Aid Car.
Once a year, during the month of August, members of the Belfair
volunteer fire department ask for donations from local residents to
assure continued operation of their emergency vehicle.
There are two Aid Cars in service in the North Mason area, one
stationed in Belfair, the other in Allyn. Neither is left idle for very long
before a call for help comes in and a crew of volunteer workers, all
having advanced first aid training, is on its way.
Since the Belfair Fire Department does not charge residents of this
fire district who receive help from their emergency service, this annual
fund raising drive is the only way they have of keeping the operation
going. Only persons from out of the area who have run into trouble
while visiting or passing through Belfair and have had to call the Aid
Car are sent bills. Since most calls throughout the year are from
Belfairites, this limited source of income cannot begin to buy the gas
and oil, pay maintenance costs and replace wornout first aid equipment
needed to keep the local Aid Car available.
It's mighty comforting to know that in the event of any emergency,
whether it be an auto accident on the way home, or a midnight heart
attack suffered by an elderly neighbor, that one doesn't have to wait
for an ambulance to travel from Bremerton or Shelton. And one can
count on the driver of the emergency vehicle having a much easier task
of finding the victim in this area of hit and miss addresses, with a local
volunteer behind the wheel.
As more people keep moving into the area, the Aid Car makes more
and more runs into Bremerton and back, which takes a lot of gas, which
takes a lot of money.
The volunteers who have spent many hours perfecting first aid
techniques, who are always willing to drop whatever they are doing on
a moment's notice to answer a call for help, have done their share in
furnishing this vitally needed service.
Not it's up to the rest of us to furnish the money needed to keep
the Aid Car in operation.
Will you help?
Lunch prices set for next school year
Prices for hot lunches to be
served at North Mason district
schools for the coming school
year were set by the School Board
at their meeting last week. The
hot lunch program is set for
reinstatement after one year of
absence due to a levy failure in
1970.
The regular school lunch will
cost 35 cents in grades 1-3, 40
cents in grades 5-8 and 45 cents in
grades 9-12 if a monthly or
weekly meal ticket is purchased.
On a daily basis, a meal will cost a
nickel more in all grades.
Something new this year will
be the "hamburger lunch" which
is the regular lunch with a
hamburger main course. That will
be available only in grades 6-12
and will cost 10 cents additional
each meal.
At the meeting the Board
awarded a contract for equipping
the district with two portable
server trays, 17 dozen individual
trays, a large mixer and other
items needed to run the hot lunch
program. Awarded the contract,
with a bid of $4,178.77, was
Greene-Todd, Inc. of Seattle.
Potluck picnic to be
enjoyed by C of C
A potluck picnic will be held
by Belfair Chamber of Commerce
members and friends at the
Belfair home of Mrs. Erma
Roessel at 7 p.m. August 11.
An informal discussion of an
idea to be presented by diane
Robinson of the Two Rare Birds
shop in Belfair will bc held.
Last minute arrangements for
the Chamber booth at the
upcoming Flea Market, August 7
and 8 are being made.
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at meetings I couldn't attend (or even write the story, if I was lucky) or
have borrowed my camera to take pictures of events I couldn't cover. I
don't suppose this is standard newspaper procedure, I doubt if Wm.
Randolph Hearst ever asked his readers to help gather the news, but
that's the way it's been done at the Herald since I took over as editor of
our paper. And until the money starts rolling in to warrant hiring an
assistant, that's the way it will be; lots of volunteer local labor helping
get out "our" paper.
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A section of the Shelton-Mason County Journal serving as the
voice of Belfair, Allyn, Grapeview, Tahuya, Mason Lake,
South Shore and North Shore.
Post Office Box 587, Belfair, Washington 98528
Telephone CR 5-6680
LOU DONNELL ............................. Editor
BARBARA NELSON .......... Advertising R~presentative
Published by Shelton Publishing, Inc., Post Office Box 430,
Shelton, Washington 98584 ; telephone 426-4412.
Subscription: $5.00 per year in Mason County; $6.00 per
year elsewhere.
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AND THE WALLS came tumbling down. By Wednesday of last week only a
pile of rubble and part of the stone wall at the north end of the old Chalet
school building remained of what long had been a landmark in the area.
or no
m.p.h, limit on all lakes under 100
acres.
"What prompted the action,"
explained Haydon, "was the fact
that there have been just too
many 'close calls' caused by high
speed and big boats." He said that
a big boat, pulling skiers at a high
rate of speed, has come within
three feet of a raft in front of the
Haydon home on which his wife
was sitting. On another occasion,
a large, high-powered boat passed
directly in front of his wife as she
stood on the end of their dock
ready to dive into the water. He
ion
To ski or not to ski seems to
be the question up at Women
Lake on the Tahuya Peninsula as
petitions, pro and con, are being
circulated among the residents.
Property owners at the Lake,
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Haydon, are
spear-heading a movement to
eliminate water-skiing on the
approximately 69-acre lake by
having the speed limit on the
water reduced to 8 miles per
hour. They appeared before the
County Commissioners on July
19 to suggest that the County
ordinance be changed to an 8
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Three accidents involving
local residents occured in the
North Mason area this past week.
While attempting to pass a
road sweeper on Highway 3 a mile
and a half south of Belfair,
Michael L. Lamb, 16, of Belfair,
driving a '70 Rambler Hornet,
struck a '68 Mercury driven by
Jack R. McHenry, 52, of
Bremerton, head-on. McHenry
suffered broken ribs and his wife,
Peggy, a passenger in the car,
received a lacerated finger and a
bump on the head. Both were
taken to Harrison Hospital by the
Allyn Aid Car.
Lamb, who also received a
bump on the head, was treated at
the scene.
The McHenry car was headed
south, the Lamb car, north, at the
time of the accident which
IS
was investigated by Trooper
Giddings of WSP with aid from
Game Department officer Forbes.
Willard C. Underwood, 15, of
Belfair, was treated by a private
physician for injuries to his left
knee and right ankle when the
bicycle he was operating on
Highway 3 just south of Betfair
on July 28 was struck by a car
driven by Patrick J. Macomber,
19, of Belfair.
According to Trooper Hanson
of WSP who investigated the
accident, which occured around 7
p.m., both vehicles were
southbound when Underwood
attempted to change lanes from
the right side of the roadway and
was struck by the '70 2-door
Mazada driven by Macomber. The
car suffered $125 damage, the
bicycle, $20.
said it is unsafe to allow their
grandchildren to swim or be on
the. bulkhead in front of the
house when a speeding large boat
goes by because the wake it
makes is so high it comes right
over the bulkhead.
The Haydons were advised by
the County Commissioners to get
a petition circulating around the
lake to be signed by other
residents who feel as they do.
Before this could be done
another couple, also property
owners on Wooten Lake, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Veitch, appeared at
the following County
Commissioner's meeting on July
26, with a petition signed by 16
persons, opposing Haydon's
request to set the speed limit at 8
m.p.h. Their feeling was that th:
would take many children out c
healthful recreation and put the
on the streets and highways. They
suggested that hours might be set
for various uses of the lake,
thereby giving everyone a fair
chance to enjoy the lake in their
own way.
It was pointed out that since
Kitsap County closed all of its
lakes but two (possibly three) to
water skiing that problems have
been added at Mason County
lakes, but they believe the
establishment of set hours for
skiing could help this situation
too.
The Commissioners stated that
the Mason County Boating
ordinance needs revamping and
assured the Veitches that their
views would be considered, along
with other thoughts and
suggestions on the subject, when
changes are made.
DYNAMIC DYNAMICS' REHEARSALS were often,
unknowingly, turned into impromptu radio broadcasts, as a
radio station substituted one of their microphones for one
belonging to the group without the students being aware that
their music was going out over the airwaves. The students
from Mountlake Terrace High School are seen above
practicing before one of their many Panamanian appearances.
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ormer
air man
Any qualms Francis (Frank)
DeMiero, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William DeMiero of Belfair, may
have had about the kind of
reception his high school
students, a singing musical group
called the Dynamic Dynamics,
would receive as they toured
Panama this summer quickly
disappeared after the enthusiastic
receptions of the first few
concerts.
Shaky relations between the
U. S. and Panama over the Canal
were forgotten by the
Panamanians who attended one or
more of the 25 performances of
the musical group. Standing
ovations, uncommon in Panama,
occured over and over again. The
performers, all students of
Mountlake Terrace High School
north of Seattle, where DeMiero
is musical director, were mobbed
for autographs and came home
with thousands of names and
addresses of those who wanted to
become pen pals.
DeMiero was accompanied on
the trip by his wife, Yvonne, who
planned and helped with the
groups' wardrobe and had helped
raise the $22,000 needed to pay
trip expenses for the 31
performers, and by their son,
Vincent. Eight adults, who paid
their own way, accompanied the
students as chaperones, advisers
and assistants. Forty-three others,
family members of the students,
also went along for the tour,
paying their own way.
Besides the 25 concerts, most
held in high schools, the students'
music was carried many times
over TV and radio. In fact, often
during rehearsals, someone would
discover that a radio station's
microphone had been substituted
for one of their own and they had
been on the air.
The groups' success in Panama
was so outstanding that they were
featured by newspapers across the
country and have the clippings to
prove it.
DeMiero was in Belfair last
week to show his parents the
pictures, newspaper clippings and
films of their long-to-be-
remembered tour. It is estimated
that 26,380 people turned out for
the live performances of the
Dynamic Dynamics in Panama.
Accompanying the group
through Panama and acting as
interpreter, was Fred Becchiti of
the U. S. Embassy, cultural affairs
officer, who had been
instrumental in arranging the
tour. He had been sent a tape of
one of the groups' appearances in
Seattle on KOMO TV and had
been ffivorably impressed. He
believed the boys and girls in the
group would be ideal goodwill
ambassadors for the U.S. and
encouraged them to raise the
money to visit Panama.
One factor which made the
invitation possible is the fact that
all boys in the Dynamic Dynamics
wear their hair short. Long hair
on boys in Panama is not
accepted and offenders are picked
up to have their hair cut if it gets
down below the ears. The group
did much to rid Panamanians of
the "everyone in the U.S. is rich"
belief which many foreigners have
as it was explained to audiences
that most students were middle
class and could not have afforded
the trip without their many
fund-raising enterprises. A
cookbook compiled of recipes
collected by the students
accounted for quite a bit of the
needed money.
It wasn't all travel and music
while in Panama; sightseeing,
getting to know Panamanians in .
their homes, and having a chance
to meet many dignitaries, both
"All I know is that you were
successful in achieving your goal
in a manner which even the Utah
Symphony was unable to match
two days after you had left for
Mexico City.
"The effects of your
presentations in the various
schools of this Republic will never
be shaken off, especially in the
Interior.
"You demonstrated for
thousands of students the value of
work and discipline in the
achieving of a goal.
"You dragged thousands of
students and hundreds of teachers
into the 1970's and showed them
that there's a bright swingin'
world out there and that they can
be a part of that world.
"Traditions came tumbling
down wherever you appeared:
~You moved onstage and
choreographed your music. Your
youth showed through in
everything you did. You mixed
humor with music. You dealt in
rhythms of the day. You
combined voice and electronics.
Boys touched girls onstage. You
leaped from the stage and moved
up the aisles and down the rows
and touched your audience and
laughed with them and danced
with them and kissed them and
they were you and you became
they and nothing like what you
did has ever happened on this
Isthmus.
"I didn't dare tell you that
you were breaking all the rules or
you might have turned off the
magic just out of self-conscious-
ness.
humor so that hardly anybody
noticed the break with the Past
and everybody enjoyed the
shower of flowers your singing
and your presence caused. The
falling of traditions was cushioned
by the petals of Love and
Happiness you brought to the
Panamanians.
"As for me, I have been
working for twenty years in the
field of cultural exchange, so you
can be certain that I enjoyed
every moment of my experience
with you as you met the
Panamanians and they met you.
Everyone of you was magnificent,
and my beloved Panamanians
responded as I knew they
would.., offering you their
hearts and wanting to keep you
with them.
"Your visit to Panama will
never be even a footnote in the
history of the U. S. Panama
relations, but I am of the opinion
that your visit and my visit to
Panama will have much more
significance in the march of
humanity toward a world of Love
than all the events which blacken
headlines of this country.
"I was very proud of you...
all the way down the line. You
represented your community,
your state and our country well,
but you represented the god of
humanity much better.
"Thanks for letting me tag
along!"
DeMiero attended Belfair
Elementary School and was
graduated from South Kitsap
High School. ' Before becoming a
"I would have turned you off musical director in Mountlake
if 1 had felt that you neededTerrace, DeMiero organized a
turning off, but you had brought local singing group composed of
with you the right formula. You 25 girls and 25 boys, named
toppled many traditions, and you "September Experience" which
did it with good taste and good performed in this area.
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Damage to both vehicles was | • Panamanian and American, were
estimated at $900 eachby i We II I THERE WERE LOTS of sights to see in Panama between enjoyed, too.
Trooper Peregrin of W SP, who, musical performances put on by Francis DeMieros high A three-day stopover in , ~ / /
with assistance fr°m the Sheriff s I I school students. Above he is seen (in center wearing glasses)andMexic° City on the way homeanother at Houston, Texas ~'A| J~J
department, investigated the AI D| with his son, Vincent, and wife Yvonne. Just behind the where NASA and the Astrodome
accident. DeMiero family is Fred Becchiti, an officer of the U. S.were visited, were alsoenjoyed by HOURS:
Meeting a Sheriff's Recaps for cars & trucks I Foreign Service stationed in Panama who acted as translator thegroup. , 5-2090 INFO.MAT,UN 7:ao-s:ao ,
department car in pursuit of a ~ R'~.... / .... ~..~ _.'_'":"'---- ~. WEEKDAYS
stolen vehicle while rounding a for the group of Washingtonians during their stay. Just why were DeMiero s
curve to the right while
northbound on Highway 3 a mile I IAIIY' students such a hit in Panama?
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p.m. July 27, caused Jeane Speer, tour, can best explain it.
46, of Grapeview, to slam on his Hitch Installed u, Iv n IlI mlPl Throughout a professional New 1 9 ft. Starfire
struck in the rear by another Engine Overhaul ~ rml~illl language, but the more I work full top. Was$5,815.O0 ................. NOW~4YY~)
northbound vehicle, a '61 Falcon Transmission repair, all kinds with language the more I realize
, Front End Alignment I I .I" , New 17 b. Thunderbird
how inadequate, it is in the
sedan driven by Deborah G. i Radiator Repair Ii IIM i expression o,fmansfeelings.
Mandeville, 1 7, of Bremerton. with 65 HP Mercury and EZ Loader a. ....
A passenger in the Speer car,Lubrication "If you ve tried to describe Trailer. Was $4,005.00 ................. NOW ~lj~
his wife, Treva, complained of I Tune :u.ps ...... '/z Mile West I Panama and your tour through #.HI BOttS & NOTI |llS
pains inherneck, ortaotetaas& t-tectricwelding B'~lfair State Park Panama to your parents and
Damage to the Mandeville car neighbors, you surely know what
was estimated at $150, to the 24 Hour Towing--Call CR S-2192--Day or Nite I mean about the inadequacy of Bank Terms Belfair CR 5-2297
Speer car at $125. The accident L ~ .==...~ language. •
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