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21, 1963 Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A." Shelton, Washington !6 Pages -- 2 Section,,
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under Act of March 8. 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cots. lO ents per op5
.? Vote North Mason Te#chers To Visit
s Mexico City On Spring Vacation
counted Mon-
County Elec-
ted the results of
School Board
absentee ballots
and when the
made, H. V. Gla-
Waite Jr. were
two positions up
the board this year.
of the unofficial
Closer and S. M.
the leaders.
after the
votes showed
Votes, Waite 32,
rs. Tilelma Tiernv
rid Saeger 14. "
the end of the us-
night showed
28. lVaite
26 and Mrs. Saeg-
the only incum-
Promotes
tbrsonne/
ent Here
!or Phil Morrison,
lon Russell, Shel-
Timber Com-
tl relations staff.
[ today by M. L.
of industrial re-
Will transfer to
in manager for
eti departmcut
replace hie,
to 1VIeCleat v
with his wife
He was born
Ore., and attend.,
ge there. He ser-
fr,)m 1953 to 1955
as timekeeper at
ol L saWnills' in
o personrel clerk
Year.' He b ....
representative m
rked in all phases
and per-
in the Amer-
8 Engineers
the Gover.-
lference and Boy
a native of Elma
of Grays
graduated from
te University in
8impson as Me-
)or in 1952 and
rsonnel represent-
of the Mark E,
and Mr-
L: OOards and is a
!Job, Morrison will
matters for all
department,
! fi Sales force,
cities through-
He and his
McCleary !
this summer.
ML:X,CO, IvJE;ICL), MEXICO Mexico has
been the big topic of conversation among teach-
ers in the North Mason School District the past
few months as they prepared for a workshop
trip to Mexico City during spring vacation. They
"Mexico" has been the big" sub-
ject among teachers at North Ma-
son School the past few weeks as
they have been practicing their
Spanish, getting shots, tourist
cards, passports and making other
arrangements for a trip "South
Of The Border".
Twenty-four teachers, husbands
and wives from North Mason
School District at Belfair will take
off from Seattle-Tacoma. Airport
Friday night on what is believed
to bc a first-if-its-kind teacher
workshop tour.
They will fly aboard a commer-
cial airline to Mexico City where
arrangements have been made for
them to tour partsi';of the Mexican
chool systet and the American
School there andS' the University
of Mexico.
"" Tlley havbL_iceived permission
!f0m school"officials to use three
of the five annual workshop days
required by the State Department
of Education as part of the tour.
Two days are being considered as
the spring vacation and the other
fol.lr days required are weekends.
They will leave the airport at
5:30 p.m. Friday and will return
March 30.
ROBERT K. JOHNSEN, North
Mason superintendent, has been
working on the arrangements for
the trip since January 1962, con-
tacting the U. S. State Depart-
meet, state school officials and
school officials in Mexico to get all
the details arranged.
Johnson said the idea came up
almost by accident on the way
home from a workshop day during
which the teachers toured the
Shoreline School District in.Seat-
tle.
Commenting on the success ot
the workshop, Johnsen said he
half jokingly asked if they (the
will leave Friday from Seattle-Tacoma airport.
Looking over travel folders on Mexico are Er-
ma RoselI, Avis Whitfield, Arthur Guidi and
Supt. Robert Johnsen who has made the arrange-
ments for the trip.
lOJympic Log
teachers) would like to go to Mexi-
co City.
The response to the suggestion
was enthusiastic, he said, and he
haStheMAKiNGt(ipbeeneverWOrkingTHEsince. OnarrangemenLsdetails for tCon[etenc e Set
has taken a lot of tim,'., Johnsen / In Victoria B C
said, and the time is now at hand
to Lake off.
In preparation for the trip, the • " •
teachers' have been taking Span- "More From Each Tree in '63"
ish lessons from Keith Lamb, for-
eign language instructor at North
Mason Higi School since October.
The trip is being financed by the
teachers themselves.
For those teachers from the dis-
trict who cannot make the trip,
the three reqtfired workshop days
will be spent in workshop projects
at the school.
Arrangements have b.een made
to spend the three workshop days*
touring parts of the Mexico City
school system and the English
language school which children of
Americans living in Mexico City
attend.
A fourth day will be taken up
by a tour of the University o
Mexico.
The touring group will have
three days for additional sight see-
ing before boarding the plane
home.
Teachers and others who will be
making the tour include Mrs. Flo-
rence Cady, Keith Lamb, Miss Ju-
dith Bothers, Mr. and Mrs. Ru-
dolph Sundstrom, Mr. and Mrs.
William Wing, Arthur Guidi, Mrs.
Margaret Paschlle, Mrs. Verna
Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dagnie,
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. Karl Matz. Mrs. Erma
Roessel, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Au-
seth, Mrs. Mary Sahnonson, Mrs.
Jaync Howard, Mrs. Avis Whir-
field, Mrs. Mary Ricdic and Rob-
ert Johnson.
st Festiv, i Membership Sales Record
which represents $500. putting up.thesign were,
left to right, Arnold Fox, M. M. [uo) Lyon
and Einer Olsoe, members of the Rotary com-
mittee in charge of the membership sales cam-
paign. The club took on the membership and
button sales campaign as ItS part in the Forest
Festival this year.
IF-FtSHIp SALES -- Shelton
rs installed this thermometer
rner of the old Seattle First
last weekend as part of
crest Festival Membership
behind the goals out-
turned in so far, not
rury out of the bulb,
is the theme chosen from the 18th
annual Ol)nnpic Logging Confer-
enceence to be held in Victoria,
B. C. May 2-3.
The Theme was chosen to re-
flect the industrys serious con-
sideration of an economic mante
that will settle for nothing 'less
than full utilization of raw ms, -
terials, according to Jack James,
Conference Chairman.
"IVE ARE ESPECIALLY proud
of the talented 'group of speakers
and panelists assembled for pres-
entation to this years Confer-
once," James stated. "Speaking as-
signments will be shared by Free-
dons Foundation" Award winner,
Dr. Orlo Braes and by R. V. Hans-
berber, President of the Boise-Cas-
cade Company.
"An interesting format in panel
presentations has been developed
by moderators Ray Buchmann
Quilcene, and Bryan Fills, Forks,
wherein Buchmanns group will
present comments on slides which
they themselves have taken of cur-
rent on the job problems connected
with day-to-day logging on the
Peninsula. Fills and his group will
reply to this discussion with a
presentation depicting the Logging
of Wonlorrow."
James stated that relresenta-
tires of the State Department of
Natural Resources, the U. S. For-
est Service and the Washington
Patrol would be on hand for dis-
cussion, comments and questions
during the two day session.
THE OL]t'MPIC Logging Con-
ference has its headquarters in
Port Angeles. Formed eighteen
years ago by a small group of in-
dustry representatives, the Confer-
!once now has members in virtn-
ally every logging and lumbering
commlinity in western Washing-
ton.
Gib Rucker of Shelton is a long
time member and past chairman
of the Olympic Logging Confer-
once. Max Schmidt of Shelton is
currently a member of the Board
of Directors of the Conference.
Both are Simpson Timber Com-
pany officials. Carroll Mercer of
Shelton and the Buck Mountain
Logging Company, is another past
cnairman.
County Awards
Contract To
Tear Down House
The Mason County Colnmissiol
voted NIonday to award a contract
for the demolition of an old ap-
artment house on property it o\\;vns
across the street from the Conrt
House to Cleave Robinson. Shelton,
after receiving a second set of bids
on the Work.
lo:°binson's bid ,$475 was the
._. eat of three received in a bid
l(dl)ng Monday morning. Othcr
,,,ers were Martin Otto and O.
• -1 octgson.
Robinson said he wouhi have tile
u:ork COmpleted in 60 days after
mgning the contract.
The commission had asked bids
earlier and had received
bid, $750 from Robinson. only one
e commission voted to ask
after discussion re-
by extending the time
(lo the job to longer than the
in the first bid call, a lower
WOuld be possible because the
nlOunt of salvage which could be
Would be increased with
re time to work at it.
County To Seek Federal Funds To Aid
" " g Th " and "dg
IIn Bu,id,n e Harsttne Isl Brl e
To Discuss Land I':--_ "'"_". ; "'='"'."" i;:i:g::;
Ct=,;m ,....00llAg#mst Uridge Uonds
-,-,,,, P.- :cinActheavYhn.:team:::iy ivnalPJae: 60 percent yes vote range were !?da:nc,Fdi':a;t:2 Alg''ulY f°wr o:is
Members of the Skokomish In-
lian Tribe will discuss a proposed
settlement of a claim they have
had pending against the govern-
.lent for a number of years at a
eeting in the Skokomish Com-
munity Hall at 7 p.m. March 29.
Attorneys for the tribe have
been negotiating with federal of-
ficials for a number of years, Mrs.
Bennett Cooper, tribal council
chairman, said, and have reached
in agreement which is accepta-
ble to the federal government.
Tribal members will discuss
whether or not to accept the set-
tlement at the March 29 meeting.
The claim is for compensation
for land ceded to the Federal
Government in the treaty of 1855
which established the Skokomish
Reservation.
Land involved for which the
tribe is seeking compensation in-
eludes tidelands on the Hood ca-
nal bordering the reservation from
the Skokomish River to Potlatch.
Fair Board
Discusses
New Grounds
Mason County Fair Board went
into action at its meeting Tues-
day night by hearing a report on
the construction plans for the site
at the Shelton Airport and an-
nouncing its work committees.
Carl Izett has been appointed
by the County Commissioners to
supervise and oversee the new
construction.
Izett gave a review of the score
system used by the State Fair
Commission in evaluating fairs.
This is based on an area commis-
sion meeting that he'and Mrs. Iz=
ett attended in Chehalis. Martin
Ausetlt reported on the area meet-
ing that he attended in Everett,
frora whi.ch i he got detailed opm-
idhs from the State Fair Com-
mission on evaluation of county •
fairs.
It was reported that the water
system is about ready for opera-
alton and that stakes have been
set for the power line. Volunteers
will bc needed for slashing the
power line right of way.
The first building to go up will
be the general exhibit building.
The next two will be the exhibit
barns.
Izett announced a tour for oil
Fair Board members able to go,
for this Saturday, March 23, to
the Kitsap County fairgrounds to
survey ,the construction details
and make ready for the Mason
County project.
Work committees for the 1963
Mason County Fair were announ-
ced at the meeting by Martin Au-
seth, Chairman. These committees
include: Publicity, Martin Auseth, !
Vera Izett, 'Clive Troy and Jane
Windsor; Labor, Dorothy Mac-
Roe, M. V. Grunkemeier and Clive
Troy; Program, Gyneth Auseth,
Charles Peck and Veto Holtorf;
Concessions, M. V. Grunkemeier,
Edwin Taylor and Clive Troy;
Scrapbook, Corm Drake, Bernice
Jansson and Jane Windsor; Con-
struction, Carl Izett, Phil Hardie,
Dick Kelley and Gyneth Auseth.
Burglary, Bad
Check Suspects
lion, particularly along the Hood
Canal defeated the Harstine
Bridge bonds in last week's elec-
tion.
A check of the precinct by pre-
cinct vote reveals that the issue
did not get a 50 percent majority
in a single precinct on the Hood
Canal except Potlatch where it
received 15 yes votes and 14 no's.
Other precincts where the issue
did not get 50 percent approval
included Allyn, Eells, which takes
in the upper Skokomish Valley,
Miller, which includes the north
shore of Hammersley Inlet, Kam-
ilche Precinct 2, which is also a
precinct with waterfront proper-
ty, Mr. View, just west of Shelton
on both sides of Highway 101,
and Shelton precinct 5 which in-
cludes Angleside.
PRECINCTS IN which the is-
sue got more than 50 percent of
the vote, but, not the necessary
60 percent to carry, followed
somewhat along the same pattern
as those which gave the bond is-
sue less than 50 percent.
These included Airport precinct,
which includes Island Lake; Ar-
cadia; Mill Creek, which includes
some waterfront property along
Hammersley Inlet; Potlatch. Also
in this range were six Shelton pro'
cincts and Westside precinct,
which includes the Shelton VaN
ley. The Shelton precincts in 50-
precinct 7, South Hill; 11 and 14
on Mr. View and 4, 9 and 13 on
Hillcrest.
The only two waterfront pre-
cincts which gave the issue tile
necessary 60 percent approval
were Pickering and Grapeview,
which are the two mainland areas
closest to the island. Also giving
the issue a yes vote were Capitol
Hill and Northside precincts, both
which have a small amount of
waterfront area along Oa:=:and
Bay, seven Shelton precincts on::
the rural precinct s in the south-
west part of the county, includ-
ing Cloquallum, Dayton, Matlock-
Satsop, Isabella and Kamilche
Precinct 1, which takes in a small
amount of waterfront along with
the Kamilche Valley.
SHELTON PRECINCTS which
gave the issue tile necessary 60
percent majority were Precincts
1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
The bond issue passed in 17
precincts and failed in 25.
The percentage of yes votes
ranged from 89.9 percent on Har-
aline Island and 84.9 in Shelton
Precinct 10 to 22.7 percent in BeN
fair precinct 1.
The county election board was
counting absentee ballots and can-
vassing the vote Wednesday af-
ternoon.
A tabulation of the Precinct-
by precinct vote is on page 12.
Acceleration Act.
The plan is to ask for about one
half the cost of the proposed
bridge under the federal program.
MASON COUNTY became elig-
ible for the federal assistance
grants late last year after a re-
view of its unemployment rates
on which the eligibility for the
program is based.
The county had checked tile
possibility of getting help on the
I:riflge when the county first be-
came eh},!ble, but, decided to try
for a bond issue before trying to
get the assistance.
The other halt of the cost of the
bridge could be financed by a bond
issue, which could be approved by
the county commission without a
referendum.
BridgeT said he already had
much of the necessary information
for the application and would be-
gin immediately to assemble the
rest:
The application goes first to
the HHFA Regional office in Se-
attle.
The HHFA is the same agency
from which the county obtained
an $18,000 loan last summer to
complete engineering studies and
plans for the bridge. The loan car-
ries the stipulation that if the
bridge is not built, the loan does
not have to be repaid.
f
Boy 00couts Collect For Goodwill Industries
FOR GOODWILL Mason County Boy Scouts 1,130 bags, slightly more than last year. They
collected two truckloads of material for the Ta- filled the two trucks to capacity, About 75
coma Goodwill Industries unit last Saturday in Scouts and adult leaders took part in the col-
,the Scouts' annual "Good Turn" project, Here, lection. The Scouts expressed sincere thanks to
one of the trucks sent over by the Goodwill unit 11 Mason County residents who contributed to
is loaded with bags of clothilfg and small house- ' the drive.
hold appliances collectaKI. The boys collected "'
Are Arrested . I Chamber Program Interesting
Howard E. Nichols, Star 00ou00ol Eve n Though Speaker Absent
1, Box 61, is being held in Mason
County jail on charges of grand
larceny after being arrested by
An absent-minded professor who
forgot his speaking engagement
opened the door to one of the most
interesting programs the Chamber
of Commerce has enjoyed in many
a month last Thursday night.
When the president of Olympic
Junior College did not appear as
scheduled, program chairman Os-
car Levin asked for comment from
the membership, keyed particular-
ly to anything new their finns
have been doing. That opened the
flood-gates.
SIMPSON TIMBER official Bud
Puhn led off by pointing to the
establishment of company's newly
CITY SCHOOL superintendent
R.udy Oltmaa described somo Of
the unusual programs Shelto.n
school district is conducting such
as the Rogers school for retarded
Children, one of the first .of its
kind in the state and a pogram.
conducted with state fuad=
handled by District 309; a speech
program aiding some 150 childen
with speech problems, again with
state funds administered by Dis-
trict 309; a similar program for
children with hearing deficiencies,
not the actual treatment of audio
trouble but the discovery of them;
and finally a special program for
Shelton police at his home Friday
night.
The charge stems from $1,100
worth of worthless cheeks Nichols
has written over the past few
weeks to Shelton merchants, the
Shelton police department said.
Additional checks have turned
up in Olympia and Montesano, po-
lice said.
Nichols is being held in jail ill
lieu of $2,500 bail.
A SHELTON COUPLE, Leon-
ard N. Hodgson, and V¢ilma Gets-
chnnnan, are being held in jail on
charges of second degree burg-
lary.
Conservation Tour
For Sixth Graders
Is 5et April 19
April ]9 is set for the Annual
Conservation Day Field Tour for
Mason County sixth grade children.
April 22 and 26 are the alternate
dates in case of stormy weather
April 19.
Francis Wright. Shelt)n, Dis-
trict Administrator, Department
of Natural Resources, anounced
these dates: He is chairman of the
Mason County Annual Sixth Grade
Conservation Day Field Tour
Committee.
Each year. more than 300 Ms-
They are accused of burglariz-
ing a summer home belonging to
Margaret Lane, Auburn, the Ma-
son County Sheriff's office said.
The pair were arrested by Sher-
iff's officers about 2"15 p 'n Sat-
urday. The Lane home was burg-
larized Friday.
Neither has posted bail and are
being held in the county jail.
ALSO ARRESTED by the Ma-
son County Sheriff's office this
week were Talmadge T. Osborne!
and Ronald E. Gunderson, charged
with digging clams in a reserved
area on Oakland Bay.
Both are free after posting $250
bail each.
Also booked at the Mason
County jail this week was William
Lee Morris on charges of failure
to pay a fine.
Charles D. Elson was arrested
by Sheriff's officers on a warrant
from the Snohomish County Su-
perior Court,
created international division with
headquarters in Shelton which
opened up at least nine new jobs,
and the completion of the com-
pany's fourth dry kiln plus a large
dry-storage shed which now per-
nits Simpson to ship as dry lum-
ber some 60 to 70 million board
feet heretofore dispatched, as
green lumber.
Another Simpson official, Ma:x
Schmidt, said the company is pro-
grossing nicely with an ambitious
cutting program this year, es-
pecially during the first six
months, with the export log mar-
ket along with an unusually firm
demmld for alder which is bringing
extra money to many Mason
County land owners.
The first shipment of Simpson
lumber i.n a foreign ship to Puerto
Rico was mentioned as a welcome
break-through in the depressed
lumber industry.
tudents unable to keep np with
the average classroom pace who
are 'iven special instrncti,m de-
signed to meet their abilities but
allowing them to take regular
elasswork in subjects in which
they-do have average oz' better
abilities such as nmsic, art, etc.,
thus keeping in sclmol many who
probably otherwise wouM drop out.
BIrD KNUTZEN, manager of
th Kitsap-Mason Dairy's Shelton
plant, announced the coming ad-
dition of a "drumstick machine"
lOT making ice cream specialties
which would add two workers to
the plant's staff of employes about
April 1.
Sel VanderVegen, comptroller
for the Lmnbermens Mercantile
Compass', told the group work has
started on the new dry hunber
yard at he firm's industrial and
builders supply silo at First and
• (conthmed on page 2)
son County sixth graders are
transported by school h'as to Pan-
handle Tree Farm whicb is owned
by the Mason.Grays Harbor 4-14
people. Starting at 9 a.m., they
will converge on the tour site
wilere they will be guided along'
consev'tion nlethod routes by
forest, soils, water and wihilife
co'dservation experts.
The following assi.ted V'right in
i planning the conscrvation day field
LOUT: to(nard Flower, U. S. For-
est Je:'vice; Duane Scott, Soil Con-
servation Service; Torger Lee,
Principal, Evergreen School; J. IV.
Oocdpastez,, County Superintend, :
ent of ehools; Cai'l Johnson, De-
partmet tff Natural Resources;
I Bill Looney. Sn-Oson Timber Com-
i pony; Fred Peste. Douglas Fir
i Christmas Tree Comp:,nv" Charles
Peck. Extension Service, all of
Shelton, and Watt Smith, Farm
Forester, Department of Natural
Resomccs, Port Orchui,
