White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-09

portionment was S1,118S60.
Specifications for the Gle Elum dam,
for which the reclamation service is
calling for bids, have been received.
The cost is estimated at $3,5OO,0O0.
The work is to be completed in $40
days.
Work of removing the Church OF
God church building at Walla Walla
was started recently. This structure,
directly in the path Of the flood OF
April 1, was damaged beyond chance
of repair.
To extinguish the II forest fires
that ragged last month in the Mount
Adams forest cost the government
over $4,000. It was the first time IN
history that such an amount has been
paid, so early in the season.
Since Yakima became officially a
city of the first class all taxicab own.
ers are required to post a $4,000 sure.
ty bond to the state for each cab op
Grated and to apply to the state direc
tor of licenses for permits to operate.
Growers are laying plans for the
construction of a pumping plant Of
1000 horsepower to lift water from the
Columbia upon lands in the northern
part of Pogue flat in the Okanogan
IN I, nf
chard will be benefited.
Work of decorating the Centralia
business district for the southwest
Washington pioneers picnic, to be
held there August H., was started re-
Gently under the direction of the car
penters' union. Bark slabs will be
used extensively to carry out the idea
of pioneer days.
Walla Walla county commissioners
have awarded to George Harding, of
Walla Walla, the contract to pave
South Second avenue from the city
limits to Prospect Point school, a dis
lance Of 464O feet, for S34,7SS. This is
to be paid for by market road money
raised by gasoline taxes.
The state finance committee, acting
under the provisions of 1921 legis-
lative act, voted to call $5,000,000
worth of veterans compensation bonds
ten years in advance of maturity. The
call, voted at regular meeting OF
the committee, will save the state
$175,O0O year in interest.
Wenatchee horticulturists believe
that apple growers will be forced to
abandon the Today spray program fol
lowed in the past and adapt their
schedule to moth emergence as indi-
Gated in moth traps if they are to cope
successfully with an unusually heavy
codling moth infestation this year.
The pack Of Strawberries for cold
storage shipment has been completed
by the Washington Growers Cooper.
ative at Vancouver, and few rasp-
berries are being packed in barrels
and frozen. The strawberry pack was
about the same as last year, but more
30-pound tins were used this year.
The rain has rendered raspberries I'm.
fit for canning as the fruit dissolves
when cooked, leaving no whole berries.
Operations were suspended at the
strawberry barreling plant of the
Grand Mound Fruit Growers associa-
ton at Grand Mound and Rochester.
At Grand Mound the output was $500
barrels, or about 1000 more than last
year, and at Rochester $500 barrels
were put up. The latter part Of July
the Grand Mound plant will be re.
opened for a week to barrel the cherry
crop of members of the association.
What appeared to be an amateur
tornado doomed in front of the auto
mobile of Lester Boyd on highway
near Snohomish recently. "Duck your
head" Boyd shouted to his wife. When
they came up for air they found hun
dreds of bees on the windshield, radi.
ator and other parts Of the car and
all over the pavement. The car had
encountered swarm of bees. "There
was enough honey on the windshield
for a stack of hot cakes" Boyd said.
George Rupp, a well-known farmer
living south Of Toledo, had an exas.
perating experience recently when
some flier was obliged to make
forced landing in his oat field. The
plane itself did much damage, as the
stand is unusually heavy, due to the
splendid growing conditions. How
ever, added to the damage done, was
that of number Of neighbors, attract
ed by curiosity, who stampeded over
the field from various directions, cauS-