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KELLI SMITH as Laurel, and Kathy Hanson as Charlotte the Cat, are shown
here in a scene from Ellen Duemling s adaptation of the Beauty and the
Beast;; which will be presented by the Shelton High School Drama
Department in the high scnool auditorium October 6-9 for elementary
School students and at 7:30 p.m. October 7 for a public performance.
municipal court clerk being
officed in the courthouse and
municipal court sessions held in
the courthouse.
She said this would entail
paperwork created by
the district court probation
officer program and new
alcoholism programs, among
others, that the court clerk was
in the
is handled
Shelton City
Judge Carol
Recommendations which
were made in a State Auditor's
report which was released last
week had been implemented
before the report came out,
Shelton School Superintendent
Louis GrinneU said.
The auditor's report showed
a shortage of $6,399.78 in the
student body funds at Shelton
High School.
Grinnell said the school
district had contacted the
insurance agency which holds
its employees' blanket bond
shortly after the shortgage was
discovered earlier this summer.
Grinnell said the district is
working with the bonding com-
pany on the loss and that as yet
no determination has been
made on how much will be
restored by the bonding
company.
Grinnell said the district is
still in the process of trying to
find out what became of the
funds. The Shelton Police
Department is investigating the
fund shortage and the bonding
company is also conducting its
own investigation, Grinnell
said.
Grinnell said that the
question with the bonding
company right now is how much
of the loss will be recovered
from the bonding company.
The superintendent stated
new procedures have been in-
stituted at the high school for
handling the ASB money.
These procedures are being
followed, he said, and such an
incident should never occur
again.
School Board Chairman Dr.
George Radich commented that
the auditor's report did not say
too much.
The board at this point, he
said, had not decided on what
other actions might be taken
pending the outcome of the
current discussions with the
bonding company.
Shelton police are contin-
uing their investigation of the
fund shortgage, although no
definite information has been
developed as yet.
When the investigation is
completed, the results will be
turned over to the prosecuting
attorney's office to determine if
there should be any criminal
prosecution.
The report in full follows.
REMARKS
This report has been prepared pursuant to law by the State
Auditor's Division of Municipal Corporations. It presents the results of
a special audit of the Associated Student Body accounts of Shelton
High School, Shelton School District No. 309, Mason County,
Washington.
During our regular audit we found a shortage in the amount of
$6,399.78 as of June 30, 1975. The shortage noted consisted of the
theft of cash after receipts were written but before the cash was
deposited in the bank.
Analysis of the Associated Student Body records indicates that the
cash disappeared during the period from July 1, 1974, to June 30,
1975. Our computation is as follows:
Receipts Per Deposits Difference
Month Duplicates to Bank Over (Under)
July, 1974 $ - $ 1,365.25 $ 1,365.25
August, 1974 13,538.17 10,794.67 (2,743.50)
September, 1974 15,430.36 13,802A2 (1,627.94)
October, 1974 13,874.95 11,64~.52 (2,233.43)
November, 1974 13,557.36 18,186.08 4,628.72
December, 1974 15,893.28 13,211.14 (2,682.14)
January, 1975 21,424.99 17,554.94 (3,870.05)
February, 1975 9,756.83 10,059.71 302..88
March, 1975 6,807.44 5,344.13 (1,463.31 )
April, 1975 10,219.66 9,652.7g (566.88)
May, 1975 12,546.23 12,099.68 (446.55)
June, 1975 8,862.90 9,322.15 459.25
$141,912.17 $133,034.47 (8,877.70)
Less:
Cash on Hand at June 30, 1975 $ 2,528.86
Amount Paid Out of Receipts 49.06
Beginning Cash
2,577.92
(6,299.78)
100.00
Total Shortage $(6,399.78)
that in the past some expenses, primarily thespendingcourt work.aim°st full time on
of cases salary tbr the municipal court The commission approved a
increased clerk and some equipment, con tract for W B Davis
the court Judge Fuller asked that the Construction, Ol'ympia, for
!, who is commission consider the problem
part-time and stated she would be willing to rebuilding the bridge over
Goldsborough Creek on Seventh
Work is now attend another meeting if further Street.
time on it. information was needed. The Davis bid of $49,450 was
tl ested thatPolice Chief Frank Rains
etk's work commented that with the increase the low of nine received on the
project. City Engineer Howard
he district in the number of cases in Godat recommended acceptance
,~ n With the municipal court and the of the Davis bid.
• Other bidders were
McPhearson Construction and
, Engineering, Olympia; W.C. The Mason County Com-
mission, at its meeting
McKasson, Lilliwaup; Woodworth Monday, voted to lease space in
, and Company Inc., Tacoma; Clinic
During our audit the employee in charge of the Associated Student
Body funds and records informed us that she became aware several
months earlier that a shortage amounting to several thousand dollars
existed and that she had reported to the high school principal that a
shortage existed. It appears from statements made later that the two
vice principals also were aware of the matter but no action was taken at
that time.
The money belonging to the Associated Student Body was kept in a
vault but a number of employees had access to the vault. We were given
a list of seventeen employees who had such access during the period
that the loss occurred.
We found that a number of receipt forms were missing for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1974, but we were unable to determine whether
the missing receipts represent diverted money or whether they
represent poor internal control and accounting methods.
We recommend that recovery of the full amount of the loss be
made from the district's insurance company, the employee's or school
administrators' bonds, or any other source of recovery. For improved
control of the Associated Student Body funds we also make the
following recommendations:
I. All cash receipts be deposited intact.
2. The Change Fund be enlarged so that all cash receipts can be
deposited intact.
3. A locking safe or cabinet be provided within the vault to reduce
the number of people having access to the Associated Student Body-
funds.
4. All receipt forms, including spoiled receipts, be strictly
controlled.
Pertinent surety bond information is as follows: Pacific Employers
Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California. Police No. SP045225.
Local Insurance Agency: Don Smith, Arnold & Smith Insurance
Agency, 117 East Cota, Shelton, Washington 98584.
Selby Bridge Company, the former Collier
building for the county
V a n c o u v e r ; Q u i g g planner's office and the local
Brothers.McDonald Inc., office of Intermediate School
29, Rt. 1, She appeared with her Aberdeen; Dale Madden
9eaed in attorney, Cliff Cortis Jr.,Construction lnc Bellevue; District 113.
~rior CourtOlympia, to enter a plea of not General Construction' Company, The commission is also con-
of grand guilty to the charge. Trial of the Seattle; and Rognlins Inc.,sidering leasing space in the
~are fraud, case was ordered within 90 days. Aberdeen. o building for the county
h aining Ms. Lofgren was arrested byThe commission voted bleengineer s office.
sheriff's deputies about 12:15 The building was recently
increase the minimum allowa
aentitledLCe to p.m. September 17. She posted per diem for. city employees out sold to Exceptional Foresters.
and $500 bail and was released ire of town on city business to $35 Kurt Mann, Shelton real estate
custody, from the present $25. man, met with the commission
to discuss the proposed leases.
The space for the planner
and school office will cost $250
a month and includes utilities
and janitorial service.
A decision on space for the
engineer's office was held up
for two weeks to allow time to
study the electrical system in
the building to determine how
much would have to be done to
it to make it suitable for use by
the engineer's office.
The propoosed cost of the
space for the engineer's office
is $400 a month.
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About 800 people were
working Wednesday to contain
a fire at the upper end of the
Wynochee Reservoir, the U.S.
Forest Service reported.
A Forest Service spokesman
said there were 590 people on
the fire line, two helicopters
being used to dump water on
the fire, two others used for
reconnaisance and two air tank-
ers being used to dump fire
retardant.
The fire broke out about 5
a.m. Monday, the spokesman
said, and started from a slash
burn which had been made
September 4 and 5.
The burn was not com-
pletely out, the spokesman
said, and there had been two
people watching it since it was
started.
Strange wind conditions
early Monday morning fanned
the fire up on the east side of
Eison Creek. The fire jumped
across a canyon and started
fires in the Trout Creek area.
As of about 8 a.m. Wednes-
day, 657 acres had been burned
over. At that time, the spokes-
man said the fire was about 50
percent contained and that
control was anticipated about
10 a.m. Thursday.
Among the equipment
being used were 12 ground
tankers and two tractors. The
personnel fighting the fire were
School board
sets
The Shelton School Board
will hold its budget hearing at 8
p.m. Tuesday in the library at
Evergreen Elementary School.
Forest Service employees from
Washington, Oregon and Mon-
tana and about 30 to 40 men
from Simpson Timber Com-
pany. The Forest Service
spokesman said about 10 of the
ground tankers being used to
fight the fire belong to Simp-
son.
The spokesman said about
78,000 gallons of fire retardant
had been dumped on the fire
and 3.4 miles of fire trail had
been built. An additional 3.5
miles of fire trail is anticipated.
The firefighters have en-
countered some problems with
rolling rocks and logs in the
steep area. There have been no
accidents and no injuries.
~~~~~H~H~u~L1~mI~m
A wrong program for the
computer which counted the
votes in the September 16
primary election resulted in the
unofficial returns announced after
the election being incorrect.
County Auditor Ruth Boysen
said this week the program sent
by Computer Election Services,
which has a contract to provide
the computer election service to
the county, resulted in the wrong
rotation in the tallies.
The computer error did not
affect the city or Arcadia Fire
District ballot count, which
remains the same.
When the error was
discovered, she said, the ballots
were run through the computer
again to get the correct tally.
Unofficial returns, which still
lack a few absentee ballots, show
Democrat Robert Corcoran with
the highest number of votes in the
county with 167. Second in the
new tally is Bruce Chapman, a
Republican. The third high~t
number of votes went to Kay
Anderson, 387.
The correct and incorrect
tallies showed:
Correct Incorrect
Bruce Chapman (R) 485 164
Robert T. Daly (D) 137 231
Richard Van Horn (R) 72 256
Robert Corcoran (D) 617 205
Kay Anderson (D) 387 229
John (Hugo Frye) Pattie (R) 37 203
Bob Satiacum (D) 75 168
Ronald Pretti (D) 1 I0 ! 16
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EVERYBODY READS in Middle School's Pleasure Reading Program. Each
school day encompasses a 25-minute session wherein students, teachers and
all personnel read for enjoyment only. The pupils above select books from a
classroom rack. A story and more pictures appear on page 17.