White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-28
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

The fiye-horsepower electrically op
! Grated siren ordered on trial by thu
Ridgefield town council will be re
tanned and used as a fire and curfev
signal.
The Vancouver city council has ap
proved an ordinance providing fol
borrowing 100000 from the city fol
the purpose of paying for the new
city hall now under way.
AS the roads from the heavy timber
districts north of White Salmon are
put in condition to stand the traffic
after the winter SHOWS, logging will
be resumed, it was announced.
DeGaris Reeves, assistant superin
tendent of schools and secretary OF
the school board at Vancouver, has
been appointed city superintendent to
succeed C. w. Shumway, who will re-
tire.
Gerald Gresseth, age 10, was seri-
ously injured when struck down by q
car driven by Frank Sudar, Stella
The lad had alighted from a school
bus and started across the road to
his home.
Japanese residents of the Yakima
valley recently attended dedication OF
a Buddhist temple at Wapato. Bud
dhist priests from coast communities
and musicians from Seattle conducted
the ceremony.
Fire, caused by an overheated stove,
destroyed the residence and all out
buildings of Sterrill Hoover at Dryad.
Mrs. Hoover barely made her escape
in her night clothing with her 10
month-old babe.
Normal fruit crops for the Walla
Walla valley are predicted by Harold
Mcwhinney, district horticultural in
spector. Cherry trees were slightly
damaged, he said, but the crop should
be about normal.
Falling in front of new tractor
that his father was testing, Wallace
Matthews, 3-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John e. Matthews of Harrah,
was MORALLY injured and died in a
Yakima hospital few hours later.
Workmen in Washington industries
earned $2S8,9O3,912 last year, an in.
crease of nearly $18,O00,000 over the
previous year, Clair Bowman, state
director Of labor and industries, re-
ports. This is the largest gain in six
years.
One man was killed instantly and
several others narrowly escaped in.
| jury when five log-laden cars were de-
rallied as Donovan-C Cookery Logging
company train sped through the Wish
kah valley toward the log terminal
| near Aberdeen.
Construction of the new 100000 cold
storage plant OF the port Of Tacoma
piers was started recently, and the
new units will be rushed to compile
ton, according to an announcement
made by George w. Osgood, manager
of the port docks.
An effort will be made by commit
tee of Vancouver and Clark county
business and professional men, coop
Grating with the Barracks military
authorities, to have the quota of stu
dents for the citizens military train
ing camp increased to 1000.
The Riverside schoolhouse, one O.
Asotin's oldest public buildings, erect
ed over 40 years ago at cost Of SIS,
900, is being RACED for it's lumber, 70.
which the school district was pait
5000. For 20 years it was the onl.
educational institution in Asotin.
The Northwest Rivers and Harbor!
congress, which discontinued meet
ings in 1928, and which recently wal
revived at meeting held on Gray'
Harbor, will hold it's 1880 convention
three-day meeting, in Longview, be
ginning Friday, September 5, it wal
announcad