White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-06-08


and will make a much heavier straw
berry yield than anticipated.
Nearly every school in Clark coun-
ty was closed for the vacation period
last week. A few which started late
will continue this week. With few
exceptions the same teachers have
been engaged for next year.
Seattle high school teachers lost
their fight in the supreme court to
bar the Seattle school board from
compelling all teachers to sign pledges
of non-affiliation with the American
Federation of Labor. The court de-
MED a writ Of supersedeas asked by
the teachers.
A federal employment office will be
opened in Wenatchee about June IT,
In the last few days laborers have
called at the chamber of commerce
relative to employment office informa.
ton and work in the district. Last
season about 5000 persons we're plac.
ed over the district.
Walla Walla high school ranked
second among the junior schools in
the ninth corps area during the recent
inspection of units, according to word
received by Colonel Jesse M. Holmes,
military instructor. It is one of the
seven honor schools in the division,
according to the communication.
The city Of Chehalis was menaced
by an explosion last week when a
truck owned by the West Coast Pow.
er company of Everett and loaded with
a case of caps and 12O cases of dyna.
mite caught fire. The fire depart.
ment made quick run and subdued
the blaze in time to prevent an ex.
Operation of the Olympia Chair com.
pany factory, formerly Vans Hardwood
mills, five miles south Of Olympia on
the Yelm road, started last week. The
new mill has been remodeled at cost
Of $4,000. The new concern, when
fully organized, will produce 1000
chairs day. Between 80 and SO men
will be employed.
The present high stage Of water in
the Columbia river Is a distinct ad-
vantage to the crops within the Wood
land bikes. All are abundantly sub
irrigated and promise an unusual har-
vest. The peppermint fields have pro-
fitted Immensely from the warm
weather and the yield to the acre will
be far above normal this season.
Members of the Yakima Valley Traf-
fic and Credit association, at their
weekly meeting, voted to apply .O1
maximum spray residue tolerance to
all Yakima fruit shipped to England
and Europe. Spokesman for the ship
pers explained that experience last
year with removal of spray residue
convinced them that the OF limit was
practicable.
The goth annual convention Of the
Washington branch Of the United Ma
tional Association of Postoffice Clerks
closed at Olympia last week with E.
S. Pursell, Bremerton, reelected presi-
dent; Mrs. Dele Surrelli, Bellingham,
first vice president; Fred Cook, Leav-
enworth, second vice president; Mrs.
Maude Pierce, Mount Vernon, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Longview school won the first prize
in the grade school division of con
test held during American forest week
with an essay by Junior e. Fletcher,
according to an announcement by
George G. Joy, state forest supervisor.
The award was 500. Tekoa high won
first prize Of 5000 in the high school
division with an essay by H. Clyde
Law. Laconner Union high wea sec
ond. st. Patricks school, Tacoma,
won second place in the grade school
contest.
Approximately 200 feet of the trestle
approach to the Kennewick-P asco high
way toll bridge and also a portion
of the Union Pacific railroad bridge
over the Columbia river at Kenne-
wick went out last week under pres
sure of tons of accumulated drift fore
ed against the structures by the high
water. The Columbia is at the highest
stage recorded in 20 years and it was
estimated that the drift jam forced
against the bridge and trestle piers
weighed close to 1000 tons.
With receipts for May reaching
$250,917, total motor vehicle license
collections for the year equaled $5,SS4,-
2S5, being S373,110 in excess of the
same period last year. According to
Charles w. Hinton, assistant state
treasurer, the total license collection
to date lacks only s198,552 of equaling
the total collections of 1927. King
county shows total of $1,727,21O;
Pierce, S593,S1S; Spokane, $552,195;
$216,007; Snohomish, 1884,
1853; Skagit, $12S,41S; Clark, SLICE, 463;
Cowlitz, $103,737; Grays Harbor, $685.
706; Lewis, $164,979, and Thurston,
S131,S92
Two state highway contracts were
let last week, one on the Rainier Ma
.iOnal Park highway and tho otbar ~,