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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.
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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
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~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.
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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.