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said last night
hunt
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he park will
and , , , ‘fggéléiddies up to six
i or division will
‘tedeafor children from
F5» and the third
willed, to kids up to
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9:1 t9 Participate in
an Bourland said.
, dckages of candy
i mes will be scat-
h will be re-
cents in cash
prfisent them to
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have provided
n N13 Year’s hunt
are gum Cafe, Shel-
in 'w .ndrews Photo
re emel. Beckwith's
,{ Shelt
Mc-
Store,
Smoke
Wivell's
0n Laundry,
Loop Lunch,
Western
3’ Motors,
d Service,
M C. Zin-
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efillers, Shel-
Shelton Meat
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3 Richfield
ervice, Mo~
Shell Ser-
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00' enmay Store,
8 Store,
gliattle-First Na-
Mrug Store, Da-
Conkey Phar-
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Gee’s Gil-
Oil Com-
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fair. which
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business
,,_ dill; Many Candy Eggs
I Ross Orchestra
Proving Popular
é Choice For Dance!
Since announcing last Week
their selection of David Ross and
his eleven-piece orchestra to play
Eat the annual Spring Frolic, Shel-
lton Activians have been receiv—
ing numerous compliments on
Itheir choice from Shelton dance
lovers who have heard Ross'
musicians in action.
After an extended engagement
at the famous Trianon Ballroom
in Seattle, Ross‘ orchestra will
.‘play at the annual Active Club
spring frolic April 19 at the
Blue Ox. The club had to go
to considerable expense to obtain
fthe-Ross orchestra which with
leleven pieces will be one of the
Ilargest dance bands the Blue Ox
lhas ever seen, but the club felt
I that Mason County dancers would
,appreciate the treat and support
éthe spring frolic in large num-
', bers.
One Shelton resident remarked
yesterday that he had heard the
Ross orchestra at the Trianon and
that “in my opinion it’s tops."
Tickets were distributed last night
and may be purchased from any
jShelton Activian now. No advance
,in popular price has been made
I
top-notch orchestra.
SERVICE CLUBS TO
GIVE JOINT LADIES
PROGRAM TUESDAY
Two Outstanding Films on Log-
ging to be Shown; Din-
ner at High School
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Kiwanians and Activians will
‘enjoy a joint ladies’ night pro-
gram next Tuesday evening fea-
turing two outstanding motion
nicolor, on the logging industry,
with the public invited to join in
seeing the pictures.
The joint service club ladies’
night program will be held at the
,Irene S. Reed high school with a
6:30 dinner prepared and served
by the home economics classes in
the social room. After the dinner
,the group will move upstairs to
the pic-
,tures, one being the Weyerhaeues-
.er Timber Company film, “Trees
. i and Homes,” acclaimed as the fin-
est logging film yet produced and.
Iwhich enjoyed an extended run
lat the Fifth Avenue theatre in
’Seattle, the other the Willamette
rHyster Company’s film, “Logs
' and Lumber."
The pictures will be shown
starting at eight o’clock and the.
public is invited to join with the
service club members and their
ladies at that time.
During the dinner program Ro-
deric Olzendam, public relations
agent for the Weyerhaeuesor
Timber Company, will give a brief
talk.
The program was arranged by
the Kiwanis Club with CharleSg
Runacres, Simpson Logging Com-I
pany executive, as chairman. The
Active Club was invited by theI
Kiwanians to join in and so last
night the Activians cancelled their
weekly Wednesday night meeting
in favor of the Tuesday night
program next week.
ACTIVIANS ROLLING
UP MORE MAN-MILEAGE
Hitting high gear in their ef-
forts to compile mileage in the
inter-club visitation contest forl
District One clubs, Shelton Activ—
lans made trips to Raymond last
Monday, Montesano last Tuesday.
tonight go to Aberdeen and next
Wegnesday trek up to Pork Town-
sen .
Tonight’s attraction at Aber-
deen is a big crab feed and a
trip through the Pioneer Brewery
arranged by the Aberdeen club for
all District One clubs. At least a
dozen Shelton Activians indicated
last night they would make the
trip tonight.
Four of them made the Ray-
mond trip Monday, three the Mon-
tesano trip Tuesday, and a couple
of carloads are expected to g0
32; Port Townsend next Wednes-
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Land Sale Deadline
This Saturday N con
Applications for the purchase of.
tax title land held by Mason Coun-
ty at the tenth public auction
sale being held May 24 by the
county commissioners Will be
ltaken up to noon this coming
iSaturday at the county auditor’s
' office.
iLoop At Spokane For
,despite the extra expense of thisl
:pictures, both in sound and tech-?
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Subscriptions Obtained Between
April 12 And April 19 To
Count In New Campaign
For Circulation
Now one of the boys and girls
who are active in The Shelton-
Mason County Journal's subscrip—
Ition and prize campaign will be
more fortunate than ever R by
.the time the reports for Satur-
day, April 19, are in, one of the
candidates will be $10 richer, in
addition to being a winner on
May 3 of one of the cash com—
missions, or a brand new bicycle.
For The Journal today announc—
es a new subscription and prize
campaign in which it will give
a $10 cash prize to the candidate
obtaining the most points for se-
curing new subscriptions just be-
tween Saturday morning, April
12, and Saturday night, April 19.
Here is an opportunity for an am-
ibitious candidate to earn a wel-
come cash award in addition to
one of the original awards, for
just eight days of pleasant com—
lpetition.
New Campaign
The $10 cash prize is a new
campaign. It is separate from
the original campaign in which
bicycles and cash commissions are
offered to candidates. See the
large advertisement in this issue
for full details.
l The prizes offered in this cam-
paign (particularly now with the
new $10 cash prize for just eight
days) are well worth the efforts
of the entire family. Parents
should get behind their entry, help
them with actual work and ad-
vice to the end that their own
favorite candidate will win one of
the major awards.
The Journal is especially anxious
that parents should come to the
office with their children to re-
ceive full details of the campaign
and learn how' they can best help
to get one of the prize bicycles
for their own family.
21 Days To Go
Tile Journal campaign is ex-
‘ pected to get under way in earnest
this week, and since it will run
only 21 more working days, it is
essential that candidates utilize
their spare time to do their work.
Help them all you can. , ‘ '
: Names of active candidates in
the campaign will appear in each
Tuesday issue hereafter during
the campaign. Watch for them.
All subscribers, both paid up
and those in arrears, are remind-
ed that until Saturday, May 3,
(the last day of the campaign) is
their last opportunity to renew
or subscribe to The Journal at
the reduced rate of $4.00 for two-
years by carrier and $3.00 for two
years by mail, a saving of $1.00l
on a two-year subscription. After
that date all subscriptions will be
at the regular price. Candidates
receive full credit for both past
due and advance subscriptions.
County To Make
Seed Available
To Needy Groups
Families struggling to make
their own way and keep off the
welfare rolls are going to get
assistance from Mason County
through the provision of garden
seeds this year.
commissioners Tuesday set aside
a. $25 fund for the purchase of
garden seeds for “borderline”
families not now coming under
the wing of the welfare depart-
ment, thus encouraging those fam-
ilies to raise their own gardens
and thereby gain that degree of
help in remaining off public as-
sistance rolls.
The fund and the purchase of
the seeds will be administered and
supervised by County Agent Clint-
on Okerstrom, the resolution stip-
ulated.
Continuing its first-of-the-month
session, the board yesterday de~
clared unsafe for public use the
bridge on that section of the Old
Olympic highway near Lilliwaup
which was turned back to the
county by the state, asked the
state highway department to post
speed limit signs at both entranc-
es to Allyn, ordered the county
treasurer to distribute $5,825.88
from the Federal Forest Reserve
fund to 19 county school districts
according to recommendations of
County School Supt. J. E. Mar~
tin, and declined to take action
on Dr. Harry Deegan’s applica-
tion for the lease or purchase of
the old county racetrack near the
airport until it is determined whe-
ther the property is wanted by
thliNavy for part of its proposed
auXIIlary landing field.
General Welfare Club
To Hear Case, Frances
Members of General Welfare
club will hear State Treasurer
Inland Education Meet
City School Supt. H. E. LOOP
is in Spokane today to attend the
annual convention of the Inland
Empire Educational Association,
Saturday.
Otto Case and Mert Frances, both
of Olympia and'active in old age
penSlon promotion, at the club’s
weekly meeting Saturday evening
in Memorial Hall.
An. entertainment program with
danc1ng and refreshments will
meeting.
Consolidated withTh
helton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 10, 1941.
An interesting story under the
title “The Pioneers of Wrong-
Way Home" is printed in the
Saturday Evening Post of April
12th in which all the characters
are former residents of Mason
County, now based at a lonely and
inhospitable settlement on Bristol
Bay, Alaska. It tells of the
hardships of the past ten years
‘getting a start from scratch into
a fairly comfortable existence for
all concerned today. Herbert H.
Hilscher dug up the story and
I
An action taken by the county ‘
pieced its various relations to-
gether and because we know
something of the history it re-
lates we suggest its reading.
It concerns the Moody, Smith,
and Putvin families and the two
Moran boys of Shelton, and real-
ly dates back some thirty years
when Grace Moody of Kamilche
Valley went to Alaska to teach
and there married Frank Waskey,
who made two “stakes” in the in-
tervening years and was elected
delegate from Alaska, but of late
years they have been engaged in
mining and trapping.
Hardships Promised
The story is woven around Mrs.
Smith, who was Mabel Moody,
and lived in Aberdeen with her
family, which included four boys
and four girls, in 1931, when
times became real hard and Ma-
bel wrote to her sister Grace ask-
ing about prospects in Alaska.
The ‘reply offered some encourage-
ment but promised plenty of hard-
ship in the unsettled north. So
Mr. Smith got a few dollars to-
gether and struck out for Bris-
tol Bay. After a summer at a
cannery enough money was made
to send for his family, and with
the help of friends they struck
out, and the story relates how
they finally got together and got
through the first winter. ‘
Then Frank Moody, with his
wife and four children who were
ALL OUISTANDING
WARRANTS CALLED
IN BY TREASURER
Every Fund On Strictly Cash
.Basis After $52,000 Call Is
Made; Finances Good
Every last outstanding regis-
tered Mason County warrant was
“called in” to be cashed today by
Deputy Treasurer Nolan Mason,
putting the county on a strictl
cash basis down to the last school
district.
Today’s warrant call involves a
sum of $52,200 and wipes the
books clean of outstanding regis-
tered warrants, showing a great-
ly improved financial condition in
Mason County over last year.
At this time last year a war-
rant call of $79,900 was made but
it did not quite wipe up all the
warrants then outstanding, which
totalled $80,300. As of the end
of March, 1941, the outstandin
registered warrants totalled $49.-
937.47, the call made today taking
care also of warrants issued since
the first of the month.
Splendid tax collections so far
account largely for the improved
financial condition of the county,
Mason said.
Two Sheltonians
On Federal Panel
Two Shelton men, George Young
and Walter S. Nash, have been
drawn on the panel for possible
Federal grand jury duty in Ta-
coma, according to newspaper dis-
patches from Tacoma yesterday.
They were two of 40 Southwest
Washington residents whose
names were drawn by lot in Fed-
eral Court Tuesday. They are to
report at Tacoma April 18 at 9:80
a. m.
Frank Hale, assistant United
States attorney, said the jury
would consider only routine cases
originating in the southwest
Washington District.
I
Post Article TelIs StruggIes
OE‘Mason Countyitcs In Alaska
Walla, went to join the Smiths in
the little settlement, the father
and one son working one season
at a cannery but both were drown-
ed trying to get home in a storm
with their stake, adding to the
woes of both families. Then Jim
and Mrs. Putvin tired of trying
to live on a garden in the states
and went north, taking along a
small junk sawmill and between
sawing lumber for the few houses,
fishing, trapping and taking
“trout tails," the fisheries de-
partment paying bounty for all
Dolly Varden Rainbow trout kill-
ed because they ate the eggs of
salmon and were cutting the runs
to Bristol Bay.
Enter Moran Brothers
Then the Moran boys from
Shelton came into the picture,
fishing, trapping and tailing, and
both spent their off seasons at
Anchorage, 350 miles away, learn-
ing to fly, with occasional trips
to visit the folks here in summer.
Myron met a girl at Mosquito
Point that he took a fancy to,
and it was a question. of marry-
ing or buying a plane, but the
plane was bought first and paid
forpnd then they were married.
Both boys are now making good
money on the side with their plane
because there are no roads, steam-
ers aré rare, and all travel is in
the air':in that region.
Now there is quite a settlement
at Aleknagik, which is the name
of the, new postoffice, a new
school for the growing popula-
tion, which was unlike Matanus-
ka the only gift of the territory,
and 'the Waskeys have settled
down. there, Mrs. Waskey at her
first love of teaching some forty
children. At any rate the story
is worth reading because it is
all true and tells of real pioneer-
ing in a new country where peo-
ple have learned to live on their
own grit and ingenuity without
help from state or government.
GARDEN PROJECT
IN MASON» COUNTY
., AGAIN WPA PLAN
'Five Local School Districts
' , Cooperate In Sponsoring
Garden, Canning Units
'.l.‘0
Thirty-six states, including
Washington, now have garden and
canning projects, under the direc—
tion of the Work Projects Admin—
istration. From 1935 'through
June, 1940, these units canned
45,022,000 quarts of vegetables and
fruits and processed 1,280,000-lbs.
of foodstuffs, which were distrib-
uted to the needy and to the
school lunch projects for under—
nourished children.
Last year, at the Mason Coun-
ty poor farm, 2,487 quarts of veg-
etables and fruit were canned and
16,290-lbs. of produce proceSSed.
Plans have-been formulated this
year for garden and canning units
to be established in conjunction
with ,sehool lunch projects in the
Puyallup, Sumner and Gig Har-
bor districts, and for the purchase
and processing of surplus fruits
and garden produce from com-
mercial growers.
In Mason County plansare un-
der way .to lease forty acres from
the county farm, and arrange-
ments for garden and canning
units Will be made at a conference
of superintendents and principals
of schools at Belfair, Hoodsport,
Shelton, Oakland Bay and Lower
Skokomish, sponsors of the proj-
ects.
Grays Harbor county will have
units at Hoquiam and Oakville,
the seed being furnished by the
county superintendent of schools.
Oakville school has donated one
hundred dollars toward purchase
of cans. ‘
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RE-ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL
Nels Christensen, Simpson Log-
ging company boomman, was re-
admitted to Shelton hospital today
for treatment of injuries suffered
six weeks ago in an accident at
the log dump on the waterfront.
i COMMUNITY CALENDAR i
TONIGHT—Chamber of Com-
merce April meeting, 6:30 din-
ner, Shelton Hotel, Lieut-Col.
Nelson speaking, 7:30, on sel-
ective service occupational de-
ferments.
TONIGHT—Special meeting of
city council, p. m., city hall,-
to consider bids onvwater sys-
tem pipe and accessories.
TONIGHT—Boy Scout board of
review, 7:30 p. m., McCleary
Timber Company offices.
TONIGHT—Commercial league
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling a1-
leys.
FRIDAY—Prep baseball, 2:30
p. m., Loop Field, Shelton vs.
Centralia, practice game.
FRIDAY—City league bowling,
7 and 9 p. m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Moose Lodge social
program, 8' p. m., Moose Lodge
quarters.
FRIDAY—Home Guard. Unit
drill, 7:30 p. m., Lincoln gym.
SATURDAYu—Deadline for fil-
ing applications for purchase of
tax-title land in 10th public
auction salemnoon, auditor‘s of-
fice.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse.
SUNDAY—Annual kiddies East-
er egg hunt, p. m., city park.
SUNDAY—Easter Sunday, spec-
ial church services in all the
churches. '. v
MONDAY—County commission-
ers, 10 a. m., courthouse.
MONDAY—W o m e n ’ s league
bowling, 8:15 p. m., bowling al—
leys.
MONDAY—Book Review by Mrs.
Helen Gould, sponsored by Girl
Scout Council, p. m., court-
house. »
MONDAYwH il 1 c r est Improve-
ment club meeting, p. m.,
Bordeaux school.
TUESDAY—'Kiwanis Club eve-
ning program, Activians and
ladies of both clubs invited,
6:30 dinner, Irene S. Reed high
school. , Motion picture pro-
gram.
TUESDAY—Joint meeting of
American Legion, V.F.W., and
RedCross, 8 p. m., Memorial
Hall, to hear John Zydeman,
Red Cross Veterans’ Adminis-
trator for this state.
$1,232.25 Allocated Mason County
For April Assistance; Board
Set Up Here To Super-
vise, Administer
141, Mason County has been al-
located $1,232.25 for April medi-
cal assistance to persons receiv-
ing old age assistance, Miss Cora
Barber, county welfare adminis-
trator, announced today.
The medical care aid to aged
became operative as of April 1,
she said, with aged receiving as-
sistance under provisions of Ini-
tiative 141 entitled to h'ospitaliza-i
tion upon a doctor’s recommenda-
tion, services of a physician, sur-
gery recommended by a physician,
dental care, and such appliances
as glasses, etc, as may be pre-
scribed by professional men who
have signed agreements to par-
ticipate in the program.
Board Takes Charge
A Mason County medical and
dental board has been set up to
supervise and administer the pro-
the program are carried out, and
ing the care given old age as-
sistance recipients, the object be-
ing to give the best care possible
under the budget allowed by Ini-
tiative 141, Miss Barber said.
This board consists of Dr. H.
L. Kennedy, chairman, Miss
Barber, secretary, Dr. G. A. Le—
Compte, Dr. J. T. Morrissey, and
C. E. Runacres, member of the
Shelton General Hospital board of
trustees. The board meets month-
ly and is responsible to the state
medical and dental board created
by Initiative 141. The program
for medical care to the aged is
operated entirely separately from
the present county health district.
90-Day Cards Issued
Mason County aged wishing to
see a doctor or dentist should come
or write to the county welfare of-
fice for identification cards, which
are renewed every 90 days.
The Mason County old age med-
ical care budget was allocated on
a basis of 362 persons now re-
ceiving old age assistance. The
old age assistance load for Mason
County as of February 1, before
Initiative 141 went into effect,
was 257 persons, Miss Barber
said.
Tuesday Brings
Official Sta rt
Under provisions of Initiative.
gram and see that regulations of'
to suggest any means of improv-i
Now I R EFFECT
BOY SCOUT FUND ";
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DRIVE UNDER 'WAY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
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P. U. D. Suggests I
Deadlines For ,
House Connection
Cooperation of persons mov-
ing into different houses and
needing electricity connections
was asked today by Manager
E. .W. Johnson of Public Util-
ity District No. 3.
R e q u e s t s for connections
should be made by four o’clock
on week days, by eleven o’clock
on Saturdays, as the district
tries to maintain 40 hour work.
weeks for its employes, with
daily hours closing at five
o'clock and only one man being
on duty Saturday’s until noon
except in cases of emergency.
“We are attempting to oper-
ate this public enterprise on as
economical a basis as possible,"
Manager J o h n s o n explained,
“and when we have to send men
out on overtime assignments it
costs the district, and you peo-
ple who own it, extra money.”
JOINT SESSION OF
RED CROSS, V.F.W.,
LEGION IS CALLED
Place Of Red Cross In World To-
day To Be Explained By
Field Executive
John N. Zydeman, American Red
Cross Field Director of Veterans’
Administration for the State of
Washington, will visit Shelton on
Tuesday, April 15, Mrs. E. F.
Martin, Mason County Chapter’s
Home Service Chairman, announc-
ed today.
Mr. Zydeman will confer with
Chapter and local Veterans’ As~
sooiations officials, will speak
before the Junior and Senior
High School assemblies, and will
appear before a joint meeting of
the American Legion, V.F.W., and
Mason County Red Cross Chapter,
beginning at 8:00 p. m., at the
Memorial Building, and has chos-
en as his subject, "The Red Cross
in the World of Today.” .
“Mr. Zydeman speaks with au-
thority on all subjects pertaining
to military and civilian relation-
ships and is well versed in the
To Fire Season
Approximately 200 district fire
wardens, including Charles Ogg
of Mason County, hold their
annual session in Olympia tomor-
row to go over new laws affect-
ing'state timber and to draw up
regulations to put them into ef-
fect in conference with T. S.
Goodyear, state forester.
They will return from that
conference prepared to go on
active duty next Tuesday, when
the forest fire season officially
opens. District Fire Warden Ogg
said yesterday he has not as
yet definitely chosen his staff
of deputies for the coming sea-
son but would have them select-
ed by Tuesday.
The new laws which will be
thoroughly thrashed out by the
fire wardens at tomorrow’s con-
ference with Goodyear include:
Chapter 63~Prohibiting opera-
tion within a quarter of a mile of
any forest area during closed sea-
son of certain restricted equip-
ment.
Chapter 140——Providing that a
certificate of clearance as against
fire hazards for logged-off lands
does not relieve the owner from
liability to maintain adequate fire
protection.
Chapter 123—Extending provis-
ions of the sustained-yield forest
program to permit the State For-
est Board to contract with Indian
tribes for coordinated cutting on
lands of such Indians. '
Chapter 135—Provides for an
extension of time in which to re-
move state timber already sold,
not to exceed an additional five
years.
David Wiss AWaiting
Call To Air Training
Hoping to follow in the .foot-
steps of his older brother, David
Wiss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lantz
Wiss, anticipates being called to
‘Sand Point Naval Air Station
sometime this month for prelim-
inary training in the Naval Air
Corps.
If he successfully passes this
preliminary training he will be
sent to Pensacola, Florida, where
his brother, Don, is now in the
final stages of his nine-month
training.
David successfully passed the
entrance requirements for the
Sand Point training period re—
cently following completion of his
second year at the University of
Washington.
INFANT IN HOSPITAL
Lola Wilson, 8-month-old daugh-
rules governing the men who are
at present serving in the military
forces,” Mrs. Martin stated. "He
also is thoroughly familiar with
the National and State legisla-
tion governing veterans and their
families. Mr. Zydeman will be
pleased to answer all questions
pertaining to National or Local re-
lationships between the Red Cross
and Veterans’ organizations.”
Mr. Zydeman has served with
the Red Cross since the first
World War, having served first
at Camp Grant, Illinois; then at
Fort Des Moines, Iowa; and later
as Director of Red Cross Serv-
ice at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in
Washington, D. C. Since coming
to the Pacific Area in 1927, he
has been stationed in Seattle. At
present Mr. Zydeman is Field
Director covering the Army Post
at Fort Lawton, the Naval Air
Station in Seattle, all Coast Guard
units for Washington and Ore-
gon, and handles veterans’ claims
yvork for the State of Washing-
on.
The Red Cross is the official
civilian agency of the U. S. mili-
tary forces and is the only con-
necting link between the military
men and their families at home.
As more of Mason County’s men
leave to take up their military
duties, it will be increasingly
demonstrated that a heavy
re-
sponsibility rests upon Mason
County Chapter, Mrs. Martin
added.
Pinmen Leave For
A.B.C. Saturday
George Merrick and Mark Fred-
son, topflight bowlers in Shel-
ton’s pin circles, leave here Sat-
urday in search of fame and per-
haps a small share of fortune as
participants in the annual Ameri-
can Bowling Congress, the world’s
largest sporting event, which is
now in progress at St. Paul, Minn.
The Shelton pinmen are sched-
uled to bowl in the doubles and
singles events next Tuesday, April
15. It will be Fredson’s first
experience in the A.B.C., but Mer-
rick has bowled in several of the
big tournaments, starting as a
young bowler of 18 when he used
to live in Minneapolis.
The two local kegelers will en-
joy a visit with Merrick’s family
in Minneapolis, and Fredson will
take delivery of a new car in
Detroit in which they will return
to Shelton.
RAYONIER EMPLOYE ILL
Herbert Dammann, Rayonier
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilson,
was admitted to Shelton hospital ton hospital Tuesday for medical
Wednesday for medical care.
employe, was admitted to Shel—
; AGED MEDICALPDD PUSHING EXTENSIONS
CARE PROGRAM) RAPIDLY IN 5 RURAL AREAS;
SEE ‘IUICE’ BY MID-SUMMER
Pickering, Spencer Lake, Skoo-
kum Bay, Isabella Valley,
Arcadia Progress
Reported
Considerable progress toward
the goal of bringing electrical en-
ergy to Mason County’s rural
residents was reported yesterday
by‘ Manager E. W. Johnson of
Public Utility District No. 3, with
the work in at least five districts
at a point where electricity is vir-
tually certain by early summer.
Farthest progressed of any dis-
trict is the extension into the
Pickering and Spencer Lake areas
from the present energized Agate
lines. One spur of the Pickering
extension has already gone past
the Grant school to the Wiley
residence, while another has pass-
ed the Deer Creek road along the
west shore of Spencer Lake. In
this latter area ' the clearing is
finished, most of the holes dug
and the anchors set, and string-
ing of wires should start within
ten days.
Preliminary Work Done
In the Isabella Valley district
3% miles has been cleared beyond
the end of the present lines erect-
ed and maintained by the old
West Coast Power company, at
Oyster Bay a three mile exten-
sion beyond the present energiz-
ed lines of the old West Coast
Power Company is cleared of
brush and a right of way made
down to the bay on which wire
is expected to be strung inside of
30 days, and work is being car-
ried on in two sectors of the Skoo-
kum Bay area to extend the pres-
ent energized lines in that dis‘
trict.
0n the south side of the bay
three miles of. poles are already
set from the Brownfield place be-
yond the present energized lines
with wire stringing due to be
completed within 30 days, while
on the east side of the bay 2. mile
and a half .of poles are set from
the Sells ranch on.
New Finances Help
The original work on the Skoo‘
kum Bay. lines was halted last
year when the district's funds
gave out, but the plans will be
carried to completion now that
new financial blood has been
transfused into the P.U.D.’s veins.
The district has completed a.
preliminary survey in the Area-
dia Point area and all residents
of that district who wish it should
make application for electrical
energy at the P.U.D. office so
that the district can know how
many actual customers it can
count upon for an extension of
energized lines to Arcadia Point.
A crew will begin clearing for
the Arcadia extension within the
next two weeks.
All residents living within a
reasonable distance of present en-
ergized P.U.D. lines who wish to
have electricity furnished them by
the district are also asked to make
formal application at‘ the dis-
trict’s office in the Angle build-
ing.
Lilliwaup Service Planned
Manager Johnson and Chair-
man J. F. Bischel of the,distrlct
board of commissioners have made
a survey of the electrical needs
of the Lilliwaup area and havo
asked for a conference with the
arranging the purchase 'of P.U.D:
No. 1 power to supply ‘some six
miles of proposed lines which
P.U.D. No. 3 would build extehding
from the P.U.D. No. 1 lines north
of Hoodsport to supply the Lilli—
waup area.
As the situation now stands
P.U.D. No. 3 would have to cross
P.U.D. No. 1 territory in _order
to serve the area within its own
power.
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Music Program
Ads Selling At
Excellent Pace
Garden Club “saleswomen” have
been making the rounds of Shelton
business firms this week selling
advertising space in the annual
Shelton Music Festival program
pamphlet, entire net proceeds of
which are to go into the Garden
Club's fund for completing the
Railroad Avenue beautification
project. ,
The advertising sales commit-
tee reports it is meeting with
generous response from the mer-
chants and expects to have a
tidy sum to add to the beautifi-
cation project “kitty.”
The sprinkling system has al-
ready been installed in the last
two blocks of the project and the
committee expects to meet with
Theo. Albert, nurseryman who is
assisting in planning the planting.
within a few days with hopes of
getting the actual planting of
shrubs and plants in the last two
blocks done this month.
Three more contributions to the
beautification project fund . W3“
acknowledged today by _Mrs-
George Cropper. club presuient.
attention.
from the Maxwell Estate, C. C.
Cole, and Grant C. Angle.
.i
commissioners of Public' Utility
District No. 1 for the purpose of
