Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-17
NEWS NOTES OF
TIE NORTHWEST
A Brief Summary Of Events
Of Special Interest to
Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Communities.

HOOD RIVER, Ore.,-The era,
Fats have unanimously decided to CO
operate again with the forest service
in fire fighting during the comins
season, as in the last several years
TROY, Ida.,-The forgotten fac
that sawdust was used in the earl!
days to pave" Iroy's main stree
was brought to light while workme1
were digging a trench for a sewer
connection.
EUGENE, Ore.,-Lane county fair
grounds have been transformed into
a playground tract, with a wadins
pool for children, tennis courts anG
other means of recreation. Plans cal
for further improvement to make il
one of the finest Fairgrounds in the
state.
PENDLETON, Ore.,-A new i'm.
provement in the method of pea
insect-control has gained high ap.
prevail in Umatilla county. 1t was
worked out by the experiment sta
ton at Oregon State college and is
perfect.
BEND, Ore.,-A new ordinance re.
stricting the activities of dogs during
the waterfowl nesting season, first
passed as an emergency measure, is
not only to be extended a month, but
has acquired "teeth" for the protec-
ton of the mirror ponds Mallards
and swans.
ODESSA, Wash.,-C. @. Dobson,
owner of the Odessa meat company,
reports that his market now is sell
ing it's first CRASHED beef of the
season. The Crab creek valley has
long been noted for it's early grass
fed beef as the change from dry
feed to green makes the quality of
the meat exceptionally fine.
BLACKFOOT, Ida.,-I d a h
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion was listed as an "honor roll''
chapter in the national organizations
drive to raise a million-dollar fund
by 1889 to promote temperance.
Idaho's W. c. T. U. has collected
$500, Mrs. Lee C. Brady, state chair
man of the campaign, disclosed.
GRAND COULEE, Wash.,-A two
story stucco office building will be
erected on the site of the Wicks-
Spratlin law office, it was announced.
Plans, call for the removal of the
present one-story structure to a To-
cation higher on the hillside, where
1t will be converted into an apart
ment house. Wicks and Spatlin will
occupy offices in the new building.
MOSCOW, Ida.,-Betty Booth, KEEL
logg, received a bachelors degree in
business and at the same time her
mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Booth, received
a degree in education. This was the
first time in the history of the Uni
versity of Idaho that a mother and
daughter received degrees at the
same commencement. Mrs. Booth
is teaching mathematics at kellogg
nlgn school and has been taking
work at summer sessions for Is
years, having registered as a fresh,
man in 1922.
SOUTH BEND, WASH, - Pacific
county is n of the areas in which
oil and gas in commercial quantities
is most likely to be found in this
state, according to a report by DR..
Sheldon l.. Glover to the state de-
partment. Glover states in his re-
port that in Western Washington the
favorable area" is restricted to
Pacific and Wahkiakum counties and
small sections of Whatcom, Skagit,
Snohomish, King Pierce, Mason,
Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz, Grays Har-
Dor, Jefferson and Clallam counties
STONE LAYING STARTS
SALEM, Ore.,-Granite for the