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By LOU DONNELL
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: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.
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