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Home Front
Letter box:
They've got a little list.
Nosey newsmen and Congressional investigators have
turned up the fact that United States Army intelligence files
contain information on 25,000,000 Americans the military
considers a danger to the security of the military-cost overrun
complex.
There has been much criticism of the massive surveillance
and compilation of dossiers on civilians, but nowhere has the
public been able to find out what the brass considers a threat,
since contents of the files have been kept secret.
Your friendly, hometown newspaper decided to do
something about this information gap. We admit to pirating a
successful scheme from William Randolph Hearst Jr. to
accomplish our purpose.
When the Hearst newspapers want to present an in-depth
snow job, they send the Hearst Task Force, a group of prose
pros, to do the job. You are about to benefit from the results
of the fh-st offering of the Journal Task Force, a select
newsman we sent to Washington, D.C., to bring back the true
case histories of. the one-in-ten Americans who threaten the
security of our war machine.
Through hard work and the purchase of eight double
martinis for a disgruntled clerk in the Pentagon, the Journal
Task Force obtained a number of dossiers, the eye-opening
contents of which we reproduce below. The reports are
sketchy, but they tell the story of those who are destroying
our country from within.
"Biilie Jo Thrush; Green Mold, Louisiana; female, white,
42-42-42 - Left out the words 'rockets' red glare' while
singing the Star/Spangled Banner prior to Little League game
between Green Mold Giants and Snake Haven Braves. Agent
X-14457 was disguised as umpire and submitted expense
claim for three orange pops and two hot dogs."
"Morley Hertz; Gomorrah, Utah; male, white - Scraped
American flag decal off windshield of 1956 Chevrolet and
replaced with STP sticker."
"John Forward, Pete Forward, Sam Guard, Harry Guard
and Leland Center; Hoop, Indiana; all male, white - Starting
five on Hiram Q. Black High School basketball team. Agent
X-2398 set new undercover record when he arrived at scene
three minutes after reading headline on sports page of the
Hoop Chronicle that said: 'BLACK PANTHERS TO
INVADE EAGLE GYM'."
"Harvey Squint; Big Puddle, Texas; male, white,
near-sighted - Set fire to reel of film at American Legion stag
party while smoking cigar next to projector. Agent X-13659
was treated for smoke inhalation. Squint was hospitalized
with a skull fracture and multiple abrasions and contusions.
Sixty-eight Legionnaires suffered bruised knuckles and
extreme frustration."
"Inspector Lew Erskine; Video, California; male, white -
FBI Inspector Erskine, wearing a fright wig, false beard,
fLLi sed; leJ and - o.t pa ttp, ) tic ted
froitt o¢' ~'BI ]aeadqu ters m Buttg
l l nfana, carring sign that read 'BAN BUTTE.
"Rear Admiral Dudley Derriere; Fantail, Maryland; male,
white, 42-54-61 - Won $100 bet on Army-Navy game from
Colonel Wesley Point, head of intelligence unit at Fantail,
Maryland."
"'Harvey Lathe; Cheddar, Wisconsin; male, white - Drank
twelve Moscow Mules at Christmas party of Cheddar Machine
Works, a prime defense contractor."
"George Running Board; Barren, Wyoming; male,
American Indian - Displayed bumper sticker on car reading
'CUSTER WORE AN ARROW SHIRT'."
"Tansy Ragwort; Sardine, Maine; female, white - Burned
sheet of six-cent stamps in lobby of Sardine Post Office to
protest 14-day delivery of birthday card from mother in
town 28 miles away."
"'Amos Nandy; Geoduck, Washington; male, black -
Attempted to deliver laundry through front door of Geoduck
Elks Club."
"Bernard Bleedingheart; Quaker, Pennsylvania; male,
white - Disrupted an executive meeting of the Peace Corps
by delivering a speech advocating peace."
We are sure that after reading these intelligence reports
you will come to the horrifying conclusion that the only
group actively protecting our government from its citizens is
the United States Army.
It is imperative that the list be expanded. The times
dictate that we cannot afford to be half-safe. Surely no
American can rest easy in his bed until the Army has a file
folder on each of us.
Telephone, wire or write Senator Henry M. Jackson
today. Tell him nuclear, chemical and biological weapons are
not enough. We must not let the Russians remain ahead of us
in the secret police race.
Freedom is everybody's business.
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By: ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
The House was just about
ready to send another proposed
constitutional amendment to the
Senate last week when, on a
hunch, the majority leadership
sent it back to committee.
The proposal raises the
present $400,000 ceiling on
public indebtedness which the
Legislature can incur without
submitting the issue to a vote of
the people. The proposed new
ceiling would be 9 per cent of the
average of three years general
state revenue.
Its purpose is to speed up
action on general obligation
bonds, which now must wait two
years to be approved by the
voters. It would also obviate
issuance of so many revenue
bonds, which require a higher
interest rate than general
obligation bonds, and has been
requested by the Governor.
Sorry, Wrong Number
The measure came out of the
Committee on Revenue and
Taxation and sent to Rules
Committee where it was awaiting
a place on the House second
reading calendar when a Rules
Committee member noticed the
measure's number - H JR 42.
That is the same number as
the ill-fated tax reform proposal
which was so overwhelmingly
'rejected by the voters last
November. House Republican
leaders have decided that, in view
of the results, that number should
be retired.
The new HJR 42 was sent
back to Revenue and Taxation
Committee and HJR 52, an
identical proposal, will be sent
out in its place.
Tax Post Mortem
:Behind the high stack of
varied income tax proposals
int'ioduced in both legislative
hoyses is the volume of mail
received by numerous law-makers,
especially those from Western
WaC~hington. Much of the mall
indicates second thoughts on Gov.
Dan Evans' tax reform program,
which the voters so recently
turned down by a margin of more
than two to one. It is prompted
by what many refer to as
"runaway" property taxes, and is
making an impression on many
legislators.
But the "runaway" property
Our own Scoop Jackson is making it big in the national
press these days as he floats his trial balloons from state to
state.
He is the last guy in politics who finds it necessary to
warn the electorate that the Russians are not exactly our
friends.
In an age when even the Republicans are finding new
subject matter for political discussions, the Senator is
refreshing. He will put us to work building ABM's and SST's
as long as the alphabet and the taxpayer hold out.
Senator Jackson has a magic formula.
He discovered years ago that conservatives, while they
dislike spending government money, fall silent when the
money is spent with them; particularly when it is spent on
taxes are wholly unrelated to the
defeat of tax reform. They are the
result of reappraisals, and would
have occurred even if tax reform
had been approved. Those
inclined to analyze the tenor of
their mail are wondering what the
voters' reaction would have been
if they had approved the income
tax and still watched their
property taxes go sky high.
Meanwhile, even those who
think the3; are reading a change in
voter sentiment are quick to
concede an income tax bill
doesn't have a chance of passing
this Legislature in any form.
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Editor, The Journal:
Since I do not receive copies
of the weeklies here in
Washington, D.C. because they
are sent to my Western Assistant,
Senator Bob Bailey, who goes
through them and sends me the
pertinent information from them,
I did not see the editorials which
were recently printed in YOur
paper.
May I assure you that I was
not responsible for any 8-page
telegram to any newspaper. It is a
policy of mine to use telegrams to
the press only when precise
details or verifications are
necessary for accuracy, and these
telegrams are never sent to
weeklies unless it is a matter of
life or death to some constituent.
The telegram in those cases
would be a simple one- or
two-line communication.
My policy has always been to
try and prepare the weekly
information and have it in the
mail so that it may arrive at the
desks of the weeklies before
Monday and meet their deadlines.
However, apparently my press
assistant took it upon himself to
forw.ard a lengthy telegram to
your paper. May I reiterate, this
was not my authorization and it is
not my policy.
I think it is well to remember,
however, that when one hires a
committee we are called upon to
be in the House of
Representatives answering the roll
call, voting, and listening to
debate.
I think few people understand
that the amount of office time we
have is relatively limited if we
intend to participate or serve as
active Congressmen. Many of us
wish there were more office time
for we do not get to oversee
office operations to the degree
that I did, for example, in my
own business office. But Congress
is that kind of an establishment
and a representative body where
the business of Congress is
transacted in the House rather
than any place else.
Thank you so much for
Understanding the problem which
arose, not through any fault of
mine. This is one of the things I
have constantly warned my
employees about - when they
make a mistake it is my head on
the block, never theirs. No one
bothers to investigate who made
the mistake. And I am perfectly
frank in accepting responsibility
when I make a mistake, but it is
with some dismay that I am called
upon to accept responsibility and
criticism for those who make a
mistake Under my name without
my knowledge.
military hardware, press assistant, the details of his Incidentally, it may be
work must be left up to him. I am interesting for you to know that I
As for liberals, they will vote for anybody who has a in committee hearings from am very careful with my
clean shirt and a Democratic nomination, before 10:00 in the morning until .telephone and telegram budget.
In our state, Scoop Jacksonhasspreadhimselfoutacross long after 5 00 at night we nave not used our full
the political spectrum. Only tile Neanderthal Right and the Therefore,. I am out of my office" allotment in several years and the
only necessity for using the
Barefoot Left escape his charrn and both are more useful as whiCh, because of mvall day, including the lunch hour telephone is because of the
enemies than as friends in these oubled times.
;hPaPrOprla~oun:usS~ahl~?l;~leirSe le~s' slowness of our mails, as it has
But will it work in national politics9
been increasingly neces
f " ' sary for us
You can play Big Daddy to a single state forever. The last it is impossible in the usual to use faster communications
guy who tried it for the whole nation, though, was Lyndon context oi the average business than the U.S. mail provides- and
Johnson. The outcome was not inspiring, daY to oversee the activities of with whose management I have
From the Bainbridge Review each individual, nothing to do.
When we Members are not in Julia Butler Hansen, M.C.
Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 25, 1971
Editor, The Journal:
I read with astonishment the
gargantuan PUD "Pollution
Solution" advertisement and am
compelled to protest the unwise
use of funds by our local effete
snobs. Really boys, you mustn't
use our money to pull the nuclear
pollution over our eyes!
Speaking of often quoted
"cleans and dirties": Clean is
electric heat, but Dirty is the
aftermath of nuclear generation!
Getting down to the
nitty-gritty (no pun intended),
nuclear power stations~ produce
approximately 100 times the
waste heat of coal-fired stations
of similar capacity. We are
presently adding heat to our
environment faster than it can be
re-radiated into space, causing the
temperature of the earth to rise
and ultimately resulting in a
world-wide tropical climate. Nice
if you're a lizard.
Editor, The Journal:
In your article of March 4
issue of the Journal the Indians of
Oklahoma paid our
Congresswoman Julia Butler
Hansen high honor for her work
in behalf of the Indian People.
Julia has been very helpful to
all Indian tribes, working long
hours and traveling many miles.
She is outstanding in her work for
{Ire
Editor, The Journal:
I am very disturbed. You see,
I'm sitting in the Junior High
auditorium. The A.F.S. Talent
Show is taking place.
As I recall it, there were
several mentions of A.F.S. week
in our local paper, and on school
announcements. It seems that a
lot of people should be aware of
the activities sponsored by A.F.S.
this week. It also seems to me
that if the people of our
community are interested in
students, their future, and in
general, interested in the youth of
today, they would support their
activities.
Welt, the auditorium isn't
even half full. The majority of the
audience is composed of students.
I can see only about 5 adults.
Many of the students in the
audience are also taking part in
the performing. "
What disturbs me is that the
people of Shelton seem to always
want to have a large say in what
we young kids can and can not
(perhaps I should say are
supposed to and are not supposed
to) do.
And I am forever hearing
about the noisy minorities,
II
Editor, The Journal:
We would like to commend
the young people who attended
the AFS dance last Friday night
at the Armory.
This was the dance that was
abruptly ended because of a
bomb threat that was called in.
There were about 175 teenagers
at the dance when the call came
in.
Everyone had to leave the
building at once. We waited
outside in the cold for almost an
hour while the building was
Editor, The Journal: -
We want to say "Thank You"
to the Democratic Party for the
dinner being given in honor of
Chester Streckenbach this coming
Saturday.
Many of his family will be
unable to attend because of a
family wedding and it has
occurred to us that there are
others who will be unable to
attend who do appreciate his
efforts and the tremendous
amount of time and self he gives
By March of 1970
already some 75
radioactive wastes
nuclear power
United States
of effective
disposal of radioactive
yet unanswered. Most.~
in tank farms whose
ranges from 10 to 20
Hanford, more than 5
year are used up for
storage. The
of these wastes
If you're not already~
in your electrically
single 1,000 - MW
year of operation
radioactive cesium,
iodine than all
weapons tests ever
Don't you realize
on, boys? Surely there
"Pollution Solution"
between dirt and death.
us. In due time,
her, also.
I find that
Congressmen, or
to do most
also help those
districts with their
We, the Indian
very proud to call
May she travel
buckskin moccasins.
Geol
composed of
makers, getting
publicity, while the
the "good,"
of tomorrow are
about.
Well I am
excellent example
good efforts of
sees it? Kids.
I can't really
community all
observed a great
people attending
department's pl
Lincoln", another
however with a
involvement of
population, (which
necessary due to
production.) It
so many .peop,!e ,
tile displays5
witnessing.
And as Tracy
"Teach your childretl
Don't you ever
If they told you,
Just know they love
and teach your
Don't you ever ask
If they told you • •
I must listen.
B. K#
re
searched by the
patiently waiting
back into the
announced that the
be cancelled as
precaution.
Although ev
disappointed,
the disorder for
people are so o~tell
dance chaperones,
our Shelton
great.
Mr. & MrS:
to the people Of
and the State of
well.
We think it
wonderful if these
"post card
"Thanks" to chet
30 years of
We want him to
have been aPPt
address: Chester
1719 Madison St. It
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