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Shelton would be unfair to the
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PAT WHEELER, confined to bed and encased in a body cast, successfully
completed second-grade classwork by means of a two-way communication
system.
By JAN DANFORD
Eight-year-old Pat Wheeler,
encased in a body cast and
confined to bed, has successfully
participated in his second grade
class at Mr. View School through
a two-way communication system
supplied by Bell Telephone
Company.
Pat, ~hc son of Mr. and Mrs.
K:,~le Wbeelc: ~: Shc!Eon, had
imaped through a summer of
-i~akenly diagnos~:d "gr~wing
" until in Deccmber of 1972
it was determined that he was a
victim of Leg Perthe's Disease
which involves deterioration of
the bone. The condition, which
can be corrected when promptly
On April 13 the youngster
underwent hip surgery and bone
graft in St. Peter's Hospital,
Olympia, where he remained for
seven days. On June 5, he
returned to the hospital for
removal of the cast and the pin.
The hmg days that stretched
between those dates were spent in
a bed, and many more days of
bed rest will be required.
In the front room of his Cole
Road home, the young man has
cheerfully pursued his studies
with fingertip control over the
near-by metal box that brought
him into the classroom. A flick of
the switch enabled him to speak
to his teacher. He recited, and he
treated, usually occurs in children joined in, th¢ laugh te(.~pa~1 the
tha~,,~iCat yea~s old.,; ti.~wg of his ~ow ~l~lliit~
e
Lightning, in spite of the old
adage, does occasionally strike
twice in the same place. Pat
Wheeler's sister, Denise, now a
fifth-grader, was hit by a car three
years ago. A pin was inserted in
her broken leg, and she remained
in a body cast for 45 days.
Without the benefit of the
Bell two-way communications
system, Denise could not
satisfactorily complete her school
year, and il was necessary for her
to repeat the grade.
Pat's teacher, Mrs. l_orna
Dayton, visited the Wheeler home
in April to explain the
communications system and the
procedures by which the
bed-ridden boy could maintain
direct contact ~,tth the sch~ml
room. Since that day the cheerful
child kept pace with his
classmates and enjoyed the
comradeship of their voices and
the pleasures of their daily
activities.
"Pat is always in real good
spirits," his mother declares. "He
is learning to play the guitar he
received for his March birthday,
and he also .... .tches and draws."
funds for the first six months of
this year.
Of the money, $35,248 is
expected to be used for punch
card voting equipment on which a
The Shelton City and Mason
County commissions have
announced plans for use of the
first half of the federal revenue
sharing funds they have received.
The city plans to use its contract was recently awarded. I ,~akes model cars. He
funds, $34,594, for construction An additional $40,000 is work ,gsaw puzzles. He plays
of an addition to the presentanticipated to be used for general with the family pets - two dogs,
fireball to house additional government and multi-purposetwo cats, two turtles.
equipment and additional space expenditures. Although therapy will in time
for volunteer sleepers. Expenditures for operating restore Pat s wasted muscles, he
A contract for the and maintenance expenditureswill not soon walk without
construction of the city hallinclude $14,083 for public safety, crutches: but his mind has
addition has been awarded. $8,077.50 for health and remained keen and strong and
Mason County received $47,916.50 for financial active through the use of the
$145,325 in revenue sharing administration, two-way communications system.
Chamber meeting
is set tonight
The Shelton Chamber of
Commerce will have its June
membership meeting at 7:30 p.m.
today at Lake Limerick Inn.
Speaker tor the program will
be Hank Sandstrom, operations
manager Northwest for Simpson
Timber Company. A new
Simpson film, "People, Land and
Trees," will be shown following
his remarks.
Special guests at the meeting
will be Mason County Senior
Citizen of the Year Charles
Wilkinson and his wife.
The royal court from the
McCleary Bear Festival will also
be special guests at the meeting.
This will be the last
membership meeting for the
chamber until September.
Are ready at Miller's Berry
Farms, located 2 miles west
Women sizes
4 & 4-1/2 only
"The Fam//y
Shoe Store"
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] over 4,175 members! ]
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Shelton
of Purdy, and ~/~ mi. N of
the Arco station on
Horseshoe Lake Rd. Starting
Sat., June 9th.
20 lb. can whole, washed,
graded unsuc~ared berries..
$9 plus deposit
2 lb. table ready whole
berries ......... $1.25
4Vz lb. can frozen jam $2.29
Sales room open
8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Miller Berry Farms
Phone 857-2250
(Continued from page one.)
Shelton, he said.
Shelton's board feels the city
library can take care of itself
financially and it doesn't want to
enter into a contract in which it
loses any say in how things are
run, he said.
Dr. William H. Lawrence of
the Timberland board said the
standard contract is the same one
offered to all municipalities
wishing to join Timberland; to
rest of the cities which have
already contracted with
Timberland.
(When asked after the meeting
what the "standard contract"
involved, Lawrence said it
included all salaries and materials.
The materials mean access to over
450,000 books, 10,000
recordings, rotation of 8,000 new
titles through the member
libraries, membership in
Washington Library Film Circuit,
116 permanent Timberland films,
borrowing privileges of 16 mm
projectors and screens, and
film-strip projectors. Lawrence
said the cost to the city under the
contract would be $36,039. The
Shelton Library budget for 1973
is $49,794.)
Maranville said the standard
contract would provide "for
Timberland to run our system as
part of their system. We feel we'd
lose a lot by giving up local
control and we feel people are fed
up with centralized government."
Lawrence answered by asking
the Shelton board to examine the
resources of the two systems (the
resources of the larger Timberland
system being greater, he said).
Bob Baker, a Timberland
board member from Packwood,
said the service in his city since
joining the Timberland system "is
so much improved that it is taking
pcople's breath away." He added
that a regional system is more
resourceful.
"One-town libraries are a
thing of the past," he said,
alluding to the high cost of
maintaining a good library~ He
said the city's money alone is not
enough to fund a good library.
Baker also said Packwood
now has a library building as a
result of belonging to Timberland.
Later, Shelton board members
agreed that a central building does
wonders for library service and
they argued that Timberland was
not providing this central building
service to Mason County patrons.
Shelton board member Frank
Heuston said Shelton will keep
providing library service "as long
as we get money from the city."
though it is "inequitable" to
Timberland to depart from the
standard contract in Shelton's
case, he said, "it isn't to me."
Lawrence gave an example of
a city in the region which
contracted with Timberland. He
said Chehalis pays $34,000 to
Timberland and receives services
worth $57,000. On the subject of
local control, he said, "Local
boards have an important
function within the regional
system. They don't lose control
of their area's programs. You
don't lose local participation by
joining the system."
Maranville said the'local board
can implement new programs on a
daily basis. "We can't envision
doing it this way with the larger
system."
Heuston felt joining the
Timberland system would mean a
loss of community pride in the
library. He said the Timberland
board would make the final
decision of any issue, making
Shelton subservient to
Timberland.
Shelton board member Tom
Weston was concerned about
preserving collections or books
which were given to the city
library as gifts or memorials. If all
books in all Timberland regional
libraries could be used by all
patrons, keeping certain books at
a specific library could be
difficult, he reasoned.
Mrs. Raeburn Hagen, a
Timberland board member from
Aberdeen, said memorials or gifts
could be kept at one library.
She also said the Aberdeen
people still have the same pride in
their library as before they joined
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Timberland, and "we feel we get
better service."
In the standard contract, the
amount to be paid by the city to
Timberland is "equal to the
millage levied for rural library
purposes, multiplied by the
assessed valuation of property
within the corporate limits of the
city."
Hagen said the city should
pay more than the costs of rural
service "beacuse you get more for
your money in the city,"
including a central building and
film centers. She said Aberdeen's
mayor and city council have
termed the payment to
Timberland "a bargain."
Hagen also commented on
losing local control. She said it
was up to the local people and the
local board to maintain input into
the Timberland system.
Maranville said Timberland
claims to provide better service,
but "in ordering books, it's faster
to get new books our way than
from the regional library."
Heuston said county residents
used 30,000 books from Shelton's
library in 1971. This, he reminded
Timberland's board, was service
provided to Timberland's patrons.
Maranville asked the
Timberland board to give Shelton
a counteroffer to the offer
Shelton's board made in April. He
hoped Timberland would be
willing to depart from the
standard contract.
He appointed a committee of
two from the Shelton board (Tom
Weston and himself)which will
meet with Lawrence and Baker of
the Timberland board to discuss
the issue sometime in the near
future.
Until then, any problems
county residents have in dealing
with the Timberland system or
paying to use the Shelton system :
will continue.
POVERTY IS not merely
deprivation; it means shame,
degredation, the searing of the
most sensitive parts of our moral
and mental nature, as with hot
irons.
Henry George
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