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The body of a Port Orchard
hiker who apparently fell from a
cliff and into the Skokomish
River in the Staircase area early
Friday morning was brought out
by helicopter later that day.
The Mason County sheriff's
office, which headed efforts to
get the body out, said the man
was Ronald F. Schumacher, 26,
Box 314, Port Orchard.
The sheriff's office was
notified by the Staircase Ranger
Station after a hiking companion
of the dead man, Mike McCoy,
Allyn, had found the
body lying face down in the river
about 2~ miles northwest of the
ranger station.
Officers said McCoy told
them Schumacher was not in
camp when he (McCoy) awakened
Friday morning and that McCoy
then started looking for his
companion.
After finding the body,
McCoy then went to the ranger
station for assistance.
Officers said the body was
moved to a spot where a
helicopter could land and was
then taken by helicopter to the
ranger station from where it was
taken to Batstone Funeral Home.
Officers said the U.S. Park
Service was making a complete
investigation of the incident since
it occurred within the park
boundaries.
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COUrt over a traffic
June of 1973 which
people.
as defendants are the
Passengers in one of
and the estate of a
In that vehicle who was
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of his daughter,
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A CURIOUS KITTY in an old shed won a first place for Nancy Eveleth of
Shelton in the 4-H photography competition at last week's Mason County
Fair.
David Coffey, driver of the other
vehicle, Ronald Anderson and
Michael Miljour, passengers in the
Coffey vehicle and the estate of
Robert Selby, who was killed in
the accident also.
Information filed with the
suit says Miss Nelson was a
passenger in a vehicle which
was traveling on the McEwan
Prairie Road when the vehicle,
driven by Coffey and traveling
down the railroad tracks, crossed
the McEwan Road in the path of
the vehicle in which Miss Nelson
was a passenger.
The information also states
the vehicle which was traveling on
the railroad tracks was in
violation of the law and that the
passengers in the vehicle aided
and abetted the driver in the
violation of the law.
The information also states
that the driver and passengers in
the vehicle were under the
influence of or affected by
intoxicants at the time.
Coffey pleaded guilty to two
counts of negligent homicide in
charges brought against him as the
result of the accident.
He was given a deferred
sentence on the condition he
spend time in the county jail on a
work release program and is
presently serving the county jail
time.
The Washington Corrections
Cet~ter does not have all the
towers manned on a
24-hour-a-day basis a Washington
Corrections Center official said
this week, but uses roving patrols
which they believe are more
effective.
Four inmates of the
corrections center went over the
fence last week, triggering an
alarm system which had been
installed earlier this year. Two
were caught by a roving patrol at
the fence and the other two were
caught the next morning as they
walked along the road near the
intersection of the road past the
corrections center and the Dayton
Road.
Captain James Harvey
explained the security system
which is now in operation.
He said there is not enough
manpower to provide men in all
of the towers on a 24-hour-a-day
basis. The correction center uses
two vehicle patrols which,
Captain Harvey said, are more
effective in apprehending those
attempting escape than tower
guards would be since they are
able to get to any place along the
fence very quickly when an alarm
goes off.
He said the tower guards are
stationary and, since the towers
are 1,800 feet apart, someone
going over the fence about
midway between the two towers
is quite some distance from the
tower officers.
in the most recent escape, the
roving patrol was able to get to
where the men were going over
the fence in time to capture two
of them and to fire shotgun shots
at the other two as they went into
the brush.
The two men who did get
away and were recaptured the
next morning did suffer
oro
er
superficial wounds from the
shotgun shots.
The new alarm system,
Harvey said, is on the inside of
the inner fence and goes off when
the fence moves.
Harvey commented it must be
remembered that, when someone
decides to go over the fence, the
time between when they get to
the first fence and set off the
alarm until they have gone over
the second fence is a very short
Iler
In
Mason County District Court
Judge Carol Fuller said this week
she has re-registered as a voter in
Mason County and has been
assured by County Auditor Ruth
Boysen that her name will be on
the ballot.
Mrs. Fuller also said she had
been notified a hearing on her
appeal of Mrs. Boysen's
cancellation of her voter
registration in Mason County
earlier has been set for September
9.
Local court officials said they
had not been notified officially of
the hearing date.
Mrs. Boysen ruled that Mrs.
Fuller's voter registration was
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re-reg
on
cancelled since Mrs. Fuller was a
resident of Olympia rather than
of Union, the address she gave on
her voter registration.
The decision came after a
time.
He commented the
corrections center has 23 less
members on its custodial staff
now than when the center opened
in 1964.
The state is short of money to
tidl all positions, he said, and the
corrections center in using some
roving patrols instead of tower
guards believes the best possible
use is being made of the available
manpower.
ers
hearing on a challenge to Mrs.
Fuller's voter registration by
Jeannie Deck, Union.
Mrs. Fuller tided an appeal of
the decision in Superior Court.
Today is the last day for buildings.
registration at schools in the Those in high school and
Shelton School District. junior high who attended Shelton
Registration for youngstersschools last year are asked to
new to the district and tl~ose come in and pay their school fees
entering kindergarten has been during the registration days.
held Tuesday, Wednesday andSchools in the Shelton district
today at the various schoolwill open September 3.
agrees
sing au
City Commission
of the request of
CoUnty Housing
Io Operate a low
program in the
po
orl
elen Morrow,
g the housing
at the city
t~eeting Tuesday to
35, P.O.
was killed
accident on
early Friday
State Patrol,
the accident,
westbound on
out five miles
the car left
right on a
Struck a dirt
off the roadway,
a log, rolled
a tree and
ts top.
Occurred about
a
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present the city commission with
a copy of a resolution adopted by
the county.
Mayor Frank Travis told Mrs.
Morrow the commission had
discussed the request from the
housing authority and were in
agreement that it would approve
another housing complex for
senior citizens similar to Fir Tree
Park.
The commission, Travis said,
could not go along with other
programs which were available
under the programs which were in
information provided by the
housing authority.
City Attorney B. Franklin
Heuston was asked by the
commission to prepare an
ordinance which would "allow
only the part of the program to
which the commission was
agreeable.
Mrs. Morrow told the
commission the housing authority
had no plans for any other type
of program in the city.
The commission granted
permission to City Engineer
Howard Godat to contract with
Guy Lusignan, consulting
forester, to assist with the
preparation of a management plan
for the city watershed property.
Godat told the he
contacted and that
laB
the forester had agreed to do the
work for the city on an hourly
basis.
The commission, on Godars
recommendation, voted to set a
hearing on the city's six-year
street program for 8 p.m. August
27.
against two
Two young Shelton men
arrested Saturday evening on
burglary and grand larceny
charges appeared in Mason
County Superior Court Monday
before Judge Frank Baker for
identification.
Arrested were Floyd Dalunan,
2 I, Pinckney Apartments,
Shelton, and Gary Leeberg, 18,
P.O? Box 69, Shelton. Both were
arrested at the Pinckney
Apartments, Leeberg at 2:15 p.m.
and Dahman at 6 p.m. Saturday
by sheriff's deputies.
Dahman appeared before
Judge Baker Monday afternoon
and asked to have an attorney
appointed for him. The court
appointed Joe Snyder, Shelton
• ne to re Dahrnan.
for him was set at $500.
THIS
typified the action at last week's Mason County Fair rodeo.