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~Villiam O. Hunter
in the Skokomish
destroyed by fire
out shortly after
is a Mason County
County Sheriff's
at the scene
said Mr. and Mrs.
in the yard in front
when they observed
front room of the
3ted to control
a fire extinguisher,
that was unsuccessful
get the Skokomish
Department truck
y.
Pam, went to
house to call for
of the Skokomish,
and Union Fire
and the department
:es joined in the
the fire. Water
the state trout
~ad Joe Bourgault's
service were also
assist in providing a
Water for the fire
l nc:..en were able to contain
the fire to the home and adjoining
garage, saving a shop which
housed gas tanks and tools and a
horse barn directly behind the
house.
The sheriff's office reported
the value of the house was about
$20,000. In addition, there was
about $500 damage to Hunter's
car which was parked alongside
the front of the house and $1,500
damage to the county car Hunter
uses as county commissioner.
Also lost were some 25 years
of personal and business records
and a number of antiques as well
as the rest of the contents of the
house.
The home was the original
Bishop home. The Bishops were
Hunter's mother's parents.
The family is presently
staying at their summer home on
Hood Canal near Union. There are
two children, Paul, a fourth
grader, and Pam, a ninth grader,
both of whom attend Hood Canal
School.
An older son, William Jr., is
attending Washington State
University at Pullman.
The cause of the fire is
undertermined, authorities said.
an ax 30 feet and bury it in a target," Lewis
as he reminisces about his logging days.
op honors in the first Forest-Festival logging
s and a feature story appear on page 15.
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SMOULDERING REMAINS were all that were left of the William Hunter
home in the Skokomish Valley Tuesday morning.
Thursday, May 17, 1973 Eighty-seventh Year, Number 20 4 Sections - 34 PagesTen Cents Per Copy
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A number of Mason County
elected officials were among those
who indicated they will resign if
Initiative 276 stays in effect.
The statements were gathered
by attorneys seeking to have the
initiative declared
unconstitutional in a recent law
suit in Thurston County.
The attorneys sent forms to
elected officials on which they
were asked to check if they would
resign or not run again if the
initiative remained in effect.
The statements were excluded
from evidence presented in the
case which was heard by Superior
Court Judge Frank Baker.
Mason County officials who
returned the forms indicating
they would resign or not seek
re-election were:
Fire districts: District 1,
Michael Kirk; District 3, Edward
Bartolat; District 4, Cad Emsley
and Henry Unger; District 6, Otto
Wojahn and Orville Good; District
8, Phyllis Fixemer and Dr. Frank
Taylor; District 9, Edward
Nolden ; District 1 1, Ray
Schwietering; District 12, I.C.
Ford; District 13, Clifford Harto.
Public Utility Districts: Mason
Four a
County PUD 3, Harold M. Parker,
Jack A. Cole and Edwin Taylor.
School Districts:
Hood Canal - Warren Edinger
Sr., Richard Endicott, Johnny
Activities for the Mason
County Forest Festival start
Tuesday night with the
announcement of the queen at
the Queen's Banquet.
The banquet will be at 7 p.m.
in the Mto View School
multi-purpose room.
One of the five candidates,
Christine Judd, Valerie Strickland
and Jeanee Nutt from Shelton
High School; Diane Shirk from
North Mason High School and
Coleen Graham from Mary M.
Knight High School will be named
as queen.
Also to be honored at the
dinner is Junior High Princess
Gayle Thornock and county
princesses Kelly Harris, Pam
Hunter, Barbara Coker, Patsy
Crabtree, Michelle Merriman,
pear ~n cou
criminal
ar
Four young men appeared in
Mason County Superior Court
Friday morning for identification
on criminal charges.
David Tatosian, 21, Shelton,
appeared on a charge of
possession of a controlled
substance.
He pleaded not guilty to the
charge and asked for a speedy
trial. His trial was set for the week
of June 11 and he was released on
personal recognizance by Judge
Frank Baker.
Charged with second degree
burglary were Chris Clinton, 21,
and Steven Clinton, 25, both
from the Union area.
They are charged with the
burglary of an unoccupied
residence on the Skokomish
Indian Reservation belonging to
Bennett Cooper.
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The Mason County Sheriff's
Office said the two brothers were
apprehended last Thursday
afternoon by Cooper who held
them until officers arrived.
Officers said Cooper had been
told by a neighbor that someone
was at the abandoned house and
he went to investigate, stopping
the two as they were leaving.
Officers said an antique hand
woven Indian basket, a wicker
basket and a ceramic tea pot were
taken from the house and were
recovered.
Judge Baker, after talking to
the two young men, stated he
believed they had funds to hire
their own attorney and set their
bail at $1,000 each.
Also appearing before ludge
Baker was Jon Fuller, 19,
Shelton, charged with sale or
delivery of a controlled substance.
Gerald Whitcomb, Shelton
attorney, was named to represent
him.
Hawk and Wilbur Boelander.
Mary M. Knight - Arvid
Harvey, William Barnes Sr.,
Herbert Brehmeyer Jr. and James
K. Gribble. -
North Mason R.L Sills,
Raymond Kronquist, and Jerry
Reid.
Shelton District - Thomas R.
Weston and Bruce Jorgenson.
Carrie Hawley and Marie Lincoln.
Also on hand for the program
will be Paul Bunyan Doug Long
and Glenn Leader, who is
portraying Smokey the Bear on
the court's visitation this year.
Master of Ceremonies will be
Bud Lyon. Walt Parsons,
president of the chamber of
commerce, will welcome guests
and Darryl Cleveland, president of
the Forest Festival Association,
will speak to the group.
Robert Barstad, from the U.S.
Forest Service, will present poster
contest awards.
Selection from the Shelton
High School Music Department's
production of Li'l Abner will be
presented.
Lil Abner will be presented at
8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights at the junior high
auditorium.
Members of the cast are Bert
Barnes as Li'l Abner, Chris-Judd
as Daisy Mae; Dave Caulfield as
Marryin' Sam; Cherie Tabor as
Mammy Yokum and Rick Dwyer
as Pappy Yokum.
The production is under the
direction of Don Anderson and
Robert Miller.
The carnival and concessions
will be at Kneeland Center
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday.
Saturday activities will start
off with the Paul Bunyan Junior
Parade at 10 a.m. with youngsters
in the area participating in a
variety of costume catagories.
The Paul Bunyan Parade will
start at 10:30 a.m. through
downtown Shelton.
The route of the parade has
been changed slightly this year. It
will start at Ninth and Railroad
instead of Eighth and Railroad as
previously and will turn on
Second Street instead of First
Street. The parade will go one
block on Second Street and then
turn onto Cota and back to the
Lincoln Gym area where it will
disband.
The change in the parade
route to keep it off Highway 101
was made in order to help
alleviate the traffic problem
which occurs from blocking the
highway and getting traffic
through on a detour route.
The Logger's Sports Show is
(Please turn to page eight.)
Logging show
trials
Eliminations for all
competition events in the Forest
Festival Logging Show will be
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
at Loop Field.
The competition events this
year are skidder driving, truck
driving, small power saw bucking
contest, large power saw bucking,
high ground choker setting and a
keg putting contest.
Rules are available at power
saw shops and log dumps and will
be explained at the beginning of
the eliminations.
Those wishing to watch the
eliminations are welcome. A
Forest Festival button is
admission to either participate or
be a spectator.
By CATHY COCKRELL
"Too much business" is a
strange complaint to hear from
any businessman, yet this in
essence is the problem that many
local service station operators
anticipate as gas rationing makes
its initial impact in the Shelton
area.
Most local gas and service
stations were notified by their
companies or distributors this
week concerning the status of
their gas deliveries in the
immediate future.
Independent operators, so
hard hit in other areas, as yet have
felt a minimal impact. Jack Pot,
Fina and Bingers, along with the
Shell stations, received regular
deliveries of gas and no notice of
changes.
Among those notified,
Texaco's letter promises an
amount "not to exceed the
amount delivered during the same
month last year," a phrasing
which establishes a ceiling but no
floor for gas deliveries. Standard
and Mobil stations, too, are
receiving gas in quantities equal to
that delivered in the
corresponding month last year.
This is a reduction, in effect, since
sales would otherwise be greater
than last year.
Eighty-three percent of the
amount delivered during the same
month last year is presently
delivered to the Union 76 station,
while the Atlantic Richfield
Company is supplying its ARCO
stations at a ratio of 70 percent of
last year's delivery.
Operators whose gas supply is
cut by 30 percent or 20 percent
or merely limited to last year's
quantities must choose between
several possible adjustments to
the rationing: absorb the loss, cut
help, shorten hours, shut the
doors a day or two a week, raise
prices or pump gas until the tanks
are dry and then close until the
next delivery.
Most local stations now being
rationed are opting to shorten
hours and/or close on Sundays,
hoping in that way to conserve
gas for regular customers rather
than squandering it on one-time
customers passing through with
gas-thirsty campers. Pumping gas
till it runs out and then taking a
vacation is going to be instituted
by at least one Shelton manager,
however.
Behind the rationing, local gas
and service station operators
perceive a variety of causes and
speculate as to a number of
possible effects. Those who focus
on the apparent reason for the
rationing - a fuel energy crisis,
believe in varying origins of that
energy crisis. Nader's Raiders and
the ecologists who pushed for low
compression engines, non-leaded
gas and emissions contiols are
held to blame by one operator,
since, he says, mileage per gallon
has been cut about in half by the
new cars.
More than one operator
enthusiastically subscribes to the
argument put forth by William
Randolph Hearst in Sunday's
Seattle Post Intelligencer and the
rest of the Hearst syndicate
newspapers, that "well-meaning
but short-sighted and stubborn"
ecologists have prevented the
building of the Alaska pipeline,
and that there, in the untapped
oil of "one of the largest
petroleum accumulations known
to the world today," lies the
source of this week's rationing
notifications.
Others share the belief that
the Alaska pipeline is related to
the gas supply reduction, but see
the rationing as a political
manipulation designed to
stimulate a public outcry for the
pipeline.
The consensus of opinion,
however, allows for a
combination of reasons. Bill
Jackson of J&J ARCO speaks of
what may be a "four-way
squeeze," which includes a real
shortage, but involves, in
addition, pressure being brought
to bear upon the independents,
(Please turn to page two.)
JESS PHILLIPS, Shelton
service station operator,
thinks current gasoline
shortage is connected with
trouble in the Middle East
and pollution-control devices
on new autos.
Petitions
lid's
in track meet
A petition asking additional
events for girls in the Rotary Club
city school track meet was
presented to the Shelton Rotary
Club last week.
The petition contained 29
signatures and asked that the
100-yard dash, broad jump and
high jump be added to the events
for girls.
Rotary officials explained
that the club's sponsorship of the
meet is confined to providing
ribbons and assisting at the meet
with some of its members.
The meet is directed by the
schools and policy on events is set
by the school officials. The
petition was referred to the club's
track meet committee which in
turn referred it to school
authorities.
School officials said they were
considering the request, but tl~t
time to have the additional events
is a major factor since the amount
of time available for the meet is
limited. Students from the three
Shelton elementary schools
compete.
School officials said they
would attempt to work the
additional events in for this year,
and if they were unable to do so,
they would work it out so they
could be included next year.
There is about two weeks
before the track meet is
scheduled.
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Mason General Hospital has
certified it will not exclude any
person from admission on the
grounds they cannot pay for care,
a legal notice published this week
says.
The statement, which is
required under Public Health
Service and the Washington State
Medical Facilities Construction
Plan, says persons who are
determined unable to pay for
needed services will be provided
services without charge or at a
charge which does not exceed the
person's ability to pay.
The level of services to be
provided and the criteria used to
determine whether or not a
person is able to pay are set by
the state department of social and
health services.
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