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;SHERIFF'S OFFICE -- Ranger, left, and Cigany, kr-01d German Shepherds, are held by Deputy Sheriff The Sheriff's Department hopes to have both dogs enforcement work to be used to assist deputies hr. * t/ * be added to the sent to the training school Sunday Mason County will be Ranger, a dog owned by a project get- Deputy Sheriff Cecil McLaia. materializes. Clark says he hopes funds will plans to send be available to send a second Ger- Shepherd dogs man Shepherd, recently acquired le department by McLain, to the training school merican Gualxi also. B.C. for The guard dog training group will be recently put on a demonstration for local law enforcement officers to demonstrate what a tl~ined dog can do. The Canadian group not only trains the dogs, but, will train the TO officers who will be using them how to use and handle them to the best advantage. When the dog's training is completed, the officers are given a three-day course in handling the dogs. CLARK STRESSED that the nnln Community dogs, when trained, are not dan- geroUs and are trained to be Un- is offering der control at all times. The dogs new in enter- .are trained not to kill, only to find Oct. 10 when and hold a law breaker until offi- ':(the Tacoma Civic cers arrive to take over. Thc dogs are trained to work to the Junior with more than one officer so that AUditorium for an they would be available for use at r~ance, all times. group of When the training is completed Clark plans to have the dogs wtth earned a .;fine the 0ffieers when they are patrol- 7e~Cellence in qual- ing at night throughout the-court- a~ well as imag- ty. Quite often, these officers are, of a diver- in their cars and investigating a,. The hour and a complaints by themselves. It takes about three months to Will include both train a dog. The dogs will also be ballet so there trained for tracking and can be for everyone to used to search for persons in the brush or woods. Mayor Frank Travis, at the Shelton City Commmsion meeting 1"uesday night, reappointed H. E. Lakeburg and appointed Mark Fredson, each for six-year terms on the city planning commission. Fredson was appointed to suc- ceed Morrie Grunkemeier, whose term on the board expired. He had requested that he not be re- appointed since he had moved out of town. Tracts expressed appreciation to Grunkemeier for his many years of service on the planning corn- mission. The mayor said that there was one vacancy on the city library board, the position now held by Bill Looney, whose term has ex- pired. Looney does not want to be re-appointed to the board. THE COMMISSION voted to pay George Nelson $20 a month for his work as police court clerk. An expenditure of $75 for Pa- trolman Gordon Jay for expenses while attending a law enforEement school at Ft. Lewis was approved on the recommendation of Police Chief Richard Camper. City Supervisor Pat Byrne was instructed to inform Mrs. Cliff Starkey that the cost of opening an alley between Turner and May and 14th and 15th streets was estimated at $1,816.60. The commission recinded a res- olution passed about two years ago setting a guaranteed city parti- cipation rate for LIDs. The com- mission, in taking the action, com- mented that the city had no mon- ey for LID participation. A letter from John Hubbard, asking if something could be done about several old ear bodies in vat'- ious states of disrepair on the va- cant lot across the street from the Timbers Motel was read and re- ferred to Camper. The mayor commented that the city was aware of the problem and it had been discusscd with Camper before the receipt of the letter and efforts were being made to correct the situation. A request from PUD 3 for an easement across city property on East Pine St. (Highway 3) was held for further investigation into what plans the state might have for improvement of the highway there. ..The Mason County Commission approved a division of the Federal Forest Fund money Monday after being informed by County Treas- urer John Cole that the money, $138,236.25, had been received. Half of the money goes to the schools and half to the county road fund, with each getting $69,118.12. )riced at $1 for THE TWO DOGS which the de- ! The school's share of the money for anyone 18 partment has are both about two was divided according to recom- avaiiable at years old~ and are both Gerrhan mendations reccived last week let. 4. Persons in- Shepherds, the breed most ire- from J. W. Goodpaster, county su- may also quently used in police work. perintendent of schools, i Start 426,4357 Ranger has been with the Me- THE DIVISION INCLUDES Ward 426-2080. Lain family, who live at Dayton Shelton, $10,000; Mary M. Knight, sale of tickets for some time. He has been par- $12,000; North Mason, $17,118.12; the Concert As- "grand STOPS Shelton was Saturday by Stages, which for the set- halted by the was re-insti- months ago, again last Sat- bus on the Olympia. tially trained by McLain, whohad experience with dogs in the ser- vice. The other, Cigany (it means Big Black in German) was recent- ly given to the McLains by Imre Szupkay of Issaquah. McLain has agreed to donate both dogs to the Sheriff"s Depart- meat if they are trained for use in police work. Kamilche $5,000; Hood Canal, $8,- 000; Grapeview, $5,000 and South- side, $12,000. Vincent Miller, a representative of the State Census Board, appear- ed at the meeting to discuss the possibility of a county census. He stated that the commission should first determine if there are enough people in Mason County or not to warrent the expense of the cen- sus. He said that the census fore- cast for Mason County's popula- 2151 or 426-3502. Request Gels FasteA©lion Th Hoodsport mothers of preschool age children, Mrs. ann Goes, Mrs. Bob Nesbitt and Mrs. Bill Bryant appealed to the coun- ty commissioners Monday for a The Shelton Lions Club has cross-walk in Hoodsport to make started its Comnmnity Birthday crossing the highway safe for Calendar project for 1966. Funds youngsters. raised by the project arc used to Tuesday noon a fully marked support the club's "glasses for crosswalk was already on the needy children" program, highway in front of the Hoods- For several years the club has port poatoffice. The women, who called on the people of this corn- did not represent an organization munity for their support of this but rather a group of mothers of program which each year helps a small children, expressed their number of Mason County children sincere gratitude for the innnedi- to a better chance for the future ate attention given their request. through eYesight improve mont. S'S--~ Once aj}atn the club asks the Gra participation of the community by placing an order for a calendar when contacted by a Lion member. About Five Acres The Shelton Fire Department and the Department of Natural A flowering bush which grew Resources combined forces Satur- one flat branch am&~g all of its day to extinguish a firc in the other round ones was reported by grass in a field near tile slaughter- Mrs. John Swett, 227 Roosevelt St., house which burned almost five this week. Mrs. Swett said she dis- acres before iL was brought undcr covered thc unusual branch while control. clipping old branches from the THE SHELTON FiRE Depart- flowering bush in her yard. mcnt was summoned first and then the Department of Natural Re- SOUlCeS Was C • " 'allcd. It took the two fire fighting groups about half an hour to bring the l~laze under con- trol with tank trucks and a bull- dozer. The fire was apparently caused by children playing with matEhCS, 10 a.nt, to ;2 pmm,. fire officials said. Jim Connolly, owner of the proI - erty, expressed appreciation to tl)e city Fire De artment for its assist p " . ance, when he appeared at the city commlsslon " ' meeting tuesday night. The fire was outside the city limits. Sales of U S Savings Bonds in ~6?~on County during August were , 45, L. A. Carlson, local =avlnp bond e, haJa aa a. aoua¢ d. 79th YEAR No. 39 Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington 22 Pages -- 3 Sections Thursday, September 30, 1965 Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton. Washington. t,)858.t under Act of March 8, 1879. Pub lishcd weekly at 327 We,~t Cola ]0 Cents Per Copy INST The city won one of the cases Articles Their Auction An appeal for the donation of more articles which can be used in the third annual Exceptional For- esters auction" was sounded yester- day. Contributions for the auction have been a bit slow so fat" and the date is creeping up fast---Oc- tober 8-9-10. The place is the Mason County fairgrounds. Persons with items for the auc- tion are asked to call the Excep- tional Foresters headquarters, 426- 6889, and they will be picked up with gratitude. The auction is the main fund raising activity of the year by the Exceptional Foresters, providing funds for much of the program to train mentally retarded boys in Christmas tree culture and other forestry skills which they can use to provide cmployment for them- selves. Any serviceable article of house- hold goods, musical instruments, electrical appliances, motors, boats, equipment for farms, garages, or loggers, livestock and farm prod- ucts, recreational equipment, old cars, in short almost anything that is still usable will be warmly wel- comed by the Exceptional Forest- ers. School M/1/ion General fund budgets totaling more than $2.5 million and build- ing funds totaling more than $500,000 for Mason County's 10 school districts have been ap- .proved. The budgets were reviewed and approved by the county board of education recently. Budgets in the general fund, which totals $2,548,711.96, range from Haa'stine Island's $13,760.09 to Shelton's $1,612,896.22, with the other districts falling in between. IN THE BUILDING funds, three districts--Pioneer, $12,100; North Mason, $290,588.38, and Hood Canal, $106,301.ol account for al- most all of the funds. Each of these three school districts arc in the process of a building program. Other district general fund bud- gets include, Tahuya, $23,830.66; Southside, $57,601.25; Grapeview, $57,601.25; Mary M. Knight, $99,- 951.75; Kamilche, $33,617.41; Pio- neer, $80,495; North Mason, $401, 787.37 and Hood Canal, $199,- 399.44. POKEY---Max schmidt' Jr., Puhn Plaza at Camp Grisdalc. On the right, an- president of~tbe Chamber of Corfimerce, and Wil- other of the teachers taking part in the annual lard Rublln, Shelton High School teacher, discuss Buslness-Education day, gets a closer look at the the old lokey :"City of McCleary"; which sits, in Iokey. s0me 200 educators and buslm essmen made the: trip hy train to Camp Grisdale:last Friday for the Chamber of Commerce annual Business .Ed~lcation Day.. ' " 'The event' is sponsored annually by. the Chamber to acquaint school personnel :with the business com- munity here. 'This year, the Simp'- son Timber Company wa~s host for heard about variotrs lumber oper- !a,tions, were tt:~eated to lunch by the company and saw a tree-top- and Phil Morrison, personnel sup- ervis0r for Simpson, discnssEd per- sonnel p01icics of the company and the need for attracting young men into the logging industry. THE AVERAGE take-home hourly pay of loggers working at Grisdale, Stentz told the group, is $3.42 an hour, wttich actually costs the company, when the cost the event, with a trip to Grisdale, of fringe benefits is added an av- one of the f.ew resident logging crage of 4.13 an hour. camps :left':in' the' lumbering in, I ,George Adams, Simpson logging aus~ry~ .... ' .: ' , . . : .... ~, [planning supervisor, :and.George With coJppletd cOoperation frbm .[ MOntgomery,: of .the Forest Scr- thc:weatherman; Who pi:ovided'a Vice discussed how the sites which warm, sunshiny day, t~e. group will be logged in the National For- ping and tree-falling demonstra- tion. The group boai'ded four raih'oad coaches at 12th .and Railroad in the morning for the trip over the Simpson tracks,' usually used to lmul logs down from Grisdale and Camp Covey. On arrival at the camp, the group gathered in Puhn Plaza for the start of the program. Acting as master of ceremonies, was Jim Hartley, Simpson public relations man. A WELCOME was given by Rudy Oltman, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, and a re- sponse by Robert Quiggle, super- intendent of schools. Lea Flower, Ranger for the Shelton District of the Olympic National Forest, discussed the nmltiple use concept of manage- meat of the National Forest: The idea; he said, is to get the great- est benefit for the greatest hum' her from the use of the forest lands. Distance and space regulations governing installation of septic tank systems on waterfront prop- erty will be strictly adhered to Max Schmidt J,r., manager, from now on, the Thurston-Masonl Washingtou Timberlmlds Division, Health District stated this week. :for Simpson, and president of the All systems will have to be lo- Chamber, stated that the company, cated at least 50 feet from the over the past several years has water behind adequate bulkheads put a program calling for a $15,- and if a single wide trcnch is used, .000,000 investment in new facil- the total area of the absorption ;ities in Shelton in action. The pro- bed will have to be doubled, gram is scheduled to be completed These regulations lmve been in in 1967, Schmidt said. Simpson, he effect in the past, but, in some il~- said, is attempting to manage its stances, exceptions have been own lands for timber plx)duction granted by the Health Depart-and recreation. ment. On all new construction, The group was then split into flom now on, both o ' f these regu-five sections to visit looations lations will have to be observed, where Simpson and Forest Ser- The regulations are designed for vice representatives discussed vat'- the protection of various shellfish ious phases of logging and timber culture in Puget Sound waters, management. the department said.- ........... John Stentz, personnel manager~ Hearing q)n City Budget I.,; Monday ,..'. " " y Commission 293, is up about $1,000. The bud- will ho[a Its budget hearing at 2 gets for other departments remain nl 2glonday on P.." _ _~, a prelinflnary about thc same as the previous' budget Wn,cn is so-~- ¢~ nnn .... el' that " . ..... v-~,~ year. m~{, t last year in its cur- INCREASES IN the amount of rent expense fund. money collected front property Total expenditure in the cut'- taxes and higher receipts from rent expense budget, which in- state funds because of the increase cludes the general government, ]e- hi population account for most of gM, police and police court engin- the increase anticipated ill re- eering fire and "~at k d ' ~S $295 420 v ' epartments, ceipts. '" ' ' The budget for the city library The largest budget increase is is $22,876, up ehout $1,000 from for the Police Departnmnt, whose last year. budget for the coming year is The water department budgct, $90,307, about $24,000 higher than] at $118,893 is up about $13,000 ast year. from last year. The sewer department, with a budget of $73,500 reflects an in- crease of about $8,000 above last year, wt~ile the garbage depart- ment budget at $36,266 is down sligi~tly from the previous year. The street depal"hnellt budget of $82,770 la up &bout $11,000 Item General government, which in- udes the city commission and clerk-treasurer,s operations, is ~bout $1,500 less titan last year at $55,390. The engineering de $6 000 from ]&st - e "-!p - • y ar. The park d pgr t w1 o=e bud t $9,- est are selected and how the price Simpson will pay is determined. Mark Fredson, log distribution supervisor, and George Boble, log buyer, discussed the uses to which different types of logs are put and presented a demonstration of how a log is scaled. Ron Ring, logging manager, and John Landi, logging safety super- visor, showed slides of some of the latest equipment used by Simp- son and pointed out safety features which were initiated by Simpson and have now been adopted by the industry. Bill Looney, management for- ester for Simpson, and Virgil Al- len, .Forest Service forestry tech- nician, discussed the reseeding !programs carried on by the com- pany and the Forest Service and Six Injured In A total of six persons were in- Jured during the go-cart races at the Shelton Airport Saturday and Sunday according to the Mason County Sheriff's office. Fred Ketchum, Tacoma, suffer- ed a bruised back in an accident While driving one of the catl.s Sat- urday. Marie Ford, Portland, Ore., was the most seriously injured of five persons hurt during the races Sur.- day. She was the driver of a cart which was involved in a collision with one driven by Bill Dowty, Shelton. ACCORDING TO THE Sheriff's Office, the Dowty cart skidded in- to the path of the', Ford cart, causing the Ford cart to go end over end. The woman was taken O ~ * " to Shelt n General hospital w~th chcst injuries and possible head injuries. She was in satisfactory condition. Dowty was uninjured. Others injured Sund~y inchlded Williant Yarborough Jr~, Tacoma, wile required cight stitches in a cut on the inside of his leg, and Ray Harlow, Puyallup, who suffer. ed a swollen left knee. Both were drivers of carts in the ra#es. Roger Tresl,er, Hillsborough, Ore., was hit bj a cart while op- erating s CAP radio at the race site. He suffered scratches and a. swollen upper right arnt. Adul -- Olasses Have Openings There are still ol)ening,; in the adult education classes which have started in the Shelton School Dis- trict, Frank Willard, dh'ector of the program, said this week.o. Classes Which have been sched- tiled are booldeecl)ing, Bislmp sew- ing, typing, and driver education. Anyone wanting ntore informa- tion on the program can call 426- 3151 at 28-350 , a little of the research it) timber production. After a box hmch provided in the cookhouse at Camp Grisdale, the group boarded the train ~or a simrt ride to the site of the tree topping and tree falling dEm- onstrations. Highclimber Ehncr I~undberg dEmonsu'ai.ed haw to top a spar tree while the 1.rce falling was done by Joe Actdey m~d Loren Crass. Pioneer Has Write-in Candidate One write-in c o n t c s t in the school board elections developed this week with tile announcement by Mrs. Jitck (Betty Ann) Shore, that she would be a candidate for the Pionecr School Board. Forrest Koch ires ah'eady filed for the position m the official ill- Jugs which closed last l~'riday. The position is now bcing held by Al- fred Jones, who is not seeking re- election. The Sheros have lived in the Agate arcs for three years and have four s o n s, eric attending She]ton Jm~ior High and three at- tending Pioneer Scllool. Mrs. Shcro has been active in community af- fairs since moving to the area. Her husband is management forester of the Olympic super- visory district for the Department of Natural Resources. In the Mary M. Knight district, in which only one eandidate had filed for three positions up for eleEtion this year, three candi- dates, all incmnbents, were allow- ed to file, and Mrs. Jean Diggle, who had filed, withdrew. Candidates for the Mary M. Knight board are Ralph Cook, Robert Trimblc and Clarence Pal- mer. against it and lost the other in two suits tried in Mason Coun- ty Superior Court Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the plaintiffs, Howard Har~tad and Associates, was awarded $1,603 for services per- formed in the work on plans for a new city hall which was never built. The other plaintiff, Cascade- Olympic Construction Co., lost its suit in a ruling by Judge Charles Wright, who heard the case. Judge Wright ruled that the ordinance under which Cascadc-O~ympic had been awarded a construction contract was invalid since it was con- tingent on the sale of bonds. The judge's ruling came about 2:45 p.m. Wednesday. * =(: Attorneys werc presenting final- ~,~rguments in the suit of Cascade Olympic Construction Co. and Howard I]arstad and Associates against the city of Shelton being heard by Judge Charles Wright in Mason County Superior Court. The trial stm'ted Tuesday morn- ink and at press time Wednesday, City Attorney John Ragan was presenting his arguments t~ the ~onrt. The construction fi/'m and archi- tect are suing the city for payment of expenses and other items in connection with an attempt to build a new city hall in 1961. The ',:'.onsiruction firm is asking $19,- 20.i.13 for the work it did bcforE i~ was told to halt construction, while the architect seeks some $1,- 600 for services in connection with the preparatim) of plans and speci- fications for the proposed building. THE CITY CONTENDS that it does not owe tbc n]ouey, sincc there was no provision for the new city hall in ]961 city budget, and, that the contract which was given to Caseade Olympic was contin- gent upon the sale of general obli- gation bonds tn pay for thc work. The bond issue was rejected by city voters after a petition for a referendum on tl~e proposed bond sale was successfully cirEulated. TestifyinK in the case were a rcprcsentative of the architect, Richard Cissell, fernlcr owner of Chinook Phmlt)ing and Heating. Olympia, who had been given a. sul)-conLrac.t for the plumbing and heating on the job by Cascade ~Oiympic; former ' m a 3' o r Earl 5roore, Riehsrd Yaegcr, president of Cascade Olympic and Mrs. Alma Cat.to, city clerk-treasurer. Moore outlined the events wl~ich had led up to the attempt to build a new city hall. He said investiga- tion into the nccd for a new city hall had been started by the pre- vious city administration :rod had EonLinucd under his adminislration. The arEhitcet was originally hired to look into the possibiIity of con- vcrting the old PUD building (now the Journal office) into a city hall, but, this had been found to be economically unfeasible and plans were started for a new city hall. The intention was, Moore ex- plained, to sell city general obliga- tion bonds to pay for the new building. Bids were sought and oI)oned, he said, and Cascade Olympic was low bidder and the commission w)ted to award the construction contract to them con- tingent upon the proposed bond sale. A B0 U T T H E T I M E coast ruction started, a referendum petition was cil'culated successfully and the bond issue proposal was put to a vote of the people, who rejected it. Moore said that the plans for the new city hall had been dis- cussed with others in the commu- nity, particularly with the Cham- ber: of Commerce, and, that until thc city was notificd that tl~e ref- er endure ctltlon Yeas ", P '." ",~ being circu- lated, had no i~dication that there was dissatisfacL'on.i with the pro- posal. Yaeger testificd outlining the expenses in his firm's claim, which includes $9,686.63 for achml ouL of TWO "= - # pocket cxpensc for planning done, . nt nr el actt,,~l work on the project for ~VW l ~vlt a l,~LI Lhrce days and sLandby costs until -- t]le final" rejection by {he voters. IP ]P} ....~ - Also included in h'is claim is the for urqlarV antiEipated 1)rofit he lost on the v -- job, calculated aL I0 per cent of the Three young Grays Harbor men bid price, or $9.892.50. pleaded guilty Io charges of second Ragan is rel)rcsenting the city dcgree Imrpl}~ry in Mason Cmmty in Lhc case and I)oth plaintiffs a t:c Superior C'~u]'t[ represented by Frank Baker and Two were s e n t e n c e d to the Clifford Cordes, of the firm of Parr Washington Corrections Center by and Baker, Olympia. Judge Charles Wright and a prc ............................. sentence investigation was ordered FESTIVAL MEETING ~'or the third. The Mason County Forest Fes- SentenEed to ~'VCC were Edw'u'(1 tival Association will have its Fox and LeRoy Roland. A l)rc~-scn- annual meeting at 8 p.m. today tencc investigation was ordered for in the PUD 3 Confercncc Room. Norman Hilcr. On the a~enfJa are the election All three were represented in of officers for the coming year eourl, by John B.agan, their court- and the start of plans for the appointed attorney. 1966 Festival. DOES YOUR SON WISN TO BECOME A CUB SCOUT ? Parents and Cub-age boys (8-10~) can find out ahout the Scout program tonifll~t, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m., at thc~e schools: MT. VIEW EVERGREEN BORDEAUX NATIONAL BANK of MASON GGU iTY Member F,D.I.G. , ....... Iltll [ [ J ILl I I Ill " IIII I