White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-10-04
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS Of INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The Pacific Fruit & Produce com.
pany has started work on a packing
house in Walla Walla and expects to
have it completed by October Is.
Shipments of 1929 Yakima fruit and
vegetables have amounted to 7016 car
loads SO far, Yakima valley traffic
and credit association report revealed.
The apple harvest in the Ephrata
region has begun. At the Schwab
commission packing house 80 persons
will be employed and approximately
$4,000 boxes will be packed.
Registration in Vancouver schools
has passed 1900 and will probably
reach $500 this year, DeGaris Reeves.
assistant superintendent, said. This
il about the same as last year.
Longview port commissioners have
awarded contract for the erection OF
q warehouse on the public port docks
to Kenneth T. Henderson, Longview
contractor, on his bid of $24,777.
A check for s1O,5 has been placed
In escrow in Kelso bank to be paid
the city of Kelso when details Of the
leasing Of the city park by the Stand.
ard OIL company have been completed.
Fifty-two drugless physicians from
King, Pierce, Whatcom, Skagit and
Snohomish counties launched move.
ment recently at Everett to form
Puget Sound Osteopathic association
Admiral Henry ]. Ziegmeier. COM
mandant of the Puget sound navy
yard and 18th naval district, left Bre-
merton recently for tour of inspec'
ton to radio stations In Washington
and Oregon.
About 20 pipes were torn from the
organ In the Congregational church
at Vancouver by burglar who gained
entrance by jimmying the back door,
Rev. F. w. Westwood, pastor, report
ed to police.
A raid on an innocent-appearing
chicken house near Port Angeles net.
ted Sheriff Jack Pike 100-gallon still
and two men. The chickens helped dis.
guise the plant and ate the mash run
through the still, the officers said.
Work has started on the new $75..
900 recreation hall at the United
States veterans hospital In Walla
Walla. The old hall was one of the
Oldest buildings on the fort reserva-
ton, and in soldier days was used as
a guardhouse.
Eight thousand refrigerator cars will
be needed by Yakima fruit shippers
during the next three months, l. l..
Plette, manager of the Yakima Traffic
and Credit Association, announced In
making an early bid for cars to prevent
Q shortage later.
The first snow of the season blank
eted Low Divide and the surrounding
peaks last week. Mountain meadows
were covered with thin coating Of
white and caused officials Of the
Olympic Chalet company to close the
chalet there Immediately.
With an increase of almost $1,000,
900 in the assessed valuation the state
board Of equalization has made q
slight cut in the state levy. The 1920
levy Of 11.O72 mills is .0307 low than
last year while the income is $S7,
953 greater, or $13,S73,785.
Rodeos and similar shows in which
animals are ridden, prodded- OF
thrown" will no longer be permitted
in Seattle. Complying with demand
from the humane society and the may
or, the council passed an ordinance
to bar all wild west" shows.
The Pacific Power & Light compan,
will start at once on an extension O
its power line from Bingen, mile
below White Salmon, to Lyle. The
company expects to complete the con
struction Of this 12-mile line within {
couple OF months at a probable cost o.
$4,000.