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Friday is holiday
for some in area
City, county, state and
federal government offices in
Mason County will be closed
Friday in observance of the
Veterans' Day holiday.
Most businesses will be open.
The post office will observe
the holiday Saturday. There will
be no rural or city delivery or
other postal services. Mail which
is deposited in the box in front
of the post office will be sent
out.
Schools in the county will be
closed Friday in observance of
the holiday.
The state driver's license
office will be closed Saturday in
observance of the holiday. It will
resume regular working hours
Tuesday morning.
Shoplifting is
program subject
A program on how to deal
with shoplifting will be presented
at the Shelton Chamber of
Commerce November
membership meeting at 7 p.m
today at Heinie's Broiler.
Dinner will be at 7 p.m.with
the program at 8 p.m.
Speakers for the program will
be Sharon Haggerty and Phil
Shave from the Crime Watch
Division of.the State Attorney
General's Office; Ken Gabriel,
director of security for the Ben
Marche; and Dimitri Todd and
Glenn Guyton from the Mason
County Sheriff's Office Crime
Prevention Section.
The speakers will talk on
how to spot shoplifting, how to
prevent it, and a review of the
state laws and regulations dealing
with shoplifting.
County asks bids
on road projects
T h e M a s o n C o u n t y asphaltic concrete surfacing on
Commission has set November half a mile of the Broekdale
20 for opening bids on surfacing Road from the Shelton city'
projects for the Brockdale and limits to the Batstone Cut Off
North Shore Roads. Road. Estimated cost of the
MEMBERS of the Kristmastown Kiwanis Club pose in front of a truckload
of firewood which they have cut and loaded in their money-raising
project.
City approves vacati
of. street rigoht of way
S h e ! t o n C i t y proposal signed parking Colvin to
Commission at its meeting instead of parkingmeters. : he had checked
Tuesday voted to approve the The commission, on the permissible to
vacation of 20-tbot strips of recommendation of Fuller, voted on the sidewalk
right-of-way on Railroad Avenue to have attorney Mike Barkley five-foot ares
between Eighth and Ninth be the city's negotiator with the unencumbered.
Streets and between Ninth and union representing public works The park
renth Streets. employes. work with
The vacations had been Fuller said he was handling department to
requested by Vince Hinilie. negotiations with other unions, park benches can
Public Works Manager Dennis but did not have time to handle park board hasa
Colvin told the commission the the public works negotiations. : 4-H group
public works department had no Barkley will be paid at a rate benches to
objection to the vacation since it of $35 an hour for his time as locations in the drY.
would leave an 80-foot negotiator. Ruhl also
right-of way for Railroad Avenue Chuck Ruhl, a member of commission
and that the 20 feet had already the city park board, asked the exercise
been vacated on the part of the commission if it had any watershed pr,
street east of this area. decision on a request to have progressing tn
The city acquired the park benches placed alongside local service
right-of-way, lie said, when the the Holiday Inn. assisting in the
Simpson Timber Company
raihoad tracks were relocated a
number of years ago.
Wood cutting is fund lettT'ef:tsllmi"ie°nyreC;l:idna: 11 111 Club to meet
c:b:tCtuictignt°ffalal°c:imng, ert(h at1 a.m. Saturday
raising project for club
Laying of
Veterans
the Title
preceed the
The 11-11
meeting a
Veterans' Da]
from low-income families and a
project to obtain 10 life vests Ibr
4-H club membeis attending
camp at Panhandle Lake, as well
as other activities.
The wood is being cut from
Simpson Timber (ompany land
Members of the
Kristmastown Kiwanis Club have
been cutting wood for sale as a
money-raising project for
community programs.
Among the projects which
benefit from the wood sale are
building on Park Street The 11-11 Club will observe
Colvin told the commission Veterans' Day with its annual
lie had received a proposal from breakfast at 11 a.m. Saturday in
Shelton architect Harold Dalke
and is being transported in the MemorialHall.
trucks loaned by Lumbermen's to prepare plans and All veterans are welcome to
of Shelton. specifications for rewiring city attend whether they are
hall. He said Dalke had agreed to
So far 44½ cords of wood m e m b e r s o f a ve te r ans
have heen cut and sold. do the work for $3,715. organization or not.
Lieutenant AI Johnson of the
The project will be a police department asked thatthe
continuing one each year. Civil Service Commission be
The work will include project is $35,226: the Christmas party for children
The surfacing on the North asked to conduct a test for y ig
Shore Road is for 1.8 miles at an patrolmen. He said Patrolman ompoIaaiay
estimatedc°st°f$52'088" Long delayed case dis issed Nicholas Patterson had resigned II j
School board The commission also i m recently to go to work for the Insta atJon re ec
approved a road project for sheriff's office.
meets Tuesday clearing, grading and drainage on A charge of grand larceny, bench warrant was issued for guilty anti was released was two City Attorney Herb Fuller T h e M a so n C o u n t y no temporary
the Ballow Road on Harstine
Island. The work will be done by
county crews at an estimated
cost of $16,160.
The Shelton School Board
will hold its regular November
meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
Evergreen School library.
Dee Colton has got no
qualms with simplicity
(Continued from page one.) maintenance supervisor Pete
Shawver. "Anything Dee wants
to learn to do he can do, once
he puts his mind to it.
"What's more, he hardly ever
misses a day of work. He's in
Dee, blushing profusely,
allows as to how he has managed
to keep himself in pretty good
health. "Yeah, and I've lost some
weight, too," he says, pretending
to hoist an imaginary potbelly.
"I try to eat just enough to keep
myself alive. That's what counts.
"Yeah, 1 just keep a'goin'.
And I think I'm getting there,
yup. You gotta try your best
and just keep plugging along."
people Out," he says. "And if
you have good friends you want
to help them out when they
need you. You don't have to tell
County
filed against Edward Fletcher,
Seattle, in 1972, was dismissed
by Judge Gerry Alexander after
a hearing in Mason County
Superior Court Thursday.
Steve Whitehouse, Olympia
attorney who had been
appointed to represent Fletcher,
told the court he was asking for
dismissal of the charges, to
which Fletcher had pleaded
guilty, on the basis that the
prosecutor's office did not bring
him in promptly for sentencing
and that the court failed to
appoint an attorney for Fletcher
when he appeared in court in
September of 1977.
Judge Alexander, in
dismissing the charge, stated he
was doing it on the basis that
the length of time between the
time Fletcher pleaded guilty and
the time he was brought in for
sentencing was so long as to
constitute an unreasonable delay.
The dismissal, he said, was not
on the basis of failure to appoint
an attorney for Fletcher in 1977.
Whitehouse told the court
Fletcher had been charged with
grand larceny March 24, 1972
and was arrested March 31,
1972.
He said Shelton attorney
Gerald Whitcomb was appointed
to represent Fletcher on the
charge and that Fletcher pleaded
guilty on April 14, 1972 and was
released on personal recognizance
while awaiting a presentence
report before being sentenced.
An order requesting the
presentence report was signed
June 15, 1972.
Whitehouse told the court
there was no action by the
prosecutor's office until
September 1, 1977 when a
better that way."
Although the records show
Dee was born sometime in
November of 1928, neither his
exact date nor place of birth is
known here. Records don't even
say who is parents are - and
nieces in Seattle and Minnesota
apparently are all the family Dee
has.
But his family of friends
always has beensomething rather
special, and Dee adds to it as*
often as he can- even at the Logging is
risk of being teased.
"Some guyscall me a questioned
girl-chaser," he explains, The Mason
scrutinizing his boots again. "But
I don't chase 'em.l like 'era,
yes. They're iPe0ple just like
anyone else." .. "
Dee took a special trip with
one of his Exceptional Manor
friends a couple of years ago.
The big attraction was
Dlsneyland.
"I really enjoyed it," says
Dee. "I met lots of friends and
that, and had a lot of fun. We
went by bus. It was a long ride."
As an Exceptional Forester,
Dee worked some in the
Smile Awhile With Brad
company's own woodshop,
fashioning cedar picnic tables
and planter boxes and the like.
He also did some Christmas-tree
harvesting work, And now, even
with his full-time duties at the
hospital, Dee still does volunteer
kitchen work for theForesters
quite regularly.
"Dee is just about
indispensable to us here;' praises
Mason General Hospital
Administrator Laurel Nelson.
"He is an invaluable aide
here and he's extremely
versatile," adds Dee's boss,
III I I
Commission has informed the
Department of Natural Resources
that a request for a forest
practices permit from Michelson
Brothers, Lake Bay, comes under
the Shoreline Management Act
since the area for which the
permit is requested is within 200
feet of the Skokomish River. *
The shoreline act, the county
said, provides that no more than
30 percent of the timber from
such property can be harvested
within any 10-year period. '
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Fletcher and he as arrested and
brought into court September
20, 1977. He was released with
instructions to contact the
probation officer about the
presentence report.
He said another bench
warrant was issued for Fletcher
February 24, 1978 and that lie
was again arrested.
Deputy Prosecutor Richard
Adamson told the court Fletcher
had created the problem of the
delay himself by his failure to
contact the probation officer
about the pre-sentence rep3r !
and by not obeng 0rdersl pf
the court.
Adamson told the court
Fletcher served in the Army part
of the time after his guilty plea
He also said Fletcher had been
convicted of second-degree
assault in King County in 1975.
Adamson told the court he
had first become aware of the
case in 1977 and had gotten lhe
bench warrant to attempt to find
Fletcher.
He said there was an order
for a presentence in the file, but
that no presentence had ever
been prepared because the
probation officer had been
unable to contact Fletcher.
Judge Alexander, in
dismissing the case, said it
appeared the only attempt to
contact Fletcher after he pleaded
letters which were sent a couple
of months after his release.
Judge Alexander, after
hearing a request for additional
testing of John F. Smith,
Shelton, charged with rape,
assault and burglary, agreed to
continue trial of the case until
the November jury term.
Smith's attorney, Jack
ltanemann, Olympia, told the
court Ie had received a report
from a clinical psychologist who
had examined Smith that there
was a possibility of brain damage
and that lie would like to have
Smith examined by d
neurologist.
The court continued the
request for one week to give the
prosecutor's office time to check
to see if the test could be done
at a slate hospital.
Entering pleas of not guilty
to charges of second-degree
burglary were Joseph Bolduc and
James Goin. They appeared with
their attorney, Stephen Foster,
Olympia, to enter pleas of not
guilty.
The court agreed to release
George Itenson, Shelton, on
personal recognizance to the
custody of his stepfather.
The request for release was
made by Hanemann, who
repre.sents Henson. Deputy
Prosecutor Gary Burleson told
the court he had no objection to
the release.
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working on the revision of the Jim Leitch, right-of-way agent, County EJ
parking ordinance which had that he had checked into the Young tel
been rejected last week after it possibility of temporary railroad petitions
was discovered that the proposed crossing signals at three crossing
amendment did not change the intersections and had been from the
enforcement section of the informed by the Utilities and Transportation
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