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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.
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Thursday, June 29, 1978 Ninety-second Year - Number 26 5 Sections - 40 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
00ustlers risk slipped disc (o)s
'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