White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-12-12
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Orr Readers.

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A total of S327,SO9 has been added
10 the amount the state will spend on
winter highway construction as an I'M
employment relief measure.
The Kalama fire department Is COM
Mating plans for its community Christ
mas tree, which has been sponsored
nv the firemen for several years.
Pc Ell's council has ordered a triple
combination pumper, chemical and
hose outfit, from the Howe Fire APP
naratus company Of Anderson, Ind.
! Struck by falling tree while he
worked at the Hobi Timber company
ramp No. 2 near Aberdeen, William
saaria, 35, pump man, was killed
| Instantly,
Mrs. Winifred Nichols, "a, died at
Seattle of burns received in USE
less attempt to save her 15-year-old
son from their burning home. The son
had already escaped.
The Longview port commission has
decided to extend the port dock up
stream los feet, which will provide a
total of about 1000 feet Of dock space
for the mooring Of ships.
With one end Of a radio aerial wire
lying across his feet and the other
In contact with a 2200-volt high-ten-
sion power line, V. A. Jordan of Wen
htchee valley was found dead near his
barn.
Marriage licenses issued at Van
couver in November totaled 215, COM
pared with 225 in November, 1929. The
total this year up to December was
23os, compared with 2297 for the same
period last year.
The federal highway department has
placed signs on the Ocean Beach high
way in Wahkiakum and Pacific coun-
ties near Deep river directing motor
lists to be careful OF dangerous curves
during the wet and foggy season.
Nine horses belonging to G. J. Mel.
cher were killed by an eastbound pas
senger train near Sprague. There
were 10 horses in the herd, which had
got out Of the pasture. Only one got
out of the way Of the locomotive.
To relieve unemployment the city
council of Ritzville has instructed the
water superintendent to connect loose
ends of water mains in residence sec
tons, using family men for the work.
Labor will be paid IS cents per hour.
Aroused by the continued refusal OF
the wholesale oil companies to lower
prices to garages and service stations
to permit competition with Spokane,
the Chewelah chamber of commerce
has appealed to Governor Hartley for
state action.
The last of the employees Of the
Crown Willamette Paper company
camp at Cathlamet were laid off and
the camp is now completely closed
down for the winter. Most Of the
men with families will remain in camp
during the shut down.
Seventy-five persons had been ar.
rested on Gfays harbor in a roundup
by federal prohibition agents. Sixty
had been arraigned and more arrests
were promised by the agents. Charges
Of possession and sale were filed in
the majority Of cases.
BY vote Of 81 to 81 the Washing
| ton State Good Roads association has
voted to ask the legislature to appro-
pirate 100000 to make survey of
the feasibility Of a low-level 27-mile
vehicular and railroad tunnel under
the Cascade mountains.
Graham Bros. & Medley, contractors
on Permanent highway No. IA from
Goldendale toward Bickleton, have
Just completed their contract, and the
| road is now ready for the approval
| of the county commissioners and the
state highway department. This makes
the third permanent road completed in
Klickitat county this year.