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ORCYCLE INSTRUCTOR FOR
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Jordan Clapper
Appointed New
City Auditor
Must Shelton residents will
meet him when they next pay
their water rent, but we’d like
to introduce, nevertheless, the
city’s new auditor, Jordan Clap—
per, appointed to preside behind
the. counter at the city hall to
handle money collections and
other details of municipal af-
fairs.
Mr. Clapper took over his
post officially this week, Suc-
ceeding Gordon Hendry, now
with the state patrol. He came
to Shelton some three years ago
from Creston, Iowa, where he
gained considerable experience
in bookkeepping and account-
ing with the Standard Oil Com~
puny and a. large iron works.
“is home is on the Olympic
Highway three miles south of
Shelton.
You'll be meeting him short-
ly,, if you haven’t already, and
we'll venture to predict you’ll
like him.
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p t S C“ 1 ‘Cost Of lemg’
ChecksBenefit
I Rayonier Workers
Employees of Rayonier Incor-
porated at Shelton not covered by
collective bargaining agreements
will receive “cost of living” ad-
justmént checks monthly in addi-
ltion to their regular monthly
compensation, George J. Crop-
per, resident manager announced
today. The first check will be is-
sued about February 20th and
will be in. addition to the com-
pensation for January services.
The percentage of adjustment
is baSed on the simple average of
index figures of Pacific Coast liv-
ing costs by the United States
The
measuring stick for the first
three months of 1942 will be the
increase for the index figure for
I the period between September 15,
1941 and January 15, 1942. Sub—
sequently, the amount will be de-
termined quarterly by fluctuation
in living costs. The “cost of liv-
ing” adjustment policy is expect—
led to prevail in all divisions of
Rayonier Incorporated through
the war's duration, Mr. Cropper
stated.
Word has now been received
that the adjustment percentage
figure for the first quarter of
1942 is 5 per cent and the esti-
mated additional income for the
employees affected at Shelton
will approximate $1300 monthly.
713 Registered
In Mason County
For Draft Board
Mason County added 713 men
to Uncle Sam’s selective service
registration ranks Monday, Mrs-
Martha Haines, clerk. for the
Mason County Draft Board, an-
nounced yesterday.
Of that total, 689 were 1'83'
istercd in Mason County for.
Mason County, 25 others Were
registered here for outside
draft boards, and 24 were 1'6!"
istered in other localities for
Mason County. Under this lat-
ter heading there may be a feW
further additions to the total.
The draft registration SPOt
set up in Shelton Precinct N0-
2 at the court house turned
in the largest number of regis'
trans with ’76, Mrs. Haines re-
ported.
Serial numbers will be as"
signed the new registrants, who
were in ‘two age groups 0f 20
to 21 years and 35 to 45 years!
on March 9 by the draft board.
When the national lottery to
determine order of call for ac-
tual Army service will be held
has not been announced.
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VOL. LVI—NO. 8
MAKING SWELL
BIINARECIIRD
Responding with splendid pa-
triotic swiftness, 72 per cent of
the employees at Rayonier‘s
Shelton plant had authorized pay-
roll deductions for the purchase
(of defense bonds in a drive which
opened at the big mill here only
Ilast Monday, Dick
,chairman of the mill's
ibond sales committee,
yesterday afternoon.
i Representatives of the commit-
;tee working in each department
of the plant asked workers to
1’authorize deductions from their
Ipaychccks for the purchase of ‘de-
fense bonds, which will be han-
dlcd through the Shelton Rayon-
ier Federal Credit Union, the pay-
defense
reported
union shares from which the de-
lfense bonds would then be pur—
‘built up in each employc's ac—
count.
412 of 570 Already
Many committee workers have
not reported in with their results
yet, Kieburtz pointed out, because
of the short time the drive has
been in progress, so hopes of
reaching 100 per cent participa-
{tion among the 570 plant work-
lers is high. At the time Kieburtz
reported, 412 plant employes had
authorized the payroll deductions.
The Rayonier management, co—
operating to the fullest extent in
the drive, has erected a 6x8 foot
sign in the mill yard, with night
floodlights illuminating it, on
which the progress of the drive is
being recorded.
Chairman C. C. Cole of the
county defense savings commit-
tee reported yesterday that mer-
chants will be asked by the com—
Imittee to keep a. supply of de:
Ifense stamps on hand and to sug-
gest that customers take part of
their change from purchases in
stamps instead of cash.
Pledge Campaign Coming
The committee is also working
out details for conducting a
pledge campaign, possibly to be
handled through Republican and
l
iDemocratic precinct committee-
men, by which every person in
Mason County will be asked to
sign a card pledging himself to
the purchase of a given amount
of bonds or stamps each payday.
“This pledge campaign,” Chair-I
man Cole explained, “is for the
purpose of giving the government
as definite an idea as possible of
how much money it can figure on
from defense bonds sales per
month, thus permitting the gov—
Iernment to work out a base for
.a taxation program to raise the
funds needed for carrying on the
war. A strong response from the
public on defense bonds will go
a long way toward defeating a
lot of the crack-pot taxation
plans you’re hearing so much
about now.”
Miss—Illngelsen
To Handle Sugar
Ration Supplies.
l Material involved in the com-
ing sugar rationing program will
be distributed in Mason County
by County Clerk Miss Clare En-
gelsen, according to word receiv-
ed by the county commissioners
this week.
A letter from Lew Selvidge,
executive secretary of the Asso-
ciation of County Commissioners
informed the county board that
Gov. Langlie had designated coun-
ty clerks throughout the State of
Washington as consignees for su-
gar rationing materials and would
handle distribution of that mater-
ial at such time as the actual ra-
tioning program goes into effect.
The county board was inform-
ed by the state treasurer that
Mason County’s share of Decem-
ber gas tax receipts is $9,698.59.
Monday Holiday
I In Local Stores
schools, however, will find “busi-
ness as usual" Monday for the
Order an extra day's supply of
lschools here, and in most other
nourishment when you do your
week end shopping this week,
Mrs. Sheltonian.
Local retail stores, excepting
only those which stay open on
holidays anyway, will take an ex-
tra day off this week end, observ-
ing Washington’s birthday as a
holiday Monday, although the ac-
tual holiday falls on Sunday.
Decision to close retail stores
here on Monday was reached last
Week by the Retail Stores Trades
Committee. Such public offices as
the courthouse, city hall, welfare
office, bank, postoffice, etc., of
course, will likewise take the day
off. but the holiday will have no
affect on the operation of Shel-
ton’s industrial plants.
Students attending Shelton
zoommunities as well, are not clos—
mg Monday inasmuch as the ac-
tual holiday occurs on Sunday.
City Supt. H. E. Loop explained
, today. .
i DAUGTHEB BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Markland
of Potlatch Route are the parents
Of a baby girl born at Shelton
Hospital last Friday.
Kiebur‘tz, '
-roll deductions going into credit'
i chased as sufficient amounts were i
Mooch Fro
’
Consolidated with The Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Friday February 20, 1942
REAR M0RKERMSeaauus Smarties-'1 illl'llll’lllllli
m N.P. Crew
1 If it takes wits to live without
eworking, a couple of crippled sea-
gulls around these parts must be
smarties.
l
For at least a dozen years now
,these two particular gulls, both
{minus one of their legs, have
{been mooching daily meals off
ithe Northern Pacific train crews
eating lunch in the caboose of
.the daily train which chugs into
lthe Shelton depot.
1’ It all started away back during
the first days of the depression
(maybe there was a depression in
lgull land, too) when Fred Com-
fort, now retired, tossed a con-
vple of crusts out the cupola of
the caboose.
; The gulls happened to be near
‘—--since they haven’t missed a
inieal, thanks to the encourage-
iment Mr. Comfort gave them.
They soon became his pets.
They generally pick up thel
train about where the Olympic
Plywood plant stands now and
either ride on the caboose rbofiI
or fly close to it the rest of the,
way into the N.P. depot, in the
meantime gobbling up all the
handouts the crew offers.
They've learned to identify the,
caboose on the regular train, forl
these feathered hoboes don’t bo-i
ther any other train 'on the run.
They're jealous of their jurisdic-l
tion, too, for they squall to the
heavens if other gulls attempt to
muscle in on their “racket.”
This isn't their only source of,
victuals, evidently, for the min-.
ute the lunch hour whistle blows
in the industrial district they:
proptly desert the train crew and
head for the waterfront to mooch;
more handouts. '
ClVlLlAN REFEREE
MEASURES AlRED
FOR KlWANlS CLUG
Kiwanians heard details of ru-
dimentary civilian defense meas-
ures at their weekly meeting
Tuesday from City Defense Co~
iordinator Doane Brodie, who re-
viewed in brief form information
gleaned during some 30 hours in
la defense school conducted .by
Army officials in Olympia in De-
cember.
Coordinator Brodie pointed out
the menace which confronts the
Pacific coast and specifically
Shelton, which is but 15 minutes
away from the ocean and in di-
rect line with two main military
objectives should the enemy send
1bombing planes.
Civilians On Own
He mentioned the four branches
of defense—army, navy, air and
civilian—pointing out that after
the first shock citizens must be
able to carry on their own home
defenses for the military de~
lfenses become busy with other
functions. Although aiming at,
naval and army bases, enemy air;
men might be forced to drop their
bomb loads partway, and Shelton
with its incidental defenSe work
uplants would be ideal secondary
objectives for bombing forays.
Coordinator Brodie explained
the several forms of incendiary
bombs so far known and meas-
ures of combating that form of
war danger which might strike
any home. A bag of sand should
be kept around every home or
building as an important aid in
combating incendiary bombs, he
said.
Three Warnings Flashed
The system of warning signals
for impending air attack, given
through the interceptor service,
were covered by the speaker, who
mentioned the 15 minute advance
warning to put civilian defense
officials on the alert, the ten
minute warning to put' civilian
defense units on the alert, and
the five minute signal given civil-
ians to seek safe shelter.
This, incidentally, he comment-
ed, is not the average home or
basement for most bombs easily
penetrate through houses, but op-
en spots or sheltered banks are
the safest spots from bombs. The
great danger thissummer will be
from incendiary cellulose flakes
designed to fire our forest, Bro-
die cautioned.
The mixed high school chorus
under Ben Hallgrimson provided
musical features.
RECEIVING TREATMENT
William Griggs, Rayonier em-
ploye is receiving treatment at
the Shelton Hospital.
SHELTON SOLDIER WITNESSES
urged to observe with the Cham-
wnleRs NAMES,
COMMITTEES FOR
CHAMBER PROGRAM
Committee appointments were,
President Bill Witsiers’ main con-1
cern as he presided over his first
regular Chamber of Commercei
meeting Thursday night.
Other business occupying the
Chamber's attention resulted in
approval of the printing of 5,000
more Mason County advertising
folders like those put out two
years ago and which proved ef-
fective in spreading the advan-
tages of Mason County around
the .state and to distant places. I
The Chamber also approved a
recommended list of holidays
which Shelton retail stores are
ber's backing in 1942. These con-
sist of Washington‘s Birthday
(next Monday), Memorial Day,.
Fourth of July, Labor Day, Arm-
istice Day, Thanksgiving and
Christmas. New Years Day was,
overlooked, probably because it'
fall: in 1943.
Giggles ,Somers, St. Charles
Winery proprietor, spoke briefly
on the feasibility of Mason Coun-
ty farmers growing “Perfection” r
red currents, uncommonly large
and juicy and exceptionally fine
for wine making. - 1
Those committee appointmentsf
announced by President Witsiers
were (first named being chair—_
man):
Membership
Bruce Wilcox, L.
Wivell, Frank Wordon,
Lakeburg.
Retail—Mark Pickens, F. E.
Beckwith, S. B. Anderson, Roy
Maddux, Harold Sutherland, F. A.
Travis, Al Munro.
County Advisory—F. H. Diehl,
I. H. Woods, 0. 0. Cole.
City Affairs— Phil Bayley, F.
A. Travis, H. G. Angle.
Advertising and Publicity Al
Huerby, A. L. Ferwerda, Charles
Somers, J. E. Angle, G. M. An-
drews.
Airport—R. T. Trenckmann, MW
H. Needham, Roy McConkey.
County Affairs—Rudy Werber-
ger, Lee Huston, Clint Okerstrom.
Industrial— C. H. Kreienbaum,|
C. J. Macke, Roy J. Kimbel.
Taxation and Legislation ——
George Cropper, C. E. Runacres,
Charles R. Lewis. . ,
Program and Entertainment—.,
W. M. Elliott, E. H. Faubert, R.
F. Eddy. M. C. Zinthl-o.
Pioneers Picnic—Grant C. An-
gle, Joe Forrest, Simon Skagen,
Lyle Wilson.
Game and Wild Life —- A. W.
Robinson, Bud Daviscourt, Vern
Eaton.
Priorities—F. A. Travis, H. G.
Angle, Roy J. Kimbel.
id Finance ——
. Carlson, Cliff
l
BURNING or LINER NORMANDIE‘
Private James
' drafted into the Army from Ray-
onier’s chemist staff here last
September, writes an exception-
ally interesting letter to The
Journal from his post at Fort
Slocum, N.Y.
I Quoting from the letter, which
was dated February 12:
“I had the unique experience
the other evening of witnessing
the late stages of the fire on
the Normandie, and despite the
press of the crowds, the guards
seemed quite oblivious of anoth-
er soldier and I, who managed to
get a. view from the front of
the dock, but of course, you have
a better account of this than I
could describe.
“I suppose it is a. privilege to
be stationed within 25 miles of
New York City, but just for your
information, I would much rather
stroll up the Dosewalips river
valley, than the canyons of Lower
Broadway, and the towers of
Mount Lincoln Ridge impress me
far more than the peaks of Ra-
. dio City.
I N.Y. Hospitality Landed
“It must be admitted that the
hospitality which the New York-
ers extend to servicemen is by
far the best that I have seen any-
lwhere, and the benefits afforded
‘by the USO. are without ques-
tion very valuable as far as mor-
ale is concerned.
“To relate a few of the things
B. Edgbert, ‘
provided by the U.S.O., a service
men has access to tickets to any
radio broadcast in the city, con-
certs, tickets to any stage or
screen Show, tours of the entire
city, including the Statue of Lib-
erty and the Empire State build-
ing. It has been my pleasure to
attend the MetropolitanOpera, ice
hockey at Madison Square Gar-
den and the very spectacular mus-
ical “It Happens on Ice" in Rock-
efeller Center, also broadcasts in-
cluding Fred Waring’s “Pleasure
Time,” “Your Hit Parade,” “Truth I
or Consequences,” “The World ist
Yours," and Metropolitan, Operal
auditions.
Soldier Gets A Break
“I have been told, and believe
it, that a. service man can see
more in New York in a short
time than New Yorkers can af-
ford in a year. '
Times Building, but then, they
have never seen Lake Constance.
Long Island, and it looks very:
g
the subway
“It is unquestionably a city of
superlatives, and I have never
seen such mob reaction as the
night of December 7th in Times
Square, as the fateful words were
flashing across the lights on the
Puget Sound sure has it all over
God to see dozens of posters in
“Washington State Apples.”
Very truly yours,
Pvt. James B. Edgbert
Fort Slocum, N.Y.
lof 100,000 board feet a day in
‘two shifts, employing around 125
PIYIIAOII NOW 2
Olympic Plywood, Shelton new—
est industry, is going strong in
both production and expansion,
with all its products being ship-
ped as fast as turned out to some
point in Missouri where a great
new encampment is being built,
according to President C. J.v
Macke. The particular product on
which this plant is now turning
all its forces is that of waterproofi
concrete form board which is
comparativoly new to meet a spe—'
cial demand, being seven-ply and
1‘4 inches thick, as thick as an
ordinary fir board and severall
times as strong, Mr. Macke stat—
ed.
The plant is nearing productionl
workmen and is now 100 per cent
on government orders. .
(larload A Day Shipped
After several months of test-
ing work on the ordinary forms
of plywood, 3 and 5 ply for gen-
eral sale, the company found lit-
tle profit in this business after
getting its plant and crew brok-
en in, but the press of govern-
ment work came in to force the
change into waterproof material,
which is going East at the rate
of a carload a day of plywood
which is both waterproof in com-
position and then treated to a.
coat of oil for the special use of
building concrete forms. The oil
coat makes it possible to use the
plywood numerous times with-
out damage.
Since the plant got its first
machines installed and operating
the original mill has been enclos-
ed with double floor space for
handling material in process, a
large warehouse 40x120 has been
added for shipping by rail and
truck, and the Northern Pacific
is now putting in a second spur
track. A small tie mill has been
installed to cut the cores into
railroad ties and work up the sur-
plus wood more valuable than re-
fuse for the boilers.
Power Plant Found Ample
The company was fortunate in
finding the power plant ample
for its need of electricity and
steam heating, and some of the
timbers of the old shingle plant
were utilized but much of the old
lumber is left for anyone who will
salvage it.
The product now being made is
a very. «high grade of plywood,
dressed and finished to high de-
gree, and of better class than re-
quired for ordinary interior fin-
'ishing of homes, but capable of
treatment to meet any taste. At
present and while the government
demand holds the plant will not
be making any product for local
consumption. The supply of “peel~
er” logs comes from the Simpson
Logging Company and is assured
for years ahead.
Oystermen File
3 Suits Against
: Rayonier Inc.
Three suits in equity filed in
the United States district court
at Tacoma last Friday ask for
specific performance by Rayonier
Incorporated of an agreement
made by Rainier Pulp and Pa.-
per company in 1931 in connec-l
tion with the settlement of cer-
tain litigation then pending
against Rainier Pulp and Paper
company in the federal court.
The complaints ask that the
company be enjoined from allow-
ing any waste red or sulphite li-
quor to enter into the waters of
Oakland Bay.
One suit was brought by
Phoebe E. Young, Humphrey
Nelson, Herbert G. Nelson and
Art Nelson. Another was brought
by Arthur Nelson and his wife,
and the third by Herbert G. Nel-
son and his wife.
The oyster beds referred to in
the complaints are located on Lit-
tle Skookum inlet. The oyster
growers claim that the waste li-
quor which is discharged into res-
ervoirs located inland northwest
of the City of Shelton has escap-
ed by seepage and overflow into
Oakland Bay, damaging their oy-
sters in Little Skookum inlet.
M & S Offering
Parking ,Space
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
CHARLES NI. WIVEIJ. AN HIS
I GRANDDAIIGIITER PERISH IN
BEINQ MADE ISABELLA VALLEY RANCH FIRE
CHARLES M. W'IVELL
DAVlSCOlIRT ilAS
ALL MODERN . A N D'
REPAINTED BAKERY.
Completion of installation of
the latest type of modern bakery
equipment, and redecoration of
the. firm’s quarters was announc-
ed this week by Daviscourt Bak-
ery of this city.
Installation of the new machin-
ery assures Shelton of having one]
of the most modern bakery plants
in the entire northwest.
A new method of handling the
making of bread is made possi-
ble through the use of machinery, home Cautiomn
which eliminates the handling of
the dough by human hands from
the time it is scientifically mixed
until it is put inthe baking‘pans.
First step in this‘procedure is
in the operation of a new dough
mixer equipped with an automa~
tic electric 'water tempering
tank, which automatically heats
the water to the correct temper-
ature for bread mixing and also
automatically measures off the.
proper amount of water ,to be
used.
Exactness Assured
The mixer also, has an automa-
tic electric flour scaler and Sifter; pita]
lWivell got out of a sick bed (be
which measures off the exact
amount of flour to be used in each
batch and Sifts it.
After the dough has been mix-
ed it is put into a huge machine,
which takes up most of the floor
space in the. bakery, where it first
goes through a divider which
scales the dough into pieces thel
exact weight for the size loaf
to be baked. The pieces of dough
then go through a rounder which
rounds'the dough into balls and
then through a machine which
makes the balls into long pieces
for panning. The pieces are then
carried to the top of the machine
where they run slowly through
an overhead proof box in which
the dough is raiSed.
Belt Carries Dough
Through all these processes the
dough
so that it is never touched until
ready for the bake oven.
Installation of a new automa-
tic bread slicing and wrapping
machine makes for the more effi-
cient wrapping of the. bread as
the machine has an electric eye
which controls this operation.
In addition to all the new.equip-
ment, a new maple floor has been
laid in the bakery department,
and the entire establishment has
been repainted inside. Installation
of fluorescent lighting through-
out has not been completed.
Daviscourt Bakery wishes to
thank all the people of Shelton
and the store owners whose con-
tinued patronage of their pro-
ducts has made possible this mod-
ernization program. The
is invited to step into the estab-
lishment and watch the opera-
tion of the plant at any time.
A. C. rBayley No. 1
Taxpayer Again
Early returhs on 1942 tax pay-
ments, which began last Monday,
is carried on wide belts:
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One of the saddest tragedies of
this community's history occur-
tly af-
ter midnight in the comp ete de-
‘struction by fire of the Charles
H. Wivell residence in Isabella
Valley, resulting in the deaths of
Mr. Wivell, 84—year-old pioneer
settler and dairyman, and his 12-
year-old granddaughter, Nadine
Evans, who perished in the flam-
ing ranch residence:
Myrvan Wivell, his son, and
Mrs. Myrvan Wivell, who live in
an adjoining house on the same
premises, suffered serious burns
in attempts to rescue the trap—
’ ped pair. Mrs. Charles Wivell and
H. M. Smith, one of the men em-
.ployed on the Wivell dairy farm,
both escaped uninjured from the
burning home.
The elder Mrs. Wivell is believ-
ed to have been first to discover
the fire, although she at first be-
lieved the smoke she smelled to
: be her husband lighting the morn-
ing fire and so began to dress.
EOccupying a. room on the first
'floor, she was able to make her
way outside safely after her
screams had warned the other
three occupants of the house, all
sleeping in second floor rooms.
Mrs. Wivell's cries also awoke
Mr. and Mrs. Myrvan Wivell and
Oliver Constable, herdman for the
Wivell Dairy jersey herd, who oc-
cupied a third residence on the
Wivell property, all of whom
rushed to the scene to attempt to
,rescue the aged man and the.
little girl.
Overcome By Smoke
Myrvan Wivell was almost ov-
ercome by smoke as he attempt-
ed to fight the fire and had to
crawl on hands and knees to safe-
ty, while his wife went upstairs,
located the elder Mr. Wivell and
little Nadine, and started to lead
them to safety when she remem-
bered Mr. Smith’s preSence in the
g Mr. Wivell and
Nadine to remain where they
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from his Window to safety. Re-
turning to where she had left Mr.
Wivell and Nadine, she found
them gone, evidently they had
tried to get down the stairs but
it had collapsed with them and
they perished in the flames.
To save herself, Mrs. Wivell
was forced to crawl from the
second story porch down a tree
to the ground. She and her hus-
band (Myrvan) both suffered bad
burns and are in Shelton hos—
receiving treatment. Mr.
had been suffering an attack of
influenza) to attempt the res-
cue.
Although the Shelton volunteer
fire department responded, the
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Scout Fund Drive
Under Way; Twice
Old Budget Asked
Funds to carry out Boy Scout
activities in the Tumwater Coun-
‘cil are being sought this week
and next by six “teams” working
the town and eight teams can-
vassing the pulp mill, all under
the guiding hand of D. B. Davies,
chairman of the annual Scout
fund drive.
Assignments were handed out
to team members at a breakfast
meeting Tuesday morning. Team
captains and their lieutenants
are: Team 1: J. L. Replinger and
iHarold Watkins; Team 2: James
Amunds and Irving Angove;
Team 3: W. A. McKenzie and R.
H. Allan; Team 4: S. B. Ander-
son and M. A. Clothier; Team 5:
public I
stations advertising school of Shelton, to the contract
indicate a large number of Mason
County property owners intend
to take advantage of the three
per cent rebate offered on pay-
ments made before March
Operation of a parking lot in
conjunction with their store has
been announced by the M 82 S
Food Store this week.
Customers of the store will be
allowed one hour free parking in
the lot which is situated between
the store building and the Asso-
ciated Service station.
Use of the lot as parking space
is expectei to relieve some of
the. congestion problems now
prevalent on Cota street.
Duff Appointed To
The honor of being No. 1 tax-
Alden C. Bayley of the Mason
County Abstract and Title Com-
pany and the Mason County Sav-
ings and Loan Association. He
morning for the staff to open up
so he could pay up his tax state-
ment for 1942.
Mrs. M. A. Clothier, a former
county treasurer, has/been nam-
15,
Treasurer Omer L. Dion reportsl
payer of 1942 once more goes to‘
was waiting at the door Monday:
Mark Pickens and Bill Dickie;
Team 6: E. E. Brewer and M. C.
' Kaphingst. '
Special team captains in the
pulp mill are Chet Hillman, Or-
ville Spinharney, Jim Roush, John
Cole, Sherman Soule, Bob Little,
IKen Calkins and Ken Blanchard,
with Lorrel Seljestad acting as
chairman of the pulp mill can-
vass. ,
The Tumwater Council has
nearly doubled its budget for the
Icoming year after discoverin
|that it had the smallest budge
of any of the 12 councils com-
prising the Northwest Region, al-
though the Tumwater Council is
eleventh in actual size of Scout
membership in the Region.
.Olympia USO Hall
Gets Local Books
Olympia’s new U.S.G. recrea-
tional building for servicemen re-
ceived a neat contribution in read-
ing material from the Mason
County Victory Book Campaign
last Saturday. .
The second shipment of books
contributed by Mason County re’s-
idents to the campaign consisted
,iof 55 class A fiction books, 93
lclass B fiction books, 50 unclas-
Appointment of E. A. Duyff,
instructor at Irene S. Reed high
ed treasurer to replace Nolan Ma-
son, resigned a week ago to ac-
cept a position as accountant
relations committee of the Wash- with the Olympic Plywood, Treas-
ington Education Association has urer Dion announced this week.
been announced by Dr. R. F. Mrs. Clothier began her new du-
I-lawk, W.E.A. president. ties Wednesday.
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sified reference and non-fiction
Ibooks, 96 class B non-fiction, and
113 Readers Digest and National
Geographic magazines, Mrs. Lau-
ra K. Plumb, chairman of the
Mason County campaign, report-
ed yesterday.
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