0531’
A ' 2 unch Tag
,rScheduled
day by PTA
, ‘ rolled around to the
Where that annual
. project staged by
h] P.-T. A. to jack
, “alleles in its hot-lunch
' lhe
CAT}: '
)NES
Clem
end up” “It is the tag sale the
)D you 1 ‘ul! P.-T. A. stage each
(1 Annual > Will be held this Fri-
:' "' the direction of a
headed by Mrs. Rol-
d we h! L A large part of
gear l'ship of the Lin—
will assist in the
Which will be con—
doWntown streets.
': Innis district will he
, canvassed by tag
‘1 Detlestrians on tch
be asked to give
“"1 they can afford
1" A. hot lunch fund
0% warm noon meals
' " attending Lincoln
l ‘1 who live too far
‘0 home for their
“"338 meals are offer-
. clliltlren unable to
- own lunches, at very
“ms to children able
' them,
r
z _
, LEOY
LS NAMED,
~mected Lincoln Cap-
‘ an Lee Morgan
l'deaux Patrol
\w
. actiVe since school he-
', , ago, the schoolboy
*LmCOln and Bordeaux
13 were officially or-
i .
l‘ the current school
.. °1n patrol chose Bill
a with Frank Stev-
Minnick, Bob Cleve-
Halstead, Ralph
Wyer, Jim Skagen,
bar, Bobby Ashley,
9. David Dotson,
ker, Jack Murdock,
Kerrheth Cardinal,
v Owan, Jack Viale,
.3. Stanley Erickson,
Dper completing its
x patrol
organ as captain
nel completed by
John Henderson,
Norman Buck, Billy
Smith, Ivan Ruff,
Donald Hansen,
and Emmett
-" patrol, since its
,e many years ago.
V the remarkable rec-
1loving had an acci-
a jurisdiction while
ty.
lia V is sponsored by the
g Trophy Is
lited Local
‘ . 1s Pin Team
1' \—
IB Club of West Se-
ted by twenty mem-
, e15ts of the Shelton
,1“. Wednesday eve-
howhon being in part
‘ llng trophy won by
team in a state
, last year.
lam Sweeny led the
tellt- Governor Theo
nlong the group of
Whom have sum-
the bay.
‘gvas a stag affair
lty gave way to
hlunar and it was
rseries of stunts un-
of M. D. “Polly”
Conducted a quiz
8 which several 10-
]; (to Visiting Kiwanians
. thallSWer simple ques-
"'~ ‘3 goats for amuse-
\ sparty,
sweetly on behalf of
{OPFGSented the be-
gh Inert Woods, lead-
lheeltpn bowlers, and
to thdlnner the party
“he Shelton Bowling
' k
.b
yed two hours of
, Program
Tonight
als'fbers of the Shel-
teem take the stage
put on their an—
for the Chamber
«btlon of the more
Mfrs of the faculty
'1‘ a meeting, which
. -30 dinner at the
fit Supt. H. E. Loop
“who‘ll Vice Principal
. Will direct the pro-
OMLOOp giving the
l t, metMr. Taylor show-
fO ,, no “res, both tied to
Bf ‘ . ~rfress in the schools
hg' days. Musical
,. (Effered by mem-
y.
Newton Cook of
Wbecame parents
v son born at
elected '
mill HERE;
V yelected their captainS'
doom. 0. o. .
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RED CROSS IN
Sewing Project Ill Sooial
Security Building To
Be Utilized
Tomorrow is MTday for the
Red Cross here.
New headquarters for‘tlle Ma-
son County chapter will be estab—
lished in the Social Security build-
ing at Sixth and Railroad in the
quarters formerly occupied by the
now
The Red Cross war relief sew-
ing project will move its scene
of operations from Memorial Hall
to the Social Security building at
the same time, Mrs. Herbert Mil-
ler, sewing project chairman, said
today.
The move is being made purely
for convenience. The problem of
financing heating in Memorial
,Hall for the sewing project has
been bothersome ever since the
project was begun, but since the
Social Security building has to be
heated anyway for the other of-
fices which are maintained in it
the move to the vacated quarters
of the former VVPA sewing proj-
ect was deemed adviseable both
ifr'om the financial saving involv-
ed and also because the quarters
are better lighted and more suit-
able for sewing work.
The Red Cross sewing project
sent out its largest shipment of
articles for war relief use yester-
day, Mrs. Miller reported today.
Four large boxes of wearing ap-
parel made by the project work-
ers, including 15 layettes, 20 bath-
robes, 47 girls dresses, five wo-
men's dresses, 45 girls skirts, 15
shawls, 50 mufflers, 3O bedshirts,
ten boys shirts, 20 boys sweaters,
England in yesterday's shipment.
need of another sewing machine
or two, Mrs. Miller said, and can
always place more women at work
as there is still a lot of material
to be made up to complete the
quota for 1941, she added.
Red Cross October
Session On Monday
The October meeting of the
Mason County Red Cross chapter
will be held at the courthouse
next Monday evening at eight
o'clock, Chapter Chairman Myron
Lund announced today.
Details of the 1941 roll call
will form the chief item of busi-
ness.
OPERATION OF
O‘UARTERMAST ER
DEPOT OUT LINED
Activians Hear Interesting EX-
planation Of Army Depot
Functions From Lieut.
Robinson
le STARTERS
ST TSNONNSN
Space Formerly Occ‘upied By W'PA «
discontinued VVPA sewing-
, project.
20 men’s sweaters,.five women’s son
sweaters, and 27 pairs of men’s as operator of a men’s clothing
wool socks, were dispatched for store in the Angle Building) for
17 S. E. 86TH
RTLAND. OREGQV
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The six county—owned automo—
‘biles available to elective county
officers for transportation on their
official county duties rolled up
a total of 9,609 miles during Sept-
ember, thc first monthly record
kept by the county on these ma-
tchines shows.
The monthly records were be-
lgun after the board of commis»
sioners passed
‘quiring such accounting be made
of the use of the six public-owned
vehicles.
Commissioner Vincent Paul was
the most prolific traveler of the
six county officials, totalling 2661
miles during the month on his
rounds of official duties. Deputy
Sheriff Fred Hickson was second
,with 2,117 miles.
Commissioner Robert Trenck-
mann’s report is a bit inaccurate
due to the fact that the speed-
ometer on his car broke on Sept—
‘ember 25 and for the balance of
lthe month the mileage was not
"recorded on it. However, his to-
tal was second only to that of
School Supt. J. E. Martin for the
ileast travel in the month at 1176
miles.
a resolution re-v
Supt. Martin used up only 604.
miles of tires and gas, but his gas
mileage was only 13 miles to the
gallon. His car is the oldest of
the six vehicles for which records
are being kept, but yesterday the
commissioners took that situation
into consideration in deciding to
replace the superintendent's car.
Commissioner Fred Ferris trav-
eled 1375 miles and Sheriff Gene
Martin 1676 miles during the
month. In all, the six county
owned cars used up 645.5 gallons
of gasoline for an average of.
slightly under 15 miles per gal-
lon, although this is not an ac-
curate figure due to the Trenck-
mann speedometer trouble. Com-
missioner Ti'enckmann used 121
gallons of gas during the month,'
his report said.
Repairs to the six machines
were negligible during the month,
Commissioner Paul reporting the
installation of a dimmer bulb.
Deputy Hickson the replacement
of two windshield wiper blades,
and Commissioner Trenckmann
the repair to his speedometer at
less than $3.
ALASKA’S REPUTATION FOR HIGH
PRICES ONLY PARTLY DESERVED
That commonly-held belief that!
Alaska is a country of exhorbitant
prices is only partly the truth,
reports Charles Baker, Shelton
{Valley resident who arrived home
from Anchorage last weekend.
It’s true insofar as rent, board
and room goes and for restaurant
meals and for foodstuffs such as
‘milk and fresh vegetables which
are difficult to get, but clothing
is cheaper than down here “in
the states," Mr. Baker says.
“I bought water repellants from
shoes to hats from Paddy Morri—
(Sheltonians remember him
less than I could haVe bought
The sewing project is Still inlthe same articles in Seattle,” the
Shelton man related.
Worked At Army Base
Mr. Baker worked on the new
U. S. Army base being construct-
ed at Anchorage all summer ail-1‘.
was headed for home August 25
with an hour to get his train
(yep, we do mean train) when
he was stopped on the street and
made such an inticing offer to go
into the interior to work at a
big placer gold mine in the Ophir
region in the Yukon Territory for
a. month to replace a sick man
that he stayed over.
He expects to return next
spring (having been promised his
fare by plane from Seattle) and
in the event that he should be
caught and unable to get out next
winter he inquired about the
winter weather in the Ophir re-
gion from the veteran woman
postmaster at McGrath.
35 Below Mild
“Well, last winter we only had
four or five days of real cold
weather, got down to sixty be-
low, but after that it warmed up
and we had nice, mild weather
and all sorts of sports as it didn’t
drop belOw 35 the rest of the
winter,” she replied.
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Despite the high cost of cat-
ing and housing a man can really total of 4300 instruments filings
put aside some money in Alaska were recorded here, an exact equal
as wages are high, too, in the
north country, Mr. Baker said.
He reported that Paddy Morri-
son is doing splendidly in
business venture in Anchorage
and brought back a snapshot of instruments have been filed with
the former Shelton store proprie-
tor with a mess of 37 giant trout
he had caught in the Rushing
River, some 70 miles by plane
from Anchorage. “A poor day"
was the description Morrison had
written on the back of the pic-
ture.
Baker explained that there is
no catch limit in Alaska for
sports fishing, a condition which
is beginning to bring about a. de-
pletion of the rivers and lakes
due to the heavy play fishing is
getting from the servicemen now
stationed in Alaska.
Some of the problems which
confront the purchasing agency
which serves the Army, the Quar—
termaster Depot, were related to
Activians last night by Lieut.
Walter Robinson of the Army
Quartermaster Depot in Seattle.
The tremendous expansion Of
the past year, which has seen the
Seattle depot increase from quar-
ters which occupied three rooms
and one small pier to its pres-
ent space of one five-story build-
ing, two large piers and the en-
tire building formerly occupied by
the Ford assembly plant, were
pictured by Lieut. Robinson for
the clubmen.
“And still we are badly crowd-
ed,” he said, “even with 600,000
square feet of storage space We
need considerably more room."
Supply All Northwest Troops
He explained that the Seattle
depot is the central agency thru
which supplies for all Army troops
now stationed in Alaska and all
cantonments in the Northwest are
purchased and distributed.
The depot has chartered 16
ships to keep the Alaska troop
outposts supplied. During Sept"
ember these ships carried 66,000
tons of supplies to the Alaska
posts, he said.
“Such rapid expansion cannot
but help lose some immediate ef-
ficency," he pointed out, “but
we have installed office machin-
ery which greatly eases the tre-
mendous burden of paper work
which bound the Army in the last
World War. This is one of the
ways we are helping to stream-
line the Army today so that it
will be the best fed, best clothed.
best transported, best equipped
and best housed in the world."
PEGGY KLASELL ILL
Word was received here laSt,
night that Miss Peggy Ann Klas-
ell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Al Klasell. had been stricken with
appendicitis yesterday and had
been removed from Washington
State College to the hospital at
Colfax. Her parents left last
night to be with her.
Remembering Our Hospital
The Shelton General Hospital, which is kee
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PEAK AGAlN.
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, October 9, 1941.
County Officials Travel
9,609 Mile_s_D_l_tring Month
ENT
Buying Returns To Pro-Depression
Levels; 100,000 Instruments
Have‘Been Recorded Now
At Auditor’s Office
Records of 100,000
instrument
filings now repose in the Mason|
County auditor’s office, that mark'
having been reached late Tues-
day afternoon, and with it was
disclosed the fact that filings have
again climbed, and will this year
surpass, the highest level reach—
ed in pro-depression days.
Checking back over the records
of instrument filings as carried
on the auditor’s fee and cash
books, a Journal reporter dis—
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his of the ‘thirties.’
covered yesterday that the first
such record to be found for Ma-
son County is dated November
16, 1888, a mortgage bearing the
names of C. V. Dunbar and wife
as grantors and B. F. Smith as
grantee. That instrument was
numbered 577, so apparently the
record even antidates that date,
although no record of the 576
missing instruments/could be lo-
cated yesterday.
1929 Peak Reached
Yearly comparisons of the
mber of instrument filings here
is interesting. During 1940 a
of the total for 1929, generally
taken as the peak year of Ameri-
can business before the depression
So far in the present year 4081
the auditor’s office here, with the
Christmas season still to come,
indicating that 4300 peak will be
far surpassed in 1941’s total.
The depression can be easily
noted in the annual totals of
filings during the 1930’s. Follow-
ing the 1929 peak, the total drop-l
ped to 3051 in 1930 and skidded
to a low of 1744 in 1933, after
which a steady climb took place
until 1938, which was the real de-
pression in Shelton business due
to the shutdowns of local mills,
strikes, etc.
'” Toagh Year in 1938
1937 had seen 4185 instrumentsl
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OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
TONIGHT—Chamber of Com—
merce October meeting, 6:30
dinner, Shelton Hotel, annual
school program.
review, 7 :30
Timber offices.
‘ TONIGHT—Commercial
bowling, p.m.,
leys.
'FRIDAY—City league bowling,
7 and 9 p.m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY~—Moosc Lodge dance,
9 p.m., Moose Hall.
FRIDAY~Annual Lincoln P.-T.
A. hot lunch fund tag sale.
FRIDAY—Prep football, 8 p.m.,
Roosevelt Field in Bremerton,
Shelton vs. Bremerton.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a.m., courthouse.
SATURDAY—Deadline for de-
positing football sweepstakes
ballots, 10 a. m., ballot boxes at
L. M., Munro's, Wilson’s Cafe,
Journal, and Ralph's Grocery
(Hillcrest).
MONDAY—Women’s league
bowling, 8:15 p.m., bowling al-
leys‘.
MONDAY—Eagles aerie week-
ly meeting, 8 p.m., Moose Hall.
MONDAY—Observance of Co-
lumbus Day, bank, public of-
fices closing.
MONDAY—Public installation of
new DeMolay Chapter officers,
8 p.m., Masonic Temple.
MONDAY—October meeting of
the Red Cross chapter, 8 p.m.,
courthouse.
TUESDAY—County commission-
ers weekly meeting, 10 a.m.,
courthouse.
TUESDAY—Kiwanis club lunch-
eon meeting, noon, Shelton Ho-
tel.
W.E.A. lNS'l‘lTU’lE
BRINGS STUDENTS
EXTRA VACATION
Teachers Going To Tacoma Mon-
day For Annual Dist. Pro-
gram; Martin Presides
p.m., McCleary
league
bowling al-
School students in Shelton and
Mason County will enjoy an extra
day’s vacation from their studies
this weekend while their teachers
attend the annual Mason - Thurs-
ton-Pierc edistrict W.E.A institute
in Tacoma.
County School Supt. J. E. Mar-
tin is scheduled to preside over
the afternoon session, which is to
include a message from Mrs.
Pearl Wanamaker, state superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, and
a talk on a subject entitled “Death
or Taxes” by Geoffrey Morgan.
former legislator, educator, lec-
turer and public relations coun-
selor from Santa Monica, Calif,
filed, then suddenly the total
Advancement Program plummeted to 3185 in 1938. Then
For Scouts Starting the comeback started with 3,-
948 in 1939 and last year’s 4300
This evening starts a new sea- following,
son of activity insofar as ad- Back in the early days of in-
Vancements are concerned for strument recording the totals ran
Shelton and Mason County Boy likethis: 663 in 1900, up to 1184
Scouts for a board of review is to in 1910, uttle change in the next
be held at 7:30 o’clock in the Mc- ten years with 1088 in 1915 and
Cleary Timber offices to prepare 1381 in 1920, up to 2794 in 1925
for next week's court of honor, and after that the rapid growth
the firSt 0f the season- as the pulp mill came and popula-
Advancement Chairman Frank tion boomed
HGUSton 0f the Mason CO“.th (115- In the eight year period between
trict of the Tumwater Council 1893 and 1901 only 5,200 instru.
will preside over both the review ments were med, while almost
board and the honor court- that many will be filed in the
single year of 1941.
GIRL SERIOUSLY ILL Instruments as referred to herel
Donna Jean White, 13’ daugh- included papers recording all con-
ter of Mrs. Charles Ferguson of tracts of sales of real and per-
Shelton, is in Shelton Hospital sonal Property. mortgages, notes,l
under medical observation with deeds! and Slmuar types Of papers’ '
a case of appendicitis. No visit- 'W
ors are being allowed.
P.U.D. 1 Boosts
1942 Budget; Sum
Set At $23,300
Public Utility District No. 1
roved a final 1942 budget total-
ing abreast of the most modern trends in medical
service and is just now completing another ex-
pansion of its facilities to keep pace with the
community
needs, was aided last week by a dona-
tion of $2,000 by the Mason County Logging
Company, and this week by
check for
another substantial
$1,000 from Mrs. Joseph Bordeaux of
Seattle, widow of the late Joseph Bordeaux who
was one of the founders of the Mason County
Logging Company. The Bordeauxs were early resi-
dents of Shelton for many
being educated in the Shelton schools.
years, their children
The‘Mason County Logging Company, while
closing its mill and logging camps after nearly
fifty years of successful operations in Mason and
Thurston counties, will continue
for some years
to come, disposing of its mill and logging equip-
ment and handling its large accumulation of lands
and other properties.
It is a fine gesture that the concerns which
have continued through the years and largely
Prospered, while affording steady employment to
men in. health and aiding
not forgotten the continuing
them in sickness, have
needs of the commun-
ities in which they have struggled through advers-
lty 1:0 prosperity, and have made. contribution to-
ward the future support of the institutions even
after the end of active operations and though no
longer directly concerned in public health needs.
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mation mailed The Journal yes-
terday by Miss Jean Main, auditor
for the district.
Operation and maintenance is
listed at $9,400; salaries and
wages at $7,000; bond interest
and redemption at $4,800; and
capital outlay at $2,000 for the
$23,300 total expenditures.
Income matching the expendi-
tures is estimated to come from
revenue from sale of the district’s
electricity from a two-mill tax
levy for current expense purpos-
es, and another two-mill levy for
retirement of general obligation
bonds.
The 1942 budget is $3,150 high-
er than the 1941 budget of $20,-
150, the increases being $1000 in
salaries and wages and $2,150 in
operation and maintenance.
Pioneer Resident Of
Shelton Dies Monday
Death Monday at Hoquiam of
Mrs. Isabella Oakland, 58, claim-
ed an early Shelton resident and
relative of several present Shel-
ton residents. .
She was the daughter of Mrs.
Helen Forrest .and a sister of
Mrs. Katherine Francken and
Joseph Forrest of Shelton and
Robert Forrest, now of Tacoma,
but a former Sheltonian, and Mrs.
Helen Leque of Hoquiam and Mrs.
Ethel Wagner of Vesta. Her hus-
band and son, Howard, Jr., also
survive.
Deceased was born in Minne-
sota and came to Mason County
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James Forrest, in 1888, just be-
fore Statehood. Her early life
was spent in Shelton, until her
marriage to Howard Oakland, and
her home ever since has been in
Hoquiam. Funeral services were
held this afternoon.
plus a performance by the Puy—
3111113 high school girls' glee club.
CLUB ELECTIONS HELD
AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Several club elections have been
commissioners Monday night ap- held at Irene S_ Reed high school
during the past week, with the
following results:
HONOR SOCIETY—E. A. Duy-
ff, faculty advisor—Jean Briggs,
president; Betty Lou Macke. Vlce-
president; Ella Marie Robertson,
secretary-treasurer. New mem-
bers of the society were initiated
at a party held last Friday after
school.
PEP CLUB—Miss Regis Jones,
faculty advisor—Dixie Simmons,
president; Kay O’Neil, vice-presi-
dent; Ruth Rowe, secretary -
treasurer; and 'Kay Stensager,
sergeant-at-arms.
GIRLS’ CLUB—Miss Elizabeth
Montgomery, faculty advisor
Sue Abeyta, president; Nita King,
vice-president; Dulcie Compton,
recording secretary; Shirlie Crait,
treasurer. The officers and Miss
Montgomery will attend the semi-
annual Southwest Washington
conference of high school girls
clubs at Centralia next Saturday
at which Miss Abeyta will give
a talk on "Business Life." The
theme of the conference is to be
“The World Today—Miss Ameri-
ca Views the Future.”
GIRLS’ ATHLETIC ASS'N —
Mrs. Margaret Hakola, faculty ad-
visormMargean Berets, president;
Alice Attwood, vice-president;
Beth Fortnum, secretary; Wanda
Howard, treasurer. The G.A.A.
is now engaged in its annual soc-
cer league program.
Mrs. Danielson Here
For Hospitalization
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Danielson
came last night from Coulee Dam
and Mrs. Danielson, who has been
in poor health for the past month,
has entered the Shelton Hospital
for observation and treatment.
Mr. Danielson reports that he is
kept busy in his new job in charge
of the power system of Grand
Coulee City.
TONIGHT—Boy Scout board of
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Civic Improvement In
State, Ass'n Decides
Garden Club’s Railroad Avenue
Project Earns Top Ranking
From State Federation Of
Garden Clubs
Shelton’s beautification of Rail-
road Avenue, carried out through
the efforts of the Shelton Garden
Club with the assistance of splen-
did public cooperation and sup-
port, comprised the finest civic
limprovement made during the
year in any project sponsored by
,the 160 members of the Wash-
'ington State Federation of Gar-
den Clubs, Shelton Garden Club
officers were notified today.
Notification of the award was
received in a letter written by
Mrs. Abby Henderson Kidweli,
.chairman of the awards commit-
tee for the State Federation, in
which she stated:
“In the Civic Improvement Con—
test the Awards Committee is
happy to report that the First
lPrize has been awarded to the
Shelton Garden Club of Shelton,
Washington, for the completed
‘beautificationof the main street
of Shelton.’
Scrapbook Landed
“The Committee also commends
the record book of the project,
it is so cleverly illustrated and
complete in text. It is a real
contribution to the literature of
the Washington Federation of
Garden Clubs.
Respectfully submitted,
Abby Henderson Kidwell,
Chairman Awards Committee
Mrs. Gilbert D., Brown,
Mrs. A. V. Shepherd.
The Shelton Garden Club has
not been informed whether the
award is purely honorary or whe-
ther there is some actual trophy
or material reward for being
awarded first place in the contest,
an event staged annually by the
State Federation to promote civic
improvement projects by the 160
clubs affiliated with the Federa-
tion.
Rapid Completion Amazing
The Railroad Avenue beautifica—
tion project was taken up and
pushed through to completion in
a year and a half by the Garden
Club after the idea has been dis-
cussed and kicked around for
years by other organizations in
Shelton. A committee headed by
Mrs. Emery W. Burley carried
the brunt of the planning for the
four-bleak improvement along the
north side of Railroad Avenue,
although virtually every member
of the Garden Club had a hand
in completing the big job in the
amazingly short period.
Splendid public support in the
form of direct cash donations and
support of numerous special pub—
lic events staged by the Garden
Club for the specific purpose of'
raising money for the project.
Other organizations likewise as-
sisted the Garden Club in a work
which had no known opponents.
The Simpson Logging Company
took over the entire expense of
beautifying the full block between
Second and Third streets and will
carry the idea still further by
beautifying the grounds surround-
ing the Peninsular Railway shops
and roundhouse along lines har«
monizing. with the Railroad Ave-
nue project. Preparations have
already begun on this work.
DeMolay To Seat,
Officers Monday;
Ceremony Public
New‘ officers of Mark E. Reed
chapter of the Order of DeMolay
will be installed at public cere-
monies to be held at eight o’clock
in the Masonic Temple next Mon-
day evening.
The new officers to be seated
include Randall Jordan, master
counselor; Frank Berets, senior
counselor; Herb Ellison, junior
counselor; Warren Hunter, sen-
ior deacon; Phil Palmer, junior
deacon; George Valley, senior
steward; Martel Jackson, junior
steward; Jim McComb, marshal;
Dick Staley, chaplain; Warren
Woods, flag bearer; Glen Connor,
almoner; Morton Munson, orator;
Harry Johnson, sentinel; and
Gene Hubbard, Russell Pickens,
Edgar Cole, Glen Sowers, Art
Matthews, preceptors.
Walt Eddy, scribe; and Clint
Williams, treasurer, are holdover
officers.
$3,963 Spent Thru
Food Stamps Here-
Food stamps with a total re-
deemable valuation of $3,963 were
issued to eligible participants of
the food stamp plan in Mason
County during September.
Actual cash paid for the
stamps was $2,642, to which was
added half that amount in free
blue stamps redeemable in cer-
tain specified surplus foods.
170 families of 425 persons par-
ticipated in the plan during the
month, of which 21 families to-
talling 71 persons were new cer-
tifications during the month.
Defense Bonds
To Be Awarded
At iEXposition
Falling in step with the pat-
riotic parade of today, the 1941
Shelton Merchants’ Exposition
to be staged October 21 and
22 in Lincoln gym cooperative-
ly by the Active and Kiwanis
clubs is offering two $25 na-
tional defense bonds as the ma-
jor prizes which annually have
featured the exposition.
One of the bonds will be
awarded each evening near the
close of festivities, Prize Chair-
man W'. A. Witsicrs announced
today. In addition to the ma-
jor awards, hourly prizes will
also be distributed each night
as in past expositions, he said.
Preparations for the exposi~
tion began in earnest this week
with Booth Sales Chairman
Paul Marshall and his commit-
tee commencing their duties of
selling booth space, a job which
has practically done itself the
past couple of years.
The advertising and publicity
committee under Co-Chairmen
Herb Angle and Bill Dickie
likewise has begun functioning
this week and soon will have
big posters announcing the ex-
position distributed throughout
the county.
COMMISSIONERS
SHAPING COUNTY
BUDGET DETAILS
Certification Of School District
Figures For Taxation Basis
Made By Supt. Martin
Chief attention of the county
commissioners on the final 1942
county budget was directed at
school affairs yesterday with
County School Supt. J. E. Martin
certifying numerous figures. im-
portant to budget affairs.
These included special levies
which have been passed by five
districts in the county, Tahuya
having a special 5—mill, Camp 3
a three-mill, Harstine Island a
15-min, Lilliwaup a five-mill, and
Mary M. Knight a five-mill.
Claims‘for attendance on non-
resident high school pupils of
Mason County at accredited high
schools in other districts than
those in which they live for the
1940-41 term were $2,526.39 by
Port Orchard, $68.81 by Bremer-
ton, $712.41 by Elma, and $11,—
051.37 by Shelton.
Supt. Martin certified that the
Mary M. Knight district will need
$4,113.78 in tax funds from Ma-
son County to maintain the dis-
trict through the 1941-42 term
after all other sources of income
have been considered. , , ,
He also certified 389.154 days
as the basis of attendance accred-
ited to the several school dis-
tricts of the county on which tax
levies should be made for the
1941-42 terms.
The board spent all day Tues-
day considering the 1942 county
budget and probably will not ar-
rive at final figures nor set levies
until tomorrow.
The board was informed by the
state treasurer Wednesday that
Mason County’s share of August
gas tax receipts is $11,901.50.
BRADY ROAD BRIDGE
TO BE RECONSTRUCTED
By resolution action passed yes—
terday by the county commission-
ers, the old Martin bridge six
miles south of Matlock on the
Brady Road, will be closed between
October 13th and 27th while the
span is reconstructed.
The resolution cited the fact
that the bridge has become un-
safe for travel.
Local As Well As
Defense Jobs On
Employment File
The local office of the Wash—
ington State Employment Service
can place workers this week in'
many local concerns, as well as
in national defense work. Alice
Helenius, the manager of the
Olympia office states that they
have the following job openings
now on file at 522 Capitol Way:
a high caliber young man 18 or
20 years of age who has had some
accounting work in high school,
or business college to start with
one of our local firms as an office
boy and messenger, and who
would be interested in working
into a permanent job with this
firm in the accounting depart-
ment. The representative of the
Employment Service can be con-
tacted in Shelton each Tuesday
at, the Court House from 9:00 a.
in. until 4:00 pm. He will be
glad to furnish any information
regarding these openings.
There is an opening for an-
other young man between the
ages of 18 and 30 to learn the
retail lumber business. He must
,have selling ability, be quick at
figures and in search of a per-
manent job.
Mrs. Helenius states that they
have openings for a stenograph-
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er . . a safety inspector . . .
mechanical draftsmen . . . a farm
hand . . . a hotel clerk . . a
clerk-typist an accountant
. . . a practical nurse . . . a col-
lege teacher of economics . .
carpenters for work in Alaska
; . and classified laborers for‘
work at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard,
Honolulu. ‘
There is also an opening for a.
draftsman, a tabulating machine
operator, a construction inspector,
foundry workers and men for free
government training in the ship-
yard and aircraft industries. .
Further information can be
obtained regarding any of these
openings by calling at the Olym-
pia office of the Employment Ser-
Vice.
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