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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
July 20, 1978     Shelton Mason County Journal
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MONA DOYLE, seven, astride the rubble that once was the porch of her family's home south of Shelton. "Look, ma! There goes the fireplace!' It Was just an average kinda thought it might be an been the Doyles' front porch, 3 around 11:30, had zipped for Ray Doyle and earthquake." was a '63 Rambler station unscathed through a thicket of of Shelton last week - When the entire wall had wagon. Inside, bubbling trees and had plowed to a stop an entire side of their been hewn away from the apologies and apparently all about four feet from the living ;e began crunching and building and the once-bricked.in right, was 46-year-old room sofa, upon which mother Past before their very fireplace had come to rest fully Sheltonian Weldon Depoe of and father and Doyles Mona, "No six feet south of its original Route 3, Box 15. seven, Melissa, 12, and Mark, one could say a thing stance, Ray ventured a peek Seems Depoe, according to 13, were parked. all just stared," says out the front door. the state patrol, had blacked Damage was estimated at Susan. "At first we There, parked amid the out momentarily at the wheel $4,000. Depoe's car was shambles of what had once while southbound on Highway totalled. for park facility use approved Y city commission Tuesday night. The Shelton Commission at .ting Tuesday night request from the city of a fee schedule for f park department groups which attending. ee schedule is $10 for to five hours, $20 for to ten hours, and $25 10 hours. Chairman Sandy the commission the ,SSault ted Police police reported they told by an employe of that he was assaulted by OVer the weekend. said the employe the customer, whom he had struck him him down after he the man to move so ald get a cart he was aat him. said the man was and left thout being proposed fee schedule was intended to defray at least part of the cost of utilities and clean-up resulting from the use, and was intended largely for the use of Lincoln Gym, although there were some groups which used the city parks. The proposal had been submitted to the commission the previous week and had been referred to City Attorney Herb Fuller for preparation of the necessary ordinance which, at the request of Commissioner Brad Owen, was to have a provision the fees could be waived with approval of the commission. Michael Barkley, an attorney from Fuller's office who attended the commission meeting Tuesday night, said a city ordinance already provided that fees for use of park department facilities could be set by the park board with the approval of the city commission. • He said since the fees would be policy rather than ordinance, they could be waived at the discretion of the commission. The commission approved an agreement with Fire District Four for the Shelton Fire Department to provide first-response protection to the area in Fire District Four east of the Railroad overpass which will be closed during construction of a new overpass bridge during the next three months. The commission had agreed to the proposal previously and had asked that a Written agreement be prepared and submitted for approval. The commission, on the recommendation of City Engineer Howard Godat, approved the vacation of a 20-fool f strip of land which had been deeded to the city for use as an alley in 1954 but which had never been evened or used. Reward to be offered The Mason County Commission has asked Prosecuting Attorney Byron MeClanahan to draw up the necessary resolution for the county to offer, a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those guilty of vandalism to county property. Godat recommended the city retain an easement for utilities on the property for possible future use. The property is between Mason Street and unopened Hill Street in the Hillcrest area. The commission voted to have Public Works Commissioner Mike Byrne write a letter to Forest Investment Corporation stating the city would require an environmental impact statement on the firm's proposal for the construction of an apartment complex for older persons south of Goldsborough Creek and west of Seventh Street. The firm had requested the city issue a negative declaration on the need for an EIS on the property for which it has asked a zone change. The zone change was referred back to the finn by the city planning commission, stating they could take no action until a survey sets the boundaries of the property. Godat told the commission he was recommending an EIS be prepared on the proposal because of several concems, a major one being, that the area was next to a hillside which had problems with slippage already. Arcadia Road to be closed at bridge three months Arcadia Road will be dosed at the railroad overpass bridge shortly after 8 a.m. Monday, the Mason County Engineer's Office said this week. The contractor for the construction of a new bridge over the railroad will begin work that day. The road will be dosed for about three months during the construction. An approved detour route, which has been approved by both the State Highway Department and Shelton City Commission has been established and signs have already been erected. Traffic westbound on the Arcadia Road will be detoured onto Walker Park Road and onto Fairmont Street after it gets inside the Shelton city limits. Traffic which is coming in Arcadia Road and going southbound after reaching Highway 3 will be detoured left onto Edgewood and south for one block, then right onto Ellinor to turn left when it reaches Highway 3. This route, the county engineer's office said, is intended to give those turning left onto Highway 3 better sight distance and to relieve some of the congestion where Fairmont joins Highway 3. Traffic coming in Fairmont and intended to go northbound when it reaches Highway 3 will continue on Fairmont to the highway, where it will make a right turn. Some of the traffic from the Arcadia area beyond the bridge can go around Lynch and Cole Roads to reach Highway 3, the county engineer's office said. Truck traffic will be routed around that way rather than taking the Walker Park Road-Falrmont detour, they said. The engineer's office said both Sheriff Dan McNair and Police Chief Frank Rains had been contacted and stated their patrols would monitor the detour route while it is in use. Thursday, July 20, 1978 Ninety-Second Year - Number 29 4 Sections - 36 Pages 15 Cents. Per Copy Mary Harvey killed in fall while riding ,horse Mary G. Harvey, 40, Route 10, Box 164, died in St. Peter Hospital in Olympia Saturday afternoon of injuries suffered when she fell from the horse she was riding in the Little Egypt area earlier the same afternoon.. Thurston County Coroner Ken Eros said Mrs. Harvey died of a head injury. She struck her head when she fell from the horse, he said, and suffered a traumatic injury to her head. Mrs. Harvey was taken to Mason General Hospital after the fall and then was transferred to St. Peter Hospital, where she died about 2:50 p.m. about half an hour after arriving there. Mason County Deputy Coroner Richard Adamson said Mrs. Harvey was galloping the horse she was riding when the horse hit a wet spot and lost its footing. The horse did not fall, he said, but Mrs. Harvey was thrown off. Assault charge filed in incident in which gun fired Max G. Graham, 26, Shelton, second-degree burglary. He appeae in Mason County asked, through his attorney, ',ll'erior Cort Thursday before John Jarrett, TumwaLet, for the Judge Robert Doran for expenditure of public funds to identification on a charge of hire a private investigator to second-degree assault, assist in discovering information Graham was arrested by for his defense. Shelton police officers about Jarrett told the court 2:30 a.m. last Thursday morning Grewell's position in the case is and booked into the Mason that if the burglary was County jail. committed, it was done by Charges of second-degree assault were fded against him by Conv.ersion the prosecuting attorney's office Thursday morning and he was brought into court for p,-'an IS identification later the same day. Judge Doran set bail on approved Graham at $5,000. A plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf by the court and trial of the case was ordered within 60 days. Information filed in the charge accuses Graham of assaulting Mack Dittmer July 13. Shelton police said the arrest came as the result of an investigation of a report that a firearm had been discharged during a fight in front of the Old Timer's Inn. Graham was arrested at Second and Cota by the officers who went to investigate the report. Judge Doran appointed the Olympia law firm of Whitehouse and Haneman to represent Graham on the charge. Also appearing before Judge Doran Thursday was Ralph Grewell, Shelton, charged with The Mason County Commission has approved the plat for the conversion of the six units in the Siskan Motel to condominiums and the construction of two single.family residences. Lucille Daniels, owner of property adjoining the proposed plat, told the commission she was concerned about encroachment from the proposed plat onto her property. She questioned the adequacy of the well protection radius. Marjorie Dilworth-Dale, from the Thurston-Mason Health District, stated the well and the septic tank system had been checked by the health department and approved. another person, and that the name of that person was known but that firther investigation was necessary. ., Jarrott said the name of the other individual had been provided to the prosecutor's office after it had been discovered. Judge Doran delayed a ruling on the request after asking Deputy Prosecutor Gary Burleson to have the other individual questioned about the burglary. Judge Doran gave Jarrett one week to continue his attempts to contact Gary Daniels, Seattle, charged with first-degree theft. Jarrett had asked to be allowed to withdraw from representing Daniels since he had been unable to contact him. Judge Doran said if Daniels could not be contacted in a week, Jarrett would be allowed to withdraw and that a bench warrant would be ued. Timothy Matthews, sentenced to the Washington Corrections Center recently on a drag possesion charge, appeared in court so Judge Doran could advise him of his right to an appeal at public expense if he was unable to hire an attorney. Judge Doran ordered a pre.sentenee report on Jim Lee West, Bucoda, who was found guilty of a charge of second-degree burglary by a Superior Court jury last month. She was riding with her daughter, at the time, officers said. Mrs. Harvey was born May 20, 1938 in Hermiston, Oregon. She had lived in Sbelton from 1964 to 1974 when she moved to Walla Walla where she lived for three years, returning to Mason County in 1977. She was married to James Harvey in Walla Walla May 6, 1955. Her hobbies irteluded horseback riding, painting and collecting antiques. Memorial services were held at I0 a.m. Wednesday at Batstone Funeral Home with Reverend Kenneth Robinson officiating. Cremation fol|owe the service. Survivors include her husband, James R; Hmvey, Shelt0n; four daughters, Barbara, Mary, Cindy and Linda Harvey, all of Shelton; one son, James R. Harvey, Shelton; five brothers, Dell and Pete Parker of Walla Walla, Ralph Parker of Kennewick, Dan Parker of Roseberg, Oregon, and Don Isacson of Cottage Grove, Oregon; and her mother, Helen Parker, Shelton. Conner €ondition P Is stable State Senator Paul Conner, Sequim, is still in Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle where he is being treated for a head injury received in a fall June 27. Hospital authorities reported his condition as stable. Conner received a head injury when he fell between 20 and 30 feet into the hold of a ship at Port Angeles June 27 while working as a longshoreman. He was treated at a Port Angeles hospital and then transferred to the Seattle hospital by Coast Guard helicopter. THE NEW WASTEwATER PLANT being constructed for :he City of Shelton off Fairmont Street is progressing. Contractor for the project is Roglins of Aberdeen.