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sétlllll‘day afternoon
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- Kitsa s urtis
suStained as he was
031' driven by Dee
Van
SEVeral times on 8.
“5’ Yard highway
e3 above Union.
Curtis, wife of tch
s severely injured
was thrown from
filled to negotiate
all car was trav-
Ut not seriously
tel? to be released
' tOSpital today to
t homicide charge
“mm” Frank Heuston
[MES he intends to
. s as the result
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f yman ‘
50 VAL” V “(find that “Kenneth;
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from O "‘ d)? ,the influence of
Verdict lnt0X1cating liq-
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Send Lab.“ Ething hospltal on a?
Chalge w h i c h
on filed earlier‘
l‘day, ,
man Cliff Aden and I
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2-leO", Pine ervlce Station at
, ' the ,Streets identified
I ‘f, lip tgtOXIC-‘Lted driver
0 lbs ." . tamere a short time
. ' '. theage accident. At-
Juicy. ,f PeachrV‘CC station at-.
Chief Sheriff Martini
5-lel ‘=: Ray Starwich
t that time.
. d by his wife
3_lbs'~ Kenneth, Jr.,
.. C D9nna. his fax,
Eems. 91‘th of Willis-
ming here.
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Curtis was.
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'7 1'
£3 ’1 of Shelton
has?" Costs and his
"A M revoked for a
n - Eel; 0- Zintheo yes-
‘-a. d eson was ar.
Quinlaken driving
Aden. 3’ State Pa-
6 arrest just be-
nvsurday when he
the 0car parked
can lympic high-
Yon without a
another car
0n the road were
Targes Jus-
Thursday after
Wanoh State
atrolman Cliff
£13 Harbor, the
dial? and costs
Vmg charge
enheth Dillen-
utter» all of
. 0 and costs
IsOrderly con-
60
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they could
fr. driver, new
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flctions- of the
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Prep Enga'esentatives in
when at mental mustic
. lug ex Aberdeen 13:st
ve3_ esilent showings
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first traffici
written into '
p County. died ‘
of Bremerton
I, head of the cove ‘
L ona Lodge is sit-.
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Pastime. OREGON ‘
Boy Patrolmen
‘ To Be Feted By
Club Sponsors
Schoolboy Patrolmen of the
Lincoln and Bordeaux grade
school patrols will be feted by
their sponsors, the Active Club, 1
Wednesday evening at the an—
} nual banquet thc clubmen stage
1 in honor of the “kid cops.” Shel-
‘ ton Hotel will be the scene.
Sergeant James Kuntz, Offi-
cer R. (i. Kaufman and State
Patrolman Cliff Aden of the
Washington State Patrol, and
Police Chief Ray Starwich will
he guests of the club along with
the schoolboy patrolmen. Star-
wich organized the schoolboy
patrol a dozen or so years ago
when he was at that time a
I member of the State Patrol.
All four officers will give short
talks to the. young traffic di-
rectors.
Entertainment will be. furn-
ished by the schoolboy patrol-
men, several of whom play var-
ious musical instruments or do
stunts. The program is being
arranged by Chairman Bill
I Dickie.
CRAFfiCIIfiEIL
ATTENDED; COVER
CROPS STUDIED:
Various Seeds Scrutinized For
‘Rate Of Growth, Cost And
Best Seeding Times
Grape growers are very much
interested in obtaining informa-
tion on grape fertilization and.
methods of pruning, as was
demonstrated by the good atten-
dance and interesting questions at
the tour last Saturday at Grape-
lview, reports Dr. Snyder, Exten-
sion Horticulturist, and County
Agent Okerstrom.
The purpose of the tour was
to observe the cover crops in
the various vineyards and study
the results of time of seeding,
rate of seeding, kind of seed,
and cost of seeding.
The first stop was at the P.
E. Davis vineyard where crimson
clover seeded at the rate of 15
to 20 pounds per acre on June
25th was observed. The seed in
this case cost 230 per pound. Hows
considerable can be saved
on this by buying the seed in the
fall rather than in the spring,
County Agent Okerstrom pointed
out. The usual fall price of crim-
son clover seed is about 12c, he
shid. The cost per acre then was
$3.45 to $4.60 per acre.
Innoculation Valuable
The value of adding innocula-
tion to the seed before planting
was pointed out.
At the Walter Eckert vineyard
a seeding of vetch at the rate of
40 to 45 pounds per acre was
observed. This was seeded at a
cost of $2.00 to $2.25 per acre,
and was seeded August 28. Mr.
Eckert pointed out that he
thought 60 pounds would be bet-
ter than 40 pounds as it would
give a thicker stand, thus more
to plow under at less height.
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Mattress Makers
Celebrate After
35th Completion
After having worked a little
overtime last Tuesday to com-
plete their 35th and last mat-
tress, the mattress makers of the
Southside community topped it
all off with a potluck supper Sat-
urday evening. Every family with
the exception of one was present,
and all report a splendid supper
and a good time during the eve-
ning.
These folks sewed 350 yards of
ticking material into ticks, which
took 1435 feet of sewing on the
machines and 665 feet of hand
sewing. They laid cotton and beat
560 three-pound bats and thirty
five two-pound bats, which took
1750 pounds of cotton. It also
meant sewing 1610 feet of rolled
edges on the mattresses.
The best mattress made was
131/; inches thick while the ma-
jority of them were 11 to 12 in-
ches thick.
All report the mattresses very
comfortable and are well pleased
with the results of their efforts.
The project is now open at the
Dayton school so anyone interest-
ed in seeing the mattresses made
are welcome to come at any time.
Style— Show Xlld
Musicale Tonite
Fashioned-minded Sheltonians
will be found in the junior high
.school auditorium this evening
from eight o’clock on, oggling the
styles in my—lady’s dresses and
Imasculine attire for the spring
and summer at the annual Spring
‘Fashion Show and Musicale st» ged
by the combined Lincoln and Bor-
deaux P.-T. A.’s and the Lum-
clarinet
e.h1ghest rat-
dges, while
cachet and Arnold
_ ‘ a: ra inglr‘eceived the
e’ Pu i excellent.
at Ntfilgeté efarmed the
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bermen’s Mercantile store.
Interspersed with the fashion
modelings will be musical enter-
‘tainment supplied by the cream
of the local crop. Proceeds of
the program will go into the
general funds of the two P.-T. A.
groups.
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AGED CHINESE.
(CHUN G KEE, lS
Highly Respected Oriental, Pion-
eer of County, Missing; Row-
boat Floats Up to Bayshore
Sometime In Night
Although the body has not yet
been recovered and definite proof
cannot yet be established, Mason
County law authorities believe J.
Chung Kee, aged Chinese, drowned
last night in Oakland Bay while
attempting to row across the wa-
ter to his home on the shore op-
posite Bayshore Resort.
Sheriff Gene Martin, Deputy
[Fred Hickson and Police Chief
Ray Starwich returned to the bay
. at low tide this afternoon and re-
sumed the search for the body
after deciding it would be useless
'to try to drag for the body at
high tide this morning.
Kee's rowboat was found this
morning by County Assessor War-
ren Lincoln, proprietor of the Bay-
shore Resort, among the Bay-
shore boats, where it had drifted
with the wind and tide during the
night.
Kee’s hat were in the craft but
the oars were missing.
He had purchased the grocer—
last night and had been helped
into his rowboat by Lincoln to
wait for the tide to float him and
then row across the narrow
stretch of water to his home on
the opposite shore when Lincoln
left him, the county assessor said
today.
No trace of the highly respect-
ed, aged Oriental could be found
around his little home by
searchers today.
University Band ,
To Give Concert
Here On Tuesday
Appearing for the first time in
Shelton, the University of Wash—
ington symphonic band, with 85
pieces under the direction of Wal-
ter C. Welke, will resent. an
hour of top—notch musical ‘cnter-
tainment for Shelton school stu-
dents next Tuesday, March 25, at
2:30 o'clock, in the junior high
school auditorium.
This talented group of musical
young men and women, which in-
cludes several regular members
of the Seattle Symphony orches-
tra, is nationally famous as one
of the finest musical and enter-
taining bands in the country.
With a library of more than
one thousand standard classical
and popular numbers from which.
to make up his concert programs,
Professor Welke has always been
able to present a musical treat
for all types of listeners, running
the gamut of musical tastes.
Included among the selections
1n the program the band Will give
in its local appearance will be
two selections requested by the
Shelton school band, numbers
which it has been preparing for
contest work.
The complete program follows:
Lady of Spain—Evans.
Overture Eroica (request) ——
Beethoven-Skornicka.
Little Brown JuguBergeim. A
Novelty Dance.
Invocation of Alberich (request)
“Wagner. ,
Nutcracker Suite (Flute Trio.)
~Tchaikovsky.
The Breeze and I—Lecuona.
From Africa to Harlem—Ben-
nett.
Mrs. Lankaster,
Resident Here 18
Years, Succumbs
Mrs. Thea Lankaster, 56, Shel-
ton resident for the past 18 years,
succumbed to an illness of several
months at Shelton hospital Sun-
day.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday at 1:30 o’clock from the
Mt. Olive Lutheran church on
Hillcrest with members of the
Degree of Honor conducting.
Survivors include her husband,
Edwin, of Shelton; her mother,
Mrs. Marie Satra, of Tacoma; at
SOIL Edward Munsen, of Shelton;
four brothers, Peter Satra, Ar-
lington; Theodore, East Stanwood;
Oliver. Norman, Wash; and Mel-
Vm, Marysville, and two sisters,
Mrs. Julia Hall, Tacoma, and Mrs.
Ida Larson, Seattle.
lEX-Shelton Man
Gets Promotion
Picked from 986 men, George
Eidemiller, former Shelton boy,
graduate of Irene S. Reed high
with the class of 1933, earned a.
signal honor last week when, he
was promoted to the rank of
technical sergeant with the 205th
Field Artillery (anti-aircraft) of
the Washington National Guard,
now in training at Camp Murray,
and was sent to Fort Monroe,
Virginia, for a three-month train-
ing course.
Sergeant Eidemiller left for
Fort Monroe yesterday after en-
joying the weekend with his sis-
ter, Mrs. Ralph Pigg, here.
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A bag of groceries and!
ies at the Bayshore grocery store,
the '
Consolidated wi
How About Ride,
. Prof ’n Ray, In
Those two “kids with
toys” you’ve noted driving about
town the past few days are Po-
lice Chief Ray Starwich and
City School Supt. H. E. Loop.
The police chief accepted de—
livery Saturday morning of the
new patrol car purchased by the
city for the police department
and a handsome gig it is, too,
I lads and lassies. Jet, shiny
black with red warning lights
and a spot light mounted on the
I top and the siren on the fender,
the new patrol car lacks only
the lettering designating it as
an official vehicle to make it
complete. That detail will soon
be taken care of, Starwich as-
sorts.
The new patrol car is a Ford
with a 95 horsepower Mercury
motor and carries the standard
police car accessories.
Prof. Loop’s new “toy” is a
popular make coupe of a few
years earlier vintage than the
new police car, but the distin-
guishing feature is the pigeon
blood ruby color it is painted,
with gold lettering on each door
designating “City Superinten-
dent of Schools.”
80 don't go looking for the
I “red wagon” any more when
I you're trying to spot Prof, look
for that “pigeon blood ruby"
. coupe. You can’t miss it.
DEMOLAY BOYS TO
HANDLE MUNCIPAL
RElNS THURSDAY
' Youth will have its fling at
municipal government in Shelton
this week when DeMolay members
unofficially take over the offices
of the City of Shelton.
For that day only “hizzoner”
the mayor Will be Clint Williams,
master councillor of Mark E.
Reed chapter of the DeMolay. His
assisting “city authorities” for the
day will be Dean Palmer. clerk;
Martel Jackson, treasurer: Ken
Latham, auditor; Randall Jordan,
fire chief; Bob Kimbel, police
chief; Allan Daniels, water su-
perintendent; Frank Beret and
Walt Eddy, deputy police chiefs;
Herb Ellison, police judge; Phil
Woods, George Valley and Glenn
Palmer, city attorney; Warren
Woods, George Valley and Glenn
Sewers, deputy fire chiefs: and
Ralph LeDrew, Penny Read, Jim
McComb, Jim Nash, BillBatstone,
Warren Hunter, and Bill Matthews
councilmen.
The DeMolay city officers
Imeet at the city hall at 2:30
Thursday afternoon, those' still
in school having received permis-
sion to leave early that day, there
to meet the real city officers
whose places they are to take.
The real officers will then ex-
plain their duties to their young
relief officers, and in the eve-
ning the DeMolay “city officials"
will conduct a council meeting
preceding the official city council
session.
Last night. four new members
were conferred with the DeMolay
degree by ‘the degree team of
Mark E. Reed chapter. They
were Morton Munson, Glen Con-
nors, and Art Matthews of 'Shel-
ton, and one boy from Olympia.
Refreshments were served after-
ward by the DeMolay mothers
club.
Wednesday evening an import-
ant meeting of all DeMolay mem—
bers will be held at Dad Hack's
home at 7:30, Master Councillor
Williams said today. Next Sun-
day the chapter will attendi
church at the Methodist Church
to observe annual “Church Ob-
servance Day, a regular De-
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§lAX PAYMENTS
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lllFlCE FORCE
Collections Best In His 7 Years
In Treasurer's Office, Re-
ports Dion As ()ash
Rolls In
ments made to Mason County in
.timc to, take advantage of the
three percent rebate offer which
expired last Saturday noon won't
-be available for some days yet,
Ineighbors.
Not until Treasurer Omer Dion's
staff has had time to dig out
from under the blizzard of mail
and in-person payments which
snowed the staff under last week-
end.
are the best in Treasurer Dion’s
seven years in the office, he man<
arithmetic to inform The Journal’s
figure-seeking reporter yesterday.
Cash By The Boxful
“Look,” the county’s money cus—
todian waved an arm around the
room. “Betty (McKiel) and I are
working over this box, Mary (Dil-
lon) has that big box full there
in the corner, Mrs. (Lydia) Tower
has another armful in that room,
and Nolan (Mason) has a couple
boxfuls in the
Those are all mail payments. We‘ll
be lucky if we have it cleared up
in time to give you a total in
time for your Thursday edition.”
And the figure—seeking report-
er saw that he would get no fig-
ures that day, nor for some days
to come, for those boxes full of
tax payments were no small af—
fairs. Indeed it will take some
swift work to sweep that blizzard
off the path by Thursday’s edi-
tion.
For ()cntage Runs High
Treasurer Dion did hazard a
guess that somewhere between 65
1and 70 percent of the total 1941
taxes assessed have already been
paid, and the statements were
mailed only a month ago. ,At the
same time a large body of de-
linquent taxes have also been re-
mitted, he added.
"People paid their taxes in
fullfi‘this year like thieygnever have
done before during my experience
in this office,” Treasurer Dion
commented. “Last year we had
a lot of payments in halves, but
this year the large majority are
paying in full and taking the full
rebate advantagc. They've been
paying in a steady stream ever
since we mailed out the state
ments a month ago.”
Biggest check received by the
county in the rebate flood was
paid by Ray-
Saturday, while the
Simpson Logging Company paid
in over $37,000 in taxes in several
checks, the largest of which was
for over $26,000.
COMMUNITY
'CALENDAR
TONIGHT—Annual spring style
show and musicale, sponsored
by Lincoln-Bordeaux P.-‘T. A.
and L. M. store, p.‘ m., Jun-
ior high auditorium.
TON IGHT—Americ‘an L c g i o n
post and auxiliary meetings, 8
p. m., Memorial Hall, observing
post’s birthday anniversary.
WEDNESDAY—State motor ve-
hicle testing station' open,
a. m. to 5 p. m., city dock road.
WEDNESDAY—Annual School-
boy Patrol banquet by Active
Club, 6230 p. m., Shelton Ho-
tel.
THURSDAY—City council meet-
ing, 8 p. m., city hall.
THURSDAY—Commercial league
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling al-
Molay obligatory function.
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An indisputable example of that
contention that there's “nothing
like the sun as a medicine," Louis
Weinel, manager of the Shelton
branch of the Seattle-First Na—
tional Bank, returned to Shelton
late last week wearing a “Mexi-
can” tan and a spring in his
step which attested undeniably
to his return to health.
Six weeks in the sun at Palm
Springs, Calif, (yes, it seems
there was some sunshine in South-
ern California at that this win-
ter) kicked the stuffings out of
the illness that forced the Shel—
ton banker to undergo two opera-
tions, leave his post at t h e bank,
and seek a warmer climate.
It took a little hunting, how—
ever, before Mr. and Mrs. Weinel
did find the warmth they were
seeking. They couldn’t get it at
Tucson or Phoenix, Ariz., where
they made brief stops, but Palm
Springs had it, about the only
place in Southern California and
Arizona to escape the severest
winter that area has experienced
in a half century.
At Palm Springs, Mr. Weinel
related, he baked out under tem-
peratures ranging up to 130 de-
grees (created with the help of
reflecting walls), and that’s what
he credits with bringing back
his present state of good health.
TANNED, HEALTH RETURNED,
LOUIS WEINEL HoME AGAIN
leys.
Sidestrips into Mexico, to Death
Valley Scotty’s fabulous desert
castle. and to San Diego were
highlights of the Weinels’ Stay
in the south. On the trip into
Mexico the Shelton couple tookl
a 40-mile jaunt on a rural road
and were three hours getting to
their destination. “Those people
off the main roads in Mexico are
a 1000 years behind the times/'1
Mr. Weinel commented. /
One' of the impressive sights
the Weinels will remember, a long
time is the departure of’dozens
of big bombing planes from the
San Diego air drome at night.
Bad weather had kept the big
ships grounded and a large num—
ber had accumulated at the field
before the first good break in the
weather allowed them to' take
off for their intended destinations,
and that happened to come at
night.
On the trip into Death Valley
and the visit to the Castle, Mr.
and Mrs. Weinel enjoyed meeting
Death Valley Scotty and his par-
tner in person. The Castle Mr.
Weinel described as an attraction
well worth seeing.
Although he is feeling almost
like his old self again, Mr. Wei-
nel does not plan to return to his
bankingduties for some time yet,
he said.
Accurate figures on tax pay-'
Suffice it to say the payments:
aged to take time out from his.
vault there. ‘
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Pay For Canoe
It's now at the point where
John Replinger is getting des-
perate. He needs a canoe for the
Red Cross-Active Club summer
life saving classes (of which he
is chairman) and he's even will-
ing to pay for one.
Last year he pleaded and
‘ coaxed and cajoled all summer
trying to get the loan of at ca-
noe—to no avail. So, with the
handwriting on the wall as it is,
he's now ready to lay out hard
cash for one in good corgdition.
. It’s some little while yet be-
fore life saving classes are due
to be held, but Rep, from past
experiences in not being able to
get canoes, thinks maybe the
early bird might get the worm
after all.
So if you've a canoe you’d
like to turn into ready cash
there’s a customer waiting for
you.
AL MUNRO BUYS
M EN’S TOGGERY
0F up mun.
Native Son of Shelton Purchases
Popular Men's Store From V
Pioneer Merchant
Another major business transac-
tionA-the second here within the
week—was completed Friday with
the signing of the contract papers
which transferred ownership of
the Diehl’s Men’s Store from its
founder, F. H. Diehl, to A. M.
Munro, native son of Shelton.
The transaction became effec-
tive upon the signing of the pa.-
pers. The first business transfer
of last week was the change of
ownership of the Pantorium Clean-
ers.
Founded almost 30 years ago by
Mr. Diehl, thepopular men’s fur-
nishings store henceforth will op-
erate under the name of Munro’s
Men’s Store, the new owner said
yesterday.
Mr. Munro, graduate of Irene
S. Reed high school with the class
of 1932, has been chief bookkeep-
er for Huerby Motors for the past
seven and a half years. He pledges
a continuance of the policy carried
out by Mr. Diehl of stocking high
quality merchandise and featur-
ing service to the store's custom-
ers.
Mr. Diehl will remain in the
store for the next month, helping
the new owner get acquainted
with the details of the business
and with the store's regular pa-
trons. After that Mr. Diehl says
his plans are uncertain, but at
first he hopes to get outdoors
and do “a lot of work around the
place I’ve wanted to for a. long
time."
He started the business in 1914
right after the big fire and is
proud of the fact that some of
his original customers are still
regular patrons of the store.
“I wish I could personally thank
all the people who have made my
business days in Shelton very‘
happy and successful, but since
that is impossible I’ll have to let
the paper do it for me," Mr. Diehl
'said. “I am sure my customers
will give Mr. Munro the same
splendid consideration they did me
and will find him 'as appreciative
of their patronage as I have
been.”
Legion Birthday \
Fete Due Tonite
American Legionnnaires of
Fred B. Wivell post tonight will
observe the 22nd anniversary of
the founding of the American Le-
gion with a. program which will
include a feed put on by the past
presidents of the auxiliary unit,
a demonstration pf how a Boy
Scout troop conducts its meetings
lby Troop 25, sponsored by .the
post, plus several important busi-
ness details, Commander John
Eliason notified all post members
late last week. .
The meeting will be held as
usual in Memorial Hall starting
at eight o'clock.
Punchboard Forget
Gets Suspended Term
Pleading guilty to a charge of
,first degree forgery, Harry L.
Pitner, Seattle, was shown mercy
lby Judge D. F. Wright in super-
ior court Saturday when he sus-
pended a 20. year prison sentence
upon the recommendation of
Prosecutor Frank Heuston.
Pitner was charged with first
degree forgery for “counterfeit—
ing” numbers for punchboards
and claiming the prizes he had
not rightfully earned, Heuston ex-
plained in the complaint. The
Seattle man was arrested by
Thurston county law officers last,
Wednesday and held for Mason
county authorities.
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Fifth Draft Call
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he Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuchay, March 18, 1941.
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Culminating an action which
was started two years ago by
the late Harry Young, first presi-
dent of the Hood Canal Sports-
mens Ass'n, a public duck hunt-
ing area has been established on
the Skokomish River flats through
legislative action completed by the
1941 legislature, which completed
its labors last week.
House Bill No. 314, which per—
mits the governor to set aside to
the State Game Department the
land at the mouth of the Skoko-
mish River for public shooting,
was introduced by Representative
Hanks of Kitsap County and was
passed by both houses of the legis-
lature.
Passage of this bill sets aside
the last bit of publicly owned land
suitably located for duck shoot-
ing, according to local sportsmen,
and will henceforth be a public
shooting ground administered by
the State Game Department un-
der terms of the bill.
Thus is brought to a successful
conclusion one of the early actions
taken by Mr. Young after his
election as first president of the
sportsmens association. He was
spurred to action when a Brem-
erton group sought to purchaSe
the acreage and turn it into a
private gun club, but his timely
interference through the state
land commissioner prevented this
last bit of good duck hunting land
from being lost forever to the pub-
lic. '
It was Young who envisaged
the land as a public hunting area,
set aside for the use of any mem-
ber of the duck hunting public
wishing to use it. He saw how
the choice duck hunting areas
were being gobbled up by private
interests and being cIOSed to the
public, so he acted to prevent the
sale of the Skokomish acreage to
the Bremerton group, secured sup-
port of the Hood Canal Sports-
mens Ass'n through the passage
of a resolution, and steered the
Way to the legislative action which
was taken at this session of the
legislature. '
To Take. 5 Local
Men On April 10
As men selected to answer the
fourth draft call are preparing to
report for induction, the fifth re-
quisition for selectees in Ameri-
ca's first peace time Army draft
was received by the Mason County -
draft board yesterday calling for
five men to report April 10.
Thirteen Mason County men re-
port to the Tacoma induction sta-
tion next Monday on the fourth
call. One change from the original
list announced by the local draft
board has been made due to the
inclusion of a transfer from an-
other board into this district.
In the resulting change, Alfred
TWll Y'OUTHFUL
F LYERS. HURT
FROM CRASH
Warren Ellison Suffers Broken
Leg, Delbert Daniels Bro-
ken Arm As Plane
Crashes in Wind
Warren Ellison, 21, and Delbert
Daniels, 19, both of Shelton, es-
caped death yesterday at the Shel-
ton airport when a light plane
flown by Ellison crashed to the
ground from an altitude of about
250 feet in the first gusts of the
strong Wind and rain storm which
broke the Northwests ten-day
seige of sunshine.
Ellison suffered a broken right
leg and Daniels a broken right
arm, while the plane, a Taylor
Cub model, was badly damaged.
Both boys are graduates of Irene
S. Reed high school, Ellison in
1938 and Daniels in 1940.
The plane had been purchased
by Ellison less than a month ago
from Louis Elson. The loss is cov-
ered by insurance, according to
Orin Ellison, father of Warren.
Young Ellison has been employed
by the Northwest". Airlines at its
Boeing Field depot in Seattle for
the past several months, he being
in charge of the “groomers at the
present time.
Wind Gust Surprises
According to details of the crash
that Warren could remember and
tell his father, the plane had just
taken off on the long runway at
the airport, heading toward the
golf course, and was an estimated
200 to 250 feet high when Ellison
banked to make a turn. At that
moment a strong gust of wind
caught the upturned wings and
flipped the plane out of control
and it crashed approximately in
the center of the prairie on which
the airport is located, lighting on
one wing and the landing gear.
No Witnesses To Crash
Ellison was knocked unconscious
for several minutes but had snap-
ped off the ignition switch before
hitting the ground and no fire re-
sulted. Daniels extracated himself
from the wreckage and was stag-
gering toward the highway to
summon assistance when Paul Ja-
cobs of Shelton drove onto the
airport. He had not seen the crash,
he said, but had seen the plane on
the field and was just driving out
.to look at it when he saw Dan-
iels staggering toward him. Jacobs
pulled Ellison from the wreckage
and rushed the two youths to
Shelton hospital.
Young Ellison told his father
that the wind was blowing in a
steady and easy breeze when the
boys got into the plane to take
off, and that the gust of wind
which caused the crash caught
hi entirely by surprise. It evi-
den ly was the first strong gust
of the storm which followed.
He said he had invited Daniels
to go along with him to Olympia
just for the ride.
B. Anensen of Lost Lake route
drops off the list of men reporting
next Monday and becomes one of
four men reportfng April 1 as re-
placements for rejected men from
this county. In his place on the
Monday list will go Hamilton
Henry Smith, formerly of North
Bend, now living at Matlock. The
others to report next Monday are
Arthur R. Morris, Carrol C. Mc-
Henry, Robert P. Morris, Angus
C. McNeil, Russell L. Rickards,
l
Percy W. James, Edward P.
Lamping, Marvin E. Pearcey,
Harold T. Sowers, Bernard W.
Siren, Lawrence H. Fisher, and
Kay L. Thompson.
Anensen and George
Robert N. Pollock,‘ and George
Henry Pitts become the four re-
placements who report April 1.
This group may be swelled if any
01’ Monday's draftees are rejected.
The five who report for the
April 10 call have not been select-
ed yet, Mrs. Martha. Haines, draft
board clerk, said yesterday.
Hliboki,
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PUD Commissioners
Highly Commended
By Pomona Grange
Mason County Pomona Grange
adopted a resolution strongly
commending the commissioners of
Public Utility District No. for
their recent action culminating in
the purchase of the West Coast
Power company holdings here .at
the grange’s meeting Sunday in
Skokomish Valley.
The resolution also recommend- I
ed that presont rates in the rural
districts be maintained until all
rural residents of the county are
reached by the district, that the
district pay prevailing union
wages to all employes, and that
the manager be paid not less than
$350 per month.
Engineers Here
On Airport Survey
A party of engineers from the
navy department is here making a
preliminary survey of the Shel-
ton airport, and probably some-
thing definite in the way of im-
provement will follow in due
time.
TEACHER IN HOSPITAL,
Miss Ida Olsen, junior high
school teacher, was admitted to
the hospital on Monday for treat-
ment.
Yesterday’s storm also damaged
two light planes in Tacoma and
another at Randle while all three
Were on the ground, Mr. Ellison
said he heard over the radio this
morning.
Red Cross Motor
Corps Commence
‘ Stretplier Drill
The Mason County Chapter Mo-
tor Corps, having completed their
preliminary training in First Aid,
begins drilling in stretcher tech-
nique Thursday, Mrs. Myron Lund,
Motor Corps chairman, announced
today.
The stretcher drill is the same
as that used in the U. S. Army
and will be conducted by either
Lorell Seljestad, first aid chair-
man, or Myron Lund, chapter
chairman, as these two have had
considerable experience in the
technique which is used in first
aid contest work.
Beginning next Tuesday, March
25, the corps will start its course
in motor mechanics, which will
consist of the fundamentals of
electrical and carburetor construc-
tion and minor repairs and the
construction and repair of tires.
Arrangements are now being
made to type the blood of the
members of the Motor Corps so
emergency cases requiring trans-
fusions will have a ready source.
All ladies who have completed
the Standard Red Cross first aid
course are eligible to enroll in
the Motor Corps which meets at
the junior high school every Tues-
day and Thursday night at 7:30
p. m.
ADVANCED FIRST
AID STUDY OPEN
Open to all who have completed
the standard course, a Red Cross
advanced first aid course under
the direction of Myron Lund will
be started this Friday evening at
the courthouse, meeting at 7:30
o’clock.
The advanced course is only
half the number of hours that the
standard course requires.
IN HOSPITAL
Receiving treatment at th e
Shelton Hospital is William J.
Kerry who was admitted on Sun-
day.
