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P killed by shot / 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. T00UI.I.Lc son Ill # County0000 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.