Percy Pio
6017 S.E. 86th Ave
Portland, Ore
Members Get A00ard$
Achlevem®-00 Night
l.alld 4-H members at-
-I-I Achievement Night
.araemorate a success-
work in the 00vor-
)!*,a,. 1 auditorium Saturday
i Ills. Martin Auseth was
[0f plans for the even-
by her committee
Jerry Hill, Mrs.
Mrs. Max Mik-
'? was awarded to the
d
!: ing member m Gen-
!elnent. This was do-
.tile Western Farmers'
I! and was given to Chris
recipient of the
lue for his out-
in events
)Port 4-H, such as
Fair and the
Festival.
the out-
for tl
a junior award
Grocery o
1 was given to Pat-
secretary for the
Clovers. The senior
by the Sloane
and went to
,, secretary for the
i-H club.
':ils Plaque presented
..: m was given to the
What NotsThis marks
.Year for" this award
and is a summary of
i achievement in exhi-
;c'2a1 ?t:nedm£*st r2
PR 0J ECT achieve-
given as follows:
Achievement do-
Ford Motor Comp-
went to Sandra
Spooner. Dons
Loertscher.
pins for out-
the beef pro-
to David Valley,
Bourgault and
gave pins for
to Sharlene
Smith, Katie
Lyman.
received a
through General
in the form at
book. This was £or
Work in foods.
from the A1-
club led by Mrs.
received pins for
beautification
were Sheila
Sharer.
g gave
outstanding can-
work to Bar-
Auseth and
Dunbar presented
& Clark an(1
Company tar
in clothing and
Carolyn Auseth,
Ann Trotzer and
Robin Bakke anti
. achievement pins
ie 13rower and Caro-
m0000t0000ding foo00
n, Linda Rains 'was
in fronl the Carna-
received a
for his dog care
tect work from
bmpany.
poration
HONORED--Clive Troy, right, was presented with the Alumni
Achievement Award for his work in activities which helped 4-H
work in the county at the-Achievement Night Saturday night.
Making the presentation was Harold Van DeReit, left, county agent.
Troy is presendent of the Mason County Forest Festival Associ-
ation and manager of the Mason County Fair, and is active in
Grange.
Where Were The City
Limits In Year 19007
Where the city limits of Shelton
were between about 1900 and 1909
and where there might be a record
to indicate this officially is a big
question as the city commission
studies what to db abont an un-
opened secton of Magnolia Street
on Capital Hill.
Mrs. Bernice Stewart, who owns
part of the property on both sides
of the unopened street, claims that
it was ..vacated under the "no-
user law" which was ir effect be-
tween the time Washington be-
-came a state and 1909.
41tovncy.oMarion 'Garland, Brem-
erton, presented the commission-
ers with a petition Tuesday ask-
ing that they' vacate the unopened
Street to clear the matter up once
and for all.
Garland told the commission
that the area, on Capitol Hill, was
included in the city of Shelton
when it wa.s laid out and the boun-
daries set by a judge during ter-
ritorial days. When Washington
became a state, he said, these-
boundaries set by the judiciary
were throwm out and new ones
established by the government es-
tablished in each city which in-
corporated.
About that same time the so-
called "non-user" law was also
passed which stated that any
electrical pro-
Snyder, Tom street platted in an area outside
and like the boundaries of an incorporated
DNutrition pins were
l{!eral Foods to Ken-
lee,Mikkclsen, Kar-Open Range In
Matlockh
.Y Pins came from the
.Presented by Oscar
'e7 rt Spooner, Bill
" Cassette and Bob
Jeet work was deem- Close In 1965
for Joe Brown, Don
t3ailey and Charlie e
ere given by Allis-
Ward company
Pies in home eco-
00ork to Callao.
of the closing, commissioner John
Bariekman voted agairmt it.
The closure was delayed for a
5-,. low cattlemen in the
-r to al
area time to construct fencing and
to reduce the size of their herds
With as little difficulty as possi-
ble. ', , 1
Appearing at the hearing ere
several cattle owners from the
area and William S. Looney,
Simpson Timber Company repre-
sentative.
The closure was requcste(] by
tree faLrmers in the area who
claimed tlle roaming cattle were
causing damage to new tree plant-
ings.
Elmlund said he believed that
the property owners had the right
to control the use of their own
p:po erty and. , .that. the open. range.
law made xt difficult fo the tree
armcrs to exercise this right
The Commission received two
more applications fot: the county
civil defense directors job, from
Martin Smith and Melvin M. Mills.
Richard Knight. Al]yn, appeared
at the meeting, speaking in sup-
• ,,,+ ,ff civil defense and conl-
'entcd'tlmt i, hc fire dislyict there
had bccn henefitcd by the sm plus
property purchases available be-
cause of the civil defense office.
The commission certified to the
county assessor the tax levies for
the various taxing bodies under
their jurisdiction.
ON COMMITTEES
Tlu'ee Shelton students are on
committees for the University of
Puget Sound, Tacoma, Homecom.
ink this weekend. Roy Kimbel and
Dennis Hinton are on the publicity
committee and Kathy Houston is
o the royalty committee.
Here
Airport is losing
for its directional
Under an order
Aviation Ag-
been notified
Coast Regional
for the
being trans-
airport being
side of the
Bridge.
protested
were not-
was ColltCln-
PROTEST were
Port Connnis-
U.S. Forest
of the Army,
Company md lo-
ahead with the
protests from
there are not
to go around,
so close to-
is lace-
about two
of the, main
The bea-
radio signals,
aid by
city was automatically vacated if
it was not opened within four
years. This taw was m effect until
1909.
Garland said hig investigations
have revealed that during those
years the city did not levy taxes
on the area and, that in 1907 the
county put in Becket Road, which
is still in use.
This, he said. indicated that .the
area was not part of the city.
There are, however, he said. no
records of exactly where the boun-
daries of the city were at the
TIIE EASIEST solution, he
said, would be for the city to va-
hate the street, which would clear
up any question of its interest.
Thd city has been reluctant to
vacate the street. There is a foot-
path down where the street is
platted which is used by a number
of persons walking from; Capitol
Hilt to downtown and the commis-
sion has had several requests o
keep the path open.
There is also a sewer line, which
is a private line to another home,
running along a section of what
would be Birch Street wlfich is
also involved in the same px)b-
lem.
The prollem came up several
weeks ago when Mrs. Stewart
erected a board fence to stop the
Contract
The Shelton City Connnission
Tuesday votedto award a con-
tract for paving sections of Fair-
mont Street. North 13th Street and
B Street and the tennis courts in
Kneeland Park to Olympia Oil and
Wood Products Company, the on-
ly bidder on the job.
Their bid was $10,416 for the
street work and $1.080 for the
tennis courts and an alternate for
raising the manholes of $440.
THE STREET WORK is being
done under the city's arterial
street program.
An LID on Seattle Street and
Sixth Street was approved by the
commission after no one appeared
at a hearing to Object to it. Roc-
ky Hembroff appeared in support
of the LID and to clarify some
points about it.
The commission voted to allow
a zoning era'lance to C. R. Brooks
to operate a cabinet shop in a
77th YEAR NO. 42 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton, Washington,
under Act of March 8, 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cots.
Chmotmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washingtor
Thursday, October 17, 1963 Published in " "o
10 Cents per Copy
20 Pages 3 Sections
(ounty
Plans '231,000 Road
(onstruction Program For
The Ma.on County Commission bituminous surfacing on 1.6 miles
has set a $231,000 road constnm- of the. Tahuya-Blacksmith Road]
lion program for 1964. from Tahulya Hill to Maggie /
The wok is divided between the Lake, $12,000; redeekthe bridge I
three road districts with $77,000 over Weaver Creek on the Bour-I
programed for each. gault Road, $8,000; reshape, widen]
Planned for Road District 1 are and. light bituminous surfacing of
light bituminous surfacing of the 1.2 miles of the Dewatto Road at
Picketing Road, cost $1,000; relo- Bear Creek Hill, $20,000; regrade
r:cation and light bituminous sur- short sections and reshape 3.4 miles
of the North Shore Road from
Tahuya west. $27,000; reshape and
light bitumhmus surfacing on .6
miles of the Haven Lake Road
on the northwest side of the lake,
$10,000.
Planned for Road District Three
is grading and ballast on .2 miles
of the Channel Point Road; re-
grading, drainage and light bitum-
inous surfacing on .8 miles of the
Wivell Road, $10',000; redeck the
I county line bridge on the Matlock-
Deckerville Road, $3,500; rivet
1964
two bridges on the Cloquallum
Road, $8,000 and $15,000; widen
and light bituminous surfacing on
1.8 miles Highland Road, $10,000;
rebuilding miscellaneous small
bridges, $14,000; reconstruct 1.5
lniles of Arcadia Road, to be let
on contract, light bituminous sur-
facing on 2.4 miles of the Beeville
Loop Road from the Grange north
and the relocation of a dangerous
use of the foot path, claiming that
youngsters using it had been dam-
aging her property.
If the city does not vacate the
street, the question could end up
in court to decide if the "non-user
law" applies in this case.
The commission set its evening
meeting Oct. 29 for a public hear-
mg on the problem to detet'mine
how much demand there is for
garage at 2020 Stevens Street. The facing of .3 miles of the Northcliff
city planning commission recom- Road from the city limits to the curve on the Cloquallum Road.
mended granting the variance. 1963 project, $10,000; relocation
City Engineer Pat Byrne told and widening of 1.5 miles of the
the commission that drawings for t Pickering Road north of the 1961
sewer improvement project wereproJ eel, $29.000: relocation, re-
almost done and that work had grading and rip rap on the Leeds
been started on securing the nec- Loop Road. $30.000; relocgtion of The budgets for 1964 are cam- budgets for 1964 of almost $3.5 from the largest, the Shelton City
essary right-of-way.
THE COMMISSION approved a
resolution outlining the proposed
sewer improvement plan and ap-
proved an ordinance setting the
1964 budget.
Police Chief Paul Hinton was
instructed to took into the cost of
installing a traffic light at Fourth
Street and Railroad Avenue.
Scout Fund
Drive Workers
Are Named
Selection of key personnel to
carry out the 1963 Boy Scout fund
campaign in Mason County was
made this week by community
chairman Bill Batstone.
M. M. "Bud" Lyon, manager o£ t
the Shelton branch of Thurston I
i County Federal Savings & Loan,
was named to the importmt gen-
eral solicitation chairmanship anti
as such will have charge of the
teams which will make the door-
to-door canvassing.
Lyon has named Einar Olsoe,:
ld Cole. Dave Powell Vince Him- -:
lie and Tom Townsend as bii -
"Majors", each of whom will
five' "'Captains" Under' them.
luncheon meeting of the Majors
with Lyon and Batstone. aldhg
with Tumwater Council executives
Dick Whitney and Jim Fox, m
scheduled for Friday noon at Rit-
ners.
SELDEN Vander'vVegen of the
accounting firm of McGuire and
VauderWegen has been named by
Batstone to head the special gifts
committee, another key responsi-
bility in the campaign.
John Ragan and Bob Snyder,
Shelton attorneys, are sharing
chairmanshipof the prospects and
rating committee: Warren Moo
assistant manager of Shelton
branch of Seattle-First National
Bank, and district finance chair-
man for Tumwater Boy Scout
Council, is in charge of audit anl
control; Mary Anstey, Rayonier
research lab chemist, is in charge
of arrangements: and Bill Diekie,
Journal publisher, is puhlicity
chairman.
Within the next few days addi-
tional appointments will be made
by the Majors and the Captains
all aimed at bringing together the
125 campaign workers for a kick-
off breakfast October 29. Anstey
keeping the footpath open for pc- will announce time and place for
destrian traffic, tiffs later.
Lewis Wilson Con-dudes 41
Years On Same Bus Route
Local Taxing Agencies Complete Budgets
Bob Tanner
LEWIS WILSON
Well-Traveled Man
American astronauts make mile-
age faster but none have piled up
as much as Lewis Wilson, who
wound ut) 41 years of road "burn-
ing" la,st week.
Wilson estimates he has driven
busses between Shelton. Olympia
and Bremerton solnewhere be-
tween two and three million miles
(equivalent to some 100 times
around the world} since he began
I doing it regularly in 1922. He has
no idea how many vehicles, or
how many tires hc has worn out
in that time.
And this doesn't take into ac-
count how far he has driven his
own car ill his personal travels.
BUT THAT'S all over now, as
of last Wednesday evening, when
he completed his final nm on the
Bremerton-Shelton-Olympia route
he has traveled so often he could
almost do it blind-folded.
His busses have run the gamut
from Wmton, Buick, Studebaker
Head Kiwanis
and Pierce Arrow touring cars to
the modern Flxibles, of which he
has two 35-passenger models for
sale, incidentally.
Hc has "worn out" two high-
ways. and is disappointed a bit
because the third wasn't completed
before his retirement last weeR.
He started on a part-time basis in
1921 when there was no pavement
on the Shelton-Olympia highway,
then spent many a year threading
the crooked cement surface which
is now being replaced by the free-
way under construction.
For the Past ten years he has
operated the Bremerton-Shelton-
Olympia run as his own business
bUt under a franchme held by the
Bremcrton-Tacoma Stages Comp-
any. Prior to that he had drivcu
the same route for Bremerton-
Tacoma for eleven years.
His first employer was Wallace
Johnson, Ford ear dealer here who
held the original franchise in tl)e
early 1920s. Later. the franchise
became the property of Charlte
Mitchell and Harold iakeburg, for
whom Wilson drove. The Bremer-
ton segment of the run was added
20 years ago, dm'ing World W:ar
II's hectic activity at Bremerton
wllich tool( many "residents of this
community for jobs in the ship-
yard,
EVEN THOUGH he has ,'each-
cd retirement age, Wilson has no
intention of turning loafer. He
has much m mind improving hm
home at 140a Railroad Avenue,
tmlping his son, Harold, Shelton
teacher and athletic coach who
spends his sun]mers building
homes, and other activities such
as gardening and fishing,
This is the first vacation he has
had in nine Years. He may utilize
it to take a trip,
' , . :!...':"
BOB TANNER
Elected by Kiwanians
Shelton Kiwanians elected Bob
Tremor as their 1964 president dur-
ing Tuesday's wee3€ ly hmcheon
meeting in Memorial Hall. He is
serving as vice-president this
yea r.
Tanner's supporting officers, at-
so elected Tuesday, will be Kurt
Mann. vice-president; Cash Brid-
get, Morrie Grunkelneier. Jud Hol-
loway, Purl Jemison. Eldon Kah-
ney, Ivan Myers, and Bob Watson,
directors.
Democrat 00luh
To Meet Tonight
"v¥illiam M. Weaver. Director ot
the Veterans' Rclvtbilitation Coun-
cil. will be the guest speaker at
tonight's meeting of the Mason
County Democratic Club. The
nccting will begin a 8 p.m. in
the PUD Auditorium.
"Weaver will discuss current ann
planned activities within the Vet-
erans' Rehabilitation C o u ncil.
Club president Wayne Burnett ex-
tends an invitation to all interest-
ed citizens of Mason County to at-
tend t&e meethg,
DAVE CLARK
Deputy Sheriff Dave Clark is
back on duty in the Belfair area
after completing the Basic Law
Enforcement School at Ft. Lewis
recently. Clark joined the sher-
iff's office last summer.
The school, a three-week, full
time course is conducted by the
FBL Among subjects taught are
laws of arrest, search and seizure,
laws of evidence, crime scene
search, firearms, defensive tactics
and fingerprinting.
Clark was among the 39 men
h'om sheriff's offices and police
de0artments throughout the state
attending the school. Dipohnas
were presented at a graduating
lnncheon.
Deputy Sheriff
Completes Law
&hod
PLANNED for Road District
Two s grading, draining and light
against each piece of property in
county must be.
In attempting to discover who
gets what from the taxpayer's dol-
lar and where it goes. one is con-
fronted with a bewildering array
of figxwes.
Considering that 28 government
bodies ge a portion of the real
estate amt personal property taxes
collected in Mason County, trying
to trace them all down can be
time-consuming.
THESE AGENCIES have total
County Budget
is Comp/eted
The Mason County Commission
at a continued meeting last week
approved a final budget of $356,-
917.39.
The eommmsion took another
look at the amount of cash on
hand anticipated for the end at
this year and raised this figure
by about $3.500 from the amount
used at the budget hearing.
This money was used to restore
some of the cuts made in the bud-
gets for the various departments.
$120 was restored to the aud-
itor's sa.lar,; , .$,500 "to the
prosecuting attorney s autopsy
expense fund, $2,000 to the prose-
cutor's funds to hire a deputy
prosecutor. $700 to the sheriff's
fund for vehicle maintenance and
operation and added $180 to the
teasurer's salary funds.
A County Highway Department
budge submitted at the budget
hearing was approved with no
change. It is for $670,628.
Stanley Sushak
State Trooper
Here, Succumbs
Stanley J. Sushak, 41, State Pa-
trol Trooper here for the past
seven years, died in a local hospital
Sunday.
Mr. Sushak was born in Bear Ri-
ver, IV[into April 8, 1922. He had
been a resident of Mason Com-ty
the past 14 years and had been
with the State Patrol seven yel.
Funeral services will be at 11
a.m. today in Batstone Funeral
Home with Roy. Burton Salter of-
ficiating. Burial will be in Veter-
ans Cemetery.
Suriviors include his wife, Ka-
therine; two sons, Wayne and Da-
vid, and one daughter, Karen, all
at the fanfily home, Rt 2, Box
,517; his father, Stanley Sushak,
Chissom, Minn., his mother. Mrs.
Frances Sushak, Shelton; one bro-
ther, James, Lincoln, Nob., five
sisters, Mrs. Jennie Fehlinger, In-
dianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. Dorothy
Goldsworthy, Rosemead, Calif.;
lrs. Betty Jean Hammond,
Friendship, Tellll.; Mrs. Robert
Thorbeck, Minneapolis. Minn., and
Miss Judy Sushak, Minneapolis.
The family requests that mem-
orials be sent to the Washington
Crippled Children's Society,
]aycees To Raise
Funds For Fire
Department
The Shelton Volunteer Fire De-
partment will soon have some new
equipment for its emergency ve-
hicle if all goes well on a fund
drive lannched this week by the
helton Jaycees.
It was recently disclosed by fire
chief T. E. Deer that additional
equipment to be nsed in the emcr-
gency \\;'chicle is badly needed by
the department in order for it to
hmction in the manner for which
it was intended.
According t,o Deer the equipment
needed consists of one inhaler, a
spare oxygen tank, stretcher, plas-
tic splints, pla.stie throw-away
sheets, and a 30 x 75 inch canvas,
all amounting to an approximate
total of $400.
The Shelton Jaycees, with help
from the fire department, hope to
raise the $400 by asking ,the pub-
lic for 50 cent donations, with tur-
keys for TJ'.anksgiving to be given
for prizes.
million, of which a little more than
$1.25 million will come from prop-
erty taxes, The rest comes from
a variety of sources, including in-
come from the agencys own ac-
tivities and various state and fed-
eral funds.
This $3.5 million does not include
building funds for the schools and
the various special levy funds
in some of the fire districts.
Also not included are the bud-
gets for utilities which operate
on their own revene, including
the two PUDs, and the city water,
sexver, garbage departments.
The budgets range in size
County Schools
Show Increase
In Spending
Education in Mason County is
a $2 million business, budgets for
the various school districts re-
veal.
Budgets for the county:s 10
school districts were approved by
the county budget review commit-
tee which met last week.
Total school budgets for opera-
tion and maintenance is $2,054,-
333:98= More than?60 percent of
this amount goes for' sa]atiesfor
teachers and Other school district
employees.
IN SIZE, the budgets range
from the largest, the Shelton
School District, of $1.210.953.46 to
the smallest, HarStine, $11,426.28.
Other district budgets include
Tahuya,. $24,499; Southside, $55,-
486.81; \\; Grapeview. $30,031.13;
Mary M. Knight, $112.394.65; Ka-
milche. $29,748.48: Pioneer. $53,-
322; North Mason. 343.203.47 and
Hood Canal. $183.268.70.
The total budget for operation
of the schools in the county show-
ed a sliglt increase over the prev-
ious year of 22.842.91 despite de-
creases by some districts.
Two districts, Shelton and Har-
stine, showed substantial decreas-
es while Southside dropped about
$400.
All of the others had increases
in their budgets.
The budgets for operation and
maifltenance, shown here, do not
include funds in the districts'
building funds.
Toaslmaslers Hear
SOS Speech Winners
Fran Demmon and Marie Knee-
land, first and second place win-
ners in the Soil Conservation Ser-
vice speech contest, w-ere guest
speakers at the Shelton Toast-
master's Club meeting last Thurs-
day morning.
The girls presented their win-
ning speeches to the club.
Visitors at the meeting were Ed
Jonson, area governor, and Lyle
Hay assistant area governor, both
of the Olympia Toastmasters.
Table topics discusion on "should
we sell wheat to Russia" was led
by George Nichols.
Local guests at the meeting were
School. $2,054,333.98 to the small-
est. Fire District No. 5 at Allyn,
with a budget of $3,197.
FIRE DISTRICTS
The county's six fire districts
have total budgets of $64,824.31.
The largest is Fire District No.
2 at Belfair with a budget, of
$19,450.19. Othe include Fire Dis-
trict 1, Hdodsport, $11,385; Fire
District 3, Grapeview, $12,642.90;
Fire Distric 4, Arcadia, $3,400.74;
Fire District 5, Allyn, $3,197, and
Fire District 6, Uniol% $14,748.48.
All of the fire districts axe tak-
ing the four mills alIowed them
under State law and several have
special levies in addition.
PORT DISTRICTS
The county's four port distrlct
have total budgets of $87,680.10.
Making up the bulk of this is
the Shelton Pol budget of $61,982.
Income for the port is antici-
pated at $23,682 flm taxes; $10,-
000 from rentals; $2,800 for op-
eration of the city dock; $1,500
from miscellaneous sources and
$24,000 cash on hand.
Among anticipated expenitures
for the coming year, the port dis-
trict $17,000 for moorage renew-
al as the largest item. Repairs
and improvements to the dock has
a $3.000 expenditure and repairs
and, improvements at the airport
$8.000. The district plans to use
$4,000 in promotion of the annex
industrial park on Johns Prairie.
,Otler .port districts include A1,
15n, $17,640; DeWatto, $3,428,10.
and Hoodsport, $4,630.
Port districts are allowed un-
der state law to levy two mills.
This, however, is not covered by
the 40-mill limit under state law.
TOTAL ASSESSED valuation
in the county showed a slight in-
crease this year. accordhg to fig-
(Continued n Page 5)
Member Drive
"
or Commumty
Concert 00tarts
The annual membership drive of
the Mason County Community
Concert Association has opene(l
with the mailing of memberslip
cards to last year's members, ac-
cording to Andrew Bcelik. presi-
dent.
The association has scheduled
three concerts for the coming se-
son. They are M'artha Schlamme,
folk singer Nov. 7; Llords Inter*
national Marionettes, Jm]. 12 and
Paganini String Quartet, Feb. 24:.
ll concert association presenta,
tigris are in. the Shelton Jmior
Higll Auditorium.
IN ADDITION TO the local
concerts, membership cards will
permit the h01ders to attend addi,
tional programs in nearby cities,
Matloek Area Youth Wins
Paul Everett, Vern Morgus, John elation pres(ntations is by mem
Montgomery and Harold Van De [bersilip card only. No single a(1-
-Riot. ' missions are sold.
Work
In tle Washington State 4-H
General Achievement C o n t est,
Bill Trenckmann, a senior at Mary
M. Knight High School. the son at
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Trenckmann
of the Matlock area, has won an
expense paid trip to the National
4-H Congress in Chicago. Because
of his accomplishnen£s in 4-H.
school and community work, Bill
was awarded tle trip, which is
cmsidered a gTeat honor in 4-H
work. He was interviewed by the
contest judges at the Washing-
ton State Fair in Yakima.
Bill is president of the local 4-H
club, the Senior Builder's club, and
tim Mary M. Knight student body.
He has held numerous offices dur-
ing his four years of high school
and he has also belonged to the
lettermmfs club since his fresh-
man year. He will be leavhg the
first part of December for Chi-
ca.o,
.2 mils of Phillips Lake Road, plete and certified to the assessor
$4,000 "and widening one mile of who now has the task of figuring
the Concord Beach Road. out just how much the tax levy
