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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.
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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':.