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Percy M Pio
6017 S.E. 86th Ave
Portland, 0re
Hearing Starts With Cross
• " Of Police Chief By City
of a long line of witnesses began testifying
morning before the civil service board in the
dismissal of Shelton Police Chief Paul Hinton.
by both sides of the argument, reviewing
of the issues in the case, Paul Hinton was
and the questioning at the morning session
who had allowed Francis Beatty to be re-
jail and by what authority. One of the charges
in the dismissal proceedings is that he
prisoner to escape."
C. T. Hat-
"Who did re-
catty from jail?"
he, on Friday,
Beatty to
where a case
Was scheduled. He
he left Beatty at
left there around
the Hlllcreat school
I saw of him," said
about 2 o'clock that
he told me he had
and given a year
and ordered to
me he was go-
v some money and
out of town."
questioning Hinton
felt that in per-
to leave town he
With the prosecut-
es the
Shelton wood and
was elected
4-H Leaders
at a meeting in
of Minnesota
in 4-H work
f the Mmnesota
He has
here for the
to office at the
Stanley Lyman,
Mrs. Floyd God-
; Mrs. Willis Burn-
and Mrs. John Mac-
Council super-
of nearly 300
Mason county.
night will
24 at 8:30 p.m.
when sev-
as prize money
membegs.
Mrs. Frank Wolfe
organization.
00Lands
of Hood
by the State Tax
dng on thls week
a tax valuation
Weke to the com-
300 Canal prop-
":RTY examination
for several
weeks because
of sites in-
rty owners at-
last Thurs-
Tax Commission
The property
by Edson
attorney.
disposition of the case.
Much of the debate in the morn-
ing hearing involved the value and
admissibility into the hearing of
the tape recording made during
a meeting September 16 between
Mayor Earl Moore, Chief Hinton
and four officers of the force at
which time a heated discussion
about the handling of the Case of
police officer K. P. Warner. War-
net had been accused by Francis
Beatty of furnishing him and
other minorN with intoxicants.
Warner had been ordered to re-
sign by Hinton.
In the statements by the at-
torney representing the city com-
mission in bringing charges against
Hinton, the events leading up to
the filing of the charges were out-
lined as beginning September 6,
1959 when the police received a
complaint from Larry Durkin
that someone had entered his
home.
Investigating the call, Officer
Baumgart found Durkin holding
Francis Beatty by gun point.
Beatty was taken to the station
and booked, the officers said that
he was drunk and began talking
about drinking with officer War-
ner.
The officers then questioned
Beatty's sister Barbara and a
younger brother and took tape re-
cordings of ,their statements im-
plicating Warner. i
THE OFFICERS investigating
the charges made by Beatty
against Warner were Baumgart,
Booth, Nelson, and Santamaria.
They stated that they notified
Hinton about what had happened
and he told Warner to resign or
charges would be filed against
him.
They said later that Hinton as-
serted that he felt action against
Warner had been taken too hast-
ily on the basis of the type of tes-
timony against him and "that
Warner had been raih'oadcd."
IN REPLY to attorney Hatten's
version of what started the trou-
ble, Frank Heuston, attorney for
Paul Hinton, said that it had ac-
tually begun in August of 1959
when Sgt. Santamaria complain-
ed to Hinton about reports of
Warner sleeping on the job and
Hinor hd Instructed Santmaria
to get written statements verify
ing the charge and the matter
could then be placed before the
civil service commission. This
Heuston said was never done.
It was also pointed out by Heu-
ston that charges against War-
ner would have been difficult to
prove in court due to the fact that
statements made by Beatty in his
condition and tape recorded would
never have been made admissible
as evidence in court.
ANOTHER ISSUE involved
that of the hiring of a convicted
felon by the police department
was not gone into at great detail
before the lunch recess.
In Heuston's statements before
testimony began he said that this
matter had been brought up be-
fore by Bernie Bailey and that
Earl Moore had said that it is a
dead issue and felt that Bailey
should not "persecute the man."
However, Heuston continued, on
October 7 Bailey met with city at-
torney Hatten, Mayor Moore and
the question was raised again.
Hatten reportedly told Bailey that
he, as a citizen, would have to
make the charge. Bailey went
home and wrote the letter to the
city commission.
ON OCTOBER 8 he met again
with Moore and Hatten and was
informed the contents of the let-
ter did not amount to charges
and Hatten suggested that a let-
ter drafted by himself and writ-
ten in Bailey's hand be submitted
instead. Bailey later withdrew the
charges, stating that they were
duplications and that he felt he
(Continued on Page 5)
:?i
LIp DRIVE--Jerry Samples, maintenance superin-
No. 3, has been appointed county chairman for
the National Foundation. The drive for funds to
and birth defects will get underway in Jan-
are now being made to organize various units
county. The drive of the National Foundation is
ear with the Mothers March which "in Mason
One Too Many
Clues Pilfers
$70 lackpot
MRS. CHARLES KENT
Listed Too Many Clues
Many a perfect entry list has
been submitted during her 100%
participation in the Journal's
Who's Who contest and Mrs
Charles D. Kent had another one
this week.
She found each of the 33 clues
identifying Dave James as the
contest's 17th mystery man but a
"clue" that wasn't robbed her of
$70. That 34th "clue" trimmed
her take to $10 instead, and at the
same time boosted the 18th Jack-
pot total to $110 for someone to
claim next week by finding all the
clues in today's contest.
The tricky non-clue which put
the pistol to Mrs. Kent's jackpot
prize was one that fooled about
half the entrants this week. It
was the word "Germantown" in
the L.M. ad on page 9 and is a
type of yarn.
Mrs. Kent lives on West Rail-
road avenue and has been a faith-
ful participant in the Who's Who
contest each week since it started
City To Study
Freeway Plan
The Shelton City Commission
will hold a meeting with the City
Planning Commission soon to dis-
cuss plans for the interchange of
the new Shelton-Olympia freeway.
The meeting will be open to the
public.
THE CITY commission uesday
heard a reading o£ Ordinance 666
which will provide about $14,000
for use by the street department.
The 1960 budget includes these
funds but it is necessary to trans-
fer them into proper department
so the money can be spent.
A building permit of $12,000
was issued this week to the Wa-
terfront Realty company for the
construction of a new residence.
Case Worker
Appointed Herel
Mrs. LarzT James has been ap-
pointed social case worker by the
Mason county office of the de-
partment of public assistance re-
placing Myrtle Edwards who has
taken a position with a private
social agency in Tacoma.
SHE IS A GRADUATE of the
Richmond Professional Institute
of tlle college of William and Mary
in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. James has worked in the
social welfare field in Virginia and
was employed for about a year in
Oakland, Calif., working with
crippled children.
Her husband Larry James is a
native of Shelton now attending
the Olympic Junior College in
Bremerton.
MP AND MRS. James reside at
Belfair.
Ohuroh Qroup to Aid
World's Ohildren
Seventh grade students of the
Methodist Sunday school will col-
lect donations for the United Na-
tions International C h i 1 d r en's
Emergency Fund on Halloween
eve between six and 7:30 p.m.
Some 20 students from the
church will go from house to
house for donations which will be
used to provide food and medical
care for some of the millions of
underprivileged children in the
world.
After soliciting funds for this
worthy cause they will have a
party of their own at the church.
Students Receiving
TB Instructions
Mrs. Ivan Myers, Health Edu-
cator for Public School of the Ma-
son County TB Chapter, is now
conducting educatiomtl TB work
in grade, schools, junior high and
high schools in the county.
The educational work consists
of health posters aud various
types of printed matter explain-
ing tuberculosis. This is her sec-
ond year of work in this field.
Ttle high school will select var-
ious speakers during the month of
November who will give talks on
the TB problem in Mason county.
THEFT REPORTED
Authony Buhr of Tacoma re-
ported to the Mason Couuty Sher-
iff's office this week the theft of
two rifles, two lanterns and a
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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Thursday, October 22, 1959 Entered aa second el matter at tht Poet office at flhelton. Washma.toa. 10 Cents per Copy
under Act of March G. 1879, Publishes weekly at 107 South 4th Street,
73RD YEAR--NO. 43 Published in "Chriatmastown, U.S.A." 20 Pages 3 Sections
New Canal School Gets Voters O.K.
Many Groups
Favor Penal
Site Locally
Chamber of Commerce efforts to
locate a proposed new state diag-
nostic and rehabilitation institu-
tion near Shelton is drawing sup-
port from other local organiza-
tions as well as individuals.
WITHIN THE past few days,
resolutions backing Chamber ef-
forts have been adopted by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of Ma-
son County and Local 38 Inter-
national Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, with several others expected
within the next few days after the
memberships have been presented
with the idea.
Mason county's 24th district
legislator, Roy Ritner, has taken
a leading role in efforts to con-
vince state officials responsible for
locating the institution that one
of two sites suggested by the
Chamber in the Shelton area
should be selected.
Ritner has the backing, also, of :
his fellow 24th district legislators,
Representatives Paul Conner and
Dr. J. h. McFadden, and Senator
Gordon Sandison.
Shelton is but one of a dozen
communities throughout the state
seeking the proposed new institu-
tion, among the others being sev-
eral which already have penal
type institutions in their areas.
The proposed diagnostic and re-
habilitation institution would em-
ploy a staff of 175 to 200 persons.
"THE CHAMBER feels such an
addition to our community would
be beneficial not only from the
additional payroll it would pro-
vide," Chamber President Dick
S(,tzliere pointed out, "but it would
also tend to diversify and stabil-
ize our economic base because it
is a type of operation not de-
pendent upon available raw ma-
terials or available markets."
4-H Member,
Due Awards
Over 300 Mason county 4-H
members will reap the benefit of
work done in 1959 at their
Achievement Night this Saturday,
Oct. 24, at the National Guard
Armory in Shelton, beginning at
8:00 p.m.
THE COMMITTEE planning
this is headed by Mrs. John Mac-
Rae with the help of Mrs. Andy
Tuson, Mrs. C. H. Jackson, Mrs.
Richard Kelley, Mr. Clyde Robb
and Bob Brewer.
This event will include the
awarding of ribbons and premium
money earned at the Mason Coun-
ty Fair. Leader and membership
pins will also be given. New of-
ricers for 4-H are to be elected.
A new award will be given by
the Washington Co-Operative
Farmers' Association to be per-
sonally presented hy O. V. Best-
wick, manager. It is to be a cus-
tom made sweater given to the
member with the most outstand-
ing general achievement record.
THERE WILL be medals given
for outstanding achievement in
canning, clothing, dairy, dells'
foods, dress revue, food prepara-
tion, garden, frozen foods, forest-
ry leadership, swine and tractor
operator.
Odd Fellows Plan
Homecoming Meet
The annual homecoming of the
Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows Lodge No. 62 will be held
Wednesday at the IOOF hall be-
ginning with a 6:30 dinner.
Following the dinner, a regular
lodge meeting will be held at
eight o'clock. A special program is
being planned and special speak-
ers from the Grand Lodge will be
presented. Highlighting the eve-
ning's program will be the presen-
tation of a 60 year jewel to Robert
Ebert of the Shelton Lodge.
VFW Oontost Slated
Today al School
Veterans of Foreign Wars Area
Director John W. Riley announced
this week the elimination compe-
tition in the 13th annual "Voice
of Democracy" contest will take
place at 3:00 p.m. today in the
h'cne S. Reed high school at
Studios.
The judges will be Miss Marion
Johnson of the Veterans of For-
sigma Wars Auxiliary; Mr. Norman
Smith of the Toastmasters Club,
and Mr. E. F. Malh)y of V.F.W.
Post 1694.
The winners in the clilnination
competition will be announced the
first week in November and the
winning script writings from Irene
S. Reed High School will be broad-
cast at 9:05 a.m. on Monday, Nov.
2, by radio station KITN.
JOB OPEN
The Department of Natural Re-
sources will be taking applications
at the Shelton office for a second
dispatcher. The female applicant
must be experienced in typing and
shorthand and will be required to
pair of hip boots from his sum- take and send radio messages aa
by tht Zonta Club. (Journal photo, Ziegle I met homo at DcWatto. i well aa general office work. ,
Sea/Sale Drive Starts November [5 $316,000 Bond
Issue Passes
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STAMPING OUT TB--Pictured above are sev-
eral members of the Mason County TB Chapter
at a meeting held last week in the &heRon hotel.
On the extreme left is Dr. Q. Thomas Ryan,
Phyllis Herron, Mrs, Bessie Hall and chaPlLer
i
TB Drive
S :ass Nov. 15
The Mason County Chapter of
the Washington State TB Assoc-
iation will mail envelopes with
Christmas seals here on Novem-
ber 15.
THE CHAPTER hopes to raise
$5000 for their 1960 program of
TB education and assistance to
victims of the illness. Last year
'the chapter fell short of its quota
with an average donation of 30
cents for every letter mailed.
Dr. Judson Holloway, president
of the Mason county chapter, said
at a meeting held in the Shelton
he I last Friday, "The seal sale
dri is the heart of the TB fund
The chapter has a balance of
$3,141.93 at the preent tim but '
will need more funds when , the
1960 needs of the chapter will have
to be met starting on April 1.
The local chapter provides edu-
cational material to county schools
as well as financial assistance to
those affected wRh TB.
It was moved last Friday by the
local chapter to supply blood to
TB patients and to provide funds
to pay for the transportation of
relatives of patients to and from
sanitoriums.
IN ORDER to help raise addi-
tional funds, a rummage sale will i
be held at the old five and ten cent I
store on CoLa street on October 28- I
29 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Republicans
Plan Dinner
The Republican Central Com-
mittee ofMason County and Re-
publicans of the third congression-
al district will honor Congressman
Russell V. Mack with a dinner
November 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Shelton armory.
FINAL PLANS for the dinner
were made at a luncheon held here
last week and preparations for the
affair are now undezvay. Les
Shelver is general chairman of
the dinner.
President of the Third District
Republican Club, Senator Dale
Norquist of Centralia, ana Mason
County Chairman Herb Rotter,
hope every voter in the district
will turn out for the event. The
general public is invited.
Mack will talk on the work ac-
complished in the last session of
congress. Tickets for the dinner
will go on sale October 22 in the
county. Tickets may also be pur-
chased from Lea Shelver, HA
6-4562 or Velma McInelly, HA
6-3198.
Merwn Wivoll
Gets Nomination
Mervyn Wivell of Shelton has
been nonatnated for the position of
state dairy commissioner from dis-
trict seven at a meeting held in
the office of the State Director of
Agriculture last week.
The 1959 legislature iucreased
the memhership on the state com-
mission front five to seven officers.
District seven embraces Clallam,
Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Kttsap,
Mason and Thurston counties.
Gossor Plans to Give
Up Historical Office
President Lawrene;e Gosser of
the Mason County Historical So-
ciety, has announced that he will
not be a candidate for office in
1960 due to thc pressure of private
bnsiness affairs. Gosser, however,
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president, Dr. Judson Holloway. The chapter
hope= to raise $5000 this year to help educate
the public on TB danger and to assist those in
the county who have contracted the illness.
(Journal photo, Ziegler print.)
It's About Time
Nation's Cats Due Recognition
From Pub& November ,I-7
By Beve Wells
"National Cat Week---it's about
:ime," yawned the graying tabby
cat. "Yowl it's about time they
(Imople) gave us a little extra
credit."
" 'Course I'm not complaining,
I've done pretty well. In my
younger days I more than caught
my share of mice and moles.
"IT ALL began when I was a
mere kitten and abandoned in a
park, 11 human years ago. A
young couple picked me up, took
me home and fed me on pablum
and baby formula from a doll bot-
tle. Ah, those were the days. I
had the run of the house. They
reared me like royalty, even
named me 'His Highness Tinus'
'Tiny' for short.
"I lived up to my name and
still do, but things have changed
The first big chance for me was
when I was banished to the kitch-
County Budget
Surplus Down
After closely examining the
1960 county budget this week the
board of county commissioners
found their surplus for the com-
ing year less than first estimated.
THE FIRST 1960 budget had
revenues from federal forest lands
included twice which caused the
surplus to be greater than the a.c-
tual amount. It was first esti-
mated the surplus would be about
$17,000 but it is only $5,038.43.
The county commission ap-
proved an easement for P.U.D.
One at McReavy's third addition
for the installation of a powerline.
Christmas tree rights were giv-
en to Herb Allen for timber at the
Union garbage dump for a fee of
$10.
The commission was informed
that punchboard licenses for 1960
are nearly due. The commission
decided to refer the matter to tim
prosecuting attorney.
Soouters Goal
Of $1500 for 1959
More thau thirty Mason District
scouters breakfasted together
Wednesday nmrning at the Shel-
ton Hotel and kicked off the bus-
incss division of the 1959 Scout
fund drive.
DIVISION CHAIRMAN, Kurt
Mann, and his canvassers have as
a, goal the raising of $1500,
Horace Gorton, a National staff
member, was the featured speaker
of the breakfast.
Guests of the business division
were the team captains of the res-
idential division under the co-
chairmanship of Jack Jeffries and
Jim Barrom. Included were Bill
Batstone, Larry Charrier, Archie
en when tim baby arrived. That
was alright because as the baby
grew up, she liked to pet me and
carry me upside down. The sec-
ond and third changes were two
more babies and me)re maulling
for me.
"Scratch my young mistress and
master--Only once, but even then
I wasn't reprimanded. Any self-
respecting cat would have done
the same with two little moppets
pulling your head and tail. What
else could I do ?
"Five years age), while I still in-
dulged in arguments, I lost an eye
but the work of a veterinarian
patched me up, minus the eye but
healthy.
"After I lost my eye a mouse
had the audacity to plunk himself
in OUR living room but not for
long. I caught him so fast my
owners didn't even ace it until I
growled at the door to be let out.
"I don't hear quite as well as
I did but now there are more cats
at our house, who also live up to
their nantes, Mischief, Snoopy
and Nicky (he's an imp). Now
it's their turn to be dressed in
doll clothes, sleep in a (loll bed
and get wheeled in a doll stroller:
"I don't even bother to run from
a barking dog. Maybe I'm getting
too old for that sort of thing.
Anyway, I'm used to dogs, at least
the two who live here.
"DON'T THINK that the other
animals don't km)w who's boss
On 3 to I Vote
Hood Canal School District
404 voters gave their over-
whelming approval for the
building of a new junior high
school in Hoodsport Tuesday
by voting in a bond issue of
$316,000.
The vote approving the
bond issue was nearly three
to one with the final count
showing 328 for the bond is-
sue and 110 against it.
Hood Canal voters also
gave their O.K. for the sale
of about $30,000 worth of
surplus school property by a
count of 364 to 90. The state
law requires school districts
to get the approval of the
voters before school property
in excess of $20,000 can be
sold.
Three hundred and sixteen
thousand dollars represents
the limit of bonding ability
by the school district and it
is expected that negotiations
to sell the bonds will start
immediately.
THE BOND issue needed the
O.K. of 60 per cent of the wters
but received the backing of about
74 per cent. A breakdown of
voting according to the individual
areas in the district showed Lower
Skokomish with 51 for the issue
and 11 against; Uuion, 85 for and
8 against; Middle Skokomish,' 60
for and 23 against and Hoodsport
132 for and 68 against.
The vote for the sale of school
surplus property when broken
down showed Lower Skokomlsh
with 56 for and 6 against; Union,
85 for and 8 against; Middle Sko-
l<nmi.h. 63 for nd 20 ngainst and
Hoodsport 140 for and 58 against.
The success of the bond issue
has been the result of the efforts
of P.T.A. groups, the Scimol Board,
District School Superintendent
John Pill, County School Superin-
tendent Bill Goodpaster and nu-
merous private citizens.
The school district presently
has liabilities of about $22,000 and
this will have to be deducted from
the $316,000 for building purposes.
According to state htw, it is
necessary for 40 per cent of the
voters who cast their ballots in
the last general election to take
part in the bond issue. In this
case it meant 312 voters would
have to cast ballots on the issue
to insure its legality.
COUNTY SCHOOL Superin-
tendent Bill Goodpaster was very
pleased with the outcome of the
voting and said, "I think this
election shows an expression of
confidence by the voters of the
school board and the school offic-
ials. When you consider that the
last presidential election drew 700
voters from this district the 438
figure looks wry good. It was a
rainy day also and nany times
[his will hold down the number of
persons who will come out and
vote."
The Hoodsport area has had a
continued increase iu population in
around here, rm still king. And the last few years making present
jtst in case anyone's interested facilities unable to proper y cope
' • d ..... • ' t , '
it's National Seafood Week, too, with the number of students. The
and I'm eyeing the tastiest morsel I land owned by the school district
,t, th, ),n*, .... , ..... ¢-h nd ,I was considered too small to build
purred Tiny, or rather 'His High- ].addihonal. . ...... facfltt(s and also te-
nses Tinus" quu'ed studentt to cross a busy
....... " ....... ' ........ I highway to the playfield.
Architect Bill Johnson feels the
I11 II I new classrooms can be ready by
Klanltc the fall term of 1960 it' everything
ms 1111111t=F goes according to present plans.
THE PLANS call for the con-
struction of six new classrooms to
house 7th, 8th, and 9th grade
students. The money secured
through the bond sale will prob-
ably be used over a period of years
to provide the district with a com-
plete junior high school. Accord-
ing to present plans, the bonds
wild be retired in a period of 20
years. Most school district bouds
by the state e)
Now Available
Forest: and Chl'istmas trec order
blanks for the 1959-1960 planting
season arc now out. They list
types and costs of seedlings raised
at the Webster State Forest: Nur-
sez\\;y. Tiis nursery is a branch of
the State Departrment of N;ttural are purchased
Resources. Order blanks can be'Washington.
obtained from the local offices of
the Department of Natural Re-
sources, the County Agent, and
from the Soil Consewation Serv-
ice.
ON TIlE MOT PART, seed-
lings will cost: $g.10 pc]' thousand.
However, 2-1 Douglas fir trans-
plants, which are large and
stocky, will cost $13.00 per thou-
sand. Trees from the State De-
partment of Natural Resources
nursery can be used only for es-
tablishing forest, Soil Bank or
Christmas trec plantations. They
must be planted outside corporate
city limits and they cannot be
used for ornamental purposes. Nor
can they be resold with roots at-
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HEALTH MEET
The ThursLon - Mason Cnmty
Health District will meet today at
10 a.m. in the Tlmz'st(. county
eotu'thouse.
FREE NORGE
LAUHDRY OLINIQ
TUES., OCT. 27
P,U.D. AUDITORIUM
3 Classes - 10 a.m.,
2 p,m., 7 p.m.
plans to be as active as time will Dittman, Larry Godwin, Glenn]tached.
allow for organization work. Huffnail Bob Kieburtz and h'v Land owners wlo plan to plant
The Mason County Historical Shefler. The Shelton residential I trees are advised to get their or-
Society will resume winter meet- drive and the Hoodsport and Hood I ders in early. By doing so, one has
ings November 2 at 8 p.m. in the Canal drive has been acheduled]a better chance of having his or-
P.U.D. building. , or Monday, Nov. 2. I dsr illed exactly.
TAYLOR RADIO
ELEQTRIO
Percy M Pio
6017 S.E. 86th Ave
Portland, 0re
Hearing Starts With Cross
• " Of Police Chief By City
of a long line of witnesses began testifying
morning before the civil service board in the
dismissal of Shelton Police Chief Paul Hinton.
by both sides of the argument, reviewing
of the issues in the case, Paul Hinton was
and the questioning at the morning session
who had allowed Francis Beatty to be re-
jail and by what authority. One of the charges
in the dismissal proceedings is that he
prisoner to escape."
C. T. Hat-
"Who did re-
catty from jail?"
he, on Friday,
Beatty to
where a case
Was scheduled. He
he left Beatty at
left there around
the Hlllcreat school
I saw of him," said
about 2 o'clock that
he told me he had
and given a year
and ordered to
me he was go-
v some money and
out of town."
questioning Hinton
felt that in per-
to leave town he
With the prosecut-
es the
Shelton wood and
was elected
4-H Leaders
at a meeting in
of Minnesota
in 4-H work
f the Mmnesota
He has
here for the
to office at the
Stanley Lyman,
Mrs. Floyd God-
; Mrs. Willis Burn-
and Mrs. John Mac-
Council super-
of nearly 300
Mason county.
night will
24 at 8:30 p.m.
when sev-
as prize money
membegs.
Mrs. Frank Wolfe
organization.
00Lands
of Hood
by the State Tax
dng on thls week
a tax valuation
Weke to the com-
300 Canal prop-
":RTY examination
for several
weeks because
of sites in-
rty owners at-
last Thurs-
Tax Commission
The property
by Edson
attorney.
disposition of the case.
Much of the debate in the morn-
ing hearing involved the value and
admissibility into the hearing of
the tape recording made during
a meeting September 16 between
Mayor Earl Moore, Chief Hinton
and four officers of the force at
which time a heated discussion
about the handling of the Case of
police officer K. P. Warner. War-
net had been accused by Francis
Beatty of furnishing him and
other minorN with intoxicants.
Warner had been ordered to re-
sign by Hinton.
In the statements by the at-
torney representing the city com-
mission in bringing charges against
Hinton, the events leading up to
the filing of the charges were out-
lined as beginning September 6,
1959 when the police received a
complaint from Larry Durkin
that someone had entered his
home.
Investigating the call, Officer
Baumgart found Durkin holding
Francis Beatty by gun point.
Beatty was taken to the station
and booked, the officers said that
he was drunk and began talking
about drinking with officer War-
ner.
The officers then questioned
Beatty's sister Barbara and a
younger brother and took tape re-
cordings of ,their statements im-
plicating Warner. i
THE OFFICERS investigating
the charges made by Beatty
against Warner were Baumgart,
Booth, Nelson, and Santamaria.
They stated that they notified
Hinton about what had happened
and he told Warner to resign or
charges would be filed against
him.
They said later that Hinton as-
serted that he felt action against
Warner had been taken too hast-
ily on the basis of the type of tes-
timony against him and "that
Warner had been raih'oadcd."
IN REPLY to attorney Hatten's
version of what started the trou-
ble, Frank Heuston, attorney for
Paul Hinton, said that it had ac-
tually begun in August of 1959
when Sgt. Santamaria complain-
ed to Hinton about reports of
Warner sleeping on the job and
Hinor hd Instructed Santmaria
to get written statements verify
ing the charge and the matter
could then be placed before the
civil service commission. This
Heuston said was never done.
It was also pointed out by Heu-
ston that charges against War-
ner would have been difficult to
prove in court due to the fact that
statements made by Beatty in his
condition and tape recorded would
never have been made admissible
as evidence in court.
ANOTHER ISSUE involved
that of the hiring of a convicted
felon by the police department
was not gone into at great detail
before the lunch recess.
In Heuston's statements before
testimony began he said that this
matter had been brought up be-
fore by Bernie Bailey and that
Earl Moore had said that it is a
dead issue and felt that Bailey
should not "persecute the man."
However, Heuston continued, on
October 7 Bailey met with city at-
torney Hatten, Mayor Moore and
the question was raised again.
Hatten reportedly told Bailey that
he, as a citizen, would have to
make the charge. Bailey went
home and wrote the letter to the
city commission.
ON OCTOBER 8 he met again
with Moore and Hatten and was
informed the contents of the let-
ter did not amount to charges
and Hatten suggested that a let-
ter drafted by himself and writ-
ten in Bailey's hand be submitted
instead. Bailey later withdrew the
charges, stating that they were
duplications and that he felt he
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:?i
LIp DRIVE--Jerry Samples, maintenance superin-
No. 3, has been appointed county chairman for
the National Foundation. The drive for funds to
and birth defects will get underway in Jan-
are now being made to organize various units
county. The drive of the National Foundation is
ear with the Mothers March which "in Mason
One Too Many
Clues Pilfers
$70 lackpot
MRS. CHARLES KENT
Listed Too Many Clues
Many a perfect entry list has
been submitted during her 100%
participation in the Journal's
Who's Who contest and Mrs
Charles D. Kent had another one
this week.
She found each of the 33 clues
identifying Dave James as the
contest's 17th mystery man but a
"clue" that wasn't robbed her of
$70. That 34th "clue" trimmed
her take to $10 instead, and at the
same time boosted the 18th Jack-
pot total to $110 for someone to
claim next week by finding all the
clues in today's contest.
The tricky non-clue which put
the pistol to Mrs. Kent's jackpot
prize was one that fooled about
half the entrants this week. It
was the word "Germantown" in
the L.M. ad on page 9 and is a
type of yarn.
Mrs. Kent lives on West Rail-
road avenue and has been a faith-
ful participant in the Who's Who
contest each week since it started
City To Study
Freeway Plan
The Shelton City Commission
will hold a meeting with the City
Planning Commission soon to dis-
cuss plans for the interchange of
the new Shelton-Olympia freeway.
The meeting will be open to the
public.
THE CITY commission uesday
heard a reading o£ Ordinance 666
which will provide about $14,000
for use by the street department.
The 1960 budget includes these
funds but it is necessary to trans-
fer them into proper department
so the money can be spent.
A building permit of $12,000
was issued this week to the Wa-
terfront Realty company for the
construction of a new residence.
Case Worker
Appointed Herel
Mrs. LarzT James has been ap-
pointed social case worker by the
Mason county office of the de-
partment of public assistance re-
placing Myrtle Edwards who has
taken a position with a private
social agency in Tacoma.
SHE IS A GRADUATE of the
Richmond Professional Institute
of tlle college of William and Mary
in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. James has worked in the
social welfare field in Virginia and
was employed for about a year in
Oakland, Calif., working with
crippled children.
Her husband Larry James is a
native of Shelton now attending
the Olympic Junior College in
Bremerton.
MP AND MRS. James reside at
Belfair.
Ohuroh Qroup to Aid
World's Ohildren
Seventh grade students of the
Methodist Sunday school will col-
lect donations for the United Na-
tions International C h i 1 d r en's
Emergency Fund on Halloween
eve between six and 7:30 p.m.
Some 20 students from the
church will go from house to
house for donations which will be
used to provide food and medical
care for some of the millions of
underprivileged children in the
world.
After soliciting funds for this
worthy cause they will have a
party of their own at the church.
Students Receiving
TB Instructions
Mrs. Ivan Myers, Health Edu-
cator for Public School of the Ma-
son County TB Chapter, is now
conducting educatiomtl TB work
in grade, schools, junior high and
high schools in the county.
The educational work consists
of health posters aud various
types of printed matter explain-
ing tuberculosis. This is her sec-
ond year of work in this field.
Ttle high school will select var-
ious speakers during the month of
November who will give talks on
the TB problem in Mason county.
THEFT REPORTED
Authony Buhr of Tacoma re-
ported to the Mason Couuty Sher-
iff's office this week the theft of
two rifles, two lanterns and a
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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i i
Thursday, October 22, 1959 Entered aa second el matter at tht Poet office at flhelton. Washma.toa. 10 Cents per Copy
under Act of March G. 1879, Publishes weekly at 107 South 4th Street,
73RD YEAR--NO. 43 Published in "Chriatmastown, U.S.A." 20 Pages 3 Sections
New Canal School Gets Voters O.K.
Many Groups
Favor Penal
Site Locally
Chamber of Commerce efforts to
locate a proposed new state diag-
nostic and rehabilitation institu-
tion near Shelton is drawing sup-
port from other local organiza-
tions as well as individuals.
WITHIN THE past few days,
resolutions backing Chamber ef-
forts have been adopted by the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of Ma-
son County and Local 38 Inter-
national Woodworkers of Amer-
ica, with several others expected
within the next few days after the
memberships have been presented
with the idea.
Mason county's 24th district
legislator, Roy Ritner, has taken
a leading role in efforts to con-
vince state officials responsible for
locating the institution that one
of two sites suggested by the
Chamber in the Shelton area
should be selected.
Ritner has the backing, also, of :
his fellow 24th district legislators,
Representatives Paul Conner and
Dr. J. h. McFadden, and Senator
Gordon Sandison.
Shelton is but one of a dozen
communities throughout the state
seeking the proposed new institu-
tion, among the others being sev-
eral which already have penal
type institutions in their areas.
The proposed diagnostic and re-
habilitation institution would em-
ploy a staff of 175 to 200 persons.
"THE CHAMBER feels such an
addition to our community would
be beneficial not only from the
additional payroll it would pro-
vide," Chamber President Dick
S(,tzliere pointed out, "but it would
also tend to diversify and stabil-
ize our economic base because it
is a type of operation not de-
pendent upon available raw ma-
terials or available markets."
4-H Member,
Due Awards
Over 300 Mason county 4-H
members will reap the benefit of
work done in 1959 at their
Achievement Night this Saturday,
Oct. 24, at the National Guard
Armory in Shelton, beginning at
8:00 p.m.
THE COMMITTEE planning
this is headed by Mrs. John Mac-
Rae with the help of Mrs. Andy
Tuson, Mrs. C. H. Jackson, Mrs.
Richard Kelley, Mr. Clyde Robb
and Bob Brewer.
This event will include the
awarding of ribbons and premium
money earned at the Mason Coun-
ty Fair. Leader and membership
pins will also be given. New of-
ricers for 4-H are to be elected.
A new award will be given by
the Washington Co-Operative
Farmers' Association to be per-
sonally presented hy O. V. Best-
wick, manager. It is to be a cus-
tom made sweater given to the
member with the most outstand-
ing general achievement record.
THERE WILL be medals given
for outstanding achievement in
canning, clothing, dairy, dells'
foods, dress revue, food prepara-
tion, garden, frozen foods, forest-
ry leadership, swine and tractor
operator.
Odd Fellows Plan
Homecoming Meet
The annual homecoming of the
Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows Lodge No. 62 will be held
Wednesday at the IOOF hall be-
ginning with a 6:30 dinner.
Following the dinner, a regular
lodge meeting will be held at
eight o'clock. A special program is
being planned and special speak-
ers from the Grand Lodge will be
presented. Highlighting the eve-
ning's program will be the presen-
tation of a 60 year jewel to Robert
Ebert of the Shelton Lodge.
VFW Oontost Slated
Today al School
Veterans of Foreign Wars Area
Director John W. Riley announced
this week the elimination compe-
tition in the 13th annual "Voice
of Democracy" contest will take
place at 3:00 p.m. today in the
h'cne S. Reed high school at
Studios.
The judges will be Miss Marion
Johnson of the Veterans of For-
sigma Wars Auxiliary; Mr. Norman
Smith of the Toastmasters Club,
and Mr. E. F. Malh)y of V.F.W.
Post 1694.
The winners in the clilnination
competition will be announced the
first week in November and the
winning script writings from Irene
S. Reed High School will be broad-
cast at 9:05 a.m. on Monday, Nov.
2, by radio station KITN.
JOB OPEN
The Department of Natural Re-
sources will be taking applications
at the Shelton office for a second
dispatcher. The female applicant
must be experienced in typing and
shorthand and will be required to
pair of hip boots from his sum- take and send radio messages aa
by tht Zonta Club. (Journal photo, Ziegle I met homo at DcWatto. i well aa general office work. ,
Sea/Sale Drive Starts November [5 $316,000 Bond
Issue Passes
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STAMPING OUT TB--Pictured above are sev-
eral members of the Mason County TB Chapter
at a meeting held last week in the &heRon hotel.
On the extreme left is Dr. Q. Thomas Ryan,
Phyllis Herron, Mrs, Bessie Hall and chaPlLer
i
TB Drive
S :ass Nov. 15
The Mason County Chapter of
the Washington State TB Assoc-
iation will mail envelopes with
Christmas seals here on Novem-
ber 15.
THE CHAPTER hopes to raise
$5000 for their 1960 program of
TB education and assistance to
victims of the illness. Last year
'the chapter fell short of its quota
with an average donation of 30
cents for every letter mailed.
Dr. Judson Holloway, president
of the Mason county chapter, said
at a meeting held in the Shelton
he I last Friday, "The seal sale
dri is the heart of the TB fund
The chapter has a balance of
$3,141.93 at the preent tim but '
will need more funds when , the
1960 needs of the chapter will have
to be met starting on April 1.
The local chapter provides edu-
cational material to county schools
as well as financial assistance to
those affected wRh TB.
It was moved last Friday by the
local chapter to supply blood to
TB patients and to provide funds
to pay for the transportation of
relatives of patients to and from
sanitoriums.
IN ORDER to help raise addi-
tional funds, a rummage sale will i
be held at the old five and ten cent I
store on CoLa street on October 28- I
29 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Republicans
Plan Dinner
The Republican Central Com-
mittee ofMason County and Re-
publicans of the third congression-
al district will honor Congressman
Russell V. Mack with a dinner
November 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the
Shelton armory.
FINAL PLANS for the dinner
were made at a luncheon held here
last week and preparations for the
affair are now undezvay. Les
Shelver is general chairman of
the dinner.
President of the Third District
Republican Club, Senator Dale
Norquist of Centralia, ana Mason
County Chairman Herb Rotter,
hope every voter in the district
will turn out for the event. The
general public is invited.
Mack will talk on the work ac-
complished in the last session of
congress. Tickets for the dinner
will go on sale October 22 in the
county. Tickets may also be pur-
chased from Lea Shelver, HA
6-4562 or Velma McInelly, HA
6-3198.
Merwn Wivoll
Gets Nomination
Mervyn Wivell of Shelton has
been nonatnated for the position of
state dairy commissioner from dis-
trict seven at a meeting held in
the office of the State Director of
Agriculture last week.
The 1959 legislature iucreased
the memhership on the state com-
mission front five to seven officers.
District seven embraces Clallam,
Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Kttsap,
Mason and Thurston counties.
Gossor Plans to Give
Up Historical Office
President Lawrene;e Gosser of
the Mason County Historical So-
ciety, has announced that he will
not be a candidate for office in
1960 due to thc pressure of private
bnsiness affairs. Gosser, however,
i ¸¸ :(i:: : :/:; :i:i/i: !:/: : !/: •i.•
president, Dr. Judson Holloway. The chapter
hope= to raise $5000 this year to help educate
the public on TB danger and to assist those in
the county who have contracted the illness.
(Journal photo, Ziegler print.)
It's About Time
Nation's Cats Due Recognition
From Pub& November ,I-7
By Beve Wells
"National Cat Week---it's about
:ime," yawned the graying tabby
cat. "Yowl it's about time they
(Imople) gave us a little extra
credit."
" 'Course I'm not complaining,
I've done pretty well. In my
younger days I more than caught
my share of mice and moles.
"IT ALL began when I was a
mere kitten and abandoned in a
park, 11 human years ago. A
young couple picked me up, took
me home and fed me on pablum
and baby formula from a doll bot-
tle. Ah, those were the days. I
had the run of the house. They
reared me like royalty, even
named me 'His Highness Tinus'
'Tiny' for short.
"I lived up to my name and
still do, but things have changed
The first big chance for me was
when I was banished to the kitch-
County Budget
Surplus Down
After closely examining the
1960 county budget this week the
board of county commissioners
found their surplus for the com-
ing year less than first estimated.
THE FIRST 1960 budget had
revenues from federal forest lands
included twice which caused the
surplus to be greater than the a.c-
tual amount. It was first esti-
mated the surplus would be about
$17,000 but it is only $5,038.43.
The county commission ap-
proved an easement for P.U.D.
One at McReavy's third addition
for the installation of a powerline.
Christmas tree rights were giv-
en to Herb Allen for timber at the
Union garbage dump for a fee of
$10.
The commission was informed
that punchboard licenses for 1960
are nearly due. The commission
decided to refer the matter to tim
prosecuting attorney.
Soouters Goal
Of $1500 for 1959
More thau thirty Mason District
scouters breakfasted together
Wednesday nmrning at the Shel-
ton Hotel and kicked off the bus-
incss division of the 1959 Scout
fund drive.
DIVISION CHAIRMAN, Kurt
Mann, and his canvassers have as
a, goal the raising of $1500,
Horace Gorton, a National staff
member, was the featured speaker
of the breakfast.
Guests of the business division
were the team captains of the res-
idential division under the co-
chairmanship of Jack Jeffries and
Jim Barrom. Included were Bill
Batstone, Larry Charrier, Archie
en when tim baby arrived. That
was alright because as the baby
grew up, she liked to pet me and
carry me upside down. The sec-
ond and third changes were two
more babies and me)re maulling
for me.
"Scratch my young mistress and
master--Only once, but even then
I wasn't reprimanded. Any self-
respecting cat would have done
the same with two little moppets
pulling your head and tail. What
else could I do ?
"Five years age), while I still in-
dulged in arguments, I lost an eye
but the work of a veterinarian
patched me up, minus the eye but
healthy.
"After I lost my eye a mouse
had the audacity to plunk himself
in OUR living room but not for
long. I caught him so fast my
owners didn't even ace it until I
growled at the door to be let out.
"I don't hear quite as well as
I did but now there are more cats
at our house, who also live up to
their nantes, Mischief, Snoopy
and Nicky (he's an imp). Now
it's their turn to be dressed in
doll clothes, sleep in a (loll bed
and get wheeled in a doll stroller:
"I don't even bother to run from
a barking dog. Maybe I'm getting
too old for that sort of thing.
Anyway, I'm used to dogs, at least
the two who live here.
"DON'T THINK that the other
animals don't km)w who's boss
On 3 to I Vote
Hood Canal School District
404 voters gave their over-
whelming approval for the
building of a new junior high
school in Hoodsport Tuesday
by voting in a bond issue of
$316,000.
The vote approving the
bond issue was nearly three
to one with the final count
showing 328 for the bond is-
sue and 110 against it.
Hood Canal voters also
gave their O.K. for the sale
of about $30,000 worth of
surplus school property by a
count of 364 to 90. The state
law requires school districts
to get the approval of the
voters before school property
in excess of $20,000 can be
sold.
Three hundred and sixteen
thousand dollars represents
the limit of bonding ability
by the school district and it
is expected that negotiations
to sell the bonds will start
immediately.
THE BOND issue needed the
O.K. of 60 per cent of the wters
but received the backing of about
74 per cent. A breakdown of
voting according to the individual
areas in the district showed Lower
Skokomish with 51 for the issue
and 11 against; Uuion, 85 for and
8 against; Middle Skokomish,' 60
for and 23 against and Hoodsport
132 for and 68 against.
The vote for the sale of school
surplus property when broken
down showed Lower Skokomlsh
with 56 for and 6 against; Union,
85 for and 8 against; Middle Sko-
l<nmi.h. 63 for nd 20 ngainst and
Hoodsport 140 for and 58 against.
The success of the bond issue
has been the result of the efforts
of P.T.A. groups, the Scimol Board,
District School Superintendent
John Pill, County School Superin-
tendent Bill Goodpaster and nu-
merous private citizens.
The school district presently
has liabilities of about $22,000 and
this will have to be deducted from
the $316,000 for building purposes.
According to state htw, it is
necessary for 40 per cent of the
voters who cast their ballots in
the last general election to take
part in the bond issue. In this
case it meant 312 voters would
have to cast ballots on the issue
to insure its legality.
COUNTY SCHOOL Superin-
tendent Bill Goodpaster was very
pleased with the outcome of the
voting and said, "I think this
election shows an expression of
confidence by the voters of the
school board and the school offic-
ials. When you consider that the
last presidential election drew 700
voters from this district the 438
figure looks wry good. It was a
rainy day also and nany times
[his will hold down the number of
persons who will come out and
vote."
The Hoodsport area has had a
continued increase iu population in
around here, rm still king. And the last few years making present
jtst in case anyone's interested facilities unable to proper y cope
' • d ..... • ' t , '
it's National Seafood Week, too, with the number of students. The
and I'm eyeing the tastiest morsel I land owned by the school district
,t, th, ),n*, .... , ..... ¢-h nd ,I was considered too small to build
purred Tiny, or rather 'His High- ].addihonal. . ...... facfltt(s and also te-
nses Tinus" quu'ed studentt to cross a busy
....... " ....... ' ........ I highway to the playfield.
Architect Bill Johnson feels the
I11 II I new classrooms can be ready by
Klanltc the fall term of 1960 it' everything
ms 1111111t=F goes according to present plans.
THE PLANS call for the con-
struction of six new classrooms to
house 7th, 8th, and 9th grade
students. The money secured
through the bond sale will prob-
ably be used over a period of years
to provide the district with a com-
plete junior high school. Accord-
ing to present plans, the bonds
wild be retired in a period of 20
years. Most school district bouds
by the state e)
Now Available
Forest: and Chl'istmas trec order
blanks for the 1959-1960 planting
season arc now out. They list
types and costs of seedlings raised
at the Webster State Forest: Nur-
sez\\;y. Tiis nursery is a branch of
the State Departrment of N;ttural are purchased
Resources. Order blanks can be'Washington.
obtained from the local offices of
the Department of Natural Re-
sources, the County Agent, and
from the Soil Consewation Serv-
ice.
ON TIlE MOT PART, seed-
lings will cost: $g.10 pc]' thousand.
However, 2-1 Douglas fir trans-
plants, which are large and
stocky, will cost $13.00 per thou-
sand. Trees from the State De-
partment of Natural Resources
nursery can be used only for es-
tablishing forest, Soil Bank or
Christmas trec plantations. They
must be planted outside corporate
city limits and they cannot be
used for ornamental purposes. Nor
can they be resold with roots at-
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HEALTH MEET
The ThursLon - Mason Cnmty
Health District will meet today at
10 a.m. in the Tlmz'st(. county
eotu'thouse.
FREE NORGE
LAUHDRY OLINIQ
TUES., OCT. 27
P,U.D. AUDITORIUM
3 Classes - 10 a.m.,
2 p,m., 7 p.m.
plans to be as active as time will Dittman, Larry Godwin, Glenn]tached.
allow for organization work. Huffnail Bob Kieburtz and h'v Land owners wlo plan to plant
The Mason County Historical Shefler. The Shelton residential I trees are advised to get their or-
Society will resume winter meet- drive and the Hoodsport and Hood I ders in early. By doing so, one has
ings November 2 at 8 p.m. in the Canal drive has been acheduled]a better chance of having his or-
P.U.D. building. , or Monday, Nov. 2. I dsr illed exactly.
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