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“i HOURS
In the City of Shelton
e1‘_a.New System devised by the
arter Department, sprinkling will be
A Ated at any time between the hours
M. to 8 RM. on alternate days as
owing schedules
JULY 15, 1941
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South & East
Sides of City Streets
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“Sea on which the front-door opens is to
me On what street a. house faces.
5'3th devised by
' E. E. Brewer,
-,, .f Yere put into ef-
‘Hi b09337 by which
in: Permitted on
any time be—
of 6 a. m. to
wheen divided in '
thitter system will
sprinkling load
nut and that load
Over a 14-hour
is“ Possible.
made by the!
'aCe as follows:
is
, . and,WEST
lifts will be per-
9 on alternate
facing the
: Sides of city
a ltted to sprin-
8'Ys- The sched-
‘ for the remaind-
.manq all of Aug-
.medtom tfhe two-
-. o
page? columns
Aboyc '
t0n are urged
gfigwule and keep it
" tong" easy refer-
. ' W the sched-
MJ‘ES which are
, 19b: should be
" it facing the street
. rgrgmt doors open,
“ma “’9? explained.
direbe
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careful to.
ctIons their
Supt. Brewer
m 01“ s rinklin
1* piewsed Ito gegt
by utik loads which
'ln- 9.55’stem used
‘ whlch two-hour
. "ling and eve-
the entire city
lung to those
“of drain was
M958 capacities
. I“. under that
‘ teuwhwh this new
Jive entirely by
. “It of spreading
l 0“? period and
03d in half by
3' scheduie of
Urged
are urged to
madly with the
X‘hrm this effort
system func-
, efficiency. A
w}? Created in
*r at night when
, Was available
a;er because
too. ’amount of
c Place while
timiss existed.
hment has held
1mg restrictions
tedly possible,”
1. PM. “but we
, sltuation like
1: night. A
0d of water
a,
‘3 new sprin-
ulie the fairest
e same time
slistem of a
Oatrain it has
“3 Years. We
1e 0f Shelton to
cooperation in
.t
tioSerVice Board
es of several
on the po
"agel‘tified Fred
Rustin. as hav-
‘ 8‘ In oral and
t' making him
ment at the
.Might have ,
. STEM OF SPRINKLING
~ ICTION NOW FOR CITY;
RNATE DAYS PERMITTED
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
TON IGHT—Scoutmasters a n d
Scout Leaders meeting, 8 p. m.,
courthouse, arrange aluminum
collection drive.
WEDNESDAY —— Scoutmasters
and Boy Scouts meeting, 8 p. m.,
courthouse, learn: aluminum
drive details.
WEDNESDAY—A c t i v e cl u b
weekly meeting, 7:15 dinner,
Moosa'I-Iall. .. y ., .»
WEDNESDAY~Odd F e l l o w s
Lodge weekly meeting, 8 p. m.,
I.0.0.F-. Hall.
THURSDAY—City league soft-
ball, p. m., Loop Field, two
games, starting second half
schedule.
THURSDAY—City council semi-
monthly meeting, 8 p. m., city
hall.
SWlM cuss FUND
BEGUN; lllTORlNG
START_S_ MONDAY
$4.25 Donated Already To Trans-
portation Kitty; Classes Open
Monday, Maple Beach
Coins have begun to trickle in
already to start the 1941 swim
class fund off. At the moment
$4.25 has been donated to the
kitty, which goes to defray costs
of transporting pupils to and
from the annual swimming and
life saving classes conducted un-
der the joint auspices of the Red
Cross and Active Club.
The twelfth annual ciasses get
under way next Monday at Ma‘
ple Beach at Lake Isabella, with
all boys and girls invited to reg-
ister and participate.
Registration is achieved by the
simple process of securing a reg-
istration card from either The
Journal or the men's department
at the L. M., having them filled
out and signed by a_ parent or
guardian, and returned to the
place the card was obtained.
But that isn’t the point of this
story. ’The swim fund has been
started. Del Cole, Journal shop
foreman, started the ball rolling
With a dollar bil and the snow-
ball‘has rolled f enough to pick
up additional one buck donations
from E. B. Spring, W. A. Wit-
siers, and Grant C. Angle, with
a two-bit coin tossed into the jar
at the Journal office by an un-
known contributor.
Donations will be taken at ei-:.
that the Journal or the men’s de-
partment at the L. M., so keep
’em coming, folks.
l
Color Travelogue By
George Drake Enjoyed
George Drake furnished the
program for today's Kiwanis ses-
sion, with a movie picture of his
recent travelogue through the
scenic and historic spots of the
East, from Henry Ford’s village
of restored pioneer industries
through the battle fields of Civil
War days, and restful Southern
cities with their colorful spring
flowers, and points in northern
Florida with glimpses of timber
lands and operations. The run-
ning story wound up with scenes
in Grand Canyon and along the
way home by way of Idaho and
Pullman, in all interesting to
those who have seen part of it
and to those who hope at some
future time to make some of
these pleasant trips.
'have an even
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6017 S. E. 861'}!
PORTLAND, OREG"?.‘
VOL. LV—NO. 56
BUSY SESSlllN
YESTERDAY AT
monsoon
Commissioners Pass Three Road
Resolutions, Forced To Delay
Appointment Of New Wel-
fare Head
Important action consumated
yesterday by the board of county
commissioners at its weekly meet-
ing included:
1. Passage of a resolution set-
ting aside $2000 from the county
road funds to extend oiling of the
North Shore road (in the Tahuya
district) for about three miles;
2. Passage of a resoiution set-
ting aside $1200 from county
road funds to oil surface 1.5 miles
of secondard highway No. 14-A
from Lakewood to Coulter Creek
‘ been kept here that the 100-degree
Consolidated with
"he
‘
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, July 15, 1941.
Mounts To
Mercury Soars Over loo-Degree
Mark For First Time On
Official R e co r d 5
At Pulp Mill
At four o’clock this after-
noon, just as The Journai was
going to press, the temperature
reached 104 degrees, it was re-
ported from the Rayonier wea-
ther bureau by Albert Thomp-
son, watchman, who took the
reading.
Heat records of long standing
toppled yesterday when the offi-
cial thermometer at the Rayonier
weather station soared up to a
boiling hot 101 degrees, the first
time since weather statistics have
mark has been passed.
Grapeview and Lake Cushman
observers also recorded extreme
temperatures but both fell just
to meet the increasing traffic
load;
3. Passage of a resolution set-
ting aside $800 from county road
funds to fill in and eliminate the
bridge on the Thomas road (in
the Pickering district);
4. Passage of a resolution clos-
ing the bridge over Sherwood
Creek on the Mason Lake—Allyn
road because the span at present
is unsafe for traffic;
$116,924 For Roads
5. Notification from the State
Highway Department that Mason
County has been allocated $116,-
,924 for 1942 road expenditures
from state gas tax receipts, and
the additional notification .that
Mason County share of May gas
tax receipts amounts to $10,127.22;
6. Delay in appointment of a
county welfare administrator
when three persdns‘whbse names ,
were submitted to 'the board by
the state wélfare' department were
found to be already employed and
not interested in' the Mason Coun-
ty appointment. The board asked
the state to submit three more
names,.preferably men;
7. Set July 26 as deadline for
applications for purchase of tax-
title land at the 12th in the series
of public auction sales being con-
ducted under the auspices of the
commissioners, but did not set
the actual date of the sale;
Herd District Delayed
8, Delayed indefinitely action _on
morproposed formation of 'a Kam-
ilche Point herd district When a
vote of the residents of the area
showed 17 favored such a delay
while 16 favored immediate for-
mation of the district and 10
favored no such formation at all.
Joe McKiel and O. K. Linscott
appeared before the board to no-
tify it that the next step in the
formation of the proposed Hoods-
port fire district awaits action of
the county election board in set-
ting a date for the election on the
matter.
Alden C. Bayley appeared be-
fore the board to file plats for the
Jones and Harned’s Tahuya-Canal
Waterfront Tracts.
USO. Buttons On
Sale Here Friday,
Saturday; Save Up
Ah, ah, ah!
Don’t spend that quarter, neigh-
bor.
Save it for that U.S.O. button
you’ll be asked to purchase Fri-
day or Saturday this week.
Yes, sir! Shelton's delayed
U:S.O. drive is now all set and
Will go off this coming Friday
and Saturday, General Chairman
Walter M. Elliott said today.
Buttons are on hand, Sales
Chairman Vin Connolly has his
crew .of salesmen and saleswom-
en_porsed for their tasks and all
is in readiness to go over the top
on the $600 quota set for Mason
County.
Rural areas in the county have
already begun to do their part,
mainly through the granges. Mrs.
L. D. Portman of Matlock Grange
has personally sold over 50‘ U.
5.0. buttons, a swell record for a
rural communit , and she would
etter record had
shehad the buttons to sell, she
claims, as a picnic crowd at Sha-
fer State PaPrk last week was
ripe for a cleanup —— but Mrs.
Portman just didn’t have the but-
tons.
Hay Exhibits Added
To County 4-H Fair.
Hay exhibits will be an added
featurebf the Mason County 4-H
club_fair this year. Farmers are
all inv1ted to enter samples of
hay. The samples should weigh
5 pounds and if brought to the
county Agent ahead of timé it
Will be put up in proper exhibit
form. Prizes will be paid for the
best exhibits.
Any hay coming under the fol—
lowmg classification may be en-
tered.
1. Alfalfa hay. 2. Red Clover
hay._ 3. Alsike Clover hay. 4.
Ladino Clover hay. 5. Rye Grass
hay. 6. Reed Canary Grass hay.
7. Other grass hays. 8. Clover and
grass hay. 9. Alfalfa and grass
hay. 10. Flat Pea hay. 11. Grain
hay. 12. Grain-legume mixtures.
VISITING RELATIVES
Mrs. J. T. Shimek and daugh-
ter left last weekend for a two-
week visit with relatives on Be-
mis Island, near LaConnor.
shy of the loo-degree mark,
Grapeview having a 98-degree
reading and Lake Cushman a 99-
degree reading.
The mercury has been climbing
steadily since Friday, when a 77-
degree reading was recorded, to
83 degrees Saturday, to 94 de-
grees Sunday (tying the previous
peak temperature for 1941), and
then to yesterday’s record shat-
tering 101.
Private thermometers in var-
ious locations boiled up to as high
as 120 degrees when exposed di-
rectly to the afternoon sun, it
was reported.
Logging Stopped As Heat
Record Of 101
State Forester Orders Loggch Out,
Of Woods, Cancels All
Fire Permits Dur—
ing Danger
All logging operations in West,-
ern Washington were ordered
closed yesterday by State Fores-
try Supervisor T. S. Goodyear dur-
ing the present extremely danger-
ous fire hazard created by the
record heat of yesterday and the
past few days.
Simpson Logging company cm-
ployes did not work yesterday due
to the heat and were scheduled
to go on their so-called “hoot
owl” shift this morning when the'
closure order from the state for-
ester cancelled all logging opera-
tions until the hazardous condi—
tion is over.
The logging closure order also
included cancellation of all fire
permits, District Fire Warden
Charles Ogg pointed out today.
Ogg warned persons going into
the woods to exercise extreme care
so as not to start fires. “The
condition is very dangerous right
now," he explained, “so we ask
that all persons who do not ob-
solutely have to would refrain
from going into the woods until
this extreme hazard is over.”
As a precautionary measure, the
fire warden has called in a stand-
by crew of six men who will re-
main at the fire hall in Shelton
to be ready for emergency duty
in case of forest fire, and also
a second stand-by crew of five
men have been stationed at Lake
Newatzel for emergency call to
forest fire duty, Ogg said.
CLOOUALLUM MAY
NOT MAINTAIN, ll‘S
SCHOOL NEXT YEAR
Annual Transportation Budget
Hearing Discloses Fact; Har-
stine, Belfair Budgets
Held Up
With three exceptions, trans-
portation budgets drawn up for
Mason~ County school. districts
were approved with only minor
changes and adjustments at the
annual transportation meeting last
Thursday. in County School Supt.
J. E. Martin’s office.
J. Guy Rowland, former Skagit
County superintendent, represent—
ed the State Education Depart-
ment for the inspection of the
transportation budgets.
The Harstine and Belfair trans-
portation allocations were laid
aside until more definite assur-
ance of where sufficient funds to
be able to make the budgets feas-
ible are coming from, Supt. Mar-
tin said, while the Cloquallum
budget was not even considered
after it became apparent the
district would be unable to op-
erate its own school next term.
The Cloquallum budget called
for 49 percent of its total income
to be spent on transportation,
Supt. Martin explained, so the
Cloquallum directors were advised
to make arrangements to send
their .pupils either to Elma or
to Shelton for their education.
Some increases in pupil loads
and some lengthened routes were
approved among the transporta-
tion budgets, along with drivers’
salaries adjustments, Supt. Mar-
tin said.
Mary M. Knight will have the
highest transportation cost aver-
age in the county next year with
32 percent of its funds set aside
for that purpose, he added.
3 MASON COUNTY
SCHOOLS ASK AID
Belfair, Harstine and Mary M.
Knight school districts from Ma-
son County today sent represent-
atives to Olympia to present re-
quests for financial assistance for
the 1941-42 term out of the $700,-
000 grant—in-aid fund passed by
the last legislature. '
Belfair's request was based on
the tremendous burden placed on
the district by a 70 per cent in-
crease in enrollment this past
year, also reflecting in increased
transportation costs which will
take 28 per cent of the estimated
1941-42 income, County School
Supt. J. E. Martin pointed out.
Harstine’s request is based on
additional transportation
equip-
ment costs, while Mary M.
Knight's petition is also for trans-
porétation equipment costs,- he
. sai .
Farm Refrigeration
Inspection Wednesday
All phases of farm refrigeration
units will be discussed at the
Oscar Sund farm .near Grapeview,
Thursday, July 17th. If you are
at all interested in refrigeration,
you should see this zero box and
kitchen unit which was all home
constructed. Farmer’s living a
considerable distance from town
find this type of refrigeration very
desirable.
Everyone is welcome to inspect
this farm unit on July 17, 10:30
a. m. to 3:00 p. m.
GIRL ARRIVES FRIDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Brown of
Shelton became parents of a baby
daughter born at Shelton Hospital
Friday.
SON BORN FRIDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie McAferty
of Shelton became parents of a
baby son born at Shelton Hospital
Friday.
So far this year the district
fire office here has recorded a
dozen forest blazes. but all have
been of a very minor nature, with
little or no damage inflicted, Fire
Warden Ogg said yesterday, but
the fire staff is keeping its col—
lective fingers crossed during the
present danger period.
Details Of Road
Oilin'g Program;
' ‘ 35 Miles Listed
Between 35 and 36 miles of
Mason County hi hways will re~
'ceive light bitumi ous oil surfac—
ing treatments under the 1941
summer ro ad oiling program
drawn up by County Road En—
gineer A. L. Ward.
Most of this mileage will be
resurfacing of roads which have
already been oil treated in pre-
vious years but need attention
again to maintain them in top
traffic condition, Mr. Ward point—
ed out last week. Only six miles
of the total will be new surfacing
work.
,The breakdown into units of
the 1941 program is as follows:
Matlock to Satsop road,
miles;
Entire Skokomish Valley road,
8.5 miles;
Grapeview road, 5.1 miles;
Spencer Lake road, 2.3 miles;
Agate road. 2.8 miles;
Capitol Hill road (including
streets), 1.6 miles;
14
Mt. View addition roads, 1.3
miles.
J. F. Forbes, Olympia road
contractor, has been awarded the
bid to do this Work for $13,455.25
with Mason County supplying the
oil. It is expected work will. be
started in about two weeks.
In addition to the work men-
tioned already, and separate en-
tirely from the contract awarded
Forbes, is a four-mile surfacing
job between Matlock and Decker-
ville which will be carried out as
a regular road district job under
Commissioner Robert Trenckmann.
The surfacing will be very sim-
ilar to the type done under the
Forbes contract.
Activians Hear
Delegates, Red
Cross Executive“
Shelton Activians, delaying their
usual starting time 45 minutes
to 7:15 o'clock, will hear Harold
Berenson, Red .Cross first aid,
swimming and life saving field
representative in the Northwest,
as their speaker for this week's
club meeting Wednesday evening
in the Moose Hall.
In addition, reports will be giv-
en by the club’s four delegates
to the Active International con—
vention in Portland last weekend.
Paul Marshall, Rocky Duckham,
and Lyle McElroy represented the
Shelton club.
Final plans of the swimming
class committee for running off
the 12th annual Active Club -{
Red Cross public swimming and
life saving classes which open
next Monday at Maple Beach also
will be heard.
Skokomish Mother,
Son on Trip to LA.
Mrs. Stella Mackey
Byrne, of Skokomish Valley, left
Friday on a ten-day trip to Los
Angeles to visit friends. Byrne
may stay longer, but Mrs. Mackey
expects to return to her home
here next,week.
GIRL BORN TODAY
A baby daughter was born to-
day to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mus-
grove at Shelton Hospital,
0
and son, —
EiIIEEEi on
ALUMINUM T0
EEI EEEERIIAY
Two Meetings Scheduled To Ar-
range Dctails; Collection Slat.-
cd July 24-25; Boy Scouts
To Do Collecting
’I‘u'o meetings to arrange dc.-
iails'ol‘ the aluminum drive to
ho conducted here next week
are scheduled tonight and \Ved-
nnsday. This evening Scout-
masiors and Scout leaders will
confcr to arrange a plan for
the drive, then \Vednesday night
Scoutmasters and Boy Scouts
of the Shelton troops will meet
to relay the plans of tonight’s
session on to the Scouts, who
will do the actual collecting.
Both meetings will he held in
the courthouse at eight o’clock.
Out of the frying pan into the
firing line.
That's the course a lot of old
aluminum now sitting idle in Shel-
ton kitchens and basements will
be taking in a short time after
Sholtonians do their part in the
National Defense Aluminum Col-
lection scheduled here July 24 and
25.
Shelton Boy Scouts will do the
actual collecting here, on the
dates already mentioned, after
first having made a notification
canvass of the city to prepare
residents for the event.
All residents who have old ar-
ticles made of aluminum which
they no longer use or can get
along without are asked to be
prepared to give those articles to
the Scouts when they come
around.
Radio Program Sunday
The Journal has also made ar-
rangements with stations KJR and
KOMO of Seattle to participate
in the radio campaign which the
two stations are preparing to ac-
quaint the public with the pur-
pose, reasons and aims of the
aluminum drive. Next Sunday
evening between and 9 o’clock
a Sholtonian will speak briefly on
a “kickoff” program announcing
the aluminum drive.
It is also pos'SIble a special
cvants broadcast will be arranged
direct from some central collec-
tion point for the aluminum in
Shelton during one of the days of
the collection here. Represent-‘
Shelton Independent
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
McCauley Promises
Hatchery Work Will
Be Reacly This Fal
$100,000 Plant To Be Constructed At Eells Spring
In Skokomish Valley;
Backs Loop Field Lights and
Highway Underpass
)hambcr
Business which preceded the
main speaker’s talk at the Cham-_
ber of Commerce July meeting
Thursday was featured by the
civic body putting its shoulder to
the wheel of three coming proj—
ects in this community.
_ One was the matter of install-
ing lights at Loop Field, a proj-
ect which the school board has
been toying with for several years
and which was revived last spring
but so far has made little head-
way. The Chamber voted to sup-
port the project and do all in its
power to bring the project to
reality, authorizing Secretary Har-
old Lakeburg to write the school
board offering what assistance the
Chamber can give.
Another school project also
drew approval from the Cham-
ber when the membership au—
thorized President Ed Faubert to
appoint a committee to work out
plans for an underpass at the
senior high school to allow stu-
dents to cross beneath the Olym-
pic Highway instead of having to
walk over it.
Support of the USO. button
sale which will be conducted here
this Friday and Saturday was
also pledged by the Chamber,
while an appeal for physical help
from the Chamber as well as its
usual financial assistance was
promised Grant C. Angle in the
handling of the annual Mason
County Pioneers Picnic on July 27.
President Faubert announced
that the August meeting would
be devoted chiefly to boosting the
Puyallup Fair and Mason Coun-
ty’s exhibit at that fair. “We in-
vite Mason County farmers to at-
tend our August meeting,” Presi-
dent Faubert said.
TWO NATIVE SONS,
ativcs of the radio stations were
in Shelton last week to make ad-
vance preparations but were un-
able to give a definite date for
this latter event.
Vital Need Expressed
In a joint statement to the
American people, William S.
Knudsen, director general, office
of Production Management, and
LaGuardia, appealed to all citi-
zens for their active assistance for
the first time since the president’s
declaration of a national emer-
gency May 27.
They expressed the vital need
for aluminum and emphasized the
fact that no individual or group
or corporation will make any prof-
it out of the transaction by which
the scrap aluminum will be gath-
cred and converted into usable
metal. .All aluminum will be used
exclusively for national defense
and the proceeds of the sale of
aluminum to defense industries
will be used exclusively for ciVIl-
ian defense.
Eitriem‘V—HISMd
Rosicrucian Conclave
Pete Eitriem of Route 3, Shel-
ton, plans to attend the annual
conclave for Rosicrucians in this
area tomorrow at the Masonic
Temple in Tacoma, where Gilbert
N. Holloway, F.R.C., national lec-
turer of the Rosicrucian Order.
AMORC, will deliver a series of
addresses.
All Rosicrucians within a fifty-
mile radius from Tacoma are in—
vited to attend this conclave.
Dayton Picnic To Be
Held This Next Sunda)I
Dayton, July 14.»-The Dayton
community picnic has been sched-
uled for July 20 and will be held
at Shafer State Park. All friends
and former residents of the Day-
ton community are invited, bring-
ing their own potluck lunches. Ice
cream, coffee, sugar and cream
will be furnished.
THERE lYIUST BE
IN THE
Don’t try to tell Omer Dion and
Harry McConkey that sea-ser-
pents don’t exist.
The two veteran fishermen have
the evidence of their own eyes to
the contrary. They saw it Sun-
day while fishing on Hammersley
Inlet.
It was a queer looking Creature
which they at first believed was
a blackfish, but the fin they based
this thought upon turned out to
be a large V—shaped tail‘ on the
posterior end of a thing the likes
of which neither Dion nor Mc-
Conkey had ever seen, in flesh or
in picture.
“It” had a large, horseshaped
phead, minus the protuding ears,
’but with very large eyes, and the
pointed nose of a horse. It's body
both agreed was about 20 feet
long and McConkey says he saw
CALVIN L FRAZlER,
RALPH DAY, PASS
Both Born In Shelton, They Both
Succumb To Long Illness
Same Day
Two native sons of Mason
County yielded to death Sunday,
Ralph Day, 32, Capitol Hill resi-
dent, passing away at Shelton
General Hospital after an illness
of several years duration, and
Calvin Lee Frazier, 49, succumb-
lng at his home on Route 3 the
same day.
RALPH DAY
Funeral services were conducted
at four o’clock this afternoon from
Witsiers Chapel for Ralph Day,
32, son of Mr. and Mrs. Royal
Day of Shelton.
‘Burial was in the family plot
in Odd Fellows division of Shel-
ton Memorial Park.
Mr. Day had lived in Shelton
all his life but had been an in-
valid for the ,past several years.
He. is survived by a brother, Royal,
J12, of Kodiak, Alaska; and a
Sister, Mrs. Nedra Devis, of Shel-
ton, in addition to his parents. He
was born at Shelton on Novemberi
20, 1908. '
CALVIN LEE FRAZIER
Born in Shelton on December?
14. 1891, Calvin Lee Frazier died
at his Route home Sunday, leav-
lng seven brothers and one sis-
ter to mourn his passing. They
are James, Harry, Robert, Jerry,
Charles, all of Shelton, Frank of
American Lake, and Thomas of
Olympia; and Mrs. Fred Rose of
Shelton.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted from Witsiers at 2 p. m.
Wednesday.
RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. C. N. ~Sundsten of Camp
5, was released from Shelton hos-
pital Monday to recuperate fur-
ther at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Johnson.
SERPENTS
SEA, AFTER ALL
feet, although Dion says he miss-
ed the feet, being too interested
in the tail. Its skin appeared to
be like that of a whale and Dion
and McConkey guessed it to be
some kind of a mammal.
“We hadn’t had a thing strong-
er than coffee, either,” Dion as-
serted.
When the veteran fishing partv
ners first sighted the creature it
was almost a block away from
them but was swimming against
the tide and down current to their
boat, so McConkey and- Dion
shut off their motor and drifted
to within 30 or 40 feet of it be-
fore it disappeared beneath the
surface, thus getting a good
scrutiny of the queer thing.
Several other boats were in the
vicinity but evidently the passen-
Definite assurance that a new
trout hatchery has been allocated
to Mason County by the S tate
Game Department and will be
constructed at the Eells Spring
site in Skokomish Valley at an
expense of around $100,000 was
given at the July meeting of the
Shelton Chamber of Commerce
Thursday by Bernard T. McCau-
ley, State Game Department Di-
rector.
The Eells Spring site, owned by
the late Arthur Eells, was sel-
ected by the game department
biologists after several years of
exhaustive tests for its general
water conditions as to its suit-
ability for hatchery purposes, Di-
rector McCauley said, and was
found to be ideal. The game
department has taken an option
on the Eells Spring site and the
purchase will be completed short-
ly, Director McCauley said in his
talk to the Chamber.
Initial work on the plant will
be started very shortly so as to
be ready for the first brood stock
this fall, he said. As soon as the
contractor now at work on a new
Lewis County hatchery, well ad-
vanced at the present time, can
be spared he will be sent here to
start work on the Mason County
hatchery, McCauley said.
$28,000 From 1941 Bud et
Only part of the Mason ounty
hatchery will be completed under
funds allocated for 1941, a sum
of $28,000 having been set aside
by Gov. Langlie, sufficient to build
the main hatchery and part of
the brood and rearing ponds and
equipment by this fall, while the
other buildings, including resi~
'dence of the manager, refrigerat-
ing plant for saving fish foods in
quantity, and the remainder of
the complete plant will come next
year when more funds are avail-
able from licenses, fees and fines,
McCauley said.
The question of location was
between Dungeness in the upper
Olympics and the Mason County
spot, and a delegation of citizens
from the Northern county appear-
ed before the state board at Se-
attle on Wednesday to urge their
choice, but the board was unani-
mous on the Eells site. It was
pointed out that influence had no
part in the choice, which was
made by the department experts
purely for biological reasons as
the best for permanent trout
hatchery to cover this section,
particularly as Mason County has
so many lakes within its bor-‘
ders. The abundance of water at
even all-year temperature, from
the tumbling stream which flows
through the grounds, as observed
over several years, and other
features favored this location. An
appeal was made direct to Gov-
ernor Langlie but it was pointed
(out that the Commission is solely
responsible for making the best
choice for its purpose, and the
Governor made the allocation of
$28,000 from the budget funds to
start the project.
Reviews Department Progress
Mr. McCauley continued in a.
general review of progress made
in conservation of natural proces-
ses as well as artificial propaga-
tion of game fish, and also of the
game of the state. and pointed out
that while considerable progress
had been made, those in charge
are finding more to learn and are
continually experimenting on bet-
ter methods of production and
planting of all kinds of wild life
for the benefit of sportsmen who
pay the bills in the end. In 1933
he stated that 130,000 licenses
were issued to fish and hunt, and
in 1940 over 230,000, indicating
the increasing interest as well as
sport. Natural processes must be
augmented by artificial means of
raising and spreading fish and
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People Do Read
Signs, And They
Solved This One
For a while, A. H. Goodwin
had the “aint—nature-wonderful"
editor stumped Friday, but a
sign in The Journal’s front
window soon rectified that.
No less than a haindozen per-
sons stopped in Friday and Sat-
urday, in response 0 a sign
that asked “What Is It?”, to
tell the “A-\l-W” editor those
uniquely beautiful white
“plants” in the window were
Indian pipes.
Mr. Goodwin found them near
the county farm in Isabella Val-
ley, in a shady, leaf—mouldy
spot. He said he had never
seen them in his many years
of roaming the woods, but evi-
dently others have for it wasn’t
long before the “A-N—VV” edi-
tor knew all about Indian pipes,
even was informed that they
grow in coral and fire red col-
ors as Well as the white with
gers failed to note the marine‘
oddity.
black flecks like the Goodwin
samples.
