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BALLOT removers busy.
AUDITOR Peggy Cleveland is winner.
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614 N. W. 6th Ave,
Portland, Oro, 97209
SMILING Fred Pharris is new sheriff.
Cleveland, Nesbit win ,election victories
Mason County voters elected
Democrat Fred Pharris as shei-iff
and joined with the rest of the
24th Legislative District in
electing a Republican state
rePresentative for the first time
m more than !0 years.
They also elected Republican
Peggy Cleveland to a four.year
term as County auditor, the
position she has held since
January of this year when she
was appointed to succeed retiring
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men were reported.
car in which Killed were Wesley B.
went off the Johnson, 42, Route 1, Box 110,
area about Elma, and Roger Painter, 49,
, the P.O. Box 193, Matlock.
which The patrol said the 1967 car
accident, driven by Johnson was about
incumbent Third Congressional
District Democrat Don Bonker
4,251 votes to 3,066 votes for
his Republican opponent Rick
Bennett.
In the one contested race for
State Supreme Court justice
Mason County voters gave
Francis Holman of Seattle 2,864
votes to 2,770 votes for William
H. Williams of Spokane.
Democrat Brad Owen
of Thurston County in the 24th
District gave Nesbit 493 votes to
431 for McDonald.
Mason County voters
followed the pattern in the rest
of the state, voting 5,023 to
1,699 in favor of Initiative 350,
which says school districts must
assign students to the school
nearest or next nearest to their
homes.
Mason County voters gave
Ruth Boysen.
a re killed i n eras h !e°P00::i:Skhi!00hf:e00sPhv°:ii:!:ef;:igniidjf0000h:i Voters favor two
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Richard Swearingen, an employe Voters in rural areas in 59 percent in favor and 40.9
of the Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard and a former Mason
County deputy sheriff.
Pharris got the Democrat
nomination in the primary
election in September, outpolling
incumbent Democrat Sheriff Dan
McNair and two others. :
Mrs. Cleveland polled 4,832
votes tO 2,676 for her Democrat
o. p,ae,, ',a,:." \\;*'r, Horn. Mrs.
Va tra won the Democrat
nomination in the primary
election by defeating Bey
Thomason by a narrow margin.
Voters in the 24th Legislative
District gave Republican Andrew
Nesbit 14,359 votes to 8,398 for
his Democrat opponent, Don
McDonald. Both are from
Clallam County.
Mason County voters gave
Neshit 3,714 votes to 3,303 for
McDonald. Clallarn County gave
Nesbit 7,983 votes to 3,386 for
McDonald, while Jefferson
County gave Nesbit 2,169 votes
to 1,278 for McDonald. The part
Mason County, in an advisory
vote to the county commission
Tuesday, favored licensing dogs,
were opposed to a county dog
leash law and favored
establishing an animal control
facility partially supported by
public funds.
The vote on licensing dogs
had 2,903 voting yes and 2,736
voting no, while the proposal for
an animal control facility had
3,283 voting yes and 2,320
voting no in unofficial returns.
The Cote on a county leash
law was 2,867 opposed and
2,785 in favor.
The outcome of a bond issue
before Grapeview School District
voters will probably have to
await final absentee count and
the official vote canvass. The
bond issue, for $1,550,000 to
build and equip a new school
building, had 294 votes in favor
to204 against. :
This gave the bond issue,
which needed 60 percent to pass,
percent against.
Voters in Fire District 17 in
the Hamma Hamma area rejected
for a second time a special levy
of $62,500 to purchase fire
trucks and construct fire
stations. The vote was 62 in
favor and 76 against, a
percentage in favor of 44.9
percent and against 55 percent.
The special levy needed a 60
percent vote in favor to pass. '
Voters in Fire District Five
,turned down, by a narrow
main,.,a request for the::
dtCt to be alldWed to,!levy]ts.
full $I for each $1,000 of
assessed valuation. The vote was
634 in favor and 640 against,
with 49.7 percent in favor and
50.2 percent against. The final
vote canvass and absentees could
change the outcome of the
election, which needed only a
majority of 50 percent to pass.
Voters in Fire District Six at
Union approved a similar request
with 165 in favor and 83 against.
one mile east of Matlock on the
Dayton-Matlock Road when the
car failed to negotiate a curve to
the left, went off the roadway to
the right and rolled over a
25.embankment.
The vehide burst into flames,
rdous 00ma#erials ,
tation discussed
tors, local where and when the shipments
and were moving. The comment was
of the State made in response to questions
.ransportation about notification of local
CUssed the officials when a shipment of
materials hazardous material was coming
County at through the county.
He also said there was a
called much greater chance of a
Paul Conner, problem with rocket motors
Senate which will be hauled' to the
Trident facility than from
nuclear material.
Because of the way in which
the nuclear material is
containerized the chance of a
problem from that, even if there
was a train, accident, was not
very likely. :
He said state and federal
officials are doing the best they
can to prevent something
happening, but cannot guarantee
there will not be an incident.
the patrol said, and both of the
men were trapped inside. The
vehicle was totally destroyed by
the fire. :
Mr. Johnson was born in
Junction City, Oregon December
29, • 1935. He had lived in the
Mason County area about 10
years and employed as a failer in
the logging industry. He was a
Marine Corps veteran of th
Korean Conflict.
Funeral services .were held at
1. p.ml Wednesday at Batstone
Funeral Home with cremation
following under the direction of
Batstone Funeral Home.
Survivors include two sons,
Wesley B. Johnson Jr., Matloek,
and Walter Johnson, California;
one daughter, Melaine Johnson,
Matlock; two brothers, Elmer
Johnson, Westport, and Darrell
Johnson, Delta Junction, Alaska;
three sisters, Delphia Genteli and
Mildred Swearingen, Silverdale,
and Opal Bachlor, Goshen,
Oregon; and one granddaughter.
running unopposed/or reelection
to his House of Representatives
position, polled 5,634 votes in
the unofficial returns Tuesday.
Democrat candidates
unopposed Tuesday included
Lois Scott for assessor, 6,110
votes; Elaine Province, county
clerk, 6,053; Byron McClanahan,
prosecuting attorney, 5,637;
Dorene Rae, treasurer, 6,288
votes; and Annette McGee,
county commissioner, 5,798
votes. District Court Judge Carol
Fuller, running unopposed for
reelection on the non-partisan
ballot, received 5,750 votes. Also
on the non-partisan ballot were
Harold Hunter for commissioner
of PUD 1 with 638 votes and
Lloyd Suhr for commissioner of
PUD 3 with 4,873 votes. '
Others unopposed on the
ballot Tuesday and the number
of votes cast for them by Mason
County voters include Supreme
Court Justices Charles Wright,
5,900, and Hugh Rosellini,
4,803, and Court of Appeals
Judge Harold Petrie, 5,117.
In contested race; [or
Democrat precinct
committeeman, Robert Jones
polled 37 votes to 33 for
Suzanne Roessel in Shelton
Precinct Five; Ann Martin polled
40 iv,otes to 3 7 for ,llis
Goidsehmid in Slieltn ei'iaet ......
8; Norene Stevens polled 56
votes to 18 for Harry Elmlund in
Shelton Precinct 14; Leona
Osterman polled 125 votes to 49
for Michael Longan in Arcadia
Precinct; Darrell Sparks polled
104 votes to 67 for Marian
McMorris in Mill Creek Precinct;
and Mildred Drebick polled 90
votes to 53 for Dave Palumbo in
Northside Precinct.
'S
Dee got no qualms with simplicity
By STEVE PATCH
Little big man Dee Colton
doesn't concern himself with
folks who would choose to see
him as handicapped.
They should be so
handicapped.
generous benefactor of
color-television privileges.
"Yeah, I bought the set
myself," he says, beaming. "I
like to watch good shows, you
know - Happy Days, Name That
Tune and like that."
Tuesday the staff at the
hospital threw a birthday party
for Dee, and the dedicated little
roundskeeper was persuaded to
set aside his lawn trimmer and
hoe long enough to bask shyly in
the limelight.
And a shy bask it was, too.
Dee doesn't cotton to a whole
lot of attention, you see-
although he is anything but
standoffish.
"Oh, I like people real
good," he says. "And they like
me all right too, I guess. Sure is
nice of them to give me gifts and
like that on my birthday."
Dee's words tend to blurt
out in simple, concise little
sentences sandwiched between
the most prodigious of grins-
shy, quick ones that just
naturally seem to go with a
turning of attentions to feet and
other downward diversions.
But don't assume because of
its childlike simplicity that Dee's
personality is one-dimensional. A
regular churchgoer, Dee tries
daily to apply his Christian
principles - whether it be in
lending cheerful support at the
many social functions he and his
Exceptional Manor and Forester
friends enjoy or in shouldering
his usual more-than-fair share of
the work.
"I always enjoy helping other
(Please turn to page two.)
Were State
Owen and
Trident
r Mason and
Oh, he's quite special, all
right. A five-foot, 50-year-old
dynamo of a man with the
mental capacity of a child, Dee
is one of a handful of
developmentally disabled citizens
here who've managed' to
, Opened the
the questions
a review of
al impact
project.
there had
of hazardous
but, that
project,
in the
and the
rial being
Is presently
information
has not yet
safety
on the
trains with
hauled
tire of the
an sp ortation
group the
track,
by
Was only
in Mason
up to
along,
done
said, have
National
agreed
state
t
regulating
he said he
:ter to get
area rather
low.
questions
sabotage,
enting
own
his Exceptional Foresters group
home of seven years and
established semi-independence in
a house he shares downtown
with three roommates.
Today he's his household's
grocery buyer and also its
incorporate themselves socially
and economically into the
community.
Dee has worked almost nine
years now as a hmdyman and
groundskeeper at Mason General
Hospital. Two years ago he left
HOSPITAL GROUNDsKEEPER par excellence for nine years now, Dee
tends to one of his myriad chores Monday. Being developmentally disabled
hasn't hampered the energetically optimistic 5e-year-old man one whit,
insist those who know and love him.