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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
July 16, 1970     Shelton Mason County Journal
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THE TEMPERATURE got so hot in downtown Shelton Wednesday afternoon that this fire hose jumped out of the truck on its own. Shelton firemen were on a routine driving-practice run when the hose left the truck and settled down in the middle of two blocks of Cota Street. Firemen gathered up the errant hose, piled it in a pickup truck and took it to the fire hall for disciplinary action. ~n l~l~.n County county 'and will have the ofn? approved responsibility of developing • "~at~^ = ~county Park future park plans. ~nB,°ard after a The board will have seven i~'g in ~ne formation, members to be named by the ~I1 ~ere SUpPort of the County Commission. L~lity ~ev. Horace The commission appointed L'~d Arrt gent HaroldMrs. Merle McNeil as Acting Civil ~rd . Old Fox. ~zl ~f be in charge of years.Defense Director the past several Parks in the Mrs. McNeil was Deputy Director and was a secretary in the office before being given the title of deputy director. Mrs. Carol Wentlandt of Belfair appeared before the commission with information concerning the ineligibility of one of the commissioners of the Port of Allyn. She stated that Commissioner Ed Berberet had moved from the district from which he was elected into a district represented by another of the two commissioners. She said he has declined to resign from his position on the port commission, and, that the other two commissioners will not declare the position vacant. She asked the county commission to take action to declare the seat vacant since Berberet is ineligible because of his change of residence. The commission took the question under advisement to have time. to study the information Mrs. Wentlandt had presented. ERT EMERAS, a French youth who was the American Field Service here in 1967-68 is visiting the Cliff Starkey family here. Emeras lived the Starkeys while in Shelton. He plans on staying here until some time of August before traveling across the U.S. to catch a plane for his eland Sept. 17. He is in his third year at the University in France. Here, he With Patti Starkey. The Starkeys will be the AFS host family again this r to a Japanese girl who is expected to arrive in August. Woman Is Killed In Car Crash Julia M. Brown, 64, Port Orchard, died in Harrison Memorial Hospital in Bremerton of injuries suffered in a traffic accident in Mason County. She died Monday. The accident in which she was injured occured 10 miles southwest of Bremerton on Highway 3, just inside Mason County, according to the State Patrol, which investigated the accident. The patrol said a station wagon driven by Mrs. Brown and a car driven by Mark Moore, 16, Centralia, were involved in a collision. The patrol said both vehicles were southbound on Highway 3 when the Moore vehicle sideswiped the Brown vehicle as the Moore vehicle was attempting to pass. Mrs. Brown's station wagon went off the road to the right and struck a tree head-on. The Moore vehicle went into a skid and went off the road on the right also. The State Parks Commission, when it meets this month, will be asked to approve purchase of the Nalley property in Mason County as a park site during the 1971-73 biennium. The property includes 500 acres, including 3,600 feet of waterfront on Hood Canal and 12,000 feet of waterfront on the Skokomish River. The site would feature a waterfowl sanctuary and nature preserve at the mouth of the river with picnicking, camping and boating facilities to be developed on the Canal. The property is in the estate of the late Marcus Nalley, and was operated as the Nalley farm with a dairy operation during his lifetime. Farming operations were discontinued after Mr. Nalley's death several years ago and it is now vacant. The property is located ajacent to the Skokomish Indian Reservation where the Skokomish River flows into Hood Canal. Thursday, July 16, 1970 PubliShed in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington. Entered as secona c,ass 2 Sections--22 Pages matter at the post office at Shelton, Washington 98584, under act of March 8, 1879. 84th Year--Number 29 Published weekly at 227 West Cota. $5.00 per year in Mason County, $6.00 elsewhere. Terl Cents Per Copy The Mason County Sheriff's Department is continuing its survelance of Lake Cushman in efforts to recover the body of Floyd LeRoy Towne, 46, 9009 mers Remembrances of a part of the history of Puget Sound, the steam ships which provided the major means of transportation in the early years of the area, were viewed by members of the North Mason Historical Society last week during a visit to the old St. Charles Winery. They were conducted through the collection of scale model ships, name boards and other items from those bygone days by Bill Somers, whose father, the late Charles Somers, started the collection. The Somers family operated the St. Charles Winery for many years until its sale and closure. The now unused winery building houses the Somers collection. Seiners told the group that most of the models were made by friends in Tacoma and are scale models of the ships which sailed Puget Sound waters. He reviewed briefly some of the steamers which had served the North Bay area in Mason County and Hood Canal. The first steamer he can find a record of coming to North Bay, Somers said, was the Bessie, which was built in Tacoma in 1886. Later vessels included the Messenger and the Otter which were in competition serving the area which was then called Detroit and which was a thriving community until the panic of 1893. The last vessel to serve the North Bay area was the Aerial, which operated until the 1920's when steamers ceased operation in the area. Somers said one of the first boats he could find a record of operating on Hood Canal was the Delta which was built in 1888 and which was dismantled in 1910. One of the next to operate there, he said, was the Dode, which was built in 1896 and purchased for the Hood Canal run in 1 898 by Capt. Daniel Troutman and converted into a passenger boat which would carry 250 passengers and operated from Seattle down Hood Canal to Union City. Capt. Troutman disappeared and was never heard from again, Seiners said, and the ship was sold and later ended up back on the Hood Canal run. One of the later boats on the Hood Canal run was the Potlatch, which operated from 1912 to about 1917. Another of the later Hood Canal boats was the Lydia Thompson. Among the displays which Seiners has set up is a replica of the Coleman Dock of the Puget Sound Naviagtion Co. with replicas of the ferries which' oeprated on the Navy Yard run. The Dock looked about the way he has it set up until 1938, Seiners said, and has since been rebuilt twice. He also showed the group a pilot wheel from the ferry Defiance and signals which were used from the bridge to the engine room as well as several steam whistles. Name boards, which were salvaged from a number of Puget Sound vessels when they were dismantled were also on display. An item from Mason County was added to Somers Collection during the evening when he was given the two signs from the old Gramerey PI., Tacoma, who drowned while water skiing Sunday afternoon. Efforts to recover the body as of Wednesday were unsuccessful. oon Harstine Ferry landing, one showing the time schedule and one showing the rates. The signs were brought by Dr. Berwyn Thomas of Shelton, who stated he had removed them after the ferry ceased operation, to see that they were preserved as historical items. Thomas said he had informed the County Commission that he had the signs, and, they had indicated they had no further interest in them and that he was Four youths, two from Seattle and two from Bremerton, were sentenced by Judge Glenn Correa in Mason County District Justice Court Friday. They had appeared in court earlier to enter pleas to the charges. Larry Neal, 20, 237 SW 116th, Seattle, was fined $50 for being a minor in possession of and consuming liquor and was sentenced to six months in the county jail for possession of marijuana. The sentence will be reviewed after 30 days. William Root, 19, 1819 Winfield, Bremerton, was fined $50 for beinz a minor in The Sheriff's Office was called about 4:30 p.m. Sunday after Towne had fallen into the lake while being towed behind a boat water skiing. v~ga welcome to them. The signs were the two which had been on the mainland side ferry landing. Also attracting interest from the group were several shadow boxes which depict scenes along Puget Sound, and, which when the lights are turned out, show the same scenes as they would appear at night, complete with stars, lights on ships and lights on the shore. possession of and consuming liquor and sentenced to eight days in jail for possession of stolen property. James Ball, 19, 1002, Hayward, Bremerton, was fined $50 for being a minor in possession of and consuming liquor. Waiter Cousland, 19, 4025 35th SW, Seattle, was sentenced to eight days in jail for possession of stolen property. The youths who were sentenced on the possession of stolen property charges were given credit for time served. The eight days was the length of time they had been in jail since their arrest. Officers were told by Roy Martin, Tacoma, who was operating the boat, that Towne had fallen while skiing and had lost his flotation belt. Martin told officers he had turned the boat around to pick Towne up when he noticed he was struggling in the water and jumped in to assist him. He said he was unable to get Towne out because the drowned man was struggling against him. Martin's wife, Rita, went into the water to assist her husband in trying to get Towne out, but, they were unable to help and he sank beneath the surface and did not come up. Three divers from the Sheriff's Office were called to the scene and dove until it was too dark to continue without any success in finding the body. Divers said it was difficult to search the lake because of the depth and the large amount of snags and debris in the lake. Divers have not gone down since the attempt Sunday. The Sheriff's Office said the water in the lake is 200 feet deep in places, and, that there are a large number of snags because the lake bed was not cleared before it was flooded. Boat patrols are being maintained in the lake. The Sheriff's Office said Wednesday the Security Patrolman from Lake Cushman Development Co. was patroling the lake and that the City of Tacoma was patroling also. The Sheriff's Office said periodic patrols of the lake would be continued in efforts to spot the body if it comes to the surface. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Martin, Towne's wife and daughter and the Martin's two young children were in the boat at the time of the accident. BILL SOMERS looks over the replica of the Coleman Dock in Seattle which he has set up as a part of his display of steamer replicas from Puget Sound. This is the way the dock looked until about 1938, Somers said.