White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-12-21


the health officer. DR.. w. H. Warner.
Out of the 1856 students enrolled in the
grades there are 40 who did not re-
port for school. while As of the $50
high school students are i'll.
A record crop of English walnuts
and filberts was produced in. Clark
county. Fred Brooker. buyer. esti.
mated the walnut crop at approximate
ly $50 tons and the filbert crop at Is
tons. The quality is good and grow
ers are realizing from 16 to Is cents,
depending on grade and quality.
A new rotary snow pillow and ten
ton caterpillar tractor with heavy
drag pillow will be available this year
in event Of snow blockade on the
North Bank highway, State District
Engineer Schwarz said, and this equip
ment will be sufficient to keep the
road clear unless the snowfall is extra
heavy.
The Ryan & Allen Lumber company
Of Stevenson is building new rail-
road to tap another timber belt. The
road will be constructed during the
winter If weather conditions permit.
| The logging camp has been shut down,
but the sawmill is still operating. as
the pond was filled with logs when
| the camp was closed.
Tim Collins, fisherman located at
Willow Grove, below Longview. es-
capped drowning in the Columbia river
recently when big freighter struck
his fishing boat a glancing blow. He
leaped to safety just before the boat
was struck and escaped injury The
boat suffered considerable damage, but
remained afloat and he swan back
to it,
A delegation from the Civic club ap-
peared before the Centralia city com.
mission and asked that a board OF
moving picture censors be appointed,
able films have been run by local
theaters recently. The request was
granted by the commission. the ap-
pointment Of board members to be
made later.
The Interstate Utilities company is
working crew Of men in Pullman.
moving lines in the district included
in the curb lighting system to the
alleys, clearing the streets of poles
and overhead fixtures. The work will
be rushed to completion. The Wash
ington Water Power company has
placed an order for poles necessary
and will probably start work soon.
Removal of the Westport lifesaving
station to location nearer the Grays
| harbor bar and establishment of an
auxiliary station on the north side of
the harbor entrance were asked re-
Gently by the Hoquiam chamber Of
commerce in connection with pro-
gram which the Washington coast aids
to navigation committee will endeavors
to get action on at this session of con-
gress.
Filling in of Boeing field the Sc
attic municipal airport, was in full
swing last week. The Puget Sound
Bridge & Dredging company, dredging
the Duwamish waterway under fed
eral contract, will run mud and silt
onto the airport until 100000 cubic
yards of earth have been spread over
the field. The fill will be the founda-
ton of one of the longest runways in
the country It will be $500 feet in
length.
Committeeman Of the auto club Of
Washington, meeting in Walla Walla,
favored changes in the laws of the
state as follows: A certificate of title
act, a registration requirement for
autos from outside the state, an adj
ditional cent gallon tax on gasoline,
a flat rate for auto licenses, provi-
sion so farmers can get halfyearly
licenses for trucks July l, and collect
ing taxes on autos when they are Ii
censed.
Wheat growers of Idaho and Wash
ington met in Spokane recently and
organized the Agricultural Surplus
Control league of the Pacific north.
west, which will work for peak prices
for their product next year. An exc.
cutive committee of the league, it was
voted, will be named from growers
and marketers in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, to determine means to
cooperate with farm board, which
proposed farm relief legislation by
congress would create.
Horses loose on the highway near
Harrah caused an automobile accident
recently which resulted in the death
Of two Indians, Johnnie Sam, aged 40,
and Louise Showaway, aged 8, while
Mrs. Showaway, the child's mother,
has injuries that may cause death.
1t is believed the steering apparatus
was crippled when the car hit the ami
mails The car careened for some dis
lance and crashed through the railing
of bridge over the Mud Lake drain:
age ditch.
A little red schoolhouse in Spokane
county was padlocked when father,
deciding to leave the county, took his