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May 29, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Thursday, May 29, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year, Number 22 4 Sections - 48 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy ! SIC presen . helton Forest Festival I in its last week of ~d getting ready for its Performance on night in the high school There will also be Friday and east has been working for three months and feature at the start rest Festival Loggers' at 2 p.m. Saturday presentation of the flag to the Commission by has accompfished "The Music Man." The starring roles are Mike Krona as Professor Hill and Robyn Ogden as Miss Marian. Other roles are Cece Moullet as Mrs. Paroo, Roger Hammond as Charlle, Don Cole as Marcellus. Rick Dwyer, Bruce Dorcy, Mark Lindgren and Del Zachry make up the men's quartet. You also see Marilyn Folsom as Zaneeta, Cheryl Strutz as Eulalie and Janice White as Amaryllis. Other cast members include Bill Thompson, Terry Selby, Belinda Nielsen, Robyn Trucksess, Loft Putvin, Ellen Duemling, Vicki Cooney and Kurt Stacy as Mayor Shinn. There are also many members of the community helping out. recently received as a Bicentennial state and federal will be presented by Justice Charles lifelong resident of who makes his was born in rece -n g.q s ................ ! PraCticed law here 1 1~ Served as a Superior for 22 years before to the State four years ago. hand for the to make a few the Bicentennial Burbridge, to the State Scouts will serve and the Shelton will provide the Mason County Forest Festival activities got underway Wednesday evening with a salmon barbecue at the fairgrounds attended by Rotary, Kiwanis and Forest Festival Association members. Events continue today and Friday with the climax of the event coming with the two parades in downtown Shelton Saturday morning and the Loggers' Sport Show at the fairgrounds rodeo arena Saturday afternoon. Presiding over the festival events are Queen Connie Tuson, Princesses Cheri Yoest, Bonnie Crabtree and Rhonda Endicott, and Paul Bunyan Gary Nelson. The Saturday events start off with the Paul Bunyan Junior Parade in downtown Shelton at 10 a.m. followed by the Paul Bunyan Parade at 10:30 a.m. Dave James, retired Simpson Timber Company public relations man, will be the grand marshal for the parade. James is a former Shelton resident and long.time festival volunteer worker. There will be about 100 units in the parade, including floats, bands, novelty entries and others. Action in the Loggers' Sport Show at the rodeo arena at the Mason County fairgrounds will get underway at 2 p.m. This is a new location for the loggers' show :h had been held at Loop Field for many years up until this year. The show will open with a parachute jumping demonstration by a team from Ft. Lewis. Long-time festival performers Ron Downing and Dwight Carpenter, speed climbing and topping the lOO-foot spar trees; Hap Johnson and Mal Harper, in their performances on top the lO0-foot spar poles, will be back again this year. Local loggers will compete in 10 events - truck driving, alder log chopping, keg toss, unall unv bucking, skidder driving, big saw bucking, axe toss, high ground choker setting, obstacle bucking, and putting load wrappers and binders on a loaded logging truck. The show concludes with the falling of the tall spar poles. Eliminations were held in the events for local loggers May 17 and the number of contestants in each event was cut down to four for the finals at the loggers' show Saturday. The best all-around logger was selected from the participants in the eliminations and he will be presented a trophy during the loggers' show. The dinner Wednesday night was held as a kick.off event for the festival activities in place of the queen's banquet which had previously been held as the first event of the week. The queen's banquet was held in March this year to announce the selection of the queen. A carnival, display booths and entertainment activities are planned at the fairgrounds tonight and Friday night. The Shelton High Sdvool Music Department is presenting its production of "The Mmdc Man" tonight, Friday and Saturday nights at the high school auditorium. A teenage dance is planned at the fairgrounds Friday night and an all-age dance is planned for Saturday night. Admission to the fairgrounds for the Thursday and Friday night and to the loggers' show Saturday is by Forest Festival button. ama laund evening did'an ount of damage at the Washington ndent Richard the fire was 8:30 p.m. by in one of the observed smoke Lt. Dennis Sgt. Dennis the first on the other Which is kept at center was ions cen brought out and a hose connected to a hydrant. The officers were able to hose down the door to cool it off enough so it could be opened and were then able to get water on the fire. The fire was out when firemen from Fire District 11, who had been called, arrived at the scene. The fire was under, control about 9:10 p.m., Vernon said. The superintendent commended the staff at the center for their quick action which brought the fire under control. Vernon said fire district officials said they believed the fire started from spontaneous combustion in a pile of laundry. The superintendent said quite a bit of laundry was lost and there was severe damage to some of the overhead equipment such as steam pipes, lights and ventilator pumps. Equipment in the laundry did not appear to be seriously damaged, Vernon said. Vernon said Wednesday the extent of the damage was being assessed. Voters in the Shelton School District will go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots on a three-part maintenance and operation special levy for the operation of the district's schools for the coming school year. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. A complete list of polling places appears on page 24 of the Journal this week. The levy proposal is divided into three parts, each of which will be passed or defeated , separately. The first proposition is for a $250,000 special levy to purchase six new 79-passenger school buses to replace some of the present buses and add to the bus fleet. The second proposition is for $344,000 to provide salary increases to district employees, both certificated and classified employees. The third proposition is for $72,000 to provide ,four additional teachers, including an elementary music specialist, a reading specialist and two additional teachers to reduce class loads in kindergarten through eighth grade. The three proposals would cost taxpayers $5.09 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation on their 1976 property taxes. This would amount to =lightly more than $100 on a house with an assessed valuation of $20,000. Broken down, the bus proposal would cost $1.91 for each $1D00 of agseued valuation, the employee salaw increase $2.63 and the four additional teachers 55 cents. The money would be available over a two school fiscal year period, with slightly mote than half collected during the 1975-76 (Please turn to page two.)