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:t0 DEL OOLE Pr,nter-Owner Journal Staffer Since 1936 BH.TON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL  Published in *¢Chrt.mastow, U.S.A.," Shelton, Let's Go To Press With Our Thanks To You During NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK From The Journal's Working "Family"---- TO OUR R00DERS_thank. for your ,nt.r.t ,n The Journal which we prefer to consider your paper rather than our paper. Your interest being evidenced in the stead- ily growing list of sublmribers, your letters, comments and compllmentL TO OUR ADVERTISERS_thanks for your g.n- erous use of our columns for your advertising programs. It is your support which enables us to produce one of the lead- ing weekly newspapers in Washington, year.after.year. TO OUR PRINTING GUSTOMERS _ your patronage fills an important place in the all-around opera- tion of a newspaper in a community such as ours and con- tributes an essential part to the jobs our firm provides for Shelton residents. TO ALL OTHERS_who have In any manner a;ded us during the past year by bringing in news, pictures or in- formation by which our staff has been enabled to cover the events in Mason County making the Journal interesting and informative reading. BILL Thursday, DIOKIE Editor-Owner Journal Staffer Since 1934 A WORD ABOUT OUR RURAL WRITERS TOM MYERS Linotype Operator Journal Staffer Since 1945 JIM SHRUM Printer- Pressman Journal Staffer Since 1946 RUSS STUOK Printer-Floorman V Journal Staffer Singe 1938  ...... GEORGE MYERS ,ine,ypo Operator Journal Staffer Six Months WEDNESDAY WORKERS--.Getting the Journal ready to mail each week requires extra help and here is the crew which stuffs, wraps, bundles and Oth,rwlst prepare= o/iQlt, edLtion for+ the Ittof. DON EVELETH--Cloquallum Youngest of all Journal correspondents, Don i a emphomore at Eima high school this year, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud E- leth, formerly of Shelton. They live on a farm. Don hem written Cloquallum new for the Journal for two years. DAISY VANCE--Lilliwaup A resident of Lilliwaup for the past ten years, Mrs. Vance has written news of her community for the Journal for six years. She and her husband, a retired carpenter, like being on the watar and everything that goes with Lilliwaup living--hunting, fishing, oysters and clams. Mrs. Vance is the mother of four children, one of whom is now doing missionary duty in Indonesia. ...... !:ii!::ii!:;:i;i!i;;]:i;:i! ¸ GRACE PETTY--Kamllohe For 25 years Mrs. Petty has lived in Kamilche "because I jnst wanted to live in the country." Her husband, Edwin, is a grinderman at Simpson's Mill 2. They are the parents of six "children" ranging from 27 to 41 years of age, who have given them 16 grandchildren. This is Mrs. Petty's sixth year as Journal correspondent. MABEL KIDD--Dayton For 28 years Mrs. Kidd has lived at Dayton, where her hus- band is a self-employed logger and where her parents settled after her father quit road construction work. She has been writ- ing Dayton news for the Journal for three years. She is the mother of two daughters and a son, enjoys church work, raising house plants, and trying new recipes. ED DOHERTY News Editor Journal Staffer 1y= Years MANETTE MOORE--Little Skookum This is Manette's second stint at writing Little Skookum news for the Journal, the first time when she was Manette Meist- or. She is a native Sheltonian, has lived at Little Skookum for 15 years, and was Mason County's "first mother of 1958," when her daughter and only child, Cheri Lee, was the first baby barn in the county that year. Her husband, LcRoy, works for the Simpon I.x)gging Company. MRS. RAY KRATCHASouthside A Montanan by birth, Mrs. Kratcha has lived in Mason Coun- ty the past 20 years, ten at Mason Lake, the last ten at Southside. She has written Southside news for the Journal for two years. Her husband is a carpenter who makes cabinets and does craft- work. Their daughter, Janet, is a singer and works for City Attorney C. T. Hatten. M AX I N E PETE R SON--Hoodsport- Potlatch One of the very newest members of the Journal family, Mrs. Petcrson only a month ago succeeded her sister, Merle Smith, as :.orrespondent in these Hood Canal communities. She is the mother of three children, 8 to 13 years, is active in PTA, Brownie and Boy Scout activities. Both her husband and her father are hydro plant operators for Tacoma City Light and have lived in the community for 20 years. MARY VALLEYSkokomish Valley A resident of her community for 30 years, Mrs. Valley ha eJritten Skokomiah Valley news for the Journal for the past two gears. She is a member of a family of 15 children, 13 still living, as born in Kentucky. Church work and fishing are. her hobbies, long with five grandchildren born to her two sons, Chet Jr. and 9serge. Her husband, Chet, works at insulating board plant. DORA HEAR ING--Matlock The real veteran of Journal correspondents, Mrs. Hearing has written of her community's happenings for 20 years, has lived all but five years of her life (those at Snoqualmie) in the Mat- lock area. She has driven a Mary M. Knight school bus for 24 years, lives just across the road from the school on a farm her husband operates. In spite of the chores which naturally befall a farmer's wife, Mrs. Hearing finds time to do crocheting and fancy work, raise flowers and work in the garden. "I've traveled through quite a few of the states and Canada but Matlock suits me be," she says. MARLENE BU RGESON--Allyn Marlene Burgeson has done an excellent job of reporting the Allyn news, nnder the handicap of not living there. Marlene lives in Shelton with her husband, a general contractor and dec- tor, and her 7-year-old daughter, Sharyl Verene. She gets her Allyn news via the telephone. HILDA BALCHBrinnon The daughter of a pioneer who homesteaded on Hood Canal in 1889, MreL Balch was born at LilUwaup, has lived at Brinnon for 3,8 yeeure where she and her husband, Truman, operated the Brtnnon store from 1921 to 1946. Their three daughters are all married and have given them seven grandchildren ranging from one month to ten years old. Mr. Balch is now retired. The old homestead on which Mrs. Balch was born is now the Starr White addition. MARY DAWSONLake Nahwatzel Mary is the athlete of Journal writers. In earlier years she was women's tennis champion of Shelton from 1935 to 1940, but today you'll spot her name among the top scorers in feminine bowling circles here. She hunts, fishes, swims, collects rocks and petrified wood, and helps her husband, Lee, manage the Lake Nahwatzel Resort, which they have owned the past ten years. She is a native Washingtonian, born at Mabton, but has lived in Mason county since 1918. She is the mother of three ranging from 12 to 29 years of age. DONETTE GLASERHarstine Island Being the mother of twins was the "expected thing" for Don- ette as she is one herself and her father is a twin, the father of twins, the grandfather of twins, the nephew of twins, the uncle of twins, the cousin of twins and the great uncle of twins. "We see double when we visit my parents in Hoquiam," Mrs. Glaser commented. Besides her 5-year-old boy-and-girl twins, she is the mother of two other children. Mrs. Glaser's husband is a commercial fisherman, oyster grower, and vineyard grower. She has lived on the island five years but her husband's family has lived there 40 years. She has written Journal news from Har- stine for the past year. She and her children are "avid rock- hounds" by her own description. :+ LODEMA JOHNSON SALLY CLAYTON, MURIEL SOMERSGrapeview Two young, charming and beautiful blond girls keep Grape- view "on the map" as far as the Journal is concerned. Mrs. Clay- ton is the wife of Shelton junior high coach Walt Clayton and the mother of three youngsters while Mrs. Somers is the wife of  ": Howard Somers of the St. Charles Winery and mother of Laurie, Shelton Highclimber football, basketball and track athlete, as well as three younger children. They have been co-authors o[ the Grapeview news column for the past three years. MABEL HARRIMANPickering, Agate For many years Mrs. Harriman wrote Harstine Island news, : • + while her husband, Earl, skippered the island ferry. More re- :y: : cently she has covered Pickering and Agate on the mainland. Mrs. Hsrriman first came to Mason County in 1900 as a small girl, first living on Harstine. Her husband operated the ferry for 27 years prior to his death. They had two daughters and a son. MRS. ETHEL DALBYUnlon A contributor to the Journal columns frequently ove the past years, Mrs. Dalby joins us again to report the news from Union. Mrs. Dalby knows her community well having come to Union as a bride in 1911. Newspaper work is no stranger to her either as her late husband was a newspaper man until his retire- sent in 1942. Talent runs strong in the Dalby family, all of her four children have shown outstanding ability in the arts. Mrs. Dalby's many interests in her community Include Garden Club, md Hood Canal Woman's Club. MARY Wl NG--Belfalr rice. From left--Valerie Latham, Jennie Knautz (who also was summer society editor this year), Dwight Spilseth, 8andra Lee Stanley, and Mayme DlJrirld. DOROTHY JESSUP, Owner.Padner Inactive in the actual operation of The Journal but nonetheless a member of the "fami|y" is Dorothy Jessup, third partner in ownership of the firm for the past nine years with Cole and Dickie. Mrs, Jes- sup maintains her home on Hood Canal north of Union, takes an active part in much of the social life of Mason County. One daugh- ter, Mrs, Bill Judah, lives in Shel- ton, another daughter, Jean Moore, formerly taught school at Union, now teaches in Tacoma. One of the busiest bees in the Journal hive is this mother of five children, aged 3 to 17 years. Somehow or other she has found time for the past six years to write about Belfair events for the Journal while acting as a substitute teacher at North Mason school, be a pie-baker and waitress during the summer, a leader in Girl Scout and Boy Scout activities, a catechism teach- er, and be active in PTA and women's clubs. She and her hus- band, Bill, came to Belfair 19 years ago when that was the near- est available housing to Bremerton's navy yard, where he is a welder. TEXTBOOK OF FREEDOM fine, so we're not going to try, i:: but I suspect that you and i .... think of the same things when we think of freedom. We think i!i::!! of the right to express both : sides of a question, the right to know what our government does with our money, the right to web'ship as our own hearts dictate, the right to be an m- dividua3. Stories about and for these rights make up a big part of : .... your ewspaper. Taken on a broad :basis, the principles ot freedozn are the backbone of the everyday stories about you, your neighbors, and your com- munity. Yes --- your ne,spaper m' Freedotn's Textbook, come to think of it. This newspaper has b e e n called many things, by many people--sometimes good, other times not so good. But we always liked it best when we've heard one of our readers call us "my newspaper." Now, National Newspaper Week comes along and calls us "Frcedom's Textbook." We've newer been called a textbook before, bu t after studying the idea it seems to fit pretty well. Webster's dictionary says a textbook is: "A presentation el: pnciplea of the subject`" When you think about iL that's just about what a newspaper does.-- particularly in this tricky but important freedom business. Freedom is pretty hard to de- The Journal's ,Annual Payroll Oonlribules Over $50,000 To the Economy of Our Oommunily Bookkeeper- Office Journal Staffer BARBARA NELSON Advertising Salesman Journal Staffer Sinc BEVERLY WELLS Soo,ety Ed,tor Journal Staffer Since 19Ii !:i:i:!>;!::? MARY KENT copy Reader-Office Clerk Jogrnll 8tMfeP $1no 1953 :t0 DEL OOLE Pr,nter-Owner Journal Staffer Since 1936 BH.TON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL  Published in *¢Chrt.mastow, U.S.A.," Shelton, Let's Go To Press With Our Thanks To You During NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK From The Journal's Working "Family"---- TO OUR R00DERS_thank. for your ,nt.r.t ,n The Journal which we prefer to consider your paper rather than our paper. Your interest being evidenced in the stead- ily growing list of sublmribers, your letters, comments and compllmentL TO OUR ADVERTISERS_thanks for your g.n- erous use of our columns for your advertising programs. It is your support which enables us to produce one of the lead- ing weekly newspapers in Washington, year.after.year. TO OUR PRINTING GUSTOMERS _ your patronage fills an important place in the all-around opera- tion of a newspaper in a community such as ours and con- tributes an essential part to the jobs our firm provides for Shelton residents. TO ALL OTHERS_who have In any manner a;ded us during the past year by bringing in news, pictures or in- formation by which our staff has been enabled to cover the events in Mason County making the Journal interesting and informative reading. BILL Thursday, DIOKIE Editor-Owner Journal Staffer Since 1934 A WORD ABOUT OUR RURAL WRITERS TOM MYERS Linotype Operator Journal Staffer Since 1945 JIM SHRUM Printer- Pressman Journal Staffer Since 1946 RUSS STUOK Printer-Floorman V Journal Staffer Singe 1938  ...... GEORGE MYERS ,ine,ypo Operator Journal Staffer Six Months WEDNESDAY WORKERS--.Getting the Journal ready to mail each week requires extra help and here is the crew which stuffs, wraps, bundles and Oth,rwlst prepare= o/iQlt, edLtion for+ the Ittof. DON EVELETH--Cloquallum Youngest of all Journal correspondents, Don i a emphomore at Eima high school this year, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud E- leth, formerly of Shelton. They live on a farm. Don hem written Cloquallum new for the Journal for two years. DAISY VANCE--Lilliwaup A resident of Lilliwaup for the past ten years, Mrs. Vance has written news of her community for the Journal for six years. She and her husband, a retired carpenter, like being on the watar and everything that goes with Lilliwaup living--hunting, fishing, oysters and clams. Mrs. Vance is the mother of four children, one of whom is now doing missionary duty in Indonesia. ...... !:ii!::ii!:;:i;i!i;;]:i;:i! ¸ GRACE PETTY--Kamllohe For 25 years Mrs. Petty has lived in Kamilche "because I jnst wanted to live in the country." Her husband, Edwin, is a grinderman at Simpson's Mill 2. They are the parents of six "children" ranging from 27 to 41 years of age, who have given them 16 grandchildren. This is Mrs. Petty's sixth year as Journal correspondent. MABEL KIDD--Dayton For 28 years Mrs. Kidd has lived at Dayton, where her hus- band is a self-employed logger and where her parents settled after her father quit road construction work. She has been writ- ing Dayton news for the Journal for three years. She is the mother of two daughters and a son, enjoys church work, raising house plants, and trying new recipes. ED DOHERTY News Editor Journal Staffer 1y= Years MANETTE MOORE--Little Skookum This is Manette's second stint at writing Little Skookum news for the Journal, the first time when she was Manette Meist- or. She is a native Sheltonian, has lived at Little Skookum for 15 years, and was Mason County's "first mother of 1958," when her daughter and only child, Cheri Lee, was the first baby barn in the county that year. Her husband, LcRoy, works for the Simpon I.x)gging Company. MRS. RAY KRATCHASouthside A Montanan by birth, Mrs. Kratcha has lived in Mason Coun- ty the past 20 years, ten at Mason Lake, the last ten at Southside. She has written Southside news for the Journal for two years. Her husband is a carpenter who makes cabinets and does craft- work. Their daughter, Janet, is a singer and works for City Attorney C. T. Hatten. M AX I N E PETE R SON--Hoodsport- Potlatch One of the very newest members of the Journal family, Mrs. Petcrson only a month ago succeeded her sister, Merle Smith, as :.orrespondent in these Hood Canal communities. She is the mother of three children, 8 to 13 years, is active in PTA, Brownie and Boy Scout activities. Both her husband and her father are hydro plant operators for Tacoma City Light and have lived in the community for 20 years. MARY VALLEYSkokomish Valley A resident of her community for 30 years, Mrs. Valley ha eJritten Skokomiah Valley news for the Journal for the past two gears. She is a member of a family of 15 children, 13 still living, as born in Kentucky. Church work and fishing are. her hobbies, long with five grandchildren born to her two sons, Chet Jr. and 9serge. Her husband, Chet, works at insulating board plant. DORA HEAR ING--Matlock The real veteran of Journal correspondents, Mrs. Hearing has written of her community's happenings for 20 years, has lived all but five years of her life (those at Snoqualmie) in the Mat- lock area. She has driven a Mary M. Knight school bus for 24 years, lives just across the road from the school on a farm her husband operates. In spite of the chores which naturally befall a farmer's wife, Mrs. Hearing finds time to do crocheting and fancy work, raise flowers and work in the garden. "I've traveled through quite a few of the states and Canada but Matlock suits me be," she says. MARLENE BU RGESON--Allyn Marlene Burgeson has done an excellent job of reporting the Allyn news, nnder the handicap of not living there. Marlene lives in Shelton with her husband, a general contractor and dec- tor, and her 7-year-old daughter, Sharyl Verene. She gets her Allyn news via the telephone. HILDA BALCHBrinnon The daughter of a pioneer who homesteaded on Hood Canal in 1889, MreL Balch was born at LilUwaup, has lived at Brinnon for 3,8 yeeure where she and her husband, Truman, operated the Brtnnon store from 1921 to 1946. Their three daughters are all married and have given them seven grandchildren ranging from one month to ten years old. Mr. Balch is now retired. The old homestead on which Mrs. Balch was born is now the Starr White addition. MARY DAWSONLake Nahwatzel Mary is the athlete of Journal writers. In earlier years she was women's tennis champion of Shelton from 1935 to 1940, but today you'll spot her name among the top scorers in feminine bowling circles here. She hunts, fishes, swims, collects rocks and petrified wood, and helps her husband, Lee, manage the Lake Nahwatzel Resort, which they have owned the past ten years. She is a native Washingtonian, born at Mabton, but has lived in Mason county since 1918. She is the mother of three ranging from 12 to 29 years of age. DONETTE GLASERHarstine Island Being the mother of twins was the "expected thing" for Don- ette as she is one herself and her father is a twin, the father of twins, the grandfather of twins, the nephew of twins, the uncle of twins, the cousin of twins and the great uncle of twins. "We see double when we visit my parents in Hoquiam," Mrs. Glaser commented. Besides her 5-year-old boy-and-girl twins, she is the mother of two other children. Mrs. Glaser's husband is a commercial fisherman, oyster grower, and vineyard grower. She has lived on the island five years but her husband's family has lived there 40 years. She has written Journal news from Har- stine for the past year. She and her children are "avid rock- hounds" by her own description. :+ LODEMA JOHNSON SALLY CLAYTON, MURIEL SOMERSGrapeview Two young, charming and beautiful blond girls keep Grape- view "on the map" as far as the Journal is concerned. Mrs. Clay- ton is the wife of Shelton junior high coach Walt Clayton and the mother of three youngsters while Mrs. Somers is the wife of  ": Howard Somers of the St. Charles Winery and mother of Laurie, Shelton Highclimber football, basketball and track athlete, as well as three younger children. They have been co-authors o[ the Grapeview news column for the past three years. MABEL HARRIMANPickering, Agate For many years Mrs. Harriman wrote Harstine Island news, : • + while her husband, Earl, skippered the island ferry. More re- :y: : cently she has covered Pickering and Agate on the mainland. Mrs. Hsrriman first came to Mason County in 1900 as a small girl, first living on Harstine. Her husband operated the ferry for 27 years prior to his death. They had two daughters and a son. MRS. ETHEL DALBYUnlon A contributor to the Journal columns frequently ove the past years, Mrs. Dalby joins us again to report the news from Union. Mrs. Dalby knows her community well having come to Union as a bride in 1911. Newspaper work is no stranger to her either as her late husband was a newspaper man until his retire- sent in 1942. Talent runs strong in the Dalby family, all of her four children have shown outstanding ability in the arts. Mrs. Dalby's many interests in her community Include Garden Club, md Hood Canal Woman's Club. MARY Wl NG--Belfalr rice. From left--Valerie Latham, Jennie Knautz (who also was summer society editor this year), Dwight Spilseth, 8andra Lee Stanley, and Mayme DlJrirld. DOROTHY JESSUP, Owner.Padner Inactive in the actual operation of The Journal but nonetheless a member of the "fami|y" is Dorothy Jessup, third partner in ownership of the firm for the past nine years with Cole and Dickie. Mrs, Jes- sup maintains her home on Hood Canal north of Union, takes an active part in much of the social life of Mason County. One daugh- ter, Mrs, Bill Judah, lives in Shel- ton, another daughter, Jean Moore, formerly taught school at Union, now teaches in Tacoma. One of the busiest bees in the Journal hive is this mother of five children, aged 3 to 17 years. Somehow or other she has found time for the past six years to write about Belfair events for the Journal while acting as a substitute teacher at North Mason school, be a pie-baker and waitress during the summer, a leader in Girl Scout and Boy Scout activities, a catechism teach- er, and be active in PTA and women's clubs. She and her hus- band, Bill, came to Belfair 19 years ago when that was the near- est available housing to Bremerton's navy yard, where he is a welder. TEXTBOOK OF FREEDOM fine, so we're not going to try, i:: but I suspect that you and i .... think of the same things when we think of freedom. We think i!i::!! of the right to express both : sides of a question, the right to know what our government does with our money, the right to web'ship as our own hearts dictate, the right to be an m- dividua3. Stories about and for these rights make up a big part of : .... your ewspaper. Taken on a broad :basis, the principles ot freedozn are the backbone of the everyday stories about you, your neighbors, and your com- munity. Yes --- your ne,spaper m' Freedotn's Textbook, come to think of it. This newspaper has b e e n called many things, by many people--sometimes good, other times not so good. But we always liked it best when we've heard one of our readers call us "my newspaper." Now, National Newspaper Week comes along and calls us "Frcedom's Textbook." We've newer been called a textbook before, bu t after studying the idea it seems to fit pretty well. Webster's dictionary says a textbook is: "A presentation el: pnciplea of the subject`" When you think about iL that's just about what a newspaper does.-- particularly in this tricky but important freedom business. Freedom is pretty hard to de- The Journal's ,Annual Payroll Oonlribules Over $50,000 To the Economy of Our Oommunily Bookkeeper- Office Journal Staffer BARBARA NELSON Advertising Salesman Journal Staffer Sinc BEVERLY WELLS Soo,ety Ed,tor Journal Staffer Since 19Ii !:i:i:!>;!::? MARY KENT copy Reader-Office Clerk Jogrnll 8tMfeP $1no 1953