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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.
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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.