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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.
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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
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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 [ [
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