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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.
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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.