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What's going on in the world? Well, gentle reader, among
other things that need immediate comment:
An Arkansas town school superintendent, refusing a
request that foreign languages be taught in high school, said:
"'If English was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for
you."
And remember, also, that bobby sex were good enough
for Mary.
Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome
and principal advocate of "doing more with less," recently
remarked during a discussion of energy: "At any one time in
North America there are two million automobiles idling at
red lights. At an average of 100 horsepower per car, that's
equivalent to 200,000,000 horses jumping up and down all
the time, going nowhere."
He also says: "There isn't any energy crisis. It's simply a
crisis of ignorance."
Two young women in Seattle's University District
answered a knock at their apartment door recently and were
told by the male rapper: "I am General Richard N. Mussolini
and am under orders to search your apartment for General
McCoy and David Eisenhower." Police were summoned and
reported that he became arrogant and continued to talk of
being under presidential orders. He was arrested.
If he has any smarts at all, he will claim he thought he
was in Watergate, performing his patriotic duty.
Rusty, a two-year-old yellow Labrador, lost his job as
drug sniffer at London's Heathrow Airport when he failed to
detect nearly half a million dollars worth of marijuana inside
a cargo of yams.
One lousy mistake and it's back to a civilian dog's life.
A California weekly newspaper publisher was cited for
contempt of court for an editorial criticizing a judge's
involvement in a dognapping case. He wrote: "We have the
ludicrous situation where the judge deliberately had a
neighbor's dog trapped, then hauled the dog owner into his
court, set the bail and then tried to sit in judgment of the
case."
"l'h~' IG.gl~tt'r
and TrLhu ne .~ mhcatc
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"You are typical American housewives...Do you
think food prices are too high?"
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Editor, The Journal:
"The federal government has programs to combat
at the same time the separate states allow 18-year-olds to
situation is like watching someone fight a forest fire while
is allowed to be careless with matches."
That is the way Howard Pyle, president of the
Council, compares the federal government's spending millionS~
on drunken driver rehabilitation while the individual states
pass legislation allowing 18-year-olds to buy and drink all
alcoholic beverages.
January 1, 1972, was the effective date when
permitted 18-year-olds to drink alcoholic beverages. The
statistics are quoted from the Michigan Department of
Highway Safety Systems Unit.
Reported for the first nine (9)months of 1971 and 1972:
D.U.I.L. - 18 to 20 yrs.1971 1972 Increase
Persons Killed 82 116 34
Persons Injured 1,982 3,945 1,963
Persons Arrested: Male 942 2,143 1,219
Female 25 108 83
I'm certain you will agree that our young people are verY
Michigan youth. Do we want to be responsible for that
fatality and injury in Washington'? If the legislature lowers the:
it will place itself in direct responsibility for the legal
resultant increase in Washington record.
It has been stated frequently that "we cannot legislate
contend that every bill the legislature votes is a moral issue.
or "bad" for someone or group. Laws cannot change an
values or personal identity, but law can place legal
individual's social behavior.
We must urge the legislature to:
1. Vote to sustain a youth's right to those three years ofl
given legal sanction to drink.
2. Vote NO on any attempt to lower the
Washington.
3. Take a moral and ethical stand for the life and
who will be the victims if given legal sanction by the
/s/Lester A.
Alcohol Problems
Some editorial writers are just born nitpickers.
The California secretary of state reports that Carroll
O'Conner, who portrays archconservative Archie Bunker on
television, contributed $1,000 to George McGovern's
presidential campaign last fall.
Is nothing sacred in this permissive society?
A man whose nude body was shown on a television
newscast for nine-tenths of a second last March has been
awarded $15,000 damages in a Boise, Idaho, court from the
station which shot and broadcast the film. The film pictured
him in a side-rear view as police pulled him from a house
naked after breaking down the door. He was arrested, tried
and convicted on a charge of recklessly endangering the life
of another.
A fast computation shows that unwilling display of your
bare bottom is worth $60,000,000 an hour in Idaho, a not
inconsiderable figure for the wages of skin.
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The $1,000,000 Phase I of Holyland, USA, a proposed
$50,000,000 Biblical "'Disney-type theme park" is underway
on the Alabama Gulf Coast. The promoter, who promised
investors in the project they will "make a profit and give the
glory to God," placed the following help-wanted ads in
Variety, the show business newspaper:
"Roman chariots and drivers for Ben Hur-type chariot
races daily (miniature chariots for kiddy rides)."
"Someone to design and build 100-foot replica of
Jonah's whale with safety seats inside."
"'Designer and builder for Tower of Babel."
"One snake charmer, three acrobats, one magician, one
jester and one lion with no teeth or claws."
"Designer and builder of Herod's Palace, Wailing Wall, a
Red Sea actually dividing, Golden Calf, Solomon's Temple,
Roman Catacombs, inn and stable."
"Swords, shields, costumers, properties for daily gladiator
fights."
"Designer and builder for actual trip through heaven and
hell."
"Midget to play David and giant to play Goliath."
"If you come up with other suitable attractions we
missed, let us know."
How about a 600-foot statue in living color of one of the
meek who shall inherit the earth?
By HARRIET BARNETTE
Born in March? Pisces people have so many talents, their big job is
concentrating on one.
Good reading." THE TONTINE fold).
Awarding-winning houseguests: Those who announce tentative
departure time when they arrive. Those who say, "Take the day off -
I'm buying and preparing dinner."
Pretty taps. Pulling the hair will make a bad hair cut grow out faster.
Good souffle: Try adding chunks of canned whole green sweet peppers.
Charting the market') A service called the CONCENSUS OF INSIDERS
{P.O. Box 10247, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33305) does the work ]or
you lor $ 72 a year: trial subscription $5 for four issues.
Mark ]'wain said, "Always do right. This will gratify some people, and
astonish the rest."
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
There were 39 counties in this
state at the start of this year, and
there probably will .be 39 on
December 31, though attempts
are being made in this legislature
to add two more.
King County, largest in the
state and the only one with AA
classification, is the target of both
efforts.
A bill in the Senate, SB 2271,
sponsored by Martin Durkan,
lssaquah, would chop off a
substantial portion of the eastern
sector and form a new county to
be known as Cascade. It would be
a third class county. An identical
bill in the House is sponsored by
Democrats Art Clemente, Bothell,
and Eleanor Fortson, Pebble
Beach.
Another Senate bill, SB 2499,
and an identical measure in the
House, HB 521, would form a
new county to be known as
Evergreen out of a southern
portion of King County.
SB 2499 is sponsored by
Gordon Herr, Democrat, Seattle.
HB 52 1 has bipartisan
sponsorship. Democrats include
Robert Gaines and Frank Warnke,
both Auburn, and Georgette
Valle, Seattle. Republicans are
Paul Barden, Seattle, and John E.
Cunningham, Zenith.
Evergreen would have an
estimated population of 200,000,
which would make it a first class
county, and another 10,000
would make it an A class county.
Temporarily Stymied
All four measures currently
repose in the Local Government
Committees of their respective
houses. All are technically "dead"
for this session, because they
missed the cutoff date for each
house to consider its own bills.
But they will gain new life
when they, along with all other
bills which failed to pass, are
reintroduced by joint resolution
at the start of the special session.
This doesn't mean there will
be any visible signs of the life
they have regained.
Soul Searching Next
It invariably takes more than
one session to pass legislation of
this nature, and in this case
petitions are also needed.
There would be plenty of
time to gather signatures before
the 1974 session, but there could
be considerable soul searching
meantime as to the costs involved.
Those seceding from King
County still would be liable for
their share of:~all outstanding
indebtedness of King County; also
of Metro, and of the Port of
Seattle.
In addition, they would have
to incur additional bonded
indebtedness to finance
construction of a courthouse and
other needed facilities.
They also would need an
expert analysis to determine if
their assessed valuation, along
with the various state revenue
they would receive, would
support the services they would
have to provide.
Credit Side
On the credit side, they would
divest themselves of the extra
sales tax now being levied
countywide to help finance the
Metro Transit System, and any,
new taxes which might be levied
by Metro.
According to the way the
legislation were drawn, they also
could secede from the Port of
Seattle, and be free of the
property tax millage levied by the
port.
During the last election
campaign, the most severe
criticism of the State's liquor
monopoly was leveled at its
inconvenience.
Nearly 45 per cent of those
casting ballots voted for Initiative
261 which would have taken the
state out of the liquor business,
and the Liquor Control Board has
taken heed.
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Our neighbor insists he invested almost all of his income in mutual
funds last year, but that really is not a proper name for a joint bank
account.
(Bob Gold in Washngton Post)
Doyle Jones Jr. reports on the very shy, timid and young bridegroom
who was at the lingerie counter purchasing a wispy, filmy gown for his
bride. The experience was getting the better of him. Self-conscious in
the extreme and blushing a pretty scarlet, he turned to a fellow sufferer
and exclaimed, "Before I go through this again, she'll have to sleep
naked."
(Leo Aikman in Atlanta Constitution)
Then there's the man who wouldn't reveal his age at his recent birthday
party, but he did admit to living through three revivals of the wide
necktie. (Belleville Recorder)
A minister-friend reports that when he looks at the collection plate, he
deduces that some members of his congregation think churches are
coin-operated.
(Ashley Cooper in Charleston News and Courier)
At the board's request, a bill
has been introduced in the jSenate
which would authoriee it to
establish agencies for the sale of
liquor in any area it wishes.
The present law doesn't
permit the board to establish a
liquor vending agency in any city,
town or community which has a
state liquor store.
Conceivably, such agencies
could sell liquor during hours
when regular state liquor stores
are closed. As they usually are
operated as a sideline in a drug
store or similar retail outlet, they
also could be located
conveniently in neighborhood
shopping centers where it would
be unprofitable to operate a
full-blown state store.
Park Your Child
Another change in the state
liquor laws is being sought by
Representative William Polk,
Republican, Mercer Island.
He would amend a 1947 act
which makes it a gross
misdemeanor for adults to leave
children in a parked automobile
while the adults are in a tavern.
It was prompted by a custom
which became prevalent during
the post-World War II period,
with parents leaving children in a
car for hours while they were
drinking in a tavern.
It was a hot issue in the 1947
session, which might be described
as a "liquor reform" session, and
was enacted into law only after
much heated debate in both
houses.
Polk would change the law to
exempt persons who leave their
children in the car only long
enough for them to make package
purchases for off-premise
consumption.
There could be danger from
abuses if the law were liberalized,
however, and it could provoke
some lively debate if the measure
reaches the floor.
By STEVE ERICKSON
I may never forgive the Toastmasters for
reluctant slug from my mouth and replacing it
tongue.
Because of that years-ago transplant 1 was able
to hold a seventh-grade class spellbound while
unforgettable tales of the journalistic dodge.
So spellbound, in fact, that in
awakened and without so much as a "Where am
she got up, ambled over to the bulletin board,
reading the school lunch menu.
Aloud. Very loud. All student attention
shifted focus, if that's the word, to her sparkling
She was sternly re-seated by the teacher to a
of heartfelt applause.
My spiel was nothing more than a Career
which anybody who works for a living and who caO
is trapped into every time a teacher forgets to
class plan, agenda, scope-out or scheme.
But these kids were hardly captivated by
eager young reporter pounding a beat, printer's
heroically through veins already swelled by 90-pt
They couldn't have cared less about
the hallowed Five W's, Horace Greeley and Clark
for that matter, me.
They did, however, appreciate the opportunity
forty winks. I doubt they dreamed of
attention was in overset, their hellboxes ranneth
Later they wrote their thanks. Apparently
again showed up without a game plan. The letterS:
with unbridled praise and gratitude, l think.
"I'm glad that you came over to our school,"
fan, "even though you didn't say nothing."
Another devotee thought I should be rele
journalism graveyard:
"You are a pretty good reporter," he
should apply for a position with the Saturday
of Life."
One worldly lass admired the tone, if not the
like your voice," she said, "you remind me
know."
But she doubted my credentials. "I think,"
"that you don't work there." My editor feels
A boy named Jim felt I had a future as a
elected elite.
"You should be an editor," he counseled,
your opinion about politics. You should cut ther
My dad hates politicians." i
And one kid who must have noticed the
tongue made in my cheek noted that "You have
of humor."
That helps sometimes.
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