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Rural schools
see more pupils
Rural schools in Mason
County opened their doors
Tuesday to increased numbers of
students in some cases and about
the same as last year in others.
The Shelton school district
reported a decrease in enrollment
from opening day last year.
Pioneer School reported an
opening day enrollment of 292
students, 29 more than the 263
which were on hand opening day'
last year.
School officials said the 293
is also above the highest
enrollment experienced last year,
which was 279.
Hood Canal School reported
26 more students on hand for
the opening day this year than
there were last year. There were
341 students the first day this
year compared to 315 last year.
Southside School reported
enrollment about the same as
last year with 196 students on
hand Tuesday compared to 205
the previous year.
Additional students who had
not yet started the first day of
school are expected to bring
enrollment u_p.t 0 about where it
was the past year.
Grapeview School reported a
similar situation with 101
students on hand the first day
compared to 104 the first day a
year ago.
Enrollment is expected to
stabilize at about the same level
as last year.
Mary M. Knight School,
which started August 29, reports
an increase in enrollment of 15
students over the start of school
last year.
The school now has 180
students enrolled.
TELEPHONES WERE answered, pledcles taken and processed in the
Muscular Dystrophy pledge center in the Preview Realty office at Gateway
Center Sunday and Monday.
Shelton school $3,000 in pledges made
enonrtO!JfrommYag?tedOcoWmntition. Presently, Aberdeen to Muscular Dystrophy
October 1 as was the case for
'the first time last year. This will
mean Shelton will compete in
Triple A rather than Double A
contest in the 1979-80 school
year.
Generally, this means that
Shelton will play the largest
schools available in playoffs for
state contests, however, they
may well stay in the Black Hills
League except for football
Chamber
to hear
candidates
The Shelton Chamber of
Commerce has scheduled
appearances by candidates for
county elective offices at its first
meeting of the season.
The meeting will be held 'at
The ltut with dinner at 7 pan,
i,d the pam at 8 p.m.
Each candidate will be
allowed two minutes to
introduce themselves and make
comments.
If less than 18 attend, time
will be allowed for questions to
the candidates.
The program will also include
several committee reports from
chamber committees.
Those planning to attend are
asked to contact chamber
President George Hermes at
426-6177 or Rudie Oltman at
426-2021 or 426-4406.
School board
meets Tuesday
The Shelton School board
will hold its regular September
meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
Evergreen School library.
Give to the
American
Cancer
Society
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'WHE WORD'S OUT.
YOU CAN'T
BEAT OUR LOW
PRESCR00rlON
PRIC]00r'
112 W. Alder 4264272
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is the only Triple A school in
the Black Hills League, although
several other schools are getting
close to this classification.
Middle School is down
slightly as was the case last year
and probably reflects both the
birth rate and the smaller classes
in Shelton's upper elementary
grades the past couple of years.
The lower birth rate is causing
lower school enrollments
everywhere in the nation in areas
where the general population is
relatively stable. The post war
school population bulge is over
and lower enrollments are
causing school building closures
in many parts of the nation,
Grinnell said.
Shelton's stabilizing
enrollment and repassage of the
levy last spring for the purpose
of keeping low class sizes in the
elementary primary (k-3) grades
will mean the average of 22 to
23 studnts in these classes. The
part of the levy that was used
to hire eight teachers in the high
chool should hold class sizes in
many areas of the school at a
lower level than in the past,
enable the school to offer more
subject, and to provide a six
rather than five period day for
students.
Since the primary grad class
sizes in the elementary school
were reduced two years ago with
levy funds a careful analysis will
be made by the district to
determine whether the
youngsters affected have learned
any more than being in classes
with greater numbers of students
as was the ease before the levy.
Also, whether the use of teacher
aides in the kindergarten the past
two years, so reading skills could
be taught at an earlier date, has
been successful will be
thoroughly explored. The reason
for the study is to determine
The Mason County ch/pter
of the Muscular Dystrophy
Association raised $3,000 at its
pledge center and $1,253.92 at
its fishbowl at the Gateway
Center Sunday and Monday
during the annual muscular
dystrophy telethon, according to
Sue Baker, chairman of the
Mason County unit.
The telephone center to take
pledges was set up in the offices
of Preview Realty at Gateway
Center.
The fishbowl, where
donations were made, was set up
in the parking lot at the
Gateway Center.
Activities included bands,
clowns, balloons and a dunk
tank.
Mrs. Baker said two of the
bands whidl were to have shown
up Monday afternoon, Battle
Axe and Quest were unable to
Two lose lives in
boating accidents
whether the expenditure of the
additional funds in these areas is
justified, according to Grinnell.
(Continued from page one.)
Sheriff's officers said Barber,
along with Larry Chamberlain,
Olympia, Allen Carter, 40,
Shelton, and William
Geschwindt, 58, Shelton, were in
a boat fishing Sunday aftemoon
in the area of Steamboat Island in
Thurston County when the boat
began to have motor trouble and'
to take on water.
Carter, officers said, went
out of the boat and swam to
shore on Steamboat Island where
he called the coast guard to
report a boat in trouble.
The other three, after Carter
left the boat, officers said,
moved the boat into Totten Inlet
in Mason County waters.
The sheriff's office received a
call about 4:40 p.m. Sunday
from a woman in the Kamilche
area that a boat was sinking. The
sheriffs office also received a
earl from the coast guard at 5:20
pan. advising them that there
had been a boating accident and
that one person was dead and
one missing.
Officers said that after the
boat had been moved and began
to take on more water, Barber
also jumped out of the boat and
attempted to swim ashore and
did not make it.
Chamberlain and Geschwindt,
officers said, stayed on the boat
and were removed by persons in
the area who went out in a boat
to assist them.
Both were taken to Mason
General Hospital where they
were treated for hypothermia,
officers said, and then released.
........ Officers said that after
arriving at the scene and because
of the two calls which had been
received, they began a search for
Carter who they did not, at that
time, know had made it to
shore.
Officers said the search
continued until about 10 p.m.
with the coast guard auxiliary,
local citizens and the Squaxin
Island Tribal Police assisting in
the search.
Officers said Carter was
located about 11 p.m. at the
Golden Pheasant Tavern south of
Shelton.
The sheriff's office did not
release the name of the drowning
victim, Joe Barber, until Tuesday
afternoon because of the
difficulty in locating next of kin.
Officers said relatives were
located in Ohio and Virginia
Tuesday and notified of the
death.
archnick's
tole ann gilt cottage
208 E. Pine 426-2100
Beginning
Intermediate
Beginning
Advanced
Rosemaling
Rosemaling
lntermedia
Beginning
Class Schedule For tall
Men., Sept. 11, 10 a.m: - 1 p.m. --: Basic stroke, tole, daisies and
leaves. Teacher - Kathi Durkin
Men., Sept. 11, 7 p.m. -10 p.m. -: Glamour glass, Lemon and daisy
board, Priscilla Hauser Mums, Cottage Inking. Teacher: Helen Soper
Tues., Sept. 12, 7 p.m. -10 p.m. - Basic stroke, board prep.,
Daisies and leaves, Strawberries. Teacher - Jane ltellman
Tues., Oct. 3; 10 a.m. -1 p.m. :- Joan Johnson technique, starting
with Veg. in a tin pail. Teacher -- Ernie Nicklaus
Wed., Sept. 13, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. -- Beg. Rosemaling, Beautiful wooden
plate as project. Teacher - Jeanne Nutt
Wed., Sept. 13, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. -: Beg. Rosemaling, Beautiful wooden
plate'as project. Teacher - Jeanne Nutt
Fri., Sept. 15, 9 a.m.-12 noon - Advanced tole projec!s. Good
brush-up! 'reacher - Jeanne Archer
Fri., Sept. 15, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. -- Basic stroke, tole, daisies and
leaves. Teacher .... Bey Lyman
Workshops
Supplies are extra.
SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 9 Mallard Duck, beautifully done with palette knife!
9 a.m.-4 p.m. 012.50
I WATCH FOR CHRISTMAS PROJECTS! t
I Beautiful Canvas Russian Painting--Gypsy Painting 1
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Journal - Thursday, September 7, 1978
perform.
Linder and Lawson came in
on a last minute notice to
perform from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday she said. They were
joined during the performance
by Mike Smith and Joe
McClanahan, Mrs. Baker said.
The Don Knoop family
performed Sunday afternoon and
evening.
The dunk tank was a
successful fund raising effort, she
said.
State Representative Brad
Owen and Belinda Rae, who was
substituting for 'her mother,
country treasurer candidate
Dorene Rae both went off the
platform and into the water for
a $100 contribution from Chuck
Linder, Mrs. Baker reported.
Mrs. Baker expressed
appreciation to all of those who
assisted with the fund raising
effort.
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Road work is halted
The Mason County
Engineer's Office has notified
Earl Lincoln Construction of
Bremerton of its intention to
halt work on the Mason Lake
Road project for which the fim
has a contract.
County Engineer Marley
Young said the engineer's office
decided not to go ahead with the
final phase of the work, which
was putting crushed rock on the
road surface.
Young said the normal
procedure for road construction
in this area is to have the grading
and drainage work on the road
done one season and then let the
road settle over the winter
before the crushed rock and
asphalt for light bituminous
surfacing is put on.
In the contract for this
project he said, the first crushed
rock surfacing was included as a
part of the contract for the work
to be done the first season.
With the rest of the work
satisfactorily completed, he said,
Meeting
scheduled
The Mason County
Republican Women's Club will
meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the
Old Lumberyard Inn.
Speaker for the program will
be Alan Corwin, an account
executive from Dean Whitten
Reynolds Jr. who will discuss
ways to handle money.
The public is welcome to
attend.
Shelt0n Art
Gallery
Artist of the Month
Velma Graves
-- Demonstrations --
(in Alexander Melhod)
Call 426-114
the application of the crushed
ock had been started when it
was decided that because of
material from the road base
working up into the crushed.
rock that it would have to be
done over again next spring
before asphalt could be applied
that it would be
work and then
surfacing next
He said the
notified to stop
application and
done.
To our boss.
We
you.
We
SU
you.
DORENE
RAE
Mason County Troas00
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