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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. v \— 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.