White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-06

Yakima fruitmen have pledged CO.
operation in the new federal expert.
mental work at Wenatchee to develop
apple by-products. The promotion of
juices and concentrates will be
means Of making c grade and Gull
apples ply.
Unemployed men of Walla Walla,
Franklin and Benton counties will be
used on the Wallula Cutoff road.
Sixty per cent of the labor will be
taken from the Walla Walla list and
the two other counties will provide
40 per cent.
Alaska paid another dividend on
Stewards folly" last week. Tho
steamship Arthur ]. Baldwin locked
at Seattle recently with ~ tons of
gold in her strong room, the largest
gold consignment from the north in
several years.
The Asotin county treasurer paid
off $4,000 of Asotin county highway
bonds last week. There remains but
$4,000 to pay Of the issue which, when
paid, will clean up the bonded indebt.
edness of Asotin county. The original
issue was $4,000.
Conspiracy charges have been filed
at Seattle against James e. West,
disinfectant manufacturer, and Ralph
Farnum and George M. Brown in a
case growing out Of the alleged de-
frauding of the state of S25OO in taxes
on the sale of gasoline.
On the November ballot will be a
proposition to form power district
in Yakima county under the provi-
sions Of the Grange district power bill.
The bill provides that one commits
sioner shall be elected from each coun.
ty road district within the power dis
trict.
Reduction Of Walla Walla county's
tax ratio by the state commission from
46 to a. should mean about 10 per
cent reduction in state tax for local
property owners, according to James
L. Riley, county assessor. 1t is brought
about by Is per cent reduction in
property values.
Many farmers and fruit growers Of
western Wahkiakum county are allow
ing certain crops this year to go un.
harvested, due to prices being below
cost of production. Stock in some in
stances will feast on potatoes left in
the hill, and in many orchards apples
are rotting on trees.
Frank M. Lowden, city chairman Of
Walla Walla, Is making plans for
massmeeting Of business men soon,
when "share the job" campaign will
be explained. Efforts will be made to
keep as many employees on the pay.
roll as possible by shortening working
hours or days, If necessary.
The harvest of Delicious apples has
opened in the MISUNDERSTANDING dis
trict just as packing operations on
Jonathans and Winter Bananas were
terminating. Some Winter Nellis pears
are being packed. Grapes from hun
dreds of acres are being made into
grape juice by local concern.
Construction of new timber bridge
across the Coweeman river to replace
the old White House bridge has been
completed by road district No. 2 and
painting has been started. Timbers
so feet in length, cut at the Ostrander
Railway & Timber company mill, were
used for the main span of the struc-
ture.
The Pend Oreille board of county
commissioners has cut the salaries Of
deputies 10 per cent in order to bal
ance the budget. The county has u.s.
ually received about $4,000 each year
from the Kaniksu national forest for
the road and school funds, but this
year the amount will be less than
$1,000.
A tent is being used for a school
house in the education Of seven chill
dren living in the newly opened school
district in Stevens county bordering
on Pend Oreille county. II one could
go "as the crow flies" the distance
from Chewelah would be about eight
miles, but over a rough mountain pass
and through dense forests, the dis
lance one must travel to reach "Veter-
ansville" is almost Is miles from Che
welah.
The recent change in regulations
concerning marketing Of grade ap.
pies will entail loss of about 5000
cars this year, it was charged recently
in test case brought in superior court
by Yakima growers and shippers.
Although started by individual grow