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Jail Break Try Brings Charges An attempted escape from the Mason County Jail Sept. 11 has resulted in charges of attempted escape and second degree assault being filed against Russell A. Black, 19. Ile appeared in Superior Court before Judge Frank Baker for identification and appointment of an attorney Friday morning. Gerry Alexander, Olympia attorney, was appointed to represent the youth with Ted Schultz named as an alternate in case Alexander cannot take the case. Black had originally been arrested on a charge of'vagrancy by Sheriff's deputies, lte was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail on that charge when he appeared in Justice Court before Judge Glenn Correa. "le Sheriff's Office said they also had a bold from military authorities for Black who was reportedly AWOL from the Marine Corps. The Sheriff's Office said Black attempted to jump jailor Ed Hall Sept. ! 1 in the escape attempt. Hall was able to subdue the youth, officers said. who portrays Heidi, left,, embraces Vicki Klara, in this scene from the Shelton ma Department's production of Heidi. The production will be shown to youngsters from f',,r elementary schools in Mason County early next morvth. idi Set For Children's Theatre Drama on the most extravagant sets ever Canal, and Mountain View rapidly produced by Children's Theater. schools. Oct. 15 they will be this year, on The stage, creates a touch of traveling to Renton for two Children's Switzerland in the hearts and performances. minds of all who behold it. This year, Heidi, is going to be of a small Swiss The tour will start in Mason shown for six performances at the mountains and County's elementary schools. On Capital Theater in Olympia, under she affects Oct. 6, 7, 8 and 9 elementary the nonprofit, Olympia Junior students will see the troupe at Programs Organization. The play i ar busy working Evergreen, Bordeaux, Hood will be shown to more than 8,000 tal Board Takes Final r Dismissal Action dismiss R. Cal of Mason taken at the ospital esday on the which at the dismissing of the I of decision of the commission and, if there were additional reasons for Hopper's dismissal than those which had been made public they would like to know what they were. The two women who circulated the petitions said that of all those who were contacted, only five refused to sign. The petitions also stated that the commissioners had refused to accept petitions in support of =aring 1 60 Hopper before the initial action to the for his dismissal at the August members of meeting. them to Commission Chairman Richard Angle said the petitions which that the had been declined earlier were was hasty, circulated among the employees with the 'of the hospital. The commission Positions Vote Contests )ed for School is re-election position is term. to succeed Sells a job now held are Bruce :ntz Eagle. re-election. -arson is n to the at a night, for the Year of position to which he was appointed last spring after the resignation of B. Franklin Heuston. Robert Hoit is unopposed for re-election to the Mason County Hospital District Commission. Other filings this week include: Mrs. Ina Auseth and Mrs. Geraldine Brooks, Pioneer School Board. James Pauley, Shelton Port Commission. Raymond Kronquist, North Mason School. Thomas Brokaw, Allyn Fire District. Vern Bedell, Southside School District. Warren Edinger St., Hood Canal School. Harold Beerbower, Matlock Fire Department. Lawrence Hanson, Matlock Fire Department. Richard Rasmussen, North Mason School District. Joe Engan, Grapeview Fire District. Hildred Bunch, Grapeview School Board. Charles Amacher, Port of Allyn commissioner. had decided it would not be appropriate to accept the petitions at the time and that they had met with the various department heads of the hospital to explain their position. Angle stated that, as had been said at the previous meeting, the only basis the commission would accept for reconsideration of its action ivas factual information which indicated that the information the commission'had about the altercation between Hopper and Mrs. Lois Sollars was not correct. Most of the information the commission had about the incident, Angle said, was what they had gotten from Hopper himself. Angle stated the board believed that Hopper's actions in the incident showed poor judgement and that Hopper had placed himself in a position where he would have a problem carrying out his duties as administrator. The two women who circulated the petition commented that those who had signed had only the information which they had read in the newspapers on which to make a judgement as to whether the commission had taken the proper action. Angle stated the commission had had a "bad" press in the coverage of the incident and he believed the published reports did not necessarily give all the facts. He stated the commission felt an editorial which appeared in the Shelton.Mason County Journal, which was critical of the commission's action, was unfair. In other action at the meeting the commission: -Adopted a 1970 budget of $1,024,296. -Voted to meet twice a month; starting in October. The meetings will be the first and third Wednesdays of each month starting at 7 p.m. in the doctor's library of the hospital. -Voted to purchase furniture for the doctor's library from the LeCompte Memorial Fund, which had been designated for the purpose. children. The prograrns are pall ,t  national movement m cbildt,: theater, offerinp, lie. performances ill theater, .!::;:;, and music to elementary schol children at a low cost. The cast for lleidi includes: Julie Archer, Karen Cole, Art Nicklaus, Steve Evandcr, (;aye Scheel, Jan Hillier, Vicky Pierce, Lyndon Elmlund, Ilarvy Fairmond, John Larson, I'atti Bourgault, Jana Barnett, Vicky Buckley, Jan Dion, Mike Beefs, Jim Connolly, Nell McClanahan and villagers. The entire class will be participating. Music will be a duet with Cinda Watson at the piano and (,ye Larame at the electric guitar. Other music will also be taped into the auditoriums. Thursday, September 25, 1969 PuDI;s,,na ,n "Chrlstmastown, U.S.A.". SI,elton, Washington. Entered as second class 10 Cents Per Copy matter at the post office at Sheltoo, Washington 98584, under act of March 8, 1879. 83rd Year ..... No. 39 Pub,sh,,a wt;ekly at 227 West Cota. $5.OO per year in Mason County. $6.00 elsewtere. 26 Pages - 3 Sections $3.1 Million School Bond Issue Slated For Ballot On Nov. 4 l hc Shelton School Board l,',t last Thursday night to put a ! ,l 1'),1)00 bond issue before the wt,'rs of the Nov. 4 ballot for the ,L,llrtlcl.ion of a new four-year hii,,h school on the district's ,[!riltg Road site. The board unanimously aoproved resolutions putting the b,md issue on the ballot. The rc,;4utions had been prepared by {he Seattle bonding attorney firm Ill. board had voted to hire at its cpl. 9 meeting. Before w)ting to put the bond Isu¢ on tile ballot, the board read ;nd studied reports it had :ceived from a structural cn,jneer and front the State Fire MarshaWs Office. After reading the reports, the b,,ard voted to discontinue use of flit' balcony in the Junior lligh Auditorium and the area underneath it. Both reports had stated that the: balcony was in poor shape. fh,. llre marshall's report stated lla.ly it was condemned. ]he board voted to discontinue uin; t:he balcony and the area udencath until it can be ,becked further to see what will have to be done to make it ..,eabh',. The checks of the Junior High ;nd Reed buildings had been m:le at the request of the school ,':d ;n preparation of a report ,.. sab-*da,dmd classfoolns in the dishict's buildings in connection with the request for state matching lunds for the proposed new high school. The structural engineer's report said, in general, that the Junior ltigh building, while structurally sound, would be expensive to bring up to present day standards for classrooms. The Reed building was likewise found structurally sound, but expensive to bring up to standard and was in a poor location. Remodeling of the Reed building to be used for administrative and other offices and storage and for the central cafeteria is planned, available for use by the Committee on School District Supt. Louis (;rinnell told tile elementary pupils from Organization will then determine board the construction of a new Evergreen. what participation will be high school would phase out the The total cost of the proiect required of the non-high districts old Lincoln (;ymnasium also. "l'he which is being submitted to the whose high school students attend old gym is presently used for voters is $4.4 million for the high Shellon lligh. physcial education classes by school and $240,000 for What this participation would students from Evergreen construction of a building to turn out to be is not yet Elementary school, house the special edvcatiort determined, but on the basis of If a new high school is classes now head at Rogers assessed valuation, it could be constructed, Grinnell said, this School. around 50 per cent of the will take the ninth through 12th State aid is estimated at $1.5 required $3.1 million. graders oul of the present high million. The Shelton District's situation school gymnasium so that there After the Shelton district is different than most other high would be times when it is passes the bond issue, the County (Please turn to page 2) Advisory Committee To Hire PR Man For Bonds The Shelton School Advisory Committee got down to the task it faces in promoting the $3.1 million bond issue for a new four-year high school when they met Monday night, T tl e c o m m i t t e e h a d recommended unanimously to the school board that the bond issue be put on the Nov. 4 ballot and had promised support in explaining the bond issue to the voters. The finance committee, of which Charles Savage is chairman, set a budget of $2,500 fo promotion of the bond issue at the meeting. Businesses and organizations will be solicitated for funds to provide the money needed for the effort. The Advisory Committee, on the recommendation of the public relations sub-committee, voted to hire Pat Gallagher, Olympia public relations man, to assist in the bond vote effort. Each of the committees were assigned an area concerning the bond issue about which additional information must be compiled. The committees were asked to gather the information and to present it in the form of articles for publication to inform the voters about the bond issue. Nine students fr,m tile High School attended the meeting and were seated as rnenlllers and met with the comntittees of which they will be members. The Advisory Committee had asked the school hoard to request the Student Senate of the high school to select students to be full voting members ot the committee. The Public Relations sub-committee proposed a list of items for consideration by the whole committee. The suggestion to employ a public relations man for the bond vote effort was approved. Also approved was the suggestion for the formation of a hurnan relations sub-committee, which will consist of one member from each of the other conmfittees and which will be chairmaned by Ron Ring, chairman of the Citizen's Advisory committee. The purpose of this group will be to hear suggestions from the school staff on problems which they think need investigation. Other proposals, which received whole or partial approval were: Ask the county contmittee on school district organization for an estimation of the ratio of the financial hurden of the proposed new high school which will be requested of tile non-high districts. Contact school boards and parent-teacher organizations in the non-high districts to seek their support for the project. ..-Contact the Golden Age Club to arrange for some means of getting information to senior citizens about the proposed bond issue. ...... Request a statement from the Finance Sub-committee the financing aspects of the bond issue. ..... Recommended that after a member of the Advisory Committee misses three consecutive meetings, they be written a letter asking their participation or resignation, to be followed by action from the school board to appoint a replacement. ..... Requested the superintendent to prepare a weekly newsletter to tell the public what is going on. ig Summer Reading Awards Given Summer Reading Club certificates from the Shelton Public Library were awarded to 140 students this week. Mrs, Morley Kramer, city librarian and Miss Johanna Goldschmid made the presentations during visits to Mt. View, Evergreen and Bordeaux schools. The libiarians discussed books which would make good reading during the winter months and encouraged the students to continue using the library. Miss Goldschmid, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Otto Goldschmid and a graduate of Shelton High School, recently received her Masters of Librarianship from the University of Washington. She will be evaluating the childrens collection and assisting the librarian at the Shelton Library until the end of September, at which time she will be leaving to accept a position at the San Francjsc£ Public Library. SHELTON CITY Librarian Mrs. Morley Kramer tells students at one of the classes at Bordeaux School about the books which are available in the library. MISS JOHANNA GOLDSCHMID, who has been assisting at the Shelton City Library, presented a summer reading club certificate to one of the students from Bordeaux School during the visit she and Librarian Mrs. Morley Kramer made to the school this week.