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u S S, P Is OENT'- HE '3HlXt.L. F-Ot.ND HNOCF_aCr', I .E55EO iS 114E duoIQAIW Co MrF E: FOE' rr'SHALL OEL=Y COH ql; ,EN1" . ARE'rilE "FA : "mEY=SKtU.t. UGU/'O¢ lgAY'....* 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." II~~P.mHIWHIHHHIWIIHIIIIHHIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Mack McGinnis' UH ttu : ........... .... " 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) Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wa. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Mason County, Washington 98584, weekly. Second-class postage paid at Shelton, Washington Member of'National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 per year in Mason County. In advance--Outside Mason County $7.50 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay 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 L