White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-03


Lambs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.
The Yakima chamber Of commUce
mas received an inquiry from p. j. Fox
of Omaha about obtaining $4,000 to
$4,000 acres for a horse breeding farm.
The Klickitat county commissioners
have reduced their pay from Sc to S.
per day while overseeing road work
in their respective districts during the
rest Of the year.
Contractor Bellander will begin
work soon on the new Port Angeles
100000 federal building. The project
has been held up for several years by
a fight over the site.
The Central Washington Growers
associations executive board has sign.
ed a petition to congress against pro-
posed federal investigation Of cherry
production in the northwest.
With 648 cars of apples shipped last
week the Wenatchee-O kanogan dis
trict has turned out a total of 1922
cars this season. About two months
Of the apple shipping season remains.
Apple men of the Wenatchee and
Yakima valleys recently laid before
the Spokane loan agency Of the re-
construction finance corporation plans
for financing totaling more than ST.
100000.
The Washington bicentennial com.
mittee Of Everett has adopted a plan
to beautify the Pacific highway be-
tween Seattle and Everett by planting
evergreen trees on both sides Of the
highway.
All Lincoln county valuations except
city lots are to be reduced about 20
per cent. Farm land will be reduced
SO per acre. The reduction IN the val.
ue Of real property will amount to
s3,5S3,396.
d. w. Fleet, the man who plated
the city of Aberdeen, has celebrated
his 81st birthday anniversary, saying
that mo man is old when he is still
making and breaking resolutions to
quit smoking"
Walla walla county farmers, associ'
ated with the Walla Walla Farm bu'
reau, will fight the proposed tax limit
of 40 mills on real estate but will ap'
prove the proposed change of state
highway control.
One hundred and forty teachers OF
the Wenatchee school district have
voluntarily accepted cut Of 10 per
cent in salary for the remainder Of
the year. The saving to taxpayers
will amount to $4,000.
Members of the Walla Walla Grain
Growers, Inc, are richer today than
they were yesterday. A dividend OF
per cent has been declared on stock
and an extra half cent on each bushel
of grain handled during the year.
Transportation to and from school
was furnished 5S,295 Washington grade
and high school pupils in 1881 at less
cost per pupil than in 1880. The av'
erage 1881 cost per pupil was 1892.
or s5.S2 less than the 1880 average.
-Four lives were snuffed out when
Northern Pacific passenger train No,
ZEN route from Spokane to Seattle
struck sedan at a street 1ntersec'
ton in Kennewick. Death was In
stantaneous, physicians reported. The
dead were all residents Of Kennewick.
The train struck the sedan broadsida
and carried 1t about 1000 feet, 1t was
pinned securely on the cow catcher.
A publicity campaign to attract
small fruit and asparagus growers to
settle on 1900 acres Of sagebrush land
In the Kennewick highlands to be
brought under irrigation in April will
be launched by Kennewick business
men.
The Cascade tunnel initiative meas
ure has been filed with the secretary
of state. 1t authorizes an apprcpria,
ton of $780, 600 from the state motor
vehicle fund for survey Of the pro
posed tunnel from Skykomish to Leav
enworth.