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Mr. and Mrs. Pete Peterson
and their son's family, Corky,
Judy and son Shaun from Lacey,
Washington bid farewell to their
delightful house guests of six
weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Plume from
Bury Saint Edmonds, England.
The Plumes were visiting their
daughter Judy and her family.
During their stay they
traveled to the ocean shores,
Canada and took the ferry ride to
Victoria. Mr. and Mrs. Plume
found that the Belfair life was
one continuous holiday. Mrs.
Plume had a special treat in
paddeling or wading as we know
it. They also liked to go on motor
boat rides, which they never have
done before.
Mrs. Plume missed her
Yorkshire Pudding, so on one of
the last evening meals, Judy made
her one and that was a special
treat for her American family. It
was a sad family at departure
time, but they all have fond
memories to look back upon.
Mrs. Audrey Lamb who runs
the Sunset Beach store has quite a
menagerie of animals. Her dog,
Heather, recently gave birth to
eleven puppies, seven of which
still need homes. Then her cat
Patches added four little kittens
to the household and all of these
need homes. If you are looking
for a baby swallow, Mrs. Lamb
also has a nest full of those and
she is hoping that they will soon
fly away in search of a new home.
Mrs. Lamb believes store-keeping
is one thing, but she didn't
bargain for the Animal Maternity
Ward of South Shore!
Miss Noreen Blackwell
underwent plastic surgery on her
leg at Providence Hospital in
Seattle on July 30th. Noreen
suffered a leg injury some time
ago in a motorcycle accident. This
surgery was the first of two
operations that she will have to
undergo as a result of that
accident. Noreen found that the
hardest part of the ordeal was
learning to walk again after
relying on crutches even for a
short time. "We wish Noreen well
with the second operation and
hope for a speedy recovery for
her.
Mrs. Agnus Mcllraith is very
proud of her first grandchild,
Scan Christopher, born to Randy
and Carol Mcllraith. Young Scan
weighed in at a mighty 6 lbs.-11
oz. and was 21 inches long. His
first home is in Marysville,
California where his father is
stationed with the Air Force.
Grandma Myrtle Rarey has
been a very busy lady caring for
her grandchildren Steve and Lori
Shelgren while their mother was
Master Scott Edward Shelgren
was born on July 31st weighing a
grand 8 lbs. 3 oz. Proud Papa Don
welcomed his family home after
Mother Madelin's short three day
hospital stay. She was home in
time to celebrate her own
birthday at a special dinner with
her family on August 12th.
Debbie and Marriles Rarey
from Portland also spent the past
several weeks visiting their
grandparents. Last weekend their
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Rarey,
came to the canal to take the girls
back home. Before leaving, the
family had a salmon bake. The
salmon was caught by Mike Hagan
on a recent ocean fishing trip.
Mr. Leroy Carlson caught his
salmon limit on a fishing trip up
near Seabeck and his big fish
story is about the big one that
didn't get away and weighs a
grand 29 pounds!
David Viers from California is
on the canal visiting family
friends, the Ed Wolles. David is
eight years old and is here while
his mother is in the hospital. He
flew to Seattle by himself and he
thought that was really fun.
Mr. James A. Campbell Sr.
from Idlehours returned recently
from a week-long trip. He decided
to go on a vacation traveling to
wherever the road led. It led to
Montana. He had a great time but
since the weather was so hot he
was glad to get back to the good
old canal.
Good wishes go to Mr. and
Mrs. Art Kralicek who are
expecting their first baby
sometime around February!
Mrs. Rodney G. (Jami)Hart
received the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Medical Technology at
the University of Puget Sound's
graduation ceremonies last
Friday.
She previously attended
Slippery Rock State College,
Slippery Rock, Pa. from 1958 to
1960 as a health and physical
education major. In 1965 she
completed a year's laboratory
internship and then worked as a
medical technician in a suburban
Pittsburgh hospital until coming
to Washington in 1966. She was
employed by the Bremerton
Medical Laboratories at Harrison
Hospital until resuming her
studies last September.
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Night Hawks at High Noon:
They fluttered and swooped over
Pleasant Cove during the
blistering hot weather last week.
They followed a swarm of flying
insects which had been driven
from the sunbaked hills. Bird
watchers counted 24 of these
swift-flying birds during their rare
mid-day beach visit.
New North Shore potter is
Virginia Testu, who exhibited
pottery at the recent Belfair Flea
Market. With her husband, Joseph
K., they are building a house at
Cherokee Beach. It is their second
spot on the beach as they have
had property there 10 years. Last
spring Mrs. Testu built a kiln in
the back yard of their new place.
Now she has been turning out
vases, pitchers, bowls, mugs, in
her spare time. She has been
selling a few. She also has a
pottery wheel. She also has a
full-time job in a mattress factory.
Mr. Testu's mother was the
late Jeanette Testu, a former state
representative in Seattle for many
years.
Nature note: A heavy growth
of green algae has been noted in
last week to impede swimming in
certain beaches. Floyd Williams
reported great masses of it when
he went fishing near Point No
Point.
Doug & Winona Hoppe were
hosts to 65 members of the
Olympia Ski Club at a picnic at
the Hoppe's North Shore beach
home. Doug is vice president of
the club which is active in winter
sports. ' The club is open to
members from Thurston and
Mason counties.
Loc, al members attending
included the Earl Lincolns of the
North Shore, the Norm Sanders
from the South Shore.
Other sports interest of the
Hoppes include sailing. They
recently spent a three week
vacation sailing in the Canadian
Gulf Islands in their 26-foot
Thunderbird sloop, the Luv of
Belfair. The boat has been
berthed in Kingston but presently
is moored in front of their house.
Mrs. Geneva Flodine has sold
her trailer home at Terra Linda.
She has moved to Port Townsend.
New owners are Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Wiseman, who plan to sell
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THE ENGAGEMENT of their daughter, Eileen, to Mr.
Kenneth Martin has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. Orrin
Sande of North Shore. The groom-elect is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Martin of Okinawa. He is presently serving in the
U.S.Army, stationed at Fort Lewis. Miss Sande, a 1970
graduate of North Mason High School, was valedictorian of
her class. Any early September wedding is planned.
BELFAIR AID CAR
Aug. 1, 9:15 a.m., Mrs. Delrue
Thompson of Belfair to Harrison L~cal m~n pr0nl0ted
Hospital, old age ailment.
Aug. 4, 11 : 15 a.m., Mrs. Leisoner Michael G. Kisler, son of Mr.
of Cemetery Road, Belfair, to and Mrs. Earl L. Kisler, Route 2,
local Doctor'sclinic, possible Belfair, Wash., recently was
broken wrist, promoted to Army Staff Sergeant
Aug. 5, 12 noon, Miss while serving with the 2nd
Hemmelton, new highway to armored division at Ft. Hood,
Harrison Hospital, pain in side. Tex.
Aug. 6, 1:50 p.m., Henry Sgt. Kisler is a Radar
Schuckert, Belfair, to Harrison Repairman with company D, of
Hospital, heart condition, the division's 124th maintenance
Aug. 9, 9:30 a.m. Lyndal J. battalion.
Hands from Bald Point Road, His wife, Christine, lives in
Tahuya, D.O.A., to Batstone Harker Heights, Tex.
Funeral Home in Shelton.
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Tim e was when a college
student who wanted to spend a
quiet summer poring over books
without interruptions from "'the
gang" or a nature /over who
yearned for a secluded retreat
from which to enjoy glimpses of
wildlife had a chance of "getting
away from it all" by becoming a
lookout in one of the
mountaintop towers used by the
State Department of Natural
Resources to spot potential forest
fires.
But not anymore. Watching
for signs of smoke from a lonely
tower is an occupation as
out-of-date as blacksmiths,
elevator operators and street car
conductors.
Keeping a watchful eye for
wisps of smoke which might be a
danger to the forests of this part
of the state is now the job of an
aerial observer who does the job
from the seat of an airplane.
Besides giving better coverage
to the area, Don Norris of the
DNR office in Port Orchard
estimates it costs the state just
about one-third of the former
cost when there were 20 lookout
towers to staff and maintain to
cover the same area.
In the "old days" there were
not just the fulltime wages of the
twenty lookouts to consider,
there was the equipment needed
for sighting and reporting fires in
each tower, the housekeeping
equipment such as stoves and
refrigerators etc. needed in each,
not to mention the maintenance
of the high-above-ground houses
themselves which were often
victims of vandals during the
winter months and the mileage
and time spent getting food to the
observers during their long
summer vigils.
Now contracts are awarded
each year to bidders from all over
the state for a four-seater plane
and pilot and to an aerial observer
who are paid on an hourly basis
for the actual time spent in the
air. Lots of money was saved in
the early part of this summer fire
season because the rainy weather
kept the possibility of forest fires
so low that few flights had to be
made. As the hot weather
continues in August and the
danger of fire increases, more
flights each day will be added
until, if needed, flights will be
made every hour over this area.
Last hear according to Norris,
there were 130 fires reported in
his district and one-third of them
were first spotted by an aerial
observer, who radioed the
location of the smoke to his
office to be investigated by
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~nd aerial observer He.let} Walsh covered by thee flights since the ~d. "
U. S~ Forestry Departmen~ has its
• own plane which scouts that area.
We took off headed
southeasterly and had only been
in the air a few minutes when I
sighted some smoke coming from
a wooded area on my side of the
plane and pointed it out to Helen
who reported its location by
radio. That was my one
contribution during the flight;
any other columns of smoke
which I pointed out turned out to
be garbage dumps for nearby
communities, which they knew
by heart, or were fires which had
been sighted on the morning
flight and reported, which were
probably tended brush fires since
they had not been put out and
were no bigger than they had
been earlier in the day.
As we flew over Purdy we
could see Seattle and Tacoma off
to the left and soon Treasure,
Stretch and Harstine Islands came
up on the right. Way off in the
distance was Belfair.
We headed for Mt. Rainier,
which, unfortunately for me, was"
hidden from view by clouds. We
passed within 12 miles of it and
just as we went by I looked back
and could see the bottom of its
snow-covered base and high
above, just peeking through some
clouds, tbe very top, but I never
did see the whole mountain.
Special attention was paid to
the deep canyons in the foothills
which are particularly dangerous
"during thunder shower weather
when fires started by lightning
might smolder for 72 hours
before bursting into flame. We
detoured a little in this area to fly
over a slash fire on an area cleared
by a logging company. Some
smoke had still been visible on the
morning run but it seemed to be
out by the time we flew over it.
There were still several trucks
parked in the isloated
mountainside area and Bryce said
that slash fires should be watched
carefully for several days after
they are presumed to be out
because sometimes they start up
again.
l never saw so many trees in
my life as I did on the 2'/2 hour
flight. Except for flying over
Olympia, and farm area near
Centralia the rest of the trip was
made over still wooded areas.
After leaving the Centralia
area we headed northwest and
passed close to McCleary, cut over
to Hood Canal south of Shelton
and continued north along the
western side of the Tahuya
Peninsula. I could identify Little
Hoquiam Bay on Mason Lake
on their second trip of the day.
They had made the run at 1 1
a.m., just having enough time to
catch a quick lunch at the airport
care before we took off again at 2
p.m. Since there had been no rain
for several weeks the "B flight"
out of Shelton was scheduled to
take off at 3:30 p.m. to make a
third sighting of the district that
day.
Following Helen's suggestion I
had taken a pill to ward off
airsickness before leaving Belfair
so I was all set when I arrived. I
was a little early so had time for a
cup of coffee with Helen before
we took off.
She said she had been a
lookout from 1955 to 1958, one
year at Gold Mountain and three
years at Green Mountain, then
had worked at the DNR office in
Port Orchard for a couple of years
before retiring to marry and raise
a family. She has an 8-year old
daughter and a son, 5. Her
husband, Gerard, is employed at
PSNS, although he was working
for the DNR when they met.
They live in Port Orchard.
Helen said she was one of the
skeptical ones when the switch
from tower lookouts to airplane
spotting was first made, but since
being asked to serve as an
observer last year, she is
convinced that the present system
is better. She said she had warned
them that the only fires they
would report from the planes
would be those caused by the
planes crashing into the side of a
mountain. Fortunately there have
been none of those.
Upon entering the plane I met
our pilot, who is a retired Air
Force man, having served with
ADC and in the training
command for SAC. He is a
Lieutenant Colonel in the Air
Force reserve and works for
Stolairco at the Port Orchard
Airport which has the contract
for furnishing the plane for rental
by the DNR. He and his wife live
at Lake Tapps and have three
teen-age sons.
I sat next to Bryce since
Helen and her equipment took up
both seats in the rear. A large box
containing aerial pictures of the
entire route to be covered helps
her give an instant location if
unidentified smoke is sighted.
Drawn on each map are the
section lines so that the location
can be narrowed down to a
40-acre area when she reports it.
As the flight progressed, Helen
flipped the pictures along to keep
up with the area we were flying
over.
ground. Because of the clouds we flewwhere I live but we didn't get
At present only two of the lower than usual that day, close enough to spot our house.
lookout towers are still in use, keeping about 3400 feet aloft. As we continued north we must
both at Fort Lewis where they are Usually they fly 6500 feet in one have been almost over my sister's
used as weather stations in direction and 5500 in the other, house on the Canal at Bangor but
addition to fire-watching stations going up to 9500 over the I couldn't find it from the air
when soldiers are out in the field mountains around Mt. Rainier.before we turned right and
After seeing many speedboats
on various lakes or the Canal or
Sound during the flight, most
pulling water-skiers, the
Bremerton ferry looked immense
from the air. The two biggest
sources of smoke seen on the
entire flight emanated from the
pulp mill in Tacoma and the big
smoke stack in Shelton.
Every six minutes (about
every 12 miles) during the flight
the pilot banked the plane so that
the ground underneath could be
kept under observation, too.
We headed south again down
the west side of Bainbridge Island
and in a few minutes the plane
reduced altitude for the return to
the Port Orchard Airport.
My pill had worked fine, no
woozy feeling had detracted from
my enjoyment of the lovely
scenery we had flown over. The
green, green forests and the
sparkling blue waters of this part
of the state were a joy to behold.
And through the efforts of pilots
and observers like Bryce and
Helen, those green forests will
remain green for a long time to
come.
busy at the Harrison Hospital. many places. Much floated loose their Bremerton home and move • usually follow these practise
to the North Shore. Both work at sessions and they are sighted and
~I~~~~~~~l the Navy Yard. kept under control by constant
- BONDED LICENSED INSURED - New Mission Creek resident is
- JESFIELD CONSTRUCTION --=Samantha Jeanne Lane who was Zenith Color/B & W W-Radios-Hi.Fi's surveillance from the towers
during Army maneuvers.
_ -= _ born to Mr. and Mrs. Delmar CHANNEL MASTER ANTENNAS Three planes, pilots and aerial
7:~ CONTRACTING • BUILDING - Lane, Jr., way back on July 10 observers have been contracted to
--= CABINET WORK • CONCRETE WORK =__when the Herald staff were all on SERVICE ON ALL MAKES be on duty in this district; taking
vacation• Young Samantha has Have Tubes - Will Travel off from Port Orchard, Shelton
--=-- Ben Jesfield P O Box 11 Jim Jesfield .~ two sisters and four brothers. CR 5-6244 and Olympia. They rotate being
-- /CR 5-2652 Belfair, Washington CR 6-6684 -- "Gourmet's Paradise" is how on call as the "A flight" each
Mary Fry characterizes the North HOURS: 10 - 6:30 DALLY -- SAT. ONLY: l0 - !:30 week. When fire conditions are
~~~~l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~~~l~~~~~~~~l~l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~~~~~~~li Shore. She flew from Wheeling, ~~ not dangerous only the plane
illlillllllllllllllllllllllllllll West Virginia, to visit the scheduled as A flight" will
f'lk J~'IL,~ You'll Have A Good Time At I tivingstons. She started coming probably go in the air; as more
to the Pleasant Cove area in flights are needed when the
I~ H~~ [ search of fresh oysters some 16 weather turns ,hotter, the plane
years ago, attended community scheduled for 'B flight" will go
4th of July festivals, and now up in addition to the "A flight"
] NORTHSHORE INN IknOws many along the shOreline" and when the danger ,of fire is
A new taste treat this year for most extreme even the C flight"
[ Pool Tables • Shuffleboard [ Mrs. Fry is the fresh geoducks plane will be put in use.
now available in this area. Other Each flight takes two and a
I S flesh seafood, such as salmon and half hours to cover the territory
andwiches
Short
Orders
I . halibut, are not available in her in this district.
[ " [ home town. She works in There were clouds scattered
Dancing Wheeling, as an official in the throughout the sky on August 4
I Daily 1 0 a.m. til 2 a.m. ,,, Sundays 1 2-1 2 i Veterans Administration. when I drove to the Port Orchard
for firing practise. Small fires -~- - ----------------
RANDALL, Chiropractor
Announces the
August 31
Opening of His Practice At
St. Rt. 1,Box 252, Belfmr
Phone CR5-3110
Tuesday and Friday-- 10 to noon - 1:30 to S
Evening 7 to 8:30 P.M.
Wed. and Thurs. -- 10 to noon - 1:30 to 6
County Fair Au4gl~t 20 tO 22.
Each year the //b~'ary has a booth
at the fair with a display of
books, phonograph records and
other library materials.
On display this year will be
Indian totem poles and other
items used in conjunction with
the Skookum Summer Reading
Club. Mrs. Doris Whitmarsh, of
the Timberland Regional Library
bookmobile staff, said the
fall/winter bookmobile schedules
will be available at the booth, and
there will be a film list for those
interested in borrowing films.
The bookmobile covers all of
Mason County, and the North
Mason Library at Belfair also
offers service in the north county
area• Phone number for the North
Mason Library is 275-6244 and it
is located in the Belfair T.V.
Shop. Library hours are 12-5 on
Friday and I0-1 on Saturday.
ALL OF the animals
excepting man know that the
principal business of life is to
enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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AT THE END OF THE FLIGHT aerial observer Helen Walsh
finished her report and pilot Bryce Rogers taxied the plane
up to the gas station to be ready for fire spotting flights the
next day.
Saturday, Aug. 21
noon to 6 p.m.
Come In And Have Coffee and
• Cookies with Barry Snover,
Ray and Bev Sage.
Open House Specials
Anti-Freeze Coolant
Brake Fluid
Reg. $2.75
Super Heavy-duty, Reg. $1.20
Bronco Toyota Jeep
Tops and Accessories
1 Day Delivery on Foreign Car Parts
Next to PUD Bldg. at Belfair
9 - 9 Weekdays Sunday Emergency
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