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FOREST FESTIVAL TOP-RATED ii [y successful! from a comfort standpoint, and not a drop of rain fell on any and disappointing! of the out-door events, the cloud overcast Saturday on top :he nutshell recapitulation of Mason County's of the rainy pre-week was believed to be a strong factor in : Festival, gained from a concensus of pub- the lessened attendance at both Saturday events. aftermath assessment of festival officials. ajor events, Paul Bunyan parade and loggers President Clive Troy, feeling justifiably proud of his PrOVided entertainment on a par with the best first festival, expressed his gratitude for the effort put forth FRYER i*iUbli2Verreaction.enj°yed in its. lengthy history, judging bYvalthepossible.many individuals who contributed to making the festi- audit |00mudi., "Premiere Night" program Friday in auditorium kept a capacity crowd laughing g enthusiastically from curtain to cur- Fresh, Wash. weather was almost temperature-perfect "I wish to thank all who gave so generously of their time and energy to make this, our 18th annual forest festival, an outstanding success. It is public. spirited citizens like you who make Mason CoUnty a better place in which to rive," he stated, i * g¢ LEAD-MANAs spacemen lead the world today so did Dave B0r- e k lead the Kiddies Parade in his space outfit Saturday. His sign says "Conquered Space but not Fire". Dave won first place in the vehicles division. Direct Distance Dialing " hie Mayor €,tes Pro ms 00adng New @00fic|a|s Seventeen items of unfinished business will bc inherited by the new city commission when it takes office June 4. The pending preblems were listed by outgoing Mayor Earl Moore during the commission_ meeting Tuesday night. Cited by the Mayor cre six I ........................... court proceedings: (1) condemna- ] tion proceedings in Superior Court [ d  II " *= to acquire the property known as l| JI|T ||IIIT Firlane Terrace for the protection I LllqlIbqNl Itullllllllll qbJ of the adjoining city water ahed I on the Island Lake road; (2) a I  |" Supreme Court appeal of the de-[[ |n /=nrl,=bn cision in the lower courts of the]#ll UIIUUIUII suit of Paul Hinton vs. the city of Shelton for pay during suspension (3) a Supreme Court appeal of the decision of the lower courts in the case of Herbert Rischel vs. Shelton for reinstatement to the police force and back pay (4) a damage suit for injuries sustained by Mrs. tester Bienek in a fall (5) a suit pending in Superior Court by Cas- cade-Olympic Construction Com- pany for payment of work begun on the proposed new city hall (6) a suit by Harstad and Associates an architectural firm, for work on the city hall project. OTHER PROJECTS that the mayor said would be incomplete Lumber Urged SEATTLE --- An immediate quota .limitation upon Canadian lumber imports until tong-range solutions can be found was urged today by the Lumbermen's Eco- nomic Smwival Committee in test- inmny before the Senate Inter- state and Foreign Commerce Com- mittee hearing on Pacific North- west lumber problems. Dave James, Seattle, chairman of the committee representiAg lumber producers in Washington, Forest Festival Judges Pick 'Em! Leg No IN THE WINNER'S CIRCLE Hap i e a true.trouper! OUTLYING SCHOOLS . 2nd--Mason County 4-H Clubs |1 , leg didn't stop 1st---Mary M. Knight I MFTRNG. & INDUSTRIAJL 11# ::l.¢WOodsman from 2nd--Hood Canal I lot Simpson Timber Company ,i;: ae loggers sports 3rd--Grapeview J DRUM & BUGLE CORPS COM.bIUNITIES-CHURCHES l lst--4th Dist. VFW Grenadiers / ;iap.Ped him a bit, lst--Mt. Olive Lutheran J COMIC ::0,2kipping up and 2nd Union Community J lot--Mary M. Knight Mounted . hL:VL sPar trees as 3rd 1st Christian Church [ Band  • aoit tot so ma OUTSIDE COMMUNITIES [ 2nd--Astoria Clowns ][ ,i S" "" " • ny Ist---Oapitol Lakefair [ 3rd--Lake City Vigilantes "  m managed to • ,e battlefield and FIRE FIGHTING / HORSES -- ee. falling: EQUIPMENT I' lot Mason County Bell Riders  .milll a crowd esti- lst--U.S. Forest Service | 2nd---Syncopated Sea Horses, II : han 2000 which 2nd--Shelton Fire Department / • Olympia ' A orm- r I E l.le dlvermhed' ,'" and 3rd--Dept. Natural Resources | 3rd---Mason County Mounted --. am he assisted UNCLASSIFIED [ Posse WELL 1 I qBI/ /g With chairman 1st---Mesdames Friend & | BATON TWIRLERS 29-OZ. I , Sowell | lst--.oquiam 00.aglo Major- ...... " I  :'!!k'f u'ibution to the 2nd--Thurston County Fire- / cites v I :ild was added to otmen's Ass'n. ] 2nd--Harborettes, Hoqu]am. u  7 favorites, Paul "d Hood Canal Seals | 3rd---Forestettes, Seattle 0  0n Max, who are s-ns£1Ueolat°n _ | lst--Filipino Youth Activities • -- Y p y bwee- I ,oH-u ' h " ! ........ ears nd D " " • . . 2 rillettes, OIympa , 3rd Rainbow Gzrls, Shelton Eagles " GRANGES J 3rd---Eagles Aerie No. 3, lst---Aga te Tacoma 2rid--Mason County Pomona I Honorable Mention---Military • .:i ,.arti Winters, 3rd--Matlock ] Order of Cooties Post 19 '?l.g exhibition 2n--oom!em Juog.gmg ] lst---East Bremerton senior __ nd those funny- 3rd--Castle & Coleman " , ' " " 2nd---Coontz Intermediate 7th TA STEW EL L, 'I'4 AI .Echvard;.tranp°line' AGRICULTURAL [ rade Bremrt on hao;edrretdY e Christmas Tree Growers ] grade and ,Ve'st Bremezton ........ 0harminPan00 senior .igh 5I00;L °f tbo , ** • *** HOW THEY FARED IN WINDOW DISPLAYS I V Ilmll  IBil 7-OZ' [:::!]P I,el.°f h,'gh school Shelton Mineral Society st---Ma.tlock _ " ;:e,]-'g°verned l.:.ly at club CIIURCI][ES " ] 2nd---] air Harbor lst---Baptist Church ] 3rd-- Skokon!sh r NALLEY'S TANG :0 a-...- th.e P0ol 2nd Assembly of God CLUBS - '.tran uuuc acts L1 32-OUNCE :ai:'ged their own ART I lst--Hoodsport Seals 3al ae. nunlber; to fat--Margaret Fluckinger [ 2nd---Be]] Riders -- -- -- , zU the Sunset, 2nd--Velma Graves [ 3rd---L/ons Club ... .... le 13arcy ju d 3rd--Shirley Parr l INDUSTR 5¢ OFF t'Yt:" may Y HOBBY [ lot--Simpson Timber Co. I:AT I::OuO:FE Cry , .P.am Tuson lst--Shelton Mineral Society J 2nd---Rayonier Incorporated Pahc,pated A L=t  12-OUNGP- T3':L0 [he' " 2nd--Mae Winiecki & FriendS[ SCHOOLS .... /i<the T tune of 3rd--Daniel McIrwin, • * ] ,;stRogers E ,: T{I]II0000:III r°P 00.m*mI00,s IN -I"",*s , SMALL ANIMALS COSTUMES, CLOWNS lst--Monica and Pat Kneeland /st.--RiCo Lauzon 2t  2nO--Chris Carte and Leann 2nd--Merle Bariekman I Correa 3rd---Brian Redman VITAFOOD ' 3rd--Cindy Crow 4th--Lauri Frees 15 OZ. TIN /n 4th--Mary Lou, Jenny and 5th---Shelley Sund " Peggy Smith FLOATS BICYCLES lstAudrey Beerbower THINS 10.ouNCF" ist---Bobby Settle 2nd---Ken and Scott O'Dell 2nd---CarmelIa McMi]lin 3rdBilly and Paul Taylor d--Le 3r d--CharEll Mae Johnston VEHICLES PKGS, °nty residents, 4thSha'un Parr lstDave Borek [ain unidentified 5th---Kip Parr 2nd---Karen and Karri Kramer l,l. nfl. over the BROWNIES ltll" mreetion ac- lst---Troop 306 (Leslie Vander. (Jayettes judged, awarded pri- REYNOLDS .'. Police Depart- Wegen, Donna Goodwin, Beth zes, presented each entry ice I 25 FOOT ROLL '1 " ' Monger, Kathy Hanna, Rhon- . cream bat'. Parade chairman 'il'tece:ived by the da Thompson, Terry Bostrom Bernie Dorcy). i. [rs Was about * * * • John Dre- |EST" m SHUR-FRESH "li'reP°:rted a low7 IE-HALE' GALLON " [tlndless object: !. wasPrairie. She R-FRESH  REG. OR" PINK FROZEN  6-OZ. TINS MORTON'S FROZEN  8-1NCH RKLE" , LEMON-LIME, 6/12-OUNCE LUCKY WINNERS OF GATE PRIZES PORTABLE TV SET  MRS. WALTER JOHANNES, Elma POLAROID CAMERAMRS. MERLE McNEIL, Shelton PosSibly an TRANSISTOR RADIO  MRS. ESTHER ARVESON, Aberdeen o:l,oq.00{ Progress Halted On New Prison of e. The Washington State Correc- Associated General Contractors, tions Center building site took on (AGC) has reported that very lir- a rural a new look this week as all field tic progress |as been made in as low- workers were laid off as a result reaching a settlement in the dis- Seless and of a steel workers' strike affecting pute that now affects projects spar- 15 men on the mammoth project. I throughout the )orthwestern ler of The 400 acre site was so de- states. serted one day this week,'one of also the jobless employees reported The steel workers are bargain. to radio seeing a small herd of deer seek- ing for a general wage increase inforce- ing cover in a half finished bull- for two types of workers, the orn- r COunties, ding. amental and structural steel work- t exclusive, The only employees still remain- era, as well as general improve- or at least ing at the prison are the office ment of their fringe benefit pof a workers, ieics. Paul Bunyan Becomes Reality June 3 Starting Sunday, June 3, Olym- mantle of novelty and Olympia's W0ud UIe Glad pin, Shelton and Hoodsport will first telephone exchange was as- get Direct Distance Dialing. Just tablished. Thirty-five customers a few extra spins of the dial will were served from the first switch- set phones ringing across the board installed on the second floor i! ig!!l.! ! nation. But things weren't always over Talcott's Jewelry store at thus in Washington state, accord- 420 Capitol Way. Mr. Talcott s ing to Pacific Northwest Bell sometimes obligingly manned the manager John M. Doyle. switchboard when the telephone Some 84 years ago a young man company manager, Robert Doragh, whose name has been lost to went on a service call. eternity, stepped up to a fantastic "It's a little different, now," tries -- plus Bunyan quality and box, placed a cornet to his li.p.s an'd Doyle remarked. "There are more Bunyan versatility, p.iayed a short selectmn. Hm de- than 23,000 telephones in Olympia A Bunyan-sized crowd (well, a gnteu aumence was m Tacoma. alone, and the figures jump to young Bunyan, anyway) watched "me year was 1#. 'me event was nearly 30,000 when we add Shelton it, too. The numbers weren't any- the irst long oist:ance call from and Hoodsport " thing like the 36,000 orm source Olympia: ......... On November 11, 1889- state- claimed but it was still somewhere Aiex%(nor ya:s e[eh(l7o), hood day for Washington Terri- near 20,000 by the estimate of .......... ,u y,- tory -- the first long distance line more conservative crowd-counters, vented ene tempnone. y May • • 1889 the tel hon ...... went into serwce between Tacoma Forest Festival officials were , ep e nrew ozz zs and Olympia. The line, used a pleased with it, felt it was good ............................ dozen years before, had been considering the threatening wen- i_llliiiillil_llliltl,lr iNo borrowed for the event fl'om the ther and the competition of 0-21 ,UVlIIIIIIIIIIIUIII[I[I[ IruII telegraph company. Worlds Fair and the Rhododendron _|A Itl | itll By 1900, Olympia had 113 Festival in neighboring Port Ul.14t uIr | il$1 phones. "There were 1,389 people Townsend. .... !n Olympia in 1910/ Doyle said. They were elated with the ele-SOHEOULED JUNE Ihis. means-there was more than 8 gance of the parade and with the ....... a 1,000 percent increase in the favorable re-action of the vast une hundred .... and severn.y-one fit' ..... Ln years' o" t:ne--, new cen- majority of those who watched it, seniors (at present writing) are turv" and had glowing words of praise scheduled to receive, their diplomas• Te:mp,,me ............. gain was constan during commencemen! exercises durin- the followi-' .... for parade chairman Roy Ounn, June 8 for the Class of 1962 at thong% not me tu'n years "-- "''' his committee workers, and the h*ene S Reed high school ' e- 'fi" -- :' " 'g up to. tne hundreds of , individuals who ..... r,y days As ul. m m was SnK worked on the individual entries The graduation ceremonies will i 'on" "l'-: -'" .... Y p.v _ •. , .: • ' '   cont inner [ne ouroEn o1 which made up the parade as a be held in the Shclton gymnasium the de'-ression in 1938 di-I "" whole, at 8:00 p,m. with an all-girl east ,hi) .... v  *- ; ._, , a tee 's ' t t ..., .... u,ooo (',I [flem ...... move(! on the speaker ' podmm ...... Nanc 5 into" ...... ,-- ", ...... THE TINY community ,.of. ..... zown 1% ,itv. ttepnone bUnO- M, atlock. . stole the show, t.ak, ing Briggs, Cathy . Hm ston, Lynn. Jef- i/lP.., wast. ...... ' ev,.u ;l*"ut, 1 IJtl' .... E,I twn first places and one third with fery and Shnron KeIlelnnal " " d6na,,,, -, : . ., .. e • S , ' r---,,' S ,,,ftlfl Go%vn[()%vn OllCe Its three entries. Mid._ Kellerman s father the  t 11 ° i; - -. ,-  : ..... • : ' ' " . ... :a. event:12 l:teet: A(H'lil)OIlS In the outlying schools division, Rev. Walter F. .... Kellerman_ will ere,•. muh  in 1942 an" again' in' the Mary M, Knight school float give the invocauon, and )r. Joug- ]9t8 as nh., ....... • " , * ,Y,,,v,v, . txhepn,me sys- from M'atlock, ingenuously era- las K. Larson ehmrman of the tim =----, '- .... .2 ploying Jonah and the Whale as Shelton school board, will present second buiidin- t" - ..... the avenue for carrying out the the diplomas 7?; - . . .   ourn • vvasalugLol 1lad neen constricted Festival's "Salute to Sunday .......... • tCnnt:nued on page 7) Schools" theme, was awarded the Ba©©alaureale Serme : ............ _ ................................ bh.ze ribbon by the parade Judges. Three parts of the great whale Scheduled For June 3 Local Navy Men moved ..... the mouth opening to reveal the presence of Jonah Chaplain Richard V. Goeres of (a doll) while its tail and flukes the 32nd Division of the National • • I - ,m undulated ingeniously m a swim- Guard will bring the message at L.II,,I I K- mint motion.  the Baccalaureate Service of Irene [111 |1 111 Another Mary M. Inight entry S. Reed high school. The service ---r- " = "     L a group of student musicians will begin at 8:00 p.m. "this Sun-  a ,= mounted on horses and burros day, June 3, at the high school f .,. I[]1 ......... playing varying instruments and gymnasium. Chaplain Goeres is a Ik.|llll|| iiallrrlvl=lrl dressed in hill-billy garb -- took Lutheran pastor from Milwaukee, "-- .... • 'a*w 7 top place among comedy entries. Wis., presently living" in Olympia. PROJECT MERCURY (fhtng) The Matlock grange float was Miss Sandra Stevens and Ed Two Shclton navy men, Charles awarded third in the grange di- Kazinsky will each present a yd. D. Cochran and Victor M. Otto, vision, behind Agate and Mason cal solo at the service, which is participated in their own small County Pomona. being sponsored by the Mason way last week when astronaut by the June 4 inauguration date will be the LID for proposed street improvements on Mt. View; sev- eral ordinances to be adopted for the completion of the comprehen- sive plan for the city; a pending cabaret ordinancd; repair of the imhoff tank in the sewer system serving the Bayview tracts near the plywood plant; establishment of classified water accounting system; final payment on the library remodeling project; con- struction of an animal shelter, collection of the John Pearson sidewalk account; .and blacktop. ping of the city hall parking lot. Althougll it was not one of the items mentioned by Mayor Moore, the incoming city administration has iffdicated one of its first orders of business will 0e the rescinding of Ordinance 694 recently enacted by the out-going administation. Ordinance 694 would enable th present city officials to use city funds to pay court litigation costs involving cases now pending mmh as the Hinton and Rishel libel suits against Mayor Moore, and others. Mayor-elect Frank Trivia Jr. Commissioner of Finance Dave Kneeland, and Commissioner ot streets and public improvements Eh'oy Nelson will take their oath: of office next Monday at 2:00 p.m in the city hall. MEETING RECESSED TO FRIDAY FOR HEARING Tuesday night's regular meetin of the commission was recesse( until this Frilay afternoon at 2:0( p.m. for a hearing on the six-yem city street improvement prograr :.fter a rescdution was paraded mak ing Front street from Pine t¢ Mechanic streets a major arterial This action was necessary Mayor Moore explained, to permil expenditure of state funds in t;h construction of the alternate high way section. In other business, the city corn mission introdaced Ordinance 691 providing for the sale of wate and fixing water rates. It repealr other ordinances regulating wate: rates and includes a new classifi cation, industrial water StiFFly or, a standby and emergency basis. Bennett Boardman appeared be fore the commission to discuss the extension of the sewer line to serw a house he is building at 102] Laurel street. He thought the esti'. mated cost of $409 a little high The cornmission referred the mat. ter to engineer Karl Sells for idaho, Oregon, Montana and OKli- {fornia, placed full responsibllity for correcting lumber industry !problems upon Congress and Pre i ident Kennedy. James testified at Lewiston, Ida. ahere the Senate committee held the hearings. The LES committee also will testify at a Senate hear- ing in Portland, June 4, where 3regon industry will be heard. SENATOR WARREN G. Mag- uson arranged for James to tell Secretary of State Dean 1Rusk bout the lumber industry's eco- mmic problems Friday in Seattle. ,%fter an hour's conference, RusR ;tssul'ed Magnuson amd James the State Department will give its full .tttention to solving the complex !umber trade relationship wiL)l Canada. "Our problems are not of our naking," James told the visiting 3enate committee. "We cazl't dmnge dollar values. We can't 'egulaLe railreads. We can't dis- :ard outmoded shipping regula- ions. We can't revise federal tim-. er sale policies. But you in Con- ;reds can. And President Kennedy md his Departments can." James said the energy and de- :ermination of Pesident Kennedy s working for more jobs for more &mericans through world trade is admirable." "BUT WE APPEAL to Con- Jress to impress upon thc Presi- lent that our industry is not an- other depressed and outmoded in- iustry needful of technfcal advlce, :orker re-traininff and mass re- novals to nmrc fortunate loca- tions; ............................ ..... The American.lumber industry ms extsted on free trade between :tateS and nations for centuries md ca go o 0 holding its.own ga.inst auy sawmills on earth as ong as competitive conditions re- .lain equal." James said the Lumbermen' .conomic Survival Committee rec- Jgnizes Canada's needs for markel; pportunities in the United State "But they don't htve to choke s to death with luncher stuffed lown our throats by outrageous conditions of inequality," he said, -iting Canadian dollar deva2uation Ind shipping coat a.dntages as xamples. FLOODED OIL STOVE Fi,men answered a call to the some of Hart Dittman, 228 South tth Street at 2:36 p.m. Tuesday to handles flooded oil stove. There further study. was no damage. County Ministerial Association, in Scott Carpenter made Ins triple "- 'cooperation with the school board orbit of the earth, t Civil Defense Budget Criticized and school administration. Mr. An- Both men were serving aboard dy Tuson. senior advisor, and the recovery ships ready to render as- I "top ten" of the Senior Class have distance when t2m space man re- [ Mason County'g Civil Defense  Submitted by Carlo last woek, shared in the planning. The Rev. turned to earth. Otto was station- I prograni came under a heavy non. I that showed the cost of CD would Robert R. Rings of the Shelton ed on the USS Spiegal Grove and i atomic attack Monday as a pairttke a 30 ,percent jump in 1963, Methodist church has represented Cochran aboard the USS Intrepid. I of irate taxpayers bombed the/if the commissioners okayed a the Ministerml Association in the The "Aurora 7" space craft lcounty chiefs with protests over planning, and will give the Invo- winch carried Lt. Commander twhat they felt was a mushroom. $16,000 fiscal plan. cation and Benediction. Carpenter on his monumental, ing of the budget. ' I Cation claimed he had been mis- quoted in stories claiming the cost IfiI/--M,U---MI@@III flight was retreived at sea by the Lawrence Gooser described the would be up 30 percent. He de- destroyer USS John R. Pierce. The, program in genera] as a "gigantic scribed the authors of the "false • -vuMI. UVli411 mlOOlllU astronaut, first sighted afloat of- boondoggle" and mlggested thst infornlatJon" as trouble-makers. Frank Fentiman was still miss- ter the earth-orbiting flight by a Mason County got as much done His solution to staving off such ing Wednesday after his disap- patrol aircraft, was picked fl'om on the $100-a-month-budget of two trouble in the future is to hold the pearance over the weekend, the sea by a nsyy helicoptor which years ago as it does now with $'12,- inspection of future budgets be. The 62-year-old Joint Power era- took him to the carrier Intrepid, ployee was the reason for an in- He was later flown to Grand Turk 000 poured into the plan. hind c]oscd doors. , "Yon are lucky to have a man tense search conducted by law en- Island in the Bahamas. "There is always someone like Harry on this job," Harry forcement agencies in Maso co,,-- Otto is the son of Mr. and Mrs. against any program," Harry Car- Ehnlund told the pair of objectors. ty which failed to turn up any Martin C. Otto of Rt. 1 in Shel- lon, CD director, said. : The lawmakers themselves were clues. , ton and Cochran is the son of Mr. Herbert Nelson, the other dis- questioned about their paliclpa- Fentiman is believed to be driv" and Mrs. Joseph R. Cochran of Rt. denier, told tim county commis- tion in the program when Gooser ing a.1954 GMC pick-up truck. 2 in Slelton. sioners the program was a waste asked if they had fallout shelters. ......................................................................................... of time and money. The spectators were answered The verbal contamination came by one of the longest silences ia following a preliminary budget, recent commission history. BLUE RIBBONFirst place in the manufacturing and Industrial division was awarded this exquisite float entitled "Green Angel=" entered by the Simpson Timber Company. (Continucd on page 7) Contract Verdict Pending Written and verbal arguments summarizing two days of testimo- ny taken from more than a half dozen witnesses will be presented to Judge Raymond Clifford to- morrow Jn superior court by at- torneys representing the Shelton school board and the Cascade Olympic Construction company in the writ of mandate hearing brought by the latter to compel the board to award the company the contract to build the addition to the Grant C. Angle school. Prosecuting Attorney Byron Mc- Clanahan .is. representing the school board. Frank Baker of Olympia the const'uction firm. Testimony was taken fl'om all members of the sclmol board and other witnesses Friday and Mon- day. Some were called by both sides. ] The court action resulted rom a mistake in the bid submitted by the Cascade Olympic company when bids on the additton were opened several weeks ago, and is delaying start of construction. ,% [UR, FRESH TRI-PAK E WHALE won top honors for school. The whale's mouth the tail and flukes undulated in Judges gave it the blue ng sOh0ols division.