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RAMBLER will ramble no more.
Two men, one of them from
Mason County, were injured in a
spectacular two-car accident
which occurred just north of
Belfair Tuesday night.
Taken to Bremerton's
Harrison Memorial Hospital by
Belfair and Allyn aid cars were
Dr. Robert C. Browning, 39, a
Port Orchard physician, and
Eugene A. Johnson, 56, a
pharmacist, of Star Route 1, Box
273C, Belfair (Sunset Beach).
The accident happened
beneath the viaduct that goes over
Highway 3 about .4 of a mile
north of Belfair. It had traffic
backed up all the way to Belfair.
Both Browning's Pantera
sports car, valued at
approximately $1 2,000, and
Johnson's 1963 Rambler were
total losses.
The collision occurred about
9:40 p.m., said the Washington
State Patrol. Johnson's vehicle
was travelling south on Highway 3
and Browning was headed north
when the Browning vehicle
crossed the center line and struck
Johnson's car head-on, said the
patrol.
Johnson's car was forced into
a ditch and Browning's car
continued on, striking the
viaduct's concrete abutment,
ricocheting back out onto the
highway and coming to rest
straddling the center line,
blocking traffic, the patrol
• reported.
Browning received a broken
rib, lacerations to the face and
right leg and internal injuries, said
the patrol.
Johnson was pinned in his
vehicle for about an hour,
according to witnesses. He
suffered multiple lacerations to
the scalp and hands, several
fractures in his left leg including
fractured femur, tibia and fibula,
and a fractured right knee,
according to the WSP.
One witness said the firewall
on Johnson's car was pushed up
against the front seat and
wrapped around him.
Besides the Belfair and Allyn
aid car squads, about half a dozen
state patrolmen responded to the
accident, as did Mason County
sheriff's deputies.
Both men were reported in
stable condition at the Bremerton
hospital on Wednesday morning.
• 2 ..... ; !iiiii•~
REMAINS of a $12,000 automobile.
halts
,n freeway
A strike-lockout by
ttractors and construction
in western Washington
halted work on the freeway
here and has taken some
off the job at the new
High School this week.
Bruce Jaros, assistant
~erintendent, said Absher
nstruction, the general
:tot for the high school
has pulled its workers off
project while some other
have men on the job
/.
Jaros said the electrical
the contractor for the
courts, practice fields and
for those areas and the
installing the bleachers
fieldhouse were on the job
said the general contractor
only a little work left,
hough there is some
work in roofing and
:to be done.
Jaros said it was uncertain
effect the continuation of
halt in the construction
ld might have on the
of the project.
A spokesman for the State
page three.)
The facilities at the new
qton High School were
to provide opportunity
additional vocational
for the students.
John Holmes, the man who
have a major part in getting
programs off the ground,
busy in Shelton this
them started.
mes was hired as
;trator of special services
vocational education by the
School Board late in May.
he does not officially
his new duties until August
has been busy here part of
past month getting the
done to implement
new programs.
ttrnong the things Holmes has
working on are an expanded
mechanics, electricity and
programs and the
of several new areas
distributive education,
aide, graphic arts and
onmental ecological
/t first step in each has been
~et up citizen's advisory
each of the areas to
advice on what should be
the students completing
class will have the skills an
of the advisory
which have already
established are:
butive education - I)el
Miller's Department Store;
Bowman, Prairie Market;
AI Browning, Montgomery
Thursday, June 27, 1974 Eighty-eighth Year - Number 26 3 Sections - 30 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
Mason County PUD 3
announced this week it is
changing its rate schedule
effective July 1, combining some
of the varying rates into two
categories, general service and
commercial.
The new structure does away
with some special rates which ...... . .......... ..........
were established to promote the
use of electricity.
Under the new rate structure,
the all-electric rate will be
eliminated and those now on this I r~m
,rate will be under the general
service rate.
The irrigation rate and
swimming pool rate are being
eliminated and will be billed in
either the commercial or general
service rate, whichever applies.
At the same time, the
minimum charge for electrical
service is being raised from $3.50
to $5 a month.
The change in rate structure
will amount to an increase of
about nine percent over all, Dick
Holland, auditor for the PUD,
said.
The maximum increase for
Search efforts inside the
Washington Corrections Center
were continuing Wednesday for
two inmates who turned up
missing Tuesday afternoon,
Superintendent Richard Vernon
said.
Vernon said it had not been
determined for certain whether
those on the all-electric rate will
be $2.38 a month.
In a notice which is being sent
to its customers, the PUD
commission said the rate
adjustment is being made on the
recommendation of R. W. Beck
and Associates, consulting
engineers, after a cost of service
study and cost analysis which
reflected the need for additional
revenue to meet increased costs of
maintaining adequate electric
service to customers.
mtsstng
the two had gotten out of the
corrections center or if they were
hiding somewhere inside.
He identified the missing men
as Delbert Carlin, 20, committed
from Spokane County for
burglary, and Robert Asich, 20,
committed from Whitman County
for attempted escape.
Vernon said it appeared the
two did not go over the fence,
since a newly-installed alarm
system was in operation and did
not activate.
The superintendent said the
possibility the two men hid in a
truck which left the corrections
center Tuesday was being
investigated and appeared the best
possibility if the two men had
(Please turn to page two.)
Electrical electronics - Ric
Lanning, Lanning Appliance; Dick
Thompson, PUD 3; Ken
Ellingson, Ellingson Appliance;
and Don Hawkes, Miklethun
Electric.
Environmental ecological
education - Bill Looney,
Simpson Timber Company, Art
Slusher, U.S. Forest Service; and
Cal Poe, Simpson Timber
Company.
Graphic arts -- Russ Stuck,
Shelton Printing; Henry Gay,
Shelton Journal; Dale Christian,
Simpson Timber Company; and
Bill Hicks, Simpson Timber
Company.
Nurse's aide - Chris Manning
and Diane Sandburg from Mason
John Holmes
General Hospital.
Holmes hopes to have the
distributive education program
ready to go when school opens in
September and to get the other
programs in operation between
September and January.
Holmes said he is also looking
into the possibility of an ROTC
program.
He stated he has also put in an
application for funding for'a
program for gifted children.
In his duties in the special
services field, he will be doing
in-service training for teachers in
special education classes and will
be working with counselors and
psychologists.
Planning for the new
vocational programs started
several years ago when plans for
the new high school were being
made, Holmes said. He added
Superintendent Louis Grinnell,
Assistant Superintendent Bruce
"Jaros and others in the school
district were planning for the
expanded vocational program
when the new school was being
planned and facilities for these
programs were included.
Holmes comes to Shelton
from Port Townsend, where he
was vocational director for
Intermediate School District 114,
which includes Jefferson, Clailam
and Kitsap Counties and the
North Mason School District in
Mason County.
He is a native of Iowa and
grew up in California. He has been
in Washington State since 1967.
Holmes owned his own
business in Los Angeles, worked
with the Crippled Children's
Society in Los Angeles, taught
sixth grade, was an elementary
principal, and did private
research. He also taught lower
division child and development
psychology at California State
University, from which he has a
BA degree.
He was a secondary special
education teacher at Port
Townsend before joining the
intermediate school district staff.
He has a MEd degree from
Eastern Washington State College
and is currently attending the
University of Washington, taking
classes in administration.
Holmes, while with the
intermediate school district,
taught beginning psychology at
Peninsula College in Port Angeles,
and while at EWSC taught a
course there in administration and
supervision of cooperative
programs.
He has also done consulting
work for the State Department of
Education in Olympia, which
resulted in the publication of a
curriculum and teacher guide and
he co-authored and published a
research project in elementary
career awareness.
Holmes is married and the
father of two chidren.
Holmes said his contacts here
indicate the people of Shelton
have a high interest in education
and he is delighted with the
positive attitude he has
encountered.
Irene
onca
see
le isla
By CHARLES GAY
Housewife Irene Conca is
psyched to go to work. Not in the
house, but in The House.
Conca, a resident of Shelton,
has officially announced that she
will run for the State House of
Representatives seat (24th
District) now occupied by
Democrat Charlie Savage. She's a
Republican.
'Tm running because I'm not
satisfied with the last session of
the Legislature," said the
52-year-old mother of two boys.
"1 think that our Legislature can
do its job without mini-sessions.
If they have the regular session in
January for two, or three months
at the most and then perhaps
another session the following
January, they can get the job
done.., so that people who are
members of the Legislature can
plan their time and do their own
jobs.
"As far as I'm concerned, I'm
a housewife, so I have the time."
She has a sixth grader at home:
her oldest son is away from home,
"1 believe in the citizen
legislature and this is one reason I
don't like the continuing session.
Because there are too many
people who can't afford to take
that time off and wc need those
people in our Legislature."
Conca's political career
started four years ago when she
was complaining to her husband
about the government and he
suggested that she run for
precinct committeeman. She was
elected to that position in 1971
and served as Mason County
Republican Central Committee
vice chairman during 1971-72.
She ran for precinct
committeeman again after her
first term and was re-elected. She
has been serving as county central
committee chairman during her
latest term, but recently took a
leave of absence from that post in
case anothcr Republican ran
against her and a conflict of
interest arose.
"We (the committee) have
been searching for a candidate for
the Legislature for the past year
and we didn't come up with one,
so ! decided to do it myself.
"In the last two years, I have
spent as many days as I've been
able to in Olympia, sitting in,
listening to both the Senate and
House sessions and "also attending
their committee hearings."
Conca graduated from the
University of Washington with a
bachelor of arts degree in political
science in 1944 after spending her
first two years of college at
Stanford. She was born near
IRENE CONCA will run against Representative Charlie Savage.
sea
Sequim and graduated from
Bremerton High School in 1940.
Conca served as a member of
the governor-appointed Human
Affairs Council during 1972 and
1973. The HAC is an ad~'isory
council that covered all sorts of
things from drug abuse to
transportation to school
financing.
At present she is a consumer
member of the governor's State
Energy Policy Council, which is
divided into task forces. Conca
belongs to the task force on
"conservation and demand
management." She was recently
assigned a subcommittee on
"conservation of residential use of
energy." She submitted her report
to the full council last month in
Spokane and it was accepted
unanimously.
Conca does not want to give
many opinions on issues.., now.
She wants to talk to voters in the
district and "see what their
interests are" before she takes any
stands on issues.
"I don't think you can make a
statement about something until
you've studied both sides," she
said. "And frankly, 1 haven't had
time to study both sides of "all the
issues.
'Tin guessing that taxes will
be the number one issue. I don't
have an answer, but I'm willing to
work toward one."
One promise she made to her
son, she said, was that she'd work
for bicycle paths along highways,
not only because it involves the
energy crisis, but because cyclists
on the highways now "scare her
half to death."
Speaking of the energy crisis,
Conca said there is one. And if
people don't believe it, they've
got to be convinced, she said.
Land use will probably come
up as an issue, too, said the
candidate. She said it is important
to use the land to support the
people who live here and
simultaneously keep the beauty
of the land.
Conca gives the impression
that she is running on a common
sense ticket. She promises very
little other than to take each issue
as it comes up. She's not worried
that she doesn't have any
experience as a legislator.
"A person who is willing to
give up the time to read bills and
listen to the debates doesn't need
experience in politics," she said.
Initiative 276 (the public
disclosure law) doesn't bother
her. "It was needed," she said. "If
a person is going to run for office,
he should make his financial
situation public.'"
She doesn't know how much
it's going to cost her to run for
representative. People have been
telling her it will cost anywhere
from $1,000 to $10,000. 'Tin
hoping to get volunteer help and
small contributions." The money
will come from people who want
to see a change in the Legislature.
she hopes.
The 24th Legislative District
covers Clallam, Jefferson and
Mason Counties and fou~
(Please turn to page twelve.)