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“There was not much to
do,” he said. “There weren’t
close neighbors, so I did a lot
of fishing.”
Shelton “was just a logging
town, probably 1,500, 2,000
people,” he recalled. “The
sidewalks were two-by-fours.
“The loggers would come
to town for the weekends.
They’d party, a lot of drink-
ing. After Prohibition was
over, the liquor was allowed.”
At Shelton Junior High
School, Nelson played tackle
on the football team. He also
played football at Irene S.
Reed High School, where he
graduated in 1939.
For a year, Nelson worked
as a spotter on a conveyer
belt at a veneer wood plant.
He then sold guns and fish-
ing poles as the manager of
the sporting department at
Montgomery Ward in Olym-
pm.
In December 1941, the
United States entered World
War II after the Japanese
bombing of Pearl Harbor and
Nelson’s friends signed up for
the US. Navy, but his poor
hearing kept him from join-
ing them. He spent the war
years as a gunnery insthtor in Alaska. Journal photo by Gordon Weeks
for the US. Air Force.
“1 had a talent that was
very rare in those days —— I
could shoot,” Nelson said Kansas, Florida and Iowa. ber.”
Those skills had been honed He met Olive Mae at a USO
firing BB guns, slingshots show in Sioux City, Iowa.
and then ‘a .22, “She was just the best-
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Nelson trained soldiers
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She/ton resident Larry Stevens, longtime fishing and hunting companion of
Tom Nelson
Shelton resident Tom Nelson, 99, displays the 64-1/2-pound king salmon he
caught in 2000
looking one,” he said. “I
stateside, including stints in asked her for her phone num— of the war,
they moved west said.
The couple dated for a
year before they married. He daughter Jayné in 1958.
was 24 and she was 19; they
r closes in on 100
Gallagher Cove to harvest
I oysters. Later, he bought Al-
lyn Oyster Co. and Toma, C
Shell Farm.
“It was all Olympia oys-
ters,” Nelson said. “Pacifics
— hardly anyone did any-
thing with them.” But Ray-
onier’s pulp mill on the Shel-
ton waterfront, and the mill’s
liqueur in Goose Lake that
leaked into Goldsborough
Creek and flowed into Oak-
land Bay, polluted the waters
and devastated the Olympia
oysters, he said.
A worn hip joint sidelined
him in 1975. “I couldn’t work.
All I could do was fish.” ‘
Olive Mae died in 1990.
Harriet, Nelson’s second wife,
died in 2006. “I had known
her all my life.” Now he lives
alone in his house in the
Mountain View neighbor-
hood. He gets his exercise
walking on a treadmill.
What does Nelson envi-
sion'as he prepares to start
his second century? FrOm
the results of this month’s
general election, he thinks it
might be a second American
civil war. '
“The final solution is going
to come out of the end of a
gun barrel It all depends
on how tough the Democrats
want to be about chipping
shared a'birthday. At the end away at the Constitution,” he
Nelson said he also envi-
sions racial prejudice evolv-
ing. “That will go by the
Nelson bought 56 acres on wayside.”
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