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THIS LARGE CRANE came in through Hammersley Inlet last week on its
way to one of the Simpson mills on the waterfront for a heavy lifting job.
Large crane arrives for job
new bandmili carriage and edger
for Sawmill Four, both located
on the Shelton waterfront.
"The investment is part of
our continuing commitment to
this region, to keep our
operations as up.to-date and
efficient as we can," said
Sandstrom.
Simpson sawmill engineers
have had to schedule the work
almost down to the minute in
order to complete it during the
mill's regular summer vacation,
the first 15 days of July.
In Mill Three, the present
chain lift system of moving logs
into the mill from the water will
be completely replaced with a
platform lift system - a little
like an incline elevator for logs.
To save time, the entire
platform system is being
assembled elsewhere and will be
lifted into place as one unit -
rather than being fabricated on
the site. The assembled unit will
come to Shelton by barge.
Nearly $2 million in capital
improvements are being made
this sunnner to Simpson Timber
Cotnpany's Shelton sawmills,
reports ltank Sandstrom, vice
president Northwest operations.
One phase of the work
involves the one-time derrick lift
of an assembly rougldy 58 feet
by 54 feet by 28 feet in size-
and weighing 200 tons.
The improvements include a
new log infeed system for the
conlpany's SawmiU Three and a
Injunction is denied by judge
teachers which had been filed
with the Public Employees
Relations Commission in
Olympia June 27 asking for
recognition as the bargaining
agent for the teachers. The
application, he said, indicated
the association represented four
of the five teachers in the
m00trtct. ....
:Heuston said it was the
school board's position that it
would decline to recognize the
teachers' association until it was
properly certified by PERC.
He stated the district was a
bedroom community for people
who are employed in other areas,
and it is the feeling of the school
board that the community would
not want them to recognize the
teachers' association until it is
certified by the state group.
He stated the teachers still
had the right to sign the
contracts which had been offered
which included a salary increase
of between nine and ten percent.
The district, he said, in
setting the time limit on the
return of the signed contracts, is
faced with starting school in
about 60 days and must have
teachers on hand to do so.
It will take time to get PERC
certification, he said, and the
district faces the possibility of
facing the start of school with
the teachers saying they will not
work without a contract.
tie stated the teachers' group
was told in January or February
how to go about getting PERC
certification and had not taken
(Continued from page one.)
court hearing in which the court
ruled against them.
James Riehl, Bremerton
attorney who represented the
schoolteachers, told the court
tile teachers had been offered
contracts for tile coming year on
i!fipril 25 The ,contracts, 1 said,
:ere tlt.taie aS those i' the
:.J977-78 school year except*?for a
salary increase Of between nine
and ten percent,
Riehl told tile court the
teachers had notified the school
board in January that they had
formed the Grapeview Education
Association and wanted to
negotiate for the 1978-79
COIl t FIC |.
The school board, he said,
has iefused to bargain with the
teachers' association and issued
tile contracts April 25 and, after
they were returitd with a rider
concerning being subject to
negoli:Hions, had reissued the
contracts again Jufie 15,
lle said the leachers had not
been giveu notices of
rich-renewal of their contracts as
was required by law. The
ieachels, tie said, have the right
to mganize and negotiate.
They would, Riehl said, sign
the contracts as offered if they
coniamed a provision they were
subject Io negotiations.
The only issue, the attorney
so)d, is recognition by the school
board of' the right to negotiate.
B. Franklin Heuston, Shelton
attorlwy who represented the
school boad, presented as an
exhibi an application by tile
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Judge Baker stated, in
making his ruling, that there was
no cases or law cited to him
which said the school district
had a legal duty ,to negotiate
with the teachers' association
until it was certified ....
He said he did not see how
the teachers would be hurt by
signing the contracts offered
since they were the same as
those for the past school year
and included a salary increase.
He suggested that the school
district and teachers' association
cooperate in working out their
problems.
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Page 2 - Stlelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 6, 1978
To accomplish the
spectacular 200-ton lift, Manson
Construction and Engineering
Company, of Seattle, will bring
in "the Haakan," its
400-ton-capacity floating derrick,
largest on the Pacific Coast.
Mason officials say this will
be the second-largest "pick"
they've ever made.
The work on Mill Four
involves installing a complete
new "double-cut" bandmill and
log carriage system, plus a
more-automated edger. (The
bandmill is the large bandsaw
that breaks down the log into
slabs; the edger cuts the slabs
lengthwise into rough lumber.)
The new double-cut system
replaces a bandmill and carriage
that now cut only in one
direction; the bandmill and edger
together will be able to process
logs faster and more accurately.
Mill Four actually is a double
sawmill,.and already has one
double-cut bandmill operating
adjacent to the older, single-cut
saw which will be replaced.
Trident fund activities reported
One fund application tram
Trident impact funds in Mason
County has been approved and is
being used and others are in the
process, Lon Wyrick, Trident
coordinator, told the Mason
County Commission at its
meeting Monday.
He said the North Mason
School District has received a
Installation planned
"Plans are underway for a
charter night celebration for the
newly formed Kiwanis Club of
Hood Canal, Tom Spikes,
president of the group, said.
The charter night is planned
for July 22.
Spikes said anyone interested
in joining the club before the
charter night will be a charter
member.
Those interested should
contact one of the officers or
board members of the club.
Dog licenses in county
appear headed for ballot
(Continued from page one.)
more water than the shop
operation, was connected to it.
Guyton stated there had
been discussion of connecting to
the county shop water supply
when the use of the property
was discussed previously, but if
that well was not adequate, a
well could be drilled in
connection with the construction
of the animal shelter.
Mrs. Guyton said the
proposal was primarily for a dog
and cat kennel but would
provide an area where larger
animals could be held for no
longer than 24 hours.
Cole stated any plans would
have to take future needs of the
county into consideration in
determining if the area was large
enough.
Mrs. Guyton stated future
needs had already been taken
into consideration in the
planning of the structure and
that experts they had consulted
had indicated it would be.
Guyton commented that it
had been well more than a year
ago that the MCCFA had
submitted a draft of a proposed
animal control ordinance to the
commission and that a revised
draft had been submitted later.
The group, he said, had been
unable to get anything concrete
from the commission since
submitting the proposed
ordinances.
Cole stated he was concerned
that the fees in the proposed
licensing ordinance would not
cover the costs and that the
county would be asked for
additional money which it does
not have.
After the MCCFA group left,
Commissioner Tom Taylor stated
he would not approve anything
constructed on the shop side of
John's Prairie Road because of
the possibility of the need for
future expansion of the shop
facilities.
Cole stated he did not
believe county shop employes
should be subjected to the noise
and smell of an animal shelter
adjacent to where they work.
The proposal for use of the
property adjacent to the county
shop on John's Prairie Road as a
site for the proposed MCCFA
animal shelter was discussed with
the previous county commission
after the commission had
received objections to the
location of a proposed site south
of Shelton off Highway 3.
Since that discussion, there
are two new county
commissioners and a new county
engineer.
Green cheese
Modem secular societies are not
without their own special tribal
idols and their own brands of
fetishism. Present-day advertising
constittles a form of sorcery that
is often successful in inducing
even well-educated people to
believe that the moon is made of
green cheese.
Carey McWilliams
$136,000 grant which is being
used in the construction of
additional classrooms.
The Belfair Fire District, he
said, has submitted an
application for $22,000 for
additional equipment and the
Belfair Water District has
submitted an application for
$160,000 for two new reservoirs
and other facilities.
He also said the county is
asking $22,000 for improvenlents
in the railroad crossings at the
Lynch and Cole Roads and on
Old Highway I01 at Kamilche.
The state, he said, will fund
90 percent of these
improvement s.
Wyrick said there has been
some work on improving the
railroad tracks and additional
safety precautions are being
taken. Mason County, he said, is
ahead of other counties in
getting these improvements.
He also said Mason and
Kitsap Counties have formed
hazardous materials accidet
plans, the only ones in the stat I
Wyrick also commented th'
an application is in the proces
for funding from the La
Enforcement Assistance Agen,
for funds for an additio
deputy sheriff to work in lJ
Belfair area because of I1
Trident impact.
School board to
meet Tuesday
The Shelton School Bo
will hold its regular July meeti
at 8 p.m. Tuesday in t
Evergreen School library. 1
The final budget hearing fi
the 1978-79 school year budt €
is also_ scheduled for the sal*
meeting.
Recent changes in state 1
make it unnecessary to hold
preliminary budget hearing
the final budget bearing must Ii
held in August or before.
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