FROM THE FILES

One hundred years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

April 8, 1920

Organize for the Project

We people who live in the country which is most to be benefitted by the development of the Columbia Basin project have been

somewhat indifferent to its possibilities. Spokane has taken the lead and we have been content to stand by with mild approval if not with concealed suspicion of the practicability of the colossal enterprise. As the results of the survey have been announced, this doubt has yielded to greater hopefulness, and there is coming a more sanguine belief that the project is not only practicable, but that its development is probable.

Seventy-five years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

April 5, 1945

Farmers Given High

Priority for New Tires

Farmers and farm workers are given the second of four priority ratings when they apply for grade I passenger tires, Chairman Bill Wilmot of the war price and rationing board announced today. This same rating is accorded to other persons whose occupations are highly important to the war effort. The first priority group is limited to doctors, public health nurses, police and others whose employment is of an emergency nature, and to workers in war plants faced with production emergencies.

Fifty years ago

The Ritzville

Journal-Times

April 2, 1970

Cattlemen Test Bulls to ‘Stay in Business’

There’s a lot of bull in Lacrosse...179 of them to be exact. They’re housed in a long building called the Lacrosse Bull Testing Station which is operated by the Washington Beef Cattle Improvement Association. Norman Kagele of Ritzville is one of the 42 breeders participating in the first year of the program to obtain reliable information on which bulls gain weight most efficiently when fed a common ration under the environment and compared with other bulls at the same time. Kagele, along with others, will learn growth rate, feed efficiency, and conformation to determine whether his bulls will be money-makers or not.

Twenty-five years ago

Ritzville Adams

County Journal

April 6, 1995

Library enters electronic age

The Ritzville Public Library will soon be part of electronic automation through bar coding and book checkout and returns. Sandra Fitch, Ritzville library director, is anxious to show the public the library’s new computer which will automate library functions. The Pentium Gateway 2000 computer will expand functions of the library as it becomes networked with area school districts,