Drafteo Proud or His
I He Writes From S.
’ “3: Rates As Spec—
w t With Machines
t y _________ .
feas‘ is! of Uncle Sam‘s sol-
thew e the same pride in
Panies that Marvin
.elton draftee, does in
4lst Infantry,
es of this nation.
I
I Soldier Pearcy wrote
1“ friend, Ernie Dahl-
Omer foreman, from
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2'
,.
4. leaves any reader
about Army morale
1cked up by some peo-
n’t know what they’re
lit.
.zpearcy, perhaps, can-
-ified as an “average”
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but at least it
the
What the Army gives
let Soldier Pearcy
‘ himself, through his
5, 1'. Dahlgren:
South Carolina,
Nov. 4, 1911.
9‘.
'few minutes to myself
3- te so thought I would
‘, '8 few lines and send
Snapshots I had taken
' 191' Weeks ago.
. v I" in one picture is the
h 31“ largest the Army has.
and a 37 mm gun be-
.‘x caliber rifle and three
" Caliber machine guns.
is 1%: inches thick.
I"! take a pretty good
'netrate it. We have
of these wreckers in
g They have a split
1, Will swing to either
5311 be used separately
tfé
°ne on a problem we
P and they sure have
Dower. I'm licensed
r 3' vehicle the Army
a, the tanks.
’IltWo-months Louisiana
‘ truck from Georgia
‘3 motorcycle, which I
Test of the maneuvers
Georgia. A fellow
‘ ’sa beating on one of
of Two Chosen
of riding a motor on
i.-
.t
‘ . Ver by the skin of my
gas slated to drive a
_ ck but the major had
tas-
5
' I«Elana maneuvers and
« tWo out of ten riders
,3 that made the trip
81a out of my outfit.
't have a serious ac-
'did take a few nasty
didn't hurt myself or
IArmored Division sure
5‘ of new Half-Tracks.
:- ten new ones myself
started on this man-
: #100 miles on each
I. re quite a rig.
‘01ng to be up in this
“til the first week in
7' ,, We are camped now
* -ester and Union, South I
d the maneuver area
V"tesville, North Caro-
, Six miles from the
V" der. I sure have
. d‘ of country since I
In Army, but no place
‘5 _with the Northwest
ngton.
, southwest Texas
; Place I have seen so
.‘ "Witheast part of Tex-
.gvel‘e around that neck
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“ed on Page Two)
3VMUNITY
ENDAR
Y
.I -~ v
Ly\Thanksgiving Day.
\Annual Thanks—
? Plgp football game,
5 lympia, 1 pm,
. ,h‘ild. Olympia.
3.51% council semi
‘ * eeting, 8 p.m., city
1 because of Thanks-
»:r
salty league bowling,
‘ bowling alleys.
008e Lodge weekly
YP-m" Moose Hall.
. ,szt‘Deadline for de-
v ‘ ‘3' ballots in seventh
’ '. “hams-Journal foot-
! use.
, then"
‘9 morale problem in the
n, South Carolina, on.
easant feeling that all‘
QArmy tests gave himI
highest I.Q. ratings.
intelligent men ,
drove a 21/2-ton six-I
~. I {capped persons, whose cost
and through the firsti the public in relief would be $300
euvers, then I start-l
I Ang-
I 13.115.
I rode for him|
y fortunate on that‘
v.
. to California which he will com-
°unty commission-
"; meeting, 10 a.m.,
Mason County Red
91' meeting, 8 pm.
lees aerie weekly
«gem, Moose Hall.
Omen’s league
5' p.m., bowling al-
.KiWanis club week-
'7, mfieting, noon, Shel-
Promotion Comes
F a s t To Shelton
Youth With Army '4
From buck private to ser-
geant in eight months is the
swift pace which Melvin Mor-
gnn, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. I
Morgan, has sot with Uncle
Sam’s soldiers.
Drafted last March, Melvin
this week was notified of his
promotion to the rank of ser-
geant with company I, 116th
Medical Corps, 4lst Division,
Fort Lewis. Sergeants receive
$60 a month pay, which amounts
to almost a 200 percent increase
in pay in eight months for the
Shelton boy, considering $21 a
month as a draftee‘s first re-
muncration.
Swift promotion isn’t the
only thing Melvin has found ,
to his liking in the Army, eith—
er, for he gained ten pounds
in weight on Army cooking.
REHABILITATION
SERVICE SAVES
TAXPAYER MONEY
Division Of Education Department
Helping Physically Handi-
capped Earn Living
One public agency which, in
, the long run, saves money for tax-
payers was. discovered last night
by Shelton Activians.
That is the vocational rehabili-
tation service -of the State De-
partment of Education, whose
functionings were explained to
the clubmen by Don Morris, direct—
or, at the service group's weekly
I
meeting last evening.
Mr. Morris explained that the
vocational rehabilitation service,
at an average outlay of $300,
trains and equips physically handi-
to
to $500 a year, to earn an aver-
age of $1000 a year from their
own efforts.
3 Of "Each 1000 Handicapped
“Our department has found
from records that three out of
every 1000 persons are perman—
ently disabled, or physically handi-
capped for earning their own liv-
” Mr. Morris told the Activ-
“Our job is to see if there
is any means by which these per-
sons can be trained and equipped
to earn their own living rather
than become welfare cases.
“This can’t be done in two out
of three cases, we have discov-
ered, as sometimes the disability
is too great to correct sufficient-
ly, sometimes the mentality is
too low, and other causes reduce
the final number We can assist
to one out of three cases which
come to our attention.” I
Mr. Morris said that vocational
rehabilitation t r a i n i n g covers
many occupations, and many phy-.
sically-handicapped persons have
lately been trained in some types
of defense endeavor. His depart-
ment uncovers cases through Wel-
fare departments, schools, doc-
tors, nurses, hospitals, and service
and welfare clubs.
Excellent Employees
“Employers who hire rehabili-
tated physically-handicapped per-
sons find them to be the most
loyal, appreciative, efficient and
industrious employees they have
in most cases,” Mr. Morris con-
cluded. “The Ford Motor com-
pany employs over 10,000 phy—
sically-handcapped men, yet the
company has the lowest per caP'
ita accident record in big indus-
try.”
President Chuck Rowe named
a nominating committee of George
Dunning, chairman, Vern Miller,
Paul Marshall, John Replinger and
Bill Dickie to report back at next
week’s meeting with a suggested
slate of candidates for club of-
fices for next term.
N.P.—A_gent Taking
His Vacation Now
H. E. DeShields, Shelton agent
for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
left this week on a vacation trip
bine with business connected with
settling the estate of a brother
who died recently. Mr. DeShields
expects to, be gone about three
Weeks, perhaps longer.
His place here is being taken
by Charles F. Ziebarth, former
instructor in business manage-
ment and economics, at Washing"
ton State College and Valpairiso
University (Indiana), who is at
present awaiting assignment of
duties in active service with U-
S. Army. Mr. Ziebarth, an Army
reservist, holds the qualifications
for a captain’s rank when he 15
called to the colors.
SON BORN TODAY
MOODY, D. o.
6017 s. E. 86TH
Consolidated wi e
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III
Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, November 20, 1941.
Santa Claus Scheduled
Shelton Boy Making Excellent
Progress With Studies In
Naval Aviation Commu—
nication Program
Having heard from the Army
in the adjoning column, the Navy
takes its place in the news today
with Milt Clothier, son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Clothier of Shel-
ton, speaking from the Aircraft
Scouting Force, 'U.S.N., at San
Diego, Calif, where he is studying
aviation communication.
The following story is composed
of parts from four letters writ-
ten by young Milt between Oct-
ober 17 and November 14. How
well he likes life in Uncle Sam’s
Navy is simply and plainly told
in the following: ,
October 17, 194].
' Dear Mom:
Every time I see the paper (The
Journal) I would like to be home
with a fish on the end of a pole
(referring here to the salmon
derby). I went into a sporting
goods store yesterday and a clerk
there was all excited over a cou-
‘ple of 15-1b. salmon displayed in
the window. They had been sent
down from Seattle.
Wish I could get the paper soon-
er, so I could send in for the
football sweepstakes. That fiver
would come in mighty handy down
here.
Things don’t look so hot new
about transferring to Seattle for
flight training. There have been
several squadrons go out to Hono- ‘
lulu and-there is talk about us
sticking here to take their place.
One night a bunch of us guys
were out swimming and the ath-
letic chief asked me if I would
like to try out for the swimming
team. I made the team and after
a few weeks’ training he put me
in the 200 meter and 400 meter
free style. Our first meet is Sun-
day the 26th, against the Train-
ing Station.
Our coach used to be
champion. He likes the way
have improved and says that if
he could have me a year he could
make a swimmer out of me —— he
calls me a natural. He has given
me quite a few pointers on my
fleet
swimming which I can hardly ex-.
plain but one is that I was losing
a lot of speed on my stroke for
instead of pulling straight I was
pulling to the side.
October 27, 1941.
Dear Dad:
We had our swim meet Fri-
day, stepped up because of the
weather. I was second in both
the 400 and 200 meter
That wasn’t so bad because they
had some guys in there that had
been pros and even at they they
'qonui Axon Kq em isaq 1,upip
Saw the awards I will get for
placing in each event and they
sure look swell. I will send them
home as soon as I get them.
It rained like the dickens here
for about three days and seemed
good to have something to re—
mind me of good old Washington.
We just learned that our flight
training is going to be extended
to an extra three weeks, so will
let us out of school somtime
around Christmas. which isn’t so
bad as I like it” better all the
time.
November 4, 1941.
Dear Mom:
I had my first hop today and
had a lot of fun sitting on the
circuit and taking code. All the
fellows are swell and they do ev-
erything to help a kid along. We
left in the morning and flew down
over Mexico and then up to Los
Angeles. In the afternoon it was
about the same thing except we
practiced more on landings.
(Continued on Page TWO)
Overnight Stops
Sought For Boys
Coming to Confab
Shelton homes where visiting
Tumwater Council Boy SCOUtS
may be placed overnight this com-
ing Friday are being sought by
looal Scout leaders as part of the'
preparations for the Council’s
Green Bar conference which Will
take place Friday and Saturday
here. .
Anyone willing to keep a Scout
over Friday'night is asked to con-
tact District Scout Commission-
er Doane Brodie, phone 337. Some
60 to 70 visiting Scouts are ex—
pected to come here for the
Green Bar conference program.
Discussions will be led by boy
leaders themselves from
.RROORESS OR
, ROLL on Al
I I pany and Courthouse.
events. I
I
ve service training on December
RAPID PACE:
Chapter Meeting Scheduled Mon-
day In Courthouse Bills Nu-
merous Important De—
tails For Discussion
With “double memberships” as
the theme of workers, progress
on the 1941 Red Cross roll call
membership is excellent, Roll Call
Chairman S. B. Anderson report-
ed today.
To every old and new Red Cross
member the suggestion is being
made this year to double their.
contributions to the Red Cross be-
cause of the added need for funds
caused by the wartime program!
under which the American Red
Cross is now operating.
These wartime duties will form
one of the main topics to be dis-,
cussed at the monthly Mason
County Chapter meeting sched-
uch .for next Monday evening in
the courthouse. Eight o'clockl
is the scheduled starting hour,i
Chairman Myron Lund said to-
day. Local significance of war-
time Red‘Cross activities will al-
so be touched by Chairman Lund.
Other topics for the Monday meet-
ing will include appointment of
a nominating committee to pre-
pare a slate of suggested candi—
dates for Chapter offices, at the
January.meeting, when the elec-
tion will be held, and the current
roll call drive.
Early returns on the roll call
led Chairman Anderson to pre-
dict the $2500 goal set for this
year’s membership drive should
be reached.
Mrs. William Stevenson, roll
call headquarters chairman, re-
ported this afternoon that five
groups have already reported in
with 100 percent memberships.
They are the Stretch Island Win-
ery at Grapeview, J. C. Penney
store employees, postofficev staff,
bank staff, Shelton Printing com-
One of the, needs for Red
Cross support was clearly demon-
strated right here last week when
a crippled widower with two
small children were left homeless
and without shelter or clothing
in a fire. Through prompt ef-
forts of the Red Cross here, al-
ready a new home has been es-
tablished and the necessary cloth-
ing and bedding has been sup-
plied for this family by the Red
Cross. Further donations of cloth-
ing and home furnishings are
needed and will be appreciated.
Anyone with such donations should
contact Mrs. Oscar Mell and a
car will be sent to pick up the
articles to be donated.
Roll call headquarters have been
established in the Graham Theatre
building, where persons who
haven't yet been contacted by
roll call workers may drop in
and take out their memberships...
Draft Taking But
One Dec. 2, But 16
To Go In January
Mason County is scheduled to
send its 80th draftee into selec-
2 in answer to the 16th draft call
issued to the local draft board,
Mrs. 'Martha Haines, draft board
clerk, announced today.
Tentatively, that man is to be
Vernon Peter Pudas, formerly of
Grapeview, but now living in Ta-
coma. Pudas will be inducted thru
Draft Board No. 4, Tacoma, un-
less deferred before that date, but
the local board here will receive
credit for his induction because he
registered here originally.
Although the December 2 call
is for only one man, the 17th call,
anticipated in January, is slated
to take 16 Mason County men.
Mrs. Haines said, for the local
draft board has been instructed
to prepare one-third of its entire
A‘t Aerie Meeting
Shelton Eagles will initiate next
l-Monday evening at their weekly
aerie meeting a free dance for
Eagle members and their friends
which may become"a regular aerie
feature if it proves sufficiently
popular, aerie officers announced
at this week's meeting Monday
night.
A dutch lunch served at Mon-
out-| day’s session also was so well
standing troops and Sea Scout liked that the members voted to
Eligible to attend the conference
are all senior patrol leaders, P3"
trol leaders, scribes, junior assist-
ant scoutmasters, troop quarter—
masters. crew leaders, yoemen. 0f—
ficers of the deck and den chiefs
in the. council. A banquet Satur-
day mght will close the two-day
conference program.
Dr. Burley Flies To
Bedside of III Father
Dr. Emery W. Burley, Shelton
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Miles dentist. left by airplane Monday
of Shelton are the
baby boy born at the Shelton hos—
pital today.
parents of a for Los Angeles to be at the bed-
side of his father, who is crit-
ically ill.
. ships in the Tumwater Council. make, it a weekly meeting feature,
too, except on the occasions when
the aerie and the auxxliary meet
in joint session.
Plans for the December 1 visit
of State Eagle President Harri-
son McAdamS are progressing ac-
cording to schedule, it'<was an-
nounced at Monday's program.
BABY SON
Mr. and Mrs. James Sheedy are
the parents of a baby son born
at the Shelton Hospital on Tues-
day.
RECEIVING TREATMENT
Miss Erma Rosenow, surgical
nurse at the Shelton Hospital. was
admitted to the hospital this
morning for medical treatment.
Lobert Bell,
quota for induction during that
period.
Eagles To Dance
i,
To Arrive Herc Nov. 29»
‘Sending a personal message
ffom his habitat at the North
’le, Santa Claus, beloved ruler
(lithe world‘s children, once more
a nounced the rapidly approach-
ing Christmas season, and further
brought joy to childish hearts
with the news of his scheduled
arrival right here in Shelton on
Saturday, November 29, at 10
o‘clock in the morning. ‘
.It used to be that jolly old St.
Nick would come hopping and
jafngling over the rooftops On his
heavily laden sleigh, drawn by
Donner and Blitzen, Dancer and
Prancer,
legendary reindeer, who traveled
with the speed of the wind.
No Reindeer This Trip
Santa still uses them on Christ-
mas eve when he really gets down
to business, but for his early
scouting trips, when he travels
over the world to see what the
little girls and boys (the good
little girls and boys, of course)
want for Christmas, he has had
to resort to the airplane.
According to
which arrived from the North Pole
today, Santa will leave his home
there early on the morning of
November 29 and will land in
Shelton just before 10 o’clock. A
fire engine will be sent out to
pick him up and escort him to
the front of the postoffice where
he will be officially welcomed to
the city.
and the rest of those,
a gift—o-gram, i
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
To Visit All Stores
Santa will spend all day
Shelton, visiting all the stores. A
schedule of his stops in various
stores is being made up and will
be published in next week‘s Jour—
nal.
then and Christmas so that he
can see every child in town be-
fore Christmas Day.
The visit of Santa Claus is only
one of the many holiday surprises
which the merchants of the town
have in store. It is planned to
have all street decorations up by
the time Santa gets here so that
he may see we have the real
Christmas spirit. Plans which are
being made for other events will
be announced as soon as they
are complete.
LOBERT BEEI. 0N
TOP AS PROPHETS
REACH FINAL up
Eight Forecasters Within Four
Points In Race For Cash
Prizes; 2 Weeks To Go
Hitting for the home stretch,
Rayonier chemist
staff member, holds a shaky one—
point lead over three rivals as
contestants in the 1941 Merchants-
Journal football sweepstakes go
into the final two weeks‘ of the
ten-week competition.
Bell has compiled 104 points out
of a possible 140 in the best seven
out of eight ballots he has turn-
ed in to date in the weekly foot-
ball forecasting contest.
Right on his heels come Fran-
cis Eacrett, and Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Tabkc, each with 103 points,
while four others are over the
loo-point mark and naturally very
much in the running. Mrs. Fran-
cis Eacrett and Jim Tough each'
have 102 points, Pete Melin boasts
of 101 points and Mrs. Mary Pigg
an even 100 markers.
If the balloting had been con-
sidered on a full eight week basis,
Eacrett would be the leader with
116 points with Bell trailing with
113, but since the sweepstakes
are decided on a nine-out-of—ten
week basis the elimination of the
poorest weekly ballot from the
records of contestants who have
not missed a week yet is the only
way a fair comparative picture
can be made.
Thirteen additional forecasters
have 7-ballot records of 98 and 99
points, and they cannot be con-
sidered out of the running for
one of the three prizes $25,
$15 and $10. These contestants
include Mrs. Nina Stinchfield,
Mrs. Steve Viger, Dan Wilson,
Betty Woods, Elmer Matson, Fred
Berg, W. H. Brown, Cliff Cannon,
Gladys Cannon, Floyd Cole,
George Dunning, Gordon Hendry,
and Rudy Holmes.
1000WI
‘ Play Presented
Three presentations of “Dollars
To Doughnuts,” three-act comedy
presented by Irene S. Reed high
school students, were witnessed by
approximately 1000 persons last
night, yesterday afternoon and
Monday night.
A full house was on hand for
the matinee performance yester:
day, while the two evening per-
formances which were open to the
public both drew good attendances,
school officials said today. The
matinee. was given for grade
school students and junior and
semor- high students who
the busses to get to and from
school.
First Carloads Of
Xmas Trees Here
Leave Ye s terday I
1
Northern Pacific freight cars
are bearing the first 1941
Christmas trees shipped by ran
out of Shelton to destinations
in two Mid-Western and one
California city now.
Three carioads of Christmas
trees, shipped by the J. Hofert
ompany, were pulled out of
the N.P. depot here Tuesday
afternoon, one bound for Chi-
cago, one for Wichita, Kansas,
and the third for Oakland, Cal.
These are the first three of
what will probably be an ulti-
mate 125 carioads of Christmas
trees to be shipped out of the
Shelton N.P. depot by Decem-
ber 15.
use
NINE HICLIMBERS '
PLAY FINAL GRID
GAME TOMORROW
All Have Played Regularly In ’41
Lineup; Seven Probable
Starters For Olym-
pia Clash
Nine players who have per—
formed in starting or first line
reserve roles throughout this
football season will be playing
their final games in Highclimber
gridiron regalia ThanksgiVing Day
when Shelton meets Olympia in
the traditional prep football clash
between the two schools.
Kickoff time is slated for one
o’clock on Stevens Field in Olym-
pm.
The two starting Highclimber
ends, Earl Lumsden and Ted Van
Overbeke, three guards who have
shared time about equally this
season, John Eager, Carrol Hill
and Mac Wilson, three backfield
regulars, Louie Woolsey, Bob Puhn
and Bob Pearce, and one tackle,
Donn Nelson, will be playing out
their high school football strings
in this Turkey Day contest.
All but Nelson of this group
are seniors who graduate next
spring. Nelson will be ineligible
after this season because of age
restrictions.
Of these nine, Hill and Wilson
probably will be the only seniors
to see the kickoff from the bench,
if Coach Walt Hakola sticks to
the plans he announced Monday
for his starting lineups. The
fourth backfield post would be
filled by big Jim Howarth, and
other tackle by Chuck Daugherty.
and the center slot by tall Sam
Wilson, all juniors.
Jobs-Available
In Many’Places,
Pay, Hours Good
If you want to better yourself.
and if you are looking for work,
then contact the Washington
State Employment Service immed-
iately.
That is the suggestion of Alice
Helenius, manager of the Olym-
pia office, who reports that many
good job openings are being re-
ceived at their office daily.
Supporting her suggestion,
Manager Helenius said, “Here are
some of the jobs which we are
trying to fill right now . . . a
registered pharmacist . . . a P0111”
try hatchery man . . . a male
stenographer for Alaska . . . rein-
forcing iron workers . . . a struc-
vtural steel worker . . . steam fit-
ters . . . sheet metal workers . . .
a plumber . . . a shoe repairman
. . . a carburetor specialist for
Buick automobiles . . . a man and
wife for farm work . . . a sales girl
for women’s ready to wear . . .
housekeepers and day workers."
“These jobs,” Mrs. Helenius
said, “call for good working hours
and good pay.” Full details can
be had by contacting the Em-
ployment Service at 522 Capitol
Way in Olympia. A representative
of the Employment Service will be
at the Court House in Shelton
each Tuesday between the hours
of 8:00 A. M. and 4:00 P. M. He
will be glad to give further details
concerning any of these job open;
ings.
Father of Mrs. Drake
I I Dies on Whidby Island
R. B. Policy, 89, father of Mrs.
George Drake of Shelton, died at
his home at Langley, 01f Whidby
Island, Monday after an extended
illness, it was learned here today
by friends of Mrs. Drake.
Death came shortly before Mrs.
Drake arrived at her father’s
bedside.
.I
m‘
Santa will not only be here on.
November 29, but will also visit,
Shelton on every Saturday between I
, which
9-Year-Old Hooclsport
Girl Saves
From Cold
TIMBER BEING .
TREATED ASA
REGULAR CRBI’.‘
Drake, Just Returned From Chi-p
cago Timber Conference,
Reviews Permanent
Logging Efforts
George Drake, superintendent
of logging for the Simpson Log—
ging Company, was speaker at the
Kiwanis Club session Tuesday on
the general subject of “Timber as
a Crop," outlined the increasing
interest over the country in for-
est conservation and protection of
new growth. He recently return—
ed from a conference at Chicago
included representatives
from all the timber regions of
the Union, which are now becom-
ing concerned in the perpetuation
of the timber to save industry and
employment.
He found that other sections
have much the same problems as
our own in planning for new for-
ests to replace those cut out, but
that this state is fortunate in hav-
ing a climate conducive to refor-
esting and every prospect encour-
aging except to make the passing
public fire-conscious. In New Eng-
land, the South and in the west-
ern states the larger timber hold-
ers have begun cooperation with
federal and state agencies in var-
ious protective methods, and our
own state is advanced in laws to
penalize willful and careless ac—
tions on the part of the public
which are slowly cutting down
fire losses.
One Crop Each Lifetime
He emphasized the fact that
timber is a crop like any other
product of the soil but that it re-
turns a harvest but once in a life-
time, and that the public as well
as the tax collectors need to learn
this fact and lend aid to every ef-
fort to protect the crop through
the years, as well as to encour-
age all plans to conserve it in op-
eration and in protecting new
growth and reforesting. Now the
larger concerns like the Simpson
Logging Company are joining in
new plantations for producing
seedlings for planting in areas
where the new crop is slow in
coming, and with public help the
results will soon be showing to
add impetus to public help in
keeping the forests green.
The Clemons reforesting area in
Grays Harbor county is the larg—
est in this district, and picture
slides were shown proving that
nature is doing a good job in
bringing up timber for the next
generation, although in territory
which was out clean in logging
While there was much waste in
early logging because of lack of
interest and cost, the modern way
of logging leaving seed trees or
bunches to reforest lower regions}
is working out well; but no real
criticism is due early logging me-
thods because without them there
would be few towns and cities orI
eVen people in this state and we
would still be pioneering. Train-
ed engineers are now directing all
forest practices.
Companies Start Nursery
The Simpson company, with
three others, have started a model
tree nursery in the Nisqually Vale
193’. beside the highway; where
five million seedling firs will be
growing early next year, all con-
tracted for at a cost of around
$4 a thousand. These young trees
will be taken as they reach plant—
lng stage and set out in voids:
where natural trees are slow in
coming, thus making vast areas
of rolling lands coming on for fu—
turc use. The companies are fin-
ancmg the entire project. ,
Mr. Drake pointed out that thel
great problem was protection and
making the public conscious of
the fact that under the densel
growth of ferns on logged lands'
was a prospective crop of trees
which “brush fires" wipe out in
a few hours in spite of prompt
fire crews of forestry, state and
company.
The “Keep Washington Green”
program is steadily cutting the
annual fire losses, and while the
state laws are based on common
sense it is now most important to
instill common sense into the-pub-
lic, which is the greatest menace
to its own ,welfare in future in-
dustry.
Among
I
the numerous views
natural reforesting; and of the
ravages of fire in such districts,
and also of a model building at
Salem, Oregon, where each room
is finished in all native woods,
showing a number of varities so
far neglected but appealing to the‘i
lniant Boy
Canal Water
1 Two Women Revive Little W’arren
I
Hunt, 1!} Years Old, After
I5 Minutes Of Artificial
Respiration Tuesday
Plucky Hettie Pierce, nine—year-
] old fourth grade student at Hoods-
l port grade school, braved Hood
Canal's chilly winter water yes-
terday afternoon to save from
drowning Warren Hunt, lug-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
E. Hunt, when the infant lad
fell off a small dock in front of
the Pierce and Hunt homes at
Hoodsport.
Warren was revived by artific—
ial respiration administered for
about fifteen minutes by Mrs.‘
Dwight L. Pierce, Hettie’s mother,
and Mrs. J. H. Nance, a neighbor.
No one saw the little lad fall
off the dock so it is not certain
just how long he was in the wa-
ter when his floating body was
discovered by Mrs. Pierce, and
had it not been for Mrs. Pierce’s
intention to checkup on a task of
cleaning up the front yard she
had given two or three small boys
in the neighborhood little Warren
probably would have drowned.
Chance Discovery
When the boys cameto the door
to collect their pay for the clean-
up job Mrs. Pierce walked to the
front porch of her home to look
at the result of the boys’ work.
Happening to glance at the wa-
ter, she saw Warren's body float-
ing face up about 30 feet from
shore, she told a Journal report-
er last night.
She shouted for Hettie, whom
she had seen, just before going
to the front of the house, on the
highway behind the Pierce home
as Hettie walked home from
school with a girl chum, and the
pretty, brown-eyed, husky Hettie
raced to the edge of a bulkhead
in front of the Pierce home, doffed
her coat and jumped into the
waist deep water, then at high
tide. Wading out until the wa-
ter was up to her chin, Hettie
swam a few strokes to reach the
floating boy and pulled him to
shore, where Mrs. Pierce and Mrs.
Nance administered the artificial
respiration which resulted in re-
viving Warren after fifteen min-'
utes. The lad was pronounced
none the worse for his experience
by two physicians called to the
scene. They did not arrive until
after the youngster was revived.
Effective Resusitation
Forrest D. Briggs, P.U.D. No. 1
manager and a Red Cross emer-
gency first aid station attendant
at Potlatch, also was called to
the scene, but Mrs. Pierce and
Mrs. Nance had done their respira-
tion so effectively that the little
victim was revived by the time
he, too... arrived on the scene.
First reports reaching Shelton
of the near-tragedy were directed
to the sheriff’s office and said
there had been a drowning, but
when Sheriff Gene Martin and
Deputy Fred Hickson arrived on
the scene they discovered the
happy ending to the mishap.
Time of the accident was set
at a few minutes after 3:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, as Het-
tie had been dismissed from school
at that time and had come di-
rectly home, a distance of ap-
proximately four blocks.
County Buys New
Tractor; Street
Vacation Put Off
On its bid of $5,200, the Western
Tractor and Equipment Company
of Seattle was awarded contract
to supply Mason County with a
new T-4 Traxcavator with a ’34-
yard bucket by action :0f the i
county commissioners at
week’s meeting. '
The price includes a. $394.96
turn-in valuation allowed on' a
used power shovel owned by Ma-
son County. The only other bid-‘
entered was at $5,414.26 by the
Howard Cooper Corporation.
Action was delayed by the
board for the second time in as
many weeks on the proposed va-
cation of 230 feet of Eberhart
street in Allyn so that proper title
for the right-of—way for the road
being used at present through
Block 8, Allyn, can be secured for
the county. The vacation is ask—
ed in a petition submitted by G.
R. Kirk, et al'. ‘
The board set December 8 at
ten o’clock as time for public
hearing on the petition of Louis
Weinel et ux, submitted by At-
torney A. C. Bayley, asking va-
cation of portions of Olympic and
Mason streets in the plat of Un-
ion City.
Legion Near Goal
shown were informative scenes of}
In Membership
Commander Mel Dobson of
Fred B. Wivell Post American Le-
gion announced last night the
membership of the local post had
ingenious builder who desires
something new.
Mrs. Nelson Resigns
Position With Welfare
Mrs. Eleanor Nelson, supervisor]
of child welfare work for the Ma-
son County Welfare Department
! trict meeting
reached 105 with only 29 to go
to reach the goal set by the State
Department. Dr. Melcum and E.
H. Faubert reported on the dis-
held last night with
Edward B. Rhodes Post of Ta-
coma as host. *
The attendance jackpot took a
nose—dive when Charlie Frazier
and Paul Hughey were both pres-
this-m
for several years, resigned herlent to claim the money as their
position effective today to devotel names were pulled from the box.
full time to her family in Seattle. I Legionnaire Frazier was twenty
As yet no successor has been 10- I dollars to the good while Game
cated, Welfare Administrator Warden Hughey garnered $14.50
Glenn Ratcliff said today. as his share of the booty.
Fellow members of the county An invitation was extended to
welfare staff honored Mrs. Nelson} meet with Alfred Wm. Leach post
last night at a fareWell party of Olympia at their regular ga-
given at the home of Mrs. Floy thering next Tuesday evening,
Yenter at Hoodsport. November 25th.
