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E is 16. son of Mr. and Mrs. : Inl‘eported to Army Air thfers at Chanute Field, . a if week to begin train-v hivlation cadet engineer, of 3 education at the Un— ashington qualified ii. {A “l H AIR CORPS 1);: Shelton youths have fused the physical quali- V'Ngrs- Walter Snelgrovc, gta‘det aviation training Mon State College, and we. Son of Mr. and Mrs. ; e- now of Bremerton. mare graduates of Irene gh school in recent IFSON TRAINING helLAKn-s STATION ~ 1:011. son of Mr. and Elson of Capitol Hill :1‘ Shelton prep foot- tck athlete, is now in he Great Lakes Naval tlon. ed in the Navy at w her the Army air corps ’ . tr“! awaiting their calls [3 l“ * “nine- erb Snelgrove, son of It ’i who call this community “home” find our 1‘ N: 1nterests here. We take pride in our commun- V, “i? share the joys and sorrows of our neighbors Intimate vein to be found only in the typical l‘Vice to our community and its ,Of our newspaper. It is upon that foundation of our community to be found . Our interest and concern for our community. :‘1 and things which are your first interest, Our readers represent a great family circle. ,ei‘chant or manufacturer who would gain the band attention of this great family can find e(hum to equal the eager, friendly reception 'Which this newspaper is received into these prestige which this newspaper enjoys has achieved through the years it has dedi- llnity and our people. ' r I“anew our labors for improvement and growth OUR BOYS MOODY. D. 6017 S. o. E. 86TH PORTLAND. OREGON Gm use? film ti EMBED AREAS I l i people is the imate. neighborly week- no other newspaper can you all the home news, l he best interests of our 1n the year that lies to improve and to grow, ut— FORM news about Boys in the O the Journal DAVE DALBY ENLISTS WITH COAST GUARD Maybe it’s their years on Hood Canal, but when the Dalby broth- ers, Ed and Dave, sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dalby of Water- wheel district, offered their serv- ices to Uncle Sam they both chose acquatic forces. I Ed has been in the Navy Since early in the year, and two weeks ago his younger brother, DaVe. former star athlete at Irene Reed high school, enlisted in the Coast Guard. Dave heaved the discus to .a state high school record while wearing the Shelton red and black in 1940 and in 1941 at the Uni- versity of Washington freshman track meet with St. Martins Col- lege the Dalby brothers caused considerable comment from sports writers when Dave, tossing for the Frosh, took first in the discus and second in the shot while brother Ed, Wearing Ranger livery, second in discus and first in shot. JACK CATTO RETURNS FROM LONG CRUISE Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Catto were joyfully surprised early Monday morning to be awakened by long distance telephone call from their son, Jack, from Vallejo, Cal-v telling them of his return from six months at sea with the NEW)?- Jack said he had been ashore just two hours during that SIX month cruise. He didn’t say whe' ther his ship had been in actlon or not. Jack, incidentally, promoted to the ran the l has been k of second yam“ V wh h Dakota, seVeral ur‘ng Summer vacation. class seaman. (Continued on Page TWO) lle visiting relatives l REGPENED FOR PUBLI_(_3_.ACCESS The Journal went to press yesterday, state and fed- eral forestry officials slm'lil- tansously declared the fire hazard has ceased to exist and all areas heretofore clos- cd to entry for that reasorli are now again open to pub-l lic access, so hunters will be able to pursue game through- out Mason County as they have in the past. Mason County’s deer and bird hunters, in addition to spending the past few days preparing their gear for the scheduled opening of the annual hunting seasons next Sunday, have been keeping their fingers crossed and praying for rain. If they don’t get the rain—quite a generous helping of it—chances are strong that the state game department or the Army or the Forestry Department will step in an delay the opening until weath— er conditions have removed the fire hazard which now exists in the woods. Best thing hunters can do is keep their ears cocked on their radios for last minute announce— merits concerning action by one of the agencies mentioned above on hunting Seasons. l Closures To Remain After taking note of the re— strictions already mentioned, an— other subject requiring careful at— tention of deer hunters is the doe deer area in that part of the county lying to the east Of the Olympic-Bayshore highway boundary. In that area shooting of doe deer will be premitted dur- ing the first week of the seaSon, or from Oct. 4 through Oct. 11. Here again areas closed to entry for fire hazard reasons must be taken into consideration. Bear, Grouse Also Prey Bear and ruffed grouse are oth- er eligible prey of hunters alongl with deer Sunday, always with, the proviso, of course, that the‘ season is not delayed. i Hunters this year are urged to see that all deer hides are utiliz— ed and not needlessly wasted. If a hunter has no specific use for his deer hide (or elk later when that season opens) he is asked to turn them over to a game pro- tector who will see that it reach- es the proper agency to be utiliz- ed in the war effort. Got it all straight, Mr. Deer- 51ayer? Then hie yourself forth and have a good timer—and the. best of luck to you, And as a last bit of precaution, ALWAYS ASSUME IT IS A HU- MAN UNTIL DEFINITELY PROVEN. OTHERWISE, then no one Will be killed in the woods. Remember. help is hard to get these Wfil‘ days, so let’s not re-- fluce it any further by killing men in the woods. 3 Shelton Craft“ In C.G.R. Revue; Flotilla Active Three crafts representing the re- cently organized Shelton flotilla l S_ of the Coast Guard Reserve parti- cipated in the big revue at Ta- coma Sunday for flotillas in this district. They were the ‘Nomad,’ skip— péfigy’by 1Frank L. Chase, the . s ippered b R0 J. Kimbel, and the ‘Heiibie gick,‘ skippered by Herb Angle. Respective crews manning the three Shelton craft were Glenn Chase,_ R. B. Dickey, Hal Olstead and Bill Somers on the ‘Nomad’; Phil Bayley, Ed Faubert, Hal k Briggs and Bob Kimbel on the ‘GYPSY’; and Frank Wolf, George Cooper Jr.. and Hal Grant on the ‘Herble Dick’. .At next Monday’s weekly flo— tllla ‘Peenng. details of navigation and “1195 Of the road’ will be taken up as instruction in var- a lous phases of water education is continued. At this week's meeting first instruction in navigation was begun. l Sheltonians Visit Soldier At Spokane Mrs.Velma Ba1dwin, Mr. and Mrs. Ed O‘Connor, and little ‘Pug’ 0 Connor motored to Geiger Field, near Spokane, last weekend to ViSIt Soldier Royal ‘Nick’ Bald- win, son of Mrs. Baldwin. ng Seasons ME- OPENIN ORR-Members of Schoolboy . Patrol of 1.94:;43 Picke H = .1.- .{ _- ; llllllillll TO BE RIVAL 0F , HIGl-lCLIMBERl. Fans who saw Shelton’s open- ing lineup at Aberdeen two weeks ago won’t recognize the starting eleven Coach alt Hakola plans to put on the ield this afternoon when the Highclimbers make their first home appearance (one of but two scheduled on Loop Field this season) against the Raymond Sea- gulls. The kickoff is slated for three o’clock today (Friday) and the team the Highclimber grid men- tor figures he’ll give the starting nod will be: Don Smith, center; Rusty Viger and Lowell Jarvis, guards; Bill Stevenson and Dick Fitchitt, tackles; Clyde Landsall and Jack Beckwith, ends; Joe Parsons, quarterback; Dick Rector and Norm Temple, halfbacks; and Jim Howarth, fullback. Landsall is a transfer from New Mexico and has been Show— ing the Shelton coach a lot of ginger in practice, while several sophomores have been looking good and have been given oppor- tunity to prove themselves in game action as a result. These sophs include Viger, Beckwith, Parsons and Stevenson, while Smith, Fitchitt, Rector and Tem- ple are juniors who did not turn out for football last year. That leaves only Howarth and Jarvis as lettermen in that prob— able opening lineup. Hakola is holding Ken Calkins, a backfield letterman, for spot use while Jack Page, another backfield vet, may not be able to see much action because of a musele strain suffer- ed in scrimmage this week. Last minute change possibili— ties in that starting outfit could see either John Robinson or Al Alexander at tackle in place Of Fitchitt, and Chet Barger, the El— ma transfer who was ineligible all last season, at end instead of Beckwith, the Shelton coachindi- cated. The Highclimbers are using a little T—formation stuff in their offense this season with Temple handling the sphere and doing the passing. Howarth is the No. 1 kicker. Mrs. Dunning To See Husband In San Diego Mrs. George Dunning left Shel- ton yesterday by bus for San Diego where she will enjoy a few days with her husband, recently named to the postal inspection department of the U.-S. Post Of- fice Department. Mrs. Dunning expects to be gone about ten days. Three dozen youthful traffic cops, officially known as the schoolboy patrol, have been duti— fully patrolling street crossings in the areas, of the Bordeaux and Lincoln grade schools used by their little classmates since the opening of school, but as yet you haven’t met them by name. So here they are, as announced this week by Miss Inga Kristian- sen, principal: LINCOLN—v-David Dotson, cap- tain; Ginger Deer, Charles Ber- ets, LaVerne McCowan, Kenny Smith, Darrel Rodgers, Jim Ska— gen, Herbert Jackson, Stuart Loughnan, Delbert Getty, Jack Valley, Jackie Halstead, Freddie Cropper, Charles Brown, Russell Smith, Bobby Strobe, Weldon De- poe, Jim Barickman, Gene Sawyer, Dick Dotson, Donald Cleveland, Jack Smith, Charles Griggs and Donald Swett. BORDEAUX—Bob Herzog, cap- tain; Glen Breitsprecher, Norman Buck, Norman McClaflin, Roy Levitt, Andy Harris, Calvin Rob- ertson, Davey Lee Brown, War- ren Edgley, Jimmy Simmons, Gor- don Anderson and Gene Durand. Both patrols are exactly the same size as last year’s patrols and will have no additional duties to carry out. In addition to the honor of being on the school pa- trol (only boys whose deportment, grades and leadership ability are outstanding are chosen for the pa- trol), members are rewarded for their traffic guidance work with free shows each week at the Gra- ham and Paramount theatres through the courtesy of Walter Graham and G. A. Graf, the re- spective proprietors, with a ban- quet during the year given in their honor by the Active Club, which is the schoolboy patrol‘s sponsoring organization, and oth- er privileges which don’t come to school children in general. P. O. Sub-Station On Hillcrest To Open October 16 Hillcrest residents will enjoy a more convenient postal service on and after October 16, for a sub-station will be opened on that date in Ralph’s Grocery. The sub-station, which will be operated by Mrs. Ralph Crabill, will provide all the services of the main post office downtown such as the sale of stamps, money or- ders, postal savings, etc., except that as yet no authority has been granted to sell war savings bonds. War savings stamps, however, will be sold, Miss Jessie Knight, post- master, said yesterday. 'l SIIELTON WOMAN’S KIN TELLS OF LIFE. IN JAP PRISON CAMP Reassuring word from her son- in-laws, Dominic Encerti, a civil- ian war prisoner taken by the Japanese when they captured Guam, has been received by Mrs. Virginia Wilson, 325 Grove street. Encerti has been in a war pris- on at Kobe, Japan, since last Jan- uary, but this is the first letter he has been permitted to write, [although he has previously sent two short-wave radio messages ltelling of his safety and good health. The letter received by Mrs. Wil- son was passed along to her by her daughter, Mrs. Encerti, who is living in Sacramento. Quoting the interesting passages from the letter: . “A few months have gone by and finally the long awaited came 'to me, the day of being able to write a few lines. It is natural for me to think of you worrying but there was nothing that could be done about the whole thing. “All my hopes are based on faith, and you should do the same. Whatever you do, let not worry get the best of you. You must re— member this is war and that I could be a lot Worse off. Hopes To Be Exchanged uMy health is good and no harm lwas done to me. Since the begin- ning of the war I have been liv- ing a good life. Of course the main object of the .whole thing is my great desire to get home. It seems the Japanese and Amer- ican governments are negotiat- er. Do not stress too much on the point—if I do it will be wonder- ful, if I don’t it will not be good. but you can rest assured of me being well treated. “All the American civilians of Guam arrived in Japan in the mid- dle of January. We were sent to a war prison camp. After a week we were moved to Kobe and in— terned. The place we live in is very good. We are in a group of 74 and We all get along well to- gether. We have many books and we play a lot of cards. Much Recreation Allowed Our daily routine consists of i d! ll St. Louis Squares Series With 4 to 3 Win Over Yank’s St. Louis squared the 1942 World Series at a game apiece yesterday with a 4 to 3 triumph over the New York Yankees. Rook- ie Johnny Beazley pitched the vic- tory despite allowing ten hits, in- cluding a home run by Keller in the eighth with two aboard which tied the score. Enos Slaughter’s double and Stan Musial‘s single scored the winning run in the Cards’ half of the eighth. St. Louis tallied twice in the first on Walker Cooper’s double with two aboard and added the third run in the seventh just before Keller’s wallop. New York won the series opener Wednesday, 7 to 4. The short score Thursday: New York... 000 000 030—-3 10 2 St. Louis 200 000 11x—4 6 0 Batteries—Bonham and Dick— ey, Beazley and W. Cooper. GARDEN CLUB DID MUCH TO BEAUTIFY TOWN PAST YEAR Election of new officers and a review of its accomplishments for community betterment the past year marked the first fall meeting of the Shelton Garden Club, held Monday in Memorial Hall. ! Mrs. Marcus Rodgers w a s chosen president, Mrs. Martha Deer, honorary vice - president, Mrs. Joseph Shimek second vice president, Mrs. Vernice Johnson recording secretary, Mrs. Winston Scott corresponding secretary and Mrs. Horace Skelsey Jr. treasurer. The review was made by Mrs. Emery Burley, retiring president, who listed such contributions to- ward the further beautification of Shelton as: 1. $35 as final payment on the Railroad avenue project from the sale of corsages made by mem- bers last Christmas, 2. $10 donated for the purchase of shrubs to beautify the State Forestry fire hall, 3. $25 for the purchase of shrubs to be used in beautifying the hospital grounds, 4. Donation of the lumber for a 16-foot picnic table and benches to be built at Kneeland Park, 5. $51.50 in proceeds from a luncheon given at the Colonial House last spring donated to the Mason County Red Cross chap- ter, 6. The flower show presented by the club in June, the first one sponsored without the help I of another organization, which helped stimulate home garden beautification. At Monday's meeting, an addi- tional $5.50 was pledged to pro- vide five Red Cross kits which the Mason County chapter is now fill- ing for soldiers going overseas. The Garden Club anticipates a quiet year in 1943, its members expecting to devote more time to the study of horticulture than in the past due to so many giving their time to the war effort. However, any project aimed at further beautification of Shelton will continue to receive the hear- ty endorsement and active sup- getting up at 7:30 for roll call, then we walk to a park about a block from here and have exer- cise, come back and have break- fast at 8:00. After breakfast we have duties of cleaning the place, the rest of the morning we can do what we want. At 11:30 we have lunch. At 2:00 we go back to the park for three hours of playing ball and other games. Supper is at 5:30, roll call at 8:00 and to bed at 9:00. “The routine is about the same each day. We have gone on trips and seen a. lot of the pretty scen- ery about Kobe. Kobe is a beau- tiful city. We also go on shopping tours and they are very interest- ing. We are under the care of the Kobe police department and all the officers having anything to do with us are very good. “The Swiss consul represents us and also brings money to us. We ing exchange of nationals. There is a poss1billty of our being ex— changed before the summer is ov- don’t get a lot but it sure comes in handy for smokes and other in- cidentals.” 1 port of the Garden Club, the new president pointed out. Public Invited To Attend A. W. S. Meet The public is urgently invited to attend a meeting being spon- sored by Local 161 (the pulp mill union) next Thursday evening in the Labor Temple at eight o‘clock at which a complete explanation of the important part played by the Aircraft Warning Service in defense of the country will be given by Lieut. Roy Wanless or Lieut. Holtby of the Olympia fil- ter area of the A.W.S. President James Moore of Local 161 extends a cordial invitation to everyone to attend this meeting. There will be no dictatorships in the United States so long as the newspapers maintain their criticize. freedom to report, inform and to Open Sunday DAY MILITARY BALL TO GET STATE GUARD FUNDS Plans for a military dance to raise funds to help equip its mem- bers with uniforms, arms and ammunition have been started by a committee of the Shelton State Guard Reserve Company, with early indications pointing to one of the most colorful public dances this community has ever enjoyed. Company Captain Frank L. Worden named a. committtee con- sisting of Clarence Grunert, Frank Fentiman, Les Fields, Merritt Kaphingst, Homer Taylor, Fred Hickson, Bill Dickie, Dick Watson, Laurie Carlson and Clint Oker— strom to arrange details of the dance. The committee will hold its first meeting immediately follow- ing tonight's weekly company drill in Lincoln gym, at which time the date and place for hold- ing the affair and other details will be discussed. The dance will probably be held close to Hallowe’en, and pres- ent plans include the presence of all members of the new State Guard company in uniform if they can be supplied by that time. If the uniforms can be received in time, this will be Shelton‘s first military dance. Further details will be made public as quickly as the commit- tee can complete arrangements. Last Friday’s company drill, third since formation of the State Guard Reserve here, was marked by the mustering of ten new re- cruits into the ranks, swelling the company membership beyond the eighty mark, and the first march- ing exercises given the six squads in the two platoons. Further drill in the facing movements which were introduced to the company the previous week was also given. School Budgets Fine Condition Lauded By Board School budgets in general were found to be in such excellent con- dition for the 1942-43 term that the Mason County Budget Review Board was moved Friday evening, at its annual review of final bud- gets, to commend several Mason county school directors individual- ly for the fine job of budget pre- paration they had done and to comment on the situation as a whole—a rather unusual condi- tion, to be true. All budgets were approved, in many cases with balances to work on during the present term. The only' point on which the budget review board found cause for crit- icism occurred in the Shelton dis- trict’s budget, which was passed only after the board adopted a resolution pointing out to the Shelton school board that the am- ount budgeted for salary and ex— penses of the city superintendent seemed excessive to the review board and that in the future this item should be given special at- tention. Sister Safe In China, Miss Knight Learns Belated though it was, Post- master Miss Jessie Knight was greatly relieved to receive word this week that her sister, Mrs. J. S. Emmons, was safe and in good health in Shanghai, China, last June. The word came in a letter mail~ ed from New York, September 23 by a. friend of Mrs. Emmons who had escaped from the captured Chinese city and crossed both the Indian and Atlantic oceans to reach the U. S. This was the first word of any kind Miss Knight had received of her sister since the war begun. Film Supply Ample, I No Shortage Known Rumors being circulated in this area by outside agents to the af- fect that there will soon be no more film for home and commer— cial photography are entirely without foundation, reports George Andrews, Shelton commercial pho- tographer.‘ “We have received no indica- tions whatever from our whole- salers that film will be difficult to obtain, on the contrary have been assured that the supply is ample,” he commented. School children will get an Op- portunity to play an important role in salvaging scrap metal for Uncle Sam’s war effort starting next Monday when they will be asked to begin an inventory of such metal in their communities throughout Mason County. County Supt. J. E. Martin has asked teachers in all rural school districts of the county to direct the inventory of all scrap me- tals in their districts, with stu- dents doing the listing, and in addition to select a suitable spot in their district for a stock pile and get the heavy metal collected at those points. Only heavy metals are wanted at this time by the government, although later all types of metal will be sought, Supt. Martin said. Persons with scrap metal of the heavy types are asked to see that it is, taken to the community stock piles between October 5 and 24, after which it will be collect- ed by county road district trucks and taken to a central stock pile for the entire county. At the present time, plans for conducting such a. heavy metal drive in Shelton have not been completed, but it is expected that definite plans will be ready to an— nounce within a few days. The rural drive, however, will get under way next week with school teachers directing the in- ventory and collection. TEST PLANNED 0F NOISE VOLUME 0F SlGNAL DEVICES A week from next Monday there’ll be quite a hullabaloo ar— ound here right at noon, for that is the date (Oct. 12) and hour chosen by the Mason County War Council to see just how much volume can be obtained from the various signal devicos Shelton possesses. At the stroke Of noon, then, the fire signal (which blows reg- ularly at noon anyway). the pulp mill’s steam whistle, and the pow- erhouse steam whistle, will com- mit a simultaneous din by way of experiment to find out just how far their collective noise can be heard. The experiment is being tried in an effort to improve air raid warning signals in this locality. The date picked for the experi- ment is that of the War Council’s next meeting, so the result will be fresh in the minds of the council members when they meet that evening in the courthouse at 7:30 o'clock. ‘ ‘ After deciding on the trial with the signal devices, the Council heard Lieut. Roy Wanless, chief observation officer for the Olym-_ ‘4’. pia filter center area. of the Air- n craft Warning Service, express and} opinion that “I personally am abs-‘4" solutely certain the Japs will to bomb us here in the Northwest"; We did it to them, they‘ll try to ” retaliate to save face, if nothing else.” He also said Shelton has a double worry in case of an air raid, for not only is this area likely to be bombed but it also is a. highly likely sector over which American interceptor d e f e n s 6 planes will contact the enemy, so the second worry would be that of planes being shot down in our midst. Lieut. Wanless said he believes the Japs have planes cached in hiding places along the Pacific Coast which they will use to drop incendiary and demolition bombs at such time as they choose best for their purposes. He said he be- lieves the mystery plane which re- cently dropped an incendiary bomb in Oregon was possibly such a cached plane. Sullivan, Grunert Open City Filing Two filings for city council posts, both by present councilmen, have ‘broke the ice’ on the mun- icipal political front. John V. Sullivan, councilman- at-large completing a two year term; was first to toss his hat In the ring but this time for a four- year council term. He filed Wed- nesday. Clarence Grunert, completing by appointment the unexpired term of Paul Marshall, resigned, enter— ed his name as a candidate for the same chair, also for a four-year term. Filings close October 10. BABY GIRL YESTERDAY Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Elson of Camp 3 became parents of a baby girl yesterday at Shelton hospital.