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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
August 14, 1969     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Horse Club Slate Activities For Fair One of the largest and most active groups at the Mason County Fair this weekend @ill be the 4-H Horse Club members. Leaders anticipate that the 45 stalls in the two horse barns will be full and that there will be additional horses which will be brought in Friday for the 4-H events. The young horsemen and women are members of three clubs, the Evergreen Wranglers, the Valley Vaqueros from the Skokomish Valley &apos;and the Green Acres from the AIlyn area. Three events will provide the activity Friday, all for 4-1t members only. Starting time is 9:30 a.m. They include the equitation classes, fitting and showing classes and the practical horse competition. Saturday will see a play day/'or 4-tt members only. Both the F'riday and Saturday events will be held in the horse arena at the back of the fairgrounds. Saturday events, which get underway at 10 a.m., are the tire race, musical tires, pole bending, barrel race, keyhole race, egg race, tandum bareback, sack race, • ride-a-buck, working pairs, English equitation, stock horse, color classes and hacking. The young participants were reminded that if they plan to enter the sack race, they should have some old clothes along to put on for it. Sunday, some of the young riders will join members of the Silver Stars Riding Club for a play day at the riding club's arena to the left off the road to the fairgrounds before reaching tile main gate. The Sunday events include: showmanship, junior western pleasure (18 and under); senior western pleasure (18 and over) stock horse, working pairs (English or Western horse), hacking, musical tires, ribbon race, barrels, pole bending, keyhole race, walk, trot and get, flag race, rescue race and boot race. The Sunday activities will start at ll a.m. School Bus Routes For Shelton Tol(J Shelton School District buses will run at the same times and tile same routes as at the close of school last year, according to Lewis Taylor, Supervisor of Transportation for the District. The buses, drivers and the general areas they cover are: Census To Ask About Employment A sample of residents in this area will be included in a nationwide survey of employment and unemployment to be conducted during the week of Aug. 17 by the U. S. Department of (k)mmerce's Buneau of the Census, according to John E. Tharaldson, Director of the Bureau's Regional Office in Seattle. The survey is made each month for the U.S. Department of I.,abor to determine the number of :.,persons with jobs, the number {i rooking or }ob, and the monthly unemph)yment rate. The survey furnishes a basic nleastlre of Ihe Nation's economic health. Information obtained in the survey can be used only to detern|ine statistical totals, and facts about each person and family are kept completely confidential.. Bureau interviewers who wilt visit households in this area are Mrs. Alene F. Riehle, Tacoma, and Mrs. Polly A. Swayze, Shelton. Burners Resigns As Demo Head Willis Burnett has resigned as Mason County Democrat Central Committee chairman. Burnett, who is county assessor, has served in the position for almost two years. Vice-chairman Janet Fisk will serve until a new chairman is elected. Bus I -- Phyllis Brown, driver- ()yster Bay Road, Kamilche Point and ilighway 10IS. Bus 2 Dale Evans, driver - Dayton Road to Sharp's Corner and back. Bus 5 Jane Maschner, driver- Island I.ak e. Bus 6 l,cwis Wysong, drivm - Cole Road. Bus 7 Martha Cole, driver - Beverly Ileights, Capitol ltill and Angleside. Bus 8 Fay Warren driver - Fredson Road, l)elight Park and Mill Creek, Bus 9 - Denny Davidson, driver - Ilarstine Ferry and Agate area. Bus I0 • Lucille MagnetS, driver Skokomish Valley, Northcliff and Airport. Bus I 1 - Barb:ira Ward, driver- Panhandle Lake and Little Egypt. Bus 13 ...... Zola Keever, driver- Kamilche Valley, llighway 101S. Bus 14 - Lois Pearson, driver- McReavy Road, John's Prairie, Spring Road. Bus 15 Veta lloltorf, driver - Lost l..ake. Butt 16-: Rea Brown, driver- Potlatch and Hoodsport. Bus 18 llarriet Pierce, driver - (,rapeview and Bayshore. Bus 20 .... Eugene Holman, driver - Arcadia Road. Square Dance The Salty Sashayers will hold their annual Fair Dance at the F'air grounds this Saturday night. The Fair button is the only admission required. There will be no charge for the dance. Bennie Berndson will be calling. Short pumplife? Chevron EP Hydraulic Oils protect your hydraulic sys. tern against wear. Increases pump life. CALL YOUR STANDARD OIL MAN IN SHELTON C. C. COLE & SONs, 426-4411 *Standard Oil Company of California ;tern Washington :his last week week TITLE ARTIST 1 5 Color Him Linda Father Martell 2 1 Me & Bobby Roger McGee M iller 3 6 A Boy Johnny Named Sue Cash 4 7 That's A Lynn No No Anderson 5 3 Working Merle Man Blues Haggard 6 8 Invitation To J.L. Our Party Lewis 7 2 The Jeannle R ib C. R Iley 8 40 Sweet' West- Memories Gibson 9 18 That See Me Bonnie Later Look Guitar " ]0 11 No Sign Of Ira Love for Me Allen w All 'the hit songs are available at JOHNNY'S MUSIC BOX 205 Cota 426-4302 Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, August 14, 1969 ::i Adoptive Parents Group Has Picnic On Weeker :1 A get-acquainted picnic wak Samoan and Korean. held this past weekend at the Another attraction of the home of Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. afternoon was the opportunity to Engen on Hammersley Inlet. Six meet socially with Miss Louise families from Pierce County, Guenther, minority specialist for three from Mason County and the state and Miss Helen one Thurston County family Robinson, state adoption attended, specialist. Miss Robinson and Miss The Tacoma area families Gunether rarely have the represented the Open Door opportunity to see their "paper Society for families who have work" in action. adopted children of different or The Shelton area families mixed races, present were invitied to attend a Activities such as splashing, September Open Door Society swimming and marshmallow gathering at the home of Peter toasting entertained the many Coleman inTaconra. youngsters present. *I'he adopted Information about minority children represented several races adoption may be obt,ined from and racial mixtures such as Marvin Saxlon at the Pulqic Eskimo, Indian, Caucasian, Negro, Assistance Office. GOP Heard McReynolds At Picnic Last Week i ii:  • 411 EVA HANSSON, Swedish exchange student sponsored here by the Shelton Rotary Club, made her first official visit to the club last Thursday. She had arrived earlier in the week to begin her stay here during which she will attend Shelton High School. She was accompanied to the Rotary meeting by Mrs. Sel VanderWegen. She is staying with the VanderWegen family for the first part of her visit. College Given Money For Student Loans Charles J. McCann said, "Mrs. Parry's gift provides the base for what we hope will be a broad program of financial assistance for the governmental studies we will emphasize at Evergreen. We are aware of her late brother's deep interest in government, and are very grateful she has chosen to memorialize him in this manner." Mr. Watts' survivors include his wife, Alice, a reporter for The Daily Olympian, and his daughters, Soosi and Cindy. Mrs. Florence L. Parry, an employee of the United States Corps of Army Engineers on Okinawa and sister of the late Richard C. Watts of Olympia, has presented $500 to The Evergreen State College for establishment of a student loan fund in memory of her brother. Mrs. Parry specified the gift be used to establish the Richard C. Watts Memorial Loan Fund, to provide loans to stqdents of government and public, affairs. in acknowledgment, President Nell L. McReynolds, press secretary to Gov. I)aniel J. Evans, accompanied by his wife, Nancy. and two children, attended the annual picnic of the Mason Cotmty Republican Picnic, Aug. 7, at the Simpson Recreation Area on Mason Lake. tle spoke about the Governor's ('onference recently held in Seattle, and the proposed tax reform. Warren l.!dinger, Sr., Republican County Chairman, Commission Gives Road Job Contract The Mason County Commission awarded a contract to Mourer Construction Co., Tacoma, for constr||ction on the Mason Lake NW Road. The Mourer bid of $14,212.12 was low of four received on the work. Other bidders were J.D. Dutton Inc., Olympia; Ronald Wilder, Olympia, and Excavators Inc., Kenmore. The commission voted to vacate portions of the unused right-of-way on the old Grapeview Road after a hearing at which no one appeared to object. A speed limit of 25 miles an hour was set on the Craig-lnsel Road west of the freeway. Smokey Says: Only You Can Prevent Forest Firesl :|nnounced there would be a Republican booth at the Mason County Fair. Bernhard Winiecki and Merle llall arc in ch:n'ge of construct ion. The Women's Republican Club will serve coffee and cookies, on all three days, I;riday, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Lorna lirickson, vice president, of the Mason ('ounty Women's Republican Club, announced the fall It|nchcon will be Sept. 17, at Lake Limerick Lodge. Mrs. Alma Pettersen, Third District 1)irector, will bc in charge. Anita llall, vice chairman of the Mason County Republican Central Committee, was chairman of the annual picnic. She was assisted by Margc Talhnan and Vivien Olson. Ill Blacktop protection Chevron Seal Coat protects against petroleum spills and erosion, Provides long last- ing, jet black surface, ,V CALL YOUR STANDARD OIL MAN IN SHELTON C. C. COLE & SONS, 426-4411 Standard Oil Company of California Holt Sentencing Is Delayed By Court Sentencing of Charles R. Holt, wrong 19, Union, on charges of factor inhiSl possession of marijuana and petit He state< larceny was delayed Thursday accepted at after a conference between his School and pbt attorney Ralph Swanson, if he is given t Olympia; Prosecuting Attorney deferred John C. Ragan and Judge Hewitt Ragan ttenry, not oppose The sentencing was delayed but, r one week. suspended, Holt had earlier pleaded guilty sentence be to the petit larceny charge after be required tc the charge was reduced in an oral time in the g motion from one of second degree burglary by Ragan. in reducing the charge, Ragan told the court that Holt had testified earlier in the trial of David Miskinis on the same charge. Miskinis, Ragan said, was found guilty of petit larceny. }toil had entered a guilty plea to the marijuana charge earlier. Swanson told the court that Iloit had not been in any trouble since his arrest on the burglary charge in June, 1968. Chevron At the time of that arrest, he was out on bail after being arrested on the marijuana charge. Swanson said a pre-sentence report, which had been ordered after tloit's plea to the marijuana cALL V( charge, pointed out that the OIL MJ youth was easily led and that the Shelton " FINAL CLEARANC| of wanted Summer ifem LIMITED QUANTITIES • HURRY Men's WALKING SHORTS Solids & Plaids NOW Boys' Now 1.44 Men's SWIM TRUNKS Solids & Plaids NOW Boys' Now 1.88 Women's SWIM SUITS 1 and 2-pc. Styles NOW "11-11 IE: MASON COUNTY Women's WALKING SHORTS Solids & Plaids NOW Women's BRA DRESSES Assorted Prints NoW Women's SURFER JACKETS Cottons & Nylons NoW Girl's # That Good, Old.Fashioned Fair €orroa DHSStS AUGUST 15- 16-17 Gate Prizes Awarded Daily @See and Hear Stan Boreson, Recording Artist Q Hot Cakes, Ham & Eggs-Saturday Dinner & Sunday Breakfast Salmon Bar-B-Que Airplane Rides Teenage Dance Square Dance Blue Echo's Band Betty Orrick and The Crackerjacks Band 4-H and Open Class Horse Play. Day Horse Shoe Tournament Pig and Chicken Scramble Motor Cycle Races • Plus Many More Contests & Exhibits For All Ages They're ALL at the Good Old.Fashioned Fair! MASON COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS Turn W. off Hiway 101, just South of Shelton Airport All Washable NoW ! Girl's Shorts & Bermudas 3-6x & 7-14 NoW Solids & Prints Girl's PANT & SHORT SETS ! 36-Position I LOUNGER Avocado NOW Women's SANDALS One Group NOW Shop Daily to 5:30pare.