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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.