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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.
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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.
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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
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