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Editorials: The Game Continues In Olympia Letter Box:
Tolls Not Feasible
"Why don't they build a toll bridge to Harstine
Island ?"
This question has been asked by many Mason County
residents who voted against construction of a span to that
water-bound portion of the county in three past elections.
It's a reasonable question and needs to be answered be-
fore the bridge proposition is again put before the voters
in November. We will attempt, therefore, to answer the
question with facts supplied by experts.
Authoritie from the state highway department, bond-
ing companies and toll facility manufacturing firms have
studied the Harstine situation and have all agreed:
A toll bridge to the island would not be economically
feasible.
The average daily traffic on the Harstine Ferry during
1966 was 82 vehicles. This could reasonably be expected to
rise to 200 upon completion of the bridge if a toll of 35
cents each way were charged. This would provide an annual
income of about $26,000, which would be less than half the
annual cost of amortization.
Adding the cost of salaries and maintenance for a toll
booth, which at present would amount to at least $25,000
per year, leaves only $1,000 to pay an amortization of
$55,000 per year.
If automatic toll collection is utilized, the cost of in-
stallation would be l:etween $15,000 and $20,000. However,
revent)e bonds based on toll automatically collected are
not saleable, which shoots down that solution.
The property owners of Harstine Island have shown
their willingness to pay what would amount to a toll in the
form of assessments for the Road Improvement District
they organized prior to the last election. They have obli-
gated themselves to provide $300,000 above and beyond the
amount they and the rest of the county's taxpayers must
pay for construction of the bridge.
Two things arc obvims from the above facts. The first
is that if a bridge is to bt: built to the iuland it cannot 1 e a
toll bridge.
The second is that the fairest and most feasible way to
finance the bridge is the proposal, made by experts after
thorough study, which was on the ballot last November.
Under its terms, the islanders pay a large sum for the con-
venience of a bridge and the rest of us will chip in to pro-
vide a modern link to a big nortion of the county which
cannot develop fully without it.
"The Birds" At UPS
Will Not Lay An Egg
"Oops! Sorry, Senator, I was looking for the other jaAckass."
Capitol Dome:
Megalopolis Gets 70% Of Gas Tax Increase
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
I When the Senate reduced the
gasoline tax increase from 2 to
1 cents per gallon, it still left
the sarrle amount of money avail-
able for urban construction as
provided in the 2-cent increase
originally approved by the House.
Either increase was designed
to finance two $203 mqlion bond
issues.
The House version would have
car-marked '/2 cent for the motor
vehicle general fund and the
I A for44iyq.pdnute drive n,l2krqg ` ap, d ,th Athenians o{ balance for bond retirment The
, . ..... ... . ... ,..r llf3r s ,.the ;ods tsZdally of- "lower, IV= cent increase ear-
to treowtiy Is all that Is 'net:- . , ., ; . ,,: r ,¢ :, : ..;L., . "
essary to Iransl)orl Mason ft'r in' return for the smokes . ,-a-ks '¼ cent for the motor ve-
County theatre f;ms to a free This eventully leads tt) Pith: hicle general fund and 5/8 cent
presentation of Aristophanes' (,la(,rus b:(:oming king of the each fur the two bond issues.
"Th(, Birds" at the University nigerse anti possesor of Zeus' The extra tax will bring in
of Puget Sound Thursday. l,'ri- cepter. enough to retire the bonds in
day and Satur(tay nights. Scenic cffl,cts include a moan- 25 years.
The sprin/. play should I)" lain on the stage and bir(ls that
3PLIT FIVE WAYS
something to m'ow about. At fly I)y means of ropes and slides.
leasl, il will not lay an egg, The two act play will run ap- One of the bond issues is ear-
accordin Io l)irector Tom Man- proximalely two hours in length marked for urban state high:
ning. with intermission, rays; the other, for city and
For. lhos(! who cllrl up and
lie0 of Greek Ihealr('., IVLanning
hastens to add ltmt the UPS pre-
sentation will be an updated ver-
sion by Walter h:err. The New
York Tirnes drama vritic has
modernized I)=th language anl
[kv ('IIESTER GUEST
, A bunch of us were sitting
around talking and trying to ease
lhe discomfort of a too-heavy
lunch when suddenly Bob
(.Imnged the course of the con,
versafion by complaining,
"There aren't any real eharact-
('rs around any more."
The reason rio said that was
I)e(;ausc old George had been
recMling some of the unforget-
table characters he'd known,
and although the rest of us
were youngcr than George, wc
all recalled similar oddballs
from generations that had been
ar and when we were kids.
After Bob said all the char-
acters were gone, I tried to
think of an existing oddball to
refute his claim. I couldn't.
Recently I wrote here that the
heroes are nearly all gone now.
It appears that I overlooked
another vanishing American. The
character.
The tnldball. The nut, The gu,
with the strange name, hKe
"Side-Pocket," or "Dirty-Sht;q
Bill." or "Drooley," or ewm
"Lofty" or l)c."
The guy wlo wasn't afraid
somebody might be noticing him
.... he hoped everybody did, at
all times.
plot to suit Ivloclel'n day lales.
The complinlentary prodtl(qi(m
will t)e lerform,z,d in Jones ltall
auditorium wilh all p(wformances
beginnin'{ at 8 p.m. UPS is at
1500 N,,. Warner, Tilt'on'Ill.
Rick Cook and Jim I,lyes takc
the lead roles in Ihe play which,
according to Marming, deals
with "the higesl con st.hemP
of all lime."
Cook and Lyles take the parts
of Pithetaerus, the tootle)s(,, and
Euelpides, the footsor(!, a couph,
of tralnpy types. It seems they
are eoncerned with what might
be termed "over-civilization" in
Athens.
The Athenians are so civilized,
for example, even in 414 B.C.,
that they have a bur(ler]solllc
income lax. (I):)es lhat kind of
gel to you?)
Anyway, the two Athenian
fringies decide to form a new
kingd'ml called Chmdcoocooland.
They go to live among the hirds
in order to do this, since lhc
new kingdom is in the sky.
The reason it: is in the sky
is so that the schemers can inter-
cept smoke sent from the Athen-
ian'; below to the gods above.
This clever device is carried
out, thus depriving the gods of
the smoke they need for sus-
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The :;howoff kid who never
grew up.
Bob recalled a character from
h:s small-town youth who used
o walk dwn Main Street on
hi hands every day. And I sup.
po-e he wiggled his ears for an
encore.
C:,n yo u ima:;ine anybody do-
q'g either today? Of course not.
Smebody might think he was
nuts.
We used to have a notieable
type of guy around my own
home town who'd come to all
games with a big bus horn at-
tached to a battery, and honk
t repeatedly whenever anybody
ccored. For either team. It drove
everybody crazy and nearly
deaf. I guess he was a char-
aeter, It)().
These were small-town charac-
ters and this was a small-town
country then. They might have
disappeared together.
Maybe we have characters
.:ow, though. Maybe these shag-
gy guys and their soiled-looking
birds (girls) are characters.
They'd have you believe they're
offbeat as all get out, although
of course they'd never stand for
such a used-to-be word of a gen-
eration they dislike, like 'char-
acter." They'd say "swinger,"
or some newer word I haven't
heard yet.
But I don't think so. They're
different, like the characters I
miss, but these shaggy guys and
birds are defiantly different,
while the old-timers just hap-
pened to turn out sort of strange,
naturally.
I can't think of any reason
why characters would disappear.
,-nd maybe they haven't. May-
be, like the hippies say about
God, they've gone to Argentina.
But if they have disappeared,
or gone underground, maybe it's
a result of a more-serious world,
today in which there is little
time or tolerance for idiosyn-
cracies. Maybe there's too little
to laugh about now, and too
much scorn.
I don't know. But I do know
that I'm not going to walk down
Main Street in the morning on
my hands, to see what happens.
Because I know what would hap-
pen. I'd get my hands dirty.
county urban arterials. The pro-
ceeds will be divided among
five areas, with the Puget Sound
compoed of King, Pierce and
Snohornish Counties, receiving 70
per cent, or a total of $280
ra'llicn from the two bond issues.
The remainder of the state is
being divided into four areas,
n3rthwes', southwest, northeast
:q.d ';outheat. Each will get
7.5 per cent, or .33 million.
Distribution to the cities and
counties will be based on popula-
tion, hirhway need and motor
ehicle
investment. ,., ,.,
TU "?AL NSTRU(YriON
The major difference in the
Hmse and Senate versions is
the amount going to the motor
vchicl., qeneral fund.
The half cent would haw
been enough to pay salary in-
creases which were voted for
Hitrhway Departm:cnt personnel,
and have a little left over. The
quarter cent will fall a little
short of paying the increases,
mak;n it necessary to dig a
little dceper into the motor ve-
hicle general fund.
The b.nl izsues will make con-
siderable additional money avail-
able for rural highway construc-
lion, however, by taking the ur-
ban construction out of the pres-
ent priority construction pro-
gram.
OPPOSITION FADES
The measure was delayed sev-
eral days in the Senate Rules
Committee. Numerous senators
were unwilling to let the mea-
sure out until they had a look
at the highway omnibus bill.
The gasoline lax hike reached
the Senate calendar shortly af-
ter the highway omnibus arrived
from the House. While the m3a-
sure was sojourning in Rules
Committee, there was a concert-
ed effort to cut the increase
down to 1 cent, which probably
would have killed the bill. The
House would have refused to ac-
cept this much of a cut. II
would have gone to conference
committee and probably died
there.
At one time, the opposition
was only one or tw) votes short
of enough to effect the 1-cent
amendment, but by the time
the measure came out of Rules
Committve, this support had fall-
en off. There wasn't even an
attempt to cut the tax hike to
1 cent when the measure came
onto the floor.
OMNIBUS A ('ATCH-ALL
When the House-passed omm-
bus bill arrived in the Senate.
most senators were glad they
had waited. It is doubtful
whether many House members
knew what was in it when they
passed it through the lower
chamber.
It contained more than a half-
dozen provisions which had fail-
ed to pass the Legislature as
separate bills. One, a morator-
ium on some major provisi:ms
in the billboard control act, was
doomed before it reached the
floor of the Senate, when Gee.
Dan Evans gave advance notice
of a veto.
Other provisions embraced
numerous bills which originally
had been introduced by Motor
Vehicles Director Douglas Toms,
such as reflectorized license
plates, optional photographs on
drivers' licenses, and establish-
ment of a new Commission on
Motor Vehicle Equipment.
511LK
A resolution passed by the
Senate as a sop to the dairy
industry, after a milk nrice-sta-
bilization bill had failed, went
sour in the House Committee on
Agriculture. The resolution
would have directed the Attorney
General to investigate unfair
trade practices in the dairy in-
dustry, and covered 16 points.
However, it developed that 14
points aren't covered by exist-
ing law, so are outside the At-
torney General's jurisdicti,m. An-
other point has been rendered
ineffective by a recent Supreme
Court decision.
INVESTMENTS
Three bills enacted by the
40th Legislature at request of
State Treasurer Robert O. O'-
Brien are expected to increase
the state's income from invest-
ments by $1.2 to $1.8 million
per biennium.
One measure provides for an
accelerated flow of cash into the
State Treasury through creation
of an undistributed receipts fund.
It is expected to bring in $560,000
to $800,000 per biennium.
Parents Should
Editor, The Journal:
After living in Shelton for
eighteen years, here goes my
first letter to the editor. I am
a parent-- and this is about our
schools.
May I say, first, that Shelton
is fortunate to have many fine
teachers in the system. These
individuals care about our child-
ren and they care about inspir-
ing our children to want to learn.
And they have been very patient
with Shelton.
Early last summer, Shelton
parents and teachers breathed
a sigh of relief about the school
situation, and settled back to
let nature take its course.
We parents have comfortably
enjoyed a long winter's sleep,
and like Rip Van Winkle, have
awakened a little late. In the
meantime, the school board and
the superintendent have been in-
tent on balancing the budget
and necessary expenditures.
The teachers have been so
ethical all year about not men-
tioning any little or big problems
outside their W,E.A organization
that we in the community had
no inkling of trouble.
May I ask why it is unethical
for a teacher to discuss school
problem with parents? And why
they were requested at the be-
ginning of the year not to talk
school away from school? After
all, who has students in school?
We Imrents, perhaps?
In the space of three days dur-
ing the second week in March,
I stumbled into three alarming
situations: Three excellent teach-
ers out job hunting! Job-hunting
for better working conditions,
especially peace of mind, and
more oney.
I began to snoop shamelessly
among the teachers. And as a
Shelton parent, I'm ashamed of
we parents !
As announced in the last sev-
eral Journals, our High School
princilml resigned, a new Jun-
ior High principal has been
hired from out of town (when
we had qualified personnel wish-
ing for that position}, and two
important key positions have
been eliminated (High School
Student Affairs Counselor and
Grade School Curriculum Coor-
din;tor).
The local chatter claims that
forty of our teachers are job-
hunting; this I can well believe,
with the recent news that twenty
three Shelton teachers are at
this moment listed with one col-
lege placement bureau. How
Another expands the treasur- m-ny are listed at the other
er's investment authority of the, cpltege btweaus;.,ondq? .
temporary surplds, and will : As I'underst'/ind silrie/Shelg
bring in an additional return ton bcginningalt;{d"jn.}'.fall,
estimated at $340,000 to $500,000 1967, will be $1000 under the state
per biennium. A third measure
places the OASI trust fund, for-
merly outside the treasury, in
the treasury, where it can be
invested in medium and long
term securities. It is estimated
this act will bring in an addition-
al $300,000 in a two-year period.
RECORD NUMBER OF BILI
New bills were introduced in
the 40th Legislature right up to
the 102nd day, when the two
houses voted to end consideration
of all legislation except appropria-
tions and revenue measures,
and joint resolutions. By that
time, a total of 1,623 bills had
been introduced in the two
houses; 977 in the House. and
646 in the Senate.
Children's Orthopedic Hospital
in Seattle
PENNY DRIVE
::i¥
average for beginning salaries.
More snooping indicates a li-
brary with not nearly enough
books, projec'tors that don't per-
form, old text-books and not
enough text-books, crowded class
rooms, musical instruments bat-
tered and out-of-repair, inade-
quate locker and shower rooms,
and old buses.
Now, may I ask, what is the
existing situation? Why are the
teachers so discouraged and a
little afraid to express them-
selves? Wfill they be called on,
the carpet? And will those who
have decided to leave be able
to get good recorrmendations, if
they talked "out of school"?
Take a child in your arms.
Annual Penny Drive, May 1.14th
And, who will
ton to teach?
in teaching circles
Low salaries, and
ministrations for
make a most
age.
Why is our
to ask Shelton
nances (often
run our schools?
we will not
about
about our
sights on 1967
way back when
As a parent
with the
ministration. I
angry with we
and citizens
enough or know
too late--
Please join
myself the see
May, the 9th,
Evergreen
the school
Thelma said
a little early."
time ! Hele
On
Editor, The
I read with
from a
filler you
by us, by
error in
Pass generally
first of July.
You were
that we
promise. ThC
ment attempts
way by
is successful.
times their
tern with the
down and
vent opening
the latter
of July.
The main
make,
I am highly
someone
spending
newspaper
first time
one reading a
some real
placed in the
e.'g. "In 1894
641 pounds
I am sorry,
giving Ul) on
the State of
ever, as a
will give
charge,
do with the
PER CENT
TION OF
RIAN AND
CATTLE ]3
D::esn't it
Tourist
De
And
What's The Truth On
Editor, The Journal: Our
.Hurrah for Mrs. Puhn. we felt were
I have heard the same com- portant. We
ments that Thelma heard. Also, we were
I understand that feelings be- business
tween our eminent superintend- I feel
ent and our teaching staff is board
very poor. pear in the
What's the truth on the rumor article on
that our teachers wanted to ing the m
strike? Strike over what? Perhaps
As for our school board, they know whal
leave a great deal to be desired Each
article in
when it comes to manners. We teacher.
attended ONE school board the needs
meeting. 1V[r. &
A Lot Of Pens At
Editor, The Journal: they
Thank God for Mrs, Puhn's
"Letter to the Editor" last ers looking
week. Something is happening positions c
in our schools which needs the raise for
attention of a Citizens' Advisory looks to
Group NOW, as I see it. has been
As I read her letter, I could By
imagine that a lot of pens went through
to work both supporting her (and who have
deriding her). In answer to "thankleSS
THOSE LETTERS WHICH AP- look at
PEAR NEXT WEEK, look at we do
the authors who contributed. See An
what they have done. See if
Rabid Bat Season Is Rapidly Approaching, Authorities
I Who would think such a shy
little furry creature as a bat
could be a health menace? Well,
a rabid bat surely can be!
"A bite from a rabies infected
bat can be lethal to humans or
animals unless they have been
protected by proper vaccina-
tion," Dr, Stephen Jones, veter-
inary epidemiologist for the
Washington State Department of
Health, warned today.
Clinics for the l)urpose of mass
rabies vaccination of cats and make their appearance," Dr. the vampire and fructivorous rabid
dogs likely to become carriers Jones said. bats, both inhabitants of tropical
of the disease to humans are Rabies has been known to oc- countries. In 1953, an insecti-
being planned in many areas of cur in bats found in Washington vorous bat was shown to be rab- the
the state during the coming State since 1961. Since that time id in Florida. ment
months. These clinics will be when the first one was found, "It is distrubing to note that Bat
conducted by local veterinary- 65 rabid bats have been dis- the incidence of rabies in bats several
medical associations in coopers- covered, 13 (luring 1966. is steadily increasing. It now animals
tion with other responsible agen- The fact that bats may be in- constitutes the major reservoir ated so
cies. letted with rabies virus has cf rabies in the Pacific North- They alSO
"The season is rapidly ap- been known for some time. The west," Dr. Jones said. rus for a
preaching when it can be ex- only types of bats beleived to In 1966, twenty-five pers(ms exposure
pected rabid bats will again be capable of infection were in Washington State r;:,n by portunity
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