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October 4, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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! :~::i :~i~iill :#:, :• 14¸¸ ¸¸7¸:¸ - • : " PAT WEAVER of Shelton beats the gasoline shortage. He'd rather ride than eat. ,of robbery were filed ty Superior Court William Robert his arrest was order fl)r warrant by Judge Hcwitt arges filed by Attorney Byron accuse Main of ~rley and Audrey Thursday at gun man had not been time Wednesday. ich led to the :ted against Main morning after Shelton Police officers answered a call that an armed robbery had occuned at Prepp's Rexall Drug Store. Mr. and Mrs. Preppernau told officers they were in the store about 9:30 a.m. when a man they believed to be young entered the store wearing a ski mask with only his eyes showing and demanded class A narcotics. The robber pointed a gun at the couple and Preppernau put sonre narcotics in a towel and wrapped them up. While he was doing this, the man with the gun fired one shot while holding the gun on Mrs. Preppernau. She was not struckby a bullet. After the man fled with the narcotics, ahnosl knocking down an elderly woman who was entering the store, Mrs. Prepperau called the police depart,nent. Officers were able to get a description of the vehicle which the man had driven away in and broadcast it to other law enforcemenl agencies as soon as it was obtained. A short time later, a Mason County Deputy Sheriff who was on patrol on the John's Prairie Road spotted a car which matched the description of the vehicle wanted in conuection with the robbery. The driver of the vehicle fled with the sheriff's car in pursuit, going off John's Prairie Road onto Highway 3 and onto the Agate Road at a high rate of speed. The officer who was in pursuit of the vehicle radioed for assistance and other patrol cars from the sheriff's office, Washington State Patrol and Shelton Police Department blocked both ends of the Agate-Pickering Road. The officer who was in pursuit of the vehicle lost sight of il 31FTEEN CHESS GAMES were played simultaneously by Sergeant Greg anford of Fort Lewis on September 26. His opponents were Chess Club hnoembers of Shelton High School and Junior High School. He is shown at the ard of Steve Martinell, the only victorious student. In a chess demonstration presented on September 26 in the Shelton High School. staff Sergeant Greg Danford played 15 simultaneous games, losing one to high school student Steve Mattinell. At 2:30 p.m. eight members of the Shelton High School Chess Club set up boards and play was begun. Approximately one hour later, seven additional players front Shelton Junior High School entered the event. Sergeant Danford progressed rapidly from board to board to complete the final game at 5 p.m. Three ganres were designated as draws when players were obliged to leave belore completion of play. From donations made by participants, a check for $25 was sent to the American Cancer Society. Chess is played in Shelton elementary schools and in the Junior High School. The Shelton High School Chess Club evolved from recreational games played between students and instructor Clyde Ruddell. After four years of unofficial activity, the group was organized last year with Ruddell as advisor. A bake sale provided funds for the purchase of five chess sets. The club meets during lunch hour. Sergeant Danford, serving with the United States Army and stationed at Fort Lewis, has been active in amateur chess tournaments in the United States and in foreign countries. Two escapees from the Washington Corrections Center who were discovered missing shortly after midnight Sunday night were still at large at press time Wednesday. The escapees were identified as William E. Johnson, 20, who was committed from Clark County on an auto theft charge and Robert Merrifield, 16, conrmitted from Yakima County for auto theft. The two young men were discovered missing by a Corrections Center officer when he made a bed check at 12:15 a.m. Monday. The Mason County Sheriff's Office was notified at 1:25 a.m. Monday after corrections center officers were unable to find the escapees. Corrections Center officials reported that the officer who discovered the two were missing found dummies made of clothing and bedding in their beds Officers were unable to determine what time the two young men left. The sheriff's, office said Wednesday they had been unable to find any trace, of the two young men. Officers reported a ton pickup, reported stolen froln the Dayton area by Charles Archie Kidd had not been found. Officers were told the pickup was taken from the Kidd home in the Dayton area sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday. Efforts to find the two are continuing. They are the fourth and fifth inmates to escape from the corrections center in recent months and the first to get away without being captured within 24 hours. The first to get over the fence was Arlen Cuzick, a former Shelton resident, who was hit by a bullet fired by a guard as he was going over the fence. He was captured a few hours later when he was brought to Mason General Hospital by a man who had found him wounded in a Christmas tree yard. The second and third were two young men who had been committed on drug charges from Thurston County. They were captured in the Lake Limerick area less than 24 hours after they had been spotted by an off-duty corrections center officer as they walked along a road a short distance from the center. Thursday, October 4, 1973 Eighty-seventh Year, Number 40 34 Pages - 3 Sections Ten Cents Per Copy rn The Mason County Sheriff's Office is looking lbr the persons who turned off valves and attempted to drain holding tanks at the State Salmon Hatchery at Hoodsport Friday night. The incident resulted in the loss of about five million salmon eggs which would have been put into hatcheries, according to AI Demerest of the State Fisheries Department office in Olympia. Rudy Schwab, manager of the hatchery at Hoodsport, said sometime Friday night or early Sattarday morning, someone turned off the water to the valves which provided fresh water to the fish holding ponds at the hatchery and then turned on some of the drain valves. The ponds were not completely drained since they are not constructed that way. The result, Schwab said, was that the water level in the holding ponds was reduced to about half its normal level and no fresh water was entering. The hatchery manager said about 1,250 Chinook salmon, weighing between 20 and 25 pounds suffocated. Of these about 900 were females. The fish had been in the holding tanks for some time, being held for the eggs to ripen so they could be taken from the fish and put into the hatchery. The fish, Schwab said, are normally held from three weeks to a month. The fish which were in the pond would have been ready to take the eggs from in about a week. The hatchery manager said between 50 and 60 percent of the fish in the ponds died of suffocation since the ponds were quite full and when the fresh water supply was shut off, the oxygen in the water was depleted quite quickly. He said about 40 percent of the fish survived and will be used for eggs for the hatchery. Schwab said as close as the fish were to being ready for the eggs to be taken, they were of little value for human consumption and would be useful mostly for pet food. Schwab said since the incident, efforts have been made to lock the valves and gates at the hatchery as well as possible and volunteers have been patrolling the hatchery at night. He said other methods which have been suggested include an alarm system and watch dogs to patrol the hatchery at night. These suggestions are under consideration, with no decision made as yet as to whether or not to use them. There have been gaffing and netting problems at the hatchery previously, but, nothing like what happened last Friday night, Schwab said. Demerest said it would be difficult to put a dollar value on the loss of the eggs, which would have been used to produce fish which would have provided The Mason County Commission continued the hearing on its 1974 budget until 3 p.m. Friday, when final adoption is expected. Commissioners have been meeting with various department heads in an effort to balance the budget, which saw about $200,000 difference between anticipated revenue and spending requests from the various departments. County employees will be given salary increases based on 5.5 percent, commission ch'Arman Martin Auseth said at ,1.e budget hearing Monday afternoon. The budget for the sheriff's office, assessor's office and some minor changes in others were not completed before the budget hearing Monday afternoon. The commission was meeting this week with representatives of the sheriff's office and IWA Local 3-38 officials who are representing the union formed by sheriff's office employees. A preliminary budget request which is about $200,000 higher than last year was submitted by Sheriff Dan McNair. The budget, which combines the operations of the sheriffs office and the jail into one budget for the first time, was based on an eight-hour day for deputies. McNair had been requested to include the eight-hour day in Second half tax statements will be late coming out of his office this year County Treasurer John Cole said this week. He said office personnel are busy making adjustments because of the tax rollback which resulted from a State Supreme Court ruling earlier this year. The amount of the rollback is being deducted from second half tax statements, Cole said. The second half statements will be mailed the latter part of this month, the treasurer said. Two file in special period Two persons filed for positions on the Mary M. Knight School Board during a special three-day filing period last week, County Auditor Ruth Boysen said. They were Zane Dick and Steve Landblom. The special filing period was for non-partisan offices for which there had been no filings during the regular filing period. potential catch for sports, commercial and Indian fisheries. He said the fish carcasses were picked up by the contract buyer who gets the fish from the hatchery for sale for use in pet food. While the eggs in the fish were dead and unusable for hatching, budget by the commission. The budget, as submitted, calls for eight additional deputies and three clerk-typists. they will produce some value for sale by the contract buyer who can sell them for other purposes. There will be enough eggs available to keep the Hoodsport hatchery going, Denrerest said, with fish which survived the incident and others which are coming in. The eggs which were lost, he said, would have been used at the Itoodsport hatchery or to take up the slack at hatcheries at other locations. They would have all been used to provide fish for the various fishing groups. The sheriff's office said a deputy was working Wednesday morning checking leads which had developed and that the investigation would continue. A PANTOMINE by Robert Newman was one of several skits put on by the Flyloft Players at an open house at their Little Theater building last week. A charter for the group, which is an Explorer Scout Post, was presented to the sponsor, LeRoy Robbins.