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June 29, 1978     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Orossenbacher Bros. Inc. Conner is in iured in foil State Senator Paul Conner, Sequim, was reported in critical condition in Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle Wednesday suffering from a head injury he received in a fall into the hold of a ship at Port Angeles Tuesday. Conner was working as a longshoreman when he fell from a log about 20 to 30 feet into the hold of a freighter. He was taken to Olympic Memorial Hospital in Port Angeles and was then taken by Coast Guard helicopter to legislator, having served 10 terms Virginia Mason Hospital in in the ttouse of Representatives Seattle. He was accompanied on before being elected to the State the trip by a Coast Guard doctor Senate in 1977 to fill the and nurse, unexpired term of Gordon Conner, 53, is a long-time Sandison, who was named 24th Legislative District director of the State Department of Fisheries. jt/ui Thursday, June 29, 1978 Ninety-second Year - Number 26 5 Sections - 40 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy 00ustlers risk slipped disc (o)s &apos;Tlie fever has hit -and it'.< even saturday tied nesday night. nights find 0Usly 50-60 Sheltonians - ]ily of them full grown - rting feverishly in something rely akin to unison in the l.y lit interior of Lincoln € . • ,, I"Left, right, left-right, barks ung woman at the fore, fMing like she knows what It's doing, Left, right, t,right," she barks again. |s let's try it to the music." |And they do, too. Set in ion by the now almost ltern-like cadence of another le ' t, s disco single launched [' the middle-American [tlnstream by the movie popularized of a genre of social dance known as disco. And it is being taught right here in Shelton, courtesy of the City Parks and Recreation Department. Why, you may be asking, is this new activity drawing such a crowd in this town of storied cultural diversification? "It seems people have this basic need to show off a little, to have an audience," answers Virginia Woods dance instructor Debbie Heaverlock, teacher of the Mason County horde. "And disco dancing has given them just that opportunity," adds Debbie. "Even the guys are loosening up and moving. It used to be a guy wouldn't dare move tarday Night Fever," 50-odd his hips like that. But all that's On County derrieres of changing." lying proportionality and One curious phenomenon ness make haste in pursuit of brought ,to light by this beat of America's latest community s first official step onto the disco floor is purely I'he Hustle. t o 1 societal: The average student is er not your typical pimple-faced those acquain ed n y 16-year-old. t, the barroom variety of the In fact, there are several e, by which persons only pimple-faced 35-year-olds in the ntally interested in beats group, and the average age surely |i rhythms attempt to secure must not be appreciably younger [taight companionship for than, say, 25. l0ses other than musical, a As yet, though, enthusiasm ]lof explanation. ,, ,, seems still to be the dominant [l'his particular hustle is factor locally - not expertise. ]'J most commercially Of, sure, there were some fancy moves, all right. But the closest thing to John Travolta unfortunately seems to be this rather awkward girl with a cleft chin. Last night's 8:15-9:!5 session was the third of the four-week class. City Parks and Recreation plans to resume the lessons in the fall. Instructor Debbie Heaverlock Grapeview teachers file suit against school district Four teachers in the Grapeview School District filed a suit in Mason County Superior Court this week asking an injunction against the district in their efforts to negotiate a contract with the school district. In the suit the teachers stated they have been offered contracts with a salary schedule which was not negotiated and were told by letter if the contracts were not signed June 29 (today) the district would consider the contracts rejected and seek replacement teachers. A hearing on the request for a temporary injunction has been set for court today. The four teachers are James Allphin, Fred Anderson, Adele Fisher and Lee Ann Rykonen. In information filed in the suit, the teachers say they inf6rmed the school board in January, 1978 they had formed the Grapeview Education Association and wanted to start negotiations for the coming school year. Theystated that they met with board member Doug Sayan, who has been designated" the ......... board member in charge of personnel, and that he refused to discuss negotiations with them. They said that on April 25 they were offered contracts with a salary schedule set solely by the school district without negotiations with the teachers' association. The contracts were signed, they said, but with a rider attached stating the terms were to be consistent with the execution of a master agreement between employer and employes. The teachers said they had met with board chairman Ethelyn Hoffman June 7 to ask that a meeting to start negotiations be set up and that she had refused to discuss it. Contracts identical to the ones issued April 25 were again issued June 15 and were accompanied by a letter which stated if the contracts were not signed by June 29, the district would consider the contracts rejected and would seek replacements for the teachers. This, the suit says, is in violation of state law since none of the teachers were notified by May 15 of any probable cause for not renewing their contracts. The suit seeks an injunction against the school district to prevent it from not renewing the teachers' contracts and a court order directing the district to institute negotiations with the Grapeview School District. Tacoma man's body found on Stretch Island beach The death of Richard Crockett, 24, Tacoma, was caused by drowning, Deputy Coroner Richard Adamson said this week. Crockett jumped out of a boat off Stretch Island Saturday and his body was found on the north end of Stretch Island Sunday morning, Adamson said. An autopsy was performed to determine the cause of death, Comprehensive plan meetings scheduled The Mason County Planning the Little Skookum Community Corrnission has scheduled (our .... Hal!, July 13 at Pioneer School, meetings in the sub-areas in July 20 at the Hoodsport which meetings were held over Firehall, and July 25 at North the past several months in Mason High School. developing goals and policies The commission, at a which will be used in the meeting this month, heard formation of a new county comments on the goals and comprehensive plan. policies which were compiled by The meetings, all scheduled the planning department alter for 7:30 p.m., will be July 12 at the sub-area meetings. t Cause is undetermined Mason County Coroner or intentionally inflicted is Byron McClanahan said the undetermined. death of Shelton attorney John Ragan was found at his home C. Ragan was caused by an in the Walker Park area last apparently self-inflicted gunshot Wednesday morning with a wound, but whether accidentally wound from a .38.caliber revolver bulletin his head. u the deputy coroner said. The investigation of the death is continuing, he said, with reports not yet back on samples sent in to determine the alcohol and drug content. Adamson said Crockett and his brother-in-law, John T. Fisher, Sumner, had gone salmon fishing Saturday afternoon, fishing first in the Harstine Island area and coming back toward Stretch Island. He said officers were told the two had been drinking beer and that Crockett began acting strangely after "snorting" angel dust. Officers were told Crockett stood up in the boat and then jumped into the water around 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Fisher, officers said, threw items to him to hold onto but lie rejected them. Officers said Fisher lost Crockett in the dark anti, alter jumping out of the boat into waist-deep water and failing to locate him, had gotten back into the boat and returned to the Fair Harbor Marina where the boat had been rented. The Mason County sheriff's office received a call about 1:40 a.m. and officers went out in a boat to search. Crockett's body was located on the north end of Stretch Island about 6 a.m. Sunday. Adamson said Crockett and Fisher and their wives were staying at a cabin in the Grapeview area for the weekend. Mason County Commission received a report this week from the Thurston-Mason Health District on an inspection of the county jail which was made June 13. The report said that although many improvements have been made in the last two years, the jail itself fails to meet current minimum standards. After hearing the letter read at the commission meeting Monday, Commission Chairman John Bariekman commented he believed the jail ought to be shut down. Commissioner Tom Taylor agreed. The commission took no further action at its meeting Monday. The health district report said the health district recognizes and commends the county's efforts in recent years to maintain the jail and to plan for new facilities, but that the time had come when the two groups should meet to establish a schedule of compliance. They asked to meet with c()mmission representalives to make tip ;! list of ilupr°venlents' priorilies and allermflives. The rcporl said Ihe relatively low inmate population following a general lockup and shakedown operation. As a result, the report said, general housekeeping was poorer than had been noted in the recent past. The health department listed a number of areas in which deficiencies were found and made recommendations: Dry milk and milk products may be reconstituted in the kitchen only if used for cooking. The practice of mixing powdered and fluid milk is not acceptable. We understand the use of road kill and confiscated game meat has been discontinued. The kitchen is generally well maintained and is adequate for low inmate populations. The kitchen is not adequately equipped for maximum jail population. Specific violations found in the jail area were: : Inadequate floor space, volume, and space between beds for peak populations. Maximum security cell does not provide lawdory or drinking Ihucets for each cell area. Isolation cell, drunk tank, with shower or bath facilities. Drinking fountains are not provided. Hot water not properly tempered. Hot water was measured at 160 degrees F. in one shower. Many lavatories were not usable because handles were removed for security reasons. The existing handles should be replaced with ones not easily removable. Clothes washer not properly working at the time of inspection. Dryer not adequatdy sized and vented for peak inmate done. Inadequate ventilation in all cell areas. Scme existing toilets showers, and lavatories are pitted and corroded and are hard to clean. These apparently cannot be repaired and must be replaced. Building plumbing inadequate in several areas. The shower in the trustee area leaks into rooms below, the toilet in the room off the kitchen sometimes backs up into cell Y-3, and the toilet in one cell in the minimum security block backs up into the toilet in an adjacent cell. 'Tax deed suit filed In a suit filed in Mason County Superior Court tiffs week, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Reid ask that a tax foreclosure sale on two parcels of property at Collins Lake be set aside. Named as defendants in the suit are Mason County, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Palzer and Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Nurse. Mr. and Mrs. Palzer and Mr. and Mrs. Nurse were the purchasers of the two parcels of property at the January 20 tax deed sale, according to information filed in the suit. Mr. and Mrs. Reid ask that the sale be declared void because they as titleholders of record at the time of the sale were not notified of the pending sale as required by law. County jail doesn't meet standards, report says Sheriff Dan McNair and the inspection was made at a time of trustee cell not eqmpped population and type of laundry