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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Lingering Illness Is
Clinaxed By Death

After months Of illness due to lead
poisoning, contracted while spraying
his orchard, L. T. Brooks died Monday
morning In st. Elizabeth's hospital at
Yakima. Mr.. Brooks had been under
q physicians care most Of the summer
and fall and had been In the hos
pital for examination and rest sew
eral times for short periods, but not
until the first of September did his
condition become so serious that 1t
was necessary for him to have con-
slant medical attention and hospital
care.
His funeral services were held at the
Presbyterian church at Hanford Wed
nesday, October 10. It was one of the
largest funerals ever held in this COM
munity.
The services were opened by q prayer
by Rev. George Strycker. Rev. H. A.
Noyes read the last chapter Of Rev.
Citations from which he took the text
for his sermon Music was provided by
a trio composed of Mrs. Norman An
glin, Howard Anglin and Mrs. w. L..
Enyeart. They sang Lead Kindly
Light" "Sun of My Soul" and There's
a Wiseness in Gods Mercy" Mrs. Noyes
accompanied them and also played be-
fore and after the service.
Pallbearers were: D. S. Wilkinson,
w. r. Morford, G. I. Wright, William
Webber, E. w. Heard and j. w. Fenley.
All business houses and warehouses
in both Hanford and White Bluffs were
closed during the funeral. Burial was
at the White Bluffs cemetery.
Lowe Tillery Brooks was born at
Visalia, California, January "a, 1873
and passed away at the st. Elizabeth's
Hospital in Yakima October 49, 1888
after lingering illness of four months
Aged sixty years, months and % days
He was united in marriage to Edna
May Snyder December 10, 1893 at
Egypt, Washington. Nine children were
born to this union, three of whom
preceded him in death. He leaves to
mourn his loss his widow, Edna May
Brooks; one daughter. Mrs A. r. Lud-
dington of Ephrata, Washington; ane
i FIVE sons, Lester, Keith, LaVerne, dlenr
and Lewis, all of Hartford; six grand
children; two sisters, Mrs. Matte Hell
linger of Devon, Montana and Mrs
Ada Tierney of Harrington, Washing.
ton; and three brothers, Sterling, o.
HAYWARD, California; Pickett, Of Med.
ford, Oregon; and Charles of Astoria
Oregon; and host of other relatives
and friends.
Lowe T. Brooks came to Washington
in 1895 and in 1908 he and his famil!
moved to Hanford where he resided
until his death. He joined the Presby
terrain church of Davenport. Washing
ton, In the summer of 1908.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Recommended
Price List For
Apple Buyers
APPLE COMMODITY COMMITTEE
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS
PRICE SCHEDULE

The apple commodity committee has
unanimously adopted a schedule OF
minimum prices for boxed apples be-
coming effective and mandatory imme-
diately upon approval of the marketing
contract by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture The committee has recommended
and urged that all shippers adhere to
this price list from now on and until
changed by proper authority.
Portions of the schedule follow:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Fun And Frolic
Planned At Hanford

One Of the biggest events Of the sea-
son is being planned by the Han1ord
high school for Saturday evening, Octo-
Der 81. The students are expecting . big
crowd and are providing variety OF
entertainment so that everyone can
enjoy himself.
The event. 1.-The Halloween Carnival
will start at o'clock in the Hanford
high school gymnasium. A door admls-
sion of five cents will be charged, and
there are number of prizes to be
awarded during the evening that Will
prove an attraction to many.
Booths containing roulette wheel,
howsie- howsie games, fish pond, dart
boards, baseball throw, and other
games of chance or skill will be set up,
and a variety of prizes, including
smoking sets, drinking sets, Felix cats,
bulldogs of all kinds and sizes and
lamps and kewpies have been provided
for the lucky winners at these games.
During the evening a rattle will be
held, the holder Of the lucky ticket to
receive beautiful tea set.
Refreshments, which will cost but a
! nominal sum, will consist of cider and
doughnuts, coffee and hot dogs, and
home made candy.
| At nine o'clock, dancing will start
in the gymnasium. the music being
furnished by the White Bluffs Band
orchestra. An admission charge of rs
cents will be made for the dance. At
different times during the evening in
Permission specialties will be presented
The students believe that they have
prepared one of the most diverse and
delightful programs of entertainment
yet presented and are expecting large
and joyous crowd. The proceeds from
this carnival will be used to finance the
athletic and other events of the high
school during the year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Special Week Is Planned
At Pullman for Farmers

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Farmers and Homemakers' Week at
the State College of Washington will
be held Wednesday, Thursday, and FRI
day, November %, % and "a, and Will
be devoted to a series of programs and
conferences on policies and problems OF
the farm and the home in the new day,
according to plans formulated by Ed
ward G. Johnson, dean and director OF
agriculture and experiment station,
Miss Florence Harrison, dean of the
college of home economics, and F. ~.
Balmer, director of the agricultural
extension service.
The use of contracted acres in the
wheat country and conference on
proposed new grain standards will oc-
cupy the attention of the visitors on
one day. Conservation of natural re-
sources through erosion control, and
the extensive demonstrations in ero-
sion prevention to be conducted In the
Pacific Northwest by the federal gov
eminent as part of the Public Works
program will occupy the attention on
another day; and a conference on land
use, land classification, and soil surveys
will be conducted the third day.
Supplementary programs for the
homemakers attending will be prepared
by the college of home economies
Opportunities for special round-tablt
conferences with the departments o.
dairy husbandry, poultry, horticulture
and agricultural engineering Will 81
given at convenient periods during TN
week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Farmers w ant
More Moisture
For Orchards
WARM FALL DRIES OUT Or
CHARDs; WINTER INJURY
is FEARED

Due to the fact that the weather mas
been quite warm since the first OF Octo-
ber when the irrigation season In this
valley ended, many of the growers here
have expressed the opinion that the
soil is drying out too rapidly, and that
considerable winter injury is likely to
result.
A request to have the irrigation sys-
tenn filed again, so that the soil would
be in better shape for the winter was
signed by nineteen water users and
presented to the board OF directors OF
the Priest Rapids Irrigation district
this week. The land represented ny
these water users amounts to about 40
acres. or one-sixth of the land under
the district. These water users wished
to irrigate their land for about eight
DAYS. w. j. Kincaid, chairman OF the
board, stated that several others had
also inquired as to the feasibility OF this
plan, and that he had inquired from a
considerable number Of farmers operat-
ing individual pumps whether or not
they were going to pump any more. The
need of further water In the soil was
also discussed with number of water
users under the ditch.
Few individual bumpers intend to
irrigate any more, Mr.. Kincaid says,
and the users under the ditch are not
certain whether the need for further
water would justify the districts ex-
pneses in again starting the pumping
plant. The district wishes to secure all
the power revenue possible to make up
for the loss earlier in the year caused
by the unfavOrable rise in the river.
The power necessary to operate the
pumps will reduce the income OF the
district about $14 to $40 per day, de-
pending on the quantity of wate1
pumped. Salaries of operators and ditch
walkers will amount to about $3.50 pei
day, making the total cost of pumping
per day between $27 and $34.
It is the desire of the district board
Mr.. Kincaid says, to render all service
to the water users necessary for TIT
preservation of their crops and farms
If only a limited number require waite
and desire to pay the actual cost to tn
district, the district will have tn
pumps started up and this land served
on deposit with the secretary of tn
estimated cost for the period durin
which water is required.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Weed Seeds Prevalent In
Tested Samples of Grains
By County Agent E. c. Durdle


During the last 80 days, seeds of wild
morning glory, quack grass, Canada
thistle, Russian knapweed, and dodder
have been found in seed samples sent
to the Washington State college seed
laboratory. All of these weeds are nox-
ious, and might have gone undetected
had no test been made OF the seed
sample in which they were present, says
E. G.. Schafer, head of the agronomy
division
Most farmers are familiar with the
other weeds found in this period which
include chickweek, Siberian mustard,
rat-tail fescue, dooryard knot weed,
Burnett, gum plant, tar weed, barnyard
grass, yellow trefoil, crab grass, bronze
grass, sedge, plantain, wild vetch and
several wild clovers.
When so many of the really bad
weeds are found in samples tested in
the short period of one month, 1t is not
difficult to realize that great number
of them must be detected in year or
even in 6 months. Since tests are made
of only small portion Of the seed lots
sown in the state, what must be the
extent of weeds sown every year?
Farmers who are not careful about the
quality. of their seed therefore need
not be surprised at the numbers Of
weeds gaining foothold in their fields.
It is plain, says Mr.. Schafer, that the
tests of the seed laboratory play @ most
important part in preventing the dis
tribution and establishment Of more
and new noxious weeds. Without seed
test the purchaser of the seed IN ques-
ton often does not know, until these
weeds are well established, that he
has sown weeds that will give him
trouble and expense over period Of
years. When they are known to be
present he will reject the seed or take
precautions to eliminate the weeds be.
fore he soWs his crop.
Detection of noxious weeds is but
single, though important, phase OF I'M
seed laboratory's service to farmers O
the state. This service is available 10
rs cents per test.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19

same as Jonathans.
Minimum prices for standard pack
Arkansas Blacks, Black Twigs, Black
Bens, Ben Davis, and similar varieties
are 10 cents less than for the Spitz.
The committee, however, recommends
against the marketing of these var1-
cites during the present season. Mini
mum prices for these varieties, race
and fill or tumble pack, are the same
as Jonathans.
The committee also recommended inc
following schedule of prices for bulk
ooJ J,opLot arp1ec.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19
Forecast Is Under Final
Apple Production of 1882

The October government forecast for
the commercial apple crop issued last
week estimates production at 27,57l 900
barrels, slightly under the September
forecast. The crop last year was %
645,OOO barrels. Following is the esti-
mate by states:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-10-19

Jonathans
Standard Pack x Fancy Fancy
1853 and larger or It's
or 100 and larger ........-..$100 30
1926, IS percent 216.-.. 80 10
Straight 216's ..........-....... rs 80
175-200 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 30 .0O
234-252 ........... rs IS
Prices for 234-252 are applicable only
to stocks packed and on hand. II any
additional quantities are packed they
will be subject to the same minimum
prices as 1926.
Face and fill or
tumble pack,
standard boxes x Fancy Fancy Cs
~ in, larger IS 80 rs rs
Delicious
Standard pack--X Fancy Fancy &c
$50 and larger ...$1.35 $1.2O $l.lO
1926 ......... LOO .95 .85
Face and fill or
tumble pack,
standard boxes
az in, Target. LIS 100 LOO
Minimum prices for Delicious grown
in Walla Walla, Klickitat, Skamania,
Grant, Spokane, and Benton counties
of Washington and In the state of Ore
gon are 10 cents below the above
schedule, bat In all Quotations the point
of origin must be clearly Indicated
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
Gold Hoarders Must
Make Returns Soon

John P. Carter, collector of inter-
nal revenue, stated today that all
persons possessing gold coin, gold
bullion or gold certificates must
make a return of such holdings 10
his office on or before September
l3, 1893, or be subject to a fine OF
$4,000 or 10 years Imprisonment,
or both. This return is required
pursuant to an executive order by
President Roosevelt, dated August
%, 1893.
Collector Carter stated that this
return must be made by everyone
owning gold coin, gold bullion CT
gold certificates or holding such ar
ticles for someone else, and either
person is liable to the penalty for
failure to make the report. If own
ed by one person and held by an
other, both must make returns.
The return is to be made on Form
.TGl, which can be secured by per-
sons writing to or applying in per-
son to the collectors office, 939
South Broadway, Los Angeles. The
return must be in the collectors
hands Oh or before September 10,
1888, to avoid liability to the penal
ties prescribed
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
WHEAT GAMBLING TO BE ENDED

The recent orgy of gambling in wheat
and the following spectacular crash of
the market will have served a useful pur
pose if they bring about elimination of
some of the evils that have so long char
acterized grain trading.
And there is evidence that they may.
George n. Peek, administrator of the
farm adjustment act, minced no words
when he told grain dealers that they
must set their own house in order or the
government would do it for them. He
added that this was not Just another
warning of the sort issued so often in re-
cent years.
Abuses exist in the grain trades, and
they, acting as the marketing medium for
the farmers, should correct these abuses"
said Peek. IF they do not succeed, then
the government will act ;. | know of no
industry other than farming which has
nothing to say about the price received
for its product"
The Chicago board of trade and other
grain exchanges have necessary and USE
full functions for producers, professors
and consumers.
But unbrldled speculation and violent
price fluctuations such as the country
has recently witnessed are no part of
these usfu functions
Farmers, consumers and business gen.
orally must have orderly marketing based
on laws of supply and demand. Prices
must not be inflated or unduly depressed
for the profit of men who never produce
or process wheat, and whose transactions
exist only on paper.
Nor can government afford to leopard
ize its production control program, on
which it is spending S100,000000 for the
benefit of wheat growers by letting spec
ulators reap the benefit.
Fortunately, Administrator Peek has
ample authority under new legislation
to enforce the governments will. He can
license grain exchanges and all other
handlers of farm commodities. And he
can revoke those licenses, and put the un-
desirable dealers out of business. Such
authority heretofore has been lacking.
The board of trade and the grain trade
are welcoming federal investigation. The
price of wheat has been pegged tempo
rarily and price ranges limited. Mean
time lasting remedies for the future can
be devised, and this is what the grain
trade is attempting to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
THAT PROPOSED CODE FOR
HOUSEWIVES

Those Iowa women who suggested that
a working code be fixed up for house
wives so that the lady of the family could
get some sort of a break in the matter of
hours and pay, seem to have started
something which might give General
johnson and the NRA crowd the tough
est problem they have yet had to tackle.
Fixing up a code for the coal industry
may seem difficult; ironing out the COM
pleXities of the oil trade may look hard :;
arranging things for steel and auto man.
ufacturers may appear perpleXing-but
wait until you try to put the housewives
daily round into formal code. before
you say you have tried something tough !,
What do these Iowa ladies suggest? A
day that begins at in the morning
and runs until 7:30 p. m, with four hours
off in the afternoon, an allowance of S14
week for housekeeping money, and no
work on Sundays; and while that seems
lair enough, no one who has ever watch
ed busy housekeeper in action will sup
pose that putting it into practice could
be easy.
Many man has said contemptuously
that the trouble with wives is that they
don't plan their work properly-they
don't use system in their daily round
He has said this, that is, until some fam
lily emergency has forced him to stay
home for a day or two, and do mothers
work himself.
AT the end of that time he is invariably
more than ready to go back to his own
job, and he has no more to say about
planning and domestic systems. He has
learned that if there is one Job on earth
that refuses to become cut and dried and
formulated it is the housewives.
How are you going to formulate a code
which allows for such everyday mishaps
as Juniors getting ashes from the fire
place all over the living room rug, or for
the harassing calls of unwelcome house
toulouse canvassers who break into the
routine and compel overtime" work, or
for the added toll which comes when the
neighbor's puppy gets hold of the clothes
line and soils a whole string of newly
washed clothes?
These are part and parcel of the house
wife's day, and they help to show what
a job fixing up code would be.
The housewife may have it easier to-
day than was the case a generation ago
but she still has conglomeratlon OF
tasks that would have the average man
talking to himself inside Of AZ hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
UNCLE WIGGILY'S FUNNY FALL

Around and around and around
rode Uncle Wiggiiy, Mr.. Whitewash
and Mr.. Stubtail on the whirligi5
at the SeaShore. The Whirligig was
merry go round on the back of
the Old Sea Dog who was chasing
his tail but never getting hold OF
it. That's what made the merry go
round turn.
How do you like it?" asked Un-
Gle Wiggily of the white bear.
It's just fine and dandy an
swered Mr.. WhiteWash.
How do you like it, Mr.. Stub
tail?" asked Uncle Wiggily. Mr..
Stubtail was riding on a wooden
lion. Uncle Wiggily was on an ele-
phant, and Mr.. WhiteWash on a
tiger. How do you like it?" asked
the rabbit gentleman again of the
brown bear gentleman, for Mr..
Stubtail had not made any answer.
He can't answer you when he's
playing the mouth organ" said Mr.
Whitcwash
This was true enough. For in or
der to have music for Uncle Wig
!. gily's nlerry-go-round Mr.. Stub
/. tail played the mouth organ. When
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
PUBLIC TOLD
FACTS ABOUT
HOME LOANS

In his first public statement
since becoming president OF the
Federal Home Loan bank, twelfth
district, on September l. w, T..
Duffy endeavors to clarity the mind
of the general public as to ponds
which the Federal Home banks IN
some districts are expected to o11er
in the near future and TO call
attention to the fact that these
bonds are entirely separate from
those which will be issued in ex-
change for mortgages through the
Home Owners Loan corporation
The statement points to the fact
that the Federal Home Loan banK
and the Home owners Loan cor
poration are two entirely separate
and different organizations, their
only relation being that both are
under the supervision of the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board at
Washington. The bank is per-
manent institution while the cor
poration is an emergency one de-
signed only to relieve immediate
needs of hard-pressed home owners
and save dwellings from foreclos-
ure.
Bonds which Federal Home Loan
banks in some of the twelve dis
trictS of the country are contem-
plating issuing within the near
future likely will be second onl<
to United States government bonds
as an investment" the banks
statement reads. These bonds will
have as security back of them adc-
quate real estate collateral as well
as the combined resources OF all
institutions that are members OF
Federal Home Loan banks through
out the United States. While these
bonds may be issued soon in some
districts and may be offered for
sale in California, Arizona and
Nevada it is not likely that the
Twelfth Regional bank in Los An
geles will find it necessary to issue
| bonds for some time. This is be-
cause liberal allowance of govern
ment funds made to us will pre-
clude the necessity of replenish-
| ing its resources at an carly date
Mr.. Duffy became president OF
the Federal Home Loan bank at
| Los Angeles on September | follow
| ing passage OF a resolution by the
| Federal Home Loan Bank Board at
| Washington creating new set NJ
bylaws for all regional banks
| In the ten and one half months
that the Federal Home Loan bank
of Los Angeles has been organized
more than one half of the eligible
institutions in California, Arizona.
Nevada and the Hawaiian Islands,
which comprise its districts, have
either become members or are pre-
pairing applications for member
ship in it, President Duffey's state
ment declares. 1t further points to
the fact that lines of credit ex-
ceeding $7000,O00 have been estab-
lished by the bank and that when
this credit is used to its full ex-
tent by its members, material stim-
ulus to home building, moderniza-
ton and repair should result.
Under its plan Of operation as
a permanent institution to insure
a dependable source of funds for
home building throughout future
years the bank is rapidly gaining
prominence in the home mortgage
field, its resources available at all
times 10 its member institutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
NeO Trial Sought
For Oil Officials

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. (U.P) 49,
The state supreme court today had
under submission arguments for a
rev trial for James A. Talbot, Clar-
ence M. Fuller and Raymond W.
Mckee, former officials OF the Rich
eield Oil company, convicted of de-
frauding the concern of $245,325.
Edwin V. Mckenzie, San Fran
cisco attorney representing Talbot,
argued the prosecution bad not
shown fraudulent intent in the
trial of the trio several months ago.
my client may have been care
less but he is not a thief" Nc
kenzie said. The sum represent
ed is paltry compared With his
wealth and income"
Frank Richards, deputy state at
torney general, was given 80 days
10 file brief conterding the trial
record was sufficient to proVe fraul-
ulent intent.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Henry
Ebert Stubs, elected to congress
Nov. 8, 1892, in the 10th California
congregational district, is diligent in
forwarding the interest Of his con-
stituents.
In Kern county, California, Is d
grateful woman. Stubbs aided her III
obtaining a homestead upon which
to start a chicken ranch. Full OF
gratitude, she wrote to Stubs:
Il want TO thank you for helping
me TO get land upon which TO start
my chicken ranch. I have to get It
started as economically as possible
because III have to do it on my
own-unless I can find a man fool
enough to take up with me,
I'm not SO bad to look al, at
that. Congressman. And, besides,
I've got a brand new Ford V-8, al
most paid for. and if YOU are inter-
ested / could drive over to Santa
Maria sometime and let you look
over the proposition.
StubbS acknowledged but did not