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y 1, 194 ,.. .l , . 3 ' a ‘1 you‘ll Hav , .uthds. .N. Tax 59? person LVI—NO. 2 .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 Minuet] on Page Six) 1' Shorter In ' L 0 o I 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. .\—-_—_ ~ .. 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 \‘\‘ 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. _' NPENANNN , the purchaSe of new tires L) .< by 'U 03 *1 ‘30 r- 000 L‘Uw Lum- ‘— 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. i _--111______ ‘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, ‘ b'lSlnGSS transaction of the yearl ‘ was Public Utility District No. 3's ,0 m. U l l l l l i l l l l l l I l i l l i l i l l i I l 1 laolr, during 141. C) 28010 G) l": n. . new (I) “l 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 l . 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 l 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 _. l 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— t (Continued on Page Six) 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.