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Thursday, May 29, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year, Number 22 4 Sections - 48 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
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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.)