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., ENLISI’ NOW 5m
‘NIIED STAIES ARMY
' EVENING
1 1' Off Affimst One Third
‘e S .
L ‘.h"l0'afi Years So Soon-
qG Angl‘ee Event Should
'95 I l‘Opped Hereafter
In St, inns probhbly saw the
{’98 of the Merchants Ex-
aaSt night, it was gen—
eed by members of the
> Wind Active clubs, co-
, “q the event. after the
‘ ,tsecutive holding of the
‘ ' W closed
O-night affair
dance off approximate-
‘rd from last year and
V. rts of the
, proportionate or even
ficlines in patronage.
Over 700 paid admis-
re taken in during.the
I, with Tuesday holding
margin over last night
idlhissions, Door Chair—
w- Witsiers reported to-
,» hkeno table was off al-
,-.‘ ', aIf from last year. Keno
Bob Allan reported.
. x the concession booths
2: Show any profit what-
‘I
. $25 defense bonds
'xas ere awarded as major
y fl.“ ‘ hevening were earned
, r A ,Lynn, telephone com-
‘t m“ i ‘00 manager. Tuesday
.0 3‘ m Rocky Duckham, Mc-
.' tmber plant electrician,
“i .
-* ,4 Patron of the expOSI—
“1 i was Roy Daniels,
.5 r
I, at the sheriff's office.
IlOIl; ',h1‘ee prizes during the
of the 1941 exposi-
, ed as they will be, are
, ,. “ed by the two spon-
‘g I“ to bolster the civic
f {as of each. All lum-
‘dol‘ the booth construc—
iOWl" i}. . 0hated to the sponsor—
‘ Rby the McCleary Tim-
etfd Mill firms, use of
lum was donated by
dlstrict, and the keno
[ER
ire sold at wholesale
a. Fri“...
c‘
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exposition ‘
I Duckham Lucky ‘
“16 several stores which
Rem.
.78 Space Away
rented beeth
Kn . firms
' ' donated the space
:I
’A-Drkanizations. Among}
Mason Conntv Cream-
fi ape 'Juice to the
-i 'T- C. Penney Co., to
“ Cross, and Daviscourt
’DH "45 the high school Girls'
Iectric, Nash Brothers,
Shelton
"Huerby Motors, McCon—
fl Furniture,
‘ Driskcl Hardware, As-
. glean Legion Auxiliary,
, {by Committee. Mun-
01‘ Men, Shelton Radio
. M. booth was judged
, "Warded the $10 cash
(ff .44 by the sponsoring
.’ ‘ e
Block 'V rBordeaux P.-T. A.,
EAR 1“ Ehooth holders included
Hardware.
eCtric, Beckwith Jew-
acy, V.F.W. and Aux-
Wilcox
1v 0“ High School Pep
beakerv. The Journal,
N and Lumbermen‘s Mer-I
.etIVe of the exposition
finest booth. The
mittee consisted of
,1 r z: .1‘. Kiwanis club presi-
.38 Rowe, Active Club
d Walter Eckert, Ki-
n"ember.
‘1‘ Escapes
. “I As Truck
‘* Car Collide
fie rear-end collision
, rA, which demolished a'
A 3,} damaged a truck,
I am of Shelton suffer-
ht Shoulder injuries last
, 011 required hospital
ltteand for a few hours
nding physicians con-
e possibility of his
3‘ .
red by
, ,
as driving a car own-
Tucker, also of Shel-
{1 mck the rear end of
S .‘ k operated by Lee
or v .lfi
Melton which was load-
fp, '» bel' projecting several
you”; “the rear of the truck
’ount ' -‘ a; Was practically de-
Georfi; White’s truck suf-
z'Iilblc damage.
two bad cuts on his
close to the iuglar
dervere injuries to his
‘- 02,- White complained
Act a stiff neck as an
the collision.
{,1 Baker and Pvt. F.
_». b°th of Fort Worden,
v iagulled Abeyta out of
A». 0_f the car to rush
b. aPita].
-'l.
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“he
‘I
. M Explosion
49¢: an In Hospital
‘ _‘ \-
“nter, Route 1, suf-
. , . about his head and
WadneSday morning
Jt‘HMMP he was attempt-
in.“ exploded. He is in
tal for treatment.
ffi'lRIVEE TODAY
3,. rs- Luther Bernard of
, ‘te Parents today of a
31‘ born at Shelton
MOODY, D.
6°” 5- E.
PORTLAND, 0Q::
25 NEW FIRST AID LAY INSTRUCTO‘RS HERE ‘
Shelton Ind
ependent
e.’
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, October 23, 1941.
'SHAFER’S BAKERY i
, NEWEST SHEIIDN i
! BUSINESS II D U S
Local Boy Returns to Open New?
Baking Establishment On E
Cota Street i
alterations and renova—,
tions completed, Shelton‘s latest
business house, Shafcr‘s Bakery,
will officially swing into produc-v
tion this week under the mating,
ership of Al Shafer, former local}
resident.
Mr. Shafer came to Shelton mi
1921 and attended the local‘
schools, graduating in 1926 from,
the local high school. Mr. Shafcr.‘
gained local experience when'
With
These 25 persons shown above are qualified to instruct Red Cross first aid
classes, having recently earned their lay instructors’ certificates in an
advanced course
of instruction directed by Harold Berentson, national field director in
first aid for
the American Red Cross. From this group will be selected instructors for
seven
new
public first aid courses the Mason County Red Cross chapter will conduct in
this vicinity in the near future, plus several first aid detachments.
Front row (left to right)—Laurel Nelson, Gregory
Orville Spinharney, Emmett Smith, Fred Westfall. Second row—Bernice
Price, Ed-
ith Levett and Jessie Lord, all of Camp
5, Mamie Earl,
Thora Spinharney,
Mahaffey, Woodrow Jones,
Harold
Meade, Nolan Mason of Union. Third row—Beatrice Brumbaugh, Laura
Culbertson
of Belfair.Ba.ck row—Myroh Luncl, Everetta Baldwin of Belfair, Amalia
Ordail,
Virginia Lund, Walter Spinharney, Harold Berentson, instructor, Lorraine
Daniel-
son, of Camp 3, Mrs. Elmer Smith, Frances Huson of Tahuya, Bob Little,
Wallace
Crait.
STATE MANGANESE
SURVEY ASKED BY
0 LYM PIC LEAGUE
I State may; Establishing“ Ex-
traction Planth Asked; Next'
'Meeting At Hoodsport
(From Port Angclcs Evening
News).
Sequim, Oct. 21.*Immcdiate ex—
ploration by the state of Wash-
ington to prove the tonnage of
manganese deposits on the Olym-
pic Peninsula and state assistance
for the establishment of a. reduc-
tion plant to extract manganese
from Peninsula ores were request-
ed in two of ten resolutions pass-
ed by the Olympic Peninsula De-
velopment League in its meeting
at Sequim Monday.
The request for state explora-
tion to estimate the tonnage 0f
manganese on the Peninsula was
deemed imperative by several
speakers, notably G. W. Evans.
Seattle, consulting mining en-
gineer and H. J. Gille, Seattle. 0f
the Associated Chambers of, Com-
merce of the state.
The need for state action at
once, the speakers declared, i3
made necessary because Harold L.
James, field engineer for the Fed-
eral Geological Survey, said in a
report read at Aberdeen tWO
weeks ago that the survey esti-
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mates there are only about 150.-
Shelton Woman’s
Brother Survives
Sitka Base Blast
Walter Welch, former student
(In the Shelton school system
and a brother of Mrs. M. C.
Melcum of Shelton, survived by
some miracle he cannot explain
the terrific explosion which kill-
ed six men and injured many
others at the new Naval Air
Base at Sitka, Alaska. on Oct~
obcr 5, Mrs. Melcum learned to-
day in a letter from her mo-
ther.
A member of the Army Sig-
nal corps. Welch was taking
official photographs for the
Navy of the brush fire which
caused the explosion when the
terrible blast occurred. Mrs.
Melcum said her mother’s let-
ter read in part:
“I suppose you have heard
from Walter, but in case you
didn’t he was about 150 feet
from the explosion taking of-
ficial pictures. His camera was
blown to bits in his hands and
an Army captain standing be-
side him was blown to bits.
Walter says he still does not
realize why he was not killed.”
The letter went on to explain
that Welch suffered severe
shock and said his every joint
was sorc from the effects.
Journal Want-Ads—Phone 100
(Continued on Page Two)
16-FOOT FIELD CORN RAISE
DOBY
SKOKOMISH VALLEY RANCHER
If Ted Richert develops a crlck
in his neck he can blame it 0“
gazing up into the atmosphere
trying to locate the tips of the
field corn he experimented With
this year on his Skokomish Val-
ley dairy farm.
Ted planted four rows of Eureka
field corn among the seven acres
of silage corn he annually plants
this past spring, that was around
May 25, and early this week when
he cut it a stalk of his “6XP9F1'
ment” measured 16 feet, 1% 1n“
ches in altitude.
There was considerable doubt
among experienced farmers. about
whether the Eureka species of
*field corn would mature in this
[area as it comes chiefly from
rdrier climates, but after his suc-
cess this year Richert says he is
going to plant his whole seven
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TONIGHT—Commercial League
bowling, 8 p.m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Prep football, 2:30 Pv
m., Loop Field, Shelton VS-
Bremerton.
FRIDAY—City league bowling,
" and 9 pm. bowling alleys.
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FRIDAY—Moose Lodge weekly
meeting, 8 p.m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY—Fourth day of ’41
upland bird hunting season.
shooting sunrise to 4 pm
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a.m., courthouse.
SATURDAY—~Deadline for .de-
positing entry ballots in fifth
week of Merchants-Journal 3rd
annual football sweepstakes, 1‘0
a.m., ballot boxes at Ralph's
Grocery (Hillcrest), WilsonS
Cafe, Munro‘s, L, M., Journal.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
acres in Eureka next year. A
couple of the giant stalks were
placed on diSplay at the Olympia
Feed Store on First street yes-
terday by Richert.
The altitudinous stalks served
another purpose beside silage for
the Richert stock, too, for they
acted as beanstalks also this
summer, Richert related yester-
day.
Richert also raised some ex-
ceptional alfalfa, another some-
What unusual crop for this terri-
tol‘Y. this summer. He made his
third cutting of the season a cou—
Ple of weeks ago and put away
approximately a ton and a quar—
ter from the acre and a half he
had Planted while the second cut-
tlng ran a ton and a half. The
first cutting he didn’t weigh be-
cause it was too wet.
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SATURDAY~Junior high foot-
ball. 2 pm. Loop Field, Shel-
ton vs. Chehalis.
SUNDAYfiFifth day of 1941 up-
land bird hunting season, shoot-
lng sunrise to 4 pm.
SUNDAY~Fina1 day of qualify-
‘llg for second annual Shelton
silver salmon derby, final weigh-
mg'ln lit pm.
MONDAY_County commission-
ers Weekly meeting, 10 a.m.,
courthous . v
MONDAY5Eagles aerie weekly
meetmg: 8 p.1n., Moose Hall.
1v{1(I)II;II)‘§31IETWomen’s league bow-
p.m., bowling alleys.
TUESDAY—Kiwanis club lunch-
fgln meeting, noon, Shelton HO‘
(Photo by Andrews)
DEATH OF KIMBALL
Prominent Skokomish Resident
Dies In Tacoma Tuesday; Fu—
neral Saturday At 1 O’clock l
liam Hall under the Shaker rites.I
Deceased leaves his wife Nancy,
a daughter Mrs. Lucy .Allen, with!
eight grandchildren and four great
,grandchildren, all on the Skoko-
mish Reservation.
In 1855 the Sherwood Broth-
ers, Joseph and Warren, came to
North Bay and started a sawmill
with water power from a small
dam on Sherwood Creek, which
was operated for ten or more
years shipping its lumber and
piles by schooner to San Fran-
cisco, then booming through the
gold discoveries. Joseph was kill-
ed rolling logs into the bay in
1373, and Kimball as a small boy
remembered the excitemenbwhen
the news came to camp of his
death.
Kimball was the son of Warren
Sherwood. who like his brother
Joseph, had married an Indian
woman from the Skokomish Res-
ervation, and following the cus-
tom of that day he was born on
the Reservation which has ever
since been his home. Kimball
Sherwood was a kindly man noted
for his unfailing good humor, a
good citizen, and he had many
friends among his white neigh-
bors as well as the Indians. In
active years he engaged in
logging but in later life devoted
his work to his farm on the Res-
ervation.
2 NEW HOMES TO
BE BUILT HERE
Building permits for the con-
struction of two new Shelton
Ihomes. have been issued by City
'Auditor Gordon Hendry.
Harold Ahlskog was issued a
permit for a $5000 residence to be
constructed at 624 Birch street,
while City Councilman A. D. Kill-
mer obtained a permit for build-
ing‘ a new home at Seventh and
Franklin street valued at $4000.
15th-Draft Call To
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Death claimed a real native son
of Mason County Tuesday night,
one who had spent all his 73
years of life on the Skokomish
ReserVation, in the person of Kim—
ball Sherwood, who had been in
poor health for the past year and
died at the Cushman Indian Hos—
pital at Tacoma where he had
gone for treatment.
Funeral services will be held
at Witsiers Funeral Home in Shel-
ton on Saturday at 1 o’CIOCk. The
service will be conducted by Wil-
working for Clydc’s Bakery and.
Daviscourt’s Bakery. For the past,
five and one-half years, he has
been established in the bakeryi
business in PeEll.
Shafer’s Bakery will be located
in the Same place as the Shelton!
Bakery at 111 Cota Street. The
quarters have all been newly
painted and decorated and now
shelving and display cases have!
been installed. Mr. Shafcr has
also added to his baking equip-.
ment.
In addition to a large variety
of cakes. pies and other fancy
pastry delicacies, Shafer‘s Bakery
will feature Al’s Vitality Bread:
:1 bread enriched with vitamins
and iron as an aid to health and
vitality.
According to Mr. Shafer he has
been developing this bread over a
period of some five years, and has
finally brought it to the point
where it rates with the best
bread available. A recent test con-
ducted at the Sperry Flour Mills
gave Shafer’s bread a rating of
95.5%, which is very high.
Mr. Shafer invites the public to
'visit his new store and see the
excellent bakery goods on display
there.
Two Grid Battles
Upon Loop Field
Friday, Saturday
“It's the only time this scason,1
this Friday and Saturday after-
noons, when Shelton football fans
will be able to see both their
school teams in action on the
home field.
The senior high Highclimbers
entertain Bremerton’s Wildcats in
a. return game scheduled for a
2:30 o'clock kickoff Friday after-
noon on Loop Field, while at two
o'clock saturday afternoon the
Shelton junipr high greenshirts
play host to Chehalis junior high
on the same field. Incidentally,
note the change in the junior high
game time for originally it had
been scheduled for ten o’clock in
the ‘Inorning.
Both ,‘Shelton grid machines will '
be seeking, and have reasonable
hopes of achieving, their first
victories of the year.
Coach Walt Hakola’s Highclim-
beI‘S. after a 13 to 12 defeat at
Bremerton three weeks ago, be,
lieve they have the stuff to re-
verse the verdict on their home
grounds. They probably won’t be
meeting up with Merle Mongrain,,
a former fellow student at Shel-
ton who has been doing first line
relief duty in the Wildcat line this
season, as the ex-Highclimber
suffered severe lime burns in
Bremerton’s game at Port Ange-.
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les last weekend and is reported‘ .
definitely out of this week’s ac-I
tion plans. '
Coach Frank Willard’s Shelton;
juniors have been making steady1
improvement from game—to—game
so far. this season, each contest
defeat by a smaller margin than
the previous one, so they have
high hopes of cracking the victory
column Saturday, particularly if
the field is dry and fast for the
Shelton juniors rely on trickery
for their offense due to their lack
of poundage.
Helpful Mr. Bear
Shakes Apples
Down For Cows
By Una W'insor
Shelton Valley, Oct. 22.
When Johnny takes the teach.-
er an apple it isn’t considered
news exactly, but when Mister
Bear shakes apples off a tree
for old “bossy,” it is a bit un-
usual. A large black bear has
been'maklng frequent visits to
the orchard at the home of
Mr. and 'Mrs. George Cooke
since the apples ripened. Mon—
day evening, hearing a great
commotion among the dogs,
George took his gun and slip-
Take 7 Mon Nov. 7th
Mason County’s fifteenth dPaft
call will take seven young men
into selective service «training on
November 4, Mrs. Martha. Haines.
clerk of the Mason County draft
board. announced yesterday.
The list of men who will answer
the call has not yet been officially
drawn up, she said.
EXPECTED HOME FRIDAY
Gene Getty is expected home to-
morrow on furlough from the
Navy after completing his pre-
liminary training at the Naval
Training Station at San Diego,
pod down to the orchard. There
was the bear up in a tree shak-
ing down the fruit. The cows
pasturing nearby evidently
heard the apples thudding down
so hurried up and “snitched”
most of them before the bear
could clamber dow’n. However,
they'kept their distance until
the animal,, much mystified at
finding so few apples, climbed
the tree again. After watch-
ing the antics repeated several
.times, George dispatched the
' Courthouse
Kids Pr
Talk of the town today is the
KIDDIES PET PARADE which
will be held this Saturday start-
ing at 10:30 a.m., at the county
(please note the
(change) with the parade starting
at 11 am.
The high school band will lead
the paradc, with uniformed Cub
Scouts next in line, and the main
body of marchers following with
uniformed Boy Scouts and School-
boy Patrol maintaining order.
The parade will start from the
Courthouse, proceed down Fifth
Street to Cota, to Second, to Rail-
road to Third to Franklin dis-
banding at the City Hall.
Law Officials In Charge
Extreme care will be taken that
. the children and their pets will not
get tangled up in traffic, with
City Chief of Police Andy Han-
son and his staff, State Patrol-
man Cliff Aden, and Sheriff Gene
Martin taking charge of the work.
Manager Gus Graf of the
Paramount Theatre, sponsor of
the pet parade, announces a num-
ber of prizes to be awarded for
being A1 Brewer, Prof. Loop and
various classifications. the judges-
eening Pets For
Novelty Parade Saturday
Deputy Sheriff Fred Hickson.
Kiddies are urged to bring only
UNITED
STATES
us all own I K151i mo smut
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
one pet, to avoid entanglements
and originality will count in the
awarding of prizes. One little
girl plans on displaying her pet
cat in a doll buggy, still another
girl is training her dog to haul
a wagon, and so on. One boy had
planned on bringing his pet gold
fish. but has been discouraged,
as it would take all of Cliff Aden’s
time to keep the cats from eating
the goldfish.
Free Popeye Show Follows
Kiddies not having pets are.
incidentally in line for prizes if
they are costumed, which should
be no problem with Hallowe’en
around the corner. Every young-
ster in the parade with a pet or
without, and whether a prize win-
ner or not, will be rewarded with
a free ticket to the Popeye show,
immediately following the parade.
Youngsters will have time after
the parade to take their pets to
their respective homes, as the
various animals, cats, dogs, goats,
turtles, pigeons, and so on. will
not be allowed in the theatre.
The youngsters of Shelton and
vicinity are planning on having a
big time, on Saturday morning,
unless it rains in which event the
parade will be postponed one
week.
(Submitted by C. D. Nivison,
Torpedoman. first class, U. S.
Navy Recruiter, in Shelton each
Wednesday).
Next Monday, October 27th, the
Nation will celebrate the 20th
anniversary of Navy Day. Wher-
ever the United States Flag flies
and wherever there is a man in
the uniform of the Navy, even
in the most remote parts of the
world, homage will be paid to
this branch of our National Ser-
vice and a strong arm of our
National Defense.
From the time of our origin as
a nation the American Navy has
been the bulwark of our safety
and our greatest protection
against foreign aggression, and
while it has stood the storm and
onslaught of the greatest and
most destructive wars in history,
it has never lowered its colors or
lost a cause.*
The date, October 27th, was
selected as Navy Day because it
is the birthday anniversary of the
late President Theodore Roose-
velt, one of the Navy’s most ar-
dent sponsors.
No man had a clearer cencep-
tion of the value of Naval pOWer
than he. Its history, traditions
and usefulness to our Nation were
clearly understood by him. He
well knew that the fleet was our
first line of defense. He threw
his heart and soul into the labor
of building a Navy comensurate
with the power and importance
of his country. He wanted us al-
ways to be prepared to meet any
emergency and meet it with the
full strength of the Nation.
(Continued on Page Three)
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Celebrating its 46th anniversary
the Lumbermen’s Mercantile Co.
store will hold a two-day Anni-
versary and Open House event
this Friday and Saturday. Every
department is cooperating to make
it one of the outstanding sales of
the! year.
According to Mark Pickens, ad-
vertising manager, every .adult
visiting the store on Saturday will
receive a handy kitchen appllance.
Twelve boxes of groceries Wlll
also be given away to customers.
The Lumbermen’s store is ac-
tually older than its 46th armi:
versary would indicate as 1t oper-
ated for 10 or 15 years as the
Satsop Valley Railroad store.
The store has a fine record for
old employes. Twenty-five of the
employes have been with ' the
store for five years or longer.
Average employment for the
group of 25 is 13%» years. At the
present time there are 42 em—
ployes, not counting extras used
4 Simpson Officials
officials, George Drake,
NATION TO CELEBRATE 20th
ANNIVERSARY OF NAVY DAY
MONDAY; T.R.’s BIRTH
At Logging Congress
Four Simpson Logging company
Walter
Snelgrove, Gib Rucker and Her-
bert Brehmeyer, are representing
the“ company at the Pacific Log-
ging Congress at its 32nd annual
session in Seattle.
0
The Congress opened at the,
lympic Hotel yesterday. Mr.
Drake is a. past president of the
Congress.
on Saturdays.
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Mason County is one of ten
Western Washington counties des-
ignated by State Forester T. S.
Goodyear to receive over two mil-
lion Douglas fir seedlings for
planting on burned over areas, he
announced Tuesday from his office
in Olympia.
This county, along with Kit-
sap, King, Pierce and Clark coun-
ties, will recelve'100,000 each of
the seedlings, Clallam county has
been allotted 800,000, Jefferson
250,000, Snohomish and Skagit
counties 200,000 each, and What-
com 150,000.
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bruln to the happy hunting
I grounds. A smaller bear has
been seen in the vicinity, also.
The plantings are to be made
during November and December,
Goodyear’s announcement ~stated.
100,000 FIR SEEDLINGS TO BE
PLANTED HERE IN NOVEMBER
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BEN/[BERMEN’S MERCANTILE
OBSERVING 46th ANNIVERSARY
Following is a list of the vet—
eran employes and their length of
service:
Name Dept. Yrs.
Phil Fredson—hardware .......... .. 35
Maude LeMaster—dry goods .. 24
Pete Carlson—hardware ........ .. 4
Bill Valley—grocery ...... .. . 22
W. M. Elliott—gen. mgr. 21
Parry Jones—grocery mgr. 18
Wm. Cowling—«grocery .......... _. 17
E. E. Moore—feed dept. mgr. .. 16
Mac Lusk—bookkeeping ........ ..-15
Lawrence Burrell—meat mgr... 15
Anna. Wyatt—dry goods ...... .. 13
Geo. Ashbaugh—hardware .... .. 13
Robt. Stewart—grocery .... .. .. 13
Charles Chase—delivery 12
Anna Kneeland—tele. board 11
Mervin Wingard—grocery ...... .. 10
Mark Pickens—adv. ................ .. 10
Jim Sandswmeat 7
Elsie Peterson—cashier office.. 6
Wm. Stevenson’cashier ........ .. 6
Frankie Miller—bookkeeping ..
Vern Miller—men‘s dept. mgr.
Harold Olstead—credit mgr
Orval Oppelt—shoe dept. mgr.
Amelia Ordal—bookkeeping
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by ten planting crews hired from
forest rangers, lookouts and other
employes of the Forestry Depart-
ment, doing the work in place of
the CCC crews which did the
planting in ‘the past. Few CCC
workers noware available, it was
pointed out.
Workers at the state tree nurs-
ery near Bordeaux now are busy
taking‘seeds out ‘of 2,800 bushels
of fir cones, enough to produce at
here during the time
was conducted in this community.
the
Younglove Grocery company
that the second prize for total
poundage was earned by Scout
Troop 59, of Tacoma through the
store
Bates was situated just before he
came to Shelton to manage the
20th Century store here.
.SCDUIS HERE
WIN ALUMINUM
DRIVE AWARD
Shelton Troops Win Two Defense
Bonds In Younglove Gro-
cery Contest; 'First
In Total Pounds
lEfforts and energies put forth
by Boy Scouts of Shelton‘s three
troops in August conducting the
big scrap aluminum drive in this
community as part of the nation-
wide drivc for the metal won for
them $300 in national defense
bonds in a contest sponsored by
the Younglove Grocery Company,
it was revealed today by Herschel
W. Bates, manager of the 20th
Century Food Store on Hillcrest,
one of the links in the Younglovo
Grocery chain.
The 1,550 pounds of old alumi-
num which Shelton and Mason
County residents contributed to
the drive gave the Shelton Boy
Scouts first place in total pound-
age turned in by organizations
participating in the Younglove
Grocery company’s contest. A
$250 defense bond was the reward
for this achievement.
And That’s Not All
It also gave the Shelton scouts
second prize in the per capita
poundage division of the contest,
for which a $50 defense bond was
the award.
The Shelton scouts have Mrs.
Bates to thank for their rewards
for she happened onto the re-
cords of the drive stuck away in
a corner of a desk and evidently
forgotten by Bill Bourland, man-
ager of the 20th Century store
the drive
She sent them in to the Tacoma
headquarters of the Younglove
company, and today the final re-
sults were received in a bulletin
issued by the company.
Individuals Rewarded
In addition to the two handsome
awards earned by the Boy Scouts,
several
munity,received small amounts of
defense stamps for the amounts
of aluminum they contributed to
the drive,
who contributed their old alumi-
. num directly through the
Century store here.
individuals in this com-
these being, persons
20th
They include John Yarr, P. A.
Johnson, Josephine Robillard and
Clarence Weston of Shelton, W. F.
Compton and John C. King
Route 3, and Oscar Ahl of Ho
port.
of
ods-
Another interesting feature of
contest sponsored by the
is
in Tacoma at which Mr.
BOARD OF REVIEW
DUE NEXT THURSDAY
Postponed two weeks ago, the
first Boy Scout board of review
for Mason County district troops
will be held next Thursda
ning at 7:30 o’clock in the Me-
Cleary Timber
y. eve-
offices, District
Scout Commissioner Doanc Brodie
announced today, with the court
of honor following November 5, a.
Wednesday, in the county court-
house.
The Wednesday date for the
court of honor (usually held on
Thursdays) is being scheduled in
order to' bring a special film here
for the occasion,
Brodie said today.
Tractor Dearth
Threatening N.W.
Logging Industry
Seattle, Oct. 22.—Serious short-
ages of tractors and other mach-
inery is threatening shutdowns *in
the lumber industry, representa-
tives of the West Coast‘Lumber-
men's Association said today.
Most woods operations and saw-
mills have been able to continue
operations because the parts sup.
plies are not yet exhausted, but
delivery on new machinery is slow
and uncertain
.The lumber industry has an A-
10 priority. the lowest possible
rating. If a mill needs a new elec-
tric motor it must wait at least
twelve weeks for delivery and p
then can get the equipment only
if a manufacturer with a better
priority rating does not ask for
the machine.
Ordinarily, it takes from fifteen
to twenty big tractors a. month
for normal replacements in the'
industry, but lumber firms have
not received more than six trac-
tors in the past four months, the .
association officials said. Most
tractors formerly available in the
Northwest are being shipped
Commissioner .
abroad under the lend-lease pro-
gram.
Internal combustion engines,
even the old-fashioned donkey-en-
gines used in the woods, are vir-
tually unavailable «to the lumber
industry. ‘
seed supply for three years.
Good-year said three .million
more small trees would be plant-
ed starting in March. By the
end of six years he expects all
state lands on the west side to be
producing timber, '
FINGER AMPUTATED
Alvin Bemp Jr.. 12,‘ of Victor.
had the middle finger on his left
hand amputated at Shelton hospi-
tal last evening after cutting it
severely with an ax,
pom
