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How large a part does
government play in the financial
affairs of Mason County
residents7
How much of their personal
income comes from governmental
agencies - federal, state and local
- via salaries and wages, social
security, unemployment
insurance, pensions, welfare
payments and the like7
According to the latest
statistics, a larger portion of
personal income comes from such
sources than ever before.
To a large extent it is
attributed to the recession, which
has led to a great outpouring of
public funds in an effort to turn
the economy around and assist
those who are most seriously
affected by it.
In Mason County, it is
estimated, based upon an
updating of the latest statewide
figures, about 36 cents out of
each dollar of personal income
comes from government sources.
In the past year it amounted to
approximately $34,200,000 after
taxes.
Of the 36 cents, it is
calculated, some 22 cents is from
the federal government and 14
cents from the state and local
governments.
The range, in other parts of
the country, is from a low of 22
cents, in Connecticut, to a high of
62 cents in the District of
Columbia, where there is a high
concentration of federal
employees. Nationally, the
average is 29 cents.
The findings are based upon
reports from the Department of
Commerce, the Tax Foundation
and others.
During the past year, the
figures show, some $345 billion
was disbursed to individuals in the
United States by the various levels
of government.
Nearly half of it was for
pensions, social security, food
stamps, health insurance benefits
and such, technically called
"transfer payments," for which
no services were being rendered.
In general, these transfer
payments produced about $1 out
of every $7 of personal income.
Thursday, October 2, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year - Number 40 5 Sections - 44 Pages 15 Cents Per Copy
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BIC BUI AND HIS WIFE, HAIN, are pictured on the lawn of their Shelton
home with their young son, Bou, and his baby brother, Yon.
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By JAN DANFORD
The enchantment of a strange
land, the learning of new customs
and the comparative security'
offered by dedicated local
sponsors has lessened to a great
extent the trauma endured by
transplanted Vietnamese.
For some the adjustment is a
difficult one. For others, such as
the Bui family, Shelton is a
veritable paradise and its people
are angels.
To Thi Bui, a lovely young
woman deaf and dumb from
birth, a miracle has happened. A
few months after her arrival in the
United States in early September,
she received a hearing aid and for
the first time experienced the joys
of sound. She now works with a
therapist that she may learn to
speak.
Her overwhelming delight in
newfound hearing is shared by her
family, a close-knit group
crowded into a too-small house to
avoid separation.
"We don't care what sort of
place we live in," says Minh Bui,
the only English speaking member
of the family, "as long as we can
be together."
Bic Bui and his wife, Hain,
with their little boy named Bou
and their baby called Von, are,
officially, the host and hostess of
the Shelton home where Thi and
Mi!~h, Bic Bui's sisters, have also
come to stay.
The elder Mr. and Mrs. Bui
have joined the Sheiton
household and also in residence
are cousins, Snow and Twan.
Twan can neither hear nor speak.
Minh Bui, beautiful and tiny,
declares she's considered to be a
big girl in her native land. She
stands five feet and four inches
tall while the average height of
her countrywomen is less than
five feet. She weighs a slender 95
pounds and finds a size 5 too
large for her.
"We must make our
clothing," she laughs, "unless we
wish to wear children's
garments!"
When the Vietnamese family
entered the United States
approximately five months ago
they were quartered in Camp
Pendleton for 90 days.
"We lived in tents," Minh
relates, "with 16 people in each
tent.
"I lost four pounds," she
adds, "but others gained weight.
Fish was the mainstay of our diet
at home, and in Camp Pendleton,
of course, we ate mostly
American food although they
tried very hard to feed us in such
a manner that we would be
happy.
"Now," she continues, "we all
enjoy American foods, but they
are much more fattening than
those to which we are
accustomed. We cook many
ditterent foods now, but we like
most of all fresh vegetables."
Mirth Bui was employed in
Vietnam as a secretary for Shell
Oil Company. She learned English
in high school and she is at ease in
the use and the understanding of
our language.
"When I have difficulties,"
she laughs, "I talk with my
hands."
MINH BUI poses with her parents.
From Camp Pendleton the
Bui family was sent to Olympia.
There they were split into two
groups, one of which remained in
Olympia while the other came to
Shelton. In August the deep
loneliness of strangers in a foreign
land brought them all together
beneath a happy Sheiton roof as
local sponsors and Olympia
sponsors work together to guide
and assist the newcomers to our
community.
Minh Bui, whose charm and
beauty and poise far overbalance
her unfamiliarity with American
ways, hopes to find employment
as a secretary or as a receptionist.
Non-Indian commercial
fishermen who have moved into
the Hood Canal area have
curtailed the amount of fish the
Skokomish Indians have been able
to catch and have had local and
state law enforcement officials
keeping an eye on the area.
An incident last Thursday
night in which an Indian reported
to the Mason County Sheriff's
Office that a gun had been
pointed at Mm by a commercial
fisherman has kept local law
enforcement officials in the area
mote hcav;ly than usual.
The~,,~te opened ti~ area to
purse sell, ors Moniay's and
Thursdays and a number have
been in the area to take advantage
of the opening.
A sbefiff's office spokesman
said 36 purse seiners were
observed last Thursday and 12
were observed Monday.
In addition, sheriff's officers,
state troopers and state fisheries
officers have also been in the area
more heavily than usual.
The purse seiners are allowed
to fish during the day the two
days they are allowed in. Gill
netters are allowed to fish at
night.
According to Gary Peterson,
tribal manager of the Skokomish
Tribe, the presence of non-lndian
commercial fishermen in the area
has really hurt the catch by local
Indian fishermen. Most of them
don't bother to go out any more,
he commented.
Peterson said it doesn't appear
the state is able to control the
non-lndlan fishermen, and they
have been fishing illegally in some
instances.
There have also been some
non-Indian gill netters in the area
at night when gill netting is
allowed, Peterson said. The local
Indian fishermen use mostly gill
nets but have smaller boats and
nets than the non-Indians who
have been coming in.
Peterson said this is the first
Lyle Alan Venard, 24, P.O.
Box 242, Belfair, was killed
shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday
when the motorcycle he was
riding left the roadway on the
North Shore Road.
The Washington State Patrol,
which investigated the accident,
said he was riding the motorcycle
westbound on the North Shore
Road when the motorcycle left
the roadway and turned over,
throwing the young man from the
cycle.
He died at the scene about
6:40 p.m., the patrol said.
The accident occurred about
seven miles from Belfair on the
North Shore Road.
He was born December 31,
1950 in Bremerton and had
attended North Mason schools
where he was a four-year
letterman in track and a
three-year letterman in football.
He was the 100-yard dash
Class A State Champion in 1970
time for many years the state has
opened this area to purse seiners.
Peterson said the Skokomish
Tribe is very concerned about
what is happening, not only about
the low fish catch by tribal
members, but also about the
effect on the number of fish
which will get to the hatcheries
and rivers to spawn.
The Skokomish Tribe, in
conjunction with two other tribes
to the north, had set up what
they thought was an orderly
fishery in the canal with similar
regulations by all three tribes.
The opening of the area by
the state and the arrival of
non-Indian commercial fishermen
has upset all this planning,
Peterson said.
and his time of 9.9 seconds still
stands as a school record.
Funeral services were held at
3 p.m. Wednesday at the Belfair
Baptist Church with Reverend
Robert Vahey officiating and
Batstone Funeral Home in charge
of arrangements. Burial was in the
Belfair Cemetery.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Venard,
Belfair; paternal grandfather,
George C. Venard, Vallejo,
California; two aunts, Mrs. Alice
Tonge, Bremerton, and Mrs.
Vonnie Labor, Rapid City, South
Dakota; and two uncles, George
Venard Jr., Bremerton, and
Joseph LaMay, Alliance,
Nebraska.
Youth is arrested
on
burglary char,
Shelton police said last week a
17-year-old visitor to Shelton
from Wisconsin was arrested on
burglary charges after officers
answering an alarm found him in
a business building in the city.
Officers said they answered an
alarm to Saeger Motor Shop in
the early morning hours last
Thursday and found the youth
hiding in the building. Officers
said the alarm was received at
12:31 a.m. last Thursday and that
within four minutes they had
surrounded the building and had
the youth in custody.
Other than the damage caused
by the entry into the building, it
is believed there was no monetary
loss, officers said.
The Shelton High School ~: je
drama department wilt present a
world .premiere of Ellen
Duernling's original adaptation of
the classical fairy tale, "Beauty
and the Beast" October 6-8 at the
high school auditorium.
The play will be performed in
the Shelton High School
auditorium for Mt. View,
Bordeaux, Evergreen, Southside,
Pioneer, Hood Canal and
Grapeview schools at 1 p.m. from
October 6-8. The public
performance will be October 7 at
7:30 p.m.
Ellen, a senior, has won
awards for her writing endeavors,
including first place in
Washington State and Pacific
Northwest Music Club Music
Week Essay Contest and second
place in Voice of Democracy.
Ellen wrote "Beauty and the
Beast" as a creative writing
assignment in her Junior English
class. The drama department
students read the play and
accepted it for a fall presentation.
This year's drama class has
many new performers. Among
them are Kathie Gates and Keli
Smith, who will be sharing the
lead role as Laurel, a sweet and
(Please turn to page two.)
KELLI SMITH portrays Laurel and Kevin Mercer the prince in this scene
from The Beauty and the Beast, which will be presented by the Shelton High
School Drama Department to elementary school youngsters and in a public
performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high school auditorium.