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The Largest Paid Circulation In Klickitat County Of Any Paimr Oa Ra.rth
Goldendale, Washington, Thursday, February 8, 1940 Vol. 61. No. 6.
ESTABLISHED 1879 .......
", ['Hor f' T,. . tat on Of
[ Kti kit t Sup rint nd ,t
Allocated For ClearinngI
Of Bonneville Line Right-Of-J
::e:al of 52-'~ WP----~ laborers now
employed on the clearing of right-
for the Bonneville-Grand
power line, in Klickitat court-
Were assured of another six months
last week by the allocation of
in federal funds for the
continuation of the project.
The United States Department of
sponsor of the Bonneville
is providing an additional
to match the new WPA al-
according to word from
state Works Pogress Administra-d
office in Seattle.
WPA camps are now operating at
Pass, Appleton and Mill-A
all in Klickitat county. The
working in Klickitat county at
present time are the second larg-
employed on the clearing project
the entire state of Washington.
If present working schedules and
at quotas are maintained
the balance of the year the
clearing project may be
before the end of 1940,
O. Abel, retiring head of the
state W-pA organization said.
At the present time more than 55
cent of the clearing has been
completed for the Bonneville power
lines. The entire pro-
ct COmPrises 7,200 acres of rights-
242 miles long. About 3,900
are ready for the power lines.
Appeals
To Community To
Fight Park Plan
This county has been libeled long
enough by historians who insist on
interpreting the name Klickitat as
an Indian word meaning "robber or
• ,~ • [
horse thmf, according to Mrs. Sue
lViorehead, school superintendent.
Quoting Frederick Balch, pioneer
author of the book ",Bridge of the
Gods" and numerous descendents of
the once powerful Klickitat tribe,
Mrs. Morehead insists the name
means "galloping hor~e" not "horse
thief."
"Just prm¼*mce the word several
Lashing out at the federal gov-
intervention in state's
R. A. Jackson, state vice-
of the Woolgrowers asso-
Monday night declared the
crei~a.~^- of st he proposed Cascade
hal park would virtually wipe
s this eoun.ty's livestock industry.
Peaking before members of the
Club and the Goldendale city
times, syllabl~ by syllable, in quick
succession," ¢~he says "klick-i-tat,
klick-i-tat, l~~s.-... :ick-i-tat, klick-i-tat,
and you'll fin~ it has the identical
sound of the hoofs of a galloping
horse."
The Indians, who according to
Mrs. Morehead, often used descrip-
tive sounds to identify places and
things, probably first used the word
"klickitat" in referring to the river
that now bears the name. Because
t.he Klickitat river is a swift moun-
tain stream it was only natural that
the Indians would liken it to a run-
ning horse. Eventually the Indians
probably came to refer to the entirei
country around the river as the
Klickitat. (When this county was
first organized the spelling was
Clickitat. )
In time the tribe of I.ndians who
lived here came to be known to the
surrounding tribes as Klickitats•
Early settlers in the Pacific North-
west, probably through their deal-
ings with other tribes came to know
the crafty and somewhat warlike
Klickitats as robbers or horse
thieves.
In this manner the tribe name
gradually became misinterpreted to
be an Indian word meaning "horse
thief." The word Klickitat is listed
in the glossary of the late Professor
Edmond S. Meany's "History of
Washington" as an Indian term for
"robber or horse thief."
P.U.D. Election
Question Enters
Superior Court
Klickitat oounty's current dispute
over payment of the December pub-
lic utility district election costs will
be argued before Judge Howard J.
At'well in superior court here T, hurs-
day morning. Hearing was definitely
set ~or 9:30 a. m., F0bruary 8
when Edgar H. Canfield, county
)rosecutor, fn behalf of the board of
county commissioners, last week
petitioned the court to issue a writ
of mandate directing John A. Mill-
or, c,oun'ty auditor, to issue warrants
totaling $1038.10 covering cost of
he election.
Miller previously had served
yritten notice on the board of com-
missioners that he wou~ld not issue
warrants for the P.U.D. election
unless ordered ~o do so by the
court. Miller holds that it is illegal
for the county auditor to pay costs
ELMER KAMHOLZ
RECEIVES BURNS
IN GAS EXPLOSION
Elmer Kamholz, second dis-
trict county commissioner, re-
ceived severe burns on his head
and neck last Thursday when a
car on which he was working
backfired throwing flaming gas
in his face.
Kamholz was bending over
the fuel pump of a car when the
accident occurred• As the flam-
ing gas struck his head Kam-
holz dived~ into a snow bank at
the edge of the road and quick-
ly extinguished the flames.
Only one small second degree
burn was" received. The other
burns were painful but not seri-
ous, attending physicians said.
~ill Pierce was with Kamholz
when the accident occurred.
National
Scout
County's Stockmen Invited To
Attend Special Meeting Slated
Next Wednesday
Livestock marketing methods will
be discussed from all angles by a
talented group of Department of
Agriculture economists at a county-
wide meeting scheduled here next
Wednesday, February 14.
The marketing meeting, sponsor-
ed by the Department of Agricul-
ture through the cool~ration of vari-
ous county stockmen's organizations
will be held in the court room of the
county courthouse and will begin at
10:00 a.m. [
I
According to L. W. Ternahan,
county agriculturist in charge of ar-[
rangements for the gathering, the]
marketing meeting is one of a series [
being held by the department of[
agriculturethrough the state of
Washington Principal purposesof
the meetings are to acquaint local
livestock growers with modern mar-
keting methods and to study the
market outlook for the future.
~rar's Affect Subject
W. B. Stout, economist with the
Department of Agriculture from
Washington, D. C., will headline the
list of speakers scheduled to appear
on the program. S~out will discuss
modern livestock marketing methods
and point out some of the major
I trends now evident in this country.
R. M. Turner, agriculture econo-
mist with the state extension office
in Pullman, will speak on the affect
of the European war on the Ameri-
can livestock market. I.n his talk
Turner will give statistics on the
export and import of beef, pork and
mutton before and since the war.
Maddox To
Con S. Maddox, animal husbandry
expert from the state extension of-
rice will speak on the Changing de-
mands of livestock markets in the
Pacific Northwest• This talk will he
of a P.U.D. election from county illustrated with slides.
funds when the utility dfstrict has After a recess for noon the meet-
an election budget of ibs own. ing will continue until 3:00 p. m.
Canfield, as the county's legal As part of the national Scout Week Ternahan is contacting officials of
advisor, holds that in as much asprogram, Goldendale Boy Scouts, the county Livestock association, the
the county election board orderedduring the next seven days, will ob- Mt. Adams cattlemen, and the Coun-
Jackson said the proposed the election, the county auditor serve the-thirtieth anniversary of ty Woolgrowers in an effort to sec-
l~ark wou,ld include an areashould issue warrants for its costs. Scouting in America with appropriate ure as large an attendance as pos-
theec:=t of the Cascaderan~eThe county in turn would be re- ceremonies.
sible for the meeting.
_ adian border nearly to "m~ sed by a blanket warrant ~rhursday evening, February 8, the
Co~ - _ 1 bur ~ : • All Klickitat county stock raisers
Qa ,Umoia river. The en.tire Mt. drawn from the P.U.D. treasury Goldendale Scouts under the super-or other persons interested in live-
~bl:reanati~Wnalytng within the Miller indicated Wednesday thatvision of their Scout Master Z. O. stock marketing are invited to attend
,-~'¢to~y ~, ...... 1 ~ores~ would ..~h ....... ,, ........ ~a a ..... ,-,, ....... +,~ +~,A a~dv,~"* "" ~rhen Brooks, will present a specml pro- the meeting, Ternahan said.
Desc~lbi,"~. ~ncmoed m the park. the hearing is held Thursday T, hegram at the American Legion hall.
:e thn,g one proposed park as a laction filed by CanIfleld in behalf of All ~Legion members and fathers of $15 REWARD TED
W~e~L..WoUld divide Eastern]the commissioners was signed by A. the Scouts are invited to attend. FOR SOLVING CASE
~,~,u washington, Jackson rd ;During the w
the "a-'- . [M. Matsen chairman of the boa . eek the Goldendale
d vi;tu~ll proposal if enacteo I At a recen't board meeting ,the'corn- ~Scouts will prepare a special window OF THE BLAZING CAT
on np _~ wipe out range [ missioners passed an emergency in the Pacific Power & Light corn- A reward of $15for tnforma-
~- ~a~ep in Washington. 'creating a fund from which the puny office• Goldendale's present tion leading to the arrest and
__ ~S Aid utiDtv district election costs could1Scout troop number 3,5.5 is in itsconviction of the person or per-
~PPe~led to the people of " "
and Klickitat c~]=tyg~t be paid.
~heir support into h fi
the Proposed p rk. Six I
~a~e Park is established," Jack-l
~, the urea inside its bord- React To
.wl.U be closed to all grazing,
J
~r!n.g, n~ining and hydroelec-[ Of the 601 students and adults
~':~lop~a,nt ~:en the dt:~:[~l:[who received the tuberculosis skin
trouble getting perm
t^.~r~ads through it. Under the test given by Dr. Seth L. Cox at
~,'~on of the park service all clinics in Goldendale, Centerville
and Klickitat last week, only slx
s of l~red~tory animals will be per cent shelved reactions. The re-
,red W~thln the C~scade area.
n~e~a~imale wil,1 be f~ee to preyaction percentage figure was releas-
ed today [by Mrs. Lowell Smith,
]~'s~oring farm areas and .then executive secretary ~f ~he county
k'.": to the protection of the Tuberculosis League.
~,7snTen .too will Ibe excluded Those persons showing reactions
;r,~_ae Cascades if ~he f,ederal received 'free chest examinations
t':r~:~t is 'allowed to enclose from Dr. Cox, state Tuberculosis
._,,~ in a national park," Jack- League physician, Mrs. Smith said.
a~t::t,' "A!I You've a~llowed .to do Most of the reactors have been urg-
~onai Park is fish, and you ed to have X-ray examinations0f
dearly ,fer what you their chests. George L. Dube, of Wishram, plain- ran across West Court street and
he said. A ,total of 383 received the skin tiff in a $22,500 personal injury suit under a woodpile in the back
WUshington 'State Planning test at the Goldendale clinic last against J. M. ~rock, of Goldendale. yard of the Dr. M. R. Davies
i~ holding a closed meeting week. Seventy-eight persons reeeiv- Dube, who as legal guardian is residence..By the time help ar-
Oly~ma this gaturday to agree ed the test at Centerville and 140 acting for his daughter, June Dube,rived the eat was so badly burn-
ree~n~endattons to be ~ade at Klickitat. in the motion for change of venue ed it had to be killed imme-
the Park. At that time it pointed out that most of his wit- diately.
the Planning Council ON MAIN S~ET - nesses resided in Yakima. He listed
• either take a stand for or .... the names of nurses and physicians
inst the P~opos~d park. at St. Elizabeth's hospital who at-
I 0W R C0
A former v-,.. V~RING
~zc~itat county rest-
Mrs. T. M. Whi~e, last week
carried on an improvised bob-
from a re~nete Idaho
caznp to civilization and
ly to a Walls Walla hos-
White who was. suffering
a Serious illness is now con-
in Walla Walla,
John Gulden just back from a
highway patrol. Ted ~Vatson dig-
ging up a water pipe. George
Klein hunting for a ~fire. Pat Mc.
Ewen heading" home a little bit
late for dinner. Dean Gillenwaters
running a snow plow. S. P. Alli.
son dusting furniture. Orville
Watson looking for a ring, George
Nlckerson wiping some mud off
his demonstrator.
twelfth year. During the 30 years sons who last week set fire to
the Scouts have been organized in a gasoline drenched cat, was
the United States they have enrolled posted this week by a member
over 8,5i00,000 boys. At the present of the county ,Humane Society.
i time they have an active membership In a letter to The Sentinel this
of 1,250,000. week the donor of the reward
This Thursday evening President declared: "This is a standing
Roosevelt will speak over a national offer until they have been ar-
radio hookup including both NBC rested and convicted., I.t is a
and ODS stations in honor of the disgrace and a blot on any
Boy Scouts of America's thirtieth community and its people if such
anniversary. The broadcast will be ,fiendish crimes can be commit-
at 6:30 p. m., Paci~c Standard time. ted against any life unless the
guilty are apprehended and re-
Chan e enue ceive their just punishment.
Of
V
~. Nothing less than the limit of
Asked In Sua~, the law would boa Just punish-
Against Brock ent."
The crime referred to in the
letter occurred January 24 when
A motion for change of venue from a cat was apparently drenched
Klickitat to Yakima county was filed with gasoline and set afire with
in superior court here last week bya match. The blazing animal
tended his daughter as witnesses who
would probably be summoned when
the case comes to trial.
A second motion for change of
venue was filed ,by Thomas L.
~torey, of Yakima, plaintiff in a
$10,000 damage suR filed agains.t
Brock. A motion for consolidation
of the actions filed by Dube and
gtorey was also recorded at the
Kltckltat county clerk's office.
OFFICES CLOSED
All county offices will be closed
next Monday, February 12 for
Lincoln's birthday. Both February
12 and Washington's birthday Feb-
ruary 22, are legal holidays in the
state of Washington this year.
Mrs. C. B. Runyan, of RoosaveR,
is in Gcddendale this week vlsitlng
at the .home of her daugh,ter, Mrs.
Roy McLavy.
NO ALARM SOUNDED
FOR GOLDENDALE'S
FIRST 1940 FIRE
Golctendale's first fire during
1940 was ignited, discovered
and extinguished wlt~hout a
single l~l~t from the fire siren•
A report of this first fire of
the current year which burned
last S~turday in the Ooldenda~e
Meat company building, ~vas
filed with the city council Mon-
day evening ~)y George Klein.
Damage caused by the fire,
which started from a clogged
flue, was estimated by Klein to
be at least $200. The fire start-
ed when a stove was placed in
,the basement of the meat com-
pany bui4ding and connected to
an old chimney that had not
been in use for many years.
Saturday afternoon Klein
noticed smoke pouring out
through cracks in ths wall but
could not locate a fire. After
searching for several hours he
found ~be fire about 11:00 p.
m. By chopping through the
floor of ~h~ Eagles hall he was
able to get at the sm~dering
~ire and extinguish it.
A resolution from the Goldendale
Grange requesting the establishment
of a convenient downtown parking
tot was presented at the city council
meeting Monday evening. In the res-
olution the Grangers pointed out the
i difficulty country people have in find-
ing parking places near downtown
stores on Saturday afternoons and
evenings•
After reading the Grange resolu-
tion Mayor Bert H. Knox appointed
Howard Lewis chairman of a corn-
i mlttee to investigate the cost of see-
uring a parking lot. Einar Andersen
and D. Ledbetter will serve on the
committee with Lewis.
el'he council discussed the advis-
ability of purchasing ~t ~ectlon of
land now owned by Dr. H. H. Hart-
ley on which most of Goldendale's
water system springs are located. Al-
though the council has discussed the
purchase of this land for the past
three years no action has ever been
taken. Dr. ~-Iartley, according to in-
formation brought up at the council
session, is asking $35~0 for the ~40
Car Carrying Vancouver Firemen Basketball Team Crashes Into
Truck; Ronaid Angus Fatally Injured; Other Passen-
gers Hospitalized; Furman Held
An auto accident that snuffed out one life and brought in-
juries to five others halted the victorious Vancouver basketball
team two miles west of Lyle late
Sheets
Will Signed
At AAA Meetings
Beginning today, February 8, a
series of community meetings will be
held throughout the county hy the
Klickitat agricultural conservation
association for the signing of 1940
estimate sheets. The first meeting is
scheduled in Bickleton today, and
will begin at 1:00 p. m. The meet-
Ing will be held in the bank building,
L. W. Ternahan, county agent sad.
Monday night.
Ronald Angus, 27, star of the Van-
couver fire department team that de-
feated Goldendale's Texaco Oilers
Monday night 50 to 36, was killed
instantly. Jack Ritter, 26, another
member of the team received a brok-
en leg. Don Brians, Bill Farr, Vance
Galbriath and Don ~Hatsings, other
members of the Fireman squad, were
taken to the Hood River General
hospital to receive treatment for
minor injuries.
The accident occurred on the
straight-away on the Evergreen high,
way about two miles west of Lyle.
According to John Gulden, Wash-
ington state patrolman who investi-
gated thb accident, the Vancouver
Community and county commit-lear driven by Angus first struck the
teemen will be present to assist farm- I rear of a hay truck parked along the
ers in filling out their estimate
sheets, Ternahan said. The estimate
sheets must be signed before a pro-
ducer is eligible for payment.
~February 9 a signup meeting will
be held in Centerville at the Grange
hall beginning at 10:00 a. m. Sat-
urday, February 10, the ~Sundale
meeting will be held at the Goodnoe
Hills school beginning at 1:00 p. m.
Other community meetings will be
announced later.
Leidl Ranch
o
Local sportsmen interested in
leasing hunting and fishing privileges
on ,the Leidl ranch along the Big
Klickitat river met here Thursday
edge of the highway and then care-
ened off headon into an oncoming
Inland Motor company freight truck.
Truck Driver Unhurt
Carl Wesley Perkins, 814 N. E.
71st avenue, Portland, driver of the
Inland Motor truck was uninjured.
Gulden quoted ~Perkins with saying:
"I was driving along about 25
miles per hour and wan picking up
momentum after coming up the
iMajor Creek hill. I saw the lights of
a car coming over the hill from the
east traveling fast. Ahead I, could see
the outline of a truck parked on the
edge of the highway facing me. The
oncoming car's lights showed from
behind the hay truck, then suddenly
the car swerved from behind the
truck and skidded broadside into the
front of my truck."
• Fiare ..........
,Gulden said lighted flares had
evening and formed a temporary or-!been left at the regulation distance
ganization, on either side of the hay truck. Wit-
committee consisting of Walter nesses however said the hay truck's
Klatt, C. H. Lawson, Einar Ander- clearance lights were not burning at
sen, Z. O. Brooks, Archie Averill and'the time of the accident. The hay
Harold Fariello was appointed to truck was owned by E. C. Heltev-
draw up a lease agreement for thebrand and had been parked at the
proposed sportsmen's club. This lease edge of the highway for at least a
e submitted to W day while its owner awaited repairs
acres of watershed, will b • Leidl, own-
a Gulden sa~d the car driven by
Favor Purchase er of the property, nd prospective " "
Angus fiz st struck the rear of the
The city now holds water rights!members next Thursday for approval. "
xt meetin of the or aniz parked hay truck As the moving car
on the springs but does not own the The ne g g a-
................... hit the truck it was thrown into a
land. An informal poll of the court- tion wllt De nero a~ [ne rxo~ez rtau,
• venin- ~ebruar-- 8 at skid YPhe rear of the Vancouver car
cil concerning purchase of the land, Thursuay e g, ' ~ "
ld Fariello tem"or ~was damaged when it struck the hay
taken by Mayor Knox showed five of 7"30 p. m., ~Haro , ~, - . _
' " unc d Dr M R truck t~ulden said
r the seven councilmen in favor ofrary chairman, anne e .... '
buying the land for the price asked Davies served as temporary secre- Lillian anHeavyd Rain
• P:hem:::e~t Couit street TD~h:°t~YlIHee:In~:: ~:
b[ ~ clI~tftl::.thOnly othe: recourse tary at the last meetlng~t nrst people to arrive at the scene of
o t e c y, e e ent t ey decide officers will be elected -. " . " '
to buy the land, Is to acquire title tug Thursday night. ., iTM .
.... unt the acc (lent• They drove the injur-
by condemnation and let a superior tI'nrough thetr orgamzatmn co y
court judge or Jury decide the price sportsmen hope to be able to negoti-
ed men to the Hood River hospital
................ ~for emergency treatment. Other per-
to be paid. , ate a tease With ~r LelUl [or nsfllng
• _ .....~sons who arrived shortly after the
D. Le(~better ,chairman of the privileges along the Big ~licK~[a[l .
. acciuent were M C Moris, of Yaki
bulldin,g commlq~tee, gave a report river through his 2 000 acre ranch. ' .. " " "
' " or's ~ma ~onsolidated truck driver, and
on the propo~d purchase of the ~nrough such an agreement, sp t - '
• - I George W Beeks Department of In
Darch building by the city. In th,is men point out, the stream may oe " ' -
........... I terior, from Burns, Oregon
report he estimated thet purchase ~ept open to air nsnermen. ~[ countyI ~ . • ,
• ~ne [act that a heavy rain wu
price and necessary improvements sportsmen are not successful in com-
..... ~fa~ling at the time of the accident
~ould brlng the cost up to appvoxl- pleting the tease ~nere m a strong
....... ~made driving conditions dangerous,
mately $6,500. possibility an orgamzatlon oz wealmy •.
. -- ~Gutaen said The accident Mends
~vor New ~ out of county men may ~ease the " Y
......... night was the first fatal traffic crash
The majority of the council ex- property ann close it enurety ~o per-~in Klickitat county this year
pressed opinion~ f~voring the con- sons not members of their exclusive]
]struction of a new city building, club [ H. C. Furman, of Toppenl~,
driver of the parked hay truck, l~
Several councilmen including Free- If the county sportsmen complete[ " •
being held m the Klick~tat county
man Gre~v, August Hanson and their lease agreement members of[ "
~ml on open charges Edgar H Can
Howard Lewis spoke strongly in the organization will be permitted l fieldcount ' ' "
, y prosecuting attorney
favor of a new ~)ulldlng. to erect cabins on the Leidl ranch.
A resolution was passed by the said• Furman was n~t with the
courted ordering all heads of city ...... l truck at the time the aeeide~t oc.
departments to file anntta~l ,inven- Canfield Speaks Icurred-
torles of machinery and oqull~ment. Park At I Full r McEweni"of"Klickitat, was
The council also voted to place the
city's insurance under a blanket in Goldendale on buslnes~ Wednes-
policy covering all property owned.
Before clo~lng their meeting the
council voted unanimously to for-
ward a resolution to the state plan-
ning council expressing opposition
to the creation of th• ProPosed Cas-
cade national park.
A representative of the state un-
employment service will be available
to residents of the eastern portion of
Klickitat county on Wednesday,
February 14, for the purpose of tak-
ing unemployment compensation
claims in the "commissioners room at
the court house between the hours
of 8:00 a. m, and 5:00 p. m,
While in Kelso last Thursday
Edgar H. Canfield spoke in behalf
of Klickitat county at a state plan-
ning council hearing on the proposed
Cascade national park.
In his talk Canfield pointed out
that the Mt. Adams grazing area,
now available to Klickitat stockmen
through the U. S. Forest service,
means more than $1,000,000 annual-
ly. Under the national park regula-
tions this area would be entirely
closed to the stockmen, Canfield
said.
He further pointed out that the
~ft. Adan~ area is potentially rich
in mineral~, Closing of that portion
of the state by the creation of the
proposed park would lock up this
wealth for all time.
day.
, i
COUNTY CALENDAR
Thursday--~por tsmen,s meeting
7:80 Hotel Hall
Thursday--Superior court
Thursday---Boy Scout meeting,
Legion hall 8:00 p. m.
I~riday ~- Sawmill and L~unbor
Workers meeting, Eagles hall
I~'riday---Basketball, Texaco vs.
Selah Springs, high school
Saturday---Dance at (3entervflle
Grange hall, Rifle Club spoa.
sots
Sunday----(~urch services
Monday---IAons club
Tue.~lay~mber of L'~ommet~e,
6:80 p, m,