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16-Evefiing News, Poft Angeles, Wednesday, August 26, Personal Injury 'suits filed with county clerk 1970 Two personal injury suits are among 23 cases filed in the Clallam County clerk's office during the past two weeks. Delbert and Bessie Hinds introduced a $5,500 suit against Pitts Logging Corp. to compensate for injuries he sustained in a collision July 7, 1969, with one of the firm's logging trucks. The Hinds were traveling north on Highway 101 when they came to a stop behind two other motorists making a left hand turn into Fairholm Campground, the suit alleges. A log truck, driven by Theodore Shearer, an employe of Fitts Logging approached the stopped cars and rear-ended the Hinds' vehicle.

The suit seeks a judgment to compensate for damage to the auto and physical and mental injury to Delbert Hinds. California residents Louis Emil Knecht and his wife brought suit against Oliver E. Smith for Injuries they suffered in a two. car crash Sept. 25,1967, one and miles west of Port Angeles.

Knecht claims Smith was for the mishap because he had been drinking and made an illegal left hand turn across a double yellow line. Knecht received a shoulder separation and his wife, who was thrown against the windshield, a deep facial laceration as a result of the accident. suit asks for $6,811.64 to make up for auto damage, hospital costs, loss of wages and general injury. In other civil filings: C. Winkler is suing Albert Fernandes for damage incurred by his logging truck 4 when he attempted to pass Fernandes while westbound on Highway 101 July 22, 1970.

The suit alleges Winkler's log trtick collided with Fernandes' ROAD CLOSED The Whiskey Bend Road in Olympic National Park will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, and Tuesday, Sept. 1, according to Superintendent S.

T. Carlson. The road will be closed these two days to accomplish the seal and chip paving portion of the construction contract. Visitors are advised to plan their travel on the Whiskey Bend road before or after the closure hours. Obit ZOLA EDWARDS Funeral services for Zola Edwards, 67, will be held Friday, Aug.

28, at 1 p.m. at Harper Funeral Home. The Rev. Elbert G. Harlow will officiate.

Burial will be in Mt. Angeles Memorial Park. Mrs. Edwards died Tuesday in Port Angeles. She resided with her husband Allen at 336 East Fourth St.

He survives at the family residence. She was born March 27,1903 in Dayton, Wyo. A sister, Edna Maier of Mesa, Ariz, and numerous nieces and nephews also survive. FRED JOHNSON Funeral service for Fred 69, of Rt. 1, Box 195, Sequim, will be held at Sequim Valley Chapel Saturday at 2:30 p.m., with the Rev.

Floyd G. Torrence officiating. Mr. Johnson died Monday in Sequim. Pallbearers will be Carl Shields, Steven Pitzen, Otto Freelund, William Neuman, I.

A. Ranta and Reuben Englund. Mr. Johnson was born in 1901 in Sweden, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Johann Olofsson. He was married to Frances Creviston, who survives in Sequim. He came to Tacoma from Sweden in 1922, and moved to Port Angeles in 1941, and became one of the original stockholders of truck when the defendant "carelessly" drove across the centerline. It asks for $665 for damage to the log truck and $525 for loss of its service. J.

Smith seeks to reclaim an $8,000 loss resulting from a fire Aug. 15, 1967, which destroyed the building that housed Peninsula Machine Shop. The suit alleges the fire was caused by "negligent use of machinery and equipment." Named as defendants are James Schlagel and Walter F. Fox. Hansen filed a complaint against the estate of William P.

Gary because her creditor's claim was rejected in writing July 23, 1970, by the executor Frank B. Platt, named as defendant by the suit. Ellen Tyler brought suit against Donald M. Jagger and his wife because she claims they didn't abide by terms of an earnest money agreement toward the purchase of real estate in Port Townsend signed May 1, 1970. Terms of the earnest money agreement obligate the buyer or seller to award the other 10 per cent of the purchase cost, $48,000, in the event either fails to follow through with the transaction, the suit alleges.

The plaintiff says the Jaggers are unwilling to buy, though she is willing to sell, and therefore she is entitled to a $4,800 judgment according to terms of the agreement. VANDALISM Millwork brought Police are investigating suit against Jerry Steinman, vandalism to garden hoses and Module Home Sales, because sprinklers at 822 E. Sixth and 818 they allege he has not made E. Sixth. payments for building materials Ernie Roth of 822 E.

Sixth told and lumber he purchased at a police that his 50-foot hose was cost of $4,111.77. The suit is a sliced and a 10-inch sprinkler complaint for money on a broken at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. contractor's bond. Steinman is a Damage is estimated at $16.

general contractor. Harold Gikling, 818 E. Sixth, States Leasing Co. said he heard a noise at about 10 appealed a small claim against p.m. Tuesday and discovered Elbert Whattam that was dis- that his 50-foot hose had been cut missed in District Court.

Injuries are minor when car flips Two Port Angeles residents sustained minor injuries in a two- car, rear-end traffic mishap Tuesday afternoon one and one half miles east of Port Angeles on Highway 101, the state patrol reported. David R. Brown, 60, Rt. 4 Box 40, eastbound on Highway 101, stopped to make a left hand turn onto Lewis Street. Suzanne A.

Gillette, 33, P.O. Box 501, also eastbound, was unable to avoid a collision into the rear-end of Brown's stopped car, the state patrol said. The accident report indicated impact of the collision flipped Brown's car over onto its top. He was driving a 1955 Metropolitan coupe. Damage to Brown's vehicle was estimated at $1,000 and at the same amount for the Gillette's 1965 American compact.

School board fills two key positions NEW CAR WASH This car wash with gas pumps is scheduled to open at First and Race streets late next week, as soon as construction is completed, according to co-operator Robert Chamberlain. The car wash features hot water and detergent, plus cold or hot wax jobs, and a blower to dry the car off after the wash. The pumps will sell Mobil gasoline. Chamberlain's partner in the business is Mrs. H.

T. Lebo. A principal, vice principal and two teachers were appointed by the Port Angeles School District Board of Directors during their meeting Monday night. Darold Lee Powell, 34, formerly principal of Quilcene High School, has been appointed principal of Stevens Junior High School. Powell is a 1959 graduate of Seattle Pacific College.

He earned his master's degree at Oregon State University in 1966, Since then he has had a year of graduate work at Seattle Pacific in school administration and this summer he took other administration courses at the University of Washington. He holds a standard general teaching certificate and a standard general principal's certificate. He taught a e. udith Rae Blckford will teach combination sixth and fifth grade class at Highiine School District from 1959 to 1961. Since 1961 he a sixth grade at Hamilton School, has been at Quilcene where he A native of Tacoma, she received taught a number of courses in addition to being principal.

Henry L. Boni, a teacher and an associate of arts degree at Tacoma Community College in 1968 and her BA in education administrator at the high school from the Central Washington since 1941, was appointed full- state College this June. time vice principal to replace she also took graduate work at Leonard Beil who took a position at Peninsula College. His teaching here Local news briefs Calendar uanes He and Peninsula Plywood Corp. later moved to Sequim retired in 1966.

Other survivors include a daughter, TJuJrSv Max Tippett of Colorado, brothers Gerda and Einar of Sweden, sister Ida Nordell of Vancouver, B.C., and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity or organization. Appointment to West Point Richard P. Conniff, son of Richard P. Conniff and the grandson of William J.

Conniff, has just been notified of his appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, to enter July, 1971. He is presently a senior at the Winter Park High School in Florida. His father graduated from Port Angeles High School in 1940, from West Point in 1945 and from Cornell University Graduate Engineering School in 1950. He is presently vice-president and general manager of Contemporary Building Systems, a subsidiary of Florida Gas Co.

and a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. and a sprinkler smashed. The hose and sprinkler were valued at approximately $10, he said. LOST AND FOUND Several articles turned in to the Clallam County Fair lost and found are still unclaimed, according to Ed Hagerty.

Missing items may be claimed by calling Hagerty at 457-7795. Four fires in area Tuesday; little damage Port Angeles firemen responded to four fire calls Tuesday, but no serious damage Mixture was done in any of the fires. At 10:55 a.m., a call came from 109 N. Francis, where smoke from sawdust left on top of a wood stove had filled the house occupied by Irene Eastman. No damage was done.

Firemen were called to First and Lincoln at 11:20, where a fire in a light fixture at the Camera Corner was reported. Damage was minor to the light fixture. A grassfire started by sparks from a welding job at Ediz Hook was attended by firemen at 1:27 p.m. No damage was done. An hour later, a grass fire at Fifth and Cedar was extinguished, with no damage done.

The fire was apparently started by smoking or matches. Shipping The Puget Sound Pilots reported the following ships passing the harbor in the past 24 hours. INBOUND Trenton to Seattle. OUTBOUND Hawaiian Motorist to Hawaii, Telde to California, Maria to the Orient, Ryuko Maru to Columbia River and New Mui Kim to Japan. Waterfront TON16HT A search was begun Tuesday Elks Duplicate night for a 16-foot rental boat from a LaPush resort which was reported overdue since 6:30 p.m.

Bridge Club, Lodgeroom, 8 p.m. All players welcome. THURSDAY Tuesday, a Coast Guard Goldenagers, YMCA, 10 a.m. to 4 spokesman said this morning. P-m.

August birthdays will be Aboard the missing boat were honored. Jim Caudill and Art Simmons. Olympic Dahlia Society, A 44-foot motor lifeboat from Machenheimer residence, 7:30 the Quillayute River Coast Guard P-m. Station searched all night, and a VFW Auxiliary Sewing Club, helicopter was launched at 8 a.m. Veterans Center, 10 a.m.

Bring today from Port Angeles Air sack lunch. Station to assist in the search. Public tryout Both ships which were in Port Angeles harbor sailed out Tuesday night on their way to Japan with loads of logs. The Daikei Maru and Everett Maru had been berthed at the Port of Port Angeles. for parts in Community Players comedy, "The Irregular Verb to Love," Elks conference room.

Call 4576440 for information. was interrupted by "four years of service with the Navy during World War II, His main teaching duties have been in Spanish, English and history. HE SERVED AS a half-time vice principal at the high school and as full-time acting vice principal. He has six years of study at the University of Washington which included earning his junior and senior high principal's credentials. Boni served on the Port Angeles City Library Board and was a commissioner on the District II Hospital Board of Commissioners when Olympic Memorial Hospital was built.

He is married and has four children, two of them grown. Gary W. Phillips, who taught at Stevens Junior High School in 1963-64, was appointed to teach a fifth grade in the district. Since leaving here, Phillips taught at Nooksak, and this past year at Creston, B.C. He has taken graduate work at Western Washington State College where he earned his BA CWSC this summer.

She has had some experience teaching a fourth grade at Tacoma. OPEN NIGHTS Prescriptions Compounded Cosmetics and Toiletries Films and Developing Service Brown Drug 8th Lincoln 457-3466 Port Angeles HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Wheat Commission, in an effort to find new markets for wheat, begins experiments today mixing tax-free grain alcohol with gasoline in the hope of finding a pollutant-free fuel. Vital statistics BORN AUG. 26 AND Andrew Hoekstra, Neah Bay, a son, 6:53 a.m.; 8 4 oz.

BORN AUG. 25 TO MR. AND Jim Easier, 1231 W. 18th, a daughter, 7:21 p.m.; 8 14 oz. Robert Delikat, 1324 E.

Front, a daughter, 11:10 a.m.; 10 oz. SHOP TONIGHT 'til 9 CIDCT nilAIITV ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY NOTICE! Weather Temperatures Tuesday: High Low Fire Station 63 54 Ediz Hook 61 54 Temperatures a year ago today, Fire Station 61 54 Thursday's sunrise 6:25 a.m. and sunset 8:05 p.m. 24 hours to 4 a.m. Wednesday Pacific Northwest High Low Pr.

Bellingham 68 57 Boise 97 54 Hoquiam 66 52 Olympia 67 43 Omak 96 48 Portland 72 51 Seattle 68 57 Spokane 87 55 Vancouver, B.C. 63 59 Walla Walla 89 60 Wenatchee 88 60 Yakima 86 51 National extremes, excluding Alaska, in 24 hours to 4 a.m. High 110 at Needles, Calif. Low 42 at Kalispell, Mont. Alaska: Anchorage 62 43 Fairbanks 57 50 Juneau 63 40 Vital statistics DEATHS: Fred Johnson, 69, Rt.

1, Box 195, Sequim, died Monday, Aug. Faith Perry, 90, 408 W. Wasjiington Sequim, died Tuesday, Aug. 25. Services and burial in Raymond.

Sequim Mortuary Valley Chapel. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Strait of Juan De winds to 15 knots through Thursday. Patches of late night and morning fog or low clouds. Mostly sunny Thursday afternoon. Inland Waters of Western Washington Winds variable to 10 knots through Thursday.

Mostly fair with a few patches of early morning fog. Eastern Washington Mostly fair through Thursday. Slight chance of isolated thundershpw- ers southeastern mountains. Highs in upper 80s and 90s. Lows in 50s.

Western Washington Mostly fair through Thursday except night and morning fog or low clouds along the coast and a few patches of early morning fog in the Ulterior. Highs mostly in the 70s except 60s along the coast. Lows 45-55. Northern Idaho Mostly fair through Thursday. Highs in the 80s.

Lows 45-55. Northwest, Southwest fair with a few patches of early morning fog. Highs in the 70s. Lows 45-55. Winds variable to 10 m.p.h.

Coastal Night and morning fog or low clouds. Partly sunny afternoon. Highs 70. Winds mostly northerly to 20 m.p.h. North Central, Kittitas Valley Mostly fair.

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