Rotary Official Visits
VISITS--Clifford Hadley,
strict governor of district 502, Rotary
)aid his official visitation to the
Club last Thursday. He was a
club's weekly luncheon meeting
met with officers Thursday after-
noon and was a guest at an assembly for board
members and committee chairmen Thursday night.
Above, left to right, are Bud Lyon, secretary,
Hadley and Cat1 Downing, president, during the
meeting of Hadley and Shelton 'Rotary officers
Thursday afternoon.
Trial Is
It For Jan. 6
murder trial and a car which collided with one in
homicide cases head
cases scheduled
County Superior
which opens Nov.
jury list has
dates for hear-
cases were set in
start out
lotions, which have
to take up all of
L ovember and De-
(:, !fcriminal cases and
I' from traffic convic-
! hce and justice court,
ee murder trml of
! %t
%h, charged m con-
!the death of his ex-
---, Sept. 24. Booth is
Y:.thout bail in Mason
Waiting tria!
homicides have
mt the calendar for
temming from deaths
': RREN CURRY,
Charged with negli-
• as the result of an
7, 196 ih which
was killed. Cur-
of the vehicle
eohple were riding
and crashed,
Carried over from
Last year.
Shelton. is el-
negligent hmni-
a traffic ac-
was the driver of
This
Was
00ffes
which Mrs. Joanna Bowcutt. Glad-
stone, Ore., was riding when she
was killed in the accident on High-
way ].4A July 14.
Other criminal cases set for Jan.
13 and Jan. 20 include Ehvood and
Phillip Stout, violation of the State
Forestry code in being in poscssion
of branded logs; Herbert Cassidy,
indecent liberties; Raymond W.
Wright, second degree assault; Ro-
bert Nelson and Charles Palmer,
trespassing, grand larceny; Rich-
ard Kreaman, forgery; Wayne
Schnabet, seeond degree assault;
Don Tanksley, grand larceny;
Richard D. Brown, second degree
assault: Edwin C. Miller, selling
fireworks.
Appeals, all scheduled.for Jan.
2, and all for traffie violation" con-
victions in police or justic court
include Gordon Steehler, Thomas
V. Kimball, George (3.. Smale,
Charles W. Wierauch, Frank E.
Ori, Jerry C. Skinner and Bel-mrd
Harden.
CIVIL CASES WILL lead off
the court calendar with the first
case scheduled to get underway at
10 a.m. Nov. 4: The first case is
that of Janet Dyer and Lila Beck-
er against Duane Ward and Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Faltin and Idler
Faltin for injuries recieved in an
auto accident.
Set for Nov. 5 and 6 is the Car-
roll B. Morrow, Irvin Nestel] Al-
l fred Dierick and Arden Pierce
against Mr. and Mrs. Richard G.
Rice for damages from a traffic
accident.
Set for Nov. 7 and 8 is the suit
of Dorothy Kirk Harper against
Lewis E. Wilson, doing business as
the City Cab Company and the
Coloniaf Insurance Co. for a traf-
fic accident injury.
Set for Nov. 14 and 15 is the
suit of Gay Lee Bruce, as adminis-
tratrix for the estate of Jane Up-
dike. against Kenneth r. Curry
for damages from the death of
Mrs. Updike in a traffic accident,
Set for Nov. 19, 20, 21 and 22
is the case of rendell Loop against
L. A. Carlson as administrator for
the estates of Peter and Mary
Timmerman, for damages from
injuries received in a traffic ac-
cident.
Set for Nov. 25 is the suit for
damages of Harold Gandsbury
against Cecil Blsckwelder.
Set for Nov. 27 and 29 is the
suit of Flossie Whelden against
David J. Wood and Daniel Wood,
a suft for damages from a traffic
accident. /
SET FOR DEC. 2 and 3 is the
suit of t-e-ter Snaza against Levi
Cars. a personal injury suit.
Set for Dec. 4 and 5 is the case
of Sylvia Bienek and tester Bie-
nek against the city of Shelton,
seeking damages for personal in-
jury.
Dec. 6 is set for tile suit of Cas-
imir Visminis. administrator of the
estate of Peter W. Visminas ag-
1-- *' ""
ainst Peter K, ValderWal and
fContinued on page 3)
Christmas Seal
Drive Plans Start
Anu Lenders, noted newspaper
cohmnist, has been named Hon-
orary National Cimirman of the
1963 Christmas Seal Campaign,
Mrs. Harcfld Nichols. chairman of
the campaign in Mason County an-
r, ounced this week.
James Whittaker, conqueror of
Mr. Everest, has been named hon-
orary state chairman, she said.
A local honorary cimirman has
not been selected, Mrs. Nichols
said.
Mr& Nichols is busy making, ar-
an'ements for the 1963 campaign
in the c()unty. She is being assist-
ed by the Eight and Forty, wlm
have worked with the campaign
for several years assisting in get-
tin Clwistmas Seals mailed.
The fund drive, through the
sale of Christmas Seals, is spon-
sored locally, in the station and
nationally by the Tuberculosis As-
sociatioll,
Percy M Pio
6017 S.E. 86th Ave
Portland, Ore
District office of
of Natural
the fire season
Rear record for a
fires the past
acre, the same fig-
These two years
losses in 21
supervisor
said.
season, there
a loss of 8.7
I) the successful
k
.Season this year
(I 1 cooperation from
t; :h uses the woods
)at it was a rela-
'I Son.
h, le fire season marks
I aeeessity for burn-
..l til March 15, 1964,
5¢ season starts,
F
issues be-
i,000 burning per-
fire season, he
COvers nmre than
Expansion
To Spring
postoffice
Cod earlier this
ed early next
g to Frank Wat-
Lative who visi-
, ' ' H. Gray late
'i'lLli that details are
n,lt now in prepar-
li,,bids on the pro-
) {i ;'a sizeappr°xintately
L elt of the post-
is yet to be
a suitable
staff to worl(
s being remod-
Watson said.
eanuot bc
eottrse of the ex-
the projeet will
perhaps eight
or late
Max Latzel Visits
Plate in 6ermany
I He Left In 1904
A reunion ith 10 "
he hadn't seen since 11: [Jn6cl')
years ago highlighted a visit to
the place of his birth for Max
Latzel of Shelton recently.
Latzel and his wife stopped to
visit his brother, Willy, in Dorst-
fold, West Germany, during strip
to Europe. Thee, the get-togef{er
with 10 of his old school class-
mates was arranged by a Mr.
Beerman, according to an article
in a German newspaper.
The newspaper article was tran-
slated by Jerry Stiller, Journal
printer, after it was brought in
by All Ribbans. a brother of Mrs.
Latzel.
The article told about Max's
leaving his home :in Germany at
the age of 15 in 1904 as a seaman
and getting off the ship at Port
Townsend and tater: settling in the
Skokomish Valley. "-
Along with the article xvas"a
picture of Mr. and Mrs. Latzet
with the group who attended the
reunion.
City Calls
For Bids,On
Sewer Job
!M||! l, ev|es .,
,,,,
Are Se|
77th YEAR--NO. 43 Entered as second class nmtter at the post office at Shelton. Washington. 10 Cents per Copy
under Act of March 8. 1879. Published we(;kly at 227 W;st Cots.
Thursday, October 24, 1963 Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washingto: 20 Pages 3 Sections
Building Permit Denial Suit Being
Heard In Superior Court Wednesday
Mill levies for the various tax-
ing districts in the county have
been set and certified to the coun-
ty assessor by the county commis-
sion.
A list of the levies by the var-
ious taxing districts from the as-
sessor's office shows that all of
the districts are taking their max-
imum levy. In addition, one fire
district and all except two of the
county's Ii school districts have
special levies.
Two port districts, Grapeview
and Tahuya, are inactive and are
not assessing a levy this year.
A BREAKDOIVN of the levies
shows 3.5 to the state for public
assistance: 6.9 tc the county for
current expense, .45 for inter-coun-
ty health; .60 for tuberculosis hos-
pitalization; .05 for soldier's ,re-
|ief; 10 for each of the three coun-
ty road districts; 16 for the city
of Shelton; 2 for the rural library
cutside the city; fire districts
through 5. 4 mills each; fire dist-
rict 6. 12:45 mills; ports of Allyn,
Dewatto, Hoodsport and Shelton.
2 each.
Schools are allowed a 14-mill
levy under the 40-mill limit law.
Hig'h school districts get the en-
tire amount while districts with..
out a high school get 9.3 mills for
their own operation and must con-
tribute 4.7 to the non-high fund.
Any amount above the 14 mills
is a special levy for bond retire-
Evidence was being presented
Wednesday in Mason County Sup-
erior Court in the suit of r. A,
Norris. Shelton. to reverse the. de-
nial of a building permit to him
by the County Commission.
Judge Raymond Clifford was
hearing the case without a jury.
The County Commission in Aug-
ust rejected Norris' application for
a building permit for a wrecking
yard and storage building for the
operation at the intersection of
tests by residents of the area.
At press time Wednesday three
witnesses for the plaintiff had
been on the witness stand.
Norris testified that he had ap-
plied for the building permit July
16, and that 'when it came before
the County Commission at their
next meeting, it had been referred
to the planning commission for
recommendation..
AUGUST 1, im testified, the
County" Commission voted to re-
Highway ]01 and Mill Creek Road. ject the permit, apparently though
The action was taken after pro- no recommendation had been made
£hfistmas Tree
flauling Permits
by the planning commission, les three years and had been man-
Norris testified that about the ager of a wrecking yard there for
time he had applied for the per- 13 years.
mit. tm had asked county officials] Next on the witness stand was
what zoning restrictions were in County Commissioner Harry Elm-
effect in the county and was told htnd who testified ho had oi)posed
there were none.
He testified that he had receiv-I the permit because he belie;ed it
,would be a nuisance, detrimental
ed a state license for the operation to adjoining property and would
of the wrecking yard July 23, and. be unsightly on the entrance to
that the site had been inspected l the city
by State Trooper Stan Sushak and I "'"
approved by him. ELMLUND TESTIlIEDthat tf
Norris said he had operated his the objections of property own-
own wrecking yard in Port Ange- ors had not been received, the
__ permit would probably, have been
moo00. Start Nov 10
The schocl levies for next. year
are, Tahuya, 19; Southsidt, 18.50; •
Grapeview, 14; Harstine. 14; tlel-
ton, 21.: Mary }el. Knight, 21.45; Law enforcement officers served
notice on would-be Christmas Tree
Kamilche. 15 ; Pioneer. 17.90:
North Mason 23; Hood Canal
20.95; Grays Harbor District 137,
22.
These levies will apply to 1964
taxes.
thieves this week that preparer
lions are being made to curb their
activities.
Sheriff D. S. (Sam) Clark said
that in order to affect enforcement
of "existing laws pertaining to
transportation of forest products,
which includes Christmas Trees,
all vehicles hauling more than
three.trees must have a permit,
which can be obtained from the
Sheriff's office or a bona fide bill
of purchase for the trees they are
hauling.
CLABK SAID his office will
work in close cooperation with the
maor Christmas Tree producers,
the Department of Natural Re-
sources, the Washington State Pa-
trol and Shelton City Police De-
partment in efforts to control
Christmas Tree thefts.
Similar types of enforcement are
used in all neighborirtg counties
and the law enforcement officials
here will cooperate with other
couuties in the efforts.
In past years, this system of
(Jforcement has been very suc-
Sful ad this yea', more effort
than ever wil be put into it, Clark
said:
Cla.f-k and undersheriff Wally
Anderson met with Christmas Tree
producers concerning the issuance
of permits and to iron out other
details of the program.
Glenn Correa, president of the
Washington Christmas Tree Asso-
ciation, said close cooperation with
the Sheriff's office by all legiti-
mate producers is anticipated and
urged all producers to get their
Portland Man ,Joins
Simpson ln00orna|ional
Promotion of Stephen M. Car-
ney, 56, from production sc'hcd-
uler and coordinator at Simsson
Timber Company's Portland Ply-
lock plant to import coordinator
for Simpson International aL Shel-
ton, effective imnlediately, was an-
nounced this week by vice presi-
dent and General Manager H. W.
McClary.
In his new post Carney will re-
port to Ken Dailey, import man-
ager, and will handle most of the
voluminous detail work associated
with the import business.
"We are most happy to have
Steve Carney join our organiza-
tion," said VlcC!ary. "He has a
weaitlt of experience that suits
him ideally for ttals important jdlS. .'
CM.rney, who has lived in Fort-
land all his life, started to work
for M and M W'ood Working Con]-
party in 1926. During the past 37
years with M and M and Simpson,
he has worked in plywood, door
and tank production and held posts
as purchasing agent and office
manager.
SIMPSON PROMOTES
Promotion of Val Sienko. 49,
from Simpson .Timber Company
sawmills bull gang lead rnan to
engineering storekeeper for water-
front construction has been an-
nounced by Ken Good, chief plant
engineer, Shelton.
hauling permits early at the Sher-
iff's office.
Extra personnel will be utilized
in the efforts to carry out the
security program, Clark said.
Construdion Is Started
CONCRETE :POURED-.Construction started last week on
the new $34.0,000 motel at the corner of Seventh Street and
Railroad Avenue with footings for the foundation being poured.
Some leveling work was done before the forms for the footing
were ,put in. Above, a truck load of concrete is poured into the
forms as a group of young sidewalk superintendents stop to take
a look on their way home from school,
Search Continues For
Drowning V" ""
lClrlm
Mason Uoun'y Sheriff s officers turnec bmt was discoVerq be%
assisted'by skin:diVers from Shel- lween 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. 8atur-
ton and " Brem'rton Wednesday day.
Sunda# seven divers from Brem-
continued efforts to locate the
body of a BremerCon man.believed
drowned in Haven Lake Saturday.
Roy Wickman, 1138 Bertha St.,
BremeYton. is presumed drowned
after he did no zturn from a
fishing trip and his overturrmd
boat 'was found in the lake, Sher-
iff D. S. (sain) Clark said.
Wickman's hat. cigmettes la.nd
The Shelton City Commission
Tuesday set 11 a.m. Nov. 12 as the
date for opening bids on its sewer
improvement project for which it
is receiving federal fundS under 00he/toli Youth Works W00ly Thr?llgl00
the Accelerated Works Program.
The Commission approved plans
submittedCityandHomeoffice specificationSsupervisOrinFinanCeseattletO theAgenCYforPatHoasingpreparedapproval.ByrneRegionatandand College WithHobbyTurnedBusmess
THE CITY referred to "the plan-
ning commission a request from
G. Welsh for a conditional zoning
Varience for the constructiOn of 0,n
additiona duplex next to the two
for which he received approval and
on which construction has started,
Two bids were received on elor-
ine for the water plant. Bids were
from Van. Waters and Rogers and
Pennsalt Corp. The bids were tak-
en under advisement until next
week.
A letter was received front Ole
Olson, Olympic Highway S. calling
attention to the condition of the
hard surfacing at the corner of
Highway 101 and Cascade Street.
TURRET PR ESS--Morley Preppernau demon-
strates for a Journal photographer the 4-function
turret Press; one of his most useful tools for the
By BILL DICKIE
Hobbies turned to profitable oc-
cupations are an oft-old Americau
success Story and the student wof
ldng his way through college is
known familiarly to all.
boat cushion wexe found near the
overturned boat.
He had gone on a fishing trip
about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and was
reported missing after his over-
Shelton's Morley Preppernau is
an amalgamation of both.
Morley, ]icknamed Riley to dis-
tinguish hin from his pharmacist
father, is a junior at St. Martins
College by way of Olympic Jtmior
Fran Demmon Places
Second in Regional
SOS Speev, h Gonlesl
'ran Demmon. ShelLon high
school student, placed second in
the regional speech contest of the
Soil and Water Conservation Ser-
vice in Brentcrton last week.
Miss Demmon placed first in the
Mason County contest several
weck, ago and represented tile
county in the regional contest.
Mar'go Percival, Kitsap Coun-
ty winner, placed first in the re-
gional contest.
Tile speeches were O]t "People
and Recreation in the Soil aitd
Water Conservation Program".
• i
sell re-loading service which 'is paying his way
through college.
College, where he prepped for two nlanuals, presses and other tools
years and earned honors ill track, [necessary to carry on a thriving
as tte haA previously while a stu- ammuni{ion custm'{ reloading bus-
dent at Irene S. Reed high school, iness.
In an attic bedroom-workshop at Started as a hobby several years
Lis home at 621 North 2nd St., ago as an adjhnd't to his avid in-
Slate To Lease Land
For ,Christmas Trees
cleon and w'o from Shelton at-
tempted to locate his body. Mon-
day Sgt. Hughes of the Washing-
to n State Patrol along with two
divers from Bremerton and our
from Shelton continued the search.
Tuesday, the search continued with
a diver's sled being used by the
skin divers:
Officers from the Mason County
Sheriff's office have been assist-
ing in the search each day,
New Freeway
Section Ready
For Paving
'Everything is ready to begin
laying the paving on the new sec-
tion of freeway from Lynch Road
south, but, the weather makes it
difficult to say when the job
might be completed, the State
Highway Department District of-
rice in Tumwater said this week.
All of the grading work. in
which there was considerable
trouble getting fill material to
hold, has been completed.
The paving contractor has set
p to put in-the cement-treated
base for the asphalt, but. was
halted by the rain. A rock crush-
ing plant for the asphalt pave-
merit, which will be put on after
the cement-treated base is on, has
been established by the contractor
so everything is ready to go when
weather wall permit the crews to
work.
TIlE DISTRICT office said it
would be difficult to say when
the job might be completed, with
the weather the big factor now.
Plans are also in the works for
the extension of the freeway to
Cole Road and contracts for the
work will be let as funds become
available during the next two
years, the district offiee reported.
Four areas of state-owned land
in Mason County will be offered
for lease for growing Christmas
Trees at a public auction Oct. 28
at 10 a.m. in the Mason County
Court House. it was mmonnccd
this week by the Shelton District
office of i,hc, State Departnrent of
Natural Resources.
The distriet office plans a meet-
ing with ChriStmas Tree growers
interested in contracting for state
land at 9 a.m. Nov. 4 in the head-
quarters of the Shelton District
aL the airport.
Riley's humeri)us track-won rib-
bmls ta high proportion of which
are blues are pinned to the same
walls which also support shelves
and benches for a hardware-store-
like upply of jar, can, cartolm,
Dairy Meeting Is
Scheduled Here
A meeting of dairymen from
District VII, comprising Mason,
Clallam. Grays Harbor. Jeffeyson.
Kitsap and Thursl.on Counties, has
been set for the PUD 3 Auditor-
iron at 1:30 p.m, Nov. 25.
Purpose of the meeting, accord-
ing" to Joe I.)wyer, director of ag-
riculture, is to receive nominations
Iora commissioner from the dst-
rict to the ,Vashington De.try Pro-
duets Conlrnission. Present com-
missioner is Levi Oays, Sequim.
/ All qualified dairymen are elig-
ible to nomnate candidates, Dwyer
said. In order to be eligible, a can-
terest in gms, the activity has didate nmst be a resident of .the
grown int.o a business which now district he represents and during
m paying his way througlz college, the five years proceeding his ap-
Rile modestly discla, ims any pointment nmst have been engag-
great knowledge of guns but led in the production of dairy pro-
(Cuatlaue¢/ on Page 5a) ducL wLLhin tl LaL¢,
approved.
He also testified that policing
wrecking yards was a problem for
the State Patrol which has to do it,
He said he had first-hand exper-
mime with this during his time
with the Washington State Pa-
trol.
County Commission Chairman
Martin Auseth testified that he
was opposed to granting the per-
mit because it did not fit in the
comprehensive land use plan which
was approved several years ago
and because it would be unsightly
on the entrance to the city.
John Ragan represents Norris.
Prosecuting Attorney Byron Mc-
Clanahan represents the county
and Glenn Correa a group of res-
idents from the area wha were
permitted to intervene in the case
tn opposition to Norris.
Kiwanis Speaker
Describes
War (rimes Trials
An "I Was There" review of the
Nuremberg war crimes trials was
heard by Shelton Kiwanians at
their Tuesday luncheon from Rev.
Carl Eggers, pastor of Christ The
Kiug Lutheran church of Belle-
vue.
Rev. Eggers served as a chap-
lain at the sensational war crimes
trialS, so chosen because of his
bitity to "speal Germa and be'
Cause 15" of the 21 defendants were
of the Lutheran faith. The other
six were Catholic, Rev. Eggers
said.
Roy. Eggers lind served as an
Army chaplain during World War
II and had done some sermce with
prisoners of war prior to the
trials.
He described the prison setting
for the trials saying Nuremberg
was probably chosen because t
was one of, the original Nazi
strongholds and the large prison
there was especially suitable for
conducUng tlese particular trial.
He explained that each of the"
defendants was kept in soltary
confinement, unable to contact
each other or their families, hav-
ing contact only with the chap-
l ains (upon their own request),
their guards, the orderlies Wire
brought them food, and their law-
yers.
H E SAID elaborate precautions
were taken to prevent suicide
among the defendants, but even
so Herman Goehring, No. 3 man
in the Nazi party, managed to
get. hold of some cyanide and too
his life just before sentence was
pronounced. How he acquired th
poison is a mystery which has
never been solved.
Goehring was one of 11 defen-
dants sentenced tO death, three
others received life terms, three
were freed, the rest given various
sentences rom 20 years on down
to ten.
Rev. Eggers described Goehrin
as the most interesting of the
defendants with whom he had
contact. "He was a man of high
intelligence, very gifted, with a
surprising knowledge of Chris-
tian doctrine, yet he was an ath,
eist." Rev. Eggers said. "He told
me I wish I could believe as you
but I just can't"•
Rudolph Hess is the only one
of the life-sentenced still living,
Rev. Eggers said. He described
Hess as the oddest of the defen-
dant% a man who did many queer
things.
T H E TRIALS lasted a full year,
from October of 1945 to October
of 1946, Rex,. Eggcrs .id. Each
of the four powers--U.S., Eng-
land, France and Russiawere
responsible for certain phases ot
the trials. America. for instance,
was in charge of security.
Each sent two judge to sit in
judgment and provided prose-
tutors. Iussia's judges were botl
military men. Army generals with-
out legal background, apparently
sent to bring in judgnents or
conviction regardless of the ew-
dence.
The Nuremberg trials were criti-
cized' by the American Bar after
complcti0n, as I'ials of men for
acts not crimes at the time they
were conunitted. Rev. Eggers dis-
,agreed on the premise that the
offense against humanity com,
mitred by he Nazi leaders had to
be punished in some manner.
The charges agaihst the defen-
dants were (1) for fomenting rata
organizing war. (2) for crimes
against humanity, such as the
bombings of civilian populations,
(3) for crimes against peace, anct
(4) for crimes against prisoners
of war.
