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.ately owned cars must run
0Yul-hand tires or rims for
.l‘fition, according to infor-
the Mason County tire
g board received Saturday
“Gina. That board must see
may necessarv vehicles have
tire-‘3 and tubes undv‘ thc
A quotas imposed bv the of-
‘-°.f price administration, and
8 the emergency passenger
{101' private. use won’t have
(:‘Pl‘esent tires replaced. ex—
‘th re-capped, re-treaded or
r- hand tires.
»-~’10cal hoard, H. E. Lakeburg l
lsn; Mrs. Maxine Briggs.
“.rY. and Harry Carlon is
['10 function as soon as ma-
:fzfs received. Certificates al-
t sent the rationing board,
,Iapplicants can secure them.
Ell County's Quota for this
i is 10 tires, eight tubes for
«01‘ cars and light trucks.
‘4‘- 21 tubes for busses and
j .7 trucks. Tires may be pur-
'3 fr'om any dealer once the
c‘ite is issued. FiVe dealers
",ton have been chosen to act
tors of tires and will give
7 application blanks for the
“98. Others mav be ap-
.‘- if the need arises. Tires
r-MSDected must be mounted
‘-tlme. and must be turned
J“ and if a new tire is our-
“at the time the purchase.
Following.r is the list of
. 3'? classification of vehicles
‘IV be eauipped with new
,tlres. casings or tubes:
«:C‘W'tificate shall be issued
urthc applicant for the cor-
, at“ certifies that the tire. cas-
‘tUbe for which application
" is to be mounted:
a vehicle which is oper-
, ‘4‘ 8 physician. surgeon, vis-
imll‘se or a veterinarv. and
it is used principally for pro-
Services
A ’90“ an ambulance.
7' to“ a vehicle used exclusive-
Rhiaintain:
at: fighting services
. 1‘...‘ .li. oli,.scr-
“gummy pub c p re
V laws as relate specifical-
the protection of public
.01 and safety
. 9 .age disoosal and other
> Ma'Ptation services
. 3.541 Services.
-' to“ a. vehicle. with a capac-
-.10 or more passengers, op-
”.e’lclusively for transporta-
.P5“Sengers as part of the
j jgh’ices rendered to the
,fiblic by a, regular trans-
inflation system
“fillers and students to and
I l“ school
“If fimOVees to and from any
* fillstrial or mining estab-
~-v.~hlnent or construction pro-
g: except when public
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1,,1tlcal Condition
‘ mMaude Shorter, Shelton
, ’4 i311 principal, underwent a
A Q, 0lleration yesterday at
hospital in Seattle, where
' I'el'noved early this week
1 treatment since. before
. ‘i at Shelton hospital. Her
is reported critical.
~ Side are her mother, Mrs.
:1". 81’10i‘ter, her aunt, Mrs. J.
T and her life-long friend,
'91 Fredson, Shelton sen-
School principal.
A : MANAGE}:
FOR P. U. D. 1
bid
. 1% Johnson. former em-
the West Coast PoWer
, and P.U.D. No. 3 here,
ghdhanagcr of Public Utility
F‘NO. 1 as of January” 1,
,1, 13. Briggs, manager for
“ . three years, terminated
.. 98 with the district.
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.. d For Having
5: tinettion in securing their
._98e plates cost'some 20
, and Mason County car
I an extra $3.50 in the form
3 When they were arrest-
:5 te Patrolman Cliff Aden
,, fined before Justice W.
9031 since the New Year
’ 68 will be stiffer from
. too, Justice Magoon
Aden commented that
(I, 8 to be fewer cars with-
fimcurrent plates this year
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8 BUSINESS TRIP
'- ._ a~tcher, sales manager for
K , 0n Logging company
. 9&1 dilision, left Shelton
. fir a business trip to De-
fiother eastern cities.
, A» FRIEND VISITS
“I McCreary has had as
3., this week L. E. Thomp-
x kwmd neighbor from Red
A. 8;" Mr. Thompson stopped
Elton while making an
, -. trip through the West
’,aft30 back home via Cali-
, her leaving here. He ex~
0mm considerable liking for
West while in Shelton.
die
3 ERATIONING!
.. ARI) CHOSEN.
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, the purchaSe of new tires
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Bonn-eville Line
From Potlatch To
l, Bremerton Voted
Approval of a 115,000—v01t trans-
mission line from Potlatch to
Bremerton was announced today
by the Bonneville Power adminis-
tration. The line will interconnect
with the City of Tacoma line at
Potlatch and will serve Bonne-
ville customers at Bremerton. It.
wwill run northeast from Potlatch
Lt‘ Bremerton.
' Total cost of the line will be
'approximatcly $450,000. lncluded
in the cost is land and land ac-
quisition, surveys and mapping,
design,
and material
costs.
I Preliminary surveys
and construction
have al-
vthe line is being purchased. The
completed line will be about 33
miles.,long.
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‘PASSlNG 0F MRS
l CULLITON TAKES
ACTUAL PIONEER
Death claimed one of Mason
County’s oldest residents with a
real record of pioneering in the
person of Mrs. Elfine M. Culli-
ton, Friday in Tacoma, on the eve
of her 85th birthday, closing 59
years of residence in Deckerville,
clearing of right-of—way:
ready been made and material for,
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SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Friday, January 9, 1942.
PAST YEAN SAW I
NANY BUSlNESS l
CHANGES HEREl
Activity in Shelton business cir-
cles from a standpoint of the
starting of new busintsscs, (hange
in ownership. and chr'ng out of
old 39111bli‘allnlt‘l‘ltS, was consider—l
Changcs in ownership were the
most frequent, with at least 20
deals transacted during the year.
Tc-i new businesses were estab-
lished, seven quit outright with-
out having sales involved, and
nine changed locations. This does
not take into consideration change
in partnership and management
of chain stores.
Among the changes in owner-
ship and management, the largest
acquisition of all local holdings ofl
the West Coast Power company,
a deal involving $275,000 plus an
added $100,000 to the purchase
price for operating capital. {
Many New Figures I
Other changes included the pur-
chase of the L. D. Hack jewelry
and music store by F. E. Beckwith,
of Mac’s Corner by A. J. “Chris”
Curtis from the McElroys, of the
Economy Drug store by Jack
Steele from Hanson G. Berg, of
Pantorium Cleaners by S. W. and
Robert Price from John Milden-
berger. of the F. H. Diehl Men’s
Store by Albert Munro, of Dris-
kel Hardware by Cyril Murphy,
of the Penguin Cafe by Ray Darl-
although she and her husbandling from Mrs. Sadie Johnson, of
have lived at Camp 3 in recent
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years. Death came 1n 21 Tacoma
‘hospital where she had been un-
, der treatment.
Funeral services were held at
Witsiers Funeral home on her an-
niversary. Monday, January 5th,
cOnducted by Rev. J. 0. Bovee,
Baptist pastor, and followed by
interment in Odd Fellow division
of Shelton Memorial Cemetery.
Many old friends from Satsop
Valley, Camp 3 and Shelton were
present to pay last respects.
l Deceased is survived by her
husband, John, three sons. Ed and
C. O. Decker and Fred Ferris, Sn,
Camp 3 and Deckerville; one
daughter. Mrs. Robert Kimpton of
Malone. N.Y., who was a visitor
last spring: fourteen grandchil-
dren. fourteen great grandchil-
dren. and one great great grand-
child.
Elfine Brandeberry was born at
Onondague, Mich., January 5,
1857, and came to Shelton with
her husband, Lansing H. Decker
iand children September 29, 1882,
first locating on a claim in Chap-
man’s Cove, where they lived a
lyear before taking up a claim in
lwhat is known as Decker Settle-
ment, where she ‘was the only
woman for miles around.
First School Teacher
As other settlers came in ar-
ound them with children the val-
ley was opened up and a schonl
followed, of which she was the
first teacher. After the death of
Mr. Decker She was mdrried to
Stephen Ferris, and following his
death married her surviving hus-
‘band, John Culliton. in 1892.
Mrs. Culliton retained a vivid
irecord of her early experiences in
lShelton. where the Shelton family
lheld forth but no other activity
but logging by ox-team was car-
,ried on by the Shelton boys. It
l was not until 1884 that the Satsop
Railroad was started and the first
toWnsite was platted. There were
'no roads and a visit to the Daun-
, bar and Adams families who come
from Michigan and settled in the
Sheltoo Valley, was a. hardship, as
were the. early trips breaking trail
lto the Satsop Valley in the days
lbeforc good roads were known.
She was a real pioneer woman.
;Mother, Sister of Two
| Sheltonians Succumbs
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J. C. Borst, Shelton Garage pro-
prietor, and Mrs. Andy Hansen,
wife of Shelton’s police chief, left
here Tuesday night for Becker,
Minn.. to attend the funeral of Mr.
Borst's sister and Mrs. Hansen's
l mother, Mrs. Avery Cox, who died
Tuesday morning.
Mr. Borst and Mrs. Hansen are
making the trip by train.
the Emil Carlson Shoe Repair
Shop by Gust Olofson. of the Shel-
ton Auto Body by John Bernert
from Dave Johns, of the Richfield
Service Station at First and Rail-
road by Slim Trotter, of the Payne
Christmas Tree holdings by the
J. Hofert company, of the Pas-
time Lunch and Tavern by John
Dotson and Loren Staley from B.
T. McGuire, of the Vanity Beauty
Shop by Mrs. Nellie Spinharney
from Mrs. Catherine Calkins, the
Shelton Bakery by Al Shafer
from the Boudreau brothers, the
Singer Sewing Machine Agency by
D. L. Boone from H. R. Olson,
the Pines Auto Camp by Dick
Valley from Owen Pigmon, Pig-
mon then purchasing the Rich;
field service station at First and
Pine from the Stewarts and add-
ing the Nash automobile agency
to it, the Log Cabin Service Sta-
tion, and the Hilltop Tavern by
Mrs. Gerald Byrne from Al Crowe.
Now Serving Shelton
New businesses “born” during
1941 include the M. H. Needham
Men’s Wear by Maurice Needham,
Forrest Gardens and Gift Shop by
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forrest and Miss
Elizabeth Simpson, the Polka Dot
women’s apparel shop by Mrs.
Lloyd Morgan. the Shelton Radio
Service by Hobert Hedrick, the O.
K. Tire Shop by Joe Robinson,
Shelton Sheet Metal Works by
Martin Hart. a used appliance
store by Walter Nash in conjunc-
tion with Nash Brothers appli-
ance store, a new Richfield serv-
ice station on Hillcrest operated by
E. G. Rauscher, the Louis Weinel
insurance office, and Elliot B.
SprinE’S public accountancy office.
Shelton businesses which chang-
ed locations during the year in-
cluded the bus depot, Huerby Mo-
tors, Bob Ervin Motors, Deluxe
Beauty Salon, Washington Serv-
ice Corporation, Smart Shop, O.K.
Tire Shop, Paul Marshall’s insur-
ance office, and the Fisch Cabi-
net Shop. "
“Took The Count”
Those which tossed in the sponge
during 1941 included Steve’s Ra-
dio, Cota Street Second Hand
store, the Morning Sheltonian, the
Handy Man, the Studebaker car
agency operated by Glenn Smith,
and Ellison garage, the latter by
force of circumstances when un-
able to find’new quarters after
its former location was purchased
by another firm.
Several barber shop deals were
made during 1941. Bill Regal,
Paul Berets and Ernie Lizotte
started new Shops, Ernie Stewart
was forced to close his shop and
moved in with Berets’ new shop
and Bill Smith consolidated his
shop with Rogal's new one.
This,recapitulation may not be
complete but should be nearly so.
oded Car Plates BUILDING CONSTRUC'HON‘FAR
AHEAD OF NATIONAL AVERAGE
New home and building con-
struction and repairs and remod-
eling of existing structures in
Shelton came mighty nigh to re-
cord figures during 1941, if build-
ing permits issued by City Audi-
! tor Gordon Hendry is a true meas-
urement.
From 59 permits issued during
the year a total of $115,670 in
valuation was done in consfruc-
tion work within the city's limits
last year, Hendry’s records show.
[This figure does not include two
imajor construction jobs which
were completed during the year
and for which building permits
have never been taken out the
$100,000 new Shelton school gym-
-nasium and the $25,000 addition
to the pulp mill experimental la-
boratory. Both jobs were started
late in 1940 but completed in
1941. Top year for construction
here Was in 1938 when permits
showed a valuation of $141,855.
The figure does include the $25,-
000 new Safeway store building.
construction of which has not yet
actually been started but for
which the building permit was
issued in mid-December.
Of the 59 permits issued last
year, 27 were for new homes, 25
for repairs or additions to exist-
ing homes and buildings, five for
garages and sheds, and two for
new buildings.
Major construction jobs of the
year among the new homes (some
not yet being completed) are
those of Harold Ahlskog, E. S.
Keyser, A. D. Killmer, P. E. Mc-
Collum, Joe Simpson, Ben Briggs,I
Hal Ohlstead and Roy Kimbel, all
representing valuations in excess
of $5,000.
Biggest remodeling and addition:
projects of the year were comple-I
tion of the new hospital addition,
the L. M. furniture warehouse
and display room, and Cliff Wiv-l
ell’s Texaco Service Station. ’
An F.H.A. inspector who visit-
ed Shelton last month told Hen-
dry, after checking the building
permit records, that Shelton was
far ahead of the national average
for home construction.
‘ cific.”
1941 Weather Set Four
New Recordsjpr Bureau
Month 1932 1933 1934 1935
Jan. ...... .. 10.05 12.49 15.18 20.34
Feb. ...... .. 13.90 6.89 2.70 5.21
March . 12.02 8.59 6.83 9.56
April .... .. 5.65 0.46 1.54 2.23
ay ...... .. 1.37 3.57 3.68 0.77
June .... .. 0.21 1.78 0.31 1.07
July ...... .. 2.38 1.22 1.55 0.90
Aug. .... .. 1.40 0.40 0.94 0.61
Sept. .... .. 0.54 6.31 2.74 3.58
Oct. ...... .. 4.53 7.65 9.32 2.64
Nov. ...... .. 15.68 5.24 13.99 4.43
Dec . . _ . _ . . .. 12.64 31.56 13.79 8.09
Totals. 80.37 86.16 72.05 59.41 57.04 82.10 48.66 56.54 61.34 52.07 "
Four weather records were post-
ed behind the history of 1941 on
Rayonier weather bureau books,
although .one of. them is merely
:. “memory” record.
As a whole, 1941 was the second
driest in the ten-year history of
the Rayonier weather bureau with
52.07 inches of rain, but during
the 12 periods three new monthly
records were set with the driest
March and the wettest May and
August occuring during the year
just past. Normal annual fall at
Shelton is 62.25 inches.
The “memory” record is that
104 degree temperature reading
taken on July 15. Immediate fig-
ures on temperature records have
not been compiled by the Rayon-
ier weather bureau, but no one
has come forward to dispute that
104 degree figure as tops in these
parts.
Near records were established
during 1941 when February and
July rain totals were second low-
est for those months on the hu-
reau's books and September's was
the second wettest. Other climato-
ligical statistics on 1941 ShOW the
coldest temperature of the entire
year was recorded on the very
last day, when the mercury drop—
ped to 16 degrees, that 159 days
of the year, had at least .01 inches
of rain, only 81 days were re—
corded as clear, 104 as partly
cloudy, and 180 as cloudy. Great-
est 24-hour rainfall of 1941 oc-
curred on January 16-17 when a
“cloud burst" of 3.91 inches flood-
ed down.
Weather statistics will be some-
what belated during 1942 for the
Rayonier bureau has been instruct-
ed not' to release any inform‘atibn
less than a week old until further
notice. ,
GRAPEVIEW TEN INCHES
SHY OF RAIN AVERAGE
Grapeview, Jan. 5——With 45.38
inches of rain in 1941, this grape
growing community was 10.62
inches shy of hitting “normal” for
12 months, reports Weather Ob-
server Walt Eekert.
Annual normal rain here is 56
inches, his records show. ,
December was the wettest
month of 1941 with.9.82 inches of
precipitation. The monthly record:
Jan. ........ .. 7.85I‘Jul‘y 0.13
Feb. ........ .. 2.90! Augm . 2.79
March .... .. 1.80 Sept. . 3.19
April ...... .. 1.65 Oct. . 2.78
May' ........ .. 4.06 Nov. . . 7.09
June ........ .. 1.22| Dec. 1.0.. 9.82
YEAR CLOSED OUT WITH
DAMAGING WINDSTORM .
Accompanying the brittle sub-
freezing spell which closedthe old
year and greeted 1942 w ‘ a
strong gale December 31 win h
caused considerable damage in dif-
ferent parts of Mason County.
Several Rayonier log rafts broke
loose from the boom grounds
across Shelton Bay and were
blown across to the Shelton side,
one blocking the steamer Skookum
Chief at the Rayonier dock for
several hours. Several outside
tugs were called here to salvage
the errant rafts,
In the Hood Canal district the
high wind blew down many trees
between Union and Belfair, sev-
eral falling across power lines and
interrupting electricity service
over P.U.D. 1 lines for some time.
Two More Shelton
Boys Write Home
Two more Mason County boys
who were in the Pacific Ocean
war zone have reported back safe
in letters home this past week.
Byron Lord, son of ,Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Lord of Skookum Bay,
wrote his mother on December 14
that he had come through the Jap-
anese “snehk punch” safely. Out-
side of the date his letter bore
no other identification than “US.
Navy,” Mrs. Lord said. ’
Miss Teresa Lee, Route 3 receiv-
ed cards from two brothers in the
Navy, one from Dick reporting
he had arrived back in San Fran-
cisco safely after serving on a
Navy transport, while the other
card from Tim reported he was
heading for the war zone, but
gave no other details.
Mrs. Anton Goetsch of Olympia
postcards The Journal today to re-
port her son, Alfred, who has
many friends and relatives here,
writes of his safety with the U.
S. Navy “somewhere in the Pa-
He was at Pearl Harbor
December 7.
ENROLLS IN U. W.
Donald Rose, son of Mr. and
Mrs. B L. Rose and a. recent ar-
rival from Kodiak, Alaska, where
he has worked for several months,
enrolled at the University of
Washington last Saturday and be-
gan his studies as a freshman
at the start of the winter quar-
ter Monday.
1936 I937 1938 1939 l 940 194]
14.35 3.96 6.38 10.09 5.18 9.48
9.60 11.35 5.03 8.57 13.24 3.00
5.12 4.48 8.10 4.21 8.20 2.30
1.19 11.96 5.21 0.69 4.65 1.40
4.03 1.91 1.23 3.34 2.64 4.29
3.42 5.97 0.02 1.50 0.08 1.70
0.81 0.02 0.25 0.95 0.94 0.19
0.81 2.05 0.45 0.98 0.55 3.17
2.19 1.38 1.22 0.32 2.13 4.90
0.96 5.57 6.24 3.64 9.54 2.76
1.03 18.00 5.74 5.19 6.79 7.04 '
13.13 15.17 8.79 17.07 7.40 11.85 ,
six were brush and grass confla-
grations. Five alarms outside the
‘Cota. street where an overheat-
ed stovepipe endangered the resi-
(EEYEEIRE LOSS
REDUCED DESPlTE
MANY MORE FIRES
Although Shelton‘s volunteer
fire department answered many
more alarms during 1941, total
damage and per capita loss for
the year dropped slightly below
1940 figures, Fire Chief Dean Car—
men's annual recapitulation re-
veals.
Fifty-eight alarms were sound-
ed in 1941, 28 by siren, 27 by
phone,»two were false and one a
special alarm. but total damage
on the 18 fires in which loss
occurred was" only $5,359.26 for a
percapita loss of $1.44, the fire
chief's report states. Correspond—
ing figures for the. prior year were
$6,981.42 and $1.88 in 37 alarms
and 14 fires resulting in property
damage.
Most serious fires of 1941 were
the Ronald Starr and 0. K. Stev-
ens residences, each resulting in
damage set at slightly under
oral and four Written notices dur-
ing the year to correct certain
fire hazards, the report mention-
ed. v
Segregating the damage by fire,
loss on buildings was set at $3.-
‘821.44 and on contents of build-
ings damaged by fire 'at $1,537.82.
the report added. Of the total
mother of fires, four were in au-'
"tos, 18 were chimney blazes, and
$2,000.
The fire department issued eight
city limits were anSWered. An av-
erage of seven firemen answered
three
siren alarms, answered
phone alarms.
NAT HOLMAN HOME
DAMAGED BY FIRE
Considerable damage was in-
flicted upon the roof of the Nat
Holman residence, near the South-
side school, by fire late last Wed-
nesday afternoon.
The city fire department an-
swered the alarm and saved the
home from destruction, along
with neighbors in the vicinity.
Damage was estimated at $575.
with neighbors in the vicinity.
First alarm of 1942 called city
firemen out Tuesday evening to
the E. P. Fourre home at 1306
(fence. No damage was done, how-
ever.
State Files Suit
2 Against County
.,On Insane Costs
Suit was instigated against Ma-
son County by the State of Wash—
ington to recover $4,291.40 in un-
paid bills for the care of non-
violently insane committed to state
institutions from this county be-
tween October 1, 1937 and June
30, 1939. in a superior court com-
plaint filed With County Clerk
Clare Engelsen Saturday.
The complaint took no cogni-
zance of a compromise agreement
proposed by the state and accept-
ed by the county commissioners in
September which left the county a
balance of $1,222 to pay to the
state and saving the county some
$8.000.
The complaint papers evidently A
were drawn, up many months ago
for they bore a date of April 17,
1940, and the signature of then
Attorney General G. W. Hamilton,
since deceased. ,The papers charge
Mason County owing the state $3,-
881.21 for insane. persons com-
mitted to Western State Hospital
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gain
(Steilacoom) and $410.19 for in-'
sane persons committed to North-
ern State Hospital (Sedro Wool-
‘ley) during the period mentioned
above.
Mason County has no funds on
hand to pay even the compromise
bill, Chairman Trenckmann of the
board of commissioners said Mon-
day, so will‘ have to issue emer-
gency warrants at such time ac-
tipn is taken on the matter.
Department Heads
Slate Legion Visit
in December after the declaration
¥SCTVCO if he chooses, another civ-
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
llllEE RECORDS
SET EAST YEAR
AT P. 0. HERE
That sought-after $30,000 bar-
rier was; hurdled in 1941 by Shel-
ton post office receipts with room
to spare. Postmaster Miss Jessie
Knight's quarterly report, releas;
ed Tuesday, shows a total of $31,-
023.17 for 194.1 receipts, an in—
crease of $2,380.11 over 1940,
which was a record total itself.
Every quarter during 1941 con-
tributed to the new record with
the third quarter (July—August-
Scptember) showing the heaviest
at $886.52 over the same
quarter of 1940.
T h e October-November~Decem-
ber quarter showed a neat $553.62
gain. all of which was made dur-
ing December, Miss Knight's re-
cords reveal, the Second best
showing among the four quarters.
The past quarter totalled $9,825.40,
largest quarterly figure ever
reached at Shelton. December al-
one contributed $5243.82 of the
record figure, nearly as much as
most quarters other than the
Christmas quarter, and probably
a. new December record, although
Miss Knight has not confirmed
that assumption.
Another item which must be
considered in post office affairs
hereafter is defense bonds sales.
During the. final quarter of 1941
sales of defense bonds totalled
$13,106.25, of which $9,862.50 were
of war. Defense stamps also were
claimed at a tremendous pace
during December, Miss Knight
added.
Some statistics showing the
growth of Shelton postoffice re-
ceipts in the past few years:
1941 .................. ..$31,023.17
.. 28,643.06
.. 27,350.49
.. 25,573.85
. .. 25.893.71
1936 .................. .. 23,043.38
A comparison by quarters dur-
ing the past four years also is re-
vealing and interesting:
lst Quarter 2 nd Quarter
1941.... $7,275.49] 1941.... $7,070.02
1940.... 6,995.40! 1940.... 6,470.24
1939M 6,357.84} 1939.... 6,067.12
1938.... 6,613.05] 1938.... 5,159.20
1937.... 6,216.07]1937.._.
3rd Quarter
1941,...
1940....
1939....
1938....
1937....
5,867.67
4th Quarter
$6,852.16l 1941.... $9,825.20
5.965.64l 1940.... 9,271.78
5,985.02l 1939.... 8,540.51
5.376.00l 1938.... 8,195.79
6,217.89! 1937.... 7,878.75
BUD QUINN ENLISTS
IN NAVAL, RESERVE
Routine at Shelton postoffice
was upset this week a bit after
Bud Quinn. regular city mail car-
rier. for the Hillcrest route, en-
listed in the Naval Reserve and
reported for duty assignment in
the Northwest inshore patrol.
No permanent action on picking
his successor will be made for 30
days. as per civil Service regula-
tions. Postmaster Miss Jessie
Knight said. Quinn can return to
the post upon his discharge from
i1 service regulation. In the mean-
time, Howard Yule is carrying the
‘Hillcrest route.
POSTOFFICE BLACKOUT
EQUIPMENT INSTALLED
Complete blackout of the Shel-
tonrpost office building is now
possible following installation of
movable plywood panels over all
windows in the structure.
The panels have been installed
so they will slide up and down,
allowing half of each window to
be uncovered during daylight.
HERE FOR HOLIDAYS
Mr. and Mrs. Grisdal’c Crosby
and children returned to Twisp,
Okanogan, County, where Mr.
Crosby is school principal, after
enjoying the Christmas holidays
with Mr. Crosby‘s mother here in
Shelton.
of five to six million feet monthly,
both at McCleary, where 400 men
SIMPSON FIRM ACQlllRES
All. MCCLEARY PROPERTY
IN BIG INDUSTRIAL
At the close of the old year
the Simpson Logging Company», of
Shelton concluded the largest deal
in its history, or that of Mason
County, and one ~of the largest
in the state in recent years, with
the purchase of all the interests
of the Henry McCleary Timber
Company in Shelton and McCleary.
The deal was concluded in the
dying hours of 1941 taking effect
with the first day of 1942 and the
plants down for the holidays have
been quiet for this week while a
general inventory is being tak~
en, but are again in operation as
before without material change
until the new owners can absorb
the operation into their own or-
ganization and methods. No esti—
mate of the gross values involved
were given out.
The deal was concluded ‘be-
tween Henry McCleary, 81-year-
old active president, and his
grandson, H. G. McCleary, repre-
senting the McCleary interests,
and C. H. Kreienbaum, executive
vice president, and Will G. Reed,
secretary, representing the Simp-
son Logging Company, in the of~
fice of W. H. Abel, Montesano
attorney, who acted for both in-
terests. Both concerns are pion-
eers of this district, and their
consolidation now makes the
Simpson Logging Company the
largest log and lumber concern in
the Southwest, if not the state,
with the largest timber holdings
second only to those of the Wey-
erhaeusers.
Large Mills Involved
The sale includes the large Mc-
Cleary sawmill in Shelton, oper-
ating two sides, two shifts, and
cutting 200,000 feet of lumber in
daily shift, with 130 men employ-
ed: the door factory with a ca-
pacity of 4,000 doors a month, and
the veneer plant, with a capacity
are employed, as Well as the en-
tire town of McCleary, built and
owned by the McCleary’S around
their industry, which dates back
to 1889 when Henry McCleary lo-
cated there and engaged in log-
ging and milling.
The old sawmill was closed
when the big mill was built in
Shelton in 1925, and the logging
railroad pulled up, the log supply
for the McCleary plants being
drawn from the mill ‘here. [There
was no timber involved in the
deal, the last of the McCleary
holdings around Summit Lake be-
ing logged into the Sound and
towed to the mill here last year.
Although Henry McCleary dates
back to 1889 in small log and mill
operation it was not until 1905
that the town of McCleary began
to build around the sawmill to
house the workmen and until this
time nearly all the homes and
business buildings are owned by
the company, and will transfer to
the new owners. From making
lumber the first expansion was in
' the form of a door plant, which
was at one time considered the
largest in the world; and in later
years Henry McCleary was am-
ong the first to develop into the
making of veneer on a large
scale. In happier years the Mc-
Cleary products were known all
over the world, and they still find
wide markets throughout the
country.
Razed Mill Rebuilt Here
Fire has played its part in the
progress of the McCleary opera-
tions during the years, first in
the burning of the door plant
from which arose a new and bet-
ter plant, then the loss of a saw-
mill in Olympia. Harbor, which
proved Shelton’s gain as it re-
sulted in the building of the big
McCleary mill plant in Shelton|
beside that of the Simpson Com-
pany with which it now becomes
a. part. The opening of the milling
industry in Shelton brought with
it a branch of the Northern Paci-
fic Railroad, the last feeder line
to be built by that railroad, which
has proved to be the most profit-
able on the line, as well as mak-
ing it possible to expand local in-
dustry from sawmilling to veneer
and pulp, and prepare for any
future. expansion.
While the Simpson Logging
Company was organized 47 years
ago, in 1895, when the interests of
S01. G. Simpson, its founder, join—
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3 NOMINATIONS FOR 1941’s
MOST SLAP-HAPPY NEWS YARN
Dizzy news has made weekly
headlines throughout the nation
in 1941 ‘and Shelton has contri-
buted Several" “nuggets” to the
collection, so no resume of the
year’s happenings would be com-
plete without a recap of screwy
doings.
You’ll have to choose among
three yarns the top wacky event
of the year as we couldn’t make
up our .own minds when we con-
sidered: " "
A.-Lyle ‘Red’ Bassett captured
three times in a single day as a
suspected “spy” by defending
.“blue Army” while he was doing
Plans werelaid Tuesday night
by Fred B. Wivell American Le-
gion post for the visit the de-
partment commander and adju-
l
tant will pay to this post on J an-l
uary 20. Commander Mel Dobson
reported today. ,
The post also agreed to arrange
watches for the entire
January 18-24 on the ,
Warning Service observation post
here and Phil Murphy
as chairman of that activity.
week of
Aircraft
was named
his monthly P.U.D. 3 meter read-
ing in -Kamilche district during
Army maneuvers last August:
B.-——Emil Lauber run down in an
elk stampede but picking his
bruised and bleeding self out of
the ferns to shoot one of the elk
which had run over him;
C.——Army scouting plane crew
machine gunning Oyster Bay an-
glers to “break the monotony” of
their patrol.
Trailing this trio of dopey
yarns come such other queer
quirks as the “sea serpent” Omer
Dion and Harry McConkey report-
ed seeing on Hammersley Inlet,
the Shelton Valley bear which
shook apples out of George Cooke’s
trees for the cows to munch, the
Agate bear which ran into Ed
Nicholson’s car, the unknown air-
plane which flew so low over
Skookum Bay it snapped a 600-
foot span of P.U.D. 3 power lines,
the wren family which Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Leman raised after
the mother wren was killed fly-
ing into their kitchen window
pane, the albino buck deer killed
by Clarence Robinson, and the big
group of Tacoma fishermen who
took to heart Game Protector
Hughey‘s quip about “always
moaning but never doing" and
twice helped him make large
plantings of fish in hard to reach
Dry Bed Lakes back of Matlock.
If it were not for the near-
tragedy involved, four other yarns
involving narrow escapes logically
should fall into this freak facts
classification. These would include
the truck-train collision at Kam-
ilche in which Raymond Shaw
suffered a broken hip as the only
casualty, the tree which fell
across the William Hoel home at
Dewatto yet spared the four mem-
bers of the. family, the airplane
crash in which Warren Ellison
and Delbert Daniels each suffered
broken bones but no serious in-
juries, and Jimmy Batstone‘s
miraculous escape from his car’s
complete demolishment in a plunge
over the Bayshore road bank.
JEAL
NLRB Back Pay
Checks GO Into
Defense Bonds
Benefactors under a N.L.R.B.
decision, W. S. Rawding and
E. A. Hawkins, employes of the
McCleary Timber plant in Shel-
ton around whom charges of
discrimination and unfair labor
practice revolved, r e c e i v e d
checks respectively for $1,000.32
and $1,302.03 Tuesday covering
back pay they were entitled to
under provisions of the Wagner
Labor Act.
The two men immediately con-
verted their money into defense
bonds. The checks were made
out in Montcsano by GhOSt Mc-
Cleary, official of the McCleary
firm, in the offices of \V. H.
Abel, company attorney, and
was one of the last acts in
which its cmployes were involv-
ed in which the, company will
be concerned frillov. ing sale of
its entire holdings to the Simp-
son Logging company.
Hearings on the Rawding-
Hawkins case. were conducted
by an N.I...R.B. examiner here
last spring and the final deci-
sion of the board was handed
down just last month.
KANECNEEAEY
WINS EASE NOD
I As YEAN’S FIRST
1 Introducing little Miss Kathryn
Laney, ,6 pounds-101,4 ounces of
blessed event borrt to Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett Laney of Kamilche, who
starts off life with a bundle of
prizes awarded her by Shelton
merchants for the' first baby born
in Mason Countyiduring 1942.
Little Kathryn 'arrived at Shel-
ton hospital at 3:27 p. m. Janu-
ary 4, winning the “stork derby”
by a matter of some 21/2 hours
from the baby daughter born to
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Larson of
Hoodsport, at 5:54 p. the same
day.
Little Miss Laney is the first
baby born to her parents, who
recently arrived here from Whea-
ton, Missouri. Her father is em-
ployed at Camp 3. She was nam-
ed after her mother's closest
friend. 'g
' Kathryn‘s arriVal on the scene
earned her this list of prizes put
up by Shelton merchants for the
first baby born in 1942:
A food warmerjfrOm McConkey
Pharmacy; a. picture from Olsen’s
.Furniture Co.; an automatic bot-
tle warmer from the Lumbermen‘s
Mercantile Co.; a chenille bed
spread from J. C. Penney Co.;
a surprise gift .(we don’t know
what it ispourselves) from Wil—
cox 10c Store; awmonth’s supply
of milk from the Mason County
Creamery; a large tinted photo-
graph of the new arrival by An-
drew's Photo Studio: a baby toilet
set from Steele's Cut-Rate Drug
and a month’s supply of milk from
4-E Dairy.
Other new arrivals of 1942 who
just missed the awards, in addi-
tion to tiny Miss Larson, include
a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Os-
wald Thomas of 'Hoodsport Mon-
day, a daughter born to Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Wyers of Hoodsport
Tuesday, and a son born to Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Fletcher of Route
-, Shelton, last night. all arriv—
ing on the scene; at Shelton hos—
pital.
Coungil Spends— .
$845 To Speed Up ,
Delive_ry Of Pipe
Rather than chanCe further de-
lay in delivery of pipe still due
on the city water system improve-
ment project, city councilmen
okehed an additional $845.84 ship—
ping bill Thursday on the $50,000
project to have the pipe sent here
by rail from Birmingham, Alaba-
lma, instead of by boat through
[Panama 'Canal and through the
submarine danger-zone of the Pa-
cific Coast.
Action was taken after receiv-
ing a letter from the Hugh G.
Purcell Company, holders of the
pipe contract on the project,
pointing out the scarcity of se-
lcuring boat shipment and the
present dangers of Sea shipments
on the Pacific Coast.
Due to having no available
funds, action was deferred on a
lease between the city and Shel-
ton hospital which would beautify
the vacant half of the block oc—
cupied by the hospital building.
Pay of the city street sweeper
was increased to $85 per month
and a motion was passed to ex-
tend the parking markers farth-
er into the streets so drivers will
be able to park their cars more
accurately.
Mike Rector Honored
At College Conclave
Mike Rector, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Rector of Shelton, was
signally honored at a convention
of the Newman Club, college in-
dependcnt organization, held in
Pullman during the. Christmas va-
cation by his election to the of-
fice of vice-chairman of the Prov—
ince, covering Washington, Oregon,
Idaho. Montana and British Co-
lumbia.
Mike graduated from Irene S.
Reed high school;in 1939 where he
was track letterman for two
years.