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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1960-12 Hazelnut Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 3T E. HAZEL \UT Vol.. Il.-Issue.3 December 1'950 / LCritz.,k .Many thanks to ,ell of you who have sent your donations to the HAZELNUT to help with the cost of publication. • ' A special thank you this past month goes to: : Mr. and Mrs. Al Dowsing, Mr. -and Mrs. L.Chance ar3. Mr. and Mrs. S. Storey. We are always pleased to hear from interested parties who would. •like to -receive the HAZELNUT Our Address is: THE HAZELNUT Box 75, Tukwila, Washington 0 Tb.e next regular meeting of the Tukwila Community Club will'be on December 13th at 8:00 P.M.' Our Community Club Christmas party for Club -members will be helden December 11, at 3;00 F.M. This will bea potluck supper. The entertainment committee of the Community Club . wishes to thank all of you who helped to make our, Bazaar -Carnival a - success. The winning number for the toy motorcycle is 14498. If the holder of this ticket will con- tact Airs. Hopper at Ch.2-8393' the motorcycle will be delivered. re_ rv\. z. \ a s Tukwila Firemaids will have their Christmas Party on Dec. 6; at 8:00 P.M. at the Fire_ Hall. o c a l� d r r e 1 On December 18th the Firemaids will raffle off a food barrel at the Childrens' Cnristmas party to be held at the Fire Hall. Tickets are on sale now - may be obtained from any .of the, firemaids or at the Fire Hall the day of the draw. ing. . They are 10¢ each or 3 for 250. The proceeds will go to the Firemen for a range for the Fire - Hall A DVISORY cOUNcI L The -next advisory Council meet- ingwill be on January 24th. 8:00 R.M. in the Town Hall. • EVERYONE IS URGED TO ATTEND HEY IKIDS! 3ANTAS COMING TO TOWN Tue Firemen'a annual Christmas Party for the children of Tukwila will.be held at'the Tukwila Fire H..11, 147th and 59th Ave. So. on Sunday, December 18th. At 1:30 P.M. Santa Claus will arrive by Fire Truck with Red Lights Flashing - Sirens and Bells Clangin'. All parents are urged to be early so the children won't miss Santa's arrival. Candy and oranges for the kids and coffee and donuts for Mom and Pop. Don't forget your camera for some fine shots of the kids rid- ing on the fire truck and sitting on Santa's knee. rZ ,;ii,mR BE EARLY Sunday December 18th, 1:30 P.M. The Fire Department wishes to re- mind all home owners to be espec- ially careful of fire during the holiday season. Dry Chriatn s Trees are a hazard so be sure to place your tree in a container of water to keep it fresh. 1072 �D•"L(i?ZC�� Excerpts from the Town Council Meeting Minutes for the month of November. The regular meeting of the Tuk- wila Town Council was called to order by the Mayor, Charles 0. Baker, at 8:00 P.M. Councilmen present were Stan Minkler, H.G. Radford, E.W. Ives, R.K.Doyle and Jerry Hamilton. Mayor Baker read a letter from Redmond officials regarding the desirability of coordinating in- ' dustrial development in this area. Mayor Baker and John Strander, Chairman of Tukwila Planning Com- mission,. were invited to share their experience' in organizing the Valley Industrial Commission.. Mr. Linkler reported7 building permits issued in October, with a valuation of ;32,000.00 Mr. Drew gave a brief report on district Schools. (cont. pg.2,col.2) • VERY CHRIST\IAS asp page 2 THE HAZELNUT Published monthly by the Commun- ication Committee of the Citizens :advisory Council. Supported by donations from inter ested residents and friends of Tukwila. Chairman Staff Pat Hopper Virginia Reed Cathrine Pipal Mary Popejoy Dorothi Drew Barbara Langdon VAL-L EY; INDUSTRIAL C OMMI S5I ON By: Mayor Charles 0. Baker Our group held their regular meeting on November 28th at the Renton City H_11. We were very fortunate to have as our Guest Seeaker Mr. L.J. H..ze, Investment Chief of the Small Business Admin- istration. He was invited to talk before the Commission to alert them to the SBA and its ab- ility and willingness to assist small business. Loans granted range from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of doll- ars to small. qualified business. Any business man, interested in obtaining this type of business loan, should contact Mr. Haze for complete details. The remainder of our meeting was taken up in discussion of Volley drainage, flood control ani highway development. Aside from the Valley Industrial Commission an event did occur that should be of interest to the residents of our town. During the past thirty days the Council and Planning Commission recieved a request from the Western Pro- cessing Company of Seattle to re- locate in Tukwila. A committee 'from the Council and Planning Commission was appointed to in- vestigate the type of ,operation carried on by this Company. This Company processes and dries yeast also processes blood for fertil- izer. It was also the intention of the owner to include the pro- cessing of. zinc oxide in their operation if permitted to move into Tukwila. Our group found that, during operation, odors were created, somewhat similar to fumes from a pulp mill operation, only less in- tense.(cont. pg.2. co1.2) (council -cont. from pg.l) Mayor Baker reactivated the com- mittee which will investigate pos- sible sites fbr a Town Hall and an additional Fire Station. This committee is headed by Stan 1 ink- _ ler. Mayor Baker reviewed an apt'.li.c- ation for a business firm for a possible location in Tukwila. Since the company in question elms a problem of an offensive odor it was decided to consult the State Department of Health. Mr. Zepp reported ai F lco d ConL,.ol needs. Meeting recessed. Recessed meeting called to order on Nov. 16th. Earle F'ar1 er, Town Marshal re- ported on the accident in:which the Police car was wrecked and Tor. Swanson injured. Council request- ed Mr. Parker negotiate with the Insurance Company for a settle- ment on .;2600,00. Mr. Doyle moved the town adver- tise for bids fora new Police car, bids to be opened on Dec. 5, 1960 at 8:00 P.M. Mr. Zepp reported the County Engineers are at work on flood control work along the ricer. The condition of the exeavated hillside adjacent to 162nd. St. was discussed at some length. Meeting adjourned. (Industrial cont. from 001.1) The group then made a survey of neighboring business establish- ments and homes. They found con- siderable ' objection to odors caused by this Company's oper- ation. The owner was of the opinion that with additional water scrub- bing of fumes his operation would not be offensive in the community We called upon the clashirigton State Health Department to give us their opinion our the ability of the owner to eliminate the ob- jectionable fumes. It • was their .opinion that to eliminate the fumes would be far too costly and could not be justified in this type of business. The request from this Company was denied on November 16,1960. We will at all times strive to bring diversified industry into our town but it isnot our intent to permit the less desirable.in- dustries to locate here.' We, know they would be offensive to our people and also tend to blight much of our Valley land for high- er classified types of industry. The FOSTER TUKdILA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH will have their Christmas program on Sunday evening, Dec.18. page 3 Valley Industrial Commission Report No.1 October 1960 THE PUSH FOR MORE PAYROLLS by John B. Strander Chairman The Valley Industrial Commission was created during the slimmer of 1959 by Mayor Charles 0. Baker, Tukwila, for the purpose of stimulat- ing the deui.opent of new payrolls in the Green River valley. Mayor Faker conceived the thought that the individual governments of Renton Kent, Auburn, and Tukwila should co-operate together to get this tre- mendous project underway. At no time was there any attempt or feel- ing towards destroying or circumventing home rule. The work of the Commission must not be diluted; we are joined to- gether for one purpose only; and that is to establish as many new jobs in our valley as possible. The Commission consists of six appointed members from each of the four municipalities. These six have each caucused and elected from their own ranks two members to comprise the Board of Directors. THE 'GRID" Taken together in a natural geographic entity the entire potential industrial area can be considered a "district", such as Central Manu- facturing in Los Angeles, Clearing Industrial in Chicago, Fairfax in Kansas City, or Calvert City in Kentucky. Ours, then, becomes the Green River Industrial District. This name is significant in that its initials spell "GRID", and like a true grid consisting of a series of steel bars, each interlac- ing with the others, so do our four municipalities combine to form what will be Washington State's number one industrial development. The name can also be prophetic, I know of no other place in the nation where four similar neighboring cities have gone together vol- untarily for such an important project. Tukwila', Renton, Kent, and Auburn, each an individual with home rule, will through our acmmission interlace their planning, their pro- motion, and their resulting pride of accomplishment. Nothing will be subtracted from each municipality's home spirit and sense of compet- ition -- only benefits will be added in the form of greatly expanded. payrolls and tax bases. THE NE. D3 OF OUR STATE Seattle's Mayor Gordon Si Clinton, in his report to the citizens of February 15, 1957 entitled "Seattle's Industrial Future -- Drift of Direction", called attention to both our insufficient industrial development as well as our need for greater diversification. Said the Mayor's committee: "Increasingly the city is beloming a one -in- dustry town. Apart from the aircraft manufacturing industry we are experiencing insufficient industrial growth to support even our nat- ural increase in population". This opinion is borne out in reports put out by the Employment Security Department of the State of Washington. For example in their 1959 report on the labor force in the Seattle area (King and Snohomish Counties) it points out the area has 120,2.00 jobs available in manu- facturing. Of this total 66,200 (over half) are in the aircraft in- dustry. A similar chart shows the state as a whole to have 223,900 jobs available in manufacturing. Of this total 67,000 are in aircraft and another 45,600 are in lumber and wood products. These two classificlr ions make up a little over one-half the total jobs mailable in manu- facturing in our state. A lack of diversification results, according to Edwin Beachler of the Pittsburgh Press, in a "boom or bust" industrial area. A proper balance -including everything from "toothpaste to tractors" is the ideal. In Cleveland, for example, no one industry shoulders more than one- fifth of the total production. quoting Mr. Beachler again: "machinery leads with 21'%, followed by primary metals 14%, transportation equip- ment 12%, fabricated metals 12%, paint -chemicals -petroleum 10%, elect- rical machinery 8.5%, printing -publishing 5%, food products 5A, and others 7A. Furthermore the largest single employer in the area (Gen- eral Motors) has only 7% of the total industrial employment. (L0,,r.) page 4 This healthy balance provides a "cushion against recession" according to Mr. Louis B. Seltzer, Scripps -Howard Cleveland Press. Baltimore is another example of-diversrf catiion: Transportation equipment 19%, primary metals 18%, food products 11%, apparel products Q%, fabricated metals 8%, chemicals 5%, and others 9%. WE MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO SILL To sum up the situation we must have "sites, zoning, and promotion" We must have something to sell to the people who are to provide our new payrolls if we are to expect. them to invest in our district, The first is information about ourselves --our state. Fortunately the re- search has already been done to a large extent. I call your attention to three excellent reports: "NAUD L OF F.CTS FOR INDUSTRII.L DEVnOPMENT, KING COUNTY,WASHINGTON" by :Arthur D. Little, Inc. sponsored by Puget Sound Power & Light Company "HANDBOOK FOR THE SEsTTLE-FUGET SOUND AREA AND THE PACIFIC NORTU-: JEST" by the Seattle Area Industrial Council ".i 3HINGTON. STATE INDUSTRIAL ILNDBOOK" by the ;Jaahin`ton State Dep- artment of Commerce and Eeonomie..Developme:-:t Above and beyond these survey reports we ne:; i a grass roots study in depth about our own "4 -city GRID''. de need to k;i oat specifics tib')at ordinances, attitudes, traffic bottlenecks, acre -b; --eo.e zo,.1iL,:, all the thousand -and -one minute facts a potential industry wusL,s be- fore "signing the papers". We must know what is good about our state and our region: about our low power rates, -good schools, ample water, Port of Seattle, recreat- ion, etc. etc. Also, we must know about all existing facilities, in our district, which are not now being used to full capacity. An example is the Auburn Depot consisting of 600 acres and 3 million square feet of ware- house space. Each municipality should'provide the Commission with as complete a record of immediately available facilities as possible. THE JOB TO BE DONE I would like to"break this -up into three major phases: (1) Fitting the land to encourage more payrolls, (2) Attitude, and (3) promotion. Under the first of these broad phases, which is fitting the land to its best use, we can list the following specifics as a start: a. Zoning. I think we should have someone draft a base map of our distrit-= 'ie GRID. It should cover the area from the southerly lime of Auburn to the northerly limits of Renton and Tukwila. On this map we should draw a heavy black line outlining the entire potential in» dustrial area. We should ignore the surrounding hill portion, which will probably develop residentially. Next we should acquire current zoning maps from each of the four municipalities and transfer the zon- ing to our overall map -- especially the potential industrial district.. We should color the general classes of zoning as follows: heavy indus- try, blue; light industry and industrial parks, green; commercial, yellow; apartment and multiple housing, orange; single residence,red. It will immediately become clear where work needs to be done. b. Drainage Program. This is one of the major problems, it was brought to my attention by our Vice -President, I•.::c, jacc2:: Thompson, After the flooding of the Green-Duwamish River '11..:3 ,Jaau controlled. the Howard Hanson Dam, the local ponding must L_._ taken care c,f, Bork is now progressing on a co-operative basis ::e`twe n all."govern- ments involved. c. Roads. Continual work must be carried on to even keep up vats the burgeoning automobile and truck load our local highway system is expected to carry. This is also a controversial question -- full of politics. Regardless of how you approach the problem it still remains that King County is the leading industrial county in the state -- here is where the jobs are now located and where they will continue to grow. Yet the people who work in the factories cannot get around with- out ensnaring themselves in an almost continual traffic jam. Jack Thompson also brought this problem to our attention as one of our most pressing. d. Railroads, Truck Lines, Air Transportation. All of these forms of transportation need a continual streamlining and increased effic- iency. The owners are as interested in.doing the very best job they can as are the members of the Commission in having it done. We should work with each and help each in every way they request. (col ) page 5 e. Utilities. Electric power, sewers, gas and water mains. These againmus-• t Te honeycombed throughout • the district as soon as demand warrants. de must stand ready to help whenever we are asked. ATTITUDE The second major phase is attitude. There's no doubt but that each of our four Mayors and their Councils are highly desirous of gaining new payrolls for their respective municipalities. The same desire is shared by a great majority of the citizens. Very few people can be against having new jobs added to their area. Sometimes, however, there may be an unconscious stumbling block --:such as a traditional attitude, or a local situation which may be holding back development. None comes to mind at present. I think it perfectly within the bounds of this Commission to foster a general positive feeling, wherever possible, towards the rapid dev- elopment of our district through private taxpaying enterprise. PROMOTION The last of the major phases is promotion. One of the specifics under this heading was brought out by Mr. Jerry Zubrod of the Renton Chronicle. He said we should strive towards better comrunicatioinss be- tween the four municipalities. If each knows what the other three are doing at all times towards attracting new payrolls the result. wi11 be less duplication, a better exchange of ideas, and less suspicion. This is a wonderful suggestion on which we should get started at once. We have to face the cold, bitter fact that our finances do not ex- tend much beyond paper and stamps. The situation is not likely to change within the foreseeable future. This is not a particular hand- icap. Here are some examples of how other districts pay for promotion.; In the Chicago area Commonwealth Edison Co. has been carrying on a heavy program of promotion for many years. (Estimated at 5500,000.00 per year) In Kansas City the Chamber of Commerce is the Sparkplug. In North Kansas City the "Dynamic Triangle" is promoted by private landowners. In Cleveland, the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., along with railroads, bankers, civic groups, public officials, and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce is doing the job. In Baltimore, the new 4200 acre Earley Neck development is promoted by the Baltimore Association of Commerce, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Co. In Newark, there is a combination of forces at work. both public and private, spearheaded by the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. In our own district we have the state public officials. the SIC, private land owners, railroads, and utilities doing the heavy promot- ion. Our job can be to produce and encourage the production of time- ly news stories about current happenings in our district as well as putting together more elaborate pictorial reports on rapidly moving "hot spots". An example is the Andover Development owned by Puget Sound Power & Light. They have just published a beautiful promotional folder on their own. Other private interests may come to ask us for help, both for advice on techniques of publicity as well as actual promotion. From among our members we should be prepared to render a competent service or be able to send the party to the proper source. EXISTING PAYROLLS Finally, we should leave the glamour of new creation long enough to set up a committee to help those industries expand who are already here. What can we do, as a Commission, to help an already going con- cern in our midst to provide additional payrolls for our citizens? Shall we set up personal interviews, or carefully composed question- aires, or perhaps something else? Jhat are these folks' problems, how can we help solve them? We cannot overlook the field of agribusiness. The day of the traditional farmer is coming to a close, at least in our valley. The new operator is as different as night is from day. He employs new • -techniques, new chemicals, new machinery --an entirely new concept. 70i Pi'y 4E 1// JL _4 -m\ ur-L) - TUK,NILA B_-ilTIST CHURCH ,Rev. Robert Baker Services are as follows Sunday School 9:45 A.M. Morning Service 11:00 A.M. Evening Servide 7:30 Sun. Eve. Young Peoples Meeting 6:30 Sun. Eve. Prayer Meeting 7:30 Thurs. Eve.' ST. THOMAS C.-,TH0 IC CHURCH Rev. Anthony Palmasani Sunday Masses 7:00 8:00 9:15 10:30 A.M. 5:30 P.M.' 'Weekday- Teats 7:30 A.M.Baptism, Sunday 12:30 P.M. FOSTER TTLIK-.1ILA PRESBYTERIAN N CHC, CH Rev. H.:rold Lang Sunday School 9:45 A.M. Church 11:00 A.M. 'Westminister Fellowship Sun. 6:00 F«. Vestrninister Fellowship Couue.±1' 7:00 P,11:. The 'Women's xssociatir.:u v:ili hold their annual Christmas pro- gram at 12 noon on Dec. 21st at the home of Mrs. Harold Lang. Mrs. Car -1- Ja e& -will give..-a--Ghristma-s- reading. Everyone welcome. The Lois Newton Circle and the Jessie Giboney Circle will meet together in the Churn,- Deo.13 th at 7:30 P.M.- - K.O.B.A. Circle will meet at the home of i.;rs. Clara Ives at noon on Dec. 7th. `K\ 0 9 \\.