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The Bellingham Herald from Bellingham, Washington • 7

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Bellingham Wash Herald Thursday Jan 23 1969 Requests for Changes in Zoning Map Deluge Planning Commission Second Spraying Now For Peach Curl Peach tree owners should apply a second spraying by mid-February to guard against peach leaf curl warned plant patrologist Arlen Davison of Western Washington Research and Extension Center in Puyallup Spray which should have first been used in December includes copper Cyprex ferban or zi-ram and is designed to keep the tree from weakening and fruit from falling before maturity Once buds open treatment is ineffective nating the rest of the property along Maplewood as residential medium and low density Members commented they see the need for extending the business zone as far as Alderwood Avenue as the council has changed the proposed map OTHER REQUESTS Ellis Massey reminded the council members present there have been requests to extend the business zoning elsewhere Member Gale Pfueller said if New requests for changes in the proposed zoning map deluged Bellingham Planning Commission last night But members had some long-standing ma-ters before them as well The commission voted to tell the city council it wants the proposed zoning out West Maplewood Avenue left as they presented it to the council last year: Limiting the neighborhood business zone to just past the Northwest Avenue West Mar plewood Intersection and desig Use of Vacated Streets Approved for Expansion Georgia-Pacific should be al-jgineers and will work closely lowed to use vacated streets in with the city on it and around its complex for its Magnusson said the street va- For Tho CLOTHES HORSE MEN'S SHOP Cornwall ft Magnolia the council were to prevail here would move later on to extend the other areas I can't see how you can turn down the rest of those people 9f The vote included going along with another council change in that area: Designating property along the east tide of Northwest Avenue from the neighborhood business zone all the way to McLeod Road as medium-density residential The planners went along with the council in changing the proposed zoning from residential to general commercial (GC) in an area from Holly to Ellsworth and from about the -creek to between I and streets ALMOST A GHETTO Council President Robert Hall explained the council felt the area is getting to be a ghetto-type" and the general character of the neighborhood has deteriorated Someone in the audience wondered if the GC designation would be any better than what is there now He said it is too bad the council and planners feel tiie area is far gone to be rehabilitated for If there is a need for apartment locations here is a place that needs to be rebuilt he said Chairman Carter Watson admitted: going to change anything People are going to make the changes based on The commission took no action on a request by Ray Break-ey to extend the general commercial zone all the way to Girard Street and at least a half block beyond ENOUGH FOR NOW Planning Director Victor Grim- with Interstate Highway 5 ROUTES PROPOSED routes have been linking Interstate 5 St with Chnckanut A hearing will be held Lecture Hall Department on the three the Highway Commission 6358800 for 1969-71 Tentative Highway on The State Highway sion today approved a route location for State I HO in Bellingham joining I Highway 11 (Chuckanut with Tntptfita ITidhivatr FOR HIGHWAY LINK Three proposed for State Highway Route 110 Freeway at Lindsay Ave and 32nd Drive at I2th St and Donovan Ave at 3:30 pm February II in Humanities 2 at WWSC by the State Highway routes To acquire right of way has asked the legislature for State Highway Dept map plaimed expansion the Bellingham Planning Commission says The company is asking vacation of portions of Myrtle Commercial and Laurel streets City Engineer Ed Henken suggested the commission hold up action on the request until the question of right-of-way needed for a future truck route along the waterfront is cleared up WORK WITH CITY Norval Magnusson manager el G-P chemical operations said the truck route affect the current vacation request but could affect another piece of property involving G-P He said the company has talked the route matter over with the en- Church Gets Okay to Build Off Meridian cations are needed for two reasons The company has to with as the state pollution control authority puts it to full utilization of its lignin byproducts which must be done in five years and this means something has to be done now And the company needs to bring in another source of wood supply and there room for anything else that simple" HAS A PLAN Company official Allan Evans said G-P would be to discuss it (the touck route) with anybody who has a But the company has a plan and a need for use of the vacated streets he said and is ready to pay for them The planners recommended the vacations to the city council with chairman Carter Wat-son a G-P employe abstaining Dr Alice Kibbe Dies Here at 87 Route for Linking Southside Okayed Comntis-jl15 miles of highway begins at tentative the intersection of Donovan Ave Highway and State Highway 11 (12th St) State It goes in an easterly direction Drive) through a rural area to Julia A ris i Avenue then along Julia to Interstate 5 Highway Director Charles Prahl said the new connector highway was planned In order to get traffic including a large number of trucks off the Bellingham city streets He said the tentative route for the con- The final location of the connecting highway will not be selected unti lafter a public hearing at 3 pm Feb 19 in the Humanities Lecture Hall at Western Washington State College according to Commission Chairman George Zahn Methow The tentative route for the 1 nerto h'ghway has been P- proved by the Bellingham city officials It will also serve the southside port area ex- completed including the cost of right-of-way land partial access control A 6358800 item has been requested from the current ses- MOUNT The Patrol reports no one was in- 'of some right-of-way in the bien-jured Wednesday evening injnium starting July 1 Prahl two accidents at the same lo- said cation Troopers said the two accidents at the intersection of the Anderson Road and Old Highway 99 just south of Mount Vernon happened within a minute of each other but apparently are not related A 1964 sportscar driven by Island Cable Repair Starts FRIDAY HARBOR Orcas Douglas Helde 25 Mount Power and Light Co divers to- Church of God congregation will be allowed to build i property between Meridian mid Peabody streets The planning commission last night granted a conditional use permit to construct a church building with seating for about 250 The building would face Meridian Street but planned off-street parking for 32 cars would be off Peabody The address would be In the 3200 block There was no neighborhood opposition The parting area is to be of surface The planners also getting no opposition at public hearings granted these conditional use permits: APARTMENT PLAN To Gale Bishop to construct a six-unit apartment at 2732 Maplewood Ave To Marvin A Benson to construct a duplex at 1316 Texas St at Pacific But the planners turned down San request far a conditional use permit to create a guest apartment in an existing garage on the rear of 617 14th St Hie request drew opposition from some neighbors but was also supported by others It is a nice looking garage but what it should be one neighbor said PLAT APPROVED The commission gave preliminary approval to Woodridge Plat south of Lakeway Drive between Michigan Street and Kenoyer Drive Director Victor Grim on said as good a solution as possible as to lot layout and street circulation has been worked out Same owners mi the west tide of the roughed-ln road called Michigan Street refuse to grant 30 feet of thier property to make a full 60-foot street there he said Dr Alice Kibbe 67 2119 Utter St died Tuesday She returned here four years ago after retiring as a professor of botany at Carthage ill College She was graduated from Bellingham Normal (WWSC) in 1905 and received her doctor of phiasophy degree from Cornell University in 1926 She was a member of the Methodist Church Survivors include a sister-in-law Mrs Pearl Kibbe of Bellingham and nieces and nephews The Rev William Swarbrick of Dixon IU will conduct services at 2 pm Friday at Elma United Methodist Church Burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery of Elma under direction of Jones Funeral Home Evans Plans TV Talks on Reform OLYMPIA (AP) Gov Dan Evans has scheduled statewide television appearances this week to discuss the tax reform proposal he will make to a joint legislative session Thursday The governor is expected to ask the Legislature for a singlerate income tax and other tax reforms Evans' half-hour televised report will be seen at 7:30 pm Thursday on KOMO Seattle KATU Portland Kima Yakima KEPR Tri-Cities KLEW Lewiston Idaho and at 10:30 pm Thursday on KTVW Tacoma It will be aired at 11:15 pm Thursday on KHQ Spokane The program will be repeated Sunday at 12:30 pm on KNDO Yakima and KNDU Tri-Cities and at 10:45 pm mi KTNT son pointed out about 27 square blocks are being designated GC which would allow used car lots to expand and the like and that is enough for now Among the new requests: Dewey Griffin and Import Motors are asking a total of about three acres at the southeast corner of the freeway and Meridian Street across from the country dub be designated general commercial The firms need to expand and locate near the freeway they said and claimed property owners there objecting Grimson said locating such uses near freeway interchanges is not good planning and creates bottlenecks HITTING COLD The commission shouldn't have to make a decision on this now Massey said hitting us The commission agreed with a contention by resident John Williams that an area on the north side of Eldridge Avenue should be residential low-density (RL-2) instead of medium density The council had changed a strip on the bay side of Eldridge to RL-2 The area involved would go to Monroe St and Elizabeth Street No action was taken on a request by Les Abshire and others to designate as central business district (CBD) 135 feet on both sides of Cornwall Avenue from Kentucky to just beyond Carolina Street Not Satisfied NEW YORK Since the start of a dial-a-poem promotion here another business with a similar telephone number has received scores of telephone calls One peeved switchboard operator after answering a number of calls from people wanting to hear the poem responded to a young caller: bah black sheep Have you any wool? yessir Three bags Then she hung up A moment later the young man called again and asked you do any better than that? Tomorrow every stick and stitch of merchandise that has been in our stock 6 months or moro is tagged at startling savings! EVERY table EVERY lamp EVERY chair EVERY dinette set EVERY mattress EVERY roll of carpet WHATEVER you need for your home you'll be sure to find it at a bargain price during Levin's famous January Clearance sale! Subject to prior sale Listed Are 30 Examples of the Hundreds of Bargains on Sale Throughout the Store! NOW Was Custom quilted loose-pillow back sofa 42995 19950 La-Z-Boy contemporary rocking recliner 18800 12950 Kroehler Queen-size sleep-or-lounge 33995 25950 Mediterranean dark oak 7495 6788 Ethan Allen solid cherry cocktail table 16450 13988 Spanish design 4-pc bedroom suite 29980 25900 Crushed velvet pillow-back chair 14995 9900 Solid oak night stand 6295 1988 La-Z-Boy Early American rocking recliner 19300 14950 Outline quilted sofa and matching loveseat 49995 39950 Spanish-style pecan cocktail table 7995 4988 Prestige contemporary sofa-100 nylon cover 32995 19988 5-pc bronzetone pedestal dinette 15995 11950 Broyhill Emphasis 12" walnut credenza 27995 19800 Kroehler Early American wing-back sofa 27995 19988 Thomasville 8-pc Italian Provincial dining suite 90000 69950 Kroehler contemporary high back chair 14995 8988 DuPont 501 embossed nylon carpeting 995 599 ft Custom quilted traditional style loveseat 19995 12900 Lane contemporary walnut cedar chest 7995 6988 Drexel Italian Provincial cocktail table 14900 11988 Nationally advertised queen-size mattress set 14995 8988 Drexel Italian Provincial bedroom set 69100 59950 Contemporary hanging lamp 2495 1788 Modern swivel long wearing cover 7995 6488 Howard Miller contemporary wall clock 4000 2988 Lane contemporary pecan cocktail table 7995 4988 Early American maple square commode 11995 4988 Wall plaque "Horsehead" 1950 988 Early American rocking loveseat 20995 16988 Vernon failed to stop for a stop sign but slid Mi ice into a fence Moderate damage is reported to the car The trailer of a truck-trailer-rig driven by Robert Brant-ner 42 Mount Vernon slid sideways because of ice on the road and struck a utility pole Minor damage is reported to the rig but damage to the pole is an estimated 6400- day were beginning to repair power cables that have reduced the power supply to San Juan Friday and Pearl islands Allen Thompson power use adviser said if weather is favorable the repairs could be completed in very few He said the line breaks have not been pinpointed but divers believe they know their approximate locations He said power output today was up to about 50 or 60 per cent of normal because of temporary wort done mi two lines but he asked users to conserve power as much as possible The difficulty occurred in two of the four cables which stretch from Lopez to San Juan One cable broke Dec 29 and the other Jan 20 reducing power to one-third capacity Three cables are needed to operate at full capacity CAR IMPOUND BILL OLYMPIA (UPI) If you woke up one morning and found a strange car parted on your property you would have the right to have it hauled away without being responsible for the towing charge under terms of a bill introduced today by Sens Walter Williams R-Seat-tle and Wes Uhlman D-Seattle th ndoSh In process 7725901 United State Gcwnn IIOIIL FEED ami SEED CO For An Fun ft Garden Needs 1322 Railroad Fbona 734-03M oWloationi OMIgattena of State and political aubdtvlaiona uodr Ofhar loan and dlieount I ank premiss furnfturo and fixtures and ettiiir tsats repreiantlng bank premia ifi Miiimp ire yi omilOl 122553215 55237557 70000000 10PI7II74 36412055 44I24J7 7571741 Raal a state owned other than bank premia Other uwte HEAD SKIS 1075414347 37070574 435720727 244954 A7 172245021 20434447 TOTAL ASSETS LIABILITIES Demand dapoalte of Individual partnership and corporation Tim and saving dsposits of individual partnarelilp wwBflfitlflflt Dapoalte of United States Govirnmwit II I I II Daposita of States and political subdivision Certified and officer1 check afc TOTAL DEPOSITS $775170541 53149533 (head! (a) Total demand daposita (b) Total time and saving tfsposH 441220727 Other llablllttt (Including 0 non mortgages and ether liens en bank premises and ofhar real estate) TOTAL LIABILITIES 17223370 SHOP FRIDAY NITE TIL 9 1014373732 35000000 CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Common total par value No share authorized 14400 No shares outstanding M005 Surplus 15000000 Undivided profits 51020417 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CONVENIENT CREDIT TERMS BAY HOLLY STS PHONE 733-8270 BELLINGHAM'S LARGEST SELECTION OF QUALjTY FURNITURE CARPETS AND DRAPERIES Includes All Head Skis In Stock! Franz SPECIALTY SKI SHOP "Bellingham's Only Professional Ski 214 Holly Phono 733-5888 Baker 41 FREE DELIVERY IN WHATCOM SKAGIT ISLAND COUNTIES TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS TOTAL LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS MEMORANDA Avars aa of total daposita far tha IS calendar day ending with call date W14M77JI Average of total loan far the IS calendar days ending with call date 514442273 I Katharine Johnson Assistant Cashier of tho aboyoiamad bank do soL omnly affirm that this report of condition la true and correct to tha bast of my knowledge and belief CwTaM-Attast Katharlna Johnson John Robarta Murray Hasktll A Yorkaten (Seal) Directors State of Washington County of Whatcom Sworn to and subscribed baton this 17th day at January 1747 and I hereby certify that I am not an officer or director of this bank My commission aspire August 25 1745 x-r- i.

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