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“as: . ’ 6317 513’, 2.349. F o 33:; A3323, Saturday ‘DIT UNIONS IN SPOTLIGHT lay ______ __ ' a flying start with a aImps: twice that antici- " Simpson Employes Fed— “ Union was formally F'I'iday evening with the ‘ and guidance of W. O. representative of the “101:1 section of the Farm efilsurer—clerk of the Ray- edlt Union, at a meeting emorial Hall. f v the logging workers in Was elected president of 0l‘g‘anization; Clarence 0I‘mer president of Lo- Jt.W.A., was chosen vice- .1-1 and John L. Replinger. accountant, was voted r‘clerk. ‘9 Directors Named ’3 Elected Friday include “"3 Peninsular Railway I. [HRS “‘8’ Adams, Camp 5, Rep- in pull-on Wage and Latham. styles. All 6 s“Dervisory committee liors. Sizes ed Rel: Sykes. Simpson c(mutant; Dick Eddy, Mc- llnber (now known as ‘IEIII No. 2) office mana- 011i Larson, Peninsular shops. ‘3‘“ Committee consists of .00) Novotne, McCleary rroy Nelson, Reed Mill; ~sy HanSen, joint power dy-to—Wcal i0 8 To Be Appointed ngatives 'of the credit , 3 ate!" Will be appomtcd three car— ‘0 and Camp 5 to receive with rein— “3 for loans and make :dations upon them to the mmittee and to receive OOH loans. i applications for mem- '1 the credit union were 1 toe. Sizes \Iew Spring I: at the meeting, some received prior to the an others have come in' "B‘nce. President Savage ofetween 50 and 60 em— -— ‘ the various Simpson s(“tended the organiza- 310:1. as t x ' "‘1 ' 3ults JOb ‘ 'Tir B d’ Whit with 9 031° S : egular Duties duti 3th g B h 2 es of rationing tires 8 Mason County Tire av Oard, after February n e the added task of ra- .- ew cars and sugar, it rained this week, and its ‘ gelled to Mason County I r BGard. _.3-l’ticles which also may 9 l a rationed basis ESET decorated n pitcher, natch. DO mtg? too, the announce- , H 6 local board is com- ES‘HMaxine Briggs, secre— . coarry Carlon. , . ..unty‘s February tire tq‘iota will be nine tires 1., “lies for passenger . a r tlres and 30 tubes for per eduction in both divi— tir Inuary. hi: Purchases were ap- ‘ he geek by the rationing , [win ason County Cream- e two under the pro- ' . ting wholesale raw ; I‘lbutors to receive V I{larhlle Willard Peterson Borden were issued 1’. ' is for the purchase of ob- es tires. 3. lEN ‘t e Cans lift cover ameled V Stores Will llct Tin Drive n \— ngmg Stores will conduct ,_ ‘11 material" drive of 3 “beginning this week, .y_ Thplans made by them y the drive is being con- Were Tin Salvage Insti- aIVa the nation in an ef- ing .39 the vast quantities ‘ havm the discarded tooth- tugng cream and other eg to be found in any be placed conspicu- ph, 9 four Shelton drug ego Drug, Steele’s Cut- ‘phnkey Pharmacy and thearmacy for the collec- , tubes. The public is emSSVe their tubes and (1 mm for collection. The . . . . 1.00% etal will 'be allocated u ils ,} VIEN Monday 9 of production man- " Citizenship longer 1942 .‘ in (it; but one citizenship ‘ asg 42 as announced last , (1&1, “v County will have i , The“! plans announced the Uomas, senior exam- upe - S. Department of 9f Immigration and e In Seattle. hearings will be held Jul! 8, and Novem- Omas informed Miss en, . alette .Mason County . v i 1‘ this week. e.. o 100 ch?) AT HOSPITAL ‘ ittesin. Simpson cmploye, 'to Shelton hospital meclical treatment. 3 mm Es SURGERY We» McCleary Timber Tuesdrwent a surgical op- ~' v ElVat Shelton hospi- 1.0. ii . o er csrPITAL PATIENT i‘ "R owe". 2 son of Mr. K a o i .. 1b.? “We “Mam itted to Shelton e3day for medical v was ‘ dl'flinistration and Harry IWill be added to the. 19. Lake-burg, chair-- Crowell, Route 1, 82 Heads New Simpson Group hicr Declares 4 percent Dividend; 1 year by stockholders of the Shel- A four per cent dividend was iton Rayonier Federal Credit Un—' fion at their annual meeting Mon— lday evening in Odd Fellows Hall, ,along with the election of officers Ito conduct affairs of the organ- ization during 1942. The positions of president and vice—president were reversed by l 'the directors at their meeting gliullrich the vice-presidency to { trade seats held during 1941. Carlon Returned Again i Treasurer-Manager Harry Car- time. At Monday's Stockholders’ ses- sion Carlon was re7elected as a and George Cooper Jr. was voted Norris on the board. On the supervisory committee George Merrick was re-elected and Donovan Palmer and Steve Rupert voted to seats held the past year by J. R. Kieburtz and Gene Burgoyne. One Returned, One Replaced The credit committee had one new member in Earl Johnson, re- member returned in Julius Wes- ton. W. 0. Wright, representative of the Credit Union section of the ‘Farm Credit Administration. and Edward D. Dodd, representative ,of the State League of Federal Credit Unions, both talked briefly at the meeting, stressing the im- portance of purchasing defense bonds. A fine turnout of stockholders responded for the annual session. 1 lPUU) pillars r RAYONIER WHILE 0N DEFENSE .103 Customers of Rayonier Inc., fwllich is now supplying pulp to the goVernment for war uses, will not be deprived of their own sup- plies under the recent 0PM allo- cation order, it was disclosed to- day. All sulphite plants in the nation are required by the order lto furnish pulp to Rayonier and to two other companies meeting the government needs, so that lcustomers of these companies will be served. 1 l l Six plants in the country‘are ifurnishing pulp to the govern- ment. The January total of these er needs, the OPM order requires all sulphite pulp producers to contribute proportionately of their production each month to the com- panies supplying the government. No Other Pulp Supply The mills served by these com- panies could not purchase pulp directly from other producers be— cause market supplies were com- pletely covered by existing ‘con— tracts .and no immediate way could be found to increase pro- der. The government takes but a small percentage of the total pulp production, so, by pooling the out- put, general pulp customers *will be served as well as the govern- ment. Regular Customers Served The original announcement of the order earlier in the month conveyed the impression that Ray- onier and two other companies, the Eastern Corporation in Maine and the Brown company in New Hampshire, would be compelled to reduce materially their supplies to their own customers, while customers of pulp producers not serving the government would be unaffected. The allocation order treats all pulp users alike and keeps mills served by Rayonier and the other two goVernment- serving companies in operation at approximately their present level. The whole plan is one of sharing. All Rayonier plants—at H0- quiam, Shelton and Port Angeles in this state, and at Fernandina, |Florida—are serving the govern- ment. RAYONIER TO PAY ANOTHER DIVIDEND San Francisco, Jan. 23—Rayon- ier Inc., declared a dividend today |of 25 cents a share on common stock. It is payable March 2 to [stockholders of record February l i l l the pulp producing company re- sumed dividends o n common stock in June last year, after pay- ing arrears on preferred stock. declared on earnings of the past‘ Ilon was re-elected at the same, member of the board of directors) to the post vacated by Charles} placing Oscar Wilkie, and an old- supplies is 4,200 tons- To meet} bOth the government and custom" Committee were announced this i duction or meet the deficiency by1 imports, hence the allocation or-l I . l 56L. LVI—NO. 5 ; FLOOD SURVEY l ‘r l . . ‘ Savage, 24th District , Tuesday night, John Bennett tak-g r and prominent figure in ing the presidency and Walter' UNEAVORAEEE Notice that the Skokomish Riv- ler flood control survey report made by the War Department un- ider authority of Congress during 1940 “is unfavorable to improve- ments that might be constructed entirely in the interest of flood control at the present time” has ,been received by The Journal [from Col. R. Parks, division en- Igineer at Portland, Oregon. Gist i of the report follows: “It having come to the notice of the undersigned that you have expressed an interest in the pending investigation of improve- ments to control floods in Sko- komish River Basin, Washington, you are hereby informed that the report thereon, by the War De- partment, authorized by Act of Congress approved August 11, 1939, has been made and is un- favorable to improvements that might be constructed entirely in 'the interest of flood control at lthe present time. The principal grounds upOn which the adverse conclusions are based are that the cost of provid- l ing flood protection works by any method designed solely for that ' use is materially greater than the lvalue of the benefits that can be foreseen at the present time. However, incidental benefits may be expected should the South Fork Reservoir, now under considera- tion be constructed in the inter- est of power.” Appeal from this conclusion may be made to the Board of Engin- eers for Rivers and Harbors, a permanent body sitting at Wash- ington, D. 0., within four weeks of the date of the conclusion, list— I led as of January 24, 1942. 3 Reorganization Committee Dates Slated In County Three more dates for public meetings with the Mason .County School District Reorganization week by Committee Secretary J. E. Martin. February 4 a session will be held at the Oyster Bay school for residents of the Oyster Bay, Forbes and. Callow school districts. February 11 a meeting will be held in the Agate school for resi— dents of that part of the county. February 18 the school will be the meeting site with residents of Potlatch, Lilli- waup and Eldon areas invited to sit in with Hoodsport folks. A large turnout responded for the committee’s session at Grape- view last Friday. Henry Turner, state office representatiye, was unable to attend as scheduled due 1to illness in his family, but Com- mittee Secretary Martin pinchhit for him. Winemen Return Wright, Somers At the annual meeting of the Washington State Wine Council held last Saturday, E. J. Wright of Grapeview was re-elected pres- ident and Charles Somers, also of grapeview, was re-elected a direc- or. The wine industry is wondering about the 'coming sugar ration- lng. The same amount of sugar will be allowed as was used in 1940 which will mean a curtail- ment of output of about 50 per cent. Dr. Forman Promoted To Captaincy by Army Dr. B. B. Forman, Shelton phys- ician who was called into service with the Army at Fort Lewis a year ago, was promoted to the rank of captain with 203rd Hos- pital at Fort Lewis recently. He was one of a group of first lieutenants comprising about one- seventh of the total number hold- ing that rank who were promoted to captaincies. ‘13. This is the fourth quarterly BED—INCOME TAX HELP? SUCCOR FOR SHELTONIANS Deputy Collector Joseph J. ,Gal- Dellucci of Internal Revenue De- partment will be in Shelton on February 2 and 3 at the Shelton Hotel to advise taxpayers on mak- ing out their income tax returns for 1941, according to an an- nouncement received by rThe Journal this week from Collector Clark Squire's office in Tacoma. Gallucci will have a limited sup- ply of forms for distribution while he is in Shelton. payment at the 25-cent rate since Nearly 1507000 more persons. are expected to make federal in— come tax returns during the next 10 weeks than during the filing period a year ago in the district of Washington and Alaska, in the opinion of Collector Squire. This large increase is due pri- marily to heavier defense industry pay rolls throughout the district and to the lower personal ex- emptions established by the 1941 Revenue Act. Returns must be filed by March 15. Every unmarried person having gross income of $750 or more must make a return, even though he may not be taxcd. Likewise, person who is married but not living with husband or wife must file a return if the gross income is at least $750. Husband and wife, if living form if the combined gross income IS $1,500 or more. The collector warns taxpayers that failure to receive a blank does not relieve him from filing a return or paying his tax on time- POI-“ms may be obtained from the office of the collector in Tacoma and from zone offices. The near- est Zone office is in Tacoma- l a . together, must file a re-. Consolidated wit SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Friday, January 30, 1942. i Auto Tax Stamps At P.0.; Must Be On Car By Feb. 1 Federal auto use tax stamps are now available at the Shel- ton postoffice and must be af- fixed to the windshield of all vehicles on or before February 1, Postmaster Miss Jessie Knight points out to Mason County automobile owners. The stamps sell for $2.09 and constitute payment of the tax up to July 1, 1942, at which time a $5 stamp must be bought to cover the year from July 1, 1942, to June 30, 1943. A stamp must be pasted on the windshield of every auto- mobile, truck and motorcycle. The owner is required to notify the collector of internal reve— nue at Tacoma that he has paid the tax on a penny post- card which is provided along with the stamp. School busses owned and op- erated by the districts are not subject to the auto use tax, but school bosses leased to or own- ed by others than the school district must bear the stamp, County School Supt. J. E. Mar- tin said this week. EDUCATION MUST CARRY 0N, SAYS MRS_ WANAMAKER Pointing out that education was the life blood of our national ex- istence and must carry on regard- less of conditions brought about by war emergencies, Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker, State Superinten- l ! the Kiwanis Club Tuesday a re- view of the work and objectives the schools of the state. school of the poorer class is clos- ing over the state and through consolidation, better roads and the full 25 cents per day for attend- ance, better schools as well as improved conditions are not far removed from every child, and in- dustrial as well as economic arts are now furnished in many schools she stated. While there are still around 250 teachers who receive less than $1200 a year, better pay is the rule and higher standards required, and the state through its $700,000 relief fund is doing much to relieve the situation in poorer districts, as well as joining with federal aid in meeting the urgent Hoodsportj needs for schooling in the mush- rooming defense areas. Special ser- vice is now being given to handi- capped children, especially thru circulating the hearing test equip- ment in smaller schools. Mrs. Wanamaker devoted a good part of her talk to the state school funds of $100,000,000 built up from sale of state land and timber, and the 24 million acres still owned which will be conserv- atively handled and operated al- ong sustained yield lines, the reve- nues from which are expected to sustain the school system for the long future. The new board of which the su- perintendent is a member will check on all land sales with re- gard to timber values, condition and need for selling to carry on local industry, and cooperate with the state, federal and timber agencies in the protection as well as extension of reforesting, which is expected to add long life to the schools and to the communi- l ties dependent upon the timber in- dustry, Mrs. Wanamaker was attended lby her assistant, Miss SWedberg and they visited the high school in the afternoon. Eagle Dane—JEN ‘March of Dimes’ Dimes will match again Satur- day for the infantile paralysis fund when the weekly Eagle Dance at Shelton Valley is dedicated to the annual nation-wide “March of Dimes” campaign. Manager Ray Morkert, of the Eagles Dance, reports almost all services for this week's dance ,will be donated, cutting expenses al- most to nothing and leaving nearly 100 per cent .profit in receipts to be turned over to the “March of Dimes” fund. , Good public support of a similar dance sponsored by Kamilche grange and a card party at Hoods- port last Saturday evening start- ed the fund off nicely in Mason County, while dime jars have been placed throughout the county for donors to drop their spare thin ones, reports Sheriff Gene Martin, county chairman of the “March of Dimes” campaign. Wrong Building Was Mentioned In Story In recording the issuance of a building permit to Mervin Getty in last week's edition, The Journal erred in refering to the building in- volved as the Bischel building. Properly, the story should have mentioned the Paulson building as the Bischel building adjoins the Paulson building and is not in anyway involved in the renovation work being done by Mr. Getty to the Paulson structure. I i l l l I l dent of Public Instruction, gave tle_FirSt Natialal bank has had Of. her department find What, is venience of its patrons, by which being accomplished in bettering they give authority to the bank to The day of the small one-room. by the patron each month from i DEFENSE BOND l PROMOTION IS , C. C. COLE JOB A Appointment of ex-mayor C. C. lCole as chairman of the Mason lCounty Defense Savings commit- Staff of the U. S. Treasury De- partment whose purpose is to pro- mote the sale of defense bonds and stamps in every way possible, was made this week by Saul Haas, state administrator. Mr. Cole is now in the midst of appointing his committee aides, who will be chosen from all walks of life and all communities in the county. Want All to Participate The Defense Savings Commit- tee will have as its objective, Chairman Cole explained, promo- tion of the sale of defense bonds and stamps by enrolling every man, woman and child in Mason County in a systematic plan for“ the. regular purchase to the limit of their means of defense bonds and stamps. r One of the major means of achieving this goal will be promo- tion of a “pay roll allotment plan” such as the Simpson Logging com— pany already has put into prac- tice in every industrial plant and business house in the county, Chairman Cole said. Cooperation Promised The Shelton Rayonier plant has already signified its intention of putting such a plan into operation, with its Federal Credit Union as the agency, the county chairman added, and retail businessmen with whom he has had an opportunity to discuss the matter have prom— ised fullcooperation. The Shelton branch of the Seat- a “buy-me-a-bond" plan in opera- tion for some time for the con- deduct a certain amount specified tee, a unit of the Defense Savings ’ Longevity among Mason Coun-‘ ty's equine population runs to a rather suprising volmue, the re- cently completed “draft” of horses and mules requested by the Army reveals, County Agent Clinton Ok- erstrom, who acted as registrar, reports. While he did not keep records on animals other than those in the three to ten year old bracket required for the Army's purpose, Okerstrom did make a mental note of the astonishing number of sen- ile animals mentioned to him by county farmers and ranchers at the same time that they regis- tered their “draft age” animals. Just for instance, Horace Mill— er, Arcadia rancher, has an anti- quated team of horses who saw their prime away back in the days when logging by horse and ox team flourished. In fact these tWo old museum pieces in horse- flesh, now both over 30 years old, were engaged in that very work for many years, but despite the battering they got in the woods their sturdy old frames are still capable of a pretty fair day's work on the ranch. And out in Isabella Valley, Ran- OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER cher Merrill Saeger still gets a good deal of service out of a ven- erable team of horses, one of which dates back 28 years and the other slightly over 30 years. “Quite a number," of horses be— yond the ripe old age of 20 years also were mentioned to Oker- strom in the course of the horse registration, he said. The average age of a horse is approximately 15 years, he commented. As for the draft itself, 104 horses of the three to ten year age span were registered by Ma- son County animal owners. No mules were reported, but R. J. Gallagher, Lost Lake goat rancher, registered a small burro which he said would be suitable for pack- ing duty and which the Army was welcome to use whenever it wishes. Fifty-three individuals owned the 104 animals registered, Oker- strom said, with the aforemention- I WhiCh inCIUded the ed Rancher Merrill Saeger report- ing nine within the age limits (he has a number of others outside the limits), and Gene Stark of Waterwheel registered eight, all saddle horses. Three of Saeger‘s animals were saddle broken, the others all were work type. J. LEE PAULEY DIES OF HEART ATTACK SUNDAY Joseph Lee Pauley, 53, a Shelton resident for 37 years, died sudden- ly Sunday morning at his home at 727 North 4th street, from a heart attack. He had been in poor health for several months. Last rites were conducted from Witsiers Funeral Home Wednes- day afternoon by Rev. J. O. Bov- ee, Baptist pastor, with inter- ment in the family plot in Odd Fellows division of Shelton Mem- their accounts for the purchase of defense bonds. [Frequent Visitor . At Grapeview Is Highly Honored Grapeview, Jan. 26—Earl Rob- inson, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Robinson of Seattle, who has spent many summers at Grape- view and is a relative by mar- riage to Mr. and Mrs. Lock Wren of Grapeview, has had another honor bestowed upon him. Last year he became famous as the ‘coowriter with another east- erner of “Ballad for Americans." A few weeks ago we heard him on “We, the People” and today we hear that he has had dinner at the White House in Washington with President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Quoting from a. letter from Earl’s mother, “Mrs. Rosevelt in- vited him down to Washington to sing at one of her Civilian De- fense parties, and when he arriv- ed in Washington, she insisted on his eating dinner with them. There were fifteen at the table, but they seated Earl right next to the President, at the left, right across the table from Mrs. Roos- evelt and Mr. Churchill. Quite an adventure for a little small town boy from the West.” Applications Taken To Feb. 7 Applications for purchase of tax-title land held by Mason County at the 15th in the series of public auction sales being sponsored by the county commis- sioners will be accepted up to and including February 7, the county board decided at their weekly meeting this week. The board also transferred to road district 3 a. pickup truck it had purchased for use of the county road engineer, since the latter no longer has use for it, and decided to allow the engineer five cents per mile for use of his own car on necessary county business. Receipt of a U. S. Treasury warrant for $1000 in payment of county property involved in the airport purchased by the Navy was acknowledged and remitted to the county treasurer. I Shelton Man’s Mother, ‘ Ex-Resident,.Passes Mrs. Emily Cooper, 72, a for- mer resident of Shelton and moth- er of George Cooper Sr. of Shel- ton, died at the home of a son at Great Falls, Mont, last Thurs- day after a short illness. Services were held in Longview Monday. Mrs. Cooper resided in Shelton for two years around 1929 and 1930 and was well known here. She was the grandmother» of George Jr., Bill and Homer Coo- per Of Shelton, and Mrs. Marion McCutcheon of Port Angeles. as wellabps ten other grandchildren and fight great grandchildren. The other son, Charles A. Coo- per. lives at real; Falls. She was born June , 1870, at London. England. present deputy county auditor; IRuth Sharick, Poulsbo; orial Park. Pall bearers were long friends, Term Webb, Earl Dunlap, O. D. Durand, J. C. Borst, Claude Strobe and John T. Smith. Surviving are his wife, Susie, for many years identified with local county government and at three sons, J. Courtney of Seattle, James A. and Frank D. (Bud), both of Shelton; a daughter, Mar- ie, of Shelton; two sisters, Mrs. Naomi Chase, Shelton, and Mrs. four grandchildren; an uncle, Fred Pauley, of Shelton; and an aunt, Rebe’cca Sullivan, of Centralia. Mr. Pauley was born August 25, 1888, at Bucoda, but moved here with his parents when 16 years old and for several years following was prominent in town athletics here. He founded the present Shel- ton Garage, which he later sold to J. C. Borst, and owned the building in which the business is located, along with Mrs. Chase. He was also the first Chevrolet automobile agent here and for the past several years has been connected with the Mell Chevro- let company as a salesman. Flag Sale Goes Over With ‘Bang Excellent response to the Am- erican Legion Auxiliary’s flag sale is reported by Mrs. Ada Clo- thier, chairman. Approximately 40 of the four~ -by-six-foot American flags have been sold since the outbreak of war December 7, she said last week, mostly to buSiness firms. Many of the sales were as re- placements for old flags which had become faded and tattered with much use. The big flags sell for $5.75, part of which the auxiliary re- tains for its treasury. Mrs. Clothier said that busi- ness houses which do not have flag pole holes in the curbs in front of their premises can have them drilled for $1 and anyone interested in having this work done. is invited to get in touch with her. _______ ___._._.———_~ __—————_____——.__.__—_~.__—.—-—_ 9 GIRL FOR ATTWOODS A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Attwood of Shelton Sunday at Shelton hos- pital. BELFAIR SCHOOL FEDERAL AID SUM RECEIVES O K E H Relief for the severe congestion prevalent in the Belfair school was seen this week with an- nouncement from Washington, D. C., of approval of a $40,000 sum to be taken from the fund set up to assist school districts over— crowded by the influx of defense workers. The $40,000 in federal money will be put with $6,100 in state and $3,900 in school district mon- ey (the latter raised by a special levy passed last fall) to construct a new four-room building adja- cent to the present Belfair school, County School ,Supt. J. E. Martin pointed out. At the present time 272 pupils are jammed into quarters original- ly intended to care for 120 to 130 students, he said, while by next fall it is predicted the Belfair enrollment will go beyond 300. Announcement of approval of the federal allocation reached here in telegrams sent The Jour- nal and Supt. Martin by U. S: Senator Mon C. Wallgren and Congressman Martin F. Smith. Anti-Sabotage Campaign Begun Steps to institute anti-sabotage consciousness among its members were begun by Local 38, I.W.A., Saturday at is regular meeting with the appointment of a com- mittee consisting of Virgil Adams, L. J. Novotne and George Clif- ton to formulate a program of education against sabotage in the logging and sawmill industry of Mason County. The committee’s purpose will be to educate all members of Local 38 of their responsibility in com- bating . possible sabotage in the woods and mills here. Another committee to arrange a schedule among Local 38 mem— bers to man the Aircraft Warn- ing Service observation post in Shelton during the Week of March 1 to 7 was named and consists of Clarence Latham. Charles Sav- age and Ben Peckham. Air Raid Rules Are Available At Journal Reprints of the air raid rules which appeared in The Journal‘s January 15 edition may be obtain- ed for the asking by anyone de- siring to have one at home for immediate reference. The Journal ran off some 2500 reprints of the three column by ten inch box prepared by the Washington State Defense Coun- cil. Drop into‘The Journal office and ask for a copy. Some have also been placed in convenient spots around Shelton so they may reach every home desiring to have a. copy. ! LETTER FROM HAWAII-RELIEVES , WORRY OVER SHELTONIAN’S KIN Anxiety over the safety of his sister and other relatives in Hono- lulu was relieved for Jack Smith, Box 212, Route 3, Shelton, last weekend upon receipt of a. letter from the sister, Iva Ishmael, in which she said all the Shelton man's kin had survived the Pearl Harbor attack safely. Mr. Smith had not heard from any of his relatives in Hawaii for almost two months and since several of them worked in de- fense positions over there he was [considerably concerned over their I safety. , 1 But the letter last weekend ended his worries and said Mrs. Ishmael would be on her way back to the United States by the time the letter arrived. She is coming to Shelton to make her permanent home with her brother. “I will leave anytime after two weeks (the letter was dated Jan- uary 13). It might be the follow- ing day, it may be weeks or a month but I don't think long,” Mrs. Ishmael’s letter said. "Everyone .is well and all of us are really working hard. Murrel (her daughter) is in a print shop again as bookkeeper and steno— grapher and Thelma’s (another daughter) husband is with the telephone company. Bernis (Mur- rel's husband) and Avery (her son) are defense workers. Carrie (Avery's wife) and the children go back very soon. “It is surprising what living in a land where blackouts are the usual thing can do for. one’s in the service, too.” health, only I can’t sleep so‘ much. Anyway, we are all disgustingly returned to their Shelton resi- healthy right now and well we dence after spending five months may be for our family doctor is visiting their son, Harold, in Los Must Be the Climate LUND RETURNS Mason County Horses Of Ancient Vintage AS RED CROSS EUAPTER HEAD Persuaded to change, his deci- sion against running for re-elec- tion because “this is a poor time to be swapping horses in mid- stream,” Myron Lund permitted his name to be nominated from the floor for Mason County Red Cross Chapter chairman and he was subsequently re-elected to the position he has held the past year at the chapter’s annual elec- tion meeting Monday night. Lund has previously told a nominating committee he did not care to run for the office again the committee had then drafted a recommended slate of nominees name of Charles T. Wright, Shelton attor- ney, for chairman. Lund was el- ected by a vote of 24 to 20. The Red Cross chapter here has been converted to a wartime basis during the past year under Lund’s administration and his sup- porters felt that no change in the head office should be made at such a critical time at this. Supporting Officers Other officers elected Monday were Oscar Mell, a past chapter chairman, to the post of first vice-chairman; P a u 1 Marshall, chairman of the 1940 roll call, to the newly created post of second vice-chairman; Miss Beatrice Mill- er was returned as chapter secre— tary; and Elliott B. Spring was re-elected as chapter treasurer. The board of directors includes Mayor William Stevenson, Com- missioner Robert Trenckmann, Welfare Administrator Glen Rate cliff, Legion Commander Mel Dob- son, V.F.W. Commander Art Mac— key, Chamber of Commerce Pres- ident W. A. Witsiers, Walter M. Elliott, Dr. H. L. Kennedy, Ed Faubert, Robert H. Allan, Francis Eacrett, E. A. Hillier, C. H. Krei- enbaum, D. B. Davies, A. B. Gov- ey, Grant C. Angle, Charles Sav- age, Harry Carlon, George Crop- per, Frank Heuston, Doane Bro- die, Vincent Paul, H. E. Loop, Her- bert G. Angle, Miss Zella Deeny, Miss Dorcas Myers, Mrs. Oscar SMell, Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Elliot Spring, Mrs. George Crop- .per, Mrs. Myron Lund, Mrs. Mar- garet Riggin, Mrs. R. ,W. Strike, . Mrs. Joe Tate, Mrs. Bud Williams, Mrs. Harold Carr. Herb Nelson, Frank Bishop, Nolan Mason, Mrs. Fred Short, Mrs. Mary Skerbini, Fred Ferris, Humphrey Nelson, Walter Eckert, Edgar J. Wright, Mrs. Gertrude Howard. Bert Dav- is, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Phillips. Mrs. H. W. Huson, Mrs. Sam Thel- er, Mrs. Labina Williams, and all chapter officers _and committee chairmen. Committee Heads Named Various committee. chairmen named included Mrs. Herbert An- gle, volunteer services; Mrs. Clar- ence Bell, motor corps; Mrs. Her- bert Miller, production; Mrs. John Dotson, canteen; Mrs. Fred Snelgrove, nurses aid; Mrs. George LeCompte, staff assistants; Mrs. B. N. Collier, Junior Red Cross; Walt Spinharney, first aid; John Replinger, water safety: Mrs. E. F'; Martin, home service; Bill Dickie, publicity; Mrs. S. B. An? derson, roll call; Charles Runacres, Lawrence Carlson, John Robinson, finance. Treasurer Spring's annual re- port showed a balance on hand as of December 31, 1941, totalling $1,467.61 as compared with a bal- ance to begin the ‘year of $1,- 350.71. During the year receipts totalled $2,341.18, of which $2,‘ 149.35 came from the roll call, $184.20_from refunds, supplies, etc. and $7.63 interest from savings account. Disbursements totalled $2,224.28 for the following items: adminis- tration and roll call $264.04; vet- erans home service $82.34; civil~ ian relief $144.19: child health $75.50: first aid $255.62; life sav- ing $113.07; war relief produc- tion $233.91; disaster preparedness $17.22; nursing $17.01; volunteer, special service $4.51; remittance to national headquarters on roll call $821.67; refunds, supplies, etc. $184.20; and petty cash funds $11. County Granges Aid Scrap Iron Collection Scrap iron is needed for battle~ ships, tanks, bombs and many oth- er armament materials, and last but by no means least, farm ma- chinery and repairs, reports Conny ty Agent Okerstrom, secretary of the Mason County War Board. Grange members have entered into the program of collecting the scrap iron from their own farms as well as contacting farms in the community. Any farmers who have a sizeable quantity that they do not wish to donate to the Grange should notify either a dealer or call the extension office informing us to that effect so that we may get this scrap iron mov- ing to the blast furnaces. Shelton Couple Home From Los Angeles Trip Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown have Angeles. 77. w 14