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By LOU DONNELL
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probably four puzzled people a couple of weeks ago
the Lutheran parsonage on a Monday evening and were
"21-14" instead of the usual "hello" or "Christ
One caller was phoning from Minnesota and it probably
fore she found out she had the correct number.
all my fault. I had attended a couple of innings of the
between the Lutherans and Baptists but had to leave
game was over. I asked Pastor Paul Christ for his phone
said I'd call in about an hour to get the final score.
by and I forgot to call; by the time I remembered I
so late they would have gone to bed so I didn't call.
f0ur people did dial their number and each time Paul
so answered the phone with the softball score.
called; I could have answered "Okay" and hung up and
been one of the shortest calls in search of news ever
we could have made the Guinness Book of World
THE THREE DAUGHTERS of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Fulmer,
(left) former residents of Grapeview, and their aunt, Peggy
Gatlin of Grapeview, were among North Mason residents seen
enjoying the Mason County Fair last Sunday. In picture at
right, Julie Morse and Bradley Nuszbaum and their
four-legged friends were among the local participants at the
fair. More pictures are on page 4.
Belfair site
'HERs, new vice-principal for North Mason Upper
, Was at his desk last week getting acquainted with
Is new job.
thers joins school
cls new principal
Washingtonians principal in the same school
when North district.
District hired Ted
The family, also consisting of
~al of the David, 12, a 7th grader, and Terri,
school. He and 7, a second grader, will be living
are graduates of in a newly-purchased North Shore
State College home.
a.after completing Reaction of friends in
In Centralia and California to Smether's
respectively, d acceptance of the job in
has also earne hisWashington was "Why do you
ree In school want to go to a place where it
)n from the rains all the time?" By last
in San Friday, said Smethers, the family
five years he has had seen no r.ain in Belfair since
r.high teacher in their arrival last month. The
wife was also children are looking forward to
For several seeing some snow this winter,
he combined however.
ties as a vice
os poss
Eighty acres of land near
North Shore Road on Elfendahl
Pass Road could become the site
of a future county and/or state
park if an offer being proposed by
Walter Scott, Jr. is accepted. It
would be part of a deal Scott is
proposing which would give the
county or state (whichever can
come up with the money); a joint
venture is being studied at
present) a tract of land on
Harstine Island with 3,600 feet of
waterfront. Fifty to sixty acres of
upland is included in that parcel
but Scott is offering to throw in
the 80-acre Belfair site, too, if his
asking price of $485,000 is met.
He estimates that the timber on
the Belfair property is worth over
$60,000.
How the county could find
funds to buy the property was
one of the issues discussed at the
August meeting of the Mason
County Parks and Recreation
Board which was held at Mason
Lake. Only two of the board
members appeared at the meeting,
Ron Angus and Louise Ewart, but
several Mason Lake area residents
showed up and Scott, of Belfair.
The problem of faulty
boundary lines of the Mason Lake
property donated to the county
for a park and to the residents of
Mason and Benson Lakes for a
community center was discussed.
One hundred-twenty feet seem to
be in question.
In answer to questions from
the audience it was learned that:
there are no funds nor present
plans to remove deadheads from
the boat launch area of the public
access which is now part of the
county park. Some of the people
present complained of boats being
torn by deadheads, others
thought they should be left there
to discourage speeding in the
narrow waterway at that end of
the lake. The fact that deadheads
under the water also prohibits
swimming from the public access
was lamented by board member
Angus who commented that it
was a shame to spend so much on
improving that park without
provisions for swimming or
boating. Hefelt it would keep
people from using the park.
the Mason Lake park will be
for day use only; no caretaker will
live there and closing hours will
be 10 p.m. with signs with park
rules posted. Who would enforce
the rules and how well they
would be enforced were discussed
with no answers forthcoming.
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A football game between the
Seattle Cavaliers, a semi-pro team,
and the Vikings from Western
Washington State College in
Bellingham will be played on the
local high school football field
September 14 at 8 p.m.
Sponsored by North Mason
Kiwanis, ticket sales will benefit
the patrol boat fund, a
county-wide drive to raise money
to buy a patrol boat for the
Mason County Sheriff's
Department.
SOUTH SHORE NEWS
Bey Steinke is sad to report
that she can no longer write the
South Shore column covering
news from Twanoh State Park to
Belfair. Anyone interested in
writing the column is asked to call
the Herald office Wednesday
through Friday.
Winners announced
for golf tourney
Norm Sanders won the top
prize, a one-year golf membership
at LakeLand GoJf and Country
Club, when over 20 golfers
competed in a tournament at the
LakeLand Village golf course
August 13 to raise money for
support of the summer activities
program at the Belfair Youth
Center. Scores were figured on
the Calloway system which gave
Sanders a 71 with Pete Peterson
coming in second with 73.
Peterson and two other winners,
Pete Krismer for longest drive and
Ted Cook for closest to the pin,
each received a dozen golf balls as
their prizes.
Chairman of the event, Pastor
Paul Christ, announced that the
youth center program raised
$97.50 from the affair.
Tournament coordinator was
Lance Thurston.
CHURCH MEET SET
The quarterly conference of
the Bremerton Washington Stake
of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints will be held
August 24 and 25 at the Stake
Center, 2225 Perry Avenue,
Bremerton. The Saturday evening
meeting will begin at 7 p.m. for
church leaders. The Sunday
meeting will start at 10 a.m. for
members and the public.
Elder Delbert L. Stapley, a
member of the Council of Twelve
Apostles from Salt Lake City, wilt
preside and speak at all sessions of
the conference.
The entire Kitsap Peninsula
and Olympic Peninsula comprise
the Bremerton Washington Stake.
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WINNING FIRST PLACE in a golf tourney makes a fellow feel ten feet tall.
Above, Norm Sanders (left) receives his $100 one-year golf membership
certificate to LakeLand Village Golf and Country Club, first prize in a
tournament held last week to raise funds for the summer youth center
activities program. Presenting the award is Pastor Paul Christ, chairman of
the event.
LITTER CRITTER
Artists and doodlers are
reminded of the August 31
deadline for the Litter Critter
Contest. Submit entries in
envelope marked "Litter Critter"
to Huckleberry Herald, P.O. Box
587, Belfair. Prizes are on display
at Belfair Drug.
School annuals available tonight
The 1974 North Mason High
School annuals will be handed out
tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. in the
cafetorium. This year's annual,
the Siskan, is reported to be th6
largestever published by the
school.
To receive a copy, students
are asked to bring their receipts.
All annual staff members are
urged to attend. Anyone with
questions may call the local high
school office.
ABOUT 17 YEARS AGO a woman driving through Belfair stopped at the
~e/fair and plunked two saying that her children
l~aver n
bells
on
the
counter,
_ huna them in her nickun truck and they bothered her so she wanted to
yet rid o~f them Owner of t~he tavern, Molly Bell (now Mrs. William Pluff)
tacked them up'behind the bar. That's how the large collection of bells now
~od°rning the bar got started. In the ensuing years Mrs. Pluff has purchased
~,.me in distant places such as Rome and Nice in Europe and Reno and
virginia City, a little closer to home, but most have been given to her by
• CUstomers. One was brought back from Taiwan by the late Sam Theler.
Above Molly Pluff is seen with a few of the bells on display behind the bar.
anyway
DESPITE A LETTER from a county official requesting that
a second house not be placed on a small waterfront lot in
Allyn, the house arrived last week. In picture at right the
house is about to be moved from barge connected to land by
large pieces of wood. Barge is in water, edge of: State
Highway 3 in foreground, for an idea of width of lot. Abow ,
house sits on land, awaiting its fate. See editorial, page 2.