White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-23
WASHINGTON news
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Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

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Our Readers.
Western Washington Baptists have
elected Rev. B. P. Richardson, Seattle,
at their 43d annual convention held
in Olympia.
Kelso will be host to the Washing
ton Airport association on the Fourth
of July, when that city's airport will
be dedicated.
At cost of $4,000 COLONIZATION and
filtration plant will probably be In
stalled by the Yakima city park board
at the Fourth street municipal pool.
Perfect attendance records in Wash.
ington public schools will hereafter
be given honorary recognition by the
state department of public instruc-
ton.
Washington's prison population at
Walla Walla was increased to 1177
recently with the arrival Of % men
and one woman from western Wash.
ington.
A new traffic ordinance has been
adopted by the Pullman city council
1t defines reckless driving, sets speed
limits and conforms with new state
highway regulations.
Reduction of it's interest rate from
~ to AZ per cent, effective May 15,
was announced by the Spokane Fed.
eral intermediate credit bank. This
Is new record low.
O. P. Dosland of the Grays river dis
trict, six miles southeast of Deep Riv
er, has the distinction of having the
highest producing herd of cows in
southwest Washington.
Railroad companies are to carry the
war against motor truck competition
into the Yakima valley and other ter.
ritories by slashing freight rates out
of Seattle and Tacoma.
When one Of the tires of his car
blew out as he was entering Elma,
M. M. Sullenger was thrown from the
careening machine and SO badly In
jured that he died few minutes later.
Stretching in Vancouver will cost
the same this year as last, $1.50 for
each 5O-foot front paid by property
owners, which is about half Of the
cost. The balance will be paid by the
city.
Sponsors of the initiative measure to
reapportion the state legislature an.
nounced that they have obtained ap.
proximately 10000 Of the $4,000 sigma
lures required to place the measure
upon the ballot. !.
o. d. Olson company, Chehalis, was
awarded the contract for building
Lewis county's second farm-to-market
highway, the Evaline-Pleasant valley
road. Length is Az miles. Contract
price was $4,000.
AL French of San Francisco, pilot
employed by the Standard Oil COM
pany, was killed at the airport in Pas.
co while stunning monoplane before
a crowd of some 200 persons gathered
at the Pasco field.
The Mutual Lumber company mill
Ar Bucoda, suffered a $4,000 loss by
fire when a blaze starting from de-
fective wiring under the floor Of the
main structure threatened the entire
million-dollar plant.
A tract of 800 acres near the limits
of Spokane will be purchased by the
health department for dumping
ground of incom bustible waste and
rubbish. The tract is deep canyon
surrounded by timber.
The municipality of Centralia cele.
brated it's 10th birthday recently as
an incorporated city. The community
became Incorporated May Is, 1890,
when d. T. Swasey, now of Raymond,
was named mayor. Charles H. Borst,
pioneer Of the district, was the first
superintendent of schools, and j. E.
Lease, member of the state tax advi-
sorry commission, was the first princi-
pal of the high school.