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PERCY ' PIP
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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.
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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
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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."
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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, :
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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