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A Washington Patrol trooper, assisted by Fire Chief AI Nevitt, places a woman on a stretcher while an injured man waits for assistance on the driver's seat
of a car involved in a collision which injured eight persons at Highway 101 and Lynch Road.
Injured
TWo Crashes
including four Mason (;cneral ltospital. Trooper
Were injured in (;iddings¢)f tim Washington Stale
.le collismns in Patrol administered a breathalizer
Sunday and tcsl.
Injured in thc other car were:
occurred April K. Schroeder, left arm
a car driven by re.jury, contusions:
of McClcary, Brenda M. Schroedcr, 3,
Lynch Road possible fracture of upper left leg;
101 directly in ('harlcs P. Schroeder, 22
northbound car months, possible fracture of left
M. Nicmcyc|, ankle.
Street, Winnifred Schroeder of Seattle,
rding to a a passenger, was uninjured.
rolreport. Whitaker's car, a 1965
lacerations. Chevrolet and the Schroeder car,
Dibbs, 75, of a 1967 Olds, were totalled, police
:eived a head reported. Damage to the front
bruises, end of the trailer was estimated at
to the Mc('leary $300.
Deyer suffered
Maior
in her car Two
Were:
,6, Fi ght
.,,.. res Fou
- Y e r, 22
right ear,
both arms
daughter of
Swisher, Rt.
lacerated
multiple
POssible wrist
20, 1736
, abrasions
,Very, 2, multiple face
to Mason
emergency
Mason County
It. The Avery
for further
released.
a 1968
emeyer's car,
Were both
reported.
injured and
In a head-on
Sunday on
hill of
Shelton.
'Ported that a
driven by
er, 63, of the
.Crossed over
ate the path
towing a
April K.
E. 64th
'ere no skid
had
bther driver
and told
naost stopped
The Department of Natural
• Resources reported that two
major fires broke out this past
week and several small blazes.
A railroad fire burned more
than half of an acre Monday on
John's Prairie. The flames were
contained by 5 p.m. that evening.
About two acres of fire damage
overtook Brinnon in Jefferson
County on Tuesday. The Brinnon
fire department and Department
of Natural Resources controlled
the blaze.
The spot fires include the
burning of the Alderbrook stables
at Union, a hay truck fire in the
Matlock area, several runs to the
various city and county dumps
over the weekend and one small
blaze on Capital Hill.
Woman Loses
$900 At Gunpoint
Three men who broke into the
home of Mrs. Dorothy R. Pool,
Box 52, Allyn, at 11:30 p.m.
Saturday robbed her of $900
after holding her at gunpoint• she
reported to the Mason County
Sheriff's Department.
Mrs. Pool told officers she had
the cash in her possession for
paying bills on remodeling work
at her home.
Sheriff Department personnel
were continuing their
investigation this week.
of chest
at nose
s taken to
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44 Citizens Are Proposed
As School Board Advisors
The names o1" 44 men and
women will be proposed to the
Shelton School Board of
Directors at their August 12
meeting for appointment then as
members of an expanded Citizens
Advisory Comillit Iee.
The list was announced by Dr.
Ii. L. ttergert, board chairman,
following the second organization
meeting of persons interested in
serving on the committee at
Evergreen School Monday
evening.
The selection includes three
elements:
(I) members of a former
committee whose .main function
has been to assist the directors
with the building program
(2) individuals who expressed a
willingness to serve in response to
an invitation from Dr. Hergert
made at the group's first meeting
earlier this month, and
(3) representatives of
organizations who were invited by
letter to help form the
committee.
Past committee members are:
Bill Smith, chairman, Richard
Angle, Marvin Anstey, Walter
Clayton, AI Edson, Mrs. Neff
Evander, Kevin Hamilton, Bruce
Kreger, Dr. R. W. Norvold, Mrs.
Terry Orme, and Ronald Ring.
Interested citizens, many of
them parents of students, are:
John K. Bennett, Rev. Carl
Carlsen, Carl Johnson Rev. and
Mrs. Horace Mounts, Dean
Palmer, Mrs. Thomas Pappas, Mrs.
Walter Parsons, Rot Sanford,
Otto Radtke, Dr. Lynn R. White,
Bruce Jorgensen, and Mr. and
Mrs. AI Celestine of Hoodsport.
Representing organizations are:
Mrs. Harold Auseth, Pioneer
School TPA; Roger D. Anderson,
Shelton Jaycees; Gaylen Burgess,
Bordeaux School PTA, Curtis
Cammack, Eagles; Vernon
Chambers, IWA Local 38; Harry
Fletcher, Golden Age Club; John
D. Keyzers, Moose Lodge; Mrs. J.
D. Keyzers, Women of the Moose;
and pushed
Two Shoplifters
Nabbed
the
In Shelton Supermarkets
Two women shoplifters were
arrested at two Shelton
supermarkets Monday, pleaded
guilty to petit larceny in police
court that night, and received
suspended jail sentences.
Myrtle A. Hutchins, 50, of 621
Ellinor Street, was arrested by
Sergeant Vincent Santamaria at
1:20 p.m. after a call from Store
Manager George Lemagie.
According to the officer's
report she had in her purse $6.90
worth of items consisting of a
package of tea bags, toothpaste,
tooth powder, kidney pills,
deodorant, dental floss, and
transistor batteries.
Police Judge Rolla Halbert
sentenced the woman to 30 days
in jail, suspended, and $2.50
costs.
Mrs. Nancy E. Wilder, 19, of
642 Dearborn Street, was arrested
bY Sergeant Santamaria at 10:30
a.m. at the Thriftyway Market
following a call from Manager
Robert Watson.
Mrs. Wilder had been
intercepted by Larry Hanson,
market employe. In her purse, the
police report said, were a package
of hot dogs 69c, pork chops,
$1.92, and,butter 80c.
Judge Halbert sentenced Mrs.
Wilder to 30 days in jail, of which
28 days were suspended.
IIIIII
Robert A. Kramcr, Shelton Shelton-Mason County (?hamber
Kiwanis; George Lemagie, Shell.on of (?ommerce; George Magec,
Rotary; Multi-Service Center; Mrs. Clyde
George Miller, Skokomish Ruddell, PTA Council; William
Tribal Council; Walter Parson, Stembacher, Sheltor! E'ducation
Association; Mrs. Darrell Sparks,
V l,'W Auxiliary; Bonnie Salisbury,
Evergreen School PTA; Charles R
Savage, Mason ('ounty Pomona
(Continued on page 2)
State Pushes 50% Assessment
Mason County Assessor Willis
Burnett this week received from
the Washington State Department
of Revenue a proposed rule which
would require him to assess
property for taxation at 50
percent of "true and fair value",
starting with the 1970 assessment
roll.
At the same time Burnett
received notice of two hearings at
which citizens may submit data,
views, or arguments to the
department on its proposal.
Oral arguments will be heard at
1:30 p.m. Monday, August 18, in
the large conference room of the
General Administration Building
at Olympia.
Written communications will
be received' prior to Monday,
August 25, on which date the
department will hold a meeting,
open to the public, to take action
on the proposed rule.
The department's proposal
results from a State Supreme
Court decision in a test case
decided April 7, 1969, that the
17th Amendment to the State
Constitution relating to the 50%
assessment ratio is mandatory.
"Accordingly,'" states the
department's proposed rule,
"under this constitutional
provision, all assessors are
required to apply a 50% ratio to
their determination of true and
fair value in order to arrive at the
assessed value for purposes of
property taxation.
"This change must be
accomplished in sufficient time so
as to be effective for 1970
assessments, and shall be made in
conjunction with preparation of
the 1970 assessment rolls.
"Because of the necessity that
this change be made uniformly
throughout the state, no
exceptions will be allowed with
respect to this requirement.
"In order to insure that each
county accomplishes this change,
personnel of the Property Tax
I)ivision of the l)epartment of
Revenue will be utilized to
monitor the program of the
assessors in effecting such change.
"In those cases where the
department determines that the
requirements of this rule are not
being complied with, appropriate
legal action will be taken by the
department to assure
compliance."
Mason County assessment ratio
was raised in 1968 from 20 to
25% of fair market value, Burnett
said. This contrasts with a ratio of
13 to 14% which was in effe:t
when Burnett became assessor in
1951. Such ratios, he said, were
statewidc at that time.
Asked for comment on the
proposed rule, Burnett said he felt
the consititional amendment must
be complied with in conformity
with the supreme court's decision.
JANICE WITTENBERG of Shelton, Miss Mason County
Forest Festival, lines up a telescope on Seattle's Space
Needle 'for a queen's eye view of the 20th annual Seafair.
Janice was one of twenty-nine lovely visiting queens who
Who took a
the car
Hemlock
an exchange
CUrb next
parked
on Second
and
a Shelton
Pay Boost
Mayor Frank Travis said after conferring Wednesday
with Sergeant Richard L. Nelson of Shelton Police
Department that he would reply as soon as he had conferred
with the other city commissioners to grievances of police and
firemen which led to discussion, and rejection, Monday night
of a "sick leave strike."
Discontent over pay and other issues which has been
brewing for months, came to a head at the Monday night
meeting, attended by police and fire department members
only, as a result of the commission's partial response to a
three-part proposal which requested:
I. Pay increases for chiefs, sergeants, and line officers of
police and fire departments;
2. Payment of unifornl allowances "as needed":
3. Civil service status for department clerk-dispatchers.
These proposals were made at a meeting July 8 which
the department personnel had requested with the
conllqlission.
Signing the proposal were:
Police Chief Frank Rains.
Sergeants Richard Nelson,
Vincent J. Sanlamaria and James
D. ('ross. Alvin C. Johnson, J.D.
Evans. l)onald C. Smith. Robert
A. Anderson, Bruce P. Howarth.
Sam Ebmger. Jack Ebinger. and
l:red Balsinger of the police
deparl ment, and
l;ire Chief Allan F. Nevitt.
(;eov ge i.. Ilunter. Bud Earl.
Michael Mirka. Michael E.
I,ongan, (;. Olson, Lawrence
Dutton. and John Bernsten of ttne
fire department.
Proposed salaries were:
Police Department: Chief
$825 per month, Sergeants $745:
Patrolmen $570 to $60;
Dispatchers $510 to $585.
Fire Department: Chief
$825 per month; Assistant Chief
$745; Frcmen $570 to $680.
Added to these would be
automatic cost ot living increases.
Presenl monthly salaries are:
police chief $701, fire chief ${)85,
police sergeants $610, patrohnen
and firemen $575 hap, dispatchers
$430.
The commission responded
at its July 22 meeting by
authorizing salary increases but
"overlooked", in Mayor Travis'
words, the uniform allowance and
civil service issues.
The increases offered were:
Police and Fire ('hiefs, $15 per
month; all salaried full-time police
and firemen, $25 per month;
police dispatchers (41 $50 a
month. These would be effective
as of July I, 1969.
An ordinance was passed on
first reading at Tuesday night's
council session authorizing use of
$4,050 in unbudgeted revenue to
fund these increases until the end
of the fiscal year, December 31.
When copies of a letter from
the commission listing the raises
were posted in the police and fire
stations following the July 22
meeting, the personnel reaction
was dissatisfaction and the
departmental meeting July 28 was
called.
A news release, upon which
Sgt. Nelson, Patrolman Evans, and
Dispatcher Sam Ebinger
collaborated, said:
"The men, pleased that the
city commission had responded
favorably to some portions of
their proposal, voiced discontent
in not having all their questions at
least answered.
"The three-part proposal
presented July 8 resulted in token
pay raises for the chiefs and line
personnel of both departments.
"Requests for inclusion into
civil service for dispatchers was
not answered and the response to
requests for a chnage in
helped Seattle celebrate its annual summer festival. Pictured
with Janice are Miss Capital Lakefair, Diana Brolyes; Miss
Grays Harbor, Becky Lynn Morris; and Miss Pacific County
Fair, Jeri Powe. :.
distribution of uniform,
allowances brought about a
change in the program but did
nothing to alleviate inconvenience
and initial expense of uniform
purchase. The officers wanted
that changed to an "available as
needed" basis. Commissioners
authorized payment of the
allowance twice per year.
The men agreed that the
proposal would be taken back to
the comnussion on the basis that
the salary increases would be
accepted if the commissioners will
guarantee to meet the minimum
levels of the departmental
proposals at the beginning of
1970.
It was also agreed that the
clothing allowance should be
made "as needed" and that
distribution of these funds be
made a departmental function.
They asked for a yes or no answer
on civil service for dispatchers.
When alternatives were
considered at Monday's meeting,
ten men in both departments said
they would actively seek other
enqloyment and will definitely
resign if their salary requests are
not met.
The news release also said:
Talk of a 'Sick Leave
Strike" drew considerable
discussion and although this could.
probably bring considerable
pressure to bear, the men
unanimously agreed that there
would be no such thing in
Shelton.
One man said: "There's too
much at stake. The additional
work load on those trying to
service the city would be too
much and the critically
shorthanded situation created by
such a maneuver would expose
those on duty to unreasonable
dangers. Besides, we owe our
people the protection the
Constitution guarantees them.
There will be no Sick Leave Strike
by the men of these
departments."
One more unanimous
agreement was: "We don't want
to leave, but we've got to make a
decent living or go where one is
available."
State Promises
Hillcrest Path
A footpath on Hillcrest which
was eliminated when Highway
!01 was widened will be replaced
by the State Highway
Department, City Engineer
Iloward Godat reported to the
Shelton city commission,
Godat said he conferred
Tuesday with Ralph Kerslake,
district engineer for the
department, who told him the
state would clear a three-foot
strip for a gravel path to be
topped with material suitable for
pedestrian use.
The commission also signed an
agreement with the Terry
Thompson Company for sale of
approximately $100,000 in
proposed 1JD bonds to finance a
city-wide street paving program,
provided it is finally authorized.
Burglar Suspect
Sick, Released
Jayson McKeel, 201 Tacoma,
charged with second degree
burglary, was released on his
personal recognizance from
Mason County Jail after appearing
before Judge Charles T. Wright
Thursday morning in Superior
Court.
McKeel had been arrested
earlier in the week in connection
with break-ins of cabins at Lake
Cushman.
Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan told the court that McKeel
was under doctor's care and
suggested he be released on
personal recognizance.
Relative who were in the
courtroom at the time of his
appearance told the court they
had obtained an attorney for him.
Judge Wright released McKoel
on personal recognizance with the
understanding that he would have
to return to court when his
doctor completed treatments.