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. ' Board Reaches Deep Onto
3s shp sho on.v
. I , F. Oiunteer Ranks To
“‘85: and "l 2 March Calls ls~
Sued By State
' 3' men classified in the A—1
7 thsically fit and without
ntS) have been chosen by
on County draft board to
, tWO March calls issued
allowed to iostatfi as of January 18 for
A n into selective service
5. under America's f i rs t
with store "He draft.
its“ for March 3 induction
OVCI'.
, February «3 iel
unteers: Herbert Bruce Wil-
am Howard Dinning, Irv-
Departmeni 0 .
cliflSOH, Guaylord Merriam
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f0rd B. Skaar, Raymond
1'51, Alden P. Freeman,
Williams, Rolland R.
y! Arthur James Wood-
‘glanton Donaldson, and
Spring.
. t{fill/larch 5 induction these
offllhty men will report to
. 1Clals at Tacoma: Jack
1 Eugene D. Elson, Law-
W. Needham, Maurice L.
I- Jack Roessel, Torger J.
A. Banner, Russell A.
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., IMelvin C. Morgan, Carl
é Wey: Lewis Fredrick Elson,
ms from M ll11am .Honodel, David Lee
dresses. A "10 Nebel and Carl Adol—
fast. 36 iv i3
Masthe third call Under the
f , ‘011 County having sent
.9619 the first call and four
.; ' 0nd, all coming from the
)1'1Ced. ’ list. However, of the
Turen Who will be inducted
n
i: 5 area (15 on March 0
‘ n March 5), only three
\teers, so *for the first
1Ocal board has had to
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$2“ the non-voluntecr'ranks
‘ ‘ ca
Ix , ,
“‘1 Saturdu COunty’s quota of 30
part of 2,275 men to be
' roughout the state dur-
I
lE‘el‘iod from February 17
8, according to a com-
, ‘1 received by Governor
from the Commanding
'9“! Corps Area.
I unication shows that
“ "‘ of the men to be in-
?” be delivered to the
i ction station at Taco-
I on Percent to the Spokane
_’ Basiation, and 6.5 percent
Mmand induction station.
’ Taason County draftees go
I . ,pebcoma station.
I I.‘ 1Mary 17, the requisi-
'j__ 175 men are to be
r fI‘om February 18 to
.. ,27 e. 100 each day; on Feb-
l_19175; March 3 to 6 in-
., 2 each day; March 7,
v March 8, 223. Of these
2 . =4 will be colored, the
u. 530f Negroes yet called
‘ my to. Previous requisi-
'H'°lvcd by the Governor
I ‘gufardquarters 9th Corps
. ed for 173 and 481 men
‘ on the two previous
/' I» in November and
..: The letter from Corps
2' as “'8 specified “Only
I. fees for whom adequate
. ,aospitalization and sup-
. Vailable, are covered by
Ition.”
‘ '-IDYS Concert
,«School Bands
Mine
' [i ix w crowd estimated to
I j '
'lijghss of 600 jammed the
to auditorium Sunday af-
hear the first public
' knees of the junior and
3 .haml bands this season,
i Splendid response vir-
“I (fired future Sunday af-
ncez‘ts here.
. already being tenta-
.. e for the next concert
.m, Director Ben Hall-
. .. AD
I Ii 32““ yesterday, and next
‘ "es of Sunday concerts
‘ Plated
II,
I.4
2d Fish I
c1'owd was generous in
aaklmons to the silver of—
: heel? to defray expenses of
, tOr giving $50.27.
‘ th th I‘Iallgrimson was pleas-
be": Way his young musi-
I t 1“med in their 1941 pub-
.' wand comments of the
ti?“ even more compli-
, " gift" the concert program
'83,“ 5’ School Supt. H. E.
I of a brief review of the
i: . mllsic and the band in
v}. School system.
elfiests among the aud-
.1to ed Richard Berg, for-
. I," music instructor now
.x it 8an
filel
r
I 0. and Mrs. Berg, Ken-
I," ec‘é‘oerlk, Aberdeen high
. if“) 1‘, and Mrs. Hjelmer-
. ictor p
‘hEStra alamson, Aberdeen
« \director.
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a y'alfost Going To
,,,,h&..Dla Friday Night
_0f
. ‘his Mil gather at Memorial
h; the “day evening at 7:30
? ADO: drive to Olympia for
v1 tak meeting. The meet-
. IBIWQ the place of the reg-
' Post meeting.
4,;
Mason County V.
ed Cecil A. Moss. John
I and Donald L. Hulbert, .
i0 pedestriofi‘hdfiic- fulfil i1 ic's i ‘
amp/y in .
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TWO GRAP’EVlEW .
MIN RE-ELECTED
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, February 4, 1941.
T0 strenuous efforts to rang—{IE
Edgar Wright Again
Charles Somers Director
For Another Year-._ 1
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Edgar J. Wright, o€w%e\riew,
one of the outstanding Vintners of
the state and pioneer of Wash-
ington’s fast-growing wine indus—
try, was re-elected president of
the Washington Wine Council at
that organization’s annual meet-
ing, held recently in Seattle.
Other officers of the Council
re-elected were: vice-president, J.
C. Sams. manager, National Wine
Company, Seattle; treasurer, Otis
B. Harlan, Washingtdn‘ Distiller-
ies, Seattle; and the board of di-v
rectors, Wright, Sams, Harlan, W.
B. Bridgman, Upland Winery, Sun—
nyside; Charles Somers, St. Char-
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les Winery, Grapeview; A. E.
Rasmussen, Rasmussen Winery,
Sultan; and Kenneth A. Tuttle,
Connoisseur Wineries, Seattle.
Wright's plant is located on.
Stretch Island, in Mason County,
where in 1872 the first grapevine
was set out in the Northwest.
Last year Washington’s wineries
used not only 8,358,000 pounds of
grapes, but 11,822,000 pounds of
other Washington fruits— apples.
loganberries, currants, blackber-
ries, cherries and other wine fruits
—to produce 1,854,000 gallons of
Washington wine.
Home Labor, Products Entirely
By legislative enactment, Wash-
ington wineries are permitted to
use only Washington fruits and
Washington labor in the produc-
tion of “Washington” wines.
Progress of the wine-making in-
dustry in Washington, as it_ ap-
proaches its fifth anniversary
next month, was hailed by Wright
as “exceptionally good" at the
meeting.
“Last year, for the first time,
Washington wines outsold all out-
-of-state and foreign wines in state
sales," Wright declared. “For an
industry that was virtually non-
existent five years ago, this marks‘
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State Testers
For Cars Start
55-Day Schedule
Testing equipment of the state
highway department was in Shel-
ton at the city dock station yes-
terday and today and will be
again tomorrow under a new
schedule to start the 1941 car
testing program;
The state testers will return
here in two weeks, February 17.
18 and 19, while the same dates
in March, 3, 4 and 5, and 17, 18
and 19, will also find the testers
back again. The testing station
will be open from eight until noon
and from one to five each of
those days. The state testers are
now operating a shuttle schedule
among the communities of Shel-
ton, Bremerton, Port Angeles and
Port Townsend covering two
week periods.
Cars which failed to go thru
the state test in 1940 are request-
ed to be brought in first for the
1941 test, but any car will be
tested whether it has the 1940
seal or not.
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President,I
funds necessary to complete the
last two blocks of the Railroad
Avenue beautification project this
ispring will be made by the Shel-
ton Garden Club, sponsors of the
.....under.taking, I, Mrsu Vassar-get
Cropper, club president, announc-
ed today.
The club now has $200 in” its
treasury to put into the project
but $800 will be necessary to
complete the planting and install
an adequate sprinkling system,
Mrs. Cropper pointed out.
Two events are planned for
this month to swell the fund. One
will be sponsorship in cooperation
with the city basketball league of
the exhibition basketball game on
February 18 which the All-Ameri-
can Red Heads, premier touring
girls basketball team, will play
against the Shelton town team.
Net proceeds of the game will
be divided equally by the Garden
Club and the city basketball
lleague, which booked the famous
feminine hoopsters as a means of
raising funds to pay its rent bill
at the gym but offered to share
receipts with the Garden Club to
help the beautification project
along. The Garden Club will con-
duct an advance ticket sale for
the game, Mrs. Cropper said.
lGarden. Club Embarks 0n
Beautification Fund Drivel
Second event on the fund—rais-
ing program by the Garden Club
will be a big public bridge lunch-
eon to be given during the week
‘of Washington’s birthday in Mem-
orial Hall. An exact date for the
event will bevselected' later, Mrs.
Cropper said. Committees to ar-
range details of the bridge lunch-
eon, as well as the basketball
ticket sales committee, will be
available for announcement in
Thursday’s Journal, Mrs. Cropper
promised.
Later in the spring a dance is
planned by the Garden Club and
other events to complete the beau—
tification project fund will be ar~
ranged. In the meantime, all do-
nations which individuals or or-
ganizations may feel inclined to
make to the fund will be greatly
appreciated, Mrs. Cropper stated.
“Raising the additional money
which‘we need to complete our
fund means a great deal of work
for our organization, so any as-
sistance we receive from other or-
ganizations and individuals will
be. helping to wind up a very worth
while work.” the Garden Club
president explained. “We want
to complete the project this spring
so the first two blocks won’t get
too great a head start on these
last two."
LUMBERING NOT DESTRUCTIVE
INDUSTRY, ANSWERS EXECUTIVE
Tacoma, Jan. 31. -* “Is the
Lumber Industry Prepared to
Meet the Challenge of 1941 ?” On
this subject President Corydon
Wagner of the West Coast Lum-
bermen’s Association addressed
WCLA members in their Annual
Meeting at Tacoma this morning.
Reminding the lumbermen that
Paul Bunyan, and not Caspar
Milquetoast, was their patron
saint, he urged them to face their
public relations and trade prob—
lems in the year ahead with their
“traditional” enterpriSe, courage
and perseverance." In this spirit
President Wagner cited criticisms
which have been directed against
the industry, with vast publicity,
in recent months, and answered
them.
The Association,head dealt at
greatest length with the endlessly
repeated charge that lumbering is
a destructive industry. The most
effective answer to this charge,
he said, is in the findings of the
U. S. Forest Service's recently
completed Forest Survey.
“Its particular value,” Mr. Wag—
ner said, “lies in the putting to
rest of the timeworn bogey of an
imminent timber famine. With
particular reference to our Doug-
las fir forests, it concludes that
lands now cut are producing
growth equal to. one-half the
present drain, but that when the
stagnant mature forests have been
harvested and there is additional
growth per acre on all the area
equal to the average growth on
cutover lands today, the future to-
tal growth will exceed total drain
by four per cent . . .
“Our industry has by no means
finished its job of reforestation
but it has made a good beginning.
.The greatest stimulation that can
come to the business of growing
new forests is to make that busi-
ness profitable;
more intensive utilization of new
markets for our forest prod-
ucts . . .
“The challenge of 1941 is to
return the lumber industry to its
proper place in the esteem of the
American people . . . It involves
rebuilding confidence in our prod-
ucts, in the future of our industry,
and in the spirit of private enter~
prise.”
Skokomish Indian,
80, Dies Sunday
Edward J. Smith, 80-year-old
Skokomish Indian Reservation
resident, was buried Monday af-
ternoon after funeral services con-
ducted from the reservation
church. He died at his home on
the reservation Sunday after an
extended illness.
Surviving are his widow, Ka-
therine, two sons, John and A1-
bert, living on the Skokomish res-
ervation; and one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Robels of Los Angeles.
Mr. Smith was born in April,
1861, at Copalis Beach, Wash. He
had resided on the Skokomish
Reservation for the past three
years.
Firemen Douse Blaze
At Their Chief’s Home
City volunteer firemen who an-
swered an alarm last night dis-
covered they had been called to
the home of their chief, Dean Car-
men, to douse a chimney blaze
when they arrived at 1233 Frank-
lin street. '
The residence is occupied by
Frank G. Russell, furniture store
salesman. No damage to the house
and that means was done.
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Consolidated with The Shelton Independent
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IN IIQUGR TAX
DISTRIBUTID
Despite Population Gain Here De-
crease Comes Because Of
Greater Rural Growth.
In State
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Although Mason County rural
population gained over 1000 be-
tween 1930 and 1940, by an odd
quirk of figures liquor profit ap-
portionments to be paid to the
county treasurer by the state liq-
uor control board will be less un-
der the 1940 population figures
than they were under the 1930
figures.
A letter explaining the unusual
situation was sent to Deputy
Treasurer Nolan Mason by Liquor
Board Chairman L. E. Gregory
in response to an inquiry made by
Mason on the subject.
The letter pointed out that al-
though the rural Mason County
population had jumped from 6869
in 1930 to 7896 in 1940, the gain
in rural areas throughout the
state had been even greater in
proportion, or from 537,870 to
666,328 in the ten-year period.
Thus where the per capita share
[of liquor profits allotted to coun-
.ties had been $0.120847 under 1930
census figures, or $842.19 to Ma-
son County of each $500,000 “mel-
on” sliced up, now the per capita
Share is only $0.0975495, or $770.25
to Mason County on each $500,000
split, or a decrease of $47.42 over
previous cuts.
Liquor profits are divided in
this fashion: 52 percent to the
cities, 35 percent to the state, and
13 percent to the counties, the
letter pointed out. Thus out of
each $500,000 split, the counties
divide approximately $65,000.
In the case of the cities, as was
pointed out last week, Shelton en-
joys a substantial gain in its liq-
uor tax apportionments under
1940 population figures, this be-
ing due to the fact that while
Shelton showed a population gain
the 1940 census showed a drop in
urban populations throughout the
Istate as a whole. As a result
:Shelton will receive $141.39 more
on each $500,000 liquor profit di-
vision than it did under the 1930
population figures, so weighing
one against the other, Shelton’s
gain against the county's loss, as'
a whole this community benefits.
HDNII: GUARD UNIT
ITO DRILL MONDAY I
ll NIGHT EAlJH WEEK
Choosing a new meeting sched-
ule entirely, the Home Guard
the disbanding byexecutive order
of the State Guard which was an-
Unit hereafter will meet \ e a c h
week on Monday evenings with
the basement of the Bordeaux
Inounced last week, Capt. Compton
\sad
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school building on Hillcrest as
the drill hall and 7:30 o'clock as
the muster call, First Lieut. Fred
Hickson announced today.
The first meeting under the new
schedule was held last night fol-
lowing a session last Thursday at
which first steps 'were taken to
re-oragnize the unit completely
into platoons.
The reorganization is to be com-
pleted at next Monday’s drill, ac-
cording to Capt. William F. Comp-
ton. He announced the appoint-
ment of Byron Weilenman as top
sergeant for the unit, with other
appointments as follows:
G. A. Graf and E. F. Martin,
first and second lieutenants re-
spectively of the rifle platoon; Art
Ward and Bob Springer, first and
second lieutenants respectively of
the engineers platoon; Steve Gal-
lant, first lieutenant of the signal
and radio communications platoon;
Myron Lund, first lieutenant of
the first aid platoon; and Doane
Brodie, sergeant of the engineers
platoon.
Art Mackey, Ed Petty, R. W.
Strike, Jack Pinckney, Ed Ahern,
Ray Starwich, and Ralph Pigg are
to be assigned as sergeants in
the several seEtions and appoint-
ments of corporals are to be an-
nounced next Monday.
The Mason County Home Guard
unit will continue to drill despite
Berg Sells Drug
Store To Tacoman,
Going To Alaska
In order to attend to the ad-
ministration of the estate of his
father, who died here a few days
ago, Hanson G. Berg has sold his
interest in the Economy Drug
Store, which he has operated for
15 years, and will leave for Fair—
banks, Alaska, by boat Friday or
Saturday this week, he said today.
J. C. Steele of Tacoma is the
new owner of the Economy Drug
Store, located on First between
Cota and Grove streets.
FOOD STP PPUITY HIGH»
for orange food stamps and for
worth of food through the use
food stamps are exchangeable
any food item
Virtually every food retailer in
in the plan.
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FOOD STAMPS IN
Record Single Day's Volume
To Start Off February Yes-
terday With $605
January sales of ,food stamps
under the surplus marketing ad-
ministration plan were $150 in
cash and $225 in value above the
December sales, Miss Joyce West,
food stamp clerk, reported yes-
terday.
Sales for January totalled $3,-
069 in cash or orange stamps,
while an additional $1534.50 in
blue stamps were given free to
the orange stamp purchasers, thus
making a total value of $4603.50
for thementh. . .
Yesterday a reCord sales vol-
ume for one day’s business was
achieved, Miss West said, when
$605 in cash for orange stamps
was paid in by eligible partici-
pants in the food stamp plan.
Free blue stamps increased the
value of yesterday’s sales volume
to $907.50. Yesterday marked the
inaugural of the food stamp of-
fice’s new weekly schedule of
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
sales periods from 1:30 to 4:30
o‘clock.
During January, Miss West con—
tinued, 580 persons in 195 fami-
lies participated in the food stamp
plan, some on a semi—monthly
basis.
Breaking it down even further,
Miss West’s records show that
94 out of 160 certified WPA work-
ers participated in the plan, spend-
ing $1725 for orange stamps and
receiving half as many blue
stamps free; 23 of 26 certified
general assistance recipients pur-
chased $236 worth of orange
stamps, 17 of 23 certified aid—to-
dependent-children recipients pur-
chased $330 worth, 15 of 53 cer-
tified composite-family-use re-
cipients purchased $316 in orange
stamps, and 46 of 139 certified
old age pension recipients pur-
chased $462 in orange stamps.
Reduced Pin Ball
Fee Requested
0f Copnty Board
Reduction in the minimum fees
for operating pin-ball machines
was requested formally of the
board of county commissioners
yesterday by Sam Theler, Belfair
merchant, and was resisted by Ho-
bart Hedrick, pin-ball machine op-
erator.
Law office partners Doane Bro-
die and Charles T. Wright were
pitted against each other in pre-
senting the arguments, Brodie for
Theler and Wright for He
The request was taken under ad-
visement by the board.
Two appointments to the Ma-
son County planning council were
made by the board yesterday, Jus-
tice W. A. Magoon to fill out the
unexpired term of the late Harry
Young and I. H. Woods to replace
Fred Diehl, whose ter’m expired
recently.
A proposition made by Frank
Trainer of Shelton to care for the
courthouse lawn and grounds at
$26 a month for the next year was
accepted by the board, and a re-
quest by Leslie Muller of Island
Lake to construct a 40-foot coun-
ty road one-half mile long around
part of Island Lake was received
and filed.
given. free to the extent of half the orange stamp value.
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Grocer Jones is finding it easy to get cash for food stamps
accepted from his public assistance customers in Mason County.
He pastes them on a government card, turns them over to his
wholesaler, who turns them over to the Surplus Marketing Ad-
ministration for payment by check.
January $3,056 was paid in cash by public assistance recipients
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in Mason County during
this sum they received $4,603.50
of blue food stamps, which are
Blue
for certain food commodities
designated as surplus, while the orange stamps will purchase
in stores participating in the food stamp plan.
Mason County is a participapt
MOTORIST, SAVED——
GREATER DEMAND FROM BROWNING,
DURING JANUARY FINED FOR DRINKI
Set Nearby Resident Rescues Driver
From Skokomish River As
Car Takes Ducking
Saved from drowning by the
timely arrival of A. O. Biehl, near-
by resident, when he drove his
car into the Skokomish River Fri-
day night near the old hatchery
on the Purdy Canyon cutoff road,
Vernon E. Ricketts, Potlatch
Route, was fined $50 on drunken
driving charges and his license
was revoked for one year by Jus-
tice M. C. Zintheo, Saturday.
Police Chief Ray Starwich, hap-
pening to be returning home from
Hood Canal at ,the time, brought
Ricketts in to the city jail. The
charges were preferred by State
Patrolman Cliff Aden.
Bert Bennett, Route 3, was fined
a total of $77.50 on three charges,
$50 for drunken driving, $15 for
resisting an officer, and $10 for
driving without a license, with
$2.50 court costs added, by 'Jus-
tice M. C. Zintheo Saturday after
Bennett’s arrest by Aden when
Bennett almost hit the officer’s
patrol car near the airport.
Three cars, all of ancient vint-
age, were practically demolished
and two occupants of one of them,
Tony Sikunas and Mary Snider,
both of Bremerton, were treated
at Shelton hospital for minor in-
juries suffered in an odd three-
car accident on Olympic highway
at Mt. View early Sunday morn-
ing. .
Sikunas’ car struck the rear of
a car driven by Percy Adams of
Shelton which was pushing an—
other car operated by Bertha Ho-
bucket, Taholah Indian.
Jack Hembury, 16, of Lilliwaup,
reported a car he was operating
Sunday evening was damaged
when it ran into the ditch near
the Skokomish Bridge on the
Olympic highway after the lights
failed as he dimmed them for an
approaching car.
Damages estimated at $70 to
each machine were inflicted in a
collision of cars operated by Went-
sul W. Tschoepl, Mannette, and
Richard Baker, Fort Lewis sol-
dier, near Hoodsport Sunday. Ac-
cording to Tschoepl’s report to
the sheriff’s office, Baker refused
to dim his lights and was on the
wrong side of the yellow stripe at
the point of the collision.
Thursday Final
To Fill School
Questionnaires
Thursday
this week will be the
drick final day on which questionnaires
concerning the proposed trades
school here can be filled out, the
committee in charge of surveying
the interest in such a school an-
I nounced.
Considerable interest has been
shown in the proposed school but
whether enough to barrant the es-
tablishment of such a school has
difficult to
yet been shown is
judge as. yet, the committee indi-
cated.
Questionnaire forms
nal.
Kimbel To Build $5000
Roy J. Kimbel, logging company
may be
obtained at the senior high school,
the Reed Mill offices or The Jour-
Residence On Hillcrest!
In granting a leave of absence
to District Sanitarian William
Fultz while he serves in the Army, |
the board included in the letter ‘tor Gordon Hendry to construct
of permission this sentence: a new residence at 1717 Olympic
present members of the health highway valued at $5000.
department personnel are expected
to meet the new requirements of
proprietor and Richfield Oil dis«
tributor here, was issued a build-
ing permit this week by City Audi-
SON BORN FRIDAY
Mrs. Berg and their son, Dickie,
will remain in Shelton while Mr.
Berg attends to the estate in Alas-
ka, Mr. Berg said.
their positions and we will expect
you to present your qualifications
to Donald G. Evans, state director
of health.”
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Johnson
of Route 2 became parents of a
, Friday.
WEBB BACKED
BY SP‘DRTSMEN
FOR GAME POST
Nlason County Man Supported To
Fill Vacancy Now In State
Commission From
Peninsula
If power of persuasion can help
him, Tom Webb, former Mason
County commissioner and a prom-
inent Republican wheelhorse lo-
cally, may be the next member of
the state game commission from
the Olympic Peninsula district.
Support of the Hood Canal
Sportsmens Association w a s
thrown behind Webb at the or-
ganization‘s January m e e t i n g
Thursday evening at Hoodsport
and the backing of other sports-
mens groups on the peninsula and
Southwest Washington will be
sought by the canal association.
The Mason County Republican
central committee has promised
to recommend Webb to Governor
Langlie, according to a report-
made to the sportsmen by George
Hixon at Thursday‘s session.
Peninsula Post Vacated
Resignation recently of Harry
LeGear of Port Angeles leaves a
position open on the game com-
mission which the Hood Canal
group would have 'filled by the
appointment of Webb.
Featuring business of the Jan—
uary session was the annual re-
port of the game fish committee,
presented by Hixon on behalf of
Gene Martin, committee chair-
man.
Outstanding in the report was
the prediction that a new policy
adopted by the game department
in which fish plantings are to be
allocated according to the amount
of suitable water rather than the
number of licenses sold in each
county will be of direct benefit
to Mason County, resulting in con-
siderably increased plantings due
to the large number of exception-
ally fine streams and lakes here.
Action Commended
The report went on to say that
the commission also plans to make
its plantings earlier in the sea-
son hereafter so that all fish
planted may be inner ,anellt. was
for before the Weather becomes
too hot. Rearing of fish to at
least fingerling size before re-
lease is another change the re-
port commended on the part of
the game department.
The report said that a total
of 1,025,510 fish had been planted
by the state game department
during 1940 in Mason County wa-
ters, most of them of fingerling
size,>with a total of 235,363 be-
ing rainbow trout. An addition-
al 196,500 trout were salvaged
from Vance Creek this past year,
a somewhat reduced salvage due
to high water. Of the Vance
Creek salvage, 2500 were finger-
marked by the game department
for future observation before be-
ing dumped into Lake Cushman.
Lake Cushman catch records,
the report continued, showed that
5,531 fishermen who made reports
had caught 47,955 fish, or 3. av-
erage of 8.67 per angler, a nice
increase over the 1939 average
catch.
Attractive Prizes Up
Reporting on the predatory hunt
which started January 1 under
the sportsmens association aus-
pices, Chairman Allie RobinSOn
said a nice start has been made
with several entries already in and
a valuable prize list shaping up.
A 25-35 carbine rifle has been
donated by the Lumbermen’s Mer-
cantile for the adult first prize,
while a 20-gauage repeating shot-
gun donated by the Driskel Hard-
ware may be used as a junior div-
ision first prize, Robinson said.
Other prizes will be announced
soon, he said. The contest closes
June 30.
Taking action on proposals for
legislation, the association favor~
ed the Tacoma Sportsmens so-
ciation proposal to revise he
bounty schedule on predatory ani‘
mals by changing the fishing and
|hunting license fees, separating
the two. The Olympia Poggie
club‘s protest against the game
commission‘s action in .setting
aside two Washington streams for
fly fising only was tabled.
Roy Kimbel favored the sports-
men with an hour and a half’s
showing of colored motion pic-
tures of his trip to Alaska and
the Yukon Territory last spring,
showing six ZOO-foot reels of film.
Following the session the ga-
thering enjoyed hot-dogs and cof-
fee.
RAYONIER’ RESUMES
OPERATION T O D AY
After ‘a shutdown of slightly
less than two weeks for repairs,
the Rayonier plant started the
process of returning to operation
by departments today and will be
under full schedule by Thursday,
according to Office Manager F. R.
Pearson.
Miss Maxine Vandercook, Ray—
onier office staff member and
secretary to Dr. Russell Pickens
for several years, left Shelton Sat—
urday for a short visit at the
home of her parents in Ryder-
wood, Wash, before leaving for
l
baby son born at Shelton hospital New York, where she has been
transferred by Rayonier Inc.