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Percy M Pie 6017 S.E. 86th Ave Portland, Ore i " WEATHER .-- I'~jgh Low Precip. 29 b4 40 81 30 :ZZZ: 43 36 .34 31 1 .............. 53 38 .63 2 .............. 52 38 .14 3 .............. 48 33 -- 4 .............. 52 30 -- .............. 50 36 .15 6 February 6, 1964 Skokomish headed a of award winners annual Shelton Junior of Commerce Bosses' when he guished Ser- placque for 1963. Was chosen from a five- of nominees including Shelton school music William H. Schu- physician; Pat engineer; and president and technician. Winners announced LProgram included Dick 1 Bob Osterman, Spoke attaining the 1O0-point for first year Jaycee on certain com- 'y activ- and-Fox, Cas Vis- and Gale Feul- Plug Awards for members similar point system in Jaycee pro- community ac- AWARD was an- Presented by Bob Awards by Ron Spark Plug Awards the annual pres- of activities, cited major projects in Jaycees engaged school boy pa- county fair booth Harlem Clowns (fund (aiser), St. Washington Col- game (fund rats- night basketball for city am- spon- fun night, ;tivities including ahd flowers for decorating Christmas tree on lawn, further ma- on tile Callanan Park in its 4th year). ~[ credit to Norm Mt. Vern()n Kimbel Motors, George Plews engineering de- Manke & help which was the progress park project in out that con- has been done on baseball field area and only bad ntedmuch more be- CITED Jaycee ef- establishment of a committee aimed 3uvenile problems. he termed "in- Fox pointed to officers and of the district a district attended by 114 am feed for new air of the Jaycee attendance at participa- Jaycee pro- to build in India, in Jaycees collect- all sorts of ob- equipment donated hospital and '~Pital in Olympia zt, $12,000 in val- It that tile Jaycees men between "men of ae- a voice in of the commun- them to stand their convic- acted as master the program giving tim in- K. Bennett, a introducing the guest Le story on his . Clyde F. Secoy, removed from tl~e e light plane in atop Dew Moun- Who reached the went down on to Renton of the a sea~h oq I eli- and air search carried on shlcc of Ihe plane • Maj. Myle A/lc a. gPonnd , toward the ,r(lav CVelling ' back af- anew. 'iff C.A.p. Air Shel- Saturday Cushman \ Entered as second (:lass matter at the post office at Shclton, Washington, under Act of March 8, 1879. Published weekly at 227 West• Cots. Published in "Chris(rites(own, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington i 10 Cents per Copy 20 Pages -- 3 Sections re ,l: * * ¢ DSA NOMINEES--Stan Johnson (seated) was outstanding achievements. Standing behind him are the other nominees for the DSA honor (from left) Arnold Fox, Shelton Piosp.ltal lab technician and Jaycee .president; Pat Byrne, Shelton city engineer; Oary Nicloy, Shelton school music in- structor; and Dr. William H. Shumacher, Shelton physician. revealed as this community's 1963 Man-of.the- Year and received the Shelton Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Award at the an- nual Jaycee Bosses' Night dinner Tuesday. John- son is a Skokomish Valley dairyman and rancher who has earned numerous other awards for his °stensen Tax reforms to relieve strained state resources were advocated by' Rieharcl G. Christensen, Republi- can candidate for governor, in a talk before the Mason County Re- publican WameP-',% Club here Tues- day afternoon. He said that if elected he would attempt to get a group of gover- nors to act in concert outside of the present Governors Conference to recover from tl~ federal gov- ernment snch ]:ax sources as cigar- ettes, amusements and others pre- empted by the treasury depart- ment, thereby eliminating the "brokerage fee" every Citizen pays for sending this tax money to Washington, D,C., then have it re- tnrned in federal handouts with strings attached. tIE EXPRESSED himself as tin- alterably opposed to a state in- come tax, believing the more equitable method or raising state revenue to be a property tax. He was critical, too, of the claims the $11 billion federal tax cut would do to bolster national economy, pointing out that in re- ality it would mean very little to the individual in the way of ac- t~I~' The 1964 real estate and per- tual money gained. He proposed, instead, that a $1 billion rebate distributed among the 50 states would do more good in relieving pressured state• funds, pointing out that in the case of the StaLe of Washington the $200 million realized would pay off Over half the state's bonded indebtedness. His talk, and answers to ques- tions wlfich., followed, stressed a firm conviction that government should not be in business com- peting with private enterprise and that grass roots control of gov- ernment, taxat~m, and public ex- penditures should be striven for in contrast to the trend today to- ward top-heavy, wasteful, central- ized government. h Set For Tuesday State 'Rep. Dan Evans, Seattle, will be the speaker for the Lh~coln Day Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Mr. View School multi- purpose room. The dinner is spon- sored by the Mason County Re- .publican Central Committee. Evans, an announced candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, was tim Republican floor leader in the last session of the state legislature. Tickets for the dinner arc avail- able at Beckwith Jewelry, from Ticket Chairman Oscar Levin or from any member of the Central Committee. Herb Vonhof is general chair- man for the dinner. Priscilla Janet Smith, 18, Stiel- ton, is being held in Mason Coun- ty Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail oil manslaughter charges filed against her in Mason County Su- perior Court Friday. The charges are the result of the accidental shooting of Mrs. Emily Fruichantie last Aug. 6 at t ~e "Fruichantie home oil Lost Lake Road about 1O miles from The coroner's jury in its find- ings recommended that charges be brought against Miss Smith and' called tile shooting inexcusable. The manslaughter charges were filed Friday by Prosecuting Attor- ney Byron McClanahan. Miss Smith has been attending Shelton High School. "Winners of Jaycee Disting- uished Sew(ice Awards", said Guest Speaker Ricimrd Christen- sen, "are individuals who have successfully wrestled with and overcome their weaknesses." 'Speaking at the annum Shelton Jaycee Bosses' Night dinner Tues- day, Christensen (Republican can- didate for governor) said he had come to this conclusion after at- tending five DSA fetes. He him- self is a Jaycee member. "Th.e average person today fears to rise above the average, to be noticed, to be different. Win. ners are those who are willing to put out something extra. "The search for security is dampening character. Too many individuals are willing to do any- thhlg the boss asks in order to protect their jobs and pay checks and this weakens character." CHRISTENSEN spoke more in tile vein of the clergyman he has been than the political candidate h~ now is, asserting that "char- acter doesn't develop by accident, it is developed by discipline." He said the fathc1:=home rela- tionship is breaking down because too many fathers are ashamed to teach their children how to pray, lets his wife "wear the pants". He blamed television as a major fac- to(' in the chipping away at char- acter through some of the unreal- istic programs purporting to de- pict doctors, law enforcement oft- ricers, lawyers, and the like. "These progz'ams are so far from thetruth they are ridicu- lousy heasserted. "Our country is beingtested by everything atheistic these days and our so- ciety isin danger of breaking down to double zero if we don't begin to discipline ouf'selves. "Character is born ()tit ot dis- cipline," he concluded. Lincoln's Biflhday Closing Set For Cily, County, Slate Offices City, County and State Govern- ment offices here will be closed next Wednes&~y in observance of Lincoln's Birthday. Federal Government offices, however, will remain open. The Post Office does not observe the holiday. Federal offices which will re- main open include the U.S. For- est Service, the Soil Conservation Service, and AgriCulture Stabili- zation and Conservation office, and the Post Office. Businesses will not observe the holiday. Festival h y Plans for the 1964 Forest Fes- tival and a sponsor for the queen's float will be discussed when the Mason County Forest Festival As- sociation meets at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Conference Room of the PUD 3 building. The meeting is on Wednesday night instead of the usual Thurs- day night meeting date, President Clive Troy said. ROY RITNER JOHN W. BENNETT The top ten students in the Shelton High School Senior Class this year in scholastic standing were announced this week by Principal George Hermes. The top ten are listed in alpha- bctical order, and are not in the order in which they rank scholas- tically. In the top ten are Tim Carte, Susan Duckham, Kelly Fredson. CHARLES SAVAGE HARRY ELMLUND Sandra McArthm', Molly Murdey, Carolyn Robbins, Joe Snydcr and Kathy Younghmd. Other class members with a B or better average during their high school eareerdncludc Kathy Archer, Sandra Bedell, Ann Brig- ham, Pamela Clayton, Ginna Cor- tes, Claudia Co(son, Frances Demmon, James Doer(y, Carl Dugger, Jonatlzan Gain, Gerrie Gems, Wanda Halbert, Carl Har- din, Diane Hughes,' Bob l~iebm'tZ, Susan 'Malloy, Sharon Moffat% Deride Saeger, Tom Schlagel, Kar- en Smith, Kevin Smith, Elizabeth Somers and Rite Swayze. sonal property tax statements will be mailed Feb. 14 by his office, Mason County Treasurer John Cole said this weck. The first lmlf of these taxes will be due May 1, Cole said. • A list of the levies by the wlr- ious taxing districts in the coun- ty is being published in The Jour- nal this week. Cole said this is the first lime a list: of the levies has been pub- lished. The 1963 sessi(m of the State Legislature authorized the treasurer to publish such lists and lie is taking advantage of the authorization Uo inform the tax- payers of the comity how nlnch of their tax money is goiug Lo each district. O A party of five started out again early Sunday morning with snow shoes and arrived at the scene shortly after a helicop- ter with Dr. Roy Seeoy, brother of the dead man, and Lt. Henry Howe, who had been acting as search coordinator here. Dr. Secoy's body was taken out by hcliC(ason.~tcr Coun ,' The M, " t5 Sheriff's of- rice said ttlat it appeared that the plane l~ad fh)wn into the side of the mountain, hitting a stmup when it canle down. TIlE PII,OT al)psrentTy (lied in the, crash an he was still seated ill the cockpit with his seat belt still fastened. The Shelton Airport had been the scene of an adwtnced base for the search operation since it was started. The State Aeronautics Comnlission directed the search with the Civil Air Patrol and lo- cal law enforcement agencies as- aist zg. Shelton. The warrant for Miss Smith's arrest was signed in court Friday reclining by Judge Charles Wrigl~t. He also signed a waiver of juven- ile c~urt jurisdiction since Miss Smith was 17 at the time of the incident. Miss Smith told a. coroner's jury last September thaL she was shooting at the Fruichantie's dog which had c, onle across tile road onto the Smith property. A BULLET from the .22 rifle traveled across the road and struck Mrs. Fruichantie in the chest as she was picMng peas in the family garden. Work To Mill 2 Simpson Timber Company will close its Sawmill One in Shelton Feb. 14 and shift production there to its Sawnlill Two, H. A. Ahlskog, manager, Fir and Sawmills Divz- sic]l, announced today, The charge is necessary to bal- ante the existing log supply with the eapabililies of the three saw- mills, and dry kihls, Ahlskog ex- plained. Starting Feb. 1.7, a second shift will be put on at, Sawmill Two for the first time since 1961. The ma-! jority of the 40 employees at Saw-i mill One will bc transferred lo Sawmill Two, according to Ahls- keg. Sawmill One and Sawnlill Two have been operating on a one shift basis since 1961. The change will mean that Simpson still will operate four Sawmill shifts daily in Shelton-- two each at Sawmills Two and Three. -and the volume of pro- du tioa will romaia NEW MOORAGE COMPLETED--The Shelton Port Commission recently completed an $18,000 remodeling and extension job on this section of the moorage at the city dock. The work included extension of the moorage 300 feet and the instal- lation of Simpson Skid-Guard plywood on the deck- ing of the moorage. Also installed were 22 new finger..float~ and a new p.l~.wood _ramp_. The ramp, Roberts Hil(b?brand, B01) Jcfferv, Scout We ,k is Boy Scout Week starts tonic(- row, continuing through next Thursday. It marks the 54th anniversary of tile movement, points out Hugl~ Gruver, Mason District chairman for the Tumwater Area Council. • Scouting is the nation's largest single observance by boys, hc ad- ded. In Shelton, the principal obser- vation of Scout Week will be this Sunday during special church ser- vices sponsoped jointly by the Tumwater Council and the Mason County Ministerial Association. The program will ~e held in the Baptist Church at 3 p.m. witn Civil Service Tests For Post Office Employment Planned Pastors Younghmd, Wysong, Wick, Carlsen, Knautz and Had- ley participating. TIlE KIWANIS Club held its anmml Boy Scout program Tues- day,. directed by Nohm Mason chairmm~ of Boy Scout section of the club's Boys and Girls Com- mittee. Assisting l~im were Merv Settle, a Cub Scout lcader; his son, Cary, a Cub Scout; Glen Van Blarieom, senior patrol leader of Troop 12 (sponsored by the Ki- wanis Club) ; Merv Wings(d, chairman of the Mason District Scout activihes committee; Jim Fox, district executive; and Dean Palmer, former Troop 12 Scout- master who showed slides of some of Troop 12's hiking activities. Window displays throughout the Shelton business district will bring Boy Scout Week to public at- tention this coming week. Theme of the celebration this year is ,Strengthen America-- Scouting Can Make the Differ- cnce." Later in the month the Cub Scent "Bhte and Gold" potluck dinner will be held in Bordeaux School Feb. 2t. Civil service examination to es- tablish an eligibility list for Shel- ton postoffice workers are ached- uled late in March, Postmaster J. H. Gray announced yesterday. Applications to take the exam- inn(ions will be accepted at the Shclton postoffice fronl now un- til March 3. Application forms may be obtained at the Shelton postofficc and information from either Postmaster Gray or assist- ant postmaster Howard Yule. Applicants will be rated accord- ing to scores made in the examin- :aliens and the eligibility list es- tablished for clerk-carrier assibm- ments. Pay rates start at $2.33 an hour and go to $3.20 per hour. The previous civil service list from which Shelton postoffice work Tins been assigned has be- come obsolete and has been wiped out, necessitating the establish- men( of a new list, Postmaster Gray said. Chamber To Hear using plywood, is a new idea in ramp construction eliminating a lot of the iron previously needed. This is one of the first of this type of ramps in the state, AI Ferrier, Port District Manager, said. He said the extension of the moorage was spurred by the increasing demand from local resi- dents for boat moorage apace. Simpson Report A new Silnpson Timber Conl- party muvic, "Shelter", and re- ports on Simpson activities here are schcdvlcd for Ihe prt~gram ()f the monthly membcr.~q~ip meeting of the Shclton Chamber of Com- merce meeling b'eb. 13. The meeting will start with dinner aL 7 p.m. in thc Masonic Hall. Simpson Ih'esidcnt C, Henry A $:125,000 libel suit, the after- math of a hard-fought 1962 elec- tion campaign for State Represen- tative, was filed by State Rep. Charles Sewage in Mason County Superior Court last Friday morn- ing. The suit, against seven couples, states that dnring the late sum- mer and autumn of 1962 and con- tinuing to the present, the defend- ants engaged in a conspiracy to defame, libel and slander Savage through printed material and oral statements which were defama- tory, libeh)us and slanderous. The suit says that the printed material attempted to brand Sav- age a Communist, Communist sympathizer and a fellow traveler. NAMED AS defendants in the action are Mr. and Mrs. i'~arry Elmhmd, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rit- ner, Mr. a~(1 Mrs. John W. Ben- nett, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sis- son, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bergeson, Mr. and Mrs. Ode]7 Richey, all nf Shelton, and Mr. and Mrs. L'aw- renee Timbers, Seattle. Ritner, a former state repre- sentative, was beaten out by Sav- age in his bid for one of the three Democratic nominations for seats in the house of representatives from the 24th Legislative District in the primary election. Sawlge0 along with incumben(s Paul Con- nor and James McFadden, were the Democrat nominees and went ell to win in the general election. Elmlund is a member of the Ma- son County Commission and ~t the time of the election was chairman of the Mason County Democratic Central Committee. Bennett:, m] engineer a~ the Ray- enter Inc. Olympic Research Lab here, is a former president of the Shelton Chanlber of Commerce. Bergeson, Richey and Sisson are all millworkers. Mrs. Bergeson is an employee of the State Liquor Store here. IN TIlE SUIT Saw~.ge seeks $300,000 in damages for injury to his reputatiolL feelings and stand- ing and respect in the comnnmity and $25,000 for loss of past and future earnings. He is represented by Donald ,l. Hm'owitz of the Seattle law firm of Schroeter and Ferris. Timbers is a Seattle advertising nla.n, and a former nlembor of the State American Legion American- iSUl Committee. .Savage said the action was filed as the result of the continued dis- , tribution of leaflets which ap- i pcared before the 1962 primary election. He said that although he had issued a statement printed ill The Journal at the time the leaf- lets first appeared stating that action would be taken against anyone found distributing them, that they persisted in being passed 'out and that they did not stop af- ter the election. Savage has been active in Ma- son County polities for a number of years and is serving his eigilth term in the state leg'islaL.m'e. He was elected to the legislature in 1938, 1940, ]942, 1950. 1952, 1954, 1956 and ]962. He was elected to the ll.S. House of Representatives in 194=1.. and served one term before being defeated in a bid for re-election. tte made an unsuccessful bid for election to Congress again in 1958, RITNER WAS Lclectc(1 to the state legislature in 1958 when Savage did not seek re-election and was re-elected in ~960 before being beaten out by Savage in :he 1962 primary. Savage said the $25,000 he is claiming for loss of earninffs ix based partly oil his loss of an elect:ion as Business Agent for IWA Local 3-38 hcrc in the smu- mcr of 1962 and his defeat in an attempt to regain the position in 1963. The same material was used in the union election as was used in the campaign against him iu the legislative race, Savage said. The circulation of the slander- ous material, he said, also keeps him from running for a higher govermnent office. The filing of his suit was de- layed until the conclusion of the Goldmark trial in Okanogan Coun- ty, Savage said, in order not to intez~'ez~ with that trial. Savage said he has no idea how soon the suit might come to lrial. Commenting on reports that sonic of the def(~n(lants name(I in the suit did not even know each other, Sawtge said that in a p(,- litical campaign there is a chain of con]mend, and, that it. is possi- ble that some of the leaders (lid not know those at the bottom, of the ladder. He also commented that even after the campaign, those involved boltcd their party's nominee (Savage} to campaign for a Re- publican. Saw~ge also eoulnlenicd that Ehnhmd, Who as cmmty chaiz~nan of the Democratic Cen- tral Connnittee should have beeu neutral until after the primary, campaig~cd actively f,)r [~itllel' and contJuued t,, work against him {Savage) in the general elec- tion. Savage said that part ef the reasori he brollght the suit was that hc believed that this lypo of snlcar Calllplligll in politics uuist be stopped. Ritner, E]miund and Benuett, contacted 1).%, ']'lie Jolirrial, declined to nla],: e any eolnulent on the suit. , Democrats To Have Special Meeting A special nieetiug of tlh~ ~l;ISl)ll Collnty I)enlocrat Ccn|ral {.3onl- nlittoc ilas been ealtcd by Chair- illau John Sells for 8 p.lU. touigtlt in the court il(luse, The letter of COligratu[:llions .[O Mr. and Mrs. John Gohhriarl¢, (if Okanogan Courtty oil their recent court victory, which the central conmlittce had voted rwcviously Lo ~t;ad, will b~ ~utu~ ........