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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.