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Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 15

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Demolished Town
The empty shell of the old Hanford High School is the largest remaining sign of the farm town of Hanford, WA., which was demolished along with White Bluffs to make way for nuclear weapons plants near the Columbia River fifty years ago March 6th. Hanford's name lives on as the moniker of the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation in southeastern Washington. Wartime urgency doomed the towns.
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Nuclear Power Plant--(Hanford Nuclear Reservation)(Hanford Atomic Energy Commission Reservation) - 14

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White Bluffs Then
An unidentified man stands before a gas station in White Bluffs, Washington in this early undated photo. Along with Hanford, White Bluffs was purchased and obliterated by the federal government in 1943 to make room for the Manhattan Projects' plutonium plants to develop the atomic bomb. The desert-line terrain was considered virtually worthless by project planners.

MAYOR -012

ca. 1993. Jack Hyde was elected mayor of Tacoma November 7, 1993. He died January 17, 1994, shortly after taking office. Dr. Hyde, a former city councilman, had been a professor at Tacoma Community College from the school's opening day in 1965. He had retired from teaching in December of 1993 to take on the $40,000 mayor's post. Dr. Hyde, a geologist, had served on the Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health, Pierce Transit board, Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, Tacoma Planning Commission and several other agencies. He had defeated incumbent mayor Karen Vialle with about 60% of the vote. Fellow councilman Harold Moss would be appointed mayor until the 1995 elections. ALBUM 16. (Seattle Times, 1-18-94, p. B-1; TNT 1-18-94, A-12)


Hyde, Jack; Mayors--Tacoma--1990-2000

Nativity House Charity - 5

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The Nativity House, a warm refuge for area homeless, is facing a possible shortage of private donations because of the weak economy. As a means of raising more money to fund the Nativity House, Director Bob Sieber, left, hopes to organize a Beggars banquet fundraiser for February. Next to Sieber, is Henry Prill, a Jesuit Brother from Poland who is spending six months working with Sieber as part of his Jesuit training. Sieber and Prill were passing out warm meals to over 100 homeless recently.
Dean J. Koepfler/Photo

Johnson Candy Co. Tacoma - 1

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Soundlife
90 year old Russell and his son Ron Johnson of the Johnson Candy Company at 924 South K. Street in Tacoma, WA. They are standing in their front display room of their store.
The father retired 5 years ago but still comes in on Saturday mornings to make Peanut Clusters when the demand is there, otherwise you can find him on the golf course.
Photo by Russ Carmack

Sohappy, David - 1

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DEAD AT 66--Yakima Indian fishing rights activist David Sohappy Senior stands on the bank of the Columbia River in front of an old fishing platform at Cooks Landing, Washington, in this November 1990 file photo. Sohappy died Monday at Hood River Care Center in Oregon. Sohappy had been in ill health since suffering a stroke in 1988.
Associated Press File Photo, 1990

Sohappy, David - 2

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WHITE SWAN, WASHINGTON -- SOHAPPY BURIED -- Mourners circle the grave of David Sohappy Sr. during his funeral service Thursday on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Sohappy, a well-known fishing rights activist, died on Monday.
Associated Press Photo

Tacoma--Historical Buildings and Sites - 11

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Kathy Farnett is restoring the $275,000. mansion of North E Street in Tacoma which will be open for tours by the Historical Society when she's done. Farnett finds that the paint is so old on the house that it sweeps right off.
Stallwood/Szymanski Feb. 15, 1991

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