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Page A—10 Shelton-Mason County Journal Thursday, April 14,
Above, the Daughters of the Pioneers Forest Festival Window. Below, moving
Tollie the Shay to Brewer Park.
Photos courtesy of Mason County Historical Musuem
From March to Mayl959 in the Journal
he feature story March
T5 included a photo of a
car that had been blown
apart on a county road when
dynamite in the trunk ex-
ploded. The driver, who was
killed, had been transporting
the dynamite to his home to
use for blasting stumps. The
city of Shelton immediately
began to draw up an ordinance
that would ban the purchase,
transport and storing of explo-
sives within city limits the
driver had been parked at a lo-
cal grocery store only 30 min-
utes earlier.
The March issue
included the headline that
a recently passed state law
was negatively affecting the
city’s finances. The new law
provided that before a fire-
man went on pension as the
result of injuries received on
duty, the city was required to
pay all medical expenses, plus
full pay,.for six months. Shel-
ton Fire Chief Herb Cromer
was hospitalized for injuries
received while on duty; there-
fore, the'city would have to
pay his full monthly salary
of $440 for six months, plus
medical expenses. City Com-
missioner W. F. McCann said
the city was operating on a
reduced'budget and had no
money set aside for this pur-
pose. “If we had two or three of
these cases it could put us out
of business.” The commission
ordered that a letter of protest
be written to the governor and
local representatives concern-
ing the new law.
The Journal raised its rates
for the first time since 1948.
The price per copy rose from
8 cents to 10 cents, and a one-
year- subscription increased by
$1, to $4.50.
Children ages 1 to 11 were
invited to attend the Easter
JAN PARKER
HISTORY
AT A GLANCE
egg hunt at the Bordeaux
School playground at 1:30 ,
pm. on Easter Sunday, March
29. Children were directed to
one of four age-appropriate
sites. Of the 1,800 hard-cooked
eggs that Shelton Active Club
members bid on the grounds,
360 were dyed — children
who found a dyed egg would
receive a prize of 10 cents. As
an added treat, Kitsap Dairy
passed out free ice cream
bars to the children and their
parents.‘
May 1 and 2 were designat-
ed “Shay Days,” in celebration
of the Shay locomotive ‘fTollie”
put on display as a his-
torical monument in Shelton’s
Brewer Park. On Friday, May
1, heavy equipment and four
sections of rail were used to
move “Tollie’ a gift to the
city from the Simpson Logging
Co. -— from the Simpson rail-_
road yard to the park at Third
and Franklin. Shelton‘mer-
chants offered Shay Day Spe-
cials for the Friday and Sat-
urday. A dedication ceremony
was planned for May as a ,
special feature of the 15th For-
est Festival celebration. (Tollie
was moved to its present loca-
tion on Railroad Avenue in
May 1985.) '
On Ferest Festival week-
end, Harstine Island School
the smallest school in the
state won first prize in the
‘ parade’s school float division,
with all seven students rid-
ing in a replica of the first
Hfistine Island ferry, built in
1920. The Daughters of the
Pioneers won grand prize for
best decorated window with
its display in the large window
of Jim Pauley’s Ford Garage
at Railroad and Fifth. The
display was arranged with a
log cabin backdrop, complete
with fireplace, and featured
items such as a butter churn,
tobacco cutter, coffee mill and
a wall telephone. For a few
, hours May the window of
the Budget Shop on Railroad
Avenue featured Louisa Pul-
sifer of the Skokomish Tribe
demonstrating traditional
Skokomish basket weaving. In
“one of the most exciting races
' ever seen at the airport,” Pete ,
Lovely of Seattle “staved off a
spirited challenge from Lew
Florence of Olympia” to win
the first Forest Festival sports
car trophyrace in the finale of
a five-event program at Shel-
ton Airport.
With the donation of $575
from the Shelton chapter of
the Red Cross, the Shelton
recreation program swim-
ming fund reached its goal and
would be able to offer sum-
mer swimming and life-saving
classes at Lake Isabella. Ber-
nie Dorcy would again super-
vise the program and be one of
a staff of four instructors.
In May, The Bootery was of-
fering shoes for the entire fam-
ily starting at $3.98. At J. C.
Penney’s, ladies’ cotton dress-
es were $6.95, men’s Wash-n-
Wear shirts were $1.98, and
children’s two-piece shorts sets
were $1. Safeway was selling a
dozen large eggs for 39 cents,
a carton of fresh cigarettes for
$2.49, a gallon of ice cream
for $1.17, and smoked ham at
39 cents a pound. Pauley Mo-
tors was advertising a 1954
Dodge four-door with radio
' and heater for $645, and a
1951 Buick with four new tires
and Dynaflow for $645. A Blue
Ox Theater ad for “The Fiend
That Walked the West,” star-
ring Hugh O’Brien and Robert
Evans, said “Don’t be ashamed
to scream — everyone in the
theater will be screaming right
along with you.” , '
I Jan Parker is a re-
searcher for the Mason County
Historical Museum. She can
be reached at parkerj@hctc.
com. Membership in the Ma-
son County Historical Society
is $25 per year. For a limited
time, new members will receive
a free copy of the book “Shel-
ton, the First Century Plus
Ten.”