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Thursday, June 10, 1971 Published in Shelton, Wa. Entered as second class matter at the post officeat Shelton, Wa. 98584, 4 Sections - 26 Pages
under act of Mar. 8, 1879. Published weekly, except two Issues during week of Thanksgiving, at
85th Year - Number 23 227 w. cota. $5 per year in Mason County, $6 elsewhere. 10 Cents Per Copy
The first step in placing a
five-mill maintenance and
operation levy before voters in
the Shelton School District was
taken at the Shelton School
Board meeting Tuesday night.
The board instructed Supt.
Louis Grinnell to prepare a
resolution for action at the July
board meeting placing a levy on
the ballot Sept. 21, the date of
the primary election this fall.
The levy would raise
$237,000 for the maintenance
and operation of the district.
Grinnell told the board 57.96
per cent of the money, or
$137,000 would be available for
use by the district during the
1971-72 school year. This
represents the amount which
would be collected in first half
tax collections, which are due the
end of April. The remainder
would not be collected until after
the new budget year for the
district started in July, 1972 and
would be available for the
1972-73 school year.
The funds would be used to
increase teacher's salaries, and to
hire additional personnel,
including a cumculum director,
an elementary music teacher and
a girl's counselor for the junior
high school.
The proposal the board is
considering is the same as one
which was recommended by the
Citizen's Advisory Committee at
the May board meeting.
At the May meeting, there
had been some question as to
whether it would be legal to use
money from special levy passed in
September for teacher salary
increases during the 1971-72
school year.
GrinneU told the board he
believed it would be legal to use
the money for that purpose, but,
that he had no opinion in writing
to the effect and could not say
positively there would be no
council Monday night Chairman
Theodore Pulsifer reported that
he had written to Secretary
Morton asking that his
department help the tribe to
locate documents establishing the
Indian claim to jurisdiction over
the entire river.
Also requested was a copy of
the original Point-No-Point Treaty
of 1855 whereby Indian lands
were ceded by the Skokomish and
other lower Puget Sound tribes in
return for reservation lands,
fishing and hunting rights, and
other considerations including
schools and health care.
"We must find out wl}y the
reservation has been cut down
since the signing of the treaty,"
Pulsifer said. "We should see
about a survey to locate the
original reservation boundary
markers at Union and Lilliwaup."
The council has contacted
George Dysart, assistant regional
solicitor for the Portland office of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
about the Rasmussen case. Mike
Taylor of Legal Services in Seattle
has also conterred with the tribal
council.
"We should have a talk with
Start Pitkin, U. S. District
Attorney in Seattle, and see if he
will take the case for us and do
what he can," Pulsifer said.
The Rasmussen citation has
not been filed in the U. S. District
Court at Tacoma. Neither the
clerk of that court nor the office
of the Assistant U. S. District
Attorney in Tacoma had any
information about the case.
The superintendent of the
Western Washington Agency of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs in
Everett reported the case is still
being reviewed by the solicitor of
the B.I.A. in Portland.
Text of the chairman's letter
to Secretary Morton is as follows:
"I am enclosing accounts of
our recent dispute with the
Washington Game Department
concerning the boundary of the
Skokomish Reservation and
jurisdiction over the Skokomish
River. This latest incident is one
of a series of similar disputes that
ees
Iven
a liaison and assistance to Jaycee
Chapters and the, State
Organization.
Dick Wonner was awarded the
first runner up for the Roger E.
Werner Award for outstanding
service in all areas as a first year
Jaycee. He was also awarded
SPOKE of the quarter for
Outstanding participation.
of The chapter received several
awards in its population division,
including second in international
relations, secondin chapter
management and leadership
training, second in youth
assistance, second in
governmental affairs, second in
ways and means and first in
community involvement.
The Shelton Chapter was
named the outstanding chapter in
its population division and was
question.
If the levy passed Sept. 21, it
would make the money available
before the adoption of the final
budget the !ast of September.
Two representatives of the
High School Drill Team appeared
at the meeting to request the
board to provide funds for a drill
team teacher and a tape recorder
for the class.
They stated a volunteer
teacher had handled the program
this year and that a borrowed
tape recorder had been used.
The board received
resignations from Irene Burright
and Margaret Baldwin, teachers at
Garrett Heyns High School. Both
are retiring at the end of this
school year.
Resignations were also
received from Raymond O'Brien,
custodian at Bordeaux School and
Barbara Ward, a bus driver.
The board agreed to grant a
one-year leave of absence to Mrs.
will ultimately have to be settled
in a federal court.
''Unfortunately, the
Skokomish tribe has not, in the
past, kept records of many
important transactions and
correspondences so that we find
ourselves without the documents
pertinent to our case. It is, for
example, believed that an earlier
court case settled the matter of
the river, but we have no written
record of it.
"We have contacted the local
office of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, but their records are
incomplete and we are told that
many of the records were
forwarded to Washington, D.C.
"We would greatly appreciate
the assistance of your office in
locating any documents and
records that might be relevant to
this case, including a copy of the
original Point-No-Point treaty
with amendments and a
description or map of the original
boundaries of the Skokornish
Indian Reservation and any
subsequent changes in their
location. Thank you very much."
awarded the Division II Giessen
Gier award.
Attending the state
convention from the Shelton
chapter were Mr. and Mrs. Arnie
Andres, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Grimm, Kurt Criner, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Plews, Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Strachila, Vern St. Louis, Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Swartos and Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Wonner.
Luanna Day, a first grade teacher
at Evergreen School, with the
stipulation she would be
reemployed for the following year
~f a position was available.
John Ireland, presently
superintendent of the White River
School District at Buckley was
hired as principal ofGarrett Heyns
High School at the Washington
Corrections Center. He succeeds
George Hermes, who is retiring at
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The resignations of two
Mason County Sherlff's have been
requested as the result of an
incident in which a third deputy
was struck in the leg by a .22
caliber bullet, Sheriff John
Robinson said Wednesday.
Robinson said investigation
by his department indicated
Deputies John Hays and Fred
ttadden had been guilty of failing
to follow fire arms t',andling
regulations in transfering a loaded
gun from one person to another
without inspecting it.
The incident in which Deputy
Brian Shoening was struck in the
leg by a .22 caliber magnum
bullet from a double barrel
derringer owned by Hadden,
occured in the jail area about 6
a.m. Tuesday.
Sheening is in Mason General
ttospital where he had surgery to
remove the bullet from the fleshy
part of his thigh.
Robinson said investigation of
the incident by his department
indicated that Sheening and
ttadden, who had been on patrol
duty, had returned to the jail area
about (~ a m. llays wa!~ handling
the radio dispatcher duties while
Hadden was out on patrol.
Hadden and Shoening were
putting their guns in a cabinet in
compliance with regulations when
in the jail area.
One of the guns was the .22
caliber derringer Hadden was
JERRY SWARTOS, right," president, and Bob Strachila, left internal
vice-president of the Shelton Jaycees display their outstanding individual
awards and the other chapter awards one at the State Jaycee Convention in
Yakima recently.
carrying.
It had been unloaded and the
three deputies were discussing the
small gun, investigation revealed,
and, had inspected it. ttadden
reloaded the gun and laid it on a
counter preparing to put it away,
the investigation showed.
In answer to a question from
Hays as to where he carried the
gun, lladden picked up the loaded
gm~ and dropped it into ttays'
shirt pocket, the investigation
showed.
Hays commented he did not
believe that was a very good place
to carry the gun, removed it and
put it in his trouser pocket,
where, not realizing it had been
reloaded, he pulled the trigger to
see if it could be fired in the
pocket, the investigation showed.
The bullet from the gun struck
Sheening who was stafiding in
front of Hays.
The small gun does not have a
safety catch, the investigation
showed, its only safety feature
being a hard trigger pull.
Robinson met with Hays and
Hadden Wednesday afternoon and
asked both for their resignations.
He stated if they did not resign,
both would be suspended until a
hearing before the County Civil
Service Board could be held.
Robinson suspended Hays
from duty with the department's
patrol division and assigned him
to civilian duty in the jail
immediately after the incident
Tuesday, pending completion of
the investigation.
The investigation was
completed Tuesday.
In Case
A Mason County Superior
Court jury this week is hearing a
personal injury suit in which
$40,000 in addition to medical
bills is being sought by the
parents of a boy who was struck
by a pick-up while crossing the
road after getting off the school
bus.
The parents Mr. and Mrs.
Arvid H. Johnson are seeking the
damages for the injuries to their
son, Shawn, from Bole Sarkowitz,
driver of the pick-up, and F. E.
Spaulding, driver of the school
bus.
In testimony in the case,
Sarkowitz contends the stop sign
and flashing red stop lights on the
bus were not on when he went
around it, Spaulding contends they
were.
Glenn Correa, attorney for
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, outlined
what had happened in his opening
statement in which he said
Shawn, who was at the time of
the accident Sept. 27, 1968, was
six years old, got off the bus
when it stopped at the driveway
of the Roy York residence, and
that he had crossed in front of the
bus and started across the road
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