‘1 pursuit ship in
drive to National
Shelton yesterday
rt in the airplane
am.
D o a n e
, It takes
a1liminum to man—
‘ It ship, so Shel-
donate a whole
“Wncerned announc-
tISfaction with the
0
\v
as: the affair cven
county jail, when
eralied in the local
officers that he
,to the local alum-
dara directed col-
:kmne in Kamilche
med up an outboard
‘ me .70 pounds of
ghwith another out—
rir:chthad been left
hang he early days
r0lllinently visible:
1 0n the pile was
rmy training plane
between Mason
klflead of Oakland
.“ “ling two soldier
'Sgne who salvaged
,t eed and rent land-
ft plane as a sou-
mto the collec-
to the usual pots,
“lat .
‘ ors, there were
. i pieces of worn
eliners, ice cream
all have you.
“if” their valianti'
tlng a major por-,
tmmum gathered,
master Earl Shel-
, ed an American
‘1 Shelton lady.
. _‘ x1missed the thanks
_rie‘r1m Drive commit-
n. tw Inc, who gener-
MO trucks to trans-
metal to Olym-
flntered t h ei r
“1 the contest
lland's-20th Cen-
h may bring them
bonds offered by
grocery company.
i0n collecting the
A .son a per capita
8;» y 259 bond and to
doing the same
bond
C an ies
(special) — Con-
" t0 acquire elect—
,bliWere. ‘filed this
we Utility District
, thl‘ee additional
’ Cll-lllam, and Jef-
the total number
m, 9 State in which
act-wings are un-
Ifl:;m\lvest districts
‘ “amissuance of an
_‘ 'Fu.000 in electric
lb nds. raised by
9 used in part to
10 Properties of
- tnd Power and
he boundaries of
and“ make neces-
v-s repairs, accord-
Of the commis—
‘bef n0 disturbance
01‘ the system-
the properties
_ d Power and
emg carried for-
eVille Power Ad-
53, IElle districts", it
8W resident Oliver
ashington Public
an hers Association.
‘those instituted
(“3 served by the
a: and Light Co.
.h 1f negotiations
tie Stated.
. $13 for system-
W the properties
hlngton Water
9 Pacific Pow-
e have been be-
Ville Power Ad-
8 districts, but
>01 far", Presi—
‘ “ts in which con-
fidéngs are under-
0 . Lewis, Thurs-
: helan, Douglas,
a11d Lincoln.
‘ QMIES
h“"3113 Lozier of
lMES and Ivan
inum to build three
.fly, 2. Diving plain front, header,
. Drivers Permit
May Come High
To Late Buyers
Those daring souls who still
, persist in the belief that “what
was good enough for last year
is good enough for me,” may
find the privilege of driving
along the state’s highways with-
out the state’s permission is a
costly process.
We’re speaking of the ap-
proximately 3500 Mason County
motorists who as yet have fail-
ed to walk into the State High-
way Patrol office in the Govcy
building and plunk down the
two bucks, which the State of
Washington says they must pay
for their own good.
Of course, if these people
would‘rather pay $10 for the
same little license, which the
rest of us got for two, (on the
theory that what costs more
should be better) that’s their
privilege, but the boys in the
patrhl office will forgive and
forget if you will just come in
this weekend and renew your
driver’s license.
After that? —— well just re-
member we told you so!
AQUACADE Nlll
ClllVlAX. PROGRAM
0F SWIM CLASSES
Interesting Program Of Events Is
Scheduled For Audience
On Sunday \‘
With the regular Aquacade, rc-
plete with thrills and beauty, the
12th annual Shelton Swimming
and Life Saving classes will come
to an exciting climax Sunday af-
ternoon at o’clock at Maple
Beach on Lake Isabella. '
Following the program of races
and stunts, certificates showing
the completion of required courses
in swimming and life saving will
be presented to the students by
Chuck Rowe, president of ‘the
Active Club. ,
The Aquacade. which is open
to all parents and friends and in..
terested persons, will start at two
o'clock with the. bugle call. to air-i
semble. Busses will take students
needing transportation to the
beach, leaving at 1:30 p. m. from
the regular place.
A tentative program of events
has been arranged as follows:
Races: 1 Relay, boys and girls,
by swimmers classes; 2. Paddle
board, beginner boys and girls;
3. “Going Through Their Paces"
by pollywogs and advanced polly-
wogs; 4. Funny Paper race, ad-
vanced swimmers.
Equipment rescue in life sav-
ing A. by extension, Chubb Nutt
on ringbuoy, pole foot, towel; B.
Paddle board rescue; C. Girl swim
in tub and saving; D. Human
chain by life saving class.
Demonstrations: 1. Swimming,
strokes—crawl, side stroke, ele-
mentary back, inverted breast,
breast stroke, racing back, butter—
swan, jackknife,
one-and-a-half,
comical dives.
HOSPITALIZED
nooov.
c017 s.
D. O.
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i
WPA ORR:th
ON JOB FOR P.U.D.
LIN E_ EXTENSION
Commissioners Aided by Con-
gressmen Have Permission
Given Local P.U.D.
tained from Washington, D. C..
Public Utility District No. 3 of
Mason County has been allowed
to put 30 WPA workers on their
projects throughout the county, E.
W. Johnson, manager of the dis-
trict announced. yesterday.
Manager Johnson said that 16
men had started to work yester-
day morning and that he expected
to have his full quota of men on
the job very soon. v
The permit gave the P.U.D. pri-
ority over all other county pro-
jects, because of its importance
to the general welfare of the peo-
ple in the county.
WPA allotments for this county,
the P.U.D. had 40 men working
on various line extensions thru-
out the county.
Because entire curtailment of
WPA workers would have ser-
iously hampered activities of the
P.U.D. No. commissioners of
the district, and the county com-
missioners protested to Washing-
ton. Through the help of Senator
Homer T. Bone and Representa‘
tive Martin Smith the special per-
mission to put'30 WPA workers
back to work in this county was
granted. ‘
Manager Johnson said that the
men are now working on the P.
'3
.1,
Leonard Hawk of Potlatch
Route was admitted to Shelton
General Hospital on Wednesday
for treatment.
Following is a letter to the
Journal staff from Bill Dickie,
the Journal’s “ace news analyst”
as the radio boys would have it.
who is at the present time driv-
ing cheerfully through the beau-
tiful scenery of the Canadian
Rockies. -
We don’t know how Bill would
feel about having this letter print-
ed, but we felt that it was SO
well written and descriptiVe of the
trip that we couldn’t resist pass-
ing it on to Bill‘s readers:
Sunday Night
On the shores of Lake Okan-
ogan somewhere between Kelow-
na and Vernon.
Dear Journal Gan :
Here I am lying on my sleep-
writing desk, waiting for dark-
ness and listening to the night
calls of woods birds on the one
side and water birds on the other-
So f_ar have had wonderful wea-
ther, any warmer and would be
uncomfortable, perfect for swim-
ming and driving.
We spent Saturday night 011
Lake Chelan within six feet 01:
the shoreline at the Chelan City
Park. Swell, sandy beach, tables.
community kitchen—all the Com'
forts of home for camping. Swam
before dinner and before break-
fast, before dinner again tonight-
People swam almost all night
long here at Chelan—one Party
going in somewhere around tWO
o’clock. Woke us up periodically
all night.
All the towns up here have
swell community bathing beaches.
Chelan is swell, Penticton an?
Kelowna both have beauties. EVI-
dently they hold big water car-
uhderwent tone
gelton General
nivals frequently in the summers
for they have regular measured
pools with lanes marked off and
8’
ing bag using my pillow for I
U.D. project in the Arcadia dis-
trict, and would move on to the
Matlock project as soon as the
present job is completed.
JOURNAL NEWS EDITOR ' ~
DESCRIBES VACATION TRIP
diving towers and have moved in
sand to make perfect beaches.
.Right now it’s 9:30 and still
light enough to write this with-
out artificial help, because they
have daylight saving time thru-
out Canada. Sure wish Uncle Sam
would follow suit—it Certainly
makes the evenings swell.
We’ve been passing by nothing
but fruit orchards since we hit
cashmere Saturday afternoon.
First apples—with an abundant
CrOP- Many trees have been
Dropped up.
Right now peaches are the pre-
dominant crop—mostly picked by
now. Pears and apricots and
Plums to lesser extents in that
order.
AS We drove along we enjoyed
the. many pleasant odors of the
frmt trees, cut hay, greasewood
and sagebrush, etc. "And now
have reached a part of the coun-
try which is beginning to become
beautiful again—the hills finally
Showmg a covering of pines with-
out underbrush which is nice.
We didn’t care for the country
in Washington as the hills are so
barbell and brown and desolate
l°°kmg~except where the river
bottoms produce a deep green,
Zlgsrfw strip so greatly in con—
' tlcumrly pretty in this way.
Hope I can get to sleep tonight
amidst all these wild animal
nmses. Loons—-—I think they are
_are making odd sounds all
around. Never heard them before
that I know of.
Well. I’m using muscles I guess
I dont exercise with a typewrit-
gr so gliess I better sign off be-
ore my arm goes lame on me.
Sorry We didn’t get out to Lil-
(Cfmtinuod on Page Two)
Before the recent cutting off of;
Through special permission ob-
1
'against the American way
The Okanogan River was par?
Six More Will
Hit Trail For.
Military Life
Six more of Mason County’s
young men will be inducted into
the army August 19 according‘
to local Selective Service head-
quarters.
The tentative list of youths
who will answor the call unless
some last minute deferment
comes up are:
Elmer Robert Arndt, Shelton,
Carl Roy Mattus, Route 2, Shel—
ton, Herman J. Severin, Shel-
ton, Donald Aflen Wolf, Sew—
ard, Alaska, James Barton Edg-
hert, Shelton, and -Fred Austin
Clark, Route 1, Shelton.
Dictatorships ,
And Democracy
Topics Of Talks
O. G. Handley, a retired East-
emer who has made a pleasant
home at Butler's Cove and be-
come an Olympian Kiwanian,
gave the Shelton Club a very fine
address Tuesday, repeating a pa-
triotic message he recently gave
over the radio. He illustrated the
Communist, Nazi and Fascist the-
ories as forms of dictatorships, as
of life
termed as “capitalism,” but which
really gives individual liberty}
freedom and exercise of true dem-
ocracy.
Communism is international and
believes in common ownership of
all production, while NaziSm and
Fascism admits private ownership
but is national in demanding all
for the state; either represent-
ing in their application forms of
individual slavery to powers
which have gained control by fear
and force. Communism is perhaps
the best way for the Russians
who never had enjoyed any real
liberty and knew nothing better
than oppression; while those who
have surrendered their private
rights to the dictatorship of Na-
zism and Fascism in the gradual
centralization of power in one
leader, knew better but failed to
guard their rights.
Points Out Blessings
The speaker pointed out the
blessings preserved by the found-
ers of the Constitution and now
enjoyed by all people as the Am-
erican way of life which is being
taken as a matter of course, free-
dom 0f life and liberty, speech
and press, ownership of . property
and gains from work and hope
for future. Having so long en-
joyed this individual liberty and
democracy of action: the Ameri-
can people are “softening” up and
failing to see the trends toward
centralization of power and loss of
many individual rights in our
own country, and unless they
wake up and think out the dom-
estic problems now clouded by
war threats and further loss of
privileges guaranteed by the con-
stitution~and Bill of Rights end—
ing in enslavement. He also ap-
plied the same danger to organ-
ized labor which might also lose
much of the rights gained in re-
cent years by going to extremes.
Delegates Selected
Kiwanis business included the
selection of M. C. Zintheo, Homer
Taylor and Walter Eckert as dele~
gates, and H. E. Loop, G. C. Ann
gle and Walter Elliott alernates
to the district convention at Sa-
lem. Mayor Cain of Tacoma is
next week's speaker, and on Aug-
ust 12th a well known radio com-
mentator will be here.
For an inexpensive but very ef-
fective Journal Want-AdaPhone
100.
Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, July 31, 1941.
FOOD Is VERY IMPORTANT “V”
g “ FOOD REéERVEfi MAY BECOME slug:— 5
VABJABLE A WEAPON As Mum-noble...
FOOD MAY WIN THE WAR.“
geezer/Nay OFAGRICuflZIgs WICKAZD
OF F'ICIAL COUNTY
d
‘ Longtime Resident 0f Belfair Dies
' chine.
PAPER
[HIGHWAY YARD
is S C ENE 0F
FAIR]. M l SHAP'
When Accidentally Run
(War By Road
Grader
Accidentally crushed under the
wheels of a road grader a fellow.
worker was driving, Charles J.
Irving, 65, of Belfair, was in-
stantly killed yesterday morning
at the state highway yards at
Belfair.
The fatal accident occurred at
8:15 Wednesday morning, when
Irving and a fellow highway work-
er, Glenn Harris, also of Belfair.
prepared to take. a couple of road
graders out to work.on the high—
way.
According to Harris, he was
backing one of the graders up,
preparatory to hitching it up to
another grader, which he was go-
ing to tow out of the yard. Evi-
dently Irving was walking along
the rear of the backing grader in i
order to hitch it to the other ma-
In some way he tripped
and fell beneath the moving grad-
er.
Killed Saturday
Harris said that Irving called
out as he fell, but he was unable
Defense Council Program
Endorsed By Local Leaders
Because of its importance to the community, the local com-
missioner of the National
Defense Council has asked the
heads of city and county government, as well as of local
city groups to endorse the program now being organized
by the Council. Following are the statements made by these
civic leaders:
Mayor William Stevenson:
“We, the citizens of Shelton, are not in a. position to judge
the vital necessity of community organization for National
Defense.
However, inasmuch as the heads of the State and
Federal government recognize the gravity of the situation,
we, as a unit, must do our part in the program. Think twice
before you accept an important part in this effort—and once
you have taken on that responsibility, follow through to the
best of your ability. This is no time for hasty decisions or
half-hearted promises, but a time to lay a firm foundation
for an organization that will be able to cope with any situation
that might result from a world filled with chaos.”
Chief of Police Andy Hansen:
“I sincerely feel that the program of the National Defense
Council fulfills a very real need of our national defense pic-
ture. I whole-heartedly endorse the program and urge all who ‘
can to volunteer for service in the organization.”
Fire Chief Dean Carmen:
“As Fire Chief of Shelton I am well aware of the great
services which the National Defense program can render
our city in the case of a great emergency. The fire depart-
ment is glad of having the privilege of training an auxiliary
fire unit for this district.”
Sheriff Gene Martin:
“I am in full sympathy with the work and purpose of the
National Defense Council and pledge my support to their
program. It is an organization of which every citizen should
feel proud, and which all those who are able should join.”
R. E. Trenckmann, Chr. County Com.:
“The gravity of world conditions is so apparent, and the
effects of unpreparedness so distressing, that the call issued
by the Defense Council simply must not go unheeded by the
citizens of Mason County.”
Homer Taylor, Pres. K1wan1s Club:
“The time has now come in our national life, when the civilian
population may take a part in the preparedness} program
which is America’s goal. The program of the Civilian Defense
, Council is one which merits the cooperation and support of
all of us.”
Ed Faubert, Pres. Chamber of Commercei
“In the program of the National Defense Council, the aver—
to stop the machine before the
right double tires of the heavy
grader passed over the upper part
PLAN EXHIBIT
AT FOUR-H FAIR
Annual Event To Be Held August
22 And. 23 At Local
Gymnasium
Exhibiting in conjunction with
the annual Mason County 4-H
Fair which will be held at the
Lincoln Gym, August 22 and 23,
the Shelton Garden Club is work-
ing hard to have their largest and
best; floral exhibit ready.
i’iihe survey of ‘the' lovely gar—
dens. throughout Shelton and Ma-
son County, as well as the interest
shown by members of the organ-
ization, gives promise that it will
be a worthwhile exhibit.
At the last meeting of the Gar-
den Club, held at the home of1
Mrs. Cropper at Lake Spencer,
Mrs. Cropper urged members to
have at least one exhibit in one
department or another. She urged
all of the members of the club
to enter in order to make a really
impressive display of local floral
beauties.
Plans Discussed i
In a meeting held this after-
noon at the office of Clint Ok—
erstrom, c o u n t y agricultural
agent, department chairman of
the various organizations, which
will take part in the 4-H Fair,
discussed floor plans and ar-
rangements of exhibits.
Those present included Mrs.
Steve Beers, Mrs. Frank Skerbini,
Mrs. Frank Bishop, Mrs. Helen
Mitchell, Mrs. 0. K. Linscott, Mrs.
Filed Ferris, Mrs. J. C. Ford and
Mrs. Charles Hunter.
In connection with further plan-
ning for the fair, Mr. Okerstrom
announced that a meeting of the
chairmen of the floral commit-
tees of the various organizations
will 'be held next Monday at two
o’clock in his office.
Mr. Okerstrom also said that
an exhibit will be sent to the
Fair from the Bonneville adminis-
tration.
CORN FROM IOWA
There is being unloaded in the
Northern Pacific yards this Week
a carload of bulk corn shipped
direct from Iowa and destined for
the Peninsular Feed Company at
Port Orchard. These shipments
are coming in regularly and being
taken over to the plant by truck.
i.
-will fight it out for the title.
Of the fallen man’s body, killing
him instantly. The body was ta-
ken to the Lewis Funeral Chapel
in Port Orchard. where the funer-
al will be held Saturday morning.
Harris and Irving had been
friends for many years, both liv-
ing in Belfair and both having
worked for the state highway de-
partment for many years, Irving]
for eighteen.
Charles Irving was a lifelong
resident of Mason County, having
been born at Bald Point, Opposite
Union City January 19, 1876, and
his parents settling on a home-
stead in the Union River Valley,
then Clifton, now Belfair, soon
after. and the family still lives on
the old homestead.
He was married to Gladys Pet-
tygrove, coming from Illinois in
1932, and is survived by his wid-
ow: and 12va children, 'Charles and
Alice, who have the sympathy of
many friends in the district.
Shelton unis“
age citizen of our nation has at last found a part to take in
the forward drive for national defense.
I sincerely support
the purposes and programs of the local national defense or-
ganization."
Charles Rowe, Pres. Active Club:
“We of the Shelton Active Club feel that there is a. definite
need for an organized program of Home Defense in this
city. Therefore we have unanimously endorsed the plans of
the Civilian Defense Council and we believe every patriotic
citizen should take some part in its development.”
Myron Lund, Chairman Red Cross:
“The Red Cross, whose charter obligation is to bringirelief
to victims of war and disaster, clearly recognize the need for
thorough training and preparation to meet these needs when
they arise.
Those who are thoroughly trained in the func-
tions they are to perform when disaster strikes are of much
greater service than a host of untrained volunteers gathered
at a moment’s notice.”
Grant C. Angle, Editor of The Journal:
“Most of the civic and fraternal organizations and groups
of every community are patriotic in their aspirations, but
there is great need just now for a united patriotic group .of
all citizens, active where possible, with some training to meet
any calls for defense, Whether ati-hOme ord'rom' abroad. What-
ever the outcome of the world wars, America must wake
up to a National Defense, and organize in every town and
county to combat every disturbing element."
Championship Is VOLUNTEERS IN NATIONAL
DEFENSE AUXILIARY FIRE
UNIT FACE IMPORTANT JOB
Goal of Golfers
With four of Shelton’s top flight
golfers still in the running, the
Shelton Golf Club’s championship
play continues this weekend. Phil
Murphy. present title holder, Phil
Bayley, Roger Snelgrove and Al-
fie Kneeland are the quartet who
Details of first found play
were not available, but \one tight-
lv fought match was reported as
Alfie Kneeland bested Heinie Hil-
derman, to 1.
George Ashbaugh urges all par-
ticipating in the tournament play
to get their matches over with so
play can begin on the Baker Tro-
phy, next goal on the golfers' pro-
gram. This will be match play
With handicap.
New Pharmascis?
At Fir Drug Store
Addition of a new pharmacist to
the staff of the Fir Drug Store,
was announced today by R. E.
Grenberg. Aproprietor, with the ar—
rival of E. R. Moore.
Mr. Moore is a. graduate of
North Pacific College of Phar-
macy in Portland and has worked
in Portland and San Francisco. He
is registered in Oregon and Wash-
ington.
Moore has just completed a
course of special training in the
fitting of trusses.
RECEIVING TREATMENT
Martin Remmen of Route was
admitted to Shelton Hospital on
Wednesday for treatment.
DIMINUTIVE BLITZ CARS
SCOUT FOR AUGUST WAR
Elma—(AP)—-—A swarm of dim-
inutive blitz buggies, crawling
over this peaceful farmland coun—
try like potato bugs in a patch,
have descended on Grays Harbor
County during the past week. The
little puddle-jumpers from Fort
Lewis are doing reconnaisance
work for the coming Northwest
,war maneuvers starting in Aug-
“ust.
Although staff officers at
Fort Lewis will not be officially
notified of the coming man-
euvers before the “enemy” has
effected a landing at Grays and
Willapa Harbor, they are fairly
certain that 1,000 soldiers will
be marching toward the ocean
by August 15.
Reports from the Rents Board
office at Fort Lewis show that
almost 90 per cent of the land
between the Army reservation
and the Pacific Ocean is now
available for Army use next
month. Many of the residents of
the area have even offered their
Brady, a few miles west of
here, will probably be the head-
quarters of the “invading
army,” which will actually be
made up of the Seventeenth In-
fantry from California. For
purposes of umpirlng, each pla-
toon of the Seventeenth will
represent a battalion.
Reports from Fourth Army
headquarters at San Francisco
say the invading enemy will land
forces at Aberdeen, Hoquiam and
perhaps Raymond, and will then
proceed to threaten the Ninth
Army Corps at Fort Lewis.
The Ninth Corps will march
from Fort Lewis into the battle
against superior forces and will
be repulsed. The Third Corps
in California will then be called
into action. The two corps, form-
ing the Fourth Army, will push
the enemy back into the sea.
The march of 50,000 troops
north from Callfomia will be
kept secret, even after the
troops start the trek. The war
front yards for camping sites.
.‘Tho little community of
games will close the last of
August.
(In order to. better educate
the public on the importance of
auxiliary fire units in the Na-
tional Defense picture, and to
interest prospective volunteers
in the organization, the follow-
ing article outlining the pur-
poses and training of the unit
is being run.
Organization of the first aux-
iliary fire unit will get under
way Monday evening, when the
local National Defense set up
is put into action. The meeting
will take place at 8 p- m- in the
courtroom of the local court-
house and all persons are ur-
gently invited to attend and vol-
un_t'eer for the cause of adequate
preparation for National De—
fense.
Fire Chief Dean Carmen has
been appointed Captain of the
local auxiliary fire unit, and
will help in the organization of
the unit.
At the same time Medical,
Communications, T r a n s porta-
Appeal For Jars
For Hot Lunch
Program is Made
An urgent appeal for glass fruit
jars or mayonnaise jars was
voiced today by County School
Superintendent J. E. Martin in
connection with the County School
Garden Project.
With many types of vegetables
now coming into season the need
for some place of keeping them
is becoming pressing, Martin said,
and the Projects lack of funds
prohibits them from purchasing
enough jars to fill the need.
The‘ County School Garden Pro-
ject is carried on in connection
with the hot lunch program. Con—
tributions from all the schools of
the county purchased seed and
paid for plowing, and a garden
wfis planted at the County Farm.
Labor requirements are filled by
WPA workers. '
All produce grown on this pro-
ject is actually used in preparing
hot lunches for school children.
Many root vegetables are grown
which may be stored, but perish-
ables must be kept in some other
manner.
Some of this perishable produce
is now being canned by the WPA
canning project and some is being
put in frozen storage, but in or-
der to adequately take care of all
the produce grown, more jars must
be obtained.
Mr. Martin said that all per-
sons wishing to donate jars may
leave them at the Welfare build-
ing.
-4
tion and Americanism units
wull be organized. Articles ex-
plaining these various units will
be published at a later date).
Local citizens who volunteer for
work in National Defense auxili-
ary units now being organized in
this county, will find plenty of re-
sponsibility and practical educa-
tion ahead of them in training
outlined for the various units.
Fire Unit First
This is evidenced through “the
program laid down for the traina
ing of auxiliary fire units, which
because of their paramount im-
portance locally, will be the first
unit organized and put in train-
ing. ‘
vSince the auxiliary medical un-
it and the transportation unit can
call on previously trained person-
nel in the local Red Cross chap-
ter, and/ the Women's Motor
,Corps, the most serious need for
training lies in the organization
of an auxiliary fire unit.
According to local Defense Com-
missioner Doane Brodie, plans
have already been made with the
local fire department to give
members of the auxiliary, essen-
tially the same type of training
that is given to .regular firemen.
To supplement this training ex-
perts will be sent down from Fort
Lewis to give specialized training
in the handling of different types
of incendiary bombs.
Problem of Fire Chiefs
The foremost thought in the
mind of every fire chief centers
about the theme of National De-
fense and its effect upon the op-
eration and the future of the fire
service. The tremendous potential:
ities of evolvement in war- activ-
ities has long been recognized as
a problem which the fire service
might eventually be forced to
face. Whether this country will
actually be faced with war or not
is something no one' can now pre-
dict. “To be fore—warned is to be
fore-armed.” We must be prepar-
ed' 'to meet that or any other
eventuality with great dispatch
lest we be caught in the net which
entangled so many European nae
tions.
To facilitate the civilian train-
ing program for auxiliary fire
fighting units, the state has been
divided into ten districts to con-
form with the ten districts Set
up by the Emergency Defense
Commission and in each district
3. fire chief has been selected to
represent the Emergency Defense
Commission as “District Fire
Chief Supervisor." For District
No. 4, comprising, Mason, Pierce
and Thurston counties, Fire Chief
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