Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-06-25
War ActiX ties Controlling Factor
In MANY State Departments

'eturning to Olympia after an alb
sence of almost a month we find
that the dominating topic and mo-
tive of action in the departments of
the state government is the task Of
winning the war All other matters
are secondary in Importance. The
approaching election is important to
many. but it is second to the war
issue. now
Many employees of the different
departments are continuing to move
to military or defense activities
There are number of changes in
the office Of Attorney General Smith
Troy, the state printing office OPP
Grating by Publisher Woody of the
Okancgan Independent has lost five
workers out of some forty during
the past month and none OF these
have been replaced, the work being
done by the remaining staff mem
bers, which is the genera rule in all
departments.
AT this time last year there was
a long list of applicants for state pos
scarcity OF competent persons for
particular posts in the various de-
partments.
Changes III Ten Month Total S,765
In the ten months period prior to
May l last the total nomber of per-
sons who left the various state de-
partments for other work, mostly
changes brooght ABBOTT by the war
conditions, reached the astounding
figure of 3,765; and of george every
department is a IF c e d. These
changes were in the SO called code
departments, or appointive offices
and does not include the elective
group. AS an example at the Western
State Hospital alone there were 81
changes in employees out of total
Of 345 in a ten weeks period, turn
over OF Almost twenty percent.
Pooling of. Automobiles Great
Success
The control of the use of state
owned autom obiles by means of the
so called pool has proven to be of
great Importance, more than at first
anticipated because of developments
in the gasoline and rubber situation
since it was started.
The operation Of the plan is def
mite and efficient Every car in the
pool is plainly SO marked by sign
painted on either side, and the cars
released only upon signed order
from the head or an authorized as
sistant to the head of the department
FOR which it is ordered The license
number and speedometer reading il
taken upon the release and the re-
Curn Of the car, and the mileage Is
charged to the department, a nota-
ton being made OF the type of bust
ness the car is used for.
The result is That there is an ac-
tual decrease Of not less than fifty
the past year, according to unofficial
estimates. Also every machine is
kept carefully checked as to tires,
grease and oil and other upkeep it
ems which should add many miles
to the life of the car and its tires.
About the State Capitol
State Treasurer Otto Case was in
Wenatchee last week : His report to
the convention of city and county Of
, ficials was very good 800 He figures
that savings and earnings in interest
/ under his administration would pay
! his salary for 664 years - and PROV
es it -. which is longer than he will
be able to draw salary from the
state . Gasoline tax collections in
May down almost quarter of a mil
' lion from last May 49, General fund
collection off hundred and fifty
thousand too -. Old age pension
hackers of Initiative ISL have filed
petitions said to bear 125,000 names
will ho, I,-, l,y,, y
line on July 8 49, Names are bein :
checked by Secretary of State -.
That measure will be on the ballet
49, Some others which have been CIV
EN- ballot titles will not -. We are
told that the liquor by the glass mea-
sure is very dead 49, Abandoned by
its own sponsors -. Why? -.