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July 12, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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.