White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-02


fled program of action on suits now
pending in several counties filed by
taxpayers to enjoin collection of their
taxes, it was announced by Charles
Baker.
The existence of deficit of $522,611
in the section of the state industrial
insurance fund covering logging OPP
erations is reported to members OF the
Federated Industries of Washington.
The logging rate, which for many
years stood at 1925 per $500 of pay
roll, has been increased to Sc.
The state road crew working on
state. road No. 8 between Goldendale
and Toppenish ran onto large tim
Der rattlesnake this week measuring
more than SO inches. 1t had eight
rattles. Many rattlesnakes have been
killed on the job but this was the
first timber rattle-snake reported.
What is believed to be record for
one days production by one logging
side of 20 men was established at the
Crown Willamette camp near Cathla-
met recently. The crew produced L.
O44,O0O board feet of logs in an eight
hour shift. This consisted of 1854 logs,
making 81 carloads each Ga feet in
length.
The state highway department has
awarded two surfacing and oiling con-
tracts on the Evergreen highway, be-
tween Washougal and Stevenson. One
contract went to Milne & Dousalt,
who will furnish and stock fill $4,000
cubic yards of gravel for $83,63O. The
other went to Kern & Kibbe for $751;
215 for oiling.
Shorter working hours and higher
wages must be adopted in basic Amer
lean industries or the machine will
defeat itself, declared James A. Tay-
lor, president of the Washington State
Federation of Labor, in an address at
Hoquiam. Two million men were re-
placed by machines in the five-year
period ending in 1929, he said.
The harvest of daffodil bulbs on the
Ladd & Holden farm at Fargher lake
will start early in July, as the weather
has been ideal for development Of the
bulbs. A large number of women and
girls will be employed from August
until October in sorting and packing
the bulbs for the eastern market. The
district is largely devoted to bulb
growing.
During a recent thunder storm Irv-
ing Vanhoy drove up to a garage in
Centralia to get his lights fixed. He
said they had burnt out when light
ming had seemed to strike near the
auto. None Of the occupants was hurt
but all the lights were burned out and
the heavy ground wire to the battery
burned in two as the result Of the
lightning bolt.
Quinault Indians will open Lake
Quinault to white fishermen again, it
was decided recently at the annual
tribal meeting. To end a feud between
the tribesmen and white sportsmen,
the Grays Harbor game commission
gave assurance that the lake will be
policed to enforce Indian regulations
and that So license fee will be col.
lected from anglers.
A bronze tablet, bearing the inscrip-
ton, Samuel Hill, Born in North Car.
DINA, May 10, 1857; Amid Natures
Great Unrest He Sought Rest" has
been received by q. O. Brooks, Golden
dale attorney and friend Of the late
Samuel Hill. The tablet will be at
tached to the tomb at Maryhill, which
is to be completed shortly and the
ashes of Mr.. Hill will be sent from
Seattle.
Run over by an airplane he was
"cranking," Charles Rattan, 81, flying
student, had sore stomach. Rattan,
spinning the propeller of plane at
the Renton airport, didn't know the
throttle was open. He said a man
supposedly holding the brake and
working the throttle, apparently be-
lieved the throttle was the brake. He
ducked the plane when it leaped to-
ward him but wheel passed over
his midriff
A water permit for the Roza recla-
nation project, the largest unit plan
ned under the Yakima river irrigation
program and the fourth unit to be ap-
proved by the state within week,
was issued to the federal reclamation
bureau by Charles r. Bartholet, state
supervisor of hydraulics. The permit
authorized the bureau to appropriate
1850 cubic second feet Of water from