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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
JACK ADAMS TO STAGE
ANNUAL FIREWORKS DISPLAY

For the fourth consecutive year g
the Coulee Junction service staff II,
accord ne 10 Jack Adams. owner The
display will begin just as soon as it
ge.s dark enough on the night of July
4 (probahly about Q or $500
THE pFrotechnc display put on at
the station last year was witnessed by
huge crowd, and Mr. Adams states
that the cXhib 'ticn this year will be
bigger and better than ever.
There is plenty OF parking space
one is given cordial invitation to be
present.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
Bowling Alleys To
Open Here Soon

Gregg hall is undergoing complete
renovation this week to make ready
for bowling alley, which will be
opened within SHORT time by Paul
Hunich, owner of the Grandview bowl
ing alley at Grand Coulee. Plans call
for the installation of four "duek-
pin" alleys, As feet in length.
Bowling has rapidly climbed in
sports popularity within the last few
years, and the introducing of the game
here is sure to be drawing card.
Opening date of the establishment will
be announced later.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
GIRL INJURED

June Rounds suffered painful injur-
les Sunday afternoon whe the motor
cycle on which she was riding skidded
il the gravel and ri the qua q s sen
the highway near Soap Lake. Mac
MacGrew of Cashmere, who was driv-
ing the machine, escaped without in
jury. The girl was taken to the Soap
Lake hospital with several fractured
ribs and possibly fractured leg.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27

Miss Betty j. Stadelman Of
Vancouver. Wash, above, was an
nounced as the 1910 winner of the
Washington State Federation OF
Women's clubs scholarship at the
recent annual meeting of that or
ganization in Yakima. Miss Stadel
man, who completed her first year
at the State College of Washington
in June, was selected to receive the
scholarship on the basis of hel
record as local leader in All
home economics projects. Miss
Stadelman's All record has in.
Guided projects ranging from the
making Of tea towels to the sue
cessful raising of 30 Chinese
pheasants. and her exhibits have
won her first places in MANY fairs
throughout the Northwest. The
scholarship is worth $50 when ap.
piled on a full term course in home
economics at the State College.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
Lake Size Doubled
During Flood Stage

Spr ng floods ON the G., lGrnhia rivct
.ast month doubled the lcnat n oil thc
great reservoir 1 water l. q. bacscs
Ap by Grand Coulee dam, LoH,r.irsion.
er John G. Iage. Ut the hu eau =.
Reclamation. reported today to Sec.
Rotary of the Interior HArold L. lcAe-.
May floods piled thems: Ives against
the largest concrete dam in the world
until the new reservoir stretched lC7
miles upstream at the close Of lie
month, compared with only 90 miles
1T the beginning.
Storage is now quarter cf cana.
city. When full the reservoir viii hnis,
3,5l7 1000 acre-feet, or more chan
5000 billion gallons of water--25,.
600 gallons for every inhabitunt or
me United States.
1t will be l51 miles in length, 36
miles lcnger than Boulder dam IS Lake
Mead, TIE largest man made body ot
water in the world. 1t WI be almost
as long as Lake Ontario.
THE rapidly ac .usnulating waters
n the new reservoir viii he the source
of homes and livelihood for 10000
o 10000 farm fam lies who win live
on the Columbia Basin reclamation
project. The reservoir will provide
them with an irrigation supplw for
100000 aces of fertile b,sT arid
land
The reclamation project will found
a new Agricultural empire in the
Northwest for nearly half II million
population, including that in the cit
os which viii spring up in the wake
f the development.
Large tracts Of drv.farmcd wheat
now under cultivation in the region
will give way to comparatively smnll
irrigated farms. VIII cn.w,tI gr,.w A.
falfa aud Others forage e-eps., garden
truck and othertSegctable,, fruits and
berries.
The income If these future Colun-
5ia basin farmers and townspeopie
Aill create anothe' substantial buv-
ing market for the manufactured
soods and p-ocessed foods # lnlust
'ial centers in the East and elsewhere.
1t will add itself to the 100000
900 n year market for Anne lean busi.
less and industry created las the
three dozen reclamation projects es
abb shed in the arid West since the
leginning CT the century.
Waters of the new rcsery2ir will
llso be used to generate an abundant
;upply Of lowcost hydroelectric paw.
to light farm and city homes and
run factories. Sale If the energy Will
clip amo re the self sustaining pro
ect. whose cost will be repaid in so
years.
Grand Coulee dam and its power
).ant are nearing completion A long
itraglt slab Of concrete over 30
tories high now stretches three
quarters of a mile between the hlfs
N each side Ct the Columbia river
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
BEGIN COMMERCIAL DOCK

Construction of a commercial deck,
the first on the river lake above Grand
Coulee dam, was started Monday by
futile Brothers, operators of passen-
ger craft on the lake.
The dock will be on the west shore
OF the Columbia, and will be reached
over the old county road which served
the Seaton ferry. The ferry route lay
near the axis Of the present dam.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27

Bill Twin'ng of Spokane is visiting
at the Tom and ALT Twining homes
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Joplin of Okan-
ogan visited w. l.. Joplin Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Joplin returned
Saturday from weeks visit in
Seattle
Mrs. j. w. Joplin and Michael re
turned Friday from Asotin after a
visit with her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chef Evans and fam.
lily of Wilbur Wis ted with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Willis over the week end.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
St. Andrews News

Everyone seemed to enjoy the>nselv
es at the picnic last Saturday.
Three speakers took part in the
program Erwin f. King, Master
of the Washington state Grange, gave
an interesting talk on cost of product
ion prices for the dcme5tically con
sumed portions of American farm
pre- ducts, etc Ovcrseer Of the Wash
ington State Grange, Henry Carsten-
SIN of .hlmita, gaev a sslk sens aitia,
tive 139.
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Pence of Che
neg: Mr. Pence, now teaches in the
Eastern Washington College CT Educa-
ton. He taught school here for nine
years, some tine age. He and some o.
his former students held their annual
reunion at this date with the st. An
drews picnic. Mr.. Pence spoke briefly
concerning their happy years here at
st. Andrews, VIII sch were not so pref
liable financially, but were greatly
so in the formation of lifetime friend
ships. He also ci.ed examples CT his
pupils who had learned to work for
him, and because of that were sue.
cessful in life and wise versa.
Those who attended the reunion
from a distance and who were Mr.
Pence's pupils here we're: Adolph Err
cksen of Portland, Ore; Elmer Han
sen and family of Enumclaw; Reuben
Sparks and Mrs. Morgan Howard (nee
Reba Sparks of Wenatchec; Mr.
Stan Jones (nee Evelyn Jolly and
family of Almira; Donald Davidson
and family of Coulee City; Carl Lar
sen Of Almira, gave a talk on Initia-
Osborne, and others from here.
A ball game in the afternoon, be.
tween Sims Corner and st. Andrews,
was won IS to 26 by Sims Corner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Jolly and Sandra
spent three days THIS week visiting
i'll Spokane.
Chris Jorgensen was business call
or in Malott Wednesday
Marie and Shirley Ann Mickelsen
Nadeen Tanneberg and Joyce Hahn
took Betty Ann Lundgaard to Soap
Lake Monday afternoon.
Some friends of Lily Jenkins help
ed her celebrate her birthday Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Larsen of Ma
lott, old timers from here, were at
the picnic Saturday, and spent Sun
day at Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Jorgensen IS
Ras Tanncberg and Lilly Jenkins
and Gee and Nadeen we're in Water
Vile last Thursday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
NUMBER OF FARMS DECREASES

The number Of farms in Grant coun
ty, as shown by a preliminary count of
the returns of the Supervisor of the
1910 Census of Agriculture, inventory
as of April 1, 1910, is COL, rs com
pared with 724 ON January /, 1885,
and 7S7 on April /, 1890. The 194C
figure is preliminary and subject to
correction
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
DOUGLAS COUNTY
POPULATION GAINS

Douglas county gained 1861 in pop
ulation the last ten years, Lawrence
Leahy, district census supervisor an
nounced. The population April was
1922 The census gave Douglas coun-
ty 1248 farms, decrease Of 120.
Leahy said it did not necessarily mean
decrease in acreage, because num-
erous small farms have consolidated
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
SDo
{ YOU
KNOW?
N~>~->~
A. Washington stote Progress conunissiex

At Point Roberts, in the extreme
northwest corner of the State of
Washingt on, is located one of the
largest and most ancient kitchen mil-
ems in the United States. Reliable
authorities have estimated that the
,arliest inhabitants of this site e,i.
sted Mt least 1900 years ago One OF
he very few trephined skulls found
n North An erica was .excavated there
in 1908.
Although picture rocks are found
throughout large areas in the United
States, they are particularly numet-
us in Washington, ospcc ally IN the
interior OF the state in the region
Trained by the Colunbia river and its
tributaries. The d,y climate has pro
served these mysterious old monu.
uents from the destructive weather
ing that would obliterato them in u
loister region.
No living Indians can account for
he p ctures or interpret their mean
ing. Theories attriSrSrng them -
wandering Morse or Chinese travelling
through this country thousand wears
ago have never been accorded gene. e.
acceptance
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
FIRE DESTROYS RESIDENCE

A fire early this Thursday morn
ing destroyed the home of G.. H. Walk
r. a few possessions were saved
The fire department responded to
the alarm and halted the blaze from
spreading to other buildings in the
neighborhood.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
RODEO rs INTERESTING

The inaugural rodeo at the Big d
dude ranch Sunday proved highly en-
Iertaining to large crowd. All of
the customary rodeo events were pre-
scented, and the performers gave ex.
hibitions that were of exceptionally
fine caliber.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
GRACE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH

(B. P. Wilson, pastor)
Sunday services:
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning worship IL a. m.
Young people GAS,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27

Mrs. Smart of Wilbur visited friends
here Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Hershall LETTERS and
daughter of Delano visited relatives in
town Tuesday.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
NAME COMMISSIONER

J. B. Mart'n of Quincy has been ap
pcined Grant county commissioner t.
fill the vacancy created By the death
of NJ l.. Ross.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27
INSTALL MACHINERY

Machinery is being installed in the
new elevator erected here for the Far
ners I'm on Warehouse
The new elevator being erected for
the Centennial FIGURING Mills is ex-
pected to be finished by harvest time
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-06-27

Mrs. Ida Darby returned Tuesday
from visit with her son Cecil.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Finds His MAJ"
After Three Weeks

After a three-weeks' search.
Deputy John p. Vargo got his man.
He arrested Clarence Williams,
%. in an eastend roOming house
Friday night on a bench warrant
charging him with contempt OF
court
Williams according to Vargo.
was convicted in federal court here
last March on a charge Of selling
liquor TO Indians on the rsholah
reservation at Grays Hsrbor. He
was sentenced to 90 days at the
federal road camp and fined 81
and costs.
He did everything but pay the
costs. which amout to about 500.
On his way home last night.
Vargo stopped at a store to buy
some cigarets. Quite by accident.
he heard some men talking about
Williams. who had told them he
had served time"
Vargo went promptly to work.
A surprised man. williams will ap-
pear before Judge Lloyd L. Black
TO explain about the costs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Troubles Mount
For Moiorist

Already facing a drunk-driving
charge, James r. Donaldson. Is,
was back in the city Jail Satur-
day, again trying TO raise bail.
Donaldson had been jailed last
Tuesday as a drunk-driving sus-
pect after allegedly using Pacific
ave. as speedway. He posted
$500 bail bond, and was freed to
await trial.
Friday night Motorcycle Officer
Pete Schultz went on the trail of
two persons causing a disturb
ance in front of the downtown
liquor store. He found Donaldson
and Flora Wood. rs. who was his
companion in the former arrest
and went to Jail on that occasion.
arguing about who was going to
drive the car. Then Donaldson
spotted the officer, and said Miss
Wood could drive. The pair went
to jail on charges of being drunk
in an automobile.
Miss Wood was fined SIS and
costs by Judge Joseph Mallory
Saturday morning. The new case
against Donaldson was continued
to Monday. Police also ordered
him held to investigate bad-check
accusations against him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Better Business
Bureau Warning

Walter West, manager of the
Better Business bureau. Saturday
warned Tacomans receiving up
ordered neckties through the mail
they are under no moral or legal
obligation to pay for them. He
added their only obligation was to
keep them in a reasonably safe
place and turn them over to rep
resentatives Of the company upon
demand.
The warning was issued in re-
Spouse to numerous calls received
by the bureau from persons who
had received through the mail two
neckties and a statement for 81.
Merchandise In each case was &C
companied by letter stating the
Necktie Workers organization Of
st. Louis, Mo. employed handi-
capped persons and the proceeds
of sales would contribute toward
furnishing work for them.
According to West, the Better
Business bureau Of st. Louis in
vestigated the concern and found
that but IL per cent OF proceeds
was paid out for wages. The
Social Planning council of st.
Louis has recommended against
recognizing the proposition as one
Of charity.
Neckties are said TO be of an
inferior grade and not worth the
price asked for them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12

The Red Jacket. newest packet
In the Grace line and a trim
steamer Of 1855 net tons. will
make her Tacoma debut early next
month. n was announced sstur-
day.
sister-ship to the Flying Cloud
and Stag Hound. she u the third
built for the maritime commission
and slated to operate for the Grace
line between northwest ports and
the west coast Of South America.
Officers stated she Is due in Ia
coma September 10 on her initial
run in the new service. She had
her maiden run under the Grace
line banner between the Atlantic
coast and South America.
To Stop In South
The Flying Cloud entered the
new service in May. the Stag
Hound last April. The Red Jacket,
like the others. has $1,000 cubic
feet OF insulated chamber space
besides dry cargo capacity.
Sailing from the east coast, she
Is due in San Francisco in late
August. She viii cali at the Co
lumbia river and continue to Puget
Sound and British Columbia
The Flying Cloud will arrive In
Seattle Monday on her second
northward voyage to discharge
coffee and nitrstes. She then will
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Housing Authority for City
Expected to Be Organized

Mayor Cain wired his office
from Washington. D. c., Saturday
that he has information which will
justify appointment of housing
authority in Tacoma. subject to
the councils approval
Cain will fly back TO Tacoma
to arrive Tuesday.
One of the chief missions upon
which he made his flying trip to
the capital was to investigate the
federal housing program IN its
application to Tacoms's need for
additional housing to take care
of officers of McChord field and
Fort Lewis, for whom the war
department cannot provide hous-
ing on the military reservations.
McChord field il without
officer housing almost entire
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Involved in Crash.
Moiorist Is Jailed

Held in the city Jail as a drunk
driving suspect. Melvin johnson.
SO. was attempting to raise $500
bail Saturday in the face Of a
police court hearing set for next
Tuesday.
He was nabbed shortly before
10 p. m. Friday when officers, in
vestigsting an accident at So. 56th
and Park, found him on the scene.
He sllegedly admitted having con-
sumed several drinks before his
sedan smashed into a truck driven
by Cecil Farrell. Neither party
was injured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Wisecrack OF
Youth Costly
Must Sell Auto or
Serve Fine in Iuil

Eighteen-year-old Jack Younger.
Tacoma high school student learn
ed Friday what is meant by pro-
tecting the public's welfare"
The lesson sent him 10 Jail He
would have had his freedom. but
pert remark addressed to Police
Judge Joseph Mallery ended his
chances
Both ne and Edward P. KEN
mer. %, were convicted Of negli-
gent driving for using Division
ave. as a speedway Aug. /. KEN
mer was fined $50 and costs. and
said he would pay the fine.
Younger had stated he couldn't
pay or get the money. The court
had offered a suspended jail SEN
tence on condition he get rid Of
the car he was driving. Then the
youth made the wrong statement.
We'll, II I sell this one, can I
buy another?" he asked.
The court paused. Il value your
welfare. but the public's more"
said Judge Mallery. ~ hate to
send young boy to Jail. But II
you can afford to buy and drive
a car you can afford to pay a
fine. You win go to jail until you
sell the car and apply the down
on your SIS fine. You
will be given time to pay the
balance"
Apparently unruffled, Younger
addressed three young companions,
We'll, boys. what am I bid ,"
Negotiations were interrupted
as he was led away to a cell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
FEC. Replies
To acomans
Radio Problem
Now Up TO Courts

Pointing out that Columbia
Broadcasting System has the
right to determine through
which stations to release its
network programs. the fed
eral communications commits
sion said further action on the
complaint of Tacoma's XVI,
supported by Tacoma Cham
Der of Commerce, was out of
its hands.
These facts were contained in q
letter received by T. A. Steven
son. manager Of the chamber.
from T. A. NJ. Craven. acting
chairman of the commission.
Local protest came after the
commissions recent authorization
for Seattle station KIRO 10 20 to
10000 watts power without bene-
fit of hearing. The added power
would place the Seattle station
in a position to take over CHS
broadcasts now released over XVI.
Personal intervention In be-
half of the local station was
presented In the commissions
headquarters In Washington.
d. C., by Stevenson and Mayor
Harry p. Cain.
Craven further stated that
though KIRo1s application was a
matter Of public record, no pro-
test was received until after the
grant.
Rehearing on the grounds of
possible loss of network affilia-
tons was impossible, the letter
stated, and the only basis upon
which a rehearing could be OBJ
tanned would be evidence concern
ing past or present conduct of
KIRO which might constitute
grounds for revoking or failing to
renew its present authorizations. 4"
1t was the commissions
contention. whichever Of the
two stations Columbia pre-
ferred as an outlet, the listen
Ing public Of Tacoma would be
served with stronger intensity
than before.
The letter was received shortly
before a damage suit for 500, 900
was filed Friday in Pierce county
superior court by Queen City
Broadcasting Co. against Tacoma
Chamber of Commerce, alleging
slanderous statements were made
against KIRO in a July issue of
Tacoma Progress. Stevenson
and 26 members OF the chamber
board of directors were named
defendants.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Announce Opening
OF Service Exams

u S. civil service commission
Saturday announced opening of
competitive examinations for po-
sitions listed below. Applications
will be rated as received at the
commissions Washington office
until further notice.
Examinations include positions
OF inspector. powder and explo-
sives, senior, associate, assistant
and junior. Employment viii be
in the ordnance branch of the war
department. Applicants must have
at least Is semester hours study
in organic chemistry in a recog-
nized college or university. Ex-
perience may be substituted for
part of the requirement. Those
under SIS years old are eligible.
Positions Of inspector of ship
construction. with option
branches of huh. mechanical. cleo
trical and radio inspection also
are open. Employment will be in
the navy department wherever
assigned.
Applications for the positions of
helper and shipfitter in the navy
yard at Bremerton will be received
by the recorder. Labor board,
Puget Sound navy yard. Bremen
ton, Wash. until Aug. 20.
Further information may be OBJ
tanned at the Federal building,
18th and A SITS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Maccabees Annual
Picnic Sunday

A genuine community picnic, of
the democratic American brand
designed to provide wholesome
entertainment for dad. mother and
the kids. the ninth annual outing
sponsored by Tacoma Maccabees.
Is expected to attract several
thousand celebrants TO Meals
Glendawn park on Five-Mile lake
Sunday.
According to Robert Goldberg,
general chairman of the picnic, re-
quests for tickets have greatly
surpassed former years and 1t is
possible an attendance record will
be set If the weatherman supplies
fair. warm day.
An all-day program of sports,
games, special stunts, swimming
and dancing will offer events to
please every member Of the FAM
lily. both old and young. Goldberg
states. Cash prizes totaling $3.50
and more than hundred merchan-
disc awards will be given away.
Automobile drivers will have no
parking charges TO pay. and free
coffee and ice cream viii be
served. Those not having cars
may be transported free to the
park in a special bus leaving Mac
cabee temple, 18th and Pacific, at
1890 a. m.
Tacoma Tgerettes. champion
girls team, viii play a softball
doubleheader, starting at 11:30 a.
m. They win face in order the
strong Bremerton Bellies and Mac
cabee male squad. In addition to
aquatic and track events, the
sports program viii be featured
by a Leap Year roping contest"
for single girls. and the married
ladies' rolling-pin throw and hus-
band calling contest. All events
are for prizes and will be an
nounced over a public address sys-
tenn at the park.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-12
Bridegroom-io-
Be Lands in Jail

Albert Mold. Route No. l. Ia
coma, wasn't sure that he would
be able to get married Saturday
night.
Mold was in the county Jail on
drunken driving charge after
running into the rear Of a state
patrol car Friday night near Fort
Lewis. Two other men riding with
Mold jumped out of the car,
climbed fence and disappeared.
Mold said he was celebrating
his last night of bachelorhood.
Officers said he might have to re-
milan a bachelor several more days,
however.