White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-03-08

stores Its rule for physical examina-
ton Of food handlers in restaurants
and safes. The assistance of the Yak
ina city commission also may be
sought If the state board is not willing
to grant the request.
With 1--WE Want to Eat" as their
informal motto, IS service station
operators of Longview and Kelso met
last week and formed a temporary or
ganization looking to maintaining a
uniform retail price for gasoline, not
only during the present producers
gasoline war, but permanently.
w. H. Baldridge, receiver, declares
that first payments of claims on the
defunct Exchange National bank of
Spokane will be made. A first pay
ment of 60 per cent is to be made by
the Old National bank and Union
Trust company, which purchased 60
per cent of Exchange assets on dol
lar for dollar basis.
o. Stoehr of Beaseley & Stoehr COM
pany, engineers, is experimenting the
work in surveying and relocating sec
tions of the Bloughton flume which
were destroyed by heavy snow. This
flume extends from the Bloughton mill
at Willard to the Columbia river at
Hood, distance of about IL miles.
A large crew is employed in repairing
it.
Postmaster Ira G. Allen of Pullman
has been appointed custodian of the
federal property at Alder and Paradise
streets by the treasury department
and has been instructed to see that
the property is cleared Of buildings
and debris removed within go days.
The lots were recently purchased as a
site for the new federal building, to
cost $19,5O0.
Centralias dream of a municipality
owned hydro-electric plant was start
GU vi tuc 1Oelu W ACdAlAdIlOA az q oPO'
cial election last week, when rev.
enue bond issue of s650,O00 for con.
struction of such plant on the Mis-
qually river near Yelm was approved
by vote of 1850 to 1888. The bond
issue carried in every one of the IA
voting precincts. f.
The house has passed a bill to au.
thorize acceptance of land in Benton
and Walla Walla counties, Washing
ton, for inclusion in the Columbia bird
refuge. The bill now goes to the pres
ident. The Northern Pacific railway
has already executed deeds transfer
ring the land to the government, and
the act as passed would permit the
secretary of agriculture to accept
them.
Because of the decrease in the as
sessed valuation of property in the
district due to the closing of logging
camps, Yacolt high school will be
closed permanently at the end Of the
present school year. The school was
opened about Is years ago and has
rated high in athletics and scholar
ship, but this year there are less thai
20 students, with only one teacher
Four teachers are the minimum fol
an accredited high school.
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Motorists are advised by the state
district engineer to avoid travelling
over the North Bank highway, if pos
sible, until the roadbed, which was
softened by the thaw, has settled. The
highway is closed at Beacon Rock un
til plank can be laid on a stretch 25t
feet in length which is impossible
Dirt roads in Clark county are in The
worst condition they have been in fo
years and travel to remote districts il
limited to the lightest vehicles.
The two shipments Of infant oyster
ordered from Japan will arrive thi
month, according to word received II
Aberdeen. They are to be planted il
| beds of the Bay Point farms nea
/ Tokeland, OH the north arm of Villa
| pa harbor. The first shipment viii
arrive March II on the President Mad
ison, and will be trucked from Seatti.
to Tokeland. The second shipment o
ten truck loads will be taken to Toxic
land March 25. In all about 8,500,00
oysters will be planted this spring
under supervision of DR.. Trevor Kin
caid, shellfish expert of the Universit.
of Washington.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy
ed the plant Of the Yakima Fruit {
Cold Storage company at Buena, /
miles south of Yakima. The loss O
100000 was insured, as were 1900
boxes of apples stored in the ware
house by 40 growers. Volunteers from
the Toppenish fire department, un
able to save the Yakima company
plant, worked until late in the nigh
to prevent the flames from spreading
Chief Harry Hawkins of the Yakim
fire department said that the Buen
fire brought the loss of Yakima vale
green fruit storages outside of the cit
Of Yakima by fire during the las
three years to $1,32O,OOO. Owners O
the. Buena plant announced that the
would rebuild at once.
The Colfax State bank was close
recently and it's cashier, r. f. Bige
low, was in Jail charged with peculs