Page 4 SttELTON--MASON COUNTY JOURNAE- Publisheit in "Christmastown, U.g.'A.", Shelton, Washington Thursday,
LIBRARY SEES HAJOR CHANGES DURING 1962 '$/mpsonPromotes
At the beginning of 1962. the
library remodelling was only in
the planning state. It has now
been completed, with the removal
of several old walls, the addition
of a small area at the rear of
the building which provided new
washrooms, a new floor, new dec-
oration, a large amount of new
shelving and a new circulation
desk.
This renovation has made a
great deal of difference to the]
convenience of the building as far
I
as the patrons are concerned. For
the first time. the children have
a well-defined area of their own.
During the remodelling, the li-
brary was closed for five weeks.
Patrons were invited to borrow
as many books as they wanted for
that period. The response was ov-
erwhelming, and proved to be a
great help in clearing the shelves
SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL, INC., Publishers
Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle
_ Mailing Addreo: Box 446, Shelton Phone 426-4412
Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Shelton, Washington
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Outside Mason County, $5.00
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER -- William M. Dickie
PLANT SUPERINTENDENT Jim Shrum
OFFICE MANAGER -- Lodema Johnson
NEWS EDITOR -- Alan Ford
SOCIETY EDITOR Marl Waters
OFFICE ASSISTANT -- ]Y£ary Kent
ADVERTISING MANAGER -- Barbara Nelson
PRINTERS -- Russ Stuck, Dave Thaeher, Asa Pearson, Jerry Stiller,
Bill Poole.
THE HARSTINE ISLAND BRIDGE
The voters of Mason County are being asked to decide
March 12 whether or not the county should spend $720,000
to build a bridge to Harstine Island.
The first reaction from a great many residents is going
to be"Why should I vote to spend that much money on
something which will benefit only a small number of peo-
ple ? I have never been to Harstine, and, I probably won,t go
there whether there is a bridge or not."
We believe, however, the voters of the county should
take a good look at the alternatives before making a final
decision.
The bridge bonds would cost the county between $50,000
and $55,000 annually over the next 20 years.
The alternative is to continue the present county ferry
operation.
This isn't a very good paying proposition either.
It has been costing about $20,000 a year the past sev-
eral years and no chance for lowering this loss is in
sight.
Actually, the annual loss Wi]$ beqgter in the years to
come. The present ferry has longince en its best days and
will have to be replaced in the next year or two at a cost es-
timated at about $200,000.
The county would have to sell bonds to make this pur-
chase, and, paying them off added to the deficit in the ferry
operation would end up costing about the same or more than
the cost of retiring the bridge bonds and this cost would not
be paid off in 20 years.
The county commission put this proposal before
the voters after many months of study and, we are sure,
with the full realization that it would not be an easy
one to sell to the voters.
It is, however, they believe the most logical and econom-
ical solution to a tough and expensive problem.
We must agree with them.
WE'RE NOT SO BAD.
American stature throughout the world has grown
greatly in world eyes since the Cuban crises, but there are
• other places in which non-Americans are taking note of U.S.
achievements.
We are indebted to H. E. Wolden of Arcadia Road for
statistics he translated for us from a Swedish newspaper
which noted that the U.S. ks one of only two nations in the
free world which showed an increase in safety percentages
during the decade of 1950-80, and that the U.S. standard of
living far outstrips the rest of the world.
In the safety categoq'y, the statistics show that the
U.S. decreased its death per 100,000 people from acci-
dents to 20.6 in 1960 from 23.1 in 1950. Iceland was the
only other to show a decrease,/rom 6.9 to 6.3.
Austria, for example, went from 5.9 to 27.5 for the
worst record. West Germany went from 14.9 to 25.6, Aus-
tralia 21.8 to 25.6, Finlard 7.8 to 17.1, Denmark 9.8'to 16.9,
Sweden 10.3 to 14.6, and Norway from 5.0 to 8.4.
On the standard of living subject, figures released by
the World Health Organization for Northern Countries show
the averag American, wage-earner has an income of
$2,817.84 compared to Canada's nearest rival at $1,940.62,
Sweden at $1,905.86, Switzerland $1,675.72, New Zealand
$1,631.00, Great Britain $1,412.02, Belgium $1,395.75. West
Germany $1,395.68, l'ance $1,358.00, Denmark $1,322.00
Finland $1,009.67, the Netherlands $1,093.00, Norway $1,-
$59.61, Iceland $961.33, Austria $847.45, .the Soviet Union
$741.68, Irelind $695.00 and Italy $688.13.
We have our faults, admittedly, but we have some
things to be proud at, too.
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Joe Kilbourne -- Phone 426-2439
LL Duane Rodgers -- Phone 426-6142
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while work was in progress.
Extensive weeding of the col-
lection was carried out through-
out the year, in order to make
room for the new books which are
constantly being purchased. The
decision to offer discarded books
to patrons was a popular one. and
almost all of these books found
new homes.
AN INVENTORY of library
holdings has almost been com-
pleted. When it is finished, the
catalog will more accurately re-
flect the present collection of the
library.
Great improvements in the col-
lection were made in children's
non-fiction, particularly in geog-
raphy, history and biography. In
addition to current purchases, a
continuing attempt is made to
make a well-balanced selection of
books for all purposes.
To some extent, services to the
public have been limited by the
very large amount of "housekeep-
ing" duties during the year. How-
ever, the Librarian did visit many
of the school classes during the
fall. in connection with the sum-
mer reading club program, and
did make a few other talks to
clubs.
It is hoped that during 1963 the
reward of all this work will be
seen in better service to the com-
munity.
Local Spendin00 Is
Up for Food, ears
NEW YORK, (Special.l--The
way in which the average family
in Mason County distributed its
retail dollar during the past fis-
cal year, expanding in some di-
rections and cutting down in
others, is indicated in the lat-
est market data reports.
They show that the end result
was a good one for local mer-
chants in general. Contrary to
the situation in some parts of the
country, where fears of recession
or unusually high unemployment
led to reductions in spending, lo-
cal families went through the
year normally and confidently.
Such changes as did take place
. t
in the way they spent thmr money
reflected shifts in the importance
to them of particular kinds of
goods and services.
THE EFFECT OF THESE re-
adjustments in their spending pat-
terns is brought out by the
Standard Rate and Data Service
in its comprehensive report on
consumer buying. It covers all
sections of the country.
In Mason County, it Shows. a
major part of the retail dollar
went for food and for automobile
purchases and maintenance. These
categories received 55 per cent
of the dollar.
The total amount that was spent
in these directions in the ypar was
$9,014,000.
Of that sum, $5,516,000 went for
purchases of food. This was ex-
clusive of expenditures in restau-
rants.
SALES OF AUTOMOBILES,
boats, motorcycles, trailers and
other automotive equipnent, but
not including trucks, came to $2,-
140.000.
Gas filling stations chalked up
an additional $1,358,000.
As for the rest of the retail
spending picture, it is revealed in
the volume of business done by the
other kinds of stores listed in the
report. Most of them ended up
with gains over the prior year.
AmOng them were: general mer-
chandise stores, with gross sales
of $2,005,000, apparel shops, $567,-
000. home furnishings stores,
$565,000, and drug stores, $435,000.
JANE'S JOTTINGS
Around Mason County wlt
Cmmty Extension Agent
Jane Jones Windsor
We label this as reflection
month. It is the time when folks
look at their bank balance, bud-
get and try to make some deci-
sions about what to do about the
money shortage this next year.
If the wife is getting a gleam
in her eye about going to work to
solve the problem or her husband
is pushing her with this thought,
she might like to get more orga-
nized and get come facts down on
paper. I submit this worksheet as
a way of doing your figuring. Here
I have supplied some figures of a
case we know of a lady who had
a chance to go to work as a tea-
cher and with children ages four,
six and eight who had to be cared
for. You will notice that her baby
sitting expenses are not as high
as they perhaps would be if she
were working full time the year
'round. Some folks have estima ted
that this cost could go up to at
least $1200 for the year. Use this
as a basis and fill in the blanks
that apply to your case and then
decide if this would solve the prob-
lem, or whether more careful ma-
nagement on the home front would
net you the same in dollars.
Edward 5. LyrE.
EDWARD S. LYCAN
Promotion of Edward S. Lycan,
30. from tail operator to machine
accounting supervisor for Simpson
Timber Company at Shelton has
been announced by R. C. Brewer,
division comptroller.
Lycan replaces Bill O'Neill. who
bas transferred to Simpson head-
quarters in Seattle.
A native of Tenino, Lycan at-
tended Centralia Junior College
and St. Martin's College. He ser-
ved in the United States Air Force
from 1952 to 1956 and came to
Simpson in Iarch, 1959 from the
Washington State employment se-
curity department, where he was
a tab operator.
Lycan, his wife. Marge and two
sons live at 923 Thomas St., Shel-
ton.
Law Says Dead
Animal Carcasses
Must Be Disposed
Stockmen and farmers tread on
thin ice if they do not quickly
dispose of dead animals:
Since the advent of Blackleg
and Enterotoxemia outbreaks, the
question of state laws concerning
carcass disposal has come up in
rural communities. In general,
regulations are not known.
To clarify the matter, Byron E
McClanahan. Mason County Prose-
cuting Attorney, briefed the State
laws regarding the disposal of
dead animals as follows:
"Every person owning or hav-
ing in charge any animal that
has died or been killed on account
of disease shall immediately bury
the carcass thereof to such a depth
that no part of the cmwass shall
be nearer than three feet from
the surface of the ground. Any
animal found dead shall be pre-
sumed to have died from and on
account of disease". (Chapter 10ff
Sec. 2. Laws of 1949.)
IIcCLAN HAN SAiD THAT
the law also provides the Director
of Agriculture with the authority
to make rules to effect the statute.
The Washington State Depart-
ment of Health and Agriculture,
further interpreted the disposal of
dead animal statute by making
more exacting provisions. A brief-
ing of these rules read as follows:
"The carcass of any dead animal
shall be removed and disposed of
by burial, incineration or other
proper method within 24 hours
after death. If the carcass is
buried it shall be placed so that
every part shall be covered by at
least two feet of earth and at a
location not less than 100 feet
from any well, spring, stream or
other sufac waters, in a place
not subject to overflow. In all
eases of death from communicable
direase, the carcass, if disposed of
by burial, shall first be thoroughly
enveloped in unslacked lime.
"PROPER DISPOSAL shall be
made by the owner of the animal
or by the owner of the property on
which the dead animal is found.
Where the owner of the animal is
unknown and the carcass is found
upon rely street, alley or other
.public place, it shall be removed
and disposed of by the County
Board of Health at public ex-
pense."
McClanahan said tha it is a
misdemeanor to violate the State
Law or the rulings.
American Literature
Glass Is Offered
There are still openings in the
University of Puget Sound Ameri.
can Literature class being offered
to start here Feb. 6.
Classes will be held from 6:30-
9:30 p.m. in Evergreen School with
Robert Ruhle as instructor. "
The course is a study in depth
of selected American writers. It
will close April 24.
Anyone interested in enrolling
can contact Evergreen Schol. 426-
8281 for further information.
WORKSHEET FOR ESTIMATING WIFE'S NET INCOME
FROM EMPLOYMENT
Gross Income
Expenses: ............................................................................................ $4800
1. Income taxes .......................................................................... $ 864.00
2. Social Security tax .............................................................. $ 150.00
3. Contributions to other retirement plans .......................... $ 240.00
4. Meals and snacks at work .................. $ 35.00
5. Transportation to and from work ================================== $ 50.00
6. Transportation on job (not reimbursed) ...... : ............... $
7. Special work clothing (including care) .......................... $ 75.00
8. Dues to unions, professional and business
organizations, employee clubs, etc ................................... $ 56.00
9. Professional and business publications ............................ $ 8.00
10. Professional and business meetings, conventions .......... $ 50.00
11. Educational expense related to employment .................. $ 150.00
12. Tools and licenscs required for the job .......................... $
13. Gifts and flowers for fellow employees ........................ $ 2,00
14. Parties. special meals with fellow employees .............. $ 6.00
15. Extra spent for general-wear clothing
(including care) ...................................................................... 225.00
16. Extra spent for personal care .......................................... 15 75.00
17. Extra spent for paid help for household tasks ................ $ 800.00
18. Other expenses for specific job .......................................... $ 150.00
19. Additional food costs (family) .......................................... $ 200,00
Total .................................................................................. $3,136.00
Net income (gross income minus total expenses) .................. $%664.00
Baptist Church
Slates Talks
By Missionary
Five mzssionaries fronl several
continents will be guest speakers
at the Shelton First Baptist
church. The theme for the mis-
sionary conference will be "A
Great Door and Effectual is op-
ened unto Me." These missionaries
will be scheduled as speakers for
the regular services Sunday and
each evening Monday through
Wednesday of next week begin-
ning at 7 p.m. Similar confer-
ences are being scheduled in ten
other churches of the Puget Sound
area. A large youth rally is plan-
ned in-Auburn Feb. 2 to which
many teenagers of the Shelton
Church will be attending.
Sunday morning two mission-
aries. Rev. Hugh Collins and wife.
and Miss Elizabeth Walton will be
heard in Bible School sessions and
church services. Sunday evening,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ralston will
join with Miss Walton in presenta-
tions at the 6 p.m. youth activi-
ties and the evening serwce at
7 p.m.
Rev. Hugb Collins will be the
guest speaker for the Radio
Broadcast from the church over
station KMAS at 11 a.m. Sun-
day. Roy. Mr. Collins is a grad-
uate of Whitworth College, Tal-
bot Theological Seminary and
Prairie Bible Institute and has
served as pastor in the Spokane
area as well as Long Beach. Calif.
Rev. and Mrs. Collins are ap-
pointed to missionary service in
France.
Sunday evening, as well as Sun-
day morning, Miss Elizabeth Wal-
ton will be speaking to groups
about her field in India Miss Wal-
ton began the leprosy clinic in
Chandur Pazar ten years ago,
with 75 patients. This work has
grown to 750 patients being treat-
ed at the clinic, with from 1500
to 2000 others being treated at
substations or outpatient etinics.
liss Walton is also associated
with the Kothara Leprosy Home.
She has been a missionary in In-
dia since 1946 and is a graduate
of Northwestern Bible School,
Minneapolis; The Michael Rcese
Hospital School of Nursing, Chi-
cago, and the Frontier Nursing
Service School of Kentucky.
Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs.
:Ben Ralston will be sharing in the
program. Mr. Ralston received his
degree in pharmacy at the Univer-
sity of Colorado and has for the
past number of years been in a
partnership in Estacada. Ore. The
Ralston family will go to West
Pakistan where Mr. Ralston will
be the pharmacist for the hospital
at Sind After selling the part-
nership in the drug store busi-
ness they attended the Multnomah
School of the Bible in Portland.
Ore.
Monday evening, at 7 p.m., the
guest speaker will be Miss Helen
Walters who is home on her sec-
ond furlough from Japan. Miss
Walters is responsible for training
native pastors and Christian lea-
ders in church administration and
preaching. Miss Wallets served in
Yuzawa, Northern Japan as tea-
cher, and counselor. She is a
graduate of Western Baptist The-
ological Seminary in Portland, Or-
egon and the Eastern Oregon Col-
lege of Education at LaGrande.
Ore.
Tuesday noon a Missionary lun-
cheon is scheduled at the church
for people of the community wish-
ing to meet the missionary group.
The public is invited by making
reservations at the church office
before Sunday.
Tuesday evening Gary Poppin-
ga,, principal of Faith Academy,
is the scheduled speaker. Faith
Academy is in the Philippine Is-
lands at Manila Most of the stu-
dents are children of missionar-
ies serving in the Phillippine Is-
lands. The Popina's have spent
the last five years in the Phil-
lippines and just before returning
on furlough, supervised the crec-
tion of buildings to aecomodate
300 classroom students and 75
boarding students. Mr. Popinga is
a graduate from Wheaton Col-
lege, Wheaton. Ill.. with several
years of teaching experience in
kmerica before going to the mis-
sion field.
The Wednesday evening speak-
er will be Roy. Richard Jacobs.
who has been serving with the
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Society among the Senufo
Tribe in the Ivory Coast of Af-
rica. Roy. Mr. Jacobs m very fa-
miliar with religious customs fe-
tishes and spirit worship of the
African people.
Rev. Jacobs is a graduate
of the University of Minnesota.
Northwestern Schools in Minnea-
polis and the Western Conserva-
tive Baptist Theological Semin-
ary in Portland.
I LETTERS TTH:
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INCONSISTENT TItINKING
Dear Bill :
The short-sighted and rather ri-
diculous action taken by the Shel-
ton Chamber of Commerce a coup-
le of weeks ago plus your editorial
congratulating them has disheart-
enecl me no end.
I never will understand the kind
of thinking that substitutes excu-
ses for action. The economy in
Shelton is sick and has been ever
since the recession of 1960. We
never have qfite come out of the
1958 recession. Those of you who
vcould disagree might take a walk
around and count the empty store
buildings and dead Pulp mills we
still have here. I did not say dead
economy but certainly it is sick.
About the same as the national
economy which is not growing at
a fast enough rare to put everyone
to work or increase the standard
of living by very much.
I have talked to Shelton business
men who tell me that the reason
there are so many unemployed is
that they are too lazy to look for
work. They told me this when the
total was 4 million and again when
the number rose to 5 million. They
still use this excuse today so it
is no wonder that these same men
can look around Shelton and think
that things are "pretty good". It
takes dreams followed by aeUon
to move a community or nation
forward.
I would Hke to point .out to you
Bill and these "self-reliant and re-
sourcesful" gentlemen of the
Chamber, the inconsistency of their
thinking. I find most of these men
real pleased to spend 8 million
dollars of state money on an in-
stitution here and several million
more of state and federal money
on a highway to Olympia. I didn't
hear many complaints about build-
ing of the Armory or its recent ad-
dition. Last year they were real
anxious for government help to
counteract Canadian eompetion in
eastern lumber sales. But now they
"don't need the help" and are wil-
ting to turn down the $40,000 dol-
lars available for much needed
sewer construction because they
don't feel we should be designated
a distressed area . . . Perhaps all
we Chamber members should show
up with shovels and dig the sewer
ourselves. This of course is no ans-
wer either. The real answer lies in
lhe Chamber realizin G that its re-
sponsibility is not to try and write
and execute national legislation or
to tell the world its stand on feder-
al aid. The Chamber needs to be-
come a vibrant far-sighted group
willing to work hard to build a
bigger and better Mason County,
willing to work for a new addition
to the courthouse (perhaps a new
city-county building} improve sew-
ors. streets and sidewalks, improve
port facilities build a new school
stadium, work for more and better
parks and recreational areas. They
need to work hard until every
empty store in town is full again
and five or six new ones are on
their way; until Simpson has ad-
ded another board plant and three
or four hundred more workers:
until another good sized industry
or another research lab (federal
or private) or a drug company or
insurance company m moving into
the area When Mason County's
economy is expanding at 10% or
15q/, the Chamber will then be in
a position to stand up and show
its pride.
Sincerely
Dean Palmer
ex-me]mber
USE GOLDEN RULE ON DOGS
Dear Editor:
If more people would buy a
dog and treat it like they them-
selves like to be treated, instead
of complaining and screaming
about how one of your prize pe-
tunias was smashed by a passing
homeless orphan dog, it would
be a lot better for everybody.
I appeal to you people of Shel-
ton. buy a dog, be kind to him
teach him tricks, and love him,
and in turn that little animal
will .live up to that old saying,
"man's best friend.'
People who already have dogs,
find it's really not much money
to renew a license for your faln-
ily pet. Vv'hy not include the dog
into your family budget, after all
if mother nature would have
slipped while creating man and
dog, we the humans would have
been the underfed and the dogs
would have a nice comfortable
house and guess who would be
homeless then the peopler !
Look at. yourselves in a mir-
ror, can you face yourself after
you reo:l this. Well it's true you
the people not only at Shelton, but
of the world, are to blame.
Don't get me wrong, there still
are a few people in Shelton that
really care about the family pet.
They don't mind having a chewed
up slippm, once in a while, or a wet
Sawmill Output Is Up During'S2
PORTLAND.---Sawmills of the age; orders 142 763,000 b.f.; ship-
Douglas fir region cut eight bil-
lion board feet of lumber in 1962.
a shade more than in recession
!961 but a hefty 1.1 billion feet
less than 1959, the last prosper-
pus year before Canadian imports
began to zoom,
G. Cleveland Edgett. executive
vice president of West Coast Lum-
bermen's Association, made thcse
comparisons from figures gathered
for western Oregon and Vashing-
toll.
Though far short of t959. the
past Year's orders gained slightly
over the previous two lean years,
and mills finished 1962 wi[.h slight-
ly bettm' unfilled orders and tight-
er inventories. The year's slnn
gains failed to reflect the solid
advances by constrlJction IKttion-
ally•
The weekly average of West
Coast lumber production in De-
cember was 137.224.000 b.f. or
86.4 percent of the 1957-61-avcr-
age. Orders averaged 149,794,000
b,f.; shipments 134,074.000 b,f.;
weekly averages for November
were production 154.794,000 b.f..
97.4 percent of the 1957-61 aver.
ments 147,149,000 b.f.
Twelve months of the 1962
cumulative production 8,001,675,-
000 b.f.; twelve months of 1.961,
7,809,023,000 b.f.: twelve months
of 1960, 8.100,000,000 b.f.: twelve
month of 1959. 9,104,600.000 b.f.
Orders fm twelve months of
1962 break down as follows: rail
and truck 6.097,302,000 b.f.; do-
mestic cargo 1.387.367.000 b.f.: ex-
port 381.293.000 b.f.: local 350.138,-
000 b.f.
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EDITOR J
tonguo waking them up in the
morning. Yes someone still does
care.
I only wish there were more of
lhose kind of people.
Sincerely,
Debt Homan.
Age 13.
APPRECIATION. INVITATION
Shelton, Mason County Journal:
I would like to ta]:e this op-
portunity, on behalf of the chil-
dren and teachers a t togers
School to exp.'s my aum.c,intion
for the numerous gilts and con-
tributions toward our m.c.,'am.
We have received roans' ;tonations
from civic, service and frater,al
organizations as well as individ-
ua21s but there are too many to
list here.
I foel that our Rogers School
program has progressed as "well
as it has because of the fine co-
operation which we have received
from the community of Shelton
and Mason County. If any time
any one would like to visit the
school please feel free to contact
me and make the necessary ar-
rangements.
Sincerely,
Joseph A. Borek
Principal Rogers School
ENVIABLE RECORD
Shelton-Mason County Journal
Gentlemen:
Now that we are well started
into the year 1963. it seems appro-
priate to express our thanks to
you and your staff for the active
interest shown in the field of traf-
fic safety during the year 1962.
The many services rendered to
the ,driving public in the provid-
ing of factual information have
indeed furnished the citizens of
this state with the finest of news
coverage in regard to driving con-
ditions on our streets and high-
ways. Those of us charged with
the administration of our traffic
laws must rely heavily upon. this
form of news media to present
these stories to the people.
As you perhaps know. the State
of Washington has for the past
many years been officially ac-
claimed "The Safest State in the
West." Due o the fact that we
have achieved a death rate of 4.7
per hundred million vehicle miles
travelled during 1962, we feel con-
fident that once again our state
will be the leader.
The contribution made by £he
newspapers of the State of Wash-
ington has played a great part in
achieving this recognition and
leads us to say, "Thank you for a
job well done."
Sincerely,
ROY A, BETLACH. Chief
Washington State Patrol
County Veterans
NEW YORK. (Special I--Form-
er service men and women in Ma-
son County are reaping a 633.500
financial harvest at this time.
thanks to an out-of-the-ordinary
payment of dividends on their GI
insurance.
The windfall represents their
share of a $327.000.000 dividend
declared by the Government for
holders of such insurance. Part
of it they would have received
anyway, in the normal course of
events, upon the anniversary dates
of their policies .
This year, however,, in line with
plans announced at the White
House. the entire regular dividend
of $237,000,000. together with an
extra dividend of $90,000.000. is
being turned over to the veterans
now. The majority of the cheeks
are going out this month. The rest
will be sent in February.
Approximately 515 of the 2.232
veterans who live in Mason County
will share in the current payment.
They are among 5.250.000 veter-
ans ih the United States. out of a
total of nearly 22,500,000. who
are eligible because they hold
Federally-sponsored life insurance
policies.
Most of' the money w-ill go to
those who were in World War II
and have National Service Life In-
surance coverage.
THE REMAINDER is for vet-
erans of World War 1 who have
U.S. Government Life Insurancc.
The amount going to the 515
policy-holding veterans in Mason
County is estimated at $33,500.
The volume of business that it
will generate in local retail stores
will be several times that much. it
is expected. This is what generally
happens when the amount of mony
By Mrs. Ray
SOUTHSIDE.--Mill
Nots 4-H Club metal
the home of Etta and
rogers on Jan. 23 1
strations were given
emski gave a demo
pinning a pattern pR
terial. Rita
demonstration on
stitch a hem. Lucita
a demonstration on 1
kinds of horse bits
Gunter gave a demo:i
how to sift flour. Th|,
bers discussed what k
to selll for a money rai
Refreshments were set
and Rita Swearinge
meeting will be
and Dorothy Gunters
reported Etta.
The fire trucks of
and Cole road volunte
partment No. 4 were a
Bryce Campbells on tJ
road Sunday to put ou
community is sorry
Campbells lost their li
fire.
THE GOLDEN
niversary of Mr.
Wells of Little
Sunday at the
Community hall
greeted the Wells
niversary.
Southside P.T.O.
and an iteresting
been planned for the
Bell Riders Saddle (
lar meeting will be h
day, Feb. 1. a the
on Capitol Hill.
Fire School meeting
at the Community
Skookum on Feb 7, a
lar Fire meeting of
Volunteer Fire Depar
will be held at Littl)
Community Hall on F
MRS. ALFRED I
ceived a telephone call
a daughter weighing!
and thirteen ounces
Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Siletz, Ore..
ton". Proud grand
and Mrs. George
ton and John Kratc
Ore.
Southside Eagles 4
met at their leader's
trine Bracys on Jan.
project wm'k on thei
The club members are
their skit for Rally D
deciding on demonSt
Demonstration Day,
meeting will be held
Jackson's. Feb. 7.
Friendship Club
home of Vi Danielson,
e]ebrated the
Buining and Ann
months of January
visitin gat the meetinl
meeting will be hel
Carders on Feb. 6. ,
Four Leaves 4-H Cll
met at Robin BakkeS
Robin Bakke served
The club members de
do on Valentines D
decided to go skatil
Robin Bakke gave a d|
on how to give a pal
Bailey gave a demo
how to freeze sand
next meeting will be'
home of Kathy NeS
Lines Day, Feb. 14, rep
Funds Allotted
For 0iympic
Park Work
Through the De
Interior Olympic
has been allotted $11
accelerated public
Park Superintendent
Doerr announced
The Accelerated
Program will
ployment and
needed improvement
ance work in that
in Grays Harbor (
Work projects
gram will consist of
bridges,
of roads, snag
damage clean up,
water and sewer
grotmd development
tion of a comfort sta
Creek campground. i
Work on these p
get started imnedia "
tinue thi'oughout the;!
spz'iog months, Doerr
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in circulation is increased.
The Government's expressed
purpose in releasing the cash at
this " time" is' to "provide a needed,,. '
boost to the national economy, in '.,'..;
the words of President Kennedy. d:?
The Veterans Administration, in 'jt!
making public the prepayment /'i
plan, explained that it consists, '
for tte nmst part, of a return to
the policyholders of a portion of tqlll:k'I g
their preniinnl payments.
The money has becomc avail- 1
able because the death rate among
veterans is lower thau had been ' "-k,
expected.
The extra of $90,000 000 was de
clared because it was }elt that the [.----'yy'J N.'
insuranco reserve hinds had grown
lo a size reater than necessary.
insurance reserve funds had grown
1o a size greater than necessary.
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UNITED OHAH
Home Office: Omaha, Nebraska
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