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Shelton, Washington
November 27, 1975     Shelton Mason County Journal
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November 27, 1975
 
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:i THE FIREPLACE was about the only thing remaining standing after a fire which destroyed the Glenn Yates home on Harstine Island Sunday night. Yates home on was completely by fire Sunday night. Five officials said the first call on the fire P.m. and dispatched equipment to the the time firemen entire structure was the round. officials said the ~rted in a smokehouse attached to a garage. to the garage roof house to which the attached. family was at f'tre officials said, but of the fire until a contents of the also. Five pumpers t ttarstine Island, Agate, Mason-Benson Creek fire stations car from the Deer was also on the ~re 22 firefighters .at the fire and they season will off in Shelton with a parade street entertainment of the parade the lights on the tree on the post and on store fronts decorations being for the lights to be Said Dave Thacher, of the Chamber of which is the decoration be a cannon shot at is asked to turn lights when the cannon shot, Said 300 or more of the area are were on the scene about three hours, fire officials said. Donations to assist the burned-out family can be left at A claim asking damages of $7,771.60 from Floy Batstone, former office manager at Shelton High School, has been filed in a cross-complaint in the suit Mrs. Batstone Filed previously against the Shelton School District asking reirtatattmc,t toher job. An answer to Mrs. Batstone's suit and the cross-complaint asking the damages were filed last week by B. Franklin Heuston, attorney for the school district. Mrs. Batstone was formerly employed as office manager at the expected to be on hand for the parade and lighting ceremony. The 40 new Christmas decorations which were purchased eadier this year have been put up and will be lighted when the other lights go on. The big tree was decorated over the weekend by the Shelton Jaycees. The decorations this year will be colored bulbs. Shrubbery in front of the post office and the Title Insurance Building were also decorated in preparation for the lighting ceremony. Plans are being completed for the parade which is also being handled by the Jaycees. The parade will start at Fifth and Cota, go down Cota to Second, on Second to Railroad, down Railroad back to Fifth and Pioneer School. Clothing sizes include men's pants 36 or 34 waist and 32 length, men's shirts 16½ or 15 or large. Women's pants size 14 or 16, girl's size 12 pants, or 31-31 boy's pants, and women's shoes size 7½. im il high school. After a shortage of wrongfully appropriated to her $6,163.45 was discovered in the own use $6,163.45 of Associated Associated Student Body funds in Student Body funds or by her a state audit she was suspended negligence in the performance of and later dismissed from her job. her duties as custodian of said In her suit against the school fund enabled others unknown to district, she ,uk~"omict tothe school district to approprial¢ reinstate heri? to:~ hlt. jlab, to their own use the" sum of contending :the chO01 d 'dtd $6,163.45. not have sufficient grounds for her suspension and later dismissal. The cross-complaint says in part that during the course of her employment within three years last past, Mrs. Batstone either down Fifth back to its starting point. Entries are still being SOught for the parade. Anyone interested in being in the parade, particularly musical groups, is asked to contact Bob Castle, chairman of the parade, at 426-5861. Following the parade, there will be musical entertainment in the downtown area. Caroling groups will be singing also. Trophies which will be awarded to parade entrants are on display in the Safeco Title Insurance office. Santa Claus will ride on a float in the parade and will be in the downtown area following the parade. The cross-oomplaint also says the school district has incurred special audit and examination costs in the amount of $1,608.15 as a direct consequence of Mrs. Batstone's misconduct. The damages claimed of $7,771.60 are the total of the amount of money missing and the costs of the audit and examinations, the cross-complaint says. The answer fried to Mrs. Batstone's suit says in part she: - did not make daily deposits of cash receipts. -allowed a shortage of $6,163.45 to develop in the ASB fund. - appropriated ASB funds to her own use by removing money from the cash drawer and substituting therefore her personal checks, contrary to law. - knowingly kept false accounts relating to monies received on behalf of the school district and the ASB fund, contrary to law. - failed to perform or improperly performed other duties required of her during her employment. supposed to practice eating my Thanksgiving don't give me a spoon?" .. ~.~'~ "ALL YOU BIG GUYS have spoons. How come I don't have a spoon?" Skokomish Indian Ftshermen think they are getting a raw deal from the State Fishe!~es Department, Francis ((~US) Twiddy, one of the Skokomish fishermen whose net was seized by the fisheries department and later recovered by a group of Indians, commented on the increasing tension building between local Indian fishermen and state officials. Twiddy, a probation officer for the Mason County Juvenile Department, has a boat and fishing gear which he employs another Skokomish tribal member to operate. Twiddy said his net was one of two taken by fisheries officers the morning of November 15 and later taken from the fisheries officers by a group composed mostly of Skokomish Indians involved in fishing. He said he was not around when the net was taken, but that the man he hires to fish had contacted the fisheries officers shortly after the net was seized to identify himself and inform the officers to whom the net belonged. Twiddy said the owner of the other net "also identified the net to the fisheries officers as his. Neither was cited at the time for illegal fishing, Twiddy said, and the nets were taken across Hood Canal to the Union Boat Ramp where the altercation between Indians and fisheries officers occurred in which the nets were taken by the Indians. Twiddy said he later recovered his net on his own from those who had takenit. "1 don't like violence, but there is going to be violence the way the state is handling fishing regulations," Twiddy said. What had led up to the altercation November 15 started when Federal JudgeGoorge Boldt ruled that the cht~a ,:almon rml belonged to t~o~ t:~,ins. This decision was handed down shortly after the State Fisheries Department closed Puget Sound to commercial fishing. Twiddy said the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission had notified the tribes of the Boldt order and what areas would be open to fishing for them. At the same time, he said, state officers began enforcing the state closure regulations and a concentration of them were working in the Hood Canal area. As a result, three Indian fishermen were cited wtih illegal fishing. They appeared in Mason County District Court where they entered please of not guilty. The pleas were entered under protest since the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission believes the state had no authority to arrest the Indians since they were fishing under federal court and tribal regulations. Their trial date was set for January 13, pending a possible continuance of the trial pending a decision from Judge Boldt on the jurisdictional question. Skokomish Indians feel they got a raw deal from the state since they came up short because of non-Indian fishing on the coho salmon run because the state fisheries' director's conservation program brought purse seiners into Hood Canal where they had never been before. The chum run, which is in progress now, has always been one of the mainstays of the Skokomish Indian fishing, Twiddy said. The chum fishery had been of little interest to the state, he said, until the value went up and the state started its enhancement program for chum "almon. The state fisheries terminal fishing area plan was what brought the purse seiners into Hood Canal and the area where the Skokomish Indians fish. (Please turn to page two.) Thursday, November 27, 1975 Eighty-ninth Year- Number 48 4 Sections - 34 Pages i 5 Cents Per Copy in A Shelton drugstore was burglarized Monday night and an undisclosed quantity of narcotics was stolen, police report. Money Saver Drug at Fourth and Railroad was entered forcibly sometime after midnight. In addition to the drugs, some petty cash was removed. According to Shelton Police Officer J. L. Sylsberry, it was the third such drug-related burglary in the last six months. He said Evergreen Drug was burglarized in July and then two nights later Money Saver was broken into. In each case drugs were taken, "strictly the sort of drugs that someone would be using - controlled items," said Sylsberry. Entry in this latest incident was gained by breaking the upper window of the door on the store's west side, according to police. "It looks like it would almost have to involve more than one person," said Sylsberry, notin8 that the window is nearly seven feet above the sidewalk. "But that's just spcculat~a at this point," he added. Drugstore Manager Harry James Jr. said no inventory has been taken as yet of the missing drugs, but did say they all appear to have been narcotics. Manager Shirley Cameron of the store's variety department guessed that about $50 in petty cash - all in coin rolls - was missing. Police say this and the two earlier incidents are still being investigated and no information on suspects or the drugs involved can be released. LT. JAMES GORMAN of the Shelton Police Department dusts for fingerprints at the Money Saver Drug Store Tuesday morning while Police Patrolman Jack Sylsberry looks on. The store was broken into Monday night. anne oli The Washington State Patrol and other law enforcement agencies will be concentrating on traffic violators in an effort to keep traffic accidents down during the upcoming holiday season, Sgt. Ron Jacobsen of the Mason County Detachment of the patrol said this week. The effort, according to a directive issued to all detachment officers by Chief Will Bachofner, is to put special emphasis on drinking driver violations and speeders. The strong enforcement effort will continue throughout the holiday season until after the first likely to occur. oftheyear. Jacobsen said so far this Jacobsen said enforcementmonth there have been 24 effort will be concentrated most accidents in Mason County, heavily in those time periods compared to 28 accidents in which statistics show are the which one resulted in two times when accidents are most fatalities in November of 1974. Thursday is holiday for most City, county, state and federal government offices, along with most businesses, will be closed Thursday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Schools will dismiss Wednesday afternoon for Thanksgiving vacation and classes will resume Monday morning. Mail service will be on the holiday schedule with no rural or city delivery, but with mail arriving at and being sent from the post office. A GIRL COULD STARVE waiting for you to give her a "HOW COME you don't give me a spoon until I take matters spoon." into mv own hands?"