White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-09


are In fine condition and the outlook
for full crop is good, growers report.
Home grown berries probably will not
be in the market until late in May un-
less there is unusually warm weather.
It has become necessary to put on
night shift in the Pacific Fruit Pack
age company plant at Raymond to
handle orders, according to Manager
o. w. Crandall. The crew at present
includes about 160 men. An average
of ten carloads of baskets and veneer
products are being shipped each week.
The date for the annual Planters
day celebration Of Woodland and Lew.
is River valley citizens, held each year
in celebration of the holding of the
bikes which protect the agricultural
area surrounding Woodland, will be
set soon. The event has been held
annually since the bikes were built
in 1921.
The Clark County Game commission
soon will receive a shipment Of 100000
steelhead salmon eggs, which will be
placed in the county hatchery near
Burnt Bridge creek, according to Lee
land F.. Morrow, game warden, until
the fish have attained sufficient size
to be planted in various waters of the
county.
The Washington State Jersey Cattle
club was organized in Chehalis few
days ago. A number Of west side coun-
ties were represented and there we're
also three delegates from Yakima
county. The county club is the unit of
the new organization, the workings of
which it is planned to carry into ev.
cry county in the state.
The Puget Sound Bridge & Dredg-
ing Co., of Seattle, whose bid of $477.-
538.55 was the lowest Of four submit
ted, was awarded to contract by the
city commission for completion of
Centralia's hydro-electric project on
the Nisqually river. The contract car.
ries clause providing for completion
of the work by September Is.
Consolidation of the North Cove
school district with that of Ocosta was
| approved in an election held recently
| in the beach towns on the south shore
Of Grays Harbor and along the coast.
The union will make the Ocosta dis
trict one of the largest in the state.
| Other towns now in it are Ocosta,
| Grayland, Westport, Markham and
Western.
With loans to grain growers totaling
$426,206 to date, officers of the North
Pacific Grain Growers, Inc, of Spo-
kane, said that the $1,400,OO0 allotted
this region might be inadequate to
cover the requests made. Loans for
| $4,000 were approved and warehouse
receipts for 100000 bushels were pre-
sented preliminary to obtaining ap
prevail for loans.
Instead of a bumper Clark county
prune crop this year, there will be
less than half crop, according to
w. H. Wood, manager Of the Washing
ton Growers Packing corporation.
The prunes set well, but the colder
weather retarded the flow of sap and
the fruit did not develop. Droppage
has been unusually heavy and if it con.
tinues the crop will be light.
Auto license receipts of the Cowlitz
county auditors office will far surpass
those of former years, Auditor Rennel
has announced. Up to April 80 $126,
exclusive of the 25-cent fee collected
by the county. There had been 1856;
licenses and 227 transfers issued, com
pared with 1854 licenses and II trans
fers at the same time last year.
Elizabeth Johnston, Is, was severe
ly burned at Spokane as her theatrica
costume ignited from candle, and {
parish school audience almost wen
into panic. A candle used for make
up work set fire to the girls dress
and she ran screaming across tn,
stage behind the curtain. The screams
and glimpse Of the fire beneath tn
curtain started pandemonium in tn
audience, but several cool-headed pei
sons quoted the crowd of about 45C
A bombshell was hurled into the BIZ
. mouth Of Grays harbor, when Unite,
States customs men announced tina
! hereafter salmon and other fis
catches made by alien-owned boat
y must pay duty of cents a pound.
, was estimated that more than 35 pc
I cent of the 200 or more trolling boat
/ operating from the Westport base ar
owned and manned by foreigners. TIL
customs ruling also stipulated tina
alien fishermen cannot operate insid
the three-mile limit, and that the1
J. catches will be treated as exports.
The Washington Cooperative Cal
n ners' association, to which many Clar
n county fruit growers belong, declare
g a dividend Of per cent last week
holders of common stock as of April
The dividend checks, totaling $3.50
went to 400 stockholders.
A pontoon bridge again will spa
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