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EVENTS
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a mighty drive
at France—aimed di-
.: nation’s capital,
teihnique included
Well-equipped
‘md by the now-
1!? feared dive
of the driVe struck
French line which
200 miles of French
“ at me and Aisne riv-
1‘ t1'OODS, under the
._ in Maxime Wey-
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bum?" the Flanders
lrk and the Eng-
line of battle had
was done with
and not British
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,rance would be
brunt of the Ger-
‘j‘r EIlglish in escap-
~ in Flanders, fol-
] Capitulation, had
eave behind huge
em. Until these
“to the British army
~j help their allies
Paris
~‘ “the German bomb-
' t01‘k on the battle-
" feted much fur-
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attack on Paris
en’s} air raid was
my itself but at
.1. military objec-
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3:1,“ fin open city”
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. east that many
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hme French re-
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military bases
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PORT
I VOL. LIV——NO. 47
APPROVE NEW
WAGE BARGAIN!
Payroll In Pacific Coast Plants To
Be Increased $1,500,000
Annually Under New
I Contract Terms
r
Portland, June 8 — Acceptance
of a new contract extended a
$1,500,000 wage increase to 15,000
American Federation of Labor
paper mill employes in Oregon,
Washington and California today.
The agreement, approved, 6,000
to 3,500, in a coastwide referen-
.dum, granted a 2% cents an hour
pay boost, bringing the minimum
scale for men to 65 cents an hour
and the minimum for' women to
52l/2 cents an hour,
The contract, retroactive to
June 1, also authorized a'week’s
annual vacation with pay for
regular employes of at least two
year’s service.
Mlmbers 01 the International
Pul ,' Sulphite and Paper Mill
Worker’s union and the Interna-
tional Papermakers' union in the
three Pacific coast states were af-
fected.
A joint-statement by Maxwell
Loomis, Port Townsend, Wash,
representative of the Pacific
Coast Pulp and Paper Employes
association, and Alexander R.
Heron of San Francisco, spokes-
man for the Pacific Coast Asso—
ciation of Pulp and Paper Manu-
facturers, said there would be
“ensuing adjustments."
The agreement was signed by
Ernest B. Lambton, Albany, NY.,
first vice-president of the Paper-
makers’ organization, and John
Sherman of Tacoma, vice-presi-
dent of the Pulp and Sulphite
group.
Cities primarily affected by the
contracts are Oregon City, Camas,
Pomona, Los Angeles; Vancouver,
Wash, Stockton, Vernon, Calif,
Ore_, Antioch, Port Angeles, Port-
land, South Gate, Calif., Sumner,
Wash, Stockton, Cernon, Califl,
Salem, Bellingham, Longview, An-
acortes, Hoquiam, Shelton, Port
Townsend, Everett, Tacoma and
St. Helena.
The contract called for special
adjustments on Maintenance jobs
resulting in a. general rate of $1
an hour for‘ class A journeymen;
A guaranatee of a minimum' of
four hours for any employe re-
porting and starting work;
Improvements in seniority pro-
visions, including advance con—
sultation with the union commit-
tee on questions of layoff, promo—
tion and rehiring;
Enlarged rights for the unions
as representatives of all employes.
COAST PULP MILLS
PAY HIGH’EST WAGES
Seattle—The Pacific Pulp and
Paper Industry, a monthly, will,
state in its annual review Monday
that Pacific Coast pulp, paper and"
paperboard mills last year con-
tinued to pay the highest wages
paid by the industry anywhere in
the world. And, it will add, that
while the number on payroll was
down 3.6 per cent from 1938, the
Washington payroll expanded 16
and one-half per cent.
Production for the two state ag-
gregated 1,384,117 tons as com-
pared with 1,087,747 tons the year
before; and the west coast pro-
vided nearly 40 per cent of the
total sulphite production of the
United States and 69 per cent of
the total exported.
Average hourly wage earnings
in the industry on this coast last
year were 79.8 cents, against 79.6
in 1938, and that average weekly
earnings of $30.12 were $3.63
higher than the average in 1938
and 52 cents higher than the av-
erage for the peak production
year in 1937.
Washington's pulp and paper
payroll last year was $11,919,322
and Oregon’s $3,089,061.
Will Reed Coming
Thursday Night
William G. (Shelton‘s own Bill)
Reed is to be a guest of the Shel-
ton Chamber of Commerce, at
dinner next Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
at Shelton Hotel.
Among other things, Mr. Reed
is president of the Lumbermen’s
Mercantile C0,, a director of the
Seattle-First National Bank, a di-
rector of the American Insurance
Agency, Secretary of; the Simp-
son Logging company, and Na-
tional Republican Committeen‘ian
for the State of washin'gton.
The dinner starts promptly at
6:30 and everyone interested in
Shelton is cordially invited to at-
'tend. This is to be an informal,
friendly, community meeting, as
Mr. Reed is coming down to talk
to his home town folks.
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BIG CHAMBER DELEGATION
GOES TO SKOKOMISH
Led by President Dick Eddy, a
large delegation of members of
the Shelton Chamber of Com-
merce attended the dinner and
entertainment program held by
Skokomish Valley Grange in the
Middle Skokomish schoolhouse.
All were enthusiastic in their
Y. D. O.
S. E. 86TH
LAND, OREGON
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Latest equipment. issued to U.
S. Army engineers will be demon-
strated to anyone wishing to drop
down to Kneeland Park next Fri-
day by a detail of 22 men from
Company C, 10th Engineers, from
Fort Worden.
Young men of eligible army age
are particularly invited to witness
the demonstrations. No recruiting
will be attempted by the Fort
Worden detail.
Arrangements for the demon-
stration appearance were made
Monday by Lieut. J. H. Collart
of Company C with city officials.
Lieut. Collart explained that the
detail will display all engineering
equipment issued to a platoon of
engineers.
Among the demonstrations the
22 men in the Company C detail
will give will be to put up a
fifty-foot stretch of barbed wire
entanglement, set up and man
machine guns, operate the new
Garand semi-automatic Army ri-
fle, which has caused consider-
able comment recently in the
press, show how the new Army
field range operates, demonstrate
the new Army air compressor,
and stage a demonstration of the
new infantry drill,
The new field range, Lieut.
Collart said, is operated by gaso-
line for fuel and allows a kit-
chen squad to prepare a. meal for
a company in 35 minutes. It is
the first change made in the ar-
my’s range since 1911, he said.
The 22-man detail from Com-
pany C will leave Fort Worden
in six of the latest vehicles is-
sued to the Army and will arrive
in Shelton around noon to pitch
their camp. Demonstrations have
been tentatively scheduled for
four o’clock and 6:30 or 7 o'clock,
according to Lieut. Collart.
This is one of a series of such
demonstrations which the Army
is making throughout the nation
to acquaint the people with its
equipment, efficiency, operation
and mobility. Company C has
been scheduled to cover all points
on the Olympic Peninsula, Lieut.
Collart said.
Street and Road
Treating Work in
Action Here Now
dust
Raylig treatments to lay
'on unpaved Shelton streets should
be completed by the close of this
week, Street Supt. E. E. Brewer
said yesterday.
In the meantime, first activity
in Mason County’s annual road
oiling program began yesterday
when crews put to work by the
Diesel Oil Sales company of Se-
attle, successful bidder on the
1940 contract, began to prepare
county roads which are to receive
the oil surfacing for the actual
oil laying, which probably will ,be
started tomorrow or Thursday,
County Commissioner Robert
Trenckmann said,
Slightly over 25 miles of coun-
ty roads are to be treated under
the 1940 program.
Practically all unpaved streets
in the city limits are included in
the city’s dust-laying program. A
light rain would be an aid to the
raylig treating, Supt. Brewer
commented. .
International Law
Weak In War Time,
. Kiwanians Shown
The Kiwanis Club heard a splen-
did informative talk on “Inter-
national LaW” by Robert D. Wil-
liams, an Olympia Kiwanian and
attorney for the Sunset Life, who
dealt with the unwritten laws
governing international trade,
shipping and other relations, told
of the inception of such rules
which have grOWn up and been
observed between nations for cen-
turies except in time of war,
A. He reviewed the present sit—
For C. 0f C. uation of this country and point-
ed out how it can be involved by
the outcome of present war in
maintaining the “Monroe Doc-
trine,” which aims against any
foreign power securing further
foothold in the Western Hemi-
sphere. However, the speaker
held a hopeful view of the future
although pointing out that What-
ever the answer there would like-
ly be changes in our domestic
lives and relations and less rather
than more of the liberties we now
enjoy without thanking the past
girllerations which made this pos-
51 e.
Scribe Blushes! Baby
Was Boy, T.C. Rowe III
That isn’t sunburn reddening
the countenance of your Journal
scribe these days. The embarrass-
ment is due to his error in re-
porting the birth of Mr. and Mrs.‘
Charles Rowe’s baby as a girl in-
stead of a boy last week.
The new arrival in the Rowe
family is Thomas Charles Rowe
III, who was born at Shelton
hospital June 4, He missed by a
couple of months being Thomas
Charles IV, for his great-grand-
father passed away just a few
weeks ago. The grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Rowe and
the grange ladies, and the enter-
tainment program.
Mrs. Bertie McKinney of Shel-
ton.
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To Demonstrate
New Equipment Friday
I Refuse Dumping
In City Streams
To Be Punished
Prosecution under the city’s
garbage dumping ordinance is
threatened by city officials for
those persons caught polluting
and disfiguring the two streams
which flow through the city.
The threat was made yester-
day after Street Supt. E. E.
Brewer found ashes, cans, bones,
lawn cuttings and other refuse
floating in the streams and piled
up on its banks.
“This dispicaible practice not
only makes. an eye-sore of_the
streams themselves, w h c h
should instead be beauty spots,
but it also nullifies a lot .of
work done by persons through
whose yards the streams flow to
make this city more beautiful,”
Street Supt. Brewer pointed out
in asking for cooperation In
stamping out the practice.
NARROWS BRIDGE
TOLL R AT ES SET
BY STATE BOARD
Commutation Rates Offered Regu-
lar Travellers; Dedication
Slated July 1
Rates on the Tacoma Narrows
bridge, as announced this week,
provide at 55c toll for car and
driver, with 15c for each addi-
tional passenger, and offer com-
mutation rates of $25 for a round
trip for every working day ofOthe
month. This ticket also prOVldes
25 additional one-way trips at 40c
each. Another type of commu-
tation book provides twenty—five
round trips for car and driver'at
$12 and also provides twenty-five
additional one-way trips at 480
per trip.
Truck rates start at 65c for
carriers under 5,000 pounds, and
graduate upward to $3.50 for the
maximum weight of 34,000 pounds.
There will be no commutation
books for trucks, but firms using
the bridge regularly will be billed
monthly and given graduated dis-
counts if twenty trips or more a
month are made.
Bus rates have been advanced
from the present ferry rate of
60c for bus and 81/2c per passen—
ger, to $1.00 for bus and 10c per
passenger, with discounts allow-
ed for trucks applying to busses
making regular trips, the state-
ment says,
Construction on the bridge is
well up to schedule, and the struc-
ture will be ready for opening on
the date set, according to a state-
ment from the Toll Bridge Au-
thority. Dedication date, and
opening to the public has been
definitely set for July 1.
I. WIS—.- Unions
To Hold Meetings
Twice This Week
With 90. per cent of the em-
ployes of McCleary mill signed up,
local 38 spokesmen for the I. W. A.
announced two meetings to be
held this week.
This evening Reed mill employ~
es will attend a meeting in the
Labor Temple, while McCleary
workers will hold another meet-
ing tomorrow evening.
Union spokesmen said the Mc-
Cleary sub-local had opened nego-
tiations with the mill management
over wages, hours and working
conditions.
Meanwhile the shutdown of the
McCleary mill became complete
with the laying off of the con-
struction crew, last employes out
the job. No work or resumption of}
operations was forthcoming from,
company officials.
Tennis Club Session
Called Wednesday Eve
All members of the Shelton Ten-
nis Club are summoned to meet
at the home of Ralph Wyatt, 1349
Railroad avenue, Wednesday 'eve-
ning at 7:30 o’clock to lay plans
for' summer tournaments and in-
ter-club matches.
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR
W7DNESDAY—Active club din-
ner meeting, 6:30 p. m., Hotel
Shelton.
WEDNESDAY—Shelton Tennis
Club meeting, 7:30 p. m., home
.of Ralph Wyatt, 1349 Railroad
Avenue. .
THURSDAY—Turnout of all boys
interested in Peewee baseball
league, 10 a. m., Loop Field,
THURSDAY—Opening of city
softball league season, 6 p. m.,
Loop Field.
THURSDAY—Chamber of Com-
merce June meeting, 6:30 din-
ner, Hotel Shelton; Will Reed
speaker.
‘drive, I want to express the sin-
SHELTON, WASHINGTON,Tuesday, June 11, 1940.
RED CROSS TAG
SALE SUCCESS;
GOAL $le AWAY
$600.37 of $800 Quota Raised Now
With Some Rural Areas Yet
To Be Heard From;
$367.30 Saturday
Still $200 short of its ultimate
35 SignAlready
For Swim Class;
Starts July 8th
Although start of the eleventh
annual Shelton swimming and
life saving classes is still al-
most a. month away, 35 boys
goal, the Red Cross war relief
fund took a big upward leap over
the weekend, using a highly suc-
cessful tag sale Saturday as its
main springboard, to reach a
$600.37, Mrs. H. G. Angle, drive
chairman, and Eliot B. Spring,
chapter treasurer, reported today.
Saturday’s total contributions to
the fund amounted to $367.30,
which- included receipts from the
tag sale, from a couple of rual
communities, and from the collec-
tion jars placed in Shelton busi-
ness establishments. The great
bulk of that total came from the
tag sale, which went over with the
proverbial bang.
With a force of saleswomen who
stationed themselves on practical-
ly every corner in the business
district, working in two~hour shifts
tifying response from the public.
“As chairman of this emergency
cere appreciation of the Red Cross
chapter for the wonderful assist-
ance given us in the tag sale,” Mrs.
Angle said.
“However, we must not stop here
for every day adds to the need for
Red Cross aid in Europe," she
continued. “We still are $200 short
of our quota, so anyone who has
not yet contributed to the war re—
lief fund will be welcomed if he
will do so as quickly as possible.
We do no want the Mason county
chapter to fall down on its
pledge."
‘ aritans.”
,ture peak for 1940 on Rayonier
,Shelton, became parents of
Several rural communities are
still to be heard from, Mrs. An-
gle pointed out, so the $600 total
of today may be increased some
during this week in addition to
What voluntary donations may be
made in the same period.
Local Man Gets
Safety. Mention. .
In Publication
Recognition is given Thomas J.
Seljestad, assistant machine room
supervisor for the Shelton Ray-
onier plant, in a booklet entitled
“The Years of Paper,” published
by the Crown Zellerbach Corpora-
tion, for his work last summer in
saving the life of a woman injur—
ed in an automobile accident.
The booklet is published by the
company to call attention to safe-
ty practices being observed in the
organization’s mills and by their:
employes.
The specific instance in which
the Shelton man figures is listed
under an article entitled “Doc-
tors in Overalls Prove Good Sam-
Quoting the article di-
the tag sale met with a very gra-
l
rectly:
-“Thomas J. Seljestad . is
credited by physicians with saving
the life of a woman injured in an
automobile wreck near the Sel-
jestad summer home on Hood
Canal,
“When Seljestad arrived at the
wreck scene he found bystanders
trying to stop the blood flow from
a severed artery by stuffing cloth
into the opening. Summoning his
first aid training, Mr. Seljestad
applied digital pressure to the
severed area and stopped the flow
of blood. He then accompanied
the woman to a hospital, where
she recovered.”
In the same booklet, a picture
of the Shelton Rayonier first
aid team which tied for fifth
place in the annual Northwest
first aid competition at Portland,
April 20,'is published with other
competing teams.
New Temperature
Peak Hit Monday
When the thermometer roared
up to 88 degrees Monday after-
noon it marked a. new tempera-
weather~ records, Weatherman
Bernhard Winiecki reported vto-l
day.
Eighty-degree-plus temperatures
marked the weekend, sending
swimmers and picnickers out by
the droves. Sunday saw an 83-
degree figured registered on the
Rayonier thermometer, while pri-
vate readings of 90 degrees and
then some were reported in sev-
eral instances yesterday.
FRANCIS CARR, 88, ILL
Francis Carr, 88, 'long time Ma-
son county resident, is reported
seriously ill at his home at Kam-
ilche. He is the father of Harold
and Roy Carr, well known Mason
county men.
POLICEMAN IN HOSPITAL
Andy Hanson, Shelton police of-
ficer, was admitted to Shelton
hospital Sunday for treatment.
SON BORN THURSDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Manke of
a
baby son born Thursday at Shel-
ton hospital.
and girls have already enrolled
for instruction in the aquatic
course, Enrollment Chairman
Vern Miller said this afternoon.
Registration opened yester-
day at the men’sdepartment in
the L. M. store.
The 11th annual aquatic pro-
gram, conducted here jointly by
the Red Cross and the Active
Qlub, opens July 8 at Maple
Beach on Lake Isabella with
Mrs. Merna Rowe Haskins as
supervisor.
Voluntary donations which
are asked by the sponsoring or—
ganizations to defray the inci-
dental costs of the classes will
be welcomed at any time now,
too, Chairman J. L. Replinger
announced today.
HlLLCREST WATER
TROUBLES GIVEN
AlD BY RAYONlER
Loan of Pump and Motor as Tem-
porary Alleviation For Low
Pressure Offered
Respite from the water short-
age which has afflicted Hillcrest
residents the past several sum-
mers during the heavy sprinkling
periods may be enjoyed this sum-
mer following an offer made to
the city water department by
Rayonier officials at last Thurs-
day’s semi-monthly council ses-
$1011.
The Rayonier offer was loan of
a pump and motor to the city wa-
ter department to provide tempor-
ary booster service for the Hill-
cres residential area.
Following this offer, the coun-
cil water committee and City En-
gineer BurWell Bantz recommend-
ed such a temporary installation
at a cost not to exceed $550, the
council approving the action and
instructing Water Supt. E. E.
Brewer to proceed with the in-
stallation immediately.
Another action of the water
committee which was approved by
the council was rescinding of its
recommendation at the previous
council session to purchase 750
feet of transite water pipe and rec-
ommended instead the purchase of
the same amount of cement lin-
ed castiron water pipe.
Councilman M. H. Needham re-
ported that the foundation for the
new 200,000 gallon water storage
tank to serve the Angleside dis-
rict has been poured.
Attorney Charles R. Lewis was
instructed to write to the owners
of the former Pat Howard resi-
dence on Angleside which burned
a year ago or more in regard to
tearing down the remaining shell
of the structure, which now con-
stitutes a menace and an eye-sore.
GeOrge Smith In
DeMolay Position
George smith, prep athlete, was
elected master Councilor of the
Mark E. Reed chapter of the Order
of DeMolay last night to serve a.
four-month term ending January
1, 1941. It is the first election
held under the new four-month-
term policy of the local chapter.
Jim Forrest was elected senior
councilor and Clint Williams jun-
ior councilor. The master council-
or appoints all other officers ex—
cept secretary and treasurer, who
serve for a year and have until
next January to hold office.
Plans for the chapter’s annual
picnic were discussed but no date
determined last night. Master
Councilor Don Woods reported.
Citizenship Class To
Be Available To All
Persons Who Register
Anyone interested in taking in-
struction for naturalization hear-
ings is invited to contact Mrs. Ida
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAY
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Sixth Annual Playfield
Program Opening Here
Shelton’s sixth annual summer
playfield program for 'children
gets under way this week with
Homer Taylor, high school vice-
principal and athletic director, as
supervisor.
First activity to be undertaken
will be formation of the peewee
baseball league which in past
playfield programs has been one
of the principal activities for the
smaller boys. All lads interested
in playing peewee baseball are
asked by Director Taylor to re-
port at Loop Field Thursday morn-
ing at ten o’clock. 1
Team captains will be chosen
and teams organized to start
the league play. The winning
lteam in the league each year is
given a trip to Seattle to a Coast
League ball game.
1 Legion Turnout Monday
Opening turnout for the Ameri-
,can Legion junior baseball team,
’chief activity for the older boys
in the summer playfield program,
,lwill be held next Monday after-
noon at four o‘clock, Coach Tay-
lor announced yesterday. A com-
plete lineup of high school letter-
men with the exception of a catch-
or will be available for the junior
legion squad this year, including
Earl Lumsden, Jim McComb, War-
ren Woods, and Gene Anderson
in the infield positions from first
to third in that order, Ted Van-
Overbeke, Ken Latham and Ken
Fredson for the outfield, and
Ralph LeDrew, Bob Cole and El-
mer Carlson for pitching.
Coach Taylor may do some
shifting of his talent to meet
necessities, depending on what
other material turns up. Several
likely prospects from this year’s
junior high school team may break
into the junior legion lineup some-
where. All boys who intend to
turnout for the junior legion team
are urged to be at the opening
session because their registration
papers must be filled out and sent
to Seattle before June 20th.
other Activities, Too
Other phases of the playfield
program will provide tennis in-
struction for all boys and girls
interested in learning fundamen-
tals and rudiments of the game,
instructors to be available from
nine to noon each day from Mon-
day through Friday at the Loop
Field courts, Director Taylor an-
nounced yesterday.
Volleyball, ping pong, horseshoe
pitching, softball, and overnight
hikes, are other activities to be
included under this sixth annual
playfield program. Volleyball
nets, ping pong tables, and horse-
shoe pits will be made available
at Kneeland Park, as well as ad-
ditional tennis courts.
Three women assigned by WP.
A. recreational headquarters will
assist Director Taylor in conduct-
ing the playfield program, Miss
Joyce West, Mrs. Joyce Remme
and Mrs. Marie Brown taking
charge of the Kneeland Park ac-
tivities and the tennis instruction.
Sheltonians Go
To Big Methodist
Meet In Tacoma
The Annual Pacific Northwest.
Conference of the Methodist
Church will be in session this
week in Tacoma. beginning Wed-
nesday and continuing until Sun—
day at 5 P.M. The Conference in-
cludes all of the Methodist
Churches in the State of Wash-
ington and in the Northern half
of Idaho. Bishop W. H, Martin of
Omaha, formerly of the South,
will preside, and will preach at
the seat; of the Conference, Sun-
day next at 11 am.
The sessions of the Conference
will be preceded by the annual
Executive Meeting of the Wom-
ans’ Foreign Missionary Society
for the entire Pacific Northwest.
Mrs. Robert Brumblay, who is an
executive officer, left early this
morning for an all-day meeting 4
today of the organization. This
meeting of the women will be
held in Mason Church, Tacoma,
while the sessions of the Confer-
ence will be held in First Church.
Mrs. Walter Elliott was chosen
as the lay-representative of the
Shelton Church, and will attend
the sessions throughout.
On invitation of the pastor and
official board, Dr, Robert Brum-
blay, of this place, will occupy the
pulpit at. Mason Church, Sunday
morning. Dr. Brumblay was pas-
tor of this influential congrega-
tion a. number of years ago. There
will beno preaching service at the
church here next Sunday morning,
Kirkland, VV.P.A. adult education but in two weeks the usual service
supervisor for Mason County,
about the possibilities of forming
a second citizenship schooling
class. She may be reached by tel-
ephoning 366. .
One such class with 17 students
in it is now well along in its work.
This proposed second class, if
started within a short time, can
complete its work in time for its
students to take their final citizen—
ship papers at the next naturaliza-
tion hearing in Mason county su-
perior court, probably this fall.
INJURED BY HORSE
E. C. Sytsma ot' Shelton was
admitted to Shelton hospital Sat-
urday for treatment of face and
head cuts and bruises suffered
when he was stepped on by a
horse. The injuries were reported
not. dangerous.
will be held.
,$500 To Complete
Cribbing On Road
Funds amounting to $500 were
added to the original $1000 al-
lotted for improvement work on
a section of the Hammersley In-
let road in a resolution adopted
yesterday by the board of county
commissioners.
The extra funds were added to
allow for additional cribbing work
found necessary on the project.
The board received notification
from the state treasurer that Ms.-
son county’s share of the April
gas tax distribution amounts to
$8,756.20, which goes into the
county road fund.
VOTERS PASS
GYM LEVY BY
BIG MAJORITY
Of 672 Votes Cast, Favor
Special S-Mill Levy; Dis-
trict Seeking Site;
Finish By Fall
In a closing-hour spurt of bal-
lot—casting, Shelton voters put
the special eight-mill new gym—
nasium levy “over the top” by a
comfojtable margin Thursday,
625 in favor, 47 against.
The total vote count of 672
gave the levy a comfortable mar-
gin over the required number of
ballots needed to make the spec-
ial election legal under Washing-
ton laws, which require 40% 01"
the vote cast in the last guber-
natorial election to make special
school elections legal.
The 13 to 1 margin of favor-
able votes cast easily fulfilled
the 60% favorable requirement
also mandatory under state law
for special school taxation.
Would Complete By Fall
Just how quickly actual con-
struction of the new gymnasium
can be started depends upon how
quickly such details as prepara-
tion of plans and specifications
can be drawn up, a site determin-
ed, and the $20,000 in state funds
promised to match the funds rais-
ed by the special levy can be
secured, City School Supt. H. E.
Loop pointed out yesterday. “We
will make every effort to com-
plete the new gym by fall,” Supt.
Loop said.
John Woleb, Olympia architect,
has the new gym plans practical-
ly completed already inasmuch as
all that was necessary was re-
drawing of the original plans for
the new gym prepared a, year-
and-a-half ago when voters ap-
proved a special ten-mill levy. At
that time federal funds promised
to assist with the gym construc-
tion fell through and forced de-
lay for securing the new gym.
The site the school district
would like to obtain for the new
structure is the vacant block,
practically the only one left in
the downtoWn residential or busi-
ness sections, which is bounded by
Eighth and Ninth streets and
Pine and Cedar streets. The block
has been commonly referred to,_aa
the Tremper block. It is situated
approximately half way between
the junior and senior high school
buildings and so would be an
ideal location for the new gym in-
asmuch as the principal purpose
behind adding a new gym to the
Shelton school system is to pro-
vide facilities for a. physical edu-
cation program adequate to the
needs of the community’s school
children, Supt. Loop said. Whether
the location is purchased or some
other site ultimately selected de-
pends on the price asked for the
“Tremper block," Supt. Loop in-
dicated.
S-Club Worked Hard
Much of the credit for the suc-
cess of the special election should
go to the S-Club, high school
athletic letterman’s organization,
for its work in stirring up inter-
est favorable to the proposal and
for offering transportation, to
voters from their homes to the
polls and back again, Supt, Loop
said.
‘ “And you good people who voted ‘
certainly deserve a rising vote of
thanks. It was mighty fine of
you to come back after the dis-V ‘
appointment of our election 18 .
months :ago and again approve
a: special levy. Many. many
thanks to you all,” the city
lperintendent said. ‘
O
SKOKOMISH VOTERS ‘
APPROVE 10-MlLL LEVY
Middle Skokomish school dis- '
trict residents went; solidly behind
a. ten-mill special levy asked by
the school board to provide funds
necessary to keep the school in
operation during the 1940-41 term
by approving the levy by a 52 to
favoring vote June 1, County
School Supt. J. E. Martin announc-
ed today. "
Pioneer Meeting
Draws Sheltonites
The Pioneer Association of
Washington held its largest ' as-
sembly in years in Seattle last
week, with around 1100 of the
state’s elderly citizens, dating
back fifty years or more, seated
at dinner in the big Civic Audi-
torium. Several hours were de-
voted to mixing in the crowd and
hunting up friends of former
years, brought together from all
over the state fonthe occasion.
Those from Mason county in—
cluded Mr. and Mrs. G. C, Angle
and Robert Angle. Former resi-
dents met were Mrs. Nina Dun-
bar Barber, Mr. and Mrsl Chas.
Leake, Kenneth and Jessie Stew-
art, the latter being children of
the M. D. Stewart family gone
nearly fifty years.
OLD-TIME BUTCHER
PAYS VISIT HERE
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Blunt, who
lived in Shelton from 1906 to 1909.
were spending a day or two look-
ing up old friends around Shel-
ton, on vacation from their busi-
ness in Butte, Montana. Mr.
Blunt was a butcher in the old
days and still sticks to the job.