August 12, 1965 Shelton Mason County Journal | ![]() |
©
Shelton Mason County Journal. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 1 (1 of 16 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
August 12, 1965 |
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader ![]() |
Percy Pio
6Of? 8.E. 86th Ave
Portland, 0re
79th YEAR No. 32 Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington 16 Pages -- 2 Sectians
Thursday, August 12, 1965 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton. Washington, 98584
under Act of March 8, 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cots. 10 Cents Per Copy
i
FISHERIES BIOLOGIST DIRECTS SALMON TAGGING
Bob Hager Helps Charlene Kelsey (L) and Jackie Cole With New Machine
Tile assessed valuation of prop- the assessor's office is $27,395,920,
~rty in Mason County is up about compare~ to $25,915,810 for last
;1,5(}'),000 this yea]', County As- year. This does not include the
;e:;sor Willis Barnett said this assessed valuation of utilities, rail-
reek. roads and bus lines which are as-
Total vahmtion of real estate seabed by .the state. The assess-
md personal property assessed by meat on this property will not be
......................................... complete until early in September. {
Ci~d~l' Fallout The valuation of real estate in-
side the city is $5,4781425 and out-'
. tudy Started
A study has been undertaken by
the Waslfington State Department
of Health to measure the cinder
fallout in the City of Shelton, ac-
cording to an announcement by
Dr. Bernard Bucove, state director
of health.
"The project, under the super-
vision of the department's air san-
itation and radiation control sec-
tion, will continue for about a
year," Dr. Bucove said.
It will inch|de cinder measure-
ments at 1.4 strategic locations,
collection of continuous data on
wind direction and speed, and in-
terviewing of selected local busi-
ness establishments and residents.
The Simpson Timber Company
which is planning the installation
of cinder control equipment, will
assist in the study by providing
data on emissions from its plant
and in the collection of the wind
information, Dr. Bucove said.
~ide the city $16,493,420. Personal
property valuation for both the
city and county is $5,424,075.
This is the largest increase in
~ssessed valuation in the county
for several years. The 1962 and
I963 valuations were about the
same, which the 1964 valuation
showed an increase of about $600,-
O00.
The 1966 taxes will be based
on the assessed valuations this
year.
JOINS DU .PONT
Dr. Lawrence W. GOBBet, for-
merly of Shelton, has joined the
staff of the Du Pont Company's
Central Research Department. A
1960 graduate of the University of
Washington, where he received the
B.S. degree in chemistry, Dr. GOB-.
set earned the Ph.D. degree in or-
ganic chemistry at the University
of California at Los Angeles, where
he did six months of postdoctoral
research with D. J. Cram. Begin-
ning last September he taught
general chemistry at Central' Ore-.
don College until joining Du Pont.
~: Chests are swelling with pride
: out Hoodsport way over tbe pur-
A SALMON TAGGING MACHINE AT HOODSPORT chase of a brand new fire engine.
Bsembly-line Taggers (from Left) Sharon Townsend, Jackie Cole, Hoodsport residents, wflunteer
, Jo Ann Grubb, Carolyn Schwab firemen and fire commissioners
* * * ~ are proud of their new firefight~
cTON ing the fish may have its own ,,,, ing apparatus not only because
~ndtin il markings, with ,;nly several fins JLJ.J~ At Dayta
~ y s- which may be clipped in the first I-][][G' ~ they have been hoping for years
;~sport Sa~- place, there arc undoubtedly some to get a new one, but because'
those people living in Fire Dis-
-uy assz~]~ duphcat|0ns ~ . " . another ~r~ charged any extra, assessments or
~ ~,, ' thc*:e..~wt~s no need for a.~sp~.~Ll~
~ge-old svs- Were born with tlle~f~~~,e ~ levy in the district to enable th'e
"' imost Hkely) a specific purpose.b~
' ' . . ' [~ .w,. purchase.
Are the ff.sh put to phymcal dls- WE'VE BEEN S A V IN G for
advantage with clipped fins? This
is another answer the present test- A fn'e which burned a.b)]t 1.3something like this (a new fi~:e
era hope to provide, acres in the Dayton area Saturday truck) since Fire District No. 1
afternoon destroyed a five-acre started 19 years ago, said Archie
Calahan, Hoodsport, who once
present BI_IT THE tagging machine sys- 'Simpson Timber Company re-served as fire chief and was for-
most no-tern is as yet unproven also. Hager search nlot.
said he hopes results of the ma-
chine testing will probably beThe fire was discovered about merly a fire commissioner. As a
ine pro-gathered and some measure of its 1 p.m. Saturday ahmg the High- result, funds for the project have
[ke this: success ascertained by 1966. land Road south.of Dayton. Crews come entirely from the regular
anesthet-
its snout The activity at the Hoodsport from Simpson and the DepaPtnmntfour-mill levy assessed annually
ling ms- Hatchery now is the second part of Natural Resources were able to in District No. 1 as well as from
" which of the freshwat'er phase Of the pro- bring the blaze under control the an mmual sum given to the district
aserting aJect~and third phase of the field same afternoon, but, not before it by the City of Tacoma for fire
protection of Tacoma's property
cartilagetesting alltogether. ;rhe salt water had burned over 13 acres, within the district.
t the in-phase was taken up in 1964 whenTHE FIRE started in the re-
isn't thetagged, fish were" released from search 9lot and spread to someThis is the only way we could
process. Minter Creek Hatchery, Gig Hat'- largec second growth timber, all have purchased the fire engine
in a wa- her. The ,first 4reshwater phase on Simpson land. It was appar-without voting in a special levy,
~h passestook place last July and AugustentlYTheman-caused.research plot was part of erSaidlnSteVeHoodsport.Hale' supermarket own-
device(1964) ~tt the Hoodsport Hatchery.
') andThe 1965 project at Hoodsport
t' drop invOlves three different groups of
ector,silvers. One group is a controlled
tag isclass (not clipped or tagged), an-
h Beg-other has been tagged only and
-codeda third bas been tagged and fin-
clipped. These silvers will be re-
machines, leased in four lakes in the Brem-
.Ch, have erton and Shelton area. After a
.on under short rearing period the salmon
Fisheries will be released to enter salt wa-
Hoods- ter. The adults are expected to
three return in 1965-66.
FROM THIS most .,recent test
FishmJes 'officials hope to be able
to determine, survival ,percentages
of the three groups as well as
to these other valuable information about
es when the new system of tagging and
Worked the old method of fin clipping.
answers Nothing' definite can be said
~bout the 'tests of the tagging; ma-
chine up to this point, said Hider,
but "we are very hopeful of prom-
internal fsing results."
a great The tagging machine was in-
of vented by Pete Bergman of the
fea-StzLte Department of Fisheries and
is Dr. Keith B. Jeffers, a Bell Tele-
phone Compa.ny physicist.
Showing its vast interest and
confidence in the success of the
tagging machine system, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Se]-¢iee is large-
strips on ly financing the project with help,
of the Washington State Dept.
of Fisheries.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Two contributions to the kidney
fund were received last week, In-
the fin-ternational Association of Machin-
n of the isis Local 1160, $10 and Frater-
on mark- nal Order of Eagles, $26.
BAR-B-Q
--- AUGUST 15
C TEMPLE -- UNION
on Hood Canal
Is $1.00 Served 11 A.M. to 7 P.M.
BANK
a Provenance Study being (:(induct-
ed from British C~,lumbia to Ore-
gon by various timber interests.
The purpose of the study was to
determine what Douglas Fir seed
from various sources would do
when planted in a different loca-
tion from that in which they orig-
inated.
The plot was planted in 1959 and
records on it had been kept since
that time.
Rolary Governor
Vi$iis L0 al Club
John %V. (Jack) Baikie of Camp-
bell River, B.C., Governor of the
Rotary District of this area, ad-
dressed the local Rotary Club last
week during his official visit. The
ideal club is one of 46 Rotary
clubs in this District.
Speaking of the global growth
of Rotary, he said "l~.otary is the
pioneer of the service ellfl)s and
today numbers more than 1.2,000
clubs with a combined member-
ship of 568,800 business and pro-
fessional men. Spread tll]oughoui
i27 countries in all paris of tlW.
world, Rotary clubs meet every-
day of the, week ltlld eondl.lct ac-
tivities to improve their commm~-
tries, aid youth, elevate business
standards: and fm'ther internation-
al friendship and understanding."
TIlE DISTRICT Governor also
conferred with Jim Connolly, local
Rotaz'y Club president, and other
club members, on matters ()f club
administration and plans for Iu-
ture service activities.
Referring to the program of
C.P.H. Teenstra of the Nether-
lands, President of Rotary Inter-
national for 1965-66, ihe Rotary
Governor said, "Rotary Clubs
world-wide have been urged by
President Teenstra to translate
plans intn aclion for the global ad-
vancenlent, of the plogram of Ro-
tary. He lias also continued for
its thir:l year a program linking
Rotary Districts in diffe,,ent parts
of the world as a means of en-
couraging Rotary clubs and indi-
vidual l%otarians to understand one
another better by working togeth-
er on mutually helpful projects".
Cost for the sleek white engine
and accompanying equipment is
about $21,000. The truck is com-
plete with a 750-gallon tank and
750-gallon-a-minute pump and has
a serf-contained breathing appar-i
atus stored in one of its side corn-:
partments. Five fire hoses and two!
smaller booster reels may be ot)-i
crated from the vehicle, 'which- liB,
powered by a 235-horse engine!
wiht 291-cubic-inch displacement. !
IT'S QUITE an improvementI
over the old truck, said Walt Car-
penter, the most recent,addition, to
the District No. 1 fire commission.
Carpenter succeeds Gordon Dick-
inson, who resigned in late ,July
because the Commission post con-
flicted with his job. He said the
old engine, which will. ,'emain in
use, has a 500-gallon tank and is
much slower, having only an 80-
horse motor to push it.
Carpenter, who joins ,Jim Shu-
mate and Dan Anderson on the
.commission, said he hopes the new
Between 15 and 25 members of
the Hoodsport Volunteer Fire De-
partment have been attending
monthly fire School meetings at the
Hoodsport Station since Novem-
ber. Purpose of the 16-week
course, which is' being given by
the State Board of Vocational Ed-
ucation, is'.to acquaint fire de-
partment members with modern
firefighting methods and the use of
modern equipment, such as that
included on the new truck.
We wanted the schooling done
first, before we got the new en-
gine so that everyone would know
how to use the truck when it
came, said Bob Nesbitt, fire chief.
The department almost met its
deadline. The engine arrived last
week and the final installment of
the course will be completed Au-
gust 23...
It's probable that the Hoods-
port Fire Dept. isn't too .saddened
to get this new truck and addi-
tional protection early, however.
The new Hoodsport truck is
among several which have been
purchased by Mason County Fire
Districts in the last two ye'ars, not
to mention the new fire station
which has been added in the Ma=
son-Bermon Lakes area District
this year. Other engines acquired
by county districts since 1963 in-
clude those at Belfair, Grapeview,
Allyn, Union and Arcadia.
NEW FIRE TRUCK PURCHASED AT HOODSPORT
chief Bob Nelbitt Explain= Diili to FIPe Gomml=lioneP Wilt Carpenter
FENCE FOR FAIR--Visitors to the Mason County to the blacktop in the vicinity of the fair buildings.
Fair Grounds Aug. 20-22 will be greeted by thisThe fence was being constructed of poles peeled in
new fence which was being constructed by Ken Frank's pole peeling plant at Cranberry Lake.
Frank this week. The fence will block off entrance
The city of Shelton is going to
have to have some repair work
done on the basement of city hall
to prevent water seeping into the
jail.
Sprinkling of the lawns at the
city hall had to be discontinued
because fhe water was coming up
in the jail in the Police Depart-
ment in the basement.
City Supervisor Pat Byrne told
the city commission Tuesday thai
he had inspected the basement,
and, believed that the water was
coming up throngh cracks in the
floor, but, the paint from the floor
would have to be removed before
a positive determination could be
made.
The paint removal will be ac-
complished as soon as someone is
available to do it so the problem
can be taken care of before the
rainy season this fall.
RYRNE TOLD the commission
he had contacted a Portland firm
which will be able to supply the
water pipe needed for the new line
under Goldsboreugh Creek, and
that local contractors would sub-
mit estimates on equipment rent-
~2,~. £0~ the work in the naxt..f~w,,
rdays'§b t.~iat as seon"~as, the pipe
arrives the work canbe started.
Police Chief Richard Camper
told the commiss:ion that Patrol-
man Dick Nelson had been assign-
ed to investigate juv¢nile matters
coming up in the department and
to work with Probation Officer
Marvin Christensen.
He recommended that the ap-
pointment of Patrolman James
Cross be put on a permanent basis
since Cross had satisfactorily com-
pleted his six-months probationary
period.
A petition was received from
several residents asking that a
"Danger, Sharp Curve" sign be
posted .)n B Street adjacent to
]3th Street and Laure! Street.
Camper told the commission he
had looked over the area ~and
thought that. a sign would he war-
tented. He will go over ~it with
Street Superintendent Bob Temple
and Commissioner Elroy Nelson
before final action is taken.'
The bid of the Shelton Agent's
Association for $1,750 for liability
insurance for the .city was accept-
ed. It was the only bid received.
TO HONOR BIRTHDAY
A' reception honoring Father
Mark Wiechmann on his 90th
birthday, is planned at the St.' Ed-
ward's Catholic Church Parish
Hall from 2-4 p.m. Aug. 22
Final preparations for the Ma-
son County Fair Aug. 20, 21 and
I 22 are almost complete,
Exhibits will begin arriving at
I the Fair Grounds near the Shelton
Airport next Wednesday with all
entries scheduled to be on the
grounds by Thursday afternoon.
The ~ official opening of the fair
is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday
with 4-H judging contests and ex-
hibit judging to take up most of
the day Friday.
Included on the evening program
Friday are a sahnon barbecue, a
teenage dance and the 4-H dog
obedience contest.
SATURDAY WILL SEE the
Horse Show Gymkhana, the pig
scramble and chicken scramble in
the afternoon and the grandstand
show, 4-H dress revue and the
awards program in the evening.
• Sunday afternoon's activities in-
clude motorcycle scrambles, a
rooster crowing contest and a nail
driving contest.
.F~ir exhibito'rs will" be using
three new buildings which have
been constructed this spring and
summer to house horses and fores,
try exhibits and as an auditorium.
The Shelton School Board Tues-
day night voted to tear out the old
wooden steps leading down the hill
behind tl]e Junior High School and
replace them with concrete steps.
The board instructed the school
administration to prepare specifi..
cations for the concrete steps and
advertise for bids to be opened at
the September meeting of the
school board.
The district will remove the old
wooden steps as soon as possible
because of the unsafe condition.
The steps were barricaded and a
warning sign posted on them re-
cently after an inspection revealed
they were unsafe.
• Estimate, S.cOat ,~ ,:th~l~ l,~
in' excess 6~"$~';~0::~'~:i ' ['""~"
The School bo~trd, at a s~iecial
meeting Aug. 3 voted to award
contracts for the repair of the
roofs of Grant C, Angle, Bordeaux
and Mt View School buildings to
the Victor Orlans Roofing Co.,
Tacoma, the only bidder on the
work. The bid fo'r the Angle and
Bordeaux work was $17,0:12 ahd
for Mt. View $7,471.
THE BOARD rejected as too
high bids by the same firm on
repair of the roofs of the High
School Gymnasium and the Irene,-"
S. Reed Building on the recommen-
dation of Architect William Conk-
lin. New bids will be sought on
these two projects.
The board also approved up to
$2,500 for the repair of one half
of the roof of the Evergreen build-
ing using a cold roofing process.
The work is to be done by school
maintenance personnel.
The-board Tuesday night voted
to recommend to the County Board
of Education that Mason County
be kept as a separate unit in the
proposed master plan for the state
for changes from county to inter-
mediate school superintendent dis-
triers.
The county board had submitted
four possible plans to the various
school districts, the other three
involving combining parts of 'Ma-
son County with other counties.
J. W. Goodpaster, county super-
intendent of schools, told the Shel-
ton Board that: the county had
already received recommendations
from oti~er school directors in the
county and that all favored retain-
ing the county as a separate unit.
The county board will submit a
proposal to the stat% board of edu-
cation which will prepare a master
plant which will be submitted to
a convention of school district di-
rectors tn the state.
The school board voted to have
the Shelton district join the Thurs-
ton-Mason County Instructional
Materials Library. The library pro-
vides fihns, film strips and other
audio-visual educational materials
for use in the classroom. Cost of
the program will be $2,200 for the
necessary files and equipment and
a charge of 50 cents student
per year. p~r
ON THE RECOMMENDATION
of the superintendent to have two
classes of kindergarten at Ever-
green, one at Bordeaux and none
at Mt. View for the coming year.
One class, the older youngsters,
from Rogers School, will be
i brought into the Junior High
School building and two classes
will remain in the present Rogers
Building.
Appt~isals of $40,000, $39,500
and $39,500 on the Lincoln School
property were received frnm local
real estltte men. The school district
intends to sell the property and
had to have the three appraisals
before ~t could set a price.
Bids on fuel oil for the coming
year were received from Olympia
Oil and Wood Products Co. and
Acme Fuel Co. The bids were
taken under advisement.
The board approved contracts
for six new teachers, Roger John-
" Also anproved was the hiring of
:Mrs. William Brown as a bus driv-
er and the transfer of Gary Nun-
:nelee to High School civics and
Warren Johnson to industrial arts
in High School.
Supt Robert Quiggle, in a state-
ment to the board, said that fur-
ther investigation had led to the
withdrawal of a request he made
in June for the resignation of.Ray
Coleman as bus driver-mainten-
ance man.
The resignation of Irving Vik as
an elementary teacher at Mr. View
was accepted.
$1 e/ton Man Is
Suicide
Raymond Allen Kimmerly, 33,
Jones Road, died Tuesday after-
noon of an apparently self-inflicted
gun shot wound.
Law enforcement officers were
summoned to the scene about 4:30
p.m. by his wife who had discov-
ered the body in a bedroom in
the family home after hearing the
shot while talking on the tele-
phone.
Mr. Kimmerly was dead ®n ar-
rival at Shetton General Hospital.
The body was taken to Batstone
Funeral Home where funeral ar-
rangements are being made.
The fatal shot was fired with
a 30,06 rifle. The death was in-
vestigated by the Mason County
Sheriff's office and the Coroner.
The couple have three children.
Mr. Kimmerly was born July 29,
1932 at Edmonton, Alberta, Can-
ada. He had lived in Mason Coun-
ty the past 19 years:
Funeral services will be at 9
a.m. Saturday in St. Edwards Ca-
tholic Church with Fr. Marion of-
ficiating. Burial will be in Holy
Cross Cemetery.
He was a member of St. Ed-
~i.~ards Catholic Church and the
Moose Ix)due.
Survivors include his wife, Phyl-
lis, two sons, Jim and Darrell, and
a dmighter, Kerri, all at the fam-
ily home; tl~ree brothers, Lloyd
Jr., Elma, Ralph and Dale, Dry-
dm~; one sister, Mrs. Eva Good-
burn, Paisley, Ore., and Ilia par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kim-
merly Sr., Dryden,
USE THIS STAMP
FOR DEPOSIT ONLY
PAY TO THE ORDER OF
Nat'l. Bank ef Mason County
AND KEEP
MASON COUNTY GREEN
NATIONAL BANK
OF MASON COUNTY
Member F.D.I,C.