White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-07-17
Idaho News

| SANDPOINT-Lieut Nick B. Ma
mer of Spokane, has been appointed
forest fire patrol pilot for Eastern
| Western Montana He will be on the
job as soon as he brings the Liberty
motored De Haviland airplane from
San Diego, Cal. 1t is reported that
second airplane is to be put into serv-
| ice over the same territory early in
August. Official instructions are
that the National Guard hangers at
Spokane will be the field base for the
forest patrol plane
PRIEST RIVER-The Humbird and
the Dalkena Lumber companies sus-
tanned fire losses of upward of $4,000
recently. Believing the fires to be Of
incendiary origin the Beardmore
Lumber Company placed special
guards on it's property.
PULLMAN-Nine Western Wash
ington counties will be included in the
COW testing association tour which
will start in Whatcom County July
16 and end in Lewis County July %.
Arrangements for local stops to visit
various farms were made by the
county agent. Two speakers from the
State College will be on the program
each day. Don G. Magruder, extension
dairy specialist, and r. M. Turner, an
assistant director of the Extension
Service, will address local dairymen.
The schedule for counties as follows:
Whatcom, July 16; Skagit, July II;
Snohomish, July Is: Clallam, July 20;
King Snoqualmie Valley, July 81;
Enumclaw, July %; Pierce, July 23;
Thurston, July "a; Grays Harbor
July %; Lewis, Chehalis, July 81;
Messy Rock, July 20.
SANDPOINT.-B County tax
collections for the last half of 1924
amounted to $1S6,S53.74, according to
compilation announced at the audi
tors office. OF the above specified
amount the state will receive $23,-
453.3S and the county school districts
$62, 453.97 The city of Standpoint will
derive $17011.26 from the collections.
BOISE.-Settlers of the Boise irri-
cation project crowded the United
States reclamation service office here
last week to pay up delinquet drain
age charges. In recent ultimatum
Reclamation Commissioner Mead or
dered that delinquent charges be paid
or the water would be shut off, effec-
tive July 2.
BOISE.-The Idaho State Highway
Department has started advertising
for contractors bids for the new East
and West Highway, 9.6 miles from
Dover to the Oden schoolhouse near
Standpoint. The advertisement also
calls for bids for resurfacing on the
North and South Highway from Sand
point to Elmira.
MOSCOW.-Miss Elizabeth Red
field Of Boise has been elected state
commissioner of education The cleo
ton was held when the board met at
Moscow recently. Miss Redfield, who
has been acting as secretary of the
state board of education, assumed her
on July /.
BOISE.-Enforcem of the food
handlers law, enacted by the 1925
legislature, is getting under way in
several counties, 1t was announced by
DR.. d. w. Almond, medical director.
The director says there have been
practically no protests from persons
subject to it's provisions. The law re-
quires all persons handling food in
eating places, where meals are served
to transient guests, to be examined
and their health certified by physi-
clan. The diseases which the state
wants to guard the public against are
tuberculosis, typhoid fever and social
diseases. Examination of all food
handlers In Payette County has been
completed and about half of those in
Canyon County have been examined,
DR.. Almond said
BOISE.-F. A. Jeter, commissioner
OF law enforcement, will not give per-
mission for any speed, endurance or
any other kinds of tests on state high
ways, he announced I'm connection
with bulletin of the Idaho State Au-
tomobile Association. The bulletin
stated that road records, as to time,
endurance and other features, will not
be officially made and reported by the
association unless those participating
In the same first obtain perm mission
for such tests from the Idaho law en-
forcement department, II over state
highways, or from local authorities il
exclusively in cities. Mr. Jeter says
the highways were not built for the
establishment Of speed records be-
tween two points and that whenever
car Is driven over the highways at
an excessive rate Of speed, not only
the lives of its occupants are endan-
gered, but also the lives Of other mo-
florists.