White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-07
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distribution.
Shipments of cherries from Kenne
wick are lessening after bringing about
$4,000 into the district. A week OF
Lambert shipments and two more days
Of Bings are expected to make the
total 100000.
Apple growers and shippers repre-.
senting most of southwestern Wash
ington decided at meeting at Day
ton to work for the elimination Of &c"
grade apples unless railroads reduce
rates materially.
Thirty-seven miles of concrete pave
ment between Yakima and Ellensburg
has been completed with the pouring
of the last 10-mile section between the
second Selah bridge and the mouth OF
Ellensburg canyon.
Incensed because he was discharged,
Ernest Burden, 42-year-old farm work.
err, shot and killed his former en-
ployer, Archie L. Haynes, As, and then
killed himself on ranch six miles
east of Pullman.
Between five and six feet of snow
still remains in the forest areas of the
Blue mountains, according to the re.
port of forest rangers at Walla Walla.
| This is the most snow at this time OF
| year in the last 26 years.
Three sheep were killed outright,
nine MANNED so badly that they had
to be shot and five others are missing
as the result Of foray of sheep-kill.
ing dogs on the farm of Joseph Dan.
ger, Willapa valley farmer.
Walter Sitser, 16, died On the way
to hospital at The Dalles, Or. when
hemorrhage developed after he had
been struck by pitched baseball. He
was practicing at Goldendale for the
Junior American Legion team.
A protest against the use of the
Chinook Pass highway by motor We
hicle freight lines has been filed with
the department of public works by the
Yakima Chamber Of Commerce. The
highway, it is claimed, was built pri-
marily' as tourist road.
Carlot rates on apples shipped to
Portland and Puget Sound ports from
the Walla Walla, Waitsburg and Day
ton districts, will be reduced August
1, Harry Cunningham, district freight
and passenger agent for the Union Pa
cific at Walla Walla, has been in
formed.
An appeal for donations of standing
timber and unused farm lands where
unemployed of that district can cut
fuel and raise produce for winter has
been issued by the recently organized
Unemployed league, an association OF
more than 100 jobless of the Camas-
Washougal district.
Happening on a bear in the woods
near the James Smith house, the small
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. Street,
newcomers at Vader, became frighten-
ed and in trying t. reach her parents,
who were cutting wood nearby, fell
and fractured bone in one leg and
cut the leg severely.
Salmon buyers at Westport recently
marked up the price paid fishermen
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pound. The price paid for chinooks
remains at 4 cents. Trollermen are
now landing about ten tons of fish
daily at Westport, the Grays harbor
fisheries center for ocean catches.
Indigents who drive cars, own radios
and have telephone at their homes will
get no more relief from the county,
commissioners decided at Walla Walla
last week. 1t was discovered that a
number of persons, to whom relief was
given, were trading groceries and fuel
for gasoline to keep their cars run
ming.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 in taxes
is lost to Walla Walla county annually
because the state law does not require
the property tax on automobiles to be
paid when licenses are issued. AS
SCISSOR Riley estimates that property
taxes will not be paid on more than
1000 OF the 5000 cars licensed. The
tax averages about SIS car.
The Washougal wooden mills which
closed nearly month ago, throwing
$50 out of work, resumed operations
there last week, considerably sooner
than expected. A nice squirt of bust.
ness was given as the reason for re.
opening the mill by w. G. Webster,
resident manager. Approximately 100
employees were put back on the job.
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