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Shelton Mason County Journal
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May 17, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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. '~k' ~! ~ ~ " . :~;~" ~.~-~ .;., N 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 Itl 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. ill 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. ~~~l~l~~l~~i~~l~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~ll~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~l~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~l~~~~~ll~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~l~~~~~llll~~~~~~ll~~~~~~~~~~l~l~~~~~ll~~~~l~~~~~l~~ll~~~~~~~l~~~i 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. ~~~~~~H~H~m~H~HHH~HH~Hu~ iii i