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14, 1964 gI-IELTON MA 0N COtrNTY J0 AL---Published in "'Ohrtstmastown, U.KA.", Shelton, Washington .PAGE i ii I i ii i ,i 40 And ,8 To Give Nurse Scholarships 40 & 8 Voiture 1:15 (Mason training. She is studying now at County) voted at ira May prom(n- Enmnuel l{o;q)ital in l*oltland. Re- ado last week to sponsoF i\VO ill- ('ipi~qlt of ilte a(ttiitil)nal scholal'- stea{I of (tile nlu'sos training sch()l- .~Ilip will be chosell at a later ",rfi]ip.~ for (he coming yeal'.¢ti![t'. The actiml was insligated AS TeAY t ,.,,,, t,,,inin (]hol'y[ i~,uller's scholarship was bv . nurses : re newc~t fol' :l lhil'd y('ar of nill',~R,s s:ttho]arslilD cIlail'lU;lll fol' Voiture l,J,). Hall May 16 2 A.M. sic by KirMand Gr .p To Give C ncer! Here The 2S-voice choir from the To,.lhv.e t Colleg'e of lhe Assemb- 'es; of Go:l in I(irkland will pre-: ,'ant a e,meeri al lhe She]ton As- JOB OPPORTUNITIES ]';ml)loyment possibilities listed hy the ".h)b Corps" service of the State Emplos.,.nent Security De- partment lhis week include open- ings for a CC0llnt'ults, architect. Iludilor~, ~lll{ (I Ill ('(~}]ll lti('s, case- wnrkP]', chemist, forest engineer, hydraulic engineer, key lmnch op.. sembly of God Sunday at I 1 a.m. , erator, lice Ise:t practical nurse, There will also he instrumental, mechanical engineer, retail lumber cnsemble, and trio numbers T e lyard manager, ~oodwnrking mill- l~Ollr choir is under the direction of Miss m;,n. nurse's ai(lc, physical thera- l),~r()thv Anu ntis(n, college nmsi~" i pint, radio cngineer~ regist(red ~dll'li~ed all,cote{.. 'l'h~, throne of lhe ctm.-nurse research anqlyst statisli- 'til 10:30 c,.t in "ms T' th Is Ma,'c,ila ci. l nhcr tl ,, , . ,. . . " ' , ' • " • , , '~ 1r ant On. Tiltpllbht, iseordmlly m-lsupermtendent, teacher tvDist. ',riLed to hear the choir, veterinarian. "- " :! (' m RS. JOHN JONES 18 S. 10th S"ELTON, WASH. 98584 e i alWill cal Add All Y0ur we z,e oo.E ,,.e.s " LL MASON I)OUNTY TOWNS, Phone 426-4412 JOB PRINTING DEPT. * HARRY Through 20 years ,the Mason County Forest Festival has seen many changes, hut, still promotes strongly the idea for which is was formed. The Keep Green movement, which has spread from its start right here in Mason County througout the nation and to foreign countries also gave birth to the Forest Festival. The credit for much of the Keep Green idea as well as the Forest Festival nmst go to Ham'y Clark, one-time district forest " warden here for the Department of Nat- ural Resources. Clark is now re- tired and lives in Tillicum. Some of the men who were at the meeting at which the Forest Festival idea was first brought forth are still active in the Fe;~'ti- val each year, among them Gib Rucker ancl Oscar Levin, now hc, tn retired from their duties with the Simpson Timber Company. THE EVENTS WHICH led up to the first Forest Festival in 19- 45 actually started years ear'ier when Clari¢ came to ~Iason Co,m- ty as assistant district warden un- der George Frisk. Seelung ways to reduce the for- est fircs which annually destroy- ,gd many acres of' timber here each sul{m~e]', Clark and a group of Shelton meu, including Gib Ruc- ker, Reggie Sykes, Morris Need- ham, Octal" Levin, Harold (Bahe) Mllnson, George Frisk, Herb Angle, and Howard Bryer, formed what they called the i~ecp Green Com- mittee. Tile group was later joined by Jim Stevens and Rod Olzendam who got together with the Ameri- can Legion which was instrumen- tal in tile star(wide organization of the Keep Green movement. 1Wason County, the birthplace of the idea, was tile first to recognize the statewide group. Another idea which Clark pro- moted was the Junior Fore,at Wardens, which he first organized in Shelton, and later in the wc.~- ern part of the state for tile De,- partment of Natural Resource,;. Assisting Clark in the Junior For- est Warden Project in Mason County were Herb Angle and Mof ris Neeham. The Junior Forest Wardens were a casualty of World War II, MMK Selects Valedictorian, Salutatodans Siet Palmer will be valedicto- rian of the graduating class at Mary M. Knight High School this year, it was announced this week. : l:'almer has a grade' point aver- age of 3.87, just .13 below a straight A for his four years in High School. Stmring honors as salutatorian" will he .]erry Shaw and Tom Dale who each finished with a grade point average of 3.76. Pahner, 17, is the son of Mr. and TOM DALE q= teams two years. He )]as taken part in the class play three years, been assistant student body presi- CLARK * curtailed by the Department of Natural Resources during that time. CLARK RETURNED TO Shel- ton in 1944 and again became ac- tive in the Keep Green Commit- tee. It was at a meeting of this committee in December, 1944, that the Forest Festival idea was first proposed. The idea was to have a pageant by the school children, a q'ueen and princesses, a parade a.nd a logging show. The Festival was tO be held in connection with the opening of the fire season, which was then April 15. (lent:, athletic manager, represen- tative nf the Washington High School Forestry Congress, a junior class president, student body trea- (rarer, assistant editor and sport editor for tim annual, student council representative and presi- dent of tile' Men's Athletic Union. SHAW, 17 son of Mr. and Mrs. STET PALMER council represenhttive, and annual editor. Back in the war year of 1944, tile river bank, "all this in gone some tried to disc(mrage the idea, now." she said sm41y. but, others were in favor and plans GATHEIIlN(I TIlE materials went ahead for the first FestiwHfor her craft is no easy joh be- in April, 1945. The American cause they grow in such widely- Legion and the Chamber of Corn- scattered" areas. Sweet grass merce joined in tile sponsorship ot grows in greatest abundance near the first Festiwd. the ocean. Bear grass is found The, idea took hold and tile For-. in' tile hills. Cattails must be est Festival Association was form- sought in the. swamps and marsh- ed t.o direct the Festiwd each year. es. All must be gathered during The date nf the Ol)ening (ti" the the summer monl!hs, and fron] sha- fire season was. moved back to ded areas. "They are much softer March 15 in 1947, and, because el ~md custer to work with when the weather conditions at Lha.; picked in the shade," she said. time, i.he Festival was moved to"Picked in tile open they are hard the third week in May. . like sticl(s." "Somelin~es I use TH 0 t th¢ raffia which [ blly but mostly I E _.UEEN and her cour. .... ~ . -, " • , , ,, --~-~d, ,,--' "h, 1--,,-o.'--,,. ~; .... 1 ke In work with the nlatc]'ials I lmta..e a.tu t.,,C -/l~t-~hll/~ ...... w" ' , ' ~ ; { , gHh(~ f]on the l tnn \\hich )rigilmted at this first Fes-, "~ ~' 7' " ; " LlVi Ath~ th( ] cls nt g assts az~ • ~1 will be lmrt of the~ Festival '~' ~ '~:." ~ ~.','.~.~,!" '~ this e~ mt t h hit I,~l hct(d th(y me thud m the since' the beR'innillK ' , Slln for aho;it It nnmth then slored O,le ofll;;'bi- aii;'aetiolls of the it, a dry place lur:ll ready for use. -~-r"[. w~-', ~ ~' ' ". :.. '. During the drying period, Mrs. ett lit I 1: ( Stl'~ aim ule pageant is ......... ~ I ulsifer is lnm.~" making ller own no longer presented. The red hats, which lmve also traditionally been a symbol of the Festival, are a carry over from Clark's Junior Forest Wardens. The uniform of the Junior ](crest Wardens was a grey sweat shirt, symbolizing the gray of a burned over area, and a red hat, symbol- izing the flames which destroyed the trees. The red hat symbol w s' carried ovcr int(~ the For(st Festi- val. Through the years ,the Festival' has grown in size, but, tile idea, of the Festival has remained un- cimnged--to preach the gospel ot fire prevention. Journal Wani Ads Pay Dale, 18, is Lhe son of Mr. and Mrs. James Dale. He also plans to at.tend Grays Havhov College. l)uring ]{is school years, he has participated in class plays, boxing, gymnastic, basehall, basketball and track, was annual editor, a class president, business manager of the annual and lreasurer of the Men's Attfletic Union. Mrs. Clarence Palmer. He plans, "Walter Shaw, Dlans to attend to altend Grays Harbor College Grays Harbor Collep;e to begin his Committee to begin his studies toward be- cdfication i, oward being a lawyei'; coming a veterinarian. During his schol years, he hast-- Palmer has been on the track participated in bas(~ball, basket-] ~- team from the school three yearsball, track, imnd choir, class plays, I and on-the basketball and haseball has been a class president, student ] _ ............................................. --'- ............................................ -- , MRS. P'IJ,LSIFER , . '~ 't ",,,, tago 1) widtll, Mrs. Iulsifer pnlls eacll[~~(;~ . 'and pnt tl)em on display for peo- in turn tilrough a sizing template. ]~~ pm .to en3oy. He should be here In the early days this device was ]~~,}~~I again soon, wnen tne weather is made from pieces of sharpened [~~~i~~ good." deer bone, now for ail practical She recalled tile early days purposes, her so]~ Ton] has fash- ~~~~ when her people were mm"e nln~-i0ned a replica of the device from[~~'~ :~. erous. "In summer, all of the Io- a small stick and two razor blade l~~:~~ cal ~ribes would meet in great sections mounted side-by-side and ~~'... ~i' .,~ numbers hy tile creeks and rivers placed about an mghth of an'inch i~~~~,~ to visit and swap stories. In the apart. Trimming the grasses and [~lliI'"'Jib winter time they worked, and v(ere reeds in this f'tshion enables Mrs. ]~ JIr too busy fishing and jerking meat Pulsifer to nest each strand elos- I~ ~I: to visit very nmch." She h)oked I~-'~ ~~ wistfully out the window toward Dr. Romeo Conca was chosen dye. Sh(.' nmkes 1we basic colors; yellow mM red. V~rhile part of the ln'OCeS~ in a ctoso'[y-gllarded secl'et, she did diwdgc the materials us(d, and part of the. technique of dye. prep'~ratiorL The yellow dye 'is nmde from the root of the ()','egon grape. Red dye is made from ce- dar bark. In each case the mater- ials are boiled in water to exl.raet the. pigment. Gra~-,~es and reeds are dyed hy either boiling or dipping them iil whieh,~ver eolor pigment, is de- sired. Boiling produces a deeper shade, while dipping for varying periods of lime produces ligMer shades. After dyeing, the material tually water-tight. The bottom of the basket is wo- ven first. Mrs. Pulslfer begins wea- ving ill the eenLer and works to- ward the outer edge. \Vhen she has assured herself that the hot- ton] is the proper size for the haskei: she ha.s ill mind, she be- gins fl)rn]ing the ve]'tieM strands which will eventually become the body ()t the basket.' Sweet grass and bear grass are llsed in the ot)ter Slll'f~tce of the hssket, while cattails are used for lining the inside. llAVING ALIlEAI)Y dccided whic.h (tesign, or designs she [g going to use, the colored sl.randsl which forlll the dcsigu a]'e worked in al, jusl lhe prop(w moment to In'educe a perfect diamond, streak of lightning, or rows of (,logs or duc~s. The skilted hands work cease- lessly, guMing strands of mater- ial i{~ and out, over and m~der, un- til each strand becomes an inte- gra.1 l)a.rl, of the basket. Finally, Wilh a bit of trhmning here, a~(l tying there, the project is eom- ph)t ed. Carehdly, M:rs. Pulsifer held her basket up to the window, inspect- ing it carefully as she turned it over and over' in her hands. Ap- parently pleased with her we] k, a hick oi satisfaci:ion c.ame slowly nvcr her weathered face. Then, as if on cP.e, the S,hl appeared from behind a cloud and filtered through the window, spotlighting the old woman, and the product of an age-old craft. Chairman of the Citizens Ad- visory Committee of the Shelton School District for the 1964- 65 school year. Conca, a Section RLeader at Rayonier's Olympio esearch Division, s u c c e e d s Leonard Flower as head of the committee organized in 1959 to assist and advise district offi- cials on all matters pertainingl to school operations. Richard Angle will serve as Assistant Chairman and Mrs. Phil Bay- Cchairman and Mrs. Phil Bay- ley as Secretary for thecom- mittee during the next school year. Dr. Edwin Lovcll becomes Subcommittee Chairman for cur- riculum and materials; William H. Smith will be Subcommittee Chairman for administration and personnel; and Richard Angle will serve as Subcommittee Chairman, finance and buildings. WINNER, FOURTEENTH AAA TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER CONTEST nmst be alhtwed to dry before it is u sed. 1N OI{I)ER TO MAKE each Id.rand of material mliform ill kl i i I . e ,/ I