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October 2, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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ace ren some coun ices I• 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 • • 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 • • InUl 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. Our new )n 1921 SALES New and Used TV SERVICE All makes and models Phone 426-2920 formerly at 222 East I St. d A different attorney was 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 TYPICAL EXAMPLES--MANY MORE TO CHOOSE FROM 19 inch diagonal color portable TV was 409.95 Now 339.88* 1 tFREE, C ERT! 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