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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
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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~ ........