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MRS. BEULAH GOWAN, 75, is taken on a stretcher to an ambulance after
falling and injuring herself in front of the Lawton Apartments Friday
afternoon. Shelton police officers and Mason County sheriff's officers were
on the scene also. Officers said she suffered facial cuts and a possible broken
jaw from the fall.
School District
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for $756,509
defeat Tuesday
Thursday, April 10, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year, Number 15 6 Sections- 46 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
percent
voters. Sixty
was needed to
by precinct was as
Percent Approval
55.696
52.155
46.888
71.0
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ballots not
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North Mason
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rst quarterly
of
of
Week.
rnent said
of timber
value of
in
1974
excise taxes of
Paid, the
Tile forest practices act and
its effect on small loggers and
timber land owners brought the
sharpest comments and questions
to Governor Daniel J. Evans and
three of his department heads at
the Olympic Peninsula Chambers
of Commerce South dinner at
Oaksridge Country Club at Elma
last Wednesday evening.
Tile Governor, along with
Jack Larson, director of the
Department of Commerce and
Economic Development; John
Biggs, director of the Department
of Ecology; and Donald Moos,
director of the Department of
Fisheries, answered questions
from those attending the dinner
Commenting on tile forest
practices act, Evans said he was
aware that the act was causing
problems for small logging
operations and timber land
owners and that he was not
opposed to amendments to the
act to correct these problems, but
that he did not favor repeal.
The officials explained that
the law sets up a commission
which is to establish regulations
and that the regulations which are
now being used are those which
were established and that the
commission can change the
regulations if they want to
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Commenting on a question as
to why the recommendation of
those who lived around Olympic
National Park seemed to be
ignored in recommending the
establishment of a large area of
the park as a wilderness area,
Evans stated there are three major
national parks in the state,.
National parks cannot be dealt
with solely in the interest of those
who live in the area of them, but
must be considered on a statewide
and even nationwide basis, Evans
said.
Olympic National Park is one
which has been devoted to
wilderness use and has been kept
that way for many years, he said.
It is a question of use, he said,
and added that increasing
numbers of hikers are using the
park.
In answer to a question on
capital punishment, Evans
commented he was opposed to it
and that studies had indicated
there was no difference in the
capital crime rate with or without
capital punishment.
He stated he believed that
there are some things which can
be done to improve the criminal
justice system, including more
police, concentration of police
effort on major crimes, ending
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plea bargaining'and cutting down
the time between crime and
punishment.
Evans commented on what
had come out of the Alternatives
for Washington program, stating
that the most popular alternative
Problems have come up in a
property sale which the Shelton
School District made to the First
Baptist Church in 1968, the
school board was told Tuesday
night.
Superintendent Louis Grinnell
told the board that the property
which was sold was given in the
legal description as one block, but
it has now been discovered that
this was not all of the property
which was intended to go in the
sale.
Grinnell told the board he had
a legal opinion that the district
still owned the part of the
property which was not in the
description in the deed and that
the only way it could be disposed
of would be in an additional sale.
The board asked Grinnell to
look into the problem further.
The board asked Grinnell to
have specifications prepared for
bids for demolition of the
grandstands at Loop Field. Don
Anderson, assistant principal of
the middle school, told the board
the development of Loop Field
had been discussed with the city
park board and that plans for the
development are being
was an a~riculturai Washington.
The next step, he said, is to
implement ideas for
accomplishing the desired
alternative if we are willing to
face the cost of getting there.
formulated.
The field belongs to the city,
but has been used by the school
district for many years for
physical education and athletic
activities.
With the new high school
stadium, the grandstands at the
field are no longer needed by the
school district, the board was
told.
KLEIN, left, Shelton, visits with Governor Daniel J. Evans after
t Chamber of Commerce dinner in Lima last Wednesday.
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The Shelton City Commission
approved going ahead with
improvements to the lighting at
Callanan Park whi eh had been
suggested by the city park board
the previous week.
The park board had one quote
on the work for slightly less than
$1,500. The commission had
asked that additional quotes be
obtained before the work was
done.
Park' board chairman Chuck
Ruhl appeared at the city
(Please turn to page two.)
A three-part special levy, to
be put before the voters of the
Shelton School District June 3,
was approved by the Shelton
School Board at its meeting
Tuesday night.
The levy proposal follows
recommendations of a citizens'
advisory committee "which had
been studying the school district
budget and operation and which
presented its recommendations to
the school board at the meeting
Tuesday night.
The three parts of the levy
which are being put on the ballot
are:
- $250,000 for six new buses,
which would require $1.91 for
each $1,000 of assessed valuation.
- $344,000 to provide school
district employees, both certified
and non-certified, with a 10
percent salary increase and which
would require an excess levy of
$2.63 for each $1,000 of assessed
valuation.
-$72,000 to employ four
additional teachers which would
require 55 cents for each $1,000
of assessed valuation.
If approved, the funds would
become available for the 1975-76
school year budget,
Joe Coogan, who acted as
chairman of the citizens'
committee, presented the
recommendations to the school
board. He commented that the
committee had broken up into
sub-committees to study various
areas of the school operation and
budget and that the entire
committee, which was composed
of between 30 and 33 people, had
met to make the final
recommendations.
He said the committee
believed that four or five
additional teachers are needed to
lighten claIs loads in some areas
to provide better education for
students.
The four additional teachers
which :ire recommended would be
for one in the middle school, a
choral music teacher for the
elementary grades, and two
additional teachers in the
kindergarten through sixth grade
area to be assigned where class
loads are the highest.
Coogan said the committee
found that salaries for school
district employees, both
certificated and non-certificated,
are low and should be increased.
The 10 percent increase
recommended for the levy
proposal, he said, should be in
addition to any salary increase
mandated by action of the
legislature at its current session.
The committee found,
Coogan said, that the additional
buses are needed to improve the
transportation of students in the
district.
The board also voted to
accept a proposal worked out
between the Shelton Education
Association negotiators and the
board negotiating committee of
Dr. George Radich and Judy Barr.
The proposal calls for a three
percent salary increase for
teachers for the coming school
year with provisions for
additional increases if the special
levy is passed or if more money is
provided by the state.
The board accepted a
proposal for renewal of the
contracts for the school
administrative staff with a three
percent increase and the same
provisions for additional increases
as are provided for in the
agreement with the SEA.
The board then voted to have
contracts issued to the teaching
and administrative staffs by April
15.
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im Lane
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Kim Davis lane, 27, 1122
Delanty Road, Shelton, was killed
instantly about 3 a.m. Saturday
when the car he was driving went
off the road.
The Washington State Patrol,
which investigated the accident,
said the car he was driving was
southbound on Highway 101 at
the Brockdale Road intersection
about five miles north of Shelton
when it went off the roadway to
the left and struck a large tree,
coming back to the right side of
the roadway where it came to rest
on its top.
The patrol said Lane was
alone in the vehicle at the time of
the accident.
Mr. Lane was born December
24, 1947 in Shelton and had lived
here all of his .life. At the time of
his death, he was a student
attending welding school.
Funeral services were held at
11 a.m. Wednesday in the
Assembly of God Church with
Reverend Mason Youngiund
officiating
Burial, under the direction of
Batstone Funeral Home, was in
Shelton Memorial Park~
Survivors include his wife,
Vicki, Shelton; one son, Jimmie,
Shelton; his father, W. M. lane,
Shelton; five brothers, Melvin,
John, Gene, Kenneth and Alan,
all of Shelton; and two sisters,
Selena Myers, Shelton and
Patricia Herch, Shelton.
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The Shelton Chamber of
Commerce is seeking candidates
for the Mason County Senior
Citizen of the Year.
Candidates can be
recommended for the honor by
various groups and must be 70
years old by July 1 and have lived
in Mason County five or more
years.
They will be judged on
participation in community
activities such as church, service
clubs, youth activities, sports,
lodges and others.
Information which must be
furnished to the Chamber by
groups wishing to nominate a
candidate includes name,
birthdate and address of the
nominee, and a statement of why
he or she should receive the"
lionoL
Candidates' names must be
submitted to the Chamber of
Commerce office by 4 p.m. May 2
and can be mailed to the Chamber ~
office.
The person selected as the
Senior Citizen of the Year will be
a guest at the June Chamber
meeting and will fide in the
Forest Festival parade, among
other activities.
Landfill to be open
to 6 p.m. for summer
The Mason County landfill
will begin staying open until 6
p.m. starting today, it was
announced by the county
engineer's office.
The 6 p.m. closing time will
be observed until the length of
daylight makes it necessary to
close earlier.
The landfill has been closing
at 4 p.m. during the winter
months.
The landfill must be closed
early enough so there is time
before dark to cover the
accumulation of solid waste each
evening before dark.
JOHN HINCK, a member of the Community Library Association, conducts a
kite workshop in Shelton Public Library. Many events are scheduled for
Library Week, to be observed from April 14 through April 19. See another
picture and d story on page 6.