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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
Valley Lands
In Demand,
Survey Shows
Twenty-Five Newcomers
Listed Among Farm
Purchasers Here.

Demand for Priest Rapids valley
farm lands increased greatly during
the current year, figures compiled
by the Priest Rapids irrigation dis
trict this week reveal. The survey
was made to meet request by the
Milwaukee railroad for information
concerning colonization of land.
A total of 635 acres was involved
in transactions here this year, with
48 persons buying or leasing an
average of 1872 acres each. Thirty
of the transactions were sales, and
18 we're leases.
Twenty-Five of the deals were
made by families who came to this
valley for the first time and who
are now making their homes here,
eight were made by families who
have lived and worked here for
several years but We're purchasing
their first farm home in the valley,
and the other 18 were made by
local persons who were either in
creasing their holdings Or were
moving to new ranches.
OF the total land involved in the
transactions, the irrigation district
sold 1875 acres and leased 149 acres,
while private sales accounted for
100 acres and private leases for
Ill acres.
With a number Of inquiries for
land having been received just re-
Gently, it is expected that these
figures will be much larger by the
end of the year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
OTTO KOLAR SHOT
BY TIPSY YOUTH I

Otto Kolar, former Hanford
youth, was confined to Seattle
hospital this week with a badly
mangled hand, shot in an ahray
with 17-year-old boy who stole
and wrecked his car in a series
of escapades last Saturday night
Kolar has been living in Seattle
where he now has an automobile
paint shop, with his mother, Mrs
Paul Kolar, and his sister, Adelaide
Kolar, since graduating from the
Hanford high school in 1882.
He pleaded with physicians at the
hospital against amputating the
hand, as he would be unable to
support his mother and sister, and
an emergency operation was per-
formed in the hope that amputa-
ton would not be necessary.
According to the reports in Seat
tie newspapers, KoIar was shot in
the right hand by Arthur Kahn, IT.
year-old high school student, who
with two companions had spent
the evening drinking wine at a sub
urban tavern.
Earlier in the evening the youth
was taken home by sheriff's officers,
but jumped from his bedroom win
ow, stole a pistol and rifle from
the home of one of his companions
and started for the Green Lake
heldhouse. On the way, he shot at
pedestrian, but missed him, and
then went up to the car where
Kolar was sitting with friend,
Miss Gladys Warlick, and told them
to get out, that he was going to
take their car.
Kolar told him to run along be-
fore poke you one" and the youth
fired lat his face with the pistol,
which was filled with blank cart
ridges. He then leveled the rifle at
his face, Kolar receiving the bullet
in his hand as he ducked.
AS Kolar got out of the car, the
youth forced Miss Warlick out and
drove off, later wrecking the car
in south Seattle.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
POWER DISTRICT
OFFICIALS MEET

Commissioners A. L. Brockway,
Hanford, and Preston Roger, Pros
ser, and Manager j. B. Whitehead,
Benton City, represented Benton
county at the meeting of public
utility district commissioners from
the eighteen organized counties of
the state at Seattle Saturday, Mo-
vember 20.
The purpose of the meeting was
to discuss coordinated action by the
power districts. The recently APP
pointed administrator of Bonneville
Dam, j. D. Ross, addressed the
meeting and outlined his general
plan for distribution of electric
energy from the Bonneville plant.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
Benton Ranks Z
I'm Nations q q
GrapeCounties
Benton And Yakima Only
Counties In Northwest
Listed.

Benton and Yakima are the only
two counties in the northwest to
rank among the 100 leading grape
producing counties in the nation,
according to a special report re-
leased this week by the bureau Of
census of the department. of COM
merce.
California leads the nation in
grape production, having 81 of the
leading 100 counties, seven tenths
of the nations grape vines and
about six-sevenths of the produc
zion
The first 10 counties in produc-
ton are in California, and these
accounted for 70 per cent of the
United States production in 1884.
Most of the grapes of the Pa
cific coast are varieties of the grape
of the old world, according to the
report, and include table, raisin and
juice or wine varieties. Eastern
grapes, on the other hand, are
mostly of American origin and are
largely consumed fresh or made
into juice.
Yakima county was Gath in rank
among the leading counties of the
nation In number of vines of all
ages, having dropped slightly from
62nd position in 1880. In number
of grapevines of bearing age, va
kiraa ranked 63rd, a drop from
60th position in 1880, and in pro-
duction ranked 44th in 1885, a drop
from 18th place in 1880.
Benton county, on the other hand,
bettered it's position in 1885, rank
ing 86th in number of vines of all
ages whereas in 1880 it had not
been included among the 100 lead
ing counties In the number of
vines of bearing age it ranked 88th,
having entered the list of leading
counties for the first time. 1t
ranked 6Oth in production a boost
OF 4 points from it's 1880 position.
According to the report, Benton
county had a total OF 232,824 vines
of all ages, 2O6,698 vines of bear
ing age, and produced 1927 1888
pounds of grapes in 1885, the year
the data was assembled.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
Xmas Seal Sale
Opened Today

Thanksgiving Day marks the
opening of the annual sale of
Christmas seals throughout the
county, state and nation, says Mrs
Frank Clark, publicity chairman of
the Benton county tuberculosis
League.
These penny stickers have fin
anced the fight against tuberculosis
in the United States for the last
thirty years and, Mrs. Clark points
out, have provided Benton county
children with periodic examinations
for the early diagnosis of tubercu-
losis by the Mantoux skin test and
x-rays.
Urging everyone to help prevent
tuberculosis by placing a Christmas
seal on all letters and packages,
DR.. Donald G.. Evans, state health
director says:
'''The Washington state depart
ment of health appeals to the citi-
zens to harken to the Town Crier
ringing his bell to call their atten-
ton to the Importance of invest
ing their money in the control Of
tuberculosis Through the purchase
of Christmas seals.
"The money expended in this di-
rection represents a sound invest
ment for all of us in a program
to ward off this needless killer
from ourselves and our loved ones
Mrs. d. S. Wilkinson is in charge
of the sale of these seals in the
White Bluffs community and Mrs
Leo Webber is in charge in the
Hartford community.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
TAX AGREEMENTS
EXPIRE NOV, BOTH

Property owners who have de-
linquent taxes dating back to 1888
or farther, have only few days
more in which to save money by
signing ten-yeaT tax contracts with
the county.
Under the present law, which ex-
pires December l, 1885 and prior
taxes may be paid in 20 semi-an-
-nual payments, provided the de-
linquency includes 1893.
Interest is charged on 1884 and
1885 taxes, but the 1888 and prior
taxes go interest free, under the
agreements. The 1886 tax in full
and one payment of the contract
rate, arrived at by adding the 1884
and 1885 taxes and interest to the
1888 and prior sum and dividing
by 20, entitle the taxpayer to the
contract
BY taking advantage of the con-
tract, the delinquency penalty maj
be forestalled, and the interest on
the 1888 and prior tax escaped.
The plan was invoked by. the state
legislature to give taxpayers a
chance to save property that might
otherwise be lost.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
EQUALIZATION
MEETING SET

The board of directors of the
Priest Rapids irrigation district
will meet as board of equaliza-
ton Saturday afternoon, November
q, at their office in the White
Bluffs Spokesman building to
equalize the water tolls and land
assessments for the coming year,
and to hear and determine such
objections to the tolls and assess
ments as may be presented.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
BUILDING SOLD

The Webber Building at Hanford,
which was badly damaged in the
wind storm last spring, has been
sold to George Dietrich of Rich
land, who will tear it down and
take the lumber to Richland, Coun-
ty Commissioner Frank Clark said
this week. :,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
Star Routes To
Be Combined ,
! =
CALL FOR BIDS

Bids for carrying the mail on a
star route from KenneWick to
Priest Rapids for the period from
July /, 1898 to June 80, 1912, will
be received by the postoflce de-
partment at Washington, D. c.,
from now until January IS, 1888,
Postmaster j. E. Leander was adj
vised this week Awarding of the
contract will be announced on or
before March g.
The new route will include the
present star routes from Kennewick
to White Bluffs six days week
and from White Bluffs to Priest
Rapids three days a week, with an
added trip to Gold Creek on the
return from Priest Rapids.
A few application blanks are now
available at the White Bluffs post
office, Mr.. ~Leander states. A bond
of $4,000 is required with the bid,
the present pay of both routes am
bunting to $2,387.72.
The itinerary of the new route
is listed by the postofflce depart
ment as follows:
From Kennewick, by Richland
Smiths Corner, Old Road juno
ton, Hanford, White Bluffs, Allard
and Vernita, to Priest Rapids, re-
turning by Vernita, Riverland Nc
Gees, Cold Creek, White Bluffs
Hanford, Old Road junction, Smith
Corner, and Richland to Kenne-
wick, equal to 1910 miles and back;
six times a week between Kenne-
wick and White Bluffs (455O. miles,
and. three times a week between
White Bluffs and Priest Rapid;
equal to 276O miles,.
The carrier is to leave Kenne-
wick at $50 am, arriving at White
Bluffs by 8:45 am, leaving White
Bluffs after arrival of rural carrier
about 1880 pm, on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday.
| On Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday, the same schedule from
KenneWick to White Bluffs will be
observed, the carrier to arrive at
Priest Rapids by 1880 am, leaving
there Immediately upon arrival and
returning to White Bluffs within
2k hours, and leaving White Bluffs
at the same time as on the other
three days, arriving at Kennewick
within 2A hours.
Another star route for which bids
will be received is that from Ring
old to Mesa, IS miles and back, six
days week: The bond required on
bids for this route is $1,000, the
present pay being $1,196.18.
| Bids for this route conditioned
on schedule to head out of Mesa
will be considered, the department
states, such condition to be stated
in the bids.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
GRANGE SETS DATES

The White Bluffs Grange is now
making preparations for series of
two entertainments, to be giver,
December 10 and january 30, Mrs.
Frank Hef1sley, lecturer, announces.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
GRANGE HAS DANCE
SATURDAY NIGHT

Everybody is urged to attend the
dance and variety floor show which
will be given by the White Bluffs
Grange at the Grange hall Satur-
day evening, November 81.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-11-25
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
Evening star., 1937-07-20
Cren1Ona.

Scattered all over Europe there are
little towns that never will perish so
long as human memory survives. They
live and prosper because their names
are associated with those of men and
women who cannot be forgotten. Con-
slider Cremona for example: Just now
it is gay with flags in celebration of
one OF its children who has been dust
these two long centuries. Tourists by
the thousands are making pilgrimage to
the spot this Summer. 1t is their pleas
ure to pay homage to Antonio Stradivari
the genius who brought the violin to
its highest perfection" and left his
birthplace an imperishable endowment
in his fame as the greatest OF all masters
of his difficult craft.
Cremona itself is interesting. It rises
from the slope above the north bank
Of the historic Po, looks to the south
over the Plain of Lombardy, possesses
legends and traditions dating back to
the hour when imperial Rome first felt
the need to build frontier fortresses
against the "barbarians" The ancient
walls still exist, oval in shape, battered
In condition, yet somehow reassuring in
world from which danger OF sudden
attack has not yet been banished.
Seventy CHURCHES, boasttng no less than
Evening star., 1937-07-20

moment Is preserved In their experience
so long as they shall live.
And it is that word which should be
stressed in any tribute to Marconi. He
created facilities for the enrichment of
the common life Of the race; he pro-
vided new powers for the development
OF culture, international amity social
progress, education in all the wonderful
connotations OF the phrase Thus, he
vitalized the age to which he belonged
and the illimitable future for which the
EZRA Of transition" is a necessary pro-
logue. Probably, 1t may truthfully be
said that he was one Of the most useful
and helpful individuals of his generation.
But 1t must be repeated that he bore
himself like prince His soul was
gentle, his manner modest, his tenn
perament altruistic. 1t was his privi-
lege to be truly great as we'll as to do
really great things Mankind is proud
to be related to him. Like Raphael, he
was one Of those persons who justify
the species to God.
Evening star., 1937-07-20
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

effect to the rude warriors from the
northern forests who swept down upon
the doomed city.
Somehow bathtubS have conquered and
America has survived-but how it has
managed to preserve its moral and
physical life against the typewriter is a
real miracle, from the point of view of
the pessimistic prophets of the seventies.
This foul invention struck at the
heart OF American womanhood to pro-
duce a feeble, neurotic, disobedient race.
In 1881 the Y. w. c. A. in New York
City offered a course in typing for girls
There were vigorous protests The fe-
male constitution, it was declared. would
break down completely under the six
months OF strenuous training required.
Moreover. it would be encouraging wom-
en- to earn their own livings and be
independent
The instrument was attacked severely
on the grounds of etiquette. To receive
typewriter letter. it was held, was
little short of an insult 1t indicated
that your correspondent thought you
were barely able to read and had to
have things made easy for you. Those
who used typewriters were accused of
being obnoxiously ell-headed 1t still
Is considered bad form in very high
society to send typewriter personal let
ters-doubtless a holdover from this old
attitude.
There was some justification for the
hostility at first, DR.. Stern points out.
The machine cost about sl25. One
could buy pen that would do the same
work for one cent. 1t didn't seem like
common sense. The early typewriters
had double keyboards and the hard
touch" Fingers and arms quickly be-
came tired. The machine made about
as much noise as a riveting machine.
1t was too heavy to move around. A
travelling correspondent might as we'll
have thought of Juggling the family piano
around with him.
Neither baths nor typewriters, how
ever, were denounced quite so strenuouslv
as was the earliest use of coal for fuel.
So far as known nobody was hanged
Tor taking bath or writing a letter
on typewriter. A tolerant public be.
HeVed that such persons would be pun
lshed sufficiently in hell In 1906. how
ever. "a citizen of London was tried
condemned and executed for burning
sea cole',' according to citation in the
National Resources Committee report,
The practice had been denounced as a
public nuisance corrupting the air with
It's stink and smoke to the great detrt-
ment of health"-and q law passed pro-
hibiting it, which was ignored by the
lucklesS scoundrel
Somehow or other the intolerable
custom gained ground in England. In
1880 Queen Elizabeth prohibited the use
of coal in London while Parliament was
in session because "the health of the
knights of the shires might suffer during
their abode in the metropolis" Almost
hundred years later Charles the Sec
ond imposed tax on fireplaces as a
menace to public health.
Evening star., 1937-07-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The morning chorus of the birds is
Quieting down, the English SparroWs are
returning to the feeding stations, all
along the line The great Midsummer
Wind-up OF activities is beginning
Many days and weeks will go by, now,
before the birds begin their migrations,
but one by one they will drop out, leav-
ing this scene OF great activities behind
them.
Already this movement is heralded by
the diminution in the vigor of the chorus
at dawn, so beautiful to the ear tuned
to it.
The abandon OF early Spring mornings
has given way to more sedate tone,
in which may be heard a peculiar but
pleasing change, not only Of pace, but
of notes.
Little, halfaccented grace notes come
into the music. Natures plans have
been completed, in great degree; the
next step is a journey South.
Such songs as the birds have left for
us are quieter, milder. without the wild
vigor Of the Springtime
In the plant world the old fayorite
althea bush is busy putting forth the
round blossoms which bees and people
love.
They, too, are signs that the gardening
is IN waning, rather than waxing,
mood
Many glorious blossoms are yet to
come, but, all in all, the flush of the
season is over, and from now on it will
be a dWindling, rather than a gaining,
garden.
This is true, whether one likes the
statement or not.
Many persons, unfortunately, resent
the truth and proclaim what they do
not want to know as false, but the wiser
wayfarer knows that to be poor, as
well as unintelligent, way of taking
things Whatever is he must accept,
provided it is inevitable.
Subtle change of Spring into Summer
and Summer into Fall is one of these.
There are positions at intervals along
the weeks where it is impossible to say
whether Spring, Summer or Fall exists,
save by reference to the calendar
Many observers are extremely SenSi-
tive to these changes, much better able
to note them. and to sense them. than
are these people who constantly prefer
to overlook what they do not like.
Yet, really, there is no need for any
one to blink the facts Of the parade of
these days There are many interest
ing, necessary changes from now on,
among the most beautiful in Natures
parade.
They are, too, among the most nee
essary.
1t is essential, for instance, that most
OF the birds now in our trees go back
where it is warmer. They cannot live
here the year around. Even the chesty
robin, the very picture of health, will
find a Washington Winter too much
for him.
What is this difference in the birds,
which makes some Of them, such as the
cardinal and the bluejay, stay with US
and keeps the titmouSe and chickadee.
now farther North. perfectly satisfied
with as much South" as they find here
abouts?
Part of the mystery of migra ton. no
one has explained these facts The
Evening star., 1937-07-20
Shooting Stars.
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.

A Human Necessity.
The world must have conventions to
discuss each social movement,
And then adjourn with plans to hold
some more,
For the conversation is what represents
the true improvement
OF people here or on distant shore.
In addition to the wonderful inventions
whose employment
Places accurate results beyond doubt,
The world must have it's share OF in
tellectual enjoyment.
1t needs a lot OF things to talk about.
So let us have the theories which call for
erudition
Which ordinary mortals cannot reach,
For each must do the part tn life that
falls to his position,
II 1t is only just a part Of speech.
The purpose of existence is the constant
interchanging
OF thoughts which come In vogue and
then 60 out.
So let us not grow weary of the fancies
widely ranging.
We need a lot of things to talk about.
Evening star., 1937-07-20

When Millard Fillmore installed a
bathtub in the White House in 1851 it
was a national scandal.
Red -blooded Americans everywhere
protested that the President was sissy
He had introduced from Europe an
abominable "monarchial luxury" If he
felt he must take bathS-an un-American
practice anyWay-the White House
washtub was good enough for any man.
Thomas jefferson and Andrew Jackson
hadn't had bathtubs. Who did this guy
Fillmore think he was, anyway?
This is one of the striking examples
OF the conservatism of the public mind
and its resistance to chronological i'm
provements which makes the future of
any new idea unpredictable, cited by the
National Resources Committee in its
recent report on chronological trends.
Less than ten years before, according
to Bernhard j. Stern Of the National
Resources Committee the Philadelphia
Common Council had come within two
votes of passing an ordinance against
bathing of any sort between November
and March Is. The allegedly growing
practice was sapping the vitality of the
citizenry. 1t was denounced as a menace
to public health and decency.
At about the same time the degrading
habit was getting a foothold in Virginia.
Several Old Dominion towns imposed a
tax of $50 on every bathtub in an
effort to discourage the vile things.
In those days everything from Europe
was regarded by good Americans as
effeminate. The bathtub, DR.. Stern
says, was denounced as designed to
corrupt the democratic simplicity of the
Republic" The doctors went hayWire
over it and the medical journals sizzled
with their denunciations. 1t produced
they said, rheumatic fevers and in
flammations Of the lungs.
Even in degraded Europe the bathtub
had made slow progress toward re-
spectability. 1t still is rare, according to
the accounts of recent explorers OF our
acquaintance. One had been placed in
the palace at Versailles. 1t proved
superfuous, however, and was removed
1t was put into the garden for a foun-
tain. There is no conclusive evidence
that either Louis the Fourteenth or
Madame de Maintenon ever took a bath.
1t was considered immoral. There were
depths of depravity to which no decent
Christian would descend-and bathing
was one OF them.
The Moors-heathen dogs that they
were-had introduced the practice into
Spain. They even had built public
baths where the loWliest citizen might
risk his immortal soul When the Mos
lens were driven out these baths we're
destroyed. Washing the body said King
Philip, was q heather custom danger
Gus to believers"
Part of this attitude very likely was a
holdover from the contempt for the
Romans held by the sturdy tribesmen Of
Northern Europe. Baths, public and
private, had been scattered all over the
city in the days of the empire The
more corrupt degraded and effeminate
the population became. the more 1t
bathed. 1t was clear case Of cause and