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The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 18

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Centralia, Washington
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18 The Daily'ehroniele, Thursday, Aug. 15, 1968 Regional Library Plan Voters To Decide TLD's Future OLYMP1A (AP)-The Timberland Library Demonstration has been on an approval basis for the last four years. The future of the.7,000-square-niiJe district will be decided in three months, The voters in the unincorpa rated areas of Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston counties will vote Nov. .5 on a proposition whether to create a regional library to serve the 207,000 residents of the five- county area. i If approved, would become'the third demonstration system in the state to become; a regional library, the first demonstration resulted in the Norlh Central Washington H-Bomb TestSet PARIS (AP) The French probably will test their first hydrogen bomb this weekend at Mururoa, in the South Pacific Agence France Press today in a dispatch from Tahiti Tahiti Radio has been warn ing ships and airplanes to stay away from the area starting Saturday, but favorable winds be needed for the test, the agency said.

The broadcasts specified larger danger area than for pre vious French nuclear nautical miles around Mururoa instead of 100. Mururoa is an at oil about 700 miles southeast 61 Tahiti. Drop Set In Alaska ELMENDORF FORCE BASE, AJaska com- pany'sized unit of (he 7th Air' Forces 'Group (Airborne) will fly .5,000 miles Saturday from North Carolina to Alaska and drop, combat ready, from Air Force C141 jet trans ports. The drop will be the stsrt of a two -'week summer training course at Ft. Greely.

The paratroopers will board the Sfarlifter jets frbm.McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., for the eight-hour flight. STOREWIPE AUGUST FURNITURE APPLIANCES CARPET OPEN FRf. District comprising live counties and the Sno-Isle District'result- ed Irom the Snohomish and Island counties. The Timberland Dcnionslra- lion began in 19C4 under the Library Sen'ices antTConslruc- tion Act. Federal and slate money on a 50-53 matching basis provided the $310,000 capital invested for books and equipment.

That sum will remain it the regional district is approved, said Mrs. Louise Morrison, director of the demonstration. The Library Services Act called for state to submit a plan to. the Department of Health, Education and Welfare detailing extension of service fo rural areas. Mrs.

Morrison said the demonstration made 400,000 volumes available to any library in (he area a computer printed catalogue simplifying the index work. A joint effort allows fewer copies of titles to be purchased and quantity purchases increase the buying power of each library. If approved, the district would be able to levy taxes up to two mills to support an $800,000 annual budget. The district be administered by fire to seven trustees chosen by the commissioners of the five counties. In addition to serving the uniri corparated areas, the inlercoun- ty district may provide'service lo cities on a contract basis.

Lewis County was the only one of the five not to have hail service prior to the demonstration. "Approval of the demonstration is not a matter of having service, the difference is the quality of service," Mrs. Morrison said. Police Battle Negroes PITTSBURGH (AP) Police battled a small group ol Negroes sporadically for two hours today. One officer was the viclim of the police's own chemical tranquillizer, Mace, police said.

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