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Does Mason County have a drug problem? You bet it does,
and it is getting worse.
City and county law officers have arrested thirteen persons
during the past six weeks on charges of possession or sale of
marijuana, LSD, cocaine and hashish.
A recent poll of Shelton High School students by the staff
of the school newspaper revealed an apparent widespread use
of drugs by teenagers in that institution.
There is no way, of course, to check the accuracy of
answers given in the poll, but if half the 233 students who
said they have used drugs are telling the truth, that is 116%
youngsters too many.
There are three important elements involved in combatting
drug abuse among children. The first is law enforcement.
Local police are doing their best to intercept drugs before
they can be peddled to youngsters.
The second is public education. School officials are now
intensifying their efforts to inform both students and parents
about the effects of drug abuse. The citizens" advisory
committee is studying the problem and the school district
recently sent an informative booklet on the subject to all
parents.
q he third, and most important, is parental influence. If
you have a child, you have a potential drug problem. It is no
different than any other problem involving a growing child -
except that it is more dangerous than most - and it should
be handled in the same manner.
No parent would turn a child loose in an automobile
without proper instruction on its use and a warning about its
dangers. Neither should a parent turn his child loose among
narcotic pushers without a reasoned discussion of the dangers
inherent in drug use.
It is useless to threaten. It will do no good to rant and
rave. Nothing will be gained by making the youngster cut his
hair or take off his love beads. That will just turn him off,
and turned-off youngsters are the most susceptible to the
pusher's pitch.
What is needed is a calm discussion between a
knowledgeable parent and his child, pointing out the physical
effects of drug abuse on the youngster and what it will do to
his future.
it is imperative that parents learn as much as possible
about the drugs they will discuss with their children. A good
start would be to read "Drug Abuse: Escape to Nowhere," a
booklet prepared by the National Education Association,
available for $2 from NEA Publications-Sales (Department
47), 1201 - 16th Street NW, Washington, D. C. 20036; ask
for stock number 244-07816.
Yes, we do have a drug problem in our county and it needs
solving. But the police cannot do it, nor can the schools. The
solution is mutual txust, faith and tmc n$ between
parents and the children they brought intoihis world.
The suggestion by a psychiatrist, Dr. W. Walter Menninger,
that newspaper reporters be licensed by the government, sent
us to the couch, where we dreamt the following
confrontation between the Journal's publisher and a
newly-licensed AI Ford, our news editor.
PUBLISHER: "What in blue blazes is this charge of
$585.00 for expenses incurred in covering the school board
meeting?"
FORD: "That's the fee for the architectural specialist.
The American Reporters Association (ARA),requires that
reporters consult a specialist when they get in over their
heads while covering a story, and when the architect for the
new high school was giving his pitch to the board, I got lost
somewhere between the comparative strength factors of
laminated wooden beams and pre-stressed concrete and the
noise reduction formula for acoustical floor treatment."
PUBLISHER: "For five hundred and eight-five dollars
couldn't you have made a stab at it?"
FORD: "! guess I could have, but you must realize that we
reporters are now professionals just like doctors, lawyers,
dentists, and cosmetologists. The ARA is pretty stuffy about
encroachment on someone else's territory. I wouldn't want
to take a chance on being de-penciled."
PUBLISHER: "What are you covering this afternoon?"
FORD: "! thought I'd go up to Bangor and get a story on
the nerve gas."
PUBLISHER: "Just how much do you know about nerve
gas?"
FORD: "Well, it's pretty rough on your nerves..."
PUBLISHER: "Why don't you just stick around this
afternoon and pick up the police items and the weather
report."
'So You See, Gentlemen, Environmental Radiation Contamination
From The Buried Waste Is Absolutely Impossible/'
from the Intermountain Observer
session
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
The 1970 legislative session
was the toughest on lobbyists
than any in many years. The only
one which could compare with it
in the past 20 years was the 1951
session. That was the year of the
"scalped" bills, when bills
presumably dead were
continuously being brought back
to life as amendments to other
measures.
The Supreme Court put an
end to that with its famous
decision against "two-headed
bills."
But there wasn't any help
forthcoming from the courts this
session. Bills were kept alive with
transfusions which were perfectly
legal. Uncertainty as to what the
two houses would do added to
the confusion.
All-Inclusive
Virtually every interest
represented by lobbyists was
affected. The sheaf of
environmental bills affected
nearly every industry or business
in some form. What weren't
affected by environmental
legislation were imperiled by the
conglomerate number of tax
measures which were floating
around.
Usually, when a legislative
session starts to wrap up, most of
the lobbyists start heading for
home. Not this session. Most of
them stayed right to the end,
because of the many measures
still in limbo; especially in
conference committees where
anything could happen. They
didn't dare turn their backs.
Up, Down, Up and Down
A representative of wine
distributors probably developed a
complete new set of ulcers. Many
wine distributors aren't doing
well financially under the new
"California wine" bill. To ease
this situation, they had a bill to
transfer collection of the tax on
wines to the wineries.
Instead of the 26 per cent tax
collected at the retail level, a tax
of 75 cents - later upped to 90
cents - would be collected at the
winery. Distributors get a 25 per
cent markup. The tax at the
winery would boost the price
there, which automatically would
increase the distributors' profit.
The bill passed the Senate,
but was buried in the House
Committee on Revenue and
Taxation, on strength of a report
it would reduce the state general
fund's share of revenue from the
wine tax.
The measure was revived as
part of the tax package to balance
the supplemental budget. After
surviving an attempt to take it out
of the bill through an amendment
on the floor, it again passed the
Senate.
It survived attempts to kill it
in the tlouse Revenue Committee;
then survived another battle to
amend it out on the floor of the
House. After going through all
that, the House killed the entire
bill. Then it was tacked onto
another bill and finally passed
both houses as the session drew to
a close.
The non-profit clubs'
Editor, The Journal:
Recently at our high school a
bill was passed by the school
Senate to change the present dress
code which requires that boys
"always be clean shaven and keep
their hair neatly trimmed above
the collar line and off the ears"
and that girls are to wear nothing
but skirts or dresses, to a more
reasonable "It is the feeling of
this institution that education is
too important to be granted or
denied on the basis of standards
of personal appearance. As long as
student appearance does not, in
fact, disrupt the educational
process, or constitute a threat to
health or safety, it should be of
no concern to the school. The
matter of personal appearance is
therefore left to the discretion of
the students and/or his parents."
This bill was vetoed by both
Mr. Grinnell and Mr. Dombroski.
Their reasoning is almost exactly
parallel, but because I do have a
copy of Mr. Grinnell's veto letter,
all the quotes originated with
him Mr. Dombroski does feel the
same way. I know because I have
had several discussions with him
concerning the matter.
representative had nearly as many
troubles at home as in the capital.
The clubs wanted bingo legalized.
Managers wrote to virtually every
legislator in each house, asking if
he favored bingo. A vast majority
of the replies were in affirmative.
The clubs couldn't understand
why legislation wasn't being
passed and inquired what their
representative was doing.
How do you explain a
Mexican standoff to the layman?
Attorney General Slade
Gorton had a bill which passed
the House and he said it would
have the effect of permitting
bingo.
The Senate passed a proposed
constitutional amendment to
repeal the anti-lottery provision in
the state constitution. The Senate
Democratic majority insisted this
was necessary to legalize the
"Adults make the rules" and
that school has a major obligation
to its young people in sending
students from school with the
proper foundation of attitudes
and an awareness of what
acceptable dress and standards of
appearance consist of. That the
present uproar over dress codes is
just a phase and conforming to it
would not be in "the best interest
of establishing proper goals for
youth."
Yet both of them have full
knowledge of the fact that when
the Supreme Court has ruled in
cases involving the enforcement
o f a dress code, the
administration has been found at
fault and the dress code declared
unconstitutional.
Apparently, then, these two
school administrators feel that an
example of proper behavior is
being set when they knowingly
disregard precedents set by the
Supreme Court. If not this, then
what other reason could they
possibly have for taking such a
step to preserve a set of dress
codes that are broken daily, yet
have been enforced but twice at
the most this year?
Chris Bean
Gorton bill. Gorton disagreed,
saying it would convert the state
into another Las Vegas. His
supporters in the Republican-
controlled House refused to pass
the Senate amendment proposal,
so the Senate refused to pass the
Gorton bill.
Power Forces Combine
The wine tax and the
gambling issues affected a
comparatively small segment of
the population, though bingo
players from all walks of life
made themselves heard.
There were other measures
which affected almost everybody,
either now or on a long-range
basis.
Private and public power
representatives joined together to
get a thermal power plant siting
bill they could live with. But after
they got it, they couldn't rest on
their laurels.
An amendment tacked onto
another environmental bill would
have - however unintentionally -
slapped them down. They got
that taken care of, but they didn't
dare relax for a single moment for
fear of being spiked by some
other well-meaning amendment.
It was the same story on scores of
other bills, many of which had
broad-reaching effects on the
general public.
Little did legislators who
voted for a measure known as the
"Boeing relief act" know how
close they had come to stirring up
a statewide storm of indignation
from the womenfolk when they
passed the bill through the House.
The bill would have allowed firms
to charge their inventory taxes
against their business tax. It was
described as the "Boeing relief
act" on the floor of the House.
But what few law-makers
realized was that its enactment
could have spelled the end of
year-end clearance sales which
merchants traditionally hold to
reduce their inventories before
tax time. The bill was buried in a
Senate committee, but if it had
been enacted into law, the loss of
year-end clearance sales would
have stirred up a storm of
indignation from women
throughout the state.
It would have made the
protests from bingo players seem
little more than a whisper by
co mparison.
What this country needs is less weathermen.
We had assumed that the mild two months just concluded
constituted this year's winter, and were looking forward to a
pleasant spring, when up jumped Irwin L. Grossman of Union
City, New Jersey.
Mr. Grossman is a weather expert who would like to
extract fifty-five dollars from us for a three-month weather
prediction. This guy is a "certified astro-meteorologist" and
he says it is going to snow in Shelton from March 20 to 28.
if there's one thing we don't need around here it's an
eastern establishment certified astro-meteorologist lousing up
our weather.
Has your paycheck shriveled because of increased income
tax withholding even though the ten percent surtax has been
cut in half?. How can that be? According to Controller Ken
Winkley of Evergreen State College here's how a
well-advertised tax cut results in increased withholding (or
how decrease really means increase):
In the case of many employees, withholding for the first
six months of 1970 will increase because of provisions in the
Tax Reform Act of 1969. First, the jump in the personal
exemption for income tax purposes does not affect
withholding until July 1. At that time an additional $50 will
be prorated to wage payments over the second half of 1970.
As of July 1, each withholding exemption will be $650.
Second, the cut in surcharge does reduce withholding.
But, in some cases, this is overshadowed by a sleeper in the
tax law: a revision in the method of handling exemptions for
withholding purposes. For the first half of 1970, each
withholding exemption is only $600. Under old law, each.
exemption for withholding purposes was $700 - the sum of
the $600 income tax exemption and the $100 increase in the
minimum standard deduction for each exemption. Because
the minimum standard deduction has been replaced by a
low-income allowance, the $100 figure in the withholding
exemption has been discarded.
Cheer up, though! In July the other five percent surtax
charge will be dropped and then we can expect the
withholding to drop rather than increase. But, don't dance in
the streets because in January, 1971 your social security
"contribution" will increase.
It all kind of makes you hope Congress in its infinite
wisdom doesn't enact too many tax cuts!
Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 19, 1970
Editor, The Journal:
First 1 would like to
compliment you on the fine
coverage of the good and
constructive news in this
community. But I can not say this
for your editorials.
When you equate Christ with
the hippies and The Last Supper
with political confusion you do a
disservice to Christianity and
show a misunderstanding of both.
The hippie's purpose is to destroy
the establishment and fued
themselves. Christ came not to
destroy, but fulfill and to give
Himself for all mankind. The Last
Supper established a Sacrament
and not confusion.
In your Feb. 5th
say you have
Richard Nixon's
You say "he wants
Brother, you sure
so badly that your
showing.
You say the
pat on the b
second-in-command
anger and to divide the
Is it not your
editorials to do the
attempt at wit and
horribly clownish.
Rev. E. B. Cooney
ines. ere
Editor, The Journal:
Congratulations on your
editorial comparing President
Nixon's having his salary doubled,
and having several White Houses
throughout U.S., and then asking
the rest of us to eat less and buy
cheap foods to fight inflation.
Johnson may have been a
wheeler-dealer, but at least we
enjoyed a fair amount of
prosperity and his wife started
this fight on pollution that Nixon
is trying to take credit for.
Meanwhil
unemployment lines
longer, and billions
for an ABM,
scientists say will not
cancer research will
many will die for lack
medical help or
And it's still hard
having his own salary
then threatening to
small 15% raise for
social security.
J. A. Anderson
Editor, The Journal:
On behalf of the Shelton
Seventh-day Adventist Church 1
would like to thank the residents
of Shelton and Hoodsport for
their generous support of our
church's 66th annual World
Service appeal.
All contributions will go to a
central fund with allotments
made to humanitarian projects
according to need. The sum of
$1,229.59 was contributed by the
business men of our county and
other residents in response to
caroling bands.
Last year less than one half
million Adventists in
States and Canada
million to their
on its work around the
with a world full
disaster and
room for contributions
friends.
It is gratifying to
residents of our
of the suffering and
prevailing in many
world and have
financial support to
unfortunate persons
colors and creeds.
Robert D. Burt,
river
Editor, The Journal:
For over fifty years, we have
had laws to stop the pollution of
our water, air and land.
For over fifty years we have
elected and appointed too many
people who sold us down the
river. That goes from the county
courthouse to the White House,
with the armed forces included.
Now this
have fifty years
pollution.
The first thing
to do is keep
politicians from
because they not only l
government but are
growth of all pollutio0'
J. L. Parsons
rles
Editor, The Journal:
For six evenings last week the
public had opportunity to view
hundreds of fascinating slides
from the Congo, Indonesia,
Thailand and Viet Nam, and to
hear stories of those countries and
their peoples, as observed and
experienced by the various
respective missionaries of the
Christian and Missionary Alliance,
all intelligent, educated, talented,
charming and devoted.
In answering the question
whether student rioting had
reached the Congo, Miss Carolyn
Erbst (a school teacher), said that
at the very first uprising at their
university the leaders had all been
promply and permanently
expelled, with no possibility of
their entering either of the other
two national colleges. Without
education the young people are
not eligible for government nor
for teaching positions, the jobs all
are striving for. The result? No
rioting or protesting.
Mr. Craig Hendrickson
showed pictures of some of the
active volcanoes surrounding his
home in Indonesia. Another
"burning" feature of that country
is that they have rain only for
four months and
months of
making water very
He told of a0
car-trouble-ridden
distant village, onlY
their only source of
dirty stagnant pool
farther over hill
asked why their
illogically located,
that their ancestorS
lived there.
For carrying
distances the natives
of larg,
stuffing the o
leaves after filling
with water. In some
level sections of the
are crude little
bamboo for runni~$
village.
The pictures
Stella Ratzloff
Mr. Merle Douglas
were too many and
this brief report.
Palmer finished
telling about the
Philippines whel
t e a ching is
being forbidden.
Emma B. Richer
Editor, The Journal:
The School Board, P.T.O. and
the district personnel of Mary M.
Knight School wish to thank the
voters for their overwhelming
93% yes vote on the ten mill
special levy Tuesday.
They will consider it their
mandate not just to keep the
school in operation at present
levels, which the levy secured
financially, but to continue to
improve the school and the
service it gives the community.
The primary
school is to serve the
in many secondary
serves other
District. You have
voters' booth
of a
Board,
teaching staff
efforts to prOV:
possible service t0~
and the community
Gene French
Superintendent
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