White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-04-18
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Ground was broken recently for the
new church of st. Josephs parish at
Elma.
The Winlock Water company has
begun construction on two extensions
to Its system which will provide add.
tional water.
Virtually 100000 will be expended
in Asotin county for road construction
and maintenance. This is an increase
of $4,000 over any previous year.
Apple storage holdings in the Yaki.
ma and Wenatchee districts were 1918
cars April /. This is the largest hold.
ing at this period in the last six years.
Approximately 1900 acres of land in
Columbia Valley Gardens will be drain
ed and made more accessible by pro
ject that has been started at Long:
view.
Bank deposits in Wenatchee banks
are more than $225,0O0 greater than
at this time last year. On March 81
total deposits were in excess Of &c.
100000.
The surfacing Of over IA miles of the
Ocean Beach highway between Cath
lamet and Stella is provided for in a
call for bids to be opened the last OF
this month.
About 70 per cent of Garfield coun-
tvs last wheat crop is still unsold.
It is estimated that producers have
lost about 80 cents per bushel in carry
ing charges.
Russell (Buzz) Schlosstein, Yakima
aviator, who had hundreds Of hours
in the air to his credit, crashed to
his death near the Yakima airport a
few days ago.
Scoring 208 points, the Onalaska
schools took first place in Lewis coun-
TVS ninth annual interscholastic
music tournament, which was held
in Centralia recently.
A half million gain over the cor
responding period last year is shown
in automobile license receipts. Since
December / the total collected is &c.
293,290. For the period last year the
total was s5,767,S9
James H. Junett, rs, who bore the
title of brigadier-general in the mill
tary department of the knights Of
Pythias, and was known to his asso-
ciates as General Junett, died at
Tacoma after weeks illness.
Laurice Burch of Skamokawa won
the oratorical championship Of Wah.
kiakum county at the finals held at
Cathlamet a few days ago. Mildred
Doris, Cathlamet, was second and
Jean Bjorge, Puget Island, third.
Retaliation of real estate in Yakima
county for taxation purposes is being
considered by the board of county
commissioners and the assessor. 1t
has been is years since the real es-
tate of the county was classified.
Leo G. Antics and Lehn L. Brown
of Wenatchee have applied to the state
division of hydraulics for a permit to
divert six cubic feet of water per
second from the Columbia river for an
irrigation project costing 100000.
Passenger service on Varney air
mail planes flying between Portland
and Salt Lake will be started soon,
agents of the line said, adding that
this will be forerunner of similar
service between Spokane and Pasco.
Seattle, because of a short.sighted
deal made by the city in 1918, is alarm
ed over the city's supply of drinking
water. Mayor Edwards has appealed
to the federal government to restrict
logging operations in the Cedar river
watershed.
Dropping thousands of cans into
Elliott bay at Seattle, portion of the
American Can company's pier gave
way and caused damage estimated at
approximately $4,000. No one was
in the portion Of the structure which