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Editorials: Puff, Puff, Puff With trembling, nicotine-stained fingers we opened a parcel from The Council for Tobacco Research containing a ?8-page "Report of the Scientific Director." Here it is, we thought, the authoritative word from the tobacco interests telling us we can smoke three packs a day without ending up in a pine box at an early age. We lit a cigarette, sneering at the warning "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous to Your Health" on the pack, and began to read with enthusiasm. "IMMUNOLOGICALLY PRODUCED LYMPHOPE- NIA. Lymphopenia was produced in dogs by inducing an active state of immunity against their own lymphoid cells• These lymphoid cells were made antigenic by coupling with human y-globulin by means of a bisdiazobenzidine link- age. Peripheral lymphocyte count decreased by 40 percent to 90 percent of the control values." We took a deep drag, immeasurably reassured, and read on. "PHASIC DIMENSIONAL CHANGES IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE. Comprehensive left ventricular measure- ments were made in 43 anesthetized dogs during varying experimental conditions in order to learn more of the re- markably large changes of left ventricle (LV) dimensions and the transformation of its shape during the isovolumic rise of ventricular pressure. The data show that it was an asynchronous shortening of the LV inflow tract which raised LV pressure and elongated other dimensions during the isovolumic contraction phases of LV systol." We checked our LV inflow tract, adjusted the vertical hold and the contrast, and jumped to the next paragraph. "AORTIC ACID MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES AND COLLAGEN IN SCORBUTIC GUINEA PIGS." We skipped this one because we're not too fond of guinea pigs and don't care much for mucopolysaccharides, either. "POSTPERICARDIOTOMY SYNDROME IN A PA- TIENT WITH A RETAINED FOREIGN BODY. A patient is described in whom the postpericardiotomy syndrome de- veloped secondary to a gunshot wound to the chest with the retained missile in close proximity to the pericardium. Steroid therapy produced a prompt and sustained clinical remission." This paragraph was apparently thrown in to add a little spice to the plot. The foreign body is probably a mem- ber of the Mafia who shot a stoolpigeon on the steps of the Pericardium in Rome. "DRUG EFFECTS ON ELECTRICALLY-INDUCED RAGE BEHAVIOR IN CATS. Previous investigators have shown that muscarinic agents induce in previously normal cats a temporary rage state consisting of hissing, biting, attack, salivation, and piloerection. The effects of various drugs on this electrically-induced rage behavior in cats show that hissing appears to be facilitated by both mus- carinic and nicotinic drugs." The researchers midst have been slipped a bad batch of cats. Their behavior is exactly parallel £o ours when we are DEPRIVED of cigarettes .gor more than two hours. There were dozens of other fascinating chapters, in- cluding "THE RELATIONSHIP OF SMOKING TO THE OUTCOME OF PREGNANCY," "NICOTINE-INDUCED EEG AND BEHAVIORAL AROUSAL" and "PULMO- NARY LESIONS IN SYRIAN GOLDEN HAMSTERS FOL- LOWING INFECTION WITH INFLUENZA VIRUS." Unless you are a pregnant woman smoker, a fit-prone cat or a Syrian golden hamster, the report is extremely re- assuring; nowhere does it mention a normal-three-pack-a- day American male with a hacking cough and numbed taste buds. And if you are a confirmed smoker it does give you the perfect answer to the nag who tells you cigarettes are bad for your health. You just look him straight in the eye "The budget problem is solved, boys, and without tax reform. We're going to hold this gigantic rummage sale..." Capitol Dome: New Four-Year College May Be The Last By ROBERT C. CUMlV[INGS When the 40th Legislature voted to establish a four-year college in Thurston County, it was the first completely new four-year college to be created in years, and it may be the last for another 68 years. The New York consulting firm retained to determine the need *for a neW four-year college re- ported that the need for a sec- ond institution wasn't far away, but other developments have in- tervened which would change this picture• The principal act which could throw an entire new light on higher education was enactment of the law separating the state's 22 community colleges from lo- cal school boards and establish- ing them as 22 new separate units of higher education• Dur- ing the debate over the four- year college bill, there was considerable discussion over the possibility of expanding one of the existing community colleges into a four-year institution. Now that they have been di- vorced from local control, the islature convenes. For one thing, the new enmmunity college law specifically prohibits expansion of one of the existing community colleges into a four-year institu- tion. If a Legislature can in- clude such a prohibition, how- ever, there is nothing to stop a future Legislature. from remov- ing it. i:i':.It  uitte iha't the 1969 Leg- slaftme lihave time to :tam- per with this portion of the .law, however, There already are too many controversies brewing over other portions of the law. BUGS BID FOR ATTENTION The measure which was enact- ed was a compromise bill, the outgrowth of five or six which had been introduced. Even its prime sponsors admitted there were "bugs" which would need attention from future Legisla- tures. One of the most contro- versial points in the law, voca- tional education, was modified to the point where local school boards have authority to deter- mine whether they or the newly- established state board shall control. If enough of the local school stead, the various institutions of higher learning would make their pitch for money to the board, which would mediate the various demands and submit its findings to the Legislature. Development of a new group of state colleges will make it more difficult to accomplish this feat, but its realization probably was far in the distant future re- gardless. LOBBYISTS Much has been made this ses- sion over legislation designed to control the activities of lobby- ists, but some seasoned observ- ers have questioned the need. Each house of the Legislature has established its own rules for registration and regulati(m of lobbyists, which have been al- tered from time to time. The professional lobbyists, however, have done a good job SMOKEY'S FRIENDS don't play with matct of policing themselves during the past 14 years or so, through two organization, the Third House, and the Association Represen- tatives Association. Most of the latter members also belong to the Third Hcuse Group. Most of the trouble has come from ama- teur lobbyists and a hand full of free-lance professionals. It is doubtful if any legislation can be very effective against either of these latter groups. Certainly it will be difficult to enforce. TOUGH SESSION This has been a tough session for the "defensive" lobbyists, those who weren't seeking new legislation; just maintaining the status quo. The practice of keep- ing bills alive from the regular to the special session has made it virtually impossible to bury a bill permanently It has been difficult, even, to kill a bill per- manently by floor action• There have been too may mea- sures in this Legialature broad enough to lend themselves read- ily to "scalping". That is, bills which had been killed once were Letter Box: Poli(e-Man-00ower Inad. EdAt:r: The: J°lUiz::l:of Shelton, bw'glarIiZewda: t;. I hesitate to make my voice heard; however, I,m an angry young man. My question: Why does a city such as Shelton have inadequate police protection. This is not a complaint against the police de- partment, because how can any- one in his right mind expect a police department to do a good job if the city fathers will not furnish the police with adequate, qualified manpower and equip- ment? Under the circumstances• Chief Frank Rains is doing a beautiful job, but he could do much better if the police depart- ment was beefed up to stand- ard. I say I am angry. Here's why. Two nights ago my truck was week a pedeSg. • up and robbed, my store w months ago. vandalism ar.ej paper every  s It appears to i going to have finite steps ts our protection. is going to hard  sider helping  g us, or there t I alternative"  e, ing to arr hir now doing in Now I ask, J. council feel W#, "Why are the v guns like in 0e ies?" Isn't it  asked? Sin Is Old-Fashioned Editor, The Journal: To you who say that Christian- ity is old fashioned, did you ever stop to think that sin is more old fashioned than Chris- tianity? It began way back in the Gar- den of Eden. That is why Jesus Christ had to die on the cross, to save us from the awful con- sequences of this sin. It was not easy for Christ to make this sacrifice, but he did it because he loved us, and did not want us to perish. Should we not be grateful enough to ap- preciate this sacrifice, and to accept him as our Saviour? It was not easy for God to give his only begotten Son on the cross to die for our sins, but He knew that was the only way. Sin is growing by leaps and bounds every day. The newspapers are full of the terrible things being done, and there are of st the way constantly, g Many =y }o say it is just.' days, when m! the same old.! a pretty piCtt. and God gav way to live, ; crating it. g Man needs ' open and rea doing to him'C! i derstand hO' Christian life want to go b' of life, that i without Christll Jesus sa id He that hath and keepeth loveth me: me shall be 10. and I will le manifest rnYKi Automatic Roadl h Under Stud t I tret! Of all the futuristic systems . . " mooo00. : proposed as answers to high- way transportation problems the one that excites the imagina- tion most 'is the automatic road- way. While the conserlsus seems to be that the fully automated high- way, in which the ,vehicle is electronically guided and con- trolled with little assistance from the. driver, is still in the dim and distant future, research is gradually moving forward. At least one auto industry vice president has unhesitatingly predicted that the automated highway will be in existence and in use in the year 2000• He en- visions a motorist who drives his car to the nearest super- highway in the normal fashion, steers it into a specified lane and then feeds his desired des- tination into an ultracompact computer. Thereafter the car is automatically controlled with any information-- the approach by sibility i this : AL: At present the reli driver• Des :,! age of National Sa ?ics indicate 'r has a relia for guiding" fatality o.cO ¢ proximately " freeway drl'l f' In an a ddt'# Highway ,I, I auto indUSUo "we are r d and say: It has been demonstrated (cough) that a mouse- _ ............... macn,,ery s mere tor expan- districts elect to retain their vo- brought, to life again by ]tack- of yOursent destinatiOn,via the carf°rradloeXample fully auut0'. adapted strain of influenza virus, Type A, strain PR 8, sion of one or more of these rational education schools, how- ing them onto another b'll in -- ' ". two yeal colleges into four year {wheeze) is capable of producing the same sequence of :; • " " " ever, some changes in this per- the form of an amendment. Another auto company has al- every steP t¢ • c11. =es, even though a change ..... ;: A good example is the way ready conducted considerable only more s,i histopathological changes In the lungs of weanhng Syrian in the" -)resent law would 'e tion of the law undoubtedly will ;:i:! ..... a ' " • • . . ! u. be needed. Also expected is a ::....mi::".:::::., :, tax. me sures .kept returning to research rote. the posmbfl]ty of efficient hig:]  hamsters (cough) as it does In ferrets and mice, but with- needed, future demand for changes in ii].".'...ii::ii!  hfe afler last rotes had been held automated highways even to the "At preSe out accompanying clinical findings• The virus was not le- WON'T HAPPEN TOMORROW the newly-established means of .... %!liiiii!!l:.:::;ii iii over them rrmre than once. It extent of building a srrrall test ,, e¢ • - . . Such a development is unlike- thai to any of the weanling animals so infected. (wneeze) ly to occur before the 1971 Leg- choosing the local comnunity %::."iiiilU i!i! kept hope stirring in the breasts section of such a roadway Corn- added, n .e ' college boards which are to op- ":%iii::.ii:.,:..'i i/i! of lobbyists who were trying to pany engineers, in cooperation fic control  onto highV tiil/!!l!il ilil .et bills passed, of course, and with a major electronics manu- them. We ; erate under jurisdiction of the ..'.i it kept virtually all of them in facturer, redesigned and equip- statewide board. Faulty Drivers, Inatten.tive Wal00ers town: but it must have been ex-ped a conventional car that age of the.. ELEVATED STATUS ..... "'*:': :"* pensive, steered itself successfully over thegin tOcontrolsdes$5t Most of thsc interested in the for cars eq pr Contribute to Pe!estrtan Death Toll ,o,,o however, except p of seTSl,n'de those who were violently op- and centre demands 0 Fosed, agreed that it has ele- vated community college educa- "-e i agi, A 75-year-old Seattle gran- " that the majority he accident, while 86 percent tion to equal status with the anUautoa ¢ mother was walking along the of the accidents, were, the fault of the drivers with seven or first two years of a four-year a multi-laa shoulder of a roadway last sum- of. the pedestrmns. , ' Motor Ve- more violations on their records college. It culminated an eight- one lane t : mer, when she stumbled onto hmles Drector Douglas Toms re- were 'udged at fault year, uphill battle. ,, . 3 _ • converted the pavement and was fatally ported. And yet the drivers m- The most common urevious of. Besides opposition from local By CHESTER GUEST ourselves with a large onion on bit. Eyes watered with happi- control of struck down by a ear. volved tended to have a signifi- fenses among d r i ve r s who school directors, and at one time  * be ........... a swing. This was a happy apple, ness. "FaRure to yield'the right-of, cantly worse than average driv- siruek down nedestrians were the State Department of Public urmg aYl;6°hrl°KeeC:olanu) We were hacked often with a At times it seemed that our serves as s tton" lanef0f  way to a vehicle," was the ae. ing records" • , : • ^_ speeding and failure to stop ,,v Instruction proponents of the initiation haze h. g ,ob,,, h ,. large paddle. This made us un- tormentors wanted to punish us. reserved  .,¢ cident report verdict The drive A 60 percent majority of the failure to ie he ri t of w plan had to contend with  dis- - .......................... ) we .... In the a: • . . . y Id t gh- - ay. :.._,. a.,.o.., ........ hal py. So we re told to take Theyd yell, Do you still hate .jury , waut to me m[e u .... o,, was judged blameless. Although drivers revolved m pedestrmn These three categories account- agreement among themselves. ,-,-me (o,,, a large bte of our happy apple, ths fratermty, scum. are space,fif he had a record of eight pre- accidents had records of pre- e for 74 ' "'-'w ..... We dd. It dldn t always make No. we d yell back. close toge " ...... . . d percent of their total This latter situation was one of L--  ...... , ..... vious traffic citations, including vmus c]tauons or aceioems, m violations the major barriers. It carried blnifoled?UoWnenane jumpete us happy. Of course, there was no safe ing free. e five for speeding, the driver was contrast,, a majority of the total Another" fmA'd'n ................ was that the over into the 40th Legislature, uuk'-'^ vu^Y" ........ inches mgn 'u,m ..... a .We weren't always treated answer. Our "no" was inter- duced sti seemingly a victim of circum- drivers in the state have no elderly and the vounu were dis- despite the Arthur D Little re- . .... ..., .... .,., ^ ... wth the respect due young fra- preted to mean that, although and auto stance black marks on their records - • ' proportionately represented in porl, which was the result of a =, upeu  ..........  ......... termty gentlemen. We were ve didn t hate it any more, we stantiallY i , This was (me of the 124 car- The worse his record, the pedestrian accidents. T h r e e two-year study ordered by the near a swimming pool. His tor- mentors told him he was jump- given offensive nicknames. I ,ed to. So we were bent over parity. pedestrian fatalities in Wash- more likely the driver was to be fourths of the victims were ington last year that were ana- judged at fault in the accident, either over 60 or under 20 years lyzed in a recent study by De- Of the drivers with no more than of age. partment of Mtor Vehicles re- one citation on their records, "Pedestrians, especially rid- searchers, only 22 percent were at fault in erly persons and children, often -_-_-_-_-_:r_-_-_=--_z.----y%:.----y-.:L--- stray into the path of oncoming Jod, watchful driver who is traveling at a safe speed can often avoid hitting them• "This study by our research Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 PublLehed at SheltmL Mn County, Wultington, every Thursday. Eatered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Shelton, Wash. -I AND  --Henry G. Gay ,I[ SUPERINTENDENT -- Jim Shrum OFIPIC] MANAGER  Lodema Jolm=on NNW F, DITOR  Alan Ford OFFIC ASSISTANT -, Mary Kent /DITOR  MarJ Jacobs0n JDVlRTISING MANAG/IIR ,- Don Adolfson division shows that the driver who habitually travels a little too fast, a little too carelessly. is less able to avoid these ac- cidents." In the 1966 pedestrian acci- dents, both the victim and the drivers Were usually men. Eight out of every 10 drivers and seven out of every 10 victims were male. Copies of the report are avail- able from the Division of Re- search, Department of Motor Vehicles, Olympia. 1965 Legislature. That is why there are numer- ous imperfections in the law finally agreed upon. They will be ironed out, bit by bit, as time goes on. ONE MORE LOBBY On the other side of the coin, separation of the community colleges from the common school program has created one more lobby in the competition for pub- lic money for education. There are some legislators who have hoped for establishment of a single board of regents, or trus- tees, for setting policies for all of the state's institutions of high- er education. This has worked successfully in some other states. It would eliminate competition in the Leg- islature among the state's uni- versities and colleges in their quest for additional funds• In- ing into the pool. / It's too bad about the ankle, of course, but the initiation it- self doesn't sound too cruel, when you compare it with most hazing. Let me recount those repeat- able aspects of my own hazing ordeal, experienced in a frater- nity at a large university. But before I start, I'd like to explain that no matter how perverse or ridiculous hazing may get, it's fun. More fun for those hazing than those being hazed, but fun. During our Hell Week (since discontinued in favor of "Help W;,eek," a boy Scout-type service period that is an idle gesture) we began by donning the uni- form a gunny sack with holes for arms and head. This was the "scum sack," and we, of course, were the scum.. Around our neck we adorned became Scum Cesspool. Others were Scum worse-than-that. Keep in mind that this was fun. We were treated to gourmet food. \\;Paw oysters. Raw diced potatos with chocolate sauce. Burned-to-a-crisp toast with pea- nut butter anc pepper. These were GrouchoZourgers, and a great favorite. For recreation we were allow: ed to play selected games. Just offhand I don't recall any I can describe here, but I wish I could tell you about them, because they were the work of a crea- tive genious. Sort of degrading, though. After a few hours of this fun, we were lined up in a big em- pty room, roll-called by our scum names, and asked if we were happy. There was always some clown who wasn't. "Another big bite, scum!" We for hacks• Our scum, sacks of- A gore fcred minimal buffer between made paddle and posterior, tion of t iq But fun. Fun. vehicles This continued for days. cluded: Forty-four of us started the ,'There week, 24 finished. Those who el left just couldn't endure all the happiness, type Some of us who stayed did near so only out of a feeling that we decade. couldn't just accept all this con- such sideration and not return at least nation (bY a little. So, the week after burn- sidered ing our scum sacks, a dozen of us soreheads grabbed a couple be of our tormentors, took them on freeway a nice drive in the country, re- year 2000 moved their shoes, most of their "The clohes and all their money, and apt to left them, there. It was the least we could do. aids So we did it. and And, like Hell Week, it was -and fun. trol Page 4 - Sheltn-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 13, 1967