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Percy M Pip 6017 S.E. 86h Ave portland, Ore t Festival Starts Tonight At Queen Andrea's Banquet BANQUET School cafe- ,oring 1959 I COurt, ru- Princesses, all and 15 tl Y Glascook, 0Stern For- ,'guest speaker. Hardy Portland will tonight at quet in the Mr. P.m. Gla=. 6ounsel for Conser. and tu well Northwest for. 00Swim Go.! n program be provided f the corn- generosity of in their needed to put was reached of contlqbu- $5.00 to $300. reads $1,- r instructors, will con- and life sav- Isabella and for the girls softball tlons, which dy reported tl over the Boiling, :. Paul Locke, $5; Loyal W. S. Loo- Ifl N. Johns, Jack Jef- Club, $10; $5; Diane, .rank, $15; le, $25; De- No. 25, $5; :5; and the Whose mere- FRIDAY SHAY DEDICATION City's new permanent memor- ial to railroad logging will be officially dedicated at 2:30 p.m. in Brewer Park. FRIDAY CORONATION FETE Queen Andrea and her royal court will be officially crowned at coronation pageant In high school gymnasium at 8:00 p.m. t • SATURDAY KIDDIES PARADE Kiddies Kartoon Festival Par- ade leads off Saturday's many events through dow ntown streets of Shelton at 10:00 a.m. SATURDAY PAUL BUNYAN PARADE The "moving mile" of beauti- ful floats, peppy bands, and live- ly marching units of the Paul Bunyan Parade moves through 6helton's dqwntown streets at 10:30 a.m. Entered as second clas'l matter at the post office at Shelton: W ahinJlton. 10 Cents per Copy 73RD YEAR--NO. 21 under Act of March  1879. Publishes weekly at 107 Soum *m ttreet. Thursday, May 21, 1959 Published in "Crtstmastown, U.S.A." 20 Pages- 3 Sections City To Modify Present Fire @de A IIo wing Us e o f Woo d Facings The Shelton City Commission is planning to amend the present city fire ordinance to allow the use of wood or other combustible veneer fronts on buildings in the city provided they have a non-combustible backing. The new amendment has the approval of the State Fire Marshal's office as well as that of the Insurance Under- writers and came as the result of a conference held here last week on this matter. The city had recently ordered Dean Palmer, owner of Dean's Studio, to tear down the front on his new building on Railroad Ave. The letter to Palmer brought the matter to a head and representatives of the State Fire Marshars office, the Simpson Logging Company, the City of Shelton and the Insurance Under- writers got together and worked out a modification to the present ordinance. Mayor Earl Moore issued the following statement on the proposed new amendment: "FAIR AND effective enforce- ment of all existing city ordinan-] ces is the duty and obligation of I tim Mayor and his fellow Commis- sioners." "More often than not, this means enforcing rules of conduct adopted by previous elective offi- cials. Many such m'dinances pre- vailing in Shelton go back 20 or 30 years, or even longer." "Reexamination and interpreta- tion of these ordinances in the light of present day facts is a proper procedure which we try to follow." "Sch a tep has bee ntaken in the cae of "City fire zoning apply- ing to the use of building mate- rials in business district construc- tion. Such zoning is necessary to the protection of both people and property." "Within recent weeks, the city has been concerned with a new wood front placed on a Railroad Avenue business building. Under i the city fire zoning ordinancel adopted in 1938, this type of con-I struction in the fire zone involved (Oontlnued on page 3) JUNIOR PRINCESS SUE MINEGISHI IS Kamflche's Stmior Forest Festival Prlnces IWA Wants Pay Increase Strike vote ballots are now be- ing counted at the regional office of the IWA in Portland from woodworkers in Oregon, Washing- ton and California. LOCAL 38 held their election here last Friday after the union presented a list of demands to the Simpson Logging company in April. Tim present contract with the Simpson Logging company expires on June 1. Among the demands in the new contract which will go into elect June 1 are a two year contract instead of a one year contract as in the past; a raise in pay of 12% cents an hmtr or 6 qA of the worker's pay which- ever is the greater; a 7th paid hol- iday; another increase of t 12J/ cents an ltour effective June 1, 1960 and three weeks w¢cation after five years cn|ployment. JOHN V(),IS, business agent for local 38, pointed oot that the de- cision to strike or not to strike will depend upon the votes of all of the members in the three states. The union official had no om- ment on the outcome of the vot- ing. However results of the b:xt- lotin;g should bc known wiLl, in a weeR or so. Hay Barn Destroyed A light bulb near hay in the barn belonging to Ernest May- nard, Route 1, resulted in the complete loss of the barn early Monday evening, reported the i Shelton office of the Department of Natural Resources. Four men and a pump truck from the department answered the call to the barn. County Heads Call For Fire Fighting Parley The Mason County Board of "Commissioners decided Monday to hold a meeting with the State Department of Natural Resources, the coun- ty engineer and the prosecut- ing attorney to determine the responsibility for fighting fires in the county. The meeting was called after County Engineer Frank Porter told the commission- ers that the county road de- partment had to fight a fire recently at the Hoodsport garbage dump alone without the help of the State Depart- ment of Natural Resources. PORTER SAIl) that he wanted I.o know exactly how the com- missioners felt about the matter. He added that money spent fight- ing fires by his department came from road funds which were allot- ted fro' the purpose of road con- siruciion and maintenance. Porter asked for a clarification of respon- sibility 9n this problem. Commissioner Roy Mitchell maid, "r lhiBk the Departltttmt of Nat- im'al [¢esm|rces ires a responsibility ifor fighting fires out in the county and so have we". The eoul|ty com- missioners were hl, happy to heat' that the state department had not offered help with the fire at the Hoodsport garbage dump and were anxious to work out some agree- ment with the state in regard to this fire problem. Building permits were issued to the following persons; Jack Hus- ton of Shelton, $800, and Marion Eveleth of. Ehna for $175. FESTIVAL HONORED GUESTS WALT ECKERT Grapevlew A. E. "BONEY" I,OERTSCqFIER Cloqttlum ELI WILLEY I CHARLE COOKE lyshore I Shelton Valley SUSIE r'ALtLE Shelton TOM WEBB Union IIELEN McREAVY ANDERSON Union MRS. J. F STOTsBERY Areaalla Road EMMA McDON&IA} HARRY CLARK SATURDAY LOGGERS SPORT SHOW Loop Field is the place, 2:00 is the time, for the annual thrill- ing and exciting Loggerl Sports Show. Admission is by Forest Festival membership button only. SATURDAY OFFICIAL DANCE" Sponsored by the Active Club, the official Forest Festival dance starts at 9:00 p.m., this year at the Skating Rink on Mt. View instead of the Armory where it has been held in the past several years. SUNDAY SPORTS CAR RACE Brand new in the Forest Fes- tival family this year, the Northwest Sports Car Club of America is sponsoring its first Forest Festival Sports Car race at the airport track, starting at noon Sunday, Queen Andrea Surveys Her Domain City Says Tall Fences Must Come Down The Shelton City Commission accepted a recommendation .of the Planning Commission to deny spe- cial permits to James Howell and George Nichols who had asked permission tO have six foot fences on heir property. THE PLANNING Commission held a special meeting Monday night on this question sad di#- cus.ed it at. considerable length, The city will order Niclmls and Howell to remove their fences by May 26th. Red Parsons asked the commis- fion for an O.K. to open a card room and tobacco shop in the old Panley Mercury building. Parsons told the commission that he plan- ned to serve soft. drinks only and said that many oidtimers in town like to have a place to play card. IIAYOR EARL Moore was not Anxious to grant this request nnd told Parsons, "I think we ha.re enot|gh gamhling houses, beet" tav- erns ill town right now and we have received several complaints about them." However tile mayor suggested to Parsons that he present the commission with a typewritten statement informing the comnfls- sion of his exact plans for the new establishment and that tim city would act on his request at a httcr date. The commission a],o agleed to ;all for bids o11 $6000 worth ot )ipc because of the impending steel strike wl]iclx could mean an increase in steel prices, TIlE TENNEY TraCltn" an(t Equipment Conlpany eL" Olyrupia agreed to aacept $2506 it] frill pay- raont for a repalir .job orl ()lie ot the city's Lrarctors. The orig'tnal re- pair bill was $3193, The city de- olined pa 5 ment of the bill because linty maintained they could not legally pay more than $2500 with. oIlt calling for bids on the job, Police Clief l.'au] Hini.n Sllg'- gested that the city readopt the 1959 Washington s t a t c tr:tffic code. THE COMMISSION agreed to hire a dog catcher for one luf,n[h to see, to it that the dogs in town have Ilew licenses. Tle deadline fro' obtaining 1959-60 dog licenses is June 30. Next weeit'* Journal will (,irate OUt a (lay early, Vetlll4,s(la.'v, in- stead of Tltur.day, due to the Memorial day holidtty 'hieh wIU IW olmcrved Salurday, Mny 30. All advertising aud news copy deadlines will be a lilly earlier. Most of the downtawn buJ- I|eslt atltl offh'es  Ill be chined on Saturday, tho day at the holl(hty, -iitI - " Jl *f ..... "T-T'"'T * * * , Coronation Friday And Parades Saturday The 15th annual Mason County Forest Festival opens tonight with a queen's banquet honoring Queen Andrea, her royal court and princesses from, the county's grade schools, in the Mt. View school at 6:30. The banquet will also pay tribute €o 15 honol:ed citizens of he county who will be special gueth of the Forest Fes- tival Committee. The main speaker at tonight's banquet will be Hardy Glascock of Portland,  well known figure in the Pacific Northwest lumber industry. OVER 100 ENTRIES will ap ........................................................................ i pear in the It0 minute parade Sat ............. urda,y morning from many cities including Seattle, To.china, Brem- erton, Olympia, Montesano, Ren- ton, Aberdeen, Port Angeles and many, many others. A Kiddies Karton Parade, will precede the main parade which will start at 10:30 a.m. l,'m" l.he firsl, tin{c tlds year. nine former Forest Festival queens will ride thro|tgh the streets of down- town Shelton. They are Ixgs Gib- let. 19,i5; Marilyn Wakelee. 19461 Bernadine Winiecki. 1947: Cheric Davidson. 1948; Feryl Wokojance, 1950; Shariyn Brown. 1953; Jane ((.?oBtintl(,d oll Psgt, Two) - " 1 RE TIRES GOODRIGH AND O, Ks RE.GAP For More Economic Driving at O. Ks RUBBER WELDERS MT. VIEW Add Enchantment to Your Home- New or Old With This Early Anmrican Franklin HEATER FIREI'LACE ()l)cn svcnlj dot}Is ) tl tlave ;t [ll*tXl)Jacc Closed, a st}ve. 2 siz¢,: 22-'incl mui 26 itwIl. '159" " Convenient Terms SEE IN OUR WIND()W Olsen Furniture 328 CoLa Phone HA 6-4702 I i [ i J Percy M Pip 6017 S.E. 86h Ave portland, Ore t Festival Starts Tonight At Queen Andrea's Banquet BANQUET School cafe- ,oring 1959 I COurt, ru- Princesses, all and 15 tl Y Glascook, 0Stern For- ,'guest speaker. Hardy Portland will tonight at quet in the Mr. P.m. Gla=. 6ounsel for Conser. and tu well Northwest for. 00Swim Go.! n program be provided f the corn- generosity of in their needed to put was reached of contlqbu- $5.00 to $300. reads $1,- r instructors, will con- and life sav- Isabella and for the girls softball tlons, which dy reported tl over the Boiling, :. Paul Locke, $5; Loyal W. S. Loo- Ifl N. Johns, Jack Jef- Club, $10; $5; Diane, .rank, $15; le, $25; De- No. 25, $5; :5; and the Whose mere- FRIDAY SHAY DEDICATION City's new permanent memor- ial to railroad logging will be officially dedicated at 2:30 p.m. in Brewer Park. FRIDAY CORONATION FETE Queen Andrea and her royal court will be officially crowned at coronation pageant In high school gymnasium at 8:00 p.m. t • SATURDAY KIDDIES PARADE Kiddies Kartoon Festival Par- ade leads off Saturday's many events through dow ntown streets of Shelton at 10:00 a.m. SATURDAY PAUL BUNYAN PARADE The "moving mile" of beauti- ful floats, peppy bands, and live- ly marching units of the Paul Bunyan Parade moves through 6helton's dqwntown streets at 10:30 a.m. Entered as second clas'l matter at the post office at Shelton: W ahinJlton. 10 Cents per Copy 73RD YEAR--NO. 21 under Act of March  1879. Publishes weekly at 107 Soum *m ttreet. Thursday, May 21, 1959 Published in "Crtstmastown, U.S.A." 20 Pages- 3 Sections City To Modify Present Fire @de A IIo wing Us e o f Woo d Facings The Shelton City Commission is planning to amend the present city fire ordinance to allow the use of wood or other combustible veneer fronts on buildings in the city provided they have a non-combustible backing. The new amendment has the approval of the State Fire Marshal's office as well as that of the Insurance Under- writers and came as the result of a conference held here last week on this matter. The city had recently ordered Dean Palmer, owner of Dean's Studio, to tear down the front on his new building on Railroad Ave. The letter to Palmer brought the matter to a head and representatives of the State Fire Marshars office, the Simpson Logging Company, the City of Shelton and the Insurance Under- writers got together and worked out a modification to the present ordinance. Mayor Earl Moore issued the following statement on the proposed new amendment: "FAIR AND effective enforce- ment of all existing city ordinan-] ces is the duty and obligation of I tim Mayor and his fellow Commis- sioners." "More often than not, this means enforcing rules of conduct adopted by previous elective offi- cials. Many such m'dinances pre- vailing in Shelton go back 20 or 30 years, or even longer." "Reexamination and interpreta- tion of these ordinances in the light of present day facts is a proper procedure which we try to follow." "Sch a tep has bee ntaken in the cae of "City fire zoning apply- ing to the use of building mate- rials in business district construc- tion. Such zoning is necessary to the protection of both people and property." "Within recent weeks, the city has been concerned with a new wood front placed on a Railroad Avenue business building. Under i the city fire zoning ordinancel adopted in 1938, this type of con-I struction in the fire zone involved (Oontlnued on page 3) JUNIOR PRINCESS SUE MINEGISHI IS Kamflche's Stmior Forest Festival Prlnces IWA Wants Pay Increase Strike vote ballots are now be- ing counted at the regional office of the IWA in Portland from woodworkers in Oregon, Washing- ton and California. LOCAL 38 held their election here last Friday after the union presented a list of demands to the Simpson Logging company in April. Tim present contract with the Simpson Logging company expires on June 1. Among the demands in the new contract which will go into elect June 1 are a two year contract instead of a one year contract as in the past; a raise in pay of 12% cents an hmtr or 6 qA of the worker's pay which- ever is the greater; a 7th paid hol- iday; another increase of t 12J/ cents an ltour effective June 1, 1960 and three weeks w¢cation after five years cn|ployment. JOHN V(),IS, business agent for local 38, pointed oot that the de- cision to strike or not to strike will depend upon the votes of all of the members in the three states. The union official had no om- ment on the outcome of the vot- ing. However results of the b:xt- lotin;g should bc known wiLl, in a weeR or so. Hay Barn Destroyed A light bulb near hay in the barn belonging to Ernest May- nard, Route 1, resulted in the complete loss of the barn early Monday evening, reported the i Shelton office of the Department of Natural Resources. Four men and a pump truck from the department answered the call to the barn. County Heads Call For Fire Fighting Parley The Mason County Board of "Commissioners decided Monday to hold a meeting with the State Department of Natural Resources, the coun- ty engineer and the prosecut- ing attorney to determine the responsibility for fighting fires in the county. The meeting was called after County Engineer Frank Porter told the commission- ers that the county road de- partment had to fight a fire recently at the Hoodsport garbage dump alone without the help of the State Depart- ment of Natural Resources. PORTER SAIl) that he wanted I.o know exactly how the com- missioners felt about the matter. He added that money spent fight- ing fires by his department came from road funds which were allot- ted fro' the purpose of road con- siruciion and maintenance. Porter asked for a clarification of respon- sibility 9n this problem. Commissioner Roy Mitchell maid, "r lhiBk the Departltttmt of Nat- im'al [¢esm|rces ires a responsibility ifor fighting fires out in the county and so have we". The eoul|ty com- missioners were hl, happy to heat' that the state department had not offered help with the fire at the Hoodsport garbage dump and were anxious to work out some agree- ment with the state in regard to this fire problem. Building permits were issued to the following persons; Jack Hus- ton of Shelton, $800, and Marion Eveleth of. Ehna for $175. FESTIVAL HONORED GUESTS WALT ECKERT Grapevlew A. E. "BONEY" I,OERTSCqFIER Cloqttlum ELI WILLEY I CHARLE COOKE lyshore I Shelton Valley SUSIE r'ALtLE Shelton TOM WEBB Union IIELEN McREAVY ANDERSON Union MRS. J. F STOTsBERY Areaalla Road EMMA McDON&IA} HARRY CLARK SATURDAY LOGGERS SPORT SHOW Loop Field is the place, 2:00 is the time, for the annual thrill- ing and exciting Loggerl Sports Show. Admission is by Forest Festival membership button only. SATURDAY OFFICIAL DANCE" Sponsored by the Active Club, the official Forest Festival dance starts at 9:00 p.m., this year at the Skating Rink on Mt. View instead of the Armory where it has been held in the past several years. SUNDAY SPORTS CAR RACE Brand new in the Forest Fes- tival family this year, the Northwest Sports Car Club of America is sponsoring its first Forest Festival Sports Car race at the airport track, starting at noon Sunday, Queen Andrea Surveys Her Domain City Says Tall Fences Must Come Down The Shelton City Commission accepted a recommendation .of the Planning Commission to deny spe- cial permits to James Howell and George Nichols who had asked permission tO have six foot fences on heir property. THE PLANNING Commission held a special meeting Monday night on this question sad di#- cus.ed it at. considerable length, The city will order Niclmls and Howell to remove their fences by May 26th. Red Parsons asked the commis- fion for an O.K. to open a card room and tobacco shop in the old Panley Mercury building. Parsons told the commission that he plan- ned to serve soft. drinks only and said that many oidtimers in town like to have a place to play card. IIAYOR EARL Moore was not Anxious to grant this request nnd told Parsons, "I think we ha.re enot|gh gamhling houses, beet" tav- erns ill town right now and we have received several complaints about them." However tile mayor suggested to Parsons that he present the commission with a typewritten statement informing the comnfls- sion of his exact plans for the new establishment and that tim city would act on his request at a httcr date. The commission a],o agleed to ;all for bids o11 $6000 worth ot )ipc because of the impending steel strike wl]iclx could mean an increase in steel prices, TIlE TENNEY TraCltn" an(t Equipment Conlpany eL" Olyrupia agreed to aacept $2506 it] frill pay- raont for a repalir .job orl ()lie ot the city's Lrarctors. The orig'tnal re- pair bill was $3193, The city de- olined pa 5 ment of the bill because linty maintained they could not legally pay more than $2500 with. oIlt calling for bids on the job, Police Clief l.'au] Hini.n Sllg'- gested that the city readopt the 1959 Washington s t a t c tr:tffic code. THE COMMISSION agreed to hire a dog catcher for one luf,n[h to see, to it that the dogs in town have Ilew licenses. Tle deadline fro' obtaining 1959-60 dog licenses is June 30. Next weeit'* Journal will (,irate OUt a (lay early, Vetlll4,s(la.'v, in- stead of Tltur.day, due to the Memorial day holidtty 'hieh wIU IW olmcrved Salurday, Mny 30. All advertising aud news copy deadlines will be a lilly earlier. Most of the downtawn buJ- I|eslt atltl offh'es  Ill be chined on Saturday, tho day at the holl(hty, -iitI - " Jl *f ..... "T-T'"'T * * * , Coronation Friday And Parades Saturday The 15th annual Mason County Forest Festival opens tonight with a queen's banquet honoring Queen Andrea, her royal court and princesses from, the county's grade schools, in the Mt. View school at 6:30. The banquet will also pay tribute €o 15 honol:ed citizens of he county who will be special gueth of the Forest Fes- tival Committee. The main speaker at tonight's banquet will be Hardy Glascock of Portland,  well known figure in the Pacific Northwest lumber industry. OVER 100 ENTRIES will ap ........................................................................ i pear in the It0 minute parade Sat ............. urda,y morning from many cities including Seattle, To.china, Brem- erton, Olympia, Montesano, Ren- ton, Aberdeen, Port Angeles and many, many others. A Kiddies Karton Parade, will precede the main parade which will start at 10:30 a.m. l,'m" l.he firsl, tin{c tlds year. nine former Forest Festival queens will ride thro|tgh the streets of down- town Shelton. They are Ixgs Gib- let. 19,i5; Marilyn Wakelee. 19461 Bernadine Winiecki. 1947: Cheric Davidson. 1948; Feryl Wokojance, 1950; Shariyn Brown. 1953; Jane ((.?oBtintl(,d oll Psgt, Two) - " 1 RE TIRES GOODRIGH AND O, Ks RE.GAP For More Economic Driving at O. Ks RUBBER WELDERS MT. VIEW Add Enchantment to Your Home- New or Old With This Early Anmrican Franklin HEATER FIREI'LACE ()l)cn svcnlj dot}Is ) tl tlave ;t [ll*tXl)Jacc Closed, a st}ve. 2 siz¢,: 22-'incl mui 26 itwIl. '159" " Convenient Terms SEE IN OUR WIND()W Olsen Furniture 328 CoLa Phone HA 6-4702 I i [ i J