White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-14
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

UuT OCduCi D.
Contract for the paving Of several
blocks of south First avenue in Yaki-
ma was let to A. s. Wilson for $4,000.
Residents of South Wenatchee have
voted almost unanimously against in.
cooperating the district with Wenat-
chez.
The new Highlands golf course on
the heights south of Cosmopolie will
be opened early in May. The course
Is now nearing completion.
The state OF Washington's cream
cry production of butter in 1929 total.
ed 31,000,000 pounds, an increase Of
1,815,0O0 pounds over the 1928 output.
Spring activities are under way at
the Clark county game farm and
hatchery on Cold creek and 10000
trout fry now are large enough to
feed.
Washington shipped $4,000 carloads
of fruits and vegetables In 1929, of
which 22,S27 were apples. In addi-
ton 100 carloads of dried apples were
shipped.
-Four hundred dollars was taken
when the safe of the Napavine Feed
company at Napavine, seven miles
south of Chehalis, was blown open by
cracksmen.
Martin ]. Flyzik, for five years
supervisor of safety in the department
of labor and industries, has resigned
to become safety engineer for the
Everett safety council.
Some Of the old asphalt and btu
lithic paving laid In 1904, 1905 and
1906 Is wearing out and the Walla
Walla city commission plans to have
new tops laid this summer.
Bound for eastern markets 200 bales
of hops were shipped from Mckee last
week leaving an estimated 1000 bales
in storage. The selling price now Is
from 8 to 8h cents per pound.
Hoquiam voters have approved by
vote of 1894 to 238 100000 bond
issue to construct water pipe line
connection with the Aberdeen water
system for Industrial purposes.
Logging operations in the Aloah
district and inside the Quinault In.
dian reservation are now under way
on an "easy" schedule, with prospects
of speeding up In the near future.
Bids for construction Of nine holes
on the Evergreen golf course, two
miles east of Vancouver, were opened
March 10 and the course will be ready
for play in July, 1t was announced.
Fred w. Lee was brought to the
Clark general hospital at Vancouver
for treatment for severe burns caused
by an explosion at the Crown William
mette paper mills at Camas, where he
was fireman.
The state highway department will
award contract March rs for the con.
struction of sidewalk five feet wide
on the Columbia river bridge at We
natchee and connecting Chelan and
Douglas counties.
The value of building permits is-
sued in Vancouver in February by the
city clerk totaled $67,120, compared
with $21,475 issued in February, 1929.
Permits for high-class residences were
included in the total.
Several hundred high school stu.
dents at Camas are having an enforc-
ed vacation Of two weeks owing to an
epidemic of measles, which has forced
the schools to be closed. In Central
school alone 149 cases are reported.
Shipment of Yakima eggs by coop
erative marketing associations prac-
tically has ceased, and eggs are going
into storage. Decision of the associa-
ton to make no effort to keep prices
up was caused, 1t was stated, by the
fact that producers continued to flood
the home market and force the prices
down