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L. LVIII—NO. 4.
Me town for $6,000.
I mmittees
.e Named
v. ‘ouncing
,. ttee appointments, Pete Me- f ,
newly elected president of the i
£0.11 Active Club took overl
. 'ms of office last Wednesday 1
3; ' g- '
in urged club members to
‘ on the fine work of the
Year in connection with the
ational war project, local
. oy patrol and boy scout ac-
Marine Ace
his new slate of
meeting it was voted
iODS: Book' > over the proceeds of the
~lub project towards the pur-
P5 G: Hr J , 'of War Bonds for the or-
ruary 20_ tion’s sinking fund, as an _,
u ards the successful conclu- ‘ »-
~ 0f the Fourth War Loan?
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l
l
l
l
, CHEESE, i
3, Brown
valid thru
‘ valid Jan- .
I ‘ Appointments
n1’s committee appointments
lei treasurer, Everett Four-
‘rgeant at arms, Paul Keev-
Ililrlimentarian, Charles Sav-
-3ervice men’s letters, Rocky
am; interclub chairman and
‘ (it councilor, Everett Fourre.
" welfare and boy scouts,
-« Archer, Rocky Duckham and
' -Eacrett; attendance and
lanuary 29;
my 23 thru
valid Jan-
GOP County
McCleary Promised Perpetual Timber Supply
_, C. H. Kreienbaum, executive vice-president of the Simpson Logging
company, left, told the Mc-
“‘ Booster club last Friday night that McCleary would be a town with
perpetual timber supply,
ii that it was the Simpson program to “make this area the best area in
which a man could live”;
yor Lee Wills of McCleary, receiving the deeds to McCleary’s water and
light system 'from W. H.
" I, extreme right, Montesano, counsel for the Simpson company, which
gave the $40,000 system
ship, John, Ballard, Allie
A and Buck Price; projects,
_Million, Ed' McKinney and
‘Ballard; finance, Joe Han-
“Gene Hanson and Charles
9; education, Charles Sav-
dfld Joe Hansen.
r 1, Dick Wdtson, John Stev-
»and Rocky Duckham; en-
,‘ ment, Bob Million, Everett
5 and Charles Savage;
‘ Francis Eacrett and Buck
historian, Gene Hansen;
“3’. Dick Watson; flowers,
5: Watson.
- Committee Meeting,
The Republican“ County Central I
v, Stamp 30
16 thru
l pounds.
Committee will meet at Hotel
Shelton Saturday, January 29th,
at Dutch luncheon, for the pur-
pose of electing a chairman and
secretary, filling committee va-
cancies and lining up the program
for the campaign ahead. All com-
mitteemen and women are urged
to attend and the meeting is open
to all who are interested in wag—
ing a real campaign in this pres-
idential year. The meeting is call—
ed by Mrs. Fannie Smith, vice
chairman.
—_—-—’
n13¢,
I
3‘ Scouts \Vill
gt Friday Eve
gldeaux pack—Cub Scouts will
' ,Fl‘iday evening at the Bor-
sChool at 7:30 o’clock. The
FINAL ‘ ACCOUNT
Hearing of the Final Account-
ing of the estate of A. E. Elp»
hick will be held at the court
house on February 26.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Samuel E. Thomas, Penn., and
Helen M. Troy, Shelton.
‘Fout film “The Cub in thel
g _: will be shown. All friendsl
«Natives are invited to at-J
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5::
,.
1‘
proved very helpful and friendly,
particularly to the Americans, al—
though they did not feel so kindly
to the English from past exper-
ience, and hated the Japs.
The natives saved the lives of
many flyers and brought them to
safety out of the jungles, some
after weeks of dodging Japs, and
Australian guards formerly em—
ployed on the island plantations
were equipped with radio and ad-
V1sed bases as they learned of
lost airmen through native run-
ners.
The rescue force follows the
raids closely and dodges under the
fighting, although equipped with'
heavy guns and able to defend
itself against strafing in emer-
gency, but this is not their mis-
sion. They saved a great many of
the pilots whose planes were shot.
down, and in one instance picked,
1'
27¢ 2 anlans, Hear of Experiences In
cl 0
with Pac1f1c from Navy Av1ator
V, an interesting three-quar-
25 m. 1' review of air fighting
¢ S W now easing up at the
', ‘7“ airport after 13 months
"’8 various invasion forces
‘ including details of some
VI '«A ‘hnmre dangerous sorties in
. GOVered the early stages
fliihting in the South Pa-
'°t so well supplied with
’3 and fighting planes and
gieved and sent back home
A en’lber.
Wis talk did not deal with
' lcular battles in which
:L- I{iwanis Club Tuesday lis-
“Solomons area by Lt. Joe
' ve rescue and supply flying
B ,y of the islands in that
t . ‘5 took part.
when the American forces
e“ as they were when he
1 ,Rescue Wounded
dron took part they re-
out many wounded men from up a pilot given up for dead, who
Points and ferried them had survived 22 days in a rubber
5ABY hospitals at Guadalcanal raft, during which time he kept.
her nearby points far his sanity by taking down and
D fI‘Om the fighting to be assembling his revolver, greasing
*1 safe. The largest group it with fat from birds which lit
on his raft, his drinking water
supplied by copious rains.“ The
sea was so rough that the plane,
had to ride out the waves all
. Seriously wounded the gnight, and all were seasick but“
add efficient trcatmentlthe rescued pilot and the plane
e, lives of all but three, pilot, but. the former ate severalI
showing being due to steaks cooked by the power plant
Class of doctors at hand. and all the reserve food on the
f his talk was devoted 'plane before his craving was satis-
of the natives, who (Continued on Page Two)
at one time was 180 men,
ta«ges of injury, of which
file hundred were stretcher
t he recalled that out
' X valid February thru Feb-
Photo Courtesy Aberdeen World
l
Twenty years ago a Marine
Lieutenant in Haiti placed a bomb ,
in a flour sack, tied the sack to'
the undercarriage of his plane, and sincerely Mr. Kreienbaum told the not
only' to the ‘
released the bomb at the end of
a long dive by means of a simple
contrivance which opened the
sack. In such elementary form
was born the modern art of dive
bombing, perfected to its dead-
liest technique in, World War II.
The man who conceived this
type of aerial warfare which has
become so terribly familiar to mil-
lions of persons, soldiers and civil-
ians alike, was Lawson H. san-
derson, now a Marine colonel in,
command of a training group at'
the Leatherneck air base at Santa.
Barbara, Calif. To Colonel San—
derson, whose colorful career in
Marine aviation has ranged from
setting world air speed records
to combat in foreign lands, goes
credit for a technique borrowed,
embellished, then demonstrated to
deadly perfection by German Stu-
kas over Rotterdam and War-.
saw early in the last war. 5
It was dissatisfaction with the
results of horizontal bombing, or
the process of merely dumping
his missiles over the side of his
plane, that led the Leatherneck
officer to make the discovery that
revolutionized aerial warfare.
Those were the days when a
bomber merely banked his plane,
looked for his target, grasped the
bomb in his hand, and, leaning
over the side of the plane, tried
to drop it as accurately as_posv
sible.
A far cry, indeed, from the
present day technique of hurtling
the bomb on its destructive mis-
sion after mathematically precise
calculations are made as to posi-
tion and wind drift, through
means of a precision bomb sight.
Aviators of today would shud-
der at the makeshift device devel-
oped by Colonel Sanderson and
his comrades in the Haitian jun-
gle.
“We figured that if we pointed
the ship in the direction of the
target, the bomb would have to.
(Continued on Page Three)
Ration Board
News
PROCESSED FOODS: Book
4, Green stamps G, H, J valid
now thru February ‘20.
MEAT, BUTTER, CHEESE,
FATS: Book 3, Brown stamps
R, S, T, U valid now thru Jan-
uary 29; V valid January 23
thru February 26; W valid
January 30 thru February 26:
ruary 26; Y valid February 18
thru March 20; valid Feb-
ruary 20 thru March 20.
SUGAR: Book 4, stamp 30
valid now thru March/31 for
5 pounds.
SHOES: Book 1, stamp 18
valid indefinitely; Book 3, Air-
plane stamp l valid indefin-
itely.
GASOLINE COUPONS: (Un- i
endorsed coupons NOT valid).
“A” No. 10 valid January 22
thru March 21; “B” and “C”
may be renewed within, but not
before 15 days from date shown.
on cover of book.
TIRE INSPECTION: “A” 'ev-
cry 6 months ( by March 31);
“B” every 4 months (by Feb-
ruary 29); “0" every 3 months
(by February 29); “’1‘” every
6 months or 5,000 miles of driv-
ing.
~ FUEL OIL COUPONS: Per-
iod 2 valid now thru February
7 for 10 gallons per unit. Period
3 valid now thru March 13 for
10 gallons per unit. Maximum
consumption to January 24. of
total yearly rations should not
exceed 46 per cent west of Cas-
cade Mountains; 56 per cent
east of Cascades.
. ,
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, January 27, 1944.
_—————4
Simpson Will J
Spend Money
At McCleary
Plans for the spending of $750,-
,000 in the development of its re-
cently acquired properties at Mc-
Cleary were announced last Fri-
day evening at a dinner meeting
held in that city by the Boosters
Club to mark the first year of
incorporation as a town.
C. H. Kreienbaum, executive !
vice-president of the Simpson Co.
revealed the impending program
in his discussion of the operating
plans of the firm. He also made
clear that the McCleary mill oper-
ation will, be a perpetual one
within the sustained yield plan of
the company, which has definitely 3
aligned its future development in 1
Mason and Grays Harbor couny
ties. 1
Other highlights of the eve-
hing included the formal presen—
tation to McCleary by the Simp-
son Company of the deeds to the
town’s water and light systems,
appraised at $40,000 and sold to
McCleary for $6,000. ’
Mayors Present
Five mayors from Grays Har-
bor and Mason county towns and i
cities were present.
More than 60 persons were in
attendance, including guests from
Portland, Oregon, Olympia, Shel-
ton, Elma, Montesano, Aberdeen
, and Hoquiam. I
In addition to Mr. Kreienbaum,‘
speakers were Horace J. Andrews,
'Portland, regional forester of the
i tive Club Exploits of Shelton ’s 03'
Woody Sanderson Retold
United States forest service; Jack
Taylor, Olympia, state land com-
missioner; W. H. Abel, Monte-
sano, and Mayor Lee Wills of
McCleary. W. L. Sheets, editor
of the McCleary Builder was
tqastmaster.
, McCleary Story
Speaking very simply and very
story of McCleary for the last two ‘
years—the years since the Simp-i
son company purchased the Mc-’
Cleary Timber company. 1
He said that ten years ago the
Simpson company had embarked
on a program of reforestation and
sustained yield, reinvesting its
money in the district that had
produced it to provide for a per-
petual industry, which would in-.
sure the maintenance of the Shel-
w-(Continued on Page Two)
Discharged Men’s
Names Wanted
In order that the public may
properly recognize the service and
sacrifice which has been perform-
ed for their country by local ser-
vice men, who are now discharged
from the armed forces, the Jour-
nal would like to compile a. list,
of these discharged men. .
Some service men may feel that
their discharge for physical reas-
ons is a black mark against them.
This is a mistaken impression for
these men have given service to
their country to the best of their
ability and should receive the
same respect and admiration as
any other man in the service. l
If you know of any boys who
have returned to civilian life, the;
Journal would appreciate the in-
formation so that our list may
be compiled. '
School Kids Have
To Get Up Early
BABY DAUGHTER
Mr. and Mrs. Dean H. Cook of
Allyn are the parents of a babyx
daughter born at the Shelton hos- l
pital on January 22. ' I
Shelton school kids have return—
ed to their regular hours after
a period of several weeks during-
which they were able to sleep a
little later in the morning.
With the lengthening of day-
light hours it is no longer neces-
sary to open later and the class—
es are again getting under way at
9 a. m.
Mason County Scout
6¢ PER
Old Clothes
Drive is Very
Successful
Praising the wonderful co-
operation of the people of Shel-
ton in the Old Clothes Drive
just completed, Mason County
Salvage Chairman W. A. Ma-
goon announced yesterday that
the drive had resulted in the
accumulation of a. large num-
ber of clothes to be used in
international relief work.
Magoon stated that not only
was the quantity of books far
beyond expectations, but the'
quality of clothes turned in was
of a very high grade.
The chairman praised the ef—
forts of the churches, who con-
ducted the drive through their
congregations. '
Potlatch At
Youth Club
This Friday
With Representative Charles
Savage acting as master of cere-
monies the members of Club Hi
have completed plans for an eve-
ning of entertainment at the
Youth Center this Friday begin-
ing at 7:30 p. m.
Under Savage’s direction, as-
sisted by Ernie Grant and Joe
Thorson, club members will spend
the evening in playing group
games. , ,
This is the “Potlatch” celebra-
tionfor which Club Hi members?
have been planning for some time, 5
audit is open to all members of.
Ithe organization
in
group.
The Youth Center will be open.
youth of the
community but a special invita-
tion is extended to parents and
friends to come and enter into the
affair.
Festivities will start promptly
at 7:30 and will continue until
interest begins to lag, or until
the clock says it is an hour be-
fore midnight.
If the affair is successful en—,
ou h to warrant it. the affair
be made a monthly one.
New Silhpgon— ‘
Offices "Opened
Because of the expansion of for-
estry and research requirements,
with an accompanying need for
office space, the Simpson Logging
Co. has remodeled a portion of ’
the second floor of the Lumber-
men’s Mercantile Co.’s No. 1 ware-
house into a modern suite of of-
fices. i
Four offices have been con-
structed containing the following
divisions of the company’s opera-
tions: forestry, Gib Rucker and
Al Petzold; logging engineering,
Walter Snelgrove, Fred Snelgrove
and Clay Berry; forest waste re-
search, Lester Lynch and land
department, Fred Diehl.
Burglar V
Fir Drug Store
Using a crowbar to spring the
door jamb, a burglar entered'the
Fir Drug Store Monday night
through the back door and stole
$35 worth of morphine tablets,
Chief of Police Andy Hanson re-
ported yesterday.
This is the second time within
a year that the store has been
entered, but the front door tran-
som was used the other time.
. 0N TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Parry Jones left
Shelton last week for Fayette,
Idaho, where they will visit rela-
tives.
BABY SON
‘A baby son was born at the
Shelton hospital on January 23 for
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Graves 0f
McCleary.
Trpr Busy
With Many War Activities
Activities of Mason County Boy
ing the past week with several_
outstanding projects occupying
their attention.
Probably their most important
job is in connection with the
Fourth War Loan, during which
they will conduct a house to houSe
canvass urging people to buy more
bonds and to fill out stamp books.
The Scouts will be "
with special identification cards
and arm bandsso that the peo-
ple they contact will know that,
they are accredited salesmen of
the Treasury Departmenta; .
This Boy Scout Bond "Drive.
comes as a special part of the
regular observance of the anni-l
versary of scouting. February 8 to
13. All troops will take part in
this activity.
February 9 is known as spon-
sorship day when all troops will
do a good turn for sponsoring or.
ganizations. The 13th is Scout!
Sunday, when all troops will at-
tend church services in a body.
The Boy Scout Paper Drive
which took place in Shelton last
Week end resulted in the collec-
tion of 12 tons of paper locally
to help with the paper shortage.
Olympia scouts collected 30 tons
of paper and five tons were col-
lected in Tenino. Altogether 100
,iScouts reached a high/pitch dur— tons of waste paper were collected
in the Tumwater Council area.
In line with regular Scouting
activities the monthly Court of
Honor was held last Thursday at
the court house. The folowing
awards were presented:
Tenderfoot: Eugene Palmer,
9; Second Class: Kenneth Sivo,
troop 12, Bob Wells, troop 25 and
Herb Brehmyer, troop 9; Tender-
foot Air Scout: Robert L. Tobey,
troop 26; Public Service; Eugene
Stacey, troop 12, 100 hours, La-
vern McGowan, troop 12, 25 hours,
Bill Valley Jr., troop 25, 25 hours;
Acorn Award: Bob Tobey, troop
25.
Merit Badges: Troop 12, Boy
Collier, personal health, Eugene
Stacey, astronomy, Bill Furlong,
swimming, handicraft, electricity;
Troop 25, Robert L. Tobey, wood-
carving, Bill Valley Jr., persopal
health, Rune Langeland, aeronau-
tics, Dale Palmer, aeronautics and
airplane structure.
The Attendance and Advance-
ment Awards were won by Troop
12 sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
The Cubbing film, “The Cub in
the Home” will be shown at Bor-
deaux school, January 29. The
public is invited.
every age ,‘
,1
COPY; $2.50 PER YEAR
lCity Council
iPass Curfew
: Ordinance
Calling for the full cooperation
of all parents in the city, the
Shelton city council last week
passed the much discussed Cur-
few Ordinance, which will make it
a misdemeanor for any minor un-
I der the age of 18 to loiter on the
‘-streets after 10 p. m.
i As pointed out by Mayor J. L.
Catto the ordinance is one pat-
terned after suggestions made by
the State of Washington and will
need the support and cooperation
of the citizens of this community
to make it enforceable.
' The ordinance also provides that
lit shall be unlawful for any par-
ent or guardian Willfully or negli-
lgently to permitia minor under
Ithe age of 18, who is under his
1 custody, to violate any of the pro-
visions of the ordinance.
, A penalty of $100 fine or 30
}days in jail, or both, has been
i provided for violations of any pro-
[vision of the ordinance.
l Fuel Oil
Supply Low
Fuel oil is much too scarce to
permit giving out extra rations
.just because a. consumer’s supply
runs low. People are expected to
make their rations last. No matter
how many rations the board is-
,sued, the oil supply remains the
5 same.
If a board grants too many addi—
tional rations, there will'not be
enough oil to go around. Wasteful
consumers should not be permit-
‘ted to get oil which should go to
ful with their rations.
There will be, of course, a few
cases where the consumer, despite
‘his utmost efforts to save oil, is
iunable to get by on his present
rations. There hardship cases can
be taken care of only if there
is enough oil available in the area.
Therefore, the board will not al-
low extra rations because of
hardship until the district office
notifies the board that it may
doso.
The district office will send
this notification whenever the Re-
gional Administrator has found
there is enough oil to permit
hardship rations.
SON ARRIVES
A baby son arrived at the Shel-
ton hospital on January 21 for Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Glover.
BABY BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Putvin
are the parents of a baby boy
born at the Shelton hospital on
January 23.
those who have been more care-.
War Loan
Drive
Lagging Except
For Simps
Big St. Bernard
Passes At Age
Of Fourteen
A familiar part of the Shel-
ton scene will be missing now
with the passing of Girl, Col.
H. K. Blake's huge St. Ber-
nard dog, last Thursday morn-
ing.
Her owner estimated Girl’s
age at about 14, which is get-
ting right along in the canine
world, and her intelligence as
keener than that of any dog
he had ever seen.
Girl showed up at the Blake
home about seven years ago
and adopted the family. She was
a familiar sight on local streets
tugging the Colonel along with
her 165 pounds, but in late
months she failed pretty fast.
Travis Sells
Hardware To
Seattlg Man
One of Shelton’s biggest busi-
ness changes in recent months
was consummated this week with
the purchase by Glendon A. Fer-
guson, of Seattle, of the Shelton
Hardware Company from its
former proprietor, Frank Travis.
Mr. Ferguson, who has been in
the banking business in the
Northwest for many years, has
already taken over the store. Tra-
vis will remain for a short while
to help the new proprietor get
broken in.
Ferguson, a trustee of the Seat-
tleMortgage Bankers' Association
and past president of the Seattle
Chapter of the American Insti-
tute of Banking, joined the staff
of the Washington Mutual Sav—
ings Bank 15 years|ago after
lengthy service at the National
Bank of Commerce. For the past
eight years he has concentrated
on work in Washington Mutuals
mortgage department.
Mr. Travis, who has been Very
prominent in civic affairs in the
city during his long stay here,
has not made any definiteplans
for the future, but plans a good ;
,rest for a while.
l Mr. Travis entered business in
Shelton on February 14, 1925, put-
ting his store into what was then
a brand new building. He has
asked the Journal to inform his
lfriends here that he is not going
to leave Shelton, but will con-
tinue to make his home here.
IN SERVICE
Howard Yule was left off the
list of young men inducted into
the armed forces last Week. How-
ard has been an employee of the
local post office for the past
few years.
Construction. of Levett Boat at
Camp 5 is Told in Trade Journal
Shelton received national recog-i
lnition through the pages of the
[“Timberman”, international lum-
: ber journal, this month when that
publication devoted a story to the
building of Earl Levett’s boat at
Camp Five and subsequent trans-
portation to the water on a flat
car. A picture of the boat at the
camp was also printed.
I The “Timberman’s” article was
as follows:
“A strange cargo traveled over
i the logging railroad from a Simp-
son Logging Co. camp in the hills
west of Shelton, Washington. It
was a 41-foot boat -which Earl
W. Levett. gas crane engineer of
Camp 5 at the Simpson operation,
had built in his spare time at
the camp between September,
1941, and September, 1943.
“The only assistance Mr. Levett
received in the construction of
his sea-going vessel was a month’s
work done on it by his father
and some help from his father-in-
law, Joe Tate. The boat was built
in a cradle in a shed opposite the
Levctt home, and when completed
was hauled by tractor to the rail-
road, loaded on a car with the
Clyde gas crane and hauled on the
logging railroad to tidewater at
Shelton, Washington, 35 miles
away. It was finally launched with
a gas and steam crane in Septem-
ber, 1943.
“The-logs from which the lum-
lber for the boat was manufactur-
ed at the Simpson mills, came
from the vicinity of Camp 5,.
where Levett work. The boat,
which is a double ender, commer-
cial troller, will be used for deep
sea fishing and has accomoda-
tions for four persons. The Ves-
scl’s dimensions' ar'e: length, 41
feet, 8 inches: beam, 12 feet;
draft, 5 feet, ‘six inches; tonnage,
net 11, gross '14. The boat is
powered with a 30 horsepower
Palmer gas engine."
Birthday Ball
At Shelton Valley
With the entire proceeds of the
dance to go toward the March
of Dimes, the Shelton Eagles reg-
ular dance at Shelton Valley this
Saturday will be a President’s
birthday celebration as part of
the campaign against infantile
paralysis.
March of Dimes Chairman E.
F. Martin asked all persons wish-
ing to contribute to this fight to
send their donations to him at the,
sheriff’s office in thecourt house.
C
BOY ARRIVES
.Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Brown are
the parents of a baby boy born
at the Shelton hospital on Janu-
ary 23.
i BABY BOY
‘ A baby boy was born at the
Shelton hospital on January 26 for
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Waters.
Due to an error the name of.
on Crews
With Union showing the way to
the rest of the communities of
Mason county, the Fourth War
Loan limped through its second
week far below the quota set. In
fact, Union is so far out in front
the rest of the county looks like
,it is standing still.
; Tile Hood Canal community,
,with Mrs. Helen Andersen head-
! ing the drive, has already exceed—
ed its quota of $15,000 and seems
lheaded for an all—time record for
' bond sales.
With half the drive over, how-
ever, the i‘est of the county is
Way behind schedule. Only $77,-
919.00 of the county’s $575,000 has
been sold so far. Of this total,
$50,000 represents Series E bonds.
This is only one-sixth of the
$300,000 quota for this type bond
assigned to Mason county.
House-to-IIousc
Chairman Walter 'M. Elliott
pointed out that the local com-
mittee had not wanted to conduct
a house-to-house canvass because
of the lack of volunteer help to
carry out the job, but that if
sales of bonds did not pick up
immediately a more intensive
program would have to be insti-
tu'ted.
5‘ In the big contest being staged
jamong the employees of the
lSimpson Logging Co., the group
lfrom Camp Three has edged into
a slight lead, according to latest
i reports.
Of their quota of $9,675, Camp
Three has sold $8,362.50 worth of
bonds. All the other divisions
however are near the top of their
quotas and the final result of the
competition will probably be in
doubt until the last day.
Employees of the company have
to date sold $59,443.75 in extra
War Bonds. This is above the
regular payroll deductions made
by employees and is close to the
$77,850 quota set for the Fourth
lWar Loan drive.
I Mason County 4-H Club mem-
bers have reached the half way
mark in the Liberty ship bond
drive of $15,000, reports County
Agent Okerstrom. Some members
are really out working for those
prizes.
In the state as a whole the
4-H Liberty ship bond drive is
very successful.
Wrecked Car
Found by Police
A 1941 Dodge sedan, stolen dur-
ing a burglary in Bremerton last
Saturday night, was found wreck-
ed and abandoned near Shelton
early Sunday morning.
The car _was found by local
police near the outskirts of town.
A sailor’s hat was found about a
vblock from the place where the
machine was wrecked, and a white
handkerchief was found tied over
one of the headlight lenses.
The car is owned by C. R. Hib-
bard of Bremerton and was taken
from a garage where it was be-
ing repaired.
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License Tags
Coming In
Despite the long delay in is-
suing license stickers and the lack
of a concerted drive to see that
drivers have them, Mason county
motorists have made a good show-
ing in securing 1944 tags.
,Of an estimated total of 3,000
cars in this county, 2,375 have al-
ready secured their 1944 license
' applications. Stickers to be placed
on the Windshields are still miss-
ing. However, all applications
.must be in by February 1.
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NEWS OF OUR
MENWIWOMEN
‘\ BLEECKER BROTHERS
ALL IN SERVICE
Mrs. Leslie Gee of Ccntralia
writes all three of her brothers
are out in the Southwest Pacific
1 some place. Burke Bleeckel', E. M.
3/c, is with the Seabees and sta-
tioned on a coral atoll, while Rob-
ert L. is now a gunner’s mate 3/c.
I on a destroyer escort vessel, while
lJames L. is aboard an aircraft
scarrier. “All are well. buit quite
homesick- and would appreciate
hearing from any of their old
school mates in and around Shel-
ton,” Mrs. Gee writes. Their ad-
dresses made be had at the Jour-
nal office.
BENNIE J. BANNER
NOW A CAPTAIN
Mrs. Thelma Banner and daugh-
ter Linda this week received a let-
ter from her husband, saying he
had been promoted to captain at
the first of the year. Captain Ban-
ner has been in the South Pacific
for 20 months. as an air force
ordnance inspector.
CLYDE HARRIMAN
IN CALIFORNIA
Pvt. Clyde Ha‘rriman, stationed
at Hamilton Field, Calif, spent
a. 15-day furlough 'at the home of
ihis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Harriman of Harstine Island.
THOR JOHNSON
HERE ON LEAVE
Thor Johnson of the Medical
Corps spent his furlough at the
ihomc of his brother and family,
‘Mr. and Mrs. Gunnar Johnson, of
, Harstine Island. He is stationed in
Georgia. '
ANDREW GLASER
HOME ON LEAVE
Andrew Glaser of the Navy
spent his leave recently at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugo Glaser: of Harstine Island.
MARION OPPELT
HERE ON VISIT
Marion Oppelt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Orville Oppelt, was home re-
cently for a. visit after many
months in Alaska with the Red
Cross. He is now in San Francis-
co on business and will . return
soon to Alaska.
GREGORY MAHAFFEY
HOME ON LEAVE
Pfc. Gregory Mahaffey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mahaffey, is
home on a 15-dayfurlough from
the Hobbs Army Air Base, New
Mexico. He is an aerial mechanic.
ELWYN OPPEUI‘
IS COMMENDED
Pfc. Elwyn Oppelt, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Orville Oppelt, was one
of_a group of Military Police com-
mended by Brigadier General John
T. Kennedy for the excellent man-
ner and spirit in which they ren-
dcrcd aid and protection at the
scene of the Atlantic Coast Line
train wreck last month.
RICHARD PEARCE
GRADUATES
Another class of qualified radio
operators had been graduated to-
day by the Communication Dc~
partment of the Armored School
at Fort Knox, Ky.
Graduates included Sgt. Richard
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