White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-05-18


which are being conducted there. In
government hospitals several hum
dred veterans are suffering from the
disease, and every patient afflicted,
unless treated at the lake, must, 1t
Is claimed, ultimately submit to am
putations, until death.
A moratorium on irrigation power
charges was declared by the state de-
partment of public works pending an
investigation of rates. Formal COM
plant was filed against the Puget
Sound Power & Light company,
Washington Water Power company,
and the Pacific Power & Light COM
pany. The utilities were directed to
furnish power ending completion Of
the investigation.
A faithful dog cheated death of an
other victim today when Mona Willis,
8, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
Willis of Dalkena, was rescued from
a creek by her devoted follower. The
child had wandered from home and
fell from a 20-foot bridge into the
creek. When she was found, the dog
was standing over her on the bank
of the stream.
Goodfellow Brothers, Wenatchee,
were awarded a $31,366 contract to
build a 10-mile stretch of road along
Wells coulee, by the Chelan county
commissioners today. The road will
link the Wenatchee-Chelan highway
with the south shore of Lake Chelan.
It will be built by state gasoline tax
money.
Two more vessels are steaming up
in Lake Union today in preparation
for a return to active service on the
intercoastal route. The steamships
Hegira and Pomona, owned by the
Weyerhaeuser lumber interests will
be put into service May 80 and June
Is, respectively.
Cold storage of the state held
nearly 1000 carloads less apples May
i than at the same date last year,
according to reports released by the
Yakima and Wenatchee Valley Traf-
fic associations. There were 1915 cars
held this year and 1926 last, the re-
port said.
Under the auspices of the Wash
ington State Natural Resources asso-
citation, data gathered at the natural
resources conferences in Yakima last
year are being compiled for publ
cation in a circular to be entitled,
Natural Resources Of Yakima
County,"
Immediate construction Of 30
mile steel pipe to furnish pure
domestic water from 1cicle
lake to the Wenatchee valley has
been recommended by committee
that has been studying an engineers
report on the feasibility of the pro-
ject.
The Automobile Club of Washing
ton is arranging to erect signs along
the new Wallula cutoff, it was stated
in Walla Walla at the office. A large
welcoming sign will be placed at the
state line. The road will be opened
in several weeks.
The Walla Walla cannery has been
able to increase it's personnel, as
more spinach and asparagus came in.
About 100 were at work. Asparagus
receipts from this and the Kenne-
wick districts have been slowed up
by cold weather.
Evidence that the Kennewick re-
gion, in prehistoric ages, was Mecca
for huge animals, of species now ex-
tinct, gained weight, when, near
Hover, county road crews recently
uncovered the shoulder bones Of
huge mastodon.
Plans for a new wing on the Uni
versity of Washington library to cost
100000 are announced by the board
of regents. The building will be
financed out Of rentals from the
Metropolitan tract during the next
two years.
For the first time in the high
school of Kennewick, two seniors will
share valedictorian honors. Robert
Tweedt and Betty Beamer have
97.2 per cent each for their four
years of study. Forty seniors will be
graduated.
While hop prices boom upward in
the Mckee district and dealers scurry
around attempting to buy, growers
remain firm in their decision not to
sell at 55-cent offers and predicted
quotations will go to 70 and Is cents
a pound.
Mayor Mooney of Wenatchee has
issued daylight saving proclama-
ton. The city commissioners approx
ed the time change after the theatres
withdrew opposition, saying, "If the
people want it, we are for it,"