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Januar 2, 1947.
LOGGER
See Us First For
Logging
Supplie00
O
Wire Rope
Saws Axes
Blocks
Chokers -
Hooks
and Other Supplies Necessat
For Safe, Efficient Loggis
Operations.
Olympia Feed
Company
O'Neill Bldg.- ShelteR
SATURDAY
Music by
McKEE'S FIVE KEYS OF OLYbIPIA
DELIGHT PARK
DANCE PAVILION LAKE ISABELLA
JANUARY 4
Admission $1 per Person (Tax Included)
FREE ADMISSION FOR LADIES UNTIL 9:30 P.M.
• 's Taxi-Grocery
(formerly Heinie's Taxi-Grocery)
FIRST AND PINE
Open Even'rags -- Sundays
Offering DELIVERY SERVICE fox
: GROCERIES--MEATS--VEGETABLES
ICE CREAM--CANDY--SOFT DRINKS
-- Plus --
:
, HUNTING AND FISHING EQUIPMENT
RICHFIELD OIL PRODUCTS m AUTO SUPPLIES
• e staff joins in
'ou well in '47.
MATERIALS
ah, Manager
e
Open for Business
In Our Location on
Mountain View
Shelton Lumber
Company
Due to present conaltions our services
Will be limited" for some time, but as
soon as possible we will handle a
complete line of building materials.
PHONE" 657 : ...... F. O. BOX 598
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pte of the.:00:
ton, Wask
office of City Attorney t
nearly 28 years of eont
mg you for your giving
rved you.
grow from a town of 1,
)ximately 5,000 people
cnts and nmch progress.
[tic problems.
Ordinances increased fit
;e drafted 321.
ty limits several times
•nd lire protection exten
beginning of City bus se
ny other improvements
SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL
HEWS REVIEW GIVES HIGH['i-G-HTS 000F'-1"946
(Continued from page 1)
ticians played quite a bit of it too.
For instance, the county treas-
urer's office was booted back and
forth between Mr. Dion and J. E.
Martin, originally elected to the
post in 1942 but never held by him
when he vohmtarily declined to ac-
cep the position after being
elected.
The sheriff's office saw three i
different men at the. helm during
the year. First Gene Martin re-
signed in April after holding the
office since 1938 and once prior
to that.. Then Bill Compton, chief
deputy who succeeded him, in turn
resigned on Dec. 1 and Dan Orcutt, :
defeated candidate for the office,
in November, was named to corn-:
plete the final month of the term
when Sheriff-Elect Jack Cole was
unable to take over before Jan. 1.
Still in the political-football vein,
both the Republican and Demo-
cratic central committee chairman-:
ships changed horses in midstream.
First the Republicans placed John
Hopper on the job, then finished up
the year with Dick Springgate as
chairman. The Democrats handed
Everett Fourre. their top county
post but later switched it over to
Charles Savage after his election
defeat.
Some long-held reins were
dropped during 1946 too. First
Harold Lakeburg, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce for ten
years, relinquished his duties early
in the year and was succeeded by
Ed Faubert. Late in the year two
more "veterans" in their particular
/posts stepped out of harness, Jack
Catto declining to return for his
15th year as secretary of Mr. Mor-
iah Masonic Lodge, and Charles R.
Lewis notifying the city of his re-
tirement on Jan. 1 as city attorn-
ey after 27 years in that capacity.
While not in the same long-term
category, Police Chief Paul Hugh-
ey's resignation effective Jan. 1
was another headline of tlm year,
along with the naming of E. W.
"Pat" White as his successor.
Despite ham-stringing govern-
ment restrictions and material
shortages, construction in this
community kept a large payroll
feeding into local business through-
out the year. The Simpson fibre-
board plant is on the verge of
starting operations, Rayonier has
conducted a large construction
program throughout the year, the
new Simpson Industries ware-
house is virtually completed, the
new medical offices and clinic
building occupied by Dr. A. C.
Linkletter and Dr. B. B. Forman
was recently completed, Dr. B. N.
Cellist's new clinic is nearing, com-
pletion, the Shick-Andrews-O1-
stead building is occupied now, and
many other construction projects
were finished or well along during
the year, not to forget a goodly
number of homes despite the crip-
pling restrictions.
A new census ordered by the
county commissioners revealed a
population of 13,585 which entitled
Mason County to a fifth "class
county rating, giving county of-
ficials higher salaries and bringing
this county larger slices of state
and federal funds.
The year's tOP hero honors nust
go to a dog, to a 108-pound Belgian
police dog named "Hap," who
saved seven human lives by his
barking and other actions as the
Blue Ox dance pavilion burned
down early on the morning of
April 21.
Among the strangest stories of
the year must be indluded the
sleeping wildcat killed by Harold
Hall, Becvile trapper, and the fear-
some initiation nine-year-old Leone
Savage was given to fishing when
the first catch of her life turned
out to be a four-foot octopus.
Other top yarns of 1946 would i
have to include the return of the"
AUTOMOTIVE
MACHINE SHOP
SERVICE
Cylinder boring, piston
grinding, valve refacing.
Generator, starter serv-
ice.
Western Supply Co.
218 N. 1st Phone 126
airport to county operation and I salutatorian of class of 1'946 at Oct. 31---Soldier killed ill jcep
responsibility by the Navy, the]
Indian 'war' which tied up traffic I
and kept police, sheriff and state I
patrol officers busy for three hours Nov. 7--Republican gains re-
in the main business blocks of fleeted in national, state and local
Shclton late in May, announce-
ment of plans to remove the steel
tracks from Raih'oad Avenue and
construct a Mark E. Reed Memor-
ial by the Simpson Logging com-
pany, inauguration of Shelton-
Port Angeles bus service by the
Bremerton-Tacoma Stages, the
Mason County Laundry strike, and
the perfection of Golden Beam
City Hall erected, mileSl
te walks laid, we have el CHEVROLET
and sewer systems, pu] :
ounds, improvements to
TRUCK OVER 350,000
,inCng of mail" delivery a OWNERS |NSURANCE
.WE CARRY A BIG STOCK BUYERS
OF CHEVROLET PARTS
FOR TRUCKS ON HAND
TRUCKS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY
IN OUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT
WEARE ANXIOUS TO HELP
YOU. KEEP YOUR TRUCK
RUNNING AND ON THE JOB
ring Your Chevrolet Truck Here
for Repairs and Parts
TRUCKERS ATTENTION!
TRUCK MUD FLAPS
Pass State Truck
Requirements
Mell
Chevrolet
First and Grove Phone 777
high school; R. W. Oltman, Shel-
ton school superintendent, elect-
ed president of Southwest Wash-
ington Superintendents Assn. ;
George Hermes, principal at Shel-
ton senior high school, elected
president Southwest Washington
Principals Assn.
April 18--.Sheriff Gene Martin
resigns, Deputy Bill Compton
named his successor; Marilyn
Waklee named Forest Festival
queen; Navy offers to return Shel-
ton airport to city or county or
both; Johli Hopper elected chair-
Cleaner by Robert H. Price aftcr Jman Republican Central Commit-
12 years of research. [ tee, Vic Zabroski president Dora-
Headlines which made front I ocrats Club; Lincoln P.-T.A.,L.M.
page news in The Journal during]fashion show draws capacity house
1946 are copied from editions date- / to junior high auditorium.
lined: April 25--Dog saves seven lives
Jan. 3---Death takes pioneers
and Rayonier official in passing
of E. J. Dalby, John Manfredi,
F. R. Pearson; fire zoning ordi-
nance approved by city commis-
sioners; new wage agreement ap-
proved by industry-wide vote of
pulp and paper workers.
Jan. 10---S. B. Anderson install-
ed as Chamber of Commerce pres-
ident; city commissioners prohibit
use of firearms at city garbage
dump; Clarence Grunert seated as
Kiwanis Club president; Mason
County records show above-quota
returns in all Victory Loan drives.
Jan. 17 Salaries, wages of city
officials and employees raised by
passage of new ordinance; An-
drew Carlson, Shelton pioneer,
passes.
Jan. 24--New counzy census ap-
proved by county commissioners
in desire to raise county to fifth
class rating; city commissioners
debate parking meters; electric-
ians union holds state convention
here.
Jan. 31C. H. Kreienbaum,
president of Simpson Logging
Company, elected to West Coast
Lumbermen's Assn. presidency;
oystermen protest Navy ship
moorage plans in lower Puget
Sound; Shelton Hospital again on
approved list of American Col-
lege of Surgeons.
Feb. 7 Plans to eliminate
tracks from Railroad Avenue and
create :Mark E. Reed Memorial
announced by City Planning Com-
mission at public mass meeting;
snow halts logging operations;
city finances announced as best
in Shelton's history, state auditors
report; Christmas seal sale con-
ducted by Tuberculosis League
sets new record; Horace Crary el-
ected Red Cross Chapter clmir-
mall.
Feb. 14---Three killed, four hos-
pitalized in two highway traffic
accidents; amazing new cleaning
solvent, Golden Beam, discovered
by Robert H. Price of Shelton af-
ter 12 years research.
Feb. 21---Northwest's worst earth-
quake in history centered near
Lilliwaup in Olympic mountains,
does extensive damage in many
Western. Washington areas but
spares Shelton; county census
.crews given an added week to
complete nose-counting task.
Feb. 2g--Carl Jack Young burn-
ed to death as fire dstroys his
Mud Bay home; Virginia Malloy
appointed city police court judge.
March 7Robbers get $2,000 in
cash and bonds at Stop Inn; John
Sullivan, Mrs. Laura Iurphy win
Shelton school board posts; coun-
ty census unofficially announced
as 13,585, Shelton's as 3,987 as
special census.m completed; Bert
Hurst, native son, passes.
March 14--Charles Leaks, coun-
ty pioneer, passes; noted civil en-
gineer, Leslie Howard Chapman,
dies on Harstine Island.
March 21---Swimming pool ap-
proved as war memorial by Cham-
ber committee; Harold Lakeburg
resigns after ten years as secre-
tary of Chamber, Ed Faubert suc-
ceeding to the post; Lyle (Sho-
ty) O'Dell elected V.F.W. post
commander.
March 28---Mason County's sec-
ond annual Forest Festival dates
set for May 17-18; Harstine Is-
land's dream of years realized
with installation of first telephone;
Art Walton elected chairman of
Shelton school board; Doug Shel-
ton, pioneer of city, drowns in
small creek running through his
yard.
April 4Forest Festival com-
mittees announced by Chairman
Rudy Werberger.
April [lEdith Johnson named
valedictorian, Winnifred Collier,
Rely upon the FARMERS INSURANCE .GROt fo
oupeHor protection plus l=rompt daim =ee .ou
mttomobilo and truck insurance.
es elected me City Attor
r and approved the prop
)u to approve, for whiCl
n" progress but have mS
le. I ask your cooperat i
e solving of these diffi ¢1
net elected president of Shelton
Chamber of Commerce.
Dec. 26Joint labor-manage-
ment committee recommenLs 15c
KIMBEL
LOGGING
COMPANY
racticc of law in the City
m my interest in city r
future under different c(
Jn serve' you.
you and the City of Shell
c future, ] an] :
aithfully,
Friendly, efficient claim service
low Cosf
Continuing In form
National Sfandard Form
STANDARD FOKM Fire Imuran Pollcy fo dwoll-
tng:e,-.hounhold furniture mad pemonal effects.
For complete irdormation on the. F. I].UR, "
A GROL. olicles.-.aeo
BILL PEARSON
District Agent
OSCAR MELL
Local Agent
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
,nee,. INSURANCE Sx=hane,
Tr.ck lns.rance Exchange
• Fire Insurance Exchange
as Blue Ox dance pavilion burns;
death claims J. H. Nance Hood
Canal pioneer; Max Schmidt cho-
sen for Paul Bunyan role in For-
est Festival.
May 2--Spencer 'Penny' Read,
23, killed in logging accident near
Lake Cushman; Jolm E. Butler, 23,
of Shelton, killed in logging acci-
dent near Electron, Pierce coun-
ty; Ted Cole, native son of Shel-
ton, burned to death in Bremerton
cabin fire.
May 16Pulp industry wages
raised 4 to 6% iu new agreement;
new city bus service started; Will
Lunt, Hoodsport merchant and
county resident 37 years, buried
with Masonic rites; James Smith,
Shelton boy ill U. S. Marines, kill-
ed in car accident at Camp Pen-
dleton, Calif.; Ed OIund, county
dairyman for 40 years, passes.
May 23--Second annual Forest
Festival draws estimated I0,000
persons to Shelton; 93 seniors
graduated from Irene S. Reed
high school in class of 1946; high
school diploma earned by Miss
Nellie Nelson 30 years after leav-
ing high school.
May 30--Indian 'uprising' quell-
ed after three-hour battle with
city police; Winston Scott named
assistant resident manager of
Rayonier's Shelton plant; Clint
Williams elected Shelton Alumni
Ass'n. president; loggers agree on
5-cent wage increase, $1.10 base
in lumber industry; Everett :Four-
re elected chairman of Democra-
tic Central Committee.
June 6--Axel Anderson, early
day county resident, returns to
his native Sweden.
June 1B---Five persons saved
from drowning in Hood Canal.
June 20Rayonier awards ser-
vice pins to 202 veteran employ-
ees; DeMolay bestows national
honors on Alfred Lauber and L.
D. Hack; Chamber of Commerce
asked to support Goldsborough
Bridge widening on First Street.
June 27--Year's second major
earthquake does little damage in
Shelton area; Rudy Werberger re-
elected chairman of Forest Fes-
tival Ass'n.; lY[rs, lYfaude LeMas-
ter, Mason county resident 58
years, passes.
'iJuly' 4 --. Registrtion books
close with 6,75 record number
of voters eligible to cast ballots;
Ronald W. Sharer, 18, of AllSm,
drowns off Whidby Island; Jack
Bishop elected president of Active
Club.
July ll--Primary election shows
Democratic landslide days gone
with virtually even totals east for
both parties; 93 Simpson Logging
company employees earn Red
Cross first aid certificates.
July 18--. Death takes Frank
Chase, county resident 26 years.
July 25--Mrs. W. A. Hitchcock,
Harstine Island pioneer, dies.
August 1---175 pioneers gather
for annual Mason County Pioneers
picnic; Seattle man, Leslie L. Pool,
50, drowns near Tahuya.
August 8--Curt Battles, 18-year
Rayonier employee, killed in va-
cation trip fall from Victoria, B.
C., hotel window.
August 15--Death claims Ma-
son county's oldest resident, Mrs.
Mary Buding, 95, of A1]yn.
August 22John F. Stotsbury,
76, prominent long-time Mason
county farmer, passes.
August 29- Harold Ahlskog,
Bruce Elmore appointed to Shcl-
ton school board; Frank Chester,
'early-day county resident, suc-
cumbs suddenly; runover by trac-
tor he was operating, Daniel R.
Wood, Jr., killed
Sept, 5--County to go ahead
with contract for operating air-
port; 'city school enrollment rec-
ord set with 1,700 •students regis-
tered opening day of term.
Sept. 12--Through service from
Shelton to Port Angeles inaugur-
ated by Bremerton-Tacoma Stages
after being awarded franchise by
the State Transportation Depart-
ment.
i Sept. 19--Jack Beckwith, 19,
Shelton athlete and high school
leader, killed in Navy aviation ac-
cident near Norfolk, Vs.; flash
storm does heavy damage im this
area; Louis J. Kapalo, 33, of A1-
lyn, killed under bulldozer falling
from truck bed; public hearing
held on proposed Simpson Log-
ging CompanY-.S. government
spstained yield forest unit with
oposition expressed by Grays
Harbor, Tacoma ad Seattle ele-
ments; Dick Springgate elected
chairman of Republican Central
Committee.
Sept. 26- Entry from H. M.
W'ivell Dairies, Inc., named queen
of state's jersey cows at Puyallup
Fair; $2,000 loss in fire at Eaton
Body & Fender Works.
Oct. 3--Robert H. Allan, 57,
Shelton contractor, taken by
death.
Pet. 10Alden Bayley home
north of Union completely de-
stroyed by fire; F. J. McMartin
named game protector in Mason
county, replacing resigned Joe
Simpkins; Mrs. Joe Valley, county
pioneer, dies at Ellensburg."
Oct. 17--Jack Clark, 21, recent-
ly discharged Army Air Corps-
man, killed in kuto accident near
Twanol State Park; burglars ac-
tive in Shelton, breaking into
three stores within week; 83-year-
old Mrs. F. A Herzog of Redmond
drowns in Lake Isabella.
Oct. 24--30% valuation added
to city's tax-assessable property
in annexation of Simpson indus-
trial plant, Bayview tracts; Ma-
son County Forest Festival Asso-
ciatio receives incorporation pa-
pers. ,
wreck near Union; baseball grand-
stand out for present when C.
P.A. rejects building application.
voting in general election as Nor-
raan defeats Savage for Congres-
sional seat, Hufford leads 24th
district legislative field, S. E.
Smith defeats Omer L. Dion for
county treasurer; Shelton mer-
chants hire night patrolman in
effort to stem burglaries.
Nov. ' 14---Sheriff Bill Compton
tenders resignation to become ef-
fective Dec. 1; 200 football fans
attend banquet honoring High-
climber team; special 20-mill
school levy approved in general
election voting; death takes two
prominent Sheltonians, Horace
Dunbar and Clyde Wilcox; Ki-
wanis club picks Fred B, ec.kwith
president.
Nov. 2tSnow closes schools,
disrupts power, telephone and
transportation services; strike
closes Mason County Laundry.
Nov. 28--Bud Forbes, Reed Mill
No. 2 foreman, killed in Tacoma
traffic accident; three others bad-
ly hurt; fire heavily damages el-
sen Furniture Co. storeroom; city
lets contract for 300 parking met-
ers to be installed early in 1947;
Navy enlists 31 in reserves dur-
ing week in Shelton; Daniel Or-
cutt named sheriff to fill out re-
maining month in term.
Dec. 5--Charles R. Savage nam-
ed chairman of Democratic Cen-
tral Committee.
Dec. 12--Fall from spar tree
kills Fred Miller, 51, father of 14
children, at Camp 3; Philip Ahern,
21, z'eturned serviceman,' killed in
auto accident near Mud Bay.
December 19--Simpson Logging
Company-U. S. govezment sus-
tained yield forest unit contract
,executed, assuring Mason county
of its future for 100 years; city
commissioners name E. W. 'Pat'
White, state game department of-
ricer, as city police chief to suc-
ceed Paul Hughey, resigned; City
Attorney Charles R. Lewis, re-
signs as city attorney; Roy kit-
AUTOMOTIVE PAINTING
GLASS INSTALLED
RIDLEY'S
Body and
Fender Works
PICKUP
and
DELIVERY
SERVICE
WORK GUARANTEED
1 Mile South On
Olympic Highway
ROGERS BROS. GARAGE
Phone 218R-2X
per hour wage raise in big fir
lumber ifldustry; Christlmm buy-
tng sets business volume record in
Shelton; Bert Rau re-elected
chairman of county AAA pro-
gram. ,
Large Supply Materials
Available In. January for
Spencer Foundations
and Supports
PHONE 799-J
For Appointment or Call at
1416 Summit Drive
NEED A
PLUMB ER
Phone 48
J. L. CATTO
HARDWARE
Modern Equipment
0peratod By
Experienced Men
FOR
• LAND CLEARING
• BULLDOZING
@ DITCHING
• BASEMENT EXCAVAT-
ING
• BULKHEADING
• PILEDRIVERS
For Land or Water
• DUMP TRUCKS
For Hire
• PILING AND LOGS
For Sale.
PHONE 645-W
To Our Customers
and Friends--
As of January 1, 1947, the
Taylor Jersey Farm
Thereafter Will Be Known As and Named
SUPREME DAIRY
Delivering the same high quality dairy products and
service which characterized our operation of the pas'{"
15 months.
We plan to keep abreast of modern develop-
ments to bring you even more fo,' your money,
both in sezwice and quality.
We Join In Wishing You a
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
FLOYD - FRANCES -CHARLES DAVIS,
2"
Owners
The Opening of Our New Office
To Serve You For
TITLE INSURANCE POLICIES
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
SHELTON-BELL ABSTRACT & TITLE
CO., INC.
119 South Fourth (Bell Building) - Shclton, Washington
CHARLES R. LEWIS
President
C. NOLAN MASON
Sec. - Treas.
Agents for
PUGET SOUND TITLE INSURANCE
OF SEATI'LE
CO.
Guaranty Iiund With State [reasurer
In Excess of $200,000
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