Three young men, one an
escapee from the State
Reformatory at Monroe, and the
other two residents of the Purdy
area, are being held in the Mason
County Jail on charges of robbery.
Robert Van Jackman, 23, Rt.
2, Box 409, Port Orchard, and
John Thor Wood, 22, Rt. 2, Box
484, Port Orchard, were arrested
at the Jackman residence the
evening of April 14 by Mason and
Pierce County Sheriff's Deputies.
They were booked into Mason
County Jail on the charges under
$10,000 bail.
Stanley Wayne Kropp, 23, an
escapee from the Reformatory at
Monroe, was arrested in Kitsap
County by Kitsap and Pierce
County deputies shortly before
midnight Monday. He is being
held without bail in the Mason
County Jail.
The arrests are the result of
three incidents in the Allyn area
the night of April 12 and the early
morning hours of April 13.
Richard Valley, Allyn, told
officers three men had robbed
him of $114 and taken other
small items. The incident occured
at the Valley residence.
A second incident had
occured at the Bill Austin
residence in which Austin was
beaten and an axe and a knife
taken. Austin told officers he had
no money at the time.
In the third incident, a Mr.
Schletty was robbed of about $1.
Officers said there was
vandalism to both the Austin and
Schletty residences.
The three suspects were
tentatively identified after the
incidents, officers said.
Thursday, April 22, 1971
85th Year- Number 16
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THREE STUDENTS FROM Eastern Washington State College were moving
this 40 foot sail boat to Ellensburg this week. The boat was built in Vern
Morgus' boat shop in the Arcadia area. The students, Pete Merrill, Belfair,
and Bob Fisher and Dick Rosage, Ellensburg, have been working on the craft
on weekends since early in January. They are taking the boat back to
EIlensburg where they plan to finish the deck work and interior cabinet
work. The boat was ready to pull out Monday morning for its trip over the
mountains.
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be held in
the Mason
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candidates
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Sellers. The
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for queen
Years of age,
single, must own own horse and
be able to ride and must be able
to attend events in surrounding
communities with her horse in
promotional efforts for the Mason
County Rodeo.
The rodeo, which is a new
addition to the fair this year, will
be held with afternoon
performances Aug. 21 and 22 at
the Fair Grounds.
Stock and equipment for the
rodeo will be furnished by Dan
Greene, Mabton. The rodeo here
is approved by the Northwest
Rodeo Association.
Events which will be included
are calf roping, cow milking,
Brahma bull riding, barrell racing,
bareback riding and bronc riding.
Bill Brown is chairman of the
rodeo for the Fair Association.
Girls interested in applying
for rodeo queen should fill out
the following entry form and mail
it to Bill Brown, Rt. 10, Box 210,
Shelton, Wash., 98584 before
May 1.
Name
Address
Age
Telephone No.
Top Juniors
r Gosta Nolen
Per Gosta Nolen, 17, from
Bramma, Sweden, will be the
foreign student sponsored here
for the next school year by the
local American Field Services"
Chapter.
He will live with the Robert
Brigh~rn family in Shelton.
The youth was born in
Stockholm. He is six feet, one
inch tall, weighs 193 pounds and
has blond hair.
His parents are Karl and Ester
Nolen. His father is a carpenter
and his mother a mental nurse.
According to his application,
he has studied English seven years
in school.
He states in the application
his favorite subjects are
mathematics and English and that
he is interested in football,
basketball, hockey and volleyball.
The local AFS chapter
sponsors a foreign student for a
stay here during each school year.
The student lives with a local
family and attends Shelton High
School.
The student for this school
year is Hiroko Yokayama from
Japan.
Advisory Group
Meets Monday
The Shelton School District
Citizens Advisory Committee will
meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the
Evergreen School Library for its
April meeting.
Susan Edson and Mike
Connolly were named as the
outstanding juniors at Shelton
High School at the annual Junior
Achievement Awards Banquet
sponsored Friday night by Mt.
Moriah Lodge No. 11, F and AM.
The banquet honors the top
five boys and top five girls in the
SHS junior class each year. The
top boy and top girl are
announced at the banquet.
Other girls who were in the
top five were Peggy Smith, Susan
Hamilton, Kathy Pill and Nancy
Maranville.
Other boys in the top five
were Tom Brigham, Rick James,
Jeff Okano and Mike Hays.
Speaker for the program was
Alden Jones, Tacoma, who talked
about his impressions of the Far
East in his travels as Director of
Timberland Development
Opportunities in the Far East for
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
He commented that English,
or an accented version of it is
spoken everywhere, that the
people are generally poor, there is
little concern for women,
particularily in the rural areas and
that wages are low and are often
paid partly ill money and partly
in food, clothing and other items.
Musical entertainment was
provided by Rev. Marvin Moe and
Joe Lawson.
The top ten juniors and the
top two winners were announced
by Alex E. Smith, worshipful
master of the lodge.
The dinner was prepared by
Ken Frank and served by
Rainbow girls and Jobies.
The Seattle District, Army
Corps of Engineers, has scheduled
a public workshop for 7:30 p.m.
May 6 in the Memorial Hall as a
part of its study of flood control
on the Shelton Creek Basin
through the city of Shelton.
The meeting is open to the
public and is intended to give
local residents an opportunity to
express their ideas on the
proposed work.
The meeting will deal
primarily with two alternatives
proposedby the Corps in its
studies so far.
The first is to do nothing.
The second, contemplates
Federal cooperation for the
purpose of flood control in the
city's plan for street and drainage
improvem ents.
The proposal includes a debris
catch basin in the vicinity of
Laurel and Seventh Sts., an intake
structure with flood control weir
and one or two parallel
underground conduits about
2,400 feet in length and an outlet
structure into Goldsborough
Creek.
Some construction
improvements in the present
Shelton Creek Channel would be
required between Laurel and
Seventh and Oakland Bay.
The flood control weir at
Laurel and Seventh would
intercept Shelton Creek Flood
waters which exceed the present
bank capacity of the creek.
The flow would continue in
Shelton Creek with only that
water which it could not
Group
A team from the National
Education Association committee
which is making a statewide study
of public schools in Washington
State made a brief stop in the
Shelton School District Tuesday.
The group arrived here about
11:30 a.m. and talked to four or
five teachers before leaving about
noon.
The study was requested by
the Washington Education
Association in the face of school
levy failures in many areas and a
decreasing proportion of state
school financial support.
accommodate being channeled
away.
The Corps, in its initial
studies, considered several other
ideas, but, all were rejected for
one reason or another.
This workshop will be the first
by the Corps of Engineers in the
Shelton area under its
newly-instituted concept of
maximum public involvement in
the civil works planning process.
A p u b lic brochure listing
alternative means of meeting the
city's objective of providing flood
protection from Shelton Creek,
including the alternative of doing
nothing, will be discussed. The
primary goal of the meeting is to
obtain a representative
cross-section of public comment
on the alternatives.
From views expressed by the
public and interested agencies at
the workshop, the Corps will
prepare and again distribute a
revised public brochure listing the
alternative proposals with their
pros and cons. The brochure will
continue to be used throughout
the study, with revisions prepared
to include all comments before
the final public meeting which
will be held in Shelton at a later
date.
Augusta O. Portman
Augusta
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Augusta O. Portman, 96, who
came to the Mattock area in i 905
with her husband to homestead,
died Saturday in Mason General
Hospital.
Mrs. Portman was born June
30, 1874 in Sweden and after
coming to the U. S. lived in the
East until 1905 when she and her
husband, Giles and sons Carl and
Dumont, came to Washington
from Pennsylvania to homestead
logged over stump land at Beeville
near Matlock.
She has lived on the land they
homesteaded until the time of her
death.
Mrs. Portman was a member
of the Matlock Grange for many
years and was active in other
community activities.
Survivors include two sons,
Carl, Matlock, and Dumont,
Tacoma, one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Churchill, Shelton, seven
grandchildren and 13
great_grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at
2 p.m. Tuesday at Batstone
Funeral Home with Rev. Kenneth
Robinson officiating. Burial was
in Shelton Memorial Park.
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HONORED AS THE TOP juniors at Shelton High School at
the dinner sponsored by the Masonic Lodge Friday night
were Mike Connolly, left, and Susan Edson, right.
Rebecca Ann Mikesell, seven
months old, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Roger Mikesell,
Quinault, was killed in a traffic
accident near Aberdeen Monday.
The little girl was the grand
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Deyette, Shelton. The
grandparents said the little girl
was a passenger in a car driven by
her mother, the former Judy
Deyette, when it hit a bridge on a
dangerous curve near Aberdeen.
The Deyettes said their
daughter was hospitalized in
Community Hospital in Aberdeen
suffering a broken collar bone and
severe cuts and bruises.
Rebecca Ann was born Aug.
8, 1970 in Aberdeen.
Survivors include her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Mikesell,
Quinault; grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Deyette, Sbelton
and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mikesell,
Kelso and her great grandmother,
Mrs. Edna Hunter, Sbelton.
Funeral services will be held
at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Edwards
Catholic Church with Fr. Gabriel
Donahoe officiating.
Burial will be in Shelton
Memorial Park under the
direction of Batstone Funeral
Home.
