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killed by shot
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Michael Worthy, 22, who
escaped from the Washington
Corrections Center June 2, was
shot and killed by law
enforcement officers in Centralia
in the early morning hours
Tuesday as he ran from a house
they had surrounded.
Officers said Worthy was
in Centralia in theearly morning
hours Tuesday as he ran from a
house they had surrounded.
Officers said Worthy was
armed with an automatic pistol
and a hunting knife but did not
fire any shots.
Officers said three other
persons who were in the house
when it was surrounded were
taken into custody.
Worthy along with Mark
aldrich, 17, and Monty Portrey,
24, went under the fence at the
corrections center June 2.
Oldrich was captured in the
Dayton area the afternoon of
June 2 and Portrey was captured
by Montesano police officers
near a used car lot there the
night of June 5.
Worthy was believed to have
been with Portrey at the used
car lot but eluded officers and
got away.
Worthy had later been
spotted in the Centralia area
June 8 and again eluded officers.
The June 2 escape from the
corrections center was Worthy's
second from the institution. He
had escaped previously in 1975.
Lewis County officers said
they had received information
shooting that Worthy was in the house, jumped through and house with bullhorns and public
house in Centralia and that it attempted to flee when he was address systems used by the
had been surrounded, shot. officers.
Officers said the other three A Centralia police He said officers have
persons in the house had come department official said the area information that Worthy had
out after the house was around the house had been well been involved in at least six
surrounded. Worthy, officers lighted up by police lights and burglaries and armed robberies
said, threw a chair through a that the other three persons in since his escape and that
window in the front of the the house were talked out of the warrants had been issued for him
in some of these cases.
He also said other persons
had been charged in connection
with incidents in which Worthy
was involved.
Escape charges had been filed
against Worthy by the Mason
County prosecutor's office after
his June 2 escape.
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Thursday, September 7, 1978 Ninety-Second Year - Number 36 4 Sections - 40 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
Take corrections out of
DSHS, Owen recommends
In the wake of a fire and the
f'mding of a pipe bomb at the
Washington Corrections Center
here and several incidents at the
State Penitentiary in Walla Walla,
State Representative Brad Owen,
Shelton Democrat, said this week
he plans to introduce legislation
to remove the corrections
division from the Department of
Social and Health Services and
establish a separate department
DSHS is primarily involved in
delivering services and
incarceration can't be labeled a
service. The department is trying
to deal with apples and oranges."
Owen said he is making the
proposal primarily to stimulate
discussion among legislators and
DSHS policymakers to find a
solution to the problems facing
the corrections system.
"If they can find another
answer that's fine with me but
we have to start somewh,re and
l
I think this is a good proposal,"
he said.
The Department of Social
and Health Services was formed
by the legislature in 1970 at an
executive request. It was billed
as the state's first "superagency."
Two men lose lives in
less than an hour before the of corrections.
: "The pipe b°mbs and the IOCQI b i g ccidents
Bomb is fire at Shelton are symbols to oat n a
me of the larger problem of
misdirected priorities within Two men drowned in
"HE's A TERROR!" lau.qhs nurse Chris Callison, checking the pulse of a
momentarily subdued Darryl Monday.
found
at WCC
his ba©k, Darryl
them all hopping
A second bomb-like device
was found at the Washington
Corrections Center Sunday night
about 9:55 pan.
Dr. Robert Jones, acting
superintendent of tt¢ eorrectits
center, said the device Was found
during a routine search of cells
in the reception center.
It was composed of match
heads wrapped in tin foil and
was about two inches long and
an inch and a half in diameter.
It was found in a cell
occupied by Edward Lanegan,
who was In the reception center
section of the corrections center.
He had arrived' there August 17
from Yakima County Jones said.
Corrections center officials
called the Mason County
Sheriffs Office. Deputy Leon
Smith went to the corrections
center and picked up "the device
and dismantled and disposed of
it.
The sheriff's office was
notified about the device and
picked it up Tuesday morning.
A pipe bomb, made of a
two-inch section of ¾.inch metal
water pipe stuffed with match
heads was found in the men's
restroom in the visitor's waiting
area at the corrections center.
It was dismantled by Smith
and the Washington State Patrol
bomb squad from Olympia.
able to rejoin his classmates at
Miller Junior • High School until
along about January. And by
that time it may be advisable
that he just take the rest of the
year off too and retum the
following fall.
But be's not crazy about
missing a year - despite the
opportunities such a sabbatical
might pose to a young man given
to such nonscholastie pursuits as
model-car bidlding.
'Tve never been behind
before," he says, the clown side
no longer visible. "And I don't
think I'II be able to have a
tutor."
In the meantime, this
business of being cooped up in a
lonely hospital room is no picnic
for a fella accustomed to having
plenty of company - and Darryl
(Please turn to page five.)
Shelton school
enrollment down
The Shelton School District's
opening day student enrollment
declined at all levels from last
year on the first day of school
Tuesday, according to Louis
Grinnell, superintendent.
Comparative figures by grade
with last year are:
noticeable void in Mason
General's already overtaxed
entertainment medium.
"Hi, Darryl. Whatcha up to?"
crackles a voice in a speaker
above Darryl's bed. The voice
belongs to RaN Chris Callison,
who's just come on duty.
"Guess what?" pipes up
Darryl, the aforementioned
thermometer wagging
dangerously on his lip.
"Tomorrow I get my body
cast!"
Nurse Callison's reply is
intentionally devoid of emotion.
"That's rettlly exciting," she says,
feigning total disinterest. "Real
neat, Darryl."
Our hero is undaunted.
"Well," he says. "If you feel that
way, I guess I'll just go ahead
and cut my traction."
Darryl allows rather proudly
as to how he actually has
"cheated" now and then with
respect to his elaborate harness
system, designed to hold his left
leg stock-still and straight' as it
heals.
"I unhook it all the time,"
he says, demonstrating. "When
the nurses come in and fmd it
loose in the morning, I just tell
'em, 'Oh, it must come
unhooked when I'm sleeping.'
"And they believe me!"
Darryl's comic association
with the staff at Mason General
began the afternoon of August 6,
when a pickup truck speeding
around a blind comer on a dirt
road near Lost Lake sideswiped
the young Montesano boy and
threw him off his 100co
trallbike.
Darryl, helmetless, landed in
a heap in great pain, his left leg
twisted 'round like a pretzel.
"I knew right away it was
broken pretty bad" says Darryl.
"It was real painful."
Mercifully, Darryl lost
consciousness soon after and
remembers nothing of the
ensuing hours, during which he
was rushed to Mason General
and surgically repaired.
Inasmuch as the body cast he
dons this week will be with him
some six weeks, and then there
will have to be a period of
physical therapy to get him
moving again, Darryl won't be
Tuesday
day before
it was not
been.
on the day his
were
Water. logged
the starch.stiff
Unfaded blue
"k'to-school
Darryl
was flat
very same
to call
four long,
even chosen
much less
SUmmer in a
aSon General
s, When You've
nors in
with a
ek, as has
en YOu're
m traction
and plaster
5 left
really in no
rein to the
rlust of
bored, is
arryl,
the
feigni'n' 812an
Under the
PUlse-reading
arks at
"And
ith the
m my
Wily
woman
,,we PUt it
tide
forth.
of
his
he
in this
most
home
this
a
Pre-school 1977 1978
Handicapped 5 11
Kindergarten 209 195
First 261 197
Second 236 245
Third 243 224
Fourth 192 242
Fifth 213 196"
Sixth 206 216
Seventh 295 288
Eighth 316 310
Ninth 409 380
Tenth 400 359
Eleventh 365 365
Twelfth 285 318
3,635 3,546
Kindergarten shows a slight
decline which undoubtedly is
reflecting a lower birth rate five
DSHS concerning prisons. Our
first priority must be to protect
the public, including prison
guards. Following that we can
work o'n rehabilitation," Owen
said.
Owen said he thinks public
safety currently comes second or
third on correction officials' list
of priorities.
"It has become clear to me
separate boating accidents over
the holiday weekend, the Mason
County Sheriff's Office reported.
Richard E. Swanson, 57,
Tahuya, died Friday about 7:30
p.m. after the boat in which he
was fishing was struck by
another boat, officers said.
Joe W. Barber, 40, 125
Moore Dr., Shelton, died Sunday
after attempting to swim ashore
years ago since the general
population of the district is
increasing, Grinnell
th-tt Pt i time
corrections system out of the
hands of social workers and put
professional corrections people in
charge of the department."
Owen said he didn't
understand the reasoning which
placed the correction function
under DSIIS's wing in the first
place. "It seems to me that
to take the .... from a boat which ws in
trouble in the Totten Inlet area,
officers said. Three other men
who were in the boat with
!i
Ca n d i d a t es
to speak
Tuesday
The Shelton Kiwanis Club
has scheduled a Ballot Batallion
program at the Shelt0n High
School auditorium for 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Candidates for "all county and
24th Legislative District positions
have been invited to speak.
Each candidate will be given
three minutes to discuss the
issues or tell about their
qualifications for the position
they seek.
This will be followed by a
question and answer session with
all questions submitted in writing ,,,,/
to a moderator.
The candidate unopposed for
reelection have been asked to
relinquish their speaking time to
the other candidates. These
include incumbent Democrats
Prosecuting Attorney Byron
McClanahan, Clerk Elaine
Province and State
Representative, Position One,
said. Two Brad Owen.
years ago the kindergarten
enrollment was 250, dropped to
209 last year and is again lower
at 195 this year.
The high school enrollment
has declined this year after
taking a good jump last year. It
is expected that the general high
school count will stabilize or
decrease since this is one of the
last high birth rate years. The
largest unknown factor in
student enrollment is the number
of new people moving into the
county which has been
substantial during the past year
or so. The influx of people in
the county this year has not
made up for the lower birth rate
as far as student enrollment is
concerned.
The tenth through twelfth
grade enrollment, which
determines the level of athletic
league competition, is expected
to be more than 1,000 students
(Please turn to page two.)
Candidates for sheriff,
Democrats Dan McNair, Fred
Pharris, Sam Ebinger and James
Whaley and Republican Richard
Swearingen, will appear about
8:30 because they have also been
scheduled to appear at a meeting
of the Search and Rescue
Council earlier that evening.
Other candidates who have
been invited to appear include
24th Legislative District House
Position Two, Republican
Andrew Nisbet, and Democrats
Don McDonald, Blanchard Matte,
W. E. Seton and Jerry Swartos;
county assessor candidates,
Democrats Lois Scott and Harry
Davis; county auditor candidates,
Republican Peggy Cleveland and
Democrats Grace VanHom and
Bey Thomason; county treasurer
candidates, l)emocrats Dorene
Rae aud Betty Barber and
county commission candidates,
Democrats Annette McGee, Don
Saeger and Lea Joslin.
Barber escaped without serious
injury, officers said.
Officers said Swanson was in
a boat fishing off Sisters Point
on the North Shore of Hood
Canal when his boat was struck
by a boat operated by Keith
Jull, 29, Vancouver.
Jull and Perry Stephens, 25,
Vancouver, were in the boat on
the canal preparing to set a crab
pot. Visibility was bad, officers
said, thexe was rahl mad rough
water.
They did not see Swanson
and ran over the top of his boat,
.... , , : , /?;' ;,
officers said.
Swanson was knocked out of
his boat but the boat did not
overturn, officers said. He was
taken from the water by the
Tahuya fire department.
Deputy Coroner Richard
Adamson said the coroner's
offiqe had ruled the cause of
death was drowning. Swanson
also suffered a head injury,
Adamson said.
Admnson also said the death '
of Barber was ruled as a
drowning, ....
tun, to two.)
THE SKYHOOK becomes a reality as a helicopter delivers logs to a
landing high above the Wynoochee reservoir. For more pictures and a story
on helicopter logging, please turn to Page 10.