Page Two, Monitor, Monroe, Wn:~ March 9, 1972'
Comment...
Guild Plans Renewal In Pediatrics Room
Members of Valley General Hospital Guild
have voted to refurbish the pediatrics room at
the hospital according to Mrs. Richard El-
more, guild president.
The decision for utilizing funds earned by the
~.ild was reached at a meeting held on March
New pediatrics beds will be purchased and
new curtains made by guild members will
be hung. Decor appealing to young children
is also planned.
A new rocking chair was recently presented
to the pediatrics room by guild member, Mrs.
Harold Johnson of Route 2, Monroe•
The newly installed gift bar, The Guild's
Gallery, in the hospital lobby has had a good
financial beginning, reports Mrs. Bruce Ste-
wart, chairman.
The endeavor is sponsored by the guild, but is
staffed both by members and volunteers from
the community. More volunteers for late after-
noon hours, evenings and week-ends are needed
says Mrs. Stewart• She may be reached at
569-5588.
Mrs. Charles Pendleton, volunteer service
chairman, reports that service schedules are
staffed well at the present time, with exception
of the linen room. This type of volunteer ser-
vice to hospital patients releases trained hospital
personnel and allows them more time to devote
their skill where most needed. Mrs. Pendleton
may be reached at 794-8674.
Two new members were welcomed: Mrs.
Mary Brandenburg of Monroe, and Mrs. Ken-
neth Koeppen of Maltby.
Hearing Slated
Last Friday afternoon the Monitor staff
gathered to wish Kathy Kaptein, left, a Godspeed.
Kathy, along with her husband and youngster, is
leaving the staff shortly to the farmlands of
Montana. In more ways than one Kathy has
~hlayed a leading role on the Monitor staff. She's
e young gal that has made every effort to see
that your advertising, headlines and darkroom
work has satisfied you.
The tea and crumpet affair included all Mon-
itor staffers with the exception of the editors and
publishers who were behind the camera doing the
clicking on pre-sets dictated by Monitor
reporter-photographer Dick Baldwin in the
background•
The young gal, Althea Hendrickson, who is the
right hand of the editors and publishers is
located second from right.
Mugging the camera in the background is
"Jean Claude KUley" Bruce Healy who punches
the ad beat week after week so that you may
know where to shop and what to buy.
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Staff Reporter - Photographer
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watch the weeks paper develop.
One edition of the newspaper no sooner htts
the streets and the homes than work begins
on another issue.
And being fairly new to a community such as
Monroe can cause a reporter many problems.
Such as: Long.school board meetings -we're
not used to staying at a marathon talking session
for three to four hours or even longer. For a
town of 2,700 it sure seems to us like that's an
awfully long time to conduct the district's bus-
iness.
We must admit though, Monday's session was
considerably shorter, only two and a half hours.
Maybe if the cart wasn't placed before the
horse so often all board meetings could be
shortened.
Then there's always the fellow who promises
to bring you a story--right away. If we're
lucky that promise comes true a couple weeks
later.
That's when the excuses start flying. "Uh,
well, I didn't have time," or "our committee
couldn't agree on the subject."
Sometimes we wonder if it wouldn't be better
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Laurene Pysson, the gal third from left, is
responsible to see that your news stories come
out legible.
Beside her, is Sandy Creswell who is now a
trainee to replace Kathy.
All said and done, the people you see here
are the marbles, the heart and the guts that
make the Monitor one of the most outstanding
rural American newspapers in the United States.
Lewis Chnrlson
Services Held"
Funeral services
were held Wednesday,
March 8, for Mr.
Lewis M. Charlson in
Solie Funeral Home
with Rev. Silas Erick-
son of Central Luther-
an Church officiating.
Mr. Charlson, 83, of
Monroe, died ~in a
Washington State Vet-
erans Hospital March
5, following an extend-
ed illness.
Mr. Charlson was
born February 28,
1889,::tn Brandon, South
Dakota, and had resid-
ed in Snoh o m ish
County since 1907• He
was a retired farmer,
and has served in the
U.S. Army in France
during WW!.
He leaves five sis-
ters, Mrs. HUda Haven
of Pinehurst, Mrs.
Isabel Halverson of
Everett, Mrs. R.G.
Osborn of Route ' 1,
Snohomish, M r s.
Marie Painter of Ev-
erett and Mrs. Alice
McDonald of Port Or-
chard, and several
nieces and nephews.
to print what wasn't done, as opposed to what
little or no action actually progressed.
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There is also the procrastinating publicity
chairman, (although not all of them) that dashes
.into the office at 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon just
as the doer is being locked, wanting to see if
an item about a certain club meeting that took
place four weeks ago can make it in this weeks
paper•
Yes, it's really interesting to sit here and stare
at a blank piece of paper filled with invisible
stories.
MONROE
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
,Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post
.Office at Monroe, Washington, under the Act
:of March 3, 1898.
MEMBER
NAE IB NAL
BRI pjiqIPER
Association - Founded 1885
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES
'Growth
First Mutual Sav-
ings Bank surpassed
thirty million dollars
in savings deposits•
President, Kemper
Freeman, Sr., an-
nounced the Bank's
Crossroads, Issaquah
and Mercer Island
Offices reached new
savings goals.
Freeman also said
the First Mutual
growth is attributed
to the public's faith
in the Bank and the
healthy economic con-
dition in the Lake
Washington to Cascade
Mountain area.
First Mutual Savings
Bank had over a
thirty-nine percent
savings growth in the
year of 1971. The Bank
ant.ictpates a good
growth in 1972, en-
hanced by t h e
Wenatchee office
opening.
: Monroe, Skykomtsh and Snoqualmie Valleys, per
: year $5.00. Outside Monroe, Skykomish and
: Snoqualmie Valleys $6•00. Official Newspaper
: of the City of Monroe and Town of Skykomish.
: : Address all mail to Post Office Box No. 398,
:~ Monroe, Washington 98272.
i :Editor & Publisher Howard Voland
. i Office Manager ......... Althea Hendrickson
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A Washington State
University entomol-
, ogist is working on a
computerized system
that will identify an in-
sect by its order, or
general group, in 15
seconds or less.
Convalescent Class Filled
A nine week volunteer specialist course at the
Monroe Convalescent Center announced in last
weeks MONITOR has been filled.
"We received over 200 phone calls and in-
quiries about the class," Miss Donaee Doyle,
occupational and social director of the center
reported.
"We want to wait and see the results of this
class before making any future plans,' Miss
Doyle continued.
The class was limited to 40 vacancies and
Miss Doyle allowed 15 additional persons to
attend just the lectures.
The course which begins March 25, covers
many subjects on routine nursing procedures.
Persons completing the course will receive a
training certificate.
Our man in charge
of Public Relations.
He's the installer-repairman.
But there's a lot more to his job than installing your
phone and keeping it working.
Because he's probably all the phone companyyou'll
ever meet, he also knows a thing or two about meeting
the public.
He's the kind ofguy you don't mind inviting into
your home. (And the kind of guy who'll wipe his feet
before he comes in.)
A preliminary hearing will be held Wednesday,
March 8 in Olympia by the joint state study
team to determine if they can be of assistance
to the Monroe School District in helping to re-
solve its internal problems.
Once that hurdle is cleared a date for the study
will be set.
Members of the joint study team include re-
presentatives from the Washington State School
Directors Association, Elmer Stanley; Wash-
ington Education Association, Dale Troxell;
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Wes-
ley Apker; and the Washington Association of
School Administrators, Tom Turgeson.
Appearing before the committee "from Mon-
roe will be: Superintendent Royston Cottam;
school board president, Mrs. Dorris Biderbost;
board member William Boyden; a representa-
tive from the Monroe Education Association; and
two members of the A.B.C. committee.
He's courteous and he's efficient :.. the kind of guy
who can handle about 14 service calls a day without
blowing a fuse.
He's the heart of the telephone operation. Without
him we wouldn't be in business.
So you can be sure that doing business with him
will be a pleasure. {~
GENERAL TELEPHONE
The people you can talk to One-to-One. ]
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