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By LOU DONNELL
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was a big night in Belfair as the North Mason Bulldogs
at the football game, preceded by a community
put on by the Associated Student Body to
spring sports and other extra-curricular activities at the
was a steady stream of customers between 5:30 and
and turkey dinner, with many families no longer
1 in school also turning out for the event. No sooner did
People finish and leave than the "waitresses" cleaned off
~ replaced the table settings for another group ready to be
the semi-pro football game on Sunday,
and North Mason Kiwanis, was also a financial
large crowd. Final score was Thurston County
s 20.
Mason music department put on an entertaining
at the football game, a musical tribute to the new
It was to be a surprise to the principal, and like
as a surprise, something went wrong. During
up the gate receipts and ran them down
a night deposit at the bank so missed the program
the rest of us enjoyed it.
the giant blow struck by the music department for
naOVement by the appearance of Bulldog WOMAN?
Bulldogs played at Eatonville during Eatonville's
and their court was transported onto the field by logging
Year, as Eatonville appeared at the North Mason
watched the court driven onto the field
convertibles. A mode of transportation costing
logging trucks, but more befitting the formal attire
Couldn't have been better; warm enough for comfort
that it drew the hordes of mosquitos which plagued
two weeks earlier.
Was the f'mal score: Bulldogs 20, Eatonville 14. It's
the Homecoming game.
/
F PORSCHE CONVERTIBLES transported
Ing queen and her princesses, each
escort, to a special section of the stands
night's Homecoming football game.
Cindy McEIhaney, escorted by Luis San
Bishop reigned over the Homecoming
unavailable for a picture during the
occupied in the locker room or on the
a member of the victorious home team.
hou scheduled at
5 stations
tll nine fire
5 will be
firefighters
of
Oct. 6
be at
from 7
out phone
emergency
to answer
and
central
te firehali in
All calls,
writing down the vital statistics of
the patient radioed in by an
attendant on the aid car. Or the
PUD can be dialed when their
services are needed to cut off
power in lines attached to a
burning building for safety to
firefighters, the sheriff's office
can be dialed by card to report an
injury accident or the State
Department of Natural Resources
to report brush or forest fires,
while the dispatcher is sending
messages by radio to responding
units.
AN ATTACK by "hoods from Eatonville" during half-time at Friday night's
Homecoming football game endangered the rally squad. Surely Bulldog Man
would appear to overcome the attackers. But, no, the announcer reported
that Bulldog Man was out of town. Who would help the frightened girls?
Additional teachers hired
Stations in Fire District 5 are
for North Mason schools
supervision costs would come
from ASB. Teachers who spoke at
the meeting Thursday night said
they had been under the
impression, since all other funds
being negotiated were paid from
school district funds, that this
cost, too, would be paid by the
taxpayers, not the students.
Previously all high school teachers
have been given free passes to all
games and some have been asked
to serve without pay as ticket
takers or crowd controllers.
A motion had been made by
Jim Yoest and seconded by Gene
Foster that the $1,000 in the
budget allocated to pay for this
supervision be paid from A SB
funds and when the discussion
was called to a halt by
Chairperson Carol Wentlandt the
superintendent suggested the
motion be voted against and that
the negotiators for the board and
teachers renegotiate the item to
determine who pays it. Foster
voted in favor of the motion, with
Jerry Reid, Pat Ruff and Yoest
voting it down. The negotiations
committee will have to solve the
problem.
At one point in the argument
Ralph Buter, one of the teacher
negotiators, stated that the
teachers had held a meeting and
they do not want to take money
from the ASB and that many
"even feel that they will not
supervise" if that is where the
money is to come from.
Teacher negotiators for this
year were announced at the
meeting as Karl Jahns, head
negotiator, and Bob Caughie,
Ralph Butler and Gordon
Monten. Jim Yoest is chief
negotiator for the board and Jerry
Reid will be the other board
member to serve on the
negotiations committee.
Approval of contracts for
additional teachers for North
Mason School District and for a
director of accountants was voted
by the board at last Thursday
night's special meeting of the
school directors. Dillon Fisher,
former manager of St. Albans Girl
Scout Camp on Lake Devereaux
and a long-time volunteer teacher
of photography at the local high
school, was hired for the new
position as director of
accountants, at $9,747 for the
nine months remaining in this
school year. Superintendent
Norm Sanders announced that
four persons, all well qualified,
applied for the position and that
the fiscal officer of the
intermediate school district
assisted him in interviewing and
evaluating the candidates.
Teachers hired included Roger
Allen, a high school teacher who
will teach driver's ed among other
classes; David Matheny as URRD
teacher to replace Don Nelson
who was transferred to a position
as fifth grade teacher, and Lila
Osborn as the second kingergarten
teacher. A junior high teacher
who is qualified and willing to
coach girls sports is still being
sought.
A spirited discussion ensued
over one item on the agenda of
the meeting; who should pay the
$10 to each high school teacher
hired to supervise at
money-making school activities, a
fee which was a last-minute
agreement during recently
completed teacher-school director
negotiations. Gate receipts at high
school sports activities go to the
Associated Student Body and the
members of the school board said
they had assumed, since the fee
was to be paid only at
money-raising events, that the
Aid car fi
to be raised
Action was taken by the
commissioners of Mason County
Fire District 5 at their meeting
last week to recover fifty percent
of the operating costs of
emergency medical aid and
ambulance service provided by
the two aid cars of the district. A
new fee schedule was adopted:
for aid service at the scene a basic
fee of $7.50 plus cost of supplies
used will be charged;
transportation of a victim to a
hospital will be an additional $1
per mile. The other half of
operating costs of aid calls will be
paid for by fire district taxes.
Volunteer firefighters ,,,,L . •
id t ,-,t, special
first a raining serve as
attendants on the aid cars.
Historical Society to
meet at tribal canter
CANCER SOCIETY
A story hour relating early
history in the Kamilche area is
scheduled by the Mason County
Historical Society at 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 9. Session will be held in the
Squaxin Tribal Center building six
miles south of Shelton near the
junction of the freeway and the
McCleary cut-off.
This is the first meeting
following the merger of the new
Mason County Historical Society,
started in Belfair in 1968, with
the original society started in
Shelton a few years earlier.
Program chairman is Irving
Clay, Spencer Lake.
Business session will include
annual elections. At present
Belfair residents hold all posts,
including Leo Livingston,
president; Harold Hayes, vice
president; Irene Davis, secretary;
and Vi Cokelet, treasurer.
dispatcher
tl Over theequipment is stationed at all nine "If three or four persons were All women of the community are
.~ r ting stations with aid cars at Allyn and willing to donate some time to invited to attend the program
has Deer Creek. EMERGENCY the group's activities, the amount which promises to bring back
as the ONLY phone numbers to call for of time by any one person would some happy memories and,
the fire or aid care are 275-6333 be minimal,', said Maryanne perhaps, offer a few surprises,
of help (Bremerton phones) or 426-1232 Ervin, a representative of the according to one of the sponsors.
PaSses the (Shelton phones). For county society. She explainedRefreshments will be served.
awaiting information or other business the that there was a need for public
numbers to call are 275-6543 or education about services provided
426-3060. by the SOciety and for
implementation Of the services
available. Help during the annual
cancer fund drive in April would
, also be needed.
tsiness on located in Allyn, Victor, VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ALL WOMEN INVITED
Mason-Benson Lakes, Lake A search forvolunteers from A program entitled "History
AUyn by Limerick, Timberlakes, Deer the North Mason area to organize in Hats" will be presented at
lay. Radio Creek, Spencer Lake west side of a society unit is Underway by the Belfair Community Baptist
to the Mason Lake and at Hartstene Mason County" Chapter of theChurch Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. by the
Pointe on Harstine Island. Fire American Cancer Society. local American Baptist Women.
from
call
refighters
HOLY HUCKLEBERRY, Batman, what is this? The crowd at Friday night's
Homecoming football game, anxiously awaiting the appearance of Bulldog
Man to rescue the North Mason cheerleaders from attack by a group of
"hoods from Eatonville" were astonished to see, not the fearless Bulldog
Man they expected, but Bulldog Woman appear from the telephone booth.
Instead of violence, she used her feminine wiles to lure the villains away
from the rally squad girls.
PATROL CAR DAMAGED
Mike Kennedy of Belfair was
arrested by a deputy of the Mason
County Sheriff's Office Sept. 23
in Allyn on a traffic warrant and
within minutes was facing further
charges. He is acctlsed of breaking
a window of the deputy's car and
was charged with intimidating an
officer, obstructing an officer and
resisting arrest. Charges for
destruction of county property
are expected to be made.
THEFTS REPORTED
service A complaint was received
Sept. 27 in the sheriff's office of
can an outboard motor stolen in the
aid car Dewatto area. A purse was
reported stolen from a car parked
a card on North Shore Sept. 26. A
~r of the complaint of apples picked from
)In can beproperty in Allyn while the owner
eher is was away was received Sept. 27.
Persons interested in donating
two or three hours a month to the
society is asked to contact
Maryanne Ervin by dialing the
operator and asking for ZEnith
3000. She is an employee of
Mason County Federal Credit
Union.
A final budget of $1,608,316
for the 1975-76 school year was
adopted by the North Mason
School Board at their special
budget meeting last Thursday
evening. This is $217,203 more
than what was spent running the
local schools during the 1974-75
school year which ended June 30.
The budget is based on
anticipated revenues of
$1,455,221 added to $186,392
net cash on hand and investments
at the beginning of the school
year which began July 1. Total
expenditures are budgeted as
$1,589,435 which will leave
$52,178 ending net cash and
investments at the end of the
school year next June 30.
With all money earmarked for
schools• collected by property
taxes, except special levy funds,
now going directly to the state
before being divided among all
school districts in the state and a
portion returned to the local
district, the largest expected
revenue is from the state.
$210,585of the revenue is the
amount of the special school levy
approved in 1974 which is
expected to be collected next
month when second half taxes
come in. This year's election for a
special levy failed on two tries so
no levy funds will be collected
next year.
The $973,482 in the budget
anticipated from state funds
includes an estimated $89,513 in
levy relief provided by legislative
action to assist school districts
whose levies failed, action
prompted by failure of the state's
largest school district's (Seattle)
levy. The amount expected
from per pupil payment from
the state is $649,923 as
compared to the $325,249
received last year because of more
students enrolled this year and
because the state raised the per
pupil allotment. This is by far the
largest single source of revenue,
with the $210,585 leftover levy
funds from last year's election a
not-very-close second. The
$89,513 special levy relief is the
third highest anticipated revenue.
A total of $130,545 is expected
from the federal government,
$66,098 of this from Public Law
874 funds which pays a certain
amount for each student in the
district whose parent works for
the federal government, in this
area most likely to be PSNS.
Some of the larger amounts of
expected revenue can only be
used for a specific program, such
as the $28,548 budgeted from the
state for the URRD program, the
$76,600 reimbursement from the
state for operation of the school
buses, $41,824 from the state for
education of handicapped
children, $43,267 from federal
Title I funds for remedial reading
and math, $18,633 from federal
reimbursement for school
lunches. Educational programs at
Mission Creek Youth Camp are
paid for by the state but are
included in the North Mason
School District budget so the
$27,828 expected from the state
for state institutions will not be
used by the school district but
will pay teachers and buy supplies
for classes at the youth camp.
Two of the remaining few
large amounts of budgeted
revenue which can be spent
wherever money is needed, not
earmarked for a specific program,
comes from county administered
funds: $57,200 from real estate
transaction tax and $23,550 from
the high school district fund to
help pay for educ,ation ot
students from non-high districts.
The non-high districts also will
contribute $6,100 for this
purpose. Forest funds also can be
used wherever needed with
$10,400 expected from the state
and $20,000 from federal.
Income expected from food
services, $25,821, covers the cost
r'
of providing lunches.
The largest expenditure in the
budget is $604,560 for teachers'
salaries under the basic education
category. This is not the complete
total for teacher salaries since
some are included under other
categories combining to a grand
total of $1,004,391 for all
certificated teaching services. This
does not include salaries for
administrative officials, counselor,
librarian, or classified employees,
such as custodians, food workers,
transportation personnel, teacher
aides. Added to the
above-mentioned figure for
teacher salaries, one can see that
salaries of school district
employees comprise, by far, the
largest item of the $1,608,316
budget. When the amounts for
employee benefits are added to
the salary amounts, the total
spent on employees is even
higher.
The building fund budget,
also approved, was for $34,318.
which includes $24,181 cash on
hand and investments at the
beginning of the year. It was
noted at the meeting that money
from this fund may have to be
used before the school year ends
to lease one or more portable
classrooms to alleviate
overcrowded conditions at some
grade levels. At present there is no
extra space to put a classroom if a
teacher were to be hired at the
elementary level to cut down on
large class sizes. The
superintendent was instructed to
look into cost and availability of
portables.
Music department to be
aided by bicycle riders
One usually thinks of
musicians as using finger, arm, lip
or lung muscles but on Oct. 11
about 4 5 music department
students from North Mason will
give their leg muscles a workout
as they participate in a
Bike-a-then to raise money for
the school music department. At
9:30 a.m. they will meet at the
Belfair shopping center, bike to
Gorst via the Old Belfair
Highway, return to North Shore
Road on the same route and
continue to Belfair State Park
where parents will have a picnic
lunch awaiting them. More
iegwork by the students is
underway now as they contact
neighbors, relatives, business,
ANYBODY, who will pledge to
pay a certain amount for every
mile they fide during the 30-mile
Bike-a-then course. Sponsors who
will pay for unlimited miles are
also being sought.
Money raised from the event
will help purchase music, repair
instruments and provide a bu~s to
transport the marching band to
two parades next spring. Fifty
percent of the money spent on
the music department last year
was cut from the 1975-76 budget
as one of the economies approved
by the school board faced with no
levy funds next year.
Director of the music
department, Gordon Lent, is
supervising the event with help
from parents of music students
who have formed the Music
Auxiliary Parents Organization.
Check points will be arranged at
various locations along the route
where parents will offer
refreshments and first aid
equipment, if needed. Any
parents not already signed up to
help are asked to contact Lent at
the school, 275-281 1, to
volunteer their services.
THEY PROBABLY will leave the instruments at home on
Oct. 11 when they turn out to ride their bikes in the
Bike-a-thon being sponsored "by the North Mason music
department, but last week (left to right) David Meyer, Dan
Washburn and Tom Hall got in a little bike-riding practice for
the upcoming event which will raise money for buying music,
repair of instruments and rental of buses for the marching
band to attend two parades.-Music students are asking
individuals or businesses to sponsor them at any amount (10
cents or over) per mile.