White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST,"
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Testing of dairy herds IN Walla
Walla county was resumed April !
after several months during which no
work has been done.
Eight Lewis county oranges have
entered baseball teams in the 1880
league and the opening games are
Ncheduled to be played Sunday, May 4.
County permanent highway funds
were increased by $1,S79,577 on April
1. The money represents the coun-
ties share Of receipts from last years
license and gas taxes.
Scholarship failures during the win
ter quarter resulted in the dismissal
of 566 students at the University OF
Washington. OF those suspended 4lS
we're men and 1853 women.
Announcement of plans for imme-
diate construction Of two-story $3O,'
600 apartment building in Yakima was
announced by B. L. Mitchell. 1t will
be of hollow tile and brick faced.
To escape the handicap OF high
winds Mrs. A. J. Splawn Of Cowiche
has equipped her orchard spraying
apparatus with spotlights and is nav
ing the orchards sprayed at night.
Hop acreage in the Mckee valley,
heaviest producer in the Yakima dis
trict, has been reduced Is per cent.
Some growers have pulled all their
vines, while others have kept part.
Eight Yakima valley dairy product
distributors have joined the Washing
ton Dairy Products bureau and pledged
financial aid to an advertising cam
paign to increase the states dairy out
put.
Marriage licenses issued at Van
couver since January totaled 524,
compared with 5O4 for the same
period last year. The total for March
was 100, compared with 1872 for March,
1929.
William Hackett OF Kelso Is In
serious condition from burns sustain
ed several days ago when his clothing
ignited from camp fire on the ka-
lama river while he was asleep beside
the fire.
About 100000 acres Of land, or prac-
tically all of the north half of Walla
Walla county, has been set aside as
game refuge by the county game COM
mission in it's effort to bring back
the wild geese.
Charles Franzen, 81, section fore.
man for the Union Pacific at Star
buck, dropped dead recently and the
body was brought to Walla Walla for
burial. He came to the Walla Walla
section 43 years ago.
Secretary of State Hinkle has re-
fused to file the proposed reapportion.
ment initiative measure for a ballot
title The supreme court will be
asked for a writ of mandamus to COM
pei him to accept the measure.
Seventeen hundred and fifty dollars
was poured into the Golfers of Grays
Harbor county and Aberdeen few
DAYS ago because of the liquor-making
operations of Anton Lehtinen and M.
O. Dinovich in the Wishkah valley.
Reseeding work in Walla Walla
county was finished last week. Some
of the wheat seeded this spring has
come through the ground. Buds are
swelling on all of the fruit trees in
the valley, and soon will be in bloom
Farm property is moving in Clark
county, real estate dealers say, and
the demand for small tracts is increas
ing. Many inquiries are being receiv
ed from outside points and real back
to the farm movement is in progress
In an address to the Walla Walla
1 Chamber of Commerce, Governor
Hartley, speaking of the inequalities
in the administration of the laws, de
clared that those who cash bad checks
should go to prison along with the
forger.