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By Guest Editor: Louise Spooner
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the good fortune to spend a day with Lou Donnell as
paper, one visit we made was to interview Bill Morgan
! Fire Department. This was interesting enough in itself,
recollections of Allyn besides.
my residence, has been a neighboring community to
We used to make occasional trips there, generally
remember centered around the church or the school. In
others in Allyn for those. More interesting were
and community fair at Allyn, with picnic, races,
work and a program that included a Maypole dance.
again living in Grapeview, my sister and I
along with the other ninth and tenth graders
We generally walked the three and a half miles
passing beautiful scenery on our way.
it's of interest to our area to hear of Wes Stock,
for the Oakland Athletics. I wonder how many people
is a traditional sport in Ailyn. In the 1930's games
for vacation fun, sometimes with players who were on
during the school year. Incidentally, several of these
Stock family, baseball being a family heritage for
one.
start in the thirties. Back in the twenties, baseball was
Allyn. On weekends through a long season there were
either grouped for the occasion - school against
against a visiting team from another community.
the Sherwood Creek bridge was located farther
near the mouth of the creek, with no houses around, a
provided a suitable ballfield, and here the games were
made excellent bleachers. The road did cross the
and once in awhile a car came by, paused until a good
and then proceeded while the players waited.
I think back on those days without remembering one
lar players whose home runs we cheered with great
By LENNIA CATES --CR 5-2245
get through in
Week. I said,
dog stories for a
happens? Jeanne
excitedly last
asking if they'd
t dogs the week
know. Well,
her place tired
she had him
When she
number on the
and the
there was no
of the same.
,~r call to the
a return call
Me Lean, who
party
AM for
They were
Ridge and
-=w where the
d up the dog
its owner.
group had killed
meeting was
last week and
given the
explore the
was from
Midwest, the
Coast. Well,
off (if you
after waiting
in the AM we
for supplies.
while taking
tic knocking on
Headed in
to check
door to find
Pacing back
They
the
other was banging on the back
door. Have always found it hard
to be in two places at one time
and this was no exception.
To make a long story short,
we opened the pumps, they got
their gas and I got a lot of thank
yous and a dollar tip.
Then, when putting stuff
away in the store, a couple came
to the door and again I opened up
for them. This ended in a very
nice visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Jenner. He noticed some editorial
clippings from the Shelton-Mason
County Journal I had tacked up
on the cash register and, come to
find out, he is employed by none
other than the Shelton-Mason
County Journal's advertising
department.
Don't forget, deer hunting
season opens Saturday. If a
hunter, be careful. If one of the
hunted - ditto.
Another reminder. Sunday
School classes every Sunday now
at St. Nicholas Church, 11 : 15
a.m.
Reminds me of :the woman
whose friend had peaches and
pears growing in her yard. One
day her little girl came in the
house and her mother asked what
she was eating.
She answered, "Well, I was
eating preachers but now I'm
eating prayers."
Garden club to meet
Evergreen Garden Club will
meet Oct. 9 at the home of Mrs.
William Meyer. Mrs. J'ack
Achttien will be co-hostess.
ISPLAY of macrame materials in her new
ts from Cathy, located across from Belfair
Smith, Belfair's newest businesswoman-
Belfair Fire District orders
new emergency ambulance
A new emergency ambulance
for the Belfair Fire District was
ordered by the district
commissioners Oct. 2 at a special
meeting held to award a contract
following an earlier bid-opening
date. Awarded the contract was
Sheller-Globe Corporation,
Superior Division, for a Superior
61-M steel-bodied modular-type
ambulance on a Ford chassis, for
a cost of $19,735 plus tax.
Delivery is expected in about 60
days.
A fund drive has been
conducted in the Belfair-Tahuya
areas since early summer by the
volunteers of the Belfair Fire
Department and approximately
$1 2,000 has been collected
towards purchase of the new
vehicle. The present ambulance is
considered too small, with no
storage space for much of the
equipmenL needed to offer the
best emergency medical service
and barely enough room for more
than one patient at a time. Money
donated or earned through several
money-making projects has been
held in a trust fund in the Mason
County treasurer's office, set
aside for purchase of a new
ambulance. The commissioners of
the fire district have voted to pay
the balance not collected in the
drive and it is expected that the
district will pay about half of the
total cost by the time the
ambulance is outfitted with new
equipment.
Purchase of a modular-type
ambulance will allow the district
to replace only the Ford chassis
when it wears out instead of
having to buy a completely new
ambulance. The ambulance
contains many compartments,
both inside and outside, for
storage of special equipment such
as oxygen cylinders, drugs,
backboards, extrication tools, etc.
The Belfair Fire Department
has eight EMTs (emergency
medical technicians) and 11
volunteers with advanced first aid
training who serve as attendants
on aid calls. Four persons are
enrolled in EMT classes at
present.
By CASEY CAUGHIE
Offense seemed to be
troubled for North Mason as
Charles Wright of Tacoma carried
out an 8-6 victory over the
Bulldogs last Friday night.
"Charles Wright played a good
game," said North Mason Coach
Phil Pugh, "They were very
effective running the outside."
The Tacoma Terriers put together
248 yards and seven first downs,
out-distancing NM's 159 yards
and five first downs.
The first score was made by
NM in the second quarter when
quarterback Dave Hope
connected a nine-yard pass to
Craig Bishop.
Early in the second half
Charles Wright came back to
make the deciding points. Rick
Johnson rambled through four
yards for the TD. On the
conversion Tony Haertal picked
off Judd Gray's pass for two
points.
Bob Miller led the Bulldogs in
rushing, pulling out 57 yards in
nine carries. CW had Rick
Johnson running for 79 yards and
Mark McCain taking 50 yards.
It was once more their
inconsistency that Coach Pugh
commented on, "We have to work
on our offense. It's just too
INCONSISTENT."
Charles Wright remains the
only unbeaten team in the
Nisqually League, slating 5-0.
North Mason will be back home
tonight, trying to better their 4-1
record, against Vashon.
Football Stats.
Score by Quarters
North Mason 0 6 0
Ch. Wright 0' 0 8
0-6
0-8
Scoring
NM, Craig Bishop, 9-yd. pass from
cD~e HR°cI~k" Johnson, 4-yd. run
.~To;~. Haertal, pass from Judd
Team Stats.
NM CW
First downs 5 7
Yds. passing 132 195
Passes att-comp-int 10-3-1 13-4-1
Passing yds. 27 53
Net yds. 159 248
Fumbles-fumbles lost 2-11-1
Yds. penalized 70 45
Individual Stats. NM
Rushing TCB NYG Avg
B°ubceM~le~eiros 49 5729 6"17.2
jCirma i ~E nBoSchh~P 54 1422 2.85.5
Passing PA PC PI Yds
Dave Hope 10 3 1 27
Receiving Rec Yds Avg
Bishop 1 9 9.0
Miller 1 14 14.0
Tim Zech 1 4 4.0
Individual Stats. CW
Rushing TCB NYG Avg
Rick Johnson 21 79 3.7
Mark McCain 12 50 4.1
Passing
Fred Smart
PA PC PI Yds
13 4 1 53
Rec Yds Avg
1 5 5.0
1 10 10.0
2 26 ]3.0
Receiving
Bret Lane
Mike Haertal
Bruce Haertal
VOLLEYBALL
The girls travelled to Yelm
Sept. 30 and swept up victory.
The first two sets fell to NM as
they demolished the Tornado
spikers. This win set the stage for
their next home match.
Charles Wright was hosted on
the Bulldogs' floor Oct. 2 and fell
to North Mason's reign. The first
set NM took swiftly with a 15-5
margin. Charles Wright came back
to make up the deficit, taking the
second set by storm, returning the
15-5 favor. The third and final set
proved to be a tight game with
North Mason pulling out a
two-point win, 15-13.
With a remaining six games to
their season the girls will carry on
with a 3-1 record compiled thus
far.
New shop opens in Belfair
A new shop has opened for
business in Belfair, Arts and
Crafts from Cathy, located across
from the outdoor covered play
area of Belfair Elementary
School. Cathy Smith, owner,
offers art and craft enthusiasts an
opportunity to purchase their
supplies locally.
Among items for sale at the
new shop are supplies needed for
macrame, candle-making,
decoupage, oil painting and cake
decorating. Do-it-yourself kits,
whether for model cars or paint
by number, will appeal to
youngsters as well as adults. "An
assortment of beads, sequins,
dried flowers, paints, glue and
brushes are available to hobbyists.
Cathy and her husband, Hal,
live on Hummingbird Lane on
South Shore with their five
children, Mile, 18, David, 17,
James, 15, Denise, 13, and Dawn,
6. Until she decided to go into
business for herself, Cathy was
employed at Imperial
Manufacturing north of Belfair.
Her husband is a lab technician at
a clinic in Bremerton and also
works as a bartender at the
Poplars in Silverdale. A dog,
about 30 chickens, a rabbit and
some fish complete the family
members, if you don't count the
three wild cats fed from time to
time.
The Smiths moved to Belfair
about two years ago from Illinois
after Hal's retirement from the
U.S. Navy. Cathy was from the
Pacific Northwest originally and
they moved to Belfair
"temporarily" to be near a sister,
Pat Staley, while they decided
where to live. Cathy said the
children liked North Mason
schools and didn't want to move
again so they decided Belfair will
be their home. As it turned out,
long-time friends from the service,
Blair and Linnie Griffin, also
settled in Belfair and operate the
Belfair Trading Post. They first
became friends when they were
stationed in Hawaii and Cathy
and Linnie met at a May Day
program at school. Three of the
Smith children were in the same
grades as the Griffin children so
the two mothers kept running
into each other and struck up a
conversation. Their husbands
continued to be stationed at the
same places at the same time so
their friendship continued and
was resumed when they both
moved to Belfair.
BREAK-INS REPORTED
The Panther Lake summer
home of Leo Ella of Bremerton
was reported broken into Sept. 21
with missing items listed as a
butcher knife, a knife in a leather
case, a tapedeck, speakers,
blankets and a car battery. Crazy
Eric's in Belfair was reported
broken into on Sept. 20 but
nothing appeared to be missing.
The Grapeview home of Lawrence
Bonzer of Renton was reported
broken into on Sept. 19 but it
was unknown what items, if any,
were taken.
Two compliants of break-ins
of cabins on Benson Lake were
reported to the local sheriff's
office last week but it was
unknown what items were taken.
Broken into were cabins
belonging to Donald Skaar and
Melvin Patterson, both of
Tacoma.
A NEW EMERGENCY AMBULANCE such as the one
pictured above will be answering aid calls in the Belfair area
in about 60 days. The modular-type vehicle was ordered last
week at a cost of $19,735 plus tax by the commissioners of
Belfair Fire District. About $12,000 of the cost was raised in
a summer-long drive sponsored by the volunteer fire
department of Belfair.
teif Erickson Day
to be observed
In connection with the 150th
anniversary of Norwegian
immigration to America, the
Bremerton Sons of Norway will
have its annual Leif Erikson Day
celebration on Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. at
Norway Hall in Bremerton,
according to general chairman
Niels G. Nielsen.
A long-time seafarer in the
American Merchant Marine,
Captain Gunnar Olsborg, will be
the featured speaker, according to
A1 Bromlie, program chairman.
Olsborg was born and raised in
Seattle of Norwegian parentage
and has served in all capacities of
the deck department in the
American Merchant Marine for a
period of 20 years through World
War II. Since WW I1 and still
presently engaged, he is a pilot of
ocear~-going vessels on Puget
So~,,d. Oisb~,g i~ ~ member of
many Scandinavian groups and
has spoken across the nation on
the "discovery" of America by
Leif Erikson. He is on the
Norwegian-American Anniversary
Commission and flotilla
coordinator for the King Olav V
visit to Blake Island on Oct. 19,
where the king will participate in
a true Indian salmon bake.
Musical entertainment will be
provided by Bellevue physician
Dr. Arvid Ronning and his family.
The Royal Consul of Norway,
Thomas A. Stang, will represent
the King of Norway that evening,
and Chief White Eagle of the
Pawnee Indian tribe of Oklahoma
will represent the native
Americans who really discovered
America and greeted Leif Erikson
when he landed on the coast of
North America around 1000 A.D.
BILL MORGAN of Allyn, one of the originators of the Allyn Fire
Department, is retiring from his position as a commissioner of Mason County
Fire District 5 after serving on the board since 1956. He is pictured above in
the first fire truck purchased by the Allyn Fire Department, a 1926
LaFrance, still owned by the district and entered once a year in the Forest
Festival Parade.
Twenty-two years of active
participation in fire department
affairs will end for Bill Morgan,
commissioner of Mason County
Fire District 5, when his present
term of office expires at the end
of this year. He has not fried for
re-election to the board of
commissioners, a post he has held
almost since the district was
formed.
His interest in fire protection
in Allyn preceded formation of
the fire district when he and other
citizens from Allyn "and Victor
decided in 1953 to form a
volunteer fire department. For
two years the group worked hard
to earn money for firefighting
equipment by holding Saturday
night dances at Victor Hall and
summer carnivals in a field near
the end of Sherwood Creek Road.
Well-attended by local citizens,
the carnivals featured a
motorcycle race down a steep hill,
By SUSAN CARLSON
The first Camp Fire meeting
in the Belfair area for the girls and
the leaders is a songfest at Lea
Harmon's home on Oct. 14 at 7
p.m. There will also be leadership
training at Mrs. Harmon's on Oct.
21 and 22 from 7 to 10 p.m.
New leaders are: Blue Birds,
Dana Petrick and Susan Schauer;
Adventure. Patty Kemp. Glenda
Corbett and Gloria Lincoln;
Discovery. Lea Harmon and
Gloria Lincoln; Horizon. Myrna
Jones.
catching a greased pig, a baseball
game, pie-eating contest and
imported music.
It was at the July 8, 1953,
meeting of the Allyn Community
Club that the decision was made
to form a volunteer fire
department. Morgan not only
helped raise money for the group,
he became one of the first
volunteer firemen and served as
chief for a short period in 1955.
By the time voters approved
formation of fire district 5, which
- included Allyn and Victor, the
group had purchased its first fire
engine, a 1926 LaFrance, still
owned by the district and entered
each year in the Forest Festival
Parade. Morgan remembers the
LaFrance cost $500 and for an
extra dollar they also received a
ladder truck with 1200 feet of
ladders on it. The group also had
purchased a tanker to carry
additional water to a fire scene
and an ambulance.
A fix-it shop owned by Ross
Denton, located on the site of the
present Allyn firehall, was
converted for use as a fireball. In
1955 voters were asked to
approve formation of fire district
5 and the measure passed, 80
persons voting yes and four voting
no. Roland Shepherd of Allyn
and Clay Jones and Otto Bemp of
Victor were appointed the first
commissioners until an election
could be held the following year.
Minutes of the early meeting of
the board show that Bill Morgan
was elected chairman of the board
by the three newly-elected
commissioners in December,
! 956, a position he has held ever
since. Mel Noggle was mentioned
as another of the newly-elected
commissioners and Frank
Kowalczyk was named as
secretary to the board. The name
of the third commissioner is not
given but it may have been
Kowalczyk since his name is
mentioned as a commissioner in
1958 minutes.
When interviewed last week,
Morgan told of an early-day fire
fought by the volunteers at a
home in Allyn where firemen
saved a baby from a burning
house. They were unable to save
the house, though, because six
inches of ice covered the bay and
they had to go out to the end of
the long dock to get water.
Fire district 5 has grown
considerably during Morgan's
tenure on the board, now being
the largest in the county,
extending from the Shelton city
limits to Pierce County. This year
Harstine Island was annexed to
the district and a second firehall
was built at Mason Lake, making
a total of nine stations. Two aid
cars operate in the district. A
24-hour dispatch service is housed
in the five-year-old Allyn firehall.
Morgan gives most of the credit
for the growth and operation of
the district to Chief Richard
Knight who became chief shortly
after the district was formed.
Morgan came to Allyn in
1921, arriving with $2 in his
pocket, to live with an uncle who
was logging in the area. He was
recuperating from a near-fatal
illness and for a couple of months
he took life easy and spent time
sitting on the dock fishing or
doing some hunting. He
eventually joined his uncle as a
logger and worked in the woods
in various parts of western
Washington. In 1923 he married
an Allyn girl, Ruby Reed.
About 25 years ago he took a
job as rigger at the Bangor annex
ammunition depot and worked
there for I l years, then worked
another I l years as custodian for
the North Mason School District
before retiring at age 75 two years
ago.
The Morgans have three
children, Mrs. Leonard (Frances)
Peterson and Mrs. Kenneth
(Gloria) Crawford, both of Allyn,
and Mrs. Earl (Shirley) Anderson
of Mossyrock; ten grandchildren
and six great-grandchildren.
WOODSMAN INJURED
Two persons who heard calls
for help coming from within a
wooded area near Tahuya on
Sept. 24 investigated. All they
could f'md was a truck parked in
the woods with a chain saw on
the ground next to it. They could
find nobody and called the
sheriff's office to report the
incident. The dispatcher called
Harrison Memorial Hospital to
find out if anyone had been
treated in the emergency room
who might have been the person
in trouble. The answer was
affirmative. Jeff Bishop of Belfair
had severed the two middle
finger~ of his left hand on the
chain saw and had run through
the woods towards North Shore
Road calling for help. When he
reached the highway a passerby
stopped and picked him up and
drove him to his grandmother's
home on North Shore and she had
transported him to the hospital
for treatment.