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Mrs. ttelen Stodden was
named as Shelton City
Clerk-Treasurer Tuesday night by
the City Commission. She will
succeed Mrs. Alma Catto.
clerk-treasurer for the past 27
years, who died Monday.
The commission also voted to
close city hall from 1-3 p.m.
Monday during the memorial
service for Mrs. Catto in the
Masonic Temple.
Mrs. Stodden was employed
in the Mason County Auditor's
Office for five years before
joining the city hall staff a short
time ago in preparation for taking
over the clerk-treasurer's duties
when Mrs Catto retired.
Mrs Stodden lived in the
Matlock area before joining the
auditor's office and was clerk and
a member of the Mary M. Knight
School Board for nine years.
She has lived in Mason
County 22 years. She and her
husband Andrew. make their
home at Lake Isabella.
Mrs. Stodden is the mother of
eight chiklren. Two daughters are
sophomores at Shelton High
school. The other children are
grown.
Helen Stodden
Mrs. Alma Katherine Catto,
66, clerk-treasurer of the City of
Shelton for the past 27 years,
died at Mason General Hospital
Monday.
Mrs. Carte had planned to
retire this year. She was in the
hospital for surgery at the time of
her death.
She was active in civic affairs
here, serving as a member of the
board of directors of the Mason
County Tuberculosis Association
and the Mason-Thurston County
Health Board.
She was a Past Worthy Matron
of Welcome Chapter, Order of
Eastern Star, Conductress in the
Laurel Chapter of Amaranth and
a member of the Shelton Zonta
Club.
Survivors include four sisters,
Mrs. Ruby King, Olympia: Mrs.
ttelen Radcliffe. Puyallup: Mrs.
Chlona Thatcher. Port Angeles,
and Miss Ruth Shaw, Las Cruces,
N. M. and one brother Robert
Barnard. Memphis, Tenn.
A nlemorial service will be
held at 2 p.m. Monday in the
Masonic Temple to be conducted
by Welcome Chapter, dES.
She was born Sept. 14, 1903
in Hopeville, Iowa. She was
employed by the State in
Olympia before coming to
Shelton in 1940.
Alma Catto
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County Fair
the 1970 event
With a record
ring the three
Which totaled
days came to
of exhibits,
entertainment
Participate in the
Were much in
the exhibitors
Went home with
rosettes for their
young 4-H
Women
In the 4-H
Friday and
Y.
topped all of
tome the top
Stickley
Unior trophy.
ampionship
telloy York,
Jodie
it ting and
)all, junior
ie Stickley,
,n : Kay
'tactical horse:
and Debbie
itting and
, senior
and Debbie
lot western
ell~Pi°nship 4-H
was
of
Center.
as made by
on County
George
center.
erring as
the center
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lived here
ed School in
from
at 223
With low
hose who
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Services.
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activities
Yor all age
of Youth
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ENJOYING A SMOKE are Wes Johnson and his friend
Daisy, who was a big attraction at the fair. Daisy has just
swallowed her cigarette.
Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington. Entered as second class
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Published weekly at 227 West Cota. $5.00 per year in Mason County, $6.00 elsewhere.
2 Sections--20 Pages
Ten Cents Per Copy
rosettes went to Lois Pearsall,
food preservation; Marilee
Matson, baking; Donna Schmeige,
clothing; Teresa Murray, J. C.
Penney award: Chris Rickards,
senior dress revue; Debbie
Lisoskie, junior dress revue: AI
Seivert, poultry: Kenneth Drake,
forestry: Mary Carson, crafts: Jeff
Nelson, woodworking: Becky
Chapman and Teresa Murray,
photography: Oliver Chapman,
electricity; Jeff Nelson, small
engines; Mike Matson, poultry
and Marlene Schmidt, dog
obedience.
It was announced that Terrie
Lick was the winner of the
Evergreen Wrangler's mare in the
mare and foal project for the
coming year. She will keep the
mare a year and will keep the colt
which she produces. Runner-up
for the mare was Karla Kimball.
In the contests held during
the fair, Clyde Landsaw Sr.
retained his championship in the
horseshoe tournament. The
playoffs in the tournament were
held during all three days of the
fair.
Taking home pigs from the
pig scrambles were Debby Fagen,
Kerrie Osterman, Gene Hugenin
and the mother-son team of Greg
and Ann Pavel.
Chicken scramble winners
were Jeff Anderson, Kim
Goldsby, Karen Goldsby. John
Phife, Earl Moran and the
father-son team of Mike and Don
Pavet.
Other contest winners
included Cinda Laney, rolling pin
toss: Mrs. Julie Bourne, husband
calling : Paul Mc Morris, pie eating :
Mrs. Roberta Ragan, nail
Out
Robert Reed, 50, Bremerton,
former owner of Lake Cushman
Resort here, was released fronl
ttarrison Memorial Hospital this
week for treatment in a nursing
home.
lie suffered chest and head
injuries in a two-car collision in
Bremerton Aug. 9 in which his
wife, Lois was killed.
Charges Of
Forgery Filed
Charges of first degree forgery
were filed in Mason Cotmty
Superior Court last week by
Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan.
Charged were Frank Rhodes
and Gerald Tucker. Rhodes is
charged with signing a check with
the name of Paul Berringer. The
check was for $20.
Tucker is charged with signing
a $30 check with the name
George E. Sanders.
Both checks were cashed by a
17-year-old girl who was arrested
last week.
The girl, who was from
out-of-town, was referred to
juvenile authorities in her home
state and was picked up here by
her parents.
Neither of the men against
whom charges have been filed
have been arrested.
pounding and Jim Connolly and
Barb Barn ford, egg catch.
Special fair awards included
crafts, Zola Wilson~ painting Ahna
Ileald and Easther Johnson:dairy
trophy Lisa Brewer: beef trophy,
Roberl and Ralph Brewer:
champion ttolstein, Pam and
Jayne tluntcr: champion goat,
Gilbert Winkler: champion rabbit,
Jenny Matthews: ceramics, Janie
Cookson; best vegetable, Keith
Anderson ; champion gardener,
Winifred Parret: floral. Agnes
Kangas and tlelen Yoshihara:
open sewing class, Karl Eaton and
Manila Galloway.
U and 1 Sugar awards went to
Mrs. James Yoshihara, Gyneth
Auseth, Dorothy Durand and
JoAnn tterrick.
Ball Glass winners were
Dorothy Durand, Arlene Strope,
Andria Vanderwal, Willa Ann
Smith and Sharon Medcalf.
Kerr Glass award winners
were Jerry Matthews, JoAnn
Herrick, Willa Ann Smith and
Mary Ann Gunselman.
Grange booth platings were
Skokomish, first; Twanoh,
second: Progress, third: Agate
fourth, and Matlock, fifth.
Fair Manager Mrs. Annette
McGee expressed appreciation to
all those who helped make the
fair a success.
There are a number of
unclaimed items which were lost
at the fairgrounds which can be
claimed by identifying them.
Those who have items which may
have been lost at the fair grounds
should call 426-1133.
Fire Fighting
Bob Coon, .assistant
administrator of the Department
of Natural Resources District here
and an A3T pump truck and crew
front the Shelton district are
assisting with fire fighting efforts
in the Ellensburg area, the district
office here said this week.
Joni Beal
County Jail Population
Down To One, For One Day
The Mason County jail
population was down to one this
week, the lowest it had been in
many months.
A check of the meal records
shows the jail had two inmates at
one time in April, 1969 and was
down to three in July, 1969.
Earlier this year and parts of
last year, the jail has had from 12
to 18 inmates at a time.
The jail population went
down to one with the release of
Casey Dean and Mark Ewing, who
had been serving county jail
sentences imposed in connection
with deferred sentences given
them on drug charges.
It went back up to two
Tuesday when Hubert Chambers,
charged with two counts of
second degree assault, was
returned from Western State
Hospital.
The Mason County
Contmittee on School District
Organization discussed the
proposal from the Shelton School
District for non-high district
participation in financing the
proposed new high school when
they met on Tuesday night.
The committee voted to hold
off any action establishing
percentages and amounts of
money each non-high district will
be asked to contribute until new
assessed valuations for the wmons
school districts are available after
Labor Day.
County School Supt. J. W.
Goodpaster told the committee
he had been informed by the
assessor's office that the new
valuations would be available
shortly after Labor Day.
After the county committee
establishes amounts for the
non-high districts, public hearings
are held and they are then
referred to the state for approval.
A representative of the State
Department of Public Instruction,
who attended the meeting, told
the committee that non-high
districts which would be bonded
to 10 per cent of their assessed
valuation in order to raise the
necessary funds would be eligible
for state matching money of
somewhere around 25 per cent of
the amount they would be asked
to contribute.
tie stated he would
recommend that the Grapeview
District contribute on the basis of
60 per cent of its assessed
valuation since it had contributed
on the basis of 40 per cent to a
North Mason tligh School
building project a few years ago.
Some of the students from the
Grapeview district attend Shelton
ltigh Schooland some attend
North Mason.
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The Mason County
Commission Monday approved a
request from Ronald Wilder
Construction to detour traffic
over two sections or county road
during construction of the traffic
lane up the Mt. View Hill.
The detour which is laid out is
mostly in the city, but, does cover
two small sections of county
road, County Engineer J. C.
Bridger told the commission.
The commission, on Bridger's
recommendation, voted to r¢iect
a request from Timberlakes for
signs at the Agate Road and
Pickering Road intersections with
Highway 3 and at the Agate
Grocery corner.
The commission stated it was
against county policy to indicate
developments with county
directional signs, since with the
number of developments in the
county, there would be just too
many signs.
The commission agreed to
another Timberlake request, for a
lie also recomnlended that
the ttood Canal District
contribution be based on 75 per
cent of its assessed valuation since
it keeps its students in the ninth
grade, so would be sending only
proves
ion
35-mile-an-hour speed limit on all
roads in the plat.
The commission set minimum
bid prices on four vehicles and
another piece of equipment which
has been declared surplus and is
now stored at the county shop.
The price of $825 each was
set on two 1967 Plymouth sedans
formerly used by the Sheriff's
Office. A price of $1,400 was set
The Shelton School Board,
after opening bids on the new
handicapped school it plans to
construct on the M't. View
Elementary School site, voted
Tuesday night to take the bids
under advisement for further
study.
The bids came in higher than
were anticipated, a district
spokesman said.
Apparent low bidders were
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HIROKO. YAKOYAMA, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, visits
with Patti Starkey. She will be spending the next year with
the Starkey family under the AFS student exchange program.
75 per cent of its students to the
Shelton facility to high school.
The committee will have
another meeting after the new
assessed valuations are received.
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Use
pass
on the 1966 lnteruational
Travelet formerly used by the
Assessor's office and $1,900 on
the 1960 International pick-up
formerly used by the assessor's
office.
A minimum price of $450 was
set on a graphotype and
addressograph with the two to be
sold as a unit.
George Ulleberg, Tacoma, on the
general contract with a bid of
$161,975; Thackary Electric,
Shelton, on the electrical contract
with a bid of $20,440 and Robert
Wise Plumbing and Heating,
Tacoma, on the mechanical
contract with a bid of $51,925.
There were nine bidders on
the general contract, six on the
electrical contract and eight on
the mechanical contract.
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Hiroko Yakoyama, 16, a
Japanese girl from the Tokyo
area, is getting settled with the
Cliff Starkey family in Shelton
and preparing to enter high school
here.
She is the American Field
Service student here this year. She
arrived Aug. 14 after spending
four days in San Francisco with
other AFS students in an
orientation session. They also
visited downtown San Francisco,
the Golden Gate and Fisherman's
Wharf.
The group includes students
from the Philippines, Micronesia,
Japan, Australia and New
Zealand.
Since her arrival in Shelton,
she has visited Westport and
Olympia with the Starkey family
and attended her first American
teenage dance.
Other visits are planned to Mt.
Rainier, the Seattle Center and
other points of interest before
school starts.
She also expects a visit this
week from an American woman, a
Mrs. Anderson, who helped her
with her English in preparation
for her AFS examinations.
Mrs. Anderson's mother lives
at Lake Nahwatzel and Mrs.
Anderson will be visiting her,
Was. Starkey said.
Water Shut-Off
The City Water Department
said this week water will be shut
off for about four hours Monday
on Capital Hill. The shut-off will"
start at 9 a.m.
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