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• @ Editor,ale: The White Knight Is Spokane the Sex Capital of the Evergreen State ? Before the current session of the Washington State Legislature it hardly seemed likely. The actions of that city's Senator Sam Guess during the past two months, however, would suggest that maybe it is. During the early part of the session, while other legis- lators were struggling to gain support for bills to name an official state fish, outlaw glue-sniffing and build bridges in the home district, Senator Guess was working up a sweat about obscene words and pictures and had acquired quite a collection of pornographic art to illustrate his harangues. Legislators from Seattle and Tacoma, which had here- tofore been considered the state's Sodom and Gomorrah, leafed through his dirty books, yawned and returned to their separate fish fries. Apparently the pictures and lurid commentary that had appealed to the prurient, shameful or morbid interest of Senator Guess and some of his Eastern Washington col- leagues didn't induce any great itching in the thin-blooded types on this side of the mountains• This week, the last of the regular session, the good sen- ator again interrupted the spiritual deliberations of his fel- low legislators to introduce an all-new sex act in the marble halls of Olympia. His latest titillating performance concerns sex educa- tion in the public schools, and surprisingly, the Senator's prime target is not Spokane educational inStitutions but those of the City of Renton. This is surprising since Renton, a suburb of Sodom, is known throughout the state as the city that did not cast one vote to send Sam Guess to the senate. That's a mat- ter of record, as they say in political circles. Sex education in the schools is a matter of local option in Washington. The directors of the Renton School District decided they would rather have their children learn the basic facts about sex in a classroom during daylight, using correct physiological terms, than in the back seat of an automobile at night from contemporaries with gutter vo- cabularies. The district's "Administrative Guidelines for Teaching Sex Education" is a carefully-prepared document which rig- idly limits the teacher in areas of discussion which might be construed as incitement to sexual experimentation. Dis- cussion of sexual techniques, for instance, is prohibited. A student with questions on this subject is referred to his family, family physician or spiritual advisor. The purpose of the course is to present a matter-of- fact, accurate explanation of the difference between male and female human beings= to youngsters who will be con- f¢onted the rest of their lives with situations aris!ng fronl  this dlfferenoe. " .... Its main benefit is that it replaces the idiotic fallacies about birds and bees, storks, cabbage patches, doctors' black • bags and conceptions in heaven which apparently sufficed in less-sophisticated times but can't be foisted off on today's mobile, aware youth. Renton's common-sense approach to the facts of life uses material, according to Senator Guess, "that tears down the Bible, material that is not wholesome but degrading. It arouses morbid curiosity." This being the case, according to Mr. Webster's def- inition of "morbid," Senator Guess believes that informing youngsters about the sexual aspects of their bodies will cause them to have "gruesome, horrible, grisly, diseased, and unhealthy" thoughts. Fortunately, this is an adult concept of sex. The belief that sex is dirty is something that must be acquired, and too many children have been taught this for too many years by well-meaning adults and ignorant companions. If the Renton schools and other enlightened educa- tl0nal institutions continue their p¢ograms, maybe the Washington State Legislature, in years to come, will be spared the spectacle of a self-appointed White Knight who talks endlessly about sex. Letter box: Needle to locomotive Editor, The Journal: About letter under heading: "Stores want suggestions", issue February 12th, signed by Rod Oisen, referring to an earlier ad- dition .letter box- headed "No Variety in Stores". No variety in Shelton stores still sands! I seem to see Shelton on a sort of conveyor belt, what wholesalers place on that belt Shelton can have. Nothing furt- her. Once-upon-a time we had a store that advertised: "Every- thing from a needle to a locomo- tive". Further, I believe they could and would supply u ad- vertised. BUt-, NO-More. I believe there are many things customers can purchase in Ta- coma but not Olympia or Shelton. Things can be purchased in Olympia which cannot be pur- chased in Shelton, and, many, many things purchased in Shelton cannot he purchased in Matlock, Hoodsport, Beifalr and like pla- ces, When I write: cannot be pur- chased in Shelton, I mean, ex- actly THAT. Polite clerks will take any one's request for an item not stocked, and, whole- sale-supplier will scratch that item. As I understand: it's not on our own private-conveyor belt. I don't do enough business with furniture dealers to critize. But, if casters are furniture, I defy them to supply RUBBER WHEEL CASTERS! No hard- ware store in town has them or can supply them. Shelton is not: allowed to have them. I could -give me a little time- list a number of items one can- not get delivered via any Shelton store. Item: Tree-legged step ladder, one-inch water hose, one-inch water hose taps. Stat- ionery stores: record books, 200 pages, erasable drawing tablets. A photograph store sold me a very nice book for securing photographs in. It's so designed for pages to be added when fill- ed. Well, photos have increased. I need more pages. Appears I must voyage to Tacoma or Seat- tle to gt them! Have often thought what a fine opportunity Shelton is for a live wire youngster to set up shop, advertise: "Everything from a needle to a Lcomotive." He'd probably have to go to court to make good. If there is any true free enterprise in Shelton, I wish some one would point it outs Chas. E. McGonagle Snail-Watcher Rt. 2, Shelton ARE THERE ! I ANY QUESTIONS -- _ i .... __ ,, i ....... ,,,,, _ , , , Letter box: | Aren't dogs man's best Editor, The Journal: A couple of weeks ago our dog was run over by the Mason County garbage truck. No attempt was made at the time of the incident or after- wards to contact us by the driver that ran over her. The dog was simply loaded in the truck with the garbage and hauled to the dump. To find out what had happened we began asking the neighbors if anyone had seen our dog. On- ly one had been contacted and he told us what had happened. We then proceeded to phone the garbage company to see if they had possibly taken the dog to the vet's to make sure she was dead. They didn't have any word from the driver on the mat- let, so we then went to the vet's to check. He hadn't had a call on her. The driver of the truck wasn't home either of the three times we tried to call him so we fin- ally left our number so he could call us when he got home. Almost 21/ hours later he fin- ally made a call to us and told us he was the one who had hit our dog and was sorry for the accident. He mentioned the dog had crawled off to the side and lay down after he hit her, and he went to ask the neighbors whose dog she was, but still did Capitol dome: Some bills doomed despite last-mi,ute try moved into territories -already served by a private company or a PUD. An opinicn that a measure re- quiring expulsion of students, faculty members or other em- ployes who participate in demon- strations on or adjacent to col- lege campuses (HB 234) is un- constitutional, has brought a re- quest from both houses for as- sistance of the Attorney Gen- eral's office. Atty. Gen. Slade Gorton had said the desired purpose of the bill could be accomplished in a constitutional manner, and offer- ed to assist in the drafting of such a bill. The offer was made to Rep. Marjorie Lynch, R., Yakima, ehw'rman of the House Commit- tee on Higher Education. Sen. Jack Metcalf, R., Mukllteo, who is sponsoring similar legislation in the Senate, also has asked Gorton's assistance in making his bills constitutional. DEPEND8 oN VIEWPOINT In support of-his tax reform program, Gov. Dan Evans Hkes to point out what would have happened if his program had been enacted back in 1961 eight years ago, and several years bofo:e the start of the boom. He says it would have raised $350 million more than the pre- sent tax system did during that eriod, without any increases in tax rates. "We could have cared for all of our problems," he says. "We could have done a significant job of lowering special levy require- ments and done it all without hav'ng any tax increases what- soever during that eight-year period." Opponents of his program, how- ever, take a different view• They point out a tax phm that would have raised $325 million more in eight years than the pre- sent system would have started developing surpluses in the gen- eral fund at a much earlier date. They contend that surpluses are dangerous, that everybody wants to get his fingers into the pie and invariably the demands are much greater than the mon- ey at hand, Revenue may have troub,e keeping pace with spend- ing, but spending never encount- ers any problem keeping pace with revenue. They believe tax increases still might have been necessary, and the tax-payers would have paid out $350 million more taxes than they had to pay under the pre- sent system. TAX REFORM TIME TABLE There isn't any time table for enactment of tax reform legisla- tion, because nobody knows how long it will take for negotiation of a compromise which can get enough bipartisan support to pass both houses• This is the issue which pro- bably will determine the length of the special session. Every- thing else that is to be passed probably will move ahead of it, so the law-makers can head for home as soon as the tax reform measure is out of the way. Present guesses are that the special session will go anywhere from 30 to 45 days; possibly longer. NEW BATTLEGROUND Disagreement between the high- way builders and the Washington Environmental Council broke in- to open battle last week. The chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Rep. Alfred E. Leland, R., Redmond, had some comment about a "con- spiracy of cortervattOlft$." ..... The Environmental Council came back with a charge that Leland was stalling many of its bills in his committee. Leland has the upper hand. He does have several of the en- vironmental quality bills in his committee, though they aren't moving. iUItBlItItItItmItuItItItItItItItItItuItItItItItIItItItItItItItJItIItItItJItItItItItJItlItJJItItItItJItItjItItItItItgItjItItItItItItIt Viewpoint: In me younger days 't was not considhered raysppictable f'r to be an athelete. An athelete was always a man that was not ethrong enough f'r wurruk. Fractions dhruv him fr'm school an' th' vagrancy laws dhruv him to baseball. --Finley Peter Dunne. gitititt It itlfllfl Itt fill Him Hititititittiiltttl,llll, It iitimttMtJttll It tilmllittiiitittititliiititflli Itm fl w titituitg flit fl it ItitHitlt ItMlitlMitit 1111111 ItlU, By ltOBERT C. CUMMINGS • he frantic rate at which bills passed the two houses of the Legislature during the past 10 days are reminiscent of those days when legislative sessions were limited to 6 days, and the special sessions which follow- i were restricted to budget and revenue measures. This doesn't mean, however, that the coming special session will he limited to the subject of tax refo:m. All of the bills which weren't passed or defeated will be resurrected by joint resolu- tion, just as they were in the special sessions of 1965 and 1967. There still was a reason for the frantic rush to pass legisla- tion through both houses, how-' ever. Any bill which passed only one house must go back to the house where it originated, and travel the route all over again. It doesn't have to go all the way hack to its original com- mittee, only to Rules Committee, to await a place on the third reading calendar. But that is the rub. Some of the bills which passed just one house during the regular session could have considerable trouble getting out of Rules Committee a second time. Things frequently change in the two Rules Committees from day to day. It frequently takes more than one call to get a bill out c.f Rules. Sometimes three or more attempts are necessary. Much vote-trading is done to get bills out of these committees, and trades made during the re- gular session frequently aren't b'nling in the special. COLD WAR ENDS An agreement has been reach- Let s talk books: ed which promises an era of J' peaceful coexistence for public and private power, ending a -- "c°ld war" which has been wag" rh mermaid, nightdre e a summer am When she invited him again, he said his name was Frank and that, perhaps, she had the wrong pool. She spoke her own name, said she was in the right place, adding that she knew a lot about him, that he drank too much. "Come," she said softly and, with romance in his heart, he did. Indeed, he did. Frank was not much for sex but he did love to swim. They swam and they talked, and they played games in the water like kids. She did know all about him - his childhood on the farm, how he got the business started, Barbie at work and his son Tim in college, how he and Kay his wife had talked about a divorce. When she had to go, she pro- mised to come again. She ask- ed nothing of him, wanted sim- ply to be with him. Frank, though still upset by it all, rea- lized that he ha dnever felt so good, not in a hundred years. As these midnight visits con. tinued, Frank came more and more alive. He talked with Kay at breakfast instead of grunt- ing at her, and he stopped grum- bling over her endless parties. He ran his business with a new vigor, and he began to do some reading on mermaids. Best ac- count was by Henry Hudson in his ship's log as he searched, in 1608, for a passage to the East Indies. "From the Navill upward," the log states, "backe and breasts are like a woman's, body as big as one, hair hang- trig down behinde, her tayle like a Porpoue." But by now Mona, younger than Frank by twenty years, starts to yearn for the big world, the free world of water, and she persuades her lover to swim with ber on trips - Bermuda, Mozam- bique, Venice, the Orkneys. "Do you know, my darling, bow many beer cans there are at the bottom of Chesapeake Bay?" At times their talk takes a ser- ious turn. "Why is it," Mona asks, "why do you hate Kay? She is a sweet person, really, and under other circumstances we could be friends." The point of the story, as no doubt evident, is what happens finally to Frank and his gada- bout, unloving wife. As his atti- tude changes toward her, she is sure that he is having an af- fair with someone in his office, since every night he is at the swimming pool• However, noth- ing of the sort checks out and she grows more puzzled about him, more concerned. The book ends in a crisis, since an irrevocable choice must be made. Mona is tired of so much furtiveness and concealment, and wants Frank to go away with her, leave the life he knows and live with her in the water. This is, one can believe, a difficult decision for him to make. Escape tales like this can be as sticky as a wet candy bar, yet I admit to a fondness for them if - If they do not thin out into nothing, or sink into banality, or rest the case for big sales on a kind of anatomical sex. Noth- ing like we are told in these stor- ies could ever happen but there- inr it seems to m% is their charm, ed in lgislative halls off and on for some 50 years. It came to light when the House passed Substitute House Bill 140 last week. The measure was the result of some four weeks of conferences between private and public power repre- sentatives. It contains provisions which in the past generated some of the most bitter battles in legislative history, including the "within and without" and the "right to vote" issues. It authorizes public utility dis- tricts to join together to go into the power business "within and without" their boundaries; also to join w:th the s'.ate, federal government, private companies etc., in such operations. RIGHT TO VOTE At the same time, provisions for the "right to vo.e '' on such issues are included wherever a PUD has been in existence at least 10 years and hasn't been in the power business during that period. These provisions would not apply to newly-created PUD's until they had been in existence 10 years. Provisions also are included for dissolution of non-operating PUD's but those in the water buniness would be considered operating PUD's, as well as those operating electrical fac- ilities. A companion measure, HB 671, is designed to prevent public utllites from "invading" each other's territories. It authorizes the establishment of boundaries of territory to be served, and au- thorizes the purchase of dupli- cate services within any area. It was prompted by instances where city-owned Utllite ha Page 4 - Shelton.Maeon County Journal. Thursday, March 13, 1969 By IJ..OYD A. COOK Frank Coleman, at age 47, is past his prime. He sits there, on a hot July evening, beside his swimming pool, drlnk in hand, bottle at his left heel. Yes, hls health is good, business prosper- ous, life a grand success. In fact, he may own the largest re- tail hardware store in the U. S. But now, this night, he feels done in, finished; not "linked up" as Barb his daughter would say. He is filled with apathy and self pity, and always a consum- ing thirst. This, in the first pages, is Frank as seen in "The Mermaid in the Swimming Pool" (Norton, 1968). Readers may recall an- other Douglass Wallop book, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pen- nant." Joe Hardy of the Yanks stood for all the young-old men, the bored men, in the universe; and one can guess that Frank Coleman is a kindred spirit at another time and place. That was how Frank was before he met Mona, which took place at midnight July 28th. Seated there, beside the pool in his damp trunks, he sorted out the sounds that came from a splash party in a neighbor's baekyard. "Henry • ." the voice said, light and musical, from under the div- ing board. She swam out and, to Judge by her bare shoulders, she was quite naked. "Come on in," she said. Blonde hair .floated about her, and water lapped her chin. Had some crazy kid wand- ercd in from the brawl down the street? Who was she? How did she bet there? not seem to know what to do about it. Why wasn't an attempt made to save this dog's life? All we have is the driver's word that she was dead, and, also, why weren't we contacted when this happened? To us this dog was just like one of the family and we could have at least given her a decent burial. Apologies simply can't re- place a dog like she was. We don't know what (if any- thing) the law states on matters like this, but we feel there should be something to the effect that assistance should be given and the owners contacted when some- thing like this happens. friends! anAoltOe, r we/el :ee animals than simply hs off to the dump• By the way, have: been to the city dumP 6 or 7 dogs there- from the city pound- ed out and waiting t0 cinerated with the garl. have and we are inclhled!|.B0 that with the equipme.n.,te has on hand there u ,d'J at least build mass g these animals that have mK;iTl disposed of like this..,d After all/ they are .-'g to be man s best friLcK : Mr. and Mrs. ,' [[ Route  as printed in the Journal, was Camp three in 1938. ('I t deeply appreciated. As I am un- hands with me DeI-- EIt " able to read newsprint anymore "Jesus Christ, Art " I$ my wife read it for me. It was that you'd at least ovl ,- like a ray of sunshine in a win- ter storm and left a warm glow in the pit of the stomach like a shot of rare old whiskey after a long abstinence. My sincere thanks go to you both - it was appreciated. A bit about the book: It has brought me many pen pals from many parts of the world. The DeLong Corporation's crews have taken it to some far away plac- es. One bunch took it to the Persian Gulf area where DeLong has huge construction contracts. The DeLong Corporation also has large timber concessions on Dutch Guinea - my book went there with his logging crews• At this point you might ask, who is DeIng and what's he got to do with all this? Well, Col. L. B. (Slim) DeLng is the head man of the DeIng Corporation of 29-Broadway, New York, N. Y. This firm does world wide construction work on large jobs. DeLong was the prime contrac- tor on that five mile long bridge across the Columbia at Astoria. 'Slim' DeIng was given a bird colonel's commission during the building of the Alcan Highway. Why do I write so much about a man who is totally unknown in the Journal domain? As a youth he worked for me in a Gray's Harbor logging camp in 1924. Whenever be has come back to my area he has always taken time out to look me up. City of love Editor, The Journal: My family has lived in Shelton for the past three years and dur- ing this short time I believe that we have come In contact with more people than I did in ten years in Tacoma. We have enjoyed meeting everyone whether tt was on bus- iness or socially. We have come to know the working man as well as those that do not work. We We have worshipped, workbd or played with them. Shelton to me is a beautiful town and should be a place where there is complete harmony. Most of the discord is due to lack of understanding of our neighbors' problems because either we think we have too many of our own or else we plain don't care. During the coming month I challenge each of you to look. around and pick a person you to look around and pick a per- son you have not had any or much contact with and try to understand their problems. I might say that this should only be done with love in your heart and an open mind. There are so many different needs in the communit3f that can be met and fulfilled if people are willing to cooperate. Below I will try and list a few in the order that I think they rank: 1. People need a person that can be a true friend - encourage- ment when they need it and truthfulness about their problem whether it hurts or not. Every great man has had a person he got encouragement from. Most of the low-income don't have any encouragement to improve them- selves, therefore, unless we can encourage them and make them feel that they are just as nec- essary to this community as the man that has $10,000 in the bank, we are wasting the mney on them. My Bible tells me that all men have talent, so let's try to uncover some new. Some of this can be done through group ther- of these outfits b :" The surprised Yoo': dale's face was there..l:s he knew blamed well he a man is asked to ]b e__- - rigging on a sparnottre.'[ Y°go---- a, (.40) cents he's | much of anything. ,tm' (Bud Puhn kneecap- I this many times at More about the While living on land many people house to have their graphed. Among and those who have lind only one corn man complained wrong woman marry cipal character. She wanted Jack Marl Pauline - she was him. Instead you the rich woman." Well, isn't it I could name you panics that were by marriage. son's ). As Joe Fordney, the senator's son, used to Shutt the general Coats-Fordney big ape out of my job." . PO This writing buS -- -' t nut bit more difficult wi "I So I'U just say 0 'rr *' :IUI'. A. Redm6hd, W " bO '[ Iui r It pOl OI apy, so if you have  eer, in this line make Y . ;:,t:. ; Some of the local--- 'I' eotfld really help, ' learn a lot. Maybe produce a leading s we took the time to resources, all ' 3. A trading post /f Some people " that people hag:s0a need. What shop where traTl done? There is an -Vli that I know that needs  . She cannot pay cash =' not get credit, bUt I, would leW:nflfor  or housec is not allowed to e right cash. Think lt 4. Maybe this sm,,L c0nd - knowing yotff class in civil rightS ' qualified leaders. 'E'v votes should knoW Many times I do not vote counts, I but ,= it-should be made ti*:l!:d, my life. Some commissioners should get a class Ln There are many c that could be explO, ii i is a job for all. Stl portation for senior _ mer program for care centers so that $ ADC mothers could | and he self-supporflg Now a word to % benefit from these .' we should be honest: dealings, clean and ( We will always m. " we don't agree 'l keep an open ml.l 1 understand Shelton wT. ! tiful In all areas,  hospital, bed: Would it now be called the City Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 480, She]ton, Wash. 98584 Publ/shod at She]ton, Mason County,.Washington, Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffiee, Member of National Editorial AssociaUon Member of Washington Newspaper Publ/shers' SD'BSCRIPTION lT8:$5.00 per year in Mason vance  Outelde Mason $6.00