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By JAN DANFORD
What goes up must come
down - or so it was believed
before the era of moon flights and
mini skirts. It is not necessarily
so, at least in regards to Shelton
High School hemlines.
Twenty young ladies
interviewed were unanimous in
their preference for
above-the-knee skirt lengths, and
all, from sophomores to seniors,
are planning school wardrobes
accordingly.
Some expressed interest in the
maxi for evening wear or for
special occasions, and many
thought the full length garments
attractive but too cumbersome.
Most of the girls felt that the midi
had nothing going for it but ugly.
Perhaps never before have
the designers allowed the wearers
so much freedom of choice.
Anything goes - from mini to
maxi. There is no "right length".
For the mini-minded, the
height of fashion includes slim
ribby knit one-piece dresses with
blousing tops and white collars
and cuffs; buttonfront skirts with
pockets; belted glen-plaids with a
flare velvety buckskin short-short
skirts with matching jackets;
skirts or dresses of fringed plaid,
or crushed vinyl.
To the other extreme go the
maxi-skirts and somewhere -
anywhere - in between there is a
length to please almost anyone.
Midi-skirts seem to cry out
for boots - high, shiny boots.
Topped with a crushed - patent
battle jacket or a corduroy vest,
they 'aren't so bad', according to
some teenagers. Others find them
totally unacceptable in any way.
To each his own.
There is at any rate, a wide
variety of looks from which to
choose, with something to be said
for each of them. Some find the
maxi-length coats a boon for bad
weather, and believe that the
maxi-length dresses create a
romantically feminine
appearance, and a God-send they
are for those with
less-than-pitt ure-per feet legs.
Many girls object that longer
skirt lengths tend to make them
look older than their years; many
girls admire them for the same
reason.
Most young women readily
admit the extremely
mini-mini-skirt, while most
attractive and affording the
utmost in comfort and freedom
of movement, should be worn
sparingly; the most favored length
is several inches above the knee.
It is to be expected that the
scissor-happy multitudes who
ravaged their knee-length
wardrobes will look askance at
the fluctuating hemlines. But
according to the experts, this is
the year to be one's own
fashion-boss. For the coming
season, at least, the teen-aged girl
of America is free to be herself
and to choose the most becoming,
the most comfortable and the
most pleasant-to-wear garments.
Her clothing can truly be an
expression of her moods.
Without a doubt, the squeeze
is on. It is subtle, to be sure. The
pressure is most gentle. The
longer lengths, being pushed ever
so cautiously, are far from
mandatory. One is every bit as
much 'in' with a high hemline. But
the iron hand within the
fashionable velvet glove seems to
be quite persistently tugging at
those short skirts.
Not everyone can wear a mini;
or a midi; or a maxi, although
there are those fortunate ones
who can wear all of them equally
well. Young women like a change,
and they also like to be
up-to-the-minute in their styles.
What a golden opportunity is
offered by this fall's cornucopia
of fashions. Today's high school
girl can pick and choose
changing from one extreme to
another from day to day - all in
the height of fashion.
Sisters Robin and Donna
Tibbits both prefer short skirts
and also like the maxi but want
nothing at all to do with the midi.
Dodi Wotton
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Mary Burnett, a junior, and Maria
Valdez, sophomore, will wear
their skirts above the knees
regardless of what is worn by
others. Liz Grinnell will, however,
conform to the prevailing styles
to wear maxi-skirts if everyone
else does so.
Dodi Wotton and Belinda
Lyons, sophomores, prefer mini
skirts, or at least above the knee
hemlines, and abhor the
midi-length. Dodi likes the
maxi and plans to wear it
occasionally, although she finds
walking in a long skirt a bit
difficult after the freedom of
shorter garments. Belinda thinks
them "okay" but doesn't choose
to wear them.
Janet Myers likes them short.
"I bought one coat." she said,
"that converts by means of a
zipper from a maxi to a shorter
length. I really think long
garments are too ugly to remain
popular for very long."
Luayne Bartz, Sue Cook and
Michelle Lee, juniors, will all wear
above-the-knee attire for school.
While in complete agreement that
midi-skirts are ugly and
ungraceful, Luayne dislikes
maxi-garments while the other
two students find them attractive.
Committed definitely to the
mini are Chert Tabor and Candy
Pierce, sophomores, and Jan
Goodpaster, junior. Lora Maynard
prefers them and hopes they will
remain in favor.
Senior Terry Etter and
sophomore Kay Hellman prefer
the mini but also like maxi.
Neither have any use for the
Belinda Lyons
Liz Grinnell
Michelle Lee
Luayne Bartz
in-between styles.
According to summer resident
Deborah Newman, who will be a
tenth grader this fall in
Weatherwax High School in
Aberdeen, the midi is ugly. "'The
maxi is equally ugly," she says,
but it might be okay for a cold
day."
Pat Harwood, visiting from
Colorado Springs where she is
enrolled as a high school junior,
thinks the midi attractive on
certain people. "It all depends
who wears them and how they are
worn," she said. She does not like
the maxi at all. Both girls will
wear short skirts.
Are knees, indeed, here to
stay? Or will the coming season
find the girls conforming to the
pressures of the stylists?
Lora Maynard
Cheri Tabor
Kay Hellman
Cindy Pierce
Donna Tibbits
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Students in all except one
Mason County School will begin
classes for the new school year
Tuesday morning.
Mary M. Knight school at
Matlock started classes Tuesday
of this week.
Shelton School Supt. Louis
Grinnell said anticipated
enrollment in the district is
expected to be down a little from
last year.
He stated kindergarten
enrollment will be down, a trend
which started about five years ago
and has continued each year in
the district. The drop, he said, is
due to a declining birth rate.
Grinnell said overall
enrollment is expected to be
down a little. He estimated
somewhere around one or two per
cent, which would be 30 to 60
students.
An expected higher
enrollment in the junior high will
probably be offset by slight
declines in the high school and
elementary school enrollments.
Grinnell said the faculty for
the district is complete.
A complete list of the Shelton
faculty and their assignments is
on page 16 of this week's edition.
The list of first grade and
kindergarten assignments and first
day times appears on page 14.
Mary M. Knight Principal Kay
Wooten reported the enrollment
in that district is up about 15
students from last year.
Teachers in the district met
Monday and classes started
Tuesday.
The district does not yet have
a superintendent to succeed
Eugene French, who resigned last
spring to take a position with
another district.
Other schools in the county
will all begin classes Tuesday with
the exception of the North Mason
District at Belfair.
North Mason will start classes
Wednesday.
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Law enforcement and
criminal prosecution were the
topics which drew the most
interest from Jaycees and their
wives at a dinner meeting Tuesday
to which candidates for county
offices were invited to speak.
Tha majority of the questions
at the meetings were directed to
candidates for Sheriff and
Prosecuting Attorney.
Sheriff John Robinson
appeared at the meeting. His
opponent for the Democrat
nomination in the primary
election Sept. 15, former deputy
sheriff James Gorman, did not
appear.
Willard Hicks spoke on
Gorman's behalf, stating the
candidate was attending to some
campaign business in the Belfair
area and was unable to be at the
office again. He stated he believe
he would be able to communicate
with young people which would
be a help in working with them in
the problems with youth.
He stated he would favor the
establishment of a driver safety
education program which young
traffic violators would have to
attend in lieu of paying traffic
fines.
He stated an educational
program would be the most
helpful in the drug problem.
The sureness and swiftness of
punishment for violations of the
law is one of the best deterrents
to crimes committed by young
people, he said.
He stated he believed the
court, parole system and criminal
statutes of the state are outmoded
and in need of updating.
McClanahan said he was born
in Shelton and a graduate of high
school here. He attended the
University of Washington, and St.
Martin's College before getting his
law degree from Gonzaga
University.
He served as prosecuting
attorney from 1955 to 1967, he
said.
The duties of the office, he
said, are to prosecute all crimes
brought to the attention of the
prosecutor and as legal advisor to
elected officials of the county.
Ragan stated he considered
the office like being legal counsel
Jaycee meeting.
Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan, a Republican, and his Will Be $257,
oponent in the November general
election, former prosecutor Byron Mason County will receive
McClanahan, were also asked a
number of questions, particularly
dealing with the drug problem
and with the increase in crime.
Each of the candidates was
asked to give a brief run-down on
hig or her background and to
outline the duties of the office
they seek and their qualifications.
Robinson stated the narcotics
problem was up across the nation,
and, that Mason County did have
a problem.
His office, in dealing with it,
said uses whatever means will
work including infiltration of
groups and informants.
He stated one of the things
that was needed was an
educational program to inform
the young people of the harmful
effect of marijuana. Results of
studies on the effects of
marijuana are badly needed, he
said, so the young people can be
presented with some positive
information.
Arrests are getting harder,
Robinson said, and large amounts
of marijuana and other drugs are
not so easily found now. Those
who use them are not carrying
any quantity on them any longer.
Mason County, he said, has
not had much of a problem with
hard drugs as far as his
department has been able to
determine. The problem is mainly
with marijuana and the various
acids.
Another problem which faces
the sheriff's office is the increased
weekend and seasonal population.
Summer cabins are particularly
susceptable to break-ins, thefts of
items of no great value and
vandalism.
His office, he said, has the
duty for the protection of life and
property and performs a variety
of public service assists to
citizens.
Robinson said he was bornin
Tacoma, and raised in Mason
County. He is a veteran of service
in the Navy during World War II,
attended Eastern Washington
State College and service for
several years with the Washington
State Patrol.
McClanahan stated he had
been urged by a number of young
people to seek the prosecutor's
$257,379.77 in Forest Funds for
the coming year, Regional
Forester Charles Connaughton
said this week.
The money represents 25 per
cent of the receipts from all
resources and uses ot the National
Forests with payments made to
counties on the basis of National
Forest Acreage.
The mon6y is divided equally
between the County Road
Department and the schools in
the county.
Oregon and Washington
counties with National Forest
lands will receive $40.8 million in
receipts from National Forest
earnings in fiscal year 1970, a
The Mason County
Commission, at its meeting
Monday, received a request from
Leo Livingston, Belfair, for
information on how the Port of
Allyn could be prevented from
levying taxes for 197 I.
In his letter to the
commission, Livingston stated the
port district already has a
substantial amount of assets in
reserve and will not spend any of
it on its facilities.
Prosecuting Attorney John
C. Ragan told the county
commission they had no
authority concerning levying of
taxes by other taxing district.
The only course open to
Livingston, Ragan said, would be
to take the matter to court.
James Lee Jones, 31, St. Rt.
3, Box 190, Belfair, has been
charged with possession of
marijuana with intent to sell in
information filed inMason County
Superior Court this week by
Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan.
Jones was arrested over the
weekend in the Belfair area. The
arrest was made on a warrant
from Kitsap County charging him
with first degree forgery.
Mason County Sheriff's
officers, who made the arrest, said
a quantity of marijuana was
found in Jones' coat after he was
arrested.
He has been turned over to
Kitsap County on their forgery
warrant, and, after disposition of
his case there, will be returned to
Mason County for prosecution
here on the marijuana charge.
Rhodes, Not
Rhoades
The Frank Rhodes against
whom charges of first degree
forgery were filed last week is not
Frank Rhoades, Rt. 3, Box 47,
Shelton.
The person against whom
charges were filed lived in Shelton
only a short time and Law
Enforcement officers said he
apparently left town before he
could be arrested.
The charge involves a $20
check which Rhodes is accused of
writing and signing another
person's name to. The check was
cashed by a 17-year-old girl.
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total $2.1 million less than last
year's allocation to the counties.
A gain in the State of Washington
was offset by a reduced Oregon
total Connaughton said.
This year's total -
$40,796,665.33 - will be divided
among 30 Oregon counties
receiving $27,514,123.35,
compared with $30,083,177.51
last year, while 27 Washington
counties will receive
$13,282,511.98, compared with
$12,86 i ,902.40 a year ago.
Lane County continued to
receive the biggest share in
Oregon, $6.2 million, while
Skamania County was high in
Washington, with $3.7 million.
to a multi-million dollar business,
which is what the county is as
well as prosecuting criminal cases.
He stated he believes the
prosecutor should work with law
enforcement officers in criminal
prosecutions.
In this county, he said, the
largest increase in criminal
activity has been in the areas of
narcotics, burglary and grand
larceny. Break-ins of summer
cabins are particularily a problem,
mostly down by young people
who take items of relatively small
value and are usually involved
with drinking or the use of
narcotics at the time of the
incidents.
Ragan said the addition of a
third judge to the court district
had not increased the amount of
time there is a judge available in
Mason County, but, did result in
the elimination of the court
commissioners who used to
handle some of the court work.
lie said there was little or no
hard drugs in the county, with the
problem largely with marijuana
and the various acids.
The office of prosecuting
attorney is not a popularity
contest, Ragan said, and in a lot
of cases no matter what the
prosecutor does, it is going to
make someone unhappy.
The prosecutor is also be law
the coroner, he said, another job
which is taking an increasing
amount of time.
Ragan is a native of Louisana
and attended school there before
graduating from the University of
Washington Law School. He has
been in Shelton nine years and
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The commission instructed
the clerk to write Livingston
informing him of the prosecutor's
opinion.
Vern Coselman, developer of
Arcadia Estates, appeared at the
commission meeting to protest
the action of the local Health
Department office in refusing him
septic tank permits on some of his
lots.
Election Board
Workers Needed
County Auditor Ruth Boysen
said this week she needs election
board members in a number of
precincts in the county for the
coming primary and general
elections.
Anyone interested should
contact her office, she said.
He stated that the plat had
received approval from a orevious
Health Department sanitarian,
but, when there was a change in
sanitarians, he had been told he
would have to locate the septic
tanks on higher ground and pump
sewage up to them.
Coselman said he had gone
ahead and installed the system in
the first approved location, and,
now appeared to be in trouble
with the Health Department.
The commission
recommended that Coselman
attend the Health District Board
meeting in Olympia to discuss his
problem there.
The commission voted to
approve an ordinance making it
possible to have abandoned
vehicles removed from private
property where the property
owner wants them removed.
HUMIKO NAKAYASU, center, attended her first Rotary
meeting last week after arriving here as the Rotary exchange
student for the coming school year. With her are Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Pauley, with whose family she is living during the first
part of her stay in Sffelton.