White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-13
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.


Postal receipts at Walla Walla fur
May showed total of $SS02.63, which
Is a gain of S373.52 over May last year.
Improvements and extension of the
Yakima county airport are urged, to
bring it within the federal classified,
ton.
Ground has been broken for the new
$4,000 Masonic temple at Hillyard.
II will be ready for occupancy by o.
tober l.
Gas fumes igniting in the engine
room of the Orondo ferry completely
| destroyed the $1,000 boat. Charles
Wood, ferryman, was badly burned.
The 18th annual two days salmon
celebration at Keller closed without
the report of single accident. Wild
West events entertained 1000 people.
BY vote of five to one the King
county Democratic club has adopted
resolutions that would provide for
state control Of prohibition enforce
ment.
Membership committees to further
the interests Of the Washington boxed
apple bureau will be formed in the
Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla
districts
Legal stumbling blocks that have de-
layed the development Of Centralia's
million-dollar hydro-electric develop
ment have been cleared away by the
supreme court of the state.
A two-foot cannon is again being
used by E. d. Deitch, Monitor fruit
grower, to kill the codling months in
Testing his orchard. Last year the
cannon proved effective, he says.
Suit for $15,19o has been filed at
Seattle against George w. Loveberry,
state legislator, whose parked auto
mobile rolled down hill and killed
Garfield A. Chaplin last February.
Slow drivers who block traffic on
state highways will be charged with
reckless driving If they refuse to
speed up when told to do so, under
recent ruling of the state traffic de-
partment.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company has applied to the Lewis
county commissioners for franchise
to construct and operate power lines
over ten county highways, all adjacent
to Centralia.
An unofficial apple contact commits.
sion as an alternative for the suggest
ed national apple marketing associa-
ton has been approved by the federal
farm board, according to information
received at Yakima.
Two and one half million dollars
has been paid to the farmers Of the
Inland Empire as loans advanced on
their wheat. There is in transit $780,
900 more, making total Of s3,250,000
advanced to growers.
William Rumholz, pilot, and his two
passengers, Wakefield Sewell and
Robert Harland, all Of Wenatchee,
were seriously injured when Rumholz
crashed into the side of chicken
house as he attempted to land.
G. w. Shumway, who retired few
days ago after IS years continuous
service as superintendent Of Vancou-
yer schools, was given an automobile,
the gift of school children, the faculty
and graduates of Vancouver schools.
F. d. Arnold, for many years Grays
Harbor resident, died at the age of
so. He was the first president of the
First National bank of Hoquiam,
position he held for many years, and
was one of the city's largest property
owners.
w. T. Fields, one of the Oldest en-
gineers on the Northern Pacific, is
dead at his home in Spokane. Deeply
religious, it was his custom to kneel
and pray in his cab before starting on
his run. He had been in the service
80 years.