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Voters in the Pioneer School District Tuesday rejected a special levy for maintenance and' operation of its school for the coming year by a vote of 256 yes and 215 no. The special levy needed a 60 percent yes vote to pass. The special levy received a vote of 54 percent yes. This was the second defeat for the levy in the district this year and it cannot be put on the ballot again. The levy, for $96,000, had been reduced from the previous levy proposal of $193,000 which was defeated in March. Voters in two of the four precincts in the district gave the levy proposal strong support with Northside voting 67 yes and 34 no and Harstine voting 59 yes and 28 no. Pickering precinct gave the proposal 43 yes and 40 no votes while Miller precinct voted heavily against the levy with 113 no and 87 yes votes. Thursday, May 22, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year, Number 21 3 Sections - 34 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy i ANOTHER SLAB drops off the log during the large power saw competition during the eliminations for the Forest Festival Loggers' Sport Show. The eliminations were held at the fairgrounds Saturday to reduce entrants for the festival event to four in each contest. for and against Shelton School levy which will be 3 were heard by a small crowd at the Mason County Young Democrat meeting last Wednesday evening. Speaking in support of the levy was Walt Parsons and speaking against was John Kneeland. Parsons confined his opening Second consecutive ItOrdeaux School class tutored by yielded a "Keep Green" poster entries, that Cindy Baxter took the state in the In the 1974 SUSan Goodbum race at state to win first regional contest western states. Prize winner for of Janna and She had not to the beginning of the 90 sixth-graders studying art under the direction of Lee Rhodes is required to make a poster for the "Keep Washington Green" contest. "In each of the three classrooms," he explains, "students vote to choose six favorites. These are copied on quality paper and all are entered in the Mason County competition. From then on it's out of my hands. "1 guess I've just been lucky," he adds• "It's more than that," Cindy Baxter declares. "He's a real good teacher!" is in the timber says, "and in Pictures in his ideas for my assignment each CINDY BAXTER, grand prize winner in the State "Keep Washington Green" .l:)oSter contest, has a big smile for her art teacher, Lee Rhodes, sixth-grade InStructor in Bordeaux School. remarks to a comparison of teachers' salaries in the Shelton District in comparison to those in industry here. He presented charts which showed pay for beginning teachers below that for the base wage for employees of ITT Rayonier and Simpson Timber Company. Parsons presented a charge which indicated that while base salaries at ITT Rayonier had increased by 150 percent over the past several years and at Simpson 148 percent, the base salary for teachers had increased 117 percent. Even if the part of the levy intended to increase teacher salaries is approved, Parsons said, they would still be below the base salaries for ITT Rayonier and Simpson. He stated teachers on the average spent about seven hours a week in additional time beyond what they spend in the classroom and that they are required to get a fifth year of education which they must pay for themselves and do on their own time. Parsons also stated teacher salaries in the Shelton District are below that of other districts in the area and below the state average for first class districts. In his opening remarks, K neeland said that to him a special levy should be for something which was unforeseen. He stated that a part of the levy is for purchase of buses. He stated that buses are machines and can be expected to wear out and need to be replaced. He said there should have been a fund set aside for the replacement of the buses. Kneeland said he would not argue with the point that the schools need money, but that the problem is the continuing to overtax the property owners. A solution should be worked out by the school people and. the legislature, he said. He stated he would not question that the teachers were not adequately paid, but that he was not satisfied with the levy method of financing and that there has to be a better way of acquiring the needed funds. Parsons commented in other remarks that tt was doubtful the legislature would do anything and that the low level of state support was unforeseen. He commented also that the Shelton District had the lowest per pupil expenditure of any first class district. The district, he said, has had good financial management but that the teachers had been subsidizing the budget Larry E. Harper, 34, 1413 Ellinor, Shelton, suffered a number of injuries when his four-wheel drive vehicle went off the road on Highway 3 about 4.7 miles north of Shelton at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Washington State Patrol reported. The patrol said Harper suffered two broken legs, a crushed skull, multiple lacerations and contusions and a "broken pelvis. He was taken to Mason General Hospital by a Fire District Five aid car and was transferred to St. Peter Hospital in Olympia after emergency treatment. balancing with the low salary level. The need, he said, is for additional buses because more students are being bussed than before. He agreed that a better method of financing schools is needed, but that until that occurs the school district needs the money from the special levy to operate. An income tax is one possibility, Parsons said, but it will have to be written so there is a lid before it will be approved. A Mason Lake couple, Victor and Mildred Christiansen, Rt. 1, Box 623, were injured when an apparent explosion set their 25-foot camper trailer on fire. The couple were taken to Mason General Hospital by an aid car from Fire District 5, which had answered the fir call. Officials of the fire district f• The patrol said Harper was southbound on Highway 3 when the vehicle went off the road to the right, struck a power pole and came to rest on its side. Richard Knight, chief of Fire District Five, said extraction equipment recently purchased by the district and carried in the aid cars, was used for the first time to get Harper out of the smashed vehicle. Knight said it was necessary to use the equipment to get the smashed vehicle opened enough that Harper could be gotten out. Harper was pinned in the vehicle in the driver's seat with his face in the dirt when fire department personnel arrived, Knight said. rl Albert W. DeWitt, 31, Tacoma, was sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in the custody of the Department of Institutions on a charge of carnal knowledge. The sentence was imposed by Superior Court Judge Gerry Alexander, before whom DeWitt appeared Friday. DeWitt had pleaded guilty to the charge, which had been reduced from a charge of rape to one of carnal knowledge, April 25. Deputy Prosecutor Gary Burleson to:d the court DeWitt had picked up a 15-year-old Bremerton girl who was hitchhiking in that area and had taken her to an area in Mason County where the offense occurred. Burleon told the court DeWitt had been convicted in Mason County in 1968 of carnal knowledge, auto theft and escape and that he had at that time been sentenced to prison terms to be • tO said- the cause of the explosion was undetermined. Three fire trucks, an aid car and 12 firemen from the fire district responded to the fire call and brought the fire under control in about 20 minutes. The trailer was totally destroyed. served consecutively which totaled 50 years. He was taken to the state penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1970 and was paroled 3½ years later• Burleson said the prosecutor's office concurred in the conclusion of the pre.sentence report that DeWitt was a menace to society and was not safe to be at large. DeWittt's attorney, Michael committed. He ~iso stated he did not believe the program at Western State Hospital would be appropriate. Judge Alexander stated he would recommend DeWitt be held in a state institution until such time as it was determined he was safe to be at large and that he receive whatever type of treatment is available. Jennings, Tacoma, asked DeWitt be given a suspended sentence on the charge or that he be sent to Western State Hospital to participate in the sexual psychopath program. Jennings told the court that DeWitt had been married since his release from the penitentiary and was on work release in the Spokane area up until a short time before he had come to the Tacoma area, where he was staying at the time the offense occurred. Jennings told the court DeWitt and his wife were expecting their first child in a few months. The attorney told the court if DeWitt were given a suspended sentence he would return to the Spokane area where he had had no problems. Judge Alexander, in sentencing DeWitt, stated he did not believe a suspended sentence would be appropriate where there had been previous criminal behavior and where a sex crime involving force had been thatBill __till School hearing on its bud The Shelton School Board has set 8 p.m. May 27 for its preliminary budget hearing. A special meeting is being held to consider the preliminary budget. Superintendent Louis Grinnell said approval of the preliminary budget by June 1 is required by state law and allows the district to have a budget to operate under from July 1 until the final budget is approved in September. The final budget will probably be changed considerably from the preliminary, depending on what the state does as far as school financing is concerned and whether or not the special maintenance and operation levy scheduled for a vote June 3 is approved. IIIIIIlUlIIIIIIIIIIBIlUlIlUlIIIBlUllBIIBIBtBIN! SIMPSON TIMBER COMPANY'S three-day auction to sell the contents of the now-defunct Shelton Insulating Board Plant has attracted customers from as far as Puerto Rico and Los Angeles. Begun on Tuesday, the auction sold items from ten-ton refiners to hand tools called by a Portland auctioning firm. Simpson officials do not yet have plans for the building itself.