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County Coroner's
after an inquest
that the death
L. Christian, 45,
St., Shelton was
unlawfully inflicted
and that the
died at their home
Sunday.
at the inquest
Christian shot his
the bath tub
30-30 rifle on
Witness called by
C. Ragan at the
COUple's daughter,
18, who was in
at the time of the
testified that she
om adjoining the
had heard her
While later, she said,
mother call to her
out just in
fire the shot
mother.
she heard the
and another
that her father fell
she ran out of the
home of a relative
Kih
.. -r.e..s
resigned as
Shelton School
meeting Tuesday
board members
as a member of
that business
it necessary
give up the
of lack of
of all of the
was elected
~Uce.eed Hergert.
Was named as
SuCCeed Hamlin
approved a
sent to the
te on School
where a call was made to the
ambulance.
Sgt. V. J. Santamaria of the
Shelton Police Department
testified he had been dispatched
to the Christian home after police
had received a call from Hughes
Ambulance telling them he had
received a call involving a
shooting.
Santamaria testified when he
arrived at the home, the front
door was open and two men were
standing just inside the door.
He stated he entered the home
and saw Christian lying on the
floor in the door to the bathroom
and heard him moaning.
Santamaria said he returned to
his patrol car to make sure an
ambulance and Sheriff's Deputies
were on their way. When he
returned to the house, one of the
men asked if he had seen Mrs.
Christian, and, when he said no
and asked where she was, he was
told she was in the bath tub.
He stated he then went into the
bathroom and checked Mrs.
Christian for pulse and breathing,
and could find no signs of life.
When the ambulance arrived,
Santamaria said, he assisted in
loading Christian into the
ambulance and then rode to the
hospital with him and stayed at
the hospital until he died about
Crystal Lamb
District Organization outlining
plans for the new four-year high
school and asking for a
determination of participating
funds from the non-high districts
which send students here.
In the resolution, the board
stated the architect's estimated
cost of the project is
$5,184,000. This included the
construction, development and
equipping of a new four-year high
school including a swimming pool
at a cost of $360,000 and covered
grandstands at a cost of
$200,000.
The county group will now
determine how much each of the
non-high district should
contribute to the project and
12:45 p.m.
Santamaria said he first
received a call about the incident
shortly after 10 a.m. Sunday.
Deputy Sheriff James German
testified he had heard the Shelton
Police Radio calls and he and a
reserve deputy had gone to the
Holman St. address following the
ambulance.
He testified that Christian had
been found lying in the doorway
to the bathroom with the rifle
under his right knee.
German stated that after
assisting in getting Christian into
the ambulance, he had checked
the home. He discovered, he said,
a bullet hole in the ceiling in the
kitchen and had found one spent
cartridge on the floor in the
kitchen under a chair a short
distance from where Christian
fell.
German said paraffin test run on
Christian had proved positive on
the right index finger, indicating
he had fired the rifle.
He said the rifle had been
identified as a 30-30 Model 44
Winchester and that as near as
could be determined it belonged
to Christian.
He stated that he and Sheriff
John Robinson had checked the
gun further and had found one
spent cartridge in the rifle and
Chris Sytsma
submit their recommendations to
the State Board of Education for
approval.
The board received four
recommendations from the
Citizen's Advisory Committee.
A recommendation from the
executive committee of the
advisory committee asked the
board to meet with student
leaders from the high school to
discuss student government
problems.
The board agreed to meet with
the students and representatives
of the administration later this
month.
A recommendation from the
Advisory Committee's special
committee on drug, smoking and
two live rounds in the magazine.
Mrs. Christian, German said,
was setting in the bath tub, and
when the water was drained from
the tub after her body had been
removed, a rifle slug was found in
the tub.
The rifle was dusted for finger
prints, German stated, but no
positively identifiable prints were
found, only smudges. In answer
to a question from one of the
jurors, he stated the gun had not
been wiped clean, but that the
prints which were on it were
smudged.
Robinson testified that he had
arrived at the Christian home
about 11:15 a.m. after being
called at his home.
He said he had gone into the
attic and had found the spent
bullet there which had gone
through the kitchen ceiling.
A second spent bullet was
found in the bathtub, the Sheriff
said.
Robinson said the shot
which killed Mrs. Christian
entered her right arm, went
through the chest cavity and came
out through the left arm before
falling into the bath tub after
hitting at an angle.
The shot which killed Christian
entered his body under the arm
on the left side, passing through
Teresa Trimble
alcohol education recommended
that a review committee
composed of students and faculty
members be set up to screen
films, speakers and other
information to determine how it
would be received by the
students.
The building committee
recommended that the board
investigate the possibility of
hiring a service company
specializing in this kind of work
to do routine maintenance on the
buildings which would free the
regular janitors to take care of
other work.
It also recommended that a
full-time handiman-craftsman be
employed to take care of some
work, that a schedule of
preventative maintenance be set
up, clocks by repaired so they all
tell the correct time, that the fire
marshalls and health department
report deficiencies by corrected
In
Shelton High
award-winning Drama
Department has increased its
stack of honors. At the
.Washington Association of
Theatre Artists draoaatics festival
at Pullman on May 8 and 9, two
cast members of Shelton's entry,
"The Gnadiges Fraulein" by
Tennessee Williams, received
acting awards.
Margy Tylczak was honored
as the best actress in Washington
State, and Vicki Pierce was
awarded the title of best
supporting actress. Both girls were
presented medals, and the Drama
Department will receive a
certificate for participating in the
state competition.
A total of ten schOOls
competed at the WATA festival
for five awards: best actor and
supporting actor, best actress, and
supporting actress, and best play
in state. Shelton scooped up two
awards, and narrowly missed
getting best play in state.
Top honors went to jefferson
High School; located near Federal
T H E C A S T of Finians's Rainbow rehearses for the Way.
presentation of the Shelton High School Music Department's The three festival judges were
Production during Forest Festival. The musical will be Dr. Paul Wadleigh, head of
presented May 21, 22, and 23 in the Junior High Auditorium Washington State University
starting at 8 p.m. theatre; Dr. Kent Gallagher, a
his body and into the ceiling.
Robinson said he had talked to
three relatives and was told the
couple had had marital difficulties
for about a year and a half after
Christian had suffered a back
injury.
Robinson stated he had been
told Christian had accused his
wife of being unfaithful.
Members of the coroner's jury
were Thomas Weston, Ken
Wolden, Gerald Whitcomb,
Bernard Hoag, Rudolph Purse and
Arnold Livingston.
Mr. Christian was born May 29,
1910 in Olympia and had lived in
Shelton for the past five years.
Survivors include two sons,
Fred of Port Angeles, and Barry,
Shelton; seven daughters, Mrs.
Barbara Settle, Arizona; Mrs.
Robin Sadler, Kodiak, Alaska;
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, address
unknown; Mrs. Mary Ann
Hathaway, Mrs. Elaine Antin,
Miss Geraldine Christian and Mrs.
Sherril Kolar, all of Shelton; his
mother, Mrs. Sarah Christian,
Olympia; five brothers, Thomas,
Judge Denies
Dismissal On
U.S. District Judge Robert C.
Belloni, in Portland Wednesday,
refused to dismiss the Oregon and
Washington suits to halt the
shipment of nerve gas through the
two states.
The Federal. Government had
asked the suits be dismissed.
Judge Belloni said he would
put off until after May 21 a
decision on whether or not an
injunction against the shipments
should be issued.
Yuma, Ariz.; Wallace, Westport;
Ernie, Tumwater, Clarence,
Olympia, and Dale, Tacoma; four
sisters, Mrs. Mattie Backlund,
Hoodsport; Mrs. Dorothy Kelly,
Shelton ; Mrs. Charlotte
Injunction,
Nerve
He is scheduled to hear a case
in Seattle May 21 in which a suit
has been filed on behalf of several
Washington residents by the
American Civil Liberties Union
seeking to halt the shipments.
Disposition of the court actions
is the last barrier to the shipment
of the gas from where it is stored
on Okinawa to the Naval
Ammunition Depot at Bangor and
from there by rail to the Army
Ordnance Depot at Hermiston,
Ore.
Rasmussen, Seattle, and Mrs.
Esther Hull, Olympia, and 12
grandchildren.
Mrs. Christian was born Nov.
14, 1924 in Brinnon and had lived
in Shelton the past five years.
Survivors include five
daughters, Mrs. Dorothy
Christianson, Lakebay; Mrs. Mary
Ann Hathaway, Mrs. Elaine
Antin, Miss Geraldine Christian
and Mrs. Sherril Kolar, all of
Shelton; her mother, Mrs. Mary
Ann Bennett, Renton, two
brothers, Richard and Robert
Bennett, Renton, and six
grandchildren.
A combined graveside service
will be held for the couple at 1
p.m. Friday at Shelton Memorial
Park with Rev. Horace Mounts
officiating. Batstone Funeral
Home will be in charge of
arrangements.
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Mary Tabor
where they did not involve a large
amount of money and working
toward a better line of
communications in the
maintenance department.
The curriculum sub-committee
recommended that a full-time
curriculum director be employed,
a study of the vocational needs of
the school and community be
made, a vocational director be
added to the staff, the counseling
staff in the junior and senior high
be brought up to state standards
and that counselors be added for
the elementary schools. The total
cost of the recommendations
would be about $100,000, the
report said.
The board ratified a
negotiations package which had
been worked out by GrinneU and
the Shelton Education
Association negotiating team.
The agreement now goes to the
SEA membership for approval.
rama
iven
School's
The queen of the Mason
County 1970 Forest Festival will
be announced Tuesday as the
queen's banquet opens the
Festival activities.
Candidates for queen are
Linda Kriebs, Chris Sytsma and
Mary Tabor from Shelton High
School; Teresa Trimble from
Mary M. Knight High School and
Crystal Lamb from North Mason
High School.
Miss Lamb was selected to
represent North Mason after
Eileen Sande, who had been
selected originally, was injured in
a car accident and was unable to
continue her duties with the royal
court.
The method of selecting and
announcing the queen was
changed substantially this year
from what it had been in previous
years.
In the past, the queen had
been selected in March and had
reigned in a variety of pre-festival
activities.
This year, the selection of the
queen , is being done at the
queen's selection dinner tonight,
and the name kept secret until the
queen's banquet Tuesday at Mt.
View School Multi-Purpose room.
The queen's banquet is again
under the sponsorship of the
Chamber of Commerce with John
K. Bennett as general chairman
for the event this year.
Rocky Hembroff will serve as
master of ceremonies for the
program Tuesday night. The flag
salute, a welcome and
presentation of awards will be
handled by Dr. Jud Holloway,
president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
John Stentz, president of the
Forest Festival Association, will
announce the name of the queen
and will present her with her
crown.
Festival Poster Contest awards
will be presented by Ed Hopkins,
chairman of the project for the
Jaycees, who handle the poster
contest for the festival
association.
Entertainment for the
program will be provided by the
Shelton High School Music
Department under the directionof
Bruce Moorehead and Robert
Miller.
Also taking part in the
coronation ceremonies will be
Harvey Farrimond, who portrays
Paul Bunyan; Terri Ramsfield,
Lions Club Junior High Princess
and county princesses Virginia
Dundas, Southside; Susan
Dickinson, Pioneer; Lenore
Leonard, Grapeview; Eloise San
Eloise San Luis
Belfair
NM Has New
Princess
Luis, North Mason; Karen Lillie,
Mary M. Knight; Darlene Krise,
Kamilche and Cheryl Molinero,
Hood Canal. Following the
opening of Festival activities with
the queen's banquet Tuesday
night, other activities are
scheduled starting with the
Shelton High School Music
Department's production of
Finian's Rainbow, which will be
at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights in the Junior
High Auditorium.
Saturday will be the big day
with the Junior Paul Bunyan
parade starting at 10 a.m. in
downtown Shelton, followed by
the Paul Bunyan parade at 10:30
a.m.
The action moves to Loop
Field and the Logger's Sport
Show, starting at 2 p.m. Saturday
afternoon.
Crystal Lamb, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Krismer, Belfalr,
has been selected as Mason County
Forest Festival Queen candidate
form North Mason High School to
replace Eileen Sande.
Miss. Sande was injured in a
traffic accident last month and
was unable to continue her duties
as a emeber of the royal court.
Her high school activities
include the all school play, ASB
treasurer, annual staff, baseball
statistician, GAA, Girls Club, girl
of the month, Homecoming
Queen, Pep Club, Rally Squad,
student council representative,
senior play and Hall of Fame.
Leonore Leonard
Grapeview
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Susan Dickinson
Pioneer
Karen Lillie
Mary M. Knight
Washington State University
dramatics professor and president
of WATA and Richard Pintane, a
graduate student from the
University of Hawaii. During the
critique immediately follbwing
performance, their comments
included compliments on the
strong characterization in the
play, the unobvious blocking
techniques, and the over-all
quality of the play. The judges
expecially liked the cockaloony
bird, as portrayed by Steve
Evander. After the presentation
of awards, Dr. Wadleigh came out
to the Shelton bus and
congratulated the east and
directors for a fine job.
The cast list included Patti
Bourgault as Polly, Margy Tylczak
as Molly, Jim Erwin as the
Permanent Transient, Vieki Pierce
as the gnadiges fraulein, Steve
Evander as the cockaloony and
Neil McClanahan as Indian Joe.
Student directors were Chris
Bevis, Sue Lemagie, and Gaye
Scheel.
The entire contest operation
was handled by Dean Tarrach,
who, for the last four years, has
produced contest winners. Plans
have already started for an entry
for next year, with the ambitious
class after a fifth win.
Cheryl Molinero
Hood Canal
Darlene IX, rise
Kamilcb.e
Virginia Dundas
Southside