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14, 1964
gI-IELTON MA 0N COtrNTY J0 AL---Published in "'Ohrtstmastown, U.KA.", Shelton, Washington
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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. "- "
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RS. JOHN JONES
18 S. 10th
S"ELTON, WASH. 98584
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" 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
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