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;tuber 31, 1959
SlqELTON- MKSON COUNTY JOURNAL--Published in "Oh rdstmaAtown,' U:S:A.," Shetton Washin
BOAT
STORAGE
Inside- to 18 Feet
:MONTHLY RATES
DELIGHT
PASS 2 HOOP TESTS IN 57-51 WIN
NORTH--RALLY ABILITY, BENCH RESERVE
M:trk down A grades for the i l in morale-lifting than the two
Highclimbers in two more basks%- [ i.,fi] points it gave the Climbers at a
ball leers. [ ::iz: time when they were trailing, 32-
They answered with clarity and l 37.
conviction, during a pulse-l)ound- : FIT(?HETT got another one just
itlz 57-51 victory owr N(wlh Kit- . like it early in the fourth period
PARK
Phone HA 6-4045
all we have served
the past year
all those we hope
k serve in the coming
we extend our best
Wishes for 1960.
MASON GOUNTY
ROQFING AND
INSULATION GO.
VERN OLSON
220 South 8th St.
Phone HA 6-6417
.'tp Last week, the imporLant ques-
tiorls of their ability to come-from-
behimt and is there anything on
the bench to bolster the six play-
trs wire have been putting in vir-
lually all the heavy duty so far.
The way this club scrapped back
after being ten points down three
times during tile first quarter an-
swered the first question, and the
performance of Bill Ftchett an-
swered the other'.
NORTll KITSAP, a mighty good
looking ball clnb in any fan's eyes,
raced off to discouraging looking
ten-point leads at 14-4, 16-6, and
18-8 during the first quarter and
appeared to be set for a comfort-
able evening's workout at High-
climber expense.
Scrappy little Ray Manke. got
the Highclimber comeback rolling
with two morale-building bits of
thievery which resulted in break-
away baskets sandwiched around
a Viking basket and a lay-in by
Laurie Somers which chopped the
count to 20-15 at the first quarter
buzzer. :Manke's second steal and
basket barely beat the timer.
AND DID Roy Buzzard's
rebound basket at the half which
sent the Climbers to the dressing
room with a 30-29 advantage.
They had gained their first level-
ing of the count at 3:15 of the
second period on Greg Vermillion's
shot from the key for a 26-26
deadlock and their first lead at
2:27 when lanky Greg converted
a pair of foul shots, only to have
the Vikings snatch it back on a
field goal by Paulson and a foul
shot by Mehus at 1:32. Then came
Buzzard's last second bucket.
Starting the second half, the
Vikings again pulled ahead and
held five-point leads twice dnring
the third period, which ended at
41-38, and at 43-38 as Milton hit
for the opening score of the final
quarter.
BUT TIlE CLIMBERS weren't
buying tim loser's role this night.
Vermillion and Fitchett hit jump
shots from the key and Vermin
lion connected three more times
in the next two minutes to pull
Shelton into a 48-45 advantage,
Let's celebrate the arrival of
the New Year with best wishes
t0 our many hometown friends.
MANLEY'S
Fountain Service
Vl AND JACK. MANLEY
Seen at Almost Every Local Sports Event
I
BILL FITCHETT
Hits In Pinch-hit Role
only a break-away lay-in by
North's Steve Maddocks interrupt-
ing the skein.
The Vikings refused to play
dead, however, and Milton and
Maddocks hit quick baskets to
give the visitors a 49-48 edge with
2:14 showing on the clock.
Then Manke pulled off the
night's most unlikely score. Mak-
ing another interception, the little
guy drove hard for the basket, ap-
parently was completely covered,
tried to find a teammate, couldn't,
so leaped high for a desperate
jump shot around the foul line.
He was fouled and that probably
helped make the shot hit its mark.
It put Shelton ahead, 50-49, with
1:43 on the clock and started a
string of eight straight points
which sewed up the game.
VERMILLION followed Manke's
circus shot with a rebound basket,
Bloomfield and Buzzard converted
fouls, Vermillion cashed in anoth-
er rebound and it was 56-49 before
Paulson broke the string with a
Viking goal. Bloomfield finished
the night's scoring with a foul Just
before the final buzzer.
It was the kind of ball game
that sent the customers home with
pounding pulses and an appetite
for more of the same, the second
contest in a row of the same fla-
vor, the fourth straight success
for the Highclimbers after their
season opening loss.
Getting back to Fitehett a mo-
ment, the 6-1 senior got his chance
when Bloomfield couldn't find the
range from h/s outside post. He
entered the game momentarily at
the end of the first half, returned
in the middle of the third quarter
and promptly hit a long Jump shot
back of hte key which meant more
with Shelton trailing, 43-40, and
that seemed to light the fire for
from that moment on the Climb-
ers outscored the Vikings, 15 to 8,
in the remainder of the game.
Had the Climbers enjoyed any
kind of luck on their shooting it
would have been a breeze, but in
the third quarter particularly and
to some extent in the second at
least a dozen shots crawled right
out of the mouth of the iron ring
when they seemed headed for the
twine. For the entire game the
Climbers made only 23 of 81 at-
tempts while the Vikings made 22
of 61. Foul .shooting was better,
11 of 17 for Shelton, poorer for
North Kitsap, 7 of 15.
SIX-FOUR VERMILION con-
tinued to show why he was an all-
stater in Montana last year, stuff-
ing in 26 points for his best out-
put of the season so far, his fourth
20-point total in five games. Sein-
ers continued to show improve-
ment, picked up 11 points and did
a fine rebounding job.
Maddocka hit 17 for the Vikings,
Milton 14, Paulson 12 for a well-
balanced soring &ttack.
The Climbers do some traveling
in the next few days with treks
scheduled to Port Angeles Dec. 30,
to Kelso Jan. 2, and to .North Kit-
sap Ja. 5, all top-flight clubs. A
Central League engagement brings
Montesano here Jan. 8 for thenext
home game.
The llneups:
SHELTON 57 NORTH 51
Close 3 f Maddocks 17
Somers II f Blrd
Vermillion 26 c Dahistrom 7
Make 6 g Milton 14
Bloomfield 4 g Paulson 12
Subs: Shetton--Fitchett 4, Buz-
zard 3, Sharpes. North --Mehus
I, Williams, Clark, Ellason.
Seers by Qurte
Shelton .......... 15 15 8 19---.57
North ............ 20 9 14 8---51
ls LOSE
THRILLER TO VIKINGS
Corky Petersun and Bill Den-
nis, two promising sophs, scored
35 points between them but got
little scoring aid from their team-
mates ao the Little Climbers went
down to a narrow 49-46 defeat at
the hands of the Viking B team in
the prelim last week.
The game was even all the way
with quarterly margins of 11-10
and 23-21 for the winners and a
35-35 starloff going into the last
period.
Dennis had eight field goals in
his 17 points, Peterson six with
his 18 points. The lineups:
NORTH 49 SHELTON 46
Lawrence 13 f Carlson 5
Wilson 9 f Dennis 17
Mauser 8 c Peterson 18
Uusitalo 5 g Simons 3
Eliason 8 g Watson 3
Subs: North -- Smallback 6,
Clark, Adair. Shelton- Schnei-
der, Sells, Johnston.
Score by Quarters
Shelton .......... 10 11 14 11---46
North ............ 11 12 12 14---49
Members on Seashore, Mountain Foothills
SEAHOUNT NEW LEAGUE TITLE
Seamount!
There's the name of the new
athletic conference in which the
Shelton Highcltmbera will be com-
peting starttng next fall.
Seamount was chosen as the
new league mordker by majority
vote of approximately 3,000 stu-
dents in the seven schools com-
posing the league membership.
It won out over Ttmbertide and
Suburban, the second and third
place choices in the voting of stu-
dent bodies at Shelton, North
Thurston, Fife, White River, Pen-
insula, Bethel and Curtis high
schools. Curtis is a new school
located in University Plaee, a Ta-
coma suburb.
ORGANIZATION OF the new
league has been completed during
a series of meetings among rep-
resentatives of the seven schools
during the past three months and
football and basketball schedules
have already been completed for
the first year's competition among
the conference members.
Spring sports schedules for 1961
will be arranged at later session,
In forming the new league,
Shelton and North Thurston
dropped out of the Central League,
the other schools from the West
Central League, except Curtis,
Which is a new school without
previous league affiliation and
which will not have its flint se-
nior class until the 1961-62 school
term. i
IN ARRANGING the football i
schede, elton and North ]
Thurston asked to be dated for II
the week of Armistice Day aa a
traditional pdIng hereafter. For l
the past several yea the High-
climbers have playe Chehalis
during the Armistice Day week,
with North Thurstoh as one of the
first three or four tmes o their
slate. ' ....
.The new lgue Still faces, the
threat of an adverse 'deelslon on
a tate level which woud affect
She!ton and North Thuron, cur-
rently included geographically in
the Southwest Washington ditrict.
i i i i uu
'CATS OR CI.IMBEJS?
The Central League basketball
season which Shelton and Elma
activated Tuesday night, some six
hours after this Journal was put
to bed shapes up as a duel be-
tween Jerry Vermillion's Shelton
Highclimbers and Tom Smith's
Chehalis Bearcats, with Woody
Bozarth's North Thurston Rams
as a dangerous da-k-horse third
party which could understandably
usurp the title either or both of
the favorites aspire to.
Chehalis has been in the fore-
front of the forecasting race since
the first turnouts back around
Armistice Day. At that time the
Rams were figured to be the chief
challenger, with an all-veteran re-
turning lineup which had excel-
lent size in Dale Ford, Gary Bow-
er, and Gary Shugarts, but the
Highclimbers have come along in
their half dozen practice games
has skyrocketed them from their
role Of the unknown quantity right
into a share of the favorite role.
No one euld forer then the
ren,.kble tragflguration the
addition of oe good ball player
could nikko to tl 1958-59 Hlg-
climber club which finbhed tffth
in the seven.tem eoifference
with a 4.aatd.8 record.
It was conceded the Climbers
would be considerably improved,
but no one entertained even re-
mote hopes that the clnb would
have any championship possibili-
ties.
After a half dozen practice
games, and on the eve of the
opening of the conference sched-
ule, things are vastly different.
The six-foot-four Vermillion has
clearly demonstrated why he was
named an all-stater in Montana
last year and has provided the
Highelimbers with the one criti-
cal ingredient they needed to be a
good, solid ball club--a man prop-
erly equipped to handle the pivot
post.
Each game the Cllmber have
looked better after a stumbling
start n their operant, and they
llve met Some very good bail
clubs in the five gamet they've
pl.yed so few.
Their triumphs over North and
South K/tsap and East Bremerton
all real tests, have lifted Climber
stock high on the Central Lea-
gue stock market as the race for
the title gets under way.
The Central League as a whole
flguPes to be considerably strong-
er than it was a year ago, even
though this year it appears to
have two distinct divisions, for
Elms and Montesano have the
stuff to give trouble to favored
three on any given night, and St.
Martins, although destined for an-
other tallender, won't be any push-
oven" for the rest.
Chehalis Ima six iettermon re-
turning from last yr's sevnd
place club, including 0-3 Jerry
Klja and 6-1 Dave Dowling,
both starters in 1959. Bud We-
din, 6-0, Roffer Gaxrett, 54, AI-
la Allle, 5-8, and Orrin Smith,
5-10, are other 1959 lettermen.
With these six and a fine crop
of B squad grads, the Barcats
rto the No, I choLc for the
champlonxhlp.
The Climbers get the No. 2 spot
with Vermillion added to five re.
turning lettermen--Ray Manke,
Meal Close, Laurie Seiners, Ron
Guthrie, and Sherry Halbert. Ver.
million, Close and Seiners give the
Climbers a front line averaging
6-3.
North Thurston's No. 3 spot is
earned by the presence of the
Ford-Bowers Shugarts trio already
mentioned, a front line only an
inch under that of the Climbers.
Montessno and Elma are hard
to choose between for the No. 4
spot. The Bulldogs have foul" let-
termen, including the execption-
ally capable George Ralnes, who
has been moved from center to
forward t0 get non-letterman Roy
Frizzell's '6-foot-2 range into the
lineup. Doug Hoflin,: Ken Napion-
tek and Glenn Roderick are the
other returning vets.
Is supplied with fair
experleeice, too, la the persons
of Bob Beeebower and Chuck
Hepwortb 6- eentt, from last
year's Sflzrters, Mike Murphy
and To Eaton from the var
lty resevve
On the flip of a coin weql give
Montesano the 4th spot, Ehna the
fifth.
Tlit leaves the cellar for St,
Martins, which got short changed
most severely on experience of all
i GELLULOUSES WIN
RESEARGII TITLE
RAYONIER RESEARCH
(final first half)
fashion his 1959-60 club frol B
squad returnees and sophomores
chiefly. One of the best of the
latter" is husky Hugh Antonson
while the pick of the former are
Bob Bucsko, Keith Bonlac, Art
Acuff and Frank Bertak.
The lone letterman is Chuck
Johnson.
So this is the Sideliner's fore-
cast. Late in February we'll look
again and see where the teams
upset the dope.
YEAR-END NOTES
Washington State Sports Writ-
ers Association surprised a lot of
people when they placed Mac Ar-
rington of Chehall, at fullback on
their mythical all-state football
team, announced last week.
Other players whom the High-
climbers met during their 1959
season who made honorable men-
tion from the Sports Writers se-
lections included Don Moore, Bell-
armine, and Tom Kelley, Mt. Ver-
non, both ends; Roger Bird, North
K'itsap tackle; Steve Maddocks,
North Kitsap, and John Day, Mt.
Vernon, both quarterbacks.
No Highclimbers were mention-
ed by the Association voters, and
suprisingly neither was Bxxme
Wilson, the Mt. Vernon halfback
who gave the Climbers so much
trouble in the opening game of the
season.
Yim ad Rochester, two
s'hoois who join the Central
League next year, pro'ed they
are rtdy for the move to high-
er ranking by ianging Imaket.
ball defeats on a couple of their
future league brothers last
week, Yalm shading both North
Thurstun and Monto and
Rochester avenging an eavlier
defeat by haghtg & ten-point
licking on Elms.
Appreciation for the voluntary
aid Pat Smith has given St. Mar-
tins prep football teams the past
three seasons was expressed in the
form of a special placque pre-
sented him as a surprise at the
annual Ranger awards dinner last
week.
, Smith is a former Highclimber
football and basketball star of
pre-World War II vintage who
now owns a restaurant in Olym-
pia and has a son attending St.
Martins. Pat has been assisting
the St. Martins coaching staff
without pay.
There are more, undobutedly,
but as you read these lines more
than 15 Mason County folk
known to this scrivener are either
on their way to or trove already
arrived at the scene to see the
Rose Bowl football game New
Year's Day.
This Column knows these neigh-
bore to be among the group
Harold and Kay Sutherland, Kay
Scott, Joe Tics, Buck Armstrong,
Joe McConkey, Pat Price, Virginia
Wvatt, Barb Nelson, Mr. and Mrs.
Cole, Barb Cole, Ted Han-
son, Ed and Rick Beck.
THREADS
NEW YEAR'S
RESOLUTIONS
by Wlllard Kessel
Another year is nearly com-
plete and everyone, well, al-
most everyone, is determined to'
resolutions which he vows to
keep during the New Yea'. "
Since most teenagers also set
up resolutions for themselves,,
I would like to take the oppor-
tunity to suggest that one of'
the resolutions on each teen-,
ager's llst should be to follow
the Teen Commandments during'
the New Year and every year,
thereafter. . ,
These commandments were
drawn up by San'
Francisco high school students,
and, since then, have appeared
in many articles concerning
tgenagers. Read and hsedfor,
they apply to YOU.
W L
') 1 '
Cellulouses ....................... 371, ,,2 ,,.
Maintenance ................... 36 24
Acctate Aces .................. 33 27
Silva Foxes ...................... 31 29
Wood Birds .................... 29 31
Clockwatchers ................ 27 33
Pin Curlers .................... 26!/,., 33!.
Rayonettes ...................... 20 40
High gme .-- Ted Wittenberg
203
High total Ted Wittenberg
566
Maintenance fell one game short
of overtaking the Cellulouses in
a driving finish last week as first
half play closed in the Rayonier
Research bowling league.
Maintenance t Don Woods 486)
needed all four points but man-
aged only three in the face-to-face
match with the CeUulousea (Rolls
Halbert 497).
In Other finales, the Silva Foxe
(Ted Wittenberg 566) blanked the
Pin Curlers (Wanda Sehirmer
465), the Clockwatchers (Bob El-
liot(516) won a 3-1 verdict from
the Rayonettos (Norma Smith
35) and the Acetate Aces (Dick
Nelson 516) drew with the Wood
Birds (Ralph Davison 520).
o Our Many Friends Whom We Have
Enjoyed Serving in 1959 We Extend Wishes
FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Walter Tyyniemaa, Lillian Dale, Merritt Eells, Tony Bisser, Judy Trail, George Valley
Diamonds Mean Baseball to Him
Eells and Valley Appliance Center
The district i attempting to
compel both ech001 to affiliate ,the_conference clubs.
with proposed new league align, coach Bernie Harvey has had.to
ments within the boundaries of I ; = - - -, I
the district but to which the two [| TII I TU 1 II (
schools strongly object because of l[ |IlUI IV InS lllta I I}
the excessive travel diances |n- I|
Computed for Hood Canal
ground and Mark Morris of Long- I | umana troy uass are I hr. ann | I
vw in the propoaed district sel- It
appeal from the district
edict ha been made by Shelton
and North Thurston to the State
Athletic Board, whoe decision l
expected at Its next meeting Jan-
uary 30.
PREP BASKETBALL SCORES
North Tkurston 80, Peninatla 60
Olympia 45, Sumner 9
East Brem 52, South Kit 37
Sequim 68, Chimacum 42
Port Angeles 33, West Brera 32
Rochester 49, llma 39
Vancouver 59, Centralia 38
Anacortes 56, Sedro Woolley 38
Yelm 40, Montesao 39
Renton 44, Aberdeen 31
Hudson's Bay 62, Hoquiam 4,2
Chehalis 65, Castle Rook 37
MIXED FOURSOME
W b
Bluffed ................................. 4 0
Deer Slayers ........................ 2 2
Who Knows .......................... 2
Rusy Ducks ......................... 2 2
Timber Ducks .................... 2 2
Wee Uns ................................ 2 2
Odd Bal ................................ 2 2
Pin Busters .......................... 0 4
High Scores
Men:e game--harlie Savage 214
Men s total .--rlie m 598
GaYs game--Shlrley Stltes 195
GI's total--Shirley Stltes 511
Friday, +an. 1
Low ................ .. 0:11 a.m.
High ................ 7:23 a.m.
Low .................. 1:10 p.m.
High ................ 6:04 p.m.
S.V, =a
Low .................. 0:58 m.
High ................ 8:07 a,m.
Low .................. 2:05 p.m,
High ................ 7:04 p.m.
Low .................. 1:46 a.m.
High ................ 8:41 a.m.
Low .................. 3:08 p.m.
High ................ 8:12 p.m.
Monday, J 4
Low .................. 2:36 a.m.
High ................ 9:35 a.m.
LOw .................. 4:09 p.m.
High ................ 9:32 p,m.
Low .................. 3:30 a.m.
I High ................ 10:19 a.m.
i Low .................. 5:11 p.m.
[High ................ 11:04 p,m.
Wednesday, Jam 6
Low ' 4:28 a.m.
ttigh ................ 11:04 a.m.
Low .................. 6:10 p,m.
Thars, Jail 7
High ................ 0:40 a.m.
Low ................ 5:32 .m.
High ................ 11:49 a.m.
Low .................. 7:04 p.m.
-2.7 ft.
13,8 ft.
6.3 ft.
11.0 ;t.
-1.7 ft.
13.7 ft.
6.7 ft.
10.2 ft.
0.5 ft.
13,4 ft.
5,1 ft.
9,4 ft.
2.0 ft.
13.0 ft.
4.5 ft.
8.8 ft.
3.4 ft.
12.5 ft.
3.7 fL
8.5 ft.
4.8 ft.
12.0 ft.
3.0 ft.
8.8 ft.
6.0 it.
11.7 ft.
2.2 ft.
1. Stop and think before you,
drink.
2. Don't let your parents'
down--they brought you up.
3. Be humble enough to obey,
You'll be giving orders yourself,
some day.
4. At the first moment turn
away from unclean thinking---'
at the first moment.
5. Don't show off when driv-
ing. If you want to race, go to
Indianapolis.
6. Choose a date who would
make a flood mate.
7. Go to church faithfully.
The Creator gives you a week;
give Him back an hour.
8. Choose your companions
carefully. You are what they
are.
9. Avoid the crowd. Be an
engine---not a caboose.
10. Or even better--lveep the
original Ten Commandments.
From the staff at Parker's
Mr. and Mrs. Shop to you: best
wishes for a very happy and
prosperous New Year!
The opinions expressed in this
column do not necessarily re-
flect the views of the sponsor.
rkerY
Mr. & Mrs.
Shop
Happy New Yearl We hope
the year ahead will I: the
most successful of m=ny
and that you'll have grelt
happiness.
Delight Park
Mr. and Mrs. Art Hazelqtdst
• • We're celebrstln| t1e
New Year by thankin
you for your fr/end0hip,
Needs Pneumatic Protectien at Times
PLUMBING, HEATING & SHEET METAL
LES HANSEN, OWNER
i i UUll Ulll i Ulllll
War Threatens In Indo-China!
Starvation Faces Civilization
Due To Population Increase !
Million Dollar U. S. Missile Explodes
On Lunching Pad!
Cuba To Receive War Goods
From Russia!
Top Heavy Government Increasing
Tax Load!
Cost of Living Index Up 2%!
Have a Happy New Year
Mr. & Mrs. Shop
;tuber 31, 1959
SlqELTON- MKSON COUNTY JOURNAL--Published in "Oh rdstmaAtown,' U:S:A.," Shetton Washin
BOAT
STORAGE
Inside- to 18 Feet
:MONTHLY RATES
DELIGHT
PASS 2 HOOP TESTS IN 57-51 WIN
NORTH--RALLY ABILITY, BENCH RESERVE
M:trk down A grades for the i l in morale-lifting than the two
Highclimbers in two more basks%- [ i.,fi] points it gave the Climbers at a
ball leers. [ ::iz: time when they were trailing, 32-
They answered with clarity and l 37.
conviction, during a pulse-l)ound- : FIT(?HETT got another one just
itlz 57-51 victory owr N(wlh Kit- . like it early in the fourth period
PARK
Phone HA 6-4045
all we have served
the past year
all those we hope
k serve in the coming
we extend our best
Wishes for 1960.
MASON GOUNTY
ROQFING AND
INSULATION GO.
VERN OLSON
220 South 8th St.
Phone HA 6-6417
.'tp Last week, the imporLant ques-
tiorls of their ability to come-from-
behimt and is there anything on
the bench to bolster the six play-
trs wire have been putting in vir-
lually all the heavy duty so far.
The way this club scrapped back
after being ten points down three
times during tile first quarter an-
swered the first question, and the
performance of Bill Ftchett an-
swered the other'.
NORTll KITSAP, a mighty good
looking ball clnb in any fan's eyes,
raced off to discouraging looking
ten-point leads at 14-4, 16-6, and
18-8 during the first quarter and
appeared to be set for a comfort-
able evening's workout at High-
climber expense.
Scrappy little Ray Manke. got
the Highclimber comeback rolling
with two morale-building bits of
thievery which resulted in break-
away baskets sandwiched around
a Viking basket and a lay-in by
Laurie Somers which chopped the
count to 20-15 at the first quarter
buzzer. :Manke's second steal and
basket barely beat the timer.
AND DID Roy Buzzard's
rebound basket at the half which
sent the Climbers to the dressing
room with a 30-29 advantage.
They had gained their first level-
ing of the count at 3:15 of the
second period on Greg Vermillion's
shot from the key for a 26-26
deadlock and their first lead at
2:27 when lanky Greg converted
a pair of foul shots, only to have
the Vikings snatch it back on a
field goal by Paulson and a foul
shot by Mehus at 1:32. Then came
Buzzard's last second bucket.
Starting the second half, the
Vikings again pulled ahead and
held five-point leads twice dnring
the third period, which ended at
41-38, and at 43-38 as Milton hit
for the opening score of the final
quarter.
BUT TIlE CLIMBERS weren't
buying tim loser's role this night.
Vermillion and Fitchett hit jump
shots from the key and Vermin
lion connected three more times
in the next two minutes to pull
Shelton into a 48-45 advantage,
Let's celebrate the arrival of
the New Year with best wishes
t0 our many hometown friends.
MANLEY'S
Fountain Service
Vl AND JACK. MANLEY
Seen at Almost Every Local Sports Event
I
BILL FITCHETT
Hits In Pinch-hit Role
only a break-away lay-in by
North's Steve Maddocks interrupt-
ing the skein.
The Vikings refused to play
dead, however, and Milton and
Maddocks hit quick baskets to
give the visitors a 49-48 edge with
2:14 showing on the clock.
Then Manke pulled off the
night's most unlikely score. Mak-
ing another interception, the little
guy drove hard for the basket, ap-
parently was completely covered,
tried to find a teammate, couldn't,
so leaped high for a desperate
jump shot around the foul line.
He was fouled and that probably
helped make the shot hit its mark.
It put Shelton ahead, 50-49, with
1:43 on the clock and started a
string of eight straight points
which sewed up the game.
VERMILLION followed Manke's
circus shot with a rebound basket,
Bloomfield and Buzzard converted
fouls, Vermillion cashed in anoth-
er rebound and it was 56-49 before
Paulson broke the string with a
Viking goal. Bloomfield finished
the night's scoring with a foul Just
before the final buzzer.
It was the kind of ball game
that sent the customers home with
pounding pulses and an appetite
for more of the same, the second
contest in a row of the same fla-
vor, the fourth straight success
for the Highclimbers after their
season opening loss.
Getting back to Fitehett a mo-
ment, the 6-1 senior got his chance
when Bloomfield couldn't find the
range from h/s outside post. He
entered the game momentarily at
the end of the first half, returned
in the middle of the third quarter
and promptly hit a long Jump shot
back of hte key which meant more
with Shelton trailing, 43-40, and
that seemed to light the fire for
from that moment on the Climb-
ers outscored the Vikings, 15 to 8,
in the remainder of the game.
Had the Climbers enjoyed any
kind of luck on their shooting it
would have been a breeze, but in
the third quarter particularly and
to some extent in the second at
least a dozen shots crawled right
out of the mouth of the iron ring
when they seemed headed for the
twine. For the entire game the
Climbers made only 23 of 81 at-
tempts while the Vikings made 22
of 61. Foul .shooting was better,
11 of 17 for Shelton, poorer for
North Kitsap, 7 of 15.
SIX-FOUR VERMILION con-
tinued to show why he was an all-
stater in Montana last year, stuff-
ing in 26 points for his best out-
put of the season so far, his fourth
20-point total in five games. Sein-
ers continued to show improve-
ment, picked up 11 points and did
a fine rebounding job.
Maddocka hit 17 for the Vikings,
Milton 14, Paulson 12 for a well-
balanced soring &ttack.
The Climbers do some traveling
in the next few days with treks
scheduled to Port Angeles Dec. 30,
to Kelso Jan. 2, and to .North Kit-
sap Ja. 5, all top-flight clubs. A
Central League engagement brings
Montesano here Jan. 8 for thenext
home game.
The llneups:
SHELTON 57 NORTH 51
Close 3 f Maddocks 17
Somers II f Blrd
Vermillion 26 c Dahistrom 7
Make 6 g Milton 14
Bloomfield 4 g Paulson 12
Subs: Shetton--Fitchett 4, Buz-
zard 3, Sharpes. North --Mehus
I, Williams, Clark, Ellason.
Seers by Qurte
Shelton .......... 15 15 8 19---.57
North ............ 20 9 14 8---51
ls LOSE
THRILLER TO VIKINGS
Corky Petersun and Bill Den-
nis, two promising sophs, scored
35 points between them but got
little scoring aid from their team-
mates ao the Little Climbers went
down to a narrow 49-46 defeat at
the hands of the Viking B team in
the prelim last week.
The game was even all the way
with quarterly margins of 11-10
and 23-21 for the winners and a
35-35 starloff going into the last
period.
Dennis had eight field goals in
his 17 points, Peterson six with
his 18 points. The lineups:
NORTH 49 SHELTON 46
Lawrence 13 f Carlson 5
Wilson 9 f Dennis 17
Mauser 8 c Peterson 18
Uusitalo 5 g Simons 3
Eliason 8 g Watson 3
Subs: North -- Smallback 6,
Clark, Adair. Shelton- Schnei-
der, Sells, Johnston.
Score by Quarters
Shelton .......... 10 11 14 11---46
North ............ 11 12 12 14---49
Members on Seashore, Mountain Foothills
SEAHOUNT NEW LEAGUE TITLE
Seamount!
There's the name of the new
athletic conference in which the
Shelton Highcltmbera will be com-
peting starttng next fall.
Seamount was chosen as the
new league mordker by majority
vote of approximately 3,000 stu-
dents in the seven schools com-
posing the league membership.
It won out over Ttmbertide and
Suburban, the second and third
place choices in the voting of stu-
dent bodies at Shelton, North
Thurston, Fife, White River, Pen-
insula, Bethel and Curtis high
schools. Curtis is a new school
located in University Plaee, a Ta-
coma suburb.
ORGANIZATION OF the new
league has been completed during
a series of meetings among rep-
resentatives of the seven schools
during the past three months and
football and basketball schedules
have already been completed for
the first year's competition among
the conference members.
Spring sports schedules for 1961
will be arranged at later session,
In forming the new league,
Shelton and North Thurston
dropped out of the Central League,
the other schools from the West
Central League, except Curtis,
Which is a new school without
previous league affiliation and
which will not have its flint se-
nior class until the 1961-62 school
term. i
IN ARRANGING the football i
schede, elton and North ]
Thurston asked to be dated for II
the week of Armistice Day aa a
traditional pdIng hereafter. For l
the past several yea the High-
climbers have playe Chehalis
during the Armistice Day week,
with North Thurstoh as one of the
first three or four tmes o their
slate. ' ....
.The new lgue Still faces, the
threat of an adverse 'deelslon on
a tate level which woud affect
She!ton and North Thuron, cur-
rently included geographically in
the Southwest Washington ditrict.
i i i i uu
'CATS OR CI.IMBEJS?
The Central League basketball
season which Shelton and Elma
activated Tuesday night, some six
hours after this Journal was put
to bed shapes up as a duel be-
tween Jerry Vermillion's Shelton
Highclimbers and Tom Smith's
Chehalis Bearcats, with Woody
Bozarth's North Thurston Rams
as a dangerous da-k-horse third
party which could understandably
usurp the title either or both of
the favorites aspire to.
Chehalis has been in the fore-
front of the forecasting race since
the first turnouts back around
Armistice Day. At that time the
Rams were figured to be the chief
challenger, with an all-veteran re-
turning lineup which had excel-
lent size in Dale Ford, Gary Bow-
er, and Gary Shugarts, but the
Highclimbers have come along in
their half dozen practice games
has skyrocketed them from their
role Of the unknown quantity right
into a share of the favorite role.
No one euld forer then the
ren,.kble tragflguration the
addition of oe good ball player
could nikko to tl 1958-59 Hlg-
climber club which finbhed tffth
in the seven.tem eoifference
with a 4.aatd.8 record.
It was conceded the Climbers
would be considerably improved,
but no one entertained even re-
mote hopes that the clnb would
have any championship possibili-
ties.
After a half dozen practice
games, and on the eve of the
opening of the conference sched-
ule, things are vastly different.
The six-foot-four Vermillion has
clearly demonstrated why he was
named an all-stater in Montana
last year and has provided the
Highelimbers with the one criti-
cal ingredient they needed to be a
good, solid ball club--a man prop-
erly equipped to handle the pivot
post.
Each game the Cllmber have
looked better after a stumbling
start n their operant, and they
llve met Some very good bail
clubs in the five gamet they've
pl.yed so few.
Their triumphs over North and
South K/tsap and East Bremerton
all real tests, have lifted Climber
stock high on the Central Lea-
gue stock market as the race for
the title gets under way.
The Central League as a whole
flguPes to be considerably strong-
er than it was a year ago, even
though this year it appears to
have two distinct divisions, for
Elms and Montesano have the
stuff to give trouble to favored
three on any given night, and St.
Martins, although destined for an-
other tallender, won't be any push-
oven" for the rest.
Chehalis Ima six iettermon re-
turning from last yr's sevnd
place club, including 0-3 Jerry
Klja and 6-1 Dave Dowling,
both starters in 1959. Bud We-
din, 6-0, Roffer Gaxrett, 54, AI-
la Allle, 5-8, and Orrin Smith,
5-10, are other 1959 lettermen.
With these six and a fine crop
of B squad grads, the Barcats
rto the No, I choLc for the
champlonxhlp.
The Climbers get the No. 2 spot
with Vermillion added to five re.
turning lettermen--Ray Manke,
Meal Close, Laurie Seiners, Ron
Guthrie, and Sherry Halbert. Ver.
million, Close and Seiners give the
Climbers a front line averaging
6-3.
North Thurston's No. 3 spot is
earned by the presence of the
Ford-Bowers Shugarts trio already
mentioned, a front line only an
inch under that of the Climbers.
Montessno and Elma are hard
to choose between for the No. 4
spot. The Bulldogs have foul" let-
termen, including the execption-
ally capable George Ralnes, who
has been moved from center to
forward t0 get non-letterman Roy
Frizzell's '6-foot-2 range into the
lineup. Doug Hoflin,: Ken Napion-
tek and Glenn Roderick are the
other returning vets.
Is supplied with fair
experleeice, too, la the persons
of Bob Beeebower and Chuck
Hepwortb 6- eentt, from last
year's Sflzrters, Mike Murphy
and To Eaton from the var
lty resevve
On the flip of a coin weql give
Montesano the 4th spot, Ehna the
fifth.
Tlit leaves the cellar for St,
Martins, which got short changed
most severely on experience of all
i GELLULOUSES WIN
RESEARGII TITLE
RAYONIER RESEARCH
(final first half)
fashion his 1959-60 club frol B
squad returnees and sophomores
chiefly. One of the best of the
latter" is husky Hugh Antonson
while the pick of the former are
Bob Bucsko, Keith Bonlac, Art
Acuff and Frank Bertak.
The lone letterman is Chuck
Johnson.
So this is the Sideliner's fore-
cast. Late in February we'll look
again and see where the teams
upset the dope.
YEAR-END NOTES
Washington State Sports Writ-
ers Association surprised a lot of
people when they placed Mac Ar-
rington of Chehall, at fullback on
their mythical all-state football
team, announced last week.
Other players whom the High-
climbers met during their 1959
season who made honorable men-
tion from the Sports Writers se-
lections included Don Moore, Bell-
armine, and Tom Kelley, Mt. Ver-
non, both ends; Roger Bird, North
K'itsap tackle; Steve Maddocks,
North Kitsap, and John Day, Mt.
Vernon, both quarterbacks.
No Highclimbers were mention-
ed by the Association voters, and
suprisingly neither was Bxxme
Wilson, the Mt. Vernon halfback
who gave the Climbers so much
trouble in the opening game of the
season.
Yim ad Rochester, two
s'hoois who join the Central
League next year, pro'ed they
are rtdy for the move to high-
er ranking by ianging Imaket.
ball defeats on a couple of their
future league brothers last
week, Yalm shading both North
Thurstun and Monto and
Rochester avenging an eavlier
defeat by haghtg & ten-point
licking on Elms.
Appreciation for the voluntary
aid Pat Smith has given St. Mar-
tins prep football teams the past
three seasons was expressed in the
form of a special placque pre-
sented him as a surprise at the
annual Ranger awards dinner last
week.
, Smith is a former Highclimber
football and basketball star of
pre-World War II vintage who
now owns a restaurant in Olym-
pia and has a son attending St.
Martins. Pat has been assisting
the St. Martins coaching staff
without pay.
There are more, undobutedly,
but as you read these lines more
than 15 Mason County folk
known to this scrivener are either
on their way to or trove already
arrived at the scene to see the
Rose Bowl football game New
Year's Day.
This Column knows these neigh-
bore to be among the group
Harold and Kay Sutherland, Kay
Scott, Joe Tics, Buck Armstrong,
Joe McConkey, Pat Price, Virginia
Wvatt, Barb Nelson, Mr. and Mrs.
Cole, Barb Cole, Ted Han-
son, Ed and Rick Beck.
THREADS
NEW YEAR'S
RESOLUTIONS
by Wlllard Kessel
Another year is nearly com-
plete and everyone, well, al-
most everyone, is determined to'
resolutions which he vows to
keep during the New Yea'. "
Since most teenagers also set
up resolutions for themselves,,
I would like to take the oppor-
tunity to suggest that one of'
the resolutions on each teen-,
ager's llst should be to follow
the Teen Commandments during'
the New Year and every year,
thereafter. . ,
These commandments were
drawn up by San'
Francisco high school students,
and, since then, have appeared
in many articles concerning
tgenagers. Read and hsedfor,
they apply to YOU.
W L
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Cellulouses ....................... 371, ,,2 ,,.
Maintenance ................... 36 24
Acctate Aces .................. 33 27
Silva Foxes ...................... 31 29
Wood Birds .................... 29 31
Clockwatchers ................ 27 33
Pin Curlers .................... 26!/,., 33!.
Rayonettes ...................... 20 40
High gme .-- Ted Wittenberg
203
High total Ted Wittenberg
566
Maintenance fell one game short
of overtaking the Cellulouses in
a driving finish last week as first
half play closed in the Rayonier
Research bowling league.
Maintenance t Don Woods 486)
needed all four points but man-
aged only three in the face-to-face
match with the CeUulousea (Rolls
Halbert 497).
In Other finales, the Silva Foxe
(Ted Wittenberg 566) blanked the
Pin Curlers (Wanda Sehirmer
465), the Clockwatchers (Bob El-
liot(516) won a 3-1 verdict from
the Rayonettos (Norma Smith
35) and the Acetate Aces (Dick
Nelson 516) drew with the Wood
Birds (Ralph Davison 520).
o Our Many Friends Whom We Have
Enjoyed Serving in 1959 We Extend Wishes
FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Walter Tyyniemaa, Lillian Dale, Merritt Eells, Tony Bisser, Judy Trail, George Valley
Diamonds Mean Baseball to Him
Eells and Valley Appliance Center
The district i attempting to
compel both ech001 to affiliate ,the_conference clubs.
with proposed new league align, coach Bernie Harvey has had.to
ments within the boundaries of I ; = - - -, I
the district but to which the two [| TII I TU 1 II (
schools strongly object because of l[ |IlUI IV InS lllta I I}
the excessive travel diances |n- I|
Computed for Hood Canal
ground and Mark Morris of Long- I | umana troy uass are I hr. ann | I
vw in the propoaed district sel- It
appeal from the district
edict ha been made by Shelton
and North Thurston to the State
Athletic Board, whoe decision l
expected at Its next meeting Jan-
uary 30.
PREP BASKETBALL SCORES
North Tkurston 80, Peninatla 60
Olympia 45, Sumner 9
East Brem 52, South Kit 37
Sequim 68, Chimacum 42
Port Angeles 33, West Brera 32
Rochester 49, llma 39
Vancouver 59, Centralia 38
Anacortes 56, Sedro Woolley 38
Yelm 40, Montesao 39
Renton 44, Aberdeen 31
Hudson's Bay 62, Hoquiam 4,2
Chehalis 65, Castle Rook 37
MIXED FOURSOME
W b
Bluffed ................................. 4 0
Deer Slayers ........................ 2 2
Who Knows .......................... 2
Rusy Ducks ......................... 2 2
Timber Ducks .................... 2 2
Wee Uns ................................ 2 2
Odd Bal ................................ 2 2
Pin Busters .......................... 0 4
High Scores
Men:e game--harlie Savage 214
Men s total .--rlie m 598
GaYs game--Shlrley Stltes 195
GI's total--Shirley Stltes 511
Friday, +an. 1
Low ................ .. 0:11 a.m.
High ................ 7:23 a.m.
Low .................. 1:10 p.m.
High ................ 6:04 p.m.
S.V, =a
Low .................. 0:58 m.
High ................ 8:07 a,m.
Low .................. 2:05 p.m,
High ................ 7:04 p.m.
Low .................. 1:46 a.m.
High ................ 8:41 a.m.
Low .................. 3:08 p.m.
High ................ 8:12 p.m.
Monday, J 4
Low .................. 2:36 a.m.
High ................ 9:35 a.m.
LOw .................. 4:09 p.m.
High ................ 9:32 p,m.
Low .................. 3:30 a.m.
I High ................ 10:19 a.m.
i Low .................. 5:11 p.m.
[High ................ 11:04 p,m.
Wednesday, Jam 6
Low ' 4:28 a.m.
ttigh ................ 11:04 a.m.
Low .................. 6:10 p,m.
Thars, Jail 7
High ................ 0:40 a.m.
Low ................ 5:32 .m.
High ................ 11:49 a.m.
Low .................. 7:04 p.m.
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13,8 ft.
6.3 ft.
11.0 ;t.
-1.7 ft.
13.7 ft.
6.7 ft.
10.2 ft.
0.5 ft.
13,4 ft.
5,1 ft.
9,4 ft.
2.0 ft.
13.0 ft.
4.5 ft.
8.8 ft.
3.4 ft.
12.5 ft.
3.7 fL
8.5 ft.
4.8 ft.
12.0 ft.
3.0 ft.
8.8 ft.
6.0 it.
11.7 ft.
2.2 ft.
1. Stop and think before you,
drink.
2. Don't let your parents'
down--they brought you up.
3. Be humble enough to obey,
You'll be giving orders yourself,
some day.
4. At the first moment turn
away from unclean thinking---'
at the first moment.
5. Don't show off when driv-
ing. If you want to race, go to
Indianapolis.
6. Choose a date who would
make a flood mate.
7. Go to church faithfully.
The Creator gives you a week;
give Him back an hour.
8. Choose your companions
carefully. You are what they
are.
9. Avoid the crowd. Be an
engine---not a caboose.
10. Or even better--lveep the
original Ten Commandments.
From the staff at Parker's
Mr. and Mrs. Shop to you: best
wishes for a very happy and
prosperous New Year!
The opinions expressed in this
column do not necessarily re-
flect the views of the sponsor.
rkerY
Mr. & Mrs.
Shop
Happy New Yearl We hope
the year ahead will I: the
most successful of m=ny
and that you'll have grelt
happiness.
Delight Park
Mr. and Mrs. Art Hazelqtdst
• • We're celebrstln| t1e
New Year by thankin
you for your fr/end0hip,
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