Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-12-19

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Representatives OF several civic
bodies of Seattle have voted to unite
IN an effort to obtain from the Wash
,ngton Legislature next year an initia
appropriation OF 100000 for construc
ton Of second custodial schn0l rol
roebic.mlnded in western Washington
The better business bureau Of Walla
Walla adopted a resolution to deny
q permit TO solicitors for any school
or college annual in the valley, assert
ing thai 1t cost the merchants OF The
city $1,000 year to support the ten
publications in the Walla Walla val
ley.
Alaska was cut off from the outside
world by cable because Of break
in the Seattle.Sitka line and the Sc
attle-KetchIkan cable, 25 miles north
Of Seattle. Breaks in the cable be.
tween Ketchikan and Wrnngell and
Petersburg and Wrangel also were
reported.
State highways in the seven coun
ties of Klici,itat. Skamana, Clarke,
Cowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum and Lewis
are in good shape according to the dis
trict maintenance engineer, w. d
Keller He said the North Bank high.
way was in better shape than it haG
over beer.
The Wahkiakum county agents Of.
fice will be discontinued after Friday.
when Agent Fred Martin will end his
period of employment. The county
commissioners made no provision for
the office for 1925. Club work, nutri,
ton and drainage work will be carried
on through other agencies.
All graveled state highways lead.
ing out of Spokane, including the Pend
Oreille highway to Newport, the In
land Empire to Colville. the Inland
Empire south to Co)faX, Central Wash
ington toward Ritzvillo and Pasco
have been closed to heavy motor We.
hicle traffic on account of soft roads.
Surviving leaders of the 40,mill tax
limit movement, which was defeated
by the voters at the November elec.
ton, met in Seattle as statewide
committee, responding to the call OF
John +. Adams, president of the Sc
attic realty board, and adopted a pro
gram for continuance of their cam
paign.
Questionnaires have been mailed tc
1877 prune growers in Walla Walla
county to determine how they stand
on the matter OF prune driers. Grow.
ers are asked if they will agree to
permit deduction of not TO exceed
SO ton from the price of their fruit
to help finance driers whether or not
they dry their fruit.
A permanent log dump, 800 feet
long, at the E,aiA storage pond of the
Long-Bsll Lumber company's opera.
tons here, has been completed. Con.
struction OF the dump required $500
lineal feet Of piling and $4,000 feet
of lumber. One car can be dumped
every IS seconds and fourteen cars
can be handled at one time.
Announcement OF The appointment
of Walter y. WhitcomE a resident an,
attorney of Eeiiingham, as director OF
.he department of public works to sue,
ceed e. V. Kuykendall effective
December 16 was made by Governor
Hart. Mr.. kuykendall has been ap.
pointed Judge of the superior court
fer Asotin, Garfield and Columbia
counties.
Grays harbor has shipped practical.
iy 1000, 100000 fees Of timber by water
since January 1, 1924, according 10
figures compiled by the Grays HarboI
Stevedore company According to H.
NJ. Delanty, manager of he company
65 vessels carried 93,O75.9S3 feet o!
timber from the port in November,
making total OF 967,5S7,256 feet for
II months.
An appeal will be made TO the state
legislature at the January session fol
an appropriation for needed imNrayn.
ments at the state school for t!tl
at Vancouver. A new boys Gormi
tory is needed. The cost will aplrcxt
mate $4,000 fully equipped. A
modern heating plant and funds for
a state library for adult blind vii!
also be asked
Parents OF 20 boy and girl student.
of the Lincoln high school in Seattle
summarlly expelled for participatirg
in q dancing party where BOOTLEG
liquor was said to have been freely
consumed, vigorously protested the