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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
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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.
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REG. $1.69
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Open 7 a.m..ll p.m., Mon.-Sat., 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Sun.
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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
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commlsston had recommended the prevaous commimO. [.!
ichanges in the request. !:
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