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June 14, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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persons appeared at the School Board meeting. to voice objections administrators going day during a teacher A LATE-AFTERNOON FISHERMAN trying his luck in the beautiful Skokomish River illustrates one of the many pleasures of living in Mason County which are found in the 108-page Visitor's Guide to Mason County published in this week's Journal. Thursday, June 14, 1973 Eighty-seventh Year, Number 24 5 Sections - 84 Pages Ten Cents Per Copy The Mason County Democrat Central Committee has set a special meeting for 8 p.m. June 28 in the Mason County Courthouse to select the three persons' names it will submit to the county commission as candidates for appointment as sheriff to succeed Sheriff John D. Robinson, who is retiring July 15. Central Committee Chairman Robert Whitmarsh said anyone interested in applying for the position should contact him at the IWA office before 5 p.m. June 20. No Applications will be considered after that date. The action to set up the special meeting was taken at the central committee's regular meeting last Thursday. The action came after a motion to vote on the candidates at the regular meeting was defeated. Several candidates appeared before the committee and others submitted written applications. The candidates include several present and past members of the sheriff's department, along with others. The candidates who had indicated an interest before the Thursday night meeting include D.S. (Sam) Clark, Harry Elmlund, Dan McNair, Leslie Kennedy, Selmar Ofte, Marvin (Mike) Snyder, Ann Rose and James German. Clark is a former sheriff, having served one four-year term before being defeated in his bid for re-election by the late Wallace Anderson. He served nine years as a deputy sheriff before being elected as sheriff and has since been employed at the Washington Corrections Center. Elmlund is a former county commissioner and retired assistant chief of the Washington State Patrol. McNair is a former deputy sheriff who is now living in the Yakima area. Petitions bearing a number of names from the North Mason area were submitted to the central committee on McNair's behalf. Kennedy is a former deputy sheriff here and presently chief of police in North Bend. He was employed at the corrections center before becoming a deputy sheriff here and was in law enforcement work in California before coming to Washington. Of to is a barber in Shelton. Snyder is presently detective sergeant in charge of the Belfair substation of the sheriff's office. He was a Shelton police patrolman and a correctional officer at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla before joining the sheriff's department in 1964. Mrs. Rose is chief civil deputy in the sheriff's office here where she has been employed for the past 5½ years. German is presently a sergeant with the Shelton Police Department and is a former deputy sheriff. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff in 1970 and was defeated by Robinson. He joined the sheriff's department as a deputy in 1965 and served until 1970 when he joined the Shelton Police Department where he was promoted to the rank of sergeant two years ago. Whitmarsh said all of the candidates will be given an opportunity at the June 28 meeting to tell about their qualifications and a question and answer period will be provided so central committee members can ask questions of the candidates. a teacher at the Corrections Center, er of the Association, that he was to the action very how much the Elma District had paidthe district for the time the had been at Louis Grinnell District had been the amount of the salaries for one transportation to Elma The money, he said, d as yet. opposition action was Baird at Pioneer School of the Shelton stated the decision to six administrators to been his and not the accepted the of three retiring Arne Johnson, high VOcational carpentry; an elementary and George high art teacher. board approved a to continue operation School District 1 through August 30. Came at the request of State Department representatives of the -O'Mally Indian ~ Program were at the to tell about the of the program in the School Board set regular meeting date, bids on the football baseball fidd and and other items in complex at the new opening was set on of architect the project include courts, a football a baseball field and basketball court. in the proposal as an be the installation courts at Bordeaux By CHARLES GAY It was a standoff last Thursday when the boards of trustees of the Shelton Public Library and the Timberland Regional Library met to discuss a possible contractual agreement between the two systems. Neither the representatives from Shelton nor those from Timberland would budge from positions taken earlier on the issue of the city library serving county patrons, who are Timberland's responsibility. Shelton trustees were very much concerned over losing local control of the library if they were to enter into a contract with Timberland. Timberland trustees kept repeating that they could only offer Shelton the standard contract which is offered to all other municipalities in the Timberland region. In short, very little was accomplished at the meeting, but the arguments which have been going on between Shelton and Timberland for some time were rehashed. Frank Maranville, chairman of the Shelton board, gave a brief history of past library service and interactions with Timberland. For the first 46 years following the Shelton Library's birth in 1914, the library ~erved both city and county patrons and was reimbursed for the county patrons who used it by the county commissioners. During part of that period, 1960-64, the'library cooperated with the South Puget Sound Regional Library, of which Mason County was a member. The city library served county citizens and reimbursement came from SPSRL in the form of books for the city's use. From 1964 to 1968, the infant Timberhind Regional Library ran its demonstration in hopes ofget~io~p-p°rt from the areas it served. During this period, the city library served county patrons free and, under law, could not be reimbursed for this service by Timberland. In 1968, Mason County's voters approved the Timberland system which then began to serve them. Shelton city residents continued to be served by the city library. County taxes pay for Timberland's service; city taxes are the only source of funds for Shdton's library. Though Timbedand could not pay reimbursements to Shelton during the demonstration period, there is no legal reason why it could not reimburse the city after 1968, said Maranville. The Timberland Regional Library serves Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston counties. Maranville said the Shelton library had served county residents free of charge for four years during Timberland's demonstration period before the Shdton board took its first steps to be reimbursed by Timberland. He said when Shelton's board met with representatives from Timberland, the standard contract was offered as the only way to do business. The standard contract states that the city will pay Timberland a certain rate for the library service and the city will maintain the library building in that city. Under the agreement, the city contracts with Timberland and Timberland runs the city library. %Ve didn't feel the standard contract was advantageous to our library or our community, so we refused the offer," said Maranville. Later, he said, the number of county patrons using the Shelton Library increased to about 50 percent of all transactions. Again the Shelton board tried to find some way to be reimbursed for this service Shelton's library was giving Timbedand patrons. He said Timberland was contacted again last October by the Shdton group, which was willing to be reimbursed by money or services. To the surprise of none, the standard contract was offered again by Timberland and rejected by Shelton. Last fall the city's library bond issue was turned down by a narrow margin and Maranville said several people complained that county residents weren't paying for the service they were getting from the Shelton library. They didn't want to subsidize someone else's free use of the city library, he said. In a final effort to collect for the service it gave county residents, the Shelton board reluctantly started a fee of $7 at the beginning of this year, charged for non-city residents to use its library. The fee stirred up quite a bit of controversy locally, he said, and "people are now aware of the fact that there are two libraries in the county." The Shelton board sent a proposal to Timberland on April 20 of this year which would provide that Timberland pay Shelton $21,000 per year for service given to out-of-city residents. Under the Shelton proposal, county residents would eet to use the city's library free, ana c~ty residents could use the T'nnberland facilities free. The Shelton board also said if Timberland did not want to pay $21,000 the city library would keep records and could be paid on a per-transaction basis. Just as Timberland would pay Shelton for any books checked, out by county patrons, Shelton would pay Timberland for any books checked out of Timberland's library by city patrons, according to the proposal. The $21,000 figure was based on the percentage of county resident patronage of the city library in 1972 and the amount of tax money transferred by the city to the operation of the library. Maranville said the Shdton board feels its patrons are being served quite well by the present library and that a substantial part of the county patrons are not being served Well enough by the combination bookmobile and telephone service offered by Timberland. Many county patrons who live close to Shelton would like to pick up their books in (Pleasetum to page two.) "NO THANKS" said Shelton's library board to Timberland Library's offer of the standard contract made by William H. Lawrence (center) of Timberland at Thursday's joint meeting of the two boards. Shelton board members pictured are Frank Heuston, left, and Frank Maranville. A STANDING OVATION greeted Dennis McKay when the spunky Shelton High School graduate received his diploma at last week's commencement ceremony. The event was the culmination of twelve years spent acquiring an education despite a life-long handicap. At right are Ushers Steve Settle and Laura Johnston. - i The Mason County Superior Court jury panel, which was to have heard two cases this week, did not have to appear after one of the defendants decided to change his plea to guilty and a second decided to be tried by the court without a jury. James Daugherty, 21, • Shelton, changed his plea to guilty to a charge of grand larceny by check when he appeared in court Monday before Judge Hewitt Henry. His jury trial had been scheduled to start Monday morning. Daugherty was sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison on the charge by Judge Henry. Deputy prosecuting attorney Gary Burleson told the court Daugherty was on probation at the time of the incident and that while he was charged with writing only one check, there were eight other checks which had been written about the same time. Daugherty's attorney, Gerald Whitcomb, Shehon, told the court he had contacted Kitsap County authorities where a grand larceny charge was also pending against Daugherty, and that authorities in that, county had agreed to drop the charge if the young man was committeed by Mason County. Whitcomb told the court Daugherty had been in jail 87 days since his arrest and had been held on a parole detainer. A jury trial of David Tatosian, Hoodsport, was scheduled to start this morning, but the jury demand was dropped this week and the case will be tried J efore Judge Hewitt Henry. Tatosian is charged with possession of a controlled substance (dl amphetamine) May 10. He was arrested at his home on that date. The trial will start at 11 a.m. today in the courthouse. Concrete beams for the freeway overpass on the Matlock Road were installed Tuesday morning. The installation of the beams reduces clearance on the road to 14 feet, a representative of the contractor said. The clearance will be increased to about 1,6 feet in about two months when re-grading of the road is completed, he added.