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BORDEAUX SECOND-GRADERS sit near the miniature city structures
they designed and built for their "community helpers" unit.
iXty second-graders at
ax School worked in
to construct a paper
3n.
town, including such
as Mason General
• a post office, fire
POlice station, library, gas
ILl:n_
' myr's, and a Thriftway,
t m about three class
as part of the second
helpers" unit.
Catherine Foseide
Moorehea l assigned
with specific
to a group of three or
a. The ideas for the
blocks were drawn
list of "community
thought' of by the
"ducational television
taught the students
and trees out
nearly every block
one tree.
sd, and a
mother volunteer taped the
blocks to a large piece of paper
after the students had completed
their figures.
Now that the town is finished,
the children may walk down a
miniature Railroad Avenue with
Cherry Park at one end and
Simpson at the other.
Fire burns house
at Phillips Lake
Fire Friday night destroyed
most of the contents of a home at
Phillips Lake occupied by Molly
C uzick, Fire District Five
reported.
The fire department received
the call about the fire about
12:30 a.m. Saturday and spent
about 2½ hours bringing the blaze
under control.
The Mason County Sheriff's
Office, which assisted at the fire
scene, said the damage was
estimated at $2,500.
This activity took place in the
second grade learning resource
room. At the beginning of the
school year the room was empty,
and Foseide and Moorehead
decided to turn it into a
volunteer-mother supervised
resource center.
Each second-grade student
spends 25 minutes a day in the
room at one of eight learning
stations. These areas teach skills
in art, reading, math, and
language arts.
Foseide said, "It's good for
some kids who think school is
kind of a drag. They can come in
here and have fun and learn
something at the same time."
Foseide noted that the
volunteer help is beginning to run
a little short. Because the room is
not part of the regular school
program volunteers are necessary
to supervise the children. She
encourages mothers to volunteer
to keep the resource room going.
Charges of rape were filed
against Fred C. George, 28,
Potlatch, in Mason County
Superior Court Tuesday by
Prosecuting Attorney Byron
McClanahan.
Information filed in the case
accuses George of raping a
14-year-old girl last Saturday
morning. The name of the girl was
not released.
George was arrested shortly
after 5 a.m. Saturday by Mason
County Sheriff's deputies who
had answered a call.
Officers said they found
George and the girl he is accused
of raping in a car parked on a side
road about three miles east of
Shelton in the Arcadia area.
Officers said the call came to
the sheriff's office from a woman
who had been informed of what
was going on by a man who came
to her place.
George appeared in Mason
County Superior Court before
Judge Robert Doran Tuesday
afternoon for identification on
the charge. He pleaded not guilty
and Judge Doran ordered trial of
the case set within 60 days.
George was represented in court
by Shelton attorney Gerald
Whitcomb.
Judge Doran set bail at
$5,000 and agreed that a property
bond could be posted. The bond
was posted Tuesday afternoon
and George was released from jail.
In asking the court to grant
George release on personal
recognizance, Whitcomb told the
The Mason County
Commission Monday voted to
allocate the jobs available in the
county for which it has federal
money available.
The funds under the Title l
program will be used for a
dispatcher in the sheriff's office
and for a custodian for the
Shelton School District.
Funds under Title II wilt be
used to continue the present
Emergency Employment Act
positions after the EEA funds are
utilized.
Funds available under Title VI
will be used for a courthouse
custodian, a secretary for the Soil
Conservation Service and for
someone to work at the garbage
transfer station at Union.
The commission approved the
appointment of Royce Waldrep to
"the Fire District Five commission
Pollution suit fil
against landfill
A court action has been £ded
in Mason County Superior Court
by the Olympic Air Pollution
Control Authority against Bert
Day, operator of the Mason
County Landfill, to collect two
$250 penalties for burning in
violation of pollution control
authority regulations.
Day operates the land fill
under a contract with the county
court the defendant was married
and the father of three young
children and had been employed
steadily by Simpson Timber
Company for the past five and a
half years. The attorney said if
George was released, he would be
able to go back to work.
Whitcomb told the court
George had been convicted of
grand larceny in 1965 and had
served out a period of probation
and that he had had no trouble
with the law since then.
Deputy Prosecutor Gary
Burleson asked the court to set a
substantial bail, a minimum of
$5,000.
Burleson told the court
George had been caught in the
back seat of a car with a
14-year-old girl at 5 a.m. in the
morning and that the girl said her
life had been threatened.
Thursday, January 30, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year, Number 5 3 Sections - 32 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
William H. Peden, 44, P.O.
Box 153, Matlock, is being held in
Mason County Jail on charges of
second degree assault.
Peden was arrested by Mason
County Sheriff's deputies in
downtown Shelton Thursday
night and lodged in jail.
He appeared in Mason County
Superior Court Friday morning
before Judge Gerry Alexander for
identification on the charges.
to succeed E.E. Slagle, who had
resigned in December. The
remaining commissioners in the
fire district had recommended
Waldrep's appointment to the
vacancy.
Wes Johnson, owner of
Alderbrook, appeared to discuss
the effects of the reeently-
a,.iopted building code on his
proposed proj¢ct.
Johnson has a current
building permit which will expire
under the new law and asked that
some sort of renewal be given as
he was in the process of discussing
financing the project and needed
assurance the permit was
approved.
The commission agreed to
hold up action for two weeks to
allow for further study to
determine how the question could
be handled
operator
which owns it.
In the suit, the air pollution
authority says Day caused
burning without a valid permit
September 18 and allowed open
burning during an air pollution
episode October 18.
The suit says the air pollution
authority assessed a $250 fine
against Day in each instance and
that neither has been paid.
The court appointed Gerald
Whitcomb, Shelton attorney, to
represent Peden. Bail was set at
$5,000.
Information fried in the case
accuses Peden of assaulting
Deputy Sheriff Bill Russell with a
rifle last Thursday evening.
The arrest came after Russell
answered a call, which had been
received at the Shelton Police
Department, that a man was
threatening people with a knife in
front of the Cub Tavern.
When Russell arrived, a
sheriff's office spokesman said,
Peden pointed a 30.30 rifle at the
deputy.
Russell had been at the
Shelton Police Station and was
just leaving when the call came in.
He arrived at the scene first,
followed shortly afterward by a
city police patrolman and another
deputy sheriff.
City police who were on duty
were involved in a call in another
part of the city when the call
about the incident at the tavern
was received.
Officers were continuing their
investigation of the incident and
had taken statements from two
men, Walter T. and Carl T.
Chapman, who told officers
Peden had threatened them with
a knife in the Cub Tavern before
the officers arrived.
The Chapmans, who are
brothers, told officers they had
been drinking in the tavern with
Peden about two hours and that
some words had been exchanged
when Peden jumped up and
pulled a hunting knife from its
sheath at his belt and swung at
Carl Chapman. They told officers
they had each picked up a chair
and forced Peden out of the
tavern, and that he had then gone
to his ear and gotten a rifle and
pointed it at them.
Sheriff's officers said when
investigation of the incident was
complete the file would be turned
over to the prosecutor's office for
consideration of additional
charges against Peden.
Peden remained in Mason
County Jail in lieu of bail.
Judge Alexander entered a
plea of not guilty on his behalf
and ordered that trial in the case
be set within 60 days.
Officers received the first
report of the incident at the
Helen Brewer was elected
president of the Mason County
United Neighbors at the annual
meeting of the group at Taylor
agencies can be adjusted later
when the complete results of the
fund drive are known.
Helen Brewer
No formal recommendations
have been made yet for a penalty
for Sheriff Dan McNair by the
attorney general's office,
according to Jim Vache, assistant
attorney general.
McNair had been found in
violation of the Referendum 276
Public Disclosure Law in a report
issued by the Public Disclosure
Commission.
McNair had been accused of
using public facilities for his
re-election campaign.
When asked if there were any
complications in making the
tavern about 11:30 p.m.
Thursday.
Peden appeared in Superior
Court Tuesday afternoon with
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Towne last Wednesday noon.
Other officers for the coming
year are George Lemagie, first
vice-president; Betty Vander
Wegen, secretary and Dick
Thompson, treasurer.
The nominating committee
did not submit a candidate for
second vice-president, with
election of some'one to fill that
office to come at a later date.
Named to three-year terms on
the board of directors of the UGN
were Kyle Kincaid, Jack Movius,
Hank Sandstrom, Norm Eveleth,
George Lemagie, Arnold
Livingston, Bill Looney, Dick
Rust, Dick Thompson and Betty
Vander Wegen.
The board voted to make the
first allocation to the member
agencies on the basis of 85
percent of their proposed 1975
allocation since the fund drive
which started last November is
not completed as yet and a
definite amount from the drive is
not yet known.
The allocations to the
penalty recommendation as a
result of McNair having received a
copy of the report, Vache had no
comment.
The release of the report to
McNair by the commission was
criticized recently by Walter
Gates, a former investigator for
the commission who resigned last
November. Gates had prepared
the report on McNair which was
submitted to the commission and
was the basis for their decision
that the sheriff had violated the
public disclosure law.
ity planning
at its meeting
tabled for further
requested by
of the
Inn, to
size of its parking lot
the remaining
December 9 meeting
Commissioners voted
to the city
the variance be
'ever, the city
Heuston,
commission that
have been
the planning
21 meeting, the
referred the
:he planning
meeting, more
the
requested
Presented by the
d COmmissioners
at the
g.
i 5 concerned
T u e sday's
°PP°sed to three at
the December 9 meeting who
were in favor of the proposed
variance.
Glen Watson, a member of the
planning commission, said, "It's
hard for me to understand the
cutting down on downtown
parking. I'm against that idea. I'm
not against the park, but an
apartment that size needs a
certain amount of parking."
The state has classified
Hy-Lond a "congregate care
facility," which is defined as a
boarding house for the elderly
with lesser medical and safety
requirements than for a nursing
home.
Section 9.12 of the Shelton
Zoning Ordinance requires one
parking stall per sleeping room for
"rooming houses, lodging homes,
and similar uses.,
Dr. Ben Briggs, commission
member, felt that in the case of
Hy-Lond, this requirement was
unnecessary. He said, "They were
thinking of people with cars. We
shouldn't consider Hy-Lond a
regular rooming house."
An employee of Hy-Lond said
she and Mrs. Klein had been
watching the parking lot for the
last two weeks to see who was
using it.
"The people who park in that
lot have not gone to the beauty
shop (which rents space in the
Hy-Lond building.) They have
gone to taverns and the auto shop
across the street," she said.
She added that people
bringing cars to Hy-Lond include
three employees, two residents
using a garage across the street,
and approximately one visitor for
a few hours a day visiting
residents.
Dennis Colvin, assistant city
engineer, in response to these
circumstances asked, "Can you
guarantee that will be the
situation in five years?"
The Hy-Lond employee also
said debris including broken
bottles was a chronic problem in
the parking lot, as well as not
always being able to find a
parking place when she arrives at
work.
Klein said, "if we don't get
the park, I'll fence it off and let
no one park there. Or 1'11 police it
and collect money for parking."
Colvin responded, "The park
is a good idea. But it's not the
city's problem that you (Klein)
have problems with the parking
lot."
He said, "I agree if you have a
problem, you should fence it or
police it. But I think it's a legal
problem. There should be 48
spaces in the lot. It already
doesn't conform to the zoning
ordinance."
At present, there are 21
parking stalls in the lot.
Jess Wolfe, manager of
Shelton Hardware, pointed out
that the store rents ten parking
spaces from Hy-Lond.
He said, "Parking is a
problem. That's why we rent.
There is no parking on Railroad. I
think Klein should furnish
parking for Rotary, Kiwanis,
Lions, and guests of the
Hy-LondY
The service organizations hold
their regular meetings at
Hy-Lond.
Klein felt that because the
scheduled meeting times for the
groups are generally during
non-business hours, they do not
have a parking problem.
He said, "When the city starts
telling private people that they
have to do certain things with
their property, something's
wrong. If the City of Shelton was
concerned about parking, they
would go to the City of Seattle to
see what they did about parking
problems. They don't have
parking problems."
Klein suggested diagonal
parking instead of the
presently-used parallel parking.
Darrell Buell, chairman of the
planning commission, reported
that he spoke to the
vice-president of Hy-Lond
Enterprises in Sonoma, California,
and the corporation is "ready and
willing to offer financial
background" for the proposed
park.
Buell offered the alternative
proposal that Klein build a
second-level park above the
parking lot.
He said, "You could put in
outdoor carpeting as grass, potted
plants, benches with outdoor
umbrellas. It would be great for
residents - private, above the
noise, dirt, and whiskey bottles."
It was pointed out that the lot
below would become covered
parking.
Klein said he had thought of
the idea.
Earlier in the meeting, Colvin
informed the commission that the
Hy-Lond request would require
both a variance for the decreased
parking spaces and a conditional
exception to re-zone for the park
in a business area.
After consultation Tuesday
with Heuston, Colvin found that
parks are automatically allowed in
central business areas, limiting the
consideration of the planning
commission to the determination
of the number of parking stalls to
require of Hy.Lond.
The planning commission will
consider its findings at the next
meeting February 24.
ONE-HALF OF THE HY-LOND Retirement Inn parking lot would become a
senior citizen park if a variance is granted by the city planning commission.