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BEGINNING AT 7:30 P.M. LEAD OFF WITH Any musician invited to come and JAM in the GLO ROOM e Featuring Prime Rib on Weekends • Complete Dinner Menu • Child's plate • Homemade Pies Monday night special in the bar FOOTBALL Cocktails- Dancing Live Music RIGHT IN BELFAIR OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Pklnty of Free Parking -- Even room for your Campers & trailers -- 275-6226 Co -Band thru SatUrday tt 6th Closed Sunday and Monday "Sexual Communications" "Marilyn and the Senator" X-rated No one under 18 admitted ID required $3.00 admission Pioneer By CARMEN YATES Hopefully before the year is over a system can be worked out, whereby important announcements will come out prior to the event rather than after the fact. Such is the case this week. Both the harvest dinner and the school board meeting were held Wednesday night, too late for a Thursday paper to help the attendance at one or both of them. PTO president Gene Brown held a meeting at his home last Friday evening for the executive board and room mothers to make plans for events for the school year. Last Thursday night Pioneer stretched its current winning streak (in football) to 19 straight wins. The team plays Mary M. Knight and Southside this week. The girls' volleyball team will play Hood Canal twice this week. If any mothers are interested in helping to provide transportation for the volleyball team, contact Miss Beckwith. Since last May the population of Pioneer School has increased During National Restaurant Month We'd like to extend our thanks to all of our employees for their fine service during the past year. For our customers, we have daily specials posted in the restaurant. ADJOINING THE THUNDERBIRD MOTEL & Railroad SHELTON 426-9171 I• by 34 students. #hen the kindergarten class reached 39 it was split into two classes, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The first grade also reached a grand total of 39 students and it too was split with Terri Barstad taking half of the class, the other half remaining with Peggy Le urg. For Mrs. Barstad it's a return to a structured classroom after several years' absence. The past few years she has been working with the Title I program. Ruth Tuson has been hired to work in the resource room and to work with Title I. At the present time the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade classes have 38, 39, 41 and 41 students respectively. And at the present time there is neither the space nor the funds available to split any more of these large classes. Some of these same problems were discussed after the f'mal budget hearing held September 25. The meeting was opened and Superintendent Bill Lupinacci presented an explanation of the figures in the 1975-1976 budget. Copies of the budget were handed out to the handful of people in the audience. Revenues for the year total $331,283 with expenditures amounting to $313,283, leaving a proposed ending balance of $22,211. The present state figure for reimbursement is $480 per stop changed The T hurston-Mason Healthmobile stop in the Agate area has been changed from the Pioneer School to the Agate Grange Hall. The Healthmobile is in that area from 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month. The grange hall is on the Agate Loop Road and can be reached by turning right at the Agate Store and going to the first blacktop road to the right and making a right tum. The grange hall is a short distance from the intersection on the right-hand side of the road. in weighted student. The levy relief needed. The resource room would be provided by a special session of Lupinacci made two moved into the library. The the Legislature came to $16,583. recommendations; one, to superintendent recommended Lupinacci stated that from transfer forest funds into the that Ruth Tuson be hired to teach sometime in June of this year the building fund; and two, to move in the resource room and Title l. financial picture for Pioneer the remaining real estate excise He stated that some of the began improving and continued taxes into the building fund also. overcrowded conditiom in grades into August, with most of the Motions were made and seconded two through four have been good news being finalized then. to accept both recommendations, partially relieved by "grouping" But Lupinacci went on to point A special meeting started whenever possible. out that the circumstances under immediately following the budget Finally, the board stated they which Pioneer (and most other hearing. Lupinacci announced fll strongly advised a comndttee schools around the state) has had that the kindergarten had already b e formed to make some to operate through these past been split into two classes, but in long-range plans for Pioneer. In months makes it extremely so doing he had lost the half-day the meantime Lupinacd stated he difficult to make any.long-range librarian. Further action called for would investigate the poemldlity plans. And in Pioneer's present, an immediate split of the first of obtaining some portables to rapidly expanding situation,grade class by moving half of the relieve the crowded condition of long-range plans are desperately students into the resource room. the school. of new and antique cars| See the dis This Thursday Girl s Amateur Cash Prizes! Open to All! Sunday & Monday (October 11 & 12) ~/e'l SUn~ °Pen at 4 p.m. on Sunday. Cover on 0nl~U%Y Will be $1.50 and pitchers will be Wi L'° cents from 6 to9. Cover on Monday oe $1.00. Starts Tuesday (October 14) Also on Tuesday night L%i ~%te~Puts down the boogie for our new ~9~.'~,'zo find the gal with the nest Iookin ~ash f~ome on down, Shelton! There'll be ur the guy with the hairiest chest, too! PRIZES Starting Friday We'll have beautiful to entertain you at lunchtime. lowered our ~r more information call 357-4191. &I)TAIN COYOTES ,10 W. Harrison, Olympia I OFFICIAL The following three proposed constitutional amendments are to be submitted to the voters at the state general election I I to be held on November 4, 1975. Ballot titles and explanations were prepared by the office of the Attorney General. I NOTICE: This is a legal publication as required by law from the office of the Secretary of State. Senate Joint Resolution Proposed Constitutional Amendment Ballot Title: Shall the existing constitutional provisions relating to the judiciary be replaced by a new and revised judicial article? Vote cast by the members of the 1975 Legislature on final passage: HOUSE [98 members] : Yeas, 84; Nays, 2; Absent or not voting, 12. SENATE [49 members] : Yeas, 45; Nays, 1 ; Absent or not voting, 3. The Law as it now exists: The judicial branch of state government is established and gov- erned by Article IV of the Washington State Constitution, as amended. The state Courts established by Article IV of the Constitution, in descending order of authority, are the State Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the Superior Courts. Additionally, other infe- rior courts are created by statute, such as the various district and municipal courts. The State Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in habeas cor- pus, quo warranto, and mandamus as to state officers. It also has the authority to review decisions of lower courts, except in some civil actions when the money or property involved is worth less than $200. Although the Court of Appeals is created by the Constitution, its jurisdiction is defined by statute and court rule. The Superior Courts have original jurisdiction of controversies in excess of $1,000, probate, divorce, real property, validity of taxes, felony crimes, and all matters not exclusively vested in another court. When a vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals or the Superior Courts, the Governor fills such vacancy by appoint- ment, and the person so appointed holds office until the next reg- ular election. Justices of the Supreme Court, and judges of the Court of Appeals and the Superior Courts can only be removed from office by a joint resolution of the legislature for cause concurred in by three-fourths of the members. ]he Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court is selected by the members of the court for a two-year term from among those justices who have the shortest remaining terms to serve. Although the Con- stitution is silent on the administrative control of the state's court system, a court administrator's office with limited powers is estab- lished by statute. The effect of Senate Joint Resolution 101, if approved into Law: SIR 101 if approved by the voters will repeal Article IV of the Washington State Constitution as amended and replace it with a new Article IVA. Although the new article would be, in many re- spects, quite similar to the former article, there are significant changes. The method by which the Chief Justice is selected is changed from one involving his seniority on the court to an election by a majority vote of the members of the court. In addition, the Chief Justice is made the chief administrative officer for the judicial system of the state, and empowered to supervise and direct the performance of the management and administrative duties of the judicial system. The Supreme Court is also empowered to divide the state into judi- cial regions for administrative purposes, and the judges of each re- gion shall select a chief judge to serve as an administrative judge. The new judicial article would provide a new methOd.for re- moving a judge or justice from office. A commission on judicial qualifications is established, to be composed of an Appellate Court Judge, a Superior Court Judge, a District Court Judge, all of whom are selected by judges, two lawyers selected by the Bar Association and four lay citizens selected by the Governor. The commission is authorized to recommend to the State Supreme Court the removal, suspension, retirement, or other appropriate discipline for a judge whom they find has failed to perform his duties, has been involved in conduct which brings the judicial office into disrepute, or is disa- bled. Upon receipt of the recommendation, the Supreme Court is empowered to order retirement, suspension, removal, or any other appropriate discipline it finds just and proper. The new article provides that all parties have a right to at least one review, except in civil cases of minor significance. District Courts not referred to in the present Constitution would have jurisdiction over any cases permitted by statute except those involving the commission of a felony or in civil cases where the title to real property is in question. The authority of the legislature to permit the appointment of court commissioners is expanded to include courts other than the Superior Courts, and the present constitutional restrictions on the authority of commissioners are eliminated. Senate Joint Resolution Proposed Constitutional Amendment Ballot Title: Shall a commission be created to fix all legislative salaries, and legis- lators' eligibility for election to other offices be expanded? Vote cast by the members of the 1975 Legislature on final pasMge: HOUSE [98 members] : Yeas, 67; Nays, 17; Absent or not voting, 14. SENATE [49 members] : Yeas, 47; Nays, 1 ; Absent or not voting, 1. The Law as it now exists: Under the present state constitution the salaries of members of the state legislature, as well as other state elected officials, are fixed by the legislature or by the people in the exercise of their initiative powers. The Constitution prohibits any salary increase for a legislator from taking effect during the term which the legislator was serving at the time the increase was granted. The constitution also prohibits any legislator from being appointed or elected to any other public office which was created, or the compensation of which was in- creased, during the legislative term for which the legislator, was elected. The effect of Senate Joint Resolution 127, if approved into Law: SIR 127 provides for the creation of an independent commission to fix the salaries of members of the legislature, subject to review and nullification by the people by referendum. No present or former legislator or state or local governmental officer or employee, nor any registered lobbyist, could be a member of the commission. Not less than sixty percent of the commission's members would be chosen by lot from the registered voters of the state, with one member for each congressional district. The re- maining members would be appointed in a manner to be provided by implementing legislation. All persons thus selected to serve on the commission would then be subject to confirmation by a superior court judge designated by the chief justice of the state supreme court. Any person found by reason of prejudice, special interests, or incompetency to be unable properly to serve as members of the commission by the superior court judge would be replaced by others chosen in the same manner as the disqualified person was originally chosen. The commission would file any changes in salary with the secre- tary of state and those changes would become effective ninety days thereafter unless blocked by the filing of a referendum petition by the people. In that event, the new salaries would not take effect un- less approved by the people at the next following general election. In addition, Senate Joint Resolution No. 127 would also remove the existing prohibition against mid-term salary increases for mem- bers of the legislature and would permit legislators to be elected (but not appointed) to other public offices which were created, or the compensation of which was increased, during the legislative terms for which they were elected. House Joint Resolution Proposed Constitutional Amendment Ballot Title: Shall Washington's constitution be amended to permit govern- mental assistance for students of all educational institutions -- lim- ited by the federal constitution? Vote cast by the members of the 1975 Legislature on final passage: HOUSE [98 members] : Yeas, 86; Nays, 10; Absent or not voting, 2. SENATE [49 members] : Yeas, 39; Nays, 8; Absent or not voting, 2. The Law as it now exists: The Washington state constitution presently prohibits any public money or property from being appropriated for the support of any religious establishment. The state constitution also provides that all schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by public funds must be free from sectarian control or influence; and thirdly, it prohibits any gifts or loans of state or local governmental credit, funds or property to or in aid of any private individual, except for the support of the needy. These provisions of the state constitution prohibit most forms of state or locally funded assistance for students at- tending private church-related schools, and to a lesser extent, for students attending other private schools and public schools as well. Specific programs which are presently uncon- stitutional include the use of public school buses to transport children to church-related schools, and the provision of finan- cial assistance either directly or by means of state guaranteed loan programs for students attending either public or private schools, colleges or universities. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by its "separation of church and state" provision, also restricts governmental assistance to students attending church-related educational institutions. The restrictions upon such aid re- sulting from this federal constitutional provision, however, are less stringent than those now provided for by our state constitution. It is lawful for our state constitution to be more restrictive in regard to governmental assistance for students than is the federal constitution. The effect of House Joint Resolution 19, if approved into Law: This proposed constitutional amendment would authorize the legislature to provide such assistance as is permitted by the United States Constitution for students of public and pri- vate educational institutions, including those which are church related for the purpose of advancing their education. The amendment would exempt such assistance from all ilate constitutional restrictions. Thursday, October 9, 1975 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 25