The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-10-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Brief Resume of Happenings
OF the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
South Bend Willapa Lumber
mills has acquired a 26-acre tract
near the Willapa fish hatchery;
about a mile from Lebam, to es.
tablish a permanent logging camp
as a terminus of a logging rail.
road which will haul logs from
the company's large holdings on
the headwaters Of the Naselle,
Grays and Deep rivers. It will be
q standard gauge railroad and con.
nections made with the Northern
Pacific track at ISebam to ship the
logs to Raymond and South Bend.
Longview - Longview has q
clock which is in the way of be-
coming an orphan. 1t is the four.
faced timepiece which stand In
front of the defunct Lumberman's
Bank & Trust company on Com
merce avenue. It is a bronze time
piece about ten feet high. The
bank, which is now being 1iqui-
dated, cannot furnish funds with
which to purchase storage bat.
teries with which the clock oper-
ates.
Spokane OF the 200 Civilian
Conservation corps youths in
Camp Ahtanum, Is have declared
their intention to re-enlist., Ar
rangements are being made, Off
GERS in charge said today, to send
the 1875 others by train to their
homes in the New York city dis
trict. The train will. leave before
October s. Forty of the boys who
will re-enlist are westerners, and
IS are from the east.
Grand Cou1ee-Diamond drill
ers have found that a solid gran
tie formation underlies part OF
the site for the proposed $685.
100000 Grand Coulee dam, they
reported. One deep diamond drill
ate through Is feet Of solid gran
lite, which will provide an excel
lent foundation for the dam, they
said. Three drills are in operation,
one having gone down 1875 feet.
Kelso - When a half-grown
Chinese pheasant walked through
the doorway Of the Cowlitz county
sheriff's office on evening last
week, Sheriff G. II. Gray and dep
uties present were surprised. The
bird promptly made itself at home
and roasted for the night In q
Mushroom adjoining the sheriff.
office. It was taken outside and
released.
Yakima - Farmers, women,
school children, Boy Scouts and
many other residents Of the Buena
district displayed exhibits in the
annual Buena community. fair to-
day. The women's department had
239 exhibits. Winning displays
will be taken to the Toppenish
community fair, to be held tomor-
row.
Washougal-While most Clark
county prune growers have had
poor or virtually no crops this
year, J. A. Lechner, who has ten
acres near here, is harvesting one
of the finest crops in years. He ex-
poets yield of 80. tons for dry
ing, which will be handled in his
dryer, capacity 900 boxes day.
Yakima-When small sedan
with four Indians in the front seat
careened into the highway inter
section at Donald, 10 miles south
of Yakima, it overturned and
Johnnie Two-Wat-It of White
Swan was instantly killed. None
of the others was seriously in
jured.
Olympia-Unless a special ses.
sion of the legislature provides adj
ditional sources Of state revenue.
the federal government will have
to shoulder the burden of unem-
ployment relief in Washington, as
serts Professor Joseph B. Harris,
of the University of Washington.
Olympia - The Olympia city
commission has accepted a pro-
posal from the Olympia Transit
company, headed by Charles May
bury, former state director of IL
censes, to substitute motor bus.
ses for the city's street railway
system. e .......
Olympia - Governor Martin is
considering the appointment OF
a statewide commission to study
the subject of state liquor control,
which the view of submitting rec
concentrations should the 18th