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P SPICY 2’," 603.7 PORTLAND ORE uary 4, , CS i l l n- oun soiled - LVII No. 7 D CROSS T0 Get Instructions By Fire Wardens Under the direction of District Fire Warden George Frisk and his assistant, Harry Clark, the Shelton Company ol‘ the “ash- ington State Gllard Reserve will hold an intensive course in fire fighting work Friday evening at the Courthouse at ii p. m. A film depicting the work of the State Forestry Department llllmllu RWARiUNIl h the Red Cross now carry- ; most significant role in, “‘8 Wartime and peacetime i » residents of Mason county j aliked to do their part in t0 raise the national 00,000 Red Cross War Fund 1 , . m , will be shown and then Mr. asoyn Frisk will give a talk on the, ed today, Quota for’ this part the state guard may play l in forest fire prevention if an emergency arises. Instruction in difl'g‘rent methods of fighting fire will also be given. Capt. Frank Worden of the r has been set at $5700. y M. Newmark has been ted War Fund chairman for county. The local and na- , fll‘ Fund campaign will in Shelton Company expressed the 3’ ff rgfj?gc%l.ggr:rfihegn bgeba; thanks of the company for the d 28, designated by Prmide'nt loan of movie equipment by the 3, “It as Red Cross Month. “Md “5"”- Basi‘d: 0n Estimates ‘ - fl ' h "MW War Fund goal for 1943 is v “Don realistic estimates leareflll survey shows arc‘ y ni‘teded to meet the heavy i (:9 obligations and respon-' .8 of the Red Cross, Chair- ' ' End. said. The sum covers , eatlonal and international I ggeds if the organization ' ar. v r ». . “H f he totaliozfigiotilninrgguiggg $11008 are rationed to three . national organization has 93‘ ’5 a year ' . , Slacks. eudgeted for direct national That order went into effect without warning Sunday, with , shoes "frozen" until Tuesday, Feb- ruary 9. 1 After Tuesday, you can simply walk into a shoe store, ‘give the clerk your Stamp No. 17 from War Ration Book One (that’s your coffee and sugar book), and buy one pair of shoes, Henry B. Owen, assistant regional administrator of the Office of Price Administration for Washington, Oregon and parts of Idaho and California, said to- day. . Confident that citizens will co- operate with the wartime shoe rationing program, Owen declared there are plenty shoes now to take care of all civilians but these sup— plies must be conserved. All retail sales on rationed shoes stopped Sunday and remain- ed frozen until Tuesday morning, February 9, to give dealers time to sort out rationed from unra- tioned shoes. Plenty of Timrr There's no need for a shoe-buy- ing stampede, Owen said, for stamp 17 in War Ration Book One is good until June 15. “Americans have been buying shoes faster than manufacturers (Continued on Page Three) SHELTON VALLEY t0 the armed forces, ac- .fihto Chairman Lliud. '_ 9 total goal, $45,000,000 r I‘E‘lquired by Red Cross 5 to finance their work in If families of servicemen. tgrinder. or 5580300000 will 6 national organization, mill/ever, requires one hun- a1 i0h dollars to finance its . T and international pro— e differences will be met gimme of 320000.000 from ‘I toWar Fund, which will be \ the 1943 budget. ,001b0y Group fits Free Shows "‘Uing a policy of reward- °Olboy patrolmen for their ' the Shelton Active club "Mixed with Gus Graf, .mgfiihe Paramount thea- e the youngsters with Vid Owe. Graf announced that he alte ‘Pnate between afternoon "mg shows so that the *3 would not be kept out lfictive Club asked the ~ 0 0 make public their ap- n t0 Mr. Graf for his response to their re- i a With normal transportation fa- cilities again restored, the Shel- . ton Ea. les h v . d that al ' g a e announce ' i I . e gfxgofggggnwggfflm’: their weekly dance at Shelton Val- l :sizers of the estate of Mr lley W111 be resumed this Saturday. . n ______.__.. $1 79 Sat'ugifiased’ by Judge! APPnAisEns NAMED ' ' , ' F. H. Diehl, Phil C. Bayley and l . AM. C. Zintheo were named ap- 1.99 WRIAGE LICENSES ipraisers of the estate of Inez $1 10 , L E. Dooley, Seattle, and Johnson Miller, deceased, in Su- E‘Es' ‘ aVansky, Seattle. iperior Court Saturday. —about— OUR BOYS , IN UNIFORM Mail or phone news about Mason County Boys in the armed forces to the Journal 1 '4 ~le GEORGE VALLEY IMPROVING George Valley, who had been very ill with pneumonia, is now recovering in the hospital at Far- ragut, Idaho, and would like to have his friends write him. His address is George L. Valley, AN, U.S. Naval Hospital, Ward C-14, Farragut, Idaho. BOB CHASE SENT TO SOUTH DAKOTA Bob Chase has been transferred from Florida to Sioux Falls, So. Dakota, where he will attend ra— dio school. He reports the camp much larger and a good deal colder. ,. SCHOOL . dETiC Carlson, 18, son of g Mrs. John Carlson, is I , to send and receive the in that guide America’s I; tthEIr battle against the he U. S. Naval Training ‘ f01‘si . gnalmen at the Unl‘ .0: Illinois. f case 2. minem'olled in a 16-week‘ r Which he will learnl l 10-lbs. 7 'aisearchlight and sema- 10-IbS. ‘ He 8“‘31s in International ceivalso will learn to take , nz‘filag Signals, use pel- lgator’s range finder, f case 1 ‘ituiezfrchlights and signals "1 darkness, and iden- 10 lb '1 rm Wamines and distress EULAs FISHER ' S- , AT NORFOLK 00L "" Eulas Fisher S 1/c, son of Mr. ARRAG‘filrrNS and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher has been box 2' ‘esut, IdahofiA few days sent to Norfolk where he is a truck driver for pilots. CLAY McCLANAHAN HOME ON LEAVE Clay McClanahan has been home on a 15 day furlough from Ft. Barrancas, Florida. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mc— Clanahan. His brother Barney, a was . . c a civilian, but now 1b 1 rgaggcmlins, son of Mr. ‘ 243 shfford C. Collins, Rt. o'f helton, is wearing the recefi,“ apprentice seaman “’lng his recruit train- hsrg. S. Naval Training In 255-le. ' ‘ , n 55-lbs. 1- l m BE member of the Army Air Corps, 1' oYé‘DALCIAfigW writes he has been moved from. Range“, son of Mr_ and Egypt to Liberia. Stirling C. Bell. has finished NADINE ARNOLD .ed at Denver and is now ENLISTS 1N WAACS 8‘ and e 413th Base qul‘s Fort Des Moines, Iowa—Auxi- ., Gunnery Range at liar . T‘gevada. His wife re— y may from a, visit Nadine Austin Arnold of 2022 Terry Ave., Seattle, Wash, has begun training in the Wo- ‘ men’s Army Auxiliary Corps. to She was immediately assigned 1 fine and E. Kettin he 8‘ along Well s “has, (Continued on page eight) 'boards DANCES OPEN, 16 to come home on to a Receiving Center company March to see all for a week's elementary military mo Q E 86TH AVE v SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, February 11, 1943. NESTISN 0F SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS DUE With many directors retiring in the different localities, annual school board elections will be held March 6 in all county school districts, County Superintendent J. E. Martin announced Tuesday. Filings for places on the school will close Wednesday, February 24, Supt. Martin stated. He also advised all those inter- ested in filing, to do so with the clerk of their school board and not with the county superinten- (lent. Slipt. Martin also announced that voters registration books Would close February 19, and urg- ed all those interested in voting in the school election Should reg- istcr. Elections will be held at the various school houses, with hours at discretion of the various dis- tricts. Mr. Martin issued a list of the school districts affected and also the names of retiring direc- tors. ' Districts Listed District No. 2, LOWER SKO- KOMISH we Frcd Hanson, Mrs. Clara. Rosenberg; No. 3, OAK- LAND BAY ee Orville Moran, Claude Jackson; No. 4, FORBES WeMrs. Florence Taylor; No. 10, UNION— Lyle G. Rittlc, Mrs. Dor- othy B. Aldrich; No. 11, OYSTER (Continued on Page Two) EENBIHS PASS.— AS LEGISLATURE PASSES HALFWAY Thirty of the 60 days of the legislative session have passed, with the record of over 200 bills introducod in the House and 170 in the Senate, but only 10 laws to date have passed both houses. These bills were mainly the early appropriation measures usually issued to cover expenses of the body of around $240,000, except one. for $40,000 which covers a. new ‘item of $5 per diem for ex- istence of the legislators. Several deficiency bills are in this list, and one authorizing counties to engage in civilian defense. The Senate bills passed include No. 43, by Ford, Democrat, Clal- lam, Mason. permitting judge of Supreme and superior courts full salaries although they are retired. Savage Bill Passes I In the House, bill No. 20 by Savage and Pearson, Dem., Clal- lam, Mason, relating to sale of real and personal property owned by counties, including sale of tim- ber and reservation rights, was passed, als6 No. 61 by Pearson, authorizing creation of civilian de- fense systems in cities and towns and the making of expenditures therefor. Also 6, by Cramer, Rep., dealing with local improvements in certain cities and delinquent bond payments; No. 93, Loney, Rep, limited driving permits to persons under 15 for farm work; No. 112, Hank, Dem., Kitsap, au- thorizing cities and towns to ac- quire property and establish street parking space; No. 120, Philips, Dem., eliminating period- ical examination for driver li- censcs. Elmer Yurkas Is Pneumonia Victim Stricken with pneumonia, E1- mer Yurkas. former Shelton res- ident, died Sunday in a hospital in Vancouver, Wash. He had been employed at the Kaiser shipyards in that city. Witsiers Funeral Parlors an- nounced that no funeral arrange- ments had been completed as yet. Survivors include his wife Jul- iette, one son Gray Elmer, Jr., mother, Mrs. Rosalie Yurkas of California and a brother Walter in the army. Supplemental Gas Ration Available You can get extra gasoline to clrivc you car to a new, bona fide change of residence, but not for a roundtrip to transport members or household goods, since the lat- ter would not be for the purpose of moving the vehicle from its present location. This was one of several inter- pretations released by OPA mile- age-rationing authorities. Others included:' no special' ra- tions for attending funerals, vis- iting sick friends or relatives, or for making trips on personal bus- mess. Students Hear Talk By University Man ' Bringing the spectators to their o points. The Highclimbers only ILEGISLATURE IN SERIOUS i MOOD THIS SESSION PEARSON TELLS LOCAL KIWANIS OROUP " Holiday Planned 1 On Washington’s ' Birthday Here i Continuing a precedent es- tablished over the past few years, Shelton merchants “'1” close their doors and observe a holiday on Washington’s birtli— day, February .22, the. Retail Trade Committee advised this ‘ week. falls on a Monday this year,_ a two-day holiday will he provul— ed for nearly all clerks in the local retail establishments, As usual, drug stores, cafes and probably service stations will stay open to serve the pub- lic with necessary items. SHEEN Bums UP ST R 1N G 0F HOOP DEFEATS feet with a thrilling last—minute finish, which failed by one small point of bringing victory, Shel- ton's Highclimbers were bested by Montesano last Friday evening 31 to 30. The local casaba tossers were trailing 31 to 25 with only three minutes to go, when they sud— denly found the range and brought the score up to 31 to 30.. With one second to go, Bill Chase cut loose with a. shot from the side which barely failed to [connect as the final whistle blew. IHowever the sound of the whistle was lost in the bedlam and play continued for another ten seconds until Sam Wilson canned what everyone thought was the winning basket. Barger High Chet Burger, hard—running for— ward, was the mainSpring of the Shelton attack dropping field goals and one free throw for made‘eight out of 21 free throw (Continucd on page eight) Quiet Session At A Council Meeting Only a small amount of business was transacted at the city council meeting last Thursday, although there was plenty of discussion on some matters. The council passed a resolution directing that $72.71 be transfer- ed from Gas Tax Funds to credit of city with the Director of Highways, to such fund as he may designate for painting of yellow highway strip through town. City Attorney Charles Lewis re- ported that the county will lease 40 acres of land between Island Lake and the city springs. HARRY DANIELS DIES IN CANADA Word of the death of Harry T. Daniels, former Shelton resident, in. Vancouver, B. C., was received here last week. Mr. Daniels was a brother of William E. and Ivyl Daniels. He left here in 1910 and had lived in Whaleton, B. 0., ever since. CALLED FOR FUNERAL Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. William Morri- son of Seattle, were called here for the funeral of Barney Stewart on Saturday and the Johnsons re- mained for Sunday at the Baum- gartner home. Since Washington’s birthday seven } [PENSION UNION Legislative progress to the half- way point was reviewed by Dr. U. S. Ford, representative from this district which includes Mason , and Jefferson with his own county I of Clallam, at the Kiwanis session t'l‘uesday in more detail than has {yet appeared in the news because ‘more legislation is in the forma- tive period. The body, in his opinion, is the most conservative and earnest in years, as well as the best bal- anced and deeply concerned with the affairs of state related to the war effort, but in particular which have bearing on the after-war conditions. As yet there is no extensive lobbying in evidence and the committees are working out the many bills before them, sift- ing out the good, and weeding out some of those which seem de- signed for special interests, or treating them to safe amendment. Many Subjects Dr. Ford stated the main sub— jects for legislation calling for public funds were highways and division of gas taxes, taxation, so— cial security, school and education needs, civil defense demands, for- estry and state lands measures, Initiative 12, the pOWer bill, pulp tax and regulation, population in- crease and call for new services, along with a flood of minor mat— ters most of which will not get far beyond the conversation stage. The state’s nice balance of some 20 millions will be much (Continued on Page Four) Druggists Give Quinine Stocks To Government " With the armed forces of the United States fighting malaria as well as the enemy in the South Pacific jungles, the War Production Board has appealed to western druggists and physi— cians to contribute all surplus quinine or opened packages to a national quinine pool. These stocks of quinine and other cinchona alkaloids .held by pharmacists will be used by the United States Army and Navy for their operations overseas. The national quinine pool is being established through the cooperation of the American Pharmaceutical Association and the Drugs and Cosmetics Sec- tion of the Chemicals Division, WPB. Funeral Services For Mrs. Middleton Funeral services were held on Tuesday for Mrs. Mabel M. Mid- dleton, who died at her Agate home last Sunday. The services were held from the Catholic Church with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Mrs. Middleton was born Jan- uary 12, 1893, in Greenville, Mich— . igan. Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. August C. Johnson, Agate; three sons, Thomas W. Os- borne, Norman Osborne and Eu- gene Osborne; three daughters, Mrs. Rachel Wingard, Seattle, Mrs. Lillian Hammond, West Vir- ginia and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickgis- er, Aberdeen. There are also two grandchildren. MEETS SATURDAY The Old Age Pension Union will hold its regular meeting Thurs- day, February 11 at 8 pm. Ev- eryone interested is invited to at— tend the meeting which will be held at 417 South Second. MARRIED NURSES—HELP OUT A IN EMERGENCY AS HOSPITAL , FACES SHORTAGE 0F NURSES The married nurses in Mason County are meeting the urgent need of graduate nurse assist- ance on the Shelton General Hos- pital staff, according to a state- ment received from Miss Zella Deeny, superintendent of the hos- pital. It entails sacrifice on the part of these women to get help in their homes, or again where the husbands are cooperating to‘ per- mit the nurse to come in for four or six hours a day or evening, Miss Deeny said. The regular nursing staff must be relieved one day a week, and they are able to carry on an un— interrupted schedule by the splen- did assistance of the married nurses, she said. Following are a group of the women Miss Deeny mentioned \who are now assisting: Mrs. (James Needham, former superin- Shelton students were treated . tendent of Shelton General Hos- to a very interesting and educa- tional discussion given by Prof. Giovanni Costigan of the Univers- ity of Washington last Thursday. Prof. Giovanni discussed the war in its many aspects and ac- pital, has returned to be staff as- sistant in surgery and obstetrics. Mrs. Vera Devlin is working six hours a day, six days a week. Mrs. Rosie Post Smith, and Mrs. Alma Moore of Hoodsport work from cording to Prof. :Loop gave a three to five days a week. Mrs. splendid talk. I Julia McCaslin. a. new member of the nursing group in Shelton is assisting in Vnursery, laboratory and X-ray six days a week. Mrs. Ruth Anderson, nurse at Simp- son’s Camp Three will relieve on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Ar- chie Adams is getting her house- hold in order so as to assist on night duty. Mrs. Fred Snelgrove and Mrs. Kenneth Blanchard will do, relief ,nursing when needed. Other members are coming back! as soon as they can arrange to get help in their homes. Mrs. Woody Jones, has return- ed as a nurse helper this week. Mrs. Henry Rishelr has com- pleted 150 hours as a nurse aide. She, with Mrs. Minnie Byrnes, will be starting on another 150- hour nursing service for the year of 1943. Out of a class of seven these two aides are continuing this excellent service. Mrs. Glenn Landers is also giv- ing three hours a day for four days a week. All hospitals are helping to meet the War Emergency, and the nurses and local women are responding to the call. The hospital will welcome any nurses in the community who have not registered as yet. , Olli [7W ILSJVAI '0'!” OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER iPROCEDURE IS SALE or RATIONED CANNED EXPLAINED IN FOOD FROZEN FOR GNE WEEK The “A, B. C's of fuel oil ra- tioning” were outlined today for the state‘s users of fuel oil and kerosene by Floris Nagelvoort, state rationing officer of the Of- fice of Price Administration. Oil for the farmer’s smudge pots, fuel oil for circulating heat- ers and furnaces, kerosene for lighting and cooking in war work- ers' trailers, kerosene for a brake- man's lantern-~they‘re all part of fuel oil rationing, Nagelvoort \ex- plained. More than 1,200,000 per- sons are expected to be affected by the fuel oil rationing regula- . tion, which became effective‘Feb- ruary 1. Registration points for fuel oil rationing were week by City School Superinten- dent l-I. Enzo Loop and County School Superintendent J. E. Mar- tin. Supt. Loop announced that all iregistration for fuel oil for pri— vate dwellings will take place at the Lincoln school building on February 15, 16 and 17. Hours of registration will be between 4 p. .m. and 6 p. m. and 7 p. m. and 8 p. m. on the three days. . Supt. Martin named the fol— lowing list of schools as regis- tration points: Lower Skokomish also serving Union, Oakland Bay also serving Grant and Agate, 0y- .ster Bay also serving Callow and Forbes, Hoodsport also serving E1- don and Lilliwaup, Allyn also serving Victor, Belfair also serv— ing Tahuya. and Dewatto, Middle Skokomish also serving Camp and Upper Skokomish, Southside, Grapeview, Harstine and Mary M. (Continued on page four) OPA Board Again Requests Filing Ceiling Prices Because a number of firms have failed to file ceiling prices on certain services with the Ma— son County War ,Price and Ra; tioning board, the board has re- quested that a list of these serv- ices, on which prices must be filed, be printed. The deadline for filing has al- ready passed and violators are liable to heavy penalties if they fail to comply promptly. Services falling under the reg- ulations of the OPA include: au- tomobile repairs,» servicing and storage, bicycle repairs, cleaning, dyeing and pressing, clothing re- pair, electrical appliance repairs, farm equipment repairs. Film developing and' printing, food locker service, furniture re- pair, gas appliance repairs, hat cleaning and blocking, laiindering, radio repairs, refrigerator re- pairs, rug cleaning, safe deposit rental, shoe repairs, stove repairs, tool sharpening and washing ma- chine repairs. There are others in addition these more common services. The ceiling prices set for most of these services are the highest prices charged for each in March, 1942. Carl Wolcker Dies At Local Hospital Carl Hugo Wolcker, a resident the Shelton hospital- of Shelton for the past 14 years died at the hospital Monday. Fun— eral services were held yesterday from Witsiers Funeral Parlors with Rev. Muhly presiding. Mr. Wolcker was born in Swe- den on February 27, 1887. He was employed as a deck sealer at Reed Mill No. 1. Survivors include the widow Violet; two daughters, Mrs. Edna Temple, Bremerton, and Mrs. Ruth Bernert, Shelton; one broth- er, Einer_ Wolcker and four grandchildren. Army Deserter Arrested Here' After steadily working in a. lo- cal lumber mill for the past four months, Herbert Tate of Shelton was revealed as an army deserter early this week. Upon receipt. of a telegram from Camp 0rd, Calif., Deputy Sheriff Fred Hickson and Police Chief Andy Hanson arrested Tate who readily admitted his guilt.’ He is being held in the local bas- tile pending arrival of army au- thorities. 3 Journalism Profs Lost By University Three University of Washington journalism instructors have left for duty with the armed services, depriving the school of nearly half its faculty, it was disclosed this week. ‘ Director Vernon McKenzie and Professor Byron Christian left yesterday for training in Miami for first lieutenants in the air corps, and Professor Merrit E. Benson is to report to Jackson— ville, Fla., for duty as lieutenant in (the Navy ground school, announced this I 5 i i l toI Coffee Ration Reduced; Pound For- Six Weeks You will get just as much coffee with Stamp No. 25 as you did with Stamp No. 28, but the one pound of coffee will have to last six weeks—a week longer, it has been announced by the Office of Price Admin- istration. Reduced coffee invontoriesin the hands of wholesalers and retailers make it necessary to cut the ration, OPA said. Stamp No. 25, the next coffee stamp in War Ration Book One, became valid on February 8, and will be good for the pur- chase of one pound of coffee.- through midnight March 21. Stamp No. 28. which has been valid since January 4, expirPlI at midnight, February 7. _____7_ _,.._. ATTEND HEARING , 0N MEASURE 1'0 CONTROL WINES A delegation of Mason County wine producers, , grape growers in Olympia. Tuesday evening at- tending a joint hearing of the House and Senate Liquor Control Committees on H. B. No. 28 which would restrict the alcoholic content of wines sold in taverns, beverage and grocery stores to 14 per cent. ' Sheriff Gene Martin and County Prosecutor Frank Houston were there favoring the spirit of the bill though they felt it should be changed to eliminate all fortified' wines now being sold through these outlets. Charles Somers, Wm. Somers and R. Werberger, operators of local wineries, also were present at the hearing, observed that if the content limit was raised somewhat the bill would not greatly effect our county wine output which is all’ naturally fer- mented and none of which is for— tified although a portion carries a higher alcoholic content than the 14 per cent limit suggested. Other interested attendants at the hearing were our Representa- tive, Chas. Savage and Walter Eckert, Grapeview vinyardist.. Re- presentative Francis Pearson of the 24th district is a member of the House Liquor Control Com-i mittee. Officers of the Washington Wine Council representing all state wine interests urged that no changes be made in the pres- ent law which has protected and built up the industry in the last seven years. BABY SON Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Holmes are , the parents of a. baby boy born at the Shelton hospital on Sun- day. DAUGHTER ILL Little Janet Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Jack- son is receiving medical care at and law enforcement officers were } AllllNlNG . STARTINEEATURAY FEB.20 l ' l l The can opener will yield to {lie cook book after midnight Febi'iary 20. From that time un- F til March 1, when rationing starts, there will be no canned fruits or vegetables sold. Frozen fruits and vegetables, dried fruits (not dried vegetables), and canned soups and canned baby foods also are included in the or- der, issued yesterday by the of- lfice of price administration. With the armed forces and lend-lease taking, in some cate- gories, half of the canned foods put up, the government has or- dered rationing to assure every- one a fair share. Fresh fruits and vegetables will not be rationed, and one of the goals of the program will be to compel people to do more real lcooking and less can opening. Home canning also will be en- couraged because such‘goods will not be Counted against ration coupons. 48 Points a Month Rationing will be by points, 48 points per person in the month of March, regardless of age or occu- pation. Because there still will be so many unrationed foods—espe- cially fresh fruits and vegetables ~~~there will be no distinction, as there is in Europe, between per- sons who do light work and heavy work. Since canned baby foods are also on the list, babies will get the same ration points as their elders. Ill persons requiring special diets will be able to get them on medical certificates. Restaurants and other public eating places will be limited on canned goods but under present plans, will not collect ration cou- pons from their customers-leav- ing all ration points to be spent for home cooking. To housewives, one big problem will be that of planning a month ahead. For instance, at 48 points per person, a family of three will have 144 points to spend in March. Each can, bottle or package on (Continued on Page Eight) Planning’Groups Will J 0 i n In Chamber Meeting With members of the Puget Sound Regional Planning Council ‘in' attendance, the Shelton Cham- ber of Commerce will hold a joint meeting with the group tonight, with a dinner at 6:30 at the Hotel Shelton. ‘ The Planning Council has been making the round of the state meetings in various cities, taking up local problems and devising ways and means of meeting pres- cut as well as future questions. and advancing the interests of each section in conjunction with the whole state program. Members of the Seattle and Ta- coma planning councils will be present and will give a picture of the’state’s outlook as a. whole with the part Mason county is to play. George Drake of the Simpson Logging Co. will present the ac- tivities of the company in the way of reforesting and perpetual yield planning. and the part this will play in the future of this district. The gathering is open to the public and Silk interested persons are cordially invited to attend. ANOTHER STORY OF LIFE IN THE BIG SNOW OF 1943 TOLD BY RESIDENT OF HOOD CANAL Stories of experiences in the “big snow” of 1943 continue to seep out of the backwoods as transportation again returned to normal, and those who had been snowbound and lived a pioneer life were able to get out and tell their tales. One interesting experience _is related by Eddie Crans, resident of Hood Canal, who commutes to Bremerton every day for work taking five men with him. One fateful Tuesday morning they awoke to find four inches of snow on the ground. Thinking it would last but a few hours, they left for Bremerton to work. Snowbound That night there was 30 inches of snow on the ground and they definitely were “snowbound” in the navy yard city. With all traffic halted, Crans worried increasingly for two days and finally on the third night he decided he would walk or rather “mush” home. Following the tractor’s path, he reached home 61/2 hours later—— every step of the way by foot. “That was the longest walk I ever attempted and I don’t want to repeat it ever," he declared. “I kept to the tractor tracks but the snow was waist high along- side, and I kept slipping and fall- ing. But I was worried about my wife and daughter so I kept push- ing along, as hard as I could go. “Finally I got to Belfair, where I got some food and started on. Another navy yard worker was there and went with me. Finally i we reached his house where I had some coffee and started again on the last five miles toward home. It was nearly morning when I ar- rived. From Triangle City to my place, 1 counted 84 stalled cars. including army trucks, bread trucks, busses and logging equip- ment. V Red Cross Supplies “The same morning I got in, the road was cleared partly, just one way traffic, and army trucks came in with supplies of bread and food furnished by the Red Cross. Until they arrived, a lot of the canal dwellers had been going on pretty short rations. “One big bus was stalled near Happy Hollow. The cabins there were opened for them, some of them slept in the store in make- shift beds. And they practically ate the store out of business be- fore traffic was restored. “I arrived dead tired at home and figured on a 24-hour sleep. But when it got light, my wife told me about our roof. Two of the rafters near the chimney had broken under the weight of the snow. I had to get up and shovel 30 inches of snow off the roof. Water Frozen “Of course all the power and telephone service was out. Can- dles and old kerosene lights were put to use. But many families have electric water pumps. They all froze upe-including' ours. That’s when we had to resort to melting snow for water. Believe me, it’s a primitive way to get Continued on P880 Seven). 1.