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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,&apos;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