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Percy M Pio
6017 S.E. 86th Ave
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No. 35
2 1965
ation .l Guard
the state
a Weekend train-
Published in "'Christmasto n, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington
Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton, Wt~shington, 98584
under Act of March 8, 1~;q9. Pla, ltshed weekly at 227 We~t Cola,
18 Pages -- 3 Sections
10 Ce6ts Per Copy i
~ing sessions will
of preparing
Inspector
the un-
will provide
on standby
are needed
at some of
guard unit
the Shelton
and Sunday and
until Monday
consists of 46
officers, has
training in re-
sions and has
riot control
Commission
P.m. Sept• 20
the porch of
lg.
20, at 11:30
on an emer-
provide funds
• The emerg-
Will include
orial Building
or the fire and
fUnd, $700 for
ce for vehicle
$465.75 for the
ion fund to re-
!Tund for work
lION,, voted" to
a secUoh of
,tar no one ap-
g to object•
set 2 p.m. Sept•
on the plat of
le for the plat
ue Led by Law-
PP Wed by the
a hearing at
to oppose•
year stu,
teachers
for these
the first
the be-
for your
effect the
Regular
,ginning
is not listed,
NICHOLAS M. ZOPOLIS
Killed in Plane Crash
A funeral service with full mil-~ studcnt jet pilots killed when the
f¢~ry.honors will be held here to-three trainers crashed in mid,ai,'.
~lay for 2nd Lt. Nicholas M. Zop- He had been stationed at Latlgh-
ells, 23, killed in the crash of lin Air Force Base, Del .Rio; Tax.,
three jet trainers over western near the Mexican border for Jet
Texas last ThUrsday. pilot training• He would have corn-
The funeral services will be held plated his training Sept. 10.
at 11 a.m. in St. David's EpiscopalHE WAS BORN Sept• 24, 1941
• 1 rence Led in Shelton, the son of Mr and
church with .Rev. C a y ...... ' •
officiating• Burial will be in Green- Mrs. r'eter ~opolls.
wood cemetery, Centralia. Bat- Lt. Zopolis graduated from Shcl-
stone Funeral Home is in charge of ton High School in 1959, a mem-
arrang~,ments. " ber of the top 10 of his graduati,lg
Young Zopolis was one of three class. After attending NAPS Prep
on
the Mt.
is:
Will leave
at 8:40 a.m.
Set!eel, Bainbridge, Md., he en-
tered the Air Force Academy at
Colorado Springs from which he
graduated before entering pilot
training.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Zopolis, Shelton
and one brother, James, Shelton.
.... The family asl~s that in lieu l
Douglas Coleman, Charlotte Ed- of flowers, donations be made to:
dy, Marilyn Folso, m, Colleen Good- St, David's Episcopal church.
win, Janet Holland, Lisa Huribe,'t, Lt. Zopolis was flying in a T38
Timmy Ince, Linda Johnson, Re. jet trainer on a training flight
get Kane, Jea~nnd K0kett, Dianne along with 1st Lt. Luther Tread-
Leeberg, Kelly Lund. gill, Brady, Tex., when it and
Grocery at
(Mr. Aaron)
5~t 8:50 and
a.m. Bus
will
at 12:45
Jefferson:
)-10:15 a.m.
Basil
Robin
Stanley
10:30-11:45
Ann
Dale
Kim Ska-
,'t Stevens,
Eli-
Twidwell,
Wood,
" 12:30.1:45
ael Brugato,
Robbie Parker, Clay Peck, An- gill and Lt. Herbert Jung, Trenton,
gels Pierce, Lorinda Rex, Kathy Ill., pilot of another of the planes
Jean Rogerson, Kimberly Runnels, were killed. Two men in the third
Alison Seferos, Lynnette Shelton, plane were able to parachute to
safety.
School
To
Scilool bells will ring for most
Mason County youngsters next
Wednesday morning as schools go
back lute session after summer
vacations.
All schools in the county witl
start that day with the exception
or ~'~t~ry I~I. Knight at Matlock,
which started classes Monday of
this week.
Some schools have scheduled on-
ly half-day sessions for the first
¢tay while others, including the
Shelton distI'ict, will hold a full
day of class the first day.
The Shelton School district will
start the school year with 32
morc members on its certified per-
sonnel staff that it had last year.
OF THESE, 17 will be on the
staff of the Garrett Heyns High
School at the Washington Correc.
tions Center, which is under the
supervision of the Shelton Dis-
trict.
Four of the staff will be on a
part-time basis, including Mrs.
John Dennison as a half-time
~,~chool nurse; Mrs. Patricia Lis-
oskie and Mrs. Stella Brown as
half-time teachers and Dr. Tho-
mas Rowland as psychological sup-
ervisor, to spend 18 days in the
district dilring the school year.
The 38 teachers new to the
school district will meet in Grant
C. Angle building this morning
for all orientation session.
All teachers in the district will
meet Tuesday morning for an or-
ientation session and to' prepare.
for the opening of school the fol-
lowing day.
Nol
To Get Tickets
Shelton Police officers have
been instructed to i~sue citaKi*>as
to motor.~t~e or"~rl0tor:cy/'~te ~h:
era whose machines have inade*
qtiate mufflers, Police Chief Rich-
ard Camper said this week.
The chief said that the noisy
motor bikes have become quite a
problem and .have been the sub-
Ject of numerous complaints re-
ceived by the Police Department.
Camper said officers have been
instructed to issue citations for
any type of muffler or muffling
system which creates noise or
Danial Tangen, Cheryl Vinzant.
BORDEAUX
Mrs. Buzzard
9 a.m. Jeffery Anderson, Mich-
ael Az~old, Jill Barnes, Dena Bar-
rett, Eva Bradley, Laurie Byrd,
Carolyn Cuzick, Rhonda Devany,
Dale Elmhmd, Jeffery Furseth,
Carrie Hawley, Sandra Jay, Mat-
thew gamin, Nicky Larson, Kevin
Mercer, Charles Nichols•
I0 a.m.---Lorri Putvin, Kelly Sa-
lee, Nicki Schouvilter, Wayne
Schumacher, Dale Smith, Marilyn
Stevens, Robert Stewart, Darlene
Thomas, Linda Thompson, Vicky
Vanderwal, Timothy Venzke, Rob-
ert Wermlinger, Shelby West, Re-
becca Wilson, Craig Wright, Glenn
Wyatt•
1 p.m.--Claude Auseth, Tony
Benner, Becky Bliner, Russell Bor-
ing, Galen Byrd, Jeffery Coleman,
Cinda Creekpaun, Donald Good-
burn, Karen Goodburn, David Gor-
doi~, Michael Gordon, Douglas
Howe, Jacqueline King, Panlela
Kitchingham, Jill Michaelis.
2 p.m.--Kathleen Norris, Calvin
Norwood, David Parrish, David
Rasmussen, Kevin Ridout, Bridget
Simpson, Randy Smith. Shery
(Continued on p~gc 4)
AND RUMMAGE SALE
W.C.T.U.
& 4th
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
cutouts in an efforts to correct
the problem.
BLAST DAMAGE~Thls is the northeast corner of ly was detonated electrically, Sheriff's officers
the Twanoh Grange Hall which received the most said. The explosion was in the concrete block
damage from the blast which rocked the struct- basement which was under this section of the
ture shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday. The blast, abuilding. The basement walls were knocked down
charge of high explosives of some kind, apparent- by the force of the blast.
Although there are a few dis- 69,842)• Twanoh State Park at-
senters, it appears the general tendancc improved 18,655 in July
~,,~ ........reso,-~ ....... ~'~- 65 over July '64 (73,008 to 54,353)•
-v ......... ~.-:.,~, d" .......... ~'~=~Figures for three ether state parks
park officials an other marine in Mason.County all showing in-
proprietors and operators in Ma-creases for '65 over 1964 in the
son County is that the exception- amounts indicated were Schafer
a w r th sum~ er has been (22,853 to 9 659), Potlatch (56,902
1 eathe is . n - -- ~s ~,
....... to 40,046) and Lake C~hma'
a Doom ¢o tnelr |)l, smesses The onl state
"" t "" d (41,006 to 35,758). y ~
This is the assump ion gathere park in the county to register a
from a recent Journal random drop in attendance in 1965 below
sample survey which covered about that of 1964 was Gcralds Cove
(Z,O~'l tO Z,~SZ).
a dozen of these marine businesses . .
~,~ ... : . . -' ..... The parks figures include day
~:S Wel! as six ata~e parY~, In"tJ~'l~,~,~tnrs t~nt camner~,', 'trailer
quaiified estimates of business and ] the parks facilit,es.
~**A-~ ..... o~'---rin"~ the summer BUSINESS 'COMMENTS sucn
1 as best evel one o~ the Desc
months of 1964 to. those of 965 . ",, . ,, . .
the'State Park~ Denartment made seasons so ~ar, ann much near-
available exact-at--te'ndancefigures ier this summer" were common
o_e the twoyears,~ makln' g appar among ~aason uounty, resort, own-
ant a "land office boom" to the ers and marine fac~hty proprietors,
..... S •
parks in 1965. State Parks figures but a few also .a~d, th.e, summer
compare the month of July in of 1965 had been an off year for
t, tnem
1964 with the sam. month in 1965.
Belfair State Park showed the
biggest gain during that month
in 1965, registering 23,966 more
than in July of '64 (93,608 to
Simpson Summer Plant
Tours Will End Friday
The regularly scheduled tours
Comments varied on the west
(Hoodsport) side of Hood Canal.
Harry Smith of Beacon Point Re-
sort said "business is down some-
what from last year even though
we've had good weather. Many of
our guests come from out of state
and many wrote this summer and
told us they weren't coming back
because they couldn't depend on
Voters in the Southside School
District will be asked to approve
a bond issue and a special levy in
the Nov. 2 elections. The funds
raised would be used for the con-
through the Simpson Timber Co.
waterfront plants which have been
held throughout the summer will
end Friday.
The tours will be held again next
summer.
Sunday
P.U.D. Building
F.D.I .C.
Electric power will be out in
much of Mason County from mid-
night Sunday to 3 a.m. Monday
while Bonneville Power Adminis-
tration crews perform emergency
work .at the Sheltolt and Mason
Substations.
The power outage will be in the
entire Shetton service area.
PUD 3 crews will take advan-
tage of the outage to do some
work on that system also.
Anyone interested in going
through the plants on a special
tour until the regularly scheduled
tours are resumed can make ar-
rangement by contacting Jim
Hartley at the Simpson office.
PICTURED HERE ARE seven girls who rep'e- New York, Sonya Anderson of Minnesota, Anne
sent the Ambassador for Friendship program and Marie LeFee of France, Miss Ryan of East Afri-
were recent visitors in the community of Hoods.ca, Befit Andersson of Sweden and Masoko Yam-
port. From eft to r ght are: Diane St. John of anouchi of Japan.
• D ed with the states of Lou~sza~a have been sta n wzth Ame
By CATH]~ IIOAR ' , " " , yi g " rican
Recently the community of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, families in the United States. The
Hoodsport was honored witl~ foul" New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, six of them had been supplied
foreign college students and two California and Washingto11. with $300 to meet their expenses
struction of a multi-pu,,pose build-
ing at the district's school.
The school board took the ac-
prominent American college stu-
dents as their guest for the dura-
tion of four days•
Through the Ambassadors re1"
Friendship program the girls: a
~11
six are young ladies, have been
touring the United States this
summer. They began their journey
July 19 from St. Paul, Minn.,
where the six are attending col-
Dege at Macalester. Si~ca this
time they have become acquaint-
This nationwide program in-
cludes some 400 other foreign stu-
dents who have presently ~0een
touring the United States. The
specific group the girls are in in-
cludes only 32 foreign young peo-
ple. They were selected from an
array of 300 applicants. The two
Americans who accompany each
group mu~t be students of Mac-
a~ester College.
Throughout their tour the lirlg
for the trip:
Tile Ambassadors for Friendship
program is in existence so that
the students affiliated with it
might become better acquainted
with Americans from all walks
of life and with the comnlunities
they live in.
The girls arrived Aug. 22, in
I-Ioodsport and durh~g their stay
in }ioodsport were house guests
(ContAnued on Pa~i;e 4).
the weather'. The floating bridge
has also taken customers awa~v.
Good salmon fishing recently has
picked up our business consider-
ably, though," he gaid.
Down the road a few miles at
Rest While Park Mrs. Earl Mauge
had a diffe~rent story. "W'.'ve
topped every month (of 1964) so
far," she said. Mrs. Mauge at-
tributes Park imt)rovemcnts and
good weather to the business im-
provement.
Mrs. Florence Warfield at W~r-
field~s Resort said .l~usine~s .wasn'.t
,'~ffeeted to6 ,m~mh: this ~'sumtuer, MY
tl~e weather becat~se "we usually
have many of the same clientele
year after year." She did say, how-
ever, that "Some resort owners in
the area think the bridge has tak-
• S "
en some of their busme.s,
MRS. BOB Frederickson at
Hoodsport Marina painted a bright
picture. "Weather is the making
of our business. We've been real
busy this summer." The Marina
is a boat launching and fishing
supply facility.
Betty Williams of The Grove,
where a restaur~mt and trailer
park is opcrated, said the restau-
rant business is a bit off this sum-
mer because people want to he out-
side in the nice weather and on
the beaches. "There seen] to be
many more trailer and camping
outfits this summer", she said.
Reports were glowing from the
Union side of the Canal• Mrs. Ran-
dall Updyke of Hood Canal Ma-
rina said the "weather l~as made
a tremendous difference• This is
our best year so far." Hood Canal
Marina is a launching and sales
and service operation•
Ed Floyd, manager of Alder-
brook Inn, said business is 15
pel'cent better this summer a~]d
credits the good weather for the
increase.
William Ellison, who operates
Bald Point Resort across the Ca-
~}al from Union, stated that his
business is "much better this sum-
mer with probably about one-third
more business (thorn last year)•"
tion to get the proposals, to the FRESHWATER resort owners
voters at a special meeting last in the county also indicated that
Thursday nig.'ht. . .... this summer has been a "btg"
The Pond Issue ~0 oe pu~ on tne
• ' season.
ballot would raise $41,325,for the "Tile warm weather has really
proposed building ~hile tne one-
......... I brought out the people and lots of
yca~ special levy WOUlO plovloe i ,,
• ' " trailers, said Lois Reed of Lake
$15,000.
STEVEN D, Johnson, Olympia
architect, has prepa~'ed prelimi-
nary plans for the 50 by 80 foot
structure. The estimated cost is
$65,400.
The school district has reques-
ted $25,000 from federal forest
funds fz'om the county commis-
sion to assist in the financing.
The p~)posed building would
serve as a gymnasium, auditorium
and space for the school band
Cushman Reso,'t. "This is our best
summer in the last four or five
years," she said•
"Much better than last year,"
said Essie Giblet of Giblcr's Cove
on Spencer Lake, who added that
the weather *'certainly has made
a big difference."
A1 Tupper of T~lpper's Resort on
Lake Nai]watzel shared this en-
thusiasm• Tupper said his business
at the lake has been improving
steadily over the past three years,
"but this is an exceptionally good
3,ear. Resort improvements, word~
of-mouth and of course, the good
weather, have been responsible",
Tuppcr said.
program,
The present school building is
being utilized for class roolns.
There are no facilities for Physi-
cal Education in bad weather and
the band has been using the old
school building.
The vote on the bo,zd issue and
special levy will come along with
the school board elections to be
held on that date• I~ilings"' for
school board positions in the coun-
ty open Sept. 3 and co,~tinue
thz~ugh Sept.. 13.
NO WORD YET
Local American Field Services
Chapter officials have received no
word yet from the National AFS
office in New York when Nadia
Biblawi, Suez, Egypt, will arrive
here, Miss Biblawi, who will be an
exchange student at Shelton High
School during the coming year,
was supposed to have arrived
about 10 days ago but local AFS
officers were notified that her ar-
rival would be dela~d,
The Twanoh Grange planned to
ha.re its first: m,)eting in its new
Grange Hall bctween Belfair and
Allyn Fi'iday night--but they will
~ve to go back to meeting in the
~:hm'ch which has been their most
recent meeting pla¢:e.
The new Grange Hall, on which
they had been ,A,orking for the
past two ye~t~'s is in a shambles,
shattered by an explosion early
Taesday morning.
The blast, apparently some type
of explosive set off deliberately,
toppled the conc~'ete walls of the
basement and shattc, red the north-
east corner of the wood frame
building above. The rcst of the
b u i l d i n g s~ffered considerable
damage f~'om twisting and crack-
ing from the force of the explosion.
Mason County Sheriff's officers,
who investigatcd the explosion,
said it: was appa~ently encased by
some type of high c:xplosive deton-
ated electrically•
THE WIRE, which ran f~om
the explosive charge to a side
road some distance from the build-
ing has been recovered by the
Sheriff's office and tire tracks
leadi~g into the side road arc be-
ing investigated.
"We have several good clues
which will aid in the investiga-
tion", the Sheriff's office said•
The explosion oecured at 6:10
a.m. and was heard as far as 10
miles away. A nlmber of residents
in Allyn, some 1~ miles away, re-
ported hearing the blast.
The explosion was reported to
the Sheriff's office about 7:30 a.m.
by Henry Dahl, Belfair, who had
observed the c~mctition of the tmil-
ding when he went past on his
way to work.
Work on the Grange Hall start-
ed about two years ago, and
Grange members had put in many
hot;rs of vohmteer work getting
it, built. The building was almost
completed and was to have been
used for the Grange meeting Fri-
day night, Mrs. I)ol'othy Harper,
secretary of the Grange said.
The building was insured for
$5,000, she said.
Twanoh Grange ~e~wcs the north.
end of M a.~on Connty with mem-
bers from Allyn, Belfair, Victor
and Tahuya. The Grange has been
in existanee for a number of years,
pnt, h~xs never hn,d a Grange hall.
Meetings have becn held in the
Belfair and A]lyn Fire Halls and
ill a church at various times.
Labor Day
Ho/ida y To
Be Observed
..... iMost S ~ on ~ .' n ..~.es, city,
cdtmty, state and federal govern-
ment Will be closed Monday in ob-
servance of the Labor Day holi-
day, wi~ich traditionally brings the
summer season to a close.
The Post. Office will observe its
usual Sunday and holiday mail
schedule, with mail arriving at and
leaving from the Post Office and
distributed to Post Office boxes.
There will be no rural or city
carrier delivery of mail.
Schools in the county will be
opening Wednesday.
The Journal will publi:]h at the
regular time next week, but. since
the office will be closed Monday,
any advertising or news items
which can be gotten in Thursday
or Friday will ~)e appreciated.
The Mason Co~mty Commission
meeting normally hcld on Monday
will be held Tuesday from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
ON ADMISSIONS LIST
On the list of admissions to the
University of Puget Sound for the
start of classes this fall are Cher-
yl Bead, Thomas R. Lowe, Rich-
ard Mackay, James Richards and
William R. Stews.rt.
POWER OUTAGE
All power in the
Sheltou service a r e a
will be off from mid-
night Sunday, Septem-
ber 5th until 3:00 a,.m.
Monday, September 6.
Bom eville P o w e r
has emergency work
to perform a,t the Shel-
ton and Mason substa-
tions.
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