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August 30, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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1Port of Mason General new fully-operational heliport is set for 31, at 1:30 p.m., States Army scheduled to fly in eremonies. located 220 feet emergency Permit helicopters to take off under almost COnditions. Transfer from helicopters to JOins can be made by on hard-surfaced level. speaks to the J. Koden of State Emergency who helped with of the facility. "It any of the which may be rescue activities in the said. officials are pleased )ad because delivery of hikers, boaters, ~s well as any other need emergency Which is 110 re, Was designed Federal Aviation criteria and the it as to safety the use of he heliport is the state. There are around, and to page nine.) A MAST HELICOPTER approaches the new heliport which will be used to bring emergency patients in to Mason General Hospital. Thursday, August 30, 1973 Eighty-seventh Year, Number 35 34 Pages - 4 Sections Ten Cents Per Copy i A 30-day extension was granted by the county commission to Simpson Timber Company Monday night on its request for relocation of a part of its log storage area in Oakland Bay. The request for the extension came from Henry Sandstrom, Arlen Cuzick, a Mason County Jail and Washington Corrections Center inmate, was scheduled for surgery in Mason General Hospital Wednesday afternoon for a bowel obstruction, hospital authorities said. Cuzick has been in the hospital since August 20 when he was operated on to remove a razor blade he had swallowed while in the Mason County jail. operations manager-Northwest, for the company. Sandstrom said since the first hearing a week ago, the company has received a number of alternative suggestions and others were received at the hearing Monday night. He asked the extension to give the company time to study these Cuzick was transferred from the Washington Corre, ctions Center to the county jail after escape charges were flied against him after he went over the fence at the corrections center. Sheriff's deputies have been maintaining a 24-hour guard over Cuzick since his hospitalization at Mason General and will continue to do so until he is able to be transferred back to the corrections center. alternatives and come up with a proposal which would bring less objections from property owners on the bay. One proposal which is being looked at, he said, is the use of the area around the inner harbor line along the bay above the city dock. The major objection to the company's proposal to add 1,000 feet to the Chapman Cove storage area while eliminating all storage on Munson Point is that the additional distance would be out into the deep water channel in the bay, causing further hazards to boating. Sandstrom outlined log storage history in the bay, which he said'began in 1853 and has continued ever since. He stated the start-up of the dryland log sorting yard near Lake Nahwatzel had made it possible for Simpson to greatly reduce sorting in the water arid has reduced the amount of storage area needed. He said the practice of bundling the logs had helped to eliminate the problems of floating bark, broken logs and sunken logs and that the company has been working toward the elimination of those logs which are loose in the bay. (Please turn to page two.) Schools to start Tuesday School will start lor most Mason County students Tuesday morning, ending the summer vacation,, Shelton schools will open with a full-day session the first day. Bus routes will be about the same as at the close of school last year. The Shelton City Commission, by a 2-1 vote Tuesday night, decided to put a $355,000 bond issue for construction of a new city library building on the November 6 general election ballot. Mayor Frank Travis and Commissioner Dave Kneeland voted in favor of putting the issue on the ballot while Commissioner Mike Byrne voted against it. The action followed a presentation by Frank Maranville, chairman of the city library board, in which he presented a recommendation from the library board that the bond issue be put on the ballot. Maranville also stated he had received a letter from Simpson Timber Company renewing its pledge of $100,000 toward the construction of the new facility if the bond issue is approved. The bond issue for the new library building was on the ballot last November and failed to get the required 60 percent majority vote by a narrow margin. Maranville said the library board had evaluated the past election and found there appeared to be two major objections from those who opposed it. They were that people outside the city used the library without charge and that the building was too expensive. Maranville stated a charge for use of the library for out-of-the-city residents had been instituted and discussions had been held with Timberland Regional Library about service to county patrons. He said the library board had studied the plans for the proposed building and had determined there was no way the size could be cut and still have a workable library. Maranville said the architect had recommended that eight percent be added to the estimated cost to take care of inflation since the time the plans and estimates were made. The total cost of the project, he said, is estimated at $455,000, including a $25,000 allocation for bonding costs. Deducting the $100,000 Simpson commitment, he said, this would mean a bond issue of $355,000 would be needed. Several area residents, along with members of the city library board, attended the meeting to lend their support of the bond issue proposal. Byrne was asked by members of the audience what his objection to the proposal was, but gave no answer. Byrne told the Journal Wednesday he believes the timing is not right now for putting a bond issue on the ballot because of the present economic situation. He stated the voters in the city have already expressed their • feelings on the issue once when it was defeated a year ago. He added that while he believes the library board has done an excellent job as a library board, they have not answered the criticisms which led to the previous defeat, particularily as to the size and cost of the oroposed building. The proposed new structure would be built on the old Lincoln gym site which the city obtained from the Shelton School District last year in a property trade. U I I I Hill I I Ill II I IIHII I Ilia I I lUlII I II I IIIIII I I I Hill IIII mul IIII Ill I II II I III I I I I I I I I I IIIII I IIHIHI lUlIIIHIHIII iF nve: ,g Mason County Sheriff's officers who investigated an incident in which Russell Minnis, 42, P.O. Box 27, Belfair, was shot with a 38 caliber revolver were told the shooting was accidental. Officers were told Minnis' wife, Ella, 40, was holding the gun when the shot was fired in a a bedroom in the family home shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday. The bullet struck Minnis in the chest. He was taken to Harrison Hospital in Bremerton where he was reported in good condition. Officers said investigation of the shooting is continuing. ~H~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u~~i~~~~~~~~~~u~ Filings for a number of positions on school boards, fire, port, water, hospital and cemetery district commissions will open September 7. Filings close September 21 for the positions. The positions will not be on the September 18 primary ballot. Positions on school boards are for four-year terms. In the Southside School District, the position now held by Bern Bedell will be up for election. The position now held by Hildred Bunch on the Grapeview School Board is up for election in that district. In the Mary M. Knight School District, the positions now held by Arvid P. Harvey and William Barnes St. are up for election. The positions of Ina Auseth and Edwin Cliffe on the Pioneer School Board will be up for election. The positions of Raymond Cronquist and Jerry Reid on the North Mason School Board will be on the ballot. In the Hood Canal School District, the position now held by Warren Edinger Sr. and Richard Endicott are up for election. Positions on the fire, port, water, cemetery and hospital districts are for six-year terms. The position of Richard Angle on the Mason County Hospital District is up for election. In the Belfair Cemetery District, the position now held by John Thompson is up for election. The position now held by Robert Bixenmann on the Belfair Water District Commission is up for election. Fire District Commission positions which are up for election are: Hoodsport - Walter Carpenter, for a six-year term and William lng for an unexpired two-year term. Belfair - John R. Matson, a six-year term, Dennis Murphy for an unexpired four-year term and Earl Kisler for an unexpired two-year term. Grapeview - Orin Buckingham for a six-year term. Arcadia - Henry Unger for a six-year term. Allyn - Richard Gilbert for a six-year term. Union - Orville Good for a six-year term. Tahuya - Earl Nelson for a six-year term. Skokomish - Chester Valley for a six-year term and Russell Tuckness for an unexpired two-year term. Airport - Gerald Pyle for a six-year term and Lester Peter for an unexpired two-year term. Matlock - Harold Beerbower for a six-year term. Cloquallum - Randall Norris -for a six-year term. Port District Commission positions which are up for election are: Allyn - William DeMiero for a six-year term and Delmar Griffey for an unexpired two-year term. Dewatto - Anne Y. King and Kenneth Beebe, both unexpired two-year terms. Grapeview - Marjorie Holl, a six-year term. Hoodsport - Clayton Ferrier, a six-year term. Shelton - Herbert Vonhof, a six-year term and Ken Fredson, an unexpired two-year term. Tahuya - Louis Curl, a six-year term. Y - :,~ • i~ii~¸• i,i~iii:~i :IANITOR DOROTHY TODD, left, Deputy Clerk Betty Thompson and erk El check one aine Province of the desk drawers in the clerk s office to determine if there was any water damage from water coming through the ceiling from the maximum security section of the jail above. Mason County officials are assessing the damage caused early Monday morning when water from the maximum security section of the county jail went through two floors, causing water damage in three or four offices. A section of ceiling tile fell from the assessor's office and damage to the ceilings in the clerk's and treasurer's offices occurred. The sheriff's office said prisoners in the maximum security section plugged a sink, turned the water on and then removed the handles from the faucets so the water could not be turned off. The flooding was discovered by the jailer-dispatcher shortly after midnight and called for assistance from the Shelton Police Department and summoned jail supervisor Josh Dunn. The officers found about three inches of water on the floor in the maximum security section. Sergeant James Cross of the Shelton Police Department turned the faucets in the flooded sink in the main cell area off with a pair of pliers and then turned off the ' valves on the water tank outside the cell area. The Shelton Fire Department was asked for assistance and used one of their pumps to remove as much of the water as possible. A vacuum~ cleaner was used to remove the rest of the water, officers said. The janitor was called and offices on the first and second floors were checked. It was discovered water had leaked into the clerk's office; the hallway to the judge's chambers, the treasurer's and assessor's offices on the first floor and into the engineer's office in the basement. Machines and other items in the offices were covered with plastic and the water mopped out. Monday morning, after a check by an electrician, lights were able to be turned on in the offices. They had not been used since water was running out of some of the light fixtures. The sheriff's office said an investigation of the incident was being conducted. They said when the investigation is completed, it will be determined what, if any, charges will be filed against the inmates responsible. There were four inmates being' held in the maximum security section at the time of the incident. 11 SQUARES of ceiling tile in the assessor's office came down as the result of water which leaked through the ceiling from the jail above.