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PORTLAND.
1 Au To Schools
, 325 As County's
This Past Term
Financial Share Borne By State
Rises to 62.9% from 54.40.,
During 1940-41 Term;'
Full 25 Cents Paid
Increased benefits to Mason
County school districts through
the state’s complete fulfillment of
school districts is readily seen in
the county superintendent’s an-
nual report, released last Week.
During the 1940-41 term the
fstate, for only the second time
since the law was passed in the
early 19305, paid the full 25‘ cents
per pupil day attendance which
that law stipulates, in fact, even
kicked in a bit extra this past
‘ term with a 25.4 cent daily remit-
: tance.
l The result was that Mason
lCounty schools received a total
of $162,535.02 last term from the
l state’s current school fund against
a total of only $140,828.63 during
1 the 1939-40 term, Supt. J. E. Mar-
,tin’s annual report reveals. Dis—
trict 309 (Shelton), largest of the
districts included within this re-
port, received $107,797.57 from the
1 state current school fund last term
against $90,991 in the previous
year, when the rate of state daily
attendance remittance averaged
about 23.5 cents.
State Shoulders Heavier Burden
It is interesting to note by com-
parison, too, that the state‘s con-
tribution to school district fin-
ances increased from 54.4 per cent
of the total school district reve-
nue in 1939-40 to 62.9 per cent
this past term as the result of
this complete fulfillment of the
general fund obligation.
Those percentages both would
be higher if it were possible to
segregate state from county and
district monies which are lumped
eous and transfers from other
funds in the annual report. Mis-
cellaneous sources contributed
t $17,038.66 and transfers from oth-
er funds contributed $16,316.55 to—
ward the total ,Mason, County
school income of $276,935 this past
term and a large part of each
came from state sources and so
would further up the per cent of
state aid to county school dis-
tricts. In the previous year these
two figures respectively were $22,-
069.67 and $8,596.19. Miscellan-
eous income would be derived from
‘sale of school property, rent of
school property, etc., while income
from transfers from other funds
would be such items as grazing
, fees, sale of state timber and tide
'lands, etc., diverted into school
finances. .
Equalization Cut Drops
The state's portion of school
financing also includes, of course,
‘ the county equalization fund,
which dropped somewhat this past
term to $11,407.67 against the pre-
vious year’s total of $16,692.71.
Thus the state put up a known
total of $173,942.69 for 1940-41
school operation in Mason County
(plus whatever part of the mis—
cellaneous and transfer funds
which were of state origin (while
in the 1939-40 term this contri-
bution totalled $157,521.34.
Against the state’s money, coun-
ty-raised funds used in financing
the county school system totalled
$69,637.92 during the term just
closed against a total of $78,-
271.98 in the preceding term.
School district taxes produced
' $61,200.03 of the $69,637 total last
year with $8,437.89 in general
county funds (the county being
supposed to pay fiVe cents per pu-
pil day attendance to each school
district) rounding out the total.
At this point it would be appro-
priate to mention that the county
equalization fund paid by the state
which was mentioned earlier is a
fund to make up any deficit be-
low five cents per day which any
county is unable to raise with a
three mill tax on its total assess-
ed valuation.
Wivell On Committee
To Arrange Fair Sale
H. M. Wivell of the Wivell
Dairies, Inc., of Shelton has been
named to a committee in charge
of making arrangements for the
annual sale of purebred Jersey
cattle at the Puyallup Fal!‘
grounds September 25.
About 50 head of cows and
heifers already have been enter‘
ed in the sale, it is reported.
Other members of the committee
include Cliff Henning, East Stan-
wood; Harry Allen, Monroe; Tom
Fishback, Chehalis; and Stacey
Stone, Sequim.
British Seamen To Be
Guests of Activians
Shelton Activians interrupt the
splendid entertainment program
which has featured their club
meetings of the past month to
l devote time to business affairs 01’}-
lly at this Wednesday nights
weekly meeting, but next we?k
will entertain'a group of 20 Brit-
ish sailors from a British war
l ship which participated in the fa-
,mous battle of Crete, Program
’ Chairman John Replinger an'
nounced late last week.
its legal financial obligations to‘
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Our Country Calls Its Youth Back To School
In The American Way
Come, boys and girls of
and suburbs: children of the farm: children
of factory towns. Come back to school! Walk
through the streets and country lanes, se-
cure in the love of your parents and in the
earnestness of your teachers.
over your heads are clear and peaceful. The
clothes you wear are comfortable, good
looking and plentiful. The food you eat is
ample. The homes you come from are the
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, September 2, 1941.
our cities
The skies
best equipped in the world, to take care of
your physical comforts and to condition you
of learning.
under the headings of miscellan- Martin
Motorists, Parents Urged
for full
man of your abilities. The bells ring out, and the doors open
wide, of little red school houses and many-roamed buildings
. welcome back to so
To Guard Students Safety
Police Chief Andy Hansen, sec-
onded heartin by Sheriff Gene
and State Patrolman
Cliff Aden, today asked the co-
operation of parents and motor-
ists to promote observance of
school—crossing lanes so children
will not be endangered when
they return to school tomorrow,
and in some cases today.
The’three “arms of the law”
urge motorists to observe care-
fully all safety warning signs
which are placed near all schools.
Reckless driving charges face
motorists who fail to observe
safety warnings and safety-pa—
trol workers.
The schoolboy patrol will be on
the job to direct traffic at street
crossings used by pupils of the
Lincoln and Bordeaux grade
schools with what holdover mem-
bers of last year’s patrols who
are still in school. The final
personnel of the 1941-42 patrols
will be determined within a cou-
ple of weeks.
Traffic directions of the school-
boy patrol are as binding upon
motorists as those of any other
police officer insofar as the con-
trol of traffic is concerned, Po-
lice Chief Hansen pointed out, so
their instructions to drivers should
be heeded explicitly.
Police courts have on many
occasions upheld the schodl‘boy’,
patrolmen on charges filed agaplst‘
motorists failing to heed "ith'en’i
and have assessed fines andjail
terms. is.“
There has never been a"/‘traffic
accident in Shelton where). Jand
when the schoolboy patrol has
been on duty since its organiza-
tion a dozen years ago.
“Parents shodld send ."their
children to school early enough
so they will not have to run to
school," Police Chief Hansen urg-
ed. “Children who are running
to school because they are late
create a serious problem \for they
forget all the rules of safety.”
2 OCCUPANTS or SAME CAR
FINED IN HIT-AND-RUN CASE
I Two hit-and-run charges grow-
ing out of one traffic accident
and involvmg occupants of one
car formed a court oddity heard
by Justice M. C. Zintheo Satur-
day. I
It happened like this:
A car bearing a Kitsap County
license sideswiped a car driven
by Horace. J. Skelsey of Shelton
a .few minutes after midnight
Friday morning as the Skelsey
car stopped on the Purdy Canyon
cutoffbefore entering the Olym-
pic highway, the Kitsap car
turning off the Olympic highway
to enter the cutoff road.
state Patrolman Cliff Aden.
summoned to the scene, started
up the cutoff in pursuit of the
hit-and-run car and discovered it
over the bank along the Skoko-
mish River a mile farther along.
He arrested the driver, Nelse
W. Burch, 41, of Bremerton, and
released his woman companion,
Helen Schmidt, 33, also of Brem-
erton. After questioning Burch,
however, Aden learned that the
woman had been driving at the
time their car hit the Skelsey car
but had surrended the wheel to
Burch shortly afterward and he
had been at the wheel when the
machine went over the bank.
So Aden arrested the Schmidt
woman, too. and tried both on
hit-and-run charges before Jus-
tice Zintheo. The Woman was
fined $100 and court costs of $4.70
and was denied the right to ap-
ply for a driver’s license for a
year, she not having one at the
time. ~
Burch was fined $100, of which
$55 was suspended. plus court
costs and his license, revoked for
a year, and was instructed to pay
for the damages done to the
Skelsey car. County Prosecutor
Frank Heuston tried _the double
case.
Don Daniels of Seattle was ar-
rested and incarcerated in the
county'jail on a traffic charge
yet to be made after the Seattle
man’s arrest Sunday for parking
across the Navy Yard highway
near the Waterwheel district. Dan-
iels has not been tried yet.
PUBLIC-CAUSED FIRES SHOW ‘7‘
MARKED DECLINE THIS YEAR
the face of one of the driest and
POtenE‘any most dangerous sea-
sons In recent years, the num—
ber 0f man“Caused fires in Wash-
ington has shown a marked de-
crease, according to the mm_sea_
son report of T. S. Goodyear,
State foresaw, made public to-
day.
ers and smokers,” Goodyear com-
mented' “The score a year ago
“Va?” 490’ may it stands at 291.
Thls reductlon of 200 fires and it
indicates the great public is slow—
ly awakening to the dangers 0f
fliPPEd Cigarets and other burn-
mg material.”
igncendiaries are still with
“5' G°°dyear said, f‘and they
have tset 117 forest fires this
0 date. compared with 118
a year ag0-" Brush burning by
TanChers, and others has resulted
1“ 126 flres this season, compared
to only 77 last year at this
time. Railroads have been re-
sponsible for but 55 fires, where-
as a year ago the number thus
caused Was 68'
Logging fires this year are
about average in number, totaling
40 compared to 41 last year. The
same is true of slash burning,
eight fires last year, nine this
year_ Grouped under the .head-
mg .of “Miscellaneous” last year
were 202 fires. This season the
figure is 122 to date.
Total man-caused forest fires
last year at this time was 1004,’
and the total this season is 760.
Lightning had set an even
hundred fires last year at this
time, 328 this season to date.
In commenting on the mid -
Season report Goodyear said he
was convmoed that motorists were
at last beginning to find out what
ash trays are for, but that there
is still much room for improve-
ment in. the record of smoke-
caused fires.
expres-
Come, boys and girls. Your education is free. Your land is free. And you
are free to learn to the best of your capacity, so that you will grow to be
useful,
happy citizens of this land of liberty.
It’s the American Way .
hool!
SHELTON SHEET
METAL WORKS IS
STARTED TODAY
City Now Boasts Best Equipped
Sheel Metal Shop On The
Peninsula
With. building construction com-
pleted, undainstallation of mach—
any .almost finished, Shelton’s
latest industrial plant, the Shei-
ton Sheet Metal Works is now
bpen forwibusiness. ‘
' Martin J. Hart, proprietor of
the new plant, announced that
he is now accepting jobs.
The sheet metal works is hous-
'ed in a 32x50.,frame structure
situated on south. third street near
the Mason County Creamery. The
building is of onenstory construc-
tion with a full concrete floor
and concrete foundations through-
out. The roof itself is of four-
ply construction covered with tar
and gravel.
A feature of the building is the
22 window:;, or a total of over
500 square feet of window space.
An office is built into the south-
east corner of the building, with
the rest of the floor space being
filled with machinery and bench-
es.
Mr. Hart purchased the site'
for his new shop from Charles
'Hargraves. He also, purchased
Hargraves’ newly constructed
home, situated next to the shop,
which he has remodeled for his
family.
According to Hart, the new
shop is one of the most fully
equipped and up-to-date sheet
All types of sheet metal work will
be done, as well as construction
and repair of tanks and furnace
units.
Mr. Hart has had many years’
of experience in the sheet metal
business. He moved from Port-
land, where he had a shop, to
Bremerton in 1932. He has been
in the Navy Yard city since that
time, deciding to move to Shel-
ton this year, because of more
permanent business conditions inI
this area.
The new shop is equipped with
some very up-to-date machinery
p almost any
type of metal work. These heavy
which will cut metal up to 14-in.
will handle I/A-in. plate and a pow-
plate. The latter two machines
a good illustration of the excellent
with these heavy machines the
drills, rollers, cutters and 0 th e r
Meeting For Friday
lwill be mapped by Shelton’s fem-
linine bowlers Friday night when
they meet at eight o’clock in the
Shelton Recreation Parlors.
At the men’s meeting last Fri-
day it was decided to start the
city league season Friday, Sep-
tember 19 and the commercial
league competition Thursday, Sep-
tember 18. No officers were elect-
ed, that detail being postponed un-
til after the opening of the season.
Work on resurfacing the alleys
to conform to American Bowling
Congress regulations was begun
today, and will take the rest of
this week, Proprietor Al Ferrier
extreme amount of light as it has
metal works in the Southwest.
ca able of handling
machines include a rotary sheer,
in thickness; a power roll which
er brake, which will handle l/S'in.
were built by Mr. Hart, and are
work which he turns out. Along
shop includes a. multitude of small
tools.
Bowling Fems Slate
Details of their 1941-42 season
reports.
SCHOOL TERM
f Cloquallum Grade School Pupils
' Coming Here; Kindergarten
Pre-Registration Is
Promising
With a full day today to get
,final details completed, both
teachers and students are set for
(tomorrow’s opening of the 1941—
42 school term in Shelton and
in most rural Mason County dis—
tricts.
One of the final details which
was wiped up late last week was
completion of arrangements to
bring Cloquallum district grade
school pupils to Shelton for‘their
schooling this term. Previously,
I the Cloquallum board of directors
,had made arrangements to send
‘all Cloquallum district children to
Elma, after it was decided not to
ALL SET FOR '
START OF NEW ,
Eula Martin To
Direct L e g i o n
Her appointment as director
of all rehabilitation work in
this state for the American Le-
gion Auxiliary was received to-
day by Mrs. Eula Martin, one
of the state’s most active work-
ers in Legion Auxiliary affairs.
Mrs. Martin has been chair-
man of rehabilitation work at
the American Lake and Orting
veterans’ hospitals for the past
four years. Her new assign—
ment will place her in charge of
that work in all veterans’ hos~
pitals in the state and will
necessitate a. good deal of trav-
eling and conferences with the
various hospital superintend—
ents and rehabilitation chair-
men.
The appolntment was made
by Mrs. Cora Winteringer of
Wenatchee, Department presi-
dent of the Legion Auxiliary,
who commented in her letter
maintain the Cloquallum grade
school this year, but in so doingl
,had gone against the majority
wishes of residents of the district,
according to both City Supt. H. E.
Loop and County Supt. J. E. Mar-I
tin. I
An unofficial canvass of resi-
dents of the district is reported
to have favored sending Cloqual-
lum pupils to Shelton by a 21 tb
19 margin, but the board went
ahead with arrangements to have
the district children transported
I to Elma instead. Protests of the
parents resulted in the reversal of
arrangements and the transport-
ing of the children to Shelton.
High school pupils of the C10-
quallum_ district, however, will
continue to go to Elma, as they
have done for several years past.
The Cloquallum board itself was
divided, 2 to 1, on the issue, the
two members having businesses
in Elma favoring sending the
district‘s children to Elma, the
local school superintendents re-
ported. Both Supt. Loop and
Supt. Martin said they had been
presented with evidence proving
the majority of the district resi-
dents favored bringing their chil-
dren here.
BELFAIR BUDGET ONLY
ONE NOT APPROVED
Only the Belfair school budget
was left without tthe approval of
the county budget review board
at its meeting to review final
budgets for the 1941-42 school
terms last Friday night, Mrs.
Velma Baldwin, secretary to the
county superintendent, reported
Saturday.
The Belfair budget lacked ap-
proximately $2000 of balancing es-
timated expenditures with esti-
mated revenues, but a prospect
of securing federal aid from the
fund set up to assist districts
facing problems arising from the
influx of national defense work-
ers (as Belfair is) decided the
board to let the Belfair budget
ride for the time being.
All other budgets were approv-
ed.
LOCAL TEACHERS GO
BACK TO THEIR JOBS
A quartet of Shelton residents
who follow the teaching profes-
sion but not with the Shelton or
Mason County school system re-
turned to their posts either to-
day or will tomorrow.
They include Don Weeks, whose
mother is 3. Lincoln grade school
teacher here, returning to Kent;
Marjory Jones, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. Parry Jones, goes to
Tieton this term; Lewis Burnett,
son of Mrs. C. R. Burnett, returns
to the Seattle school system; and
Grisdale Crosby, formerly a high
school instructor in Shelton, goes
back to Twisp (in Okanogan coun-
ty) to resume the post as super-
intendent he completed last year
for his brother-in-law, who later
died.
Hoodsport School Gets
$2,500 From Tacoma
Tacoma, August‘ 28#The city
council Wednesday approved an
expenditure by the municipal light
department of $2,500 toward edu-
cation of children of city em-
ployes living at the Lake Cush-
man power plants, the sum to be
paid to the Hoodsport school dis-
trict where the children are being
sent for their education.
of appointment that “I feel you
know rehabilitation work thor-
oughly.”
FIRE COMPLETELY
RAZES HOUSE 0 N
ISLAND LAKE ROAD
City Fire Crew, Using Both
Trucks, Saves Adjoining
Residence
Fire of unknown origin com—
pletely razed the home occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Townsend
on the Island Lake road last
Friday evening while they were
away attending a show in Shel~
ton.
All furnishings and personal be-
longings were lost along with the
home, which was owned by Mrs.
Margaret Messing, who lived next
door and whose own residence
was saved only through the ef-
forts of the Shelton city volunteer
fire department.
Both the city fire trucks were
taken to the scene of the blaze
because of the lack of hydrants
or other available water supply
there, only the water storage
tanks of the two trucks being
available to fight the conflagra-
tion.
Water had to be secured from
the city hydrants at Mt. View
when the tanks ran out. The
fire had gained such headway by
the time the fire trucks were able
to arrive that efforts were con—
centrated on saving Mrs. Mess-
ing’s home next door.
EX-Shelton Man
Among Buyers Of
Olympia Arena
Three Olympia men, including
one former Shelton resident —
Dr. M. E. Kennedy — have pur-
chased the Olympia Ice Arena
from the former Tacoma owners
and will open it for the 1941-42
Skating season tomorrow (Wed-
nesday) evening.
Dr. Kennedy's associates are
G. I. Griffith and Charles Stick-
ney, thus giving the Olympia Ice
Arena a 100 per cent home own-
ership. The property has been
completely renovated during the'
summer idle months, new music
has been installed, and a new
teaching staff contracted.
Alex Lindgren, a member of the
Sonja Henie skating retinue and
a performer in several of the fa-
mous blade star‘s motion pic-
tures. including “Sun Valley Ser-
enade.” released only last week,
has been signed as professional to
handle the skating and manage-
ment of the arena, Dr. Kennedy
announced on a visit to Shelton
today.
Children‘s classes will be one of
the specialities featured by the
new management with special low
Prices arranged. '
"It’s fun to skate, so let‘s go
skating” is the Slogan adopted by
the new management.
GIRL BORN SATURDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Benson
of Route 2 became parents of a
baby daughter born Saturday at
Shelton Hospital.
‘SEE WASHINGTON FIRST’ NEW
TRAVEL THEME FOR LEWISES
After completing a week’s vaca—
tion trip last Friday, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles R. Lewis are con-
vinced some such slogan as “See
Washington First.” would be a
profitable and pleasant pattern for
a. lot of Washington folks to fol-
low, and resolved to adopt such
a policy themselves hereafter.
The trip the Shelton couple took
carried them on a “loop” south-
ward via Longview to Vancouver,
thence eastward up the north bank
of the Columbia River as far as
the Maryhill Museum, then north-
ward through Goldendale, Toppen-
ish and Yakima to Wenatchee and
back home over Snoqualmie Pass.
Mr. Lewis lauded the Maryhill
Museum highly and said he is de-
termined to return and spend a
full day browsing through the
very interesting collections on dis-
play there. The famous stone
henge in the same vicinity is an-
other interesting sight, he added.
A visit with a grade and high
school chum at Wenatchee proved
exceptionally interesting to Mr.
Lewis as his old friend is the
man who designed the buildings
for the well known Howe-Sound
Mine on Lake Chelan.
Although he has lived virtually
all his life in Washington, Mr.
Lewis admitted his trip last week
took him through the Blewett and
Snoqualmie passes for the first
time.
“Yes, sir. My own example con-
vinces me too many of us Wash-
ingtonians know too little about
our own state,” Mr. Lewis com-
mented.
Rehabilitation 1
UNITED
STATES
is lit! oilith humour; wk
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
WEATHER DOPE
‘OF AGE’ NOW;
TEN YEARS UP
Rayonier Bureau Averages Now
Recognized As Official;
Wettest August Re-
corded; Year Dry
Weatherman Bernard Winiecki
and his staff of climatologists at
the Rayonier plant were celebrat-
ing the fact today that their
branch of the federal weather bu-
reau had become “of age.”
That age is ten years, for the
federal weather bureau has set a
,minimum of ten years for estab-
lishing averages before they can
be officially recognized as repre-
senting accurate pictures.
The end of August brought that
ten year period of “waiting” to a
close for the Rayonier branch bu—
ireau, and with it these interesting
{rainfall averages, as computed
this morning by Bob Jackson,
member of the bureau:
Shelton’s average annual preci-
'pitation over that ten year period
is 62.25 inches.
The monthly rainfall averages
are:
Jan. ........ .. 10.753July .......... .. 0.92
Feb. .......... .. 7.98lAug. 1.14
March ...... .. 6.98}Sept. .......... .. 2.48
April ________ ,. 3.50pm. 5.70
May .. 2.68,Nov. ._ 8.34
June __________ __ 1.61lDec. ........ .. 14.17
Jackson went a step further
and found out that 1941 to date
is almost ten inches shy of the
average rainfall for the first
eight months, having up to the end
of August only 25.52 inches again-
st an average for the first eight
months of 35.56 inches over that
ten year period.
Dry Record Possible
With 25.52 inches so far, it
leaves almost 37 inches of rain
to go in the last four months
before 1941 can reach “average”
figures for the year, and over 23
inches to go to set a new dry
record. The driest year on record
in the ten so far is the 48.66 inch
figure set in 1938.
This past August was the wet-
test on the ten-year Rayonier re-
cords with its total of 3.17 inches,
almost two, inches above. the aver:
age precipitation for " the month,
Jackson reported. The previous
wettest August during the ten-
year period was that of 1937 when
2.05 inches was recorded.
The month’s dampness was pre-
cipitated on ten different days,
with the heaviest 24—hour fall oc-'
curring on the last day of the
month, when 0.65 inches was reg-
istered on the Rayonier instr-
uments.
High Temperatures
This past August was also a
warmish month, as well as wet
for this time of year. The average
temperature of the month was 64
degrees, derived from a mean
maximum of 75 degrees and a
mean minimum of 53 degrees. A
thermometer reading of 92 de-
grees on the 7th was the hottest
of the month, with a 90 degree
reading on the 19th, an 89 degree
reading on the 8th and an 87 de-
gree reading on the 6th as tops
in the maximum temperature de-
partment. Coldest reading of the
month was 45 degrees on the 6th.
Twelve days-Were listed as clear
in August, 13 as cloudy and six
as partly cloudy.
Legion Officers
Seated Tonight
With 4th District Commander
Anker Bjornstad of Edward B.
Rhodes post of Tacoma presid-
ing, new officers of Fred B. Wi-
vell American Legion post will
be installed this evening in Mem-
orial Hall at ceremonies com-
mencing at eight o’clock.
District Commander Bjornstad
will seat Mel Dobson, one of the
post’s most active members, as
its new commander; Herbert G.
Angle as first vice-commander;
Sherman Soule as second vice-
commander; Earl Johnson as ad—
jutant; Harold Lakeburg as fi-
nance officer; Horace Crary as
chaplain; Ed Faubert as histor-
ian; Claude Jackson as sergeant-
at—arms; John Sullivan as senior
color-bearer; Robert Coates as
junior color—bearer; and Retiring
Commander John Eliason as a
member of the post executive
board.
LABOR DAY DAUGHTER
A baby daughter was born La-
bor Day to Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Anderson of Allyn.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
TONIGHT—American Legion
pest and auxiliary meetings, 8
p. m., Memorial Building, in-
stallation of post officers.
WEDNESDAY—Opening of Shel-
ton and most Mason County
schools for 1941-42 terms.
WEDNESDAY~~A c t i ve Club
weekly dinner meeting, 6:30 p.
m., Moose Hall.
WEDNESDAY—Odd Fellows
Lodge weekly meeting, 8 p.m.,
I.0.0.F. Hall.
THURSDAY—City council semi-
monthly meeting, 8 p.m., city
hall.
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