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Shelton School Levy For Building
Program Gets Approval Of Voters
I) Voters in three Mason County voters next year for the con- year by a vote of 427 to 209, a
School Districts approved special struction of four additional class-
levies in voting here Tuesday. rooms at Mt. View school and
'The biggest issue, that of the development of athletic facilities
Shelton School District for a one- on the property to be purchased
year excess levy of about 19 mills with money from the levy ap-
to raise $330,000 for the construc- proved Tuesday.
tion of ten new elementary class- proved Tuesday.
rooms to replace the present old The third step will be a pro-
Bordeaux building and to pur- posal for a bond issue for the
chase a site for proposed new construction of a new middle
middle school, was approved school on the site for which the
by a 67.18 per cent majority.
The vote was 1203 in favor
to 624 against.
This is the first step in a
three-year program of build-
ing for the district.
Plans cat! for another special
levy to be submitted to the
voters approved funds for the
purchase Tuesday.
Voters in the North Mason
School District approved
a special levy of about 10.8 mills
to raise $71.000 for the mainte-
nance and operation of the dis-
triet during the current school
percentage of 67.13.
Hood Canal District voters ap-
proved two special levies, one
of about four mills to raise $21,
325 for maintenance and opera-
tion during the current year and
a second of about two mills to
raise $11,000 to purchase a new
school bus.
The maintenance and opera-
tion levy was approved by 67.47
per cent. with a vote of 222 to
107 wtfile the bus levy was ap-
proved by a vote of 234 to 92.
a majority of 71.77 per cent.
Voters in the Island Lake.
Spring Lake and Airport areas
and Northcliff and Mt. View
outside the city limits approved
the formation of a fire district
104 to 54.
Three members of the com-
mission for the new fire district
were elected also, Thomas Sav-
age, 99 votes, William Dickie, 95
votes and Gerald Pyle. 93 votes.
They will come up for election
in the Nov. 7 general election
again for terms of two, four and
six years.
The newly elected commission-
ers of Fire District 11 will hold
their first official meeting next
Thursday evening, Sept. 28, at
7:30 p.m., at the home of Jerry
Pyle, 1113 Northcliff Road. All
residents of the fire district are
urged to attend.
81st Year No. 38
Thursday, September 21. 1967
Published in "Christmas(own, U.S.A.", Shelton, Washington
atered as second clas matter at the post office at Shelton. Washington 98524
under act of March 8. 1879 Publiahed at 227 West Coin.
22 Pages 2 Sections
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ty Prepares Preli,
WORKMEN for D-A Enter-
prises, contractors for tile
new building being erected
at Sanderson Pield for Cer-
tified Manufacturing Co.,
put the inside wall paneling
on (above) as the building
nears completion. The build-
ing (left) will provide 14,400
square feet for the metal
fabrication firm, which is
presently ocrupying the
large hangar at the airport.
"nary Budget
Commis-
the task of
from the
vltri, )US
l)alance
expense
budget for
Was released
anticipated
and re-
from var-
of $594.112.62.
Travis, Moore, Watson, Nelson Win
the amoun! requested for exlra
hell), $15.000. compared to $6.500.
The prosecuting attorney's bud-
gel request of $28.328 is Ul) from
Ihc $24,870 al)propriated for the
(fffice lasl year. The increase
rel)resente(I requests for more
fun(ls in several classificalions.
The budget request from the
Sul)erinlenden! ()f Schools aT $15
485. is $240 higher than his( year.
The budget request for the
Mason County Superior Court. at
$26,125 is up from the $18.926
appropriated last year.
The bulk of the increase sala-
ries for judges, court reporters,
and funds for a court apIxfinled
attorneys.
The request from the Juvenile
Probation Office at $25,245 is
about $9,000 higher than the $16,
425 alk)cated for the current year.
Almost all of the increase is
in requests for increased salaries
and for funds to pay a courl
commissioner.
The budget request for the op-
eration of the jail at $20,729 is
up from the $18,213 aPi)roprmted
last year.
Other requests include agricul-
turist $13.638; clerk. $17.808:
garbage disposal, $14.910: jus-
tice courl, $12.209.
e Preliminary
',t:P'm'C°meSwith OCl.afrOre..City,, Gets Protest On Dance Noise
I. The depart-
"°Pria n last The Shelton City Commission. by the Multi-Service Center in
at its meeting Tuesday, received
a letter from Mrs. A 1t, Good-
win, objecting Io the dance held
requests are
new deputies
Vehicle, ac-
Ilk of the in-
budget in-
the asses-
'fOrtotheanCOm.ap. Guil#y Plea Given To
Lincoln gymnasium hlst Fri-
day evening.
Mrs Goodwin. who lives in
Increases for
department
b
" Ulk of addi-
of $67.-
,, Charge Of Assault
fieht
saull 111 an an]ended information
filed by Prosecuting Attorney
John C. Ragan.
Judge Hewitt Henry, on a re-
quest from Allen's court-appoint-
ed attorney Gerry Alexander,
Olyml)la, ordered a presentenc:e
investigation before sentence Is
t)assed.
the vicinity of the building, ob-
jected to the noise from the
dance.
The commission asked Police
Chief Frank Rains to check into
the complaint and also to send
a copy of Mxs. Goodwin's letter
to the Shelton School District.
request
last
of $38,795.
comes
addi e-
Piece, an
equip-
request
from
this year of
the
commis-
2f $
is
Priation this
lrease is in
• Leonard Alien. 28, Shelton,
accused of shooting DaITetl Mik-
klethun. 24, Shelton. last Aug. 9.
pleaded guilt5' to a charge of
second degree assatflt in Mason
County Superior Court Friday.
The charge was reduced from
the first to second degree as-
Rains said his office had re-
ceived a complaint from Mrs.
Goodwm and one other call a-
bout the noise from the dance.
School Supt. Louis Grinnell
said the Multi-Service group had
had two (lances in the building.
His office, he said, had received
no complaints about the dances.
Grinneil said a number of com-
munity groups are allowed to use
the gymnasium for their activi-
ties.
The commission asked Rains
• A former Shelton mayor and
the present incumbent will face
each other in the Nov. 7 general
election, as the result of the
primary vote Tuesday, which
saw two of four candidates eli-
minated.
Mayor Frank Travis, who out-
polled all the others by a wide
Dickie To
Head UGN
Fund Effort
• With its second annual fund
raising campaign less than two
weeks off, Mason County United
G(x)d Neighbor President Sel
VanderWegen this week announc-
ed the appointment of Bill Diek-
ie as general chairman of the
fund drive for 1967.
Dkkic was co:chairman of/the
activity last year with H. O,
(Bud) Puhn, who this year heads
the special gifts section of the
fund campaign. Dickie will have
two special assistants heading
the county and city areas of
campaign whose identities will
be announced next week. At that
limc. too, the several communi-
ty fund raising chairmen will
bc announced.
The 1967 UGN will have a new
participating organization added
to the six from last year which
return as repeat participants. The
Children's Home Society, a state-
wide organization devoted to
helping unwed mothers, children
and adoptive Imrents, has al)plic
for and been accepted into mem-
bership in the Mason County
UGN this year. The repeaters
are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Exceptional Foresters, M a s o n
County Kidney Foundation, Red
Cross and Salvation Army. The
1967 Mason County UGN fund
will be slightly over $18,000.
Appointment of Mrs. Ada Olt-
man as UGN activities coordina-
tor was announced this week by
UGN Treasurer Rocky Hembroff.
Her activities will be mainly in
the field of assisting the treasur-
er. Other UGN officers are Dick
Holland, vice president, and
Katherine Van Ars(iale, secre-
tary.
Ferry Drydocking
Delayed To Ocf. 9
• The departure of the Harstine
Island Ferry for drydocking in
Tacoma has been delayed from
Monday to Oct. 9, the county
engineer's office said Wednesday
morning.
to check into the complaints Tacoma Boat Building Co.,
and to ask those responsible for which does the work on the ferry,
the dance to try .to keep the has exi)erienced difficulty with
noise dow-n when another dance a vessel now in the dry dock
Grape Harves÷ Due By End Of Monfh is held. and has advised the engineer's
City Supervisor Pat Byrne told office it will not be able to take
to the hot weather the past sum-
mer. Minkler said the fruit
looked good this year, with a
high sugar content.
Most of the vineyards in the
area sell tbeir grapes on a you-
pick basis.
• Grape harvest in Mason
County is expected to start about
Sept. 28, about two weeks earlier
than normal, Vic IVinkler, who
has a vineyard on Pickering
Passage, said this week,
The early harvest is attributed
the commission a problem in a the feITy tmUl Oct. 9.
plat on Euclid St. had come up The ferry is expected to be in
again. The problem, he said, is drydock from Oct. 9-13.
that the plat on the ground is The scheduled trip to the dry-
Opt the same as the plat on dock is the semi-annual Coast
paper or in property discriptions. Guard Inspection and repair
work on the terry.
omm,ss,on, More School Contests Shape
developed this
L broker lig tO oppose m . a lsO ha s contests for o s i distric t lo 1 il I a D TM ha announce d that he d not
0V, 7 general Several candidates have filed tions on the board with Phillip Micro, Ailyn Port Commission; intend to seek re-election.
, t and port for the school board in the North Hardie and IV[. Bruce Fullmer W i 1 1 1 i a m Spooner, Grapeview Dr. Herbert Hergert has filed
,unh,
as filings 1Vason District. The candidates filing for position 1 and Mrs. Fire District; Charles Bridges, for re-election to the board and
Virginia Hicks for position 2.
Donald Pogreba filed for re-
election to the board.
Other filings include Reuben
include Mrs. Alma Jacobsen
:3fi .'nl Fri. director district 1; Laurence Dut-
aufitor's of- ton Jr., director district 2; Phyl-
lis leyer, director district 4,
Harstine School Board; H. E. Galen Burgess has filed for the
Lockwood, Hoedsport Port C)m- position now held by Lester
mission; Richard Gilbert, Allyn Spilseth,
Fire District. Also with.no filings is the Ma-
Toni Hanna, director district3; Nutt, Southside School Board; So far, no candidate has filed son County Hospital Commission.
SVendell Harder, director district Waiter H. Carpenter, Hoodsport for one of the three positions The term of Richard Angle ex-
4. Kenneth Leatherman filed for Fire District; Marjorie Hell, open on the Shelton School pires this year and the seat held
re-election in district 3. Grapeview Port Commission; Board. The incumbent in the by Robert: Holt is up for election
The Grapeview School Board Ruth Probert, Pioneer school position, M, rs. Virginia Martig, for a two-year unexpired term.
majority, will face former mayor
Earl Moore.
Travis defeated Moore in 1962
in a hotly contested race.
In the voting Tuesday, Travis
polled 702 votes to 287 for M(x)rc.
264 for Bernie Bailey and 249 for
John W. Bennett.
In the contest for commission-
er of public works, challenger
Glenn Watson polled 728 votes to
526 for incumbent Elroy Nelson
and 224 for William Peele.
Watson and Nelson will face
each other in the Nov. 7 general
election.
In the vote for finance ecru-
missioner, incumbent David T.
Kneeland polled 1018 votes to
479 for Arnold Fox.
The two will be on the ballot
Protest Wilal again in the general election.
Peele
Files
Coffee Hour
Watso.} Qualifications Planned For
• William R. Peele, defeated Public Works. do hereby contest
as a candidate for city col]]nlls- the legality of the qualification School r pmneo-'e
stoner of l)ublic works in the of Ghm Watson to either file or
election Tuesday. early Wednes- be a candidate, for the same of-
clay afternoon filed a i)rotesl rice on the grounds that he is • The Shelhm Chamber of Con>
with Co u n ! y Auditor Ruth already disqualified under the mcrce is holding a coffee hour
Boysen. protesting that Glen Untied States Constilution. vis for employees of sch(x)l dis-
Walson. who led the three-man "Glen Watson is involved in tric|s in the county from 2:30-
race for the office was disquali- pmvate enterl)rise in direcl con- 5 p.m. today in the PUD Audi-
fled from running for the office fictwith the said United States t,)rium
because of his business interests C(mstilution which l)r(hibils 'my
involvin the rib. . .i i/di\\;'iduhi or corl)ra!iQn n'om Invitations have t)eer senl to
In tl3e plarest Hled (vith Mrs. cnlerillK' ulm or" voting upon al|l'g/bool disiri(t.<CNamter Man-
ager R. W. Oliman said. Cham-
Boysen. he sa'id "I, Willim R. any issue which inv(flves l)Ublic ber of Commerce mere[mrs are
Peele, a candidate for Shel(on funds 1o further his or her own •
(Washington) Commissioner of interest". . also aske(i to attend if possible
to get acquaiia'ied 'ith school
- --- - . . - - -_ : - staff mem/)ers.
THE WORLD'S only four-legged football
player was snapped by the caxneraman
during Shelton's game with Elma last Fri-
day night, which the Highclimbers won,
21-7. The local gridmen play their first
home game against a strong Castle Rock
eleven Friday at 8 p.m. on Loop Field,