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fund drive per-
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PORTLAND, OREGON
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
\VEDNESDAYflActive Clle din-
ner meeting, 6:30 p. m., Shel-
ton Hotel.
THURSDAY#Chamber of Com—
merce April meeting, 6:30 din-
ner, Shelton Hotel. Lieut.-Col-
William Nelson, selectiVe ser-
vice state advisor on occupa—
tional dcferments, speaker.
THURSDAY#Commercial lea-
gue bowling, 8 p. m., city hall,
to consider bids on water sys-
tem pipe bids.
THURSDAY—~E a s t c 1' vacation
starts for Shelton school stu-
dents, closing next Monday
morning.
Scout board
of review, 7:30 p. m., McCleary
Timber Company offices.
TWO—EPIDGESIF 0 R
NORTH SHORE ROAD
EARE A
UTHO‘RIZED
>Commissioners Set Aside $800 For
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ndrews is ing increasingly difficult.
’I‘wo Projects 0n Canal Sec—
tion; Speed Limited
Two new bridges were author—
ized by the board of county com—
missioners yesterday for
North Shore road on Hood Canal,
plus a small amount of straight—
ening and grading.
One bridge and the straighten—
ing and grading work was allot-
ted $500 and the other bridge was
allotted $300 from county road
funds by the board.
Another resolution adopted yes-
terday limits speed of logging
trucks and other vehicles of more
than ten tons gross weight to ten
miles per hour while crossing all
bridges on the Shelton to Mat-
lock road and the Beeville road.
The action was taken because ex-
speed “endangers the
stability and adds to the cost of
upkeep and repair" of the bridges
on the roads mentioned.
The board received a telegram
from Congressman Martin F.
Smith. in answer to a query sent
him two weeks ago by the board,
Anderson out-lin which he informed the board
that Investigating Engineer C. C.
Fisher of the Denver regional of-
fice of the U. S. Reclamation Bur-
eau, will be in Seattle April 11 to
13 to confer with W. P. Staple-
ton, president of the Western
Washington Reclamation Insti-
tute, and any other Western
Washington persons interested in
reclamation work ,and next Mon-
day will be in Olympia to con-
fer with Gov. Langlie and other
state officials.
Two More County
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‘igghesday afternoon! Men Drafted, TO
Report April 22
Two more Mason County men
have been added to the list of
drafted men under the selectiVe
service act to report for training
April 22 at the Tacoma induction
station.
They are James Edward Bales,
a transfer from Polk County, Io-
wa, and registered with the Des
Moines draft board, who fills the
one-man quota from this county
for the fifth draft call, and Har-
old J. F. Moore, now of Castle
Rock but registered with the
Mason County board, who reports
on April 22 as a replacement for
a rejected draftee from the third
call.
This Thursday five men from
this county report to fulfill the
Scoutmast- fourth call. They are Hollis Hand-
163’.
Ock in the1M. Gunter, John B. Cassidy, and
nOunced yes- John L. Main.
George A. Smart, Kenneth
If any of the above five are re-
jected for physical reasons their
replacements will be ordered to
report with the April 22 group.
A memo from the 9th Corps
Area commander received by the
local draft board today stated that
no more calls are anticipated after
the April 22 call until after
June 1.
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86TH
ruction Started
On Manganese Smelter
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Emu Creek Plant To Handle.
1 Tons Of Ore Daily, Tap—
ping Olympic Depos-
its In 90 Days
60
A development of importance
to the Olympic region and to
Shelton is now under way on
Hood Canal near Hoodsport where
:a mill is being erected to extract
lpure manganese from one or more
iof the several large deposits
,known to exist in the mountains.
lThe site is at Hill Creek, where
:a road has been constructed to
{the head of the little valley, and
ithe foundations for the smelter
l are being laid on benches cut into
ithe hillside by bulldozers by the
jGrisdale Construction Company.
; The new plant will be electrical-
gly operated, the metal being ex-
ltracted from high grade ore by
an electrolytic process which has
recently been developed, it is un-
derstood by experts at Washing-
,ton State College. The equipment
‘has already been secured at Spo-
jkane ready for the buildings and
lwill handle sixty tons of ore a
iday, producing approximately 30
ltons of metal. The plant is lo—
lcatcd near Cushman power, and
[it is understood that Bonneville
Epower will be secured through Ta-
. coma, the load required being from
13,000 to 5,000 kilowat hours. On
loperation some forty men will be
1 required.
The operation is being carried
liout by the Olympic Mines, Inc.,
with headquarters in Seattle, of
gwhich A. E. Schrimpf is presi-
dent, O. E. Koenig, secretary, and
1C. H. Barkdull, manager, who is
in charge of work. The concern
is an outside organization, said
to be allied with the Sunshine
Mines, a prosperous Idaho con-
cern largely owned in Yakima,
and amply financed.
At the start ore will be trucked
from the mine on the railroad at
Lake Crescent which was develop-
ed in world war days, and some
is being shipped out by Milwaukee
railroad to outside smelters, but
as soon as the plant here is in
readiness the ore will be trucked
here for refining. Also in pros-
pect is the opening of known
veins of somewhat lower grade
above Lake Cushman which is
expected to be the main source of
.supply after the process-1s fully
developed and tested.
As manganese is widely used in
the steel industry and the United
States has always been almost
totally dependent on importation
for its supply it is believed that
if this new process works out the
government will demand an im-
mediate expansion of the plant
to supply defense needs of the
country. It has long been known
that one of the largest deposits
of manganese ore in the United
States are in the Olympics, but
because of the heavy silica con-
tent none of the usual processes
could be used to extract it eco-
nomically. It is understood that
the Schrimpf people have been op-
erating a plant handling half a
ton of. ore a day and have proved
it successful after seven years of
experimenting.
Pines AIltO Camp
Leased By Pigmon
To Dick Valley
Instruments filed at the aud-
itor's office yesterday revealed the
leasing of Pines Auto Camp on
Mt. View by Dick Valley, native
son of Mason ‘County, from Owen
Pigmon, operator since 1936.
) Eleven cabins, a grocery store
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and a service station featuring
Texaco products are involved in
the transaction. Mr. Valley said
yesterday he plans no immediate
changes in the Pines Auto Camp
setup other than a possible re—
arrangement of the grocery store.
Several of the cabins at the
camp have been constructed in
the past two years by Mr. Pig—
imon and several others have been
I remodeled.
DAUGHTER BORN MONDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McMahon
,of Shelton became parents of a
baby daughter born at Shelton
hospital yesterday.
LAKE CUSHMAN
‘STICKS’ CHOSEN
AS MASTS FOR BIG SCHOONER
Seattle Times, Sunday, April 6.
—— Supervising the outfitting of
deep-sea sailing schooners and as—
sembling stores for voyages. of
several months is a man-sized job.
but these are only part of the
duties of a comely young Seattle
woman who does the buying for
the Pacific Coast Codfish Com-
pany.
She is Miss Esther Strahm, pur-
chasing agent for the firm, which
will send two windjammers from
Seattle to the Bering Sea this
spring.
In previous years, Miss Strahm
bought the supplies and equipment
for the cruises, but this year en—
countered a new problem. The
schooner Sophie Christenson, the
company’s big four-master, need-
ed three new masts. The prob-
lem of finding trees suitable for
new "sticks" for ships is becom-
Those
for the Sophie Christenson must
be from trees at least 110 feet
high and 26 inches in diameter.
AS purchasing agent for the
company, Miss Strahm was given
the job of supplying the three'
new masts by Capt. J. E. Shields,
master and owner of the sailing
schooner. It was a real problem,
but she was determined to master
it. There was only one thing to
do and that was to take her au-
tomobile and search for logging
camps with suitable trees.
At last one was found near Lake
Cushman in the Olympic Moun-
tains and there three trees were
purchased, logged and towed to
Seattle. They arebeing placed
in the schooner at Smith Cove
Pier 40 of the Port Commission.
The Sophie Christcnson, which
soon will be towing to Cape Flat-
tery, bound. for the Bering Sea, in
1933 made a world’s record catch
of 455,000 codfish, which still
stands.
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SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 8, 1941.
Parking Problem Not Solved
The parking problem for Shelton is by no
means solved by the move so far to limit park-
ing on Railroad and other streets to an hour, and
probably never can be fully relieved as the c1ty
grows in keeping with any restrictions that may
be attempted within reason.
The threat to enforce the city ordinance
literally has had some good effect in causing all i
or half-day parkers, clerks and merchants, to find
places more removed from daily traffic and on
side streets, but some more hints might well be
given to help transient trading.
A week ago on naturalization day the benefit
of the recessed parking strips around the Court—
house was noted when some seventy cars were
parked there by persons before the Court, greatly
relieving a congestion of cars that would require
space along the ordinary narrow streets. . '
But the big headache is to provide parking
convenient to the business district for the hun-
dreds of cars, particularly at week-ends, of Shelton
visitors who come here
whose business Is much
first and careful consideration.
One and the best solution for the present
is the removal
parking strip on three sides of the Postoffice
congestion down towu
block, on three narrow
than double the present parking space in the dis-
quite convenient to general trading.
While the _city may have no special funds
budgeted for this prOJect the Council could do no
more important job of public benefit and aid to
parking, even if it would
cost around $1,500. It would meet general ap-
proval and save some criticism from people who
trict, all
business than open this
would trade in Shelton.
CUSHMAN ‘DEFENSE’ TROOPS
PRAISED FOR EFFECTIVE JOB
OF CAMOFLAUGING EQUIPMENT
High praise for the efficiency
of soldiers of the 41st Division
cantonment at Fort Lewis, called
out to “defend” the Lake Cushman
dam from a “bombing attack by
enemy invader planes” in a two-
day "problem" last Thursday and
Friday was voiced yesterday by
Ranger Wally Anderson of the
U. S. Forest Service.
“The speed with which some
250 to 300 trucks, a nu ,ber, of
anti-aircraft gffns‘, and 7 50 . men
were camoflauged and Concealed
was amazing," the forest service
man stationed at Hoodsport re-
marked. “Within two or three
hours after the troops arrived in
the Lake Cushman district a per-
son driving along the road would
never have suspected such a body
of men and equipment was any-
where in the neighborhood. If
the rest of our Army is propor-
tionately as well trained I think
we can feel pretty safe if things
come to a point where our sol-
diers are called into action."
Was It Or Wasn’t It?
It depends on who you talk to
this:
whether the Cushman dam was
“bombed” or successfully “de-
fended” in the two-day mock bat~
tle. The defending troops claim-
ed the “invading” planes failed
to get in position to drop a single
bomb which would have been ef-
fective, while the “bombers” were
equally as certain they had hit
their “target” and completed a
successful bombing attack on
their objective. ;
One thing most civilian observi-
ers seemed to be agreed upon was
that the slim pencils of brilliant
light which powerful searchlights
operated by the defending anti-
aircraft troops stabbed into the
sky Thursday night seemed to be
Hardy anglers who braved the
California weather which attend-
ed the opening of Washington's
lake fishing Sunday got plenty of
fish, and even the moisture-dis.
couraged fishermen didn’t fare
badly for the time spent, accord-
ing to reports from Mason Coun-
ty's most popular fresh water
fishing spots. .\
Up at Lake Cushman, for in-
stance, 237 anglers checking out
from Robinson‘s Resort, bagged
1607 fish, for slightly less than
.eight fish as an average, reports
Allie Robinson, proprietor of the
most popular lake fishing point
in this county.
One boat of five fishermen re-
ported in with five limit catches,
an aggregate of ‘100 fish, while
numerous other limit catches were
taken, Robinson said. Another
welcome result of the first day’s
fishing showed a much higher
than usual average of cutthroaLs
among the catches. One two-ang-
ler boat had 17 cutthroat in a
double limit take, Robinson said,
with other catches having high
cutthroat contents also. The fish
average between nine and ten
inches in size, slightly larger
than year's average size.
Many fishermen checked out af-
ter a short time in their boats,
discouraged by the continual rain
and chilling wind, while others
waited until late to go out in
hopes the “mist” would let up,
but it didn’t.
Game Protector Paul Hughey
reported that several nice catches
were taken at Lakewood Lake,
which is. just beginning to catch
for their trading and
desired and worthy of
of the
streets, to permit more
quite successful in spotting the
"invading" planes, which means
that better means of camoflaug-
ing U. S. bombing planes is need-
ed to escape detection by anti-
aircraft forces.
Col. Edward C. Dohm, com--
mander of the 205th Coast Ar—
tillery (anti-aircraft), national
guard unit at Olympia, command-
ed the Lake Cushman “defense
foreign" which consisted of former
national guard troops of Olympia,
Seattle, Centralia, Kelso, Wenat—
chee, and Tacoma.
Here’s What “Happened”
The “problem” which the 4lst
Division troops worked out was
The “enemy” has taken Van-
couver island and is filtering
down the peninsula. Planes are
attempting to bomb Cushman
dam, flooding the region and clog-
ging the roads with refugpes who
will glut the ‘roads and cut off
orderly retreat of defending for-
ces.
A sham battle between the an-
ti-aircraft batteries and bombers
was “fought” Thursday night.
Anti-aircraft guns and search-
lights were set up in strategic
points surrounding the dam, a
source of power for the City of
Tacoma.
The "defending" troops used the
abandoned Lake Cushman CCC
camp quarters, the cabins and
every available space at Robin-
son’s Resort and Dickinson’s
Staircase Camp, in addition to
truck beds and tents for sleeping
quarters. The soldiers were rout-
ed out of their slumber twice dur-
ing the night by “all out” alarms
at midnight and three o’clock to
“fight off” theoretical attacks of
invading planes. v
the fancy “of fresh water anglers
in this area, while Mason Lake
put out some nice ones, too, he
added.
2614 CUTTHROAT PLANTED
IN SHOEMAKER CREEK
Game Protector Paul Hughey
reported yesterday the planting
of 2614 cutthroat between 21/2 to
8 inches in length, reared at the
South Tacoma hatchery of the
State Game Department, in Shoe-
maker Creek recently.
DOGFISH PRICE RAISED;
MORE VOLUME NEEDED
Unless a larger volume of dog-
fish is provided at the two as-
sembly stations in Mason County
——Arcadia Point and Minerva
Beach—further visits of Gil Do-
bey, Grays Harbor fish buyer,
will be discontinued because pres-
ent volume does not make lit
worth his while, he said yester-
day. '
The price of dogfish was upped
from $13 to $15 per ton by Dobey
yesterday in hopes the volume 0‘
dogfish catches would be stimu-
lated. Dogfish livers are being
used now as a substitute for cod
liver and the rest of the dogfish
carcass is used to make fertilizer.
In answer to an inquiry sent
him by Paul Beret, Shelton Sport-
ing Goods proprietor, Don S. John-
son, chief patrol officer for the
State Fisheries Department, point-
ed out that set line licenses for
Puget Sound waters with a mix-
selection,
Fifty IIBr
25 Aircraft Make Flight Here On
Sunday; Visitors Guests Of
Chamber Of Commerce
For Breakfast
Despite none-too-encouraging
flying weather, 25 planes rep-
resenting flying services and fly—
ing Clubs in Seattle, Bremerton,
Everett, Kent, Olympia and Ta-
coma carried 50 aviators here
Sunday morning in the first
“breakfast flight” of a series
scheduled for this spring and sum-
mer by the Seattle unit of the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots As—
sociation. A few others started
but turned back after encounter-
ing a heavy rain storm near Ta-
coma.
The visiting aviators were
unanimous in their praise of the
natural suitability of the Shelton
airport. As Charles Bierney of
Bothell and Everett commented,
“We could see the port from as
far as atmospheric conditions al-
lowed visibility."
After being guests of the Shel-
ton Chamber of Commerce for
breakfast at the Shelton Hotel,
the visiting flyers reciprocated by
taking all those who wished to
for rides in their planes.
Brief, Interesting Program
The
breakfast program was
brief.
Mayor William Stevenson
iwelcomed the visiting “birdmen”
after being introduced by. Presi-
dent Ed F‘aubert of the Chamber
of Commerce, who presided at the
meeting. Joe Benezra, secretary
of the A.O.P.A., called upon Max
J. Witters, president of the VVit-
ters Flying Service of Seattle; Dr.
Herbert L. Hartley, president of
the A.O.P.A.; and Dr. Arthur B.
MacWhinney, associate member of
the A.O.P.A., for short talks.
Dr. MacWhinney gave the main
talk, pointing out the tremendous
difference between vxthe mode of
travel now and when he first vis-
ited Shelton 30 years ago, when
it was a two-day trip from Se-
attle here as compared with a 30—
minute trip through the sky to-
day. ‘
He also explained that flying is
a recreation and pleasure no more
costly than golfing nowadays,
thanks to the formation of fly-
ing clubs. “We aviators are just
ordinary folk -— barbers, clerks,
salesmen, etc—we're not gifted
with a lot of money as seems to
be the general impression among
non-flyers. Through pooling of
resources in flying clubs anyone
can take up flying at no more
than many people spend on golf
per month.”
Instructed Shelton Youth
Mr. Witters was introduced as
the instructor who taught Gene
Loop, son of City School Supt.
and Mrs. H. E. Loop, his flying.
Gene piloted one of the planes
which came from Seattle on the
breakfast flight, with his older
brother,
him.
Many different makes of light
plane were represented among the
25 aircraft which lighted upon the
Shelton airport Sunday, the larg-
est group of planes ever assem-
bled on the local field at any one
time. They ranged all the way
from a tiny two-passenger, 36
horsepower motored craft with a
propellor no longer than the
stretch of an ordinary man’s arms
(Continued on Page Six)
Verne, accompanying
Methodist Thanks
Offering S e r v i c e
Slated Wednesday
On Wednesday, April 9, the
annual Thanks Offering Service
will be observed at the Method-
ist Church. A one o’clock lunch-
eon will be followed by a business
meeting. Mrs. W. A. Brodt will
conduct a devotional program.
Mrs. Robert Brumblay will pre-
sent the principle talk entitled
“Altars Along the Way." Mrs.
Donovan Palmer in a piano solo
and Mrs. Loui Larson in a vocal
accompanied by Mrs.
R. L. Johnson, are also on the
program. Mrs. W. M. Elliott,
Mrs. Bertie McKinney, Mrs. C.
Hammond, Mrs. Myron Wivell and
Mrs. Oliver Constable are
hostesses.
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Airport is Complimented By
eakIast" Aviators
Quiz Program At
C. of C. Meeting
Thursday Night
Write ’em down, tie a string
around your finger, or memor—
ize 'em—but don’t fail to bring
those questions along Thursday
evening. ,
If you’re an employer you’ll
have questions about selective
service occupational deferments
you’d like to have straightened
out, and Thursday evening will
be your opportunity to do so.
That’s the date, Shelton Ho-
tel is the place, 6:30 is the
time (if you want to eat din-
ner) 7:30 if you’d rather eat
at home, when the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce pre-
sents Lieut.-Col. William Nel-
son, state advisor on occupa-
tional deferments for the selec-
tive service system, as its guest
speaker for its April meeting.
Lieut.-Col. Nelson’s visit here
is specifically for the purpose
of helping Shelton and Mason
County employers unravel any
questions they may have on
occupational deferments for
their employees. All employers
of labor in this area are invited
and urged to attend. The pro-
gram was arranged by Cham-
her President Ed Faubert, who
is also chairman of the Mason
County draft board.
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lN SUBSCRIPTION
CAMPAIGN OFFER
Cash Commissions Earned
Campaigners Who Don’t
Win Major Awards
By
“Everybody Wins” is the slo-
gan in the Shelton-Mason County
Journal’s subscription and prize
campaign which is expected to
get started in earnest this week.
This is more than a slogan . . .
it is a reality because catch and
every active candidate wins and
each and every person who pays
a subscription during this cam-
paign can save money.
The rules of this campaign pro-
vide that only as many boys and
girls will be allowed to be active
in this campaign as there are
prizes and cash commissions. The
highest candidates will win the
prize bicycles and each active can-
didate not winning a bicycle will
be paid a cash commission of 20
per cent (one-fifth) of all money
he or she turns in for subscrip-
tions during the entire campaign.
Subscribers Profit
The special price of $3.00 for}
two-years by mail outside of Shel-
ton and the special price of $4.00
for two-years by carrier in the
City of Shelton gives every sub-
scriber an opportunity to save
$1.00 by paying a two-year sub-
scr_1ption during this campaign.
This is a substantial saving and
most Journal subscribers are ex-
pected to take advantage of this
money-saving opportunity.
The money-saving offer on the
subscriptions ends with the cam-
paign on May 3rd.
The Journal office is open each‘
evening until 8 o’clock and until
9 o’clock on Wednesday and Sat-
urday evening for the convenience
of the candidates, and for per-
sons wishing to pay their sub-
scriptions.
Shelton Youth Breaks
Back; Falls From Truck
Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Gosser re-
turned home Sunday from a trip
to Seattle where they were called
to the bedside of their youngest
son, Lawrence, who is in Provi-
dence Hospital suffering from a
broken back caused when he was
thrown from a truck load of
timbers while at work last Thurs-
day. His condition is somewhat
improved, the parents report.
Success marked every angle of
the ambitious venture represented
in the presentation of the Easter
cantata, “Crucifixion,” under the
auspices of the Shelton Women‘s
Chorus Sunday afternoon when a
capacity crowd filled the junior
high auditorium and contributed
more than enough in the silver
offering to cover the considerable
expenses undergone to stage this
musical highlight.
Louis Karl Weinel, tenor, and
Ken Blanchard, baritone, featur-
ed soloists, thrilled the audience
with their interpretations in the
lead roles. Lloyd Van Blaricom,
representing the voice in the
choir, supported his role with fine
effectiveness. .
Director Ben Hallgrimson ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased
with the performances both of
the mixed chorus and the orches-
tra and the cantata proved to
imum of 100 hooks cost $1 and
[that such licenses are necessary
to take dogfish
be all that was promised in being
an outstanding achievement in
Shelton's musical history.
EASTER CANTATA SUCCESSFUL;
CAPACITY CROWD TURNS OUT
In undertaking the presenta-
tion of the "Crucifixion," the
Shelton Women's Chorus gave a
bigger treat to Shelton than many
may have realized. All music was
rented from New York, orches-
tra music alone rented at $20 a
month. It cost the Chorus $43 to
give Shelton this beautiful scared
message of the crucifixion by
John Stainer, who was knighted
by the King of England for his
wonderful compositions.
The audience gave generously in
the silver offering, approximately
$45 being contributed, thus the
cantata cleared itself of all ex-
pense.
Director Hallgrimson’s
recognized as the
was a great one.
The Shelton Women’s Chorus
wishes to publicly thank everyone
who participated in making the
cantata such a success.
great
initiative in wishing to present
this cantata to Shelton should be
responsibility
ACOUNCIL EYES
BIDS 0N WATER
PIPE SUPPLIES
Special Meeting Is Called This
Thursday To Consider Wa-
ter Committee Recom-
mendations After
Studying Bids
City councilmen will put in
“overtime” this month, adding a
third April meeting this Thurs-
day night to consider recommen-
dations of the water committee
on the subject of bids submitted
forwaterpipe and accessories for
the city water system improve-
ment project authorized by city
residents last December through
approval of a $50,000 revenue
bond issue.
Bids of ten concerns were for-
mally opened at last Thursday's
meeting but action on awarding
the contract was delayed at the
water committee’s request and
a special meeting called for this
Thursday evening to give the com-
mittee time to study the several
bids and make recommendations
for the council to consider before
taking final action on the con-
tract.
The ten bids were submitted by
Johns Manville Corp; Crane and
Co.; Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe
Co.; Hugh G. Purcell Co.; Lum-
bermen’s Mercantile Co.; Pacific
Water Works Supply Co.; Marck-
mans and Williams, Inc.; Renssel-
aer Valve Co.; Consolidated Sup-
ply Co.; and Federal Pipe and
Tank Co.
Parking Action Delayed
The council heard requests from
Ed Faubert, Chamber of Com—
merce president, and Mrs. George
Cropper, Shelton Garden Club
president, asking that the post-
office block parking strips be re-
moved and parking areas created
from them, but no definite action
was taken by the city dads on the
matter at the present time.
The city accepted offers by Al-
den C. Bayley and, the Simpson
Logging Company to donate an
18-foot wide strip ten feet north
of the railroad tracks between
First and Second streets so that
a thoroughfare (an extension of
the present blind, street in front
of the Title Insurance Building)
can be completed for the entire
block.
Hillcrest Club Queries
A letter from the Hillcrest Com-
munity Club asking what had been
done toward improving water
conditions on Hillcrest was read
to the council by Clerk Glenn W.
Landers with Attorney Charles
R. Lewis answering verbally to
those Hillcrest residents present
at the meeting, explaining the
work that has been done and the
problems the city faces in press-
ing this work further under the
water system improvement proj-
ect. The water committee was
asked to investigate the Hillcrest
water condition and report at the
next council meeting.
A motion was carried that the
water committee‘s recommenda-
tions that Engineer Burwell Bantz
and Clerk Landers prepare to call
for bids on new water system con~
struction be carried out.
Suspending regular rules of
procedure, Ordinance 333, which
amends section 2 of Ordinance 331
to read that bonds issued under
the $50,000 revenue bond meas-
ure bear interest semi-annually
instead of annually, payable April
1 and October 1 of each year, and
also to bear numbers and mature
serially in the order of their
numbers, which was not mention—
ed in the previous ordinance, was
introduced and passed as an emer—
gency measure.
Mackey Elected
Commander For
VFW. Post Here
New officers elected by the V.
F.W. post Friday night elevated
Art Mackey, Skokomish Valley,
to the commandership; R. W.
Strike, .Cloquallum, to senior vice
commander; Henry Hanson, Shel-
ton, to junior vice-commander;
Sheriff Gene Martin, Shelton, to
quartermaster and adjutant; Dep-
uty Sheriff Fred Hickson, Shel-
ton, to post advocate and also
post service officer; Chester Tay—
lor, Kamilche, to chaplain; Dr.
H. L. Kennedy, Shelton, to post
surgeon; Harry Gruver, Shelton,
officer-of-the-day; Ralph Pigs.
Shelton, to guard; Harry Hall
and Charles Clark, Shelton, to
color bearers; Robert Springer;
Skokomish Valley, to patriotic infi
structor; with Pigg, Martin and
Springer as delegates to the Grays
Harbor County Council and the
department encampment and
Strike, Hickson and W. A. Welsh
as alternates.
Springer will serve as installing
officer when the new post heads
are seated April 18 in a joint in-
stallation with the V.F.W. aux-
iliary.
slam»
Charles Stentz, Shelton Hotel
this week after returning from
Seattle Sunday where he has been
ill for the past month.
BOATMAN BREAKS ARM
Gus Swanson, Arcadia road boat
builder, suffered a broken arm last
Friday in an accident at his shop.
day clerk, was back at his post '
