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January 30, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Simpson planting Simpson Timber Company has a total of 32 people planting trees on its harvested and understocked lands with two I O-man crews working within the Shelton Working Circle. One crew is located in the Canyon River area in Grays Harbor County and the other is planting near Summit Lake in Thurston County. A 12-man contract planting crew is reforesting company-owned land near Dryad in Lewis County. Direct seeding by Helicopter on 1,392 acres was completed in December using 932 pounds of Douglas fir seed. The direct seeding was done mostly on Simpson land in Mason County and some in Grays Harbor County. More than 800,000 Douglas fir seedlings will be planted by Simpson this season. These seedlings will be composed of some raised for two years in a nursery bed and other two-year seedlings which have spent an extra year in a transplant bed. One hundred fifty thousand are "containerized' seedlings which have been grown in plastic tubes then removed for planting purposes. All the seed used in the nursery stock and seeding comes from certified seed gathered from the Shelton Working Circle. The seasonal reforestation program should be completed by the middle of March, weather permitting, with close to 3,000 acres restocked. The Shelton Sustained Yield Unit will have reforested nearly 70,000 acres since its inception in 1947. "Each year we have improved our reforesting procedures," said Bill Kamin, reforestation forester, "and the seeding and planting reaffirms our policy of renewing the resources for our timber products." Man proposes Man proposes, but God disposes. Thomas A Kempis THE WORLD'S MOST LAURIE VANDER WEGEN, a Rotary exchange student in Japan, is shown here in her Japanese kimono. C • • • • rlsls C The Crisis Clinic of Thurston and Mason counties is feeling the effects of unemployment and inflation both directly and indirectly. The indirect effect is felt in the number of people calling the Crisis Clinic with problems related to money or employment. For some people economic problems seem to be foremost in their lives, while others have personal problems which are compounded by inflation and joblessness. During the month of February the Crisis Clinic will conduct a membership drive. Through this drive the clinic economy volunteer or write Crisis Clinic, P.O. Box 2463, Olympia, Washington 98507. Annual membership dues are $10 for individuals and $20 for families. The Crisis Clinic is a non-profit, charitable corporation (IRS Section 501 C 3)making donations and memberships tax-deductible. The Crisis Clinic is Thurston and Mason counties' 24-hour crisis and information/referral h otline. The service is largely volunteer, with two paid staff people to direct and coordinate the operation. There is no charge to the public for using the Crisis hopes to involve community Clinic, and many times people r~'~eople, particularly, Mason w.lao call are helped to locate County people in the aetivities of needed services they were the Crisis Clinic. As Mason County people have needs and priorities that are often unheard by service groups based in Thurston County, the Crisis Clinic asks anyone who is interested to consider joining and providing input from Mason County. To join, call 426-6277 and give your name and address to a MORE POWER TO WEIGHT8A WS OTHER S.WS ,. THE WOR'O FOR SALES & SERVICE: Saeger Motor Shop on Hillcrest previously unaware of, such as emergency food, transportation, child care and job counseling. In the face of the economic "crunch," the Crisis Clinic is working with other groups to organize a People Index of persons who are unemployed, but possess skills which could be shared, taught or marketed. The Crisis Clinic is having its own economic crisis which gives the staff and volunteers a feeling of comraderie with the many others who are having a rough time. A large portion of the clinic's funding, community drug abuse prevention money, was cut in half for 1975. Increased numbers of calls (from 400 per month in 1973 to 750 per month currently) require added staff to train and supervise volunteers. Not only has the dinic been unable to hire staff, but in October 1974 the assistant director was laid off. Our new automatic mechanic Bill Brown is a real professional. He has more than 25 years of experience with automobile mechanics and for 20 years he's specialized in automatic transmissions. We're proud to have him join our staff. If you're having transmission problems, Bill can help. Call today for an appointment. On John's Prairie Road Page 16 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 30, 1975 O wrl Laurie VanderWeg~en is a Rotary exchange student from Shelton now living in Shimonoseki, Japan. She is now living with her second host-family, the Hatajimas. Mr. Hatajima is a dentist, and Mrs. Hatajima is a licensed flower arrangement teacher. Their daughter, Yumi, is 17, and attends Baiko High School with Laurie. They have two sons, Atsushi, 13, and Nobuyasu, 7. She recently described the Christmas and New Year's holidays in a letter to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.W. VanderWegen. Dear Morn and Dad: Hi! Hope you had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Everyone received the Christmas cards and letters you sent. Mr. and Mrs. Hatajima didn't understand hardly any of the letter except the Japanese at the end. They did also understand the "Dear Mr. & Mrs. Hatajima" part, after I explained what "&" meant. I explained the whole thing to Yumi who then explained it to Mama and Papa. The return address on the envelope nearly caused a riot. Papa looked at it to see who it was from, read your name o.k., but pointed to the rest of it and said, "What's this?" I explained in Japanese that's where I live in the U.S. He looked at me sort of funny but I didn't think too much of it, mainly because nearly everyone looks at me sort of funny when I say something in Japanese (they just don't expect it). I found out later what his funny look was for, he didn't know that "Roy" was also the name of a street. After I figured out what was going on (which happened when Yumi started asking me strange questions) I finally got it all straightened out. They don't think I live with Roy anymore. But do you think you could put St. after Roy from now on? It would sure save a lot of confusion. I don't want to go through that again. The school Christmas program was really neat. School didn't start until 4 p.m. that day because of the program. I didn't have any idea what it would be like except I knew all the seniors sang the Halleluja Chourus at the end. It W~eally something, though, 1 . think it was one of the most impressive things I've seen. At the end the chapel was completely dark, all the seniors (about 200) filed up to the front, each with a lighted candle, and sang. It was beautiful. 1 don't know if I've ever mentioned it before, Baiko H.S. is a "special H.S." for people who want to major in music or English. Anyway, they really specialize in the two, and you can really tell at programs like that. After the program Papa picked up Yumi and me, and we met Mama and Atchan and Nobuchan and we all went out to dinner. They played Christmas music all through dinner and I sang to it, even though Nobuchan kept telling me I was singing all the wrong words (I was singing in English). They have the same Christmas carols here except they're all in Japanese, or have no words at -all. Christmas isn't the big day here, New Year's Day is. The stores didn't even close and by afternoon I'd even forgotten what the date was. I had another Kimono lesson in the kimono store at Yamanolta at 1 p.m. It's not so hard as I had imagined it to be, mainly because I've been given a form to fold the obi around. I can just fold it all up and then put it on instead of trying to tie and fold it while it is on my back, that would be almost if not totally impossible. The Sunday before Christmas I had quite a surprise. I locked myself in my room all morning so I could wrap Christmas presents without Nobuchan. I was thinking I didn't have anywhere to put them 'cuz there wasn't a Christmas tree. I went downstairs and Mama and Nobuchan and Yumi were decorating one! True it's plastic and only a couple of feet high but it's still a tree. Nobuchan even put snow (cotton) on it. I don't think I've ever seen a more laden Christmas tree in my life. Its branches are really drooping. Poor thing. It's on top of the TV now. Things have been a little hectic around here lately. I've been gone for four days and somewhere in there I lost two 'cuz I could have sworn today was Sunday and I find out it's Tuesday. Oh well. The Christmas stuff you sent got here in plenty of time and everything you sent turned out to be just right, I had no problems with it. You sent exactly the right amount of stuff, and surprisingly enough everything turned out to be just the right size, at least at the Hatajimas. Nobuchan and Atsushi didn't take off their football shirts for days. Nobu spent all Christmas morning with socks and T shirts rolled up and taped to his shoulders for pads and his football shirt on over that and a bowl on his head for a helmet. His shirt is now so stretched out of shape from the pads I think he has permanent camel humps on his shoulders. As for me, thanks for the tapes and everything,. 1 had ;,a bit of a problem getting stuff out of the sock 'cuz Nobu was sitting on my lap and had both his hands in there first. I finally gave up, and after taking out the earrings and other goodies, just gave that and the Santa to him. New Year's Day was really different. I had my hair done up in the morning, put on my kimono and went with my family to the Akama Shrine to pray. I was quite embarrassed. I didn't realize that all the phone calls Almost immediately after they are hatched, Mound-Building birds can leave their nest .. spread their wings... and flyl Incrediblel our monthly specials start next week! Read all about in The Journal. here lately had been people calling to find out what time "I was going. There were a whole group of reporters there, about 150 other people with cameras (just waiting around) and the other 1,500 to 2,000 people who were there at the same time stared like you wouldn't believe. We were all a little glad to leave, it took me nearly half an hour to get down the stairs because of all the people who kept stopping us. It was pretty bad. But interesting and very beautiful to see all the people in their best kimonos. The next day we flew to Osaka, and went on to Nara and Kyoto sightseeing. As the capital of Japan was once in Nara, there are many old shrines and temples in the area, including a gigantic statue of Buddha, which stands over 53 feet tall. There are also a number of five-and seven-storied pagodas which are magnificent. The day after we were in Nara we spent in Kyoto and then went back to Osaka and flew home. I was home exactly long enough to have a half of bowl of ramen, take a shower and change my clothes before I left to meet Yumi to stay at a friend's house on an island right outside of Shimonoseki for the night. We left there the next day and went to Uymi's cousin's house at Haketa by train. Papa, Mama, Nobu and Atchan were already there. We spent the night at the cousin's house then went to a temple. We had planned to go home that night but there were so many people trying to get back to Honshu that we had to turn around and go back. The traffic was like Seattle at rush hour but on a two-lane road and it continued for some 50 miles or so. We spent the night with some of Hatajima's friends in Haketa, and went home the next day. About food, it is very common here to find shrimp in cooked in its shell or fish and poultry and shrimp served with the heads still on. Fish is almost always served with both head and tail, and never deboned. Even when fish is in soup the heads are still on. For smaller fish they are eaten heads, tails, bones and all. 1 don't have much problem with the chopsticks any more. Many times they are much easier to eat with than a knife and fork. I am really the only one in the family who knows how to use a knife and fork, so I have been given the job of cutting up Nobu's food too. I'm slowly forgetting how to use a knife and fork, though. At the last Rotary meeting I caught myself trying to figure out how to use them to eat shrimp. This vacation I did a couple of more interesting things, foodwise. I had the first hamburger, the first strawberries and the first cheese since I left the U.S. Strawberries are really expensive here - for one of those little baskets about $2. Well, l must go. Say everyone for me. Love, Laurie P.S. Just found out I Japanese classical dancin today. Will have a lesson afternoon this week. A man of value Try not to become a success but rather try to man of value. Albert tl 4 x 8 sheets prefinished, compare at 5.99. Home Building Supplies Shelton's Fireplace Shop 607 $. 1st Mon. - Sat. 8- 6 Call No. 492 Charter No. 12292 National Bank Region No. 13 REPORT OF CONDITION, CONSOLIDATING DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARIES, OF THE of Tacoma in the State of Washington, at the close of business on December 31, 1974 Pttblishe . in Response to call made by Comptroller of the Currency, underTJtie 12, Lfhited States Code, Section 161. ASSETS Cash and due from banks ................................................................ 64,275,50235 U.S. Treasury securities ........................................................................ 16,172,937.20 Obligations of Federal Financing Bank ........................................... 283,635.00 Obligations of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations ...................................... . ............................................ 6,205,685.15 Obligations of States and political suboivisions ............................ 35,882,707.16 Other securities ....................................................................................... 457,350.00 Loans ................................................................................................ ........... 220,092,228.24 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises ......... , ............................................ 7,720,304.49 Real estate owned other than bank premises ............................. 165,193.30 Customer's liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding .... 4,025,516.00 Other assets (including $%,084.65 direct lease financing) ................ 3,320,288.17 TOTAL ASSETS .......................................................................................... ' 358, 7. LIABILITIES Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations .................................................................................. 107,296,581.96 Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, De and corporations ............................................................................ 167,366,271.13 posits of United States Government ........................................... 4,191,876.49 Deposits of States and political subdivisions ................................... 15,243,628.41 Deposits of commercial banks ............................................................... 2,968,756.14 Certified and officers' checks, etc ................................................... 4,696",876.05 TOTAL DEPOSITS .......................................................... $301,763,990.18 (a) Total demand deposits ............................ $125,242,815.46 (b) Total time and savings depositsunde-r$176'521'174"72 Federal funds purchased and securities sold agreements to repurchase ......................................................... 17,250,000.00 Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding ............................................................................. 4,025,516.00 Other liabilities .................................................................................... 8,489,858.41 TOTAL LIABILITIES ................................................................... - 33-L$ 6il.59 RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant to IRS rulings) ............................................................. 3,651,686.83 Reserves on securities 330,000.00 TOTAL RESERVES ON LOAN-SII-AN[ SEC-URi-f-I-E-S-" II I III II:IIIII CAPITAL ACCOUNTS capital notes and debentures ................................................................ 5,000,000.00 8V4% Due 6-1-92 $5,000,000 Equity capital-total ................................................................................. 18,090,295.64 ' Common Stock-total par value ........................................................... 7,216,920.00 : No. Shares authorized 125,000 No. shares outstanding 721,692 Surplus ..................................................................................................... 7,194,156.50 Undivided profits ................................................................................. 3,679,219.14 TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ................................................................... 23 2-95:64 TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS .__ MEMORANDA Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date .................................................................................. 291,689,522.00 Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date .................................................................................. 218,652,045. Standby letters of credit .......................................................................... 487,800.0u I, H. L. STEPHENS, Vice Pres. & Cashier of the above-named bank dO hereby declare that this report of condition is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. H. L. STEPHENS We, the undersigned directors attest the correctness of this report o! condition and declare that it has been examined by us and to the best of our knowledge and belief is true and correct. L. R. GHILARDUCCI, R. B. ODLIN W. W. PHILIP Directors