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79TU YEAR NO. 33 Published in "C, hrestmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington 18 Pages--3 Sections
Thursday, August 19, 1965 Entered as second class matter at the p ost office at Shelton, Washington, 98584
under Act of March 8, 1879. Pub ltshed weekly at 227 West Cota. 10 Cents Per Copy
BLUE OX THEATER BUILDING
40-Year-Old Showhouse Scene of Many Motion
Pictures
Two young Aberdeen men were
killed when the sports car in which
ttmy were riding left the highway
just west of Twanoh State Park
about 2 a.m. Sunday.
Dead are Albert D. Close, 21,~
and Kurt A. Olson, 17, both of
Aberdeen. A third youth in the
car, Jim Breuer, 16, Portland, is
recovering from injuries received
in the crash.
The Washington State Patrol
said the 1965 Jaguar roadster driv-
en by Close was westbound on
Highway 106 when coming into a
left hand curve, it skidded and
went off the right side of the road-
way and struck a power pole
broadside.
CLOSE AND OLSON were pin-
ned in the wreckage. Breuer was
thrown from the car.
Olson was killed instantly and
Close died a few hours later on-
route by ambl,lance from Shelton
General Ho'~pital to a Tacoma
hospital.
Breuer was treated at Shelton
General a.nd ,was later transferred
to a Portland hospital. He received
a broken collar bone and other in-
juries.
new Graham Theatre opened in Sheltac. In rendering his decision The three youths were report-
Shelton and a blaze of color Thursday eve- Judge Charles T. Wright remark- edly returning home from a two-
era have been ning with a capacity house of 750 ed at the time it was too bad that week vacation at a summer home
;lng of the town and county people and a the previous owners of the movie owned by Close's parents, Mr. and
~tre build- sprinkling of Olympia and Seattle house had lost so much in trying Mrs. John Close, Aberdeen, when
new home friends and half as many for a to operate it in the face of chang- the accident happened.
Olson was the son of Mr. and
of Mason later show, indicating the public ins social desires. "This is the end
interest in the handsome new of a profitable era, for movies are Mrs. Erwin Olson, Aberdeen, and
building, playhouse." going the way of the livery sta- Breuer is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Theatre and Mark E. Reed and Alden C. ble." The Judge said. IDec. 1957, Frank Brener, Portland.
;m Theatre, Bayle~y, speakers at the opening Journal). Close would have been a senior
at the University of Oregon where
ay, 1925, a extravaganza, commended Graham Christiansen sold the theatre for he was majori'ng in philosophy
, local land- for having provided the new rec- the second time in August, 1960 wii.h plans to study law later.
~lton and Ma- reational and educational facility, to Fred Thibodeau and the final Olson phmned to enter the Uni-
years 1924- The opening night showing was page in the history of the Blue versity of "vVashington and had
referred to as the farce "Charley's Aunt," with Ox building in operation as a me- been accepted in the honors pro-
construction Syd Chaplin. Movies during the vie house began, gram.
similar to first week included "Dorothy Ver- Plans calling for the demolition Ftmeral services for Olson wer(
is go- non of Hadden Hall," starring of the 40-year-old show house was held in Longview and the Close
time--- Mary Pickford, "A Society Scan- made known in mid-June, shortly rites were held in Aberdeen.
dal," with Gloria Swanson and after Thibodeau sold to a group
"The Guilty One," featuring Ag- repre~nting the National Bank of
the Graham ~s,AMres, ' i~- MaSon County. ' ....
few months 't~'~tle' grand opening night' priC- The loss of Shelton's sole then-
were .
Mill, es were 75 cents for logc seats tre, leaves only the Skyline Driver
Mill No. 1, and 50 cents for the main floor In, located five miles south of
winter, seating, regular admission prices Shelton at Taylor Towne, as the
Pactf. after that were 35 cents for ad- only theatre in the immediate area
d its branch ults and 10 cents for those under and closes the final chapter in a
Elms to 12 years old. long and colorful history of one
can't be The years following were the of Shelton's oldest structures.
date, "good o1' days" of Shelton "flicks"
of Taro- when Walt Graham, without hay-
Registration For
Cushman ing to wor,w about the comport-
1925. The tion of television, brought in
1924 and cough people to mm on a seven-
1926. night-a-week schedule. Ne Students
new bus:- But it ~ppeared in the 1950's W
been com- that the bread and butter years
a January is" f°r the theatre industry here were Set eNte~ml~)ct We k
Irene S Reed numbered. The Graham Theatre e
Methodist has seen three different propriet- With P and the starting
nasium and ors since 1954. In September of S
of schools just around the corner,
~¢ere among that year Graham sold out to J. C. Shelton Junior and Senior High
the busl- Christianseh, who changed the es-
,ovey, J. C. tablishment's name to the Melody School officials have scheduled
asker. Con- Theatre. Then in 1955 Christ:arisen new student registration and gen-
'24 on the sold to the Sheltac Amusement oral fee payment dates for two
old Pen- Co., headed by Tacoman George days next week.
Ackerman. The theatre name was Registration of all high school
eatre saw ehax, ged once again by the corpor- !tuden.ts new to School District
~Uv win. De at Shelton High Tues-
~misc. The at:on--to the Blue Ox. lay ann weonesday between the
llle show- Two years later, in 1957, a su-
most.pro- per:or court order turned the Blue tours of 1 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9
zm. each day, announced Stud-
rant of Ox back to Christiansen from mt Counselor Chet Dombroski
(Walt) VlondaY. He said that regular stu-
:re for tent fees should also be paid
(May, luring those hours.
JUNIOR HIGH
COmpletion Registration of all Junior High
age students who are new to Dis-
trict 309 is slated at the Shelton:
Junior High School Tuesday and
, was hailed Wednesday during the hours from
theatres in 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. both
days, stated Principal C. Bruce
lit:on of the Once again 'T a p-a-T o u r i s t' Schwarck this week. He explained
said of the comes to Shelton. Monday the that students wishing to pay fees
Shelton Jaycees plan to honor an and obtain lockers may do so on
out-of-state couple with two days these same days.
of various activities in the Shelton- Schwarck said there will also
Mason County area. be an orientation day Wednesday,
Project chairman Vince Best- starting at 2 p.m. for all junior
wick stated that the honored cou- high students ;low to District 309
plea activities starts when sheriff and those from Grapeview, Har-
': Sam Clark pulls them over and st:no Island, Kamilche, Pioneer
Others asks them if they can stay in this and Southside. These students will
area for a few days. meet in the Junior High School
depends on During their stay in Shelton, auditorium for a briefing on pro-
the couple will tour the Correc- cedures in the school followed by
3e lions Center, the Simpson Timber a tour of the facilities at :the
Co. waterfront and many other Junior High and Grant C. Angle
industries, buildings.
They wil eat dinner at the Shel- School is scheduled to start Sep-
ia elec- ton Hotel and stay overnight at tember 8.
the City Center Motel: While the GRADE SCHOOL'S
honored couple tour the area in a Evergreen Grade School wil~ be
car supplied by Bud Pauley Motors open Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
their car will be lubed, washed and nesday for 1:egistration of all new
~ filed with gas at John Lo'ng's children in grades kindergarten
Richfield at First & Railroaa. through six who will be attena-
ing Bordeaux, Mt. View or Ever-
e ter exhibits and , ttend the
COUNTY FAIR
AUGUST 20 - 22
Shelton Airport
green Schools this year.
It is not necessary to register
children who attended Shelton
schools, kindergarten or the pre-
school clinic last year. This reg-
istrati6n is only for children in
kindergarten and grade one who
missed the clinic, or children in
kindergarten through six who have
moved into town during the sum-
mer.
i
ire
Nadia Biblawi, 16, Suez, Egypt,
will arrive Sunday to begin her
one-year stay in Shelton.
She will live in the Clay: Aho
home and will attend Sbelton High
Srhool as a senior.
.. Miss .Biblawi will arrive at Seat-
co-Tacoma Airport where she will
be met by her American "family"
and a delegation from the Ameri-
can Field ~ervices, which sponsors
her stay here.
PLANS ARE for the welcoming
delegation to gather at the Thrift-
way parking lot at 12:30 p.m. and
plan to be at Sea-Tac about 2 p.m.
Anyone interested in going and
needing to make arrangements for
transportation can telephone Mrs.
Abe at 426-3225 or Patsy Wolfe at
426-8604. i
The lOCal AFS Chapter met
Monday night in the Otto Gold-
schmid home to make final plans
for the arrival of Miss Biblawi
and to discuss fund raising activi-
ties for the coming year.
GETS DEGREE
Among those getting degrees at
FAIR PLANS~These leaders in 4-H home econom-
ics have plans for a challenging judging contest
for the Mason County Fair Friday. Foods, cloth-
ing, home improvement and child care will be the
projects for competition. Mrs. Eugene Evers, right,
is chairman of the committee. She is assisted by
Mrs. John MacRae, center, and Karen Wolf, left.
F.D.I.C.
The Masoh County Commission
Mon2ay took the first steps to~,
ward getting the porch of the~
Memorial Building repaired a£ter
its unsafe condii:ion had been
brought tO their attention earlier
in the week.
The commission received a let-
ter from the Memorial Building
Committee stating that the com-
mittee had passed a resolution ask-
ing that county commission have
the porch repaired in the manner
they deem necessary.
County Engineer J. C. Bridger
told the commission he had in-
spected the condition of the porch
and that the entire concrete slab
floor of the porch as well as the
ornamental brick and masonry
work should be removed and re-
placed. The wheelchair ramp,
which was ocnstructed several
months ago, would not have to be
taken out, he stated.
Bridger said the porch floor had
cracked loose from where it was
attached to the foundation of the
building. The cracking had prob-
ably been going~n for some time,
Stray Dogs Causing
Problem, Sherif! Says
His office has been g tting num-
erous calls about dogs running
loose and bothering people in the
county, Sheriff Sam Clark said
this week. There have been one
or two instances in which some-
one has been bitten by one of
sales were $32,896.18 in retail sales where it will
and $5,017.52 in class H sales, someone else."
This advance registration is very
important in order to prepare
~oom asignments before the first
ay of school and to be certain]
there is a place for your chqd.
I
SWIM
CLASSES
EN D---Some
220
youngsters
re-
Office hours will be 9 to 12 noon]
cewed, ach!evement certificates during the final day
and 1 to 4 p.m. " kin I or. swimming classes at the Poe Nuotare in the
Watch for first grade ana "1 CI~uY s .~ummer Recreation Program Friday. The
dergarten room assigmnents in the lY.o:~gs~Is.,had been going to classes for the seven
Sept. 2 issue Ths Journal. I tns Instruction unclet ths dleeetlen
be a problem to
Miss Wolf will be a senior in home economics at
Washington State University this fall. She is
volunteering a month for work experience with the
extension service. Other committee members in-
clude Mrs. Frank Wolf and Mrs. Joe Bourgault,
Extension Service Photo.
Bridger said, and the earthquake
last spring probably hastened the
HE SAID it would cost an esti-
mated $5~000 to do the repair job.
The commission instructed Brid-
ger to have the' masonry railing
on the building braced up in the
interest of public safety until the
permanent repair work can be un-
dertaken.
'rite comnaission also instructed
the clerk to prepare an emergency
resolution to provide funds for this
repair project and for any other
budget entergencie~'~ contemplated
by county officials.
The county commission contact-
ed city officials to ask the city
to participate in the repair work.
The city commission Tuesday in-
.~,truei:etl City Engineer Pat l~yrne
to check with Bridger on the "con-
templated repairs and to report
back to the city contmission at its
meeting next ~,eek.
TIlE COUNTY commission
Monday received its first request
from a school district for a share
of the Forest Funds from the
feGeral government for timber
sales in the National Forest in
Mason County.
The request was from Southside
School District asking that they
be considered for $25,000 to be
used in the construction of a multi-
purpose building at their school.
The commission voted to award
a contract for the purchase of
a used portable aggregate dryer,
feeder bin and self*propelled as-
phalt mixer spreader to Cox Ma-
chinery Co., Seattle, for $22,060.
The Cox bid was the onlY one re-
ceived on the piece of equipment
at a bid opening Monday.
The commission also voted to
award a contract to Ben's Truck
Parts, Tacoma, for pile driver
leads at a cost of $1,458.80. The
Tacoma firm's bid was the only
one received also.
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Rand/ Tuson, program director, assisted by Lee [|
Kiefer, owner of the pool, and three other Instruc.
tors. Here, Kiefer gives a final lesson to two of
the young charges he had in the class he instruct-
ed at 9 a.m,
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n ay
The Mason County Fair will be
elite:ally opened at 10 a.m. Friday,
but, activii:y at the Fair Grounds
at the She:,ton Airport, has been in
swing since Wednesday when ex-
hibits began arriving.
The exhibit.~; began arriving at
1 p.m. Wednesday with open class
and 4-H home economics, fore:~try,
crafts, woodworlQng and electric-
ity exhibits scheduled to arrive
that day until 9 p.m.
Entries began arriving again at
8 a.m. today and will be all on
the grounds aL 1 p.m.
The entries which will arrive to-
day include open and 4-H agricul-
ture, livestock and hobby classes.
Floral entries came in from 8
a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
i THE GATES TO THE FAIR
:open officially at I0 a.m. Friday
with I:i~e 4-H livestock judging and
4-H horse show scheduled for 1
p.m. Friday.
Foods, c~othing, garden, home
improvement and child care proj-
ect Judging for 4-H members starts
at 9:30 a.m. Friday and continnes
throughout the day.
The Friday evening program in-
cludes a salmon barbecue from
5-7 p.m., the 4-H dog obedience
contest at 7 p.m. and a teenage
dance sponsored by the Catholic
Youth Organization from 9 p.m.
to midnight.
Saturday a~ternoon's program
includes the horse show gymkhana,
a pig scramble and a chicken
scramble starting at 1 p.m. A beef
barbecue is scheduled for 4-6 p.m.
The Saturday evenii~g program
wilI include a grandstand show,
the 4-H dress revue and the
awards program starting at 7:30
p.m. and a square dance from 9
p.m. to midnight.
Sunday afternoon activities in-
clude a motorcycle scramble sched-
uled for 1 p.m. and a rooster crow-
ins and null driving contest sched-
uled for 1:30 p.m.
Admission to the fair will be by
button, with adult buttons 50¢ and
children's buttons 25¢. The but-
tons will be sold at the gate at the
fair grounds.
Three new buildings have been
erected at the fair grounds since
the event last. year, an auditor:ran
a forestry building and a horse
barn.
Th~ first etectica~ of ~ehobl hd~trd:
menibers :ih~"MRsbn ct/t~lit~".un~f
a state law Which transferred
these elections front spring to fall
will be held this year.
Filings will ()pen Sept. 3 and
close Sept. 17 at the county audi-
tor's office. The auditor, as direct-
or of elections for the county will
handle these elections instead of
thent being handled by the school
district in the past.
TItle: SCIIOOL directors will bc
voted on at. an election Nov. 2.
There will be two positions on
the Shelton School Board up for
etection this year, those of B.
Franklin Heuston and ]~{rs. Betty
McClanahan.
City Studies
~o v/lie ,o.o~o~.,~..o.~ _
Rile F r Mar~ Wleohmonn, O S,,
Easen--emt .,,, .be honored at a reception
in honor of his 90th birthday
at the St. Edward s Catholic
Parish Hall from 2-4 p.m.
The Shelton City Commission Sunday, He was born in Old-
Tuesday agreed to hold over un-
enburg, Germany, in 1875 and
til next week action on an ease-
ment for Bonneville Power Ad- spent his childhood in Minne-
ministration across the city water- sots. He entered the semin-
shed, when several questions con- cry in 1892 to study for the
cerning t~m proposed easement priesthood and was ordained
June 24, 1901. He was pastor
were raised, at Visitation and Holy Re-
Mayor Frank Travis said he
was opposed to the easement as
sary Parishes in Tacoma be-
fore coming to Shelton in
1935 to become pastor of St,
Edward's. A High Mass will
be sung at 10 a.m. with Ft.
Mark celebrating. The
Knights of Columbus will act
as honor guards. Clergy and
lay friends have been invited
to the afternoon reception.
ISimpson Appoints
Logging Planning Aide
Appointment of E. Richard Bax-
ter, 24, as logging planning assist-
ant for Simpson Timber Co. in
Slmlton has been announced by
George Adams, logging planning
supervisor.
]3axter replaces Nell Bell who
was tra.nsferred to Arcata, Calif.
A native of Washington, Baxter
attended Olympic Jfinior College
in Brcmerton an(1 comes to Simp-
,~on from the U.S. Forest Service
at Hoodsport.
Baxter and his wife, Janna, have
two daughters.
presented, largely because he
thought the compensation from
Bonneville, $10,600, was too low.
He said the city had contacted
an appraiser to look over the pro-
petty and give the city a report
which should be available before
next Tuesday's meeting.
TIIE RIGHT-OF-WAY easement
is being sought by Bonneville for
a contemplated additional line
from its substation here.
A representative of Bonneville
who was present at the meeting
said he did not believe that Bon-
neville officials would go along
with a provision by the city that
no work would be done in" January,
February, March or April on the
construction becanse of the chance
of damage to the city's wa.ter
supply during these rainy months.
The city received letters from
the State Health Department and
the State Pollutkm Control Com-
mission stating that a p~x)posed
sewer system for Oak Park Ad-
dition being developed by John
Kneeland had been approved.
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