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:L EVANs gingerly places the crown oil
)f Shelton which she will wear this year
Green. In addition to being
annual caml)aign to prevent forest fires,
'ill reign as queen of the Mason C, ounty For-
est Festival May 24-28 in Shelton, which each year is ded-
icated to the Keel) (reen effort. The crowning was at the
Keep Washington Green banquet in Olympia, Friday night,
where Gov. Evans was the keynote speaker.
On New Hospital Sought
aSOn Gen- of construction of the new fa- Preparation of plans by the grant has taken up the time
opened cilities since its formation, up- architect an(l approwH by state between the formation of the
. at Shelton proved by the voters in Novem- and federal health officials and d'strict and the action this week
,the Mason her, 1964. approwfl of the federal fund to call for bids.
Com-
.s week.
*'o00,a0000o00o00ora,O00w ChamberHearsRep. VirginiaCIocksin
Week and
:Call. The selection of the site for personnel and some •facilities
the new state women's prison now at the Corrections Center
hospital iai:i presently in the hands of a could be 'used jointly, cutting
Freeze site selection committee of the down operating costs
' ....... ":.'.; ...... .,I)parment of Institutions,.";F'tb ! Tle'";is ii bill in the legisla-
anncr:::. !; Virginia Clocksin told, the tUl:? to put the selection of the
' !,v'Sh,itOlq,iamber,':f,Corrreee :'si.t in"¢.he:.:hands of the leglsla-
• at its meeting in Heinie's Broiler, lure, but, she is doing what
Will . take
complete the
hospital
by the
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built on
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on the
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to the
last Thursday evening.
When this committee comes
up with its selection, she said,
it will be the best site economic-
ally and otherwise.
The main point in Shclton's
favor, she said. is that technical
she can to see that it is not
approved Mrs. Clocksin said.
If the site selection is put into
the hands of the legislature, she
said, it Will become strictly pu-
litical.
The proposal for a new State
MEMBERS of the almost all-male audience at the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce meeting at Heinie's Broiler last
Thursday listen (and look) intently as State Rep. Virginia
Clocksin speaks.
Patrol Academy is in the budget,
and, if it is in the budget which
is finally adopted, it will very
likely be located at 'h( irport
here, "
With the facilities the State
Patrol has here now, she said,
and with the offer which has
been made by the Shelton Port
Commission on the needed prop-
erty, no other location can offer
nearly so much as Shelton.
As chairman of the sub-com-
mittee on pollution in the House
of Representatives, she said, she
had spent many hours working
on a bill which, while not really
satisfactory to any of the groups
involved, was something which
everyone could live with.
This was all that could be
done, she said, when starting
with groups with views on both
ends of the question.
The legislative processes in
the state are in need of reform,
she said. Even though everyone
knew a special session was go-
ing to be necessary, it took two
days to shut down the regular
session at the end of 60 days
and another two days to get back
into operation after the special
session started.
There have been bills intTo-
duced which would help the sit-
uation, she said, such as the
cross filing bill which would per-
mit a bill to be filed jointly
in both the House and Senate
with sponsors from both houses.
This would eliminate the sit-
uation which occurs now when
identical bills are introduced in
the House and Senate and end
up in each other's Rules Com-
mittee since the sponsors from
both houses want their names
on the bill which is finally
passed.
Mrs Clocksin told about the
program being operated for pre-
delinquent youth at Ft. Flagler
which she had visited. The pro-
gram, operated by the State
Park Department, puts t h e
youths to work on park projects.
Mrs. Clocksin and her hus-
band, Duane, were introduced
by John K. Bennett.
Attending the meeting as new
members sponsored by the 40
and 8 were Del Weston and
John Luhm.
Sheriff To Sell Shelton Hotel Friday
The Shelton Hotel, a long-time Shelton landmark, beset
by financial difficulties over the past several years, will go
on the auction block in a Sheriff's sale at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
The sale will be conducted on the east steps of the Ma-
son County Court House.
The sale comes as the result of a forclosure of a $36,-
735.34 mortgage by Capital Savings and Loan of Olympia.
Suits filed in Mason County Superior Court at the time
the hotel closed last year indicate that in addition to this
first mortgage, there are additional mortgages, delinquent
taxes and labor liens against the business.
The hotel was closed late last year by creditors and
state and federal tax officers. At the time of the closing,
AMI Inc. was the owner of the hotel, the latest in a series
of several over the past few years.
After many years of successful operation, the Shelton
Hotel Co., headed by E. H. Faubert, sold the hotel to Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Patterson who operated for a time before
the company took it back in a court action.
The hotel company then sold the business to Steve Sag-
miller, who renovated the dining room and lobby sections
of the hotel, and, who in turn sold to AMI Inc., headed by
D. H. (Bob) Hoffman.
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Port Works County Lets
On Plan For
Building
The Shelton Port Commission
is still moving forward on de-
tails of a lease with Certified
Manufacturing Co. and details
of financing a building it will
construct at Sanderson Field,
Port Commission Chairman Jim
Pauley said this week.
The building, when construct-
ed, will be leased to Certified
Manufacturing for use in its
metal fabrication operation.
Pauley said the Port Commis-
sion is working with attorneys
and Certified in getting the lease
in satisfactory form and in the
details for financing the building.
Pauley said that the deadline
has passed under which con-
tractors who submitted bids on
the building can be held to those
bids.
The bids were opened Feb.
27, and D-A Enterprises, Union,
was the apparent low bidder
with a bid of $49,625. The Port
District has been unable to sign
a contract for the construction
of the building tmtil financing
details are taken care of.
Pauley said that when the fi-
nancing details and the lease
are completed, the Port Com-
mission Will determine whether
the contractor is still willing to
build the building athis bid fig-
ure or if bids will have to be
called again. '
Dinner To Honor
Top Graduates
• The 46 members of the Shel-
ton High School graduating class
who have maintained a B or
better grade average during
their high school years will be
honored at a dinner May 11.
The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m.
in the Multi-purpose room of
the Grant Angle Building.
The dinner is open to the
public. Tickets are $2.
!i!i: !ii•!! ¸
EDWARD FLEENOR, announced last week as Shelton's
new Junior High School principal, is presently junior high
principal at Woodburn, Ore. Fleenor, 40, is a graduate of
Idaho State University, where he received both the Bach-
elor of Science Degree and the Degree of Master of Edu-
cation. He has been an elementary princil)al at Aberdeen,
Jerome, and Fiber, Idaho. He was junior high school prin-
cipal at Kamiah, Idaho, and high school principal of Priest
River High School in Bonner County School District at
Sandpoint, Idaho, prior to his moving to the junior high at
Woodburn. He has also taught courses at the University
of Idaho. He is married and has four daughters, 1•7, 15, 14
and 9, and one son, 11. tits wife will graduate from Ore-
gon College of Education in June.
Howard, Porco Plead
Nixon of Seattle, as to whether
the pleas could be heard by
Judge Hewitt Henry or should
be heard by Judge Charles
Wright, who had heard motions
in the case.
Nixon agreed to have his cli-
ents enter their pleas before
Judge Henry after he was as-
sured by the judge and Prose-
cuting Attorney John C. Ragan
that if the pleas were given be-
fore Judge Henry, he would not
necessarily have to preside at
the trial.
In his arguments over whether
or not Judge Henry should hear
the pleas, Nixon indicated hc
would prefer Judge Wright to
hear the case since Judge Henry
had been prosecuting attorney
in Thurston County before be-
coming judge.
Judge Henry also heard an
appeal for a reduction in bail
for his clients from Nixon. The
court denied the request after
• Robert M. Howard, 33, Shel-
ton, and Vincent James Porco,
36, Shelton, entered pleas of nut
guilty to a charge of robbery
when they appeared in Mason
County Superior Court Friday for
arraignment.
Their pleas came after argu-
ments from their attorney, Clay
Sprin 9 Concert
Will Be Friday
• The Shelton High School Mu-
sic Department will present its
annual spring concert at 8 p.m.
Friday in the gynmasium.
Dr. Bernard Regier, professor
of music at Western Washington
State College, Bellingham, will
be the guest conductor for the
concert.
The concert band, woodwind
quartet, concert choir, the full
hearing arguments for and
against it from Nixon and Ra-
gan.
choir, madrigal singers and the
swing choir will be featured in
parts of the program.
Daredevils Challenge Wild McKenzie
the Shelton area braved the icy at Leaburg Lake about 3:30 p.m. Perry was swept into a log jam and commented after
The frigid water chilled the men to the marrow. Ma-
son, racing along on the river, shouted to his wife, Louise,
thirty feet above on a bridge, for a cigarette. Cigarette and
matches were dropped and Rennie deftly plucked the weed
from mid-air while Johnson snatched the matches before
they hit the water. After lighting up, Mason dropped the
cigarette; his lips were too cold to hold anything.
tWisting, treacherous, turbulent Johnson momentarily lost his composure when a hiss-
]31ue River to Leaburg Lake. ing noise he heard made him think the air was escaping
and, after a brief stop at Ros- from his innertube. He discovered, however, it was the
continued through the danger- CO-2 cartridge inflating his life-jacket when the emergency
for those who could make it, ring accidently caught on an obstruction.
River Sunday in one of the
of the Hood Canal Diving Club,
President; Dean
M Perry, sportsman
" anon, leading trophy winner in
River White Water Run,
the race that next year he will wear a suit of chain mail
armor to protect certain extremities. One leg of his div-
ing suit was torn off getting out of the jam.
The three men were cheered on in their venture by the
female contingent that remained on the shore and kept pace
with automobiles. Pat Johnson, Louise Mason and Cathy
Perry were the mermaids cheering the frozen trio toward
the finish line.
The group returned Sunday night, tired, cold, and de-
termined that next year fur-lined diving suits and crash hel-
mets will head the list of equipment used for the day on the
rampaging McKenzie.
Not Guilty
Judge Henry took the setting
of a trial date for the case tra-
der advisement st) he could con-
sult with Judge Wright.
Action was deferred for two
weeks on two young men brought
into court on petitions for re-
vocation of parole. Gerry Alex-
ander was appointed to repre-
sent Berry Hodgson, who was
given a defen'ed sentence May
21, 1965 on a charge of carnal
knowledge. Appointed to repre-
sent William Dodds, given a de-
ferred sentence on two charges
of second degree burglary Feb.
15, 1967, was Cliff Cortes, Olym-
pia attorney.
Contract For
New Bridge
• Tim Mason County Commis-
sion, at its meeting Monday
voted to award a contract to
Quigg Bros.-lcDonald Inc,, Ho-
quiam, for the construction of
the Decker Creek bridge.
The firm's bid of $37,412.12
was low of six received and
opened by the commissioners.
Other bidders were Simpson,
Gault and McKasson Inc., Port
Angeles; Earl Lincoln Construe-
lion. Belfair; W.B. Ivis Con-
struction, Olympia ; Troy T.
Burnhant ()., Federal Way, and
V.R. Wilson, Port Angeles.
Tilt" colDJnission, on the recom-
mendation of the county engi-
neer. voted to award a contract
for furnishing asphalt and dust
palative for the county ruad pro-
gram, to Chevron Asphalt Co,,
Porthmd, the low bidder of four
openc'(l by the commission Mon-
day.
Other hidde,'s" were Shell Oil
Co., Union Oil Co. of California
and Refinery Sales Co., all of
Seattle.
The conxmission set 11 a.m.
May 8 for opetfing bids on a
new car for the Sheriff's De-
partment.
The eonmission set 1.1. a.m.
May 15 h)r a hearing on a pe-
tition from Richard Sharpes for
the vacation of portions of Falls
Ave. and Gorver St. at Hoods.
port.
Round÷rees
Coe÷ Medals
For Son
• Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Round-
tree, Shelton, last: Thursday re-
ceived two medals awarded Ix)st-
humously to their son, Richard,
by the government of the Rt -
public of Viet Nam.
Richard, a PFC in the Army,
serving in Viet Nam, was killed
in action in May 1966,
The medals, along with a letter
were sent by the Adjutant Gen-
eral's office.
The letter stated that the gov-
ernment of the Republic of Viet
Nam had awarded the Military
Merit Medal and the Gallantry
Cross with Palm to PFC Richard
Roundtree posthumously.
Speech Contest
• The Shelton Toastmaster's
Club hosted an area speech con-
test at the Washington Correc-
tions Center Saturday evening.
First place winner was Bert
Day, Olympia, second, Bill
Baker, Corrections Center third,
Oscar Clift, Olympia.
McKENZIE RIVER rapids-shooters rest on a calm portion
of the river before attacking another wild stretch of wv.ter.
(See story t left.)