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GOI? S.E. 86th Ave
Portland, Ore
M||| Auction Se||s Bargains
The first items to go under
as the sale of the equipment
in Rayonier's inoperative pulp mill
here started Tuesday morning were pipe wren-
ches. This group of employees of the Milton J,
Wershow Co. were handling the auction.
Recommends
In Shooting
Jury recommended
Attorney Byron
"appropriate lc-
against Pric-
Lake, as the
accident Aug.
life of Mrs. Ev-
42.
six witnesses in
session last
six-man jury
FPaichantie met
result of a gun-
that the act or
in discharg-
neither just/-
de and was sp-
in nature.
that ap-
be taken by
authority.
18 this month,
juvenile auth-
inc jurisdic-
the coroner's
she had fired
Fruichantie dog
Fruichantie' s
showed
Smith fired was
the bullet
for the
4.H .
006ers 6omg
THE SMITH and Fruichantie
h, rues are across the road from
each other along Lost Lake road
about 10 miles from Shelton.
vlrs. Fruichantie was picking
oeas in the family garden when
one of the bullets which Miss
Smith fired at the dog traveled a
distance of about 373 feet, strik-
ing Mrs. Fruichantie in the chest.
Death resulted from asphyxiation.
lXiss Smith testified that she
fired the shots from the porch of
the Smith home, the first while
tne dog was on the Smith prop-
erty snd the second after he had
crossed the road onto the Frui-
chantie property. She said she
thought the aimed to fire both
shots low, intending only to scare
the dog, not kill it.
Testimony brought out that a
tree at the end of the porch on
the Smith home obscured the view
ot the Fruichantic home so that
very likely Miss Smith would not
hoxe seer Mrs. Fruichantie out in
thc garden.
TESTIFYING at thc inquest
were Joe Fruichantic. husband of
the dead woman; her daughter,
Mona, 15; Miss Smith; her mother,
ra. Robert. Smith; Sheriff D. S.
(Sam) Clark and Chief Deputy
vr: F: Anderson.
MeClanahan, acting in his ca-
pacity as coroner, presidcd at the
request.
Members of the coroner's jury
were John Ragan, Ken Fredson. L.
A. Carlson. Jim Pauley, Richard
Angle and Ken Latham.
Withdrawn
Signatures
Kill LID
The SheltOn City Commission
Tuesday voted to reject an LID
for a portion of Seattle Ave. and
a portion of Sixth St. which had
been approved the week before
after being notified by three prop-
erty ovcrs who wantcd their
names withdram from the peti-
tion requesting the LID.
When the three were withdrawn
the percentage of signers for the
area requested was not sufficient
to get approval.
City Engineer Pat Byrne was
authorized by the coml{{ission to
call for bids on a storm sewer
project on Pioneer Way from Eu-
clid Ave. to University Ave. This
is pa:rL of the work for which an
application to the state for the
use of '.5c gas tax money was ap-
proved last week.
Scott Transferred
To Twisp Office
})UA1NE COl T
Duanc Scott, Soil Conservation
Service technician here for the
past tln'ec years, will transfer to
thc Twisp SCS office in Okanogan
County the end of this month, it
was announccd this wect¢.
Succeeding Scott here will be
Roy Hurlbert, who will come here
from Mansfield.
Scott will compiete his duties
here Sept. 28 and Hurlbert will
take over Sept. 30,
Hurlbert is married and the fa-
ther of two children.
a large dale-
the \\;Vestern
Puyallup to
they have
work in
also to demon-
lemed in
day. This
teams made
throughout
Will troop in-
fair:
astuteness
foods, cloth-
and other
that have
raised by 4-H
is from Mason
competing in
Garden,
Jim
Jan-
Mar-
Trotzer and
Senior Live-
Tom Trot-
and Joe
and-
Jackson,
• Junior Cloth-
Bolendcr,
Jackson;
Shrum,
Auseth and
snn County Day.
] Mason' Coun-
aa: they have
Work in Ma-
C/n-
Col-
roertscher
Ceremony
Fair
Day.
part of
Y Bedell and
a sleeve-
on the spot;
will enter
show people
a fine seam.
Will be in
Car-
Robin
vers,
Sternquist,
Dickinson,
Vie-
Doris
and Susan
Some of the
boys are
in 4-H
Curtis Mac-
some of
techniques,
ration dem-
Blair and
Schiller will
and show
Ineals es-
their var-
the
6}
She/ton School
Enro//ment /s
2,826 Students
ECnrollment in the Shelton school
system this year is 2.82t6, the Shel-
ton School Board was informed
by Supt. R. W. Oltman when they
met Tuesday night.
This is 72 more than last year,
he said.
The break-doxm by grades is:
kindergarden, 196; first grade,
231; second grade, 176; thil<l gra¢ie
208; fom'th grade, 202; fifth grade,
207; sixth grade, 200, or a total in
elementary grades of 1,224:
The junior high school has 633
students, with 170 in the seventh
grade; 236 in the eighth grade and
227 in the ninth grade. The sen-
/or high enrollment is 738, with
271 in the 10th grade; 274 in the
11th grade and 193 in the 12th
grade.
The board wa, informed that
the kitchen being installed in the
Irene S. Reed building was pro-
gressmg.
The board discussed a means Of
getting relief during hmch hour
for teachers at Rogers School and
also the difficulty in getting sub-
st/Lute teachers for the Rogers
school.
State 6 0P
Leaders Here
Officers of the Mason County
Central Committee met with three
officers £rom the State Republican
orgsnizaLion in Shelton Tuesday
morning.
Speaking to the group were V.
Y. (Bill) Walter, state Republican
chairman; Charles Henshaw, fin-
ance director and Ed Garrison,
public relations chairman.
Attending from the Mason Com-
ty Republican Central Committee
were Selden VanderWegen, coun-
ty chairman; Addle 2Norris, vice-
chairman; C. Nolan Mason, state
committeeman; Evelyn Stirting,
state committeewoman and John
K. Bennett, finance chairman.
Simpson
Tour Set
For B-E Day
Some 200 Mason County school
teachers and Shelton-Mason cmm-
ty Chamber of Commerce members
are expected to participate Sept.
16 in the annual Business-Educa-
tion Day.
Simpson Timber Company *will
host the group with a panef e-
port and waterfront tour of the
Company's new manufacturing fa-
cilities.
"Simpson las undergone major
changes in the past three years
and we are pleased to have this
opportunity to report thcm and
their significance to the commun-
ity's educators." said H. O. Puhn,
Simpson director of timberland
development.
B-E DAY WILL begin at 9:30
a.m. with a get-acquainted coffee
hour in the Grant C. Angle cafe-
teria. The program will get under-
way at 10 a.m.
si 15uhux- will be moderator of a
• -man panel of Simpson execut-
ives, each of whom will report on
developments in his particular
field.Tim speakers will be Max
Sehmidt, Jr., timberland manager;
Harold Ahlskog, manager, fir and
hemlock sawmills division; Dave
Carstairs, plywood production
manager; John St.entz, personnel
manager; Dick Brewer, comptro!-
ler, and Hal McClary, vice presi-
dent and general "manager of
Simpson hltcrnationat.
Following a no-lmst Imlch in the
Evergreen cafeteria, the teachers
and Chamber members will visit
the pushbutton Sawmfl! Tllrce,
dry kilns and dry lumber storage
shed and new veneer plant on
thc Shelton waterfront.
R. W. Ortman. superintendent
of Shelton school district 309 and
Jim Hartl( v of the Simpson 'staff
are coorS/hating plans for the
day's program.
AI(,I{ESTED
Two llzen were booked at the
Mason County Sheriff's office t'ge
past weei on traffic violations.
They are Weldon H, Matloek, and
Robert D, Botts.
day and Wednesday as the pre-
cedent-setting Rayonier pulp mill
auction headed into its final phase
today.
Yesterday morning the biggest
bargain of all was consumated
when the huge Fourdrinier pulp
making machine, orginally instal-
led at a cost of $780.000 and not
replaceable today for less than
one million dollars, was bid in for
$97.500. The bidder was not iden-
tified. Auctioneers immediately
began offering the machine piece-
meal in an effort to bring a high-
er return.
THE FOURDRINIER ms.chine
was the largest in value single
piece of equipment listed in the
auction inventory.
In contrast to this bid, the low-
est figure accepted by the auc-
tioneers was an eight-cent bid
Tuesday morning for a package of
bolts•
Dm'ing the early phases of the
auction, the first of its kind in
the world, numerous Mason Colin-
ty residents were present and bid-
ding on small items, principally
tools• Articles like pipe wrenches
worth $20 and $25 new were go-
ing for $5 to $7.50.
While the actual auction phase
of this epochal event ends today,
its aftermath will take three to
four months for termination.
REMOVAL OF" THE MANY
large articles sold to bidders, snell
as the Fourdrinier machine, bridge
cranes, huge stainless steel tanks
and vats. barkers, giant motors,
electrical panels and hundreds
of other pieces of heavy equip-
merit and permanent installations,
will require many weeks by skil-
led crews.
Methods of removal will be sub-
ject to approval and supervision
by Rayonier officials.
The auction is being conducted
by the Milton J. Wershow Com-
pany of Portland, Oakland and
Los Angeles, with six auctioneers
alternating at conducting the bid-
ding.
Lions Hear
SpeakerOn
Highways
I Problems in materials for fill
have been solved and the section
of freeway under construction
south of Shelton should be com-
pleted this fall, Ralph Kerslake,
State Highway Department En-
gineer, told the Shelton Lion's
Club last week. The section un-
der construction will bring the
freeway to Lynch road.
.,The next section of the project,
for which funds have been alloted
in this biennium, will bring the
freeway to Cole Road, he said.
IT WILL TAKE time to work
out details for the freeway from
Cole Road on, he said, but, there
are funds available in this bien-
nium to complete studies on the
location.
Kerslake commented that the
Highway Department was in the
midst of a big mowing project,
2.000 in this district. He said
rune mowers have been working
in two shifts a day to keep the
brush and trees down along the
State I-Iighways.
He also commented on the use
to which the roadside litter bar-
rels have been put. They no longer
hold just litter from driving, he
said, but all sorts 'of other trash,
including in one instance, an old
bed spring. On, one clean-up de-
tail" in titis area. he said, nine
truckloads of trash were hauled.
HE ALSO COMMENTED on the
freeway work planned etween
Olympia and Seattle, which is in
progress now or is being planned.
He said there was one mile of
the freeway in Tacoma which
would cost $9 million, and, which
would be the most complicated
interchange in the state.
He also commented that there
are funds on hand for additional
work on the highway from Olym-
pia to the Ocean, ,llicl has'be-
come quite a traffic problem.
Kerslake was speaker at the
first fall meeting of thc Lions
Club held in the Shelton Hotel
last week.
Accident
Claims 2nd
Victim
A second victim of a collision on
Highway I01 near Eldon last week
died in elton General Hospital
Sept. 5
Charles Collins, 82, followcd his
wife, tetra, 85, who died Sept. 3,
tim day of the accident.
Collfhs v as the driver of a car
which collided with one driven by
Simron Burchett, 19, Vancouver
north of Eldon the morning of
Sept. 3:
Investigating officers said that
Miss Burchett was passing another
car when Collins pulled out to pass
a car in front of him and that the
bumpers of the two vehicles hook-
ed. The Collins cat" rolled over an
cmbankment.
Jordan Student Is
Speaker Ai Relaff
A St, Martin's college student
from Jordan was the speaker at
the Shelton Rotary Club meeting
in the Ming Tree Cafe last Thurs-
day.
Abed I(outtainay discussed thc
current religious and political sit-
uation in his homeland and gave
some o its • •
.... hstoncal background.
noes of typical scenes of Asia
Minor and religious themes were
shown.
77th YEAR--NO. 37
Thursday, September 12. 1963
Entered as second class matter at tile p0SI office at Shelton. V%rashington.
tlllder Acl of :March 8. 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cola.
Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington
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16 Pages -- 2 Sections
Nuclear Superiorty Must Not Be Lost
Senator Jackson Tells Audience Here
GREETING VISlTORSJudge and Mrs. Charles
Wright, left, are greeted by Sen. Henry M. Jack-
son, right, at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in
the Shelton Armory last Wednesday night. From
left to right in the background between Judge
Wright and Jackson are.John Sell Mason Cou"ty
Democrat Central Committee chairman; GoV. Al-
bert Resell/n/ and Helen Jackson, wife of the
senator.
Test Ban Treaty Picket Jackson
SUPPORT TREATY--Two of the six persons representing the
Thurston County Ad Hoc Committee for the Test Ban Treaty who
picketed Sen. Henry M. Jackson at the Jefferson-Jackson Day din-
ner here last week stand with one of the signs they carried. The
group star/end themselves at the entrance of the Shelton Armory
and passed out leaflets to those entering. On the left is Mrs. Doro-
thy Robinson, spokesman for the group.
Hearing Set For
The County Budget
Six Olympia residents, repre-
senting the "Thurston County Ad
Hoc Committee For the Test Ban
Treaty" stationed themselves near
the main entrance to-the Shclton
Arnmry with two signs urging the
senator to support President Ken-
nedy in the test ban treaty ratif-
ication. They passed out leaflets to
those attendiig the dinner.
THE" ]LEAFLETS *quoted ' from
an addre*Ss .by the President in
support ofthe, treaty and tstated
that the comnitbe a.gree With
the presideilt and welcomes.:'}ie
t¢t,b, treaty+..a:im: ,!imta
firfit fft'P towat'd,d x orld of piae6.
"We expect the Junior Senator
from Wshihgton to support tlie
Fresiffent hen the Treaty comes
before the Senate for ratification",
the leaflet concluded.
Siikesman for the group was
Mrs. Dorothy Robinson. Other
members were* Jim Robinson, Fred
Gabonry, Bill Shiverley, Dick Ri-
chie and Bob Mackay. Richie and
Mackey are state employees, the
spokesman said• All of the group
were from Olympia.
The Mason County Commission
will hold a hearing at 2 p.m. Oct.
7 on a preliminary budget in which
proposed expenditures of $397,-
333.52 will have to be trimmed
to come within $348,095.37 esti-
mated income.
The preliminary budget is ms.de
up of proposed budgets of the
various departments of county go-
vermuent.
These figawes do not include the
County Higtway Dept. which has
a budget of $621,760 for both re-
ceipts and expenditm'cs.
The department which has the
largest budget, and is asking for
the biggest increase in funds over
the 1963 appropriation is the sher-
iff's department, which has re-
quested $75,470, compared to an
appropriation for ]963 of $59,-.
239.50. A large portion of the re-
quested increase m its funds for
salaries for two additional dep-
uties. Smll increases are asked
for several, items in the operation
and maintenance of the sheriff's
office. Capital outlay includes
$4,000 for the replacement of two
cars.
TIlE BUIXIET for the asses-
sor's offiec, the second largest de-
partment in the county, asks for
$45,750 for the coming year com-
pared to $38.920 in 1963. A large
part of this increase is m funds
for the salary of a forester the
assessor's office had to hire when
it was given tim responsibility
for classified forest land in the
county by the ,.tate legislature.
The capital outlay budget includes
funds for one vehicle.
The auditor's office asks for a
budget for the coming year of
$35.650 uompared to $30.730 for
this year. A large part of the ia-
crease i for additional microfilm-
Arnold Koutoncn, prominent
Olympic business and civic figure,
will be main speaker tonight when
Shelton-Mason County Chamber of
Commerce officers are installed
for their 1963-64 tcnns.
The installation session will be
held in the Colonial House as
President Oscar Lee/n, first vice
president M. M. "Bud" Lyon, sec-
ond vice president Leo Flower, and
new directors Eldon Kahny, Max
Schmidt, and R. W. Oltman begin
the/r new duties.
A social hour at 6:30 p.m. will
precede the 7 p.m. dinner. The
program starts about 8 P.m.
$250,000
ing supplies for thc job of micro- Filed
I in progress.
The budget requested for the A $250,000 damage suit has been
comity extension officc for 1964 filed in Mason Connty Superior
is $10,718 compared to $9.355 for Court against the estate of a con-
this year. The county pays only a
part of the cost of the extension
office with the federal government
providing funds for the rest.
The budget for the Superior
Court Clerk is slightly above the
1963 appropriation with a. request
of $11,899.70 compared to an ap-
] propriation this year of $11,337.50.
The budget for the county com-
mission, with a request of $20,825
for 1964 compareo to $19,225 for
1963, includes funds for new chairs
and benches ['or the commissioners
plc killed in a traffic accident on
Highway 14A Feb. 17.
The action has been filed by
Wendell Loop, 22. Bremerton,
against the estate of Peter and
Mary Timmerman and L. A. Carl-
son as admhistrator for the es-
tate.
Loop and Timmerman were driv-
ers of cars invohred in a head-on
collision on Highway 14A Feb. 17.
At the time of the accident, in-
vestigating officers said T/miner-
man had crossed the center line
room. administration in the highway into tle path of
TIIE GENERAL the Loop car after making a left-
budget, which includes mainten- hand turn.
ance of the courlhouse, is $28,790 I In his suit, Loop claims he re-
in tlie preliminary 1964 budget I calved permanent injury to one
compared to an appropriation of leg', brain damsgc and permanent
disfiguration of tfis face as the
$26.1.02.80 for this year.
The budget for the (q}cration of
the jail, $8.720 in the 1964 budget,
is up slightly from the 1963 fig-
Idre.
The budget for the Juvenile Pro-
bation office of $11,655 for 1964
compared to $10A15 for 1963. 'rite
budget includes funds for a full-
time clerk and a part-time mat-
ron. The 1963 budget provided for
result of injuries sustained in the
accident.
In another damage suit filed in
Superior Court recently, $27.500
in damages were sought for Scott
Miltcnberger, 7. for injmes he re-
ceived when he wss stmmk by a
csr driven by Mrs. Constance Tra-
vis Oct. 10. 1960.
The action was brought against
Mrs. Travis and her husband
a part-time clerk. Frank Tra,vis Jr., by Josepl M/l-
The budget for the prosecuting" tenberger as girard/an of the boy.
attorney's office, uLn a quest
of $17,132 for 1964, compares with
an appropriation of $15,817.50. The
increase is largely in several it-
ems for the maintenannae an oper-
ation of the office.
The budget for the county sup-
erintendent of schools at $11,805
(Colltiaucd ozt page 6)
In the suit, it is claimed the
boy suffered permanent injuries as
the rcsult of being struck by a
enr driven by ]V[rs, Travis on Fifth
There is no harm in signing the
nuclear tesL ban treaty if we can
preserve the means by which we
have preserved the peace, Sen,
Henry M. Jackson told an audience
of about 300 at a Jefferson-Jack-
son Day dinner here last Wednes-
day night.
"Our freedom has been preserv-
ed under a canopy of military
strength and this military strength
must be maintained," Jackson
said.
"VVe have had nuclear super-
iority, but. if we lose this nuclear
superiority, we will lose the peace,
Wc will invite thermonuclear war",
the senator said.
"We must remember who we are
up against and what their aims
are".
Jackson said he would be in fa-
vor of the nuclear test ban treaty
if four conditions he has pro-
posed to the Senate are met.
The four points arc:
1. A vigorous underground nu-
clear testing program.
2. Perfection of our weapons l-
boratories.
3. Be prepared to resume test-
ing if the Russians do.
4. Maintain a vigorous monitor-
ing program to detect any cheat-
ing on the part of the Russians.
Jackson predicted that a tax
reduction bill will be passed by
Congress either this year or early
next year in an effort to speed
up the nation's economy.
The idea is, he said. that more
money in the pockets of conm]m-
ors would increase demand, cre-
ating more production and more
jobs.
The idea may not work, 5ackson
said, but it must bc tried in the
difficult problem of keeping the
nstion's economy healthy.
IT IS MOIRE-difficult to keep
the nation's economy working ef-
fectively than it is to put a man
in orbit, Jackson eommented,
"We must keep our economy
strong", he said, "because millions
of persons throughout the world
are watching Lo see if our system
iS: iwh t,:they:'t .,fr thetnsetve% ....
and, ff thay see that is not work-
ing effectively her,CLIIey xill turn
t somethlng, else."
Jackson came out strougly in
favor of medical care to the aged
under social security, stating that
wc now have free "cradle to the
gTavc" medical servlces available,
but, in ordcr to receive aid, the
person must be a pauper.
It is not fair to penalize those
who have saved omcthing for
their old age by making them pau-
perize themselves to pay medical
bills before they can get assistance.
Gee. Albert Resell/n/ told the
group he plans to take his lecrea-
t/on proposal, which was defeated
by the last session of the legisls-
twe. to the people in the 1964
el action.
HE SAID that the state now
ranls high ill its program in ed-
ucation, institutional care and wel-
fare because of progress made
during recent years of Democrat
administration.
Jackson was introduced by
State Senator Gordon Sand/son
and Resell/n/ by former statc sen-
ator Frances Pearson, now head
of the state transportation and
utilities department.
Jackson was accompanied by his
wife. Helen. who was ms'king her
first visit to Shelton.
Sen. ttenry M. Jackson's views
on the nuclear test ban treaty
brought out pickets supporting the
treater whcn he appeared here at
a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner
Wednesday.
Among out-of-tom gn]csts at
the dinner were Louis Bruno, state
superintendent of public instruc-
tion; Lec Kueeklehan, state in.
surancc commissioner: Otto John-
on, commissioner of the state em-
plo3nnent security department; Mr.
and 1Irs. Frances Pearson, chair-
man of the state transportation
snd utilities commission: Victor'A.
Meyers, secretary of state: Edith
Crousdale. representing the state
treasurer's office; Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Dunker, Olympia: Ernest
Cowan, chairman of the state high-
way commission; Rose Kneeland
secretary of the state Democrati
, chalrmanl
Roy BroxmL Grays Harbor Comt-
ty Democrat central committee
chairman; Gordon Johnson. Thurs-
ton county Democrat Central Com-
mittee chairman, and Maj. Gen.
George M. Haskett, state adju-
/ant general.
Iason County Democrats who
were introducedwere Charles Sav-
age, state representative; John
Sells, county Dcnlocratic Central
Committee chairman; Dr. Harry
Deegan, long-time active connty
Democrat; E. A. Rutledge, 97, life-
long Dcmocrat.
Festival Officer
Election Sept, 20
Election ot' officers to plan and
eamw out the 20th annual Mason
County Forest Festival next May
will be main bushess detail" on
next Tuesday night's meeting of
the Forest Festivsl Association.
President Cive Troy has ea.lled
Lhe first fall meeting of the as-
Street The boy got out of a re- sociation for 8 p,m. in the PUD
hicle driven by his father after 3 confeence 'oom.
it parked and had started across 1 Besides elections general plans
LTe street when he wan hit, the for the 1964 festival qll be d[-