White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-04


welfare board furnished the names of
men needing employment.
The First Christian church of Yaki
ma has observed it's 50th anniversary
The church was formed in Yakima
City, now Union Gap, in January, 1882,
with membership of IL persons.
A new cooperative marketing asso
citation has been launched by Pasco
and Burbank growers with some SO
contracts signed, representing about
900 irrigated acres. 1t will be known
as the Pasco Early Vegetables, Inc.
The water problem in the Blue
mountains may be solved, in the opin-
ion of the Blue Mountain Valley Con.
servation league, if an open season
on elks is declared. 1t is claimed that
elks damage trees on the watershed.
Tax reduction rather than tax shift
ing or new methods of raising taxes
was urged in an address by e. G.
Campbell of Yakima at the annual ses.
sion of county assessors at Seattle.
Thirty-six of the 80 counties Of the
state were represented.
Fire of undetermined origin de-
stroyed both the old and new grade
schools and the new gymnasium at
Yelm, % miles south of Tacoma. Fire
companies from Yelm, Roy and Olym.
pia aided in fighting the spread Of the
flames. The loss is estimated as in
excess of $4,000.
The Chelan national forest will be
covered by radio next summer. About
IL semi-portable sets will be used on
lookoutS and fire camps and in addi-
ton there will be about 60 small code
sets of less than 10 pounds in weight
that will be carried by crews working
in remote places.
Rather than stay in the county Jail
until a guard arrived to take him to
the penitentiary, w. d. Wilson, former
cashier of the Entiat State bank, paid
his own expenses and those of the
sheriff for the trip. Wilson is under
sentence of one to five years for mis-
appropriation of $2S,000.
After conference with spokesman
for the Indians and whites in the
Ahtanum creek controversy, the Yaki-
said it would not take either side in
the dispute, but would boost for the
Klickitat project to provide additional
water for the Ahtanum lands.
A. F. Mowatt of Seattle, recently
given the contract to construct $113,-
900 subsistence building at the United
States veterans hospital in Walla
Walla, has announced that work will
start as soon as weather conditions
are more favorable. Local labor and
local material men will share in the
work.
An employe of John Dickey, farmer,
shot an eagle on the Lake Shore golf
course near Bingen which measured
feet inches from tip to tip. 1t was
trua eagle, and sets record for
the course. AS some stories of shots
exhibited this eagle in local store
by way Of proof.
The Gilpin Construction company of
Astoria completed Its piledriving job
at the new ferry landing project at
Hampton, IA miles south of Deep
River for the Pioneer ferry, which
operates between Astoria, Hampton
and Deep River. The new ferry land
ing slip construction will be completed
in the near future.
Reports made by M. Fl. Soliday, sec
rotary for the Lackamas Dairy Co
operative association in Clark county,
show that the organization had good
year in 1881. The association owns
and operates a cheese factory at
Proebstel, where 295,65S pounds of
cheese were manufactured. Patrons
were paid $32,616.01 for butterfat and
the association sold cheese to the val
ue of $3S,O1S.42.
Queets Indians will join with whites
Of the Clearwater and Queets district
in asking that a nurse be appointed
by the Indian department to examine
indian children attending the various
Indian schools and Jefferson county
schools in the westerly part Of the
peninsula. The Indians now have nc
school nurse and as result Indian
children do not get the benefits Of
fered white children.
More than $1,000 in cash bonuses
was voted recently to cream shippers
associated with the Farmers Cooper
alive creamery of Camas by the beard
of directors. The bonus will be paid
Immediately. Stakeholder shippers
will receive per cent bonus on all