Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-06-25
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
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sert hotel earlier in the week.
Longview-Ray Murphy, national
commander, American legion, will be
present at the first session of the
state convention here August 20. He
will deliver the principal address at
the opening memorial services.
Olympia - Federal reports show
Washington's apple crop averaged 60
per cent. as of June 1, or f6 points
below the previous June, Director OF
Agriculture Walter ]. Robinson said
last week. Douglas and Chelan
counties anticipate good peach crops,
but other major producing areas face
prospects ranging from poor to fall
ure.
WalIa Walla-Wheat fields in the
Clyde and Prescott areas, 20 to 30
miles north of here, are infested with
hordes of painted lady caterpillars,
F. M. Benson, county agriculture
conservation chairman, has an
nounced. At latest report the painted
ladies had not touched the growing
wheat. confirming their attentions to
tarweed.
Palouse-Private enterprise took
over the Palouse swimming pool this
season when Clair Donaldson was
given lease for 81. Built with PWA
funds on land donated by the cham
Der of commerce, the pool was first
operated by the chamber. Then 1t
was returned to the city, but the
town fathers had no money, hence
he nominal sum asked.
Pomeroy - Garfield county's pio-
neer, association enjoyed its annual
picnic in the local city park recently.
The program included concert by
the high school band; report by
Judge E. v. Kuykendall, historian;
memorial for deceased members; ad-
lress by DR.. S. B. L. Penrose ST.;
baseball game between Pomeroy and
Walla Walla, and election of officers.
truck oper-
ators in north central Washington
laced suspension or cancellation OF
licenses last week when Walter
Chamberlain and Frederick Jordan,
department of public service officers.
conducted a hearing here on charges
of violation of tariffs, discrimination
between customers, failure to keep
records and allowing drivers to OPP
crate trucks while drunk.
Longmire park on the
northeast side of Mount Rainier
opened Monday, and the first motor
lists of the season entered Paradise
valley June 20, a few days earlier
than usual. o. A. Tomlinson, super
intendent of Rainier National park,
said that if normal weather con-
tinues. camp grounds at both Yaki-
ma park and Paradise valley will be
entirely free of snow by July 1.
Olympia ~ Fight against Bangs
disease has been extended definitely
until June. 80; 1887, James G. Exline,
federal bureau of animal 'husbandry,
announced last week. During May,
total of 34y193 cattle, comprising
1868 herds, were officially tested.
Cattle numbering 2997 were found
infected and were slaughtered. In
the nearly two years the program
has been in effect, 'Exline said, al
~mostea 'quarter-million animals have
been tested. ~
INDUsTRIAL PAYROLLs CLIMB
OIympia-Payro1ls, hours worked
md the average hourly wage of en-
ployees in Washington's Industries
Tor; 1886 are continuing the upward
trend noted lin, 1885, b.. Pat Kelly,
director of. labor and industry: an
.nounced last week. u /. $50 ~
The first quarter Of 1896 shows an
increase in payrolls of 1858 per cent.
lover the corresponding period of
1885. Hours Of employment during
the same time topped 1885 figures
by 1913 per cent. The hourly wage
average jumped AZ per cent.
GRAND COULEE MONEY ASSURED
Grand Coulee-Word was received
here early last week that the fight to
secure funds for continuing work
under contracts now in force was
won. The house of representatives
agreed to an amendment to the, in
terror department bill appropriating
S2O,75O,OOO. This is the full amount
originally voted by the senate, plus
$750,000 transferred from general
administrative funds to be available
for administrative work at Grand
| Coulee dam site.
However, Chairman Buchanan of
the house appropriations committee
forced the conference to strike out
$250,000 appropriated for beginning
economic surveys of the Columbia ba-
sin project.
Kennewiclx-Comple of grad.
ing and surfacing of eight and one
fourth miles through Nine canyon
into the Horse Heaven hills south of
here, brings service to wheat re-
gion not previously touched by. an
improved highway.
Prescott ~ Twenty-Five Futur
| Farmers of America, enrolled in the