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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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