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Shelton Mason County Journal
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August 22, 1974     Shelton Mason County Journal
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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. ?: *:~!~:~::'%:¸I¸¸I¸¸ i• i : :/%/)? ) .... Thursday, August 22, 1974 Eighty-eighth Yea r - Number 34 4 Sections - 46 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy i¸¸ i0,O00 damage suit has in Mason County 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 was brought by administrator of his daughter, one of the as defendants are i~ ~i ~i ........ .......... !i!ii!i!iiii i il/i!f!!!iiiiil ..... 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 ~ii! ,~i?i: :i!i;i~ ~= 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 P 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.