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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.
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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
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"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.
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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.
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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?"