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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.
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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
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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.
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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