SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL
LTC I
1971
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Arrested were George Holmes
Jr., 22, P. O. Box 2, Little Rock,
and Everett Ragan, 22, 2408
Second Ave., Seattle.
They were arrested in
Thurston County by a State
Patrol Trooper after their car had
crashed in the Mud Bay area on
the Delphi Road.
They were taken to Thurston
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the
county commission, after a
hearing of its own, voted to
approve the recommendation of
the planning commission.
The suit, for a writ of review,
asks that the defendants be
required to place a full transcript
of the record and proceedings had
in regard to the preliminary plat
of Beard's Cove No. 8 and that
the court review the record as to
the claim of the plaintiffs that the
action of the county commission
and planning commission was
unlawful, arbitrary and capricious
and that all further action in
regard to the plat be stayed
pending the review by the court.
The order holding up further
proceedings in regard to the plat
and setting a show cause hearing
on the request for this morning
had discussed.
on a Supt. Louis Grinnell told the
for school board the new
for handicapped school building
which is under construction near
its Mt. View Elementary School
might not be ready as planned for
the opening of the new school
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¢.
Work is being held up, he said,
the because of a strike by the
.ase Painter's Union.
The board agreed to sell an
a additional $400,000 worth of
bonds from the bond issue
approved by the voters of the
district for the new Shelton High
School complex.
Grinnell told the board it was
had difficult to determine the exact
a amount of state matching money.
Twn factors will influence it,
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County jail where they were
picked up by Mason County
authorities.
Prosecuting Attorney Byron
McClanahan, after consulting with
a Marine officer, agreed to turn
the two over to military
authorities for action.
The incident which lead to
their arrest occured shortly after
was signed by Judge Frank Baker
July 8.
Mr. and Mrs. Livingston are
represented by Phil Best,
Bremerton attorney.
In an affadavit filed along
with the suit, Mrs. Livingston
states opponents of the plat were
not given an opportunity to speak
at the planning commission
hearing May 19.
The court suit is the latest in
the objections from a group of
North Mason residents who
oppose the substantial
development which the developer,
Alan Bowden, is platting in the
Belfair area.
The county commission, at its
meeting Monday, voted to hold
over for two weeks, action on
preliminary approval of Beard's
Cove No. 7. The planning
commission had recommended
approval 'of that plat also.
Representatives of the Health
District asked they be allowed
time to submit an agreement
between W. A. Development Co.
and the Mason County Public
Works Dept. to their legal
department and to the State
Health Department for review and
then submit their
recommendations to the State
Department of Ecology.
Best, appearing at the county
commission hearing in opposition
to approval of the plat, stated one
boundary of the plat had been
moved back to take it out of the
Seacoast Management Act and he
believes the other boundary
should be moved back also.
Bowden stated the area in
which there was a fill to which
Best objected, had been started
more than a year ago with the
approval of the Corps of
Engineers, county commission
and county planner.
The commission agreed to
hold the action up for two weeks
until questions about final
approval of the sewer system can
be settled.
11 p.m. Monday on the Deegan
Road.
Sheriff's Officers said their'
investigation revealed the two
Marines had gone to a residence
on the Deegan Road to visit some
girls, and, after getting into an
argument with the girls, had been
asked to leave and did so.
As they were heading out the
Deegan Road, they spotted
another car coming.toward them,
and, thinking it might be someone
else going to see the same girls,
they stopped the vehicle.
Three young Shelton men
were in the car, Bruce Gallagher,
Darrell Howlett and Lloyd Stidd.
The three young men said
they observed the other vehicle
parked in the middle of the road,
stopped their car and got out.
They told officers one of the
Marines had a gun and the other a
knife which they were holding.
The three Shelton youths told
officers the Marines called Stidd
to come forward first, and, he
started to walk toward them and
then took off running.
After Stidd fled, the other
two boys stated they were
questioned by the Marines about
the girls, and, after insisting they
did not know them Marines left.
The Sheriff's Office had been
notified of the incident and had a
description of the car and its
license number. After the
accident in Thurston County, the
two Marines were held for Mason
County authorities.
Officers said no one was
actually struck or injured in the
incident.
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Robert Michael Jones, 36, P.
• O. Box 525, Neah Bay, was
arrested by Shelton Police
Saturday afternoon on a charge of
possession of a stolen vehicle.
Jones is charged with taking a
1970 pick-up belonging to
William Morris, P. O. Box 416,
Shelton.
Officers said Morris reported
the vehicle taken, and it was
spotted a short time later on
Alder St. Officers followed the
vehicle to the Apex GrocerY
where it stopped and the driver
got out and went into the store.
Jones was arrested in the
store.
: He was released from jail on
$5,000 bail.
Wes Johnson ~s ready for
another try at getting approval for
the construction of his proposed
new 300-room Alderbrook Inn.
He appeared before the
county commission Monday to
submit preliminary sketches of
layout and to inform the
commissioners of what he is
proposing.
Johnson stated that the
objections which stalled his
previous effort seemed to be
primarily directed at the fact the
proposed structure would have
been located on a fill on tidelands
owned by Alderbrook in front of
the present complex.
In an effort to overcome these
objections, Johnson said, the
revised plans call for the new
structure to be built in the same
general area as the present
Alderbrook Inn complex. Some
of the present complex would be
removed in the process of
construction, he commented.
Johnson told the commission
he will request clearance from the
Department of Ecology under the
Shorelands Management Act
which went into effect June 1, but,
if clearence is not given, he will, on
ue£
"A place to go" became a
reality for several hundred local
teenagers last Friday and
Saturday with the opening of the
Inn Quest.
Created by volunteers using
donated materials and funds, the
new youth center, at Highway
101 South and Ellinor Street,
Shelton, was visited by 140 young
people Friday night and 120 on
Saturday.
Live music was the drawing
card, but most of those attending
were happy just to have a place to
meet with their peers in a
pleasant, relaxing atmosphere.
Parents and other adults in
the community have been invited
to attend an open house Saturday
and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. to inspect the new facility.
The center will again be open
for young people on Friday from
2 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Saturday
from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Live music
is scheduled both days.
Mike Gibson, administrator of
the center, has issued a call for
adult volunteers to staff the
center when it is open.
"The opening proved that we
are meeting a need with the Inn
Quest," he said. "Now we must
find a way to keep it open. The
help of the community is vital for
the success of the center, both
from a manpower standpoint and
funding help."
Gibson invited interested
adults to attend the regular
meeting of the center staff
Monday night at 7:30 at the
center.
At last Monday's meeting, the
executive board was organized,
with the following elected to
office:
Are Given
A provisional reservation of
$3 2,811.17 from state school
construction funds for the
preparation of final plans and
specification~ for the proposed
new Shelton High School was
approved by the State Board of
Education at its meeting in Port
Angeles July 8 and 9.
The state action means the
architect can now proceed with
final plans and specifications for
the new high school complex.
When the plans are completed,
they will be submitted to the
State Board of Education for
approval and allocation of state
funds for construction of the
facilities.
The estimated cost of the
plans and specifications is
$114,215.81 of which the
participating school districts will
pay $81,314.64 and the state will
pay $32,811.17.
The Shelton School District
has submitted an application to
the State for matching funds for
the proposed new high school
facility.
The estimated total cost of
the project is $4,371,199.91 of
which the state is expected to
match 28.75 per cent with the
rest to be paid by the
participating school districts. The
state would provide $858,666.19
and the local districts
$3,512,533.72.
legal advise, contend the project
was started before the Shorelands
Management Act went into effect
and that he does not need a permit
under the act.
Johnson said he already has'a
county building permit which he
had obtained for the previous
project and contends it is still
current.
The estimated cost of the
project at the time of the previous
plan was about $4 million.
Johnson told the
commissiohers the new plans call
for about the same size facility,
300 rooms, with restaurant, bar
and convention meeting rooms.
He said the number of stories
which would be required by the
new structures is not yet
determined as plans are not yet
completed so that the exact
layout is not determined.
He stated the previous
proposal had called for a modern
sewage disposal plant, which had
at the time been approved by the
Health Department, and, that he
was certain approval could be
obtained again although some
changes in the design might be
needed.
Johnson said he has a
different architect for the new
plans.
The previous project, which
died after more than a year effort
by Johnson, when the U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers Headquarters
in Washington D.C. rejected his
request for a Corps permit for the
bulkhead and fill which would
have been necessary to provide
the proposed construction site.
The controversy which
ranged from the county to the
state level with the final decision
being made at the federal level
started Oct. 31, 1968 when
Johnson applied to the Corps of
Engineers for a bulkhead and fill
permit.
He obtained approval from
the local Health Department for
the proposed sewer treatment
facility and other health aspects
of the project and obtained a
building permit from the county.
Opposition was led by a group
of property owners on Hood
Canal who employed Marvin
Durning, Seattle attorney known
for his efforts on behalf of
environmental causes.
Approval from most State
agenoes who had been asked to
comment by the Corps of
Eng~meers, was first given and
then retracted.
In a letter to the Corps of
Engineers Seattle office Gov.
Daniel J. Evans wrote the project
was not in technical violation of
any existing state statutes, but,
that the state did not express its
approval and raised the question
of the wisdom of the project as
then planned.
The following month, after a
State Supreme Court decision, the
governor again wrote the Corps
stating in light of the decision in
the so called "Lake Chelan" case,
the state did have a legal basis for
opposition to the project and did
object.
The Corps of Engineers held a
lengthy hearing on the
Alderbrook request in January of
1970 and the transcript of the
hearing along with other
information was forwarded first
to the Corps regional office in
Portland and then to Washington
• D.C. where the word came down in
the spring of 1970 the permit
request was being denied.
Gee
pen n
Chairman, Janeen Deyette;
Vice Chairman, Linda Gustafson;
Secretary, Sandy Swope;
Treasurer, Linda Hovey; Program
Director, Jerry Smith;
Administrator, Mike Gibson.
There is an opening on the
executive board for a medical
director. Gibson said he would
appreciate a call from any local
doctor who would like to fill the
position•
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LIVE MUSIC was a big attraction at the opening of the Inn Quest, Shelton's
new youth center, last weekend. Several hundred local teenagers visited the
center during its initial operation. (More pictures on page 13.)
