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PERCY W. PIO
6017 S E 86T}! AVE
PORTL A*r OREGO
LXIIINo. 13. E,,,,d as se,!ond cla..s matter at the post office
at Shclton. Wash.. under Act of March 3. 1879. SHELTON, WASHINGTON Thursday, March 31, 1949. 8c PER
I
INGS
TIIE, y
Chamber of Corn-
entitled to an "A"
least as the result
• is in present-
community
Will lead to the
.avigation on
The project,
r,'e of the civic
is ' now
Army En-
ffter a long
of the needs
at a public
sday. A fay-
from the
result in the ap-
by Congress
completed.
'itt of the
the fact
clearly stated
not the project
ed depended
given
)reject
done
increased wa-
that
through
to naviga-
the hear-
of wit-
the corn:
r and others con-
actual transpor.
was efficiently
a
of
E. H. Fau-
ee Needham. The
Well be thankful
and if the im-
Zed eventually,
Commerce Ie
accomplish-
that this
speak of
with the
the vagaries
us so far
arrangc-
annual Forest
so tha t invite-
and arrange-
reception of
be entertain-
and a
part of the
COPY; $3.50 PER YEAR
, ,
I
Forest Event ]Pampered Ho,>3sport Hen Sets In School "Teeth '' Put
Parade Chief In New City
Shapes . Plans laxi Ruling
Pinna for the Paul Bunvan Par-
ade, one of the main features of
the fifth annual Mason County
Forest Festival, will be outlined
by Parade Chairman Ed Faubert
at a meeting of festival chairmen
in Ritner's Cafe next Monday
noon,
FES'I:IVAL CHAIRMAN Rudy
Vrerberge r and Festival Secretary
Charles It. Lewis announced yes-
terday that all committee heads
are to meet each Monday until
the festival, May 12, 13 and 14, to
coordinate planning and keep
check on committee progress. The
Pageant will be held two nights,
Thursday and Friday, May 12 and
13.
Year. The Foa-
ling to lrtudy
heads the
something
than pro-
Three)
New
Agent In
Office
INTERNATIONAL
INTEREST
Interest in the fifth annual
Mason County Forest Festival
already has become internation-
al. Hotel reservations for the
festival days, May 12, 13 and 14,
were made here this week by
O. A. Buck, forest authority
from Nanaimo, B. C.
"We hear a lot about the For-
I est Festival up our way and I'm
coming down this year to enjoy
the whole show," Buck said.
The forest festival executive
committee supervising general
arrangements includes Oscar Le-
vin, Hank Hadsell, L. A. Carlson,
S. B. Anderson, Joe Hansen, Lewis
and Werberger.
Committee heads named so far
are Roy Ritner, special events; AI
Huerby, finance; Gus Graf and
Bill Hawkins, children's pet par-
ade; Maurice Needham, military
units.
WIFF JESSUP, school bands;
Mrs. Ethel Flatner of Zonta Olub,
window displays; Joe Finn, street
banners; Oscar Levin, poster con-
test; Gay Taylor, sound effects;
Hokie Hokonson, school concess-
(Continued on page seven)
sunshine,
the chill of Students Get
sis and tin-
s still make
r raiment a
Music Honor
eem to be
)f remindin
Fifteen awards of superior and
excellent were won by members
of Irene S. Reed High School
music groups that took part in
a Southwest Washington meet in
Kclso March 26.
JUDGES IN TIlE annual solo
and small ensemble contest award-
ed superior ratings to the Girls
Scxtette and to Marian Ashford,
most beau- junior division flute.
Ratings of excellent were re-
ceived by Pat Henderson, bass
viol; violin trio; Shirley Bailey,
Virginia Cooper, Artalie Bonnet,
Fcryl Sharer, Lavonnc Norby, so-
pranos; Charles Brown, tnor;
Georgienne Durkee, flute; Roland
Quinn, junior division clarinet;
Marcia Wallin, clarinet; Geraldine
Stuteville, alto saxophone, and
Kay Harthill, French horn.
VIEING FOI honors at the
meet were music students from
26 schools. The 56 students from
Shelton were accompanied on the
trip by music director Lynn M.
Sherwood. From Shelton were 16
soloists and six small ensembles.
(Continued on page 7)
bar moved
00conomics Coming Events
,liege, Miss " " "
patience Thursday, March 31: Wee Pots
in three-night" shows, 8 p.m.,
Junior High Auditorium. Zonta
club, noon, Shelton hotel.
Friday, April 1: All Fool's day.
Wee Pots.
Saturday, April 2: Wee Pots.
Sunday, April 3: Passion Sun-
climate,
and Mason
up her new
!'
" Saturday
e Dollar
trium
of 49"
Ie PrePared __ It'll Be Here
YOU KNOW IT
WHAT WILL THIS pampered hen, which luxury. She is scheduled to bring forth her brood
has been fed corn until it can't eat another bite, . from the shells lln time for Easter. Interested
and drinks water drop by drop from the finger primary studentsat Hoodsport school are eager-
tips if its little school friends, do when her egg ly waiting. Frorn left to right is Richard Sparks,
hatching is over and she has to return to an or- Hoodsport Choof principal, Gary Bearden, Mrs.
dinary life in the yard with the rest of the hens. Mardy Gable, primary teacher, and LaVonne
Only a few days remain for her to live in Johnston-- (Photo by Delb._____ert 7a/).2
' Mt " " "
Police Chief 00nnex .V,ew D,str,ct?
¥
Exams Set
Monday
Candidates: for Shelton Chief of
Police will gather at 7 p.m. April
.4 at the city hall for their exam-
lnations, Glenn Correa, secretary-
examiner of the civil service board
announces.
Applicatio{s fiavc been received
from five who will take the chief's
exams. They include Cecil Clark,
Orin S. Duncan, Paul Hinton, Roy
T. Mosely and Clarence Palmer.
"Because there are other appli-
cations out," Correa said, "we ex-
pect to have more persons to take
the tests."
When Claud Havens resigned as
Shelton Police Chief on February
25, Cecil Clark was selected to act
as temporary chief until the civil
service commission makes the final
selection.
Tugboat Company
Files Damage Suit
Against Shelton
City commissioners Tuesday
night speculated briefly on an As-
sociated Press-dispatch appearing
Sunday in the Daily Olympian
which told that the American
C mfab Offers No Action
Some antieil)atinK lively dis-.;* .............................................................................
cusslon, about 150 persons met at
the roller-skating rink Thursday Active Club's
night, hoping' or fearing that plans
to annex Mountain View to Shel-
ton would crystallize into initial Easter Bunny
steps of action.
A QUIET MEETING lasting ..... . __
less than an hour, the session [ealML 'aa
ended with no proposals coming to . [..
a head. No outspoken ]eadersq1)/; =' i , ' -
either advocating or denouncing':'Wlen the chlldr.n in Sheller
the plan, rosc to launch challeng- I and Mason county start out Eas-
ing opinions. I tcr Sunday morning looking for
The people grouped into small eggs, they are going to find them,
conversational units waiting for deliciously cooked and gaily col-
someone to strtrt something or for
something to happen. Nothing
did.
Glenn Correa, conscientious ('.iLy
attorney, gathered' attention for
a brief time to explain the legal
aspects facing those wishing to
annex Mountain View to the city.
"I want to make it clear at the
start," he said, "that I do not
care to express an opinion an to
whether Mountain View comes
into the city or stays out. I
merely wish to point out legal
(Continued On I'age Three)
POISONING OF RATS
Tugboat Company had filed suit
for $29,000 against Shclton and AT CITY'S DUMP
,the Standard Oil Company of Cal-
ifornia in Federal Court for dam- IA jkT BE DANGEROUS
prod, the Easter Bmmy represen-
tative from the Active Club has
reported.
The cgg hunt will be held on
the ground north of Raih'oad
avenue and west of Sixth street
across front A1 Hucrby Motors.
ACTIVE CLUB agents of the
Easter Bunny are out scouting for
eggs and prizes for the affair. In
1948 over 1,200 eggs were hidden
for the youthful hunters, and this
year even more will be used. Cash
prizes will be awarded those find-
ing "prize eggs."
"There will be a prize for every-
one participating in the egg trent,"
Activian Lou Redrnan maid, "for
ages to its tugboat Irene.
-. Up until the Tuesday night ses-
sion the city had not received of
ficial notice of the suit's filing.
The complaint stated an outgo-
ing tide caused the lrenc to "sit
down" on a submerged piling while
moored at the city pier, opening a
hole in the hull and sinking the
vessel.
The complaint asks $14,257 from
Shelton, owner of the wharf, and
$15,040 from Standard Oil, which
leases it from the cfty. The acci-
dent occurred early in the morn-
ing of December 17, and the crew
sleeping aboard barely escaped
with their lives.
Rats will be poisoned at the i
city dump at the end of this
week in a move to curtail the.
rat population, and Gerhard H.
Ncss, Mason county sanitarian,
cautions all residents to ke'cp
pets and children away from
the dump.
"The deadly poison will be
spread at the bottom and on the
face of the dump Thursday or
Friday evening if it doesn't
rain," Ness said. "The poison
will stay active for one or two
weeks. To be safe keep pets out
of dump for several weeks."
Ness said that the poison,
quickly washed away by water,
day, check Journal church pges, will not be applied if it rains.
Monday, April 4: Shelton mixed DAUGIITER ARRIVES I Refuse may be deposited during
chorus, 8 p.m., senior high music Mr. and Mrs. Carrol McHenry I the rat-killing period, Ness said,
.... I of Union became parents of a
room. or " I because poison will not be spread
Tuesday, .April • 5: A Cappel]a I daughter b_ n March 29 at the I around the top.
choir, 8:15 p.m., Graham theater. Shelton_._ueral
Hospital.
American Legion, 8 p.m., Memor- -- -- ..... " ......................
and Professional Women, 8 p.m., Shelton Conc00 t Tuesday
P.U.D. building. Active club, 8
p.m., Bichsel building. ?'
Sixty singers and Prof. Ken-.;* ......... ; ......................
neth E. Schilling, conductor, left
Whitman college last Tuesday for
the seventeenth Northwest tour of
each will get some delicacy such
as an ice cream bar."
Members of the Active Club,
sponsors, arc making all arrange-
mcnts. They wil be on the grounds
during the event to assist the
children.
TO GIVE MALLER children
• s good a chance as have the
rangier and older boys and girls,
the. egg hunt will be divided into
several age groups," Redman:
cai(t, adding, "Parents will not be
permitted to help their children
in the actual hunt."
By the time Easter comes.
April 17. Acttvians hope to have
the grounds cleaned and arranged
for the annual Spring affair
hmnchcd by jolly Easter pals
Chauncey and Bugs Bunny.
T:-txicab companies in Shelton
were the object of an ordinance i
"with teeth" that was approved i
Tuesday night on second reading I
by city commissioners. Setting up]
strict regulations on vehicles and
drivers, the ordinance is thel
strongest on taxis the city has had. I
THE NEW CITY ruling boosts I
the annual taxicab license fee from
$10 to $25, fixes the maximum
rates that may be charged, pro-
vides for the licensing of drivers,
and permits city inspection of ve-
hicles.
' Teeth ' In the city law, designed
to protect the cab companies and
i: : passengers, amounts to a $100 fine
or 30 ,lays in jail, or both, for
violation of the provisions in the
ordinance, number 497-100.
The move to create the ordiu-!
nnce had been considered by city
gommtssioners over the past sev-
eral weeks.
There are three taxicab com-
panies in Shelton.
A NEW TRAFFIC ordinance,
proposed by the Police Depart-
ment as an amendment to the ex-!
isUng one, was brought before city
commissioners at their regular
monthly meeting Tuesday.
Making no moves, commissioners
decided to study the proposals to
acquaint themselves with pointed
'S DAY SPEIAL
3 X 4 PORTRAITS $4.9 s
Of Which Will Be
Painted and Placed in a Lovely
Miniature Frame.
a ^POTMENT
ANDREWS ....
the college A Cappella choir. Fol-
lowing appearances in Dayton,
Spokane, Wenatchee, Monroe, Se-
attle and Chehalis, they sing in
Shelton at the Graham theatre
next Tuesday at 8:15 p.m.
TraVeling with the choristers in
two 'chartered buses, are accom-
panists, members of a. violin sex-
tet and accompanist-arranger
Zane Casey. This group and a
mixed .vocal octet appear at each
concert, wmnifred Collier, daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. B. N. Collier,
will appear as soloist for the Shel-
ton' .concert, following the choir's
practice ff. featuring soloists be-
fore home town audi.enccs by spe-
cial request;
The choir's three.liar t program
opens with religious .songs ' by
composers including Gretchanin-
off, t'ach and TscbaikoWsky. Ill
tim sccond part appear works by,
Handel Sahknovsky, Alcock and]
Randall Thompson , While the con-
cluding portion presents folk
tunes from Europe and J(merica. I
Following the Shelton appear-]
ance, the choir travels to Port-
land April 6, then home to Walla l
Walla for a context Aril 10.
WINNIFRED COLLIER, will
appear as soloist In the A Cap-
polls choir concert in Graham
theater next Tuesday night.
The daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
B. N. Collier, she is a stndent
at Whitman College in Walls
Walls.
VFW Elects 1949
Leaders, Prepares
50th Anniversary
Preparing to honor next week
the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of Veterans of Foreign
Wars. members of the local post
Monday night selected new officers
for the cominffyear and initiated
three.
R. E. Petty was elected post
commander; Lee Dawson. senior
vice commander; Floyd Fuller, ju-
nior vice commander; J.. H. Gray,
, quartermaster; Eugene Martin
advocate; I%ev. Wayne Wright,
chaplain; Dr. B. B. Forman. post
surgeon, and R. C. Springer, trus-
tee.
Installation of the officers will
be held April 10 at a joint and open
meeting with the Veterans Auxil-
iary. O. N. Thomas, past com-
mander of the fifth district, has
been asked to officiate.
Those initiated m the VFW
Monday night include tlector Bar-
ber, Marines; Lewis O. Taylor,
Navy; Glenn H. P,x)essel, Seabees.
CITY PLANNING UNIT
WILL MEET TONIGHT
The city planning commission
will meet at 7:30 p.m. March 31
in the city hall to consider rczon-
ing four lots at First and Kneeland
streets from commercial to manu-
facturing (M-l) classiflcation,
Phil Bayley, secretary, reported.
In question are the four lots (1,
2, 11 and 12 of block C Kneeland
addition) on which the Bonneville
Power Administration is erecting
three new transformers.
Facts Aimed At Inlet
Project Are Stressed
At Tuesday Hearing
Facts and figures in support of Sh'elton's request for
improvement of Hammersley's Inlet by the removal of ob-
structions at Cape Horn and Skookum Point were presented
at a hearing Tuesday before Colonel L. H. Hewitt of the
Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army.
Testimony given by
* was
representatives of M a s on
Scout Chief 0o,,n00y c,vic or0000n-
l izations, boat operators and
.... oil company representatives,
RALPH CHILDS, of Wenat-
thee, has been selected new
Scout executive for Tumwater
Area Council, replacing Max B.
Jensen who takes up duties in
Oregon Trail Council in Eugene,
Oregon.
Born, raised and educated in
Bellingham, Childs has been act-
Ive in lmout executive work from
1934 until 1949. He will take
over his duties on April 1, ac.
cording to council president, S.
B. Anderson.
problems before acting.
One section of the proposed law
would abolish all diagonal park-
ing in Shelton, excepting the area " u,"r've
adjacent to the courthouse on the l ,mm,m
streets of Fourth, Fifth, Pine and ||It|
Alder.
THE ORDINANCE would 41 " I lUCre
change several through streets I &ll&mi
in Shelton to aid tn eliminating[ qlLl
A public fight against the na-
t/on's second greatest killer, can-
cer, opens tomorrow in Mason
county with a month-long cam-
palgn to raise funds for education
and research, according to Kcith
Imus, committee head for the Ju-
nior Chamber of Commerce.
"WE ARE HAPPY to sponsor
thin drtve'f0r the third consecutive
year," stated Imus "and we hope
to top our recotd of last year when
Mason county exceeded its quota
by several hundred dollars."
The Jayees will be amIsted in
the fund drte by the Maaot Coun,
ty unit. of the American Cancer
Society.
Mrs. E. H. Faubert, county com-
mander of :the cancer fiehl army,
said that 40 per cent of the money
will go to national headquarters
or research and education and 60
per cent will be used in the state.
NINETEEN DEATHS from can-
cer occnrred in MasOn county last
year, So far cancer, when well
progressed in a human body, can-
not be cured. It kills painfully.
Dr. George LeC0mpte, Mason
county's representative on the Ma-
son-Thurston county neoplastic
committee, stressed the need for
a broad program for education and
research.
Thi year's fund drive will be
conducted by personal, solicltation
and by mail. Anyone wishing to
make donations may mail con-
tributlons to James McComb, 611
;Dearborn street, Jaycee campaign
treasurer, or to Mrs. V. T. Con-
nelly, 328 Laurel street, treasurer
vf the Mason county unit, Ameri-
traffic congestion and danger
spots h the city, Police Chief Ce-
cil Clark said. "The police force
has made a traffic-accident chart
to show where most accidents have
occurred over the past months,"
Parking area also were sur-
veyed in the proposed ordinance.
APRIL JURY TERM
MOVED UP FALL
A jury termuled tentative-
ly A l&,b Jud.D.F. Wright
poned until some date in Septem-
ber by Superior Court Judge John
Wilson.
A conflietton of dates with a
Thurston county Jury term was
given as the reason for thepost-
ponement.
I
CEMENT SIDEWALKS
ARE SPREADING ON
RAILROAD AVENUE
Hoping to finish the Railrosd
avenue remodeling project in
time for the Forest Festival May
13 and 14, the contrsctor snd
crews have been pouring tons
of cement for sidewalks on both
the north and south aides of the
wide thoroughfare.
Having nearly finished the re,
filling of the electric-conduit
trenches along the avenue's
south curbs, the crews have
shifted most of their activity to
the west end of the street and
are laying wide, smooth side-
walks.
..... i ...................... '-'i ..... , .......................................... V. can Cancer Society.
April Fools Being Fooled
Before Day Of All Fools
Who's been fooling who during@
tl€ weeks leading to April Fool's
day Friday.
The weatherman wasn't joking
when he slapped below freezing
the thermometer's mercury, and
animals here and throughout the
nation weren't kidding with their
high-jumping and reproductive a.
tics.
MAYBE ,WA)MEONE should ex-
plai.n carefully to the animals and
weatherman that April Fool's day
is Friday, April 1 and not before,
In the early part of March a
sow belonging to A. A. Peterson,
Beverly Heights area, amazed ag-
ricultural experts by giving hirth
to two separate litters of little
pigs. And in Norman, Okla., an-
other sow did the same thing, all
this coming shortly after a cow
jumped into a silo and dared the
world to gct her out.
Who are the April Fool ar-
tists? Are animals leading the
parade of fools with their non-
sen:e proved by factual evidence ?
STILL A WEEK before April
Fool's day a cow owned by Leo
Wicklzer of Dayton gave birth to
twins, an occurence, tbough not
uncommon, that happens fairly
rarely.
And over in Tacoma all ewe,
her ego evidently fired by new-
paper headlines of other auimals,
gave birth to triplets. The lawn-
mower, say Asocia.ted Press, be-
longs to S. E. McCorkle.
Our weatilerma]L not tt bc un-
done by animals, unleashed a sur-
prise over the last week end by
ending many warm days wlth
weather so chilly that windshields
on cars were frosted mornings.
"Light flurries of snow were spread
over scattered regions, including
the Dayton area and higher hills.
Oh well, blame it on the animals
md on the weatherman l
Kiwanis Sale Nets
$400 For Groups
The Kiwanian-sponsored White
Elephant sale at Lincoln gym last
Friday night brought in approxi-
mately $400 to the varlods groups
without a witness being on
hand to make objection to the
proposal.
IN FORMATION submitt¢d at
the hearing was gathered through
the efforts of E. H. Fanbert and
Maurice Necdham on behalf of the
Chamber of Commerce committee
which has been workirtg on the
proposal for several years
The Army of fleer expiaint, d
that support for the prolosal m
.a matter nf justifying the cost
of the improvements with the
gains that will come from im-
provements of the channcl and
le qxlestiohed ma,ty of the wit-
nesses as to lmw much traffic
might be increased, expenses sav-
ed and losses eliminated.
THF] ilEARING is a result of
action by Congressman I#.ussell V.
Mack, who ma(ie a personal sur-
vey of the inlet and then had
passed in congre:-;s a resolutiou
which authorized the hearing
lh(, Army engineers will next
make a :tudy of dm iearirg testi-
hlony al}d If}aloe theiF reconlncll-
darien<; for action by Congress:
Col0i',el Hewi(.t s¢i(i it might bc
established that the cost of the
improvements would exceed tho
good that woulh resnlt and that
the completc job might be less-
ened so that pat of it cuu]d be
accomplish.
Elimination of Cape Horn and
the dredging of some shoal areas
near Skookum point wcrc de-
clared necessary to make the inlet
easily navigable. At present tows
of logs and barges must await
high tide conditions before the
channel may be passed, Many of
the witnesses, representing boat
and freight lines told of their dif-
ficulties, some of them reciting
occasions when their equipment
was damaged orqost in trying to
pass the danger points.
MR. N E E D li A M served as
(Colltlllue(I on puge 7)
New Power Units
Go Up Iu Shelton
2, new power bank substation i"
being erected on P.U.D. 3 prop-
arty at First and Kneeland
atxee,, to "provide a more re, gu-
lar flow of voltage and practically:
unllmted source of electricity in
the city," Claude Danielson, P.
U.D. 3 manager, has announced. '
Three new transformers that
Will be installed will provide Slel-
ton with an additional 40,000
horsepower of electricity, Daniel-
son estimated. The Bonneville
Power Administration is building
the new units.
The contract for construction
was let in mid-Marh, and com-
pletion is slated for June 1, Dane
ielson ' said.
Shelton now gets tts power from
a Bonnev{lle switching station on
Mountain View.
CITY LINES MAY
DISCONTINUE RUN
ON ANGLESlDE
Following sn extended surveyt
in March of income and expenses,
Jack Neuert, manager of Sheltoni
City Lines,. reports he may havei
to discontinue temporarily tlle!i
city has route on Angleside.
Ncuert said that before the
route is abandoned, he will take
the problem to city commission-'
era during thc session of April 12. i
Now making 16 trips a day at,
a cost of $6.40, bus has been op- I
orating at a loss on the route,;
Neucrt said. "We would like to,
kccp the route as a service to the
residents in that area but we can-
not continue to take steady loss-
es."
that participated, Phil Murphy,
concessions chief, has reported.
Money raised during the joint-
ly-prepared affair will be used for
youth work. Groups taking part
were Panhandle 4-H clubs, Moun-
tain View community club. Hoods-
port P.T.A, Bordeaux P.T.A., Sko-
komish 4-H club and Agate P.T.A.
WE AIM lP KELP PRICES1
LOw:
Prices In Effect Thursday - Friday., Saturday
POT ROAST BEEF ...... lb. 39
Fresh Tongues lb. 35¢ Beef Hearts lb. 35¢
Pure Lard 2 ibs. 29¢ Boiling Beef lb. 29¢
CHICKENS, fresh stewers lb. 39*
Picnics, 4-8-1b. lb. 42¢ Bacon, pc. or slice 49¢
Ground Beef .. lb. 39¢ Rib Steaks ..... lb. 55¢
Packing House :Market
"411 RAILROAD PHONE 21