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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
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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
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