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June 27, 1974     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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.)