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July 24, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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.