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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
October 6, 1949     Shelton Mason County Journal
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%( NATIONAL PAPER WEEK ? T 0 ask. a lust is • • • SERVICE... by the community of peoples the news it contains, adver- ts its columns, opinions and corn- and the entertainment it provide s . as rallying grounds for cam- and programs in the public inter- 0 $ s purchases include news- metal, gas and electrical pow- week these items are turned finished product in q u a n t i t y. taxes, consume mater- a "trade named" item any other plant upon which the of a community depends. o o • RETAIL, DOOR-TO-DOOR individual copies of newspapers is a definite retail function. to and superimposed upon' copies must be made available and to supply postoffice for many subscribers. s 0 s can be found the equal in for a community? News- Constantly tell the world of the of the home town. Newspa- mirror and reflect the !ity of the community as a place to live and make a livelihood. • O • a bit of information, or seek and guidance? Invariably the and will be answered around office. Newspaper men are never too busy to help The bility, wide ac- p and experience of news- personnel is always at the corn- °fthe community. 0 • O ewspaper is all of these things. more. The newspaper functions Community enterprise can hope day, its editors, publisher, staff go about their tasks in general public. It is only on such the observance of NEWSPAPER WEEK and its personnel pause remind its readers of the func- free and undominated press in the "Voice of Freedom . . . Liberty." IOURNAL ....... t 3Ir. I,'ran{,e Radtko %Vrih. vohmne of viva- l!ion, ilonls froni Cu.,h- mall slid IIoodlmrt. Country Correspondents • Writing Up News Mtson county correspondents who write for The Journal have somcthing in common. They all enjoy writing. All of these women who (:over nearly every nook in thc county in search of newsworthy notes, the correspondents have to tend their househoht while making calls, attending meeting's, asking questions and gclting "HNdCl' the wire" at deadlme. Most of the news is knit al'ollnd the st/'ongest of social organiza- tions the he/lie anti the cor- resl)ondents sct into history the visits, (.:dis, pa|:'ties anti activi- ties that (!cnicr iz] tte various homes. Occasionally a correspondent spots sonic unsual event llpon which she elaborates and weaves a fine featm'e that. e:m capture the interest st" the gene|'al reader. The diversity ()f appeal in the I ews conling {tom the correspon- n lents conies (rein the varied be.ok- I grounds and interests that mohl I their writing stylcs. 13at the ira- / per(ant fatter "is tim "fla'e I'()r, writing" that seems (.on/rllon 1(1 them all. Itoodsport-Cushman Mrs. Frances I(adtke is " proli- fic writer who not only chron- icles the social doings in her tcr- ritory but ranges out into ahno:sL all the holt(lay: commercial. school, chL1FC]I ll'ld general ev- ents. tter lnain ambition is to write a book. Among the ninny activities that take lip her tilne [tl'e nlllsie tD(l photography. The ILadtkcs have a home orchestra, and Mrs. IIa(Itke plays the piano. ttaving lived ahmg the Canal lnost of her life with occasional periods elsewhere, she knows the bterritory anti people of whom she writes. She started school at Brin- non 37 years ago, when she was five years old. She has wri|len frw The Journal for the past six years. He is a member of the ttoods- port school board, serving a.s cle|'k and has organized a P.-T.A. group there. She led a movement Is sc- cure inter-county rm'al lil)rary service. Mrs. Radtle belongs to the Hood Canal Womens CAub, Hood Canal Garden Club, Itood (?anal Sportsmens Club, ttoodsport Com- mercial Club, Or(ler of Amaranth and is a charter member of Bel- fair Chapter 241, Eastern Star. She belongs also to Skokon]ish Valley Grange. Despite her many activities Mrs. Radtke as a housewife is known for her homemade brea(ls and cakes. When in Seattle where she lived for 20 years she was part owner in a furniture mann- facturing company, had her own dance hall where she led her or- chestra for three years, and own- ed half interest in a dress-stoking establishment. Mrs. Radtke took four blue rib- bons at the Mason Coun:y 4-H Fair for African violets and fop her formal corsage. Her interests, abilities, and ambitions are varied, as her weekly coltimris show. Matlock District Because she has lived at Mat- lock since she was born tllere in 1901, Mrs. Dora Hearing knows her territory. She's been The Journal correspondent for one year, but about 25 Years ago sh used to write the Lower Matlock MRS. MARGUERITE LeGAULT The rambling Ch,qnallum re- glon taking in a wide area of Southwestern Mason connty in brought to the public eye each from Mrs., LeGanlt's Thnrsday old Remington. nstt( Ilas lived in Mason county for over 20 years. Mrs. LeGault s elgnt Children, and all four of her sons were in military service d||rh|g the last w'ir She lilts Served as ' '-- ," ,€ C.hiqlrllhllli ( hlb )rCsl(lelllD t.. ' " ] Pnd as lecturer fol' the ilatch,,r.'. lind Cloquallum Il:anges. line ix interested In intiszl% oiler.t, and • -.hi,,. graduat, tl Ironl drama, II{Ivmi , , " 's in Porimnd wit St. Mary ,' : , h a major in musiC: Mrs_ LeGault has corresponded or The Jour- nal for .4bo,t three Years. MillS. I)()RA IIFAlllNG ('overs doings in Mill . hll.lt, ileeville illiil l)eek- ervilh, II I'lql. ,MRS. F'Flqlq I(NOWL'FON MILS. IiEI,I,A (10ETSCH liean of country ('orres- Emliliaizes 'good fea- pondent ,'over: Tohuya hires based (in fact (toni dislri,'l. Belfalr and No'rth Sliore Items when he name was Miss | JOl'i-t Rc(liska. She has driven bus for Mary M. l(nighl, s(.hool for 12 years, watch- ing the children grow up. She says, "I love that work as I'm very fond of Ihe children." Mrs. ][earing helps her husband Alvin will] the business of ()per- sling a dairy and beef farm which lies across the road from Mary M. Knight school. It used I(, t)e known as lhe Rediska farli1. Mrs. I¢e(liska, 82, is now living with the tlearings. Slie was born in Switzerhnld. Taking an active part in Mat- lock affairs, Mrs. Itearing is lec- tm'er of Math)ck Grange.. Iler hobhies are relining flowers and c,'ocheting. Tahuya District When aske(I to write lip some notes on Tatmya recently, Mrs. lqffie Knowlton, dean of The • ]Olll']lal correspondents, c a m e back with, "You don't know what you a.sked for when you turned me loose on Tahuya. [ collld go on and on and on . . ." And she did. Spending his chiklhood days in the blustery city of Chicago, she longed for |he salt water' beaches and mountains of the West Coast. Mrs. Earl Harriman Borli in King eotlnty in 1900, .%tn's. Earl llarriman came to Mason coun|y soon after and has Ih'e(I here ever since. Pres- I'iil, correspondent for 'r ]1 (" ,Iournal from Harstine lslaml, Mrs. llarriman has lived there most of her Ill'e. lh,r falher, the late John !t. Ilaskell, lnid the first gasoltne hlunt'h (in lhe, ishln,I. I)uring the years Sill" lilts se(.n nlllLlly improvements in the fer- ry sq.rviee, froln roll l)oat to ]annches to tile hlrg'e ferry, wlllch Mr: Itarriman has ol)('r- ate,I for 7}1 years. The llarrimans have riilsed two girls and It hey lind haVe five griind('hihlren. ]%lrN. lhtrri- Inan hits erve, d on lhe Harsllne school iioltrd, was seerelary- treasurer for the llarstine Wil- mell'S (!lllll i it lylember ot il'lrsline (i I'auge. Correspondents Without Photos Some of the country correspon- dents did not have pictures avail- able for this Newspaper' Week edi- tion, and some are modest and €,thers bashful. The. wdue of each correspondent to her eommlmity is important, and all arc worthy of mention. MRS. SIGNE KNEELAND, who wriles the Shelton Valley nol;es, arrived in America in April of 1903, not understanding one word of the English language. Stop- ping in Minnesota for seven years, she came to Washington in April of 1909 and to Shelton a year later. A friend and Mrs. Kneeland niarried broLher.; and in 1914 moved fo Shelton Valley. Mrs. Kneeland has been writing the news since August, 1946 when Usa Winsor moved into town. "The Valley has not changed, but the people who were living here in 1914 have moved out or passed away," Mrs. Kneeland said. "Improvements w e r e a grange in 1926, 4-H grounds and telephones in 1949. electricity in 1928, and tim rm'al mail route sometime in the 20's." MRS, ANNE Y. KiNG has lived in Dewatto ten years, has writ- ten of it wo years. She saw it decline as a logging community and buihl ut) as a farming and resort area. During the war Mrs. King taught at the Tahuya school for threc years and has served as Tahuya school board clerk. Am- ong her extracurriculr activities arc "chasing calves that ind holes in fences, pruning trces and help- ing with farm chores." Mrs. King would like to start once again a Sunday school class in Dewatto. MRS. S. E. GRIGGS has been handling Minerva Park items for the past six months, having taken over from Mrs. Mable Johns. A n'tive of Washington, she has lived at Minerva Park for four years. "The greatest interest in life." said Mrs. Griggs,"who has four gr'l, ndcMldrcn, "is my young great-grandson." Until she started writing for The Journal as a correspondent, Mrs. Griggs had nover before written for a new:paper. Among the others who have been writing community notes are Mrs. Ether Shei)llerd, Allyn; Mrs, R()e Beers, Dayton; Mrs. Dollle Parsons, Belfair; Mrs. Helen An- dersen, Union; Mrs. Christine Ahk Belfair, and Mrs. II. P. llamilt.n. Agate. Sh(, remembers standing before billboards picturing "contented cows" grazing in mountain wtl- leys and longed with feeling that MISS EMILY BABCOCK Sends in reliable items {)f affah's at Plckerhig Passage. was ahnost akin to pain to be in that peaceful setting. In 1911 finding ]]erself foot- loose and with the responsibility of 'aising two children, she asked God's guidanc.e and was whisked out Io Seattle. She wished to "get as far offt into the backwoods as p(msible" and came to Telmy- oh. as it was spelled in those days, in 1912 with Fred Knowlton, a Seattle real estate broker. Born and raised in a newspaper fore".her marriage in 1941. Mrs. Strickland settled in Grapeview two years ago, al- though she visited in the com- munity many times since 1932. She is vice president of the Of thopedic Auxiliary. The Spoojners have two chil= dren, Linda 5, and Robbie 3. The Stricklands are .parents of four- year-old twins, Edana and Diana. Mrs. Spooner expects to have a book published by the Caxton Printers next May. It is called "Tales From the Elves' Forest," and is written under her pen name, Emilio Louise,Michel. almosphere, she started recording * * * the 'tetivities of the five families " " .......... Lllhwaup and assortment of bachelors that I uh,, ww,oes R I-Iill boo.n war Tahuya, and hy 1913 was .................. t,--. ._", • } .... . > [sending news from Lilliwaup five Senuing arc.tries o tne mason I nr ix years ao with news of the C)unty Journal, Mr. Grant Angle, I ol'ganizations or which she serves tit )r. t" . l as publicity chairman. , Mi s Knowlon exp,alns nat " v. ' " " I Regarding her 'nose for news,' "Tatnlya got on the map largely [ she commented, "I believe I in- thr:mgh the efforts of our two } herited it from my father who outstanding teachers, Orrie No-! was editor of the weekly Melrose ble,; and George Kellogg."  .....  -- "Writing is my chief hobby," • I I I III I she said, Once it gets into the ......................... bloo(I, it is there to stay." Belfair-North Shore Mrs. ()ella Goetsch moved to Mason coonty from Tacoma in 1932 and helpe(I (:lear a little stump ranch on Harstine island. Her first articles were to the 3helton Independent, now depart- ed, and in 1937 she began writing news and features for The Jour- nal. She went to Canano Island in 1(.)41 but came back to Mason county in 1945, buying a five-acre t)lace north of Belfair on the old highway. She started writing for the paper again. Mrs. Goetsch says that "for pets I have a husband named Rein- ]lart, i black cocker spaniel v.am- ed Snowball. a Persian cat that presents us with a basketfull of fluffy kittens once a year and a large tom cat. The cats were givo on us by Mr. and Mrs. Irvie Win- gert of Harstine six years ago." Both Mr. and Mrs. Goetsch are t eood gar0cners, who raise sur-. plu.es of produce each year for t neighbors. Mrs. Goetsch is presi- I dent of the Rhododendron Garden Clut), and haa served as publicity chairman of the Mason Cotlnty !)istriet Federation of Women's [ clubs. m ., I Pickering Passage I Emily Babcock sends in neatly I written items each week from the Picketing Passage area. She came Is the community in 1942 from Minneapolis where she was em- ployed for' a nunlber of years as caMlicr in a life insurance com- pany. After working for two years as clerk in the Northern Pacific de- pot. in She]ton. she bought a ranch on Picketing Passage adjoining that of her brother. "My brother and I farm together, and our prin- cipal crop is grapes," she. explains, ad(ting, "No one ever retires to a ranch, as that is when one really slarts to work." She has been reporting Pick- ering news for about three years. '4 ., 'Grapeview Succeeding Mrs. Lydia Wren as Gr:tpeview com'espondents a r e Mrs. W. R. Spooner and Mrs. H. M. Strickland. They have a bg' job since Grapeview bubbles with activity constantly. Mrs. Spooner has lived in Grapeview 30 years, with time sp,'nt in Switzerland, Manchuria T and Lativia where her father was I employed by the YMCA. She at- tended Reed College in Portland and the University of Washington ! and taught school in Quinault be-[ MRS. BERTtlA TAYLOR The Kamilche snow wax white and deep last winter when onr Kamilche correspondent had the ahove i, lcture taken with one ol her four children aml the pet dog. Almost all the Kamliche news comes from the pen of Mrs. Taylor, who synthesizes grange, 4-H and social doings iu that community each week. Mrs. Taylor belongs to the V.F'.W., the Degree of ll,,nor and I{) Progress Grange. She likes to flsll, hut her other In- terests are collecting creamer and sugar bowls, raising flow- ers and doing fancy work. Her main amhition is to build a new home. MRS. W. R. SPOONER Collaborates with Mrs. H. M. Strickland writing up (Iral w- vLew and Stretch Island do- ings. MRS. C. E. IilL ll'iiip out f,!orful and,com- plete news from the LllllWaUp ,listrlet .... Chronicle at the time I was born in Meh'ose, Wise? ....... While attending University of Washington, she wrote for the University Herald and during l World War [ she was ,associate editor of the Colville Examiner in Stevens county. After her mar- ri'lge she (lid part time newspaper work. 'Phe Hills were married in 1922 at Lilliwaup and built a summer I home on Indian Beach in 1940. In 1942 when her husband and sou R0hert were in the ArMy, Mrs. Pictures of Mrs. Radtke, Mrs. Hearing, Mrs: (etseh and Miss Balmock were taken by An- drews. Tile pietnre of Mrs. Hill was' taken by Markham of LIIII waup. .... IIII ............. fill I II I community," she said. "They make this county a fine place in which to work and enjoy life), Mrs. Hill has served as presi- dent of te I-lcmd Canal,.Womens Club and the District Federation Hill and daughter Merrily made of Womens Clubs. She is a former their summer home a permanent secretary of the Lflltwaup Com, residence.  munity Chib. Club and community work has' "My chief interest at present," been the Lilliwaup correspondent'S states Mrs. Hill, "is 'trying to: e- chief interest. "The people here tablish a cotlnty school dental are generous in using their time health program being formulated and talents for the good of the by the Dental Health Council." I il I I ,Ill I II I I I No man's collar! A FAVORITE trick of those who would like to destroy con6- dence in newspapers as the ill'st step to doing away with them is to complain that they are the tools of special interests dangerous to the people. Sometimes they say it is the bankeri or the politicians or the labor unions or the advertisers---, whatever fits the occasion. Usually the critics have their own axes to grind. Vhat they want published are their own opinions and not contrary ones. They would like to be the "special interests" represented ex- clusively in the newspapers. If such people had their way, there would not be the newspaper as you know |t today. They would eliminate the great variety of facts and opinions that appear and without which democracy would not work. To exercise your rights as a free citizen, you must have free access to information. You must know about laws and prices and theo- ries and movements so that you can approve or protest. Ignorant of events and trdnds, you would not be able to keep your representa- tives in government representing you. Now you get the facts of what takes place and you get the opinions of why they take place and what should be done.You get all sides of q uestions statements by bankers and borrowers, businessmen and labor leaders, government officials and private citizens. The editor has his views too but he can't limit his pages to them. Readers include all sorts of people and all shades of opinions. If tim editor wears any kind of a collar, it doesn't belong to one man or group. The leash is held by all his readers. What the critics don't want and are afraid of is the diversity of facts and opinions brought to you by newspapers They actually want a one-class, one-idea pressthe kind that Hitler had and that Stalin runs today. If they suc- ceed, it will sound the death knell of freedom in America. These critics are your enemies as much as they are enemies of the newspapers. When they take away the right of a free press, they take it away from you. They know that if they can control what you read they can control your mind--and you. Working s6m& times openly as committees with high-sounding slogans, they are blueprinting what you shall and shall not read. There is nothing particularly new in the pattern. But you cannot ignore it without risk. If you permit these self-styled leaders to take away your right to read what you want, when instead of a free exchange of facts and opinions, you decide to depend on the propaganda they hand out, you will have tikes the first steps towards the loss of all your rithts u a tree oitizen. Your right to know is the key to all your