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Vancouver Superintendent of Schools Robert Bates has suggested an intriguing solution to two of the day's weightiest problems-school financing and the Vietnam (now the Southeast Asia) War. He proposed that schools be financed one-hundred percent from federal funds and the Vietnam War financed by special levies. This week's editorial page is a forecast of the Journal's front page the Thursday before a special levy election should such a switch take place. Thursday, Oct. 28, 1971 Published in "Chrlstmastown, UIS.A.", Shelton, Washington. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Shelton, Washington 98584, under act of March 8, 1879. Published weekly at 227 West Cota. $5.00 per year in Mason County, $6.00 elsewhere. Ten BADLY-NEEDED REPAIRS to this United States Navy dock at Tur Han Bay will be made with funds provided by next Tuesday's special levy for the Southeast Asia war, according to Admiral Norman L Bulshipp, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Letter box: @ @ Vice President Spiro T. Agnew issued an impassioned plea for passage of the Southeast Asia War special levy in a speech delivered last night to the Booster Club of Frittersville, Mississippi. "The President has asked me to tone down my rhetoric until after the election," he told the assembled boosters, "so I will not be able to call a spade a spade or a Jap a Jap." This drew chuckles from the audience and one enthusiastic onlooker tore off his sheet and hollered, "Go, go, Spire!" ''Those who oppose this special levy are a bunch of faint-hearted freaks," Agnew told his listeners. "These long-haired copouts of the Unwashed Generation and their supporters among the morally-stunted intellectual dwarfs of our great nation, accept the fruits of our system but refuse to share in the responsibilities. In fact, they are all fruitier than nut cakes. "They call for an unjust peace and refuse to participate in an honorable war. We can ill afford to have these traitors in our midst. I am sure you good citizens of Frittersville would know how to take care of them." The boosters gave the Vice President a fifteen-minute standing ovation, then unanimously passed a motion to spend "There are no friils in our Southeast Asia program," said Admiral Norman L. Bulshipp, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a statement supporting Tuesday's special war levy. Buhahipp pointed out that every cent of the money requested has been designated for basic maintenance and operation, with not one red, white and blue penny for unnecessary projects. "We have cut our war program to the bone," he said. "If the levy fails we will have no choice but to cut out 200 basic training classes at Fort Ord, the Special Forces throat-slitting course, the F111 air-to-ground disaster training, and Navy crew racing." The Admiral also revealed that the armed forces' basic arsenal of weapons has fallen far below that of the enemy. "Our fighting men, the future line officers of our country, are woefully short of the - Thursday, May 14, 1970 $23.85 of the club's money for used two-by-fours and gasoline. 'Tll be back to my old zingy self the next time I speak in Frittersville," the departing Agnew told the crowd. "Maybe I'll deliver my all-purpose speech on the nest-fouling nitwits of the news media." RESURFACING of this runway at Jhet Shet Gho Air Base will be possible if next Tuesday's special levy is approved, Air Force spokesmen revealed this week. weapons necessary to win this war for freedom," he said. "Enemy forces in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces have twice as many M-16's per man as we - they bought them on the black market in Saigon." Bulshipp also said that maintenance has been delayed so long it is now critical. The officers' club in Saigon, for instance, has not received a coat of paint in two years and swivel chairs in the Pentagon - all 4,000 of them - have not been oiled since mid-1970. "This special levy is a must," he emphasized, "if we are to maintain a decent war effort. We cannot fight an effective war with inadequate financing and it is up to you, the voter, to provide that financing. "This is your war; these are your fighting men involved in it. If you want a second-class war, vote against the levy. But if you want a first-class war, one our country can be proud of, vote 'Yes' next Tuesday." Editor, The Journal: When are the voters of this country going to wise up and quit pouring money down the military rathole? Once again we are asked to vote for a special levy to f'mance the frills and frivolity of our armed forces. 1 am a patriotic citizen and have always supported our military establishment, but those professional military types have gotten so they don't seem to know the value of a taxpayers' buck. Every time you turn around, they've added another money-wasting program. It's money for this and money for that, while the poor taxpayer is lucky if he has enough left to buy a decent pair of shoes. Take the Marine Band, for instance. George Washington didn't need a bunch of musicians dressed in fancy uniforms to win the Revolutionary War. Why do we need them now? Let's get back to the basics that made this country great. Then there's rest and recreation leave. We pay to fly these young people all over the place. Nobody flew me all over the place when I was in the army and I didn't cry about it either. Me and my buddies grew up to be decent, responsible citizens because we weren't coddled like these kids today. If the military leaders keep on with this rest and recreation business the communists will take us over without a fight. Part of their plan is to make our young people so lazy and spoiled they will lose the will to fight and we're playing right into their hands with all these military frills. Another thing that gripes me is the way these officers are always asking for more money. They're getting paid way too much already for what they do. They don't have to fight twelve months of the year, yet they want the same money as the rest of us. Most of them aren't fit to do their jobs, anyway; they only went to the military academies because they couldn't get into a teachers' college. I say it's time we put a stop to this escalating pay madness and insist that they work harder for the money they do get. When our kids come out of the service able to shoot straight and hold their'whiskey the way we did in the old days, then maybe we can talk about ~ the officers more money. I went hunting with a neighbor boy who was a sergeant before his discharge, and he missed a deer three times at forty yards. Don't they teach them the basics anymore, or are they too busy with frills? I'm not the only one who feels this way. There are plenty more who are sick and tired of this foolishness and we are going to keep voting "No" on levy measures until the military wakes up. Hadey Worthit Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal Mason County voters will join those throughout the nation in a march to the polls next Tuesday to vote on a special levy proposition to finance the war in Southeast Asia. The exact amount of the levy is not on The Mason County Citizens for Better Wars issued the following statement this week: "We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those in the community who worked so hard for the special levy. Most people want good wars, but it takes a real effort by all concerned citizens to raise the money to support them. "Special thanks go to the elementary school children who took part in the poster contest. The winning entry, 'Kill for Freedom," made an excellent promotional piece for the special levy with its blood-red lettering on a black-and-white background. The second-place poster, 'Kill a Gook for Jesus,' came within a hair of winning, but the committee felt there might be some controversy over the slogan because of the Constitutional provision for separation of church and state. The committee was amazed at how our youngsters, even at age 11, have grasped the essential aspects of war and the necessity for fighting better wars. "Our volunteer speakers did a tremendous job of bringing the facts to the public. Although most of their information came from material prepared by the Department of Defense, some of the more enterprising speakers uncovered facts on their own to add a personal touch to their presentations. One speaker discovered, for instance, that more Americans have now been wounded in Southeast Asia than were wounded in World War I, which added much lustre to the ;ea rent confli Jtld, wt e sure, will attract :~ny Y~s latest. ~ "There is no possible way to thank the United States Navy for bringing the battleship U.S.S. Missouri to Shelton for our levy parade. This was the first time the famed battlewagon had taken part in a parade and, according to Navy spokesmen, who were delighted with the reception, it will not be the last. Committee members showed some concern about the three buildings which were crushed when the Missouri fell on its side after being taken out of the water in Bremerton, but Navy officials said the mishap was all in a day's work and wouldn't preclude other parade appearances for the history-making ship. "Our thanks, also, to the Missouri National Guard which provided the army mules that pulled the battleship in the parade. According to word from St. Louis, three of the animals have received medical discharges, but the remainder have shown no ill effects from the chore. Another first was chalked up for our parade, incidentally, when it was disclosed that the three mules President Richard Nixon, in a report to the people on nationwide television last night, denied that education is receiving more money from the federal budget than war. "When I took office, there were many budget-sapping educational programs at the federal level," he said, "but since the federal government has assumed the entire responsibility for school financing, we have been able to trim considerable fat from education." The replacement of all the country's history teachers 'with a closed-circuit television program from the White House has saved billions, the President said. The move has also cut down on student unrest, he added, because pupils are no longer given a distorted view of history by left-wing teachers. "Martha Mitchell's delightful history lectures about plantation life in the pre-Civil War South are not only educational but interesting," he said, "and young people are beginning to regain the faith and patriotism that made this country great." The President emphasized, however, that the balance between funds for education and war could swing in education's favor if next Tuesday's special levy fails. "The Asians can't humiliate this country," he said. "Neither can we be destroyed by the Europeans, the Africans, the Australians or the Martians. Only Americans can do that. So ! ask you to join with me in approving the special levy next Tuesday." known, of course, because of national security requirements, but spokesmen for the Administration put it somewhere between 200 and 800 mills. Money raised, if the measure mml ers were the first of their breed ever to be discharged for inoperable hernia. "There is not room here to list all the other unselfish people who helped in the campaign. We can only hope and pray that their efforts will not be in vain and that the voters will approve more money to 'Kill for Freedom'." William S. (Wild Blue) Yonder Maj. Gen. (Ret.) USAF Chairman The Department of Defense provided the following list of positive accomplishments that will accrue if the special levy passes next Tuesday: 1. Enemy dead will increase a minimum of 2,000 per week. 2. Complete defoliation of the remaining half of Cambodia which was untouched last year because of lack of funds will be accomplished in two weeks. 3. The holes in the ceiling of Barracks No. 43-A at Fort Riley, Kansas, will be covered. 4. A renewed search for the vast underground headquarters of the enemy on the slopes of Mt. Everest'~'ff b~ tirid&iakeh by a platoon of mercenary Sherpas and three United States Army divisions under the command of ARVN's brilliant General Rhobert Hee Lhee. 5. Eight billion dollars will go for the purchase of two C5-A aircraft. 6. Payment will be made to the Pacific Seafood Company of Aberdeen, Washington for the three million dollars it spent on development of a guided mussel before it was discovered there was a typographical error in the call for bids. 7. As part of the continuing program of "Vietnamiziltion" a training film starring John Wayne will be made to teach Vietnamese soldiers how to play poker and shoot craps. 8. A training film staring Vietnamese actor Phl'ub Dhub will be made to teach American soldiers how to steal from ships and warehouses. receives voter support, the continued operation of our Vietnam, Cambodia and stepped-up attack one privileged sanctuaries Burma and China. Additional revenues needed this year, Joint Chiefs of blockades of Japan, and Vancouver, B.C. provision for resuming against North Dakota necessary, they added. A substantial part will be used for an pay raise for military negotiations stalemate Congress and the Association was broken when an impasse Vatican recommended personnel be given a 10 but denied the NMA'S ( free marijuana for those Southeast Asia. Coordinating the leVy a local level has County Citizens for headed by Retired Air William S. (Wild Blu¢ Lilliwaup. The committee for advertising, arranged at club meetings and and parade down shel Avenue which featured U.S.S. Missouri pulled army mules. The committee also during the campaign that would a $20,000 house t only a nominal amOU a passes. The in its effort to provide by the reluctance of the of Defense to amoum of the levy: "The enemy have such figures," a the department said in local committee. There was no to the levy, although editor were lively dur" and an avowed Mason County j flowers in front of a street. A levy protest Evergreen Square prematurely when it that of the 1,200 attendance 1,193 FBI, CIA, Army Service, WashingtOn Washington National Pasco White CitizenS The polls will be to 8 p.m. at prec in this week's paper. 2(: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE officials promised Commanding General's headquarters at Nho Khan Du if Tuesday's special levy.