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Weincl Elected
Chairman Again
Of School Board
Louis W'einel was re-elected
as chairman, Harry Carlon as
clerk, and A. S. Viger as vice-
chairman at the annual reor—
ganization meeting of the Shel-
ton school board yesterday.
No reports from rural dis-
tricts have yet been received
by County School Supt. J. E.
Martin on results of yesterday’s
by paying
01‘
to f i gurcs
last week b -
~ y Dep
1‘ Nolan Mason.
e date on which the
rebate an—
county ex-
jingling in
e the good olds of
Property owners
rebate of—
this year.
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.‘ Stat
. b ements
it wgiary 1-5 and
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an this year.
etween the time the
were sent
the date
the rebate
20. Mason said. In
year 3204
or 312 less
Month
er of total
treasurer’s office
taxes (by
being cur- l
t year col-
330.91, or
ncrease to-
18 year, a slight
Valuations placed
waterfront
‘3 eight-mill spec-
Shelton gymnas-
those two items
increase
Mason stated.
a ten-mill
mad? till“? Shelton school
situ
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(ing that total the
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deadline,
"g ten per cent
the first half mu
Second halves
e Protector ‘
ation com-
$181,219.06
t“: yers Who took ad-
.e I“ebate this year
l“creased.
Already paid
gated h i s
delinquents
g l v e n
ons, Mason
Tat if the
nts w c r e
9. Percent of col—
lent taxes would
DGI' cent.
in the re-
that pay~
tively light
when
delinquent
November i
Start drawing ten
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Dog Against 1
Woods 1
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. '1 k'isgfiifitor Paul Hughey!
liced 1° kee an appeal to dog
WON "' deer p the” do 5 at home
' this fawnin 3
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:ce 7“ .tlon O t 1S only through
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Vfld Ros? Diligeamg" deer will be
2’ W552?“ deer are chased
a the de 3’ 'dogs, chances
.f: are u on? Will not survive.
ter, H“ when they hit
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8 taken against
first warn-
also issued
that bird-hunting
d to be at
nesting months
’18 and July.
“Id be kept atl
months and,
Permitted
6 fields.
:WhiCh are caught
1“ 1ihe bird nest-
to
to fines of
For
“Man Low
ortionments
Sicituse of the
tie a e equaliza-
8 fund which was
1939 legis-
h¥er90eived $9,592.50
Current school
all normal, but
8 .
izatio I.ecewed from the
mount
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Counties fund
A Inotation by
director of re-
cs for the State
ucatio
n. pointed
appropriated
y 8.687 per
onthly de-
before 3
‘the parts they will play in the
l chemist ’ here,
“‘Cir-Co-Ral" is to bring one
judge along and the Scoutmaster
or Assistant Scoutmaster and
, Appointment of Max B. Jensen
land Great Falls, Montana, coun-
inounced yesterday at a meeting
reorganization meetings.
No further information on the
Shelton districts plans to light
Loop Field were available as
the expert the district has ask-
ed to give estimates on costs
of such a project has not yet
come here to confer with the
board, although he is expected
sometime this week.
SCOUTS RIMPlNG
FOR ‘ClR-CO-RAL’
FRlDA_Y__EVENlNG,
Tumwater Council Event TOI
Be Held In Olympia Arm-
ory; Annual Event
Big
Shelton and Mason County Boy-
Scouts and Cub Scouts were cen-
tering their attention this week on
the annual Tumwater Council
“Cir—Co—Ral” which will be held
this Friday evening in the Olym-
pia Armory starting promptly at
7:30 o‘clock.
The three Shelton troops, along
with the Agate and Hoodsport
troops, will take part in the an-
nual event, which lists signalling
and knot tying contests, displays,
stunts and special events by the
various troops of the Tumwater'
Council.
Each troop and Cub Pack is al-
lotted a 4 x 5 foot floor space for
displaying Scout handicraft, pic-
tures, knot boards, merit badge
exhibits, etc., with judging to be
based on content, arrangement
and ingenuity. '
Dr. Eugene Browning, Rayonier
commissioner of
Tumwater Council, will act as
head judge‘for the “Cir-Co—Ral."
Each troop taking part in the
judge of each troop is to report,
to Dr. Browning as they arrive
at the Armory.
NEW COUNCIL EXECUTIVE
ANNOUNCED LAST NIGHT
of Spokane, veteran of eight
vears of professional Boy Scout
leadership in Spokane, Kalispell
oils and as a youth in Kansas. to?
succeed Allan Adams as chief]
executive of Tumwater Council,
Boy Scouts of America, was an-
of council executives in Olympia,
Jensen takes charge officially
April 15, although he will be here
from April 3 on. Adams has been
transferred to. the Seattle area
council as a field executive. Both
moves are promotions for the two
men.
Adams leaves
Council after 27 months service
during which he set a remarkable,
record. Boy Scout membership in-
creased 45 per cent in that period.
the Tumwater'i
86TH
PORTLAND , OREGON
,pers and wrappings,
.town and others drove the new
.rested” Dad Hack, DeMolay ad-
. city
‘already mentioned were
-son, city treasurer; Ken Latham.
| family losing all their personal be-
with ten new troops and four new
Cub Packs organized during his
stay.
NEW TRIAL DENIED
Judge John M. Wilson denied a
superior court motion made Sat-
urday by 'counsel for Verna L.
Howey for a new trial in the suit
of Mrs. Howey against Alex An—
ensen of Mason County on a traf-
fic accident damage case which
was tried by jury last fall.
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DEMOLAYS LEARN
IIIUCH ABOUT Cll'Y
AFFAIRS lN DAY,
Regular City Council Looks With,
Favor Upon One Recommenda- !
tion of Youthful “Dads” 3
Their one-day venture into mun-
icipal affairs proved to be an edu-
cational as well as entertaining,
event for DeMolay boys who took'
over city government reins last,I
Thursday on an ex—officio basis.
“Mayor” Clint Williams presid-
ed' at a meeting of the “council”
in the evening at which one recom-
mendation of the DeMolay body,
that of the purchase of six gar—I
bage cans to be stationed at stra—
tegic points for the use of school
students for disposal of lunch pa-
was lateri
taken up by the regular council.
and acted upon favorably.
The “council‘ also recommend-
ed the construction of cement
sidewalks near the new gym, a
project the regular council has al-
ready taken up, and then discus-
sed at some length but without
taking any definite action plans
to widen Cota street from First
to Third either by cutting off two
feet of sidewalk on each side of
the street or eliminating parking
entirely from one side of the
street.
During the afternoon, following:
a meeting at 2:30 with city offi-Z
cials at which the various civic
duties of each official were pointed 3
out, some of the DeMolay boys'
drove the new fire truck around
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police prowler car for some time
with “Fire Chief" Randy Jordan
and “Police Chief” Bob Kimbel at
the wheels.
On the horseplay side, “Police
Chief" Kimbel and his deputies,
Frank Beret and Walt Eddy, “ar-
visor, on a charge of selling jew-
elry without a license and were
going to toss him in the city bas-
tile but had to release their pri-
soner when he produced a proper
license for selling jewelry.
The DeMolay boys admitted
they learned considerable about
municipal affairs and particularly
became better acquainted with
ordinances than. they had
been before their day in "officeT‘i
Other DeMolays who held office
for the day in addition to those
Dean
Palmer, city clerk; Martel Jack—
city auditor; Allan Daniels, street
superintendent; Herb Ellison, po—
lice judge; Phil Palmer, city at-
-torney; Warren Woods, George
Valley and Glen Sowers, deputy
fire chiefs; and Ralph LeDrew,i
Penny Read, Jim McComb, Jim
Nash, Bill Batstone, Warren Hun- '
ter and Bill Matthews, council-,
men.
Last night at the chapter’s’
weekly meeting Penny Read was
elected junior councilor and two
new members were initiated.
Grapev'iew Home
Razed By Flames
Complete destruction of the Orin
Buckingham home at Grapeview
resulted Saturday evening from
fire of an unknown origin, the
longings and furniture plus the
records of the Grapeview school
district, of which Mr: Bucking-
ham is clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham and
their 14-year-old son were work-
ing in their vineyard surrounding
the house when the fire was dis-
covered about five o’clock Satur-
day afternoon, but it had gained
such headway that attempts to
five any of the contents were fu—
1e.
The loss is partly covered by
insurance, it is reported. The
residence was of logs and five
rooms in size.
If the fly fishing experiment
being tried by the State Game
Commission‘raises as big an ar-
gument at the Hood Canal Sports-
mens meeting as it did at the
Washington State Sports Councd
session last weekend in Seattle,
then things may be popping In
Hoodsport gym this Thursday eve-
ning.
Delegates representing the Hood
Canal group at the Sports Coun-
cil session will be making their
reports at Thursday’s meeting,
which starts at eight o‘clock 1n
the Hoodsport gym. M. C. Stark
of Waterwheel and 0. K. Linscott
of Hoodsport, were the Hood Can-
al delegates, while Acting PreSI-
dent Harold Ellis also attended.
Linscott served on the important
resolution committee for the quar-
terly session.
\. Experiment Favored
Under instructions from the
club, the Hood Canal delegates
voted in favor of the resolution
passed by the Sports Council in-
dorsing the action of the Game
Commission in January which re-
served Pass Lake and the north
fork of the Stillaguamish River
for fly fishing only during the
coming trout fishing season.
the $2,500,-
d by the
hat purpose.
The Hood Canal vote favoring
the action was singular outSIde of
the Seattle and King County
FLY FISHING ARGUMENT LOOMS .
AT SPDRTSMEN MEET THURSDAY
rAll other sportsmens organiza-
votes, which were cast as a unit.
tions represented at the council
session voted against the measure
but the solid Seattle and King
County block was too much so
the resolution passed 29 to 24,
Ellis related yesterday.
He said the Hood Canal Sports-
mens Association can expect a
visit Thursday from Emmett Kid-'
rick, bigwig of the Kitsap County
Sportsmens Association, and Joe
Orvis, chief light in the Thurston
Ski Soldier—
Not Mars Visitor
Robert Berg, soldier at Fort Dix,
uN. J., shows what the well-
dressed U: S. ski trooper Is wear—
ing this season. He has skis, ski
poles, cartridge belt, and visor
to protect him from snow blind-
ness and flying snow.
Activians Try
Firemanship In
Meeting Program
After Shelton Activians h ave
tucked away 'their weekly meal
at the Shelton Hotel tomorrow
city fire hall, there to watch Fire
Chief Dean Carman or some mem-
ber of the fire crew demonstrate
truck and its numerous gadgets,
President George Dunning re-
minded members today.
Latest returns on the District
Inter-Club Visitation contest re-
ceived by Local Contest Chairman
John Replinger show Shelton hold-
ing a slim lead over Montesano
and. Raymond in the race for
5 handsome cup to be presented
at the spring district convention,
some eight weeks off. Shelton
has traveled 6,941 man-miles,
Montesano 6.563, Raymond 6,096,
Olympia 5,207, Port Angeles 3,-
980, Hoquiam 2,939, Aberdeen 2,-
794, Bremerton 2,306, Kelso 1,-
233, and Woodland 712.
Eagle Point Road
Construction IS
Ordered by Board
Construction of the Eagle Point
Extended Road was ordered yes-
terday by the Mason County
board of commissioners when no
objectors appeared to protest
such action at the public hearing
set on the matter.
The new road will create an
easier and safer access to the new
Olympic Plywood Company on the
bay. Its construction was request-
ed in a petition filed with the
county board some weeks ago by
the company and property own—
ers in the area.
Dates for two other public
hearings were set yesterday by
the board. April 21 at two o’clock
was set for hearing on the peti-
tion of A. S. Viger et al which
asks the vacation of all streets
and alleys in that portion lying
west of Whatcom, south of Fifth,
and north of Franklin avenue in
the Hood Canal Land and Im-
provement company’s plat and M.
A. Gerrish addition to Union, and
also requesting all streets and al-
lels in all portions of McReavy’S
first addition to Union not already
vacated to be vacated.
The second hearing was set for
April 7 at ten o’clock on the pro-
posed establishment of the “Pleas-
ant Cove Beach” tracts as platted
by W. 0. Watson, Hood Canal
property owner.
Approval of the state highway
department on the McLain‘s
Cove bridge repair project was re-
ceived by the board yesterday.
then a resolution for the purchase
of 1941 dump truck for the sec-
ond road district was passed sub—
ject to approval of the state high-
way department.
The board also passed a resolu-
tion which approves an agreement
with the City of Shelton to alter-
nate with the civic body in furn-
County Poggie Club.
Chink Hen Protection Asked
Other important resolutions
adopted at Seattle by the State
Sports Council were:
1_. Requesting a closed season on
Chinese pheasant hens.
2. Urging the Game Commission
to use available funds from the
Pittman-Robertson Act for lease
or purchase of suitable lands for
propagation of upland birds, the
lands to be open for hunting dur—
mg the regular bird season.
.3. Petitioning the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service to open
the shooting of migratory wild-
fowl at 7 a. m. instead of sunrise.
.4. Requesting the director of
fisheries to close the Skagit
River and all tributaries above the
mouth of Baker River to all fish-
ing for Chinook salmon.
ishing oil for Memorial Hall heat-
ing above the 500 gallon limit thel
can furnishv
building committee
per month.
Commercial Shrimp,
Crab Fishing in Hood
Canal Barred By Law
cial fishing in Hood Canal
from the state capital.
prohibited area in the bill.
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evening they’ll all repair to the'
the operation of the new city fire '
One of the numerous bills Gov“
Arthur B. Langlie signed into law
last week was substitute senate
bill 262 which prohibits commer-lYork office Sunday when an emer-
for gency in personnel in the New
shrimp and crabs until July 1. York office occurred as one mem-
1946, according to news reports I ber was called into Army training
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 25, 1941.
iYOUNG BURGLAR ,
TO REFORMATORY, 1
SISTER GETS OFF
lLouis Emerson, Fourth Offender,
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Gets 15 Years At Monroe l
For Entering Homes l
His part in the series of recent
robberies of Shelton homes
brought Louis Emerson, 19, three
times sent to state reformatories
for similar crimes,‘back for a
fourth term, this time at Monroe
Reformatory, for a maxium term
of 15 years when arraigned before
Judge John M. Wilson in superior
court Saturday.
Emerson had been sentenced to
the Chehalis Boys Training school
twipe and to a reformatory in
Minnesota prior to this fourth
sentence imposed upon him Sat-‘
urday.
Emerson’s sister, Hazel, 18, was
shown leniency by Judge Wilson
in the form of a deferment of
sentence for three; years when
she pleaded guilty to the same
second degree burglary charge to
which Louis also admitted his.
guilt.
The young brother and sister
were charged specifically with en-
tering the George Drake home,
although they had admitted hav—
ing entered several other Shelton
residences during the brief “crime
wave" which swept Shelton two
weeks ago.
The' two fourth grade boys im-
plicated with the Emersons in the
home breakings, and also in nu-
merous other house entries to
which they confessed being re-
‘sponsible alone, were paroled to
the sheriff's office after stern
lectures and warnings from Judge
Wilson.
Shelton Foil;
Club Purchases
Piper Cub Plane
Members of the newly organ-
‘ized Shelton Flying Club are
ready to buckle down in earnest
and learn their flying now that
they are the pogsessors of a plane.
of their own.
The club .took, delivery of a
second hand Piper Trainer Cub, a
two-seater model, Saturday which
was purchased from an Olympia
firm dealing in airplanes.
The ship is to be kept at the
Olympia airport for the time be-
ing while a hangar is being erect—
ed at the Shelton airport. Dur-
,ing that period, too, the Shelton
Flying Club members will take
their instruction from a navy-
trained instructor. After the han-
gar is built the plane will be
brought to the Shelton airport and
kept.
The Shelton Flying Club now
has» eleven members, needs one
more for official status but will
take as many more as wish to
join.
Charter members include Miles
(Bus) Elliott, Dick Look, Stanley
Parker, Bud Hall, Don McDonald,
J. E. Smith, Joe Miller, Dave Mc-
Phee, Lyle McElroy, Rudy Holmes,
and Clarence Jackson.
Perfect Score!
Draftees Pass
Final Physical
Every one of the thirteen Ma-
son County men answering the
third selective service call to
array training yesterday success-
fully passed the final physical
test given at the Tacoma Induc-
tion Station, the Mason County
draft board was notified today by
selective service headquarters.
Yesterday’s inducted men in-
clude Hamilton H. Smith, Arthur
R. Morris, Carrol C. McHenry,
Robert P. Morris, Angus C. Mc-
Niel, Russell L. Rickards, Percy
W. James, Edward P. Lamping,
Marvin E. PeParcey, Harold T.
Sowers, Bernard W. Siren, Law-
rence H. Fisher, and Kay L.
Thompson.
The next group to report for
selective service induction are
men who will serve as replace-
ments for men rejected in the
For eighteen years to come,
Ross Lyman, Bremerton Navy
Yard laborer, will have no chance
to forget the drunken ride he took
on March 15, ending in the death
of his brother-in-law, Kenneth
Curtis, 28.
Lyman pleaded guilty to a neg-
ligent homicide charge before
Judge John M. Wilson in superior
court Saturday morning, then
agreed to the provisions of a, de-
ferred 20—year sentence in the
state prison which embodied the
following actions on his part:
1. Forfeiture of his motor ve-
hicle driver‘s license and barment
forever from obtaining another 1i-
cense to drive a car on the high—
Eways of this state;
$50 Monthly To Children
2. Payment into the registry of
the Mason ,County superior court
of $12.50 each month for the sup-
port of each of the four children
of Kenneth Curtis until each of
the children reach 18 years of
age;
3. Payment to the Mason Coun-‘
ty superior court of $50 a month
to be held in trust until a fund
of $1000 is built up to be held in
the nature of a bond to the state
to insure the faithful performance
of the conditions of the probation
during the period of probation;
4. That Lyman remain within
the State of Washington at all
times during the probation per-
iod;
5. That he pay court costs at-
tached to his case;
6. That he abide by such other
rules of his probation and parole
as the Board of Prison Terms and
Paroles may deem fitting and
proper to prescribe. ‘
Prosecutor Drafts Terms
Judge Wilson followed the rec-
ommendations o f Prosecutor
Frank Houston in granting pro-
bation to Lyman instead of en-
forcing the mandatory 20 year
prison term prescribed by law
for negligent homicide charges.
Thus Lyman has the 20-year
sentence hanging over his head
should he at any time during the
18-year probationary period fail
to fulfill any of the terms of the
probation.
His support of the Curtis chil-
dren will not be completed until
the youngest, now o'nly a. year
old, becomes 18, and the soonest
any of them reaches that age is
nine years hence, so for the next
nine years Lyman will be paying
$50 a month for their support
with that figure reducing by
$12.50 a month as the others reach
that age. The other two are now
six and two years old respective-
1y. Their mother is a sister of
Lyman.
One of the severest penalties
ever meted out in Mason County
on a drunken driving case which
ended in a fatality, it is a sample
of what can be expected in the
future in similar cases coming be-
fore him for prosecution. promised
Prosecutor Heuston.
Body or Chi—n-eSe
Is Still Missing
Stiff Terms OF Probation
To Shackle Death Driver
No success has yet been en-
countered in the search for the
body of J. Chung Kee, aged In-
dian-Chinese, who has been miss-
ing since a week ago this morn-
ing and is believed to have fallen
into Oakland Bay from his row-
boat and drowned, Sheriff Gene
Martin reported today.
Visiting Hours To Be
Enforced at Hospital
Miss Zella Deeny, superinten-
dent at Shelton General Hospital,
requested today the cooperation of
the public in observing establish-
ed visiting hours at the hospital.
The daily visiting hours are
from 1:30 to 4 in the afternoons
and 7 to 8:30 in the' evenings, she
pointed out.
“These rules are necessary to
properly care for the patierfts,"
Miss Deeny explained.
Automobiles staged some queer
first two calls, including Alfred
B. Anensen, George Hliboki andl
George _H. Pitts.
After receiving notice that none
of yesterday's group had been re-
jected, the local draft board an-
nounced the list of five Mason
County men who will answer the
fourth call on April 10 as follows:
Hollis Handley, a transfer from
Arkansas; George Alfred Smart,
Potlatch Route; Kenneth Merton
Gunter, Route 3, Shelton; John
Bushnell Cassidy, Route 1, Brem-
erton; and John Lloyd Main, Un-
i ion.
Hal Briggs Flies To
N .Y. On Rayonier Job
Hal Briggs, traffic manager for
Rayonier at the Shelton plant, was
called hurriedly to the firm‘s New
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and another suffered an emer-
Quilcene Bay, Dabob Bay and gency appendix operation.
Whollochet Bay near Tacoma al-
over the weekend, but no injuries
of any consequence were inflicted
on any of the passengers.
Probably the luckiest escape
from serious injury or even death
was that of Mrs. Harold Ellis of
Shelton, whose car ran into a.
loaded logging train which was
crossing Railroad Avenue at the
Eleventh street crossing Satur-
day night.
Mrs. Ellis reported she did not
‘see the train due to the absence
of warning signals of any kind.
The fact that her car struck the
trucks of one of the loaded flat
cars instead of running under-
neath the load of logs was the
piece of good fortune which
saved her from serious injury or
death, she said. The car was
badly damaged.
Another lucky escape from ser~
ious injury was that of the oc-
cupants of an Oregon car driven
by E. Forbes, 19, Camp Murray
soldier, which went over the bank
at the top of the road leading to
Johns Prairie from the Bayshore
Briggs left by plane Sunday eve- road Sunday afternoon. The Ore-
indefinite at the moment.
so were named as included in. the ning. His stay in New York is gon car
rolled almost to the Bay-
shore road from the top of the
EUCKY ESCAT‘E FROM WRECKS
REPORTED BY AUTO DRIVERS
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Garden Club To
Sell Music Week !
Ads Once Again
Turning advertising saleswo-
men once again, a crew of Shel-
ton Garden Club ‘members un-
der the chairmanship of Mrs.
“K A. McKenzie begins April 1
the task of selling advertising
space in the third annual Shel-
ton Music Festival program.
This year all proceeds beyond
the actual cost of printing the
programs will be given to the
Garden Club for its Railroad
Avenue beautification project.
Last year the Garden Club
shared the profits with the Mu-
sic Festival.
The third annual Music Fes-
tival is to be held'May 4 to 10,
corresponding w i t h National
Music Week.
Members of the advertising
sales committee include Mrs.
Maxine Briggs, Mrs. Betty
Koch, Mrs. Gertie Pickens, Mrs.
Mildred Rupert, and Mrs. Win-
nifred Mitchell.
DISASTER RELIEF
ORGAN lZAllON TO
BE CHAPTER TOPIC
Red Cross March Meeting Due
Thursday At p. m. In
County Courthouse
Further discussion on “Disas-
ter Preparedness” will feature the
March meeting of the Mason
County Red Cross Chapter, which
is scheduled this Thursday evening
at eight o'clock in the courthouse,
Chairman Myron Lund announced
today in requesting a large at—
tendance from persons who en-
rolled during the Red Cross roll
call --drive_ last fall.
A short business meeting will
open the program, followed by‘
the disaster relief discussion.
“Disaster Preparedness is a
required activity of the Red Cross
under the National‘Defense Pro-
gram',” Chairman Lund explained.
“The Chapter must be prepared
to meet any emergency that may
arise and all of those that par-
ticipate in the Disaster Program
must be thoroughly familiar with
their parts.
“A review of the program, as
so far developed, will be made
and a discussion of and instruc-
tion in the use of questionnaires
will be on the program," he con-
tinued. “These questionnaires will
be used in making a survey of
equipment available to the Chap-
ter in time of emergency and in
assigning definite parts to the
people who volunteer for service
with the Red Cross in time of
disaster.
“The National Red Cross, op-
erating through the Chapters, is
the official civilian agency of the
National Government and the U.
S. Military forces, so it is im-
portant that all of you, who wish
to participate in a National pro-
gram to meet emergencies in
your own community, help deter-
mine the policies in your own
community and your own Chap-
ter,” Chairman Lund pointed out.
“This emergency program will'
not be confined to the vicinity of
Shelton but will embrace the en-
tire County; it is very important
that we have a strong, represent-
ative group from the outlying dis-
.tricts," he added.
DAUGHTER BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Strand-
wold, now of Tacoma but form-
er Mason County residents, be-
came parents of a baby daugh-
ter born at Shelton hospital Sat-
urday.
.Witter
,financing firm, have purchased
ption asking the oiling
.to purchase the oil if the
REVENUE BOND
PATH CLEANED 1
BY ORDINANCE
$50,000 \Vater Bond Issue goon
Into Effect April 1 As
Council Passes 0r-
dinance 331
.Final steps to put in motion the
wheels for bringing the $50,000
water revenue bond issue voted
‘by Shelton residents last Decem—
ber into actual being were tak-
en Thursday by the city council
with second reading and passage
of Ordinance 331, which dates
'maturity of bonds and authorizes
and confirms their issuance.
That step cleared the path for
City Attorney Charles R. Lewis
to proceed with the signing of the
bonds and placing the funds at
the disposal of the City of Shelton
to make the extensions and better-
ments to its present municipal
water system proposed in the
special election measure passed
by the voters in December.
The bonds will mature in $1,000
sums on April 1 from 1942 to 1946
inclusive, thereafter in $3,000
sums annually on the same date
from 1947 to 1961 inclusive. Dean
and Company, Seattle
the bonds.
Mostly Routine Affairs
Other business of council’s ses-
sion Thursday was pretty much
routine.
N. Y. A. Official Kerns reported
to the council that the National
Youth Administration would be
able to supply 25 to 30 boys for
work on the city dock project
starting about April 20, a peti—
of Cota
street and 12th street between
Cota and Railraod was received,
as was an offer by Harry Perry
city
would lay it on a block on Sarg-
ison street in front of property
owned by Perry, the sewer com-
mittee recommended installation
of drainage sewers and a catch
basin at tenth and Cota and two
catch basins on the west side of
Fifth at Cedar street to connect
with the recently completed storm
sewer on Fifth.
Sidewalks Ordered
The sidewalk committee recom-
'mended insallation of cement side-
walks on both sides of Cote. be-
tween Ninth and Tenth, also new
crosswalks on north side of Oota
at Tenth, east side of alley south
of Cota on Eleventh, and on south
side of Cota at Eleventh.
The fire committee recommend-
ed purchase of 250 feet of hose
and couplings and a Cascade
sprayer for the water system, and
recommended further that City
Engineer Burwell Bantz be paid
at the rate of $20 a day, with a
total not to exceed $12000, while
engaged on the water system im-
provement project authorized un-
der the $50,000 revenue bond issue
noted above.
A motion was passed author-
izing the city to join with School
District 309 in the purchase of
six garbage cans to be strategi-
cally placed for the convenience
of school students for disposal
of lunch papers and wrappings.
This action was taken following
the recommendation of the De-
Molay boys who became exofficio
municipal government heads on
Thursday.
LocziTR—odd—SCet
' $62,707 In Pork
Barrel Division
Mason County secondary high-
ways will receive $62,707 in im-
provements during the next bien-
nium under terms of the “pork
barrel” road fund bill passed in
the final hours of the 1941 legis-
lature, it was learned last week-
end.
The appropriation for Mason
County was earmarked for the
following projects: $15,000 for
work on the Grapeview to Pri-
mary State Highway No. 14A;
$4,500 for work on Secondary
Road No. 14-A to State Highway
bank, yet the occupants escaped
antics in the Shelton neighborhood anything worse than bruises and
shakings. .
Edwin B. McMahan, 24, Route
1, Shelton, reported his car ran
off the road and into a. bank near
the Oyster Bay school Saturday
night when he turned to speak
to a compapion beside him. Dam~
ages were not estimated in the
report and no one was injured.
A three car accident Friday af-
ternoon at First and Mill streets
also pulled through without an
injured occupant when a car driv-
‘en by Mrs. Wayne Stone of Shel-
ton stopped to wait for‘ oncoming
traffic to pass before she made
a left turn onto Mill street, her
car being struck from behind by
.one driven by Charles Ellis of
Shelton, the Ellis car in turn be-
ing struck from the rear by a
third driven by Emil Christensen
of Shelton. The last car was the
most severely damaged of the
trio, although all suffered to some
extent.
Unlisted damage was inflicted
oncars operated by Marion Dey-
ette and Marjorie Harrison, both
of Shelton, in a collision at First
and Railroad Friday. No one was
hurt. Wm ‘_
No. 14; $13,000 for improvements
to the Allyn to Vaughn road; $8,—
555 for work on the Kamilche
cutoff; and $21,652 to be used
in Mason County at the discre-
tion of the State Highway De-
partment. .
Test Pilot Tells
Club Of Planes
The Kiwanis Club today listen-
ed to an entertaining talk on
aviation progress in this country
and some general information as
to various planes here and abroad,
most of which was lacking in
detail and “off the record,” by
Major John D. Corkille, Air Corps
representative at the Boeing plant
in Seattle.
The speaker, who is alsoa test
pilot on the large planes and
landed at the Shelton Airport
in a big Army bomber, was se-
cured through President Homer
Taylor, who is a reserve officer
in the Air Corps. He gave some
insight into the large number and
high quality of the planes being
turned out by the various factor-
ies and some idea of the relative
merits of each for the special pur-
pose designed, all encouraging to
the layman.
