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BABYSITTER PAM FRYE, right, of Shelton, gives two-month-old Kyle
Strutz a tweak on the cheek last week during a joint Mason Youth Service
and Cooperative Extension Service course for babysitters at the
Timberland South Mason Library. The 4-H course, for youths 12-16 years
old, ran 12 hours and included basic emergency measures, entertainment
suggestions and safety hints. Holding young Kyle is Librarian Doris
Whitmarsh. Looking on behind is Pain's brother, Ned.
licenses in county
ppear headed for ballot
Voters in unincorporated
of Mason County will have
opportunity in the election
fall to again express their
jews on a dog licensing
tdinance for dogs in the
nty, the Mason County
aalmission indicated at its
Monday.
commission statements
Floyd Cole both stated they
believed the wording of an
advisory vote which was on the
ballot last fall was confusing and
people did not understand what
they were voting on.
They also stated they did not
believe voters in the City of
Shelton should be included in
the vote since the city already
a meeting wKh ...... has a'dc licensing Ordlnant:"iit/d
Presentatives of the Mason
aty Citizens For Animals
the meeting this week.
Later the commission asked
Prosecutor John
alter to prepare a
ballot proposition for
by the commission
meeting next week.
Chairman John
ekman and Commissioenr
enforcement.
Voters, in the advisory vote
last fall, approved of a dog
licensing ordinance for all dogs
in the county with the money to
go toward the operation of an
• animal shelter by a vote of about
two to one.
Glen Guyton, an MCCFA
member who attended the
meeting, stated he did not agree
that the question should go on
the ballot again, but if that was
the commissioners' wishes, there
was no other choice.
The MCCFA representatives
asked that if the proposal went
on the ballot again it be put in a
form so that if it was approved
it would be mandatory that the
commission put the necessary
ordinances" into effect: .....
Louise Guyton, one of the
MCCFA group, asked at the start
of the discussion that the
commission meeting minutes
from the previous week be
changed to reflect that she had
not been present when County
Engineer Marley Young made
comments questioning the
adequacy of a parcel of land
adjoining the county shop on
which the group had proposed to
Forman condition is said critical
Long.time Shelton physician
Dr. Burnett B. Forman is
reported in critical condition in
St. Peter Hospital in Olympia
where he was taken after a
traffic accident in which the car
he was driving went into Hood
Canal Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Forman was removed
from the car, which was under
water, and revived with
cardiopulmonary resuscitadon by
Mike Smith and Larry Julius.
He was taken to Mason
General Hospital by ambulance
and later transferred to St. Peter
Hospital in Olympia.
Larry Julius, one of those
who gave CPR to Dr. Forman,
said he would estimate the
doctor was under water between
five and a half and six minutes
and probably without air for
about four minutes.
Julius said Dr. Forman was
removed from the car by a diver
who was diving in the area at the
time who was assisted by Smith
after he was out of the car. The
diver's identity is not known.
Julius said a person in the
crowd which had gathered
assisted in giving CPR until
Smith was able to get out of the
water and take over.
The Washington State Patrol,
which investigated the accident,
said the car driven by Dr.
Forman was southbound on
Highway 101 about two miles
south of Hoodsport when it
went off the road to the right
while rounding a curve to the
left. The vehicle, the patrol said,
ran into a ditch and across a
lawn before becomingirbome,
striking a concrete guardrail and
coming to rest in 15 feet of
water in Hood Canal.
The accident happened near
the Tacoma City Light power
plant at Potlatch.
Doctor's students may have saved his life
Conner
condition
stable
State Senator Paul Conner,
Sequim, was reported in stable
condition in Virginia Mason
Hospital in Seattle Wednesday
afternoon.
He was taken to the hospital
last Tuesday with a head injury
suffered when he fell about 20
feet into the hold of a ship while
working as a longshoreman in
Port Angeles.
into the water. Someone who
saw it happen CB-radioed for
help on Channel 9.
Larry Julius heard it at his
Chevron station and called Mike
Smith at the Diving Shop, both
in Potlatch.
By VIRGINIA REIS
Students of Dr. B.B. Forman
used their CPR skills to save his
life. Saturday afternoon in an
automobile accident at, the
Tacoma City Light Hydroelectric
Power Plant in Potlatch Dr.
Forman went off the road and
In minutes they were on the
scene, in the water, back on land
with the clinically dead body
and, as a team, doing their CPR
"magic."
In about 10 minutes Dr.
Forman's heart and lungs began
to functionagain and he was
hospitalized.
He is in St. Peter Hospital in
Olympia.
Perhaps he is alive because he
taught Larry the CPR technique
and participated in Mike's
training.
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Thursday, July 6, 1978 Ninety-second Year - Number 27 4 Sections- 34 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
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CORRECTIONS CENTER CRITIC Robert Barber (right) of Shelton shrills
on a silver whistle, symbolic of his proposed "Whistleblow" protest march
July 15, as Clive Troy makes Mayor Jim Lowery one of the white-hatted
construct an animal shelter. Hospital officials said Conner "good guys."
Our boys are arrested Young stated he had is conscious and his vital signs
indicated at the meeting last are within n°rmal limits" Criti blo whistle
m
Shelton Oolice _ __officer woo that in a preliminary look He is still in the special care
atthearea, theareaappearedto unit of the hospital and is € WS
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if the group expected to remain there a few
be too small
Four young boys were taken fireworks stand. The officer who planned to keep larger animals more days before being
responded to the call found the such as horses and cattle there, transferred to another unit of
four boys behind the service He also stated there was a the hospital, officials of the
station, took them into custody problem with the water supply if hospital said.
and held tkem for a Mason it was proposed to hook onto Conner, a 10ng-time legislator
County deputy sheriff since the the water system at the county from the 24th Legislative
location was outside the city shop. The well there ran dry last District, served in the House of
limits, summer, he said, and would Representatives for !0 terms
The boys were referred to certainly not be adequate if the before being elected to the State
juvenile authorities, animal shelter, which would use
(Please turn to page two.) Senate last year.
custody by a Shelton police
Wednesday morning in
with a break-in at a
:eworks stand at Wolden's
Service on Hillcrest.
police reported they
a call from the Mason
sheriff's office shortly
6:45 a.m. Wednesday
a possible break-in at the
on corrections center
that be and black hats for the
"bad guys."
The marchers will start at the
Capitol in Olympia a week from
this Saturday at 10 a.m. and will
"storm the citadel" of the
headquarters of the correction
center's Adult Corrections
Division in downtown Olympia.
Barber has solicited the aid
of Shelton Mayor James Lowelaj
and local mover Clive Troy,
among others. Troy, who has
directed many Shelton parades in
the past, will be coordinating the
various service clubs, each of
which will be asked to select a
candidate for the parade queen:
Miss Bureaucracy Whistleblower.
The selection committee will
meet at the high school this
Sunday.
A Mason County man
angered by what he calls a
"corrupt bureaucratic ripoff" at
the Washington Corrections
Center here is attempting to
organize a parade demonstration
by way of protest.
Robert O. Barber, a retired
senior sociologist at the
institution, claims recent prisoner
escapes there are merely
symptomatic of what in fact is a
steadily progressing deterioration
of system priorities, convict
morale and control and,
ultimately, community safety.
"A predatory bureaucracy
has run amuck there," he says,
"like a fox in a chicken coop,
recklessly and heedlessly
destroying vital support systems,
the very bone and sinew of an
institution.
"The Olympia bureaucracy
has been fattening on the kill of
attritioned jobs - always in the
name of economy, of course!"
lae goes on. "In fact, however, it
has only managed to destroy the
line services of the troops while
fattening official positions."
Barber contends as well that
much of the penal activity now
has fallen under the control of
convicts, with one result being
that the parole board members
are "hamstrung in their efforts
to cope with an increasingly
chaotic prison system."
To mobilize what he hopes
will become a community
protest, Barber is promoting a
"Mason County Citizens
Whistleblow" ceremony,
including a Parade, floats - even
white hatS for the designated
"good guys" among the powers
FIREWORKS offshore from Alderbrook Marina brought hundreds of
Fourth celebrants to the canal Tuesday night.
"F.ANG," Barber's trusty
pooch, will lead the
"attack."
J udge denies injunction
sought by teacher group
A request by three
Grapeview schoolteachers for a
temporary injunction against the
school district was denied by
Superior Court Judge Frank
Baker after a hearing in Mason
County Superior Court
Thursday.
The teachers had sought the
injunction in connection with a
suit filed in court last week in
their dispute with the school
district over the recognition of
and bargaining with the
Grapeview Education
Association.
The school district had issued
contracts to the teachers June 15
along with a letter which stated
if they did not sign and return
the contracts by June 29, the
district wouhl assume the
contracts had been rejected and
would take steps to hire
replacement leachers.
The Icmporary injunction
had been sought to prevent the
district from taking that action.
The teachers are James
Allphin, Fred Anderson and Lee
Ann Rykonen.
A fourth teacher who is a
plaintiff in the suit against the
school district, Adele Fisher, was
not included in the temporary
injunction request because she
had signed a previous contract
without attaching a rider staling
it was subject to negotiations, as
the other three had done.
School officials said all three
of the teachers signed their
contracts Thursday after the
(Please turn to page two.)
Accidental shot
injures girl, 13
Karie Cochran, 13, 1023
South Seventh, Shelton, suffered
an accidental bullet wound in
her leg Saturday evening, Mason
County sheriff's officers
reported.
The sheriff's office said it
had received a call from the
Naval Hospital in Bremerton
where she had been taken ff)r
treatment about the accident
which happened m the Project
13 Road iu the l)a,:ton area.
The wound w:t: caused by :
.22-caliber bullet. ()fficers said.