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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.