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' _. 0'0 * NEW FACE for an old fixture: Shelton's 54-year-old Lincoln Gym takes a new coat of paint this week. The col6rs: harvest gold with oyster-white trim. For another picture and the story, turn to page two. lnurrlal County" J Thursday, July 13, 1978 Ninety-second Year - Number 28 5 Sections - 38 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy Resignation threat is given by planning commission they would resign as a group. City Attorney Herb Fuller stated it was difficult to give an opinion in such a general way but, if he had more specific questions as to circumstances, he could do so. He stated if a suit was brought by someone who disagreed with a decision of the group which had been made in good faith, there would be no problem with the city providing legal representation. Fuller said he would research the question and would meet with the planning commission to merchantable now and would try to answer their questions and start going downhill if not get the question'resotved, removed, ' " , The city held for further There would be, he said, study a recommendation from between $3,000 and $4,000 Public Works Manager Dennis worth of timber which could be Calvin to log the city property sold. He said he would behind the city shop up to recommend using the money to Olympic Highway North. fence the city shop area. Colvin said Guy Lusignan, a Mayor James Lowery stated consulting forester, had been he was concerned about taking asked to take a look at the area the trees off along Olympic and had recommended it be Highway North and would like logged since the trees were time to look the area over before getting old and dangerous. The making a decision. trees, Colvin said, were Gordon Smith from the Retail Trade Committee of the Two local teenagers di in head-on traffic crash Two Sheiton teenagers were killed shortly before 11:30 p.m. Saturday in a head-on collision on Highway 101 about two miles south of Shelton near the Lost Lake overpass. Killed were William Zelinsky, 16, Route 10, Box 386, Shelton, driver of one of the cars, and Gaff Porter, 14, Route 1, Box 310, Shelton, a passenger in the car driven by Zelinsky. The Washington State Patrol, which investigated the accident, said the driver of the other car involved in the crash, Shawn Oakley, 17, Kent, suffered facial and leg lacerations and possible internal injuries. The patrol said three passengers in the Zelinsky vehicle, Dewayne Grindle, 22, Route 10, Box 150, Shelton; Walter Zelinsky, 15, brother of the driver; and Christine Porter, 15, sister of the Porter girl, were all injured in the crash. Grindle suffered a possible broken jaw, Zelinsky a bruised right thigh and a bloody nose, and Miss Porter a possible broken leg, bruises and contusions. The patrol said the Oakley vehicle was northbound on Highway 101 and the Zelinsky The Shelton City Commission received a letter nora the planning commission members it*its nieeting Tuesday, aSking for a legal opinion from the city attorney concerning their liability individually and COllectively and who would bear the cost of legal defense in case of a suit over planning commission actions. The planning commission aterabers said in the letter they ef uld like the information "I ore their next meeting August " anti • • . , if they did not get R, Mr. and Mrs. Arttmr 13essette, Chicago, Illinois and Mr. and Mrs. George Porter, North Carolina; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Coffey, North Carolina, and great-grandfather, Ed Wyatt, North Carolina. A memorial service was held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Shelton Memorial Park Garden Chapel with Reverend George Mitchell officiating. Cremation, under the direction of Batstone Funeral Home, preceded the service, William Zelinsky was born September 21, 1961 in Aberdeen. He was a student at Shelton High School, a member of the Young Democrats Club and the Latter Day Saints Church. He was employed by Bent Nail Construction. He had been a resident of Shelton for the past seven years. Survivors include his mother, Patricia Zelinsky, Shelton; four brothers, Richard Zelinsky of Kent, Donald Zelinsky of Yakima, Alan Zelinsky and Walter Zelinsky, both of Shelton; a stepbrother, Daniel Zelinsky of Tacoma; four sisters, Glenda Dana of Olympia, Gwytha Wickett of San Diego, California, Barbara Senko of Olympia and Andrea Lopossa of Centralia; two stepsisters, Mary Schuman of Tacoma and Sandra Zelinsky of Tacoma; grandmother, Myrtle Vanderhoff, Seattle; great-grandmother, Edith Whittle, Seattle; and 16 nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Shelton Latter Day Saints Church with burial following in Shelton Memorial Park. Courthouse, city hall are emptied by bomb threat office dispatcher received the call at 2:18 p.m. Tuesday. The caller stated, "You pigs will be blown up in one hour." Sheriff Dan McNair said that, after receiving the call, officers from his department began a search of the courthouse and he notified other department heads in the building. The Mason County Courthouse was closed shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday and the Shelton City Commission meeting was moved from the meeting room in city hall to the city engineer's office in another building because of a bomb threat call. The Mason County sheriff's vehicle southbound on Highway 101 when the two vehicles Lack of bids collided head on. An apparent mix-up on communications on getting iS questioned extrication equipment to the scene of tile accident was Prosecuting Attorney Byron McClanahan said this week he is looking into a recent $10,000 blacktopping project at the Mason County Fairgrounds which was done without having bids on the work. State law requires that any project with a cost of more than $3,500 has to be let out for bids. reported by the Mason County sheriff's office, which said in a report from a dispatcher that the Shelton Fire Department would not send the equipment out. Shelton Fire Chief Allan Nevitt said this appeared to be a misunderstanding. His department, he said, received a request for a fire truck and the dispatcher, •determining the accident was in Fire District 13, said he would notify that department, which he did. The Shelton Fire Department, under a contract ':ztween the two departments, provides dispatch service for District 13. Nevitt said when a second request, about 15 minutes later, was received asking for extrication gear, two volunteers were found to take a fire department pickup with the needed gear out to the scene. The Shelton equipment was used in the extrication, he said. Fire District 13 also responded with extrication gear and a fire truck. Fair Manager Scott Ballentine said he ordered the work done without asking for bids on it. McClanahan said he believed the contractor should be paid for the ,work but that he intended to get an itemized bill and compare the cost to what other contractors would have charged. Ballentine said that after being asked by the fair board to check the cost of having the work done, he had spoken to the contractor who was already working in the area and, since the price he gave seemed reasonable, he had contacted fair board members he could reach and they had approved the Chamber of Commerce appeared The state patrol said Miss -,Dr'son reform at the meeting to discuss the Porter was killed instantly and 26 sign petition proposed sidewalk sale August 5. Zelinsky was pronounced dead as He said the merchants would on arrival at Mason General g|v(Dn to county Postponed two weeks like to close Railroad Avenue Hospital. from Second to Fourth with the Miss Porter was born The Mason County exception of the intersections February 6, 1964 in Waukegan, Commission has received a and Cola from Second to Third. Illinois. She had lived in Shelton petition signed by 26 people Byron McClanahan, among others. An invitation to accept a white hat has been sent to Jack LaRue of yaldma, the president. of the Washington State Association of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs. Barber also has alerted both Time Magazine and US. News and World Report. By way of providing a public means of informing key political figures in Olympia of the Whistleblower' message, which basically decries the progressively poorer security measures in the corrections center and the concomitant decline in therapy, resident control and morale, Barber has arranged with Western Union to have statements sent to Governor Dixy Lee Ray and/or any of seven elected public officials on behalf of any public citizen willing to support the cause. To have a public opinion message sent to the officials, one need merely call 764-4596 in Seattle and ask either that the $2.95-per-message or the tC:atT he much.ballyhooed Mason nty "Whistleblowers" parade was to have stormed the pitol in Olympia this weekend _ aavocate state prison reform ,as been postponed two weeks. Retired Washington COrrections Center sociologist Obert Barber, conceiver of the Plan and chief critic of what he Calls the "prison bureaucratic ariliP°ff," reports the delay will -ow local service clubs to organize in the absence of local :rdinator Clive Troy, forced to Wings by illness ,, The! parade and subsequent White Hat" ...... ceremony, dunng rUch select "ood t, uvs" arnona LPr°minent nembe'rs of the °Usiness and political COmmunities will be presented white hats symbolic of their slPPort of the protest, will begin ,'J a.m. Saturday, July 29, at the :apitol in Olympia. c Already having "definitely °rnmitted,, their support to the says Barber, are Shelton ] alice Frank Rains, Sheriff Dan ii [ McNair and Prosecuting Attorney 000000Forman00 condition fair the hospital under treatment. He was injured July 1 when the car he was driving went into Head,Canal near the Tacoma City Light power plant at Potlatch. was removed from the car by divers and taken to the hospital after he was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation. • " t S i'#| helton physician Dr.  :l:rr.nett B. Forman, who was in I[ |i,i _ucal condition in St. Peter |asPttal in Olympia last week ]I ]refer a traffic accident, has been --}|8Urne d to Mason General ,|: pital, where he was reported |.l lair condition Wednesday. ha, r. Forman was brought ,u/llla. " to Mason General last 'F tUraav evening and remains in $2.per-message statement be sent. The more expensive message reads, "You are respectfully requested to don your white hat, tendered by Shelton service clubs, and declare your stand for protection of society. Please make every effort to officially take part in ceremonies and the parade, 'Storming the Bastille,' with the theme, 'Rip off the bureaucratic ripoff artists,' 10 a.m. to high noon Saturday, July 29." The $2 message reads, "Don your white hat and join the Mason County Whistleblowers parade." The officials Barber has chosen to include in the telegraph arrangement are Governor Ray; Representative Brad Owen; State Senator John Conner; Diane Oberquell, chairperson of the Board of Prison Terms and Paroles; John Bagnariol, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations; Senator Hubert Donahue, a member of the Senate House Committee on Appropriations; Senator William Day, a member of the Senate House Committee on Corrections; and Ron Hanna, chairman of the House Committee on Corrections. Although the parade and ceremony have been postponed two weeks, no other changes are anticipated. And that means there still will be a Miss Bureaucrat Whistleblower. The selection process will begin 6:30 p.m. at the SHS auditorium July 22 and coronation will be the following night, same time and place. Fire Chief Allan Nevitt said the past seven years and had he would request that no been a student at Shelton Middle permanent displays be set up on School. the north side of Railroad Survivors include her parents, Avenue so a corridor would be Mr. and Mrs. James Porter, (Please turn to page two.) Shelton; a sister, Christine Porter. Shelton; Rrandoarents, project. Ballentine said he was unable to contact County Commissioner Floyd Cole, who is a member of the fair board, to get his opinion. Ballentine said the fair board members and others appear to be satisfied the fair board got an acceptable job and that the cost was in line. Money to pay for the blacktopping will come from fair revenue sources, Ballentine said. Suit asks for damages of $100,000 A suit asking $100,000 in damages has been filed in Mason County Superior Court by a man who was arrested in August, 1977 on a charge of driving a stolen car. Defendants in the suit, filed by Michael Kitka, Aberdeen, are Hilburn-Pauley Inc., a Shelton automobile dealership. Information filed with the suit says Kitka was allowed to take a car from the finn's car lot for a test drive August 10, 1977 and that later the same day the auto finn reported the vehicle as stolen and Kitka was arrested. The suit says he was held in Mason County jail 50 days because he could not make bail and that at a jury trial on the charge the jury took 15 minutes to find Kitka not guilty. concerned about the elimination of the preventative education programs of the Family Planning Clinic. It was referred to the Community Services Division of the Division of Social and Health Services. County Commissioners Floyd Cole and John Bariekman, after beirg notified of the call, came to the courthouse and, after a brief emergency meeting and consultation with Prosecuting Attorney Byron McCianahan, agreed to close courthouse offices for the remainder of the day. McNair said employes of his office remained on the job and prisoners were not evacuated from the jail on the tlfird floor. The sheriff's dispatcher notified the Shelton police department and Police Chief Frank Rains notified Mayor James Lowery at the city commission meeting which was in progress. After a brief consultation in private, the city commissioners returned to the meeting and Lowery announced that the meeting would be recessed at3 p.m. and reconvene in the city engineer's office. City police and fire officers searched city hall and city employes left tile building briefly and then returned to work. Lowery stated, when announcing the decision to move the commission meeting, that since the caller did not refer to a specific building and apparently only to law.enforcement officers, the commission action was being taken as a precautionary measure. Certified receives bomb call A search of the area after a bomb threat call at Certified Manufacturing Company at Sanderson Field turned up no evidence of any explosives, the Mason County sheriffs office reported. The call was received by the Certified office about 12:20 p.m. Monday. The caller identified himself as a member of the George Jackson Brigade and said a bomb had been planted somewhere in the area. FRIENDLY WATER WARFARE is waged at Kneeland Park.