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everyone else I am concerned about the growing rate of
It must be terrible to have a family to support and to
off from work, especially when large companies in the same
laying off thousands at a time. There isn't even the hope
experience and training to get on with another company;
Jst be a terrifying ordeal.
remember being sort of scared once, years ago, when I was afraid
ngs would run out before I found another job and would
a paycheck due me But it wasn't the same as so many men and
are experiencing'today I was single and had only myself to
bout and when I had left Seattle for New York City I had left
mO~ey in the bank for a bus ticket home, just in case.
Lvelyn and I flew off to the Big City, we had reservations to
7aramg house for women and enough money to pay our
uara ($18 a week), for lunches and carfare, for about a
Spent the first three or four days sightseeing and then
ter look for "obs
ne J •
of th "
. e girls in our boardine house recommended an
, ~nt en • '~
o, ag cy and within a week we both had jobs, she as a
7 at lOWn H
a. _ all, where they broadcast Town Meeting of the Air
, "_" un the radio; and 1 as a rece tionist tor the French Press
' tuition Service P S attle she waited
Werea had..become.~ , enga~edo ,iust before we left e (
• ,,,, t_ne plane to tell me) and nlanned to return in six
ot the two years we'd'talkedabout all through high
It so happened that after six months on my job my
me that the French government had decided to move the
on offices in with the French Consulate offices. The
at the Consulate was French and had worked there several
Apr. 8 has been set as the day
for a re-run of the special school
levy asking for $750,509, of
which $427,125 would be used to
balance the 1975-76 proposed
general fund budget, which failed
Feb. 4. This was the unanimous
decision of the North Mason
School Board at their regular
meeting Feb. I O A near-record
crowd of interested adults and
students approved their decision.
In the final count of the Feb.
6 election the levy failed by 50.36
percent yes votes out of a total of
981 votes. Sixty percent approval
is needed for passage. In North
Mason's history special levies have
been asked nine times. Seven have
been re-run because of failure and
of these four have passed on the
second vote.
Parents, teachers and students
in the audience expressed a strong
feeling that, with a concerted
community effort to get out the
vote and with simpler and clearer
information disseminated, the
levy will pass in April. General
dismay at the prospect of a
bare-bones school without the
levy was voiced.
Superintendent Norm Sanders
said that without the levy 20 to
30 employees would have to go,
along with library books,
textbooks, special classes and
programs.
Prospects of the State
Legislature even bringing up state
funding during its first session are
remote, according to Sanders.
Since the preliminary budget
must be in by June l, the
prospect of the state coming to
the rescue of the schools will be
too late. Figures for levies not
passed cannot be used in the
budget.
The alternative of lowering
the amount asked for the second
time around was discarded as
unrealistic. The board has already
trimmed the amount to exactly
begins to explain
local land use regulations
let me out.
Editor's Note: The North land use regulations in Mason
fit maintenance of the present
school program.
A public meeting will be held
Feb. 24 at 7:30 in the high school
library to make plans for the Apr.
8 election. All interested people
are urged to attend.
Several students volunteered
their time. Some members of the
public felt that if the proposition
could have been presented in a
simpler, more understandable
form, approval would have been
forthcoming. A voter registration
drive will be started immediately,
before the registration books
close Mar. 7.
In other business before the
board, Principal Ralph Lackey
reported on recommended
changes in high school graduation
requirements. Changes in English,
mathematics, science, social
studies and health were explained.
rather h
L . appy. The job was boring, anyway, and now Evelyn Mason County area is one of the County would eventually result in
a~er lob a week early and we could spend her last week fastest growing parts of thesuch problems as serious water
county. An even faster rate of pollution, crowding, increased
°me °t the places we hadn't gotten around to before she growth is expected as traffic, less accessible open space
e. I really hadn't saved much on $35 a week and, by the construetion of the Trident and a decrease in the overall
" °ff' I had less than $50 in my pocket, submarine base at Bangor quality of the environment.
gone right from the train station to the employment progresses into the early 1980's. The county's subdivision
' t '
I d be smart and save the fee and put an ad in the This rapid growth raises a number regulations, for example, are
a mistake; I wasted several days waiting for an answer of basic questions concerning the designed to provide small-lot
w ',et some and followed them up, they didn,t turn out to countys means of coping withsubdivisions of land with
'd as looking for. In fact, after two interviews with creepy the problems it brings in a way adequate roads for the traffic in
which will keep this area anthe subdivision. They also insure lit
su~.tae employment agency fee was worth every dime of it. attractive place to live. This is the that all lots in such a subdivision Local artists are invited to
-aner. Everything slowed down as bosses took extended
Lt~Y from the awful heat of the city. Jobs weren't as first in a series of five articles, are large enough to contain submit entries for the 1976
3 wie~ had been in January. But the woman who had found jointly prepared by the North individual septic tank drainfields Booker s Art Calendar put out
Mason League of Women Voters, without endangering water each year by North Mason
~ure she d have me placed in a week or so. Unit-at-Large, and the Mason sources in the area, if a sewage Friends of the Library.
d Was running out. I had written home that I was looking County Planning Office, which treatment system is not provided. The calendar, first published
naon t found any. No one seemed concerned in theirwill outline some of the county's Adequate supplies of drinkingin 1972, is helping the local
~rs; I SUppose because they knew that ifl needed money land use policies and how theywater are also required by library group to purchase land on
~Uwas ask, but I had gone out on my own and felt 1 should affect not only future growth but subdivision regulations. Highway 3 in Belfair, north of the
i:IPunless I ended up in a desperate situation. I did write a current activities in the North Before county subdivision dental clinic, where a new library
Mason area. Persons interested in o rd inn n ces were adopted,building is planned for the future.
ymg they might not hear from me for awhile because I'd retaining a rural atmosphere in small-lot subdivisions were often Local art calendars have
er slster~rnps andsentdidn'tme tenhave3-cent3 centSstam,s.tO buy. another until i found the North Mason area in the face designed with lots too small or become souvenir collector items
ibne:ble to eat and may have tosieep on a park bench, but of a greatly increased population too steep for building sites, and have been sent to many other
from the Trident project are Poorly designed roads or states and foreign countries.
• o excuse for not writing home I was gettin a little asked to read these articles as non-existent roadways were aDrawings submitted should be
arnfly didn't seem to realizehow serious thesituagion was, background information for a more serious problem and little or of the North Mason area, in pen
U, I d show them.
~end from Mexico, agreed to get up at 6 a.m. Sunda public meeting to be held Mar. no open space was preserved,and ink or dark pencil, 6% inches
31. Questions raised may be These may not seem like tall by 8 inches wide. Information
-y waJKed a block to Central Park andfound arow of pary dropped off or mailed to themajor problems in small or widely about the subject matter should
(1 brought my blanket, a pillow and my alarm clock. We H erald office and will be scattered small-lot subdivisions, accompany the artwork.
Under a street light (my bed lamp) and I put the pillow answered in the last article of the but with the popularity of
the bench, laid down on the bench and Jo put my blanket series, recreational property in the North
zt the clock on the next bench (my night stand), I closed Mason area, large tracts of land
took a picture. The question of why any would likely soon to be carved up a
government regulation of land use
Mother wrote back and commented on what a cute and related activities is necessary
d shown it to the neighbors and they'd all had a good is important. To the occasional
home builder or developer it may
by the time I received that letter I had a job as seem like subdivision regulations,
t publishing house so I could laugh, too. By getting health department requirements,
ay a week s board and room for a week and getting an building codes, shoreline
duty, I managed to survive on the small change I had regulations and the like, are
f°undaiob I i. .... ,. , intended only to slow them
j . ,nun t gone hungry, we were served
at the boarding house and, excent for a few minutes' down, if not stop their project
bench I' ~ cold. At times, it may be
, d had a roof over my head. And all ainu I
randout of money, all I had to do was call home collgct impossible to justify the need for
a certain regulation concerning,
COme to the rescue, for example, the building of a
at the time but I know it was nothing compared to house on the shoreline. But in
of o
pe pie are going through today, most cases, the absence of current
into crowded, dangerous, poorly
designed housing developments.
in the same way, the other
related land use regulations are
intended to deal with other
specific problems which confront
not only the private property
owner, but the entire community.
The coming of the Trident
base in Kitsap County is expected
to increase property values in the
North Mason area, causing
increased interest in development
and making the proper regulation
of subdivisions and general land
use all the more important.
Entries must be turned in to
the Huckleberry Herald office in
Belfair by Apr. 30. Winners
receive free calendar and,
calendar chairman Maxine Morse
states, "as always, everlasting
fame and glory."
CANINE CAPERS
Recent reports on wandering
dogs include a small white dog,
possibly poodle-terrier mix, found
in Lynch Cove area Feb. 13;
German shepherd-collie, female,
dark in color and named
"Matilda" lost from Belfair
residence Feb. 13; stray dog
dragging a chain on Mission Creek
Road Feb. 13.
Three persons were seriously
injured in a two-vehicle accident a
few feet south of Belfair Cafe on
Highway 3 last Saturday morning
at 10:55 a.m. Don M. Shellgren,
Jr., 30, of Allyn, driver of a van
involved in the accident, was
listed in "fairly good" condition
last Monday morning by a
spokesman for Harrison Memorial
Hospital in Bremerton. A
passenger in his vehicle, Dave
Dirksen, 22, of Fairchild Air
Force Base, was listed in
"satisfactory" condition at the
Naval Hospital in Bremerton on
Monday. Driver of the second
vehicle involved, Donald F.
Bennett, 64, of Bremerton, had
been released from Harrison after
treatment.
According to the WSP report,
Shellgren received a fractured
iir IIt(ll
femur, severe contusions to legs
and internal injuries. Bennett
received injuries to both knees,
abrasions to his chest and a
lacerated lip. They were "
transported to Harrison Memorial
Hospital by Allyn aid car. Belfair
aid car, called first to the scene,
transported Dirksen to the Naval
Hospital, suffering from a severe
head injury, head and facial
lacerations and internal injuries.
The WSP reports that the
Shellgren vehicle was northbound
on Highway 3 and the Bennett
pickup southbound on Highway
3. According to the report
Shellgren attempted to stop for a
vehicle ahead; he applied his
brakes and his vehicle swerved to
the left, striking the Bennett
vehicle head-on.
~&TI BELFAIR and Allyn aid cars were called to the scene of an accident
" ~elfair • " -
Abo,,,~ Cafe last Saturday morning in which three persons were injured.
bef~;:'tattendants--,= r; from the Allyn aid car treat Don Shellgren of Allyn
ansportlng him to Harrison", Memorml Hosp6tal m Bremerton.
DRIVER OF ONE of two vehicles involved in an accident in
Belfair last Saturday morning, Donald F. Bennett of
Bremerton and owner of a cabin at Twanoh Tides, is assisted
by attendants of Allyn aid car prior to transporting him to
Harrison Memorial Hospital.
A big change was the decision to
cut attendance requirements from
eight to seven semesters for
graduation. The board approved
the changes, which in all cases
meet and in some cases exceed
state requirements.
Superintendent Sanders
reported on the progress of the
Affirmative Action Plan required
by federal law and recommended
that the school hire a consulting
and planning firm to prepare the
study, which is due Apr. 30. The
board approved the hiring of
Heublein and Associates at a
probable cost of $1,000. The
purpose of the study to be
submitted to the Washington
State Human Rights Commission
is to insure"equal representation
of minorities according to a law
passed in December, 1974.
Under personnel, the board
pril
approved the hiring of Janet
Banach, URRD teacher aide for
the rest of the year at $1,146; and
Diane Haydon, half-time Title 1
reading teacher at $3,757,
providing federal funding is
forthcoming. Steve White and
Rudy Zimmer were hired to fill
vacancies as custodians at salaries
of $4,768 and $3,390
respectively, and Verna Williams
as a teacher aide at $777.
In the past two weeks 23 new
students have enrolled in the
North Mason schools. Of these,
three were from the
Constellation, four from other
federal sources and 16
non-federal. Kindergarten gained
two for a total of 87 children.
Principal Ken Anderson requested
authority to hire an additional
one-half-day teacher for the rest
of the year for the kindergarten,
which the board approved.
The board unanimously
vetoed a request for the use of the
school van for a trip to Mexico by
seven members of Alice Kriegel's
Spanish classes during spring
vacation and one school week.
Total cost was expected to be
about $700, consisting of gas for
the van and a substitute teacher,
the students paying their own
personal expenses. It was felt by
the board that, while the project
was educational and worthwhile,
not enough students would be
able to benefit by it to justify the
expenditure of school funds.
Hiring of a new assistant
instructional materials person and
a replacement for Principal
Lackey, who is retiring at the end
of this school year, was deferred
pending the outcome of the Apr.
8 special levy election.
CLAUDE AND GRAYCE HACKETT (left) visit with Shirley (holding
Joshua) and Paul Christ at the reception sponsored by Christ Lutheran
Church last Sunday afternoon to bid farewell to Pastor Christ and his family.
The Christs left Belfair this week for their new home at Mammoth Hot
Springs in Yellowstone NatiOnal Park, Wyoming, where Pastor Christ will
serve as park chaplain.
Multi-media art
course is offered
An adult art course in
multi-media will be offered at
North Mason High School
beginning tonight, Feb. 20, and
running through May 29, meeting
weekly on Thursday nights except
for Mar. 27. The course will be
under the direction of Mark
Miller, instructor of art at the
local high school, and will be
taught as part of the Olympic
College extension program.
Persons wishing college credits
may earn two credits for the
course. Cost will be $14, with or
without credit, and 15 persons
enrolled is the minimum class size
for the class to be offered.
Classes will begin at 7 p.m.
and will last for three hours.
Persons interested may register at
the high school at the beginning
of the first or second class.
Questions about the class will
be answered by Erma Roessel,
275-2881, days; or 275-2025,
evenings.
LEVY SUPPORTERS
TO MEET
Students, parents of school
children, teachers and other
interested citizens who are willing
to work to promote the special
school levy which will be voted
on Apr. 8 are asked to attend a
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 24, at the high school
library.
MORE HOURS FOR
TRANSFER STATION
ATTENDANT
At their Feb. 10 meeting, the
county commissioners authorized
the county engineer to pay the
Belfair Transfer Station attendant
beyond his 30 hours per week,
when necessary, with approval of
the Public Works Department.
rans approve
A proposal to purchase the
6.1 acre site of Cheerio Lodge
resort on North Shore for use by
the local congregation as well as a
future retreat campground for
churches of all denominations was
approved by members of Christ
Lutheran at their annual
membership meeting held Feb.
12. Besides, approximately 200
feet of waterfront on Hood Canal,
the property includes the lodge, a
log house and ten cabins.
According to Pastor Paul
Christ, the deal hinges on
approval by their parent
organization, the American
Lutheran Church in Minneapolis,
which will assist in the financing.
It is expected that the local
church will be notified of
approval or disapproval around
Mar. 1.
The proposal has been under
consideration for some time with
a committee of Christ Lutheran
members formed to investigate
the feasibility. After several
months' investigation, the
committee recommended the
group go ahead and purchase the
property from Dr. Roger Brown
of Bountiful, Utah, pending
approval from Minneapolis.
It will take some years to
develop the site to its full
potential as envisioned in an
architect's plan. Development will
be done in phases, explained
Pastor Christ, with some
improvements to the lodge to
make it suitable as a #ace of
worship and where meetings can
be held, possibly being the first
thing done. Remodeling of the log
house for use as the parsonage
will probably be a priority item,
too, he said. During the next
couple of years, he said, it is
possible that a drive will be held
locally to raise $30,000, to be
matched by the parent
organization, to build a chapel on
the property.
Immediate use as a retreat will
be limited. Eventually, said the
pastor, the group hopes to
improve the cabins and build a
campground, all oriented to
family groups, which can be used
by any church group for retreats.
It may be that other churches will
help in this part of the
develoopment, he said, since
several thousands of dollars will
be involved. Until then, he said,
he hopes the site will be used for
some retreats through use of the
cabins only. •
On the committee which
recommended the purchase were
AI Sande, Ken Anderson, Irene
Thompson, Dale Linebarger, Curt
Frederickson, Dave Haugen,
Richard Helland, Betty Krueger
and Tom Erickson.
If the plans go through as
expected, the property which is
owned by Christ Lutheran
adjacent to North Mason High
School will be put on the market.
it includes 27 acres of wooded
area and a 4-bedroom parsonage
built last year.
At the annual meeting new
officers of the church were
elected as follows: Ken Anderson,
president; Dave Haugen, vice
president ; Esther Green,
secretary; Gloria Crawford,
treasurer; Ben Sande, financial
secretary. Council members
elected were Betty Krueger, Curt
Frederickson, Richard Helland,
Esther Green and Dave Haugen.