Valley Residents Unite for Development League
A new organization formed between White Bluffs and Hanford aims to secure legislative support and better infrastructure for the Priest Rapids Valley.
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The Priest Rapids Valley Progressive League is now a full-fledged, active and virile organization, officered and ready to function. It was given its baptism at a well-attended mass meeting Thursday night at the Dallas McGlothlen Post home, midway between White Bluffs and Hanford. Members of both the White Bluffs and Hanford Community clubs, the Grange, Farm Bureau, State Land Settlers association and Dallas McGlothlen Post, who were present, spoke their approval of the new organization and promised it their active and unqualified support. Out of the well-intentioned but unorganized residents of the Valley, the League hopes to unite every person living between Priest Rapids and Ringold into an active association, whose purpose it will be to work for the development and improvement of the whole Valley. Its immediate activities will be centered in working for the increase of the present land settlement to a 100-unit project; to secure from the legislature an appropriation for financing the soldier settlers in the purchase of livestock, and to give its active support in helping the Wenatchee Southern railroad secure its certificate of necessity from the Interstate Commerce commission.
“Out of the well-intentioned but unorganized residents of the Valley, the League hopes to unite every person.”
The dream of agricultural expansion in the Priest Rapids Valley eventually gave way to the Manhattan Project, fundamentally shifting the region from a farming collective to a federal industrial zone.
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