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A major reshuffling of county
offices is in the process with the
decision last week by the county
commission to lease space in the
former Collier Clinic building for
the county planner's office, the
intermediate school district office
and most likely the county
engineer's office.
The county engineer is
completing his estimate of what
will be needed in the new quarters
before a f'mal decision is made on
the move for his office.
The commission at its meeting
Monday received a letter from
Juvenile Probation Officer Gary
Wood, asking that his office be
given the office space now
occupied by the intermediate
school district office.
The commission also received
a letter from Assessor Willis
Burnett, asking that his office be
Investigation into a shortage
of more than $6,300 in the
Associated Student Body funds at
Shelton High School is
contmuing.
Superintendent Louis Grinnell
said final word from the district's
insurance company on the
amount to be paid to make up the
loss under the district's employee
bond policy has not been
received.
The district and the insurance
company are both conducting
investigations into the fund
shortage.
Shelton police are also
investigating the shortage.
Police Lieutenant James
German, who is heading the
investigation, said it is nearing
completion, and that when the
investigation is complete it will be
Jury.
A Mason County Superior
Court jury Wednesday was
hearing its third day of testimony
on a case involving a suit for
damages for trespass.
]'he case was brought by the
Swan heirs against J. Hofert
Company and Don Makoviney
Company.
The property involved is
about 10 acres which adjoins
property off the road to the
Washington Corrections Center
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Is earing
which the Hofert Company had
cleared in 1971 and 1972.
Makoviney did the clearing for
the Christmas tree company.
Ralph Swanson, Olympia
attorney who represents the Swan
estate in the suit, told the jury
that the incident occurred in early
1972 and that there was no doubt
that someone trespassed on the
Swan property. All except about
three acres of the 10 were cleared
by the time the mistake was
The Shelton School Board
Tuesday night approved a final
budget for this school year calling
for $3,422,467 in revenue and
expenditures.
The budget anticipates no
cash balance at the end of the
current budget ~ar which ends
lub/ 1, 1976.
The budget anticipates
revenue of $2,580,446 from the
state, $224,368 from
county-administered funds,
• $ 31 3,628 from federal funds,
along with other sources.
The largest expenditure is
anticipated for basic education,
$1,938,150.
According to the final budget,
the district started the year with a
e.aah balance of $80,025.
The budget is somewhat
higher than last year, which had a
total of $2,868,503.
given the office space now
occupied by the county engineer's
office.
Burnett appeared at the
commission meeting to discuss
the request with the commission.
He stated the space he
presently has is very overcrowded
and that he has two members of
his staff working in his private
office.
The commission stated they
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turned over to the prosecuting
attorney for his determination as
to what action should be taken.
The shortage was discovered
by a state auditor this summer.
The final report from the
state auditor's office, received
here last week, said the shortage
amounted to $6,299.28 and
occurred during the 1974-75
school year.
discovered.
Testimony in the case
indicated the trespass occurred
because there were two section
corners not far from each other
because the line is also the range
boundary and the section lines
change there.
Judge Hewitt Henry is
presiding at the trial.
License office
to have holiday
The State Driver's License
Office here will be closed October
11, a Saturday, in observance of
the Columbus Day holiday.
The holiday this year falls on
Sunday so that others who
observe the holiday will observe it
on October 13, a Monday, a day
the driver's license office is
normally closed.
Attorney
is named
were studying the space question
and thought that some
consideration should be given to
using some of the space for other
offices.
The former clinic hospital was
recently purchased by the
Exceptional Foresters. The
county is leasing the space from
that group.
Johil Hinck was named as
president of the Mason County
Forest Festival Association at a
meeting of the group last week.
Other officers named to serve
with him for the coming year are
Dick Andrews, vice-president;
Patty Neth, treasurer; and Chloe
Scoles, secretary.
The resignation of Edee
Larson as secretary, executive
board member and queen's
chaperone was received and
accepted.
Gerry Himlie will serve as
queen's chaperone this year.
The treasurer reported that
the profit from the 1975 festival
was about $1,600.
The group decided that the
theme for the festival for 1976
would be selected by December
to get started on the button
design and other activities.
The dates for the 1976
festival will be May 26-29.
Watch it
If there's a hole in a' your
coats,
I rede you tent it;
A chiel's amang you takin' notes,
An', faith, he '11 prent it.
Robert Burns
The flood Canal School
District last Thursday night
approved a final budget which
was balanced out by a $240,245
cash balance at the end of the
fiscal year July 1.
The total budget is $546,456
and a cash balance at the end of
the year of $50,177 is
anticipated.
The amount of cash which the
district had on hand at the end of
the fiscal year was about double
the amount which had been
estimated in the preliminary
budget presented by
Superintendent John Pill last
spring.
Pill, in answering questions
from the audience about this
difference, said it came largely in
about $105,000 which was
received as the district's share of a
timber sale on state forest land in
the district.
Pill said he did not know the
money was coming when he
prepared the preliminary budget
and that, up until this year, the
largest amount the district had
received from this source was a
little more than $500 in any one
year.
• Revenue used in the budget
for the coming year, in addition
to the cash balance, included
$38,832 in funds from the 1974
special levy which have not yet
been collected, $26,000 from
county-administered funds,
$219,796 from state funds,
$44,200 from federal funds, local
reimbursements of $7,200 and
federal reimbursements of
$9,525.
Expenditures are estimated in
the budget for the coming year at
$493,802 compared to
expenditures of $424,548 for the
past school year.
The anticipated $50,177 cash
balance includes $23,430 in
unrestricted cash balance and
$26,747 in transportation reserves
which can only be used for
purchase of buses. This money
comes from the bus depreciation
allowance from the state and can
only be used for bus purchases by
law.
Pill also stated that because of
the extra amount of money which
the district's bond interest and
redemption fund received from
state forest land money,
taxpayers will not have to pay
anything into that fund for the
coming year.
Drama
presentation
(Continued from page one.)
innocent girl who is forced to be a
companion to the beast played by
Brian Poe and Kevin Mercer.
Brian, a junior, has been in high
school drama for two years.
Charlotte, the cat, the other
leading role, is performed by
sophomores Marilyn Folsom and
Kathy Hanson. The rest of the
cast includes seniors, Lori Rohr
and Sue Wiltman; juniors, Dave
Johnston, Casey Carr and John
Scott; and sophomores, Lori
Putvin, Debbie Twidwell, Bridget
Simpson and Dotta Harger.
Laurie Zoren, the director,
and her assist.ant, Stephanie
Brady, decided to set the play in
the year 1776. This allowed the
performers to create all new
costumes with a definite
Bicentennial theme and thus tie in
the American Bicentennial.
About 2,000 elementary
school children from the
Shelton-Mason County area will
see this "Bicentennially" colorful
play.
This play will also be
performed at Hillcrest and
Highlands Elementary Schools in
Renton October 9, where more
than 1,500 other youngsters will
see it.
National Truckload Appliance Sale
Pill~ said without the
unanticipated state forest land
money, the district would have
been unable to operate this year
after the failure to the special levy
last spring.
The district, he said, had a
reduction in state funds because
-of the unantici
In answer to
the audience, Pill
paving a parking lot
was $4,000. The
done, he said,
job done by a
contractor.
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Fire estroys home appo,nte Friday for John
Queener, who is being held in
in Dayton area
Fire Tuesday morning
destroyed the Merlin Rickards
home at Rt. I0, Box 82, the
Mason County Sheriff's Office
reported.
The home was located about
3½ miles out of Shelton on the
Dayton Road in an area which is
not in a fire district.
Officers said the cause of the
fire was probably electrical. The
loss was estimated at about
$24,000.
Officers said the Department
of Natural Resources was called
to the fire, but by the time they
arrived the house was too far gone
to save anything.
The home was burned to the
ground and everything in it was
lost.
Mason County jail on felony
charges involving checks.
Shelton attorney James
Sawyer had been appointed to
represent Queener. Sawyer
appeared before Judge Gerry
Alexander Friday to ask to be
allowed to withdraw from the
case since he had worked on the
preparation of it while he was
with the prosecutor's office and
because the law office he is now
with in private practice has as a
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