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A BADLY SMASHED truck and a damaged house were the
result of this incident in which a track the Mason County
Sheriff's Office said was driven by William Morris, 27,
Shelton, was driven into the corner of the Howard Davis
residence on Mill Creek Road.
Skokomish Valley
have filed a suit against
State Game Department
damages for the diversion
from Vance Creek to a
hatchery which the
operates.
the suit were Mr. and
ames Daily, Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers and John Lester.
property owners claim in
that tile state diverted
from the creek Jan. 1,
1970 and, that the creek which
formerly flowed through their
property is now almost dry.
It is valueless to them, they
claim, for watering crops or
livestock and it in no longer
useable as a spawning ground for
salmon.
The Daileys are asking $6,000
in damages, the Rogers $10,600
and Lester $2,500.
The suit was filed in Mason
County Superior Court.
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A family feud which erupted
Monday night has left a damaged
house, a smashed truck and one
of the participants in an Olympia
hospital being treated for a gun
shot wound.
The Mason County Sheriff's
Office said William Morris, 27,
Wagon Wheel Motel, was struck in
the back by one shot from a .22
caliber pistol fired by his
father-in-law, Howard Davis, after
Morris drove a truck into the
corner of the Davis home on Mill
Creek Rd. just off Highway 101
south of Shelton.
Officers said Morris' wife,
Gloria, called the Sheriff's Office
about 5:10 p.m. and stated that
her husband had threatened to
drive his truck into her oarents
home where she was staying.
Officers said Mrs. Morris is
separated from her husband and a
divorce is pending.
She called the Sheriff's Office
again about 7:15 p.m., according
to reports, and told them she had
seen her husband's truck drive by.
A deputy Sheriff checked the
area after that call but was unable
to locate Morris or the truck.
The next call officers received
was about 8:45 p.m. from Davis
who told them Morris had just
driven a truck into his house.
Davis told officers he had
fired five or six shots at a subject
who he saw fleeing the truck after
the crash.
Morris was later discovered to
be in St. Peter Hospital in
Olympia for treatment of a gun
shot wound. Officers said he was
listed by the hospital as being in
satisfactory condition.
Officers said after smashing
the truck into the house and
being shot, Morris got into a car
driven by another man and was
taken to Olympia to the hosPital.
Officers said the driver of the
car told them he and Morris were
on their way to Olympia, and,
that he was waiting for Morris to
park the truck at the time of the
incident.
Officers said a 1957 flatbed
truck had been driven into the
corner of the Davis house. The
truck was registered to Ted. R.
Carter, Box 41, Chelan.
The corner of the Davis house
was pushed off the foundation,
two windows were broken and
paneling was torn off the wall on
the living room inside the house.
The truck was a total loss,
officers said.
Investigation of the incident is
continuing, and, when completed,
will be turned over to the
Prosecuting Attorney for action.
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Gorton, was named this week to
the Superior Court bench for
Thurston and Mason Counties by
Gov. Dan Evans.
He is believed to be the first
assistant attorney general to be
appointed to the Superior Court
in this state.
Doran, 39, will succeed Judge
Charles Wright, Union, when he
becomes a member of the State
Supreme Court Jan. 11. His salary
will be $22,500 a year.
He was recommended for the
position by both the
Thurston-Mason Bar Association
and the Government Lawyer's
Association.
A resident of Olympia for
13% years, Doran has been
deputy attorney general since
Gorton took office in January
1969. Previously he had been
chief assistant for O'Connell for
51A years.
He came to Olympia after
graduation from the Gonzaga
University Law School in 1957
and spent one year as a clerk for
the State Supreme Court. During
that year he was the first clerk for
a new judge, Robert Hunter, now
Chief Justice.
Robert J. Doran, chief
assistant attorney general to both
John O'Connell and Slade
The Shelton School Advisory
Committee has received a letter
from the School Board asking for
the committee's recommendation
on a five-mill special levy for the
district for operation and
maintenance.
The advisory committee
executive board was planning to
meet to discuss the question.
Advisory Committee
In August 1958 Doran joined
the Attorney General's Office and
worked in the education field,
serving as legal adviser to the
Superintendent of Public
!nstruction, the State Board of
Education and the state colleges.
He later served as Chief of the
Opinions Division and then
became O'Connell's chief assistant
in July of 1963.
Doran, a native of Butte,
Mont., is a member of the
Laurel Nelson, administrator
of Mason General Hospital, will
be the speaker at the Shelton
Chamber of Commerce
membership meeting tonight.
He will tell about and show
slides of some of the new
equipment at the hospital.
The chamber directors
decided at a recent meeting to
include wives in the general
membership meeting.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Nat Stairs, left, shows Dale Haynes, right, chairman Walt Parsons appeared
some information at the Sheriff s Office this Week. Haynes at the School Board meeting
joined the department this week under a program to assist Tuesday night to ask some
servicemen in returning to civilian life. Sheriff John Robinson
announced this week he had promoted Stairs to Operations
Officer in the department with the rank of sergeant.
Joins
22, started work
County Sheriff's
a deputy Monday
a program for men
discharged from
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is designed to
make the change
military to civilian life
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hearing of it.
Under the program, Haynes
will be here for training in law
enforcement with his salary paid
by the military.
He served 21 months in the
Army, getting his discharge 90
days early to enter the training
program. He is out of the Army
now, but, if he drops out of the
training program, would have to
go back in to complete his service
time.
He will be in addition to the
two additional deputies who will
start working Jan. 1, under the
budget approved by the County
Commission last October.
Haynes is a native of Auburn,
graduated from Federal Way High
School and attended Green River
Community College two years.
While in college, he minored his
second year in law enforcement.
He is presently making his
home at Mason Lake. He is not
married.
questions of the board about the
request.
Parsons stated the Advisory
Committee would probably not
have time to study the proposal
sufficiently to make a
recommendation in time to get on
the ballot by the recommended
Feb. 9 date.
The board told him that a
later date for the election would
not make any difference on when
the money became available as
long as the levy was approved
before the deadline for getting on
the 1972 tax rolls, which would
be some time next fall.
Following is the. text of the
letter which the school board sent
to the Advisory Committee.
The Shelton School Board has
been contemplating a 5 mill
special levy for maintenance and
operation. We believe that state
support for schools in the next
biennium will not provide
adequate funds to carry on the
came here through the
John Robinson,
present program. The State
Legislature will be facing a large
state deficit, reduced sales and
real estate excise tax collections
continuing lay offs at the Boeing
Co. which will further reduce
state income, increased welfare
costs, few good sources of
additional revenue and of course
public feeling toward no
additional taxes. It now appears
definite that it will be necessary
for the Shelton schools to make
cuts in the present program to
maintain a balanced budget next
Year unless funds are provided by
special levy.
We would appreciate the
citizen's advisory council
consideration of this problem and
our advice as to the feasibility of
placing the levy before the
Shelton voters. It is important for
us to have your recommendation
on this matter by Dec. 10 due to
the deadline in placing an issue on
the ballot.
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The Shelton High School
Choir is planning a Christmas
program for 8 p.m. Dec. 21 in the
High School Gymnasium.
The senior and swing choirs
are inviting former choir members
to join them in singing The
Messiah.
a~COntacted the military
oout the program after
Thurston-Mason and Washington
State Bar Association;
Government Lawyers' Association
and the American Judicature
Society.
His wife Michelle is a native of
Olympia. They have two children:
Heather Mary, age 7, and Robbi
Ann, age 1. The Dorans live at
2003 Arietta Place, Olympia.
Robert J. Doran
The dress and appearance
code for Shelton School students
has been dropped, with three
exceptions, for a trial period until
March 1.
The three exceptions are
beards on boys, blue jeans for
girls and bib overalls for anyone.
The action came in a letter
from Grinnell to the
student-faculty committee which
is working on revisions in the
dress code.
Grinnell told the School
Board Tuesday night that he had
received the proposal for a
temporary suspension of the dress
code with the three exceptions
from the committee.
The proposal had come from
the Student Senate and the
student representatives on the
committee, he said.
The students, in a letter to
Grinnell, had asked for the
temporary suspension to give the
students a chance to prove they
could be responsible in keeping
neat and clean without the
restrictions of the present dress
code.
Surveys of students and the
faculty and other school
employees have been conducted
in gathering information on the
proposed dress code revision.
The school board has asked
the Citizen's Advisory Committee
to make a survey of the attitude
of the community. The advisory
committee is working on ways in
which the survey could be
conducted.
Grinnell told the board the
student representatives with
whom he had been discussing the
proposed dress code revision were
very responsible and had done a
very good job in getting student
views.
Under the suspension of the
regulations for the next few
months, the student body
executive board will be
responsible for policing violations
of the three exceptions to the
suspension in the High School.
The suspension applies to the
junior high and elementary
schools also, but, in these schools,
the policing will be done by the
administration rather than the
students.
Grinnell told the board that
administration, faculty and
students had been working on the
proposed revision of the dress
code since October and that
considerable information had
been gathered.
He stated the temporary
suspension would give the
administration and the students a
chance to spot potential problem
areas before the final code
revision is completed.
It had originally been
scheduled to be completed Dec.
1, but, it now appeared that it
would take until about March 1
to get all of the needed
information and prepare
recommendations on what should
be done.
On Grinnell's recommenda-
tion, the board rejected all of the
bids received recently on a
computer for the district business
office and voted to contract with
the Grays Harbor Community
College Data Processing Center to
furnish the necessary service.
Grinnell told the board the
district could contract with the
college for a six-month period for
about $2,000. There was a
problem or two which still have
to be worked out, he said, but,
this appears to be the best deal
for the district.
The board voted to change
the classification of the district
from second to first class as of
July 1, 1971. The board
commented they had been
discussing the possibility for
several months.
Rand Peterson, librarian in
the high school, reported to the
board on the work he has been
doing in the library, particularily
in the area of cataloging so books
would be easier to find.
The board voted to hire
Andreia Gryzic as social studies
teacher in the junior high school
to succeed Mrs. Susan James, who
resigned recently.
For Jury
Session
Two more cases were set for
the February Superior Court jury
term here.
They were the cases of
Richard Webber, an appeal of a
conviction of driving while
intoxicated in Mason County
Justice Court as the fifth case for
the week of Feb. 22 and the case
of Alonzo Stevenson, charged
with grand larceny in connection
with the theft of copper wire for
the third case for the week of
March 15.
John J. Brooks, 19, Shelton,
pleaded guilty to an amended
charge of second degree burglary.
Judge Frank Baker ordered a
pre-sentence report on Brooks
before sentencing.
H e had originally been
charged with first degree burglary
for entering the home of Mrs.
Laurel Weston. The charge was
reduced on a motion from
Prosecuting Attorney John C.
Ragan.
Donald Doelker, 18, Seattle,
appeared in court for
identification on a charge of
grand larceny by possession of a
stolen automobile.
His case was continued for a
week after he told the court his
family was attempting to get him
an attorney.
A charge of second degree
burglary against Doug Holton was
dismissed on a motion from
Ragan. He told the court Holton
had been one of three persons
charged, and, that since the
information was filed, further
investigation had revealed that
there was no such person as
Doug Holton.
Classes Being
Held At Airport
The Department of Natural
Resources is holding a school here
this week for engineers in the
Department. About 45 men from
all over the state are attending the
sessions at the Department office
at Sanderson Field.
The classes are held in one of
the former Navy buildings which
is now used by the Department as
a training school in the winter and
as quarters for the fire
suppression crew during summer.
A COMBINATION of high tides and melting snow and more than three
inches of rain in three days resulted in the flooding of the Skokomish River
and the inundating of roads and fields and yards throughout the valley.
Completely under water were the premises of this home near the Skokomish
Community Church, near which the waters poured in a torrent across the
road.