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February 2, 1978     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Attorney allowed to withdraw Olympia attorney Steve r Henderson was allowed to withdraw from his representation of Mad•n• Auld on a charge of possession of marijuana. Henderson told the court he had been appointed to represent Ms. Auld in November and had had one contact with her and had been unable to reach her at addresses she gave him. Deputy Prosecutor John Buckwalter told the court her trial was set in February. He asked that a bench warrant be issued for her since she had been released on personal recognizance and was to have stayed in contact with her attorney. Skoks think not JourtlalpfJot. 5 Suspended sentence is Judge Gerry Alexander g,ven in assault case granted Henderson's request to withdraw and appointed the Tumwater law firm of Jarrett Veteran population is up Clyde Benson, 61, Shelton, been informed the 16-year-old girl ensued over their goingl#|lUlar and Kaeding to represent Ms. For the first time in Washington State history, the veteran was sentenced to 15 days in jail had left the foster home where home to look for the glrl, i Auld. population exceeds 600,000. Veterans and their families make up and a $250 fine, both of which she had been placed and they Morris also stated lllisPO He also granted Buckwalter's approxinlately half of Washington's total population. The largest believed she had gone to the had a couple of beers tMi|SS; request for a bench warrant and group of veterans, those who served during World War II, number home of the victim so Benson and the incident but wfl s set bail at $2,500. 254,000. More than 121,000 were in uniform during the Korean his wife had gone to the man's intoxicated, q Conflict and 192,000 during the Vietnam Era. home where an argument had [ere I IIIII | IIII I Were salmon poached? spokesman, adding that and hence slit open and discarded. patrolmen report many cases "But we sell all of our where the, fish are poached carcasses," he added. "We don't strictly for propagation purposes dump them." Timber offered for sale at Fort Lewis About 96,000 board feet of standing timber are available for cutting and removal from Fort Lewis, reports the Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. Sealed bids for Invitations No. DACA67-9.78.79 and DACA67-8-78.80 will be opened at 2 p.m., February 23, 1978, in the Forest Resources Section office at North Fort Lewis. Interested parties may inspect the timber between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., Mondays Arrangements may be made by calling corps' representative Benjamin O. Coppess, Building T-7985 (North Fort Lewis) at Tacoma 964-2100. Bid forms and information may be obtained by calling the above telephone number or by writing Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers, Attention: Forest Resources Section, P.O. Box 33055, Fort Lewis, Washington 98433• Deadline is extended were suspended, on a charge of simple assault to which he pleaded guilty in Mason County Superior Court before Judge Gerry Alexander last Thursday• The sentence which was imposed by the judge was recommended by both Deputy Prosecutor Richard Adamson and defense attorney Frank Morris, Olympia. Benson had been charged with second-degree assault in connection with an incident in which he was accused of threatening another man at the other man's home. In addition to the suspended If you were planning on establishing a tax-deferred Individual Retirement Account in 1977 but let the year slip by before you did so, don't despair• It's not too late! According to the Internal Revenue Service, Congressional action in 1977 extended the deadline for establishing or adding to an Individual Retirement Account to February 14, 1978. Salmon production Increased Nearly 1.8 million salmon per year are expected to be contributed to Washington's salmon harvest by nine enhancement facilities approved this week by the Salmon Advisory Council• Johns Creek, a new Puget Sound facility to be constructed near Shelton, is expected to add 25,000 chinook and 277,000 chum to the annual salmon catch. speaker Oil spills are reported county jail term and fine, Judge Alexander placed Benson on probation to be supervised by District Court Probation Officer K.C. Butler and ordered that he have an alcohol evaluation by TAMARC. Adamson told the court that Benson appeared to have been intoxicated at the time of the incident. Morris told the court Benson has been a long-time resident of Mason County" and has no prior criminal record. He said the victim in the incident was a man who had A total of 1,008 oil spills in Washington and Oregon were recorded by the Coast Guard in 1977. According to 13th Coast Guard District officials in Seattle, 32,000 gallons of oil entered Pacific Northwest waters• The mammoth stinkpile of dead chum salmon pictured on the front page of last week's Journal is the work of the state hatchery people, claims a member of the Skokomish Indian Tribal Council. "You could tell by the way they were all slit open that they were hatchery fish," says Gary Peterson, business manager. "The story implied they were dumped there by poachers, but that's not the case•" In rebuttal, however, a spokesman for the hatchery division of the State Fisheries Department in Olympia said that such dumping of carcasses is prohibited by law and, furthermore, that spawning operations producing such carcasses have been over since the middle of December. "Sounds like someone had Success rate reported high Native American students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia show a success rate more than five times higher than the national average for Indians who complete college. Eighty out of formerly been married to poached them, alright," said the through Fridays, except holidays, nearly 400 Indians enrolled since Evergreen opened its doors in 1971 Benson's stepdaughter and who Ch b have earned their bachelor of arts degrees, representing a whotping had been known to associate with a m e r 22 percent success ratio. National trends show that four percent of another of Benson's stepdaughters most Indian students who begin actually complete their college who is 16years of age. h educations. He said the day of the City asks information to ea r incident Benson and his wife had on parking commission Gasoline deliveries up (Continued from page one.) the city goes to signed parking and eliminates parking meters, • there will be a need to provide off-street parking for employes of downtown businesses and that a commitment and cooperation from businessmen will be needed. One woman in the audience stated she was formerly employed at a downtown retail store and that she had had to park in the lot next to, the Lincoln Gym. Walking plod to the parking lot on a dark night was a scary experience, she said, and urged the commission to take employes of downtown businesses into consideration in any parking plan they come up with. City Engineer Howard Godat told the commission bids had been opened on the force main section of the new city wast•water treatment plant and that the low bidder among seven bids received was Lindberg Construction, Lynnwood, whose bid was $511,000. He said the bids had been turned over to the consulting finn of Kramer, Chin and Mayo for School has items Gasoline deliveries in Washington State during the month of November 1977 showed an increase of 4.41 percent over those during the same month in 1976. The number of gallons delivered by distributors during the month of November was 158,082,033• The 'total compares with the November 1976 figure of 151,410,487 gallons and the 1975 deliveries of 135,104,688 gallons• Vehicle recalls increase More vehicles were recalled in the United States for correction of safety devices in 1977 than in any other year in history• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 12.6 million ,vehides--,wetci:"all back last year• Domestic manufacturers recalled almost 10,700,000 vehicles in 195 campaigns. Forty-nine recalls of foreign models accounted for 1,940,000 vehicles called in for corrective action• Christmas Town Personality Portrait Contest Starts Feb. 10, 1978  ,/i:i! RULES:  1. Any child ages6 months to 9 B years may be entered in the contest. 2. Parent or guardian must accompany the child when the portrait is taken. 3. Parent or guardian must personally select the photograph that will be used in the contest. 4. Only photographs taken during the contest period by The Photo Center will be accepted in the contest. 5. The children of any participating merchant or judge will not be eligible for any of the prizes. 6. Decision of the judges will be 'final. I 0ver *1100°° lworth of prlzes!] The Photo Center N. Second Shelton 426-6163 evaluation and submission to the state and federal agencies which must approve them. The commission also approved the sale of $500,000 in water and sewer revenue bonds to finance the city's share of the cost  of the new wast•water treatment facility. The commission, on Godat's recommendation, voted to grant a 30-day extension to the contractor for the outfall line for ..... tllF, new p!anL The work hd been, delayed, Godat said, because of weather conditions and the marine part of the project was not yet completed. Godat also told the commission he had been notified by the State Department of Transportation that the contract with Totem Electric, Tacoma, for the traffic signal and illumination on Railroad Avenue had been approved. Fire Chief Allan Nevitt told the commission the alarm which indicates water in the city water tanks is getting low was being installed in the fir•hall. The action was taken after a recent incident in which the water level in one of the water tanks got very low because of a problem which developed at night when no one was around to hear the alarm. David P. Bond, from the Association of Washington Business, will be the speaker for the Shelton Chamber of Commerce February membership meeting. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. February 9 at Heinie's Broiler. Dinner is at 7 p.m. and the program at 8 p.m. The Mason County Historical Society will also have an announcement about preparations for the centennial celebration in Shelton in a couple of years. Library to have holiday Timberland libraries and mobile services will be closed in observance of two state holidays this month. The first closure is Monday, February 13, in observance of Lincoln's Birthday, which actually falls on a Sunday this year. A week later, on Monday, February 20, the libraries will again close. This second closure is in honor of Washington's Birthday. in lost and found • The Shelton Middle School said this week there are a number of items of clothing in the lost and found at the school. School officials asked students and parents to check these items to see if any belong to the students. Any items not claimed by February 17 will be disposed of, school officials said. $149 6 PACK REG. $1.69 THE LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN & THERE'S ALWAYS A SALE Open Evenings & Weekends 214 W. 4th Olympia 948.9181 Quick Open 7 a.m..ll p.m., Mon.-Sat., 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun. IIIcrest Mr. View Brad Owen: Owner Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 2, 1978 Permit to start o The Mason County The request hlldit / Commission has agreed that a referred to Prosecuting,;i[tewAtu shoreline permit, requested by Byron McClanahan to |' lllere Dr• John Codling for a dock in should be done. He retie Hood Canal, should start all over the commission that . again, reaffirm the actionJw The original request was previous commission, tn0t,,.. U " • w, s bmltted about three years ago actton asked by the I]:i and never completed, commission or act on tM, ue The previous county withoutconsideringth¢*qL'"g • . . , O commlsston had recommended the prevaous commimO. 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