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Kelvin (Kelly) Coots
minal
rneys
ases
in Mason
Friday for
apPointment of
18, St. Rt.
Is charged with
He was
at the Belfair
Shelton
ttaP pointed to
e was released
on bail after his court appearance.
David DePoe, 27, 104 East D
St., Shelton, appeared on a charge
of grand larceny. Jerry Buzzard,
Olympia attorney, was named by
Judge Robert Doran to represent
him.
DePoe was released on
personal recognizance on the
recommendation of prosecuting
attorney Byron McClanahan.
on a roadway
hie of being
a conventional
Passenger car,
eed an ATV
dOllar for every
,wa~ uttered at
s meeting to
new
a $5 fee for
that
back country
by ordinary
dollar for
went home
not certain
needs
ig'room-only
into the
COurtroom in
Courthouse,
of jeep and
Shelton,
Grays
OWboy from
to know if
registered for
on ranchland
reservation
crossed a
ordinary car
Was told he
he was
on land on
from the
military and
Vehicles are
nd
exempt from the law. Search and
rescue jeeps called into service by
the County Sheriff's department
would be operating as law
enforcement vehicles if they
should find themselves on a trail
ordinarily requiring the permit so
would not need one on a rescue
mission. No permit is required for
use on your own land or on land
on which you have been given
permission to drive your ATV
without a permit. This permission
does not have to be written. No
permit is required if you always
drive your ATV on roadways
capable of travel by ordinary
passenger cars, even if it's a back
road thirty miles from a County
highway.
On hand to explain the law,
answer questions and listen to
criticism was a panel composed of
this area's two State
Representatives, Charles Savage
and Paul Conner, Bill Powell of
the State Dept. of Motor
Vehicles, Walt Neubrech of the
state Dept. of Game, AI
O'Donnell of the State Dept. of
Natural Resourc0$ and Stan
Francis of the-Inter-Agency
Committee for Outdoor
Recreation. Wynn¢ Maule,
supervisor of Olympic National
Forest, was asked to join the
group from his standing-in-the
doorway position when he
identified himself and offered to
answer a question covering federal
lands.
The purpose of the
registration, according to the
panel, is to provide a fund for
building of and maintenance of
trails for all-terrain vehicles. An
officer
Shelton
Week that
who are
the pens at
are creating
make a
has to be
they have
factor in
POund.
:he dogs in
much from
oft-repeated question by one
lem young man, "How do you
maintain an ATV trail?" was
never arlswered. It seemed to be
the general feeling of the crowd
that no maintenance was
required; the rougher the trail, the
better the challenge. It was also
noted by the panel that there are
more and more jeeps and
motorbikes running through the
woods all the time and some
controls are necessary to prevent
environmental damage by those
crossing streams at the wrong
places or damaging young trees.
Mason County Sheriff Johnny
Robinson, when he got his chance
Law enforcement and civil defense authorities and private
citizens continued their search efforts Wednesday afternoon
to locate Kelvin W. (Kelly) Coots, 1 I, who disappeared
Monday night from a downtown street.
The search began Monday night shortly after 10 p.m.
when the boy's father, Kenneth Coots, 416 S. 7th St.,
contacted the Police station to report the boy missing.
The father told officers the boy had returned home rom
school about 3:30 p.m. Monday and had gone out to practice
football, planning to return and go to the basketball game
between the Redheads, an all-girl traveling basketball team,
and a faculty team at the high school gymnasium.
The boy did not return home, the father said, 'and his
parents thought he might have gone on to the game. When he
did not return home after the game, they contacted officers.
Officers were able to determine that the boy had been at
the high school gym watching the Redheads practice and,
while talking to them, had been invited to come back to the
gym about 6 p.m. and sit on their bep.ch during the game.
Officers said the boy went to the Timbers Motel, where
the team was staying, about 5:30 p.m. and after a brief
conversation, left, apparently to go home to get something to
eat before the game.
A short time later, officers said, a classmate reported he
saw Kelly on Cota St. and that he was apparently headed for
home.
Officers are also investigating a report from a Shelton
woman that she saw a boy answering Kelly's description get
into a car with a man about 5:30 p.m.
Kelly is described as 11 years old, four feet tall with a
small, thin build, brown hair and grey eyes. When he was last
seen he was wearing grey bell bottom slacks, a green turtle
neck shirt with grey dots and white tennis shoes.
Officers said Kelly had been described to them as a quiet,
stable boy who was having no troubles at home or at school.
Joined in the search were the Shelton Police Department,
Mason County Sheriff's Office, Civil Defense Office, friends
and relatives of the family and other private individuals.
Wednesday afternoon, a group from the German
Shepherd Search Dog Association of Kent arrived to join in
the search effort with their tracking dogs. The group is led by
Bill Syrotuck.
A group of about 30 Explorer Scouts joined the search
Wednesday afternoon, concentrating from about 16th St. in
the Angleside area across country to the Deegan Road and
into Shelton Valley.
The search was centering in this area, after being in the
area between Shelton and Dayton earlier.
The County Civil Defense Office said they had had
numerous calls from persons who wanted to volunteer to
assist in any way they could.
The officials said a list of the people was being kept and
they would be called on if needed.
Shelton Police are looking for two vehicles which they
believe might have had some connection with the boy's
disappearance.
to speak, seemed to feel there
were already enough laws on the
books covering nuisance and
trespassing acts by ATV owners
but that enforcing the law
requiring the permits on trails not
passable by ordinary cars was
impossible. "We don't have the
people or the equipment to
enforce such a law," he stated.
Loud applause followed a
declaration by a member of a jeep
Club in Olympia who announced
his club was going to circulate
petitions calling for a vote of the
people on the law in November,
1972. Applause also broke out
whenever anyone suggested the
law be repealed, which was quite
often.
Conner, who had voted
against the bill's passage by the
legislators, said he felt it was not a
fair bill, that it was taking away
the rights of the individual. Rep.
Savage, who had voted for the
bill, explained how difficult it was
to know all points in each of the
3,000 bills before the legislators
this past session and said that
One is described as a light colored Volkswagon and the
other is an older model black Cadilac with primer spots. The
Volkswagon was one which was observed in the vicinity of
Seventh St. about the time the by disappeared and officers
have been told by one person they observed a boy answering
the description of the missing one probably getting into the
vehicle.
Officers are tracking down any lead they come up with.
with some officers coming in on their off duty hours to assist
with the effort.
The Police Department also asked people to check in
their own back yards and garages or any place where a person
might be hiding or be hidden.
Officers asked anyone who might have any information
about the boy or his activities Monday night to contact the
Shelton Police Department.
Thursday, Oct. 14, 1971
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The Shelton School Board
Tuesday night directed Supt.
Louis Grinnell to use what means
he needed to expedite a solution
to a problem in connection with
non-high school funding of the
proposed new Shelton High
School complex.
The board passed a resolution
requesting all participating
non-high districts to have their
share of the money deposited
with the County Treasurer within
90 days in order that the money
will be available when plans for
the new facility are ready to go to
the State Board of Education
late this year.
Grinnell said Hood Canal
School district is contending that
according to state law, they do
not have to have their share of the
money until the time when
construction actually starts on the
project and that Hood Canal
district has requested an attorney
general's opinion on the question.
The superintendent said this
could delay the progress of plans
for the new buildingl He stated it
was his understanding that
according to State Board rules, all
local financing both from the high
school and non-high districts must
problems caused by ATVs were
stressed when the bill was
reviewed before House members
so it was jammed through. He said
he had received no calls from
anyone advising him not to vote
for it. Whereupon the audience
said they didn't know about the
bill until after it had gone into
effect in August so how could
they ask anyone not to pass it?
They were advised to join
Associations and send a
representative to Olympia to
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be deposited with the county
treasurer at the time the plans are
submitted to the State Board.
Grinnell said it was his
understanding that the State
Board would not consider the
plans until all of the money was
available.
The other four non-high
districts which are participating in
the project are going ahead with
plans to sell bonds to raise their
shares of the money, Grinnell
said.
The board received a letter
from Mayor Frank Travis in
which the city offered to trade
about four acres of property
adjoining the new high school site
and the vacation of, Ninth St.
from Pine to Cedar for the old
Lincoln Gym property owned by
the School District.
The city wants the Lincoln
Gym property as a site for a
proposed new city library.
The board~ after discussing
I he offer, asked the
superintendent to contact the city
further on the land swa,p
question.
Members of the school
administration took sharp
exception to information being
circulated that the district has a
30 per cent drop out rate.
The question came up on a
comment from Mrs. Helen
Ruddell, a member of the
audience at the meeting, who
stated she had heard it and
wondered where it came from.
Shelton High School Principal
Chet Dombroski commented that
during the last school year, out of
about 800 students in the high
school, enrollment declined 45
during the school year. tte stated
even if all of these were counted
as drop outs, the rate would be
only 5.2 per cent. The 45, he
stated, included students whose
families had moved away during
the year and were attending other
schools and also included some
mid-year graduates.
The source of the 30 per cent
figure was not identified, but, it
pres~umably came from
discussions at a meeting in the
area.
Don Smith of the Arnold and
Smith Insurance Agency asked
their firm to be considered when
the district goes to renew its
liability insurance policyl which
comes up in November.
Teacher Jack Gaddy
questioned the board's acceptance
Ban, A
Hearings Are
The Mason County
Commission had hearings Tuesday
on a proposal to curb the
discharge of firearms on Stretch
Island and on a permit under the
Shoreline Management Act for
Wes Johnson for his proposed
new Alderbrook Inn complex.
The hearing on the firearms
restriction drew a crowd which
almost filled the commission
room.
The commission earlier this
year had received a petition
signed by about 55 per cent of
Hays Hearing
Friday
A civil service commission
hearing on the dismissal of John
Hays as a deputy sheriff has been
scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday at
the court house.
Hays was discharged by Sheriff
John Robinson earlier this year
after an incident in which another
deputy was accidentally shot in the
leg with a .22 caliber pistol.
Hays is opposing the dismissal
action and has asked for a civil
service commission hearing.
without comment of teachers
recommended for extra curricular
activities by Grinnell.
Gaddy commented he
believed the best qualified persons
were not always given the jobs.
Board members stated one of
the duties of the superintendent
was to handle personnel
assignments and unless there was
some specific question, the board
accepted the recommendations.
the property owners on the island
asking that the discharge of
firearms be forbidden except
predator control and protection
of property.
The State Game Deaprtment
recommended restricting hunting
on the island to a shotgun only
basis as is done in some other
areas of the county.
Those who support the
petition want all h.unting
eliminated except for predator
control.
A spokesman for the
petitioning group stated the
proposed shotgun only
restrictions would not be an
acceptable solution. The island,
he said, is less than half a square
mile in area, and, is becoming
more densly populated all the
time. it has a population density
of about 120 persons to a square
mile and that in the
comprehensive plan, the entire
area is classified as suburban
residential. There are only two
property ownerships on the island
which are large enough to permit
hunting, he said, and both of
these owners have signed the
petition.
The group stressed the danger
to residents of the island from
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REHEARSING FOR their parts in the Shelton High School Drama
Department's production of Jack and the Bean Stalk are, left to right,
Michelle Dregson as silent character; Mark Walmsley as the giant and Kav
Hellman as the giant's wife. ,The production, along Nith "The Little
Princess", will be presented at a public performance at 7:30 p.m. today in
the Reed Building auditorium.