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6o17 s. E.
Port, land, Ore. 97216
Co.
THE FIRST BABY BORN in Mason County in 1967 was
little Donna Jean Baze, here with her mother, Mrs. Derald
Baze. Donna arrived at 2:21 p.m. New Year's Day to win
the assortment of gifts which local merchants present to
the first axrival. Mr. and Mrs. Baze and their four other
children, two boys and two girls, live at Rt. 1, Box 567.
Ragan Resigns As City Attorney
' The Shelton City Commission
-'0epted the resignati()n of John
< Ragan as city attorney when
met Tuesday. Ragan will take
ice as County Prosecuting At-
:DiCey Monday.
The commission received a re-
lst from Jack Rodman to hook
the city sewer line for two
aes outside the city limits.
commission agreed, provid-
ehe piy's the lot assessment
of $125 a lot: and makes the
"K'up accorain to the recom
!dation of t g ci'ty engineer:
_ he commission granted ap-
Dval for the installation of 15-
minute parking meters in front
of the new National Bank of
Mason County building on Third
Street from Cota to the alley.
THEY AUTHORIZED POLICE
Chief Frank Rains to call for
bids for a new Police Patrol car
to replace a 1963 vehicle now in
use by the department.
The commission set the price
of copics of the city code at $15
for the original and $5 a year
for the annual supplements.
p ubli -'ySpl'' Camis stoner
Elroy Nelson was sked to check
with Fire Chief AI Nevitt on a
request from the Volunteer Fire
Named To Staff
Of Rayonier Lab Here
iI:)r. Edwin L. Lovell, Man-
r of the Rayonier Incorpor-
:l Olympic Research Division
e announced the recent ad-
en of three scientists to the
Dr fessional staff.
Itephen G. Martin, who has
assigned to the Biological
estigations Section, received
f of Science degree
]Vlhster
. the School of Fisheries at
of Washington in
iJiversity
3. During subsequent grad-
tlae WOrk in the Department of
:" .'ngineering, he participat-
m the research leading to the
¢ession of algae in Green
e. His hobbies include hunt-
ill fishing bowling, and col-
le :'ng exotic bottle openers. His
e_, Sheila is writing a thesis
le
,ing to a Master's degree in RICHARD ENGEN
:elegy at the University. The
!rtlns are residing in Hoods
!t.
Klaus D. Wills recently re-
his doctoral degree in
Chemistry from the Un-
of Southern California.
Of Tacoma, he attended
school in Munich, Germany
his father was stationed
in the armed services. A-
returning to the , United
.'s, he received his Bachelor
degree in Chemistry
the University of Puget
He has been assigned to
Silvichemtcals Section at the
laboratory. His favor-
hobbies are bridge and coin
Dr. Wills and his wife,
are living in Shelton, in
Mt. View area.
J. Engen recently
his experimental
leading to the Ph.D in
and has now sub-
his dissertation to his
at Cornell University
N. Y. for final approval.
completing his undergrad.
at the University of
he worked at the Ros-
Park Memorial Institute in
city. His present asign-
is in the Physical Chem-
Group. A native of Men-
he spent his boyhood and
school days in Ras Tanura,
Arabia, where his father
in the emOloy of the Arabian.
Oil Company. He likes
camp, hunt and fish. His wife,
, is an accomplished pl-
The young couple, with
d-._ghter and three sons,
at Walker Park on Ham-
Inlet.
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STEPHEN MARTIN
DR, KLAUS WILLS
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Department to use one of the
Public Works Department trucks
to pick up discarded Christmas
Trees in the city Sunday. Nelson
stated he didn't like the idea of
anyone except a city employee
driving the city trucks.
City Supervisor Pat Byrne told
the commission that a new pump
on the city water system was
being installed. The flow meter,
he said, which was to have been
purchased out of the budget for
this year could not be obtained
in time and vould have to be
delayed until 1968.
Archie Lyons Home Damaged
By Fire Here New Year's Eve
• The Shelton Fire Department
extinguished a fire in the Archie
Lyon home, 224 C. St., New
Years Eve. The fire did about
$500 damage to the home and
$50 to the contents according to
Fire Department estimates.
Lyon suffered burns on his
hands in the incident.
THE FIRE Department said
Lyon was filling a gas lantern
by candle light during a power
outage when the fire started.
Vince Bostwick, a member of
the Volunteer Fire Department
to control the blaze until fire
trucks arrived. Bostwick was on
duty with the Sheriff's office
when the fire broke out.
Christmas
Fund Has
'32 Balance
• Total expenses of $960.54 held
the 1966 Christmas basket proj-
ect jointly sponsored by 40 and
8 Voiture 135 of Mason County
and the Journal within the bud-
get of $1,000 set for it, a final
accounting released by General
Chairman Jay Umphenour dis-
closed this week.
Total cash contributions re-
mained at the $993.10 figure re-
ported last week, leaving a fa-
vorable balance of $32.47, which
will be added to an existing sur-
plus fund kept on hand for years
when the project operates at a
deficit, as it sometimes does.
Expense items listed by Chair-
man Umphenour for the 1966
project were : Stewart's Food-
liner $223.89 for food, Ralph's
Serve-U 223.79 for food, Sunbeam
Bread $30 for bread purchased
through Bill I.ving of Shelton),
Econo Food Mart $209.31 for
food, 20th Century 190.97 for food
Kitsap-Mason Dairy $62.52 for
butter, Cots Grill $20.06 f or
Christmas dinners served to sev-
en bachelor pensioners.
TMS IS THE 18th annual 40
and 8 Journal Christmas pro-
ject, it having been founded in
1949. During those 18 years, a
total of 1,284 famih'es have rd-
eeived Christmas cheer' from
the food and toys delh,ered in
the yule baskets, and a [otal of
$15,417.49 has been contributed
by generous donors.
This year baskets were de-
livered to 83 unfortunate Mason
Cocmty families, in which there
were 112 adults and 256 children.
Project peaks were $1,160.% con-
tributed in 1950 and 92 families
aided in the initiatory year of
1949,
and also a Reserve Deputy Sher-
iff, was the first to the scene
and used a garden hose to try
Simpson
Operations
Back At Work
• Logging operations of the
Simpson Timber Company are
scheduled to resume Monday
morning, weather permitting, af-
ter the annual year-end shut-
down.
The Company's Shelton s a w-
mills resumed operations Tues-
day, and work began about noon
Tuesday at the Insulating Board
Plant.
Shelton Veneer Plant and
Olympic Plywood Plant h a v e
been operating since their holi-
day shutdowns ended on Dec. 27.
Timber
Permits
Needed Now
• All logging operations now
being conducted must have a
1967 Timber Cutting Permit, ac-
cording to Francis Wight, Dis-
trict Administrator for the De-
partmen t of Natural Resources.
Applications for a cutting per-
mit are available at the local
Department of Natural Re-
sources office at the airport.
Loggers and-or landowners must
make application for a permit
before logging begins. Natural
Resources personnel will be
glad to help applicants with
land descriptions or explanation
of the requirements of the For-
est Practices Act.
In 1966, 295 permits were
granted, covering more than
10,0D0 acres of logging. All oP-
erations were inspected by de-
partment personnel to insure
compliance with the Forest Prac-
tices Act, and provide statistical
information about the logging
industry in Mason County.
School Board
• The Shelton Schoal Board will
hold its regular January meet-
ing at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the li-
brary of Evergreen School.
Snow Slows Traffic, Closes Schools
The first snowfall of the season was falling Wed-
nesday morning, bringing with it the usual problems.
Traffic crept at a slow pace, and, at times the hill to
Mt. View was blocked by cars which had skidded in the
snow.
Shelton Schools dismissed early, with the elementary
schools dismissed at 1 p.m. and the High School and
Junior High at 1:30.
Rural schools had been advised by County Supt.
J. W. Goodpaster to dismiss early and most were
to do so.
State and county snow equipment was out clear
the roads. However, at about noon Wednesday all
were reported passable but hazardous and drivers were
urged to stay off them unless it was necessary to be out.
The snow was falling pretty generally all over the
county, according to the' County Engineer's office, and
hills were very bad.
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81st Year No 1 Published in "Christmastown, U,S.A.", Shelton, Washington 10 Cents Per Copy
Thursday, Janllary 5, 1967 Entered second clau matter at the point office at Shelton, Washington qdl4
under act of March 8, 1879. Published at 7 West Cots. 14 Pages -- 2 Sectiolm
Certified Move Here Tops
Local News Stories Of 1966
• The move of Certified Man-
ufacturing CO. to Shelton from
Seattle topped the news in Ma-
son County in 1966.
The firm announced in March
that it would Iike to move to a
site at the airport here if suf-
ficient space were available.
Through the spring and sum-
mer, the company and the Shel-
ton Port Corayaission worked on
plans to get sufficient: space for
the firm, and, came up wdth the
sulution.
The firm started to move into
the large hanger into the area
which had been occupied by
Shelton Mobile Homes, which
closed up its operation.
By the end of the year. the
majority of the firm's operatio'n
was at its new location and phms
were continuing for the Port
District to construct an addition
to the large hanger to provide
the necessary space for Certi-
fied's metal fabrication opera-
tion.
POLITICS WAS ALSO prom-
inent in the news in 1966 which
saw voters prepare to start 1967
with several new faces in the
Mason County Court House.
Two of the impending changes
came in the Primary Election
when Wally Anderson defeated
incumbent Sheriff Sam Clark
for the Democratic nomination
for that office and Mrs. [zxiga
Kimbel defeated Mrs. L a u r a
Wagener, incumbent county
clerk, for that office for the
Republican nomination for that
office. Neither Anderson nor
Mrs. Kimbel had opposition in
the General Election.
The General Election saw Shel-
ton Attorney John Ragan, a Re-
publican, defeat incumbent Dem-
ocrat Byron McChmahan for
the office of Prosecuting Attor-
ney. Harold W. Parker of Bel-
fair defeated Tom Webb, Union,
a long-time PUD3 commission
mvmber, in Webb's bid for re-
election to the Commission.
State Rep. Charles Savage of
Shelton lost for the first time in
a 24th Legislative District con-
test, when, after two recounts,
the local Democrat was defeated
by Mrs Virginia Clocksin of
Port Ludlow, a Republican, by
six votes.
When the votes were tallied
in the general election, Savage
led by 14 votes, but, the contest
fell into the automatic recount
provision of the State election
law.
A recount of the votes switched
the lead to Mrs. Clocksin by 11
votes. The Democrats asked for
a recount of the ballots in Ma-
son County, and, narrowed Mrs.
Clocksin's margin to six, be-
fore conceding the election.
Crime made headlines during
the year also, when, in March
Kim Lane, 18, was convicted of
robbery and assault by a SUl)(-
rior Court Jury and sentenced
Gary HarEm TrMfiC Victim
• A 1 c Gary Earl Harkins, 23,
a former Shelton resident, was
killed in a train-auto collision
at Kingsley Field, Klamath Fails
Ore., Dec. 8, just eight days be-
fore he was to have been dis-
charged from. the service.
Funeral ervices were held
at the Pullman Baptist Church
with Rev. David A. Leach offic-
iating: Burial was in Hartley
Private Cemetery, Pullman, with
members of the Air Force acting
as pall bearers. Services were
directed by Kimball Funeral
Home, Pullman.
HE WAS BORN Feb. 8, 1943,
in Seattle. He attended Shelton
Junior High and Shelton High
School before his enlistment in
the Air Force Dec. 27, 1962.
He served at Lackland Air
Force Base, Texas, about two
years before being transferred
to Kingsley Field. He was a jet
mechanic.
Airman Harkins would have
been discharged from the Air
Force Dec. 16.'
Survivors include his mother,
Mrs. Yvonne Piephoff, Shelton,
his father, Claude Htu-kins, Seat-
tle, and two brothers, Terry [e
and Larry Edward Harkins, both
of Shelton.
GARY HARKINS
Youth Jailed For Theft Of Jacket
• Thomas A. Johnson, Route 3,
Box 565, Shelton, was sentenced
to 15 days in jail on a petit larc-
eny charge when he appeared
in Shelton Police Court Tuesday
night.
tie was found guilty of taking
a jacket from Miller's Depart-
ment Store here.
Tacoma, which the highly-rated Bells won
71-61. (See story and another picture on
Pae Six.)
HIGHCLIMBERS Chief Clayton (left) and
Chris Close had this Bellarmine cager well
covered during Friday night's contest in
to confinement in prison. Two
others, charged with the same
crime, had charges against them
dropped when they were called
to testify at Lane's trial.
In October, three men, Robert
M. Howard, Andre Blakely and
David Barnson, were charged
with :bbery in the lheft of about
$2,800 from Robert E. Richard-
son. The charges against Idow-
ard were subsequently dropped
after a Justice Court hearing
and he filed a darrmge claim
against the city for $200,000.
The war in Viet Nam came a
lithe closer to home when PFC
Richard Roundtree was killed in
action in the war.
These are the stories which
made headlines during the year:
Jan. 13--- County Commsion-
ers discuss proposal for Harstine
Iand Bridge to go on ballot.
Slide takes out section of the
Dayton Road.
Jan. 20-. The legal papers in
the purchase of the site of the
new Mason General Hospital by
Shelton General from Mr. and
Mh-s. John Connolly and Mr. and
Mrs. James Connolly was sign-
ed. The jury list for the annual
Superior Court jury term is
drawn.
Jan. 27 -- The trials of Kim
Lane, James 1V[cAllister and Dan-
iel Corm on charges of robbery
and second degree assault are
set for the start of the jury
' term. The design for the 1906
Forest Festival button, submit-
ted by Raenae Lanning, is select-
ed.
Feb. 3-- The Lane, Corm and
McAllister trials are continued
after a court bearing. Court house
quiet after exchange of words
between Prosecutor Byron Mc-
Clanahan, Judge Charles Wright
and Clerk Laura Wagener
Feb. 10-- Dr. Douglas Larson
resigns from the Shelton School
Board to be succeeded to Dr.
Herbert Hergert. Federal Funds
for the new Mason General Idos-
pital are approved. The Lane,
Conn and McAllister trials are
set for March 8,9,10 and 11.
Feb. 17 -- Brenda Lee Fowler,
3', is found safe in a lmllding
at the old Rayonier Inc. pulp
mill after a five-hour search.
Feb. 24-- A proposal which
would bring the federal inter-
state highway system to near
Shelton is revealed. Mariano
de Miguel of San Carlos of Bara-
loche, Argentine, arrives here as
the Rotary Club's flrs foreign
student.
March 3-- Candidates far Ma-
son County Forest Festival
Queen are selected. Added Jur-
ors are selected for the Lane,
Corm and McAllister trials.
March 10 -- Penny Smith se-
lected as Forest Festival Qtan.
Kim Lane trial starts in Super-
ior Court. Lodga Kimbel mmotu
ces she will seek the oour!t
clerk's office.
March 17-- Louis Grinnell nam-
ed Shelton School SuperiltendenL
iii:: Ktm Lane found guilty .of rob-
: bery and assault, McAllister and
........ Conn given intmunity for testify-
ing at trial.
March 24- Certified IVInufac-
turing Co. of Seattle indicates
an interest in locating its opera-
tion at the Shelton Airport if ar-
rangements can be made. Klm
Lane sentenced to a maximm
of 30 years in prison on robbery
assauh conviction.
March 31-- The Shelton High
School top ten are named.
April 7 The sale of the Shel-
ton-Mason County Journal to
tlenry Gay, Dave Averill and
Bruce Wilson announced. City
gets request for ll0-acre annexa*
tion northeast of Mt. View. '
April. 14- Eddie Rogers, serv-
ing with the Marines in Vlet
Nam, is wounded in action. The
first of the employees Of Certi-
fied Manufacturing Co. lgln
work at the Shelton Airport.
April 21-- Six ears of a
son Timber Co. log train derail,
Irate citizens object to vlty tell,
phone tax increase,
April 28-- Sheltom Part Dl
trict told it can mta
ings for Oerflfled
Co. at airport. Junior
Festival princesses seleutod.
May 5-- Petitions ask relil
of city telephone tax hike.
son Caunty Fair royalty l
PUD announces rate cut,
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