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July 3, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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g. g. 6th Avee Ore, ~i~¸ ~ ~]~ :i:i!!~i~ :ii~¸ :: CARRIE FIELD samples the cookies she baked to become the youngest kitchen wizard ever featured in the Journal's What's Cookin' column. Pictures of her in action and her recipe are on page 8. il • John A. Walker, 2q 136 taken to the hospital and treated man and got the knife away from evens Street, Hy~nnis, for a stab wound in his leg and him and that in the struggle . mchusetts, is being keld in other cuts received in a struggle Walker was stabbed in the leg. Mason County jail in lcu of Over a knife, officers said. Hewas Walker was brought into $5,000 bail on a charge ofsecond treated and released. Mason County Superior Court degree assault. Mason County sheriff's Monday afternoon for Walker was arrested Friday deputies said Johnson was evening and booked into jail on arrested after they went to Taylor Charges of being a minor ~'owne toanswer a complaint that COnsuming intoxicants, resisting t man had been assaulted with a an officer, attempted kidnapping nife. and second degree assault. Officers said they were told Formal charges were fried by Johnson and Billy Lopeman against him Monday afternoon by that they wire sitting in a car at ~ee prosecuting attorney's office. Taylor Towne when they were is accused in the charge of asked by a woman motorist to identification before Judge Gerry Alexander. His bail was set at $5,000 on the assault charge. Shelton attorney James Sawyer was appointed to represent Walker. The kidnapping charge was not fried by the prosecutor. The liquor violation and resisting an officer charges were fried in District Court by state patrol troopers who had arrived at Taylor Towne before the sheriff's deputies and were holding Walker on those charges. The report at the sheriff's office indicated the resisting charge was lodged against Walker after he had attempted to flee from the troopers after being arrested on the liquor violation. ~.aulting Gerald Johnson with a give Walker and the girl directions re. how to get to Highway I-5. ~haA 16-Year.old juvenile girl, Officers were told Walker was iail 0 was taken into custody with in the back seat of the car alker, was found to be a Lopeman was driving when he r~naway from Kansas City, pulled a, knife and put it to n~Ssouri. Johnson s throat and demanded George Zantua, 31, a work charges of possession of more b~iTWalker was arrested at Mason that the two men take him and release counselor for the than 40 grams of marijuana. ral Hospital where he had the girl to Highway I-5. Washington Corrections Center, "Zantua is being held in the taken by ambulance after Johnson and Lopeman told was arrested at the corrections Mason County jail where he was eing taken into custody. He was officers they struggled with the center Wednesday afternoon on booked in after his arrest ,bY a Jury rel deputy sheriff. ama claim He appeared before Judge Gerry Alexander Thursday afternoon for identification. Judge Alexander set $10,000 bail. Zantua told the court he was , o r trying to get his own attorney. Ed Holm, Olympia attorney, m C" A Mason County Superior The case went to the jury at Testimony showed that Kight, later contacted the prosecuting ;~'~urt jury Monday afternoon 3:37 p.m. and they came in with a paraplegic, had had kidneyattorney's office to inform the ii ~tl~r'nlYeab°eUtpea~eh°urt:sfnmd their decision at 4:43 pan. stones and a problemwithkidney prosecutor he had been retained ~)~gligent in his treatment of Stanley Armstrong was foreman infection since 1963 and hadto represent Zantua. i:M']i ~d .Kight in August of 1972. of the jury. received most of his treatment up Formal charges fried against Testimony in the case until the time he was hospitalized Zantua by Prosecuting Attorney I d t~agllt had sought $250,000in indicated that Kight had entered here at Madigan. . Byron McClanahan Thursday ~ .anlages from Dr Peterson, Members of the jury were accuse him of possession of more :ig ~/.airning that because of Mason GeneralHospitalinAugust of 1972 and that Dr. Peterson had Wallace Todd, Memory Smith, than 40 grams of marijuana with ~%rs0n s failure to find that he diagnosed his illness initially as Kenneth Wyman, Winnifred intent to sell. ,~ ~_~ll. t) had a kidney infection, he the flu and had treated him for Winkleman, William Venard, Zantua, who gave his address :'l rttOI Testimonyt° have oneinkidneYwr::kO.loVed.the . g .that a~d later for a urinary tract Edwin Robinson, Stanley as 2721 17th Avenue South, Mfle~ria~ Started June 23 and intection which wasdiscovered Armstrong, Jean Shearer, Violet Seattle, when he was arrested, is through laboratory tests. Payne, Greta Peacock, Luther also a parolee. A parole hold was J "u~U~d last Friday afternoon. Kight was transferred to McKiuney andMyrna Weaver. placed 9n him by the State Board i~l h~t'r~ejury returnedM~nday to Madl"gan Army Hospital after Kight was represented by of Prison Terms and Parole ~ |.,~,r final arguments and several days where one kidney LawrenceLongfelder, Seattle, and Thursday afternoon, which i ~¢tions and to make their was removed in a subsequentDr. Peterson by Allan Billet, (Please turn to page two.) I ~O11. Tacoma. The Mason County Sheriff's Office is seeking information on the whereabouts of Mrs. Mason Williams, 19, who was last seen about 8:30 a.m. Monday when she left the home at Rt. 3, Box 70, to go for a job interview in Lacey. She did not show up for the job interview, officers Said. Thursday, July 3, 1975 ii, A suit by four North Mason school teachers who were not issued contracts for next year after the failure to a special levy last April against the school district is being heard in Mason County Superior Court this week. Judge Robert Bryan from Kitsap County, sitting as a visiting judge, is hearing the case. The four teachers are Jim Taylor, Terry Haydon, Calvin Ulberg and Dennis Wood. The teachers are asking the court to order the school district to renew their contracts. Gary Sexton, Bremerton attorney who represents the four, told the court three of those who had originally filed the suit had withdrawn. He also told the court that Wood has been rehired for the coming year ~ the suit ,tev but remains a p! in/ in the suit because he/ et s questions which are being raised need to be answered. North Mason School District is represented by Seattle attorney Elvin Vandeberg. In his opening statement, Vandeberg told the court that after the second defeat of the special levy early in April, the school district was faced with making cuts in staff to bring its budget within estimated revenue. By law, he said, teachers whose contracts are not going to be renewed for the following school year must be given notice in writing by April 15. The best revenue estimates available to the school district on that date indicated that 14-I/3 teachers would have to be cut from the staff and those whose contracts would not be renewed were given notice. Since that time, the attorney said, the school district has been able to find additional money as more information becomes available and that four of the teachers have been notified they will be rehired for the coming year. There is one vacancy to be filled this month. Sexton, in his opening arguments to the court, said the school board must make the determination which teachers' contracts will not be renewed and that specific causes for non-renewal of contracts must be given in writing. He-mid the causes given in the letters the four teachers received were insufficient funds and lack of seniority. Sexton said some of the teachers whose contracts were not renewed had as much as 11 years of seniority. He said insufficient facts were given to" the school board on estimated budget figures before the staff cuts were decided and that it appeared in looking over the budget that there was more money available than the district had indicated. Sexton also said the staff reductions had been made on the basis of a reduction in force policy which was adopted by the school board unilatendly and without agreement with the teachers' association. Sexton also said there appeared to be a violation of the open meeting law in that secret meetings were held to discuss programs and to select the individuals whose contracts would not be renewed. The first witness on the stand Williams contacted the sheriffs office Tuesday to report his wife missing. Mrs. Williams is black. She is described as five foot five inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Officers said she has the word LOVE tattoed on four fingers on her left hand and has a small cross tattoed between the forefinger and thumb on the same hand. When last seen, officers said, she was wearing blue jeans, a turquoise turtleneck sweater with open white shirt over it. She was driving a white 1964 four-door Oldsmobile, license BWJ 175, officers said. Officers said Williams told them he last saw his wife when she left the home about 8:30 aJn. Monday to go to the job interview. Officers asked that anyone having any information about the woman's whereabouts contact the sheriff's office at 426-8244. Eighty-ninth Year, Number 27 3 Sections - 30 Pages . 15 Cents Per Copy was Norman Sanders, who has been superintendent of the school district the past 11 years. He outlined steps he had taken in preparing preliminary budget estimates which were used in setting the amount of the levy which was subsequently defeated and in making plans for reducing costs in the district and reducing staff if the levy did fail. Sanders said he had gone over the budget several times, cutting Two juvenile boys from Kitsap County were arrested here early Monday morning afLer taking tWO vehicles Without Permission from one of the boy's fathers. Shelton police said the two were taken into custody after they were observed under a truck at Pauley Dodge by officers on patrol. Police said they were questioned and were then taken to Thurston County Juvenile Detention, where they were held out everything he thought possible before determining how many teachers would have to be cut. He said that he had estimated that 18 teachers would have to be cut, but that subsequent school board action had reduced that number to 14. He said he also prepared alternate suggestions for the school board to consider. Sanders said when the proposals were prepared they for Kitsap County authorities. Officers said investigation indicated the boys had taken a car belonging to the parents of one of the boys and had wrecked it in Kitsap County, after which they took a truck belonging to one of the boy's fathers from where he had it parked while he was at work and drove it to Shelton. Along the way, officers said, they broke into a small grocery store and took about $150worth of groceries. were submitted to the school board and to members of the school staff for their reaction before the final action was taken. Sanders was on the witness stand all day Tuesday, with Vandeberg concluding his questioning in the afternoon. Sexton, in starting his cross-examination, asked Sanders about the adoption of the reduction in force policy. Sanders said there had been a previous poliby, but that a similar policy in another school district had been found to have some points which were probably illegal, so the school board and the teachers' association had agreed that the North Mason policy should be changed to one which did not have the questionable legal points in it. He said he had prepared the proposed poli~ andthat it had been discussed by the school board and teachers' association negotiators at four meetings and had been adopted by the school board when it became necessary, even though the teachers' association negotiators had not agreed to it. Trial of the suit continued Wednesday. CHUCK JACKSON, owner of the Shoprite Store on Mt. View sweeps up glass from the broken front doors to the store which resulted when a small foreign car driven by Robert W. Thomas, Rt. 1. Box 495, Grapeview, crashed into the double glass doors in the entrance to the store. Thomas told Shelton police the brakes on his vehicle failed as he was parking in front of the Stt':.