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VANDALS WITH SHOTGUNS did extensive damage to Saint Nicholas Episcopal Church in Tahuya last Sunday night, just eight days after dedication services were held for the newly-constructed church. Above, Linda and Jeff Hinds look at some of the interior damage done as shots passed through the rustic building. See story and more pictures in Huckleberry Herald Section of this week's Journal. for federal Umination of Railroad First to Eighth 'a stoplight at an ~n Railroad Avenue by Mayor Frank the Shelton City meeting Tuesday was prepared Howard Godat by him. Godat told the commission the city was under a new highway fund program and hopefully Shelton could get a high priority for funds for the proposed work. Sergeant James Gorman of the Shelton Police Department asked if traffic control lines on Highway 101 which are badly faded could be repainted. Street Superintendent Robert Temple said the state was reponsible for this and that he would check with them. The commission approved payment of Ronald W. Wilder for the recently-completed drainage project on Franklin Street. Godat told the commission the work was completed and approved. Representative of the Kristmastown Kiwanis Club appeared at the meeting to ask permission to put a service club meeting day and time sign on city property near the intersection of Highway 101 and Railroad Avenue. The commission recommended they check with the park board, but stated the city commission had no objection. The commission voted, on the recommendation of Godat, that no Environmental Impact Statement be required on the Manke development. each be dark, silent two football fields fast-moving should scare fish thal sees it Four years from now, when the U.S. Navy starts putting the heavily-armed, nuclear subs in the water, they are also supposed to scare the .Russians. But before the fish and the Russians have a chance to get upset, the people of Kitsap County and their neighbors in Mason and other counties see Trident coming and they don't necessarily like what they see. Out of 89 possible locations for the support site for the ten proposed submarines the U.S. Navy chose Bangor, Washington, which is 10 miles north of Bremerton on Hood Canal. What has most people upset is not the fact that nuclear weapons would be stored in the area; the main bone of contention is that the Trident base would, by 1981, employ more than 7,000 civilian and military personnel on a permanent basis. That number of workers plus their families means that some 27,000 unexpected new people would be living in the area within the next seven years. By law the Navy must prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to assess what effect the project would have on the mental and physical wellbeing ORNEY Jack R. Cluck delivers a courtroom t blast on Bangor site selection. NAVY BRASS, Captain Ernest Stacey, left, and Commander Jerry Dunn, heard more than seven hours of predominately harsh comments on Trident submarine impact to Kitsap Peninsula. Three brothers from the filed earlier in the day by and Jack Johnson, 18, all of Star Belfair area were released on Prosecuting Attorney Byron Rt. 2, Box 170, Belfair. They personal recognizance after McClanahan. The three are were arrested early Monday appearing in Mason County accused of damaging St. Nicholas morning by Mason County Superior Court before Judge Episcopal Church at Tahuya with Sheriff's Deputies who were Gerry Alexander Tuesday shotgun blasts shortly beforeinvestigating the damage to the afternoon on charges of malicious midnight Sunday. church. destruction of property. The three were Stephen They appeared in court with The charges against them were Johnson, 21, Ronald Johnson, 20, their attorney, William Kamps, Port Orchard. They had been held in Mason County jail since the time of their arrest. They were also charged with misdemeanor liquor violations and firearms violations at the time they were booked into jail in the investigation of the damage to the church. Thursday, May 2, | 974 Eighty-eighth Year - Number | 8 4 Sections - 34 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy Voters in the Shleton School District will cast their ballots Tuesday on a $240,000 special levy for maintenance and operation levy for the 1974-75 school year. A voter turnout of 1,525 is needed to validate the election, according to County Auditor Ruth Boysen. Of those voting, 60 percent must vote in favor of the levy in order for it to pass. The same day, the Mary M. Knight School District will be voting on a maintenance and operation levy for some $87,000 for the 1974-75 school year. Shelton school officials, in putting the levy on the ballot, stated it was made necessary because of reduced state financial support for schools. Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mrs. Boysen said. The punch card voting machines will be used in the Shelton district election, she said. A complete list of polling places appears on page 28 of the Journal this week. Some precincts are being combined as to location, the auditor said. Superintendent Louis Grinnell, in information provided on the levy, said about 60 percent of $144,000 will be collected in first-half 1975 tax payments and will be available for use during the 1974-75 school year. The remaining $96,000 would be collected it second-half taxes in 1975 and would be used in the 1975-76 school year budget. He said if the state level of financial support increases for the 1975-76 school year, the money collected from the special levy for that budget would be used to purchase three new 79-passenger diesel school buses which the district needs. Grinnell said the estimated cost of the special levy would be Arlen D. Cuzick, a former Shelton man, was found guilty of escaping from the Washington Corrections Center last July 10. The guilty decision was handed down by Superior Court Judge Gerry Alexander, who had heard the case after Cuzick and his attorney Jerome Buzzard, Olympia, waived a jury trial in the case Monday. A Mason County Superior Court jury will begin Thursday hearing the case of Ralph Oquist, Shelton, charged with second degree burglary. He is accused of breaking into a house owned by George Matson in the Union area. Oquist is represented by Herbert Fuller, Olympia attorney. Jurors for the case were selected Monday afternoon to $1.98 for each $1,000 of assessed valuation. This would mean that on a home with an assessed valuation of $10,000 the cost for one year would be $19,80. The levy would be for one year only. Grinnell commented Shelton is the only first class school Alexander heard testimony in the case Tuesday. A jury trial had been scheduled to start in the case Monday morning and jurors had been called to report to the courthouse. Buzzard argued to the court before the start of the trial tl~at he needed a continuance to give him more time to prepare the case report Thursday afternoon to begin hearing the case. Members selected for the jury are Margaret Paschke, Marcella Henz, Joanne Connolly, Joyce Maynard, Jose Gonzales, Vivien Cokelett, Marion Crawford, Donna Swanson, Irene Hooker, Jeanne Peterson, Jeff Keiburtz, Richard Blackwell and as alternate, Elaine Cook. district in the state which does not now have an annual special levy. He commented that if the levy fails, the district will face some reduction in the number of employees, class loads will increase and some services will be reduced. and to get witnesses, particularly medical witnesses, lined up. Judge Alexander refused to grant the continuance after which Buzzard and Cuzick waived a jury in the case and-agreed to try it before the judge only. The case was recessed Monday afternoon while a jury for a case to start Thursday was selected. The trial of the case before Judge Alexander started Taesday morning. The first witness called by Deputy Prosecutor Gary Burleson was Thomas Hinchcliff, records and identification officer at the Washington 'Corrections Centbr. Hinchcliff said the records showed that Cuzick had arrived at the corrections center April 26, 1972 on a commitment from Clallam County and a parole revocation. Hinchcliff stated the records show Cuzick was returned to Clallam County May 29 and of the surrounding communities. Also by law the final impact statement must include comment from the public and, in two nights of hearings last week, the Navy heard from 68 speakers who all had something to say about Trident, little of it good. The hearings were scheduled to begin in the auditorium of Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Long before the proceedings began, however, the less than 300-seat auditorium was jammed with people. Many couldn't even get in and stood in the hallway outside straining to hear the program. Those inside the auditorium were being given a slide presentation describing the findings of the $630,000 environmental impact statement. Standing outside in the hallway, unable to hear it, an old man grumbled, "If they plan the base i ? MASON COUNTY COMMISSIONER Bill Hunter addresses large crowd that turned out for Trident hearings in Silverdale. Hunter, like most of the 66 speakers who followed him, expressed disappointment with the Navy's environmental impact statement.