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At the 'same time, a majority
.of the group recommended estab-
S e e k 5 Coverage
Under Wage, Hour,
W’ashington, June 28.»r~-A com-
mittee for the lumber industry
rec-m“mended Friday that con-
gress be asked to extend the wage,
and Ilulll‘ law to interstate opera-
tions affecting interstate com-
men-v.
The committee unanimously
made the recommendation to Gen-
eral Philip B. Fleming, wage—hour
administrator.
minimum wage in the industry.
The division said that if this were
approved, the hourly wage rate of
168,000 workers would be in-
creased.
About 143,000 of these work-
Altogether, the industry employs
385,000 persons. About 75 per
cent of those whose earnings
would be increased are employed
in sawmills, shingle mills and
wooden box plants.
The recommendation for exten-
sion of the act was sponsored by
'James G. McNary of McNary,
Ariz. The committee had receiv—
ed considerable testimony about
the competition interstate opera-
tions were encountering from the
southern states from portable
sawmills.
Travel Into The
Witnesses opposing an increase
tin the minimum wage asserted
OLYMPICS ,
that although the lumber opera-
BV Saddle Iiorse ,tor who sold his product into in-
. terstate commerce was legally ob-
w. _ , :. Vliged to pay 30 cents an hour,
Lhfiiy (’(mq‘uctbd .Tmps 3the portable sawmill man, limit—
E‘kMa’mlSh DIVIde 1' ing himself to interstate business,
{could pay as little as 15 cents.
They also said that successful
bidders for large government or-
ders for army cantonments in
(the south were often those opera—
j-ting with no minimum wage re-
“ quirements within the state where
ithe cantonment was to be built.
J Studies by government econo-
Imists showed that the average
Ewage in the lumber industry in
ithc west was 72.7 cents an hour,
iin the north and in the south
34.6.
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l MOBILGAS OUT OF
Bill Lambert Hits Two Homers,
i Pitches Millhands Into 6
To 3 Victory
I CITY LEAGUE SOFTBALL
scores Monday
Skokomish 10, Bonneville 6.
Rayonier 6, Mobilgas 3.
1 Games Monday
1 Activians-Mobilgas, No. 1.
Rayonier—Bonneville, No. 2.
Games July 10
Mobilgas—Bonneville, No. 1.
, Activians-Skokomish, No. 2.
l Lefty Bill Lambert personally
conducted Mobilgas on a tour
from first place to second place
in the city softball circuit Mon-
day evening when he pitched and
batted Rayonier to a 6 to 3 vic-
tory over the gasmen.
Lambe't swatted two home
.runs aid his own cause as
well as pitching one of the bet-
. ter games of the schedule to date.
‘The most damaging blow off his
delivery was a circuit clout from
Danny Wilson‘s bludgeon.
Skokomish Grange had Johnny
Eager’s gilt-edged relief hurling
lto thank for a 10—6 victory over
lBonneville Surveyors in Monday's
second contest. Arriving late,
Eager entered the scrap in the
lsecond inning and allowed the
iSurveyors one single hit from
gthat point on, although sloppy
[support gave the Bonneville boys
|chances to score against him.
I The Grangers won the scrap
lby scoring a quarter of runs in
{each of the third and fourth in-‘
' nings.
The idle Activians moved into
the league lead as a result of
the Mobilgas defeat.
Shelton Shell Oil
Plant Full Depot
Now, Gets New Head
l Under a new policy effective
with the Shell Oil company as of
July 1, the company’s Shelton
sales and delivery operations are
now carried out as a full depot
I in their own right instead of be-
!ing a sub-depot of Olympia.
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Along with the change in pol-
icy, Frank L. Worden of Tacoma,
has been transferred here to take
charge of the Shelton depot and
A. A. (Kelly) Pabst, manager of
the sub-depot for the past two
years, has been transferred to
Centralia. inasmuch as he is .sub-
ject to call by the U. S. Naval
Reserve at any moment and the
company felt it better to place
the depot under a permanent man-
ager. . .
Mr. Worden hopes to move his
wife and son anddaughter to Shel-
ton as quickly as he can find a
home of five or six rooms in which
to house them; ‘he said today;
BACK FROM ALASKA
Wes Lizotte returned to Shelton
last weekend from Kodiak Island,
Alaska, where he has been work—
ing in the mess hall on the big
government air base project there.
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Activians .................. ..3 l 42 25
Mobilgas . . . . . . . . . . ..4 2 42 35
Rayonier . . , . . . . . ..3 3 28 34 I
Skokomish 3 51
Bonneville I 4 32 64
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list this week again. We hope MI“-
). a number of dogs was found
It was in such condition that it
had to be killed.
’1 Correction:
HOSPITAL PATIENT HOME
‘ Sunday
{Grapeview Hears
i Sound of Hammer
i And Saw at Work
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I Grapeview, July L‘The sound
'of the hammer and the saw is
heard in the land—-our commun—
ity as well as others. We didn't
,make a complete survey of the
building: the H. C. Bacons havei
built a home next to Walter Clay—
ton’s on one of the places first
settled around here; at Echo
Beach, Dr. Johnson, of Tacoma, is!
lbuilding a home that everyone'
,who has seen it reports as unus-
;ually interesting. The Bucking-
;hams have a good looking house
Ion the knoll not far from their'
former one. It is on the road to
completion as is the Etherton‘s
near the bridge going over to the
island. A number have been put-
ting on additions to their homes
and otherwise remodeling. In-
lcluded in this number are Mrs-l something or prepare to build their own
home in
ISarah Hansen, the H. E. Peter—
sons and the William Spooners.|
Mr. Davidson, from Shelton, has
I been clearing and building a roa
lncxt to the Richard home.
i The Garden and Social Club
I met at the home of the president,
Mrs. H. E. Peterson, on Thursday,
IJune 26. The program was given
[by Mrs. Grace Ball, of Hoodsport.
I She read a paper on “The Women
of the White House” which was
most interesting and instructive.
That is the third time this year:
'we have been indebted to the
Hoodsport women for helping on
our program, Mrs. E. C. Riebow
and Miss Eloise Flagg were our
guests at other programs. We
welcomed them and were glad to
have our president, Mrs. Peter-
son, on their program on one oc—
casion last year. This interchange
makes club life interesting. Last
week, Mrs. Charles Wright and
Miss Gertrude Streater, also of
the Hoodsport Club, were our
guestswith Mrs. Ball. The prin-
‘cipal business of the club at this
meeting was planning for the
picnic in July.
-Among the visitors around this
week we. note Mrs. Charles Som-
ers, Miss Murray from Tacoma,
visiting the Eckerts, and Mr. and
iMrs. Clyde Dieter and son Gor-
don, who spent several days with
Peterson.
day in Tacoma. They called on the
Hans Reul family who used to live
Ihere. Mr. Reul is now working in
'the Seattle-Tacoma shipyard in
that city. I
Mrs. Cliff Barrett was obliged:
[to go to Seattle Sunday for den—
tal surgery, a stubborn tooth
caused a good deal of trouble.)
Cliff Went with her. Daughter
Evelyn was the guest of the
Buckinghams and Billy went to!
Olympia with his grandparents.
i That reminds us that Billy Bar-
Irett proved that he has a future
as a hiker. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Barrett, Mrs. Sarah ~Hansen? and
Chester, and Mr. Joe 'DSchida
drove up to Mt. Rainier, Sunday.I
(Billy—aged three—hiked along
I and refused other‘transportation’ l
Ithan his own. The partyireport
that the
better than in the sky and that!
the carpet of flowers was worth!
‘ the. trip.
I .Mrs. Johanson and daughtersI
[Connie and Valdelee are living in
I the Strickland home, b e t t e r
known as “The Old Malaney
I Place.” '
, Billy Wren, of Seattle, is enjoy-
ing the summer with his grand-
‘parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Wren.
We believe that grandparents a1—
, tom of living in the country.
' Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lee and
'their children, Norman, Frances
and Dorothy, have rented the for-
,mer Onsrud home. Mrs. Lee 15
‘ a sister of Mrs. Parks.
I Mrs. E. E. Langellier, Miss
Hattie Barker and Miss Louise
Mitchell drove to Seabeck on the
30th and brought Mrs. Bert Mit—
(ihell. home. The Girl Reserve con-
ference of the Northwest had
been meeting there for a week.
with over a' hundred girls from)
and Oregon. Mrs.
Mitchell was one of the leaders.
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News Notes From I
BelfaIr Dlstrlct
By- Mrs. Gladys Irving
Belfair, July 1—'Mrs. William
Orr had her tonsils removed on
Tuesday of this week.
The Garden Club met with Mrs.
iKittock on Tuesday and a gbod
'crowd attended. Mrs. Beck gave
a talk.
The Irving family visited their
(son Kenneth Irving and family in
Seattle over the week end, gomg
:Sunday to see Alice Irving at
;Buckley, Wash. They returned to
Belfair Sunday evening.
A band of gypsies were gomg
'through Belfair Monday telling
fortunes. .
I . Joe Jordan was cutting hay on
"Monday for Mrs- Lucy Foster.
Mrs..John Moore and Mrs. Wal-
Iter Morrison were callers at the
‘ Irving home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beck and
Efamily attended a show in Brem-
erton on Saturday night.
Nels Johnson is on the sick
Johnson is well soon.
A deer hurt by fence wire and
back of the Moore home Monday.
Mrs. Chas. Irving, Charles Irv-
ing Jr. and Robert Irving were
Port Orchard visitors Tuesday.
‘, Mary Moore was a caller at the
'Morrison home Monday.
, —— It was Charlie
Bond who went to the Belfair
‘Garage to be helper, instead of
, Roy.
Mrs. Fred Bell was released
from Shelton Hospital to
1 her Skokomish Valley home.
You’ll have to TELL — if you
district but we can report this ..
SHELTON-IVIASON
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GRANT c. ANGLE
Editor
Member of \Vasliington Newspaper Publishers‘ Association
J. EBER ANGLE I
Manager
and National Editorial Association.
DON’T NEGLECT THE HOME FRONT
With a steady demand for houses for rent,
and occasional sale to families forced to buy to
get shelter, and only eight or nine new houses
under way and several
only good judgment for homeless people to buy!
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d To the current demands for money on thei
war fronts, and the growing needs for special
purposes on the home front, all draining of funds
Shelton.
of the ordinary citizen,
and do some planning for the future when even
more demands on the citizen are in prospect, and'
possibly lesser incomes.
If there is one thing which justifies the av-
erage worker or citizen of limited means and
regular income going into debt, it is the owning
of his home and shelter for his family, which can-
not easily be lost; realty taxes are moderate and
interest payments are far less than the drain for
rentals.
Further, the worker may well consider that
under the promised lowering of the income tax
bars the government will nick every modest earn-
in the land, and rents are no credit, while ’
payments for interest on debt to acquire a home ,_
are deductible from earning totals, and thus thel.
worker is saving for his own home front.
ing
planned, it would seem
it is well to look ahead
With the opening of a new industry in Shel-i
ton, the Olympic Plywood, calling for fifty neWI
Mrs. Dieter‘s aunt. Mrs- H‘ E-,workers and twice that before long,
there is an i
. Last Wednesday Mr, and Mrs,‘added problem to the housing already acute,
andl
Ralph Elick and son Joe Spent the a an added assurance that for several
years ahead,
at least, housing is the best and safest invest—
ment that can be made in Shelton.
PYRAMIDING COSTS AND TAXES ll
Many
of the wage and civil service groups!
[under city and state government are demandingl
salary increases to compensate them for what-
ever income taxes may
come groups in this and coming years, all of
which will be pyraminded on products and ser-
such comeback in sight.
It brings up the question, that if everybody
view on the grouna wasl gets a boost, and that will include in most cases
the increased cost of living, granted because of
the defense program demands, Where is the money
coming from to meet the costs of defense and the
taxes to support this program of defense?
, At present the answer is that nobody is Will-
ing to curtail accustomed pleasures and luxuries
until forced to, or to assume a full share of in-
Idividual responsibility for carrying on national.
ways carry on the traditional cus‘idefense; and perhaps the government
itself isl
mostly responsible for this failure to show its
faith by works aimed to
in this time of emergency. Confidence must come)
before unity.
PYRAMIDING CHECK NEEDED ’
Just how Leon Henderson, the government’s;
price adjuster extraordinary, is going to recon-’
cile his actions in trying to set a ceiling on all
prices to keep them from soaring out of sight to
the growing trend of increasing wages and costs:
of industry and of trade, transportation and all
kinds of service, to the need for disturbing busi-
ness in general as little as possible in a badly
scrambled national economies, is something to be
seen.
Everybody desires and needs more money.
for every service because it is going to cost more
for living and for taxes, ,
has been to hoist all costs when Wisdom would!
urge that everything which has to do with costS‘
should be frozen at present levels in fairness,
Since neither workers or business are spffering'i
as yet for the necessaries of living on the one:
hand or a fair measure of profit; and with the un- !
known of the emergency
Vice costs to the unfortunate people Who have no
be assessed on their in-;
inspire public confidence
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yet every action so far
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on us all energies should
be concentrated on defense with the least distrac—
tion possible.
News Brevities
From Kamilche
Kamilche, July 1. Wes White—
ner and Lee Simmons left Satur-
day for employment in Anchor-
age, Alaska.
Mrs. Ed Petty is home from
the hospital, fully recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott mo—
tored to Puyallup Sunday to get
their daughter, Mary, who has
been visiting in Montana.
Donald Lewis Fraser visited
friends in Seattle last week.
Dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
H. G. Nelson Wednesday evening,
were: Mr. and Mrs. Glen Breits-
pecker and children of Shelton.
Barney McMahan received a
slight back injury from a falling
tree limb Monday while working at
Kimbel's.
Correction on last week’s item:
Mrs. Wyn Griggs is receiving
treatment at the Tacoma Gen-
want to SELL —- Journal
eral HOSpital. ,
the success of many farms in this for any Corn
Service of the State College ofl
Thursday, J .i
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Pasture Important (“ashmgton' rm" \~
‘ i attractively P I, ,onr $5 0
Crop Asset ’10 Farmlgreen. may be DOM-
A good paEE_ may w 11 b icounty agegtfxfivé tit' Issu
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considered one of the most im-‘ FXte 1510 11"“ . Herb .
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portant crop assets of any farm-
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but like many other things goodl
pastures don’t “just grow” they
develop through careful attention, o ,_
The question of successfully pro-I I 5*"
ducing the pastures so vital to Win be paid by
state is thoroughly discussed in CHRISTOPHER N. WA;
the bulletin, “Western Washing- ‘cannot remove-
ton Pastures” recently revised 35¢ and 60¢ s"'OWS ev
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and reprinted by the Extension Pharmacy, Phbn‘fl.
Prices for Thursday and 53
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