White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-02-28

A resolution calling for the open
Ing of the Columbia and Snake rivers
TO navigation has been passed by the
Pasco chamber Of commerce. Support
of the proposal to initiate barge serv'
Ice to interior points will be urged.
For the first time in several months
deaths in Clark county in January ex'
ceeded births, according to the health
department report. Cold weather re-
suited in the death Of many aged per
sons. The total was %. compared
with II births.
A 20 per cent reduction In assessed
valuations, which are now the basis
Of taxes. on 10000 acres Of Yakima
reservation open farm lands has been
agreed upon by land owners, county
officials and representatives Of the
state tax commission.
Samuel R. McKelvie, wheat member
Of the federal farm bureau, told 500
Whitman county farmers at Pullman
that American farmers are four times
rs good in farming as those OF the
rest of the world but only one-half aa
efficient in marketing.
Mrs. Flora A. Clark, 70, who was
severely burned while putting wood
In a stove at her home about a mile
east Of Ridgefield, died at the Ridge
field hospital. She was putting an
apron full Of wood in the stove when
her clothes caught fire.
A few potatoes are being shipped
from Clark county but the shipments
are light, Chaplin Mills, state district
horticultural inspector, said. There
Is some demand for seed potatoes for
California shipment and one carload
was shipped from Brush Prairie.
In the light land sections around
Walla Walla there was not enough
moisture to bring the wheat above the
ground last fall. It Is eprouting now,
but the fields are not tinged with
green. II the owners have to reseed
they want to get at it as soon as pos
sible.
With about 100000 bushels Of
wheat still unsold, grain growers OF
Walla Walla county are strongly hop
Ing that prices will go up between now
and March /, when the assessor will
levy taxes on grain and other proper.
ty. The tax will be close to $4,000
on the amount now in growers hands
The Washington week forest pro
iucts exhibition sponsored by the Che.
halls Business and Professional Wo-
mems club was held recently at the
Chehalis civic auditorium. The show.
Ing, in which a number of lumbermen
had a part, was held in cooperation
with the Chehalis chamber of com.
MERGE.
Apple shipments from eastern Wash.
lngton are picking up rapidly since the
weather moderated. The movement
for the first week of February totaled
912 cars, compared with 722 cars the
previous week. The total of shipments
to date from the Wenatchee and
Yakima districts is 1923 for the
season.
Washington's auto license plates
cost the prison plate factory tx cents
pair to make, Clarence e. Long said,
In explaining profit figures of the es.
adjustment. They are sold for II
cents to the state, making a profit OF
about 31s cents pair. In 1929 there
were 484,436 pairs of plates manufac
tured for the licenses.
The Peoples West Coast Hydro
Electric corporation, now serving II
waco and South Bend, as we'll as Cath
tcAAOS 1A0 OhdmOAdWd, QAdA LILO COA
struction of an extension to their linel
into the Naselle-G rays bay territor!
for the purpose Of providing the in
habitants Of the entire territory will
electric lights and power.
Twenty-six hundred and five car
loads of fruit and vegetables wer
shipped out of the Walla Walla dis
trict in 1929, according to the repor
If the district horticulturist. OF tn
cars 1862 were fruit and 1343 wer
vegetables. The report covers Asotin
Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla an,
Whitman counties.
e. w. Harvey, who refused to pei
nit his children to use medicine pre-
scribed for their relief by DR.. ]. E
VanDerpool, Walla Walla county healt
officer, paid fine of $50 on charg
Of not permitting his children to al
| tend HchOO1 or take madeline Tast