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The insanity of the entire United States' involvement in
Southeast Asia is epitomized by a recent incident in
Cambodia.
When rebel artillery hit a U.S. cargo plane flying supplies
into Phnom Penh two weeks ago, the shells were U.S. made
105 mm howitzer rounds, sold to the rebels by Lon NoFs
generals.
President Ford is asking for more millions to continue
this rotten merry-go-round, knowing full well the extent of
the corruption.
And United States citizens - those docile suckers who
foot the bill - are being lied to by yet another American
President as they pay for the ammunition he is supplying to
both sides.
The nightmare continues.
When things are darkest, it is best to keep a stiff upper lip
and let the devil take the hindmost: going ever onward, ever
upward with words of imperishable wisdom. Such as -
If God had meant people to travel, he wouldn't have built
the Penn Central.
Nature compensates. For instance, dogs have a keen sense
of smell because they have no sweat glands.
No man living today is big enough to carry Fay Wray to
the top of the Empire State Building.
He who lets sleeping dogs lie often insists that bitches tell
the truth.
The fact that the government managed to schedule the
bicentennial celebration of this nation on its 200th birthday
is purely coincidental.
No man stands so tall as when he catches himself in a
zipper.
Men who go down to the sea in ships look ridiculous on
the freeway.
If you would live your full measure of years, avoid
terminal illnesses in your youth. /
George Patton wore army shoes.
Do not inhale cigarettes; they stick in your throat.
Remember the good old days when you took trash to the
dump instead of transferring solid waste to the refuse
disposal site?
If Rudolph Valentino were alive today he would be
playing an Israeli.
It Is a wile man who uses his time in federal prilon to .
learn tile art of public speaking " .....
Billy Graham would be a lot easier on Sodom and
Gomorrah if they'd had golf courses.
If all the politicians in the country were laid end-to-end,
it wouldn't make the least bit of difference.
This country would make love instead of war if the pill
cost three billion dollars.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and
offer to work for the Indians.
By JIM FITZGERALD
it was a snowed-in Sunday. One of those days when a
poet looks out the window and sees the meaning of life in a
snowflake. One of those days when people of good character
yearn to take long strides and deep breaths in the woods.
The sun bounced off the snow and sparkled through the
window, dancing dazzlingly into every comer of the room. I
could not help but say to my wife:
"For God's sake close the drapes. I'm trying to watch
TV."
"A fire would be nice," she said.
That's what she always says on snowed-in Sundays when
the lousy weather prevents my escape.
Years ago we had a smaller home with a fireplace in the
living room but we never had a fire in it because I never had a
match. Then we had a couple more kids and it was deemed
necessary to add a second bathroom as I was sick of going 2
blocks to the nearest gas station in my bathrobe.
"As long as we're adding a bathroom we might as well
add a family room and 2 bedrooms," my wife said. She said
it to the builder while I was at the gas station. Thus the
$10,000 deal was made while 1 was turning the crank on a
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Overheard on WATI: "The best time to give advice to your children is
when they are young enough to believe what you are telling them.'"
(Herin Albright in Perry Township Weekly)
Hap Traub reports that at a small ferry slip in eastern Tennessee there is
a posted notice that says: "Passengers Must Pay In Advance. The Boat
Le~k~ .'"
(Bill Gold in Washington Post)
Nostalsic note: Wouldn't it be nice if the only criticism you could
dream up about your President was that he picked up his puppy by its
cars?
(Ashley, Cooper in Charleston News and Courier)
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By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
One of the toughest problems
facing the Legislature in its special
session is passage of a bill to
consolidate the state's numerous
public pension systems, and make
the merged system actuarily
sound.
It 'also is one of the
lawmakers' most important tasks,
though the attention it has
attracted is considerably less than
widespread, and the public to
date remains comparatively
unimpressed.
But members of the select
committee working on the
problem are convinced that unl4ss
steps are taken now to correct the
situation, the various pension
systems will bankrupt themselves
in another 15 or 20 years, and
could drive the state into financial
disaster.
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Aimed At Leapfrogging
One of the purposes of the
proposal is to prevent what is
11 . 'l
known as leapfrogging,
whereby a public employee builds
up a retirement in one system,
t~.n takes a different publi~ job
and builds up a second retirement
in another system. There are
numerous cases where a public
employee has been able to retire
and draw more money in
retirement than he could earn in
salary if he continued working.
The proposed new law would
limit pensions to 60 percent of
the highest salary earned.
Eligibility for retirement would
be restricted to those reaching the
age of 65, except in cases of
disability.
They Won't Believe
One of the most difficult
tasks confronting the lawmakers
is convincing those in the present
retirement systems that they
wouldn't be affected. All would
be "grandfathered" in the present
systems.
After 60 days of sending out
bulletins, information brochures
and personal letters, the
,legislators still are receiving
heated protests from those who
remain unconvinced.
There also remain some steps
to satisfy representatives of the
retirees. These want assurance
that pensions for those covered
by the old systems are fully
funded They also seek guarantees
that the present cost of living
increases will be continued.
Not Making Hay
Any supporter of the
proposed legislation will tell you
'there isn't any political hay to be
from it. It will be a "hard
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v e, one of the hardest any
la vmaker will make at any time
during the two-year life of the
44th Legislature.
But it is a bipartisan effort.
The House leadership believes the
necessary votes will be there to
pass the legislation through the
lower chamber. The measure also
has the solid support of the
Senate leadership. But its passage
through the upper chamber still is
in question.
paper towel dispenser and nothing was coming out. It was an
omen.
A few weeks later 1 returned from an inquisition with my
friendly banker who would soon have the legal right to keep
me waiting outside the new bathroom for 20 years. My wife
was pondering the plans for the family room.
"A fireplace would look nice at the east end of the
room," she said.
"So would Elizabeth Taylor," I said with my customary
wit. This was before she started dating used car salesmen, of
course.
My opposition resulted in a lot of impassioned pleading,
tears and deep sobs. All mine. We soon had 2 fireplaces.
"Now I suppose you want a fire," I said.
"Look in the backyard," she said.
"Which way is it?" 1 asked.
She guided me to the site of a recent disaster. "Did Abe
Lincoln's boyhood home collapse against our porch?" I
asked.
This was my introduction to a pile of wood. People sneak
out of forests during the day and dump these piles in the
yards of innocent breadwinners who are off tending the
wheels of commerce, little suspecting what evil lurks in the
hearts and minds of wives and woodchoppers (unless they've
read Lady Chatterly's Lover).
Since that awful day there have been 16 billion piles of
wood burned in our fireplaces. My only respite from fire
duty is a couple of days in July and when we run out of
wood before my wife Can yell TIMBER! to the
woodchopper.
That's why 1 wasn',t worried this particular snowed-in
Sunday. A few weeks earlier 1 had put 2 empty cardboard
cartons at the end of the woodpile and covered them with
snow. She thought there was wood under the snow but I
knew better, heh, heh, heh.
"Sorry, no fire today," I said, "we are Out of wood."
"There is plenty of wood and if you ever took any
interest in your yard, you'd know it," she said. "The Detroit
Edison cut down those 2 dead trees yesterday and cut up the
wood tor you. There are 2 big piles out there."
This was the same week Edison asked for another rate
hike.
The meaning of life, as seen in a snowflake, is that
husbands never make it Onward and Upward becaiase they
melt too fast.
P,,,qe 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 20, 1975
Though the boating safety bill
was all but sunk during the
regular session, smooth sailing
isn't guaranteed for boat owners
who opposed its passage. As
reported previously, the measure
was torpedoed on the floor of the
Senate, but it was partially
salvaged by a motion to
reconsider and it was beached in
Rules Committee before further
damage could be done.
Meanwhile, a move has been
launched in the House to repeal
the 80 percent property tax
exemption for pleasure craft. Few
boat owners pay the tax, because
the big exemption makes it
unprofitable for county assessors
to go looking for them.
Removal of the exemption
would make such an effort
w o rthwhile.
Is He A Genius?
An initiative filed recently to
limit taxes by limiting state
appropriations to 9 percent of
personal income could put the
abilities of Bruce Helm to the acid
test.
Helm, who had phenomenal
success with Initiative 282, roiling
back legislators' pay increases, has
been retained as an advisor on the
new measure, Initiative 306
The question to be resolved is
whether Helm is a true genius, or
whether his success was due to
the fact that he had an issue
which caught on with the public
and became virtually
self-propelled.
Editor, The Journal:
I would like to reply to Ruby
Hopper's letter of March 13th.
There is no all encompassing
solution for "getting the power
back to the people so we can have
a truly representative form of
government."
There are as many solutions as
there are eligible voters and, like
the many drops that make up the
body of water that turns the
wheels to produce one big thrust
of energy, equally as effective
when working in one direction.
What I'm saying is if each of
us voted for the person we
thought would represent us best
and let it be known by constant
direct, communication when this
was being ignored, withdrawing
our support come the next
election if there are no results,
how could we not have true
power in the hands of the people?
Waiting for someone else to do it,
griping to each other in our
parlors and taverns, even the
occasional letter to our
representatives and editor is not
going to produce any telling
thrust. Congress will continue to
serve its own entrenched purposes
and not the taxpaying public.
As long as I've embarked
upon this subject let me express a
deep concern for what my and
your tax dollar is being
appropriated to subsidize. How
many of usare aware of the
multinfiilions filtered away for
such things as traumatic
shock-inducing machines
especially designed to crush the
legs of dogs and other animals in
the name of medical research or
to institutions for psychobiology,
another agony-producing study of
pure research which has no
admittedly useful goal.
Do we need this or do we
need control of our tax dollar for
immediate useful human and
animal needs?
Anyone who has the desire to
know more about the
multimillion dollar subsidies for
animal torture can write to the
United Action for Animals Inc.,
509 5th Avenue, New York, NY
10017.
Norma O'Neill
Shelton
Editor, The Journal:
In regards to the energy crisis
we face in this nation. Wby must
we be the last country to explore
new sources?
Every day available sources
are wasted at the landfill. Namely,
the burnable material which is
dumped every day in landfill sites.
Why couldn't
steam-generating plants be built?
For example, one on the Mason
County landfill, which buries
approximately 200 tons of
garbage every day, which could
be, in my opinion, burnable to
produce the electric energy and at
the same time would also reduce
the leaching problem we
eventu',dly will have in water
supplies m that area and in nearby
streams.
In the future the .methane gas
created by decomposing garbage
could also become hazardous but
could be controlled by the
steam-genera ting plant.
It might be possible to get
federal financing for this project
if our county officials wanted to
look into this matter.
F. Warner
Shelton
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Henry G. Gay
Editor, The Journal:
I am writing this letter from
an experience of injustice.
My occupation is a bartender
of night clubs. I am presently
unemployed but have been
through an experience I shall
remember as long as I live.
One night in Shelton I was in
a pub (tavern) having a nice cold
beer. As I sat on a bar stool, I
noticed a man and woman
arguing. Naturally, it was the
highlight of the bar.
Well, after a while the woman
told the guy to leave her alone. As
the man, not budging an inch,
stood there, she threw her glass of
beer on him and proceeded to
walk to the restroom.
We!l, the man in a state of
violence and determined to seek
revenge, said he'd mess her car up
and headed out the door. The
gid's companion (female, also)
was sitting next to me and said, "I
hope he doesn't." The car
belonged to her friend's mother.
Well, I figured maybe I could
lend some assistance, so I walked
out to ask him not to damage the
gffl's car. Seems this mistake cost
very gravely. He cursed and told
me it's none of my business.
Well, it ended up we were
swinging at each other. Only one
punch of the whole fight had
made contact.
The local police came. 1 told
the story to one of the officers.
At first he told us to call it quits
and go home, but the other guy
cursed and told them if they were
Editor, The Journal:
This letter is written in
defense of some 62 young
gentlemen and their fans
I received a letter informing
me that the City Church League
can no longer use the Shelton
Public School facilities. Perhaps I
should say that is good; I am
finally getting off the hook, after
some 15 years of being the sole
person in charge of the program,
starting after football season,
organizing teams, making
schedules, getting referees, and
finding facilities for some 50 to
60 boys, this year 62, with a
season that extends through the
winter months.
I should say that is good, but
I can't.
It has been worth it just to
know that all these boys are there
just for the fun of playing and
competing with each other. I
venture to say that not more than
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Editor, The Journal:
Governor Evans has shown
himself to be a man of principle.
He refuses to be swayed from
what he considers to be a moral
stand in regard to capital
punishment.
He is also a man of
compassion.
Shocked as we all are by a
series of heinous murders, it
would be easy for some to forget
the fundamental facts concerning
the use of the death penalty and
change our laws to satisfy the
Editor, The General
Through continuous
repetition of deceptive
propaganda, banning of firearms
and anti-gun legislation has
become an obsession with many
scheming politicians, corrupt civic
leaders, powerfully wealthy"
businessmen with tax-free
foundations, broadcasters, and
news columnists, whether it be
through your local newspapers or
the largest radio and TV networks
in the country.
According to Good
Housekeeping Magazine, Reader's
Digest, articles in The Daily
Olympian and other media
nationally: "You are being
accused that the gun you own is
more likely to kill six times more,
friends than one enemy." In other
words, you law-abiding citizens
who own a gun will kill a friend
someday.
Hogwash! You are being
misdirected from the criminal to
the gun. Guns don't kill pe6ple;
people kill people. If the
law-abiding citizen is so
discouraged or prohibited
to jail him, do it.
Well, he got
force against another.
than came back and
He said if one gets
must, too. I
officer but he said it
agreed with me in a
way and advised me top
guilty.
Two weeks later/
court. I told
that's when I
vibes of injustice. I ask l
you ever heard of a
situation receiving
jail, suspending all
providing I go to an
program?
If I refuse I have to
remaining 46 days. I
violent record on
alcohol, I only drank
that night, and now
sent to an alcoholic
was one.
I am not
and 1 have a
bitterness towards
judge. 1 wrote this
one of the reasons
myself don't get
society. Try to
stabbed in the back.
That is one of the
member of society
help.
While serving
met many others
victims, also, but
drop it to get
10% who read
there has been
recreational
some of the young
It has now
Mr. Donald C
Vice-Principal
School, with the
Ms. Ann Martin,
Assistant.
after 15 years
the school facflil
longer :al:
boys and fans ha#e
l have to wonder l
with the proven rec0~
or with the
the two new a~
administrators, of
Thanks to Mr.
Canal facilities
available so
complete this
human urge for
There has
anywhere in
death
to crime. It has
and is
innocence.
Governor
"There is
can justify
any more than
illegally taking
outright from
o n ly the
government
them. It has
criminal
increase whe
regulatory
The average
himself at the
who enjoy a
their
The right
arms was
Amendments to
known as the
indicating the
which it was
F ounding
that gover
potentially
freedom of man.
Thomas
"The purpose
is to protect
gove rmne n t •
are governed
maintain P
indispensable
against