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An increase in basic room Hospital Administrator Laurel
rates at Mason General Hospital Nelson said the rate increases are
was announced this week by the ' necessary to cover increased
hospital commission.
Rates are being increased $8 a
day. The new rate, which went
into.effect December 1, brings the
basic rates for a semi-private room
to $74 a day.
operating costs in the hospital.
He said employee wages are
up significantly in order to keep
abreast of the over-all cost of
living, food costs to prepare three
meals a day seven days a week
have risen sharply; the cost of
natural gas to heat the hospital is
up considerably; and bed sheets
and linen prices have skyrocketed
in the past year.
Nelson said that during the
coming year, the hospital will
have to pay $45,000 liability
insurance, up 100 percent.
"Around the country, all
hospitals have had to make some
adjustments in room rates of
upwards of $10 per day or more.
Even with the new rate
adjustments, Mason General
Hospital continues to have lower
overall rates than most hospitals,"
Nelson said.
fi it
WATER WAS OVER THE ROAD in the Skokomish Valley Wednesday
morning from the warm rain which had been falling. The rains caused only
minor problems in other parts of the county, according to the county
engineer's office.
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injunction restraining the
Indian Tribe from
any marine waters in
for net salmon fishing
L IPrior court approval was
court orders issued by
Judge George Boldt
26.
COurt ordered the closure
Puget Sound treaty
to escapement of
it was announced
by Don Moos, state fmheries
director, whose office had sought
the court-ordered closures.
The Skokomlsh tribe had
dosed its Hood Canal marine
fisheries earlier November 26,
after net fishing in defiance of a
fisheries department closure in
the area had provoked several
incidents involving some violence.
Moos said he had recommended
the tribe close its Skokomish
River fisheries as well, but had
not determined if state closure of
the river is necessary.
The judge also issued a
temporary restraining order
dosing net salmon fishing on the
Nooksack River, including waters
on the Lummi Indian
Reservation. A third order closed
the Skagit River, including waters
on the reservation of the
Swinomish Tribal Community.
Contempt motions which the
fisheries department brought
against ~vezal tribal !2ader.,:, an,~
officials of the Northwest Indian
Fisheries Commission tbr defiance
of the state's court-supported
closure of South Puget Sound
chum fishing were set over until a
later date.
The Mason County
Conunission held a preliminary
hearing on the 1976 county
budget which at the meeting
Monday was $228,614.15 out of
balance after several weeks of
working with various department
heads to bring spending requests
within anticipated revenue.
The commission indicated
they would adopt the final budget
Friday and that it would probably
be out of balance.
Anticipated revenue is
$1,746,546.48 and the total of
the various current expense
budgets at the meeting Monday
were $1,975,160.63.
The commission said the
budget was based on a salary
increase of four percent for
full-time county employees and
that expenditures had been cut to
the bare minimum.
A delegation of senior citizens
appeared at the meeting to ask
financial assistance from the
county to keep the Mason County
Senior Center in operation.
The commission stated they
had received a letter from Julie
Raichert, director of the senior
center, earlier that day in which
she made a request for funds for
the senior center.
The commission had been
requested to provide assistance in
the past, but only in the past year
had it become legally possible to
do SO-
Several of those who were
'~regm stressed the need to keep
~e ~, v' system opexated bv the
senior center in operation beeauee
it is badly needed.
The commission stated they
had used federal revenue-sharing
money in the past largely for
capital expenditures, not for
programs which would have to be
continued if the federal
revenue-sharing was to be
stopped.
The commission told the
senior citizens' group they would
consider parts of the request
which were capital expenditures
before the final budget is
adopted.
Budgets for the various
departments for 1975 compared
Roy Amos, 22, 1409 Railroad
Avenue, Shelton, was arrested by
Mason County sheriff's deputies
Wednesday morning. He had
eluded officers who had gone to a
residence on Capitol Hill Tuesday
to arrest him on a warrant from
California.
Sheriff's deputies and Shelton
police officers had spent several
hours Tuesday searching for
Amos after he had fled into the
woods as officers were setting up
a stake-out on the house where
they had been informed he was.
The warrant from California
charges Amos with assault with a
Plans are being completed for
the Mason County Walk re, the
Retarded which will start at 9:30
a.m. Saturday.
The hikers will cover a
15-mile course.
Coffee and hot chocolate will
be provided along the route by
Tozier's Eats and Treats,
to the proposed budgets for 1976
were presented. They included:
Extension Service, $26,450
and $26,830; Assessor, $197,949
and $249,400; Auditor, $115,521
and $1 27,8 1 5 ; Building
Department, $27,915 and
$46,019; Civil Service, $1,170
and $1,421 ; Clerk, $40,446 and
$42,220.
"deadly weapon and kidnapping.
Bail is set at $t0,000.
Amos was arrested Wednesday
morning while walking along the
Deer Creek Loop Road. The
arrest was made by Undersheriff
Ed Doench and Lt. James Sisson
from the Mason County Sheriff's
Office.
He was booked into the
Mason County jail and is being
held there in lieu of bail.
The foot search in the woods
was called off Tuesday after
officers were unable to locate
Amos. Law enforcement vehicles
continued to patrol the area
during the night.
according to Gus Ho~, chairman
:~f the v,;',:k.
There will be a hot meal for
the walkers at the Shdton High
School Cafeteria after the walk.
Interested walkers or sponsors
can still sign up, Hoag said. Those
interested can contact Kathy at
PRO Realty.
Commissioners, $44,908 and
$48,056; District Justice Court,
$44,694 and $49,025; District
Court Probation Officer, $20,586;
General Administration, $42,000
and $47,896; Juvenile
Department, $51,600 and
$78,061 ; State-funded Juvenile
Officer, $19,995 and $17,577;
Miscellaneous, $207,264 and
$328,911 ; Prosecuting Attorney,
$94,331 and $113,394; Sheriff,
$476,693 and $520,689; Superior
Court, $62,865 and $70,815; and
Treasurer, $1 2 1,273 and
$125,424.
The commissioners
commented that tile building
department budget calls for one
new building inspector and that
most of the money for this
department comes from building
permit fees. They also stated most
of the money for the one juvenile
officer and the district court
probation officer comes from
state funding. Many of the items
in the budget under miscellaneous
are things which the county must
provide money for under state
statute.
County Engineer J. C. Bridger
presented a budget for the Road
Department balanced at
$1,604,143. He stated that
budget includes $1,021,338 for
road maintenance and $225,000
for road construction. The
amount for construction is less
than is needed, Bridger said, and
bad to be reduced because of
decreased revenue.
A Department of Public
Works budget, which covers the
operation of the landfill and
transfer stations, has an
anticipated revenue of $93,000
and anticipated expenditures of
$176,753, which represents a
deficit of $83,078.
PATCH
of this particular classroom may discern
something quite apart from the
in the back and the unchecked coming
;of students.
Work up something that turns you on,"
a 30-ish fellow suggest from the head of a
around which have assembled half a
bodies in varying degrees of
as one who has measured his audience
its attention will not be won by volume
Words are unobtrusive, delivered only for
to hear them.
those around this teacher seem to
- and in many cases for the first time in
they all share the distinction of having
traditional high school setting they
boring to downright repulsive.
are students of one of two programs in
g an educational alternative to
high school. The one visited in the
Paragraphs is the Urban Rural Racial
(URRD) Program in Belfair, a
classroom-vocational program
Staffed by one teacher, an aide and a
12 students.
Other is Shelton's Olympic College
a program which originated with
orientation but since has taken
of an alternative school as well, now
students.
each grants are essentially the
ones earned at a traditional high school.
of each must meet the same state
imposed upon its traditional
then, is the difference? What has
the motivation of these students who
all manner of disinterest?
.'t to do .what you want to do here,"
Tammie Archer, a first-year
who dropped out of high school
and a half years. "No one is pressuring
do in high school."
said she finds the possible sources of
varied as well. "We can do crossword
English, for example, or listen to music
what it means to us," she said.
just about choose what you want to
Pace you want to do it at," offered Greg
another URRD student who, at 16,
school a year and a half and has been
program since its inception last
~Vere too many things you just had to do
at the high school," added Greg. "'They were always
making you do something you'd done for two years
already. It was like they were shoving Lt down your
throat."
Kim Satran, 16, labored two years at a
traditional high school but admits he got next to
nothing out of it. "You could just sit up there and
say something to the teacher every day and she'd
pass you," he said. "You could cram for tests and
just slide. Down here it's harder because you have
more responsibility. You're doing it all on your own
and I think you get more out of it."
Kim has arranged to participate in an extended
field trip in January to help f'md the relevance he
before saw as lacking in high school biology. "I
never got much out of just sitting in the classroom,"
he said.
Joel White, 15, finished the ninth grade in a
traditional setting but admits he "never really got
along with school." Last year at URRD he picked
up 14 of his 38 credits required for graduation and
now confesses to having a fresh outlook on his
required courses.
"I still have to fill my requirements," he said,
"but here I have more say than anyone else on
how I will t'dl them. As long as it's reasonable I can
do it." Joel added that he also likes the freedom of
diversity in his new learning environment. "Before,
we had no freedom," he said. " _ just long hours of
doing the same thing over and over."
Most of the URRD students either have an
afternoon job for which they receive some high
school credit or are about to be placed in a job. In
each case they choose something related to either
their studies or their area of anticipated future
employment. And they compete for the job just like
, anyone rise.
"We try to make it as realistic as possible,"
explained Dave I-laugen, counselor and director of
the Belt'air program. "They have to go through the
same interview process everyone rise goes through,
and if an employer says he can't work with them,
then we try something else."
Tammie, who looks to a career working with
children, is about to start work at a daycare center
in Belfair. Greg hopes to begin working at a chain
saw repair shop. Kim is a building custodian and
hopes eventuauy to get into heavy-duty equipment
operation. Joel works for a local gunsnl th.
"It's hard to do this, because there are so few
businesses in town," observed Haugen. "But we feel
any good contact a young person has with a
responstlfle adult is going to be good for his
development."
One question seems to surface among casual
observers of alternative education and its often lax
restraints on behavior:
Do its students get a comparable education or
are they merdy coddled through?
"If coddling means caring about the person as
an individual, then we're guilty of coddling,"
responded Haugen. "But our students set realistic
academic goals which they've had at least an
advisory role in establishing, and credits are directly
related to the amount and quality of work they
do."
"1 think the students set the standards for us,"
observed Mary Severeid, instructor for the Olympic
College Extension Center in Shelton. "Our students
say, 'We want to learn. Is this going to be a real high
school education?' And our curriculum meets the
same criteria prescribed by the state for the high
schools."
Severeid and others involved in alternative
education admit their programs share with the
traditional schools the age-old problem of
accountability: showing somehow that their
students actually have learned something.
"I feel we're more accountable here than in a
traditional school," remarked Dave Matheny,
instructor for the URRD program in Belfair. "I can
account for every hour of a student's time and,
really, what she has learned during it. Rather than
just giving an objective test, the idea here is to
personalize learning - but not make it easier."
Matheny and his studnets operate under the
URRD requirement of 38 credits for graduation -
24 of them in required subjects, 14 electives. The
state requirement is 32, but most high schools also
boost it to 38. The URRD student must accumulate
75 hours of approved work or study time to earn
one credit, while the Olympic College Extension
Center operates on a prescribed-credit basis, with
two of its credits equaling one high school credit.
"I'm not looking to burn anyone," says
Matheny, "but if somebody tries to read just one
book and pass it off as 75 hours" work, forget it. 1
want some real evidence that you learned
something. I want to be able to hear it, see it, feel it,
taste it - 1 don't care. But 1 want something
concrete."
Matheny encourages his students' keeping
journals - although he requires little beyond a strict
accounting for each student's time. "I have one
guideline," he said. "If you do what you say you're
going to do, you're in good shape. If you say you're
going to BS with a friend for 15 minutes and that's
what you do, that's fine.
"If you want to come in and shoot pool for a
couple of hours," he continues, gesturing toward
AN ALTERNATIVE to the traditional high school education is outlined for
a prospective student by URRD teacher Dave Matheny of Belfair.
the regulation billiards table set up at one end of the
classroom, "that's okay. It's probably what you
needed to do that day. But you won't get any
history credit for it, you can be sure of that. It's
pretty obvious when you're screwing arotmd."
Although success is hard enough to define, let
alone measure, alternative education appears to be
succeeding in at least some areas. According to
Haugen, URRD students compete well on
standardized tests identical to those taken by their
high school counterparts, and their scores showed
an increase last year after the students reade the
switch to the alternative system.
Self-attitude assessments made by a professional
evaluator under contract with the program show the
students have a higher opinion of their worth since
joining the program, added Haugen. And the
dropout rate among high-school-age students in the
district dropped to four percent last year after
ranging between seven and 23 percent during the
three years prior to the start of the URRD program,
he said.
Of the approximately 20 students who
participated in the program last year, 12 have
returned. Only two of the departed eight failed
to find an acceptable alternative, such as reentry
into the high school or full-time employment "in at
least a semi-skilled job area," said Hangen.
The Olympic College program in Shelton has
graduated 16 high school dropouts in the past four
semesters and is in the process of writing a new
curriculum in an effort to be even more responsive
to the growing number of dropouts seeking an
alternative.
Is there a need for more provisions for such an
alternative? Haugen and his URRD coworkers think
not; his assessment is that Belfair's needs are being
met at the present time. However, the federal funds
behind the program - about $28,000 this year -
are awarded yearly on a competitive basis, and there
are no guaranties they'll always be available - to say
nothing of adequate.
in Shelton, on the other hand, alternative
education is not provided free of charge to the
student, and many educators are dubious of the
prospects of gaining district support.
But the need nevertheless is cited by more than
one person close to the issue of student
dissatisfaction. According to Gary Wood, Mason
County probation officer, the kid who doesn't set
along at the high school has little choice,
"We're constantly frustrated by the lack of
alternatives available to this sort of kid," he
observed. "Unless his family has the financial ability
to send him to an alternative program he's out of
luck."