rt. Union, Belfair
ales Simultan-
all Outlines
’ SOS
tin\
v 3 under way
0f the local com-
“: U.s.0. drive fi-
ghraction this week-
' FE button sale to
nday and Satur-
ts 0f Shelton and
ommunity centers
wcounty.
’dwpelh’ision of Vin
eriff Gene Mar-
°f salesmen and
While simultan-
ort. Union and
utton sales will
id," the direction
gum. Mrs. Frank
am Theler res-
dnve Was originally
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to
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:chedule' ons failtd
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ix mmarized
this: those who may
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K uamted with the
numeral Chairman
H Summarizes the
:FS of the cam-
ycltlzen-soldicr or
“11113. Off duty,
1‘ §0mething of
e life at home.
the sgan We do to get
,ick reet corners, to
st, youngsters, to
,~ ge ltng recreation 2’
. 10 0 America. And
innitshOW the defense
= ed nation stands
Ea Americans are
W the instilling
0 the govern—
II I‘m'eles s . .
,. . ponsors
" my)?“ agencies, na-
. es en equipped to
*Detenceeagencies prov-
}:aq f0 by their work
rces in 1917—18.
‘u. 9 President, Sec-
Seémscecretary Knox,
i curry Administra-
‘~'« ar the great na-
hi ,1 e fllready tack-
‘ hunlted program,
a single co-
The United Ser—
8 for National
1.“de are: The
1‘lstian Associa-
1 Catholic Com-
i-i, Salvation
d . T orIlen’s Chris~
a he Jewish Wel-
The National
oomation. '
Mt Finance
. on cIll‘lnot finance
A I 8: Which supply
leorrvlcss because
, 30 gamzations and
30 make their
kn “t the people
. _°W the services
2 ’thand they will
J31, I'Ough private
'S-O.’s essence.
8 am has ’ been
-.«. e Co-operation
“ragtlmrities. In
I VICE clubs built
the govern-
areas
"afon and the
use. will
.. necessary so-
d educational
ngram will take
. the fact that
of the work-
, (l ‘
: fifeIlse industries
«I “1:3” Help
‘ Us Provide the
" '0- must turn
“0}” citizens
the _pro-
.. In complete
. kyle money will
, Vernment will
easslgnments to
the total raised,
. cItizens com-
ves in every
'99untry a, r e
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0“ by Ameri-
Ward spiritual
this nation
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“ alegram this
8mid
ptainen death of
eamship Com-
“ Captain and
‘I 11al-lve son of
‘ ’1' born on the
we miles down
,1 “ntdber 20, 1872.
s .‘1 the family
.3111 1917. He
, M 0f Seattle;
1a argaret Mc-
Mont.; two
pen 3 Sister, Mrs.
" ,family here
also.
be held in Se-
\
VISITOR
Davidson, of
:8. left here
A“: a week’s
of her mother,
cover the town,
01' the first‘
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VOL. LV—NO. 57
an ALUMINUM
COLLECTION IS
I
ALL PREPARED
I
Three Scout. Troops Assigned Dis-
tricts To Cover; Collection
Bin To Be Set Up 'On
P. 0. Lawn
Details for conducting the Na—
tional Defense Aluminum Drive
in Shelton were completed at
meetings Tuesday and last night
as territories were assigned to the
three Shelton Boy Scout troops,
who will make the actual collec-
»,’ tion July 24 and 25.
Troop 25, under Scoutmaster
Earl Sheldon, has the district
south of the Olympic highway and
west of Seventh street, Tr00p 10,
under Scoutmaster Howard Plumb,
,has the area east and south of
‘ Fifth, and Troop 12, under Scout:
master Walt Spinharney, is to
cover the area north of the
Olympic highway, including Mt,
View and Capitol Hill.
The Scouts will utilize the rest
of this week and next Monday
and Tuesday if necessary to cover
their respective districts notifying
all residents of the coming drive
and asking their cooperation. Then
on Thursday and Friday of next
Week the actual collection will be
made by the Scouts.
Leave On Front Porch
Residents are asked to leave
what old aluminum they wish to
contribute on their front porches
starting with next Wednesday, in.
that way eliminating much of the
time that the Scouts would have
to waste ringing doorbells and
asking for the aluminum.
Any resident who by some
chance is missed and has some
aluminum to give is asked to-call
The Journal, phone 100, and some-
one will be sent to pick up the
donation.
Rural residents, of course, wil
not be contacted directly in the
drive but a bin or crib is «(o be
fashioned on the postoffice lawn
and into it all the aluminum col-
ilected in the drive will be de—
posited temporarily by the Scouts.
Rural residents wishing to help
the aluminum collection are urged
to bring their contributions with
them next time they are'in' town
and toss them into this central
bin.
Suggested Articles
Discarded and worn kitchen
utensils, of course, probably will
be -the chief source of the alumi-
num donations, but anything made
of, or that has in it some alumi-
num can be used. A worn out
outboard motor, for instance,
would have a lot of aluminum, as
would certain automobile parts,
I tools, and many other articles not
connected with the kitchen.
Many business houses, perhaps,
useful or which the store can
easily get along without. Such
things as these are suggested as
being good material to give to the
drive.
«.P.O.L. Unit For
% Mason County Is
I Organized Here
I Organization of a Mason Coun-
ty unit of the Washington State
Public Ownership League was
achieved Tuesday evening in a
meeting at the courthouse, with
Frank Robinson of Lilliwaup e1-
ected as temporary chairman and
Mrs. Helen Savage of Skokomish
Valley as temporary secretary-
treasurer.
Melvin McKenney, Tacoma.
‘ principal speaker for the meeting.
explained that the Public Owner-
ship League’s aim is to unite and
I coordinate members of the grange.
R.E.A., P.U.D.s, cooperatives, la-
bor, P.T.A.s and all persons and
organizations interested in the ad-
vancement of public power.
He said the organization is na-
tional in scope and it pioneered
the public power program in Am-
erica, including the Boulder Dam
and T.V.A., and enlisted the aid
and cooperation of the Bonneville
Authority, the federal government
and membership of various indi-
viduals and organizations thru-
out the State of Washington.
Another purpose of the P.O.L..
he said, is to keep‘ a watch for
adverse legislation and to initiate
and support favorable legislation
concerned with publicly owned
utilities.
Dr. U. S. Ford, state represen—
tative from Forks, is chairman of
the organizing committee appoint-
ed by the State Grange to work
on the P.O.L.
Another meeting of the local
P.O.L. unit will be held August
12 at the courthouse at eight
o’clock.
P.S. Freight Lines
Promote Jack Jensen
Jack Jensen, manager of the
Shelton delivery service for Pu—
get Sound Freight Lines for the
past four years, has been pro-
moted to manager of the larger
Bellingham area and will begin
his new duties this Wednesday.
His place here is to be taken
by Frank Koreis of Olympia. Mr.
Jensen replaces Howard Lovejoy.
will have old articles of aluminum:
lying around when are no longer I night, reviewing briefly the his—
l of the classes.”
I
MOODY. D. 0.
6017 S. E. 86TH
PORTLAND. OREGON
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 17, 1941.
Business Swell! I
50% Increase In
Herd with Twins ,
Fifty per cent increase in the '
first week is some record, in
any business, so Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bishop of Skookum Bay
can truthfully say they are off
to a splendid start in their new
business—dairy farming.
Yesterday twin heifer Calves
were born to one of four Jer—
Sey cows Mr. Bishop purchased
at auction at Little Book last
week, which already gives the
Bishop herd a fifty per cent
increase in size.
Twins are rather rare in the
bovine world, too, so perhaps
the Bishop herd is destined to
do some remarkable things in
the future.
ACTIVIANS GIVEN
PAT ON BACK FOR
SWIM cuss PART
Red Cross Water Safety and First
Aid Field Representative
Compliments Clubmen
Activians received a vocal pat
on the back last night from Har—
old Berenson. Northwest field re-
presentative for the American
Red Cross in first aid, swimming
and life saving activities, for their
part in conducting the annual
summer swimming and life sav-
ing classes in this community.
“I was particularly impressed
with the volunteer spirit I find
here,” he said. “Very often organ-
izations merely lend their names
to such activities and do little ac—
tual work in carrying them out,
but your committee is very ac-
tively concerned with the prepar-
ations for and the actual conduct
Berenson also had a compli-
ment for the way the aquatic
classes have been conducted here,
the complete records kept of it
and particularly for the motion
picture record of the classes
which was started last year and
will be continued from year to
year. John "Replinger,._ general
swimming and life sawing chair-
man for the Red Cross and the
Active Club, started the picture
record.
Outstanding Record
“Your county has an outstand-
ing record for its swimming and
life saving classes,” Berenson
said, “to which I may also add it,
has an outstanding first aid pro-
gram conducted by the Red Crossx
chapter. I would like to urge that
all you Activians take a first aid
course sometime soon.”
Myron Lund, Red Cross chapter
chairman for Mason County, also
spoke briefly to the clubmen last
tory of the swimming and life
saving classes here. Neil Zintheo,
Lund said, was responsible for
getting the classes started and
for getting the Active Club to
sponsor them along with the Red
Cross.
Three Others Sought
“This year we have definitely
expanded our program to include
classes at Belfair and have re-
quests for water safety classes
both at Tahuya and Camp 3
which we hope we can work out
successfully," Lund pointed out.
“We are training more instruc-
tors than ever before so that we
can carry on a more widespread
water safety campaign in Mason
County.”
At the present time six holders
of senior Red Cross life saving
‘certificates are taking a special
instructors’ course in water safe-
ty tactics under Berenson’s direc—
tion at Island Lake each evening.
All six will be available for the
1941 swimming and life saving
classes which open next Monday
at Maple Beach on Lake Isabella.
Members of the special instruc-
tors’ class, Activians and officers
of the Red Cross will join for a
picnic outing Friday evening at
7:45 o‘clock at the Guy Call sum-
mer home on Island Lake to sig-
nalize the end of the instructors'
class.
Eagle Picnic At
Twanoh August 3
August 3.
Twanoh State Park.
There you have the time and
the place of the annual Shelton
Eagles aerie public picnic, usually
the top community event of the
summer around here.
The picnic committee finally
selected the date and place Tues-
day ‘night after several weeks of
consxderation. Cliff Collins is
general picnic chairman.
Hospital Nurses See
Western States Parks
One of the most scenic trips
Western United States affords
has just been completed by two
Shelton hospital nurses, Miss Lu-
cille McDaniel and Miss Margaret
Culway.
_They visited Yellowstone, Bryce,
Zion and Yosemite National parks,
Boulder Dam, and both rims of
the Grand Canyon, among other
places, during a month’s trip
which took them into almost all
transferred to the Seattle Office. Of the Western states.
PINBALL DEVICES
CEASE OPERATING
ON STATE’S ORDER
City Receiving About $3000, Coun-
ty $2250 Annually From Li-
censes On Machines
“Decommissioning” of pin-ball
machines, if it becomes permanent
under the sudden order issued
Tuesday by the state, will clip
off a source of income which
brought the City of Shelton $2,—
770 last year and already so far
this year has returned $1550,
while Mason County stands to
lose $2250 in license fees under
the order. -
“Out of order” signs were plac-
ed on all pin-ball machines in
the city and county yesterday by
operators as plugs were pulled
on the electrically operated ma-
chines following orders from Gov.
Langlie to enforce all anti-slot
machines and gambling laws.
Jurisdictional Fight
Behind the move, however, is
a jurisdictional struggle between
the slot machine and pin-ball op-
erators, according to news ac-
counts emanating from Olympia.
Until this battle is settled local
pin-ball operators have decided to
cease operating their machines.
Legalized pin-ball machines pay
a state tax of ten per cent and
may be placed anywhere, while
slot machines, under a new state
law, pay a 20 per cent tax and
may be operated only in clubs.
The tax is upon the privilege of
engaging in the operation of such
machines, irrespective of whether
such device is legal or illegal.
Confiscation Ordered
Tax commission officials have
orders, it was understood, to con—
fiscate all machines bearing im-
proper classification stickers, or
which have not been classified as
to whether they are of the 10 or
20 per cent variety.
The governor’s office previously
has made known its intention of
enforcing the law against illegal
machines.
It was understood, orders went
out to state liquor board inspec-
tors to enforc regulations re-
garding unlawf machines in beer
parlors and taverns, and for tax
commission officials to enforce
tions in businesses other .than»
beer parlors and taverns.
Liquor board regulations require
cancellation of beer parlor or tav--
ern licenses to operate, if illegal
machines or machines with im-
proper classifications are found
in them.
“‘!—
Peewees To Plan Trip
Seattle Baseball Game
Players who have been per-
forming in the playfield peewee
baseball league are asked to ga-
ther at Loop Field Friday morn-
ing at ten o’clock by Director Ho-
mer Taylor so plans can be made
for a trip to a ball game in Se-
attle early next week.
Later a camping trip into the
Olympics will be guided by Direct-
or Taylor, this being mostly for
older boys, while already two trips
have been made to Twanoh State
Park for swimming and picnic out-
ings during this hot spell.
the laws, and commission regiilau ,
12th Annual Water Safety
Classes Commence Monday
Bus And Class Schedules Given;
Registration Heavy; New
System Of Instruction
To Govern
Free instruction in swimming
and life saving will be given
youngsters and adults, too ——
in Shelton and vicinity for the
12th consecutive summer start—
ing next Monday when water
safety classes open at Maple
Beach on Lake Isabella for the
subsequent two weeks.
Heavy returns of enrollment
cards—obtainable at the men’s de-
partment in the L. M. and at The
Journal office—indicate another
record registration for the 1941
classes. Each year the aquatic
classes have grown in size, and
this year seems to be no excep-
tion, reports Chairman John
Replinger.
The classes are sponsored joint-
ly by the Mason County Red Cross
chapter and the Active Club of
Shelton.
In the adjoining column will be
found a schedule of bus departures
and class periods which regis-
trants should look over carefully
to determine what bus to catch
and what class to attend.
Bus Location Changed
The bus will leave from Third
street between Cota and Grove
(in the block between the Mason
County Creamery and the old
wooden building on the corner of
Third .and Cats.) this year, a
slight change from last year
made for the greater safety of
the children. Mrs. Alma Baker
of Shelton Valley will again be
the bus driver.
Instruction at the swim classes
this year will be conducted on a
somewhat different plan than
heretofore, with different divis-
ions being under different super-
visors. For instance, beginners
will be under one supervisor and
his aides, swimmers under an~
other, etc.
Many
A large
Instructors Assist
group of instructors
will take part in the instruction
this year, Chairman Replinger dis-
closed, with all senior life savers
now taking the special instructors’
course at Island Lake to assist
mflthé’iinstruction.
. “Instruction received -in these
fiassemmay result in the saving
of many lives in the future,”
Chairman Replinger pointed out,
while urging“ every boy and girl
in this area who is, not working
to take advantage »of the free
swimming and life saving instruc-
tion.
"The great majority of drown-
} ings occur within 30 feet of safe-
ty,” Chairman Replinger said, cit-
ing Red Cross statistics, “so it
is easy to see how valuable a
little swimming instruction can
be."
Moose Will Resume
Meetings Friday Eve
After two weeks of idleness,
the Shelton Moose Lodge resumes
its weekly meeting schedule this
Friday evening, members gather-
ing in the Moose Hall at First
and Railroad at eight o’clock,
Governor George Andrews re-
minded the lodgemen today.
srmnuu‘uc
nouns
EFFECTIVE JULY 15, 1941
In the City of Shelton
0 Under a New System devised by the ,
City Water Department, sprinkling will be
permitted at any
time between the hours
of 6 A. M. to 8 RM. on alternate days as
per the following schedules:
Houses on the
North & West
Sides of City Streets
9
July 15 Aug. 2
July 17 Aug. 4
July 19 Aug. 6
July 21 Aug. 8
July 23 Aug. 10
July 25 Aug. 12
July 29 Aug. 14
July 31 Aug. 16
J Aug. 18
Aug. 20
Aug. 22
Aug. 24
Aug. 26
Aug. 28
.Houses the
South & East
Sides of City Streets
0
July 16, Aug. 1
July 18 Aug. 3
July 20 Aug. 5
July 22 Aug. 7
July 24 Aug. 9
July 26 Aug. 11
July 28 Aug. 13
July 30 Aug. 15
Aug. 17
Aug. 19
Aug. 21
Aug. 23
Aug. 25
Aug. 27
Aug. 29
Aug. 31
I
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
BUS, CLASS SCHEDULE
FOR S‘VIMMING SCHOOL
Bus Class
Leaves Starts
Class am. am.
Boy swimmers 9:00 9:30
Girl swimmers 9:30 10:00
Boy beginners ....10:00 10:30
(10 and over)
Girl beginners ....10:30 11:00
(10 and over)
Advanced swim-
mers' ................ ..11:00 11:30
Lunch—noon to l p. m.
pm. pm.
Boy beginners 1:00 1:30
(under 10)
Girl beginners 1:30 2:00
(under 10)
Women ................ .. 2:00 2:30
Jr. & Life Sav- 2:30 3:00
ing (all ages)
Special arrangements will
be made for senior life
savers who cannot attend
‘afternoon classes.
COUNTY OFFICERS
LAO!) CONVENTION
AT GRAYS HARBOR
Deyette, Mason Find Much Of Val-
ue At Annual Auditors' And
Treasurers’ Sessions
County Auditor Harry Deyette
and Deputy County Treasurer No-
lan Mason were back at their
desks in the courthouse today af-
ter attending the annual conven-
tion of the State Association of
County Auditors and County
Treasurers held Monday and Tues-
day at Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
Deyette, who has attended nu-
merous conventions during his
career as a public officer, said
he received more valuable infor-
mation out of this year’s program
than any he has yet attended.
Election Laws Revised
Recommendations for a uniform
set of election laws was one of the
main discussions, the idea being
remodification with special em-
phasis to prevent repetition of
difficulties such as arose over the
disputed gubernatorial election
last fall.
The treasurers session discuss-
ed “cancelling county land con-
tracts” and “mailing out state-
ments” among other subjects.
The joint session the last day
saw adoption of two resolutions,
one involving an increase in pay
for county officials and the other
coordinating legislative policy. The
first cited the rising cost of living
together with the high degree of
services performed by county of-
ficials to justify higher salaries,
while the latter provides for con-
solidation of the legislative com-
mittee of the auditor’s and treas-
urers’ associations with like com-
mittees from other county offi-
cials’ organizations, the idea be-
ing to form a compact working
unit to represent all county of-
ficers.
School Reorganization Told
Procedure by which school dis-
tricts will be reorganized as pro-
vided by the law passed by the
last legislature was outlined by
Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker, state
school superintendent. She pre-
dicted a better school economy
will result. ,
Most of the topics were dis-
cussed under the “round table”
method, giving all attending of-
ficials a chance to give their ex-
periences, Deyette pointed out.
Mrs. Butts Passes
At Home Yesterday
Funeral services are to be held
at two o’clock Saturday from Wit-
siers Chapel for Mrs. Susan Butts.
61, who died at her home at 1324
Summit Drive, Wednesday.
Rev. J. O. Bovee, Baptist pas-
tor, will conduct the last rites.
Interment will be in Shelton Mem-
orial Park.
Surviving are her husband,
Charles E. ‘Butts, McCleary Tim-
ber company employe; three sons,
Roy of Bremerton, and Earl and
Jess, both of Snoqualmie; two
daughters, Mrs. Lillian Theien of
Snoqualmie. and Mrs. Pauline
Hensel of Sedro Woolley; and five
grandchildren.
Mrs. Butts moved to Shelton
from Sedro Woolley 16 years ago.
She was born April 24, 1880, in
Arkansas.
FIRE FIGHTER TREATED
Martin Auseth, member of the
state forest fire staff here, was
admitted to Shelton hospital on
Tuesday afternoon when a com-
bination of the extreme heat and
hard work fighting the Lilliwaup
fire caused his collapse and ne-
cessitated hospital treatment.
STARTS VACATION
Miss Mary Carney, Shelton hos-
pital nurse, yesterday began a
month’s vacation which she ex-
pects to spend mostly with her
parents at Portland and at their
summer home at Pacific Beach,
Wash.
HOSPITAL PPATIENT
HOSPITAL
EXPANDINC
CAPACITY
$10,000 To $12,000 To Be Spent-
For Project Now Started;
R. H. Allan Supervis-
ing Work
Further expansion of facilities
at Shelton General Hospital for
treating patients, costing between
$10,000 and $12,000 when com-
pleted, are now being made un-
der the direction of Contractor
R. H. Allan.
Authorization for the work was
voted by the hospital association
trustees at their meeting Monday
evening, at which they were guests
of President Arthur B. Govey for
a big chicken dinner served in
the hospital dining room.
The expansion and improvement
project will add eight beds for
the care of the sick, bringing the
hospital’s total capacity to 55
adult beds.
Wing To Be Completed
These additional beds will be
made available through comple-
tion of the ground floor of the
last wing added to the hospital.
A kitchen, shower and lavatory
are included with the eight addi-
tional beds in this part of the
project.
The present driveway used by
the ambulance, betWeen the main
building and the wing, is to be
closed in with glass and turned
into a laboratory, and instead of
having an open driveway from
Birch to Laurel, the ambulance
will approach only from Laurel
street and discharge its patients
in covered quarters in which a
wheelchair and a wheel stretcher
will be kept ready at all times.
A dumb waiter is to be con-
structed off the exterior of the
present kitchen quarters so that
a central tray service will be
available to the new patients’
quarters in the ground floor of
the wing.
Kitchen To Be Remodeled
The present kitchen facilities
will be remodeled and a new
drug room created on the first
floor adequate for handling and
dispensing the hospital’s drug sup-
plies.
The present drug room will be
turned into desk quarters for the
first floor nurse.
A complete new wiring system
will be installed in the men’s ward,
designed partly to clear up the
radio reception, now .badly ham-
pered by static.
A shower room, lavatories and
complete men’s facilities will be
installed off the men‘s ward on
the first floor.
The additional facilities for
treatment of patients will neces-
sitate an increase of probably two
to the hospital nursing staff, Miss
Zella Deeny, hospital superintend-
ent, said yesterday.
HOSPITAL’S ACCRUED
GAIN so FAR $201.61
The condensed operating state-
ment for June, issued yesterday.
by Treasurer Reg Sykes of the
Shelton General Hospital Ass’n,
showed an operating gain 'of
$113.25 for the month and a total
gain for 1941 operations for the
first half of the year at $201.61.
The statement follows:
RECEIPTS
Less charitycases and
discount ....................... ..$7,000..71
DISBURSEMENTS
Medical staff ,and out-
side specialists ....... 1,317.50
Administration, nursing, r
X-ray, Laboratory,
Kitchen help, Order-
lies and Floor Maids
Drugs, dressings, other
hospital supplies and
laundry .......................... .. 1,273.85
.. 2,966.94
Fuel, lights and wa-
ter .................................. .. 149.95
Maintenance 50.00
Kitchen supplies .............
Depreciation and insur-
ance
781.07
348.15
$6,887.46
Operating Gain, June 113.25}
Operating Gain, Ac-
crued to 6/30/41 ........ .. 201.61
Donations received in
June ................................ .. ‘ 47.00
COMMUNITY
'CALENDAR
TONIGHT—City league softball,
6 p. m., Loop Field, two. games,
opening second half schedule.
TONIGHT —— City council semi-
monthly meeting, 8 p. m., city
hall.
FRIDAY~U. S. 0. button sale
starts
FRIDAY Moose Lodge meet-
ing, 8 p. m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY —— U. S. 0. button
sale closes.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse.
MONDAY— 12th annual Shelton
swimming and life saving class-
es start, 9 a. m., Maple Beach,
Lake Isabella.
MONDAY —— County commission-
ers Weekly meeting, 10 a. m.,
courthouse.
MONDAY—«City league softball,
6 p. m., Loop Field, two games.
Aruthur Morris of Aberdeen. MONDAY—Eagles aerie weekly
Simpson Logging company, em-
ployev
hospital Wednesday for medical
treatment.
meeting 8 p. m., Moose Hall.
was admitted to Shelton TUESDAY—Kiwanis club lunch-
eon meeting, noon, Shelton Hoy
tel.
LIIGHTNING
, STARTS NANY
I WOODS FIRES
| “Break” In Heat “'ave Too Short
‘ To Be ()f Benefit; More Fires
Than Men To Fight, Re-
ports Office
Threatened relief from the cur-
"rent record—breaking heat spell
failed to materialize this morning
when a thunder, lightning and
rain shower, while extremely
Iheavy, was so short as to be of
‘no benefit whatever, in fact only
made the situation more uncom-
vfortable by raising the humidity
and starting innumerable small
fires in the woods in Mason
County.
The district forest fire office
here has been swamped with re-
ports of small fires started by
the lightning last night and this
morning.
“We have more fires than men
to put to work on them,” it was
reported from the fire office.
Lilliwaup Situation “Grave”
The major fire is in the hills
above Lilliwaup, where between
200 and 300 acres have been burn-
ed over and the situation was re—
ported this afternoon as “extreme-
ly grave.” A crew of 24 CCC boys
and 25 local men have been work-
ing on the Lilliwaup blaze trying
to bring it under control but as
yet no report that that control
has been achieved has been re-
ceived here.
This fire is believed to have been
started by a careless smoker.
A large fire started by lightning
is burning in the Deckerville area
this afternoon while fires of ma-
jor proportions are reported in
Simpson Logging company hold-
ings both near camp 3 and Camp
5. Simpson crews are working on
both to relieve the state fire fight-
ers for other duties.
Lightning Destructive
Some of the smaller lightning
fires died out themselves, but
many have not and the situation
is so acute this afternoon that
the fire office is employing every
man and boy it can get to go out
on fighting detail.
In the meantime, today brought
the first below 100 degree tem-
perature maximum of the week
after three consecutive days which
topped that mark.‘ After Mon-
day’s 101 and Tuesday’s 104 de-
gree peak, yesterday saw a max-
imum reading of 1021/2 degrees on
the Rayonier weather instruments,
degrees. However, the humidity
created by the heavy but brief
rain shower this morning made the
93 degree reading feel as un-
comfortable as the higher read-
ings of the three previous days.
Cooling Items Sell Out
The unprecedented hot weather
has caused a “run” on such cool-
ing items as electric fans and
soft drinks around Shelton, many
firms running out of their sup-
plies and being unable to immed-
iately replace some articles. The
fan situation especially was acute.
Beaches were thronged with
heat-relief-seeking individuals, the
,city streets in Shelton in the
evenings being almost completely
deserted.
Wax candles in homes melted
and lost their shapes, beds were
taken out on back lawns or
porches, and pets suffered, some
even died from the extreme heat.
Just when relief can be expect-
ed is problematical now that this
morning's “break” was so brief
and ineffctive.
3 REGIONS 0F EXTRA
FIRE HAZARD DECLARED
’l‘hree forest areas in or close-
ly adjacent to Mason County have
been proclaimed as regions of ex-
tra fire hazard by the Departi-
ment of Conservation and De-
velopment and close to entry ex-
cept as provided by law with ref-
erence to permanent residents and
industrial operations.
Fines of from $10 to $100 or 90
days in jail or both are punish-
ment for violation of the closure
order.
In Mason County proper the
Skokomish area lying south of the
Hoodsport-Lake Cushman road,
west of the Skokomish Indian
Reservation, north of the Sunny-
side Road, and east of the nor h
fork of the Skokomish River is
so designated as a region of extra
fire hazard.
Close by, the Fulton Creek
DuckabuSh area in Jefferson coun-
ty has been so designated as also
has been the Shafer area in
Grays Harbor county, specifically
those portions of the Satsop and
Wynooche river drainages lying
within the Olympic National Park.
I
*Wild Plum chip
Excellent This
Year at Beach’s.
One of their few really “bump-
er” crops will be harvested this
year from the Mississippi Valley
wild plum trees in Dr. W. M.
Beach’s yard at Fourth and Cats.
,streets.
The big tree, especially, is
weighted. down with the Email
but luscious fruit this year. Plant-
ed in 1902, the tree has home
only two or three other good
crops in its forty years, due to
its habit of being the first flower-
ing tree in the spring in these
parts and so suffers heavily from
frosts.
Evidently this year, however,
the fruit was far enough develop~
ed that it survived the early
frosts, hence produced what Dr.
Beach believes to be the best crop
so far.
A smaller tree planted only a
few years ago also has a fine
crop this year, the two together
possibly producing a couple of
wash tubs full, Dr, Beach pre-
dicts. .
This particular species of wild
plum is rarely found in this
country, Dr. Beach says, being
native to the Mississippi Valley.
but today the peak was only 93 ,
.a-
. :~;_L
