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THIS VAN ENDED UP on its side at Front and Pine Sts. about 11:30 a.m.
last Thursday. The Shelton Police Department had no report on the
accident. The vehicle was apparently being towed through Shelton by the
Swan Pacific Wrecking Co. of Port Orchard and overturned when the wheels
came off. Shelton Auto Parts was called to use its wrecker to right the
vehicle and put it back on the dolly to continue its trip wherever it was
going.
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Commencement exercises and
Baccalaureate Services for the 234
graduating seniors from Shelton
High School are being planned.
Baccalaureate services will be
Two fires during the past
week have done extensive damage
to homes in Shelton, the city fire
department reported.
A fire which occured about 2
a.m. Tuesday did about $5,000
damage to a house at 1507 Center
St. owned by Hazel Ventsent,
Elma.
The house was being rented
by Jerry Ryckman, who was in the
process of moving out at the time
of the fire.
The fire department also
held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the High
School Gymnasium under the
sponsorship of the Mason County
Ministerial Association.
Speaker for the program will
estimated about $2,000 done to
contents of the home.
Firemen said the blaze started
on the first floor of the house and
the damage was mostly to the
inside.
Fire which started about 1
a.m. last Wednesday did about
$5,000 damage to the Charlie
Smith residence, 1522 Ridge Rd.
Firemen reported about
" 0 contents of the
$.,,00 damage to
home also.
be Larry Powell, a Shelton High
School graduate who is now a
student at Nazarene Theological
Seminary, Kansas City, Mo.
Powell graduated from
Shelton High School in 1965. He
was active in sports during his
high school years and was student
body president during his senior
year.
Following graduation from
high school, he attended Pasedena
Nazarene College, Pasadena, Calif.
graduating from there in 1969.
The high school band and
choir will participate in the
program with special music by the
students.
Commencement exercises will
be at 7:30 p.m. June 9 in the
High School Gym.
Admission to the
commencement program is by
ticket only, high school officials
said.
Student speakers at the
ceremonies will be Larry Olli. Gall
HasBrouck, Dan Nye and Jerry
Mann.
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The Mason County Sheriff's
Office this week announced a new
system of handling requests from
property owners to keep an eye
on their homes while they are on
vacation.
Officers said when a request is
madt , there should be
~nf~, .nation :~s to the exact
' location ol the residence, a
description of the residence, along
with information on vehicles
which will be left parked there
and lights which will be left
turned on and the dates the
owners of the residences will be
recorded in the Sheriff's officc,
officers said.
The property owner should
call in to have the checks stopped
as soon as he returns, officers
said.
The Sheriff's Office each year
gets numerous calls from county
residents who ask their property
be checked while they are on
vacation.
The new system is intended to
provide all the information
needed and to assure the checks
will be made by officers.
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The name of someone to School Board
contact in case Of an emergency
should also be provided, officers The Shelton School Board
said. will have its June meeting at 8
The checks will be made days p.m. June 8 in the Evergreen
and nights alternately and will be School Library.
The Shelton City Commission
is planning an ordinance for first
reading next week or the
following week to raise water and
sewer rates to provide funds for
revenue bonds to make needed
improvements in the city water
and sewer system.
City Engineer Howard Godat
said the proposal is to increase
water rates from $2 to $2.50 for
the basic residential rate with
commercial rates to be increased
proportionately.
Sewer rates, he said, are
proposed to be increased from
$2.50 to $3.50 a month for a
single family residence with
proportionate increases for other
users.
Godat said the proposal also
calls for revising the collection for
motels and apartment houses to
make the rates for them more
equitable.
The engineer told the
commission the increased rates
would allow the city to issue
revenue bonds for about
$400,000 worth of improvements
in the water system and $000,000
worth of improvements in the
sewer system.
These funds, along with any
federal fund grants which might
be available and participation in
some of the improvements by
abutting property owners, would
be used to make needed
improvements and expansions of
the city water and sewer system.
Major projects in the water
distribution system include an
additional storage tank, additional
water supplies and extension of
distribution lines.
The proposed projects in the
sewer department include
improvements in the sewage
treatment plant, a new outfall line
from the sewage plant into
Oakland Bay and replacement of
old sewer mains which are
allowing an excessive amount of
ground water to seep in.
Excess flows of water during
wet periods have caused problems
for several years over loading the
capacity of the sewage treatment
plant.
Some work has been done in
improving old mains, but, more is
needed to cut the flow of ground
water into the sewer system down
to keep the treatment plant
within its capacity.
The proposed improvements
are some which were included in
the comprehensive plan which
was adopted by the commission
with changes recommended by
the City Planning Commission.
Hearings on the plan have
been held May 18 and 25 with
final adoption at the meeting
Tuesday.
The commission approved
hiring James Read as a city police
patrolman. The action was on the
recommendation of Police Chief
Frank Rains. Read placed first in
a recent city civil service
examination. Second on the list is
Mark Olivero and third is Robert
Pacheco Jr.
Rains reported the Police
Department had received its new
r, atrol car and that it was in
operation.
Fire Chief Allan Nevitt asked
permission to purchase two
additional radio receivers for his
department.
Four Men
Arrested
By Officers
Four young men, three from
Seattle and one from Port
Angeles, were arrested by officers
here last week as suspects in a
rape case in Jefferson County.
They were turned over to
Jefferson County authorities after
being held in Mason County Jail
after their arrests.
Arrested were Gary Dator, 19,
1265 Main St, Rm 23, Seattle;
Steven Simpson, 21, 1121 B St.,
Port Angeles; Pedro Vega, 24,
1265 S. Main St, Rm 23, Seattle,
and Harry Olsen, 18, 6350
Highpoint Dr., SW, Seattle.
Mason County authorities
were notified about 4:30 a.m.
that four subjects in an orange
and white van, who were suspects
in a rape case in Jefferson
County, were believed headed
through Mason County.
The vehicle was spotted on
ttighway 101 south of Shelton at
about 4:45 a.m., Mason and
Thurston County deputies
stopped the vehicle in the vicinity
of Mud Bay
The four men were arrested
on a Jefferson County warrant
and brought to the Mason County
jail where they were held for
Jefferson County authorities who
arrived later in the day to pick
them tip.
Name Was
Given Driver
The name of the driver of the
car which bumped a six-year-old
boy at the Mt. View School
grounds during a little league
baseball game last week was given
incorrectly in The Journal last
week.
The driver of the car was Mrs.
Mel Matson, not Mrs. Mel Morgan
as appeared.
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the tremendous project.
After inuch thought, he
be said discussed tentative plans with
psychologists and sociologists at
the Corrections Center and found
1 support. Thus, four months ago,
n!ighty first stirred the embryo
brain-child now in its infancy.
broughtViibs°n' e Mike Gibson spoke to morem°re
P ople; meetings were held;
of the
~ndeavand more meetings took place,
or and more and more persons
3Uth of
place became involved; ideas bloomed
and blossomed. The snowball was
rolling, flattening all problems in
its path.
"People," declares Mike
Gibson, "have been just
wonderful. Enthusiasm is terrific
Sincere and cooperation overwhelming."
would Not the least of the
from encountered difficulties was the
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high and high school age to help
which will serve as a gathering
Youth. Compensation - satisfaction
pleasant place in which to meet
Hours - from 4 p.m. until the
and Friday, and all day
-- agile body and elbow grease.
The Inn Quest, Highway 101 South
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acquisition of a suitable building.
Room for dancing was a basic
requirement.
Although many possibilities
were investigated none were quite
right until the old Latter Day
Saints Church at the corner of
Highway 101 and Ellinor street
was secured on May 15.
"It is perfect for the
purpose," states Gibson, "and our
ideas have expanded to fit the
building."
Through contacts made by
Dr. Sally Wing, psychiatrist at
Washington Corrections Center,
helpful advice was forthcoming
from personnel of the Bremerton
Youth Service, who have
successfully sponsored the
Midway Times. Bremerton's
Youth Center. Local groups have
traveled to visit and observe other
youth centers now in operation.
House rules, subject to
changes when necessary, have
been drawn up by a group amply
represented by the young. An
over-21 staff member will, with
one or two assistants, be in
attendance at all times.
Comprising the staff will be those
persons who have been working
heretofore with the group and
volunteers who have been
accepted by the board and who
have undergone an orientation.
A Letter of Incorporation has
been prepared. Registrants for
Shelton Associa 3n for Youth
[nc are Michael D. Gibson
Robert Erhart. Dr. Sally Wing and
Henry Gay. Administrative
by-laws are now in the process of
development.
Throughout the summer. Inn
Quest will be open on Fridays and
on Saturdays, probably from 2
p.m. until 2 a.m.
Live music in the evening
hours will vary from folk songs to
rock to jazz. with possible jam
sessions. A piano is but one of the
many much-appreciated
donations.
Coffee and tea; soft drinks
and snacks; recreational facilities;
music and dancing and discussion,
all offered in an atmosphere of
relaxed and casual informality
this is the aim of those who
have brought Inn Quest to the
brink of actuality.
Michael Gibson was born in
Vancouver, Washington and for
two years attended Clark College.
After graduation from Central
Washington State College he
returned to his home town,
teaching there for two years
before he came to Shelton.
Inn Quest will soon open its
doors in welcome, but not as a
polished and perfected gem. Inn
Quest is, rather, a diamond in the
rough from which the young
people of Mason County are free
to fashion a jewel to their liking --
of themselves, by themselves and
for themselves -.- with the aid, and
the ~trusive and
support of the cot
PLANNING THE REMODELLING of one of the bare rooms at The Inn
Quest that will soon be filled with the voices of Mason County young people
left to ri ht: Linda Hovey, Robin Blanchard, Jane~n De Dave
Dickinson Mike and Linda Gustafson.
