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By CARMEN YATES
Ted and Elsie Ness, owners of
Jarrell's Cove Marina, recently
returned back home from a
much-anticipated trip to their
homeland of Finland. Their
original plan had been to leave the
first part of March so that they
would arrive in time to help Ted's
brother, Verner Slussnass, and his
wife celebrate their 50th wedding
anniversary March 25. However,
an unexpected illness sent Ted to
the hospital for more than two
weeks. Thus it was the latter part
of April following Ted's stay in
the hospital and several days of
recuperation at home before his
doctors gave him the all clear
signal to proceed with the Nesses'
plans to begin the trip., back
home again.
Incidentally, when Ted first
arrived in this country he decided
his last name of "Slussnass" had
about an excess of the letter "s"
by about three. So he revised and
shortened the name to "Ness."
The couple's departure time
from Sea-Tac was about midnight.
Nine and a half hours later the
plane was touching down at
Helsinki, Finland on the
southern tip of their home
country. Ted and Elsie were also
accompanied by her sister, Norma
Martinelli, from Monterey,
California. At Helsinki the three
travelers were met by Ted's
cousin. She took them to the
hotel, Ursala, where they were
supposed to have two rooms
reserved. However, something had
gone awry and only one room had
been reserved and every other
room was taken. Arrangements
were finally made so Norma could
sleep on the sofa in Ted and
Elsie's room.
The following day Norma
took a tour of the city. In the
meantime (since Ted and Elsie
had done this when they were last
AMONG THE ENTRIES in the contest by the Mason County Bicentennial
Committee to select a Mason County flag were these two entries this week.
They were submitted by David Webber, top, and Mike Sobotka, bottom.
Legal uM lio.$
s,ng ,
should be
requirements
in order to qualify
purchase tax credit
enacted in the Tax
Act of 1975," IRS
Michael Sassi
Week.
that IRS offices
Washington are
inquiries from
in the purchase
"There seems to
nfusion on the
the tax credit,"
to the IRS
are five specific
must be met in
to
must be a
residence,
Construction of the
.have begun before
residence must be
occupied as a
after March
before January 1,
in the case of
tion, a binding
purchase of the
be enteted into
FROM
WARNING
planning
Canada
brned that
unit and 40
Will
;eeking
of insulin
experience
tourists are
of these
engths in
o of the
nsulin.
426-2165
St.--426.3327
30 to 7:30
)0
n orm
after March 12, 1975 and before
January 1, 1976; and
(5) Except in the case of
self-construction, the buyer must
attach to his tax return a
certification by the seller that the
purchase price is the lowest price
at which the residence was ever
offered for sale.
"One of the most important
things a home buyer must do is to
obtain certification from the
builder that construction of the
home had begun prior to March
26 and that the price is the lowest
at which the home was ever
offered," Sassi emphasized.
,on g,ven
the acceptable wording of a
certification to be provided by
the builder. Sassi noted that
"ambiguous wording which does
not specifically certify that the
home construction has begun
betore March 26, 1975 and that
the purchase price is the lowest at
which the home was ever offered
will not meet the certification
requirement."
Sassi said that copies of the
technical information release may
be obtained by writing to Internal
Revenue Service, P.O. Box 854,
Seattle, WA 98118 and asking for
TIR 1360.
CALL FOR BIDS
MASON COUNTY
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Sealed bids will be received by
the Mason County Commissioners
until 11:00 A.M., Monday, June
2, 1975, for furnishing Mason
County with Asphalt Materials for
the calendar year 1975, at which
time the bids will be publicly
opened and read.
Specifications and Proposal
forms are available at the office of
the Mason County Engineer.
The County Commissioners
reserve the right to reject any and
all bids and to accept only that
bid deemed most advantageous to
the County.
DATED this 19th day of May,
1975.
BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF
MASON COUNTY,
WASH I N GTON
/s/Ruth E. Boysen
Clerk of the Board
5/22-29-2t
The IlLS recently issued a
technical information release
defining the requirements that
must be met in order to qualify
for the tax credit and providing
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We think it's serious business to move you
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frequently to talk about it. Earl, Norm,
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listen as, Norm (back to camera), Tom and Bill
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there in 1948) they called on a
cousin who had once lived in both
Olympia and Grants Pass, Oregon.
The second evening in
Helsinki the three visitors were
accompanied to a restaurant by
Ted's cousin (English speaking)
who had met them at the airport.
Since none of the three spoke
Finnish, dinner would have been a
teal surprise without her. Norma
and Elsie dined on reindeer meat,
which they found very good.
After the mixup at the hotel
on their first night of arrival, the
visitors just couldn't resist the
offer of a private home for a
couple of days. The house was the
summer home overlooking a
beautiful lake which belonged to
one of Elsie's relatives in the
community where her mother
used to reside. While they were
there, Elsie and Norma's family
arranged to have all of their
relatives gather at the summer
home for a big reunion and visit.
The next day the plans called
for a flight to Kokkola on the
west coast of Finland. Since their
flight was scheduled for departure
at 9:45 a.m., they arrived well
before flight time only to discover
the time on the tickets was wrong
and the plane had left at 7:30
a.m. Their inquiries as to another
flight turned up the information
that the only other two flights
that same day as well as flights
the next day were completely
fidl. The following day, Sunday,
there were no flights scheduled at
all. The alternative was a train
which would take five hours
rather than the 45-minute trip
they had anticipated. Last-minute
hectic arrangements were made
and they were at last headed for
the area of Finland where Ted
grew up. They arrived five hours
later in Benas where they planned
to take a bus to Jakobstad.
However, they had called some of
Ted's relatives who had planned
to meet them at the airport in
Kokkola so they wouldn't make
an unnecessary trip. When the
train arrived at Benas the travelers
were greeted by three carloads of
Ted's family. From there they all
headed to the Island of Larsmo
where Ted was born and raised.
Once there they made their
headquarters at the home of Ted's
niece and her husband, Verna and
Hardie Fagerudd. When they
arrived the salt water between the
mainland and the island was still
solid ice. But about a week after
they arrived the ice began to melt
and break up.
While in the area the visitors
spent all their time going back
and forth visiting Ted's brother
and sister, cousins, and oodles of
nieces and nephews. One of the
highlights of their stay was a boat
trip to the Island of Hellun across
from Larsmo. The ice of the week
before had completely melted and
disappeared and the weather was
especially gorgeous. It took two
boats to transport all Ted's family
across the channel to the summer
home of his nephew, Alf Slussnas.
The one special thing that
Norma had wanted to do if
possible was to travel up to the
northern part of Finland to see
Lapland. By coincidence, Ted's
family had planned just such a
trip and invited Norma to join
them in their camper for the
overnight jaunt.
At the end of the visit a
nephew drove the threesome to
the airport at Kokkola, and then
flew with them to Helsinki.
About 20 relatives accompanied
them to the airport to see them
off.
Enroute back home they took
a side trip and stopped for a
couple of days at Copenhagen,
Denmark. The population of this
city is 1,400,000. They took a
tour of the city which took two
and a half hours. Some of the
buildings they saw were
constructed in the 1300's. The
contrast between these old, old
buildings and the modern
construction was most interesting.
One of the highlights of the trip
was a visit to Tivoli Park, which
would be somewhat similar to
Seattle Center, in that all of the
same types of things would be
there. The big difference would
be in the size. The Seattle Center
could probably fit in one tiny
corner of Tivoli Park. Literally
thousands of people were in the
park when the three travelers
visited it.
At the end of their stay the
three boarded a return flight at
Helsinki. Due to the time change
they arrived back in Seattle on
the very same day they left
Finland.
They were met at Sea-Tac by
the Nesses' daughter, Patty, and
Norma's sister-in-law. Altogether
they were gone 22 days.
Norma and Elsie acquired a
new talent while in Finland. Ted's
niece, Veran Fagerudd, taught the
two gals how to weave on her
weaving machine. The machine is
so large that she could set up two
rugs (in different colors) at the
same time. Elsie already has
several rugs that Verna has either
sent or brought to her and they
are all just gorgeous. So it was a
special treat to learn just how
they are made. Verna says that
she had far more orders than she
can begin to keep up with. And
when she came to the states she
paid for both herself and her
husband's fare from the sale of
the rugs.
Before heading back to
California Norma spent a few
days visiting another sister,
Lillian, and Bill Anderson in
Rochester.
And that old saying "It's a
small, small world" really came
home to them after arriving back
here. It seems Ted's doctor in
Olympia told them one of his
grandparents was born in the
same house as was Ted's mother.
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