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Mason County
at their meeting
received a suggestion
look into utility
the County Services
Architect's plan for proposed recreation complex.
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of Quadrant
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a sewer collection
facility, since soil
Will not permit the
of septic tanks.
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turn it over to
or maintenance and
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County Services
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the County Water
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Thursday, March 5, 1970 Published in "Cnristmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington. Entered as second class 20Pages -- 2 Sections
matter at the post office at Sl~elton, Washington 98584, under act of March 8, 1879.
84th Year -- No. 10 Publisl~ed weekly at 227 West Cota. $5.00 per year in Mason County, $6.00 elsewhere. Ten Cents Per Copy
A Mason County Superior
Court jury last week found
George Sanders not guilty of
second degree burglary and grand
larceny.
The charges had been brought
in connection with a burglary of
Beckwith's Jewelry Store in
January in which rings and
watches were taken.
Sanders was one of three men
arrested in a car which officers
saw leaving the area after the
burglary alarm had gone off when
the window was broken.
The other two, both of whom
testified at the trial, have both
pleaded guilty to the charges.
Frank Hutson, 21, Shelton,
was given a deferred sentence
after pleading guilty to the
charge.
David Peck, Shelton, is still
being held in Mason County jail
awaiting a pre-sentence report
before being sentenced on the
charge•
Police officers testified in the
trial they had stopped the vehicle
in which the three young men
were riding after it had been
observed leaving the area of
Beckwith's on Franklin St.
After the vehicle was stopped,
almost all of the stolen items were
recovered from the vehicle.
They said Sanders was the
driver of the vehicle when it was
stopped, officers said.
Hutson testified the burglary
was a spur of the moment thing
planned as the three youths were
heading for home after taking
limbers Slated
Pl' ~yoff
Second in the Olympia League, Shelton's
earned the right to face the independent,
a.playoff game, the winner of which will
the following weekend.
or the Shelton-Kennedy game will be eight
Yallup High School Gym, this Friday, March
13 and 14, the regionals will be held at Pacific
in Tacoma.
team could make history, since no
Iquad has ever made it to the state tourney. If
to the regionals, the Climbers must face
and Central Kitsap, the second, third, and
teams in the state.
Sanders' girl friend, Eve Church,
and another girl home.
Hutson said Sanders knew
about the plan before the vehicle
was stopped a short distance from
Beckwith's and he and Peck got
out broke the window and took
the jewelry.
Peck, who testified for
defense, told the jury he did not
believe that Sanders knew about
the burglary he and Hutson
planned.
He stated Sanders was asked
to stop the vehicle and let the
other two out so they could
relieve themselves. Peck said he
and Hutson had been drinking
beer the day of the incident and
were intoxicated at the time.
He said after Sanders stopped
the vehicle, he and Hutson got
out, broke the window in the
jewelry store with a tire iron
which was taken from the car,
and returned to the vehicle and
told Sanders to take off.
Sanders had not been involved
in any conversation about the
burglary which took place in the
vehicle, Peck testified.
He stated he owned the car
which Sanders was driving and
that it was being used instead of
Sanders' car since Sanders' car
was not working too well.
He stated the group had been
at Hutson's residence and they
had left to take Miss Church and
the other girl home.
After dropping them off, they
were heading for home down
Fifth St. and the vehicle was
parked somewhere between Fifth
and Seventh on Franklin during
the burglarY. Sanders remained in
the vehicle.
Sanders told the jury when
the group left the Hutson
residence, he and the two girls
were in the front seat and Hutson
and Peck in the back.
After dropping the girls off,
he said, the other two got into the
front seat with him and they
started down Fifth St. when one
of the others asked him to turn
off Fifth and then to stop the
vehicle.
He thought they had gone to
relieve themselves since they had
been drinking beer during the
day. Sanders stated he did not
drink'.
He stated the other two
appeared to be in a hurry when
they got back into the vehicle and
told him to take off, but, that he
thought perhaps someone had
seen them and would report them
to the police.
The first he knew a burglary
had been committed, Sanders
said, was when Peck and Hutson
started talking about throwing the
stuff out of the car after they
discovered a police car behind
them.
He stated he did not see Peck
take the tire iron from the car
when he left and did not see any
of the jewelry when they
returned.
Sanders told the jury he had
had some difficulties with the law
as a juvenile and had served a
short sentence in Mason County
Jail over an incident involving the
car wash on Mt. View.
Miss Church and Patti Wright
both testified they had ridden
from the Hutson residence to Miss
Church's residence in the car and
had heard no discussion of a
burglary.
Sanders was represented by
Fred Gentry, Olympia attorney,
and the state's case was presented
by Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan.
Hoodsport Youth Dies
In Traffic Accident
John Cole Sutton, 17, P. O.
Box 171, Hoodsport, was killed
Saturday morning when the car
he was driving failed to make a
curve and struck a bridge north of
Hoodsport.
The Washington State Patrol
said Sutton was northbound on
Highway 101 about 5:30 a.m.
when his vehicle failed to
negotiate a curve to the left and
struck the Holiday Beach Bridge.
The car was a total loss and
there was extensive damage to the
bridge, the Patrol said.
Graveside services were held
at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Shelton
Memorial Park with Rev. Wesley
Gain officiating. Batstone Funeral
Home was in charge of
arrangements.
He was born Dec. 30, 1952 at
Sedro Woolley and lived at
Rockport before moving to
Hoodsport with his parents.
He was a student at Shelton
High School before his death.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Sutton,
Hoodsport, one sister, Patti,
Hoodsport and numerous aunts
and uncles, including Mrs. Arthur
lndahl, Hoodsport, and Thomas
Cole, Olympia.
The State Board of
Education, at its meeting in
Seattle today, will give
preliminary consideration to the
Shelton School District's
application for state matching
funds for the new school for the
handicapped which is planned on
the Mt. View Elementary School
site.
According to the State
Superintendent's Office, the
application which the state board
will consider is submitted at this
time for recognition of the
eligibility of the project for State
assistance, approval of the
preliminary plan and
authorization for the preparation
of final plans and specifications
and a provisional reservation of
State funds for State participation
Local
in the cost of architectural and
engineering services. Upon receipt
of final plans and specifications
the project will be re-evaluated on
the basis of the then pertinent
data, and, with the final cost
estimates determined, will be
submitted for final State Board
action as to a preliminary or
provisional allotment of State
funds or for disapproval of the
project for State participation.
The State Superintendenrs
Office recommended to the State
Board the Shelton District be
authorized to go ahead with final
plans and specifications and that a
preliminary State fund reservation
be made of $4,238.89 for
architectural and engineering
services be made.
Plans for a 25-acre recreation
complex on Shelton Port District
property on John's Prairie were
announced this week by the
recently-incorporated Mason
County Recreation Association.
The complex would be on
land leased from the Port District
and would include five Little
League baseball fields, five Little
League football fields, five fast
pitch ball fields, three Babe Ruth
league baseball fields, three slow
pitch softball fields, a general
purpose building, park and picnic
facilities and other recreational
facilities as the need required•
The sponsoring group plans
to raise the necessary money for
the proposed project through the
donations.
The association was formed
after a number of meetings since
last fall of people concerned with
the need in Mason County for a
consolidated plan for such
activities as baseball, football,
softball, and other activities for
people of all ages with special
emphasis on youth to help curb
the increase in juvenile crime and
delinquency, according to a
statementfrom the association
this week.
Officers of the association are
Don Johnson, president; Bill
No Jury
s On
There have been no cases
before the Mason County
Superior Court jury term this
week.
The three cases which had
been scheduled for this week were
settled before they went to trial.
They included the case of Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Mclnelly against
Mr. and Mr. Vernon Olson and
Olson Roofing Co. and Tyee
Construction Co. against Richert
and Sons.
One criminal case, that of
Donald Loomer, charged with
grand larceny, was taken off the
calendar after Loomer was
committed to the Department of
Institutions on a parole
r~¢ec~tion,
Scheduled for Monday is the
case of Inez Dammann against Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Kingsbury and
Kathrine Simmons.
Scheduled to start Wednesday
is the case of Sue Blankinship
against Charles Hoit.
Also scheduled for next week
is the case of Gerald Johnson on a
charge of grand larceny.
Brickert, vice-president, and Guy
Beckwith, secretary-treasurer.
Plans for the recreation
complex were drawn by Harold
Dalke of Dalke and Andring,
Shelton architects.
Tl'te association said "the
burden of financing should be on
rug
ers
every citizen of Mason County
who is concerned with our youth,
and the need for such facilities in
Mason County".
Donations can be sent to
Mason County Recreation
Association, P. O. Box 24,
Shelton, Wash., 08584.
mml
rograms
A letter to various clubs and
organizations in Mason County
asking them if they wanted to
present an educational program
outlining the potential and real
dangers in the use of narcotics
and dangerous drugs for their
members has been sent out by the
Mason County Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs Educational
Committee.
The letters were signed by
Roger Anderson, chairman of the
committee. The committee was
formed several weeks ago with
representatives of several clubs
and organizations as members as
well as some individuals
representing no group.
The committee has spent
considerable time and effort
gathering material on narcotics
and dangerous drugs.
There is a list of several
qualified speakers, educational
films and a catalog of printed
pamphlets to assist groups looking
Gas
Sui
six persons from Washington
and Oregon have filed suit in
Federal Court to halt the
shipment of nerve gas from
Okinawa for storage at the
Umatilla Army Ordnance Depot,
Hermiston, Ore.
Three of those filing the suit
are from each state•
The Army announced plans
late last year for the shipment of
the nerve gas from Okinawa to
the Oregon facility. The gas
would come by ship from
Okinawa to the Naval
Ammunition Depot at Bangor and
would be transported from
Bangor to Hermiston by rail. The
only rail line from Bangor is the
tracks which run through Mason
County•
for programs.
The letter stated the
committee is contacting every
organization in the community,
urging them to conduct at least
one program on dangerous drugs.
The commitee feels that by
educating and informing the
public on the dangers of drug
abuse and the growing problems
of drugs in the community, the
citizens will have done their part
in controlling this difficulty.
Anyone having questions
regarding a program for their
group can contact 426-2458 or
426-2872 for further information.
Other members of the
committee are Audrey
Prepperneau, secretary : J erry
Swartos, Bill Duemling, Jerry
Salisbury, Marge Short, Don
Brown, Leona Elmlund, Ruth
Chambers, Lloyd McHargue, Mrs.
Don Smith, Police Sgt. Richard
Nelson and Gary Wood.
al
npmen
The complaint which was
filed this week charges the storage
of nerve gas and its shipment
unconstitutionally deprives
residents of the two states of their
rights to property, life and
liberty•
Named as defendants were
Defence Secretary Melvin Laird,
Army Secretary Stanley Resor
and Col. Charles Norris,
commander of the Army
Ordnance Depot at Hermiston.
The Washington
complainants are Pat Cochrane,
Richard P. Nelson and U. L.
Upson, all of Richland. Those
from Oregon are Mrs. Marie
Bosworth, Jackson; Stanley
Tucker, Milton-Freewater, and
Evelyn Murray, Portland.
BOB CORCoRAN, at the left, host of a Channel 13 talk
show, is joined by Tom Rogstad, KTVW's Program Director,
in displayinga portion of a petition, measuring over a
half-mile in length. The petition carries over 63,000
signatures ofWashington state residents asking President
Nixon to stop the shipment of lethal nerve gas through the
state. The nerve gas is scheduled to be shipped from Okinawa
to Bangor, Washington by sea, then loaded on railway cars
and transported through Western Washington to Hermiston,
Oregon. The petition, weighing over 50 pounds was flown to
the nation's capital. Senator Warren G. Magnuson arranged
for the petition's delivery to the White House.