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REA ROE, 65-year-old grandmother, parachuted behind a speedboat to soar
above the waters of Lake Samamish.
JAN DANFORD
• ..and at 2 p.m. Don
rrott's 6S-year-old grandmother
11 parachute across the waters
Lake Samamish!"
The announcement boomed
om loud speakers located
Iiughout the Lake Samamish
e Camp in the summer of
2. The grandmother of
Stunt director Don Parrott is
lea Roe of Potlatch who was a
Itcation visitor.
|7.. Mrs.~_ Roe had begun her
:I laay with a horseback ride. An
)complished equestrienne in the
ays of her youth, Rea Roe
iSCOvered that she hadnt
~rgotten a thing. While her
!andson corraled his own mount,
rs. Roe selected a big
raze-faced bay, curried hlmn an~
zckcd him up, appy'g •
|nOwledgeable knee to his
~velling side as she drew the cinch
]aut. !
[. A half-day of trail riding
1ailed to draw a protest from her
fill'disciplined muscles. She
nged from jeans to purple
~, vet bell-bottomed trousers wi.tehr
Lhght ning-patterned pull-ov
|,Ju raced a Honda around the
|all-field to the wild applause of
nlookers, out
I And then she heard ab
l~rachuting. It was explained to
to how the chutist ran lightly
celene Water as the speed-boat
1,, rated; how assistants held
the edges of the chute until it
|.men with air and rOSeetO the
~imits of the tethering top .
lske'dWhen can I try it?" she
I At two o'clock in the .......
ftemoon a sizable crowd had
Itthered to witness the maiden
ight of the life jacketed lady
he was • ' " "" .'
., alroournewlmout ....
s.laap and flew happily around
° across the lake, 150 feet
bove the foaming waves.
[ 'When the boat stopped," she
she was 18 years of age. Although
she longed to be a nurse, she
lacked a high school diploma. For
17 years she was employed by
Millo's Meat Market and Grocery
and for several years by Canal
Supply, both in Hoodsport.
She also nurtured a secret yen
to paint. Although untrained, she
painted and in 1965 entered two
examples of her work in the
Mason County fair. Her untutored
portrayal of a forest fire received
a third place award and caught
the attention of Hoodsport artist
Jane Enochs, formerly of
Tacoma.
Her ability recognized and
strengthened by instruction under
Mrs. Enochs, Rea's talent
bloomed. Her paintings are well
known in local exhibitions and
she is an active member of the
Shelton Art Club.
Art is her big interest; but the
parachute flight remains her
greatest thrill.
"1 felt like a bird," she
reminisces. "I didn't tell anybody
that I couldn't swim."
Arlen Cuzick, 32, was
reported in fair condition at
Mason General Hospital
Wednesday where he was being
treated for a gun shot wound
suffered while he was escaping
from the Washington Corrections
Center Tuesday afternoon.
He came in to the hospital six
hours later for treatment for a
wound in his abdomen which
hospital officials said was caused
by a rifle bullet.
He was the first inmate to
successfully get over both fences
at the corrections center and get
away from the grounds.
The shot which wounded
Cuzick was one of several fired by
tower guards as he went over the
fence. Corrections center officials
said the guards called to him to
halt and fired warning shots
before firing at him. Officials did
fences, Cuzick ran across the
Dayton-Airport Road and into
the brush.
Corrections center officers set
up road blocks at both ends of
the Dayton-Airport Road which
runs in front of the corrections
center. A road block was also set
up at the California Road and
Highway 101.
Other mobile units and
corrections center officers on foot
searched the brush in the search.
Sisson said in addition to
sheriff's office and corrections
center officers, the Shelton Police
Department and Grays Harbor
County SherifFs office assisted in
the search effort.
/~n Army helicopter, which
was passing by and overheard
radio transmissions about the
escape stopped and assisted in the
search. Reserve Deputy Sheriff
Bill Russell had his plane in the
area in the search eftbrt also.
Also assisting was Clyde Reed,
Puyallup, a member of the
Cascade Bloodhound Club, who
also came over to join in the
search effort with two
bloodhounds.
Officials said Cuzick was at
the corrections center being held
office was called after the escape
and coordinated the search which
continued until information was
received that Cuzick was at the
hospital.
Lieutenant James Sisson of
the sheriff's office said Cuzick
escaped at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday
afternoon going over two fences
to make his escape.
He was in the exercise yard in
the reception center section of
the corrections center when he
made his escape. Officials said
tower guards from two towers
fired with rifles and shotguns.
Sisson said after clearing the
for transportation to Clallam
County from the state
penitentiary at Walla Walla. He
was being taken to Clallam
County on a court order.
He had arrived at the
corrections center Saturday and
was to have been taken to Port
Angeles July 16.
Cuzick is a former Shelton
resident who had lived here most
of his life. He had moved to Port
Angeles and was arrested and
convicted there on the charges for
which he had been sentenced to
the state penitentiary at Walla
Walla.
not know until he ca~e to the
hospital that one of the shots had
struck him.
He remained in Mason
General Wednesday under guard
by corrections center officers.
Hospital Administrator Laurel
Nelson said Cuzick would
probably be released Friday to be
taken to the hospital at the
corrections center.
Nelson said the man came
into the emergency room at the
hospital at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday
after being brought to the
hospital by someone. He
remained in the emergency
treatment room until 10:30 p.m.
when he was taken in for surgery.
The hospital administrator
said the shot had entered the
abdomen horizontally and did not
hit any vital organs in passing
throulzh.
Chief Criminal Deputy Tom
Creekpaum of the Mason County
Sheriff's Office said Cuzick was
brought to the hospital by
Bertwell (Ockey) Seljestad.
The officer said Cuzick came
to the Thomas Tree Yard on
Highway I01 where Seljestad is
manager. Seljestad, who arrived
shortly thereafter, recognized
Cuzick but did not know he was
an escapee and told him to get off
the property. Cuzick had at one
time been employed at .'.he tree
yard.
Cuzick told Seljestad he had
been in a fight with a friend and
the friend had shot him and asked
Seljestad to take him to his
(Cuzick's) wife's home.
Seljestad then told Cuzick he
would take him to the hospital or
the sheriff's office and they got
into a vehicle and started toward
Shelton.
During the ride in, Cuzick
told Seljestad he was wanted as an
escapee from the corrections
center.
The Mason County Sheriff's
in
Thursday, July 12, 1973 Eighty-seventh Year, Number 28 5 Sections- 38 PagesTen Cents Per Copy
Dan McNair, a sergeant on
leave from the Mason County
Sheriff's Department, was named
as sheriff by the Mason County
Commission Monday.
McNair will assume his duties
Monday succeeding Sheriff John
Robinson, who resigned the
position effective July 15.
McNair served with the
sheriff's department and was
sergeant in charge of the Belfair
office at the time he was granted
a leave of absence by the county
civil service commission.
He went to Yakima when he
left Mason County and took a
position with a private
investigative firm. He left that
position to join the Yakima
County Sheriff's office where he
has been serving with the burglary
detail.
MeNair's name, along with
those of James German, a
sergeant with the Shelton Police
Department, and Leslie Kennedy,
qun
By JAN DANFORD
On the southwest corner of
the site of the new Shelton High
School lies a wooded area deemed
far too beautiful for its originally
in
Things were returning to were taken for treatmont.
normal slowly at the Washington After the disturbance a wide
Corrections Center this week after variety of homemade weapons
a fight between white and black were collected including baseball
inmates Saturday which resulted bats, table legs, iron pipes, razor
in those in the residential section blades on the end of a string and
of the center being locked in their socks filled with rocks.
rooms and taken out to meals Officers on the corrections
under heavy guard, center staff were able to get the
Superintendent Robert Raines disturbance under control.
said work crews started back to Troopers from the Washington
their jobs Tuesday and that State Patrol District were called in
chief of police at North Bend,
were submitted to the
commissioners by the Mason
County Democrat Central
Committee.
Both German and Kennedy
are former deputy sheriffs with
the Mason County SherifFs
office.
The central committee
submitted the three names which
were selected from a field of nine
candidates who had applied to the
committee for the appointment.
The position will be on the
ballot this fall for a one-year
unexpired term.
Filings for the position will
open July 30 and close August 3.
The office will again be up for
election in the fall of 1974 for a
four-year term.
McNair worked mostly m the
North Mason area when he was
with the sheriff's office here. He
made his home in the Tahuya
area.
It_ares, "I plummeted deep into classes in the academic andto patrol outside of the fences in
.he, Water. However, I bounced ....... vocational programs were planned case of an escape attempt.
i gat backup again." to start back into operation Raines said this was the first
I11 health has somewhat Wednesday. major disturbance at the center
UCceeded in slowing the
...... ~ Raines said it was believed an although there had been other
,ver-enthusiastic once of Rea .... argument between a black and a minor disturbances.
oe's life. Not too'long ago she Rea Roe white prisoner after a movie The superintendent said
is edd, and she hunted both elk Friday night had led to the fight corrections center officials were
eel She grew a large garden between about 1 00 inmates easing restrictions gradually and if
~an~ cared for the beautifully .If_O II Saturday. things went all right, normal
*'lU~aPed premises of her home. ~ )O1 ~-U reii The fight broke out on theoperations would resume shortly,
he,,.:TM September she was athletic field, he said, at a time
tal t zed'Herdailyteleph°ne t 18 0 [ when there were two officers! Icy h
We- ltll Lem, her husband, I I nearby who attempted tobreakit ~g! V~'
i.~e _shared by a pet dog. The ~l up.
_"u.eloxterriernamedShaneyaps The loss from fires in the first first aid officer for the The disturbance was br°ught II qlllClllQnt
ancl Yelps and makes meaningful six months of 1973 in the city of department, said Rescue One had under control and the inmates
confined to their rooms in the
sounds into the telephone at the Shelton has been $18,015, Fire made 26 runs in the first 'six David Glassy, 28, Route 3,
sound of Rea's voice." Chief Allan Nevitt said in his months of this year and that the residential buildings, Raines said. Box 460, Shelton, was seriously
Dan McNair
destined purpose. Buildings and
tennis courts were scheduled to
replace a vista of natural churn).
Possibilities were discovered
by an advanced biology class
instructed by Shelton High
School teacher Jon Day. Plans
were cooperatively altered to
permit the development of a
nature trail.
Assistance was sought and
received from Curt Kaufman of
the U.S. Forest Service.
Experienced in nature trails,
rclaling Io Ihe It)cation of the trail
and it) the construction of a
floaling bridge to span the
six-t cut h s-o f-an-acre pond.
Du)ing the past year students
Monte Stoehr and Tom Noreen
worked ch)sely with Jon Day and
Curt Kaufinan, clearing a foot
path through the scenic three
acres. Insofar as possible, trees
andd vegetation remained
unchanged.
The trail will leave the school
near the science room to
They were fed sandwiches in
their rooms the first day, he said,
and were taken to the dining
room under heavy guard the
second day for two hot meals.
The inmates were taken to the
dining room Tuesday for three
hot meals.
Seven inmates were injured in
the fight, Raines said, none of
them seriously. All hate been
released from the hospital at the
corrections center where they
bridge the picturesque pond on
the far side of which the path will
wander through woods and
grasslands to return to the starting
point.
Science students, artists,
creative writers and all who are
interested in ecology will benefit
from the half-mile long trail. The
entire population of the school
may enjoy as a recreational
facility the bit of nature rescued
from the path of progress.
In the latter "art of June her
aspk. e
. yxiation from an asthma
a)) _aethk was prevented by prompt
mn on the part of the
~°Odsport Volunteer Fire
c:Partrnent who responded tea
"" ~or hel •
I),. • p wtth a resuscRator.
,_ur ng her subsequent
-uspit
. alization she heard
daily the
~iti~d°cf her devoted and lonely
og.
ReaB~rn in Presser, Washington,
oe came to Potlatch when
semi-annual report.
He reported there had been 50
fire calls with an average of 11
firemen attending fires. There has
been an average of 17 at fire
drills, the chief reported.
Both the number of calls and
the fire loss is a little below the
amount for the first six mOnths of,
1972 which had 56 calls and a
loss of $18,310.
In a semi-annual report,
Lieutenant Dan Ward, rescue and
injured Monday morning in a
logging accident.
The Mason County Sheriff's
office, which investigated the
accident, said Glassy was standing
on top of a tree about three feet
in diameter bucking the tree when
a four-inch tree fell on him from
behind, hitting him in the head
and back.
The a&:ident occurred about
9½ miles from Shelton on the
Lost Lake Road.
fire department had spent 326
man hours with the unit and that
it had been driven 700 miles.
This compares to 23 calls, 23
runs, 284 man hours and 665
miles driven the last six months of
1972, the first year the unit was
in operation.
,Ward reported a $200
donation had been received from
the TrailblaZers Motorcycle Club
and $100 from the Shelton area
Girl Scouts.
A POINT OF INTEREST on the new Shelton High School's nature trail i$
indicated by instructor Jon Day. Left to right are Tom Noreen, Curt
Kaufman, Jon Day and Monte Stoehr.