs. Paul Nordberg, Eagledale. This is Mrs. Olson’s first trip to the West.
Open Forum
Editor, The Review
May I take exception to an article appearing in The Review a few weeks ago and written by you.
I purchased, several months ago, a home on West Blakely hill and moved here with my children. Quite contrary to your statement that people are unfriendly to newcomers, I have been whole-heartedly welcomed by my neighbors and by all the other fine people it has been my privilege to meet.
To my way of thinking the majority of the folks on this beautiful Island are “tops.” I have been made to feel I was a part of the community, and my children are benefiting from living here.
True, they do not have the advantages of Volunteer or Woodland Park, the fieldhouses or the fine libraries, but they are reaping a harvest of good things in clean, fresh air, friends, church and school.
Mrs. Dorothy J. Kline
Port Blakely, RFD, Wn.
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