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Gra,[e To Sponsor Dance
At Comm mily Hail Saturday Hight
MATLOCK ...... The Matlock
Czrange will ~]pliDS()l' tl dance lhis
Satln'day night, live music.
Mr. and Mrs, Herberl P, rehmeyer
Sr. and suns Mil{e and Brian
where supper guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest 13ooih of .~helton
I4[ond}l y evening.
I{enry Mayer spent Monday
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LANNY SLATER and
THE TRIUMPHS
MARY and ELMER,
Your hostess and host
SATURDAY NIGHT
9:30 to 2:00
Open 8:30 * $1.25
On the old
Olympia---Tacoma Highway
I
evening wiLh hi q sisler Mrs. Clar-
(~llt:e l~llr]{er of Shelton.
Mrs. F. E. Hewson and grand-
chihh'en Carol IIewson of Granger
and Happy Parker cf Olympia
spent Wedne,.~day afternoon with
Mrs. Harold Cliff.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Treter and
four children of Tacom~t spent
Satm'day afternoon with Mrs. Tre-
ter's grandmother Mrs. Augusta
P()l'inlHn ;llld C~ll'l Pol'tlllan.
Mr. and Mrs Mann of Minnc-
sot'~ are visiting the farmer's sis-
tar and family Mr and Mrs. Rod-
ger Paint,q'
Mr. and Mrs. R., E. Bradberry
and Mr, and Mrs. Elvin Hearing
spent Sunday evening with Mrs.
Augusta Portman and Carl Port-
nlan.
Mrs. J. I%. Singleton accompa-
nied by her daughter Mrs. J. D,
Simpson of Bremerton left by bus
for LivcrmooL Calif. Wednesday
to visit tile Chester Singleton
family and to attend Linda Single-
tons graduation.
Mr. and Mrs. I C. Ford spent
Thursday and Thursday night with
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Boothe and
family of South I]end.
Mr. and Mrs. Lad Rossmaier
returned Sunday from Wenatchee
where they spent the week at the
State Grange Convention, and they
also reported Mrs. Arthur Sharp
from Matlock Grange took first
place in Ladies Singles at the
Bowling at the Convention.
Mr. and :lV[rs. LeRoy Boothe and
family of South Bend spent the
weekend with the I. C. Ford fam-
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E, Bradberry,
and Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hearing l
tool{ a trip to Mineral last week
Thursdav to see where the fire
destroyed a Block off the town.
The Matlock Community Church
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PILE DRiVER---Several years ago, the 'Scoter,"
shown cruising the waters of Hammersley's Inlet,
was only an idea in the mind of owner-builder
Keith Hurst, who for a long time had felt the
need for a self-propelled pile driver. Using only the
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MAKING ADJUSTMENT---Keith Hurst is shown,
wrench in hand, making a mJnor adjustment to a
part on board the "Scoter," a self-propelled pile
held its picnic at Schafers Park
Sunday in honor of the Roy. Ken-
neth Edwards and Mrs. Edwards
who are leaving for Portland to
make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. John :McGmwie
are vacationing in Canada this
week.i
:M:r. and Mrs. Archie Kelley
spent Saturday evening at the
Herbert Brehmeyer Sr. home.
Mr. and :Mrs. Herbert Brehmeyer
Sr. were grandparents twice in
a week. A daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Breckinridge at
Chimacum June 11 and a daughter
to ~r. and Mrs. Paul Johnston of
Elms June 14.
The Brehmeyer Sr"s had we'd
from their son Gear, he i:' '~ :' i~u-
ed at Okinawa with the first Ma-
rine Airwing.
Thursday drop in guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Max Casll were Mr.
and Mrs. Wiliam Munson of Lin-
wood.
Weekend guests at the Max
Cash home were Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Augustine and son of Lake
FGtre~t Park of Seattle.
Mr& Harold Clift is attending
Puget Sound College at Tacoma
starting Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Brown are
I taking care of a foster son Rus-
sol, 8 years old. They will wel-
come neighbor children to come
and play with him.
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assistance of a mechanical engineer to keep the
"bugs" out of her design, Keith built the "Scaler"
as a "back yard project," in a year and a half,
from surplus parts and a lot of "blood, sweat and
tea rs."
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driver which he built himself. Keith's head over-
shadows a portion of the huge hammer which
drives the piling.
By BILL BRAM:MER
Among the many jobs tow-boat
pilots are called upon to tackle
is the moving of pile drivers from
one location to another, Keith
Hurst had towed these ~umher-
.,'.ome rigs for a number of years,
and each time he got one on the
~nd of his tow cable he became
more thoroughly convinced that
they could be designed to travel
under their own power.
Before becoming a tow-boat pi-
lot, Keith had learned to design
boats. The more he thought of
designing and bnilding th~ unique
craft, the stronger the desire to
get started became. It would be
expensive--but he could use sur-
plus parts. There would be long,
hard hours ahead--but in the end
a dream would be realized. Final-
ly in November of ,,:1962, throwing
caution to the winds, he decided
to begin a preliminary design on
what was to be an inovation in
pile drivers.
]~LKOEPT FOR an occasional
conference with a mechanical en-
g{neer who helped keep the "bugs"
Atlorney, Juslice
,Clash in Court
The attorney for two men ap-
pealing a justice court conviction
and Judge Harry Stillwell of the
i Belfair Justice Court exchanged
:sharp words in Mason County Su-
perior Court Friday when Stillwell
appeared in a show cause order
in the case.
Fredrick Frohmader, Tacoma,
who is representing Ronald Gun-
derson and Roger Phillips in their
appeal of a conviction of digging~
clams in a preserve, had obtained
the order to ask Stillwell why he
had not provided him with a trans-
cript of the justice court trial.
Gunderson and Phillips had
each been fined $250 and senten-
ced to 60 days in jail after being
found guilty by Stillwell earlier
this month.
PROSECUTING Attorney Byron
McClanahan, sitting as court com-
missioner in the absence of a judge
set the matter over two weeks,
stating he hoped it could be clear-
ed up in that time.
Frohmader asked that the case
be dismised on the grounds that
there was a lack of due process of
law in the justice court conviction.
Stillwell stated on the witness
stand that he did not know why he
was in court and also objected to
the manner in which the show
cause order was served on him at
his home stating that the incident
had so upset his wife that she
had required medical attention.
out of the design, Keith did most
of the fabrication and assembly
work himself. His workshop was
the yard of his home on Arcadia
Road, which borders on Hammers-
Icy Inlet.
The ensuing year and a half
was a nightmare of rounding up
materials and surplus parts, weld-
ing sections together, turning nuts
on bolts, ~rimming and fitting,
~and coordinating components.
Finally tbe last bit of work was
completed. All of the "blood, sweat
and tears" invested in the project
had paid off. The "Scoter" as she
was christened, tugged gently at
anchor as she wallowed in the
waters of the inlet, and Keith's
dream of a self-propelled pile dri-
ver had become a reality.
The "Scaler" has many advan-
tages over the large conventional-
type pile drivers. The main ad-
vantage, of course, is that being
self-propelled, there is no moving-
in charge. In other words, the cus-
tomer does not have to pay a tug
to move the rig into the work
area.
Being smaller in size does not
limit the "Scorer's" work capacity.
Like the sea duck for which she
was named, she is capable of get-
ting into areas along the beach
that would be inaccessible to the
larger commercial rigs. This
makes her ideal for handling jobs
such as putting in docks and moor-
age facilities. On the other hand
.~he is capable of handling piling
that is essentially the same size
as that handled by the large com-
mercial rigs.
Neither does the "Scaler's" stze
restrict her to the waters of the
inlet. She is fully equipped to nav-
igate the waters of both Hood
Canal and Puget Sound.
For the mechanically-minded,
here are the "Scoter's" dimensions
and a run-down on her equipment.
She is 48 feet long, 16 feet wide
and weighs 35 tons.
Her hull and tower are of all-
steel, welded construction.
A 140 h.p. GM Diesel is her main
power source. This engine, turn-
ing a single 30-inch propeller,
drives her alon~" at 7 knots (ap-
proximately 8 m.p.h.), which is an
l ideal speed for displacement-type
!boats such as she is.
Auxiliary power is furnished by
[four gasoline engines. These en-
gines drive five hoisting drums,
which play out and retrieve the
hoisting cables. They also power
a jet pump which is used to direct
a stream of water, at pressures
up to 200 lbs. per square inch,
through a single nozzle, down
alongside the piles when setting
them in hard ground.
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To 'Be Married
GRAPEVIEW - "Wedding bells
will ring next week for two young
people from am" cofimmnity. Bruce
Michael Fulmer and Miss Susan
Dian Gatlin will be married Tiles-
day afternoon, June 23, in a pri-
va{e church ceremony. Bruce is
tile son of Mrs. Peggy Fulmer, for-
merly of Grapeview, and Susan,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
rv Gatlin of Grapeview. Mr. and
Mrs. Gal]in wish to extend an in-
vitation to all of their friends to
attend a wedding reception for the
couple which will be held at the
Grapeview school following the
church service. Time: 4 p.m. to
8 p.m
Our roving news-column cohorts,
Wall and Sally Clayton and their
youngsters, arrived in Downing-
town. Pa. early last Friday even-
ink after five days of driving, and
just in time for Salli to attend a:
bridal shower for her sister Mary
Jane Pawling. Visits with family
(especially Salli's mother, Mrs,
Helen Pawling) and old school
friends, also a few side trips to
historical points of interest have
kept the Grapeview travelers well
occupied since their arrival. You
might say -~- "It never fails"! We i
did. W~ile era'cute through Neb-
raska, the Claytml family just
happened to stay at the same
motel chosen by Shelton P. E.
teacher, Miss Ruth Koenig and her
I ravelling" companion, Shelton
high school miss, Sherry Jeffery.
Miss Koenig, some of you
recall, was the delightful singer
of folk songs who entertained us
at the recent Firemen's Auxiliary
installation.
MEANWItILE, "back at the
ranch", Mr, and Mrs. Walt Clay-
ton, Sr. are flndine" things mighty
quiet with only "Vt~¢e" and "Ty"
left sent door. They enjoyed a
dinner last Saturday evening with
neighbors Mr..and Mrs. Don John-
son who were here for the weetc-
end with daughter Dabble, Son
Mike was away on a Sea Scout
cruise. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton were
dismayed to learn the next day
that Mr. Johnson had injured his
eye while building steps 1o his
beach; an injury serious enough
to necessitate a mmh trip baclc to
town to the doctor.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lande
spent Sunday at their summer
home here, checking things over
and doing a little brush clearing•
Another hearing on a possible
transfer of Section No. 29 of Fire
Protection District No. 3 to Fire
Protection District No. 5 was held
Monday at the Mason County
Court House. Once again, repre-
sentatives from our district at-
i tendin~ were Orin Buckingham,
Bill Somers and Julie Stock. The
county commissioners decided to
postpone action on this until tile
state's Attorney General makes
~. decision as to whether or not
District No. 3 will be allowed to
collect millage on Section No. 29 if
it is transferred to District No. 5.
Ed Garner of Olympia, who is exe-
cutive secretary for the state fire
commissioners, attended the bear-
ing.
Life was just about back to nor-
mal for the Orin Buckinghams
Monday after a wonderful week of
vacation spent travelling and visit-
ing. Clear Lake and Tillamook,
Ore. were stopping points as was
Gardner, Ore. where they enjoyed
a ~leasant visit with former Grape-
view friends, Cliff and Vi Barrett.
They found the Barrett family
"just fine" including their sons
Bill and Bob who are both working
and living at home. Their daughter'
Evelyn lives in Montana. An inter-
esting sidelight of their trip was
a stop in Cornelius, Ore. for a tour
through the Western States Fire
Apparatus Company where our
new fire truck is being built. Back
home again on Thursday just long
enough to get rearranged, Ortn
and Ethel took off for a homecom-
ing visit to Pe Ell where they had
a fine time 'renewing acquaintan-
ces with old school chums.
With "Mac" off for a weekend
at Nanaimo with a group of bro-
ther Masons, Mrs. Merrill McKin-
stry drove out from Seattle Satur-
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day for an overnight bringing
ahmg neighbor, Mrs. James Beal
and her daughter and grandson.
Really taking the long way around
they stopped to shop at Lakeview,
drove through Scandia, Shoreline
and Gig Harbor, even pausing long
enough for a cannery totlr before
arriving in Grapeview. After forti-
fying themselves with one of 2Vh's.
McKinstry's very ample break-
tasts, they toured points of inter-
est here at Grapeview as this was
a first visit ill tl~e area for the
guests.
HAPP~ TO BE back in the
Northwest again after a winter of
teaching school near Los Angeles,
Calif., are Stretch Island summer
residents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Bell. The Bells arrived in Grape-
view Monday and must have felt
at home almost immediately with
the familiar sound of rain on the
roof welcoming them the very
first night. As I recall, it was rain-
ing that day last August when the
Bells departed.
Sorry to hear that little Jerri
Joe Anderson and her sister are
confined temporarily with the
measles. Their daddy, Don Ander-
son, seems to be making wonder-
ful progress on a handsome new
sunbathing deck for their Trea-
sure Island beach.
Several hard-working, civic-min-
ded members of our Grapeview
Mothers' Club gave up a nice
morning to put a coat of red paint
on the basement floor of the grade
school.
3ournal Want Ads Pay
Log Truck
Meeting Is
Chairnzan
the
Transportation
announced a
June 24, 8
Hotel,
Commission's
t:ions relating
tion of logs.
and all other
invited to
Chairman
stoner Sutherls
several memberS
sion staff, will
discuss rates,
cement and to
tions.
Corky
An activit
came to a
raine (Corky)
son County
when she
arts degree in
lamette
While
she was
Queen, Rally
val Queen
nity Queen of
red as
I ecenved a
outstanding
sity.
The past
,dent and
Alpha Chi
been student
World History.
High School.' "'
The dau
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1961 COMET WAGON
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1957 BUlt)K CENTURY
4 dr. HT V-8 automatic
1958 FORD FAIRLANE
2 dr. HT V.8,Auto.
1956 CHEVROLET BEL
4 dr. V-8 automatic
1958 LINCOLN GONT!
4 dr. 6 cyl. automatic deluxe trim
1959 RAMBLER SUPER
4 dr. 6 cyl.
1954 CADILLAC
4 dr. V-8 automatic
1956 PLYMOUTH
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1958 FORD COUNTRY
4 dr. V-8 Overdrive
1959 ,FORD RANCH
4 dr. V-8 automatic
1961 RAMBLER
4 dr. 6 cyl.
1960 CliEV
4 dr., 500
1959 PLYMOUTH
4 dr. 6 cyl.
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