Phone tUrcla y.
D Mp,
8 ballot boxes or
.,,
.\ out.
Kke this for a free
’3 cash awards of
TO COME
Begin Busy
uesday's
Celebration
" ptEI' No. 7, Royal
( held its first meet-
season in the Shel-
i‘, Temple, Tuesday
some thirty Royal
Vr°m Tacoma, Aber-
‘v0 and' Bremerton
-* nlbers of Olympia
Gibrating the mov-
Dter, from Olym-
Presiding offic-
. . Catto, High Priest.
rfigular meeting of
Mn be October 28th,
k Master and Past
“ will be conferred
dates.
: Iurday evening, Sept—
V-Mgzlnmnt Chapter at
1 be host to all
chapters of South-
“ when the cus-
. regional meetings
~n after a lapse of
The Grand High
hlngton and other
officers will at-
4i»). a1 meet.
andery No. 23
“l p. m. Satur-
v28th to confer
Endidates, Sidney
‘Catto, Roy Kim-
Kennedy and
and Knight of
Will be conferred
n by West Gate
South Bend. A
held from 6:00
In the evening,
. Xhandery of Se—
the Knight Tem-
ngv attended by
‘ ~d91‘y officers and
'. ' representing
mmandery in west-
0 Will be the larg-
‘ f York Rite Ma-
olyrnpia in many
In Shelton
‘ W- Burlcy was
._.0f the Shelton
Its annual elec-
‘ut Monday
succeeding
Who had served
91' executive since
Over two years
8 over her office
rs. Cropper ex-
ks to the officers
their fine loyalty
. Deer was chosen
3 I”_"3-'sident, Mrs. J.
:wgefident, Mrs. E.
, esbonding secre-
tAMarcus Rodgers
w W- All ballots
I10! .t
. , the
he projects un-
CIub since its
111 feature of the
.thaln project, of
e Railroad Ave-
all and which was
dent.
InStigated for 8
t0 be held next
344 I
,3 “1991‘s ‘was an .un-
Monday's meet-
beautiful yellow
Mrs. F. M. Gage
sisters grown by
f10Wer arrange-
r much attention
0D dahlias grown
dDeer, the mixed
Snaps of Mrs.
. I? O. E. Gonter’s
' nlitzturtiums, the
-ephine marigolds
J. F. Stotsbury,
1‘8- Walter Kull-
' dahlias.
‘3 to the “North-
i the club rates,
.n to Mrs. James
0Ctober 1.
Wnere you are.
ant-Ad
8:0U NOTHING TO ENTER!
L “St clip and fill out the entry
'world production of wheat
in i
Mrs. I
Work which was :
,_ c0mmittee headed 1
Of which will bei
'An informal ex- I
1 drawing manyl
:you Tracking Those Cash
38 In The Football Contest?
You football ,fans haye until 10 a.m.,
Saturday morning to get your ballots
into the ballot boxes at The Journal,’
L. M..
Grocery and make a bid for the $5
cash prize given away each week in
the third annual Mcrchants’-Journal
football
this week.
Munro's, Wilson’s, or Ralph’s
which
sweepstakes starts
5“ have to do is take last Tuesday’s Journal, look on
.0 section of football advertisements, pick the teams
,‘géll win the games listed in the ads, fill out the ballot
deposit it in one of the ballot boxes listed above by
There is no fee of any
ballot, and deposit in
mail it to The JOurnal. If the
1 indicates your ballot was mailed before 10 o’clock
3’ It will be accepted and judged along with other
, a
‘GHT WIN THE $5, so be sure to try. . A little study
sport pages may help in determining your choices of
fin .teams, so get that sweepstakes section right now
You can't afford to pass up a golden oppor-
crack at $5 each week, or the
$25, $15 and $10 to the best
iGators at the end of the ten-week contest.
UNIVERSITY PROF
, TELLS PLACEOF
CHEMISTRY TODAY
Kiwanlans Hear Review Of Prog-
ress In Human Sustenance
Due To Experiments
Dr. H. K. Benson, who has been
head of the department of Chem-
istry of the University of Wash-
ington for many years, and of
late also interested in the chem-
istry of wine-making on Stretch
Island, gave the Kiwanis Club an
interesting review Tuesday of the
part that chemistry has and is
playing in the support of human-
ity in the line of substitutes for
the old staple food products from
the soil, and particularly now in
research to make the United
States independent of the world.
At the turn of the century, he
stated, a professor listed
and
cereals for foods, the growth of
population and the likelihood that
in forty years, which would be
1941, there would no longer be
sufficient cereal foods to feed the
world at the then rate of pro-
duction per acre. Scientists turn-
ed their attention to the question
of growth stimulants and soil
building supplies, of which nitrates
from Chile was the most import-
ant, but with other important
minmi elements from outside this:
country, most of which are not
now available to the farmer, he
continued.
However. constant scientific re-
search has been carried on until
now nearly all the three most
needed soil builders are produced.
by more or less synthetic process-
es, nitrate from the air, potash
and phosphate from phosphorous
rock found in this country, which
insures a continued surplus of
wheat and cereal products for
food, and also through the ad—
vance of chemurgy, the base for
thousands of new products and
most human needs, all now in
mark'et or ready to bring out of
pigeon holes in case of national
emergency. the University pro-
fessor told the Kiwanians.
He exhibited several articles
made by new processes out of now
waste materials. such as paper
frgm straw, plastics from casein.
soy beans and many substitutes
for items of daily use proving
equally as good as those from
old sources. Turning to wood,
Prof. Benson pointed out the
many items now made from pulp
besides paper and rayon, even to
sugar and the turning of waste
liquors in plastics, and stated that
the era of finding new uses for
what has been waste and neg-
lected by-products of manufacture.
has only begun 'with an unlimit-
ed future for old and new indus-
tries to employ the people, pro-
viding reSearch and encourage-
ment for industry is continued in
this country to take up the slack
when the war spasm is over. At
least Americans need not worry
about the future so far as sub-
sistence is concerned if they do
not waste their substance and
heritage, Dr. Benson concluded.
James Kelly Dies
Tuesday Evening
James Kelly, 63, of Route 1.
Shelton, succumbed to a long 111‘
ness at Shelton Hospital Tuesday
night. He had been, a railroad
brakeman and had worked on Ma'
son County WPA projects in T6‘
cent months.
Funeral services are scheduled
at nine o’clock Friday morning
from St. Edward's Catholic
Church with burial in Holy Cross
. division of Shelton Memorial Park.
Surviving are four sons, Rich-
ard of Shelton, George of Everett.
Rowland of Gardner, N. Y.. and
Avery of Honolulu; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. A. J. Hawkins of Hono-
lulu and Mrs. R. W. Nobles 01’
Olympia; and one sister, Mrs. T4
G. Stencel of Oquawka, Ill.
He was born at Oquawka, Oct-
ober 25, 1877.
. [Newspapers In Oven
filnk roses in ai
Route Fire Department
Newspapers inadvertently 16“
in the oven caught on fire at the
A. Almaden home at 221 quth
First street Wednesday morning,
causing an alarm which brought
the city volunteer fire department
to the scene.
No damage was done.
the
VOL. LV—NO. 77
l ..__._.___—._——_
w HELTON iiRiIl
,FIRSTTOSEE
CRISIIthIIIIs
IIIugh “’olcoit, Class of 1937,
Roaches Site Of Bomber
Wreckage Tues, With 2
Companions; Bodies
Due Today
Hugh Wolcott. graduate of
Irene S. Reed high school in the
class of 1937, was one of three
‘forest service rangers who‘ were
first to reach the grave of the
ill-fated McChord Field bi-motor—
, ed bomber on Mt. Constance Tues-
;day, according to news from the
base camp of the Army recovery
party at Tunnel Creek shelter.
Wolcott and Tony Bogachus,
both members of the Hoodsport
ranger station personnel, and
Jack Conrad, veteran Olympic
ltrapper, were the first to reach
the death site Tuesday after a
hazardous and strenuous eleven-
hour hike.
Stayed Overnight At Site
Army party for staying all Tues-
day night a.t the scene despite
having no bedding with them nor
any means of lighting a fire to
warm themselves. The wrecked
bomber and the bodies of the six
men of its crew lies at an eleva-
tion of over 7000 feet on Mt.
Constance.
Wolcott, Bogachus and Conrad
returned from the scene by differ-
ent routes yesterday in an effort
to determine the easiest way for
the Army recovery party to reach
and return the bodies to the base
camp at Tunnel Creek shelter.
Return Today Or Friday
The recovery party was not ex-
pected to be able to return to the
base camp before this evening,
possibly not until sometime to-
morrow. The bodies Were being
brought out by a mule pack train
which reached a point some seven
miles from where the wreckage
was discovered Monday by a
searching plane from McChord
Field. The big bomber had been
missing since early on the morn-
ing of September 9.
Some parts of the wrecked
plane were also beingcarried hack
p6rted from Quilcene.
Hoodsport Man Dies
At Hospital Last Eve
Howard Arthur Foster, 53, of
Hoodsport, succumbed at Shelton
Hospital last night to an illness
which had confined him to a hos-
pital bed for the past three weeks.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted Saturday at one o’clock
from Witsiers Chapel with inter-
ment in Odd Fellows division of
Shelton Memorial Park.
The only known surviving rel-
ative is a brother, Allan, living at
Hoodsport. Mr. Foster was born
in Ontario, Canada, March 10,
1888.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
Harold Ruen, 27, and Margaret
Erickson, 33, both of Union, ap-
plied for a marriage license here
yesterday.
They earned the praise of the‘
by. the recovery party, it was re
Consolidated with
‘e
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, September 25, 1941.
Dozen More
Fish Entered;
Derby Board Now Halt. F uli
Fourteen new fish, two of
rwhich replace previous entries,
graced the second annual Shelton
silver salmon derby qualifying
board today as entrants in the
derby found good pickings in
Shelton bay the past couple of
days, the mouth of Mill Creek
being a particularly productive
spot.
The net result of the latest
fish to be posted leaves the quali-
fying board one beyond being half
filled, or having 31 of its 60
rungs filled.
Ernie Cole, first entrant to post
a fish in this year’s derby, raised
his original entry yesterday with
a silver scaling ten pounds even,
:dressed according to derby regu-
lations, while Carl Rains was the
second to up his original entry
weight, with a 12-lb., 3-ounce sil-
ver yesterday.
New entries posted since the
last accounting in Tuesday's Jour-
nal include Leonard Christensen,
T. V. Dunning, Louise Huff of
Springwater Camp on Hood Can-
al, E. C. Williams, Bob Bednarski,
'Min and Hank Durand, Len Wal-
ton, Clarence Weston and Virgil
Morgan, Marian and Chet Hillman.
However, none have yet dis-
placed George Forbes at the top
of the list, whose 161/2-pounder
still leads the race for the $5-
cash prize which the derby spon-
soring committee has set up for
the biggest fish caught in the
qualifying round. Qualifying
closes October 26 with the sixty
biggest fish qualifying for the fi-
nals November 2.
Chairman Claire Tozier of the
sponsoring committee *today an-
nounced that fishermen wishing
to weigh-in fish evenings or Sun-
days may do so by telephoning
either Cy Murphy of Driskel Hard-
ware at 48 or Jim Roush of Hill-
crest at 328-J, as both have agreed
to open up their establishments
anglers
for weighing any time
have entries to post.
Today, then, the
board stands as follows:
Lbs. 025.
George Forbes .............. ..16 8
Bob Bednarski ..... .. ...15 2
Sam Bednarski .14 9
Florence Howard .14 5
Louise Huff .................. .13 15
E. C. Williams 12
Wayne Stone is
Audrey Preppernau 3
C rl Rains
Ll cille Christensen
C rl Blomgren ........ ._
Lm Walton ......... ..
Clarence Weston "i ....... ..11
Mi S. Preppernau
H
Herb Bowman ..... .. .11
Ld'n Christensen .11
Virgil Morgan .11
W' ody Johnson .. ..10 1
B n Wood .......... .. ..10 1
R.j C. Welton .............. ..10
Warren Abel .................. .10
Keith Hurst .................. ..10
Wilfred Christensen ....10
T. V. Dunning .............. ..10
Harik Durand
Ernie Cole .......... ._
John Vincent
Marian Hillman .
Chet Hillman
Minnie Durand ..
G. F. Mahaffey .......... .. 7
H
MOMNJOfiOfilk-IMI—IQ-iadwUIQKGNW
PROSECUTOR’S PROBLEM TO
METE PRACTICAL J U S T I C E;
JUVENILE CASES DIFFICULT
Problems and duties confront- bation for a period at the end of
ing a prosecuting attorney in a which, if he has proved to the
county the size of Mason are
concerned largely with applying
practical justice more than full
legal justice and should consider
the aspect ‘of Whether a... eon-
victed person will receive ‘more
good from being sent to prison
or from being allowed the oppor-
tunity to pull himself together,
Mason County Prosecutor Frank
Heuston told members of the Act-
ive Club last night while outlining
the functions of the office.
In support of his contention
that “another chance" is frequent-
ly the humane way to deal with
an individual who may have trans-
gressed against the law, he point-
ed out that records ‘show that
97 per cent of the persons given
deferred sentences do not return
to criminal ways against 70 per
cent under the suspended sentence
law.
Deferred Sentence Praised
The prosecutor said that in his
opinion the deferred sentence law
is one of the greatest steps for-
ward toward solving the prob-
lem of punishment for the “first
offender.” Under this law, he
explained, a person convicted of
a crime can be placedupon pro-
Her literary and geographical
knowledge, ‘plus a pair of sharp
eyes, made Mrs. Laura K. Plumb,
Shelton city librarian, the in-
strument by which two great
American rivers were “returned”
to their proper locations recently
and resulted in Shelton, Washing-
ton, getting its name printed in
the dignified columns of the New
day edition section labeled ‘Books.’
It all came about'when May
Lamberton Becker, author of a
column in the Tribune’s "Books"
‘section entitled “The Reader’s
Guide," stated in her article of
August 10 that the novel “They
Came To A'Biver” by Allis Mc-
Kay is a story of pioneering on
the Ohio and that the book “Hold
Autumn In Your Hand” by George
Sessmfis Perry is a warmly. hu-
man ory of hard times in 'the
San Pedro, California, bottom-
lands. Mrs. Becker had included
these two books in a list of 20
books presenting- American life
with its customs, background,
ideals and present conditions.
Discerned Errors
.' .Now a couple of discrepencies
like that would go unnoticed
PrObably by 999 out of a 1000
Persons. but not Mrs. Plumb. She
knew that “They Came To A
Rlver” Was a story concerning
our own mighty Columbia. River,
not the Ohio, and she also knew
in Texas, not California,
and so she proceeded to notify
Mrs. Becker, of her mistake-
Mrs. Plumb wrote to Mrs-
Becker, “1 have always found
your lists and comments. so helP‘
ful that I hesitate to call your
attention to an error in your at-
ticle . . . August 10 . . . for fear
you will think me critical. I am
grieved is all. Our Pacific North-
west has had so little play in
literature that we Icherish an“
I
York Herald'Tribune’s special Sun-l
NEW YORK LITERARY EXPERT
STRAIGHTENED OUT ON,TWO
ERRORS BY LOCAL LIBRARIAN
guard all the more jealously the
works of authors who write of
this locale.
Give Us Credit Due
“ . . . ‘They Came To A River”
is a story of the apple country
along ' the mighty river of the
West, the Columbia, once called
the Oregon. Too bad that name
was not kept. Let’s transplant
those apple trees from the Ohio
there.
“I lived for some years in Texas.
I think of it not as my native but
one of my foster states. I love
it . . . so may I speak a word
for Texas,\. too . . . in ‘I—Iold Aut-
umn In Your Hand,’ the interest-
ing antidote to the bitter vintage
of ‘The,Grapes Of Wrath,’ Texas
is the background. California
steals so much glory. Let’s put
the San Pedro River back where
it belongs.”
Mistake Acknowledged
Mrs. Becker acknowledged Mrs.
Plumb’s criticism in her article
in the August 31 Herald Tribune
and also wrote Mrs. Plumb a per-
sonal letter in which she said:
"You're completely right,
thank you. Honestly, it was the
queerest slip about the Columbia,
the report had to be cut to fit
columns exactly and in fitting the
remains together that happened
somehow. But how the San
Pedro slipped out of Texas pass-
es me, it must have been just in
the rush of the composing room."
Anyhow, literary accurateness
has been restored to the Colum-
bia and San Pedro thanks to the
sharp eyes and keen mind of Mrs.
Plumb, just a small town librar-
ian in the Far West who noted
the mistake made by a big city
author and had the initiative to
see that it was corrected.
Incidentally, the Shelton Li-
brary numbers both the books
concerned with this story‘upon
its shelves.
and
satisfaction of the court that he
has straightened himself out, he
can return to court and change
his plea from guilty to not guilty
to The .cl'rsrgu'. on . which he u~
Convicted and have the. chargel
dismissed, thus allowing him to
return to society without a crim-
inal record.
The suspended sentence, on the:
other hand, is a record foreverl
against a convicted person’s name, i
hesaid, all of which seems to in—
dicate that a criminal record is
a definite deterent to a convicted
individual’s re-entry into the nor-
mal channels of society.
Broken Homes Blamed
Prosecutor Heuston told his
listeners that the biggest prob-
lem of his office is with juvenile
cases and he laid the blame for
the presence of 70 percent of the
inmates of the Monroe Reform—
atory to broken homes. divorce.
“It is a tremendous problem
what to do with these young peo-
ple who come before us for pun-
ishment after breaking the law
somehow,” he said. “Basically
the great ,majority of them are
not bad and it is always a ques-
tion whether sending them to re-
form institutions will straighten
them out or, teach them more
ways to break the law and get
away with it."
The prosecutor, too, has the
problem of determining whether
a case is worth taking into court
-—again the problem of admin-
istering practical rather than full
legal justice, the county officer
said. .
Plaintiff Grilled, Too
"It has been my policy always
to be convinced in my own mind
that I had conclusive evidence be‘
fore filing any charge against a
person and I have likewise con-
ducted a practice of grilling com-
plaining witnesses just as hard as
defendants to be certain the ac-
cusation is substantiated as I feel
it would be far worse to send an
innocent person to jail than to
allow a half dozen guilty per-
sons to go free.” '
The records seem to bear out
Prosecutor Heuston’s practices,
too, for since he came here a year
and a half ago to take over the
prosecutor’s office only one of
sixty superior court cases he has
handled have required jury trial
(and a conviction was obtained
in that way) and less than a half
dozen of over 200 justice court
cases have required jury trials.
' both
superior and justice court cases
confessions were obtained, Pros-
ecutor Houston said, saving the
In the great majority of
cbunty heavy expenses.
GIRL FOR OLYMPIANS
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harrington
of Route 1, Olympia. became par-
ents of a baby daughter born on
Tuesday evening at Shelton hos-
pital.
SON FOR ZOPOLIS
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Zopolis-of
'Shelton became parents of a ba-
boy born yesterday at Shel-
by
ton hospital.
I MRS.‘ DUTCHER RECOVERING
deputy
county assessor, underwent a ma-
jor operation at Shelton hospital
today from which she is reported
.Mrs. Pearl Dutcher,
recuperating satisfactorily,
qualifying
land hospital
ENROLLMENT
TAKES STOMP
Belfair Shows Tremendous Gain
But Total Is Off Ten; 853
This Year; 2 Districts
Not Operating
Rural school enrollment shows,
a slight reduction over last year
at this time, figures released to-
' day by County School Supt. J. E.
Martin show, but the reduction is
only ten pupils.
Figures released today Show an
enrollment of 853 pupils in the
23 operating districts outside of
Shelton, against 863 pupils in 25
operating districts outside Shelton
last year. Cloquallum and Potlatch
have discontinued their schools,
the former sending its pupils to
Shelton this term, the latter to
Hoodsport.
Part of the reduction is due to
Cloquallum coming here, but oth-
er losses are shown to offset the
big gain at Belfair, which had 236
pupils at the time the enrollment
report was made against 168 last
year.
Some schools, such as Dewatto
and Grant, have but two and
three pupils respectively. The
comparison by schools this year
and last:
Lower Skokomish .......... .. 94 95
Forbes .................. .. . 13 21
Grant ...... .. .. 3 7
Union ........ .. .. 22 16
Oyster Bay . 15 24
Callow ..... .. 4 7
Eldon .... .. .. 7 10
Allyn .... .. .. 30 24
Tahuya .. 19 14
Hoodsport .............. .. .. 70 71
Upper Skokomish . .. 11 11
Southside .............. .. .. 34 36
Middle Skokomish . .. 30 37
Belfair .................. .. ..236 168
Victor ...... .. .. 15 9
Grapeview .. .. 17 20
Dewatto ____ .. .. 2 9
Camp 3 36 30
Agate . . . . . . . . . .. 16 24
Harstine .. 9 12
Lilliwaup . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 12 24
Oakland Bay .. 25 25
Mary Knight .................. .153 147
Totals ...853 863
Rogers Service
Will Be F riday,
1 P. M., Witsiers
Funeral services for Mrs. Junel
Rogers, 42, who died in a Port-
Monday evening,
will be held- at Witsiers Funeral
Home Friday at 1 o’clock, con-
ducted by Rev. David Graham,
Episcopal minister in Bellingham.
Interment will follow in the Shel—
ton Memorial Cemetery beside the,
grave of her husband, who dled
in 1930.
who came
June Day Rogers was a native
daughter of Mason County being
born at the farm for which Day-
ton Crossing was named, June
30, 1889. Her father, NeWell Day,
from Medford, Maine,
in 1883, her uncle, Joseph Day.
located on the lands that year
and cleared a small tract for gar-
den in readiness for his wife and
children who came in 1884. This
continued the family home. Where
other children were born, until
1907 when the Day family moved
to a. new home just outside of
Shelton.
Deceased is survived by a Son.
Donald, of Aberdeen, four sisters.
Mrs. Marcia Shorter, Stella Burke
and Mrs. Pearl Dutcher of Shel-
ton and Mrs. Hettie Callow of
Hoquiam, and three brothers,
Fred Day of Nehalem and Clar-
encc Day of Manzanita, Oregon.
and Sol. Day of Seattle, with a
number of nephews and nlecos.
For many years she served in
logging and lumber company of-
fices, mainly the Albert Callow
operations in Oregon, but for the
past year has made her home
with her sister, Mrs. Dutcher, m
Shelton Independent
I
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
RURAL SCHOOL ‘5 PLACED ON ELIGIBLE-
iLIST FOR CITYPOLIOE;
COMPTON HEADS GROUP
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
TONIGHT—Hood Canal Sports-
mens Ass’n September meet-
ing, 8 p.m., Hoodsport school,
pictures, reports, refreshments.
TONIGHT—Commercial League
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Central League foot-
ball, 2:30 p. m., Loop Field,
Shelton vs. Elma.
FRIDAY—City League bowling,
7 and 9 p. m., bowling alleys.
first two starts so far this
Shelton. She was a member of the
Eastern Star of Shelton.
REVOTE ON JUNIOR
HIGH PRESIDENCY.
Presidency of the junior high
.school' student body will be re-
voted upon tomorrow because no
candidate received a majority of
the ballots cast in yesterday‘s
election, Miss Maude Shorter,
principal, announced today.
Gordon Hopland received the
most votes but didn’t receive a.
majority, ,while Helen Robinson
and Gloria Swanson, tied for
runnerup, will be the other can-
didates in tomorrow’s re-vote.
Alta. Bailey won the vice-preSI-
dency with a majority total, Vir-
ginia Gray dittoed for the secre-i
tary post and Verna Cobb was
unopposed for treasurer.
Also in tomorrow’s election stu-
dents will ballot for yell leaders
with Marilyn Anderson and Elea-
nor Anne Booth as one tealm and
Dick Powers and Phillip Stoehr
as the other.
OPERATED UPON TODAY
LaVerne Liddle, Kimbel Logging
company employe, underwent a
successful major operation at the
Shelton ho‘spital today. Visitors
will not be permitted for the pres-
ent.
FRIDAY—«Moose Lodge weekly
meeting, 8 p. m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY~Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse, including
semi-annual hearings on final
citizenship papers.
SATURDAY——Deadline for de-
positing entry blanks in first
Week of Merchants' Journal
third annual football sweep-
stakes, 10 a. m., ballot boxes at
L. M., Wilson‘s Cafe, Munro’s
Men’s Store, Ralph’s Grocery
(Hillcrest), and Journal office.
MONDAY—County commission—
erns’ weekly meeting, 10 a. m.,
courthouse.
MONDAY—Women’s League
.bowling. 8:15 p. m., bowling al-
leys.
MONDAY—Eagles aerie weekly
meeting. 8 p. m., Moose Hall.
TUESDAY——Kiwanis club weekv
ly luncheon meeting, noon, Shel-
ton Hotel.
TUESDAY—Last day of pigeon
hunting season.
ELMA vs SHELTON
FRIDAY IN FIRST
HOME GRID CLASH
Highclimbers Facing Defending
Central League Champs;
I
Hickson, Rhinos, Pigg, Byrno Fol-
low In Order; Civil Service
Board Recommends Five
Man Police Force
Following a civil service ex-
amination Tuesday evening which
resulted in five men receiving
passing grades and being placed
on the eligible list for city police
force positions, the city civil ser-
vice board last night recommend—
.ed that the city police force be
‘increased to five men instead of
its present three to carry out a.
recommendation of the Federal
Bureau of- Investigation that mu-
nicipalities provide one police of-
ficer for each 750 population.
William F. Compton, retired
Army officer, earned No. 1 posi-
tion on the eligible list, followed
in order by Mason County Deputy
Sheriff Fred Hickson, State High-
way Department employe Clar-
ence Rhines, Shelton School Jan-
itor Ralph Pigg, and former Ma-
son County Sheriff Gerald E.
Byrne, the city civil service board
announced this morning after cor-
recting the examination papers
last night.
70 Passing Grade
These five received passing
grades of 70 or above out of a
possible 110 points for applicants
with World War veteran ratings
and of 100 points for applicants
lacking veteran rating. Compton,
Hickson and Pigg all received the
extra points allowed for having
war veteran ratings.
The rating of the applicants
was, based upon a written exam-
ination consisting of 25 questions
which counted for a total of 75
points, and an oral examination
which counted for 25 points, of
which 121/2 were allocated for ex-
perience and 121/2 for personal
fittness for police work, Exam-
ining Officer Charles T. Wright
of the civil service board explain-
ed this morning.
Reasons For Larger Force
Kickoff At 2 :30
Treading their home turf for
the first time this season in inter—
school football competition, the
Shelton Highclimbers play host
to their bitter Central League
rivals, the Elma Eagles, on Loop
Field this Friday afternoon.
The kickoff is scheduled for
2:30 o’clock in the first Central
League competition of the season
for both teams. The Eagles are
the defending champions, inci-
dentally, and are rated favorites
’69 repeat this year after their
fine showings in the Ho
jamboree and against Chehalis
last Week.
Wade, Winders Aces
The visitors, if they continue
to perform as they have in their
year,
Will run from punt formation and
T-formation on offense and will
present a pair of fine young ball
carriers in LeRoy Wade, No. 49,
Les Winders, No. 13.
Tile Highclimbers enter the
fracas minus the services of Earl
Lumsden, letterman end, who will
be out for about a month with
a severe arm injury suffered in
the Aberdeen game. His place
on the right flank will be taken
Py Toad Dickinson in the start-
mg lineup, Coach Walt
said after last night’s workout.
Another change in the line is
quiam
Hakola
In making its recommendation
for an enlarged city police force,
the civil service board pointed out
that the new city parking regu-
lations, if enforced and to be en-
forced, would pay the salary of
one additional officer from fines
and require another officer to be
enforced and that in addition the
pinball license law which the city
passed specifically to raise funds
for employing an extra police of-
ficer has in acutality raised suf—
ficient money to pay the salaries
of two extra policemen.
Compton, nigh man on the
eligible list as established by Tues-
day’s examination, must pass a.
physical examination now before
further action can be taken on
his appointment to the city police
force. He has been serving as
temporary night patrolman since
the first of this month, prior to
that served for a month as deputy,
in the county sheriff’s office dur-
ing vacations this summer, and
has had wide experience in police
work during 28 years in the U. S.
Army. He served as commanding
officer for three years of the In-
ternational police patrol in Siber-
ia after the World War and com-
manded military police units dur-
ing most of his Army service.
Procedure Followed
In conducting the examination
Tuesday night the civil service
contemplated by the Highclimber
mentor, too, which would send
board followed this procedure:
the 25 questions were compiled
Mack Wilson into the right guard shortly before the examination
(Continued on Page Three)
New Manager Is
Appointed For
Hillcrest Store
Appointment of Herschel W.
Bates of Tacoma, as manager of
the 20th Century Food Store on
Hillcrest, was announced this
week by the Younglove Grocery
Co. of Tacoma. Mr. Bates suc-
ceeds Bill Bourland, who now op-
erates a store in Manette. v
Mr. Bates comes to“ Shelton
from the 20th Century Store» in
Tacoma and has many years of
experience in the grocery busi-
ness.
Another new addition to the
Hillcrest store is W. W. Hough,
also of Tacoma, who has been
placed in charge of the meat de-
partment. .
BOB PEARCE HEADS
H.S. STUDENT BODY
Bob Pearce. baseball and bas-
ketball athlete, was elected presi-
dent of the Irene S. Reed high
school student body early this
Week, with Jim Howarth as vice-
president, Betty Attwood as sec-
retary, Louis Woolsey as ser-
geant-at-arms, and Jack Kalonsky
as staff bearer.
Class representatives to the stu-
dent body board of directors‘will
be chosen at the class elections,
which will be held next week.
GIRL FOR BEN BANNERS
A bdby daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Banner at Shel-
ton hospital yesterday.
was held so that there could be
no possibility of any of the appli—
cants knowing what the questions
were to be, they were sealed then
in. an. envelope, numbered slips
were provided and drawn at ran-
dom by the applicants, signed and
returned to an envelope which was
then sealed, then the seal on the
questions was broken and the ques-
tions distributed to the applicants
who filled them out with only
their 'numbers to identify the ex—
amination papers, ,the examina-
tions then being corrected with-
out the board knowing whose pa-
per was being corrected as the
numbers in the sealed envelope
were ‘not exposed until the cor-
recting was completed.
The oral part of the examina-
tion was given to each applicant
separately with Examining Officer
Wright, Board Members Brodie
and Baumgartner and Police Chief
Andy Hansen participating in the
questioning. In determining per-
; sonal fittness for the position the
board took into consideration
sobriety, interest in police work,
intention to continue on the job
permanently if appointed, credit '
rating, personal 'health and phys-
ical. fittness, Examining Officer
Wright explained today.
6 TO ANSWER DRAFT
C A L L OCTOBER 14th
Six Mason County selective ser-
vice registrants will enter active
Army training October 14 in ans-
wer to the 13th draft call given
the Mason County Board. Mrs.
Martha Haines, board clerk, an-
nounced yesterday.
The identity of the six to be
called has not been definitely de-
termined yet. she said.
F'IIII
