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BUY, SELL,
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I TH suns;
Allow FAMILY;
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washer Grisdale Yields Wed-l
by t0 Long Illness; O.E.S.,
a“gllters Of Nile Lose
Active Member
dfl.
t "I D .
Sn 5““! lhvaded for the fourthl
a: Edwlthln two years the fam-l
9 11 Comm Callow family of Ma-
rx t e eleunty pioneers, and reduced
rity gen Children to reach ma-
’- of now eight, with the pass—
“ thMrs. Esther C. Grisdale,
Wed; Shelton General Hospi-
, her esday. She had overtax-
' Powers in recent years in«
I... f"eternal work and was
6 38' retired life at Simpson
' e » Where her husband is ac-
"o hipel‘intendent, until a month’
' art Condition required treat-
lied the hospital where she
to rally
Fu ’ I
e filial services will be held at
lo I rasomc Temple in Shelton,
and gilt 2 p. m., under Mason—
| m -E.S. auspices and ritual,
I. aluany high officers of this
.ent w§d orders present. Intel'—
in 11611 tollow in the family
I
mOlf'ial Park beside the:
f her son Joe who was
' n 1931. '
i game Native Daughter
can: 0- Callow was born at
‘ Junew farm in Kamilche Val-
e and 15, 1881, and her early
ire, fin, first schooling spent!
' ympia lshlng in high school at'
llliam', 8the was married to J.
1902 Gnsdale at Seattle July
at and her life since has been I
,eItOn Mason County either in
ere 01‘ In the logging camps
‘ ged us; husband has been en-
Beaid Ough the years.
, ed hes her husband she is sur-
de Py 0he daughter, Mrs. Ger-
.r Onlamey, and grandson Billy.
\y 153' Son, Joseph, died here
' ,- 2: and $.1931. Her living broth-
of Ellsters are Artur and Har-
.,: use“ ma. Robert of Camp 3,
' y of grew coach at the Univer-
e of ennsylvania; Mrs. Anna
: ield Portland, Mrs. Hattie
Hm 01' Union and Mrs. Car-
»..,,A8y ‘Of Kamilche-
She “thleved High Honors
h "‘Qrdeas a lifelong member of
‘ thou" of Eastern Star, pass-
: aqws 8h its chairs and serving
Vancinm’y capacity, as well as
I 11 mag through allied orders to
n of tfie; being Associate Ma-
hq A e Daughters of Nile and
S. at Ssoclate Matron of the 0.
Activ
er death.
M1? glean bearers for the ser-
°ciat88 Old family friends and
WIS ' Chas. Runacres, Chas.
P1533811 Bayley, Hal Granni
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ll, nson and Al Kl 11-
0 ase .
_. Vey'xigrary pall bearers, A. B.
3. L_ 'DA. Hillier, James Fris-
' i Jame Hack, Louis Weinel
_ The 5 3- Hall of Seattle.
. callowdeceased members of the
.neers Ian" of Mason County]
. era-Ba {breach of whom made
edlt Ont themselves to reflect
birth he County of their hum-
at‘e. Albert Callow, Dr.
Callow, William W. Cal-
stly Esther Grisdale. Of
son
Pin l‘aWing Interest
., ooh
I h‘ rat‘seulilayers began whetting
ttlle fir 18 week in preparation
,5 bi 111 unit Public pinoghle con-
: “tints. memory of local in-
M11
x; 'hlngtgk, held the evening of
r 11:? Birthday in Mem-
, ubthe a“ ahtmg at 8 o’clock un-
a th- , Entrgplces of the Kiwanis
L; t a
. “ligand 11
, a .
,. garden I{haddltional $15 to
Deetat re best players.
e
nutmeg: will be admitted to
.. gem 01‘ a dime. Luncheon
SI ed during the evening.
us
Pl ky Frosh To
. pity In Shelton
P ‘ ld31y Evening I
'W I We I
= twang: 0f future University
nemayerg 0“ Varsity basket-
“ln smcaane obtained in
e riday evening
‘ ,. . .Tguskl' Freshman team
2, burst lgutedly the finest in
5'. will years at the Uni-
o‘vlll’lay the Pantorlum
figseam ill a game
fee will be 50 cents,
9&8h prize for first
“18 other prizes to~
be
the first game of a
n which the Shelton
fiu‘lulntet will m e e t
reserves in the
_ the game
an eye peeled on
rpsil blond forward,
h 00tulg ability bor-
ghenomenul, and
Ev l wide-shouldered
were“ star who like-
ara a: Point getter.
0f the Husky
s the peak ill
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gym have played
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he is
asonic division of Shel-
' fight torenominate Pres-
DION WINS
'cRowN AS MOST
SHELTON, WASHINGTON,
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PRO‘LIFIC VALENTINE SENDER
Mason County‘s most prolific
valentine sender was easy to find
yesterday. He was County Treas-
urer Omer L. Dion and he won
the contest (if any) hands down.
The treasurer was up to his
annual stunt of mailing ‘valentines’
to all Mason County property own-
ers, only the Dion type of valen- ready
tine was cold-bloodedly statistical
about the whole thing. Lacking
entirely was the sentiment, friend—
liness, comedy or even the sly digs
of the kind of valentines the rest
of us sent out.
But not Dion’s. His were differ-
ent — and plenty numerous. In
fact there were something like
9000 of them altogether. Oh,
pshaw! Let’s get it over with.
They are annual tax statements
on real and personal property in
Mason County. There were about
8000 real property tax statements,
something over 700 personal prop—
erty tax statements.
The taxes become payable upon
Ireceipt of the statement and some
conscientious taxpayers had al-
remitted this afternoon,
Treasurer Dion said. Taxpayers
have until March 15 in which to
pay their real and personal taxes
and receive the three percent re—
bate allowed under law, Dion point-
ed out.
GIRL 0N VALENTINE DAY
Mr, and Mrs. Harry DeShields of
Shelton became parents of a baby
daughter born on Valentine’s Day
at Shelton hospital.
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NEWS ANALYSIS JOSEPH W. LaBINE
German ‘Pcace Drive9 Eclipsed
By War Threats in Near East;
Politicians Hold U. S. Interest
(EDITOR’S N 0TE—_When opinions are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Spotlighted on the
POLITICS :
In the background since congress
reconvened, presidential politics
stole, the show again when the Dem-
ocratic national committee selected
Chicago as its convention site. Re-
publicans, who scheduled their
meeting later in the hope that Dem-
ocratswould set a convention date,
were outfoxed. This resulted in
minor dissension among G. O. P.
leaders, who debated whether to set
a date immediately or keep stalling.
Since third-termites dominated the
Democratic meeting, observers
guessed there would be. a strong
ident Roosevelt in the
city where he was first
chosen in 1932.
As Chicago became a
political focal point, so
did Illinois. There were
signs that both President
Roosevelt andVice Pres-
ident Garner would be
entered in the April 9
preference primary,
while in New York the
G.O.P.backers ofyoung
Tom Dewey challenged
Ohib’s Sen. Bob Taft
and other Republican hopefuls to a
contest in the same primary.
UN-AMERICANISM :
Ended was the episode in which
Michigan’s Rep. Frank Hook
charged that Martin (“Lin-American-
ism") Dies was working in cahoots
with William Pelley. leader of the
anti-Semitic “Silver Shirts.” When
Pelley surrendered and admitted
that letters used as evidence were
forged, Hook apologized on the
house floor. If this had been a
campaign to smear irrepressible
ACCUSER HOOK
He apologized.
. . - .
Washington Scene:
Martin Dies, it had only served to
strengthen him and the cause of his
“ism” committee. Next day FBI
rounded up 12 persons charged with
recruiting Americans for service
with the Communist forces in Spain.
CONGRESS :
The house continued lopping mil-
lions from President Roosevelt’s
budget. and the senate continued re-
storing them. The senate voted
down a $1,000,000 cut in Civil Aero-
nautics authority funds. bringing the
independent offices bill back to $1,-
139,693,528. But it was still 55 mil-
lions under budget estimate, provid-
ing a good start on the
460 millions congress
hopes to save by way of
avoiding new defense
taxes. Meanwhile the
house slashed away at
the state-justice-com-
merce department ap-
propriations bill.
LABOR:
John Lewis’ C. I. 0.,
which has been striking
at the New Deal lately,
turned a partial about-
face by defending the
national labor relations act against
A. F. of L.-inspired changes. Before
the house NLRB committee,C.I.O.'s
Philip Murray read a statement in
which Lewis charged “reactionary
and anti-labor” corporations are dic-
tating A. F. of L.'s proposed amend-
ments. At Miami, A. F. of L.’s exec-
utive board was also getting hostile
toward the New Deal. urging en-
couragement of private enterprise
and charging the administration
with trying to place labor “under its
thumb." The entire labor-govern-
ment picture was pretty complicated.
Continued on Page Four
TORY FINALS
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ON AMERICANISIVI
» SLATEO MONDAY
Five Prep students Competing For
American Legion Prizes In
Annual Contest
I
Americanism is the subject to
be discussed by five senior high
school students Monday evening in
the finals of the Americanism ora-
tory contest sponsored by the Am-
erican Legion and American Le-
gion Auxiliary.
The Irene S. Reed high school
the oratory program, which opens
at o’clock with City Attorney
Charles R. Lewis as chairman.
Musical numbers will be inter-
spersed with the speeches. Mrs.
auditorium will be the setting for"
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAYI I
DICKINSON IS
CHAIRMAN OF
PLAN COUNCIL
County ‘Idea’ Body Organizes on
Tuesday; Driskel Chosen
Vice-Chairman, Oker-
strom Secretary
Holding its first official meet-
ing with only two of its 12 mem-
bers absent, the new Mason coun-
ty Planning Council became an
actuality Tuesday evening by e1—
ecting its officers.
Herb L. Dickinson of Hoodsport
was elected permanent chairman,
D. Z. Driskel, Shelton business-
‘man, vice chairman, and Clinton
Okerstrom, county agent, as sec-
retary.
‘ Percy Hetherton and two other
,members of the state planning
fcouncil attended the organization
lmeeting, Hetherton talking on the
duties of such bodies and giving
the advice that the council should
not attempt to have too many ir-
ons in the fire at the same time.
Dickinson’s first action as chair-
man of the body was to appoint
H. E. Loop, J. E. Martin and Ok-
erstrom as a committee to draft
,by-laws for the council and to re-
port back at the next meeting,
which is scheduled for February
27 at the court house at 7:30 pm.
The planning council is compos-
cd of, in addition to the men al-
ready named here, Miss Eloise
Flagg, Pete Eitriem‘, Frank Binns,
EHarry Hurst, Harry Young, War-
}ren Lincoln and F. H. Diehl. Only
.Young and Martin were absent on
lTuesday, both having other pre-
Ivious engagements.
lMilk Sanitation
Shown Activians
In Motion Films
With one of the largest turn-
‘outs in the recent history of the
:club responding for the opening of
Jan attendance contest, Activians
witnessed with interest last night
approximately 1000 feet of colored
motion film on milk sanitation
IShOVVl'l to them by Roy M. Wiley,
;state milk sanitarian.
I John Olsen, district milk sani-
Itarian, arranged for his superior’s
_appearance here. The pictures
jshowed the routine operation of
producing grade A milk in Wash-
iington’s outstanding dairies. The
iActivians found the picture of
Iabsorbing interest.
; Next week clubmen have two
gtrips to .choose between, or to
fmake both if they desire. Wednes—
;day most of the club will go to
IOlympia for a trip through the
IOlympia brewery, then on Thurs-
Iday at least a couple of cal-loads
Thursday, February 15, 1940.
bid Club Offers Aid To
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
. Teach Controlled Skiing
Tonight the Mt. Lincoln Ridge
Runners hold another of their
weekly sessions in the court-
house beginning at eight o’clock.
All members are urged to at-
tend as important discussidu is
scheduled.
' It was about mid-afternoon of
last Sunday when a prominent
member of the Mt. Lincoln Ridge
lRunners came gliding down the
lski packed slope of the practice
hill on Mt. Rainier’s Alta Vista.
Skiing with perfect control and
executing consecutive turns with
Iapparent ease, the skier came to
la halt at the bottom of he course
with a sliding parallel Christianal
turn, the first ‘Christy’ he had been
lable to make during the entire
; day.
I “Say, Mister,” called a young
voice, “would 'you show me how
Ito turn these things so I won’t
be running into every tree on the
mountain.”
Willing To Learn
Surprised and equally pleased
that his exhibition had impressed
someone, the Sheltonian looked up
to see of boy of about twelve.‘
struggling up the hill. Dressed ill
wool mackinaw, stocking cap, fad- I
ed blue denim overalls, and oil-
skin mittens, the lad was a'sharp
contrast to the hordes of peeple
on the hill dressed in conventional
ski togs.
“Sure, son,” the skiier replied,
“I’ll be glad to show you as best
I can. Can you snow plow?”
“Well, a little bit,” said the boy.
Starting from the most elemen-
tary exercise in controlled skiing,
the lad followed the directions and
demonstrations of his amateur in-
structor. After- a few trials at
snow plowing, the boy found that
turning was merely a matter of
weighting one ski more than the
other and his delight knew no
bounds as he came down the hill-
side, executing both right and left
snow plow turns. In 15 minutes
the young enthusiast had progres-
sed enough to be shown the next
exercise, the stem turn.
“What’s your name, mister?”
asked the grateful pupil, “I’m cer-
tainly obliged to you for teach-
ing me all this.”
Pupil and teacher exchanged in-
troductions and went their respec-
tive ways, but the Ridge Runner
was getting an idea.
Birth of An Idea
If this boy can learn so rapidly
and easily, why couldn’t some of
the young fellows in Shelton do
as well if given the opportunity
to take a lesson from a real in-
structor? Perhaps the older mem-
bers of the ski club would help
make these lessons possible by
bringing some of the boys up oc-
casionally.
When the suggestion was made
at the club meeting, the response
was very gratifying. Members
who usually provide transportation
at a set fee voted to provide room
for one young member for one
trip if he would avail himself of
the opportunity to enter a class
in the ski school. To help the
youngsters move, the ski club vot-
ed to waive the usual initiation
fee for boys who will take a les-
son.
Several boys have shown inter-
est in the rapidly growing winter
sport and the Ridge Runners hope
to be of service in making their
sport safer and more enjoyable by
helping others learn “controlled
skiing," the only ' skiing which
should be encouraged.
A. l. BENNETT IS I
DEATH VICTIM IN
SEATTLE TUESDAY
Prominent Engineer Supervised
Construction of Pulp Mill
Here; Son Lives Here
I Alfred James (Jim) Bennett, 60,
'construction'engineer who super-
vised the building of the Rayonier
pulp mill here and others of the
Rayonier group at Port Angeles,
Hoquiam and Fernandina, Florida,
died of a heart attack in his Se-
attle apartment Tuesday morning.
He was the father of John W.
Bennett of Shelton, who is con-
nected with the research labor-
atory for Rayonier enterprises.
Inett, and a daughter, Mrs. Alex-
ander Laing of Hanover, New
IHamphshire, also survive.
Funeral services are to be con-
H- 13- Drewv Mrs- Lawrence Bur‘ '3 of Shelton Activians plan to go to
ducted Friday at four o'clock from
1'9“ and wake" Eekert Will serveiHoquiam for an inter-club gath-
St. Marks Cathedral
.with cremation following. Among
as judges of the orations.
Contestants and their topics
are: .
Shirley Jones, “Americanism and
the Indians” ‘ I
Phil Palmer, “Rights and Priv1-
leges of Americans”
Robert Pearson, “Democracy,
the Modern Americanism”
Carol Wilkie, “Preservation of
Americanism”
Jeanne Saeger,
Its Christianity”
The musical diversion will be
supplied by Bobby Wenz, who will
sing “I’ll Take You Home Again.
Kathleen” and “Beautiful Dream-
er"; by Arthur Biehl, who will
play “Shower of Gold" on his
saxophone; and Miss Ida Olson.
who will sing “When I Have
Sung My Songs” and “Serenade.”
“America and
The audience will open the pro-.l
gram, by singing “America” while
extemporaneous talks of a brief
nature by the contestants Will
close the program.
Mrs. Florence Weeks arranged|
the' program in her capacity as
Americanism chairman for the
American Legion Auxiliary.
V.F.W. AMERICANISM
ESSAY DEADLINE NEAR
Deadline for another American-
ism contest, the essay competition
Sponsored by the V.F.W. Auxiliary,
arrives next week for all essays
to be entered must be in by
Washingtons birthday, Mrs. Mary
Pigg, local chairman, reminded
students of the junior and senior
high schools today.
Mrs. Pigg is in the throes' of
selecting judges at the present
time. Junior and senior high
sphool entrants will compete in leop-
arate divisions in each of which a
$2 cash award for first place and
a. $1 cash award for second place
is offered by the V.F.W. Auxiliary.
Indian Girl Dies
In Tacoma Today
Donna Mae Twiddy, 4-year-old
Indian girl from the Skokomish
Reservation, died this morning at
the Cushman hospital in Tacoma.
The remains were brought to
Witsiers Funeral Home for serv-
ices, which will be announced 1a-
ter. The child was born May 2,
1936, on the Skokomish Reserva-
tion and is survived by the par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Twiddy. '
a brother, Ronald Duane, and a
grandfather.
gering and annual program staged
iby the Hoquiam Active Club.
I _
lPublic Meeting
I Sunday To Bare
l. Strike Issues
Promising to divulge facts on
the situation which brought about
-the suspension of Simpson Logging
COmpany operations, Local 38, In—
ternational Woodworkers of Am-
erica is sponsoring a public meet-
ing in the Labor Temple next
Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock
with Harold Pritchett, internation
.al president of the I.W.A., sched-
luled as one of the speakers.
Local 38 extends a special invi-
tation to Shelton business men
and women and to the public at
large to attend the meeting. Free
coffee will be served.
Meanwhile, the strike situation
Iwhich has closed all Simpson Log-
ging Company operations except
that in the joint power house re-
mains in the status quo, pending
action at another arbitration meet-
ling this evening between represen-
tatives of the company and the
union.
[Father Hurt Today In
1 Yakima, Shelton Learns
Carl Shelton received word this
.afternoon of a serious injury suf-
Ifered by his father in an accident
at Yakima today. He left im-
mediately for Yakima, not know—
ing the exact particulars of the
accident.
Journal Knocks
Off Thursday To
Enjoy Holiday
Joining the rest of Shelton’s
business houses ill closing up on
Washington’s B i r t h d a y , the
Journal will also take next
Thursday off and so will pub-
lish on Monday and Wednesday
next week, a day ill advance of
its usual publication dates.
Thus a request is in order for
cooperation from correspond—
ents, advertisers and others with
material to be published in next
week’s issues to get ill their
copy early—a day ahead of
their usual habits.
in Seattle
the honorary pallbearers for the
last rights are D. B, Davies, Dr.
Russell M. Pickens, and K. o.
Fosse, all of the Shelton Rayon-
ier plant, and W. R. Gibson and
Norman B. Gibbs, formerly con-‘
nected with the Shelton Rayonierl
plant.
Mr. Bennett was widely known
in Shelton through his close con-
Ipection with the construction and
subsequent expansions of the Ray-
onier plant. He was a former
British government engineer in
West Africa and has been one of
the most prominent pulp and pa.
per mill construction engineers in
the Northwest for many years,
First Aid Course Due
To Be At Courthouse
The special Red Cross first aid
course for advanced students which
is to be held here beginning March
4 will be onducted in the court-
house, Myron Lund. Red Cross
first aid chairman, announced yes-
terday.
The course will be instructed by
Ben Carpenter, Red Cross national
first aid and life saving instructor.
The class is now complete with
representatives from every typel
His widow, Emilie Francis Ben
of work and activity in the county
in which knowledge of first aid
is important, Lund said,
TONIGHT—City council; 8 p, in.
city hall.
TONIGHT——Commercial l e a g u e
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling al-
, leys.
FRIDAY—'V.F.W. post and aux-
iliary, 8 p. m., Memorial Hall.
FRIDAY—Professional wrestling,
8:30 p. m., Labor Temple.
FRIDAY—City league bowling, 7
and p. m., bowling alleys.
FRIDAY—Basketball, U. of W.
Frosh v's. Shelton Town Team,
7:30 p. m., Shelton Highclimb-
ers vs. Town Team reserves,
8:30 p. m., Lincoln gym.
SATURDAY—Superior court, 10
a. m., courthouse.
SATURDAY—Junior high bas-
ketball, Centralia vs. Shelton,
2 p. m., Lincoln gym, first and
second team games.
SATURDAY—City league bas-
ketball, 3 games, Lincoln gym,
7, 8 and 9 p. m.
MONDAY—County commission-
ers, 10 a, m., courthouse.
MONDAY—City league basket-
ball, 10 p. m., Lincoln gym, Mc-
Cleary Timber vs. Rayonier.
lmorrow is the final day for regis-
TIIREE FILE FOR
SCHOOL OFFICES;
TWO POSTS OPEN
Weinel Seeks Re-Election, Opposed
By Mrs, Deegan; Carlon Alone
So Far In 5th District
Three candidates had, tossed
their chapeaus into the ring up
to press time this afternoon for
the two directorships on the school
board of District 309 (Shelton)
which expire this year, Clerk
Louis Weinel announced.
Weinel himself has filed for
re-election in the first district and
will be opposed by Mrs. Betty
Decgan, active P.-T. A. member
and past president of the Lincoln
P.-T. A. Mrs. Deegan was first
to file her notice of candidacy.
In the fifth district Harry Car-
Ion, Rayonier Credit Union offic-
er, is unopposed to date for the
post being vacated by Mrs, H. H.
Crary, who is ineligible to seek
re-election because she has
changed her residence and no
longer resides in the fifth dis-
trict.
Deadline for filing candidacies
for the school board posts is next
Tuesday. Filings must be made
with the clerk of the board. To-
tration of voters not now on the
rolls or who have been dropped
for failing to vote at least once
in the past two years.
Notices of the time and place
of the annual school district elec-
tions are being posted now, March
being the date and the Lincoln
grade school building the place
for the Shelton ..consolidated Dis-
trict 309.
No information is available at
this time on candidates for rural
school board posts. County School
Supt. J. E. Martin said yester-
day. Three or four districts will
have special levies up for decision
of voters March 2, he said.
VALENTINE BABY BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Swanson of
Hoodsport became the parents of
a. Valentine Day baby son born
at Shelton hospital.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Charles H. Hillman, Reed Mill
employe, underwent an operation
at Shelton hospital yesterday.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR I
MONDAY—J o u r n a1 publishes
(day early because of Washing-
ton’s birthday).
MONDAY—Americanism oratory
finals, 8 p m., Irene S. Reed
high school auditorium.
MON DAY—Women’s l e a g u e
bowling, 8 p. m., bowling alleys.
TUESDAY—Kiwanis club lunch-
eon, noon, Hotel Shelton.
TUESDAY—P r e p basketball,
Shelton vs. Montesano, 7 p. m.,
Lincoln gym, first and second
team games.
TUESDAY—American L e g i o n
post and auxiliary, 8 p, m.,
Memorial Hall.
TUESDAY—Deadline for filing
for school board director posts.
FRIDAY—Registration b o o k 5
close for school election,
SATURDAY—3rd annual Shelton
commercial class bowling tour-
ney continues, 2 p. m., to 1:30
a. m., bowling alleys.
SUNDAY—3rd annual Shelton
commercial class bowling tour-
ney closes, 2 p. m., to midnight,
bowling alleys.
HERRING TRAP
HOT SUBJECT
TO SPORTSMEN
Operation Of Trap At Seal Rock
Causes Warm Conversations
Tuesday; Meetings Are
Last Thursdays
Whisper ‘fish trap’ in a. room-
ful of sportsmen and then you’d
best duck.
That touchy topic. was raised
Tuesday evening at the February
session of the Hood Canal Sports—
mens Ass'n and before President
Harry Young could herd the boys
downstairs to a hotcake and pig
sausage feed quite a few opinions,
some of a pretty strong nature.
had been expressed and a few
characters attacked, notable
among these being that of Director
Brennan of the State Fisheries
Department and all fish trap op-
erators in general.
Fortunately, President Pro
Tem Harold Ellis, holding the chair
until Young was able to arrive on
[the scene after a sudden call to
lShelton, had brought up the mat—
ter of voting for a permanent
meeting date before the fish trap
issue was mentioned, else that
matter probably would have been
neglected. As it was, however,
the membership voted by an over-
whelming majority to hold future
monthly meetings of the associa-
tion on the last Thursday of each
month. The next sportsmens ga—
thering, therefore, will occur on
March 28.
State Gives Permit
The fish trap topic was brought
up when sportsmen learned last
week of a herring trap being op-
erated at Seal Rock under per-
mission of the fisheries department,
Ken Rathbun and Leo Johnson.
representing the Hood Canal
Sportsmens Ass’n, investigated the
trap and talked with the operator.
Careful to point out his report
was what the operator told him,
Rathbun said the herring trap ob-
tained 100% hatch and saving of
the herring spawn against only
ten percent in the natural state.
Against this argument, Poggie
Joe Orvis, long-time president of
the Thurston Poggie Club, pointed
lout that while that particular fact
I
might be true, the herring trap
still destroyed the herring it
caught and so would, in time,
exterminate the herring run in
Hood Canal if allowed to continue
to operate.
Orvis went into considerable de-
tail on conversations he has had
with Brennan and Lloyd Royal,
fisheries department biologist,
from which Orvis said he has come
to the conclusion that Brennan is
“a fish trap man” and that no ef-
fective program in regard to food
fish conservation will ever be con—
ducted by the state department
until a change in its personnel is
affected.
Canal Run Last
Orvis said it is now a definite
fact that the herring run in Hood
Canal is the last of any conse-
quence in inland waters of the
Northwest and that if it is allow—
ed to be exterminated salmon
fishing in Hood Canal will be
ruined, too, inasmuch as herring
,form the chief food supply for
H o o (1
Canal Sportsmen to continue fight-
ing to keep Hood Canal closed for
all time to commercial fishing, an
achievement of that association,
as he said he believes sport fish—
ing far more valuable an asset to
this area than any amount of
commercial fishing which would be
feasible in the canal.
“You’ll never' damage the fish
supply of Hood Canal with hook
and line while the amount of mon-
ey spent by tourists and sports
fishermen seeking the canal’s sal~
mom will far surpass what com-
mercial fishing could return,” Or-
vis asserted.
Resolution Raps Traps
To conclude the fish trap dis-
cussion, the gathering passed with-
out a dissenting vote a resolution
drafted by George Hixon of Lake
Cushman opposing herring traps
in Hood Canal and all types of fish
traps.
Carl Neal,,new district super-
visor for the Olympic National
Forest, was introduced at the ses-
sion and pledged the continued
support of his department to ac-
tivities of thersportsmen as well
as expressing his thanks for past
cooperation from the sportsmen.
Orvis, returning to the floor,
reported on .the first meeting of
the Washington State Sports
Council's salmon committee last
Friday in Tacoma (Harry Young
as a member of it) and said the
committee strongly recommended
IInitiative 77 be left untouched and
that the duties of the game and
fisheries departments be Combined.
The hotcakes and pig sausage
feed which closed the February
gathering was prepared by Mr,
and Mrs. Joe McKiel and Leo
Johnson, with the able help of
several members of the Hoods-
.port Boy Scout troop.
salmon.
Poggie Joe urged the
STYLE SHOW MARCH 16
Serving notice early to avoid
conflict with other events which
may be scheduled later, the Order
of Amaranth has chosen March 14
as the date for its annual spring
style show and, musical which it
stages with the Lumbermen’s Mer-
'cantile each spring.