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figceis Special schedule of appearances this year and
{on 5002- .Will follow the schedule listed below. Parents
3y 31%.,r'flre urged to clip this schedule out and use it
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ccident- 10:00 to ll:00—-—L. M. loy Department
m/ 11:15 to lilziiilmll’ilcox 10c Store gill
1:00 to 1:15 —-— Shelton Hardware (lo.
1:30 to 1:45 ~— McKenzie-Morrison
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2:00 to .3:30—- Olsen Furniture Co.
2:45 to 3:15 —— Penney Store
3:30 to 4:00—Needham Men’s Wear
4:15 to 5:00 ~Steele’s Cut-Rate Drug
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A l(lates earned by members
11‘s annual summer read-
~ , , the Book Tree Club. will
lally presented them at.
Ools this week and next
.a' - Laura K. Plumb, Shel-
' glibrarian.
designs drawn by Mrs.
Ariderson and Miss Eliza-
,inson have been used in
“D the certificates for the
k Tree Club. One shows
..Suspended from a branch
‘ 01‘m about to crawl upon
"‘ is a tree and the third
Dle leaf. Gold stars rep-
-‘ 3 each book read by the
’43 earner are pasted upon
ificates, with the earner's
Shelton Public Library,
k Tree Club printed on
and the list of books
ted upon the back.
ember of the club was
t0 read ten books during
1",to earn a certificate.
iread more than the re-
tell books. Members of
- Were students of the Lin-
: i Bordeaux grade schools
on junior high school.
l‘tificate earners include
aldwin, Floyd Cox, Eli-
, _mbaugh, Richard Pickens,
.Pickens, Marjorie Troy,
5. 9 Cox, Patricia Killmer,
f' Myers, Nadine Lauber,
afieldwin, Florence Griggs,
Hunter, Patricia Hender-
‘1 Rhodes, Glenn Fitz,
atterson, Mary Eliason,
-(‘rl‘oshong, Gladys Brown,
-, 91‘, Donald Clark, Joanne
:Norma Leigh Davidson,
"ieburtz, Janet Swanson,
If ‘Eells, Gail Ahlskog, Phyl-
,1, .
.Demman, Eddie Purdue,
"lick, Shirley Anderson,
.‘Ann Valley, Harold VVil-
a Dimmar and Clifford
HHOPPING DAYS
TILL
CHRISTMAS
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BE AWARDED BY LIBRARIAN‘
MOODY. D. O.
6017 S. E. 86TH
PORTLAND. OREGON
VOL. LV—-NO. 97
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yesterday by Deputy Treasurer
Nolan Mason indicate clearly that rebate point $184,629.40 was paid
Property Owners to the county treasurer while at
Mason County
took the thrifty way this year,
paying, their tax bills early to period $201,730.03 was remitted.
Hike aGVantage 0f “bate saVlllgSi Between May 31 and Novemberi
. 1 approximately $25,000 was paid. i
and interest savings.
Those figures show that local
property owners paid only $9,-
746.47 during November to beat
the deadline for cleaning up sec-
’ond halves of 1941 property tax
statements, only a tiny fraction
of the $234,193.73 total in tax
payments made for the entire year.
The great bulk of that total
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HOP EARLY, AND
SHOP IN YOUR HOME
was paid prior to the annual three
percent rebate deadline on March
Xmas Lighting
Contest To Be
In ‘3 Divisions
Three divisions into which
the 1941 outdoor Christmas
home illumination contest spon-
sored by the Shelton Garden
Club will be divided were an-
nounced today.
Judging will consider trees
over ten feet high in one divis-
ion, from five to ten feet in
another division, and lighting
effects for entrances or around
homes in a third division.
Prizes for each division and
further instructions on entering
the contest will be announch
later.
WarJohse Bé—gun
At Plywood Plant
Construction was started this
week on a 60x160-foot warehouse
for the Olympic Plywood plant,
President C. J. Mackey confirmed
yesterday.
The warehouse is part of the
original plan for the Olympic P13"
wood plant, he said, and When
completed will change the Pres‘
ent railroad car loading arrange'
ment at the plant as a new spur
from the Northern Pacific tracks
will be run in beside the new
warehouse.
At the same time, the main
plant building is gradually being
completed, he added.
17 Quota In 17th
Local Draft Call
Mason County's seventeenth
draft call will send seventeen
young men from this community
into selective service training on
January 6, Mrs. Martha Haines.
clerk of the county draft board.
announced today.
The call, coming this morning,
is considerably longer notice than
has been given in most past calls,
she said. At the present time
I Mrs. Haines has not made out the
list of men to be inducted from
‘here on that date inasmuch as
many of the men with A-1 classi—
‘fications probably will join other
branches of the service before
that date.
LAD HAS OPERAT—ION
Surgery was performed this
afternoon upon the young son of
Mr.
Shelton at Shelton Hospital.
1
and Mrs. James Moore of
RED CROSS DRIVE E
OUTTE SOME SHY
0F OUOTA SOUGHT
Hopes Of Hitting $2000 Total De-
pend On Special Gifts, Un-
reported Sources
With slightly less than $1300
deposited to date, hope of reach-
ing a $2000 total for the 1941
Red Cross roll call drive here was
“just fair,” Chairman S. B. An-
derson reported today as roll call
headquarters were officially closed.
Several usually large sources
of Red Cross memberships had
yet to be heard from, including
most of the industrial plants and
the special gifts requests, which
were only 'sentout a few days
ago, so the drive chairman has:
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l
some hopes of hitting or at least
coming near that $2000 figure,
he said today, if a good response
is received from those sources as
yet not reported.
Anyone who was missed by the
roll call canvassers may place
their memberships with Chairman
Anderson at the J. C. Penne
store or with Elliot B. Spring,
chapter treasurer, whose offices
are at 123 S. 4th Street.
Also, any roll call canvassers
who have not yet reported in
with their returns is asked to
turn them in to Chairman Ander~
son.
Mrs. Ottermatt Picks
First Camelia Blooms
Regularly each winter, Mrs.
Jeannette Ottermatt, 604 Cedar
street, picks the first camelia
blossoms in Shelton, it seems, and
this year is no exception.
Mrs. Ottermatt called up yes-
terday to report that she has al-
ready‘ plucked three red blossoms
off her camelia bushes.
monthly meeting, 8 p.m., City
hall.
TONIGHT—Commercial league
bOWIina'. p.m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Smallpox vaccinations
for Shelton school students and
pre-school children, 9 arm at
Bordeaux, 10 a.m. at Lincoln.
11 a.m. at junior high, 11:30
a.m.. at senior high.
FRIDAY—City league bowling, 7
and 9 D.m.. bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Moose Lodge weekly
meeting, 8 p.m., Moose Hall.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a.m.. courthouse.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Walter Spinharney,
Rayonier
employe, underwent a major op- SATURDAY~~Santa Claus
eration at Shelton Hospital today.
SATURDAY—Junior high bas-
ketball, 10:30 a.m., new Shel-
ton gvm, Shelton vs. Montesano.
re-
turn visit to Shelton.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TONIGHT—City council semi - SATURDAY—City league has-..
y
deadline on May 31. Up to the
the end of the first half payment
Reflects Greater Assets
Comparing this year‘s payments
with last year's is another in-
dicator that Mason County prop-
erty owners had the ready cash
available this year to take ad-
vantage of the savings offered
more than they did in'1940. By
way of comparison, up to the
rebate point a year ago $162,696.41
had been remitted, some $22,000
less than this year, while up toi‘
the first half payment deadline
$177,131.76 had been paid up, ap.
proximately $24,000 less than
lgrimson, but at the present time
Consolidated wit
FIRST SUNDAY T
, CONCERT DUE
DECEMBER ll
Series Of Three Planned For Sea-
son; A Capella Choir, Tu'o
Student Bands To Be i
Featured First
First in a planned series of.
three free Sunday afternoon music ‘
concerts featuring the Shelton
school bands and vocal groups
will be held December 14 in the
junior high school auditorium.
l The complete program for this
first concert will be released early ,
next week by Director Ben Hall-
the senior and junior school
bands and the newly organized
student A Capella choir will take
part in the program.
this year, while November tax
payments in 1940 to meet the
second half payment deadline were
$12,096.79, roughly $3,000 more
than this year.
An item amounting to $2,271.96
is included in the 1941 tax pay-
ment totals. representing install-
ments on 42 short form agree-
ments signed by property owners
under Chapter 144 of the Laws of
1941 in which payments on all
delinquent taxes of' 1934 and 1935
is permitted without interest,
Deputy Treasurer Mason explain-I
ed. Under the same law 54 tax
contracts were taken out by Ma-l
son County property owners, but}
the $4,433.78 paid on them is not
included in the current year’s tax
collection,total, Mason said.
However, existence of the 54
tax contracts leaves the county’s
delinquent tax Situation in bet-
ter condition as the contracts re-
move the property covered in
them from the delinquent tax list
and thus defers them from the
annual foreclosure sale which is
to be held here December 13.
Original List Pared
Both the short form agreements
and the tax contracts have com-
bined to reduce the originally ad.
vertised foreclosure list from 247
parcels of property to 145, Mason
pointed out.
The foreclosure sale is to start
at nine o'clock the m'orning of
December 13 and will be held in
the lobby of the. county cou-rt«
house by Treasurer Omer L. Dion.
Anyone interested in bidding on
any of the parcels in the fore-
closure may have those particular
parcels he is interested in put up
for bid early simply by notifying
the treasurer of that desire, Treas-
urer Dion said yesterday.
He also reminded persons who
expect to bid on property in the
foreclosure that in addition to the
taxes for 1934 and prior years
upon which the foreclosure is
based, all taxes due on the prop-
erty in the foreclosure between
1935 and 1941 plus interest ac-
crued is added to the amount of
the successful bid and this must
all be Paid in cash at the time
the property is bid in.
55 Rural Phones
Adjusted During
Clinic Held Here
A lot of Shelton farmer line
telephones should ring a. bit
sweeter now after being overhaul-
ed at the Telephone Clinic held
in the old Postoffice building here
last Thursday.
The Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company reports that
a total of 55 telephones were
brought in to be cleaned and ad-
justed. While waiting for the
work' to be done most of the
visitors to the Clinic viewed mo-
tion pictures showing how to build
and maintain rural telephone lines,
while many stood around and
talked “telephone” to the company
experts on hand for the event.
“It was an agreeable surprise
to find that most of the telephones
were in good condition," remarked
J. R. Gibbons, manager of the
Pacific Company here. “However,
all of the telephone users were
agreed that even the best tele-
phone will not give good service
if the line to which it is connected
needs repair work.”
According to Mr. Gibbons, the
Pacific Company plans to follow
up the Clinic by offering the
farmer line companies the serv-
ices of line experts to give ad-
vice on how the various lines ma
be placed in first class condition.
I
ketball, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln
two games.
SUNDAY—Mason County Pomo-
na Grange installation_ceremon-
ies, 1 p. m., Shelton Valley
grange 'hall. . .
MONDAY—«Eagles aerie weekl
meeting, 8 p.m., .Moose Hall.
MONDAY—~County commission-
ers weekly meeting,
courthouse.
MONDAY—Women’s league
bowling, 8:15 p.m., bowling al-
leys.
MONDAY—City league basket-
ball, 9 p._T_n., Lincoln gym, two
games.
TUESDAY—Kiwanis Club week~
1y luncheon meeting; noon, Shel-
ton Hotel.
arm
10 a.m.,
initely, Director Hallgrimson said
i
The A Capella choir, composed
of senior high school students,
now has 25 voices, but Director
Hallgrimson is building toward a
choir of 50 to 60 voices within
the next year or two.
.Hallgrimson also directs the
senior band, of 56 pieces, while
Thlomas Willis, a new member of
the city faculty, directs the jun-
ior band, composed of over 40
instruments.
A silver offering will be asked
from those attending the concert,
as has been the practice at pre-
vious concerts of the kind. The
other two concerts in the series
as now planned would come in
the spring, in late February or
early March and late in April.
Several other musical features
are being worked up for present-
ation in Shelton this season but
have not yet reached the stage
where they can be announced defi-
yesterday.
Plywood Used In
Harold Ahlskog
Home Extensively
Foundations are about complete
now for a new six-room home be-
ing built for Harold Ahlskog, su—
perintendent of operations for the
Olympic Plywood Plant here, at
Sixth and Birch streets.
The new residence will be the
first in this vicinity to use ply-
wood to the extent the new Ahl-
skog residence will for plywood
.manufactured by the Olympic
Plywood plant will be utilized
throughout for walls, ‘floors, ceil-
ings, etc. Shingles will cover
the exterior walls as the Olympic
Plywood plant does not yet man-
ufacture exterior plywood grades.
The new home is, to be a two-
story residence with basement and
is being constructed by Norman
Anderson. It is expected to be
ready for occupancy by March.
County To Share
Cost of Federal
Land Fee Action
Mason County commissioners,
continuing their first-of-the-month
meeting through today, signed an
agreement yesterday to share
costs with other Washington and
Western states COunties in the
action now pending to force the
federal government to make pay-
ments in lieu of taxes on tax:
exempt land under the federal
government‘s jurisdiction Within
the boundaries of the‘cou'nties.
The counties are seeking a tWo-
millipayment annually on the
assessed valuation of the federal
property within their boundaries.
The board also authorized Pros-
ecutor Frank Heuston to complete
proper papers selling to the Navy
the Shelton airport. The deal
has been held up by legal tech-
nicalities for many months. The
county is to receive $1000 for
the land.
Chamber Elects
At Next Meeting
1942 officers of the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce will be
selected at next Thursday’s month-
ly Chamber meeting, President
Ed Faubert pointed out today in
reminding members of the next
session.
Procedure followed by the Cham-
ber in choosing its officers is to
elect a board of directors by
vote of the membership; then
the board retires into star ses—
sion to pick the officers.
President Faubert was not pre-
pared today to announce what the
Chamber’s program would be for
Thursday's meeting but he ex—
pects to have definite details for
next Journal publication.
Another Story Hour
Saturday Afternoo
Children who have been attend-
ular Children’s Story Hour
story being
missed now.
ing the Shelton Library’s reg-
pro-
grams are reminded that another day- .
in the series is scheduled next 0f knowmg fads abOUt the pre‘
Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock and that the continued
told by Mrs. Harold
Christian, the conductor, is near-
ing a climax so should not be
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, December 4, 1941.
axpayers Thrifty, Kick
In Early To Make Savings
Tax payment figures compiled 15 and the first half payment
HERE’S HOW TO GET FREE
SHOW TICKETS I
All parents wishing to obta
(lren‘s Show on Saturday,
it for as many tickets as they
who may be unable to come in before the show, a coupon mailed
to The Journal with a self-addressed, stamped envelope will
enable them to secure the tickets. Only adults may obtain
tickets.
FREE CHRISTMAS SHOW
For The Kids
(Age Limit
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13
Take this Coupon to any Shelton Retail Store
and Exchange for as many Tickets as you need.
Coupon must be presente
Compliments of s
BY TUEiR PLATES
SHALL YOU KNOW
YOUR NEIGHBORS
Car License Sale Running Far
Ahead Of Last Year; Old
Numbers Reclaimed
l
Busiest place in town this week
. and probably for some time
to come, too . . . is the county
auditor‘s office, where 1942 au-
tomobile license plates have the
proverbial hotcakes backed off
the map as items of great sales
demand.
In the 3% days since the plates
have been on sale, 445 sets of
private vehicle licenses had been
claimed as compared with 265
sets at a similar point in last
year’s sale, which itself set a
record total.
The car license sale is just ano-
ther indicator that Mason County
folks seem to have the ready
cash at hand to take care of
such items earlier this year than
usual.
Dr. Glenn W. Landers, Shel-
ton optometrist. once again is
Mason County’s No. 1 motoring
citizen for he exercised his right
to retain the familiar X-l plates
which have identified his cars for
some half dozen years now.
Firsts in the other two types
of vehicle plates carrying the
county identification letters find
Walter Lunde with truck licenses
X-1 and Gunnar Sjoholm with
trailer license X—l.
Other familiar plates many peo—
ple ,who like to memorize such
things will recognize are Thomas
A. Housman, X-2; George Dun-
ning, X-3; Charles L. Morkert,
X-4; Andy Harris, X-5; Harry
Winsor, X~6: Clarence Madsen, X-
7: A. L. Bell. X-8; Bob Bampton.
X-9: H. Parry Jones, X-10: John
M. Robinson, X-11: Lewis E. Wil-
son, X-12: Prof. Loop, X-13: Boots
Burrell. X—14: Inga Kristiansen-
X-l5; Dora Fredson, X-16i Bi"
Lunt of Hoodsport, X-17: DOl‘OthY
Lynch, X-22: Walt Eckert of
Grapeview, X-23; Wilbert Catto
and Jack Catto again with X-24
and X—25 respectively; Emil Lau-
'ber, X—26 (representing the Cream-
ery phone number); Claude Loaan,
X-33; J. S. Thurlow, X-44: Mrs.
Esther M. Anderson, X-55; Rov
Eells. X-66; Frank Heuston. X-77: i
O. M. Davis. X-88: George Mc-
Creary, X-99; Clarence Sewers,
X-100: Jack Kimbel. X-111:_M.
C. Zintheo. X-200: W. M. Elliott,
X-222; Betty Vail, X-333.
Inhalator Operation
Shown First Anders
Fire Chief Dean Carmen and
Volunteer Fireman Herb Kromer
demonstrated last night how to
operate an inhalator in life sav-
ing cases to members of a Red
Cross first aid class currently in-
structed by Mrs. Elmer Smith.
December 13, are asked to clip
out the coupon below, sign their name to it, and bring it‘to
any Shelton business establishment, where they may exchange
, and
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
in tickets for the FREE Chil-
require. For country residents,
16 Years)
(1 by adults. ,
"" Signing-an“Raina”
helton Merchants
RECORD VOLUMES
MAKE EARLY MAIL
NECESSARY NO w
‘Earlier Than. Ever’ Warning Of
Postofflce Officials As New
Totals Loom
Mail earlier than ever! Avoid
the rush and delays!
Such is the warning Postmaster
Miss Jessie Knight issues to Shel-
tonians this year, pointing to the
all-time record postal receipts
which virtually all Northwest ci-
ties are piling up, thus indicating
that delays can be expected in
Christmas deliveries this year due
to the heavy loads postal staffs
will have to handle.
Shelton postoffice is booming
along right with the pack, too,
is a cinch to witness a newi
annual volume this year with over
$30,000 in receipts to be attained
for the first time.
Don’t- Wait For Deadlines
Miss 'Knight particularly urges?
that patrons plan to mail pack-
ages a day or two before pub-
lished deadlines and that local
mailings have complete street ad—
dresses, this applying particular-‘
1y to Christmas cards.
Christmas mail deadlines to Al-
aska points are as follows:
December ‘10 to Haines, Skag-
way, White Home, and Yakutat;‘
by December 12 to Cordova, Fair-
banks, Nenana; by December 15
to Anchorage, Kodiak, Seward;
by December 17 to Petersburg,
Valdez and Wrangell; by Decem-
ber 19 to Juneau, Ketchikan and
Sitka. No service except by air-
mail is available to Bethe], Daw-
son and Nome.
Airmail may be used from De-
cember 19 to December 22 to
some Alaskan points, but many
do not have winter airmail serv-
ice.
Allow Extra Days
These dates are all as of de-
parture from Seattle, so mail
should be placed in the Shelton
postoffice a day or so in advance
of the date listed above.
Hawaii can still be reached by
regular mail up to December 13,
but airmail will be necessary now
to get Christmas mail to other
foreign places in time for Christ-
mas Day.
If airmailed by December 8
packages will reach China, French
Indo - China, Hongkong, Malaya,
and the Netherland Indies. The
Fiji Islands and New Zealand can
be reached up to December 13,
the Philippine Islands by Decem-
12331' 15, and Hawaii by December
INFANT IN SURGERY
A minor surgival operation was
performed at Shelton Hospital to-
day upon Thomas Edwards, seven-
month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Edwards of Shelton.
BANGLE. PIN SALE UNDER WAY:
T.B. DISPLAY DRAWS COMMENT
Another phase of the annual
Tuberculosis League drive for
funds, the bangle pin sale, has
been started in Shelton schools
this week, Mrs. Vernon Davidson,
executive secretary of the Mason
County League, announced today.
Annually Shelton
school students actively
participate in the ban-
gle pin sale. Grateful
acknowledgement of the
school assistance in the
fund drive was made to-
day by Mrs. Duane Brodie, presi-
n dent of the Mason County League,
who stated that “the greatest
hope for success _in the education-
al movement against tuberculosis
lies in the growing children of to-
They have the opportunity
I
vention and the cure of tubercu-
losis that science had scarcely
touched upon a generation ago."
At the same time, Mrs. Frank
Wolfe, chairman of the Tubercu-
losis Christmas seal sale, express-
ed great pleasure with the ex-
cellent returns so far in the seal
sale, the returns being well ahead
of last year at this point and thus
brightening the hope of reaching
the one-third increase in this
year’s goal over the 1940 seal sale.
.The lighthouse theme of this
year’s Christmas seal sale is the
background of a highly attractive
display in one of the Lumbermen’s
Mercantile display windows this
week. Dr. J. W. Collier, retired
father of Dr. B. N. Collier, Shel-
ton physician, constructed the
lighthouse .and the display was
arranged by Mark Pickens, L. M.
advertising manager. All mater-
ial used in the display was sup
plied by the Lumbermen's Mer-
cantile.
The display is to be shown at
the Washington State Tuberculo-
sis Association’s annual conven—
tion next spring, Mrs. Davidson
said today, and also at the na-
tional Tuberculosis Association
convention if there is time to get
it to both. '
TWO-DAY OPEN
HOUSE SLATED
FOR NEW GYM
.Pubiic Invitodfl'l‘o Inspect New
Athletic Plant Tuesday And
\Vcdnesday; Dedication On
\Vednesday Morning
New details of the official in-
troduction of the new Shelton
gymnasium to the public include
open house next Tuesday and
Wednesday in addition to the
official dedication ceremonies
which will take place Wednesday
night, City School Supt. H.
Loop announced this week.
The beautiful new athletic plant
will be open to public inspection
between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
and 9 p.m., next Tuesday and
from 8:30 a.m. to 6 pm. next
Wednesday, hl said. Students
will be ready to conduct visitors
on complete tours of the plant
{it-any time visitors wish to come,
Supt. Loop explained: During
those two days visitors will be
able to see the physical educa-
tion classes in action.
State Changes Coming
'l‘hen next Wednesday evening,
of course, comes the official dedi-
cation ceremonies between the
first and second team games to
be played by the defending state
high school basketball champion
Bremerton Wildcats and the Shel-
ton Highclimbers.
Full details of the dedication
ceremony itself are not definitely
set yet as no word has been re-
ceived yet from Hec Edmundson,
University of Washington basket-
ball coach, to the invitation ex-
tended him to make the dedica-
tion talk, Shelton Athletic Di-
rector Homer Taylor said this
morning. a
. First Game At 7 P. M.
However. the dedication pro-
gram will open with the Bremer-
ton and Shelton second teams
playing at seven o’clock and the
first teams following the dedica-
tion ceremony at 8:30.
Both before and after the
games the public is invited to in-
spect the gym from top to bot-
tom, Supt. Loop said. -
Coach Frank Willard takes his
Highclimber squad to ' Tacoma
this Friday night to meet Bellar-
mine in'the second practice-eon-
test of the season for the Shelton
casaba lads. -Willard will be
looking for the strongest lineup
he can put on the floor for the
dedication game with Bremerton
in this Friday night contest.
JUNIOR HIGH ENTERTAINS
MONTESANO SATURDAY
Although the official opening
of the new gym will be left to
their older “brothers” of the sen-
ior high school, Coach Hugh
Clark’s Shelton junior high bas-
ketball players will have the hon-
or of playing the first inter.
school maple contest in Shelton's1
new gymnasium when they en-z
tertain Montesano junior high
here next Saturday morning at
10:30 o'clock.
It will be the first game of the
season for both teams. Clark is
working with an exceptionally
large group of lads with previous
junior high playing experience
this year and may have the
strongest team since he took over
the junior high coaching reins four
years ago.
Reorganization ,
Group Meeting
.«m—n‘s...”
Next Tuesday; .
Next week’s meeting of the
County School District Reorgan-’
ization Committee was moved to
Tuesday night so as not to con-
flict with the Shelton gymnas-
ium dedication, it was decided at
last night’s weekly meeting of
the committee, which was attend-‘
ed by all members.
Henry L. Turner, member of
the State School Reorganization
Committee, and former Whatcom
County school superintendent, at-
tended the meeting and led a high-
ly interesting discussion of the
origin of school districts in this
state when they were financed en-
tirely by local levy, efforts to get
valuation leading to some of the
queer shapes of the districts.
He pointed out that the main
objective of the reorganization
program is to eliminate third
class districts by combining them
with districts in which high
schools exist, but not necessarily
eliminating the operation of the
grade schools.
Next Tuesday's committee meet-
ing will have J. E. Matthews, dis-
trict sanitarian, as its principal
speaker. V
Nativ;
Here Last Night
George Huntley, 63, a native
son of Mason County, died just
before midnight last night at
Shelton Hospital. He had lived
here all his life.
No funeral arrangements had
been announced at press time this
afternoon.
Mrs. E. E. Doughty of Sedro
Woolley, a sister, is the closest
surviving relative, although sev-
live in Mason County. Mr. Hunt-
ley was born January 8, 1878, in
Shelton.
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eral cousins, nephews and nieces:
