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11 May 11, 1939, the
Journal announced
Shelton’s annual .
cleanup effort. “With the
city offering its cooperation
next week, Shelton’s annual
Cleanup Week will be from
Monday May 15 through Sat-
urday May 20. So, this little
logging and rayon center
should wake up and find it-
selfall spic and span a week
from Sunday morning.”
City residents were asked
to clean up their yards,
clear out attics and
ments, and scrub up the
garage and woodshed. The
resulting accumulation of
unwanted junk and broken
down odds and ends could
be piled in the alleys behind
their homes, to be picked
up by a city truck. Under
the direction of Street and
Water Superintendent E. E.
Brewer, the town would be
covered several times during
HISTORY
AT A GLANCE
the week by city crews, and
the accumulations of rubbish
dug out by Shelton residents
would be carted off to the
garbage dump.
“But those are only the
things which constitute
the minimum for Clean—up
Week,” Mayor C. C. Cole
commented. “The week itself
should point also to a con—
tinuing campaign through
the spring, carried on
week in Shelton,
individually by every house—
holder, to improve the city’s
appearance. There could be
lots of paint spread. There
should be lots offiowers
planted, lawns improved,
shrubs put in, and other
work to be done. An indi-
vidual pride in appearance
of each place in the city by
its owner will result in im—
proved community pride and
a better community appear—
ance. Those are things we
should do now to be prepared
to give the best possible im-
pression to the thousands of
tourists who will see Shelton
this summer."
However, while the may—
or was promoting flowers,
lawns, and shrubs, residents
were also being asked to con-
serve water, due to unprece—
dented dry, hot weather. The
city’s water supply was being
drained by increased yard
sprinkling, threatening the
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reserve necessary in case of
fire. Superintendent Brewer
said, “This is a situation we
do not usually meet with un—
til mid—sum‘mer, and we are
asking cooperation from resi—
dents so that we don’t have
to apply sprinkling restric—
tions. The first priority is to
maintain a sufficient reserve
to keep pressure high enough
in case of a fire.” He asked
that sprinkling be done only
during the cool hours of the
morning or the evening, add-
ing that “lawns should not
be flooded to the point that
water runs down the street.”
Mayor Cole asked that in ad-
dition to careful watering,
residents should repair leaks
in water pipes. According to
Superintendent BreWer, a
hole only 1/32nd in diameter
would leak 170 gallons in 24
hours under 40 pounds of
water pressure.
On May 14, the
HUNTER FARMS
A Familg Farm Tradilion
Sheflon
temporarily
accessed water
from a well at
the Rayonier
plant in May
1939.
Photo courtesy
Mason County
Historical
Museum
1939
temperature in Shelton hit
90 degrees, then dropped to
40 degrees at night. The high
May 15 was 92 degrees. On
May 1.6, Rayonier offered to
let the city temporarily hook
up to one of its wells to aug-
ment the water supply.
Finally, the rains came.
Weather during the last half
of the month of May more
than made up for the unusu-
ally dry first half, with 3.34
inches of rain falling the
fourth highest total on re—
cord for Shelton.
I Jan Parker is a re-
searcher for the Mason
County Historical Musezmz..
She can be reached at mch—
sparherfll‘gmailrom. Mem-
bership in the Mason County
Historical Society is $25 per
year. For (1 limited time, new
members will receive a. free
copy of the book “Shelton, the
First Century Plus Ten.”
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