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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~N~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By LOU DONNELL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~U~~~~~~~' :located too near Cape Canaveral, the Herald staff hasn't many opportunities to photograph real live spacemen all a venture into space. So, a couple of weeks ago when my t came home from school and said a man from NASA had put for an assembly and that one of the high school boys had in an authentic space suit, I was disappointed that I had the Opportunity to run a picture of a slraceman in Belfair in the thought the sPeaker was going to present the lbrogram the for upper and lower elementary students, so I contacted the next morning, confirmed the information, and was able in time to see Gary Johnson come out in the suit. So the a of a spaceman taken right here in Belfair after all. a chance to hear all of the program but being interested Carol Wentlandt and I decided to invite Gary Moon, the representative, to lunch between the two programs planned for accepted our invitation, met us at our office and we went where bacon-lettuce and tomato sandwiches were ready by we sat down. He was on a tight schedule so we'd ordered phone and later talked him in to ordering a piece of their pie for his dessert. (We were paying his bill from petty learned many fasdnating things from our luncheon meeting and aders of the Herald might be interested too. the U.S. will put a vehicle on Mars, a fully automated searching for signs of life. 1 told him I hoped it would have I was dying to see~pictures of those little green men. me there would be cameras taking pictures but he uninformed for a NASA man) doesn't expect to find He said it is believed there may be signs of life but it is to be small "things" which may turn up in the soil samples picked up by probing arms of the spacecraft. He said Mars indicate there has been water at some time on Mars, Canyon far surpassing our own, probably as wide as the Signs of dried-up river beds have been noted. He said think the planet may be passinG through an ice age now. little green men will be wearing fur parkas?) NASA hopes to land a man:on Mars. the U.S. and Russia will make a joint mission into space, the earth to research possibilities of using space for rescue operations. he expects to see a space shuttle program in operation; the reusable as opposed to the one-time-only rocket ships used expects they will be about 15' by 60' and that women will be 8 to 12 scientists and engineers on board. Conversation he remarked that his 81-year-old grandmother 11 years old when th~ Wright brothers first took man off the said while speaking to grade school children, he liked to at progress today's i 1-year-aids will have witnessed when years old. Seventy years from now, he thinks, there will be space stations up there with around 250 people on each, people on earth. they be doing?" we asked. He explained: one thing is that there are ten known vaccines which can be easier and quicker, thus much cheaper, in space. With no SCientists have determined they can purify the vaccines more Something to do with being able to separate ingredients and perfectly. He expects pharmaceutical companies will of this and have some of their personnel laboring on a ordinary untrained people like you and me ever space? Yes, according to Moon. It is known that calcium is In space and he expects that sometime in the future they will senior citizens with arthritis up to a "health spa in the sky" stay and they will come back minus their arthritis. mean we won't have to listen to those dull interminable for Anacin to relieve the aches and pains of minor in itself, will be a great milestone.) i eame the industrial revolution, said Moen, then the electronic now we are entering the biological era. He expects to see as coming up in the next 70 years as the world past 70 years. back to the little green men; he said he, himself, entirely possible, if not probable, that there are creau,res visiting our solar system.., he just doesn't think Mars. He said our solar system is much younger than that if there is life on planets circling other suns (which us on earth) that they have had millions of years more so why is it impossible to imagine they have figured out the greatest thing to come out of the space program is revolution. He said as man went up so high and looked so small below, the damage he was doing to our earth and so did the need to do something immediately to destruction. a man from NASA happen to visit North Mason schools? ago teacher Bob Caughie put in a request for a speaker and was added to a long list. Finally wegot to the top. Moen to visit community colleges the following week in he was spending seven weeks in Washington programs. His calling card shows that he is a education specialist and he works at the NASA-Ames Moffett Field in California. a very pleasant and knowledgeable young man and I to learn that many young students react to his the space programs by looking into the possibility of field themselves. heaven's sake, if any of you come across a strange by weird creatures from space, please let me know so I can interview them to find out WHERE they come advance the space exploration program hundreds of out they came from another solar system and not r GARY JOHNSON and Gary Moen of NASA. column. Shotgun blasts by vandals Sunday night dam new St. Nicholas Church It sounded like three explosions shattering the silence of the late evening hours last Sunday night shortly after 11 p.m. according to residents of Tahuya who were routed out of their homes by the noise. Several persons were outside in time to see a car with no headlights take off at high speed from the vicinity of the newly-completed St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Tahuya. Closer investigation revealed that most of the windows,' including the three stained glass windows behind the altar of the church, and the front door had been damaged by shotgun blasts. The car had headed east on North Shore Road; the sheriff's office was notified of the shooting and given a description of the car by persons who had seen it as it passed under vapor lights in the area. A car answering the description was stopped by officers on North Shore Road a short time later. Three persons were apprehended and on Monday were being held by the sheriff's department for questioning concerning the matter. Being held were Jack E. Johnson, 18, Steven J. Johnson, 21, and Ronald L. Johnson, 20, all of Star Rt. 2, Box 170, Belfair. It had been only eight days since a dedication service for the rustic church had been held April 20, with a large crowd attending the ceremony which celebrated completion of several years' hard work by members of the congregation in purchasing the site and constructing the church, termed at the ceremony "the most beautiful in the diocese." It appeared that three shots had been fired at the front of the church, resulting in damage to the doorknob and wood of the front door and two windows broken. The shots had damaged the interior of the church and at least two passed through the building, breaking windows at the rear of the church. A lightbulb of one of the chandeliers was broken and damage from pellets was observed on the ceiling and on the back of one pew as well as on some hymnbooks. Three shots were apparently aimed at the right wall since all three stained glass windows behind the altar sustained a hole, with the lead framework damaged. At least one of these shots went out of a window of the choirloft at the other end of the building. Two small scars believed to be from pellets were on the organ in the loft and the wooden railing of the loft was hit. Splinters of wood and broken glass covered the floor and pews in some areas. No damage was suffered by the occupied house trailer located just behind the church. LOOKING AT DAMAGE to the front door of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Tahuya, done in a shooting incident at the new church last Sunday night, are Linda Hinds of Tahuya and her son Jeff. Poetry book planned Callin_g all poets... Volume 3 of "Raindrops," the book of poetry of the North Mason area, will be published by North Mason PTA. Publication of poetry is open to all poets of this area, with students' work submitted through their schools. Adults are encouraged to drop their poetry off at the Huckleberry Herald office in Belfair by May 17 to be included in the book. Students in the local high school art class, under the direction of teacher Mark Miller, will be silk screening the covers of the booklet which, hopefully, will be on sale by the last week in May, according to Maxine Morse and Johnnie Baldy, co-chairmen of the project. "OKAY, MY JOB IS DONE, now you can take over," said Lou Donnell (left) last week as she handed the newly-published book, "Early Settlement of Lake Cushman," by Larry Overland to Phyl Meyer. Published by the Mason County Historical Society, Mrs. Donnell served as editor of the publication and Mrs. Meyer will handle sales and distribution. On the right is artist Maxine Morse, illustrator of the book, who was anxious to see the completed work and dropped by the Herald office for her copy the morning the books arrived in Belfair. Historical book society's first on sale locally charge per book is added if the book is to be mailed, to cover postage and handling expenses. Books will be on sale locally at the Huckleberry Herald office, Belle Faire Boutique, The Clothesline and Louisa's Antique Shop in Belfair, Sunset Beach Grocery on South Shore and the Journal office in Shelton. Members of the society will also be selling the book at Belfair Thriftway ~May 10 and 11 and at their meeting tonight. On June 1 the regular price of $2.50 plus tax per book will go into effect. Copies may be ordered from Mason County Historical Society, P.O. Box 474, Belfair, Wa. 98528. An added feature of the book is the poem "The Mountain and The Lake," by Robert W. Service, famous Klondike poet, who visited Lake Cushman and wrote the poem about Mount Elinor and Lake Cushman. POWDERPUFF BALL The first game between the Allyn Under-the-Hill Gang and the Belfair 39'ers will be held this Sunday, 2 p.m., at the high school baseball field. Everyone is invited. "Early Settlement of Lake Cushman," written by Larry Overland and published by Mason County Historical Society is off the presses and available to the public. The 46-page book contains a history of Lake Cushman from its first settler to the building of Cushman Dam and the disappearance of the original lake as waters backed up behind the dam to form a larger lake. Chosen as its first published work, the society will use profits towards a future historical museum in Mason County. Included in the book are eleven photos of pre-1925 days of the Lake Cushman area and fifteen original drawings by Maxine Morse, a staff artist for Pacific Search Magazine, who is a member of the local society. Originally written as a history thesis by the young Tacoma college-student author, the manuscript was turned over to the historical society for publication. Lou Donnell served as editor for the publication and Phyl Meyer is in charge of sales and distribution. A pro-publication sale price will be in effect through May 31, $1.90 plus 10 cents sales tax for Washington residents. A 25-cent Grapeview's offer rejected by Fire District 5 board Commissioners of Fire District 5 last week rejected an offer proposed by commissioners of the Graf~i~'iew Fire Dis~triet to have District 5 continue to answer emergency calls in one section' of the Grapeview District for $100 a year. Section 29, in Grapeview Fire District, is closer to Allyn firehall than to Grapeview firehall and for 11 years District 5 has serviced the area for no charge. In March the commissioners of District 5 visited the meeting of Grapeview commissioners to ask that the tax money from this section be given to them in exchange for providing the fire and aid car protection. A letter from the Grapeview board was read at last week's meeting wherein the Grapeview district offered $100 a year to District 5 for District 5 to continue first-response service to the section, with Grapeview being called for backup service for fires in that area. Until now, District 5 has used its own vehicles from other District 5 stations for backup. No mention was made of aid calls by the Allyn aid ear, a service furnished free to residents of District 5 by tax money paid by District 5 taxpayers and an annual fund drive. It was noted by a commissioner of District 5 that an estimate of the taxes paid by Section 29 residents for fire protection, made from files in the County Assessor's office last month, determined that the $100 offer was less than ten percent of the taxes being paid for this service, that under Grapeview's proposal District 5 would be offering well over half the service, especially if free aid car service were expected, and that it would be unfair to District 5 taxpayers to continue to carry the financial burden of servicing the area. It was moved to write a letter to the Grapeview commission, giving notice that District 5 would discontinue answering ,calls in Section 29 after June 30. A copy of the letter was to be sent to the Washington Survey and Rating Bureau so that insurance companies could be informed bf the new arrangement. The letter also was to ask Grapeview commissioners to notify the residents of the area in question of the new phone number tO call. for fire calls after June 30. Aid calls would still be answered by Allyn Aid Car but residents of Section 29 would be billed for the service after June 30. Another letter to the board was read at the meeting, one from Mary Bianchi of Mading Enterprises, offering to donate one acre of land on the northwest side of Mason Lake for use by District 5 as site for a fire station. The secretary of the board was instructed to write a letter of appreciation to Mrs. Bianchi and a survey of the site was authorized. In other business the board voted to pay $50 a month for two days of active fire prevention work within the district. Bids opened for Belfair fire engine Three companies sent in bids for a new fire engine for the Belfair Fire Department, with a variety of equipment styles and price ranges represented. Amounts ranged from $35,698 to $57,553.50. Commissioners of the district voted to hold a special meeting May 7, 7 p.m., at Belfair firehall to act on the bids. Chief Richard Knight, of Fire District 5i, appeared at the meeting to discuss the possibility of .the Belfair district using District 5's dispatch service. He noted that District 5 pays close to $12,000 a year to hire 24-hour dispatchers, that Belfair's emergency calls could be answered by the same personnel for about $2,500 a year, which would be cheaper than installing a separate system. Commissioner Earl Kisler answered that the Belfair commissioners are not considering anything likeS12,000 a year or even $2,500 a year for dispatching. He noted that the district has a paid fire chief and the commissioners are only concerned about times he is not available. Chairman John Matson said that the Belfair district did have a house on fire district property and were considering finding someone to live in it in exchange for dispatching services. Chief Knight said he believed dispatching will be more important as the North Mason area grows and felt that if District 5's offer would improve Belfair's service, he thought it would be well worth the district's consideration. Jim Hunt, assistant fire chief, reported on a 4-day command school he had attended. Two days were spent on fire suppression and two on fire prevention. He reported that a strong emphasis was made that prevention is better than suppression in fighting fire loss. He felt there was a need for more work in fire prevention in this area, perhaps through meetings, newspapers or fire drills. "'Like most rural districts," he said, "we don't have an active fire prevention program." He said residence fires cause more monetary and life loss than any other tree. CLARENCE BAKER (left) and James Frink were among the many Tahuya residents who dropped by the newly completed St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Tahuya last Monday morning to look at damage done the night before by vandals who did extensive damage. Each of the three stained glass windows behind the altar had a hole in it and the leaded framework was damaged. CAROL WENTLANDT looks at one of the windows hit by vandals at the new church in Tahuya last Sunday night. PeeWee D Film to be shown at local church By BEV. STEINKE ., NM D boys had a terrific game against Warren Avenue, winning 14 to 13 as Bobby Petraitis hit a single in the bottom of the 5th to bring in the winning run. Bobby Griffiths chalked up two runs for the day, one a homer. Ken Matson and Leland Stice had four runs each, while Jackie Egbert, Todd Worms and Danny Staley ran in one. Kerry Beynon had one hit. They lost their non-league game to Silverdale 1 to 6 in pouring down rain. The A team trailed to Warren Avenue 2 to 29 and also to Silverdale, 5 to 7. Bodie Vail hit in both runs against Warren with one of them a beautiful home run. B team cancelled their bout with Silverdale became of rain, but surprised Warren Avenue, topping them 16 to 15 for their second win this year. A tie game resulted in C team play with Silverdale at 6-6. Lauderback, Eigner and Hannah hit home runs against Warren Avenue with everyone on the team scoring except Willy Johnson, as they wiped out their opponent, 17 to 5. So far these men have 3 wins, 1 loss arid 1 tie under their belt. "'Isn't It Good To Know," a new film that abandons traditional story lines to involve the viewer in the life-experiences of real people, will be shown May 5 at Belfair Community Baptist Church at 7:30 p.m..The film shifts from the true stories of the people who rived them to brief appearances by Billy Graham, to video-vignettes coupled with original new songs; "Isn't it Good to Know7" and "Gone Away" by Tedd Smith and "The Soap-box Song" by Judy McKenzie. "Isn't It Good To Know" is being shown in thousands of locations across the country each month. The Reverend John Senn, who has made the arrangements for the special free showing of the film, extends a cordial invitation to all families in the area to attend. RUMMAGE SALE St. Nicholas Guild will hold a rummage sale May 3 and 4, 10 a.m. to6 p.m., in the old bank i building "in Belfair shopping center. LICENSE LOST A report of a tail light and license plate lost between Cherokee Beach on North Shore and the PUD building in Belfair on April 20 was received in the local sheriff's office. L Now's as good a time as any ANIMAL COMPLAINTS to remind you readers that we are A black and white mother cat, collecting rummage for our small, jumped out of a car and annual July sale. We also collect became lost in Belfair April 25, recyclable bottles. Have you any according to a report received in getting in your way? Give us a the sheriff's office. A beagle was call. CR5-3415, CR5-2094 and reported lost on Tahuya River CR5-2624. Road the same day. il