White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-28

Growers and shippers of potatoes
agricultural college men, railroad men
and representatives of financial inter
ests in Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon, met recently at Walla
Walla to organize regional commit
tee similar to one formed in the south
Atlantic states.
Thirteen workmen were injured
three Of them seriously, when the
forms on new locks being constructed
for the Long Lumber company at
it's inland log pond near Longview,
gave way, throwing 81 men employed
at the scene to the level Of the pond,
some 35 feet below.
He mistook ships propeller for a
smelt, and so finback whale, so feet
long, lies dead on the sands of West.
port beach near Aberdeen. The levi.
athan blew his last spout as he reeled
through the Grays harbor bar. He
drifted ashore on the flood tide and
there his vast bulk rested as the surf
receded.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
company is building a power line 5h
miles long to serve the new logging
camp of the Charles R. Mccormick
Lumber company north Of Toutle riv.
er. The line also will serve about
40 farmers. The project will cost
about $500, and will be completed
early in April.
Instruments filed with the Clark
county auditor increased go per cent
in six years, 1923-1929, and instru
ments filed for permanent record in.
creased &C per cent, according to fig.
ures compiled by Deputy Auditor Cal
lender. School warrants increased %
per cent and automobile licenses in.
creased 113 per cent.
The county commissioners have let
contract for two of the remaining
four miles of unfinished road between
Copalis and Pacific Beach. Construc
ton will start two miles north Of Co
pals. A contract for the remaining
gap, from point two miles south OF
Pacific Beach to join with the north
end of the new road, will be let soon
Deaths in Vancouver in February
totaled "a and births Ia, according to
the health officers report, and con.
tagious diseases were rampant. Meas.
les predominated with 70 cases,
mumps were next with %, and there
four cases of smallpox and four of
chickenpox. A policy of vaccinating
school children for smallpox is being
carried out.
The cost of maintaining high schools
in the state of Washington has tripled
in the last 10 years, and the common
school expense budget has increased
228 per cent, Representative W. S.
Westover told members of the Elma
Active club. He proposed central
buying of school supplies and insur-
ance as an improvement over the
present system, in which each board
of directors buys Independently.
"There amt no dogs-so there amt
nothing for dog catcher to, do" With
these words, A. B. Cowen resigned
his job as Hoquiam dog catcher after
holding that position two days. The
city council recently passed an ordi-
nance providing for dog pound and
dog catcher. This because of the
many stray dogs about the city. Cowen
got the appointment and set out after
dogs. In two days he found not a
single stray dog. So he resigned.
Gale-like wind storms, accompanied
by dust pail that hid the sun and
bathed the countryside in murky yell
low light, swept over eastern Wash
ington and northern Idaho, and 5000
bushel steel grain storage tank, weigh.
ing four tons, was destroyed at Da'
venport. The tank was set into a
concrete base with half-inch bolts.
At times during the peak of the storm
dust was SO thick that visibility for
more than SO yards was impossible.
F. j. Wilmer of Rosalia, president
of the North Pacific Grain Growers,
Inc, said that headquarters offices of
the corporation would be set up in
Spokane Immediately. A loan depart.
ment would be embraced in the office
set-up, with financial manager in
charge. When this is completed the
wheat growers of western Montana,
Idaho, Washington and Oregon will
be enabled to borrow up to $113 per
bushel on their crop, +. o. b. Seattle
| or Portland