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6017 S. E. 86th
Portland Ore. 97216
Co,
.Mason County was slowly re-
@
here's the story on
20th annual 40 & 8-Journal
basket project:
RAISED ~ $1,057.44.
the top. Goal was $1,000.
-- 85.
CHEERED -- 302.
FAMILY AIDED --
and their widowed
FAMILY --- One
without children.
could say--and we'll cer-
concur--the 1965 Christmas
was hugely successful,
to the 98 separate :rid:rid-
and organizations who con-
hard cash to the fund
the supplies for the
were purchased.
Christmas baskets were de-
in all sections of Mason
last Thursday amidst a
'Christmas setting--the sea-
first falling snow. PUD 1,
3, Sheriff's office, city police,
& 8 personnel participated
deliveries, a few of which
into Friday.
joy on the faces of. the
particularly, in most
was all the reward the
~rers needed.
baskets had been assembled
by members of the
8 and the 8 & 40, some of
like Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parr,
general chairman Jay Urn-
worked virtually the en-
before being Joined in the
by other members.
Christmas fund itself reach-
$1,000 plateau when a $50
by the Mell Chevrolet
reached the Journal last
morning. Subsequent
pushed it to the final
e of $1,057.44 at which it now
to the weather conditions
have kept him on the run
Pun 3 repair crews
project chairman Urn-
has not been able to pre-
county state and federal
offices will be closed
and most businesses inI
County will be closed Sat-
in observance of New
Day.
government offices close
holiday falls on Saturday,
is not a working day for
Post Office will observe its
holiday mail schedule for
with no city or rural
Mail will arrive at
dispatched from the Post
and will be distributed to
boxes.
Mason County Federal ere-
will be closed Thursday
for ye~r-end closing of
figuring dividends.
,y
licenses for 1966 go on
the County Auditor's of-
at three agencies in the
in for licenses
either the pre-runs
been sent out by the
or the 1965 registration for
License tabs will be
again this year in lieu of
plates.
AT WHIClt licenses
Obtained are Jim Sneddon,
Insurance Agency, Shel-
Kilbourne, Hood Canal
Hoodsport; and Er-
res, Bclfair Home Hard-
elf air.
Auditor's office will be
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mrs.
County Auditor, said,
The office nor-
at 4:30 p.m.
of
Member F.D.I.C.
pare a final statement on expenses
or the list of acknowledgements
for assistance which normally
wraps up each year's Christmas
project activities. This will be
forthcoming next week.
At this time we will have to
settle for a genuine "THANK
YOU, EVERYONE" on behalf ot
the 40 & 8 and the co-sponsoring
Journal to all who assisted in any
measure in making this 1965
Christmas project one of the most
successful in the 20 years of its
life.
Contributors who helped push
the fund over the top since last
week's listing include:
Bob & Louise Kimbel .......... $10.00
Anonymous .............................. 5.00
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Sutherland .. 3.00
Shelton Lions Club .............. 15.00
Mrs. F. K. Shelley .................. 10.00
Anonymous .............................. 2.00
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Campbell 2.00
Frank's E!ectric ...................... 5.00
Mell Chevrolet ........................ 50.00
Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Clothier .... 5.00
Ming Tree Cafe ..................... 5.00
:ninth Brotherhood of
Electrical ~rorkers .......... 10.00
Previously listed .............. 935.44
Final Grand Total .......... $1057.44
Get
79th YEAR No. 52
Thursday, December 30, 1965
and a
SNOW CAME DOWN ~ Huge
snow flakes were falling in Shel-
ton when this picture was taken
Tuesday. The snowfall Tuesday
added to the accumulation of up
to 18 inches in some parts of the
The first baby to be born in
Mason County in 1966 is due for
a warm welcomc from 20 me,'- New Year's
chants who have gifts for him or
her all selected.
Rules of the contest state that
the baby must be born in Mason
County, the parents must live in
Ma~z~ County ~nd t)le exact tim~ . • ~. ..... . ::~
,~lt.; Birth inUst b~:specified in writ- , By .REV. ELMER V. SMITH
ing by the attending physician. Thin'year the American people
In case of a tie, the award will be
distributed at the discretion of the spent $8.5 billion on Christmas
contest committee,gifts. The average family purchas-
The first baby of 1965 was Mich- ed 30 Christmas gifts at the av-
ael Lawrence Holt, son of Mr. anti
erage cost of $5.75 a gift for a
Mrs. Lonnie Holt. This is the 16th
year for the contest in Shelton. total of, roughly, $173.00. This
THE LIST OF GIFTS includes is about $5.00 more per family
two quarts of milk a (lay from than last year. The American peo-
Darigold; a blanket from Millers; ple bought 3.5 billion Christmas
a $5 merchandise certificate from cards a~d the Government picked
Shelton Electric; a sleeping bag up close to $200 million in posts-
from Sprouse Reitz; an over sleep- age.
er blanket from Penneys; a pull Now that Christmas is over and
toy from Hamlins; a $10 gift cer- the New Year is right around the
tificate from Olsen Furniture; ba- corner, how many of us can say
by's first portrait from Ziegler's we received this year the greatest
Studio; a case of baby food from gift that could possibly bc given
M & S Food Store; a $5 merchan- to man? The gift I am speaking
iise certificate from Coast-to- about is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Coast; a hat box electric hair dry- In John 3:16 it says, "For God
er from Lem Warren Refrigera- so loved the world that he gave
tion; $10 worth of baby supplies his only begotten Son, that who-
from Prepps; a potted plant for soever believeth in him should
the mother of the infant from not perish, but have everlasting
Cook Plant. Farm; an engraved life." Christ can give to all of us
sterling silver cup from Beck-!a new life.
withs; a baby scale from Ever- IN II CORINTHIANS 5:17 we
green Drug Center; a $10 savings read,' "Therefore if any man be
account from Thurston County in Christ, he is a new creature:
Savings and Loan Association; a
playtex nurser kit from NeWs old things are passed away; be-
Pharmacy; a case of baby food hold, all things are become new."
So by trusting this One as our
from Tradewell; two dozen diapers personal Saviour God will give to
From Sears and a case of baby each one of us eternal life and
food from Stewart's Foodliner. as we receive Him there will be
new joy in our hearts--the joy in
Y0uth injured in knowing that our position before
God is taken care of by the blood
Trafh0 Mishap of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only
joy but also hope, and that hope
A 19-year-old Shelton youth is is the appearing of the Lord Jesus
in Shelton General Hospital re- Christ.
covering from two fractured legs We are told in Titus 2:13, "Look-
received when the improvised sled ing for that blessed hope, and the
on which he was riding skidded glorious appearing of the great
God and our Savior Jesus Christ."
Publish.ed in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington
Entered as second el~/~s~ matter at the Post office at Shelton, Washington, 98584
under. Act of Mar~h 8, 1879, Published weekly at 327 West Cota
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into the path of a car.
The Washington State Patrol
said that Gary D. Brown was rid-
ing on the hood of a car being
towed by a car driven by David
Glassey, Shelton, on Arcadia Road
when it skidded into the path of
a car driven by Frank H. Hughes,
Shelton.
MASONIC INSTALLATION
POSTPONED TO TIIURSDAY
The Masonic Installation which
had been planned for Monday
night was postponed until today
because of the weather and power
outage Monday. William Brickert
will be installed as worshipful mas-
ter at the public installation cere-
mony at 8 p.m. today.
New Year
At this time of the year we
think of peace and this peace
will only come t 11 r o u g h the
Lord Jesus Christ, the One God
sent as a little Babe many years
ago. ChrL.t was born to (lie to
bear our sin~ so that we could
have this eternal life and peace
and joy.
In I Peter 2:24 we read, "Who
his own self bare our sins in his
own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed." As God
looked upon us Hc saw that man
was helpless, incapable of saving
himself, and that there was no
help for him apart from God's own
love, so the greatness of this love
has been seen in the gift of His
Son.
JESUS SAID, "I am the way,
the trui,h, and the life; no man
cometh unto the father but bS,
me," so that ti~e way to Heaven
lies open bcforc us through this
One Whom wc worship at this
season of tlm year. If we turn
our backs upon Him there can be
no hope for us.
The Bible says, "I-tc cants mite
his own but his own received him
not; but as many as received him
to them gave he power to become
the sons of God," As we look back
to Christmas and fm~vard to tile
New Year, would it not be reas-
onable and right to accept thit~
One as our egaona, l l vioal,
county which fell Sunday night
and Monday. The pile of snow
in the picture is at the intersec-
tion of Railroad Ave. and Thrid
Street left there by city street
crews when they plowed out
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traffic lanes on the streets. The streets had streets running deep
snow which fell Tuesday was with slush which clogged sto.rm
partially melting as it came drains.
down, combining with melting PEACEFUL SCENE---These
from the snow piled in the snow-laden trees along a rural
road present a peacatul secoc to
look at in a picture, but, they
can be the cause of a lot of
trouble when the branches break
and fall acro~s electric power
or telephone line~.
Four StmMed
The top news in Mason County
during 1965 was growth and pro-
gre~, with the announcement in
May that the Simpson Timber Co.
would construct a new $5 million
saw mill on the waterfront here
to replace the outdated Mills One
and Two.
Site preparation for the new mill
has been started and contract let
for its constrain;ion.
The Corrections Center went in-
to operation during 1.965 with the
;Reception Center section of the
i institution opening in February
and the Educational System open-:
ing in September.
There was disagreement, in the
Shelton School District which came
and finally did so in October. After
the November elections, in which
B. Franklin Heuston was re-elected
to the board and Richard Brewer
was elected to the position which
had been held by Mrs. Betty Mc-
Clanahan, Q~iggle submitted his
resignation to the board and it
was accepted. The year closes with
retired superintendent R. W. Olt-
man once again at the helm of
the dis[rict which the board be-
gins its search for a new super-
intendent.
A NEW IIOSi'Yr&L for Mason
Cmmty appeared closer with pro-
gress during the year including
the passage of a $1,100,000 bond
issue by the voters in May and
a federal allocation of $668,533 al-
most assured under the Hill-Harris
program by recent action by a
state committee for the program.
The county saw a new lnaustry
with the opening of the Shelton
Mobile Homes plant at the Shel-
ton Airport by H. O. "Red" Rowe
during the year.
The community showed it had
a generous heart when in the
period of a few weeks, it donated
or pledged more than $10,000 to
the fund to provide kidney ma-
chine treatments for Buddy Frank-
lin of Island Lake. The effort
brought national recog'nition to the
community when segments of an
NBC-TV special on kidney machine
treatment featuring Shelton wer~
• sh own.
The weather ma(ae news in 1965
also with the year starting witll
one of the heaviest snow storms
in years with up to four feet of
snow in some of the outlying areas.
The snow kept the loggers out of
the woods. The severe winter was
followed by a pleasant summer
which saw a great deal of dry
we.athcr which kept fire fighting
crews on the ale~-t for much of
the time. The community was
Jarred by an earthquake in late
April, which, while it was sharp,
did little major damage.
RETIREMENTS and resigna-
tions saw several familiar faces
no longer in the offices with which
they had been associated with.
Shelton Police Chief Paul Hinton
resigned in May to be sucres,led
by Richard Camper of San Rafacl,
Calif. In Septcmber, long-tintc
ShelLon Fire Chief T. E. Deer re-
tired to be succeeded by Allan F.
Nevitt of Elms.
C. Nolan Mason reslg~]ed as
County Auditor to accept a state
position and was succeeded by hi~
chief deputy Mrs. Rutl] Boysen
sigwHions lo n]o've
Two recent IS, _ ..... '
on to other jobs were those of
Shelton City Librarian Shirley
Beelik, and Home Extension A~'ent
Jane Windsor. Successors for both
positions have not yet been named.
These are the stories which
Per$ ns [l'ro g, t
The Mason County Sheriff's of-
fice Tuesday afternoon brouxht
two Bellevue couples out by boat
fIom the cabin in which they were
stranded on Little I_)eWatto Bay
on Hood Canah
;The two e, ouples, Mr. and Mrs:.
;I~red
Sessions and ~dr. sDd Nlrs.
Robert MeAfee, both of Bellevue,
had gone to the cabin Sunday with
i the intention of returning home
~{onday. The snow Monday clogged
roads so they were unable to get
out.
Worried relatives in the Seattle
area contacted author:tics there
and the Coast. Guard relayed the
information about the stranded
people to the Sheriff's Office here.
USING A BOAT behmging to
Oliver Gray, Lilliwaup, and pilot-
ed by his son, Rex, the deputies
crossed the canal Tuesday after-
noon and brought the two couples
out.
The Sheriff's office said that
the stranded .people were in no
difficulty, and, the two men had
crossed the canal in a small boat
Tuesday and obtained some food
and made arrangemenls for SOITIC-
one to come across amt get them
by boat \Vednesday morni~tg.
Yes, we;m- L;ie ........
You Can Guess Why
Last Week when we promised an
early Journal this week we did a
loosy job of weather forcea:ding.
To lip hl)llCSt, ll'e ncvPr ~.~av¢, it
a thonght--ncver dreamed there'd
be no imwer to operate the lino-
|ypes or ;lira the llresaes or evell
give us light to lmund at typewriter
by on. Monday.
Coasequently, Menday was au-
other holiday as far a,~ the ,h)urnal
s~tff Was ooIlPorne(I,
And ,hat's why ymlr Jmlr:ual this
weei,; didn't arrive lira dnv ahead
of schedule you were promi~ed laM.
We4'|¢.
One thing We ha)k flu'ward to
a.t lhia writing--..m) more early
,Ieul~lals now nI|til Forest Festival
week late next May.
h:vl,iI~g to normal aftor a tleavy
snowfall Sunday night and Men-
(iuy clogged roads and s~reets and
interrupted electric power and
[)hol:e sot'vice.
DUD ,3 crews assisted by eight
t:ir'(~'S II'OS]I outside the area, were
workillg an resloFing electric serv-
ice to, rural areas after the most
extensive power olltage seen here
in many years.
F:,r almost. 12 hours Monday,
the entn'e aren se.rvieed by PUD
3 lr(:n: the 13em:eville substation
on h:p.coland Streel was without
povder.
Eleclrieily wns restored to the
dnwnLowq area :113(1111 :{ p.nL Mon-
dHx* ;'~Iid to i:itleh Of lhc rest of
the, city about 5 p.m, Ti~e repair
cr:,',v~: lben went a i.~ol.tt the task of
ehec:.i k." out power lines and re-
l)ai:'i,sg them to the rural areas.
PUD MANAGER Jerry Sam-
p]cs qai,1 Wednet~day morning that
b?: V/:,dnesday evening about 80
~er cent o~ the service shoald be
rca%o:'ed.
Assisting local repair crc~'s
xve~,'o t\vo el'evqs lroln Clark C(nln-
Ly f-UD at Vancouver; two from
l:{olh Construction Co. Seattle;
o~e f.von~ Poteleo Construction Co.,
Yeh)~.: Iwo from Penin,~tda Power
and Light. Gig Harbor and one
h'()m Lewis County PUD at Cl~e-
hali:~.
i)tll'ill/~ the OUiIl~:e in the city
Mond: y. three small ClPWS fronl
l~mmeville assisted ti~e local men
in restoring power Lo the city.
Telephone crews also faced a
massive repair lob after the heavy
,~;no\v lsvoke nlany lines.
A te!ephone company spokes-
man said Wednesday roorning that
abeut 900 phones were still out of
s(,rvi