White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-01-24

report compiled by the Pacific Builder
and Engineer. Included will be $56,
100000 for power projects and $21,
100000 for highways.
Two permits have been given the
city of Seattle by the supervisor Of
the division of hydraulics to divert
enough water to assure supply large
enough to meet all the requirements
Of the city's big hydro-electric devel'
opments on the Skagit river.
Three persons were believed to have
drowned In Hicks lake, near Olympia.
in skating tragedy. Meager reports
were that an unidentified man and
woman skater broke through the ice
and q second man went to their res.
cue alone and failed to return.
No further cases of infantile paraly.
sis have appeared in the Winlock dis
trict, following that OF 14-year-old
Maxine Roe. whose illness resulted In
. quarantine being ordered. The
schools and other gatherings which
were banned resumed January 16.
Plans are being perfected for Kene.
wick's winter carnival, to be held
February IA and IL. A two-day auc-
ton will be held in connection with
the carnival, which is being featured
for the purpose of raising funds for
the Kennewick Valley Fair associa'
ton.
-Four young people were dead as Z
result Of the head-on crash between Z
big toboggan laden with II passen.
gers and an automobile at the foot OF
Queen Anne hill in Seattle. The driv.
er of the automobile was held on an
open charge of driving while intoxi.
Gated.
The fishing interests of Pacific and
Wahkiakum counties have protested
against the granting Of power permits
on the Little White Salmon river for
the reason that it would lead to the
closing of the federal hatchery. which
now turns out 100000 chinooks an
nually.
Poultry as side line for wheat
farmers is given greatest considera-
ton In the discussions at the poultry
school that was held at Dayton under
the auspices of the commercial club,
the high school vocational agriculture
class and the farm bureau poultry
project committee.
An increase of 1924 per cent was
reported for orders for lumber above
the output Of the commodity by 212
mills in Oregon, Washington and Brit
isr Columbia, was reported by the
West Coast Lumbermen's association.
This is the second consecutive week
orders have shown an increase over
production.
While firemen were busy fighting
chimney fire which had smoked up"
the interior of the postoffice at Aber.
deem, Mike Cummings. veteran postal
clerk got the mail out as usual The
ftremen couldn't postpone their work
there and Cummings said his job was
Just as important, so he calmly sorted
his mail while firemen dashed to and
fro between the sacks.
The oyster harvest on Willapa har.
Dor will get under way within two
weeks. The Willapa Oyster Farms
and Bay Point Oyster company. two
Of the largest operators. expect rich
season. They figure the yield for 1880
at more than $1,000,o00. They have a
portion OF their 2700-acre holdings
planted to Japanese oysters. and ex
pect to seed more this year.
Washington sheepmen are prepar-
ing to present a united front to sheep
shearers, who last year, according to
charges made by Thomas j. Drumhel.
Ter, president Of Washington Wool
Growers association, trimmed sheep
owners as we'll as sheep" President
Drumheller made this statement at
the opening of the Seth annual con.
vention held in Walla Walla recently.
Twenty-seven hundred acres Of
logged valley and bench land in the
Chenois creek region, eight miles west
of Aberdeen. soon will be opened to
settlement by Hoquiam Farms, Inc.
1t is planned to develop there one Of
the largest poultry colonies in the
northwest. Two hundred families will
be brought to the tracts, 1t is planned.
and the annual egg production will be
more than $1,000,000.
Victorious four times in succession,
Columbia Union high debate team OF
White Salmon, represented by Maleta
Weldon, Harold Mansfield and Calvin
Sutherlin, defeated the Stevenson high
trio, Jean Wagner, Ethel Bolter and
Sampson Huffard, in the White Sal.
mon high school assembly hall on the
much-mooted subject that Inter
scholastic and intercollegiate athletics
as at present conducted are detri-
mental"
More than 100000 will be received
by Clark county farmers from the
farm loan bank at Spokane on ap.
nroyad annlicatians for loans M q