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Have you ever dreamed of
sailing around the world?
Mark Weston has. And he's
building a boat in Shelton to do
it.
Weston, 24, and a 1968
graduate of Shelton High School,
is a member of an Olympia
Vocational Technical Institute
boatbuilding class taught by
longtime Shelton teacher Veto
Morgus. Weston is building l-.it
4e-foot fiberglass beauty literally
out of the same mold as a sailboat
Morgns owns.
The young man received a
degree in political science three
years ago from Western
Washington State College and
then attended the University of
Washington for five quarters to
get a degree in industrial arts. The
knowledge represented by that
industrial arts degree plus
experience picked up in two years
of working in Seattle boatyards
make Weston sort of a star pupil.
He's been working since
September (when the OVTI class
started) on his boat at the Morgus
MARK WES'I=ON climbs topside on tl~e boat he is buildingl
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How young is the Mason
County population, measured in
terms of its contact with the
major events of the last few
c~ecades?
How many of the local
residents were around in 1929,
for example, when the great
depression took place and the
stock market crashed?
How many were on hand in
1936 when King Edward gave up
Down with Christmas
Or consider Christmas - could
Satan in his most malignant mood
have devised a worse combination
of graft plus buncombe than the
system whereby several hundred
million people get a billion or so
of gifts for which they have no
use, and some thousands of
shop-clerks die of exhaustion
while selling them, and every
other child in the western world is
made ill from overeating - all in
the name of the lowly Jesus?
Upton Sinclair
the British throne to marry Wallis
Simpson, or in 1941 when Pearl
Harbor was attacked?
According to an age
breakdown, compiled by the
Census Bureau, no more than 23
percent of the local population
was alive in 1918, when World
War I came to a close.
In 1933, when prohibition
ended, nearly 14 years after it
went into effect, only 41 percent
of Mason County's current
population was around to witness
the event.
The advent of the atomic age,
in the early 1940"s, following the
first nuclear chain reaction, can
be remembered by only 51
percent locally, the figures show.
All of which points to the fact
that the population of the area is
relatively young.
The age level in Mason
County, taken as a whole, is
found to be well below what it
was a generation ago.
Local residents are
slightly older, however, than their
compatriots in most parts of the
United States.
The median age of the local
population is given as 31.1 years,
which means that there are as
many below that age as there are
above it.
In the United States the
median age is 28.1 and, in the
State of Washington, 27.5.
Despite the fact that there has
been a pronounced drop in the
birth rate, nationally, in the last
few years, there is still a
preponderance of young people
because of the big birth rates that
followed World War II.
Currently, the largest five-year
segment of the population
consists of those between ages 10
and 15. They total more than
20,800,000. Next in order is the
5- to lO-year group, 19,890,000.
Just how large a
concentration of young people is
represented in this 5 to 15 age
span is indicated by the fact that
it contains twice as many persons
as are in the over-65 ranks.
place on Hammersley Inlet. He
figures it will take him another
year to finish it. "I have to work
at the same time," he explained.
"It's the finances that hold you
up."
It ain't a nickel-and-dime
operation. Weston estimates that
he'll spend 25,000 to 30,000
dollars just for materials. But
when he gets the boat done, it
will be worth 60 G's.
When the boat is completed,
it will weigh ten tons (4½ tons of
that will be ballast) and will have
most of the comforts of home
except space.
Weston's fiberglass hull was
the eighth to come out of the
mold Morgus has in his shop that
is the size of a barn. The ninth
hull is now being "layed up" by
another OVTI class member.
To get his mold, Morgus had
to first build a wooden ship that
he could use as a model or "plug"
to shape the fiberglass mold. It
was seven years of working
part-time, weekends and summers
from the time he started looking
for plans for a boat until the mold
was f'mished.
Morgus said it would take one
person a year of working full-time
to build a boat out of his mold.
He said it took four people 12
days to lay up a hull.
Since September, his students
have gone through three quarters
of class (Boatbuilding I, II and
III) and he has covered all phases
of building a sailboat, said
Morgus. "OVTI told me students
could start anytime this summer,"
he added. "They come to class
out here at their own
convenience."
For Weston, the sailboat will
be a large part of his life. A sail
around the world would take him
six or seven years. "You almost
have to make a life out of it," he
said. "When you do something
like this (build a 40-footer),
you're adopting a lifestyle."
Liquor license
is turned down
The State Liquor Control
Board announced this week that
it disapproved an application for a
Class A license to sell beer for
on-premises consumption at
"Mac's Comer," l l9 West Cota
Street, Shelton.
The license would have
changed the present liquor license
from a tavern, where minors are
prohibited, to a restaurant, where
minors are allowed.
In a letter to Lee Fred Kiefer,
l l9 West Cota Street, Shelton,
applicant for the change in liquor
license, the following reason was
given:
Investigation discloses that it
is not advisable to approve this
application, it appearing that the
business operation is
predominately that of
punchboards, pull tabs, pool
tables and other game devices and
is properly licensed as a tavern at
this time.
MARK WESTON and Vern Morgus work on the boat Weston is buildiJ
Morgus' Hammersley Inlet shop.
Three plead guilty
in court appearances
Three persons pleaded guilty asked that a charge of second
degree assault, which had been
filed in the case, be dropped.
Armijo was charged with
breaking into the home of Linda
Birch last July 27 while she was in
the home.
Judge Baker ordered a
pre-sentence report in the ease.
Armijo was represented by
Whitcomb.
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High Low Precip.
June 19 66 47 --
June 20 68 51 --
June 21 60 50 --
June 22 60 49 --
June 23 60 40 .11
June 24 68 51 .1
June 25 60 50 .12
Cool weatherwith a lew
showers is predicted for Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. High
temperatures will be in the 60s
with lows ranging from 45 to 55
degrees.
to criminal charges when they
appeared in Mason County
Superior Court before Judge
Frank Baker Friday morning.
Donald Benson Jr., Shelton,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
delivery of a controlled substance.
He had earlier pleaded not
guilty to the charge, which
accused him of delivering dl
amphetamine to a drug agent
January 3.
A pre-sentence report was
ordered by Judge Baker. Benson
was represented by Shelton
attorney Gerald Whitcomb.
Pleading guilty to a charge of
grand larceny in the theft of
pickup tires from Simpson
Timber Company was Wayne D.
Stenberg, Shelton.
A pre-sentence report was also
requested in his case. Stenberg
was represented by Shelton
attorney James Sawyer.
Thomas Armijo, Yakima,
pleaded guilty to a charge of first
degree burglary. After the plea,
Deputy Prosecutor Gary Burleson
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