Port Job No 4 Candidate Seeks Confidence for Seattle Port
Ralph Ernest Downie, 45, of 3940 Densmore with five children, seeks the port job. He argues the port must restore confidence among shippers, bankers, and farmers, promote missionary work for wheat and sheep producers, and create a free port district to spur manufacturing. He supports a port manager, hiring and firing freedom, and reducing unnecessary expenses including liquor bans on port property.
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Ralph Ernest Downie
Densmore
Port Commission
Seattle
Washington
Idaho
United States
Honolulu
Japan
Rcotch
Mortgage debt on Washington homes and farms in 1920
A Commerce bulletin shows Washington total mortgage debt on owned homes and farms at 125,123,706 with home values mortgaged totaling 270,290,000. Mortgages equal 36.5 percent of property value. Nonfarm homes numbered 273,098 with 49 percent owner occupied and 39.3 percent mortgaged. Farm mortgage debt stood at 61,120,951 or 30 percent of farm values.
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Washington
Wantington
Department of Commerce
University of Washington students elect leaders in spring election
Herbert Little Beattie wins ASB president by 204 votes over Roscoe Torrance 1772 to 1468. Bert Patterson becomes senior representative on the board of control with 1435 votes. Derrall Caldwell and Frank Robinson follow. Tom Austin defeats Dorothy Haggett for junior representative. Bob Keefe wins sophomore seat. Lucille Turner elected graduate representative. Defeated candidates enter Defeated Candidate club in solemn ceremony led by Robert Norton and officials.
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Beattie
University of Washington
Roscoe Torrance
Spokane
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Torrance
Tillicums
Bert Patterson
Bellingham
Board of Control
Derrall Caldwell
Walla Walla
Frank Robinson
Seattle
Patterson
University Daily
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Raymond
Dorothy Haggett
Bob Keefe
Snohomish
Helen Welnh
Ralph Neeley
James Harrs
Lucille Turner
Robert Norton
Queens
New Victoria Anacortes Ferry Dedicated in Victoria
A new Victoria Anacortes ferry was dedicated in Victoria on April 27 with elaborate ceremonies. More than 1200 motorists from Northwestern cities noted the event and made the initial trip aboard ferries Gleaner and Harvester King, representing civic and business groups.
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Seattle
Victoria
Victoria-Anacortes
Gleaner
Harvester King
King county declamatory contest to be held at Auburn
Ten high schools and seven county grade schools will compete in the third annual King county declamatory contest tonight in Auburn. Grade schools include Lake City, Enumclaw, High Point, Kent, Kirkland, Kennedy and Bothell. High schools represented are Bothell, Beach, Toft, Auburn, Renton, Meridian, Foster, Enumclaw, North Bend and Bellevue. Six banners will be awarded, three to grade schools and three to high schools.
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King County
Auburn
Lake City School
Enumclaw
High Point
Kent
Kirkland
Kennydale
Bothell
Beach
Toft
Renton
Meridian
Foster
North Bend
Bellevue
Candidates speak at Bellevue port commission meeting
Candidates for the port commission will speak at the Bellevue clubhouse at 8 p.m. Thursday, outlining viewpoints and plans for the district's maritime needs.
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Port Commission
Bellevue
Bend man found guilty in Krug murder after long deliberation
A. J. Weston is convicted of killing R. H. Krug in Bend Oregon after a jury ponders for 78 hours. The verdict concludes a high profile case with Krug�s family present and jurors delivering the judgment after extensive deliberations.
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Ore
A. J. Weston
R. H. Krug
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