White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-07

Mrs. Irving Edwins OF Chelan to San
Francisco to be treated for cancer by
the Coffey-Humber method.
The annual commercial clam dig
ging season on the Grays harbor
beaches opened at sunrise Sunday
morning. 1t will last three months.
Hundreds of clamdiggers are flocking
to the beaches, and the packers fear
that their very numbers will serve to
reduce the catch.
Running true to prediction prog
nostications at Seattle, Mayor Frank
Edwards outdistanced his two oppon.
ents, Otto A. Case and ex-Mayor Ed
win ]. Brown in the primary election
for the mayoralty nomination, polling
more votes than both the other can.
didates combined. :
Injuries week ago by Peter Peter.
son, Sunnyside rancher, when COW
knocked him down and trampled up
on his body, ended in his death at a
hospital In Sunnyside. Peterson did
not at first regard his injuries as ser.
ious until he consulted doctor three
days later. The doctor found internal
ruptures.
A contract has been let by officials
of the Washington Cooperative Egg
and Poultry association to Ed. v. Nc
Williams for erection of the associa,
tion's new warehouse. 1t will cost
around $4,000 and is to be completed
by June /. Humidors for storage OF
eggs awaiting shipment are to be a
feature Of the plant.
Otto Beusch, Lewis county game
warden, announced that, effective
March 1, all streams in the county will
be closed until April Is to fishing for
steelheads except the Cowlitz river,
which is open the year around. The
game warden also called attention to
the fact that new licenses for fishing
must be obtained March 1.
The fishing season in the Columbia
river closed February %, and no fish.
ing Of any kind will be permitted in
the Columbia river during March and
April, Ira Henderson, inspector for
the state fisheries department, an.
nounced. Not only commercial fish.
ing, but fishing with hook and line
Is forbidden this year, he says.
With records so near identical that
school officials had to figure averages
in hundredths, Mary and Fay Vincent,
twin daughters of Eber Vincent of
Sunnyside, have been selected valedic.
torian and salutatorian of the gradual
ing class of the Sunnyside high school.
Both averaged over SO per cent in
each Of their four school years.
Passenger and express service over
the Evergreen highway from Vancou
yer to White Salmon was started
March / by the Columbia Gorge Motor
Coach system, franchise for the ex.
tension of service having been grant
ed by the Washington state depart.
ment of public works. Two trips will
be made daily over the route.
The average cost of maintaining a
student in high school was $133.92 and
in elementary school sSS.23 during the
school year Of 192S-1929, according to
the report of L.. D. Burrus, statistician
of the department of education. Ska.
mania had the highest cost per pupil,
$137.43, in elementary schools, and
San Juan county spent the least,
| $61.70.
Bids will be opened in the Ellens.
burg office of the United States bu.
reau Of reclamation for construction
of approximately six additional miles
Of nighttime canal Wednesday, April
16. Specifications have been sent to
prospective bidders by the govern
ment. They show that this will be
the biggest construction work to be
let on the high line canal this year
O. Hallstrom of Tacoma, imprisoned
In tunnel cave-in on the city power
project at Lake Cushman, was taken
from the tunnel alive and we'll after
being imprisoned for 30 hours. The
body Of Roy Ward, Al, his companion
was taken from the tunnel few min
utes later. Wards neck was broken
indicating that he was killed, probably
instantly, when the tons of rock and
dirt swept down upon the workmen
Willapa harbor's oyster colony wat
swelled by about 2O,0OOO00 new inhab
itants recently when two companies
planted 1000 cases of seed just arrived
by fast ship from Japan. In addition
to oysters planted by the Wi1laps
Harbor Oyster Farms and Bay Poin,
Oyster company, several other firms
received seed by the same shipment
and all were planted Immediately
Officials stated that although it hat
been found the Japanese oysters pro
pagate in Willapa waters, the presen
shipment will insure a large crop fol
the harvest next winter.
Declaring that good pasture will
produce milk more cheaply than an!
other system Of feeding, Carl lett
Clark county agent, has arranged TO