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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
GRAND C0ULEE MEN
KILLED IN CAR WRECK
Speeding Car Turned Over In Mos
es Coulee and Two Lives I'm.
mediately Snuffed Out.

William Foley, "a, an employee
of the MWAK company at the
Grand Coulee Dam, and Carl j.
Russell, 33, Druggist at Coulee
Center. were both instantly killed
in Moses Coulee, ten miles east of
Waterville, last Sunday evening,
when the car in which they were
riding plunged over an embank-
ment and turned over several times
A flat tire, coupled with excessive
speed is thought to have been the
direct cause of the terrible acct
dent. The car was a Ford VS. and
belonged to Mr.. Foley, who was
driving.
A number of boys employed at
the Grand Coulee Dam, and return
ing to work from Wenatchee. dis
covered the car and bodies short
time after the accident The Gher-
iff at Waterville was Immediately
informed of the accident and an in
vestigation was soon under way UNI
der way. A radio in the car, was
still going, when the accident was
discovered.
Tnc n Il y--ere in Coulee City
c. ly n the evening. They were
On th4.r SaJ to Wenatchee and
scont i - @ in great hurry
One of them was heard to remark
that they expected to make IVenat-
chez in one hour.
Foley, who was formerly chief
superintendent Tor David H. Ryan
In the construction of the govern
ment railroad from Coulee City tc
the dam, was employed by the NV.
f, AK company as excavation fore
man. Russell, before moving to Cou-
lee Center, had lived at Index, or
. Stevens Pass where his widow and
| two small children are visiting. He
opened the first drug store in the
! damsite vicinity and had built up q
( thriving business.
| Foley is survived by his wife anc
two children, living at Boise, Ida
no. Russell is eHrviyed by his wild
TOW, Lillian; two children and {
brother, all Ct Grand Coulee.
| The bodice were taken to Wat
erville. Mr.. Rusell's brother wen
Ito Watervi le Monday mornin.
land arrange to take the body o
brother to Sultan, Washington, fo
burial.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

TENANT FARMERS
AIDED IN BUYING
THEIR own FARMS

The first tenant farmer in the
northwest to receive farm pur-
chase loan under the broadened
provisions of the farm credit act of
1885, which authorized the use of
Land Bank commissioners funds
to finance the purchase of farm
property as well as to refinance
farm Indebtedness, offers typi-
cal example of how other tenants
can obtain financial aid to buy a
farm of their own, says e. M. Ehr-
hardt, president of the 18th dis
trict bank at Spokane.
''After working diligently for sew
eral years, Raymond Patricks,
thrifty young farmer of Valley
county, Idaho, accumulated some
live stock and equipment and saved
enough cash to apply as sufficient
| down paysent on a 160-acre place
he considered to be an especially
good buy His problem of financ-
ing the balance was solved by OBJ
| taing a Land bank commissioner
loan,
I'm this instance the Land bank.
acting as agent for the Land bank
commissioner in administering this
emergency fund, found that the
purchase price was within the
normal valuation, or debt-paying
capacity, of the property, and the
loan was closed for the amount
Mr.. Patricks needed.
cit should be understood, how
ever, that not in all cases can COM
missioner's funds be obtained to
finance the full balance of the pur-
chase price. The price tenantfarm
er is willing to pay and what an
owner is willing to sell for is a
natter resting entirely between
themselves. But when an applicat-
lion is made for a commissioner
loan it should be borne in mind
that the Land bank is not permit
ted to lend in excess of rs per cent
of the normal agricultural value of
the property, as determined by
careful appraisal. If the sale price
exceeds the appraised normal val
uation the purchaser must be in
position to finance the different
without encumbering his farm be-
|yond the rs per cent of normal val
ue.
This provision for the borrow
er to have clear rs per cent eq-
uity in his farm as a condition of
the loan is for the borrowers own
protection. helping to insure !. his
success in working out of debt and
owning his farm outright in the
shortest time possible"
Land bank commissioner loan
are made in the same manner as
regular Land bank loans, through
local cooperative farm loan associ-
ations, or through the Land bank
direct where association service is
not available. They are written at S
per cent interest with payments am
ort1zed over a term of years so the
principal can be automatically liu-
Undated by the end of the loan per-
iod.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
OILING JOB WILL SOON
START ON SPEEDBALL

F. Hewett, Spokane contractor,
who was awarded the contract for
surfacing and applying a non-skid
seal coat on the Speedball highway
between Coulee City and the Grand
Coulee Dam, is scheduled to start
operations within very short
time. Materne Bros, who hold a
sub-contract for crushing the gray
ell, have their work we'll underway
and stock piling has begun. The
gravel is being crushed at the
south end of Steamboat Rock and
is being stock piled at the first rail-
road crossing north of the Colum-
bia Basin orchards.
The contract, which is for $101,-
GOO, is expected to be completed
within month from the begin
ming of the spreading of the gravel
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
COuLEE CITY BUzzES
WITH NEW ACTIVITY
(By Ashley Hollen in the Wenatches
Daily World)

Daily WOIlu
Travellers along the Sunset high
way where it swings down into the
wide expanse just above Dry Falls
and shoots straight across Grand
Coulee, are increasingly aware of a
change taking place there in the
sagebrush. The very atmosphere OF
the vicinity seems charged with a
tense expectancy. For the first time
the traveller strains his eyes to see
what it means, for he seems to
sense that something is happening.
He seems to almost hear the clam
or of the shovels 80 miles away
where 5000 men are toiling day
and night to dam the mighty Col
umbia and divert it's flow back
down the channel of the Coulee.
1t has made a change in Coulee
City, too. For many years this
cross roads of the Grand Coulee
has guarded the portals of this
great phenomenon of Nature, and
like sentinel has stood watch ov-
er the awesome site of Dry Falls.
But in recent years Coulee City
was relegated to the status of a
small, forgotten community, when
the Sunset highway left the town
a mile off the main line. Through
traffic was routed straight past the
place. And then came the Grand
Coulee Damn
AT once Coulee City became the
principal entrepot to the dam. The
government railroad was construct
ed down the Coulee, and the city
n lob Nc,
traffic dosen't go by without know
ing that Coulee City is on the map
At Coulee Corners new buildings
have been erected and nearby the
sagebrush is being cleared for Sun
set Acres, with it's auto camps and
the promise of further expansion.
Here and there throughout the his
toric old town, the old is being re-
newed, and new structures are ris-
ing to house the increased demand
of business.
Stages from Spokane and from
Seattle pause on every trip to tran
sfer passengers and baggage to the
stage which makes the run to the
dam, and the rumble and roar of
diesel powered trucks adds to the
metropolitan atmosphere of the
scene. It's a far cry from the days
SO years ago when the freight wa
CONS laboriously pulled out of the
town laden with supplies for the
mining camps and frontier settle
ments to the north sNpr -
But back of it all is still the
spirit of the pioneer. The Faith of
Frank Mccain, and others of his
calibre, has been justified. The flu
ture of Coulee City lies just ahead.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
COLUMBIA BASIN
EXPERTS NAMED

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. g.
Three special consuitants were nam
ed to direct work on the survey of
the Columbia river basin,I under
taken by the northwest regional
planning commission at request
of Secretary of Interior ickes.
Marshall N. Dana, chairman of
the commission, announced appoint
ment of the consults. They are DR..
Charles Mckinley, professor of pol
itical science at Reed college and
president of the Portland planning
commission, DR.. H. V. Carpenter,
dean of the school of engineering,
Washington State colleged and
Joseph Jacobs, Seattle Consulting
engineer.
The survey will serve as the basis
for any future federal program of
development in the Columbia basin
Previous surveys will be integrated
and additional special information
requested by the federal planning
commission will be developed.
DR.. Mckinley will work in the
field of population distribution and
organization of political subdivis-
ions. DR.. Carpenter will oversee
surveys on mineral resources, in
dustry, land production, power
public works and transportation
Jacobs will head the division stud
ying photography, climatology, W.T.
er resources, conservation and
in land and public worsk surveys.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
LLOYD Express Liner on looth Transatlantic Round1rp

4
Princess EUROPA, Ga bronze re-
plical of whom decorates foyer of
the ship) carried from her home in
Asia, by Zeus disguised as bull,
to a new domain across the waters
and subsequently giving it her name,
the liner EUROPA plays a similar
role in the linking of two great con-
tinents. During these hundred COM
ings and goings, she has carried
215,000 passengers, or an average
of 1000 passengers voyage.
Four times the distance from the
earth to the moon has been the
actual count of sea miles traversed
by the EUROPA. Coming down
to EARTH" let us note that she has
travelled 100000 miles, or the equiva-
lent of IS times round the-world.
The EUROPA is a veritable float
ing city with her 1916 tonnage,
her 10000 horsepower, her 1000
passenger capacity and her 1000
personnel.
The EUROPA, like the BRE-
MEN, maintains the fastest service
for the dispatch of mail between
the United States and Europe.
From her decks an airplane is
catapulted from 500 to 900 miles
offshore on both eastbound ant.
westbound passages, bringing Eu
rope one to two days closer to the
United States and vice versa.
Under command of Commodore
Nicolaus johnson, the EUROPA
was the flagship of the Lloyd feet
from March. 1880, until December
1882 Since the spring of 1888 the
EUROPA has been commanded b.
Captain Oskar Scharf.
The Lloyd flyers EUROPt ana
BREMEN are the famous Twin.
Of the A-lanuc Both have nou
tonspietcd the.r Ce,,",, VEGA.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
GROWING PAINS WRENCH
TOWNS

EPHRATA, Wash, Aug. "a
second petition was submitted to the
Grant county commissioners today
by those Grand Coulee town sites
asking incorporation of the entire
area.
The second petition submitted by
them differs fro mthe first in that
it corre1ts boundry discrepancies
brought out recent court hearing
which set the first aside.
The petition and the petition
from the town site of Grand Cou-
lee, which asks incorporation ex-
Guiding the Center and Heights
townships, will be heard Septem-
Der g.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
NAME WHEAT CONTROL
ADJUSTMENT BOARDS
Committee Members Elected at
Community Meetings Held Friday
and Saturday

The annual elections of the Doug
las County Wheat Control Associat-
ion were held in the various COM
munities of the county Friday and
Saturday. July rs and H. Commun-
ity committees an dthe county Board
of Directors were elected as follows
the county director:
Badger Mountain-John w.
Brett, G. j. Weaver, and Robert
Bromley.
Baird-David M. Davis, John G.
Adkins. and J. w. Buob.
Bridgeport Roy R. Reneau, j.
G.. Allen. and Fritz Williams.
Delrio- H. w. Bozarth, Roy r.
Rankin and George Grant
Farmer-Jacob Richert, Arthur
'Schicka and j. w. O'Brien.
Mansfield-Hartzell Crosby, C.
c. Beard, and e. o. Mclean.
st. Andrews-E Rice, w. d.
Bogart, and Dan Jolly.
Waterville- George H. Wilcox,
N. G. Nelson, and S. e. Robins.
Withrow-W. j. Halves, Frank
Weber, and Josh Barnes.
The Board of Directors met Mon
day July 20, and organized and cleo
ted the following officers:
PresidentJ w. J. Halves.
| Vice President, George H. Will
cox.
| Secretary, E. l.. Harms.
| Treasurer Earle Jenkin
County Allotment Committee, w.
J. Halves, chairman, Hartzell Cros-
by, John w. Brett.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
NECK IS BROKEN
WOMAN EXPECTED TO LIVE
Stghtsee's Car Rams Iruck-Mas-
on City Doctor Also
Accident Victim.

GRAND COULEE DAM, Aug.5.-
Her neck is broken but she will
recover, doctors said today after
examining Mrs. Eva Kiepp, Seattle,
who was riding in a car seeing the
huge construction operations here
yesterday when the car collided
with a big dump truck.
Three were riding in the front
seat and she was in the middle.
others were not hurt.
DR.. E. I. Sorenson of the Masor
City hospital suffered broker
collar bone and dislocated knee
in another automobile accident
near Quincy.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Lloyu GXpIeSS AlHeI oii ~
MAINTAINING from the first
kvI a clock-like regularity OF
schedule, the North German Lloyd
express liner EUROPA celebrates
the first lap of her Tooth trans
atlantic round-trip with her arrival
in New York on August LIST. Com
pleting this festival voyage, she
sails again for Europe on August
3rd.
In the FIVE years since her first
appearance in New York harbor on
March Is, 1880. when she set new
mark for speed over the Atlantic,
the EUROPA'S running times be-
tween here and Cherbourg have
peen remarkable not so much for
sporadic and variable speed as for
consistency of performance. At
Cher bourg and at Southampton
too, (for westbound crossings) she
docks at modern piers with waiting
boat trains Immediately alongside.
Similarly her arrivals at New York
and the prompt disembarking of
passengers at her Mathematician
pier few hours later, have become
| notable items of comment.
Built at the shipyards Of Blohm
& Voss in Hamburg, the EUROPA
was launched August Is, 1928, by
U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould
Schurman. She sailed from Bremen
on her maiden voyage March 10
1890. and arrived in New York or
the 18th. setting. despite contrary
winds and heavy seas. a new mark
of 4 days. II hours and 6 minutes
thus breaking the record of hel
famous sis,ership, the BREMEN
{ Since then the EUROPA has sew
eral times bettered her record unit
today when il stands a, 4 days, II
aours and ~ minutes with a speed
In Knots III u ~
- " ~ N, pathological
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
PULLMAN "EOPLE OWN
COT ZEE CITY PROPERTY

Mrs. Beth3l Acuff and Mr.. Acuff.
Jr., and MIR and Mrs. John McKin
ney, and NJ, and Mrs. j. w. Baird
all of Pull H. also Mr. and Mrs.
Fred X. SCI t2, of the Scouts I'm
plement Co rany at Enidcott, were
in Coulee CT. last Sunday, looking
over their =, operty purchased thro-
ugh the Ro' tson Land and Develo
ment Co. an Johnson Realty Co.
They were |ary well pleased with
their holdinl and the future out
look for Collie City.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
ARMY SEEKS ENLISTMENTS

The Army Recruiting Service will
have representative in the Coulee
City Postoffice building nAugust
18th, at 8 o'clock. Applicants &C
cepted by recruiting officer will be
forwarded at Government expense
to Fort George Wright for final en-
lisment and duty at the post.
All men who apply must be be-
tween 18 and 35 years of age, sin.
gle,r without dependents, and oil
good moral character. If between
Is and 81 years of age, the concen
I of parents is required.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
STATE PERMITS
MOST POPULAR
Outsell County Hunting Licenses
Two to One; Release Birds

Outsell County Hunting Licenses
| Two to One; Release Birds
Sale of hunting and fishing Ii
licenses brought the game fund of
Washington $189.08S.00 for the
first six months of 1895 with re-
turns not complete from King coun
| ty, according to report of the
state game department.
Last year the total license sale
income was 1917, 10000. Of the
1885 revenue, $35.697.50 was re-
ceiyed during last month.
State licenses continue to out
sell county licenses by ratoi of
nearly two to one. Residents of
Washington have purchased 47.094
state hunting and fishing licenses
at SO piece, as compared to 25,-
$40 county hunting and fishing
permits at $3.50 each. Visiting aug
lers have bought GIG state non
resident fishing licenses and $50
nonresident county licenses, at SIS
and SO respectively.
Other licenses sold to date: coun-
ty trapping 179; alien county fish
ing. 1903; state fur dealer, SO;
state taxidermist, 10: state nom
resident hunting and fishing, s.;
state alien hunting and fishing. A;
state non resident game bird, l.;
and duplicate licenses issued, 49,
Many Birds r
With approximately 5000 china
pheasant distributed already. all
eight Washington state game de-
partment farms are busy sending
out this years crop of game birds
to be planted in all sections of the
state
Birds liberated to date represent
the first matches at each farm.
The pheasants turned afield all are
at least nine weeks old, and are ov-
er half grown. The cocks have ad-
vanced to the stage where they are
assuming their attractive coloring.
Other birds reared at the game
farms will be liberated as they pass
the age of tw months with the ex-
ception of about $1,000 pheasants
that are to be retained over the
winter season. These will be plant
ed next spring after the brood
stock for the 1886 egg hatch has
been selected fro mtheir number.
RESCUE FISH
Commencing an important an
nual summer task, the game depart
ment has started the job Of rescu-
ing vast number of fish stranded
in pools left by the receding spring
freshets. A - ~
Thousands of such pools will
dry up under the summer sun dur,
ing the next two months, but be-
fore they do state game protectors
and assistants will seine out tGe
fish firm the ponds and transport
them to year round waters. Thous-
ands of mature fish and millions of
fry are saved annually in this sal
vaging program.
So far most of the salvaging has
been confined to trout streams.
However, the greatest numbers Of
fish will be seined during August
and September along the Columbia
river and Snake river bottom lands
particularly in Clark and Asotin
counties, where millions of bass,
salmon, crappie and catfish, and
similar numbers of other varieties
of game. fish. are trapped each year
Use for Fish Nets
The department finds unique use
for scores of illegal fishing nets
seized by game protectors. This
week nearly all such nets available
were taken to game farms, and US
ed to line the inside of pheasant
pens. It's easier on the penned
birds to fly against the soft nets
than against wire mesh.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
ASKS PWA FUNDS
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS

Three important projects will be
instituted in Coulee City in the
near future if PWA funds can be
procured. Through the city council
an application has been made for
money from the PWA fund for i'm
proving and extending the city wat
er system, for building a city Jail
improving and beautifying the
school house grounds and repair
ing the heating plant.
All together the three projects
would employ in the neighborhood
of fifty or seventy five men for a
period of two or three months. All
three projects are worthy and
should find the immediate approx
al of the board which administers
the funds.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT

For months Coulee City young
people have been going to other
places to dance. Now the Black
Cat Cabaret are instituting a ser
les of dances to be given every
Friday night, and Coulee City peo-
pie should encourage these dances
by attending. Instead of going
away from town to spend our mon
ey, let's spend it at home, and en-
courage others to come here They
have a good floor and the music
will be good on each occasion
Chuck Rubyn and his Troubadours
from Wenatchee, are scheduled te
furnish music for the first few
dances.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08
STEEL IS PLACED
FOR BIG DAM SPAN

GRAND COULEE DAM, Aug. -
The first steel was set in place on
the west side of the river today
for the state highway bridge.
A falsework has been built be-
tween the pier and the bank, and
the first Orders we're laid on that
structure, as the western half of
the work was begun. Foot passen-
gers will be travelling over the bri-
dge by the last of the month.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Mrs. Lewis Box, who has been
visiting her parents at Green Ac-
res. Idaho, was in Coulee City Sat
urday morning on her way to the
Grand Coulee Dam, to attend the
bedside. of her husband, who was
severely injured there last Friday,
when he fell off the cofferdam.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Bob Lamb returned the first of
the week from a trip to Seattle and
Tacoma. While there he underwent
an operation for tonsilH. l.,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-08

Mrs. Buck and daughter Ethel,
and son Winfred, of Delrio were
callers at the Lamb home here on
Tuesday afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-09-05

nNE OF the main problems of re-
" adjustment is that every man
wants to go on undisturbed in the
way that he is going, making no
changes and give nothing up. 1t is
quite obvious that Improvement of
any kind will never come in this
way. It is equally obvious that if
improved conditions come about
permanently many changes and
many radical adjustments will have
to be made. It should be clear to all,
that when better times return, as
they eventually will, that if we con-
tinue with the same practices in
which we have INDUCED in the past.
and which are directly responsible
for present conditions, we are going
to wake up one of these fine days
and find ourselves in another de-
preston even worse than this. Like
causes always produce like results.
The marvel of it is that an intel
ligent race can't see it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-09-05
Gum
mittutp Sprntntt
BY THOMAS HASTWELL
Friend of Man

No man in public or private life
who has died within my memory
has left so many people with the
keen sense of personal loss that has
been caused by the tragic and un-
timely death of Will Rogers. To
every man whether he had ever had
the privilege of knowing him,
Rogers was personal friend, per-
sonal possession. There are many
incidents in the life of Will Rogers
which might form the text for a
sermon, but taken as a whole, his
life is a sermon, eloquent, and ap-
pealing to all of mankind every
where. He exemplified the qualities
which every man secretly cherishes
and admires and longs to possess.
His life was an open book, clean,
frank, honest, straightforward,
without pretense or pose. He was
simple, genuine, kindly, sincere. His
lhumor and wit never carried a cruel
barb or an unkind word. The en-
tire background OF his life was clean
and wholesome and honorable. One
expression that Will Rogers one
time used might be said to aptly
epitomize his whole life. It was, "I
never knew anybody I did not like
Such an expression coming out of
a life such as Rogers, is in itself
an eloquent sermon. But the great
est sermon that is taught by the
life of such a man is the desire that
his life has stirred in the hearts of
all men to be remembered at least
in a small degree as one possessing
some of the qualities he possessed,
that have SO endeared him to all
mankind everywhere as a friend of
man.