The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 7

News Briefs From OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON Stadium Discussed TACOMA Plans for construction of a Pacific Coast League baseball stadium in Ta coma- were advanced Friday at a meeling at the' County City Bui'dmg of city officials and'olh ers interested Following the Mayor Ben Hanson said he would' pre. sent a resolution lo the City Coun. oil Monday seeking approval of the plans. County Harry Sprinker, Fritz Geiger and Emmet Burks were unable '(9 attend the meeting and the mayor said he would allempV 16 meet them before tlie council session in an effort to enlist their participation in the project. 1 Projects Begun OLYMPIA Two 'major construction projects began in downtown Olympia.

Union Pacific Railroad is reconstructing its, freight depot at 407 Fourth Avenue East. Washington Qo-opcrative: Fann- ers will build a new farm supply sates room at 919 South Plum Street. Union Pacific Will spend $30,000 to patch up the Freight depot that was partially destroyed in a spec tactilar accident last March 13. A siring of heavily, loaded freight cars broke loose on a Tumwaier siding and coasted downhill for two rriiles. The cars exploded through the depot, across Fourth Avenue into buildings across the street.

A railroad employe was killed, twenty other persons were injured and extensive damage was done to several buildings. Washington Co-op expects to move into news qiiarlers on Plum Street in mid -October after vacating building at 402 Capitol" Way. Al Smith, manager, said new facilities will be hmisec in a building measuring 100 by 8C feet and costing $6,500. farm supply sales room and feed storage space will be included. The site' will be served by a spur of the Union Pacific Railroad Meanwhile, the Wetks Brothers have purchased the old Co-op building which they intend to raze.

The site will be surfaced to provide parking stalls for customers patronizing the new Sea Mart shopping center. Smokehouse burns OUYMPIA Flames Friday nighl gulled a smokehouse owned by Henry Hitlmann on Rural Road west of Tumwater. Some trout stored in the structure also were destroyed. State; Black Lake and Ttimwa- fer fire crews doused the blaze, which also burned grass surrounding the smokehouse, before It reached a nearby wooded area. Ground Broken MONTESANO Ground was broken and construction begun this week on a new $86,885 headquarters for the Montesano district of the Washington Stale Department of Natural Resources.

The new headquarters, located on a six acre tract two mjles west of Montp-iano on the south side of highway 410 across from the Summit airfield, is expected to be ready for occupancy by next January. The four major buildings of the new headquarters will replace the existing district headquarters built in Montesano in the mid- 1930's by the civilian conservation corps for the former Male forestry department, A Tacoma constniction firm, Baby Car Novel Prize St. LOUIS (API-- To Theodore Ran, it seemed a simple matter to pick up a prize he won in a supermarket raffle. The prize was a toy-scale version of a 1310 Model ford. Al (he store, Ran realized his error.

He jack-knifed his inch frame into the driver's seal, started the Ihrce-horsepower motor and set sail for home, Iwo miles away in Glendale. Ran, 35, was apprehensive aboul what other motorists might do. After all, It was the rush hour. Instead of chafing, motorists lined up behind the baby Ford, craned their necks and smiled. "It was a little slow, though," Rau said.

"It's supposed lo do 30 miles an hour, but we actually made about five." Once home, Rau and his mother-in-law each picked up one end and carried the car into the living room. Units Called For Rescue NEWPORT, R.I.' (AP) A seaplane, a helicopter and a destroyer joined Monday to help Henry Mello 42, of Point Judilh, who lost his right. thumb and fractured his right arm in an accident aboard a (ish- ing boat off Point Judilh. A Coast Guard seaplane answered Ihe distress then summoned Ihe destroyer, USS Hazelwood, lo the fishing craft, While Nsvy corpsmarj gave first aid, a Navy helicopter aboard the Hazelwood and took mello lo (he Newport Naval pital. Filzpatrick and Mclntyre, low bidder on the new headquarters project, was awarded the contract and has the Job well started The roject is lo include a i 75-by-30 foot office budding, a 6a foot crew quarters, a 28 ay-102-toot gar age'and shop; a 24.

72 equipment.storage aiiildirig, a gas and oil storage building and a pump house. Rpsellirii Sees Fair EtMA Albert Ro- visiting the 1959 Grays Harbor District 1 Fair Friday night praised the county and promoters of the fair for "an outstanding 1 The show': was- well received, according to attendance figures released, Manager Norman A total of persons paid to see the fair, he reported. Attendance, ran well ahead of the '38 declared, much pleased with the' turnout. Newman looked forward to a busy final two days with some of the'best attractions yet to come. Beggar Angered SHELTON Robert Tobey was driving south'Friday evening on the-Olympic Highway.

A stranger, driving a lale model car, flagged him down. Tobey pulled his car lo the side of the road. The stranger approached and said, "Give me five dice," said Tobey and began driving away. The begger picked a objecl and broke the rear window, of To bey's car. Tobey, who lives on roule three hurried to the Shellon policie station to tell his story.

Record Set MENLO Grounds of the annual Pacific county fair were crowded again Friday as second day entertainment and multiple displays of home-county product; attracted near record attend cnce. The fair board presi'denl, Dr 'Donald Vetter, reported the at tendance Thursday surpassed any previous opening day crowd by a last 200 Highlight of the program las night was the prformance of six Swiss style wrestlers and the Warner Blaser orchestra of Che- halls playing Swiss music. Jobs Scarce OLYMPIA There are more persons looking for work in Olym pia and Shelton than there are jobs available. That in brief could be said to be the meaning of an announcement from the Washington Employment Security Department here that listed Ihe two cities BS areas of substantial labor surplus. In all of Thurston, Mason and Lewis counties right now have anywhere from four to six and ut of every 100 employ- ibte persons looking for jobs How does the.

stale arrive' at hese figures? What happens once a a a is listed as one of substantial labor suprlus? Paul Wiseman, chief of the research and statistics section oi the mployment Security Department explained lhat his staff collects this sort of information throughout the stale for quarterly The statistics and data arc then check ed by Federal government agencies before being made Bunks Are Better i. OLYMPIA Inmates of Thurs ion county jail soon will sleep; in ease and style. Ready for place- menl in cell hunks are a couple of dozen fancy new mattresses ordered to replace well worn counterparts in use many 'years, Prisoners will ova the new ones. Although the mattresses are covered with conventional slriped ticking, Ihe edges are bound in a delightful, fluorescent pink fabric. Ulcers Net One Robber NEWARK, (AP) It's a fast moving world we live in- even our robbers are gelling ulcers, Police say they were able to catch one such afflicted bandit Monday, who suffered an ulcer attack after an $8 holdup.

Taxi: driver Robert Laird told authorities he had picked up two young men who beat him up and took the money. Police learned that one of the robbers had collapsed nearby, apparently with stomach cramps. Then came a quick check with Marlland Center. The hospital said I had jiist treated Philip Kennedy, 20, for an-ulcer attack. Police went to Kennedy's house and found him sleeping on his front porch.

They say he admitted the robbery- and implicated his next-door neighbor- Robert Allman, 22. Ulcer-plagued Kennedy and his companion- were charged with assault and robbery. The Daily Chronicle, Tuesday, August 1.8, 1959 ALL IN A LIFETIME By Frank Beck Read The Chronicle Classifieds! HEY, GANG! Get Reody 'for Hie S. W. Wash.

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