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A SNOWMAN and a mock snowball fight were featured in this presentation
during the Pioneer School program last week.
Winners of the Christmas
Decoration Contest sponsored by
the Shelton Chamber of
Commerce were announced this
week.
First place winner in the
religious category was Rose
Diemert, 729 Pine.
In outdoor displays, first
place went to Mr. and Mrs.
George Magnett, Mill Creek Road;
second to Mike Barden, Holiday
Beach, Hoodsport; and honorable
mention to T. H. Dittrich, 2009
Walker Park Road.
In the novelty category, first
place went to asker Erickson, 97
Picketing Drive, Timberlakes, and
second place to Kenneth O'Dell,
118 S. Seventh, Shelton.
First place in the commercial
division went to Dr. William
Widman, 310 West Birch, and Second prizes in the
honorable mention to Jerry Smith residential categories were "living
Realty, PRO Office Building, trophies," special show plants
Seventh and Railroad. o b t ained from Homewood
Nursery.
First prizes in the residential
categories were dinners for two
donated by the Timbers The first prize in the
Restaurant, the Capitol commercial category was a
Restaurant and Taylor Towne five-foot Ficus Benjamina tree for
Restaurant. the office.
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Thomas Yorke, who had been
lb nd guilty of possession of a
controUed substance by a Mason
County Superior Court jury
previously, was given a two-year
deferred ~ntence and ordered to
spend 90 days in the Mason
County jail when he appeared
before Judge Gerry Alexander
Friday afternoon.
Judge Alexander told Yorke
that if he is found guilty to a
second degree burglary charge
which was filed against him last
week, his deferred sentence would
probably be revoked and he
would be committed to the
Department of Institutions.
The court granted a request
from Yorke's attorney Jerry
restgns as
Jerry Smith announced this
week he has submitted his
resignation as manager of the
Mason County Fair, to be
effective January 1,1976.
Smith stated his reasons as
increasing business commitments
and other community activities
do not allow him to spend the
necessary time needed as fair
manager. He hopes to stay active
in the fair administration in an
advisory capacity.
The Mason County Fair Board
is now seeking a replacement and
parties interested in the fair
manager position should send a
complete resume to the president
of the fair board, Bill Hunter, at
the Mason County Courthouse.
The fair manager position has a
salary of $1,200 per year.
Whitcomb, Shelton, to delay the
start of the 90-day county jail
sentence until December 26.
A pre-sentence report
prepared on Yorke had
recommended that he be
committed for the drug
possession offense. Deputy
Prosecutor Gary Burleson said his
office concurred in the
recommendation.
Whitcomb told the court that
the burglary charge which had
been filed against Yorke was not a
conviction and should not be
considered in the sentencing.
Whitcomb said that Yorke
had no prior criminal record, but
that by his own admission had
become involved with drugs while
serving in the Army in Germany.
Whitcomb recommended that
Yorke be given probation and an
opportunity to either find a job
or continue his education.
Testimony at the trial at
which Yorke was found guilty of
drug possession was that he had
been stopped on a traffic
violation by a deputy sheriff who
observed Yorke throw something
across the street into a parking
area. The officers testified they
found a bbftl containing LSD
where the object which ihey said
Yorke threw landed.
Yorke was also identified on
the charge of second degree
burglary. He and another young
man are accused in information
filed by Prosecuting Attorney
Byron McClanahan with breaking
into a trailer house owned by
Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone.
Olympia attorney Steve
Henderson was appointed to
represent Yorke on the burglary
charge.
Human rights
Whenever there is a conflict
between human rights and
property rights, human rights
must prevail.
Abraham Lincoln
Art and truth
We all know that art is not truth.
Art is the lie that makes us realize
truth - at least the truth that is
given us to understand.
Pablo Picasso
Farley D. Thoms, 20, 1021
East Ethridge, Olympia, was
arrested by two Mason County
sheriffs deputies on a Thurston
County warrant.
tte was arrested at the
Matlock Road interchange on
Highway 101 Friday evening.
He was taken to the Mason
County jail where he was held for
Thurston County authorities who
came after him.
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Jim Lowery: 'i am
(Continued frompageone.) what's going on in town, or
outside of the high school are
Lincoln Gym, which is really old,
and Loop Field, which needs a lot
of development still. I would like
to take some funds out of parks
and recreation to work up a
comprehensive plan so we can
qualify for state and federal funds
for such development.
I also feel very strongly that
we need some sort of community
center, a place where the kids can
go to play pool, dance, find out
whatever would suit them. As far
as the kids are concerned, they
have nothing now. The reason
they haven't responded to the
ideas the community has come up
with so far is the kids have never
really been asked what they want.
Q. How do you react to the
10 p.m. curfew for kids in the
city?
A. I'm opposed to the way it
is right now. A curfew should be
the parents' responsibility - not
the city's. But I certainly can't see
any reason for a young person to
be loitering around downtown
after l0 o'clock.
Q. How do, you go about
getting the kids' suggestions?
A. Recently ! visited the high
school and asked several kids
what they would like to see in the
community.
Q. And what do they want?
A. The three things the kids
wanted most were a pizza parlor,
a roller rink and a movie theatre.
They have a great deal of interest
in a "hangout." Interest also was
expressed in educational
activities, crafts, intramural
sports, theatrical programs, and so
on.
"I might have the
reaction to kick the ~tell
out of the guy... '"
Q. How would you describe
yourself?
A. I'm probably the worst
person in the world to ask that
question. Let's see... I like to
think of myself as sensitive to the
needs of people.., a decent
listener. I know I've got my
problems, but I'll be damned if 1
could tell you what they are,
because I just don't pay much
attention to them. I like people. I
like to mingle with them and
ecen
li
work with them.
I don't have to listen to
myself, though, and other people
do.
Q. Do you have a political
goal, personally?
A. No. I don't have anything I
need to feather my bed for. I'm
not concerned with getting ahead
in politics. And if I never hold
another office after this, that's
fine with me.
Q. is it true that Simpson runs
the city?
A. Not true. It does have a
great deal of impact on the city,
of course, because it employs the
majority of the people. And, if it
did pull out, it obviously would
leave Shelton high and dry. But
I've never known it to try to use
any sort of leverage on the city.
Q. Must money speak loudest
in politics?
A. Some people insist that the
guy who pays the big taxes should
get all the goodies. I don't believe
in that. Just because someone has
all the bucks doesn't mean he
should get preferential treatment
- but he shouldn't get less, either.
Q. Can the city maintain its
managerial independence over
local projects when those projects
rely on state and/or federal
support?
A. What we want, primarily,
are capital projects, and in their
case the government usually
doesn't have much to say after it's
approved the grant initially. The
only possible restrictions would
be on how you plan, which is not
so touchy. What 1 don't like,
however, is when they dictate
how a certain man or woman
should be used.
I
ener
For the most part
especially worried
having its hands tied.
told on a couple
the city commission
advised it can't do
think that's a crock
Q. Do you think
are doing the job they
A. I don't feel the
coming out with the
learn, and if
teach them how to
going to have a lot of
life.
Q. How do you
prevailing sense of
A. The apathy does
but something else
much more deepl
negativism. It comes
media. Large corporate
are damaging our society l
of their growing
rather than looking for
combat the problem,
to be doing no
criticizing.
It's time somebody
out and reinstilled
the people. We have to askl
can we do to make a
change?" Negativism isn't
healthy - constructive
is.
Q. Does the
Sheltonian take city
seriously?
A. A lot of people
kind of an apathetic
you let them know you
listen to what they want,
be a good leader and
good politician.
And that's probably
political thing you're
me to say.
plemen'
There is no way Mason
County can pay Kitsap County
for assessing their own property,
Prosecuting Attorney Byron
McClanahan told the county
commissioners at their meeting
Monday.
McClanahan's comment was
"in response to the commission's
request for advice on what should
be done about a letter from the
Kitsap County Prosecuting
assessme
Attorney's office, stating notices
of an extra tax assessment to
make up for an under-assessment
on the North Mason School
District levy would be sent out as
soon as Mason County paid
Kitsap County $1,500 for the
work.
.~ The full amount of the special
levy apiamved"by North M~s0n
voters in 1974 was not collected
with taxes this year because the
ISCUSS
assessed valuation used to
calculate the amount of taxes to
be collected was larger than the
actual assessed valuation.
Part of the North Mason
school district is in Kitsap
County. The estimated amount of
the extra tax to be collected in
the portion of the district in
Kitsap County is $33 i .5 !.
County Treasurer John Cole
told the commission his office
had about complet,
supplemental tax
which will go to
school district. It has
office about $2,500.
McClanahan said he
is the responsibility of the
district to see why Kitsap
does not collect the tax
not.
McClanahan said he
answer the letter from the'
County Prosecutor's
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