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Thursday, November ,p S tomato and get ]!! Special offer th the best soup to35c " MAID dless Nectar Raisins ifed Muscat Raisins.. ;e Currants .................. erve you Heinz iS p, 3 sieve ............ 4 CANS [e Mix nt Fruit .................... PKG. dines Oscar ............................ TIN iced Clams ............................ 2 CANS ! ;.,:'T;_ ;;"" OEqO:'J nier Buys Poison Co. Timber Land, Equipment 47 INGS THEY gEM to words, "what are thinking about, some study and bring out." of raw materials, bugaboo to stand in - )ermanency for any is a thing of "the as the Shelton Diet- Incorporated is With announcement in of the Journal by Presi- Barsch, of the pur- vast holding of the The transaction, Which were signed ear- eek, transfers the ex- ,)nber holdings, railroad ,:port terminals and all [1  of the pioneer logging I : the Rayonier concern -: them one of the larg- &Is in the Olymple Pen- ng and timber industry. {!eement is of particular __m$ to the hundreds of 00aW:,00ployees and the com- O.iri m [;;f]I 8helton as a whole, be- ";!jts assurance of ahnost t " " operation of tim big .f Stew With an ever continu- -f raw products coming ,s .................... LGE. CAN '.3,', anufacture into pro- A" L, the company is now ,00rries 00q0000:.rnish in the amounts l't:":qUired by processors. 's--foil fresh .......... PKG. .,ii  , 0 s I o, Re .l::akes of the Rayonier ................................ ,::::i!,,!mportant operators of "' m: prOducts of Grays Har- rn an( lhances .p Chips and Clallam coun- e ................ IGIANT PKG. ,,,% :'-e c andSpan 2 eslving the company's the world's largest pro- pulp and one holders of timber the Northwest. An- the successful con- that have out for several years equal importance to of Shelton as the .sustained yield made between the nd the BY the over two billion are added to Ray- On Page T,o) SHELTON, WASHINGTON. £hursday, November 20, 1947. 6c PER COPY; $2.50 PER YEAS Details Needs Lunch Schwarck, principal of ior high school ad- the Shelton at their regular --=F leon meeting at Mem- m i  week on the ub-  Greatest Natmal Re" aker arranged for the 'gram Chairman George Peach Cream , ,, ,l]tatled the difficulties @ l[ ng enc0untercd by ed" , ;, Y for giving back- i i i:i  tcti°n being neglected H.!/g CK detailed many have come to his at- So X:!:fn/Wanielil:s wlfb t![ declared that parents Ca, ad ':' :; ,l the world of tomor- • : Y Would but carry out " "I/s cup sugar responsibilities. cup flour neglectful par- teaspn salt and over privileged tall can Carnation undiluted, scalded blamed for the con- - besets so many these days. that some sort of given to parents Mix sugar, flour and can be over- slowly add Carnation  that schools ulti- Cook in double with misfits thick, stirring will have no • sPnall amount to slightly beaten eggS; into remaining 4 m/nutes. 8 Show Place layer of ach slis in A pastry shell; ou 2" t, peaches. An ng peach slices on top. GarnRh as desirecl. 6to8. For o Velve# Air Mail, 61iced yllOW PEACH 6 cans .... Republican Club Holds First 1948 Campaign Meet A small group of members of the Southwest Washington Repub- lican Club turned out on Friday evening at the Masonic Temple for the first meeting of the 1948 cam- paign. An excellent turkey dinner was served by the O,E.S. at the con- clusion of which an informal meeting was held to discuss plans for the coming year. The principal speaker of the evening was Rep. Harry Kittle- man of the 31st legislative dis- tract in Seattle. KITTLEMAN summarized the work of the 1947 legislature with particular reference to its accom- plishments in the field of educa- tion and old age assistance. He emphasized the fact that the educational program is one which has been growing for some time and he pointed out that while the appropriations of the Republican dominated assembly solved the need for immediate financial aid, there remained problems for the future which would have to be met to keep the schools of the state abreast of modern educa- tional developments. HE FURTHER poflted out that the increased appropriations pass- ed for the benefit of the aged had made it possible for the program of social security to be carried out without any loss to the senior citizens of the state. The cuts which were mate in the pension checks before the re- cent special election have been re- stored and actual surpluses are de- veloping in the old age fund, It is significant, he stated, that the attack of the pension groups has shifted from the Republican legislature to tle Dmnocratic ad- ministration, ALSO RECEIVING the atten- tion of the group was the cur- rent investigation of the licensing of private non-profit liquor clubs. R. C. Springgate, president of the organization outlined some of the plans for the party's fight to rgain'ontrol of the state and the nation in 1948. He urged the members of the party to redouble their efforts in the coming year to keep the state from ever returning to the scorn- ful designation of the "Little So- viet of Washington." The next meeting was announced for Olympia sometime in Janu- ary. Local Democratic Committee Meets The Democratic Central Com- mittee of .Mason county met last week at Belfair in preparation for an intensive campaign next year, The meeting which was attend- ed by about 30 precinct workers from Mason county adopted a res- olution asking that Henry Wal- lace remain in the Democratic party and become a candidate for the presidency in 1948. This was the second meeting in the new program of the com- mittee to visit different towns and enable them to become better ac- quainted with party workers from other parts of Mason county. The next meeting of the com- mittee is set for January 12 at Cloquallam with monthly meetings being planned from then on in 1948. 40 and 8 Will Entertain Ladies Members of Mason County Voi- ture No. 135, Forty and Eight will entertain their ladies at a dinner and dance entertainment at Rau's (Hood Canal) cafe to- night, it was announced by Cor- pit 1 rcspondant Reg Sykes. a The dinner meeting will start at entertainers re- 9 o'clocl with a refreshment and response from get together hour preceding the American Lake dinner. Monday night All members are urged to ar- Which had appeared range for reservations with Dr. some time, hospital Melcum, chef de gare of the Mason d Vern Eaton, mas- County Voitur#, Members from for the local other voitures of the district are expectecl to join in the festivities, east went to Ameri- Put on an entertain- LICENSE SALES Under the auspices Voiture of Shelton SLOW, CLERK SAYS; under the direr- NO LINES YET Melcum, the Although approximately 200 de Care, and Mr. car owners have already made 40 & 8 members application for their 1948 li- censes, the Mason county audl- cast, which in- tot's staff hasn't been busy Alexander. Will enough to suit themselves and Jimmy Hale, would like to handle a good Jean Hadsell, many more in the next week or Orabe]l Avcy, ten days, according to Marie Schuffenhauer, license clerk. rs of the cast all Car license applications bc- t year's American came acceptable at the auditor's show. office last Saturday. No license p'lates will be issued for 1948 lllO except for new cars and for trail- into the auto of crs and motorcycles, windshield which was park- stickers being esubstituted as a :c north of EMon metal conservation means. , and stole a radio, Another innovation in the rear-view mirror. 1948 car license picture is a $3 that the thieves fine on car owners who delay a locked door beyond January 12 in getting their new permits. Demonstrating "How It's Done" DEMONSTRATING how she helps her husband in Each tree must be trimmed cleanly and sawed his Christmas tree harvesting, Mrs. Harley Neidon, off square at the butt before it may be sold. The dressed in weatherproof slicker, slacks and oilskin stack of trees visible.in .the background Is part of hat, carries some of the trees to Neldon for his the stock Neldon Is building up to take to $a'n trimming saw. Francisco in a few weeks for the retail season. (photo courtesy Andrews photo) CHRISTMAS TREE 'FARMING' Crop Duster IS INNOVAT10N BEGUN HERE Tells All; No Christmas tree farming, which has become a major industry in Mason county, all began with an idea fomented Glamor --'joe  heavy-antlered buck deer roaming thewoods: "It's a screwball job, but I Stating that he got th%. like it." idea of "farming" young fir SlX Dairies Here That is the description given by trees for use at Christmas Bud Kimball, brother of Mrs, Howard Meyer and Miss Dorothy time after watching the trees T0 Se Grade A Kimball of Shclton, conecrning his which were "trimmed" by hihly specialized flying job. Kimball is a crop-duster, work-deer rubbing their antlers, Pasteurized Milk ing i California, IIe has written Harley Neldon, of Union feels an article for the magazine "Fly- Permission was' granted to the ing" wlflch is currently on the that he was largely responsi: neWsstnds,.--deseriblng-the haz- ble for the presert meth0d: ,son County creamery an L: el'h Dairy to use caps on hem: rds and the grimly humorous situations which come up when he Of growi.ng Christmas trees, ogenized milk and cream which do, not bear the "Grade A Pas- ts flying. Neldon, who farms 120 acres tetirized" label until current sup- Althougl£ he flys only an aver- of young timber for some four or plies of the caps are used, follow- age of two hours a day during the five thousand trees every season, ing the announcement last week busy dusting season. Kimball says says he noticed that the trees that the Mason County milk erda- he makes enough in that time to which had the lower branches nance will govern future sales of enable him to spend most of the trimmed off grew faster and fresh milk tare. year flying in sailplanes (gliders) "blossomed out" with heavier fol- The creamery company also has which is what he really loves, iage than other natural trees, been granted permission to use lip FLYING a converted N3N cx- AFTER NOTING this effect of caps marked "Army Inspected,  Navy trainer plane, Kimball re- the deer rubbing hc checked his which do not bear the dairy name, lates the "close calls" hc has had ideas by pruning some marked until properly labeled caps can be with high tension power lines, trees in experiments of his own obtained. telephone lines and fences, which confirmed his original idea Six Mason "county dairies have He likes this particular type of that "farming" the Christmas trees announced that they will sell plane because it will fly through would pay off, a power line without damage to Ncldon was working for E, B. grade A pasteurized milk as de- fined by the county ordinance. the heavy metal fuselage and Payne at that time, and he sug- They are, besides the creamery and wing ribs. Such tactics would gested that the now-dead Christ- Latzel's, Arden Farms, Belfair crack-up lighter planes, he says, ass-Tree operator try his farm- Dairy, Kitsap Dairy (Supreme However, don't get the wrong ing methods. That suggestion was Dairy), and Price's Golden Guern- idea,, Kimball doesn't make a prac- the beginning of a new trend in soy Dairy. tire of flying through obstruc- the industry which is almost uni- lions because it is the shortest versal among the Mason county GRADE A pasteurized milk as route to where he wants to go, operators now, 10 years later, defined by the ordinance must con- When he does go through a fence The Union. "farmer" explaincct form to the standards of grade or power line it is because of a that with careful "cultivation" A raw milk regarding the health mistake in judgment--completely plots of young trees can be made of cows, construction of the barn unintentional, to yield as many as four separate and milk house, water supply and He removes the mask of "glare- trees from one stump--all bushy general cleanliness, and in addition or, which surrounds such flying, and full and with rich, dark green must be pasteurized and have less too. It is hard, dirty physical foliage, than 25.000 bacteria ootmt per 100 work, and potentially hazardous. HE SAID that his "cultivation" cubic centimeters of milk, It is interesting because it pro- consists of thinning clumps to Written records qf the pasteur- sents a constant challenge, and he give tl}e trees a chance to bush out ization times and temperatures likes it. more, and pruning the lower, half- must be filed for at least four dead branches which sap the months, and lipped caps must be strength of the young trees, provided for the bottles, accord- 10 Me Awarded Neldon stated that the most ing to the milk ordinance which n common error in this type of farm- is patterned after U.S. govern- (Continued Oa Page Six) nlcnt standards. Certificates At FBI School Here Try Home Stores Ten certificates were awarded • 8 • to Mason county police officers Monday at the final meeting of With the slogan "Try Shelton Stores before going Else- the ten-week FBI Law Enforce- where" for your Christmas shopping needs, merchants ment school wlflch was sponsored here by Sheriff Jack Cole and of the community were this week malting plans for Prosecutor B. Franldin Houston. their annual open house that will inaugurate the The final session of the school inchtded a mock trial which was Christmas shopping season here on December 5. designed to demonstrate under ac- tual court conditions the methods Stores will remain open at a late hour that evening and of presenting criminal evidence be- .-fore a judge, full stocks of merchandise, seasonal for every Yuletide This was the final stage in the desire, now being received, will be ready for inspection school's program of familiarizing law enforcement officers with the and on display at retail outlets. Stocks of excellent various types of evidence, and to quality merchandise with present and gift ideas for teach them how to recognize, pre- serve, identify, evaluate and pro- every member of the family, in a wide selection from sent in court any "clues" which which to choose will be available during the days be- might bc found in connection with a crime, fore Christmas and people of Shelton and Mason ABOUT 10 different special county generally are urged to come to the open house agents from the FBI participated in the school sessions, each pro- of December 5 and see just what has been gathered sentin certain phases'of law on- for their shopping consideration. forcement and crime detectionfor the local officers,  Shelton merchants in their year around support of Those who attended the school and received certificafcs were De- every community project would seem entitled to first puty slmriffs Melvin Hollts, Roy call for that Christmas purchase from local people. Roe.,¢,sel and Harry Shelton, State Patrohnen Bill Hutsinpillcr al]d Prices will be right and in keeping with the level else- Clarence Rhincs, Shelton Police- meG] Cecil Clark, Tom Nelson, Or- where, less in many instances and shoppers are remind- in Duncan and Lawrence Hanson ed that they can escape the crowded confusion of big and District Fire Warden Herb Grell, in addition to Sheriff Cole city stores and deal with friends who back every trans- and Attorney Houston who also attended the sessions. I action up with personal guarantees. Houston and Cole expressed ap-I prcciatlon for the cooperation of[ This will be a fine occasion of living up to the motto of the FBI in conducting the school,] "Trying Shelton Stores before going Elsewhere" for and both believe that lots of good] has been accomplished. .l. that Christmas and Holiday gift, need. Harstine Island Electric Power Due Soon, Said One of the few sections of Ma- son county not serviced by elec- tricity will be able to snap the switch and enjoy the efficiency of brilliant illumination, bathe in water heated by c4ectric energy, do the cooking, make the toast, heat the iron or any one of the other countless household chores by electricity. That is the blessing that is promised for the people of Har- stine Island by Claude Danielson, manager of Mason County Public Utility District No: 3, He gave the assurance before the last regular monthly meeting of the Shelton Chamber of Com- merce last Thursday evening at Hotel Shelton Coffee shop. OANIELSON, gUest speaker at the meeting reviewed the activi- ties of the district, the problems and the extensions that had been made. On Harstine Isl'and, lines are al- ready installed and with submar- ine cable expected soon, the service can then be connected up and the blessings of electric energy taken advantage of. Today a total of 72 customers have signed up for service on the island with 29 miles of lines in- stalled so that they may be served. IN ADDITION to the Harstine development, Manager Danielson reported that the system was con- nected • ith the Bonneville Power administration on September 4, 1947, a realization that has given adequate service to the customers of Shelton, but which, as yet, does not provide all the needed overall complete improvements. Failure of some Bonneville gen- erator equipment makes electricity still an emergency commodity, and as a result of that Danielson asked that installation of outdoor Christmas !ights in Shelton be dis- pensed with this season, HE REPORTED that 65 miles o new line have been ,comtructed i"'le:'rizral areas vr6d by h'e iRillty district with approximately 2 3-4 miles of new lines in Shel- ton proper, This has made service possible for 10 new electric leated houses, 124 new electric ranges and 138 new water heaters. A gain of 254 new ustomers has been added to the district from December 31, 1946 to September 30, 1947. The retail trades committee of the Chamber made plans for the annual open house which will in- augurate the season's shopping program. STORES WILL be open the evening of Friday, December 5 until 8 p.m, at which time the public is invited to visit the city's merchandising centers to see dis- plays of what has been provided for their inspection and purchase as Christmas gifts. The Journal edition of Decem- ber 4 shall carry full details of the open house event, with mes- sages of individual merchants to assist the shopper. The Chamber detailed a pro- gram of visits to county Grange organizations in an effort to make rural and city personalities better acquainted. S. B. Anderson was lauded for his efforts in making a success of the program. A nominating committee headed by Anderson and including James Roush and Don Remsberg as mem- bers will select a list of nom- inees from which Chamber of- ficers for 1948 will be named. Their report is expected soon. School Projects Moving Slowly, But Progressing Progress on two Shelton school construction projects--.onc still in the blueprint stage, the other in the actual material stage--was re- ported this Week by City School Supt. R. W. Oltman. Supt. Oltman and Elementary School Principal Dick Hudson spent part of Tuesday in Tacoma conferring with architects on prob- lems pertaining to the plans for the new elementary school build- ing which will be constructed ad- jaceut to the new gynmasium. Very good progress is being made and much of the preliminary work has been completed on the building plans by the architects, with the general floor plan and the size of the various rooms es- tablished. Detailed plans will be started immediately, Supt. Oltman reported. "BUILDING plas at best are complicated and no doubt several months will elapse before our new grade school building will reach the actual construction stage," hc commented, Work on the new Loop Field baseball grandstand is making some progress between rainy spells. The vocational carpentry class is handling this project un- der the supervision of Arne John- son and George Woodruff, Much of the material is now on hand so faster progress can be ex- pected from now on a.s the weather permit, Supt. Oltman commented. Corporation President. Closes Deal for Hold,ngs In Three Counties Here President Edward Bartsch of Rayonier Incorporated announced today in Shelton that negotiations have been completed for acquiring practically all the Polson Logging company's vast tracts of timberlands and!ogging facilities on the Olympic peninsula. The announcement was made exclusively to the Journal by Mr. Bartsch. VISITS SHELTON EDWARD BARTSCH Rayonier President Bushes Still Bearing New Berry Crop The Journal's Nature Editor, Lafe Redafe, is sleeping off a large "sampling" of the recent new crop of raspberries, so it has fal- len to the regular staff of writers to report where he got his ber- ries, Following the revelation last week by Charlie Rucker that his raspberry bushes were bearing a second crop for the year, te Jour- nal was called by three other fam- .llies who reported they, too, have bushes with a second crop of fruit. I By diligent listening to Lafe's .mumlings' .as he, .slept: .uff,'..What: at first appeared to be overindUl- gence of another sort, we deter- mined that, he had been sampling raspberries from the bushes of Mrs. R. McMahon, on Hillcrest, and Mrs. E, Julian, of Agate. HE ALSO muttered that le had tried a few strawberries grown on the plants of Dick Karns on Angleside, Lafe moaned, "Them strawberries wuzn't quite ripe yet, and that's what done it to wte." However, he reported that the raspberries he had eaten -- only about a dozen berries from each place  were so big that he didn't realize until too late that he was becoming "loaded." He said they were bigger than apples. We hope he meant crab-apples, He also told the worried staff of the Journal that he had sam- plod a large apple from the grav- enstein tree he noticed at Mrs. Julian's place. "They wuz blossoms on thet danged tree, too," he said. "Never saw the likes o' it. Things jest a-growin' right and left, and' hcrc it is nigh Thanksgivin'. Times lms shore changed." Times have indeed changed, judging from the reports flooding the Journal office. Three School Officials Attend Centralia Meet Three city and county school officials represented the Shelton I and Mason county school systems i at last week's Southwest Wasl- ington sc h o o I superintendents meeting at Contrails, attended by approximately 60 school officials who participated in a number of discussions covering current school problems. Supt, R. W. Oltman and Assist- ant Supt. Homer Taylor represent. ed the Slelton system. County Supt. J, W. Goodpaster the county system at the meeting. The most important problem discussed concerned certification of teachers employed under war em- ergency standards. Other topics in- cluded transportation, . adult chms- es, cafeteria management, and school insurance. Supt. Oltman is president of the association. I SENIOR BALL SET FOR ALUMS, ALL STUDENTS, FRIDAY All alumni, students a n d friends of Irene S. Reed High School arc invited to attend th annual Senior Ball which will be held tomorrow night at the gymnasium. The Seattle orchestra of El Arsenau has been engaged for the affair whioh is the first of the year's two big high school formal dances. Long dresses and business suits will be in style for the occasion. Tickets are selling for $2.00 a couple, or $1.50 singles; and dancing will begin at 9 p.m. I By this purchase, well over two billion feet of timber are added to Rayonier's already large timber holdings, assur- ing the company's three Northwest pulp mills of an adequate future supply of the wood necessary to keep them in continuous and full-scale production. In a world keenly aware.of its universal shortage of wood, this acquisition puts Rayonier in an enviable position. RAYONIER Incorporated is the world's largest producer of dis- solving pulp and is one of the larges holders of timber proper- ties in the Northwest. The bulk of its output is the highly purified wood cellulose known as "dissolving pulp," which is the basic raw material for mak- ing rayon, cellophane, photogra- phic film, and certain plastic pro- ducts. A small percentage of Ray- onier's woodpulp does, however, go into the making of fine papers. The Polson properties are adja- cent to Rayonier's present hold- ings and are ideally located with Accompanying President Ed. ward Bartsch of Rayonior In- corporated from New York and assisting bim in concluding one of the largest timber holding purchases in the history of the Northwest--the vast domain of the Poison familywere W. S. Luc.y, vice president in charge of company production and Mr. BarL,ch's personal assistant; Dr. R. M. Plckens, te{mleal sale director; James Sheehey, aaist. ant to Mr. Lucey, and William Keveney, company comptroller. respect to Rayonier's Washington mills. More than 50,000 acres of Rayonier's new timberlands con- sist of virgin timber located in Jefferson, Clallam, and Grayl Harbor counties , . ,, . ,,: . tensive areas in which the timber already has reached maturity, and is ready to be felled to make way for new growth. These forests will thus provide an immediate supply of wood for Rayonicr's Northwes mills. Logging conditions in thesa stands of timber are said to be considerably better than the aver- age found in the same general area The Polson company is now operating three large logging camps in these sections and these operations will continue under di- rection of the new owners. In Grays Harbor County, Ray- enter acquires about 70,000 acres of "reproduction lands"--acres on which trees are now being re. grown to provide for' the future. PRESIDENT BARTSCH point- ed out that an important advan- tage of the acquisition, with re- spect to both his company's and the public's interest, lies in th fact that the integrated Rayonie and Polson properties are coneen- 'trated lmar large stands of. na- tional and state owned timber. ' Under government timber cute tang programs required to keep these publicly owned forests con- tinuously productive these timber- lands represent an additional po- tential supply of wood for Ray- onier's mills. The Poison railroad, an import- ant and most essential part of the purchase, is 125 miles long and, 'cogether' with Rayonier's preseng raih'oads, provides the only exlsto ing outlet foe a large part of the publicly owned timber oft the Western Olympic Peninsula. ' ,, WHILE THE construction of highways might afford other out- lets, distances are great and use of the combined railroads would appear to be the most practical and cconqmical means of trans- portation. Tim Polson company owns, or has under lease, extensive tidelands (Continued on page 12) Catholic School Case is Taken Under Advisement Arguments were heard on the demurrers presented by attorneys John Lynch, representing the Catho olic Church, and Charles I.e, wis, representing the City of Shelton, in the court action involving the issuance of a building permit for a parochial school before Judga John M. Wilson in Superior Court Saturday. Judge Wilson took the case un- der advisement following the pre- sentation of the argment Sat- urday afternoon. The Catholic church brought suit against the city following the refusal of tim city commission to g, rant a building permit for the pi'oposcd new school at Third and Franklin streets. The church has contended that the city ordinance, upon which Connnissioners Travis and Kimbel based their refusal is unconstitu- tional, and that their refusal con. statutes interference with use of their property.