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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- Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Addresa: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Shelton, Wash. Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES:: $4.50 per year in Mason County, In ad. vance  Outside Macon County $5.00 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER -- Henry G. Gay PLANT SUPERINTENDENT  Jim Shrum OFFICE MANAGER  Lodema Johnson NEWS EDITOR  Alan Ford OFFICE ASSIsTANT  Mary Kent SOCIETY EDITOR  MarJ Jacobsen ADVERTISING MANAGER -- Don Adolfson 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 Pae 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 27, 1967