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NOT MUCH WAS LEFT of the Keith Schmeichel cabin on Tee Lake after it
burned to the ground at about one o'clock Monday morning. It was valued
at about $8,000. The Schmeichels' regular residence is in Bremerton.
Neighbor Ed Welsh (shown in photo) did his best to get firefighters to the
scene after his wife woke him when she heard popping and crackling, but his
efforts were too late to save the cabin. Cause of the fire was not immediately
known.
Section of Shelton
Mason County Journal
Thursday, July 24, ! 975
proposed site for a
and Regional Library
facility in Belfair was
by the Timberland
at its July 17
member Dr. William H.
from the North Mason
iF
committee, reported to the board
that a soil conservationist had
tested the area and found that
there would be no problems with
the drainfield at the proposed
site.
The North Mason Friends of
the Library, owner of the site, has
already test drilled in the area and
it has been okayed by the county
for a septic tank.
The site is located across from
the elementary school in Belfair.
The land was purchased from the
Sam Theler estate and is more
than half paid for. The North
Mason Friends organization has
received permission to deed one
acre of the eight-acre plot to the
Timberland Library to construct a
building.
It's still not clear who's going
to build the library, or if it will be
built in the near future at all, said
Louise Morrison, director of
Timberland. At the June
Timberland board meeting, North
Mason was identified as the prime
Timberland target for a branch
library in 1976 (following a
: _ [I motion by Mason County
representative Rita McArthur).
pine~ doestreeSmy lawnreallYsmelledible?"i cBelfair' ...... is goin.g to gwe" advice" at to spend less to produce better Mrs. Morrison said Timberland
~da?" l ke ~tee c~mlcs m town for two lawns, flowers, vegetable gardens, hopes to start planning the
r often should I ...... months. It's happening through houseplants, fruiting or building in January and hopes to
tplants~" ~" ..... the_Cooperative Extensmn Service ornamental shrubs, trees, berries, set a September 1976 opening
o .... " - . of Washington State University vine crops and homescaping, Jerry date, but the whole thing depends
,,,.re got garaening J ........ " ..... e
c~y wm be at can help. on the availabihty of funds. W
(wttich could be better ......... Thriftway
just don't know yet if there will
~se), you can get free untr.y,,we°nesOay from July 30 He has the facts on insects, be money to build it," she said.
from Master Gardener m ~ept.. 24.. pests, fungus infections, diseases The state library is requesting
vault., advantageJerry lnvlteSof this anyonefree aid tot°supertake and weed problems, which can all a block grant of federal funds for
wag lives outside of gardening. If you have the desire be .contro~ed by preventive or Trident-impacted areas, said Mrs.
posmve enunnation know how. Morrison, and if the state library
His knowledge sessions are gets funds, Timberland will get
designed to save dollars, hours some of the funds to help serve
and muscles.
the people in North Mason
,~ The master gardener is
prepared to help you solve your
problems whether you plant a Wc~Ikc~thon
window box, potted plant, mini
garden, family-size plot, orchard,
~: ~ii~i:::" small berry patch, or a course set
"i~:~ : 40,O00-acre wheat ranch in
downtown Belfair. Folks of any The 13-mile walkathon course
age can question Jerry. for this Saturday's Belfair
Emergency Ambulance Fund
• Jerry knows what's best to benefit has been announced.
plant in Mason County. He'll tell Walkers will begin at 9 a.m. at
you what varieties are most the McKenna Falls Road (an
resistant to disease and offshoot of the Old Belfair
infestations, give the greatest Highway), and proceed out the
yield and require a minimum of North Shore to the North Shore
expense and attention. Grocery. '
He'll also help diagnose your the Check points will be set up at
Bear Creek Mini Mart, the
individual problems. Belfair Firehall, Logan's (,B_elfair
........ !~i ....... If you need your soil tested,
Jerry will have the necessary kits State Park) and the course s end.
. !~ i and he'll explain the proper All ages of people are invited
to walk in the event to help the
~ .:: : ~ procedure to follow. He will save
ambulance emergency fund.
you worry and expensezei:
selecting the right fertili , Pledge sheets are available at the
: pesticides, herbicides, fungicides Belfair Firehall The directors Ol
~ii i and soil amendmentS.Jerry will tell you how plants themthe walkathon "ask that waikerSbring andtheirturnPledgethem in.sheetsThereWithare
ASTER GARDENER JERRY DeVAULT POSED grow, what you need to have a two copies of each pledge sheet;
perfect lawn and when to prune, the directors get one and the
picture outside the Herald office, he, looked at the H
1:1 edaa.nd said, "This tree is diseased! Sure enough, e doesn t know everything, but walker gets one.
he knows where to find the After the participants have
- phids crawling all over the underside of the answers for you if he doesn't walked or jogged or whatever,
el •y will help you with your gardening problems and know. they then go out with proof theY
Is for. f.ree. He'll be giving c nics for the next two You can call Jerry at completed the course and try to
"~ c~eltalr each Wednesday. 275-2935 if you want more collect from people who promised
information about the clinics, them money for walking.
Three positions will open up
on the North Mason School Board
when the terms of three directors
expire this fall.
Elections for directors in
districts one, three and four will
be held in the general election on
Nov. 4.
The terms of Pat Ruff
(district one), Gene Foster
(district three) and Carol
Wentlandt (district four) all
expire. All three told the Herald
they haven't decided whether or
not to run again.
Most anyone who lives in
those districts can run for the
school board. The only
qualifications are that you (1) be
an American citizen, (2) be a
qualified voter in the district
you're running in, and (3) be able
to read and write the English
language.
The pay is lousy ($0), but
school board members are
supposed to be rewarded with the
knowledge that they have helped
shape school policy and have
made decisions that affected
people's rives.
It doesn't cost anything to f'de
to run in the election. Filing
opens Sept. 8 and closes Sept. 19.
Forms for filing are available in
the Mason County Auditor's
office and from North Mason
School District SuperinIendent
Norm Sanders. The actual f'ding
must be done in the auditor's
office. The positions are
non-partisan; that is, you don't
file as a Democrat or a
Republican or a Communist•
Sanders also has in his office
copies of a brochure printed by
the Washington State School
Directors' Association called "So
You Want To Be A School Board
Member? A Guide For
Candidates.". He'll mail you a
wanls
The North Mason Kiwanis'
only money-making project,
paper recycling, is dead, at least
for the time being.
The Kiwanis announced this
week that the club will no longer
provide used newspaper boxes at
Sunset Beach, the North Shore,
Bear Creek and the Thriftway
parking lot in Belfair.
The club has to stop the
project because there is no market
for the kind of paper that is made
from old newspapers, said
copy if you want one. Sanders'
phone number is 275-2881.
School board candidates are
required to file financial
disclosure statements with the
Washington State Public
Disclosure Commission. Those
statements start when a person
becomes a candidate and continue
through the time he or she may
hold office.
For more information on
deadlines and forms for reports,
you may contact the Public
news
Kiwanis treasurer Pete Peterson.
The Kiwanis Club took its papers
to Crown Zellerbach in Port
Townsend.
The club took a load of
papers to Port Townsend about
every three or four months and
usually had from four to six tons
of papers, said Peterson. At the
time of the Kiwanis' last delivery,
the price had risen to $32 a ton
for the newspapers.
"Now we're stuck with 15 ton
down here that we don't know
what to do with," said Peterson.
Disclosure Commission, 403
Evergreen Plaza Building,
Olympia 98504 (753-1111).
District one's territory
includes the Tahuya Peninsula to
the Elfendahl Pass Road. District
three's territory includes the
North Shore from the Sand Hill
Road to the town of Belfair
including the Old Belfair
Highway. District four's territory
includes from Belfair out the
South Shore Road and one mile
south of the Twanoh State Park.
What will North Mason folks
do with their papers now that the
Kiwanis Club won't take them? "!
don't know," said Peterson. Some
people will undoubtedly dump
them where they're not wanted.
"I know some of them are putting
them in that aluminum recycling
box down at Thriftway."
The Kiwanis Oub plans to
remove the old receptacles
completely so that no one has the
urge to dump papers around the
boxes indefinitely.
Huckleberry friends
The sign above the back door
says, "Thanks For Leaving."
"Don't pay attention to any
of those signs," said Jeanne.
"They're not serious."
We were visiting the South
Shore-near-Union home of
identical twins Jeanne Reed and
Lois Beckman, a most unusual
and expansive thing that has been
worked over extensively by the
two sisters.
They won't tell how old they
are, but you know they've been
round awhile when they tell you
that Lois won the first California
State Badminton Championship
ever held in 1933. She won both
the women's singles title and
shared the mixed doubles title
that year.
The women were born and
raised in Seattle and attended
Franklin High School. Jeanne
moved to her Mason County
home in 1963 after her husband
died. Lois, who has not been
married, moved into the house
the following year.
The house was not in the best
of shape when she bought it, said
Jeanne. "lt was a pile of garbage
when I bought it," she said. It's
anything but a pile of rubbish
now. :
The gardening and
landscaping on the huge lot are
works of art, very tidy, and the
reworked house is also cleaned
up.
The women have built: a
fence (that took Jeanne two years
to build), a rec room (from an old
garage), a barbecue (that is now
covered with ivy) a gate ~or the
driveway (that-iooks Japanese
style), a fancy wooden bridge
(which crosses a drainage ditch on
the property), a lawn chair and a
wooden chaise lounge, a cement
patio with designs in it and stairs
that climb from the back yard to
the back of the property.
They rebuilt the greenhouse
in the back yard. Jeanne
wallpapered the bedrooms and
Lois did the cement work around
the place, ture of
Jeanne showed us a pic
the gate when it was closed. "For
a dumb dame, that isn't bad. I
flunked algebra in school?'
Upstairs in the house Jeanne
built "butterfly doors" on the
bathroom. The double doors,
which swing on hinges, are made
of plywood covered with tiny
ceramic tiles and make a butterfly
when they come together. The
rods in the staircase are made of
thread spools and tinker toys
mreaded together. "This is where
I put my relatives when I don t
want to stay up with them all
night," said Jeanne when she
showed the upstairs, which has
two bedrooms. The house has
four bedrooms altogether.
Downstairs the women have
antique picture frames and an
antique hotel stand, among othe
things. There's a piano and an
organ, which Jeanne plays, and all
the trophies the two women have
won sit in the windows.
J ea nn e, who was once a
12-handicapper, won golf
tournaments for wives of
Standard Oil employees and also
won Seattle city tennis
championships for women. Lois
has badminton and bowling
trophies and she has also played
tennis a lot.
"We used to play tennis all
day long," said Jeanne. "On
December 7, 1941, at seven in the
morning, we were at the tennis
club playing tennis. Someone
came down and said, 'Did you
know Pearl Harbor's been
bombed?' We thought it was a
joke. But then the people we were
playing with, a lieutenant in the
Navy and an editorial writer for
the Post lntelligencer, were both
called back to work. That ended
our tennis for December 7,
1941."
We asked Lois if she still
played tennis with her sister•
"No," was the answer. "She's too
old."
When she's not doing
something like putting 34 pictures
of authentic outhouses in her
bathroom in the rec room, Jeanne
makes what she calls "jigsaw
tables," something she said she
dreamed up.
She takes a large fishing net
reel or spool that's about two feet
high and two feet across, nails a
round jigsaw puzzle to it, and
covers the jigsaw with a fiberglass ~
cloth and coating to waterproof
it. She's made about 30 of them ili
for friends and relatives, she said• I 1
"Everyone who sees one wants ~
one," she said. ~L ~
"I've just rived a normal,
• ,, ~
confused, frustrated hfe, ,,~lq~
concluded Jeanne after talking THESE
• , ARE THE STAIRS that lead through part of the
about her life Lois would "wins -arden" '" r Th
.... • .... as tj me back of the prope ty. e garden is
prooaoly nave agreea, out she w xtensive and ta" "
...... l e kes hours and hours of work every week
napping a[[er raking leaves at
afternoon.
JEANNE REED (le t) a d o•s Beckman are identical twins living together
in a large South Shore home. They work eight hours a day in the house and
garden and on hobbies. Other facts: they watch a six-inch TV, they don t
like Billie Jean King s attitude because she has tantrum
.......... s on the court, they II
invite you m for a coc tm you befriend them, and they have 34 pictures
of authentic outhouses in their rec room restroom.