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Percy M Pie
6017 8.E. 86th Ave
Portland, Ore
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PASSES--T. E. Deer, left, passes
Allan Nevitt, the hat of the
Deer retired and Nevitt was
eed him last week. Deer was hon-
ored at a party by his fellow city hall employees
last Friday afternoon. Deer served as Shelton's
fire chief 21 years.
School's foreign
this year will be
instea~l of the
scheduled
Field Service
)rraed this week
~adquarters in
Lodi, 17,
been assigned
l~adia Bidlawi,
)had originally
Republi£
tiie las
to participate
this year and
Passports to the
who were to
U.S. for a year
LIVE with the
in Shelton and
High School
Northern Italy
~sandro Lodi, is
head surgeon
home town.
who is
School.
in a num-
home town
in track corn-
swimming
Board at a
Thursday ap-
with some
*enditures than
ended June
it closes June
Aug. 31,
balances
in the way
the district
it balances
386.95 in
.qpts, more
the pre-
reflected pri-
one the addi-
Heyns High
is paid to
the state,
rum two spe-
Y the voters
II bring the
round $170,-
~loney is be-
new buses
SOme of the
PUrchases of
eflects antici-
projects
Edu-
the district
Which will
MARIO LODI
and rowing, and plays volley ball.
He is interested in engineering
and plans that field as a career.
Marie will spend the school year
here under the sponsorship of the
local AFS Chapter,
Memorial
Building Work
/s Contracted
The Mason County Commission
Monday approved a contract to
W. B. Davis Construction Co.,
Olympia, for the replacement of
the porch of the Memorial Build-
ing.
The Davis bid of $2,683 was the
lower of two bids received Mon-
day. The other bidder was How-
ard Peck Custom Builder, Seattle,
with a bid of $3,518.
The commission received a let-
ter h'om J. XV. Goodpaster, county
superintendent of schools, outlin-
ing a recommended division of
Federal Forest Fund money. The
recommended division, Goodpaster
said, was arrived at at a meeting
of interested school board mem-
bers.
Principal Clyde Brown announc-
ed today, two seniors at Shelton
High School have been named Se-
mifinalists in the 1965-66 Merit
Scholarship competition.
The students cited fin" their high
achievement arc Christine McMil-
lin and Reid ]'reppcrnau.
They are among the highest-
scoring students in the state of
WashingtQn on the National Merit
Scholar:~hip Qualifying Test, ad-
ministered last March in more
than 17,600 schools m~Lionwide.
iM.ore than 14,000 Semifinalists
were appointed across the country.
To become fim~iists, the stud-
ents mnst substantiate their qnal-
ifying test perfornmnce on a sec-
ond examination, snbmit recom-
mendations by their schools, and
fulfill routine requirements. All
Merit Scholars for 1966 will then
be selected from the Finalist
group.
"Much of our future le~adership
will come from these young peo-
pie," said John M. Stalnaker, pres-
ident of the National Merit Schol-
arship Corporation. "Semifinalists
are representative of our country's
most intellectually able young peo-
ple.
"In honoring them, we should
remember that others have contri-
buted significantly to their success:
by encouraging the characteristics
which produce high achievement,
including energy and hard work.
The Semifinalists bring honor not
only to themselves, but also to
their families, their teachers, and
their communities."
Contracts For
School Projects
Are Awarded
TheS'-ncm)n~,'" School Board at a
special meeting last Thursday vet-
THE RECOMMENDATIONS ~n- ed to let contracts for the replace-
clude Shelton, $10,000; Mary hi. ment of the steps behind the Jun-
Knight, $12,000; North Mason, ior High School and for repairing
$16,000; Kamilche, $5,000; Hood the roofing on the Irene S. Reed
Canal, $8,000; Grapeview, $5,000 and High School Gymnasium build-
and Southside, $12,000. This leaves ings to the low bidders in bids
about $1,800 of the schools' share opened earlier in thc week.
of the money to be divided by the The hid for the steps, which lead
commissioners.
The commission voted to with- up the hill fro:.~a behind the Junior
hold action on the division of the High to Mr. View, went to Roller
lno?~y until it is notified by the Construction Co., Shclton, whose
co I ty treasurer that the funds bid was $2,129,08 with a lmnd rail
on the right skte only. Other bid-
have been received, ders were Howard Peck Custom
The commission approved an Builder, Seattle, and W. B. Davis
emcrgency budget appropriationConstruction, Olympia.
of $5,000'for the work to be done The contract for the roofing
ion the Memorial Building.tab
J The commission voted to es . jobs went to Bayside Roofing Co.,
Shclton, whose l~id of $14,730 was
lish a section of thc Cemetery Hill low. The other bidder was Victor
~Road in the Belfair area as a Orlans Roofing Co., Tacoma.
:county road after a hearing on the THE BOARD also voted to add
establishment.
tO a,m, to 2 p,m,
one section of kindergarten with
Mrs. Shirley Krogh as tile teacher
ou a half-time basis. The addition-
al class will lie held in one of the
rooms presently u,~ted for kinder-
ga, rten fronl 11 a.m. to 1 p,m. Each
of the three present kindergarten
rooms have two sections, one in
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C(mtests for positions on the
school boards in three districts in
tile county developed as filinKs
closed Fri(1.ay at the County Aud-
itor's office.
The candidates will be on the
ballot which voters will cast in
the :Nov. 2 election.
A three-way race developed for
one seal on the S hclton School
Board when James Barrom, a
Simpson Timber Company engin-
eer, filed for the position now held
by B. Fcanklin Heuston.
l-Ieuston, an attorney, filed for
rc-clecLion to the position. Also
filing is Valentine Sienko, an em-
ployee of Rayonier Inc., here.
A contest also developed for the
position now held by Mrs. Betty
McClanahan, who is not seeking
re-election. Candidates for the po-
sition are Richard C. Brewer,
Simpson division comptroller, and
Les Joslin, an insurance agent.
IN THE NORTII Mason District,
two candidates filed for the posi-
tion now held by Kenneth Leath-
ern]an. Lcat;herman filed for re-
lcction. His opponent will be 3er-
ry Reid. Leatherman was appoint-
ed to the position when a member
of the board resigned.
Filing for the position on the
North Mason Board now held by
Chm'les Amacher are Raymond
KronquisL and Charles Drake. Mrs.
Ahna Jacobsen is unopposed for
re-election to the board.
TIlE KAMILCIIE School Dist-
rict also has two candidates for
the one position on its board which
is-up for election this year. The
two candidates are Mrs. Norma
Taylor and Phillip Stoehr. The
position is now held by Mrs. Vcr-
na Ellison, who is not seeking ,re-
election.
Othm:s wlm have filed fbr seh~i
board positions include Phyllkq
Fixmer for relection to the Tahu-
ya board; Cas Visminas for the
position on the board now held by
Arthur Bakke; Sarah Clayton for
the position on the Grapeview
board now held by Charles Walk-
er; S. N. Bannsgard for re-election
to the Harstine board; Jean Diggle
for a position on the Mary M.
Knight board; Forest Koch for the
position on the Pioneer Board now
held by A1 Jones, who is not seek-
ing re-election; Ted Bailey, Herb-
ert Baze and Robert Smith, for
three positions on the Hood Canal
Board--Smith and Baze seek re-
lection and Bailey the possition
now held by Russell Viger.
TWO POSITIONS on the Mary
M. Knight board; those held by
Robert Trimble and Clarence Pal-
mer, do not have any candidates
filed for them.
Two positions on the County
Board of Education have candid-
ates while a third does not.
Robert Kimbel has filed for re-
election to the county board. Fil-
ing for the seat held by the late
Eugene Taylor is Harry Robert
{Bob) Wiles. The position on the
county board held by Ken Chap-
man does not have a candidate.
Two cases filed in Mason Coun-
ty Superior Court several years
ago over an attempt to build a new
city hall will be heard by the court
starting Tnesday.
The two cases, which have been
combined for the court determina-
tion, were filed by Cascade Olym-
pia Construction Co., against the
City of Shelton and against How-
ard Harstad and Associates, archi-
tects.
The company seeks $24,614.96
from the two defendants for work
It claims was done on authoriza-
tion from former mayor Earl
Moore and the architect.
THE ACTION was the result of
an advertisement for bids for the
construction of a new city hall by
~he city commission tn 1961. The
city intended to sell bonds to pay
for the new buil'ding. Cascade
Olympia was Lo have had the con-
tract for the work.
About the same time bids were
opened and the city started to sell
the bonds, petitions for a referen-
dum to put the issue to a vole of
the people were circulated success-
fully.
In an election July 16, 1961, the
proposed bond issue was defeated.
Cascade Olympia claims it was
told to go ahead with the start of
construction by the mayor and
architect before the referendum
petitions were received and then
stopped from going ahead with the
project. It claims the damages for
work performed and for time lost
waiting for the outcome of the
vote.
A train trip to Camp Grisdale
over the Simpson tracks and a
look at the latest in timber har-
vesting are on the slate for the
Shelton Chamber of Cmnmerce's
annnal Business-Education Day
Friday.
There will be no school in the
county for the day and teachers
will make the trip along with
Chamber members in the annual
event sponsored by the Chamber
to give the educators a look at
some part of the business com-
ruunity.
Included in the prograan, to be
put on by the Simpson Timber
Company, are talks by Simpson
and U.S. Forest Service officials,
a slide show, and demonstration.,:
of timber harvesting.
A loggers lunch will be served
at noon in the camp cookhouse.
The train will leave from a lo-
cation at 12th St. and Railroad
Ave. promptly at 8 a.m. and will
return about 4 p.m.
Friday will be the first time
in seven years that Simpson has
run passenger cars over its rail-
road, which is used to bring logs
down from Grisdale and Covey.
Arnold Fox has been appointed
Chairman of the Christmas Seal
Campaign for the Mason County
Chapter of the Tuberculosis and
Health Association.
Fox's appointment was announc-
ed by Dr. William Schumacher,
president of the association.
Fox is starting immediately to
organize workers for the an'nual
fund drive. The first mailings of
Christmas Seals will be madc the
first part of November.
A chairman for the Union-Bel-
fair area is being sought to suc-
ceed Mrs. Beulah Nichols, who
is unable to accept the chairman-
ship again this year.
Some of the funds from this
year's campaign will be used for
Mason County's share of the sup-
port of a professorship in respi-
ratory diseases at the University
of Washington Medical School.
lhc nlorning and ()lie ill the after-
noon. ,Is C-HARiTrER MEMBERS---When the new Shelton 15 of its membe,'s and officers, 8remeeton s x,
Thc board also approved a tn '-~°~°~im.mt Club received its official charter Fr[- Olympia, 11, Vashon six, Seattle four, Chehalis-
fcr of $23,000 fr(ini the general aay grit dur ng a banquet program at A dec, Genitalia five, Grays Harbor two, Vancouver one.
fl;md In the building fund to re- brook nn, tiles
.. . e charter members were present: The charter presentation was made by Miss Peggy
pmce money borrowed from the[ (.j runt., row) Virginia Grout, treasurer; Macjorie Couse of Bremerton, DIstrmt 1 director, the nstal,
mill(ling fund earlier. ~ur,ung, vine-president; Joy K Iboupne, pres dent; lation of officers carried out by Mrs. Mary Vi-
i
(Cencter)_Sh!rley Beelik, Mae Grant, Lucile Wojahn, chaels, past Olympia president, and the main talk
NOllOitlTY PLiCDGE , Nan y BecKwith, secretary, Mabel Quiggle, Ira of the evening was made by Mrs. Dorothy Button
Cheryl Boad, She]ton, was Cook.;. (back) Jeannette Hans=n, Mickl Gules, board of Bellingham, past gover!lor of the Northwest
alnono ll
a; g ,e, coeds at University of ~l~2pVnea,n Bg~ladine Duffey, Edith Savage, Jerry Region Soroptimist Federat|on of America, Many
± }tget Sound pledged to sororities . _ • let charter members not pictured in- other clubs and organizations, in. M.ason County
at the beginning of the fall se-c.lu.oe Huth Boysen, Evnestine Furlong, Frances sent representatives to tne charter banquet and
;Betamester'phi.She was pledged to FI ~;~;~°~lt~;dp =oeoptlmlltIMuriel Dombro.kl,fl.ov~ Pol'tTheol'ohlrd'ponl°ringltnt many publi= offioial, attenaea,
Voters in Mason County will
face proposals from the cmmty
government and from their school
districts designed to straighten
out financing pzoblems created by
conflicting laws passed by the last
session of the state legislature.
School districts are asking that
their mill levy be continued at 14
mills even if property assessment
rates are raised to 25 percent as
provided by one of the two state
laws. The other law, wtlich nulli-
fies, in effect, the assessment per
centage increase, freezes dollar
collections from property which
has no improvements at their 1966
levels.
THE COUNT1' is asking voters
to approve a continued levy of
eight mills for the current expense
fund and 10 mills for the road de-
partment even if assessments are
increased.
County Auditor Ruth Boysen has
received resolutions from all school
districts and the county commis-
sion asking that these proposals
be put on the Nov. 2 election bal-
lot along with candidates for
school board.
Voters in the ShelLon School
District will be asked to decide on
another proposal at the Nov. 2
election, also.
The school board at a special
meeting Thursday night voi.ed to
)ut before the voters a proposal
to transfer $26,000 from a fund
now held for the construction of
et swimming pool to be used for
the improvement of physical edu-
cation and athletic facilities for
the high school.
The plan is to de,,clop facilitica
on property now owned by thc
school district adjacent, Lo :ML.
View School for a high school foot-
ball and baseball field.
Some work has ah'eady been
done in the area through the ef-
forts of the Shelton Fullback Ch.lb.
Also slated for use in the de-
velopment of the field is the pro-
ceeds from the sale of the Lincoln
School property, which is in the
process of being put up for bids
by the district.
VOTERS MAY II turned down
a proposal to take the money from
the swimming pool fund for use in
the ~hool general fund. The mo-
ney originally came from a bmM
issue voted in 1944, but, never
used because of lack of additiona1
money for the construction of a
swimming pool.
The mill levy proposal which
will be on the Nov. 2 ballot is a
means of keeping school finances
in the districts from being hurl
by two conflicting laws passed by
the last session of the State Lcg-
islature.
The proposal which will appear
on the ballot is authorization Lo
continue the school millage rate
at 14 mills even if the assessment
percentage in the county is raised
to 25 percent.
One of the conflicting laws state
that the assessor must raise pro-
pmty assessment rates to 25 per-
Fesdval Annual
The annual meeting of the Ma-
son County Forest Festival Asso-
ciation will be held at 8 p.m. Sept.
30 in the PUD 3 Conference Room,
president Clive Troy annovnced
this week.
Business of the meeting will in-
clude election of officers of the
association for the coming year
and the start of plan~ for the 1966
festival.
Everyone who bought a Forest
Festival Button last spring is a
member of the association and is
entitled to a vot~ at thc annual
meeting.
PLEDGED
Richard E. Mackey, Shelton, was
among the students pledged to
fraternities at the University of
Puget Sound at the beginning of
the fall semester.
cent of the full value, while the
other frcezcs the amount of money
which any piece of property pays
uu(ler the 40-mill limit to the
amount paid this year, unless there
have be~n improvements to the
property.
Another section of tile law in-
stzucting the assessors to raise
Lheir assessment ]'aLe to 25 per-
cent contains the fornlllla under
which state apportionment money
for seh(~)ls is distributed. Under
this formula, if a school district
does not assess the nlaxinllliTl of
14 mill~, its apportionment mo-
ney is reduced the amount which
would bc raised if the 14-mill levy
were used.
UNDER TIlE I,AW freezing tax
revenue at the amount collected
this year, if the assessor raised
tim percentagc figure hc uses from
the present 20 percent to 25 per-
cent, a lower mill levy would have
to be used so the amount of tax
dollars would not get above the
level aL which they were frozen.
If this were done, the school
district would theu loose part of
its state apportionment money
sines its millage would have to
be below 14 mills .to stay within
the limits to which tax revenue
were frozen.
The proposal which will be be-
fore the voters would authorize
the school district to continue its
mill levy at 14 mills even if as-
sessment rates were raised to 25
percent, if "~pproved.
The county, while it would not
be faced with the loss of state
revenue in addition to a. ceiling on
tax revenues, wonld bc faced with
the problem of how to meet the
growing needs of the county with
limitcd increases in assessed wtI-
ua.tion to produce additional rev-
enue.
St: Edwards Catholic Chm'cll
wasn't quite the same last Sunday.
Father Mark ~asn't in his ac-
customed place m the pulpit, a
place he has occupied with punc-
tuality, dedication, and distinction
sines 1935.
Fathcr' Mark had been retired
from his duLics as head of the
Shelton parish a few days earlier,
shortly after his 90th birthday,
and is now living in comparative
ease at St. Martin's Benedictine
Abbey at Lacey, where he is oc-
cupied with writing his memoh's,
hears confessions and says daily
Mass, and wllere "they treat me
like a king", to use his own words.
FATItER MARK Wiccllmann
will be missed by other than his
parishoners. Patients at Shelton's
hospitals and nursing holnes re-
ceived daily comfort fron~ his
eheerfnl, spirit-lifting visits. He
missed no one, regardlessof
church affiliation.
Punctuality was one of his oIlt-
standing characteristics. St. Ed-
wards pari,*honers knew exacA;ly
to the minute wi~en Mass would
begin. Hospital cmployes knew ex-
actly to the minutc when he would
arrive. Bank personnel knew ex-
:acLly when he would be on haled
Monday morning ~;ith Snnday's
church tythings.
Just n month ago yesterday his
90th birthday was honored at a
vecept;ion from 2 to 4 p.m. Father
Mark arrived exactly aL 2:00 and
left at exactly 4:00.
Now he is retired from the
heavy responsibilities of head of
a sizeable parish. 'But you can
bet your last dollar he ,will do
whatever retirement brings to him
on a strict schedule.
His successor at St. Edwards is
Father Gabriel Donohue, who
comes from St. Martin's College.
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Member F.D.I.C.
NATiOHAL BANK
of MASON
"Mrs. 'Arris Goes To P, arli: nent"
To Be Reviewed by MRS. ]]I,]RBERT PLUMB
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1965 -- 1:30 P.M.
PLACE: Holne.of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Ashford
WALKER PARK ADDITION
Sponsored by Episcopal Church Women
DONATION $1,00