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Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
November 23, 1978     Shelton Mason County Journal
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Sheriff McNair appli for disability retirement Mason County Sheriff Dan board asked that McNair secure if the local board denies tile recent registration of Deputy McNair submitted a request for additional medical information request, McNair can appeal this Sheriff Bruce Sellig from the disability retirement to the from an orthopedic specialist and decision to the state board, sheriff's department. Mason County Law Enforcement from a pulmonary-respiratory Mike Longan, a Shelton McNair, who has served in Officers and Firefighters board at specialist and submit this to the . fireman is chairman of the law enforcement for a number of the group's meeting last week. LEOFF Board before the LEOFF board. Other members years mostly in Mason and A member of the board said application is considered further, are Laurel Nelson, administrator Yakima Counties, was defeated the application, along with a The next meeting of the of Mason General Hospital; in the primary election by letter from a local doctor was group is scheduled for 10 a.m. Shelton Mayor James Lowery; former Deputy Sheriff Fred submitted outlining back December 21 at Shelton City and County Commissioner Tom Pharris who went on to win the problems and pulmonary- Hall. • Taylor, the fifth member of the post in the November general respiratory problems on which After getting the additional group is a law enforcement election. the request is based, information, the LEOFF board representative, a position which McNair's t'erm will end The four members of the will consider the application, and is presently vacant with the January 8. SHELTON sits like a Christmas card subject beneath a mantle of white deposited over the weekend. 00lrlLe r..urrla 1 0000vzason IILJ Counry-00 " Thursday, November 23, 1978 Ninety-Second Year - Number 47 5 Sections, 44 Pages 20 Cents Per Copy i i Oil spill possibility'brings largest number of questions Most of the questions at a meeting last week to hear a progress report on the Northern Tier Pipeline application were concerned with the potential for oil spills and the amount of oil which could spill without detection. The meeting had been arranged by the Mason County Regional Planning Council which i.s presently studying the Northern rier environmental impact stateaent. The qqstions expressed concern abd the adequacy of leak detect and the amount of oil vhiel Could get out of the pipeline wilhout detection. A NorllicJtt I'ier spokesman said the bak detection system which weald be put in would operate on the bfisis of the oil pressure, and would detect leaks of more than .5 percent of the amount of oil in the line. He also said: there are plans for aerial flights to inspect the line and that ,crews will be inspecting the line periodically to make sure the system is functioning properly. The Northern Tier representative said, in answer to questions, that it would be possible for a large quantity of oil to leak without detection, but that it was unlikely it would not be spotted and reported by someone. One of the Northern Tier speakers was William Sage, northwest project manager for the project. He said the proposal is to build a 42-inch pipeline from an unloading facility at Port Angeles which would go through Mason County and continue on east to Clearbrook, Minnesota. The pipeline, he said, would Tree to be lighted Santa Claus will make a brief The scheduled visits at visit to Shelton Friday evening, Heritage Savings and Loan are be 1,550 miles long and would cost $1.6 billion. At present, he said, the proposal is in the process of obtaining permits and doing other preliminary work. About half of the oil, he said, would be Alaska crude and the other half foreign oil, probably from Indonesia. The proposed location at Port Angeles, he said, is the closest point in the 48 states to both locations. He said the project must get permits from each state it passes through as well as the federal government. just long enough to assist in from 3:30 to 5 p.m. December • , , , The EIS  completed in turning on, the lights,on the.high;.8; 2:30'tO 5"9. December 14, Kui,,'J/""g h : ,....o o,,,, community Christmas tree on 2"30 to 5 n m December 1 . ."..'..".." .-';" '." ........... " • ..... " -" " ,  ,, , ,u ,smaying it. L ' the post office lawn, : 2:30 to 5 p.m. leomber 20 anti' g l. :s ,,-,,,,,,a ,,,, ,),,, ,,ao • e will arrive aboard ,a fire 2.30 to 5 p.m. December 21, for Mason County to study tile truck, and wil ! leave after thel Visits to Hood Canal State EIS were provided through a tree is lighted. : Bank are scheduled for 1 l a.m. federal gran t which was obtained He will be back, however, to l p.m. December 9, l l a.m. through the Association of alternating visits between the to 1 p.m. December 16 and 2:30 Washington Counties. Santa House at Heritage Savings to 5 p.m. December 19. Ken Berryman, an engineer and Loan in downtown Shelton Christmas decorations and from Butler and Associates, the and Hood Canal State Bank on lights are expected to be lighting firm which is designing the Mt. View. the city December 8. (Please turn to page two.) ctric, telephone service cut by snowfall company The freezing weather Monday work Saturday evening, do any plowing on Olympic Working Tuesday night resulted in sanding crews according to Dennis Colvin, Highway South, which is a state ervice to many starting work in the early public worksmanager, highway, because city plows whose morning hours Tuesday to sand He said two crews were were not equipped to not take went slippery spots on the roads, established, each working out the reflector buttons the heavy As of Tuesday m0ming, most 12-hour shifts, and that by recently installed by the state. ay night and county roads were opened Monday most streets had been He also said the lack of ,' except in a few instances in plowed, telephone service to contact afternoon, which there were a large number Sanding crews were out early street department employes was of trees across a particular road. Tuesday morning to sand hills a problem. to have most City street department crews and on main traveled streets. Colvin commented the city back in service ning. Some started plowing and tree clearing Colvin said the city did not found it had more streets to may not until after : cleared and open for traffic Tuesday. The snow storm, earliest to hit the county for many years, dumped up to 14 inches of wet snow in parts of the Arcadia area. The county engineer's office said the heaviest amounts of snow were in Arcadia, Kamilche, Lost Lake, Agate, Harstine and Grapeview areas. West of Dayton and beyond Hoodsport, the snowfall was considerably lighter. It was also lighter in the Belfair area. er of the A PUD 3 spokesman said Telephone that as of noon Tuesday, main Olympia said feeder line services had been of the week restored in the Mason Lake area service in except in a few isolated areas, the Old Karnilche area except in COUnty roads the Kennedy Creek area, in the Were mostly Cushman area, on most of IlUlllll|lllllllllllilnllnllllllllllllllnlllllllllllllll|llllllllll|lllllll Festival theme " sought residents are Entries are to be mailed to submit Terry Mthailov, •296 Island Lake theme for the Drive, Shelton, Washington Forest 98584 and must be received no ;,,,i ! later than December 11. entry will All suggestions will be double what presented at the December In past years, meeting of the Forest Festival by a Association and the winning parties theme selected at that time. more The winner will be notified no later than December 18. on In case of a tie, the entry nlust contain: bearing the earliest postmark will address be declared the winner. of entraot Entrants must be residents of Mason County. IIIllnnlllllllnilllMlllilllllllllllllllll;llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllh Harstine Island, most of the Agate area except for Phillips Lake and part of Spencer Lake and along the Arcadia Road out to Morgan Road. The PUD asked those who had been out of power to not turn on all of the electricity using things in the home when the power coes back on. There has been a problem, they said, with fuses blowing on lines on which the power had been restored because of the heavy loads as all electric equipment went back on. They asked that electric heat in particular not be turned on until the power had been on about half an hour and then asked that it be turned on gradually to lessen the load until the demand was stabilized. The biggest problem encountered, PUD spokesmen said, was from the heavy, wet snow breaking branches and trees down into power lines. Additional crews were being brought in to assist with the repair work, PUD spokesmen said. A crew from Mason County PUD l, which had less problem from the storm, two crews from Wilson Construction which is doing contract work for the PUD, a crew from Tyee Construction, a crew from the PUD 3 Bdfair operation, and crews from Snohomish aand Clallam County PUDs were in the county Tuesday assisting with the work. The crews, PUD officials said, were working in all of the areas in which there were outages. Vincent said that as of Monday evening, there were 455 telephone customers in the Shelton exchange without telephone service. He said it would probably be the end of the week before all service is restored. One of the biggest problems, he said, was that electric power and telephone lines were tangled when they went down, and that the result was electricity in the telephone lines which made it necessary to wait until the PUD got the lines untangled before the telephone crews could begin working on the lines. There are places, he said, where access points on telephone lines were burned out because of the electricity. Another problem, he said, was that the number of calls coming in was overloading the system. He asked that unnecessary calls be delayed until the problem can be corrected. He said out-of-town crews will be brought in as soon as it is possible to start working on the lines. He said this had been one of the worst storms in some time. Outages, he said, were not confined to any one area, but were scattered throughout the system. County Engineer Marley Young said the county road department began gathering its crews Saturday afternoon when the snow started to fall. One problem, he said, was lack of telephone service to contact workers. Plowing was started Saturday night and continued all day Sunday, he said. The biggest problems, he said, were the accumulation of snow and trees down across the roads. Plowing started again Monday morning to get to those roads which had not been opened Sunday. WET SNOW goes down necks as Sho'ton Nature's winter playground. plow since the last time it had had a heavy snow removal effort. This is the first time in about 10 years, he said, that crews were put on a 12-hour hift basis. A Washington state patrol spokesman said the number of traffic accidents and problems from the snow were less than normally seen from this kind of weather. youngsters frolic in Mother