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The gunning down of fugitive smoker Willard Crumm by FBI and
local law officers in Belfair State Park ends a manhunt that will
certainly standout as one of the highlights of 1979.
Crumm was spotted late Tuesday night near the park by a citizen
who recognized him from a wanted poster and called police. Dozens of
men, including agents from the FBI's famed "Iron Lung" squad threw a
cordon around the area. A spotter helicopter from the Public Health
Service moved in to provide aerial lighting of the dark grounds.
Crumm was known to be armed with at least several cigarettes and a
box of blue-tipped kitchen matches. Earlier reports indicated that he
was also carrying a com-cobbed pipe but a thorough search of the body
failed to find one.
The 53-year-old Crumm's death brings to an end a smoking spree
that has received national attention.
It began when Crumm escaped from the Health Department's
maximum security smoker's facility at Sedro Wooley. The facility, a
former mental institution, was turned into a prison for offending
tobacco users when Congress passed stiff anti-smoking legislation in
1975.
The tough "No Puff" laws made it a federal offense to smoke
within 400 miles of the U.S.A. The legislation sailed through Congress
following release of a study sponsored by SMOKESCREEN (an
organization of reformed smokers) which suggested that the smoke
from a single cigarette could possibly be harmful to all living things in a
400 mile radius.
After his escape, Crumm made his way to Seattle and somewhere
along the way armed himself with a carton of cigarettes.
Authorities now bdieve that Crumm had several cartons of filtered
cigarettes hidden in secret spots he established at the time the
anti-smoking laws went into effect. Crumm had a long history of
smoking dating back to his days in the Marine Corps during the Second
World War. He was interned in the Sedro Woolley Center after being
caught smoking in public at a Univeristy of Washington football game
in the fall of 1978.
Following the announcement of his escape, Crumm was reported
sighted throughout the state and across the nation. Authorities
discounted almost all reports as crank calls. The first confirmed sighting
of the fugitive occurred in Seattle where a janitor reported seeing
Crunm smoking behind the gymnasium of Queen Anne High School
(Crumm's alma mater.) A search was quickly launched but the elusive
Crumm evaded captur%
Several days later a hysterical elderly woman telephoned police to
report that she thought she had seen a man smoking in public on the upper
deck of the Bremerton ferry. However, the woman was unable to
positively identify the smoker as Crumm, as it was night and raining
heavily at the time.
By then a full scale manhunt was underway throughout the Puget
Sound region. In a goodwill gesture, the government of Poland, the first
European country to get tough on smoking (in 1974), sent several of its
crack agents to assist the FBI. Heavily armed groups of citizens from
various anti-smoking posse organizations were also called in.
On Monday, Crumm pulled the wildest stunt of his smoking orgy
when he walked into a waiting room at Harrison Memorial Hospital in
Bremerton and offered a cigarette to an expectant father. The man was
so shocked that Crumm made good his getaway before help could be
summoned.
Following a tip from a local man that he had seen a short, fat fellow
with a "'brawn'stain" on his index and middle fingers eating at a Belfair
cafe, authorities flooded the area with men.
On Tuesday the chase ended. Law enforcement personnel, under
the direction of FBI agent Lance Clawson, surrounded the park and
cam iously moved in.
"It was dark as hell," said Clawson, describing the action, "I don't
think he even knew we were coming in on him. When the spot light
from the choppe hit him he had a cigarette in his mouth and it looked
like he was going to light it. We just opened up wlien we saw ihat. We
dkln t want that smoke to get us.
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JAMES H. JENNER .................................. Editor
CAROL WENTLANDT ............ Advertising Manager, CR5-6259
Published by Shelton Publishing, Inc., Post Office Box 430, Shelton,
Washington 98584; telephone 426-4412.
A section of the Shelton-Mason County Journal.
Letter to Editor:
'Editor, The Herald:
Like many of our neighbors,
we have been wondering what has
been taking all the baby mallards
• that have been hatching along our
shores. The hen, that less than
two weeks ago hatched 14 babies
under our living room window,
today has only 3 left. Well, we
finally know one culprit.
Yesterday - for the second
time - we saw a gull pick up a
baby duck next to its mother,
land on a float and start to devour
it. The mother, in panic, left her 3
remaining babies and dashed
toward the float in hopes of
saving the little one - but to no
avail.
Bob Sutton.
Belfair
• ,rntson
retire
Herbert E. Arntson, professor
of English at Washington State
University, plans to retire
September 15 after 28 years on
the WSU faculty.
Arntson, who specialized in
teaching creative writing, was for
several years the director of the
creative writing program in the
Department of English at WSU.
He has published six novels for
young people, in addition to short
stories, poems and scholarly
articles.
In 1961, Arntson was
awarded the Franklin Watts award
for "a distinguished contribution
to children's literature." The
award followed publication of his
second book, "Adam Gray:
Stowaway."
The Arntsons expect to move
to Grapeview where they have a
home.
Edward F. Cokelet
succumbs
Edward Francis Cokelet, 89,
passed away June 21 at Hemit,
California.
Affectionately known as
"Pop" around the Belfair area
during his residence here, Cokelet
started the Belfair Plumbing
business in 1952. He was actively
engaged in it for 10 years,
working until he was 78 years old.
The Belfair Community
Baptist Church and the Belfair
Full Gospel Church received
much of his efforts in this field.
Cokelet was born in
Brooklyn, New York, November
17, 1884, and as a young man
worked as a gas fitter, which
enabled him to tell many
interesting stores about his days
reading gas meters in the green
opium dens in New York City's
Chinatown and Bowery districts.
He married Minnie Brown and
lived in Port Washington, Long
Island, for 25 years before
following his eldest son, Edward,
west to Belfair in 1942.
As a skilled coppersmith he
joined Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard where he worked until
the end of World War II.
Some 10 years ago he went to
live with his daughter in Hemit,
California, where he passed away
June 21, 1974.
He is survived by two sons,
Edward B., Belfair, and Norman
P., Bremerton; two daughters,
Ethel G. Mullen, Belfair; and
Hazel W. Todd, Hemet,
California; 14 grandchildren; and
several great grandchildren.
He was a member of the
North Mason Kiwanis and the
Belfair Community Baptist
Church.
Services were held at Belfair
Community Church June 25 with
Pastor John Senn and Pastor
Robert Havens officiating. Burial
was at Twin Firs Cemetery in
Belfair.
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By INGA MARIE ST. CLAIR 426-8824
Jan and LouSe Hudgens have
been entertaining relatives from
West Liberty, Iowa.
Jan and LouSe are real happy
to have their yard work on their
rock wall and fence finished after
four months of waiting. However,
it was completed too late for their
vegetable garden to be planted;
better luck next year, folks•
Bill and Brenda Surprenant
Sunday Services
8:30 a.m. .. Morning Worship
10 a.m ..... Morning Worship
10 a.m ....... Sunday School
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., High C's
Wednesday, 6 p.m., B.Y.F.
BELFAIR
P.O. BOX 407
John Senn, Pastor
Church phone- CR 5-6262
attended the Shelton Home Show
and were one of the lucky
winners at one of the drawings.
They got the good news last
Monday night that they were the
recipients of a beautiful charcoal
broiler. What a welcome gift to
receive at this time of year. Have
fun and enjoy your gift, Bill and
Brenda.
Conglatulations to Don Cox
Jr. who has graduated from
Central Washington State College
in business administration. Don
was a Highclimber at Shelton
High School and continued his
football career at college. In his
senior year he was given the
inspirational award by his team.
Upon graduation Don
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Congratulations also go
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arrival of their fifth
Bill and Donna Freeto
are the proud parents of
Louise Freeto, who made
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Catholic Mass
at 11:30 a.m.
Belfair Community Ba
Church, Father Don Piro of
Gabriel Catholic
officiating.
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GOSPEL CHURCH
Assembly of God
Sunday Service
9:45 a.m.Sunday School for all
11:00 a.m ...... Morning Worshi~
7:00 p.m ..... Evening Evangelistic
Wednesday
7 p.m ....... Bible Stucly &
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