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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
Joint Committee
To Work Out
ExpansionP Plan
HANFORD AND WHITE BLUFFS
COMMERCIAL CLUBS
CONFER

Plans to begin an aggressive CAM
paign for colonization of the valley
and improvement of local conditions
were formulated Wednesday evening
when representatives of the White
Bluffs and Hanford commercial clubs
met with the board of directors of
the Priest Rapids irrigation district.
A committee of three has been APP
pointed by each of the two clubs and
following their initial meeting in the
near future, they will invite the two
Oranges, American Legion, Allard-Ver-
nita Community clubs and women'S
civic organizations to appoint COM
mittees of three members each, to
form one organization centralizing the
activities of colonization and local
improvements.
j. H. Evett, M. r. Slavens and G. F.
Wooten form the committee from the
Hanford commercial club while Fred
Gilhuly, F. A. English and r. s. Refer
son represent the White Bluffs COM
mercial club.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
POSTAL INCREASES
ARE HOPEFUL SIGN

That postal sales are barometer of
local and national conditions has long
been the proud assertion of postal de-
partment officials. During the past
year postof1ces in the larger centers
have reported from ten to fifteen per
cent increases in business, and with
a twelve per cent increase over 1888,
the White Bluffs postoh1ce has shown
that this valley is not far behind the
other sections of the west.
Stamp sales at the local postof1ce
amounted to $2425 in 1884 as against
$2136 in 1888. Increases over the cor
responding month of the past year
were made in each month except July
when the stamp sales Of 1884 were
exactly the same as in 1888.
The largest increase was made dur
ing October, while the largest total
sales were made during the months
of December and October.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
Power Plant Earns
$lO,O87 In Year

Closing the 1884 season with two
favorable months, the Priest Rapids
irrigation district received $10,O8734
from the sale of excess power during
the year.
This is the largest amount made by
the district in the three years that
excess power has been Sold In 1882,
over seven month period, the district
earned $6,25O and in 1888, during
which excess power was sold for ten
months, 1854 was earned. In 1884,
excess power was sold over period
of approximately ten months, no juice
being generated in March, while in
February the plant was operated for
only about one day. and in October
and November the plant was closed
for about "a days.
The mild weather of the past few
months has resulted in an above
average flow in the Columbia river,
the level of the river at Coyote Rapids
being slightly above 504 feet this week,
and although only one turbine has
been in use at the plant, approx
mately $50 kilowatts are being gener-
ated.
The revenue from the sale Of power
rl11,.irou tho war
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
CROPS PRIME FACTOR
SURVEY OF HEADLINES DURING
PAST YEAR SHOW VARIETY
OF TOPICS

Crops, the Columbia river and roads
have been the chief topics of CONVEX
sation during the year of 1884, accord
ing to the headlines of last years
volume of the White Bluffs Spokesman
A warm winter, early spring, frost
and devastating freeze, then August
and the first apple shipments
And the river, with it's Christmas
flood bringing grief and desolation to
nearby valleys; it's rise and ebb the
subject of speculation of so many
varied interests, with the prospect OF
renewed shipping activities endoWing
it with an even greater magnetism.
But it is the roads WHICH have
aroused the greatest controversy dur
ing the year. Visions of the highway
from Spokane to Yakima, passing
through here were high in the spring,
only to go glilnmering with the with
drawal of federal funds in the fall.
The oiling of the Hanford- F'ruitvale
road is the only one of the highway
projects brought to completion. While
the North-South, or Sam Hill Every
day Highway, is still hoped for
But the year has recorded many
other things. The bank re-opened the
closed accounts with 40 per cent re-
payment. Hanford won the basketball
league championship. The apple code,
shaped by local men, became a state
law. The Democrats walked off with a
victory of unprecedented proportions.
But here they are, the outstanding
headlines of the Spokesman each week
of 1884; review them for yourself.
Jan. mild weather causes heavy
run-off in Columbia river.
Jan. 13-Valley sends truck of food
supplies to flood victims in Yakima
valley.
7 Jan. 18-Fifty-one men given en-
ployment on CWA projects.
jan Reconstruction Of Priest Rap
ids Vantage road urged (editoriaD.
Feb. lfe'$s2, $50 obtained for coEstruc-
ton of road from Columbia river at
White Bluffs to Othello.
Feb. County commissioners an
nounce plans for oiling highway from
Hanford to Fruitvale.
Feb 15-Hanford high school wins
league basketball championship.
J Feb. 22-Growers plan early applica-
ton of dormant spray.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
VALLEY SCHOOLS
RECEIVE $1377.66

Distribution of $14,3O2.48 was started
by the Benton county school superin-
tendent's office last Thursday, accord
ing to- reports from that office This
sum included state and county money
and is the largest apportionment since
schools were opened last fall.
The state furnished most of the
sum, Sill 1902. Kennewick got the lions
share, as it's check totaled $3,900.07.
Prosser was next with $3,874.78, and
appointments to other districts were:
Richland, $1,5O3.7O; Benton City, ST.
o25.2O; Finley Hover, $937.10; White
Bluffs, $9O8.44; Hanford, $474.22; Whit
stran, $340.15; and Walnut Grove,
$26O85
The remainder of the Is districts
have no high schools and the sums
they received ranged from $63.64 to
1898.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
Cloudburst Factor
In Rainfall Record

Although dark, cloudy days were the
rule in December, the temperatures
were mild, maximum reading of So
degrees on December 20 being recorded
at the Wahluke weather station, IN
charge of Gabriel Jadden, while the
minimum temperature of the month
was but "a degrees, recorded on the
26th. Nine days were partly cloudy,
says Mr.. Jadden's report, and the
other % days were entirely cloudy
Precipitation during the month am
ounted to SO Of an inch of rainfall
and one-half inch of snow
At Hanford, the weather conditions
we're approximately the same, maxi
mum temperature of 81 being recorded
on the goth, while the minimum tenn
perature of 81 was recorded December
IS. Precipitation at the Hanford sta
ton was so of an inch
Precipitation during 1884 was slightly
above average, says T. Del. Moffatt,
in charge of the Hanford station. From
January until May the precipitation
was below normal, but from then until
December was above average, with the
largest amount being recorded In May.
A cloudburst on the 10Th of that month
resulted in fall of 150 inches within
several hours. The total for that en-
tire month was 156 inches.
This cloudburst failed to hit at Wah-
luke, but 08 of an inch of precipitation
being recorded there that month The
total precipitation during the year at
Wahluke was 5.88 inches.
Precipitation during each month of
| 1894 together with the normal rain
| fall, as taken from the readings of 20
years, at the Hanford station was:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
STORK SPURNS
WHITE BLUFFS

One birth and five deaths all with
in the Hanford precinct, were recorded
during 1884, according to Mrs. M. M.
Heath, registrar of vital statistics for
the White Bluffs Hanford district. No
births and no deaths were recorded
in White Bluffs.
The one baby born during the year
was Jack Allen Denman, born July
10, to Mr.. and Mrs Delbert Denman
of Hanford.
Deaths were: Tillman E. Kamerer,
aged 81, died March %; Harrison b.
Fletcher, 10, April IS; Mike Murray
about 80, April Is; Jack Allen Denman,
aged % hours, July 20 William Ar
thur Denman, month, December %.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
1884 Brings Honors And Hope,
Varied Experiences To Valley

March First Bank of White Bluffs
re-opens, paying off 40 per cent Of
closed accounts.
March 8-Fruit growers study for
nation of apple and pear code.
March l5-Irrigation season will
start March 49,
March 22-Twenty- out of %
RACE loans made In valley previous
season already repaid.
March 29-Soft fruit damaged by
freeze.
April 5-Irrigation district manager
needed (editoriaD.
April 12-Jane Renlinger named
White Bluffs princess to Wenatchee
Apple Blossom Festival.
April 19-Mildred and Margaret
Moulster named Hanford twin prin-
cesses to Blossom Festival.
April 26-Hot spell hits valley; 95
degrees is maximum.
May 3-NeW turbine installation at
Priest Rapids power plant completed.
May 10-ProceSsing plant for valley
urged
May Possibilities of river traffic
again taken up.
May 24-Hot weather increases rum
off in Columbia river.
May 31-Hail storm and cloudburst
damage crops.
June Roadside planting of trees
in treeess sections urged.
June 14-Presidents special COM
mittee recommends construction Of
dam at Priest Rapids.
June 21--White Bluffs Band wins
second prize in Inland Empire contest.
June 28-Suit to force land assess
ment by irrigation district brought by
group of landowners.
July 5-Commercial clubs OF central
Washington to consider ways and
means of obtaining completion of
Priest Rapids Vantage road.
| July 12-Soft fruit prices average
higher.
July 19-Contract for oiling Hanford-
Fruitvale highway awarded.
July 26-Apple code under discussion
at statewide hearing in Ellensburg.
Aug. 2-First car of Winter Banana
apples moved July 80; color picking
Of Jonathans starts
Aug. 9--Political campaigns get I'M
derWay.
| aug, lO-OUdIc OlICCIOI u ABIlCul-
ture Robinson approves fruit code.
Aug. 23-Minimum price Of rs cents
per box on apples set by fruit code
committee.
Aug. 3O-Sam Hill highway boosters
confer with state engineers.
Sept. 6-TWenty Democrats and
| Twenty-Five Republicans seek policital
office.
Sept. 13-Democrats gain in strength
at primary election.
Sept. 20--Oiling of Hanford- Fruit
vale road begins.
Sept. 27-Rain storm, high winds
sweep valley.
Oct Hopes for early completion of
EastWest road receive setback.
Oct 11-Water regatta draws large
crowd to White Bluffs
Oct. 18-Five of valleys seven
warehouses end pack-out.
Oct. 25-Big seed corn sale expected
for next year.
Nov. 1-FERA offers adult education
classes for winter.
Nov 8-Democrats make clean sweep
of county, legislative and congressional
Offices
Nov. 15-Agricultural outlook report
foresees better truck crop prices in
1885
Nov. 22-GroWers study production
and finance problems for next year.
Nov. 29-Relief work to be based on
local projects.
Dec. 6-Predatory bird and animal
drive to start December g.
Dec. 13-Completion Of Horn road
project approved by VERA and county
Dec. 20-Irrigation district adopts
new schedule of water charges and
land assessments.
Dec. 27-Valley receives light snow
fall first of season.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
Court Decision
Upholds Suitors

According to word received Wednes-
day, Judge A. w. Hawkins, who pre-
sided over the hearing of the suit
brought by twelve landowners of the
Priest Rapids irrigation district to force
the district to charge land assess
ments, has handed down decision
stating that the district must set such
an assessment, and that such assess
ment is not to be retroactive. No other
details were learned.
AS soon as a copy of the decree is
available, the Spokesman will publish
a full report of the decision.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
CLARENCE DENMAN INFANT is
VICTIM OF DOUBLE PNEUMONIA

William Arthur Denman, the infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Den
man of Hanford, passed away about
noon Friday, December %. Funeral
services were held at the Denman
home Saturday at two o'clock, Rev
George Strycker conducting the SER
vices. Interment was in the White
Bluffs cemetery.
The baby was born November 20
He had never been strong but his con-
dition seemed to be improving, when
double pneumonia set in. The Den
mans have two daughters, Beverly
aged two years. and Wanda, nearly
three years old.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
WILL RESUME TESTS
FOR BANGS DISEASE

Testing of the cattle in Benton
county for Bangs Disease will be re-
sumed about January TO- according to
word just received by Waldo W. Skuse,
county extension agent. The details Of
this campaign have previously been
announced. All farmers DESTROYS of
having their cattle tested should
write to the county extension agents
office SO that application blanks can
be signed before the arrival of the
veterinarians.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
EPISCOPAL CHURCH SERVICES
TO BE HELD AT 2:30 SUNDAY

Reverend Wallace Bristor of the
Episcopal church will be in White
Bluffs Sunday to hold services at the
Presbyterian church. Members of all
churches are cordially invited to at
tend. The meeting will begin at 2:30
in the afternoon.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
MRS. WILLIAM BRONKHORST
UNDERGOES LEG AMPUTATION

Mrs. Bill Bronkhorst of Sunnyside
had her left leg amputated at va
kima hospital on December a. She is
still in very serious condition and
1t will not be known for some time if
she will recover Mrs. Bronkhorst will
be remembered by friends here as Ger
trude Whitmire, daughter Of w. B.
Whitmire, who formerly lived in the
Cold Greek region.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
Euents Of the Week
Friday, January A

Friday, January 4
Basketball, Richland at Hanford gym.
Sunday, January
Church serviceS-see announcements
Wednesday, January 8
Woman's club meeting.
Thursday, January 10
Hanford Improvement club meeting.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Aitchison and
Miss Lillian Shinn drove to Yakima
Thursday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03
THE WEATHER

Temperatures during the past week,
as recorded at the Hanford weather
station, were:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-01-03

A trace of snow was recorded on the
9th.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-07

become fixed habits. We could
for instance, practice being kind
and courteous and polite. We
could practice gentleness and
thoughtfulness. We could prae-
tice orderliness; and manliness
and womanliness. 80
The family is an excellent place
to practice every commendable
and admirable trait and quality
and the family would not mind a
bit. ,
One reason when we are abroad
in the land, we get nervous for
fear we shall not do the right
thing at the right time, is that we
have failed to practice it suffi-
GENTLY on the family.
The colored nanny who said
sternly to her offspring Don't
YOU never let me hear you say, I
seem; you say, 4 have saw" had
the right idea -. though she was
mixed on her grammar,
THE DEVIL WORSHIPPERS
In Mesopotamia there is sect
that worships the devil. Their
reasoning sounds logical. They
assert that the devil is in control
of this world-that it is his prin-
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SISTER MARY'S Menu
BY MARY f. DAGUE
NEA Service Staff Writer

THE other day 1 saw split peas
1 in my grocer's window. done
up in cellophane and green as
June When l gave my order, the
grocer tod me that he had sold
more split peas during the few
days he had had his display in
the window than ever before.
Men he sid would GO past and
gee the split peas and come back
and bpy some.
All of which is merely to prove
my point that the eye does more
than half the eating and that we
all are food-minded and everiast-
ingly interested in things to eat;
A split pea and ham loaf loohs
festive and will use up the last
crumbs of a baked ham serve
the loaf with creamed celery. p
other creamed vegetables aIid
salad made Of 1pples. raisins anu
cream cheese balls or a leihea
fruit salad with cheese cups.
spl;, yea and Ham Loaf
One cup split pas. 2 cups wa.
Tor / small s.,ion. 2 cups chopped
cooked liam. l egg. IL teaspoon
pe.5oer. 2 tablespoons minced
parsley. cracker crumbs.
Wasr and pick over peas. Put
in sauce pan with cold water and
lot stand over night. Cook until
yery tender in water in which
lhey were soaked. adding onion
peeled but not sliced 1t will take
about an hour Rub through a
sieve The PURGE should be quite
dry and thick. about like mashed
potato. Add ham. pepper, parsley
and egg Beat we'll and shape in
4 loaf and roll i'll crumbs. Bake |
thirty minutes al moderately |
hot oven 1875 degrees FL.
Split Pea Soup
If you have tried split pea SOUP
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PRACTICE ON THE FAMILY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

cipality-and that since he is the
ruling power, the thing to do is to
appease him and get on the right
side of him. ..
Now do not laugh at that Me-
sopotamic sect or indulge in any
feeling Of topliftiness about it.
We have plenty of devil worship
pers right here in the United
States-and some Of them are our
so-calied best people. Again and
again and again big merchants,
big bankers, big lawyers, yes, and
biz churchmen, and outstanding
persons in all other walks of life,
bow and scrape and kowtow and
salaam, to groups and factions
which they know are evil, led by
persons who they know are evil,
yet who have favors to pass out.
THE RUINED CREEK
When l was a boy there ran
through my fathers property a
pretty creek. 1t was clear and
quiet. For a considerable distance
on, each side of it, the land was
heavily wooded. The ground was
covered with scrub palmettos and
bushes and was always heavily
carpeted with fallen leaves. To-
ward the mouth of that stream
where it entered the river, pan
fishing was excellent; and oppo-
site the mouth of the stream out
in the river, gamey black bass bit
we'll in season.
Gradually the land on each side
of that stream was cleared. And
gradually that stream began to
shrivel up and fill up. 1t lost its
attractiveness and the fish dlsap-
peared. | never understood those
changes until l heard federal au-
thorities explain the damage that
can be done to land, streams, and
sport by the unwise cutting down
of trees.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
. IN WASHINGTON
6Y RODNEY BUTCHER

and Japanese against each other.
Lately, however, according to
diplomatic insiders, the British
have been developing a wholesome
fear of Japan and a belief that
Japanese aggression will sooner or
Later lead to a British-Japanese
clash in the Far East.
This time 1t is expected the Brit.
ish and the Americans will work
together to head off a gigantic
naval race and will try to get other
nations-not only those attending
the conference.-the join them.
Japan wants 5-5-5 ship parity
because she expects to rank equally
as a tirst-class power with Eng.
land and America after she spreads
her sphere of influence through
further Chinese territory and be.
cause she wants 70 bs sure of be.
ing able to hold and protect all
she takes. 70 ru
livery naval expert knows that
Il neither the British nor the
American fleet could successfully
attack Japan, even with the 5-5-3
ratio prevailing. The japanese
islands are so far away and easy
"a protect that American naval At.
flcers view the thought of war on
Nippon with actual horror. -
II is even very doubtful whether
the combined British and Ameri.
can fleets could successfully best
the japanese at this time on their
home grounds. "a
And the idea of any such at.
tennis now is preposterous. The
B,ronean situation requires Eng.
land to keep much of her strength
bulk of It into the Pacific would be
to toe, expose the British Isles and the
vital Mediterranean-Egyptian
Canal line to India.
IS ~ 10. IEA SArpinA. Ino..
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WATER FOR "TnE CITY OF DAVID"

Even i'm the DAYS of David and Solomon, the city
of Jerusalem had its water problem. Located on
high ridge the highest in that section of Palestine,
it became necessary that the city construct systems
and reservoirs for the necessary storing of water
Two thousand years ago, thereabout, the Ro-
mans came more nearly solving rJerusalem's water
problem than had Heretofore been done They
built acquaduets from the few more elevated re-
gions through which flowed water from those alt-
tudes into the city. Up until recently seven hun
dred thousand gallons daily was the best Jerusalem
could get from her water supply under most favor
able conditions. However, since the British govern
ment got supervision of the City of David, this has
changed A recent news dispatch states that pro-
vision has been made to bring Jerusaleni's
water by great pipe line all the way from north
of Joppa. So instead of the city getting maxi
mum of seven hundred gallons day, as hereto
FORE more than two million gallons daily will flow
into the city through the big pipe from the Auja
river. Quite an Improvement over those ancient
pools and systems Excavations carried during
the last half century have disclosed the Pool of
Bethesda and others. In the year 1888 excavators
discovered the rock-cut passage from the Virgins
Fount to the Pool of Sloan, dating back at least
500 years before the birth of Christ That passage
was cut to bring water from the Virgins Foant
outside the city, and was secret one $50 that while
the city was surrounded by an enemy army, water
was flowing inside the walls of Jerusalem without
! the enemy knowing its source. These ancient land
marks show that more than three thousand years
ago old Jerusalem struggling to solve its water
problem. But it remained for the 9ritons to def
nitely and permanently solve the problem by piping
the Auga river into the Holy City to the tune of
| two million gallons day--Mocksville Enterprise.
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By RUDNEY BUTCHER
NEA ScryIce Stntr CarTcsaa,ao,t

BY RUDNEY BUTCHER
NEA ScrsIce Stnir CSrFcspendcat
W7AsHINGTON - Naval and
w MploIiatic gossip here is that
the naval conference about t.
be convened in London is a futile
gesture and that nothing will come
%: it but excuses for Jarap, Eng.
land, and the United States to tall
their taxpayers that the other ma.
tioIs viii not compromise and that
the only recourse is to enter the
International naval race.
Nevertheless, there is a distinct
hope-and it can be said with an.
thority that I persists with tho
American delegation-that naval
limitation can be continued and
Japan made to modify her ins:sE.
snce on parity with Great Britain
and the United States.
= This administration has gone On
long on the theory that Japan was
blaming and could be out.blutfsd
mat most Of the bystanders have
decided the theory was all wet
The only thing tending e.
strengthen the first belief se tho
delegation sails is hope that all
otnes nations at the conference
can be brought into a united frnn,
against Japan, thereby persnadin .
her that 1t ,Xould be good thin 2
20 back down for the present from
her complete dehunciation of tha IN,
washington and London treaties
HOPE to slow up Japan rests pri.
marily on the fact tina. H.,.
ain and America will have a n,osa
sympathetic understanding tosa,h
sr than at any previous intstna
lional conference. Until rather &c
Gently the British have followed
their long.standing tradition and
sought to play OF the Americana
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CHRISTMAS TREES
BANNED in ITALY

ROME, Dec. 7. (UP).-Italian
boys and girls will have to do
without Christmas trees this year
because of sanctions, Fascist au-
thorities ruled yesterday.
A circular was issued instruct
ing parents that Italy's trees can
not be spared and that the usual
imports of fir trees from Switzer-
land and Jugoslavia cannot be
made because all unnecessary pur--
chases abroad must be abolished
until the League of Nations halts
it's economic penalties.