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State Groups $" The Washington Education Association, office of the ,fate Superintendent of Public Instruction and Washington asOciation of School Administrators announced today that int Study will be made of the adequacy of the education- 28Pr°gram m the Shelton School District March 26, 27 and luThe study was initiated at the request of the Shelton cation Association, an affiliate of the Washington Edu- eati0n Association, to investigate: "The quality of the educational program, including the adequacy of curriculum offerings, adequacy of instructional I$ THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH of Janice Witten- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Wittenberg, Shelton, Will reign over the 1969 Mason County Forest Festival. ew queen was selected 'from five candidates from SChools in Mason County. She will, along with mere- of the Royal Court, be making appearances in cities in ; area between now and the Festival May To Make Study Of Shelton S'chool System materials and resources and library facilities. "Personnel practices, including the causes of low staff morale and high turnover. "Insufficient local financial support. "Administrator-teacher relations. "Restrictions of academic freedom. "Administrative interference in the affairs of the as- sociation and failure to comply with provisions of the dis- trict's negotiating-procedures agreement." Educators and interested citizens are being contacted to provide the committe with information regarding the ad- equacy of the school program. Other individuals with pertinent information regarding the school program are invited to appear before the com- mittee. Interviews may be scheduled by calling the county su- perintendent's office in the Mason County Court House, 426- 3246. The committee will convene at 2 p-m. March 26 at the Shelton Methodist Church, 1912 King St. and will receive testimony through Friday. The study committee will be composed of Dr. Tom Ter- jeson, ethics chairman, Washington Association of School Administrators; Lou Griffith, consultant for administrative services, office of State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion; Mrs. Joan Ewbank, chairman, WEA commission on professional right and responsibilities; Dr. Don Johnson, director of professional rights and responsibilities, Wash- ington Education Association and Mrs. Sue Wilson, secre, tary to the committee. 83 Year-- No. 12 Published in "Christmastown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington 24 Pages- 3 Sections Entered m second claus matter at the p)st office at Shelton, Washington 98584 Thursday, March 20, 1969 under act of March 8. 1879. Published at f7 West Corn, 10 Cents per Copy Suit Asks Iniunction On Issuing Building Permit To Alderbrook Inn "tend their property on Hood Can- al would be damaged if Johnson is allowed to construct the bulk- head and fill on which the pro- posed hotel is to be located. The commission had set the hearing on the building permit at Durning's request, and, after being informed of the court ac- tion, agreed to take statements from those present but to do noth- ing further. The commission Tuesday re- ceived a building permit applica- tion from Johnson. They were informed Wednesday morning that plans for the proposed pro- ject had been approved by the State Health and Pollution Con- trol officials. Several persons spoke in favor |uuuuui A suit was filed in Mason County Superior Court Wednes- day morning to stop the county (.ommission from issuing a build- ing permit for the proposed new hotel at Alderbrook Inn. Seattle Attorney Marvin Dtm- ing, who filed the action, told the commission of his action at the start of a hearing on the building permit application. The suit was filed on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. David L. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Nordstrom. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hayes and Mrs. Jean Moore. Named as defendants were the county commissioners, County Planner James Connolly, Dr. J. V. DeShaye, director of the Ma- son-Thurston County Health Dis- trier; Gary Plews, sanitarian for the district health department and Mr. and Mrs. Westly John- son, owners of Alderbrook. The suit asks that the county building permit ordinance, and the stale law under which it was adopted be declared uncon- stitutional. It also asked a temporary re- straining order and that the re- straining order be made perman- ent after a court hearing. In the suit, the plaintiffs con- Burning Permits • Burning permits will be re- quired in the city of Shelton af- ter April 10 Fire Chief Allan Nevitt said this week. Permits are required for Out- door burning. They will be in effect until Oct. 15. lUUlIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIUlIIIIIIIUUlIIIIIIUlIUUlfllIUlUIIUlIIIInIIIIIUIIWIIIIII Hearing Marliuana Possession Case them, but, he was arrested at the same time as Holt and was in Holt's vehicle. Santamaria said he and Officer James Cross were stationed in the Evergreen Drug Center with Cross in a vantage point where he coul see the Holt vehicle which was parked in the parking lot. He said Cross notified him three subjects were near the vehicle and that he believed one of them was Holt. The two officers contacted the three youths, who turned out to be Greg Hughes, Chris Clinton and Daniel Sanford. He said the three youths were ordered to get into the Holt vehicle and that Cross got in with them. They were there for only a few seconds, Santamaria said, when Police Sgt. Richard Nelson arrived in a patrol car and the three were transferred to the patrol car and taken to the police station. Santamaria said he and Cross then returned to the drug cen- ter to continue their watch on the Holt vehicle. A short time later a vehicle owned by Mitch Challendar pulled into the park- ing lot near the Holt vehicle and Holt and Sergeant got out and got into the Holt vehicle. As Hott was starting to pull away, San- tamaria said, he stepped in front of the vehicle to get the driver to stop. Santamaria said the two youths were ordered to get out of the station wagon and were given a quick "frisk" and then told to get back into the vehicle and drive to the police station. The officer stated that as Ser- geant was getting into the vehicle, he saw him pull something out of his jacket pocket and put it under a matress in the back of the station wagon. Santamaria said he immediate- ly put his hand in the same place and recovered a small plastic bag containing a green- ish vegetable substance which he believed to be marijuana. After the vehicle arrived at said, turned over ten plastic bags containing what was believed to be marijuana. Under cross examination by McClanahan, Santamaria said he had been working with the in- former in this case about a month and that the informer was an adult. He stated that Ser- geant's name was not mentioned by the informer the night he had received the information which led to the arrest of the two youths. (Please Turn To Page Two) of Michael Baker Shelton, on charges of marijuana, was to go to the ' Superio/Ury in Court Was arrested with YOuths in Ever- last April 22 and filed against him youths. Charles Holt, Daniel Sanford, pleaded guilty mrges, Holt to to use. a pre-sentence represented by Byron McClan- Prosecution was Attorney in a hearing his attorney to 'e, that the night had started to and had been I-Ioit and Mitch md that they had Square where gotten out of and into Holt's were arrest- said he was not the night of his he had ridden with Holt and With friends to had not seen jury hearing ladys Baker, Warnes, Jonker, Clary, Glen John Mc- er and Le- court last April went to Seat- around noon. They went, he sa;d, with the in- tention of purchasing marijuana. He said they walked around the University District and made contact with a person who had a kilo of marijuana for sale for $125. They checked to make sure it was marijuana and made the purchase, Holt said. He stated that Sergeant had the money for the purchase. The kilo of marijuana, Holt said, is about 2/. pounds and is in a brick four inches by four inches by 12 inches. After the purchase was made, Holt said, they had gone to an apartment of some friends of Sergeant's and broke the kilo up into lids of about an ounce each. The lids were put into plastic bags which were purchased at a grocery store. Holt said he returned to Shel- ton by way of Bremerton, and hid the marijuana wrapped in Sergeant's coat, at a spot out along the McReavy Road. Holt related that the night of his arrest, he had came into Shelton about 6:30 p,m. after be- ing contacted by someone who wanted to buy some marijuana. He said he parked his station wagon in Evergreen Square anti that he met ,ergeant and Mitch Challendar there. They drove in Challendar's car out to the place on the McReavy Road where he had hid the marijuana, and, while there smoked some marijuana before returming to Shelton. Holt stated he believed that the mari- juana they smoked at that time came from an open package Ser- geant had. Holt said when they returned to Shelton, he and Sergeant had gotten into his station wagon, and, as he spotted the girl who was supposed to purchase the marijuana on the other end of the square he started to drive $00ashed Patrol Car A rres t Of Rioux 24, St. Rt. 1, was arrested of driving and negligent with a car. Officers J. D. Evans another detail a vehicle fish- road and turned o to stop the ve- City Sets Water Line Bid Opening The vehicle stopped on Bellevue St., and, as the patrol car pulled up beside it, took off, fishtalling again, striking the police car right front fender. The vehicle stopped at the in- tersection of Bellevue and Sum- mit Drive where it was blocked from leaving by the patrol car. Rioux was arrested after an investigation of the accident by the State Patrol. He was released from jail to ,appear in ¢otlrt Monday night. • The Shelton City Commission set 11 a.m. March 31 for opening over to where she was. As he started to pull out, Holt said, he was stopped by Sgt. Vin- cent J. Santamaria of the Shelton Police Department and taken to the police station where he was questioned and signed a state- ment. Under questioning by Ser- geant's attorney, Byron McClan- ahan, Holt stated he believed Sergeant had got part of the money to:" the purchase of the marijuana from the sale of a tape deck and that he had bor- rowed the rest. Holt said he,believed he re'- turned to Shelton Saturday by way of Bremerton. A question by McClanahan as to whether he had stopped in Bremerton to make a sale brought an objection from Pro- secuting Attorney John C. Ragan, who asked that the jury be sent out while the question was ar- gued. Judge Charles T. Wright ruled hat the question was proper, and, that Holt could decline to answer on lhe grounds of the fifth amendment if he wanted. After the jury was back, Mc- Clanahan asked the question ov- er again and Holt did refuse to answer on the grounds of the fifth amendment. Holt also took the fifth amend- ment on the next four questions from McClanahan who asked if he had ever sold marijuana to Bill Jackson, Chuck Viger, Ron Cochran or Jim Olson. He also took the fifth amendment when asked if he had sold any of the marijuana in Seattle. Holt had stated earlier he had seen Sergeant put a package of marijuana from his pocket un- der a mattress In the back of the station wagon as they and the police officers got into the vehicle. Leading off as the prosecu- flows first witness was Sgt. San- tamaria. He testified he does most of the drug investigations for the Shelton Police Depart- ment. The evening of April 22, 1968, the police station, the two boys he testified, he had received a were taken out and the vehicle call from an informer, with searched. The search was made whom he had been working about by Sgt. Nelson, who, Santamaria a month, that arrangements had been made for the purchase of six lids of marijuana from Holt in Fvergreen Square at 7 p.m. that evening. He received the call, he said, about 5 p.m, at his home and proceeded to contact Judge Glenn Correa of the Mason Coun- ty Justice Court to .get a war- rent for Holt's arrest and a search warrant for his vehicle. There were other names on the warrant also, Santamaria said. Sergeant's name was not one of of the proposed hotel, calling it a good addition to the tax base of the community and needed to provide facilities for tourists. Among those who spoke were John Pill, William J. Murphy, George Carlson, Dean Biggs, Elaine Agar and Bob Johnson, all property owners on the canal; Walt Parsons, representing the Mason County Chamber of Com- merce and Dean Hendrickson, from the Department of Com- merce and Economic Develop- ment. Summing up the position of those who oppose the develop- ment, Durning said they do not object to a new hotel at Alder- brook, but, do object to its being built on a bulkhead and fill on the tidehmds in the canal. There is plenty of land in the area where such a structure could be built, Durning said, and that this is where it should go rather than being put on the tide- lands where it might affect other beaches and the water quality of the canal. Treptow Gets 6 Months ln County Jail • Jack W. Treptow, 27, Brem- erton, was given a 10-year pri- son sentence, suspended for five years after being found guilty of a charge of second degree assault by a Mason County Suw crier Court Jury last week. Judge John A. Denoo, Colfax, who presided at the trial, impos- ed the sentence on Treptow, with the suspension on the condition he spend six months in the Mason County JaiI. Treptow began serving his jail term Friday, the day the stm- tenve was passed. The jury found Treptow guilty of the assault on Jess Cates, 60, operator of the Tahuya Grocery. The verdict came last Wednes- day night after three days of testimony about an incident in which Cates and Treptow were involved last Aug. 4. Cafes suffered a bullet wound in the head from the gun he was carrying when he accosted Trep- tow and another youth about Treptow was represented by leaving his place of business with- Frank Shires, Port Orchard at- out paying for $3 worth of gas- torney, and the prosecution's ()line. case was presented by Deputy The wound was received in Prosecutor Frank Owens, Olym- a scuffle between the two men. pin. Dave James Is Speaker For Chamber Of Commerce • Members of the Shelton Cham- ber of Commerce saw the new Simpson Timber Co. film, "Grow- lng Opportunities", at its meet- ing at Heinie's Broiler last Thurs- day night. Speaker for the program was Dave James, vice-president, pub- lic affairs, for Simpson. of $207 million. The Seattle area is one of the fastest growing in the nation, James said, with the Seattle mar- ket only an hour to an hour and a half away with the completion of the freeway, Simpson Increas- ed its sales there by 86 percent. The outlook for this year, James told the group Simpson James said, will depend on how had one of its best years in its history last year, with sales up 16 percent, and reaching a total u1mmHm: Adoption Meei'incj Slated Monday • March 27 at 7:30 p.m. a new adoptive study group will have its first meeting at the Public Assistance Office, Sixth and Rail- road. The Child Welfare Service has completed six such study groups since Oct. 1, 1968, involving 33 adoptive couples and have plac- ed 14 children in adoptive homes. Four couples already had the children through foster home placement and are seeking to adopt them. Four couples with- drew from the program, one is pending completion and 10 are waiting placement. The adoptive study group meet- ings are informal and open to any couple who wishes informa- tion on the subject. They are free to withdraw at any time. uuMMuuMM lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllll IIlIUlIIIIIUlIIIIUlIIIIIIIIIIIIII the tight money situation affects home building. It appears, he said, that instead of the predict- ed two million new home starts in the nation, there will be only 1.5 million. The Simpson payroll in Shel- ton, McCleary and Camp Gris- dale in 1968, James said, was $'17,900,000. Ten years ago, it was $12 million. Prices of lumber, James said, will probably remain high since wood is in short supply and the demand is so great. The industry faces a real pro- blem, he commented, in the trend toward a national policy to lock up timber land in wilder- ness areas to the exclusion of the nation's growing need for wood. bids on the installation of a water and sewer line to the Shel- ton School District's Spring Road property. The bid call came after pre- sentation of plans and specifica- tions by City Engineer Howard Godat at the commission meet- ing Tuesday. The commission received, and referred to the planning commis- sion, a request for the reloca- tioh of two one-bedroom duplexes on Olympia Highway North be- tween D and E Sts. The reqtest came from Vince Htmlie. Coun÷y To Buy Cars • The Mason County Commis- sitm set 11 a.m. April 7 for open- ing bids on two new cars for the Sheriff's Office and one for the Juvenile Probation Office when they meet Monday. Two 1965 vehicles from the Sheriff's Office and a 1963 vehicle from the Juvenile Office will .be traded in on the new vehicles. The commission received a let- ter from the Mary M. Knight School Board asking that some- thing be done to alleviate the need for a garbage dump in the area to cut down on dumping. Commissioner John Bariekman reiorted he was looking into the problem. The commission received a pro- posal to convert he heating system tn the court house to nat- ural gas. The proposal was pre- sented by Robert Furseth and Howard Stack of Cascade Nat- ural Gas Co. A bid from the Shelton Agent's Association of $10,812 for liability insurance for the county was re. ceived and accepted. It was the only bid received. Friday Will Be A School Day There will be school Friday, March 21, in the Shelton School District, Supt. Louis Grlrmell said this week. The day had originally been planned as a Teacher's Institute day, but, because of time lost because of the snow in January, classes will be held in order to make up one of the days, Grin- nell said. Junior High Play To Be Presented tached setting. If you cast aside your conventions and suspicions, these families will extend sincere hospitality to you. They will teach you the meaning of spring with joy and laughter. They know how to communicate with nature. They wouldn't trade their modest homes in the hills for castles in any other part of the • "Let 'Er Go, Gallagher", a new comedy to be resented by the ninth grade dramatics class in the Shelton Junior High School auditorium at 7:30 p.m. tonight, is a merry conflict between two families of Ozark mountain folks, the Calhouns and the Snoods. These are gay, happy people who live in this romantic, de- world because contentment is theirs. Only when the complicated ideas of the outside world dis- turb them do they become con- fused, but yet these intrusions are treated with humorous con- tempt. This is exactly what hap- pens to the Calhouns and the Snoods when modern pension this scene from the Junior High play "Let 'Er Go, Gallagher", which will be presented In the Junior High Auditorium at 8 p,m. to- night. CLEM, portrayed by Tim Clark, left, mad Gallagher, portrayed by Mike Kruger, right, tart to fight, as Daisy, portrayed by Terri Bostrom, center, tries to break them up in plans, the E. Z. Pickens plan and the Pork 'n' Beans plan, come to the Ozarks. Entertainment will be provided by a Jug band during intermis- sions. The members of the jug band, playing on anything from a washboard to a watub, fit the setting of the comedy very well. The band, which has been advised by social studies teacher Gary Nicloy, who formerly direc- ted the Shelt secondary bantk, has rehearsed well enough to keep you seated between acts, Admission for tonight's perfor- mance is $1 for all. The play cast includes Terri Bostrom, Alice Schimschat, Me- llssa Bergeson, Barbara Knee- land, Judy Marshall, Mike Kru- ger, Tim Clark, Jim Johrn, and Joe McClanahan. Many other students will be working behind the scenes. The play is under the direction of Don Anderson, SJHS drama and English lltructor. BE Day Slc00ed For M=rch 26 I The Shelton Chamber of Com. merce Business-Education Day will be held at the new Bordeau building March 26, it was at, nounced this week by Louis Grin nell, chairman of the Chamber' Education Committee. Chamber members will haw an opportunity to see the n Bordeaux building, which wa completed and occupied earUe the. year. rne program will start at 9:1 a.m. and will conclude wit] lunch at 11:20 a.m.