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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
November 2, 1967     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Frank Travis mission, School Board, Port Commission Contests Face Voters Corn For yor Earl Moore For Schoc I Board Barrett Port I • • iSslon Vonhof Mann John Sells i: Tom Weston ..... ; Boats INN BICYCLES h Ave. East  Voters in the city of Shelton [ will face contests for tiwee city I commission positions and two positions on the Shelton School Board along with the county-wide contests when they go to the polls Tuesday. On the ballot seeking the may- or's job are incumbent Frank A. Travis, opposed by former may- Tuai00rkm& Ubrary Adds To Staff :/ . Additions to the professional staff of the Timberland Library Demonstration were recently an- nounced by Mrs. Louise E. Mor- risen, Director. Mrs. Thomas S. Coppinger joined the TLD staff in September as bookmobile co- ordinator and Mrs. William P. Larsen as roving children's li- brarian. Both librarians work out of South Puget Sound Regional Library at Olympia. Mrs. Coppinger was previously coordinator of bookmobile and branch services for Mid-Colum- bia Regional Library at Kennc- wick. She was graduated from Whitman College and hohls an M.A. in librarianship from the University of Washington. She was stati(mcd in Washington D.C. with the WAVES during World War II and is now married and has three daughters. lofts. Larsen comes from Chi- cago, where she completed course work for her M.A. at the Univer- sity of Chicago Library School. She was children's librarian at Skokie Public. Library, Skokie, Ill. for a year and acting chil- dren's librarian at a branch of the Chicago Public Library for a short time. Her work will con- sist mainly of conducting story hours and other children's activi- ties for the community libraries in the five-county Timberland Li- brary Demonstration area. i Elroy Nelson Former Loc=l Man Is Given Forestry Award George Lincoln Drake, of 12080 Lomica Road, Rancho Ber- nardo, Sandiego, Calif., was hon- ored last week in ceremonies at ottawa, Canada, for his outstand- ing contribution to the profes- sion of forestry, lie received the Gifford Pinchot Medal from the President of the Society of Ameri- can Foresters, W. D. Hagenstein of Portland, Ore. Gifford Pinchot is cort¢idered to be the father of American forestry. Working with President Theodore Roosevelt, he helped establish the present day science and practice of forest use and conservation. Drake has a long and inspiring career as a forester. Graduating from Pennsylvania State College in 1912, he entered the U.S. Forest Service and served as forester in Washington, Oregon and Alas- ka. In 1930 he was appointed gen- eral superintendent of the Simp- son Logging Company. From 1951 to 1952 he was President of the Society of American Foresters. Serving on the Joint Committee on Forest Conservation, West Coast Lumberman's Association and Pacific Northwest Loggers Association, as a member from its origin in 1934, and as chair- These S Clues May Point To Drug Addiction How can parents tell if their child is a drug addict? • A good scholar becoming erratic for no apparent reason. • A shy child becoming talkative. • A truthful child starting to tell lies and play truant. • A happy child suddenly becoming sullu and morose. or l,:arl Moore. Travis defeated M:oore in a hotly-contested bat- tie in 1962. Incumbent Finance Commis- sioner Dave Knccland is opposed in his bid for re-election by Arnold Fox, a medical technolo- gist at Shclton General Hospital. On the slate for Commissioner of Public Works are incumbent Elroy Nelson, and Glen Watson, a builder and land developer. In the school board contests, Dr. Herbert Hergert is unop- posed in his bid for election to a four-year term on the board. Hergcrt is presently filling the t)oard position to which he was appointed after the resl£nation of Dr. Douglas Larson. Seeking the District 1 position now held by Mrs. Virginia Mar- fig are Ernest Hamlin, owner el Hamlin's Toy and Hobby Shop, and Bobby L. Barrett, an em- ployee of the Simpson Insulatin:: Board Plant. Three candidates are on the l)allot for the District 5 position now hehl b5 Lester Sl)ilscth. They are Galen Burgess. a ma- chinist Ior Simpson Timber Co., Thomas Weston, l)residen! of lhe National Bank of Mason County and John Sells, a building in- specter on the new Mason Gen- eral Hospital. Also to be decided by the wters in the tity of Shelton and those in the Shelton Port l)islrict outside the city limits is a ton- test for a position on the com- mission in which incumbent Her- bert Vonhof seeks re-election to a six-year term. He is opposed by Kurt Mann, a local real es- title broker. For Cify Commissioners • A healthy child losing weight mad beiag unable to "Tkere are no symptoms to show which children are taR- ing drugs but there are these pointers which every parent should take notice of and then Itart asking questlozw." Nell's Pharmacy IFifth & Fran,':n Sts. 426-3327, Emergency Phon 426-21651 Open Daily 9'30 to 7"30, Saturdays 9:30 to 6:00 L ......... : ..... : ........ :_ Glen Watson David Kneeland Arnold Fox Harstine Bridge Issue Before Voters Three issues, a 450,000 bond issue for the construction of it bridge to lhu'stine Ishuld, mem- bers of the County Board of Ed- ucation and menlbers of the Ma- son County tlospital District com- mission, will be on the ballot for all Mason County votm's Tuesday. Unopt)osed for re-election to two l)ositions on the hospital dis- lrict commission are Robert Holt and Richard Angle, For the County Board of Edu- cation, two candidates, incum- bent Anne Y. King and Kathleen Landram seek the position fronl District Two. No candidates filed from Dis- trier One and District Three so those positions will be filled by write-in votes. District One comprises the South-Central portion of the coun- ty and District Three the South- west portion. The ln'oposed bond issue would pay about half the cost of the bridge to Harstine Ishmd. The remainder would be handled lhrough a bond issue by a Road Improvement District which has been formed on the island and by bonds issued by Road District One to be repaid om of cm'rent revenues. The Road Improvement Dis- iriet would contribute $300,000 and Road District One $250,000. The proposal being put on the ballot this time is the same as one which was defeated by the voters in the November, 1966 general election. with RC/IViCTOR As Low As 75 PER WEEK! The ARLEN Model FJ.543 lie TONSBERG Model G J-741 23" diag., 295 sq. in. ptcture CQLOR 18" diag., 180 sq. in. picture •if: 130 MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM WHEN YOU'RE FIRST IN COLOR TV, THERE'S GOT TO BE I A REASON ! BB =,,. co,. .oe,. APPLIANCES B APPLIANCE CENTER BB • TV • STEREO • FURNITURE Phone426-4663 Thursday, November 2, 1967 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 13