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December 10, 1970     Shelton Mason County Journal
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n9 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. i~/~ i inee PO ~S 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. Thursday, December 10, 1970 Published in Shelton, Wash. EnteredassecondclassmatteratthepostofflceatShelton, 24 Pages- 3 Sections Wash. 98584, under act of Mar. 8, 1879. Published weekly, except two issues during 84th Yea r - Num ber 50 week of Thanksgiving, at 227 w. Cota. $5 per year in Mason County, $6 elsewhere. 10 Cents Per Copy 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 erl I is designed to make the change military to civilian life IS 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. Is 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.