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July 6, 1967     Shelton Mason County Journal
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L Thin fireman making his way between flames and decked cedar logs is one of nearly 50 who battled five hours saving material in the path of i000 last Friday's roaring mill fire at Versapanel, lnc. on John's Prairie which destroyed propertyvaluedat$90,O00. And tog Fire Destroys Versapanel Saw Mi!lr s !!:L,00N ,Yed they held it to the mill and the and heat from the burning mill This was stacked two or three including 300 slings f esaw son said. "Just as fast as we adequate help ---'l feet and find material piled in its immediate soon ignited the dry logs. pallet-loads deep in an area about material, was set by Johnson can get raaterial vicinity. The fire sent up a dense 500 feet long and 50 feet wide. at $20,000 not insured, the equipment we need, we will Plant of The fire could have started, column of smoke which was loss esti- Johnson said, when a change in spotted and reported to the Shel- desperate speed the Versapanel the east wind, o[ control minutes by a night er entPloy. is of about hours to into away office the wind sent a gust from the north carrying a shower of sparks through the mill from the saw- dust burn pile. Another theory, he said, is that one of the con- veyors carried hot material un- der the mill where it smouldered and finally ignited. He empha- sized that these are guesses. Pete Hawkins, night watchman, and two men working on pallet fabrication, Bob Shaw and Bill Gregory, noticed the smoke. By the time they had reached the mill from a distance of about 200 feet, Johnson said, the place was blazing. One of them called the telephone operator and asked Were a her to give the alarm. -few and iL- '1]1 These three then battled alone :.t e State for half an hour, according to ( 1.akerseSourCeSand Johnson, trying to contain the 111. L With o- fire in the mill and keep it out . ne of the log decks. But they didn't .City Vh'e it..'[,._ el' and h have enough water from one hose '_ • . ot Versa.  . .aen and "lled, But ton District Ranger office by Carl Dugger, U. S. Forest Ser- vice lookout at Dusk Peak, 20 miles northwest. When the main body of fire fighting troops arrived, they con- centrated on salvaging unburned logs and finished products. They used heavy equipment to break lines between the log decks. Then Don Knudsen and two of his men with the Pettibones moved logs away from the flames. They were credited by Johnson with saving between 80 and 100,000 board feet of logs. Johnson had been notified of the fire by Shelton Police while he was watching a ball game. Province was muted out of the shower at his home at Treasure Island. They rounded up their men and directed them in mov- ing finished material out of the path of the fire. Working with two fork lifts at crew moved all of this to safety in two hours. District Administrator Francis Wright directed the state sup- pression crew. While the tankers were dumping water on the flames, the bulldozer widened a fire trail on the westerly side. Other crewmen checked several spot fires in nearby brush and grass. The Shelton fire truck pumped its 500-gallon tank load of water on the blazing mill and then had to quit for lack of an adequate water supply at the scene. Johnson said the mill structure and equipment are a total loss, including the head saw, edger, trimmer, gang ripper, and mis- cellaneous conveyors. He esti- mated its value as between $65 and $70,000. The mill, he said, was insured for $15,000. Value of material destroyed, NOTES ,,, ,,o= NElL DISCOUNT... The word designed to deceive all those who can read ... The word employed to "Bait" the unlearned and the unthinking... The word misused to distort the Truth... This word which does have a legitimate meaning is employed to recent immigrants into our community for exl)loitation purposes... It is used to con[use us into believing that a "Discount" store sells everything cheap and opened up in our community for the sheer joy of losing money • •. That, of course, is not True. The Game of the Discounter is to get us into his store by slashing the prices of well-advertised products. On some items the slash may be deep--even below cost. BUT there is an OVERPRICED substit',ttc item in the store for most nationally advertised articles. And it's the SUBSTITUTE this Newcomer hopes to sell us and make his Long profits on... Your Neighborhood Pharmacist cannot compete in this kind of a Game because it is deceptive. He cannot afford to mislead us because he is here to stay and must build his business upon confidence and honest dealings. He is here to sell us exactly what we want--an honest product at a Fair price with a living profit--PROFIT he must make or go out of business. Or would you like to see him out of business? Perhaps you wouldn't miss him until you or your child needed medication or first aid in a Hurry, often late at Night! Your Pharmacist just cannot be a high pressure discounter. He cannot discount his Professional Standing, his College Education, his Prestige built on Truth and Confidence! Did you ever hear of a discounting Plumber or Eicctriclan or a Doctor? Or would you discard your Family Physician if a Quack came to town and adver- tised a house call for $2.98? Your Pharmacist will always stand behind every product you buy in his store. He KNOWS what the product is composed of :and he'll NEVER sell you a SUBSTITUTE merely for the sake of making a Quick BUCK. He is a Citizen of our Community. Let's keep him in business! Neil's Pharmacy Fifth & Franklin Sts.  426-3327, Emergency Phone 426-2165 Open Daily 9:30 to 7:30, Saturdays 9:30 to 6:00 Operations will be continued in the pallet fabrication depart- ment which was not harmed by the fire, Johnson said. This will keep about half of the concern's 30 employees on the job, he said. ;"We'll rebuild the mill," John- have the operation glued back together." Versapanel produces pre-cut cedar fencing for the Southwest market in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona and some dimension lum- ber. About 40 percent of its pro- duction is fabrication of pallets. Lilliw,a, up: Canal Divers, Bathers Warned of Red Jellyfish By FRANCES CATTO commented Marjorie Furlong of • L]ZJJ"WAUP--Red jelly fish, potentially dangerous to skin- divers and bathers, who may be allergic to their sting, have been noted recently by skindivers and others. These jelly fish, per- haps one to one and a-half feet across, may have tentacles rang- ing up to 14 feet, and even a broken-off tentacle on the beach could sting. It will behoove swimmers as well as skindivers to watch out for the jelly fish with its trans- luscent mantle of red. This warning came from Dick Fuller, skin diver and employee of Rayonier's Hoodsport Environ- mental Control laboratory. He and his diving companion, Ed IAzakowski, have been wearing a special full mask of neoprene to protect their mouths from a chance jelly fish sting. Fuller doesn't recall seeing this par- ticular type as prevalent in the Canal as at this time. Another local diver, Bill Mc- Kasson, and a friend had jelly- fish stings the other day, one on the forehead and the other on his lip but with no serious effects. A fisherman reported stinging resulting from reeling in a line and contacting "sticky stuff" while wiping off seaweed with his hand. If dry sand is available, Fuller suggested wiping the tentacle off the skin with it; later washing with a detergent and treating as one would a burn. It is interesting to know that water constitutes about 96 per cent of the wight of a jelly fish, so that if left to dry in the sun they virtually disappear. The chief order of jelly fish is Discomedusae, which contains the large red species common off the north Atlantic coast. While we are reporting err ma- rine life, we must tell yo, u that skin divers have fun competing for the monthly prize offered by the Driftwo:)d Shop for the most unusual live specimen brought in for their Neptune's Garden aquarium. With an unusual blue chiton, Dick Fuller was ahead in the competition for June until Bob Click of Camas came along with his stringer of octopus eggs. There will be a grand prize for the three-month competition awarded on Labor Day. "I've never seen the octopus eggs strung out like that before," the Driftwood Shop, looking at the tiny rice-like eggs clinging to a black stem. She is hoping that they will hatch. The female octopus stays with the eggs for a period of 50 days, she explained, and blows on them to keep them clean. She never leaves them, even to eat, and sometimes dies. "Better blow on them!" Mar- jorie Furlong urges her hus- band, Ed, in the interest of their survival. Silvers are coming in and anong the fishermen making the most of it are Jack Johnston and Allie Robinson, who have been fishing out from Indian Beach. Fishing with a plug, John- ston boated eight fish, the largest a 16-pounder, this last week. Allie had four at the last count and his son-ln-law, Bob Burman, here with his family for the holi- day, caught two silvers ]VIonday morning. IYh.s, John Rider of Kent was one of the fishermen out from Rest While Park boathouse, to catch a nice silver. Nell Vance boated one last Friday. An unidentified boatsman was seen to land a ling cod, esti- muted t:o weigh about 40 pounds. Visitors at the Arthur Pauly home this week were lVtrs. Pauly's granddaughter, Cynthia Cook of Pale Alto, Calif., and her fath- er, Dr. Earl Cook of College Station, Texas, also lVlrs. Pauly's brother, Joseph Royer, of Santa 1VIonica, Calif. Dr. Cook is dean at Texas A & M. He stopped on his trip to see Hurricane Ridge and was much impressed by the beauty of our area. Honoring her mother's 82nd birthday anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnston were hosts last Tuesday at a birthday din- ner for Mrs. Nell Vance. They had the dinner at the Vance home. Guests of the Bill McKasson family last weekend were Sue and Ed Koester of Vancouver, Wash. and their children, Christy, Janelle and Ken. The McKassons were to be 4th of July visitors in Beaver with the Roger Addle- inans. The Jack Sceva family of Sa- lem, Ore. were up to stay at their Indian Beach cottage over the 4th of July, returniLg home Wednesday. Mrs. Sceva had had an ankle injury recently and had it in a cast. "'Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!'" Announcing Miller's WAREHOUSE RUMMAGE SALE Friday, July 7 - Saturday July 8 You can help us clean out our attic of many items and save money by doin 9 so. Items like . . . -k Discontinued Items Odds & Ends -k Recovered Stolen Merchandise Soiled Clothing, in excellent condition = ,,, ppeo"eca--ers for you home brew enth usiasts If you could find them now '3 O0 the probable retail NOW would be $8.00 ................ • Second Floor Warehouse at 3rd & Railroad Open Every Friday 'til 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 6, 1967. Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 13