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Shelton School District voters will participate next
Tuesday in what is undoubtedly the most refreshing special
levy election in the state.
Since the school board announced its decision to ask for
the levy there has been no screaming, no arm-waving, no
pictures in the newspaper of crumbling school buildings, no
threats to sideline the football team, no yard signs and no
student ralfies.
The Shelton board, which has never before asked for a
special levy, simply concluded that inflation and lowered
state support made it necessarY to ask for an additional
$240,000 to maintain the present school program.
That is a sensible and businesslike approach to a problem
that is plaguing all the state's schools. The district's voters
understand inflation because they are suffering the effects of
it every day. And the diminishing state support is a matter of
record - from 71 percent during the 1966-67 school year, it
has dropped to 58.5 percent today.
This low-key request for adequate money to operate
Shelton's schools deserves thoughtful consideration by the
district's voters.
That fellow who keeps popping up on our television
screens to tell us he is bending every effort to solve the
two-year-old Watergate mess must be taking his cues from W.
C. Fields.
In one of his classic motion pictures, the bulbous-nosed
comedian had stolen an elephant and was leading it down the
street when he was stopped by a policeman.
"Where are you going with that elephant?" asked the
cop.
"What elephant?" replied Fields, raising his eyebrows.
Monday evening, Richard Nixon again rode into view
perched atop his Watergate elephant like a paranoid mahout
and, raising his eyebrows, replied to a questioning public,
"What elephant?"
You'd think, out of pure kindness, one of his friends
would take him aside and tell him: "'That elephant, Dick; the
one with the tapeworm."
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A 4-year-old boy was~toid he couldn t sleep on the couch Easter Eve
because the Easter Bunny wouldn't leave the goodies if someone were
watching him. After the child went to bed, his older brother, Mike,
came home with bumps and bruises from a minor accident and was told
to sleep on the couch. The 4-year-old got up early for Easter hunting
and, seeing his brother, said to his mother: "Boy, am ! glad you didn't
let me sleep on the couch, look what the Easter Bunny did to Mike."
(Minneapolis Tribune)
Erma Bombeck added her own offering to the inevitable streaker
repertory: "If God had meant for there to he streakers, he would never
have inveated wicker chairs."
(Neff Morgan in San Diego Tribune)
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS If Governor Dan Evans should
..... ~1"~0 a c t i o ns ~ Of major find it necessary to call another '
significance were taken justspecial session of the 43rd
Legislature, there isn't any way
before adjournment of the "haini they can be brought back to life.
session" last week which went
unnoticed by virtually everybody, Any which may be desired
including most legislators.
Each house adopted a motion
indefinitely postponing all
measures which hadn't passed the
Legislature.
This in each case was an
irrevokable death sentence. All of
those bills, resolutions and
memorials now are dead.
must be reintroduced and started
all over again.
Long Time Coming
Though this once was a
standard procedure near the end
of each legislative session, these
motions hadn't been made since
the 42nd Legislature adjourned its
second extraordinary session sine
die on February 22, 1972.
Many of the bills which died
last week had been alive ever since
the 43rd Legislature first
convened its regular session
January 8, 1973. Some had been
pret'ded for introduction during
December of the year before.
One of the oldest bills in the
Legislature which didn't die,
because it was passed on the final
day last week, was HB 1. It had
been prefiled by Representative
William S. May, Spokane, during
the latter days of December,
The Maintenance Department of a downtown office building has placed
signs like this on each floor: "The load bearing capacity of this floor is
150 pounds per square foot." Beneath one of these signs someone has
written this warning: "If you weigh more than 150 pounds, please
stand with your legs wide apart."
(Minneapolis Tribune)
Maybe you saw that news story awhile hack about a botanist who
argued that plants were sensitive. They would flourish or wither, he
argued, according to whether they were loved or neglected. A Dallas
bminessman on the northside took this to heart and got himself a
potted plant for his desk. He has carefully tended the plant and does a
lot of encouraging ta ing to it. So far, he hasn't noticed any results.
What he doesn't know is that a colleague across the hall comes across
every day when he has gone and gives the plant a thorough cursing out.
(Paul Crume in Dallas News)
The gocial worker, visiting the inmates of the local jail, asked a variety
of questions as she went from cell to ceil. Finally, of one prisoner who
was enjoying a long stay in the workhouse, she asked, "Was it your love
of liquor that brought you here?" "Gosh, no, lady," replied the
prisoner. "You can't get nothin' in here."
(Charlie Wadsworth in Orlando Sentinel)
Wally Hitchenck saw a bumper sticker that read: "If he syphons you
once, will he syphon you again.'?"
(Bill McDonald in Columbia State)
Uaidantified minister allegedly moonlights as jndo instructor. He
teach yoe what to do after you've turned both cheeks.
(Herb Rau in the Miami News)
Bumper sticker reads: "Impeach Everybody.'"
(Herb Rau in The Miami News)
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By TIM RENKEN
At a certain reservoir in Texas local residents
talk about a school of fish that lives under a bridge,
sort of like the troll in the Billy Goat Gruff fairy
tale.
The fish don't eat goats, of course. Oh, they
have been known to gobble a lure dropped by some
unsuspecting passerby now and again but most of
the time they mind their own business.
The fish are white bass and crappie and they
appear as regularly as clockwork beneath this bridge
almost every sunny summer day between 10 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Nobody has ever counted the fish, which
most people know only through the bleeps on
sonar, but divers have said they must number in the
thousands.
Apparently the fish aren't as interested in the
bridge as they are in the shadow it casts. Hence their
appearance mostly on sunny days and at the time
when the sun's rays penetrate deepest into the
reservoir's clear water.
Sometimes that school of fish provides good
fishing, sometimes it doesn't, but that isn't what's
important. What is important is how they
demonstrate the importance of time of day in
lishing. Time of day is more important in fishing,
and more complicated, than most fishermen realize.
Time of day affects fish and fishermen in many
ways, but the most obvious is through the light and
heat of the sun.
Almost all fish are sensitive to light. For one
thing, they don't have eyelids. For another, their
skins are photo-sensitive - thanks to specialized
cells concentrated mostly along the lateral line.
Some fish are more sensitive than others.
Walleye, for example, are highly sensitive. Catfish
may be even more so. Some .of the sunfish are
relatively insensitive while the true basses seem to
fall somewhere in between.
What this sensitivity means to the fisherman is
that he should consider it in his fishing plans. Clear,
bright days making fishing for walleye and catfish
tough, especially on calm days when there is no
chop on the water. Waves distort the "lens" that is
the water and prevent the sun's full rays from
getting through.
(Incidentally, most experienced anglers know
that the best time to fish for walleye and catfish is
at night. This sensitivity to light is probably
primarily responsible.)
Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, May 2, 1974
Seldom are bass found in very shallow water on
those clear, bright, still days - at least not on lakes
with very clear water. This accounts, in part, for the
tendency of bass to make their forays into the
shallows to feed in the early mornings and late
evenings and, again, at night.
The heat of the sun also plays a role in this
consideration. Fish, being cold blooded, have no
other way to control the temperature of their
bodies than to seek out water of the temperature
they find most comfortable.
When the rays of the sun warm the surface
waters beyond their range of comfort the fish have
no choice but to leave. Generally the warming of
water progresses through the day into late
afternoon. Then it starts to cool again and cools,
everything else being equal, until the sun rises the
next morning. Cooling may take place through
contact with the air mixing with cooler water from
below.
This warming-cooling cycle is responsible for
many of the movements of fish. It accounts for
summertime fishing often being the best in the
shallows early in the morning, when the water is at
its coolest. It also accounts for fishing not being too
good on summer evenings - the water is usually still
quite hot then.
But heat and light of the sun do not tell the
whole story of the effects of time of day on fishing.
If it did, there would be no way to account for
those splurges of good fishing which sometimes
come at odd hours of the day or night. Every
experienced fisherman has seen those outbreaks-
sometimes they come at mid-day in the summer
when heat and light topside would seem to be
unbearable.
Fish, like all living creatures, possess a body
clock. They, like men, follow cycles, and those
cycles may or may not be synchronized with the
sun.
Fish do feed in cycles - studies conducted with
aquariums have shown this to be true. Just what
triggers and regulates this phenomenon is poorly
understood. No doubt it involves chemical processes
in the body or brain of these complex, interesting
little creatures. Someday, maybe, these processes
will be analyzed and explained. Maybe they won't.
But all of this leaves unanswered the most
obvious question: When is the best time to go
fishing? Why, when you have time, of course.
,!
measures
1972.
This ig the measure which
exempts prescription drugs from
the sales tax.
Could Be Self Defeating
While the sales tax exemption
for drugs was going through the
Legislature, it was amended to
apply also to returnable beverage
bottles. The intent is to encourage
more use of returnables in place
of the nonreturnables, which
seem~to be an anathema to
dedicated ecologists.
But the maneuver could have
a reverse effect. Retailers who
handle other products besides
beverages won't like the trouble
of deducting the sales tax on
bottle deposits when computing
the total tax.
They may switch to the
nonreturnables.
One-Two Punch
Three of the vetoes which the
Legislature overrode probably
were more of a slap at the
environmentalists than at
Governor Evans.
These induded the bill which
exempts irrigation projects from
filing environmental impact
statements; the measure allowing
flashing electric signs near the
premises of businesses located
along highways, and the one
directing the Parks Commission to
renew the lease for a TV tower
atop Mount Constitution.
W.ith exception of the
gambling bill, none of the vetoes
which the Legislature nullified
had general statewide impact.
They were more damaging to
Evans' pride than anything else.
He had gone through eight
years without having a veto
overridden only to see nine
overridden in less than four
months, including the two which
were nullified last January.
Logjam Unavoidable
Though one of the objectives
of the continuing legislature
concept was to eliminate the
logjam which normally occurs
near the end of a legislative
session, it didn't work.
Despite the numerous
committee meetings held during
the interim, few bills were passed
during the first seven days. Then
on the eighth day, which
originally had been planned as the
last, more than- 20 measures sailed
through both houses, and as
usual, many were caught in the
crush.
By EDWARD P. MORGAN,
ABCNews Washington
The time has come, I think, to ask a
How much does Richard Nixon believe in the
of government? But what a monstrous query!
is the elected head of our government. He has
public payroll most of his adult life. He worked
through the political system. He was a
senator, a vice president and now he is in his
chief executive of the richest, most powerful
Careful with those superlatives, Jack. You
with something more than the total of nuclear
measure riches by something more than oil:
beefsteaks and the gross national product. And
more - national will, purpose,
compassion, respect, humility, all the things
making a nation great - the something more
deeply eroded in the last five years than at anY
surely, in at least a half a century.
The United States is in trouble. Some of its
been brewing a long time and are not, of
the president. But somehow the whole bundle
problems has been accentuated, made
burdensome by his behavior in the Oval Office.
why it is timely to question the depth of
belief in the American system.
No politician plays the game completely by
this amazing politician, beginning with his
campaigns in the Forties, has broken virtually
the book. On lower levels this may not shake
seismograph sharply. But practiced from the
office in the land, the impact can produce an
That's what the country is still reeling from
sure to be more shock waves to come.
Is the law in the way of presidential purpose?
it or get around it by subterfuge and keep it
birth of a kind of presidential spy detail against
patently illegal even J. Edgar Hoover refused
it. But it surfaced later in the form of The
breaking and entering in the name of national
sharing the war powers with Congress
bomb Cambodia secretly, and lie about it. And so
Headed by a law-and-order man, tla
administration has broken more laws in order to
strangely authoritarian concepts than perhaps
American history - consistently using
techniques, often via television, to sell the public a l
bill of goods.
The issues are complicated and hard to
everybody knows about taxes. How is it
president to owe the government he heads
million dollars in back taxes? Maybe he forgO!
supposed to apply to everybody. Or did he
above the law? But for the record of Watergate,
never think of asking such a question.
Death and taxes are sure things. Another
that a system which can dock its chief executive
million in back taxes isn't dead yet either. "
Editor, The Journal:
On Friday, April 19, I was a
visitor to the District Court in the
Mason County Courthouse in
Shelton. It was my first
experience in such a place and it
left a very bad impression.
In the first place, there is
nothing in the physical facilities
or personnel on hand to cushion
the emotional upsets that may
occur in this type of
confrontation.
There were at times more
thar, 25 people in the halls -
those having heartbreak in the
one case I was interested in were
exposed to public view - stares -
hostilities and verbal taunts from
various people.
One attorney by the name of
Ragan was openly insensitive,
actually parading in a victorious
manner in front of the people he
feels he defeated. He was arrogant
and unkind.
1 understand the reports of
"professionals" was the overriding
factor in influencing the judge
into a decision that did not
permit a fair and equal hearing of
evidence from two sides. But two
of these professionals displayed
their totally unprofessional and
extremely biased behavior before
many bystanders.
The one was Mr. Ragan, who
indicated some deep prejudice,
perhaps against the Indian
,mp
involved in the case.
professional was
from Colfax,
made heartless
to a grieving
The whole
supercharged
was express
"professionals"
themselves above
some sym
understanding
In addition,
display was carrie'
small children
the case and from
on other matt
imagine the
young underst
courts and the
be found there?
In fact, the
the hours of
frustrating
both sides
evidence was a
fairness and truth
the bulwark o:
process.
I sincerely
of Mason
the State of
with zeal to
pattern of
qualifications
this kind of
kind of
Editor, The Journal:
Such crimes, such tragedies,
all the way from Washington, D.
C., to little Shelton. Ruination of
enviable reputations or
achievements and/or loss of life
itself. So unnecessary, so pitiful -
one feels like weeping.
It brings to mind that the
Bible says, "The way of the
transgressor is hard" and "Be sure
your sin will find you out."
Recently there was mention
of a study to be made on the
cause of the
at a cost of
What ignorance,
lhe Book of,
the answers. ItS
be read with
five hours
If ever
USA earnestly
applied those
would
shortly into
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