l}
3'
X‘
V Attendance H58,
Ahead Of Record
939: Jr. High
“1’3 Record
\
te enrollment records
fin l‘day and new ones
, the Shelton school
“the opening of the
V... I City School Supt.
announced this after-
he
,8
ta.
hPWed a total of 1,-
111 class yesterda'
39. Supt. Loop rc-
eelll‘ollm'ent figure of
“b4? students at-
i e ering the pre-
v“.. 3:432 set in 1939.
g in In Grades
61 gained stronglv.
35614 yesterday from
,1,“ total on opening
‘ 10's Senior high school
3: us 0f 30 in its open-
Ptedment when 407 stu-
for the start of
lll§.’£1in.st last year’s
~ gain in the grades
31:8 for by the addition
andfrom the Cloqual—
Middl SIX Sixth graders
e Skokomish dis-
Whom have come
5': Supt. Loop point-
9;:
Ex 1 '
g 1. big named
-. f h drop he attri-
bmfct that many boys
“pref age have secured
re? to hold them
h urn to school and
ave enrolled in Un-
A 8. pointed out.
th 1n the total en-
he entire city sys-
‘3 Senior high school
p:- Loop credited
otal‘ting of the “new
é): plant. now em—
1'1, West Up
lease in school en-
W, a general trend
ashington along
es’Pecially in locali-
_h§nse work is under
herng such localities.
ease is contrary to
over the nation
» col‘fllng to the U. S.
: altIon at Washing-
?h predicted a rec-
I‘Mtrischool attendance
rate buting it to the
V during the depres-
nga" Dre-school open-
, Were fulfilled .when
, nl‘Olled for yester-
eagainst last year’s
’1 then was a new}
head-of-the-canal
.
fined By
' -iHedrick
D:
_the Shelton Radio
datt (1121 Cota street,
. 0 ay by Hobert
etol‘ of the new
-. wannounced t h a t
Manell‘lknown l o 0 a1
.9 at Will have charge
Will handle all
Service.
and latest type
1'Clur buildings of thei
l‘Wious record of 1,-‘
~ 1,01" high set a new‘
Troops of boys and
0f 100 men. ‘
‘50 repair work
to make this
1y equipped ra-
o
luff Nash car agent
fry’ Plans to leave
0““ Seattle on a
c .
frrylng Northwest
be gone about
am: he factory in
. Willa gre-View of the
. e
“I, 11 will given.
in laughter-echoing buses.
They have, in three
MOODY, D.
6017 S .
PORTLAND.
0.
w“.
girls are answering the call
to class again this week after a summer of freedom.
Merrily they go their ways,
afoot, astridc bicycles, and
months of vacation, perhaps
become a. trifle forgetful of the hazards of traffic, may
be inclined to bc a little careless where caution should
be their first concern.
So let us who drive our cars and our trucks
through areas and across intersections frequented by
school children take the burden of carecfulncss fully
upon our own shoulders. We, too, perhaps have for-
gotten the dangers carefree, rollicking children be-
come to motorists after three months of summer com-
partively free of that hazard.
We who drive our
cars and trucks must BE
AWAKE, ALIVE to the return of the school-crossing
danger.
So, DRIVE CAREFULLY, at all times, but es-
pecially in school zones and school crossings.
Mt. Pershing To
Form Background
Of County Booth
Signifying the first start toward
preparation of Mason County’s an-
nual exhibit booth at the Puy-
allup Fair, a beautiful Olympic
Mountain scene showing Mt.
Pershing in the background and
a small waterfall in the fore-
ground painted by Mel Beat-den,
Hood Canal artist, has been
hanging in one of the Lumber-
men’s Mercantile main display
windows for the past week or ten
days.
.The picture will form the back-
ground for the 1941 Mason Coun‘
ty booth, which will again be
arranged by Lee Huston, who 1133-5
never placed lower than fourth In
over 25 years of handling the M?‘
son County booth. Huston Will
shortly begin making the rounfls
of county ranches, farms and
dairies to collect the products he
wants to go into the exhibit.
Bearden has painted the baCk'
ground pictures which have been
used for the Mason County bOOth
for the past half dozen years. The
last scene was of a Hood Canal
vista, which Huston used for the
past three years. The Shelton
Chamber of Commerce financeS
the fair booth.
L- Knowlton
‘7 0f the wild and
est» the deer have
gr Portion of the
encompany’s crop.
on, as many as a
mals in the field
When the game
nd to shooting a
j ’11 e damage was
took the deer
:81 3 Company took
Elke cougar roaming
_' babake Maggie, and
Seal on exhi-
POint Camp, at
- . y Proved an in-
‘ , “Dewey Hulburt
at a] on the beach
house where it
-~This week’s .
AL. COUGAR CROWD
DLINEs IN TAHUYA NE
had been abandoned by its mO‘
ther in the , rly morning hourS.
and called ogf’Sylvia Godwin to
help with the care of it. More
than a hundred people went dOWn
to look at the little mammal On
Sunday afternoon.
And just as the interest in the
baby seal was declining Austin
Sebring came driving down 011t
of the hills to report a large 0011‘
gar that had stalked his car near
Lake Maggie. Once again the
Godwins were called into ache“
and took to the hills with the1r
trusty gun and hound dog.
took the gun and dog and Mrs‘
Rod remained behind. She saw
the cougar, but had no gun, Where'
as, Rod had the gun but saw 110
cougar. Result, the cougar ‘5
still at large.
ws,
Food Stamp Sale
In August‘$3906
August food stamp sales at the
Mason County dispensing office
tOtalled $3,906 in value, through
,the actual purchase of $2604 in
lorange stamps and the issuance
01" $1302 in the free blue stamps
which go along with the orange,
according to the monthly recap-
itulation made by Miss Joyce
West, food stamp clerk.
The report showed that
420
individuals in 170 families (no du—
PllcatlonS) participated in the
food stamp plan during the month,
that 769 individuals in 357 fam—
ilies-were certified as eligible to
partiCipate at the close of the
month, that 85 individuals in 22
families had been dropped off the
eligibility fist during the month
‘while 33 individuals in nine fam-
ilies had been certified during the
month.
.—
HAH_~
MANY-WINDOWED HOME OF NEW
tin
and affords a better
————————
l
i
, - Hart, lately of Brcmcrtom _
to” future economic standing. He believes tha
due to national defense work,
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, September 4, 1941.
.lSSlSl’thE T0
up tllllBlNG
3qu iii in
Old Age Pensioners Receive $66,-
l29 Since Initiative 141 Be-
came Effective In Mason
(70.; Each Month More
. Since Initiative. 141 became ef-
fective last February, raising old
age pensions in this state to a
lmaximum of $40 a month, Mason
County old age assistance reci-
pients have received a total of
$66,129, County Welfare Admin-
istrator Glen Ratcliff revealed to-
,day in releasing figures on pub-
‘lic assistance for the month of
August.
Each month since the new old
lage assistance schedule went into
ieffect the total monthly benefits
have risen in Mason County. This
ipast August’s total of $11,895 is
the highest of the six months
lsince the new schedule was be-
igun. During August a total of
379 persons of 65 years of age
1or more were benefitted by old
tags assistance in Mason County,
or approximately two-thirds of
the estimated total number of
iresidents of the county over 65
years of age as near as avail-
, able figures permit.
Monthly Totals Mount
The monthly increase in old
'age benefits since the new law
became effective is pictured here:
'March payments $9,581; April
payments $10,533; May payments
$10,956; June payments $11,339:
July payments $11,825; August
Dayments $11,985. The relative-
ly small increases of the past
months, however, would seem to
indicate somewhere near a peak
has been reached.
At the present time the O.A.A.
payments are being made to in-
dividuals in an age range of 65 to
93 years, county welfare records
show.
Getting back to the August pub-
lic assistance picture, a total of
$13,534.35 was spent on old age,
aid to dependent children, blind
pensions, and general home re-
lief benefits this past month, Ad-
ministrator Ratcliff announced to-
day.
$13,534.34 Spent In August
Of this total the old age as-
sistance already mentioned, $11,-
895, was the largest item. Aid to
dependent children, in which 80
children in 30 families partici-
pated, paid $1,140; eight indivi-
duals received a total of $242:in
blind pensions; and 19 families
were paid a total of $257.35: for
general assistance or direct re-
lief for such purposes as pur-
chasing food, clothing and rent,
or what is termed outdoor relief.
In addition, 26 individuals were
given medical assistance by either
the county or private physician
to the extent of $246.67 during
the month, seven individuals re-
ceived hospitalization to the ex-
tent of $109.90, and three indivi-
duals were given boarding care
at an expense of $115.
Totals for the month for pub-
lic health, tuberculosis and ad-
ministration had not been com-
puted today.
THREE ENROLL IN 000
FROM HERE LAST WEEK
Three Mason County boys were
enrolled in the CCC last week and
sent to the Elwah Camp on the
Olympic Peninsula, Welfair Ad-
.ministrator Glen Ratcliff report-
ed today.
The boys were sent there be-
cause it is composed of Washing-
tgn boys While the Elma camp is
composed of out-of—state lads and
the Quilcene Camp has been
transferred to DuPont, near Fort
Lewis, Ratcliff explained.
TREATED AT HOSPITAL
Evered Odem of Shelton ‘was
admitted to Shelton Hospital for
treatment Tuesday.
IL
l
iEXAMlNATlON FOR
CIT Y PO‘LICEMEN
AGAIN DELAYED
Civil Service Board Finds It Must
First Pick Own Examining
Officer Thru Test
More delay in selecting a third
member of the city police force
loomed today when the new civil
service board, recently appointed
by Mayor William Stevenson,
learned that the statutes provide
that the board’s secretary and
chief examiner must be chosen
by civil service examination.
The board had named one of
its own members, Doane Brodie,
to that position at its organiza-
tion meeting two weeks ago, at
the same time that L. D. Hack
was named chairman.
Now, however, the examination‘
for selecting a secretary and ex-
lamjn‘ng officer has been set by
the board for September 16 at
seven-wo’clock in the city hall with
applications for the office accept—
ed up to five o’clock of the same
date.
This necessitates postponement
of the examination for establish-
ing an eligible list for the police
force to some date after the clerk
and examining officer examina-
tion.
However, applications for the
police examination will be closed
at the originally announced time,‘
September 10, at seven o’clock,
the board announced today. The
examination will be held at the
earliest possible date following the
selection of the board secretary
and examining officer.
To avoid any possibility of con—
flict with a statute which is none
too clear at best, the civil service
board members haVe agreed to
consider themselves ineligible to
take the examination for the sec-
retary and examining officer post.
This is not a salaried office inso-
far as the statutes are concerned
and the civil service board has no
power to set salaries or fees, but
the city council could establish
a rate of fees to be paid for any
examinations conducted by the ex-
amining officer, the board pointed
out.
V.F.W. Schedules
Meeting Friday Eve
V.F.W. post and auxiliary units
will start off on their fall meet—
ing Schedules Friday evening with
sessions starting at eight o’clock
irr Memorial Building.
Routine business is slated.
LOCAL BUSINESS
Shelt
(Photo by Andrews)
This excellent new addition to Shelton’s business buildings was erected
by Mar-
because of his confidence in the stability of Shel-
t while Bremerton is booming now
On’s business volume is of a more stable nature
future than the Navy Yard city.
The building shown above hPMSBS the sheet metal equipment which Mr. Hart
placed in Operation this week With the opening of his new busmcss here.
Note the
many windows, affording one Of the best lighted business structures in
Shelton. The
buil
and Goldsborough Creek.
ding is located at 321 South Third street, between the Mason County
Creamery
l
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
TONIGHTaCity council semi
monthly meeting, p. m., city
hall.
FRIDAY—V. F. W. post and
auxiliary meetings, p. m.,
Memorial Building.
FRIDAYkMoose Lodge Weekly
meeting, p. m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse.
MONDAYHWomen’s b o W] in g
meeting, p. m., Shelton Rec-
reation Parlors.
MONDAY——County commission-
ers weekly meeting, 10 a. m.,
courthouse.
MONDAY—Eagles aerie weekly
meeting, 8 p. m., Moose Hall.
MONDAY—Defense Council aux-
iliary fire unit meeting, 5 p. m.,
city fire hall.
MONDAYMCivilian Defense
Council meeting, 8 p. m., court-
house.
TUESDAY~7Kiwanis Club lunch-
eon, noon, Shelton Hotel.
Timber Trespass
Near Hoodsport
Costs Man $2,287
Olympia—Three trespassers on
state timber lands of the Queets
Valley area have paid penalties
to the state amounting to $4,500,
Land Commissioner Jack Taylor
said today.
Another trespasser in the Hoods-
port area paid the state $2.287.
Taylor. said. Some of the tres-
passes are by accident and some
are deliberate, the commissioner
continued, in speaking of the tres-
,pass situation as a Whole.
He said if the legislature had
provided the three extra cruisers
the department asked for, it
would have meant “thousands of
dollars to the state.’f
“As it is, we have not enough
men to search out the trespass-
ers, but must depend on almost
accidental discovery of such vio-
lations."
Defense Council
Session Monday
After this week’s vacation,
meetings of the Civilian Defense
Council will resume next Monday
evening with a session in the
courthouse at eight o’clock which
will be devoted principally to or-
ganizing a supply unit, Commis-
sioner Doane Brodie reminded the
public today.
The Defense Council has al-
ready organized an auxiliary fire
unit, which is now meeting 1n-
dependently of the parent body.
Incidentally, the fire unit Will
meet next Monday afternoon at
,five o’clock and will take the
lneW city fire truck down to the
city dock for a demonstration of
how it operates and what it can
do.
City Fire Chief Dean Carmen
Iis chairman of the unit.
O.E.S. Rites For
Mrs. Fred Hanson
Eastern Star funeral rites will
be conducted for Mrs. Jeanette
Hanson, 69, of Minerva Beach, who
died at the Cushman hospital in
Tacoma Tuesday, by Elinor Chap-
ter next Saturday at two o’clock
from the Masonic Temple in
Shelton.
She is survived by her husband,
Fred, prominent figure in af-
fairs of the Lower Skokomish
school district and owner of Min-
erva Beach resort; a daughter,
Miss Alice Hanson, living at the
home; two step-daughters, Mrs.
Olympia Tern of Bellingham and
Mrs. Agnes Granger of Port Or-
chard; and two step-sons, Wall-
ace 0. Hanson and Buster S. Han-
son, both of Minerva Beach.
BELFAIR MAN ILL
Medical treatment was accord-
ed Martin Petrie of Belfair yes-
terday after his admission.
UNITED
. STATES
’ SAVINGS
[w sum 1] your mum to; ink
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
~ Newest Addititm To Shelton School System
(Photo by Andrews)
This is the exterior view Sheltonians enjoy of the new school gymnasium
com-
pleted only a few days ago at Ninth and Pine streets, a convenient location
approxi-
mately half way between the senior and junior high school buildings. The
exterior of
the new gym is being left in its natural color for the present time as the
cost of
construction of the building ran considerably higher than original
estimates. (See
inside page of this issue for interior scenes of the new gym).
!NEW COMMANDER—
ASSlGNS LEGION
COMMITTEE MEN
Dobson Names Appointments Soon
After Being Seated Tues-
day By District Head
Wasting no time in assigning
duties to fellow post members,
Commander Mel Dobson announc-
ed committee appointments for
the 1941-42 term only a few
minutes after he was seated as
chief executive of Fred B. Wivell
American Legion post last Tues-
day evening.
Fourth District Commander An-
ker Bjornstad of Tacoma, flank-
ed by
Eatonville posts, acted as in-
stalling officers.
Co-incident with the starting of
a new term came also the open-
ing of the post’s annual mem-
bership drive, this year Fred B.
Wivell post having 'a quota of
135 members to reach. The mem-
bership campaign will be directedL
jointly by First Vice-Commander.
Herb Angle and Adjutant Earl
Johnson, who head a committee
rounded out by Harold Lakeburg,
Ed Faubert, Bob Coates, Cliff
Ford, Fred Hickson and Walt
Nash.
Other committees named by
Commander Dobson Tuesday are:
Child Welfare—H a r r y Perry,
Horace Crary, Homer Taylor.
Junior Baseball—E. E. Brewer,
Homer McComb, Dick Eddy, Bill
LeDrew, Bob Little, and Bill
Witsiers.
Entertainment—Walt Nash,
Maurice Needham, George And-
reWS, and Charlie Darrow.
Armistice Dance—John Eliason,
Gene Martin, Roland Gerhardt,
Cliff Wivell. .
Disaster and Relief—Ed Fau—
bert, Vin Connolly, Dr. George Le-
Compte.
Post Service Officer, Sick Call,
Relief and Rehabilitation — Gene
(Continued on Page Five)
EF. Cold, Chico Nice,
County Jailer Reports
Roy Daniels, day jailer and of-
fice clerk for the sheriff’s staff,
arrived back in Shelton today af-
ter a month’s vacation in San
Francisco and Chico, Calif-y Visit-
ing his sons and daughters.
Mrs. Daniels and their two
youngest daughters remained in
the “sunny south,” which Mr.
Daniels failed to find very sun—
ny, he said. In San Francisco he
said he “nearly froze” but Chico,
in the Sacramento Valley, he en-
1
TRUCK, TRAIN
COLLlSlllNlT
KA’MllQllE WED.
Two Truck Occupants Miracuous-
ly Escape \Vith Minor In-
juries; Locomotive Do-
railed By Crash
Two young men miracuously
escaped death and serious injury
in a truck~train wreck at Kam-
ilche Wednesday noon which re-
sulted in the derailing of a North-
ern Pacific locomotive and ser-
ious damage to the truck. Only
the slow speed at which the train
was traveling saved the truck
occupants, it is believed.
The accident occurred a few
minutes after noon at the rail-
road crossing on the’ Olympic
Highway at the bottom of the
Kamilche grade when a truck
driven by W. W. Cort, 25, of Aber-
deen, collided with a Northern
Pacific train inbound for Shel-
ton.
Cort suffered a slight cut on
his forehead and Raymond Shaw,
19, of Capitol Hill, Shelton, rid-
ing with Cort, was treated at
Shelton Hospital for a bruised
hip. Hospital attendants said
Shaw probably would be able to
go home this afternoon.
Escape Held Miracle
The cab of the truck, which
had a large flat-bed trailer load-
ed with lath from the McCleary
Timber plant here, was crushed
so badly that observers swear it
was a miracle that either of the
truck occupants escaped without
at least serious injuries.
The two front drivers of the
locomotive derailed from the im-
pact of the collision and the
steam pipes of the big engine were
joyed very much.
Manager E. W. Johnson of Pub—
lic Utility District No. 3 started
his vacation today by going to
work on the bounding main.
He went to Astoria, Oregon, to
spend the next ten days or so
with the fishing fleet off the
Oregon or Washington coasts.
Johnson moors his smack, one
of the largest boats in the tuna
fleet with its 62—foot bow-to-stern
measurement, at the Bedell Boat
Moorage here on Shelton Bay
during the off season.
The craft carries a crew of
five men, the P.U.D. manager will
be a sixth this trip, and can car-
ry as much as 32 tons of fish if
the crew is lucky enough to hit
a school where they can load to
capacity.
Record Prices This Season
Tuna prices have reached rec-
ord figures this season, bringing
over $300 a ton in almost every
port of entry, even going as high
as $330 in some cases.
Mr. Johnson is boarding his
craft today somewhat in cur-
iosity as well as for a vacation,
for this season his crew is using
a new method of fishing for tuna
which was introduced into the
Northwest tuna fleet from Cali-
fornia.
P.U.D. 3 MANAGER GOES TUNA
FISHING DURING VACATION
broken. Traffic across the in-
tersection was held up for two
hours while another locomotive
was sent over from Elma to help
push the damaged engine back on
a dozen Legionnaires from the tracks and while‘ the wreck—
Edward B. Rhodes, Tacoma and age was belng Cleared fI‘Om the
highway. Traffic was routed
around by way of the McCleary
road entering the Olympic high-
way near the Oyster Bay school
and through Kamilche Valley to
the Grays Harbor cutoff road.‘
Failed To See Train
Cort told investigating offic-
ers that he was making a “run”
for the grade on the opposite side
of the railroad tracks with his
heavily loaded truck and failed
to see the approaching train.
The locomotive caught the
truck at the cab door opposite
the driver’s seat and scattered
lath around the landscape like
jackstraws for many yards. The
side of the locomotive itself was
covered with lath like a room in
a new home before plastering.
13th Auction Sale
Deadline Sept. 20
The board of county commission-
ers set September 20 as the dead-
line for filing applications for the
13th in the series of tax—title pub-
-lic auction land sales it is spon-
soring at its weekly meeting this
week, delayed a day because of
Labor Day.
The board did not set a date
for holding the sale.
A resolution was passed order-
ing vacating the alley in Block
11, Mt. View addition, between I
and J streets when no objections
were heard to the petition filed
recently by J. D. Calkins et a1.
Another resolution was ' passed
declaring the creation of the
Hoodsport fire protection district
which was voted by the residents
of the area by the necessary
vote last week and declared H. E.
Lockwood, H. R. Dickinson, and
J. C. McKiel as the duly elected
commissioners of the fire dis-
trict.
It is the use of a bait box built
into some of the larger tuna
boats, and Mr. Johnson hasn’t
seen the system in operation yet.
Anchovies are seined and placed
in the bait box, he said before
leaving yesterday, then used in
the same manner as feed eggs by
trout fishermen, that is, the an-
chovies are tossed by the handful
into a school of tuna and the un-
baited h00ks right with them. The
tuna grab everything in sight,
including the bare hooks.
Staining Not Practicable
Tuna are not seined in general
practice because they bruise eas-
ily and the meat is spoiled as
far_ as commercial purposes are
concerned when it is bruised, Mr.
Johnson explained.
Fishermen on tuna boats oper—
ate on a share basis. The owner
takes thirty per cent of the
gross returns, then expenses are
deducted, then the balance divided
among the crew members. Un-
der conditions such as exist this
year the crew members are mak-
ing excellent money.
After the tuna season Mr. John-
son's boat goes into the salmon
season before being brought to
1 Shelton for its winter mooring.
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