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PERCY ' PIP ,; i. 7 c i. 671' hV " reserve Our Forests, Keep Washington Green 18. Entored as s(,((md clas.q matter at tile post office at Shelton. Wash., under Act of Marcl 3. 1879. SHELTON, WASHINGTON Thursday, May 5, 1949. $c PER COPY; $3.50 PER YEAR Words, "what linking about, study and , Waterfront Report ' ' I Tons Of Peninsula Logs] Ed Bartsch Liquor Store Visits Here ITheft Probe Po9,r.r,!p,!.? S h0¢) !,? n o00Mj! Iw$oo J lnconclus,ve Seeds the size of sawdust par-f fiber from the mightiest stands ticles grow into tremendous trees l of timber left in America. vf¢ighing tons, and tons of timber The two Reed mills, Woodfiber are snaked daily out of Olympic plant, Olympic Plywood "and Ray- Peninsnl.'t's .verdant forests , and i onier Incorporated form the back- down to the mills of Shelton and i b°ne of Shelton economy, while Mc .leery where men and maxia-I the Simpson plants in McCleary ines shape all sorts of wood pro-I ronnd out the big timber-pro- ducts for home and industrial use duction picture in Mason and throughout the world. Eastern Grays Harbor" county. MEN ITH SA'DUST in their  These mills provide the "maws" into which timber is poured blood, science and ambition in their minds and the spirit of cre- ation in their hearts pool their efforts to produce lumber,, doors, William Compton Funeral Is May 7 Killed in action on the Philippine Islands April 8, 1942, Sergeant Harold "W. Compton has been re- turned, and the gravcside memorial seryice will be conducted at 1 p.m, Saturday by members of Vet- erans of Foreign Wars and Amer- ican Legion posts in Shelton. SERGEANT Compton,.the son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Comp- ton of Mountain View, served with 724th Ordnance Company in the Air Force at time of death. Graduating from Irene S. Reed high school in 1937, Compton joined the army for his first "hitch," and reenlisted October 15 of 1940 for his second one. He was sent to Nichols field in the Philippines, where he was while the Japanese attacked Pearl Har- bor. HE WAS BORN September 19, 1919, in Tacoma. Smwiving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Compton, Shclton ; a brother, Mitchell R. Colnpton, Vancouver, Wash.; two sisters, :Mrs. Dulcie Eaves, Bremerton, and Mrs. Mur- tel Withers, Hoquiam; and a grand- mother, Mrs. M. Tveit, TacomR. All veterans are urged to attend the services. Burial will be in the vctcrans cemetery. through the efforts of logging employees, railroad men, boom- men and allied workers. These mills supply large payrolls with which families can buy the mater- ial necessities and comforts that are manufactured in other re- gions. WITH THEIR paychecks resi- dents in Mason county maintain an efficient category of business- men by buying the highly-diversi- fied products offered by the world-at-large, and with the tim- ber products of their labor they supply a universal demand in the field of shelter. Shelton's contri- bution to the American economic picture is an important one. Preserve our forests. Keep Washington Green. Don Clark is division manager in charge of Simpson mills in Shelton and McCleary, while A1 "Bulldog" Drummond is supervi- sor over Reed Mills 1 and 2 in Shelton. In visitingthe mills recently your Journal awdust scribe, war- ily stepping around the batteries of buzzing saws, followed the courses taken by the endless chains of logs, and in talking to the men who master the machines with expSrienced "know-how" was able to form a composite picture of the operation. BECAUSE REED mill 1 is the smaller of the two plants, we toured it first, going from the main office in company with time- keeper John Roberts, who after :p0!lting out: llle mill-pond re- tin'ned to his duties. In the harbor where trainloads (Continued on page 13) I I I III Preparations Mount 1. Drawing Forest Festival preparations to a cli- max, members of the association's executive board will hold their final meeting Monday noon in the Shelton Hotel, President Rudy Werberger announces. All chair- men are urged to attend, 2. Entry rules for participation in the Loggers Sports Show are listed in an inside page of this Journal. Applications are being received now by Chairman Roy Kimbel and his committeemen. 3. Final call for entries in the Paul Bunyan Parade at 11 a.m. May 14 has been issued. All groups and individuals planning to entcr arc urged to contact Chairman Ed Faubert at Shelton Hotel at the earliest possible date. Gus Graf and E. Luck are taking entries for the children's parade. 4. Volunteers to help with stage construction are sought by Rudy Oltman and Roy Ritner of the pageant committee. Work is to start at 9 a.m. tmday, May 8, at Loop Field. 5. Buttons and Red Hats are on sale. Let's see them decorate the county. .................... i " Repair Of Shelton Roads Progresses Repair of city streets is pro- 'ressing as rapidly as good Tea- er endures, Osker Erickson, in charge of street crews, reported to city commissioncrs during their Tuesday mccting. "The largest holes on the ntost- traveled thoroughfares are being tackled first," Erickson said, "and the men keep moving to the var- ious streets as repairs are made." Erickson I)ointed out that his crews have available only the one i truck but that as weather permits i the men work rapidly to accomp-I lish as much as possible. BUSINESS HOUSES TO CLOSE HALF DAY MAY 14 FOR AFFAIR Giving full cooperation to the Shelton Forest Festival celebra- tion and so that their employees may join with others in enjoy- ing the program, members of the Retail Trades committee of the Chamber of Comfnerce have agreed to close their places 5f business at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, May 14. Store hours for that day will be between 8 a.m, and 11 a.m. and food stores in particular ask their custom- ors to mark ,those hours so that they will not be disappointed in making the week,end provision- ing, DON'T FORGET TO WEAR A FOREST FESTIVAL BU00gI'0N AND RED HAT The Pageant MINIATURE STAGE IS NOW ON DISPLAY IN OUR WINDOW 124 North 2nd Street " ANDREWS STUDIO Phone 152 - - ' .... " "2 ' '' "" ' ' '  " 2 Evidence so far developed on the mysterious disappearance of a sum over $500 from the safe of the EDWARD BABTSCH Edward Bartsch, president of Rayonier, Incorporated was a Shelton visitor this week in con- nection with business matters of the company's Shelton operations. :In addition t his Shelton visit he will confer with plant officials at the company's mills and wood camps' at Port Angeles, the Sap- pho district, and Hoquiam and will return to Shelton early next week. He is expected to leave soon for the company offices in New York. Rayonier Reports Port Angeles Harbor Reductiom Rayonier Incorporated an- nounces a reduction in the oper- ations of its Port Angels*, and Grays Harbor., divisicm q0 ¢',- form with available sales for its products, but no change is re- ported for the Shelton division. This redtlced schedule is the re- sult of curtailed production by the acetate and rayon manufacturers, Rayonier's principal customers, according to the announcement. Edward Bartsch, president of the company, has indicated that other divisions may be similarly affect- ed, unless the current order situ- ation improve promptly. Mr. Bartsch also pointed out that the curtailment by the com- pany's customers reflects an ad- justment period during which ex- cessive inventories of raw mater- ial and finished products are be- ing cleared from warehouses and shelves all the way down through the retail manufacturers. "Wiaie we have no certain way of lowing what can be expected of rayon products and resulting requirements for purified wood cellulose," Mr. Bartsch statcd, "It is significant that during 1948 rayon and acetate were the only fibers to increase in usage, ac- cording to official figures found in 'Textile Industries.' United States consumption of these fibers was two and one-half times great- er than in 1939. Based on this record, consumption of purified wood cellulose at a higher rate than currently prevailing seems to be only a matter of months." Mr. Bartsch emphasized that, in planning a new production sched- ule, consideration of the inter- ests of our employees is of the utmost importance. The Shclton division of the com- pany is not immcdiately affocted by this situation, accm'ding to in- formation furnished today by Winston Scott, resident manager. relYlainlng he. the opening Mason the corn- to welcome visitors expected of the big fee- of Keep- The pro- ] three days of and in- carried over the by a fine aided e, Tacoma, of the only thing that to Rlldy Wer- e°mittee assist- of weather, but hb, ve always days and certain that Mo- not let Shelton down on this Festival, if Various corn- believed, and overestimated case, will "be all ways and are ex- satisfied with for their item of the well plan- and has merit folks as well zng the occas- P!ents of Phi age in the State of beginning to real- Were made the appeal to vot- I u m passage of . A Shelton sen- telephollc c.vc- e editor declared ed against the so- Pension bill be- that left wing eking to disrupt e situation of tile gton. The follow- sued by the Wash- Paye,'s Associa- the result of the m °f operation of kn°w the senior' en advantage of. t?t. is reproduced ," now good ptu'- to COver nefarious rand perpetrated 's needy senior ge of Initiative lfing to in light  raring the first Operations under ored law. Costs ce for the month ,'t ed $8,414,548.64, ." cent more than last Year and 7.5 an was 'required on Page 4) & blerritt Have ir I)uY, Muy$) VALLEY Festival Plans Are Pushed Into Final LaNLThis Week timber stands from ravages of fire, red-topped residents of Ms- State Liquor Store's Shelton branch during the night of April 20 has not been sufficient to sup- port any' conviction, B. Franklin Houston, Mason county prosecut- ing attorney, disclosed Tuesday. 01APPEARANCE of the mon- ey frqm the Shelton Liquor store the night of April 20 was con- firmed Monday by the State Li- quor Control Board. The incident in connection with the money withdrawal was re- .ported to Shelton's acting police chief Cecik Clark on April 21, with investigative agents of the liquor board making an inquiry into the matter on April 25. No report of the matter was made to prosecutor B. F. Houston until April 25. According to Harold Wiseman, who became store manager April 4 with the resignation of C. C. Collins, the money was found miss- ing on the morning of April 21 when he had gone to the store to prepare for the day's business. Ac- (Continued on page 3) Spring Home Show Sunday In New Angleside House Featuring the latest trends in modern home construction and in- terior furnishings and equipment, the Dick Kieburtz Construction Company and the Lumbermen's Mercantile Company are inviting the public to see their 1949 Spring Home Show at Twelfth and Tur- ner, Angleside Addition, next Sun- day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The home is another Wolland- er "Puget Sounder" design built of sturdy masonry and water- proofed with Armor Coat. Large overlmnging eaves, clever porch garden planting areas and decor' ative trellis work lend distinction to the home. A large picture win- dow is the center attraction in the generous living room with the new awning type windows which (Continuel On Page Six) CONCESSION STANDS TO BE UP MAY 13 All holders of Forest Festival concession stands which are to be built along Reed AVenue, facing Railroad Avenue, must complete construction of stands by Friday evening, May 13, according to Fred Beckwith, concession chair- man. "We plan for most of the stands to be put up on May 13 and it is absolutely necessary that all must bc completed by that evening," Beckwith said. "There must be no conflict between the construction of stands and parades which will swing down Railroad Avenue on Saturday morning, May 14." All concession space has been granted to Shelton and Mason County organizations which will use the proceeds for community improvements. DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME PLANNED HERE Shelton may go on Daylight Saving Time June 1 It was in- dicated Tuesday when city com- missioners in talking over the time-changing plan expressed ap- proval of it, following reports that officials in surrounding cities had announced intention of making the move. Lange s Paul Bunyan "" HUSKY FORMER Shelton High football playe¢,, Norman Lange will put on the whiskers as Paul Bunyan in the Mason County Forest Festival next week. The 22*year-old Union logger is a, sophomore in the School of Forestry at the University of Washington. Recently fellow students elected him "Ole, King of the Loggers." ** ............................. L ............ _...2_.__-. m * * NEW PAUL BUNYAN TO RIDE HUGE LOG A new Paul Bunyan will ride the mamnmth log in the main parade .of this year's Mason County Forest Festival on Sat- urday, May 14. The man in the . beard and checkered shirt will be Norman Lange, 22, of Union, a sopimmore in the School of Forestry at the University of Washington. tangs has the build to handle the job formerly executed with skill by Gus Anderson of Kamilche and Max Schmidt, Jr., of Gris- dale. The new Bunyan stands 6 feet 2 inches in sox and weighs a raw-boned 200 pounds. tangs was elected "Ole, King of the Loggers" by fellow students at a field day held a few months ago. He was born in Wenatchee but has resided with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kurt tangs, at Union in recent years, tangs played on Shelton high football teams prior to graduating two years ago. He was in the Coast Guard for 15 months during war- time. Kreidler Complains Tuesday of Belfair School Board Plan The day for setting back the Contract; the Belfair sehool board clock's hand one hour would bc last week announced that Ralph June 1, the commissioncrs agreed. W. Duby had been selected for the No action yet has been taken, principal's job. Dismissed as principal of Bel- fair school for the term of 1949-50 by the Belfair school board, Burton Kreidler Tuesday mm:ning filed a  complaint in the office of Bill Goodpaster, county superintendent of schools, protesting the action of the board, charging it with giving insufficient cause for dismissal. In the complaint Krcidler rc- quested that the county superin- tendent of schools hold a hearing, asking that the decision of the school board be set aside, that the board tender him a contract for the coming school year. The date for the hearing, to be held at the county school superin- tendent's office, has not becn set, Goodpaster said. Refusing to renew K.rcidler's Chamber Banquet [ Wednesday Night Features Festival F01:est C tiVa royalty and Paul Bunyan,Norman Lange of Irnion will be honored at the anmml pro- Forest Festival dinner of the Shel- ton Chamber of Commerce in the llasmUc Tentpl lmz ,k W4- nesday evening ............ Two hundred tickets have been placed .on sale for the event, which is open to the public. S. B. "Ahdy" Anderson, banquet chairman, said Roderic Olzendam, new state director of social so-. curtly, will make the main talk of the evening. Dinner is to be served at 6:45 o'clock. Festival Queen Mary Carnes and Princesses Chloe Dickinson, Ella Mac Noble and Betty Newman of Shclton and Princess Lois Ayres o1 Mary M. Knight high school will be introduced in a special ceremony. The festival girls also will ap- pear at the Sbelton Kiwanis Club luncheon next Tuesday noon. WILD HORSES, coWs Queen Mary Makes Sure Everyone Knows About Forest Festival During Busy l00'e,00k By Mary Carnes  ' - , Festival Queen Well, just about everybody should know about the Forest Festival after this week. I havc a busy day scheduled for tomor- row in Seattle and that will wind up the out-of-town visiting. Tim big celebration comes next week and all of the queen's work is supposed to bc done at Imme that MARY TAKES TO AIR MONDAY, FRIDAY Queen Mary Carnes can be heard over the air on tw pro. grams in the coming week. She will broadcast from Seattle KOMO on the Dick Keplingcr program at 9:15 o'clock Friday morning and on the station KVI newscast at 1:15 o'clock week. Monday afternoon. I AM TO BE interviewed on ............................................ Dick Kcplinger's radio program over Station KOMO at 9:15 o'clock tomorrow morning. That's a 15-ntinute program but my part will be only a few minutes and I hope I rememher what to say, You peoulc hold your fingers crossed for rim. Then, at 10:30 o'clock I will go to Mayor William Dcvin's of- fice to present the mayor with a forest festival red lint and some souvenir seedling trees which he can plant around the city hall. At noon, I ant to be a guest at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce hmcheon, along witl Le!;er Fields, Forest Festival wlich will e broadcast probably on Saturday morning. ON TUESDAY tim Shelton Ki- wanis club sent a delegation with me to Tacoma to attend the Ta- coma Kiwanis meeting. In the morning I presented a red hat to Mayor Val Fawcei, t and also some scedling trees. Mayor Fawcett slipped one over on us tiffs year. He was in Bremerton last Friday when our party atteuded the Bremerton Chamber of Colmnerce hmcheon and he got a red hat there, too. I told hhn hc was get- Ling 100 per cent more red hats tim president of out" Slaelton this year than any other mayor Chamber of Commerce. And inland" he said that pleased him the afternoon I have been invited [ plenty. ; to the studio of Station KIRO to [ lut he gave us back one hat and ilal;o  t'alaripUmt tbuat tlzcJ that ua'de l;a4y Wcrbcrgcr very TO BE FEATURED IN MAY RODEO RACES A wild-horse race and a wild- cow race have been arranged this week as added attractions in the May 15 rodeo to be staged at Island Lake grounds, Clar. ence Wlvell of the Shelton Ro- deo club has announced. Bucking high hooves ahead, the rodeo club has prepared a full day of activities starting with a cowboy breakfast on Sun- day morning, May 15, a rough- anti.tumble rodeo show in the afternoon, and  dance at Moun- tain View roller rink in the eve- ning. "A special mystery event for the rodeo has been secured," Wivell has been whispering around, "Considerable secrecy surrounds this event, and par- ticipants are bound, under oath#, not to reveal its nature before the scheduled time." BABY BOY Mr. and Mrs. John Swanson, Jr., 1214 Olympic Drive,'bccame the parents of a son bona April 28 at the Shelton General Hospital. County Forest Festival in Shel- ton. PItF;SIDEN'T RUDY Werberger announced advance word front neighboring commtmities strongly hints Shelton will bc invaded dur- ing festival days by the largest throngs in its history. "We expect sellouts at. both showings of the pageant on Loop Field on May 12 and ]3 and heav- en only knows where we'll stand the fans who some for the par- ades and sports show on Satur- day, May 14," im grinned. Volunteers are being asked by Chairman Rudy Pitman and Bu:-:- iness Manager Roy Ritner of the pageant to report to Loop Field this Sunday morning to assist with stage construction. "ONE OF THE biggest chore.s of the festival is putting up this stage," Oltman said. "We have the parts all built. What we need is a big crowd of men who can pitch in and help us put the parts to- gether. Work starts at 9 'o'clock on Sunday morning, May 8." Parade Chairman Ed Faubert called for last-minute entries in the Paul Bunyan Parade, sched- uled for 11 a.m. on May 14. "We want all entries in by the first of the week," he stressed. "This parade is going to be the longest ever' and our committee must have cooperation in placing the floats." SPOItTS SIIOW Chairman Roy Kimbel announced an additional thriller, the topping of a 90-foot fir tree, will highlight the Log- gers Sports Show at 2 o'clock on Saturday, May 14, Eight contests involving men from the mills and woods are being worked into this two-hour show. Co-chairman Gus Graf and E. Lucky Luck arc working out de- tails of the Children's Pet Par- ade which is set for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 14. Hmtdreds of children are expected to parade in thi event. Many Hear First All-Cqmir Festival A capacity crowd of appreciative Sheltonans snd county residents heard the first All-Choir Festival ever staged here at the high soltool auditorium last Sunday evening'. Because of the large turnout, the chairs overflowed to tho mu- Slb rooms downstairs. : Altlmugh there was no dmlttance charge, a sum of $111 was contributed to- ward "the music scholarshlp fund. Stage decorations, the creation of Mrs. Mary Briggs and Mrs. Opal Shimek, consisted of apple blossoms and dogwood. Annottcement of the scholarship award will be made at the high happy. I was so surpriscd I could hardly talk when Mayor Fawcett presented with III C a beautiful orchid. I wore it in Tacoma and brought iL home to keep in the refrigerator. In Tacoma I visited radio sta- tions and met many people I kncw whcn our family lived in Tacoma. That wa likc going home. Last Thursday our entire court went to Olympia as guests of the Olympia Chamber of Contmerce, Princesscs Chloe Dickinson, Betty Newman, Lois Ayres and Ella Mac Noble and I, were ac- companied by, my mother as chap- crone, Mv.. ltudy Werberger was nay chaperone on the Bremcrton trip and my mother again went with us to Tacoma and Bremertou. EVERYWItERE WE go our red hats attract attentiun. When we were, in Brenxcrton a man wslkcd up to our president, Rudy Wer- bergcr, and said, "What do you mean, bunting deer right here in town and out of season!" Mr. Wcr- berger looked him right back in the cyc and afd, "What you need to make you good looking is a Forest Festival button." He made the man buy one right on the spot and the man went away looking urpred. school graduation ceremonies, Mrs. John L. Dotson, of the All-Choir Festival committee, said. Mrs. Grant Packard is chairman of the scholarship committee. Angle Takes Over 00The Airway Court : J. Eber Angle, former newspaper publisher, took over the operation of the Airport housing project May 1 and announced that tim name for the community is being changed to "Airway Court." The Airway Court, consisting ot 40 units of three, four and five room apartments, is open for gen- eral occupancy. Purchased from the Public Housing Admiuistration, to which group they were turned ,over by the Navy, the buildings and grounds were turned over to Mr. Angle witl the transfer of prop- erties on April 30. Manager at the Airway Court is John Wenz, well-known plumber, : • • I Western Pack I J M E A T S A L E Thursday, Friday and Saturday HIGHEST QUALITY -- LOWEST PRICES Hams Skinned - Tenderized ................................ LB, 55 ¢ Bacon P,oce or S,,cod ......................................... LB 49 Pork Roast Cen,er cuts , LB. 42 Pork Steak Loan. ,end°, L,: 49 Fresh Side Pork L,. Pot Roast ......................................................... L,, 42 ¢ Short Ribs ............................................................. 25 ¢ Fresh Pork Links ................................ L. 49 WESTERN MEAT CO. 411 RAILROAD PHONE 21