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!!' :,i/ eels il  == fishing for pink salmon in the state officers observed them on D u ckabush, of one, the :.:  Duckabush River in violation of a the night of September 25, 1967 Skokomish tribes usual and Washington State Fisheries netting pink salmon on the closed accustomed places. : Department regulation which has portion of the Duckabush above The defense cited a 1968 closed the river for many years to the Highway l01bridge, ot ecs)tn of the U.S. Supreme  salmon fishing at any time by The defendants pleaded n in the Puyallup Indian  i anybodY.Fines of $200 each, which the guilty and were defended by fishing, case with established the ! Board i   ................ lerald E Olson of Seattle He nit reservation ttsmng ny a y i court described as nominal, were Assistant. US District Attorney states r. lght_.to .regtrtt_e.  imposed on each of the argued that under the Treaty of Indians provided it is necessary to Resolution , To Dism00s Hopper *;   A resolution for the removal of as it appeared to Ie, was severe stated that he believed Hopper dg Ju e Cites Conservation Need, Fines Skok Fishermen  u see r IR: ! sd o  pi! i nO;di erii!!i tob!te Y Da r e M h :: ', e Sa nWci de::!,oN:t::!i!;rletnfnOdw!a i C:n S:r r; ttoyO, and guilty of criminal charges of net The trio were arrested after entitled to take salmon from the H GOODWIN, librarian at Evergreen Elementary 'ks Over books and gets them on the shelves of / i !:, i!iiil  the library as she prepares for the opening day of school Tuesday. R. Cal Hopper as administrator of Mason General Hospital and Superintendent of Mason County Hospital District !, was introduced at the meeting of the Hospital Board Wednesday night, Aug. 20. The board will act on final adoption of the resolution at its Sept. 17 meeting. In the meantime, Hopper remains on suspension from his duties at the hospital. The resolution was introduced by Board member Robert Holt after he (Holt) read the board's statement concerning the incident between Hopper and Mrs. Lois Sollars Aug. 3 and the board's subsequent suspension of Hopper. The resolution came at a meeting attended by a number of hospital employees and interested citizens. The comments made by members of the audience indicated that most of those who spoke were strongly in support of Hopper. The tenor of most of the comments was that the board's action, based on a single incident a n County will -'° '°r the1969.70 Tacom Man Slu lay morning. [ =liaiSon district, i°HU!,l! :p!'i;;i!ei'" i . . . lkl Se It." "ad Bordeaux Shelton Police are continuing . : i ." . ." ' ". ' ¢=1 h°°ls, except their investigation of an assault Sntroilnt22tsh:pe!i!dalft2!!h2 :!ti!i) £ [ 1 I==,. s, start at 9 and robbery of a Tacoma man in agh school and an alley in Shelton Saturday e Thursday, August 28, 1969 PuUtthea I. "Clrlttmestown, U.S.A.", Shelton, Welhlngton. Entered as second ¢IS 10 Cents Per Copy Cay matter et the post office et Shelton, Washington 98584, under oct of March 8, 1879. 83rd Year -- No. 35 Published weekly at 227 we,t Cota. $5.00 per year In Meson County, $6.OO elsewhere. 20 Pages -- 2 Sections is This decision and others, the defense argued, means that state feet, nine inches tall, weighing about 175 pounds and wearing horn rimmed glasses. At the time night. Herman Hallis, 63, 3607 N. 7th St., Tacoma, told officers he was walking along second street when a man who asked him what time it was, grabbed his watch from his arm and ran down an alley. Hallis told officers he followed the man, and was attacked at the rear of the Pantorium Cleaners building in the alley between Second and Third St. and Cota and Grove. He told officers his assailant apparently removed $7 from his front trouser pocket, but missed $60 which was in his wallet. The watch was found by officers in the alley where the assault took place. Hallis suffered injuries to his mouth, eye, nose and arm in the assault, officers said. They reported his top dental plate was broken by the blow he received. Officers believe Hallis was unconscious in the alley for a time before coming to the police station to revert the incident. He told officers he drove into Shelton between 8:30 and 9:15 p.m. to buy some items from a drug store and a newpaper. He had been staying at his cabin on Benson Lake. He told officers he went to one drug store, but found it was closed and started walking down the street. A man approached him and told him there was a drug store open on Second Street south of where he was walking. Hallis told officers that after being given the directions, the man asked him what time it was and it was then his watch was grabbed from his arm. The victim told officers that after he came around in the alley, he walked to where his car was parked, and was informed of the way to the police station by two men. He arrived at the Police Station of the incident, he was wearing a sport shirt outside his trousers. Anyone having seen a man the description on Second St. between 8:30 and 10:45 p.m. Saturday is asked to contact the Police Department. hospital and remained until Monday afternoon. Police asked that anyone who Advisory Committee Backs New Four-Year -ligh School that while the effort toward getting a new high school built would be the largest immediate project, the study of other problems by the various sub-committees could be going on at the same time. ,ung session of 'Vergreen starts at ,nat at Bordeaux at "" at Mt. View '0 Start at 8:50 ct busses will run tes they used at ! .f the school year lth Some minor SChool starts to and clas size. 'lligllt SChool a.ll" classes tUthside start at 8..a4¢at Grapeview, ,nes start at k)'er Start at 8:50 ;, the county "lases the first l00Y-l00d In  l)¢PUty Sheriff °_Was reported ' Ta°ma General iti_ was taken last it¢ a back injury ent on the , t0td: . ave suffered a a dune buggy to .a ditch to lh,= with another  -'. to the scene iccident, the • ,II, tnderson said ,eted Stretched "ats in his back t deputy still of bed, but,  returning to IIIIHIIIHH The Shelton School Advisory Committee voted at its meeting Monday night to recommend to the school board that a bond issue for the construction of a new four-year high school, complete with athletic facilities, on the district's 40-acre site off Spring Road be put on the ballot as soon as possible. The Nov. 4 general election ballot this year is the earliest the bond issue proposal could be On the ballot for voters in the school district. The next meeting of the advisory committee was set for Sept. 10, the next night after the school board meeting so that if the committee's recommendation received favorable consideration from the school board and the bond issue was put on the Nov. 4 ballot, efforts toward informing the voters about the proposal could get started immediately. Before voting the recommendation, the committee heard several comments on whether or not the time between now and Nov. 4 would be too short to properly inform the public about the proposal. The decision to recommend the construction of a four-year high school instead of the middle school which had been proposed in the three-year building plan originally was based largely on the changes in the bonding capacity of the district under new regulations passed by the last session of the state legislature. Charles Savage, a member of the committee and also a State Representative, told the group Road Contract Is Awarded A contract to Lige Dickson miles of Highway 106 on Hood Co., Tacoma, for $97',800 for Canal was among the contracts grading the roadway shoulders awarded Aug. 21 by the State and paving the two-lane highway Highway Department. with asphalt concrete on eight that under the new regulations, the Shelton District should have a bonding capacity of more than $4 million, which is more than sufficient to provide funds for the construction of the proposed high school. Other committee members commented that while the time between now and Nov. 4 was short to inform the voters about the bond issue, it could be done if the committee was unanimously behind the project and 'worked together with other interested groups in the effort. One point which was brought out was that there would be other election contests on the Nov. 4 ballot which would help to get the needed voter turnout. Mrs. Helen Ruddell, secretary of the committee, reported on a telephone poll which was made on the question after the last committee meeting. She reported that a total of 302 calls to residents of the district had been made and that of these, 204 responded yes, they would vote for a bond issue for a new high school, 88 said no and 27 were undecided. This was about 66 per cent of those contacted in favor of the proposal. Th¢ committee also voted to recommend that the school board be requested to contact the High School student body to ask that eight students be appointed to the advisory committee, two to be on each of the four sub-committees. The committee also assigned the public relations sub-committee to review the problems in the district which have been brought up and recommend which sub-committee they should be assigned to for further study and recommendation. Ron Ring, chairman of the advisory committee, commented considering Hopper's record of six years of competent hospital management with Shelton General Hospital and Mason General Hospital and his work in the development of the new hospital. The board stated the decision to suspend and now to dismiss ltopper had been a difficult one and one which they did not like to have to make. Richard Angle, chairman of the hospital board, said he had talked to Hopper at the Hopper home the night of the incident and that the entire board had met with Hopper the following morning in his office in the hospital. In answer to points raised by Hopper in a statement he read at the meeting, Angle and the other commissioners disagreed on whether or not the decision to suspend Hopper had been made by the district's attorney B. Franklin Heuston. Board members stated they could not recall if they met with Houston before meeting with Hopper the morning of Aug. 4, but did not think they did, although one or more of the members might have consulted the attorney on the matter. It is not unusual for the board to consult its attorney before making a decision, the board members said. The board stated that at the time of ltopper's suspension, most of the information they had about the incident between he and Mrs. Sollars was what they had been told by Hopper. The board stated Hopper had told them on more than one occasion he had struck the woman. The board, in answer to a comment by Hopper that he had been advised to consult his own attorney about a statement he had prepared on the incident, stated the intention had been to advise him for his own protection, to talk to an attorney before turning the statement over to police. The board stressed several times, in answering questions from the audience, that from Hopper's own statement, lhe board" believed he had used poor judgement in the situation and that they believed the blow they understood Hopper had struck Mrs. Sollars was struck at least partially in anger and was not entirely defensive in nature. Dr. William Schumacher seemed to express the feeling of much of the crowd when he FLOYD JACKSON will greet students in Shelton Junior High School when they return to class Tuesday morning. He succeeds Edward Fleenor as principal of the school. Jackson completed his masters degree work at the University of Washington the past year. He taught at Raymond and Aberdeen and was principal at Hood Canal school. He was also superintendent.principal of a dependent school in Maracaibo, Venezuela, four years. "had done a tremendous job in organizing the hospital district and getting the new hospital built and in operation and that he should be given every consideration possible." The comments drew applause from the audience at the meeting. The board commented in response to a question from the audience as to whether it might not be that Hopper had walked into a trap when he went to the hospital the evening of Aug. 3 that it was entirely possible he had been trapped into the situation. The following statement was read by Hopper at the meeting: "On Monday morning, Aug. 4th, prior to coming to the hospital, the commissioners had met with attorney Frank Heuston in his office, and had been apparently advised by him that ! be 'suspended'. When I arrived at the hospital the commission had been in conference regarding some bookkeeping and records in the store room. The office manager, Mrs. Jean Lee and Sel VanderWegen, the hospital Auditor were also there. "Upon my arrival, Mr. VanderWegen stated that there was no possibility that there was anything wrong with the books and records and that if there were I wouldn't be responsible as this was the function of the auditor and the office manager. "1 was informed of Frank Houston's recommendation that 1 be suspended. Then 1 read a rough draft of a statement I had prepared on the incident that had occured the night before. I was seeking their advice and council in the matter. Their position on the matter astounded me...l was told that I had better 'consult with my attorney on any statement that i made.' When 1 asked if Frank Houston, as the hospital's attorney, would be representing me, 1 was told that he couldn't as he would be representing the hospital and therefore there would be a conflict of interest. The commission now refer to Mr. Houston as 'their' attorney. When I asked just what the 'suspension' meant, I was told 'We don't know.' I was told that 1 should start my vacation immediately, but that I shouldn't leave town, as 1 had a lot of 'leg work' to do, and that ! should gather up any personal belongings 1 might need and that 1 should not be seen around the hospital as this would indicate that the commission had not taken decisive action in the matter. Later on that day Dick Angle personally escorted me off the premises with the remark that they (the commission) didn't intend to be a 'rubber stamp'. He told me that 1 should make appointments with any of the hospital personnel ff I wanted to see them at the hospital. He also instructed me to turn in my keys. "Tuesday, acting upon Frank Heuston's recommendation, I engaged an attorney regarding the assault case. He informed me, after a phone call to Frank Houston, that there would apparently be no assault charges filed, and that the commission would be asking for my resignation. Later that day, Tuesday, Aug. 5, while I was at the Hospital, (1 had an appointment) I was informed that the commissioners were also at the hospital, and I was asked if l wanted to see them. i said I didn't specially care to at that time. 1 was not told that they wanted to see me at that time ..... On Sunday evening, Aug. I0, 1 made arrangements with commissioner • 'Bob Holt to meet with the commissioners and discuss the whole thing with the three commissioners. When notified the next morning that the meeting was to be in Frank Heuston's office, and that 1 should bring my attorney, I declined to meet under those circumstances. I am well aware that ! have no legal rights as far as the joh as administrator is concerned, that I can be discharged at any time the (Please turn to pa 2) regulations must recognize a special status for Indians assuring them a fair share of the salmon to which their treaty rights entitle them. The prosecution, conducted by Assistant Attorney General J. L. Coniff, introduced testimony of Fisheries Department biologists who said the Duckahush closure is necessary for conservation because it is a prime spawning ground for pink salmon. They said, also, that because of the river's physical characteristics that net fishing could not only eliminate the run but also destroy its characteristics and thus make it useless for future spawning. In a lengthy oral opinion given before the verdict was announced Judge Ott indicated his belief that the Duckabush regulation fell within the conditions necessary for exercise of the state's regulatory power. The judge described the regulation as a proper, non-discriminatory exercise of the state's police power, without which, as the evidence established, the species of pink salmon could conceivably be completely destroyed in the Duckabush River. After citing the evidence that in 35 minutes the three defendants took 462 salmon weighing 2,756 pounds, the judge raised the question of what would happen if the three defendants were permitted to fish 12 hours a day throughout the entire pink salmon spawning season. Beyond that he speculated on what the result would be, if such a privilege were extended to all of the 5,000 treaty Indians in Western Washington. The judge indicated in his remarks his opinion that the only tribunal that can interpret the meaning of the federal treaty s the United States Supreme Court. Whether the Skokomish case will be appealed to the high court is now under consideration by the defendants. Defense Counsel Olson said he had discussed this possibility with them immediately after Monday's court action. The decision, he said, is up to them. Just before press time Wednesday Twiddy told The Journal that he and his co-defendants had not yet reached a decision. As a preliminary to his oral opinion, Judge Ott pointed out that in his fifteen years on the state supreme court bench he had tried several Indian fishing cases and his opinions in them had been much more favorable to the cause of the Indian than that of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Puyallup case. Monday's court session was held in Thurston County Superior Court at Olympia, to which the case was transferred from Jefferson County Superior Court at Port Townsend for the convenience of the parties. Judge Ott was appointed judge pro-tempera of the Jefferson County superior court for this case. Monday Is Holiday State, county city and federal government offices in Mason County will be closed Monday for Labor Day. Most businesses, except grocery stores, will be closed for the holiday also. Mail service will be on the holiday schedule, with mail picked up and delivered to the Post Office and put into Post Office boxes. There will be no rural or city mail delivery. There will be no garbage pick-up in the city of Shelton Monday, Pick-ups the rest of the week will be one day later than usual. Larceny Charge Is Filed Charges of grand larceny by check were filed last week against Joseph C. Cole, Shelton. The charge, filed by Prosecuting Attorney John C. Ragan, involves a check whi¢h was written to Miller's Department Store here. Bail wa= set at $5,000 by Judge Frank Baker, who signed the warrant for Col 0 arrest. Cole is presently being held in ShaRon City Jail where he is " serving a sentence imposed for a traffic violation.