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The Mason County and
Shelton City Commissions were
served with a $225,000 claim for
damages Monday. The claim is
over an arrest which was made in
the Agate area last March 31 and
involved Shelton Police and
Mason County Sheriff's officers.
The claim was flied by Mr.
and Mrs. Peter L. VanderWal on
behalf of themselves and their
children, Marie and Peter. They
are represented by William
Britton, Olympia attorney.
In the claim, the VandezWals
say that several officers from the
two law enforcement agencies
surrounded their home and
ordered everyone inside to come
out.
They say VanderWal, who
came out of the house first, was
ordered to stand with his hands
on a vehicle with his feet spread
and that he was kept in this
position until it became painful
for him. He was later taken to the
Mason County jail, the claim says,
and was released after talking to
officers.
The claim says Mrs.
VanderWal and the children,
along with some others who were
seated in the house, were held
seated on a grassy area outside the
house although it was cold and
they were not dressed for being
out of doors.
At the time of the incident,
the claim says, officers were
investigating a misdemeaner and
that one person, a Ronald
Girardin, who was a guest in the
VanderWal home, was arrested by
the officers.
The city commission voted to
reject the claim and refer it to the
city's insurance carrier.
The county commission took
no action on the claim.
:KTOPPING was completed this week on the new bicycle-pedestrian
Spring Road from North 13th Street to Shelton High School.
work which was done ixa conjunction with the new path included
improvement of the itnersections of North 13th and Spring Road and North
13th ,and Northcliff Road: A county road project from the high school to
near the Springwood entrance is underway.
on
im
he Mason County
rs are ~ studying
provided to them by
~cuting Attorney Byron
Monday on a $2.3
suit against the county by
employee of the sheriff's
against the county, Sheriff
and others in the
commissioners said they
d study the w~itten
provided to th6m by.
before coming to a
on what to do about the
which claims civil service
were violated in l~ring
of the sheriffs office.
claim was filed by
Frohmader, a Tacoma
on behalf of Robert
who was at one time
by the sheriff's office
help basis as a deputy.
Thursday, July 24, 1975
Eighty-ninth Year, Number 30
3 Sections- 32 Pages
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"We're out of food," said Helen Morrow, Mason County
coordinator of the Food Bank. "The only things we can give
out are for emergencies."
"The Food Bank, operating in Shelton for three and
one-half years, is part of the federal Community Services
Administration, previously Neighbors in Need. The program
supplies free food to those without and is supported by
federal funds and community donations.
The Shelton Food Bank ran out of federal money last
April and has been running on donations since then.
An unpaid volunteer, Morrow, said, "The response from
the community is excellent during the holidays, but in the
spring and summer it drops off to nothing."
Ordinarily open once a week, the Food Bank gave out
on industrial insurance, unemployment, families on a low
income with seven or eight kids or senior citizens.
"The bulk of the people are seniors," she said. "We had
68 percent seniors last year." She said this ratio has gone up
since past years.
According to Morrow, the use of the bank in general has
gone up. "Perhaps people know about it now and the price of
things has gone up so much," she said.
Feeling that very few people take unfair advantage of the
service, she said, "I would say that 98 percent of the people
who go in there are in need."
Morrow described one woman who came in this month
who said she had five children and only one can of string
beans in her house. Morrow said, "She told me, 'When you've
subsequently took food on July 14 for three hours - the only day they were
service examination,able to open this month That day 511 persons, 203 of whom
the written portion and were senior citizens, came to receive the supplies; fifty-four
the oral portion, of them came for emergency food.
commission has 60 days The food portions consisted of a dozen eggs, macaroni
what to do with the
i they deny it, it can then be
a Superior Court suit.
commission said they
probably meet with
later this week to
the information he had
to them.
and cheese, a quarter pound of margarine, split beans, one
can of unsweetened fruit, and a package of soup mix.
"We managed to last for the three said Morrow,
"and saved back a little for emergency' food.
Morrow contributed the high demand that day partially
to having been closed for a month. But she said, 'In bad
months we've had as many as 691 people in one day. That's
in the wmter.
Morrow described most of the users of the bank as being
got to ask for food, your pride goes right out the door.' I told
her she shouldn't let it get that bad.'"
Morrow said the bank received less than $200 from the
community this month and was aided by food donated by
Neighbors in Need in eastern Washington. She encouraged
community members to contribute money or food to the
bank. (Money is used to buy food at wholesale prices.)
Federal funding may be received next September for
another nine months, although Morrow was not definite. In
the meantime, all supplies must come from the community.
Persons wishing to contribute may call Helen Morrow by
calling 426-2326 to arrange a delivery at the First Christian
Church at Arcadia and Lake Boulevard.
total blindness shall
last lingering vestiges of
apidly diminishing sight,
new two-year contract
een Simpson Timber
any and two unions
its woods and mill
has been ratified, it
his week.
in the Simpson
woods operations here
by IWA Local
was negotiated
basis between the
the IWA and another
which represents Simpson
some other areas.
new two-year contract
for a 68 cents an hour
this year and 65
Mary Hayes has looked long and
carefully upon the faces of her
friends and her family members.
Each line and curve and
hollow will be remembered. When
night descends to claim her failing
vision, she will view on the living
screen of memory the play of
light and shadow so casually
accepted and enjoyed by the
sighted.
In early July Mary Hayes,
legally blind, traveled alone by
bus from her Van Nuys,
California home to visit her sister,
growing cataract would one day
require surgery.
Three years later Mary Hayes
awakened to blindness in her left
eye. Unalarmed, she arranged for
the expected surgery. She was
eventually referred to a surgeon
specializing in the retina who
found 34 rips in this sensitive
material.
"It's like rotten silk," Mrs.
Hayes was informed.
After three operations it was
proved beyond doubt that Mary
Hayes was allergic to silicone used
in repair of her eye. The silicone
was promptly removed, but the
eye remained blind.
An inoperable cataract is
Ethel Breedlove of the Skokomish forming in the right eye. The
Valley. Family members joined retina is disintegrating. The
her there for a meaningful morning fast approaches when
cents next!year.'The pay increase reunion. Mary Hayes will awaken to
is retroactive to June 1 when the "I wanted to see them all A pickup which was reportedwonder briefly whether night or
day prevails.
former contract ran out. once more," says Mary Hayes:to the Shelton Police Departmenz She is prepared. When she
The wage increase this yearThe moment is imminent as stolen July 17 was found in a
brings the bas~ rate for union when her eyes will be enveloped grocery store parking lot about an first knew that her destiny was
employees to $5.09~ cents an in her personal and perpetual hour later, the oarl~ness Mary I-JaYTra~:~rno~
hour, the company said. darkness. Her left eye is Glen Parker reported to Braille She concen _
The new contract also completely sightless. Only fading police department that a pickup training her fmgers to evaluate
provides for an additional eight traces of distant vision remain to owned by Cascade Natural Gas coins, She practiced the pouring
cents in health and welfarethe right eye. Company had been taken from a or liquids and memorized
benefits for this year ancl anFive years ago severe parking lot in the downtown area positions of household objects.
.. "If people don't move
additional seven cents tot next headaches and subsequent comas sometime between 3:30 and 4:~
" ,6
year. led to tests for brain tumor. The gs, she laughs, I get along
p.m. July 17. free! I even have a seeing~ye cat
It also provides for one tests were negative and herOfficers found the truck in
additional holiday and for other headaches worsened, the parking lot at 20thCentUrY wh° me°ws to lead me !"
fringe benefit improvements. Examinations of her eyes yielded Thriftway about 5:50 p.m. After a near tragedy when
no reason for her symptoms,Investigation is continultag, Mrs. Hayes used a nasal product
although a doctor wamed that a officers said. (Ple~ tm~ to lmle three.)
The conviction for escape
from the Washington Corrections
Center of Aden D. Cuzick has
been overturned by the State
Court of Appeals on the grounds
that he was not given a speedy
trial under present court rules in
the state.
The Mason County Court
Clerk's Office was notified of the
Court of Appeals decision last
week.
Mason County Prosecuting
Attorney Byron McClanahan said
he is studying the appeal court
ruling and may ask for a rehearing
on the case..
McClanahan said he is not
satisfied with the decision.
If he asks for a rehearing and
it is denied, he can then appeal to
the State Supreme Court.
The Department of Social and
Health Services office in Olympia
said their file on the case was in
the hands of the Attorney
General's Office which had
handled the case on their behalf.
A spokesman in the office
said Cuzick had not been released
on the basis of the appeals court
decision.
Cuzick was found guilty of
escape by Superior Court Judge
Gerry Alexander, who heard the
case without a jury. Judge
Alexander subsequently
sentenced Cuzick to the custody
of the State Department of Social
and Health Services.
Cuzick has been in the state
penitentiary at WaUa Walla since
he was sentenced.
Cuzick is a former Shelton
man who grew up in Mason
County and attended school here-
The escape charge against
Cuzick was filed in July of 1973,
shortly after he had been taken
into custody after getting over the
wall around a yard at the
reception center section of the
corrections center on July 10,
1973•
Testimony at the trial showed
Cuzick was struck with a rifle
bullet fired by one of the tower
g~ards who saw him going over
the wall and fence and that he
showed up later, injured, at the
Harris and Thomas Christmas
Tree Yard north of Shelton and
the caretaker at the tree yard
brought him to Mason General
Hospital where he was taken into
custody.
He was hospitalized at Mason
General for a time, recovering
from the bullet wound, and was
subsequently hospitalized again
after he swallowed a razorblade
while in the Mason County jail.
Olympia attorney Jerome
Buzzard represented Cuzick at the
escape trial and in the appeal to
the Appeals Court.
At Buzzard's request, several
mental and physical examinations
were made of Cuzick before the
trial.
In its decision, the appeals
court stated that the last
examination of Cuzick was made
December 14, 1973 and his trial
did not start until April 29, 1974,
a lapse of 136 days. It was this
lapse on which the appeals court
based its reversal of the
conviction on the basis that trial
had not been held in compliance
with the court rules.
Court rules state that trial
must be held within 60 days if a
person is in custody and within
90 days if he is not.
There are exceptions to the
TOTAL BLINDNESS is rapidly overtaking Mary Hayes of
Van Nuys, California. In the Skokomish Valley home of her
sister, Ethel Breedlove, she met with family members in order
to see them once more before her very limited vision fails
completely.
rule where the defendant waives
the fight of speedy trial or in
cases where evidence is not
available.
The appeals court said the
period between July 25 and
December 14, 1973, was taken up
in the mental and physical
exminations which had been
requested by the defendant.
At the tirre of the escape of
which Cuzick was accused he was
being held at the corrections
center enroute to Port Angeles
from the state penitentiary for an
appearanqe in court there.
Cuzick had been convicted by
a Clallam County jury of sodomy
and had been sentenced on that
charge and had been sent to the
penitentiary.
The sodomy conviction was
overturned previously by the
appeals court on the grounds that
the alternate juror had been
allowed to go into the jury room
during deliberations when he
should have been dismissed at the
conclusion of the ease before the
jury went out to deliberate.
John Warren, an employee of
Mason County PUD 3, suffered
two broken legs and a badly
shattered heel Wednesday
morning when he jumped from a
ladder truck to avoid electric
wires after a pole had fallen.
Warren was taken to Mason
General Hospital and transferred
to St. Peter Hospital in Olympia
after emergency treatment.
Wilber Flint, PUD 3
superintendent, said Warren and
Larry Burfiend were working on
changing a service line near the
Cole Road-Arcadia Road Loop
Junction. They had cut two wires
and when a third was cut a pole
started to fall.
When the pole went down,
one of the wires got entangled in
the primary wire and shorted out.
Flint said when Warren saw the
electrical elutrge coming down the
line toward where he was
working, he jumped to avoid it.
Burfield summoned help and
an ambulance was called to take
Warren to the hospital.
Flint said when the one pole
fell, three others went down also
and a fire was started along the
power line.
Fire District Four crews were
called to put out the fire.
' Pioneer
to
add men
The Pioneer School Board will
hold a special meeting at 8 pan.
July 30 to appoint two additional
members to the school board to
conform to the district's new
second class district designation.
The board has asked that
anyone interested in being
appointed to one of the
positions present wr
background information to
board or appear in penmn at~
July 30 meeting,