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Thursday, Dec. 23, 1971
85th Year - Number 50
Published in $helton, Wa. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton, Wa. 98584,
under act of Mar. 8, 1879. Published weekly, except two issues during week of Thanksgiving, at
227 W. Cota. $5 per year in Mason County, $6 elsewhere.
4 Sections - 3z~ Pages
Ten Cents Per Copy
earcu
ISCUSS
erence
]'he effects on esthetics are
host noticeable and provable
cutting while there are
naany unanswered questions
effects on soil, water run
tlld subsequent tree growth, a
P of University of
ton faculty members told
~e who attended a Clear
ting Conference at the
Thursday.
ambiguity of national
legislation and the U.S.
Service came in for some
comments from Barney
who was the speaker at
10on luncheon session of the
q'he criteria used by the
est Service in making its
l'he State Highway
Tuesday afternoon
an advance loan to
County of $48,000 in
Secondary road funds
for the county to carry
t~o projects under the FAS
.rn next year.
two projects are the
of the Stretch
Bridge and continuation of
the North Shore Road.
Engineer J. C. Bridger
ted the request for the
advance after it was
earlier by the county
lission.
advance funds will be in
to the county's regular
for next year.
funds will be deducted
PAS funds for the following
timber cutting decisions do not
lead to efficiency" Dowdle said.
National forest legislation and the
Forest Service decision policy are
ambiguous, he commented, and
this amibiguity leads to a lot of
misinformation and verbal
pollution.
National forests have been
around a long time, he said, and
until recent years were there, but,
few people paid any attention to
them.
As the number of people
increased and they had more
money and more leisure time,
they discovered the National
Forests as recreation areas and
this led to the present conflicts.
The conflicts will continue,
Dowdle predicted, as pressures
from more people with more
leisure time continue.
Clear cutting was not invented
recently, James Bethel told the
conference in his opening
remarks. It was used by the early
day loggers more extensively than
it is now with the harvest of
second growth timber.
It is not a question of whether
to cut timber or not, since the
commitment to the use of the
land for timber growth has
already been made.
Clear cutting, he stated, is one
forest management practice
among many.
Many people, he commented,
dislike the results of the
appearance of timber harvest, but,
some natural occurances such as
blow downs and burns produce
ugly appearances also.
The greatest environmental
impact from forestry has been the
reduction in forest fires.
An area of old growth timber,
Bethel commented, is generally
over-mature with-a lot of dead
timber which is left after the
logging has been completed.
Under the clear cutting
practices, fire is used to get rid of
slash and to prepare the ground
for reseeding.
Dr. David Scott, professor of
silva culture, discussed plant
growth in forest areas.
He described clear cutting as
replacing one generation of trees
with another in an environment in
which there is no living influence
from the previous generation.
He stated in Western
Washington, the alder and
Douglas fir are the first species to
come in when a new generation of
trees starts and they are followed
(Please turn to Page 2)
The Mason County
Commission, by a 2-1 vote
Tuesday afternoon voted to name
Mrs. Mildred Conklin as County
Clerk to succeed Mrs. Lodga
Fields, who resigned the position.
Mrs. Conklin was No. 3 on the
list of candidates recommended
by the Mason County Republican
Central Committee for the
position. She, like Mrs. Fields, is a
Republican.
The Mason County
Commission set 2 p.m. Jan. 10 for
a hearing on a proposed county
zoning ordinance.
The County Planning
Commission, after public
meetings and a public hearing
earlier, voted to recommend t:~
the county commission that the
zoning ordinance be adopted.
The zoning map, which will
determine what zone each piece
of property will be in, is being
developed by the planning
commission.
The proposed zoning
ordinance outlines the various
zones which will be allowed in the
county and what will be allowed
in each.
The zoning ordinance follows
the completion of a
comprehensive plan prepared by
the county earlier by Consulting
Service Corp.
The commission discussed a
successor to County Clerk Lodsa
Fields, at its Monday meeting,
but, postponed a final decision
until 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Commission Chairman
William O. Hunter stated all three
of the candidated recommended
by the Mason County Republican
Central Committee appeared to
be qualified and that he would be
willing to accept the central
committee's first choice, Mrs. Lou
Donnell, editor of the
Huckleberry lterald.
Commissioners John
Bariekman and Martin Auseth
made no comment and the
commission went into executive
session when they returned to the
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The donations to the 40 and
8-Journal Christmas fund rolled in
dining the past week, shooting
the annual effort to within $130
of its $1,000 goal as of press time
Wednesday. The total was
$870.95. The project raises
money to provide Christmas
baskets for less fortunate families
in Mason County each year.
The 40 and 8 is in charge of
obtaining the material for the
baskets, assembling them and
seeing to their delivery. The
Journal handles the fund raising
efforts.
Contributions can be brought
to the Journal office at Third and
Cota or mailed to the Journal, P.
O. Box 430, Shelton.
}leading the list of
contributions during the past
week was the $100 contributed
by 40 and 8 Voiture 135.
Other contributions during
the past week included Fraternal
Order of Eagles, $30; Mr. and
Mrs. Alva Bennett, $5; Bedell
Drilling Co., $20; anonymous, $5;
anonymous, $5; Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Grant, $5; Dr. A. C.
Linkletter, $10; Frank's Electric,
$5; Mr. and Mrs. Lakeburg, $5;
Lawton Apartments, $10; Randall
Updyke, $5; anonymous, $2;
anonymous, $2; anonymous, $10;
Gott Oil Co. Inc., $25; Jim and
Agnes Moore, $5; Sarah Eckert
Orthopedic Guild, $2 and food;
Mr. and Mrs. AI Courter, $10;
Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Norvold, $5;
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wivell, $10;
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Rutledge, $5;
Mr. and Mrs. Webster tt. Flint, $5;
Prepp's Rexall Store, $10;
anonymous, $5; Mr. and Mrs.
Amos Babcock, $5; Mrs. Eber
Angle, $5; In memory of Mamie
Earl, $5; anonymous, $10;
anonymous, $20; anonymous, $1 ;
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pozorski, $5;
Mr. and Mrs. John Luhm, $5;
Lake Enterprises Co., $10; Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Kosmonek, $5;
Catherine Cropper, $5; Clinton
Willour Insurance, $25; Mr. and
Mrs. Robert W. Young, $10; Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Williams, $5 and
Mrs. M. E. Hillier, $5.
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commission room, they voted to
postpone the decision.
Mrs. Donnell was the first
choice candidate on the central
committee list. In second place on
the list was Mrs. Carolyn Kerr, an
employee in the office at Mason
General Hospital and the third
place candidate was Mrs. Mildred
Conklin, secretary to Prosecuting
Attorney Byron McClanahan.
Mrs. Fields submitted a
letter of resignation as county
clerk last month in which she
stated wanted to leave Dec. 15.
Mrs. Fields is remaining on the
job until her successor is
appointed and qualified.
The commission received the
central committee
recommendation three weeks ago,
and, after interviewing the three
top candidates for the office, had
set Monday as the date they
would make the selection.
The Mason County United
Good Neighbors fund drive this
year has a total of $7,746.98 in
cash and pledges so far, it was
reported at a meeting of the UGN
board Friday noon.
There are still several large
groups to be heard from, it was
reported.
General Hospital
this week it will be
to increase the basic
rate $6 per day. The new
for semi-private rooms
$58. The new rate will be
1.
rate adjustments are the
to be made in more than a
and are needed to cover
costs in four principal
a new two year contract
the registered nurses
tiated by the Washington
e Nurses Association,
necessary under the
licensed practical nurses' contract,
an increase in employee health
insurance, and a sizeable increase
in workmen's industrial insurance
now mandatory with the State of
Washington under a new law,
Hospital Administrator Laurel
Nelson said.
Around the country nearly all
hospitals have had to raise daily
room rates from $5 to $10 per
day. Even with this new rate
adjustment Mason General
Hospital continues to have lower
overall rates than most hospitals
in the area, Nelson commented.
This is a graphic Christmas story.., and thereby hangs a tail.