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Both drivers involved in a
two-car collision on Highway 101
just north of Shdton Monday
afternoon were treated for
injuries at Mason General Hospital
and released.
Drivers of the two vehicles
were Elizabeth Grinnen, 20, 126
Hawthorne Lane, Shelton, and
Jack N. Howard, 204 C. St.,
Shelton, according to the
Washington State Patrol which
investigated the accident.
According to the patrol, Miss
Grinnen received lacerations to
her nose and upper lip, abrasions
on both legs and an injury to her
left arm.
Howard received head
lacerations. Both were taken to
Mason General Hospital by
Hughes Ambulance.
The patrol said the Howard
vehicle was northbound on
Highway 101 when it was struck
by the Grinnell vehicle which was
southbound on Highway 101 and
making a left turn into a parking
lot.
Mason County Superior
JUry Friday awarded
me Shelton school
Robert Daly one
/, $6,889, plus interest
against the Shelton
Worked a total of five
In the Shelton SchOol
at the start of the school
1965, evidence in the case
in his suit he
because he was
from performing his
district contended
the contract
ornia, the district and went
timony by Daly and
chool superintendent
indicated Daly
in the school district
8, 9 and 10, a
Thursday and Friday
the two orientation
s. He had left
and did not return
until Thursday of the
although he did
en
testified that Duly
discussed at an
of the school
evening, and
of the situation
uil
which had arisen had been left in
the hands of the school
administration with no official
action taken by the school board.
Quiggle testified he told Daly
on Thursday when he talked to
him that he would not be allowed
to function professionally in the
district.
Quiggle also testified that he
had heard about an incident in
which Duly had gotten into an
argument with a Shelton woman
over religion when he (Daly) went
to see the woman about a room
she had to rent.
Quiggle said Daly had
contacted him from California
late in October and at that time
he told Daly he could return but
that Daly had not done so when
he (Quiggle) resigned and left the
Shelton School District.
Under cross examination by
J.A. VanderStoep, Chehalis
attorney who represented the
school district, Quiggle stated the
only official action taken by the
board while he was with the
district was to sign the contract
for Daly's employment. Quiggle
stated that under the law, only
the school board could hire or fire
an employee.
Quiggle also testified that he
had written a letter at Daly's
request which said in effect that
ansJau
left the district.
Strong, Shelton, were refused service because they Under cross examination by
to a reduced charge were too intoxicated. Vander Steep, Duly stated the
m the stabbing When they came out of the contract did read that the district
while Duly was under contract to
the Shelton School District, he
(Duly) could seek other
employment without jeopardizing
his position.
Quiggle testified he had held
up processing Daly's certification
as a provisional school
psychologist and that part of the
reason he told Daly he could not
function professionally in the
district was because he (Daly) was
not certified.
Daly testified that when he
returned to Shelton on the
Thursday he had talked to
Quiggle and was told he could not
function professionally he asked
for the letter which would permit
him to seek another job because
he considered he was being
discharged from the Shelt6ri
School District. He stated he went
to California and contacted
Quiggle there in October and that
it was his understanding money
for the five days he had been in
the district would be sent to him
so he could return. Duly stated he
did not have money to return at
the time he had talked to Quiggie.
He stated when he did arrive
back in Washington in December,
he had contacted the Shelton
School District Office and found
that Quiggle was no longer there
and that Rudy Oltman was taking
his place.
Daly said at Oltman's
recommendation he had written
the chairman of the school board
and had received a letter in return
which stated the school district's
position was that he had
abandoned his contract when he
Thursday, March l, 1973 Eight-seventh year, Number 9 34 Pages - 4 Sections Ten Cents Per Copy
II it
A bill which will permit a
property trade to allow Mason
County to acquire a land fill site
for a county-wide garbage
disposal program has passed both
the House and Senate and is now
in the governor's office awJiting
his'signature, local officials wLre
notified this week.
The bill permits the
Department of Natural Resources
and Simpson Timber Company to
make a property trade for land
which the county would then be
able to lease from the Department
of Natural Resources for the land
fill site.
Originally, the county had
sought legislative approval for the
return to the county of 160 acres
of tax deed land which had been
turned over to the Department of
Natural Resources for
management a number of years
ago.
The county intended, if it was
able to get the land back, to then
make the trade itself to acquire
the land fdl site.
It was discovered when the
process was started in Olympia
the land turned back to the
county, so, as a substitute, the bill
to allow the Department of
Natural Resources to make the
trade was introduced and passed.
County Planner James
Connolly commented that
approval of the property trade
does not mean the trade will
happen immediately, but that
negotiations taking several
months may be necessary before
it is completed.
Kerr m!
The trial of Harry Kerr,
Grapeview, on charges of second
degree murder is scheduled to
start in Mason County Superior
Court Monday morning.
Kerr is accused of killing
George Davidson, a brush picker,
with a shotgun blast in December,
1971.
The shooting occurred near
the Kerr property.
Kerr is represented by Clay
Nixon, Seattle attorney, and
Donald lngersol, Olympia
attorney.
Prosecuting Attorney Byron
McClanahan will be handling the
case for the prosecution.
Kamilche school levy
Kamilche School District has
slated a second try to pass a
special levy for maintenance and
operation of the district.
The vote is set for April 3.
Phil Stoehr, chairman of the
is for $39,000 and will all be in
one proposition.
The previous levy, which was
defeated last month, was broken
down into several areas with
specific amounts for specific
that it would be impossible to get school board, said the special levy thin~.
Acquiring a suitable site for a
sanitary land fill is the first step in
a project between the city and
county to establish a county-wide
solid waste disposal plan which
will lead to the closure of the city
dump and the four dumps
operated by the county and a halt
to all burning at garbage dumps in
the county.
The plan, recommended in a
comprehensive solid waste
disposal plan prepared for the
county, calls for a county-wide
compulsory garbage collection fee
to finance the operation.
The plan includes provision
for dumping stations in several
areas of the county where garbage
could be dumped into trucks and
from there taken to the land fill
site for disposal.
The city and county officials
have been working on
preparations for the plan for some
time but, have faced the first
hurdle, that of acquiring a site
and with the passage of the recent
legislation permitting the
property exchange, the project
moves a big step toward getting
going.
A Mason County Superior
Court jury, in a verdict brought in
Tuesday evening, awarded
$40,000 in damages to Mrs.
Stanley Darland in her suit against
Fire District Five.
The case involved a traffic
accident in which Mrs. Darland's
car and one driven by Ronald
Burke, a volunteer fireman for the
fire district collided. The accident
occured while Burke was on his
way from his home to the fire
station at Victor in answer to a
fire call. He was driving his private
vehicle at the time.
An action by Mrs. Darland
against Burke had been settled
out of court before the action
against the Fire District came to
trial.
Burke testified he was on his
way from his home to the Victor
Fire Station in response to a fire
call at the time of the accident.
He testified he had gone over
the center line on a curve at the
time of the accident and was later
convicted of reckless driving in
justice court as the result of the
accident.
Fire Chief Richard Knight of
Fire District Five testified Burke
was responding to a call made by
his (Knight's) wife, Barbara, after
the fire truck from the Allyn
station had become stuck while
on the way to a vehicle fire call.
Mrs. Darland testified she had
received an injury to her head,
knee and arm as a result of the
accident.
She said the head injury had
healed and that there was no
impairment to her use of her arm
although she did have scars on her
arm.
She testified she had trouble
with her knee and would require
tdditional medical attention for
n. tavern a fight started between had the right to transfer or i [ @ i
charged withJohn Strong and the other man re-assign him.
murder in the and that Allen Strong attempted He said Quiggle did not
Cheduled to go to to interfere and that the next actually tell him he was fired, but
Mason County thing witnesses knew Allen Strong that he would not be allowed to By JAN DANFORD with him until his retirement four
Ury March 12. grant to the Skokomish Tribe, a diplomas; children will receive crafts.
aredbefore Judge was sittingontheground, function professionally as aRemodeling will soon be mini-learning center will bespecial assistance required in According to Anne Pavel, a years ago. The family since then
Strong told the court he could school psychologist, underway in a large rectangular established to offer educational school subjects; recreational member of the Skokomish Tribal has resided on the reservation.
Friday afternoon, not remember the incident, but Daly also stated the first room in the Skokomish Tribal opportunities to all Indians of the programs willbedeveloped;classes Council and chairman of the Anne and Donald Pavel have
Attorney Byron the knife which had been used in contact he had had with the Center. area. will be conducted in a wide range eudcation committee, partitions six children. The eldest, Vicki, is a
the court he had the stabbing was his and he school board was when he had There, funded by a federal Adults may earn GED of subiects including arts and will divide the old schoolroom sophomore at the University of
1 Case and had always carried it. written a letter to the chairman into five or six individualWashington and Joseph is a
aughter would be McClanahan told the court eady in December. classrooms and a library, leaving Shelton High School Junior.
m the case. urt tests indicated Allen Strong had a In final arguments Daly's an open area for adult education. Gregg, Michael, Barbara and Mary
told the co blood alcohol reading of .30 at attorney staten the kev issuo The library, to be stocked by attend Hood Canal School.
)PenedAugust 12, the time ofhis death, whether Daly abandoned "laq: purchases and by donations, will Upon her return to the
:rking lot near a Judge Doran ordered a contract or wh-,),^- -
ne was contain magazines, comic books, community, Mrs. Pavel was
°Odsport area. He pre-sentence report in the case prevented from erfo " ~ the
! he had indicated P rmmo _._ and newspapers as well as employed for one year in Mason
l~aen Strong and before passing sentence and duties he had contracted to do. paperback and hardback books. General Hospital after which she
allowed Strong to remain free on The attorney stated the single Early in March, Johanna accepted her present position as
-" oeen drinking a property bond which was most Important piece of Elizano, holding a degree in registered nurse in the Shdton
P.m. to midnight posted shortly after his arrest.
to the tavern but testimony was that Daly was education as a recent graduate of office of Dr. Jon Sandberg.
informed he was not authorized the University of Washington and "We have, currently," she
to function professionally in the having completed additionalstates, "'two classes in progress at
district. He stated Daly had a legal training in mini-learning, will the center. Knitting is tau~at by
• right to work as a psychologist arrive at the center to assume Pat Hawk, and Karen James heads
under the contract and that was duties as director. Under her the history and culture program."
s,gOes to
arnend-~-~e government agency to be eligible
which will
to continue
allocation
House and
to Governor
s signature,
ul Conner,
bill said this
in the bill
which has
leased on
another
for state fair money.
The present law restricts state
money to fairs whose fairgrounds
are on property owned by the
county.
The Mason County
Fairgrounds are located on
property which is leased from the
Shelton Port District at Sanderson
Field.
The fair grounds were moved
there several years ago from a
county-owned site in the Shelton
Valley.
what he was hired to do.
Vander Steep, in his final
arguments, stated that under the
contract Daly could be
transferred to other duties and
that only the school board could
fire him. The attorney stated that
the school board had taken only
two official actions, to hire Duly
and to inform him by letter they
considered he had abandoned his
contract.
He commented Duly was not
a stable, responsible person and
that any obstructions in the way
of his success in the district were
of his own making.
ANNE pAVEL, member of the Skokomish Tribal Council and chairman of
the education committee, outlines plans for a mini-learning center.
leadership the project will be
organized and classes promptly
begun.
Anne Pavel emphasizes the
fact that Karnilche Indians and
those living in Shelton and
vicinity are included in the
educational opportunities to be
made available.
Mrs. Pavel, born and reared on
the Skokomish Indian
Reservation and graduated from
Shelton High School, completed
training in St. Joseph's Hospital
School of Nursing in Tacoma.
Married a year later to an Air
Force career man, she traveled
Knitting instruction includes
the creation of authentic Indian
designs. Historical and cultural
information is garnered from the
personal knowledge of older tribal
members. Indian children last
summer attended a 4-H camp,
visited Tacoma and enjoyed a day
at Grisdale through funding by
the Tribal Council.
"We hope," declares Anne
Pavel, "that the new program will
prove to be a continuous,
year-round project, to open new
fields of learning and to provide
recreational facilities for Indians
of all ages."