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; ER REPORTS
WEEK
soldiers will begin
. now, for Dr. A. C.
rts for active duty
y at Camp White.
vOregon, at the end
rhe announced yes-
3‘ tel‘ recently received
, as captain in the
cal corps. He was
!- esday by Capt. B.
j‘ commanding officer
Medical Division at
Who was called into
from his medical
.4 "1 Shelton early in
N the intervening per-
,. Promoted to com-
eer of his division.
\
,' SENDS
HIGH SEAS
J. Catto have
recently from their
“0 reports he is en-
“ the high seas with
ravy and is well and
fill the ice cream we
aVe acquired real
he wrote.
. \—
, ASSIGNED
! , NAL CORPS
,6: Barker, of Grape-
Belved a letter from
‘ my Besch, who has
‘ R at San Diego with
m: writes that he is
training class for
‘tl’mbably stationed at
,,, 91’ Illinois, at their
1 111 Chicago.
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RP'rs. mom
.. nan R's LETTERS
. Juan, Puerto Rico
of native fruits
‘- 98 are fresh pine-
, lfoliriuts. The pine-
‘ ll good—4Weet and
‘ and not anything
, Ones we ever got
8 cocoanuts seem
two mascots in the
Here in San Juan
“Mikey and in St.
., What would you
‘ d in with a pair
built a new swim-
5. but I don‘t like
rvery much as it
_ li in the water.
'2 , “211111 the bay, where
3 8e the Barracuda.
Caught my first
I. lfther day, but they
-_alf the fight that
:59 surprised at the
five down here.
est ones and they
good theatre right
, g which doesn’t cost
' ft“ all'tend. I like bet-
, hathe movies over
9 Ve some in Span-
mdthat are English
Berneath the Span—
“ pick up a few
. 03h that way. You
, bu? U.S.O. building
lli’in‘mt from an old
. lb. . ,. '13» and is all furn-
. a
_/ ding. nd 15 really a
. bu.
lbs. 4
lbs. 1. p.
011115
‘50 M “
V:
“Zhear all the east
he 0111‘ radios, we
« tar anything from
M l 50 please send
atagow and then on
dings.
namo Bay, Cuba
em with all the
t up to Norfolk,
tart] returned from
out amo, Cuba, and
be? of the plane, they
once leaving for the
‘w lining. So I rush-
(oo 3’ clothes togeth-
v., off early next
£18 _at Guantana-
theMlama—to Jack-
w n ‘to Norfolk.
liens Interesting—all
colild see big fish
beneath us.
h down at Miami
.f we did a little
. do” the benefit of
Them waved to them,
, to Were too scared
. , l‘l t0118. We stayed a
"1, rest up and it
yolfr sailors—everyr
, great. Norfolk
’. worse than San
llhli’Ossible, but that
,- ,' Ifigst navy towns.
d many sailors.
3578 off in the
r w. Planes were be-
, bénd went up to
.‘ 8i -: by boat. I
' the slits and guess
i ‘ P5 there was to
in eSident. I had a
301., 1'1 Who had been
i over a year. I
fit, "3.. Sailors and
' towhleh was swell
I think the
‘~' ' t, u slg‘ht was the
‘ . Mh‘hl' I went to the
Gammon Monument,
u? ’1 Memorial, all
s"I’lit’hsonian In-
igfilally interesting
‘ -, to all too inspiring
‘ Wr
cu it Se abotut, tbut
as a tea .
2 “tide how lonesome
‘ .. mountains and
. B e ,
some timber.
«law
X.
Ould take me
vnto the moun-
t]: out to some
W call moun-
a treat to see
% tPeels again.
Mi
up, only
10:11 attention from]
011 physician aboutlby Mark Fredson, son of Mr. and
{50% was about
we
-—about—
OUR BOYS
IN UNIFORM
Mail or phone news about
Mason County Boys in the
armed forces to the Journal
I
i
lin the Army
MARK FREDSON ORDERED
TO REPORT SATURDAY
Orders to report to Seattle this
Saturday were received this week
Mrs. Paul Fredson, from the Ar-
my Air Corps, in which he has
been enlisted for the past two
months. ,
Where he is to be sent for his
preliminary training Mark will
not know until he reports to Ar-
my officers in Seattle, he said.
HUG“ ADAMS—SENT T0
ARMY ELECTRICAL SCHOOL
His relatives and friends here
‘have received word that Hugh T.
Adams. recently inducted into the
Army, has been sent to an Army
electrical training school, but the
location was not given.
2 SHELTON BOYS SENT
‘TO FORT \VARREN, WYO.
Jack Stewart and Irvin E. Moz-
ier, Shelton boys inducted into
the Army recently, have been
sent to Fort Warren, Wyoming,
their relatives learned this week.
CLARE ‘PINKY’ LONG
WRITES FROM~PERSIA
Mrs. Dan Fredericks writes
that she has ~just received a let—
ter from Clare ‘Pinky’ Long, who
with his father, George Long, liv-
ed in Shelton around 1912 and at-
tended school here and will be
remembered by the young people
of that day.
He was a veteran in the first
World War and is now enlisted in
this war, at present serving in
South Persia, according to the
word received by Mrs. Fredericks.
He was living in Los Angeles
when he enlisted and his wife is
still there. His father died five
days after Clare reached New
York, but he could not return so
his wife, Lois, took care of the
arrangements.
Clare asked Mrs. Fredericks to
remember him to his friends in
this locality.
MORGAN TRANSFERRED
T0 NASHVILLE BY ARMY
Word has been received of the
transfer of Marvin Morgan from
Ellington Field,. Texas, to Nash-
ville, Tenn., by the army air
corps. He recently secured his
transfer to the air corps from the
medical department.
LEE WELLS,ACHIEVES
FINE TRAINING RECORD
Uncle Sam picked out Grade A
soldier material when he beckon-
ed tOILee Wells of Camp 3 recent—
ly for the Mason County youth
has compiled an enviable" record
in his three months of basic train-
ing at Camp Roberts, Calif.
During that time he has earn-
ed these awards:
30 calibre machine gun—expert
medal
Browning automatic rif1e~—‘ex-
pert, also highest score in the
89th battalion with 97 out of a
possible 100.
Gerand rifle—sharpshooter me-
dal, score of 207 of possible 250.
Bayonet—expert
Hand grenadewexpert
Map and compass
expert.
Mortar—expert, No. 1 gunner
50 calibre machine gun—expert.
Lee has passed all the tests
for the glider division of the Army
air corps and at present is wait-
ing to be sent to an air field
for glider pilot training.
PHIL FREDSONS HEAR
FROM DAVID SWENSON
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Fredson re-
cently received a telephone call
from David Swenson from San
Diego upon his return from a
three months, ten thousand mile
voyage.
At the time of his enlistment
the first of Janu-
ary, David was a student at the
Shelton high school and made his
home with the Fredsons.
News is closely censored but
the voyage, considering present
conditions, was uneventful. His
ship on returning was placed in
dry dock and the boys were given
24 hours leave.
AL FREEMAN TELLS OF
PARATROOPS TRAINING
Mrs. Ole Olson has received
word that her son, Alden P. Free-
man, got his wings July 18 for
being a qualified .jumper in the
paratroops.
He tells about what well trained
soldiers they will be when they
complete their training at Fort
Benning, Georgia. He also tells
about some of the different guns
they have to know how to use——
rifle, pistol, machine gun, Brown-
ing automatic rifle, and 81 mm-
mortar. They have a. choice to
qualify in any of these.
A part of his letter states, “You
know, Mom, this outfit is one Of
the best in the service today. We
are picked men, as they tell uS-
We are better trained than any
other outfit in the Army. We sure
know it, for how they train us.
That is why a fellow has to be
in such good shape to make the
grade. In my opinion, we have a
better chance than any other guy
has on account of he doesn‘t get
all the special training that we
do."
Friends may write him at qu.
00., 3rd Bn., 504th Para. Reg-l
Fort Benning, Georgia. Letters
would be highly appreciated, MI‘S-
Olson said. ,
reading—-
. BOY FOR BASSETTS
A baby son was born to Mr-
and Mrs. Lyle Bassett of Shelt0n
yesterday at Shelton hospital.
GIRL BORN THURSDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Albert VanOver-
beke of Route 3 became parents
made a slow-I of a baby daughter at Shelton
hospital yesterday.
VOL. LVIn—NO. 32
'FIRST SCHOOL
BALLOT UNDER
NEW Lllw DUE
In the first vote to be held in
Mason County under the school
district reorganization bill, the
Belfair, Tahuya and Dewatto dis-
tricts of this county and Port
Orchard districts of Kitsap coun-
ty will hold special elections on
August 15 on two propositions:
1. Whether to consolidate the
four districts into one single high
school district (Port Orchard hav-
ing the high school to which stu-
dents of the other three districts
have been going for several
years), and
2. Whether the Dewatto and
Tahuya districts shall assume
their share of the bonded indebt-
edness of the other two districts,
which are $4300 in Belfair and
$50,000 in Port Orchard.
Total Vote Determines
The total vote of the entire area
affected in the balloting will de-
termine the outcome of the elec-
tion, according to County School
Supt. J. E. Martin.
Should the consolidation be ap-
proved in the voting it will not
affect the operation of grade
schools in the Mason County dis-
tricts invol‘ved, Supt. Martin said,
as the schools at both Belfair
and Tahuya would continue to be
maintained although the Dewatto
grade school would be discontin~
ued.
In the Dewatto case, however,
the discontinuance would have
occurred anyway, inasmuch as the
district did not average up to the
minimum daily attendance re-
quirements for maintenance of a
school this past year, Supt. Mar-
tin pointed out.
Favorable Vote Recommended
This initial election under the
reorganization law is. the result
of the recommendation of the Ma-
son County School District Reor-
ganization committee, which made
a thorough study of the situation
before determining that consoli-
dation, in its opinion, would be
beneficial to all the districts in-
volved, Supt. Martin said.
Assumption of their share of
the bonded indebtedness of the
other districts by Dewatto and
Tahuya districts he asserted to be
only fair in view of the use those
districts have been enjoying of
the high school facilities at Port
Orchard, which had to bear the
burden of the initial investment.
Road Employees
Receive 50¢ Per
Day Wage Boost
County road district employes
received a flat fifty cent per day
wage increase, effective Aug“St
1, as the result of action taken
by the board of county commis-
sioners at this week’s session-
The new scale now pays fore-
men $7 Per day. traxcavator op-
erators $7. gradermen $6.50, mow-
er operators $6. truck drivers $6.
and laborers $5.
The board set August 31 at ten
o’clock as the time for public
hearing In the commissioners’
chambers on the proposed plat of
Pebble Beach. passed a resolution
disorgammng the Potlatch, Cal-
low- and Grant districts and desig'
noting the new boundaries of the
Hoodsport, Forbes and Oakland
Bay districts, into which the dis-
solved districts were respectively
added. and approved a $5000 bond
for Harry C. Windell, new county
welfare administrator.
The board also granted a waiv-
er requested by the state attorney
general on a lease the county
held on 40 acres of state land
used in the airport site so the
state could receive the $1.000
which the federal government
agreed to pay for each 40 acre
tract when the airport was taken
over by the government.
Prepm
In Camp 3 Accident
Ted VanOverbeke, Shelto re
athlete who graduated fromn 1581116)
3. Reed high school last May suf-
fered facial and head injuries of
a severe but not serious nature
Wednesday in an accident at
Simpson's Camp 3, where he was
employed-
He is being treated at Shelton
hospital.
Connolly Purchases
Chatterbox Cafe
His purchase of the Oh ' ‘-
Cafe at Third and Railroittlteffgifl
Mrs. Alta Yerabeck Lamb was
acknowledged yesterday by V. T.
Connolly, Shelton Meat and Ice
company butcher.
The purchase was made as an
investment, he said, and the busi-
ness will be resold. It. will be
clgsed until any resale is complet~
c .
Register Before
Aug. 22 To Vote
In 1942 Ballots
Registrations books for the
primary elections September 8
will close August 22, fifteen
days before the election, local
residents are reminded.
The closing date affects orig-
inal registration only, for-per-
sons who have changed from
one precinct to another may
have their registration records
changed at the city hall or at
the courthouse (for rural pre-
cincts) until September 5.
Both Shelton and Mason Coun—
ty will have one more precinct
for the 1942 elections due to the
heavy voting of the last gen-
eral election in 1940. An elgth
precinct has been been added to
the city while the Belfair pre-
cinct was split into two pre-
cincts by action of the county
election board by virtue of hav-
ing cast more than 300 Votes
in the 1940 elections.
KIWANIANS HEAR
B E R T MITCHELL
0N RUSSIAN WAR
Bert Mitchell, reside’n t' of
Grapeview when at home but on
the faculty of the Washington
Technical Institute at Seattle, for
a living,, was again speaker be-
fore the Kiwanis Club Tuesday,
taking for his subject “This Sur-
prising Russia,” and relating
from his experience in Latvia in
the World War to the desperate
fight for life the Russians are
now making against Germany.
He brought out the early his-
tory of events leading to Rus-
sia’s unwilling entry into the war
against its former friend- and
now enemy Germany, and ex-
plained his theory on the second
front that Russia had earned the
right to demand this strategy be-
cause it was the threat of the
Soviets on the German’s eastern
front that deterred Hitler from
following up his advantage at
Dunkirk and invading England on
the heels of that disaster.
Costly To Germany
The importance of the Russian
campaign in its world aspect lay
in the fact that it had cost the
Germans more in men and mater-
ial than the allies, and in his opin-
ion Hitler cannot win because he
did invade Russia after overrun-
(Continued on Page Two)
Orthopedic Asks
Wool Materials
Donations of materials of at
least 60 per cent wool content
preferably in light colors and of
any size over two inches square
are being sought by the Ortho-
pedic hospital from_Mason County
residents for use in the newly
discovered treatment for infantile
paralysis.
Mrs. Warren Earl will handle
the donations for this area. The
new paralysis treatment makes
use of pieces of heated wool plac-
ed between joints, Mrs. Earl
pointed out, and has been used
successfully in the Philippines,
where a serious epidemic broke
out after the Japanese invasion.
Geo. Dunning Passes
P. O. Inspectors Exam
George Dunning. money order
and war bo'nd clerk at the Shel:
ton post office, received notice
this week that he had success-
fully passed the civil service ex-
amination for postal inspector
and has been placed on the eli-
gible list for appointment to that
position. .
No indication of how soon he
could expect an appointment to
be made was given.
Car Inspection
Station Coming
Aug. 12 to Sept. 4
All Mason County motor ve-
hicles will be required to be in.
spected between August 12 and
September 4 at the state ve-
hicle safety inspection station
which will be set up here be-
tween those dates, unless a car
has already received the seal
of safety at another station
during 1942-
The station will be open from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2
p. m. to P-m-. With the ‘ex-
ceptidns of Saturdays, when the
' station will close at 1 p. m.
Strict enforcement of the law
concerning vehicle safety in-
spection is to be made this
you, inspection station officials
announce.
in Enamel
Consolidated thhe Shelton Independent
SHELTON, ‘WASHINGTON, Friday, August 7, 1942.
COUNTY PUT IN
You bi-eak a link
in the bonds of
bondage, e v o r y
time you buy a
U.S. WAR SAV-
INGS BOND!
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
lIM-OIJT ZONE
_‘ ARMY TAKES Bio-st23m Well In Nazi ALL QUE—boo];
Prison, Local Man Finds
—__._______._.______..__
l
FORTY".FIVE
C UNTY MEN
Thirty-one of fifty-three Mason
County men who reported to the
Army induction center at Tacoma
last Thursday successfully pass-
ed the physical examinations,
were accepted for active military
service and ordered to report to
Fort Lewis August 12 to begin
basic training.
They are:
Lou Silva, Route 3
John Ortun, -P0tlatch route I
Edward B. Brown, Route 1
William White, Route 3
Joseph C. Duffey Jr., Route 1
Reuben V. (Swede) Anderson,
Shelton .
Fred I. Abeyta, Shelton
Claude P. Pearson, Star route
2, Bremerton.
Halley V. (Dick) Smith, Camp 3
Wesley J. LaClair, Potlatch Rte.
Oscar S. Skaar, Shelton
Raymond E. Peterson, Hoods-
port
Moses Theo LaVigne, Fort Lew-
is
Clifford W. Wilson, Route 1
Patrick F. Doherty, Shelton
Archie Cleo Wiley, Route 2
DaveKelley, Shelton
Thomas R. Doak, Shelton
Ernest E. Lizotte, Shelton
Clarence A. Brown, Route 2
William A. Savage, Shelton
William H. Kopische, Shelton
Alfred (Buck) Clarke, Shelton
Arthur K. Seymour, Hoodsport
John David Bolster, Shelton
George M. Kennedy, Union
Robert E. McKenzie, COeur
d’Alene (transfer)
Royal F. Baldwin, Shelton
Stanley B. Armstrong, Shelton
Engeman Bjerke, Shelton
Fifty-eight men were supposed
to report with last week’s-group,
but five were missing when the
roll call was sounded. The where-
abouts of two are unknown, one
other was transferred to Seattle
at the last minute, and the other
two are believed to have received
their notices too late to be able
to fulfill the order.
Another sendoff for these 31
draftees‘will be staged next Wed-
nesday morning at 8:15 a. m. with
the Kiwanis club in charge of ar-
rangements.
Last Monday 21 more Mason
County men took their Army
physical examinations at Tacoma
with 14 being accepted and or-
dered to report for active duty
August 17. They are:
Trev A. Madsen, Shelton
Frank Walter, Potlatch Route
Alex Hilderbrand, Belfair
Ernest A. LaClair, Potlatch Rte.
James C. Handley, Shelton
Kenneth E. Margrath, Union
Clyde L. Harriman, Route 2
Daniel L. Anderson, Hoodsport
Percy P. Cloutier, Shelton
Jens H. Morrow, Olympia
Robert Henry Kier, Potlatch
Route
Ralph R. Hill, Hoodsport
Ray A. Austin, Seattle
, Robert Lee Simpson, Route 1
Two of the men accepted in
last week’s group are the third
brothers in their families to enter
the armed’forces of Uncle Sam.
Oscar Skaar has one brother,
Cliff. in the Navy, and another,
Knute, in the Army, while Stan
Armstrong, former Highclimber
prep athlete of reknown, joins
brothers Buck and Paul as a sol-
dier.
Another feature of these recent
draft calls finds Ernest Lizotte
Cota street barber, as the first
veteran of World War I to be
accepted for service in this Second
World War from Mason County.
STATE SELECTIVE SERVICE
CHIEFS VISIT LOCAL BOARD
Col. Walter DeLong, state se-
lective service director, and Lieut.-
Commander C h e s t e r Chastick.
state occupational advisor to the
selective service, spent several
hours Tuesday conferring with the
Mason County Draft Board at'its
weekly meeting and clearing up
certain matters pertaining to
draft deferments and other ques-
tions of the local board members.
Houston Named County
A. W. S. Director Here
Another public duty has been
assigned Frank Heuston, already
county prosecutor as well as
county-city civilian defense coord-
inator, ‘with his appointment as
county civilian director of the air-
craft warning service.
He Will- supervise operation of
all aircraft warning observation
posts in Mason County and act
‘as liaison officer between the
public and the Army. The ap-
pointment was made by Paul
Billing81y, state director of the
Aircraft Warning Service.
EMERGENCY OPERATION
Charles Mitchell of Route 1 un-
derwent emergency surgery at
Shelton..hospital Saturday. His
condition is reported satisfactory.
Something he has been waiting
for many months, word of the
safety of his sister, reached A.
J. ‘Chris‘ Curtis, proprietor of
Mac’s Corner, this week from
France, where she is interned in
a Nazi concentration camp in the
Grand Hotel at Voges.
Written February 21 this year,
the letter first went to Colusa,
Calif, Mr. Curtis’ address before
he came to Shelton, then was
forwarded here, arriving Monday.
The Shelton man’s sister, Mrs.
Prudential Batley, had lived for
many years in France, where she
became very prominent in af-
fairs of state and society. Her
husband, now dead, was an inter-
pationally known English barris-
er.
Quotations from the letter re-
ceived by Mr. Curtis follow:
“We are well treated, in good
health, and prefer being here to
Paris. I was arrested December
20, kept three weeks in Paris,
then sent here. This is a» prison-
ers’ paradise. All the comforts of
home, in fact more comforts. Well
heated rooms, two dining rooms,
two kitchens, food good, Red
Cross parcels from England in
addition once a week, cinema
twice a week, hair dresser, hospi-
tal, doctors, nurses, dentists.
Health well looked after. Weighed
once a week. Big park for exer-
else.
"We are free to do as we like
within barbed wire barrier. Play
bridge in the afternoons. My only
worry is no news from you Since
May, 1940.
“We may receive parcels. Need
dried fruits. Am all right for
funds. Don’t worry about me, am
really all right.”
DEPENDENTS’ AID-
FOR SERVICEMEN,
WEATHER INJURES
LOGANBERRY AND
TOLD BY NAVYMEN GRAPE CROP HERE
First figures concerning the
new servicemen’s d e p e n d ent's
monthly financial aid from the
government were released locally
Wednesday by Navy Recruiters
Wright and Matthes on their
weekly visit to Shelton.
The schedule for Navy enlisted
men is as follows: wife $23, wife
and child $40, each additional
child $10, children with no wife
$20, each additional child $10,
former wife divorced $22 plus $20
in addition to any amounts pay—
able to ,wife and children, one
parent $15, two parents $25,
grandchild, brother or sister un-
der 18 years $25.
Added to these amounts paid
by the government goes $22 out
of the serviceman’s pay or no
more than $27 in total if more
than one dependent. Dependents’
financial aid is given only to men
in the four lowest pay grades in
the navy, which are as follows:
$50 to third class non-rated men,
$54 to second class non-rated, $66
to first class non-rated, and $78
to third class rated men (petty
officers).
Ineligible for dependents’ aid
are the second class, first class
and chief petty officers, who re-
ceive $96, $114 and $126 respect-
ively.
. Another new ruling just recent-
ly adopted by the Navy discon-
tinues the need for securing de-
pendency or marital waivers (con-
sent to enlist) for enlistments in
any pay grades.
Recruiters Wright and Matthes
suggest that any men in- this
area interested in enlisting ‘in'
the Navy make their applications
through the Olympia recruiting
office as they can save consider-
able timevby having their prelim-
inary papers filled" out before go-
ing to the main office in Seattle
for the final steps of enlistment,
as the main Office is badly rush~
ed and cannot handle applicants
as swiftly if the entire procedure
has to be gone thru there.
CARS TAGGED Eon
NOT HAVINGSTAMP
Agents of the internal revenue
department this week conducted a
drive against Mason County cars
failing to bear the federal auto
use tax stamp now required of
all motor vehicles.
Many local cars were “tagged”
for not having the stamps and
their owners instructed to appear
at the Shelton post office to pro-
cure the $5 stamps from either
Rollin N. Guernsey or Joseph J.
Gallucci, revenue agents. The
stamps were not handled through
the post office.
PEARL HARBOR
AT J. W. GRAHAM HOME HERE
An eye—witness account of the
Japanese “stab-in-the-b‘ack” at-
tack on Pearl Harbor was given
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Graham and
their family Saturday when Mrs.
Graham’s nephew, Charles Doug-
lass, who was top'gunner- sergeant
won the USS. Nevada, paid the
Graham home a. visit, accompan-
ied by his wife and brother, Bob,
and the latter’s family from Wen-
atchee.
Sergeant Douglass was asleep,
he related, when the Japanese
attack began, but he realized up-
on hearing the first machine gun
fire that something was off color,
stepped into his slippers, grabbed
his clothes and went aloft to a
machine gun turret, where he re—
mained throughout the attack,
operating a 50 mm. gun.
He had the satisfaction of bag-
ging one‘ torpedo bomber before
it' dropped its “fish,” nailed one
Grape and berry crops in Ma-
son County are far short of nor-
mal this ‘unusual’ summer, but
for different reasons, reports
County Agent Clinton Okerstrom.
The grape crop will hardly be
half normal, although even that
is better than last year’s. due to
the rains which occurred during
the pollinating period, he ex-
plains.
The grape situation is ‘spotty,’
however, for in some areas, not-
ably I-Iarstine Island, the crop is
very near normal, while in other
sections of the county, particu-
larly Grapeview, the crop is so
poor it will hardly be worth pick—v
ing this fall, the county agent
said, indicating that local condi-
tions seemed to have a strong
bearing on how the vines bore
this year.
The loganberry crop, second ma-
jor source of products for Mason
County's wine industry, was bum-
ed up by that three day heat
wave which scared the mercury
beyond 100 degrees for three
straight days and brought a week
of searing weather altogether.
The berries shriveled on the
vine during that Week, even the
green berries, Mr. Okerstrom
said, so the crop was reduced to
about 60 per cent of normal.
The result was the crop.was so
scanty pickers were unable to
make enough money to entice
them to stay »with it, so some of
the larger berry ranchers lost ad-
ditionally by inability to get har-
vested what berries they had, he
concluded.
John Whiting and
Sheriff Martin
Only New Filers
Although time is growing short,
with filings closing this Satur-
day, only two new candidates toss-
ed their chapeaus into the ring
for county offices this past Week.
Sheriff E. F. Martin became a
candidate for reelection to his
post, under the Democratic ban-
ner again, while John Whiting of
Cloqdallum filed under the Repub-
lican banner for the office of as-
sessor, a job he held for four
years when that office was a de-
puty of the treasurer.
Four other filings of the Week
were all for precinct committee
positions, Mrs. Susie Pauley,
Democrat, in Shelton No. 2,
George Adams, Democrat, in Sko-
komish, Lyle O’Dell, Democrat, in
Miller (Agate), and M. H. Need-
lsiam, Republican, in Shelton No.
HERO VISITOR
dive bomber just after it unload—
ed on the Nevada with a bomb
that went through five decks be-
fore exploding, the Shelton visi-
tor recounted.
The USS. Arizona, which 'Was
laying next to the Nevada, blew
up in Sergeant Douglass' face,
scorching him from the terrific
explosion.
Sergeant Douglass remained on
duty, wearing his slippers all the
while, from the time the attack
began about 7 a. in. December 7
until 4 p. m. the day following
without food or sleep.
He received the Navy cross and
letters of congratulations from
President Roosevelt and ny
Secretary Knox for his devotion
to duty. He is now temporarily
stationed at Bremerton.
Sergeant Douglass is the son by
of a sister of Mrs. Graham. '
ILLUMINATION
EXTINGUISHED
Mason County has been includ-
ed in the area of restricted light-
ing established this week by order
of Lieut. General John L. DeWitt,
commanding general of the West-
ern Defense Command and Fourth
Army, becoming effective August
20.
Gen. DeWitt’s proclamation es-
tablishes a zone of restricted or
controlled lighting along the en-
tire Pacific Coast from Canada
to Mexico as far inland in some
places as 150 miles for the dura-
tion of the war.
Enforcement of Gen. DeWitt’s
proclamation Will be placed in the
hands of air raid wardens, the
sheriff’s and police forces, and
civilian defense auxiliary police,
according to Frank Houston, Ma-
son County Civilian Defense. co-
ordinator.
Restrictions Listed
The proclamation covers signs.
commercial flood lighting, display
lighting and amusenent places;
ground Areas and industrial illum-
ination; traffic signals and signs;
navigation lights and railroad sig-
nals; street and highway lights,
street and highway traffic; resi-
dential, commercial and indus-
trial windows and necessary in-
dustrial fires.
Illuminated signs and ornamen-
tal lighting of every description
which are visible out of doors, and
flood lighting which illuminates
buildings or signs including but
not limited to all exterior adver-
tising signs, billboards, display
lighting, theatre marquee signs,
building outline lighting, and in—
terior , signs and ornamental
lighting immediately within un-
obscured window areas, shall be
extinguished, the proclamation
states. This is not intended to
prohibit ordinary store show-win-
dow lighting of normal intensity,
if not visible from the sea and if
no light is emitted upward. ,
Further Details ‘
Illumination on all outdoor
ground areas, including automo-
bile service station yards, outdoor
parking areas, recreation areas.
and entrances to buildings, shall
not exceed one foot candle at any
point, and all outdoor light sources
shall be so shielded that no light
is emitted upward. All light
sources for industrial and pro-
tective purposes and light from
essential industrial processes,
shall be shielded or revised to as
great an extent as may be prac-
ticable in order to eliminate or
reduce to a minimum the amount
of light which is emitted upward.
All illuminated signs or signals
which are authorized or maintain-
ed by governmental authority for
the purpose of controlling street
or highway traffic shall remain
in operation, but shall be so
shielded that no light is emit—
ted upward. Authorized lights to
facilitate air or water navigation.
and authorized railroad signal
lights, are excepted from all the.
provisions of the proclamation.
Street and highway lights in
areas which are normally visible
from the sea shall be so shielded
that they are not visible from the
sea at night and so that no light
is emitted upward. It is contem-
plated that street and highway
lighw in other areas within. the
zone of restricted lighting shall
be governed and controlled by
such subsequent orders or proc-
lamations as the exigencies of mil-
itary necessity may determine.
Car Travel Restricted
No vehicle shall operate during
the night hours between sunset
and sunrise within areas of travel
visible from the sea, with more
than two lighted driving lamps.
regardless of the direction of tra-
vel. Each such lamp shall provide
a. maximum of not more than 250
beam candlepower.
The proclamation does not re-
strict the use of normal rear
lights, including tail lights, stop
lights and license plate lights.
Neither are clearance lights re—
stricted on commercial vehicles
that are normally required by law
to be so equipped.
All light from industrial pro-
cesses, and from industrial fires,
such as lights from kilns, refuse
burners and furnaces, which are
visible from the sea, shall be so
shielded that they are not visible
from the sea at night, and so that
no light is emitted upward. Ex—
cept for traffic signals and navi-
gation and railroad signal lights.
considered separately, the proc-
lamation prohibits all other lights
visible from the sea at night in-
cluding light from fires, bonfires.
parked cars, flashlights and lan-
terns.
DAUGHTER BORN TUESDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cory of
Quilcene became parents of 9. ba- .
daughter born at Shelton hos-
pital Tuesday.