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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
July 24, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Orosse.baoEer --.-- 0re. 9vzv ~.:, ,~ ....... 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 1 5 Cents Per Copy @ "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,