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Interested in public office?
According to statements compiled by attorneys for the
plaintiffs in a court suit brought to rescind Initiative 276,
twenty-eight Mason County officeholders plan to resign if
that disclosure measure remains in effect.
Included on the bye-bye list are Thomas Weston and
Bruce Jorgenson of Shelton School District 309; Warren
Edinger, Sr., Richard Endicott, Johnny Hawk and Wilbur
Bolender of Hood Canal School District; Arvid P. Harvey,
William Barnes, Sr., Herbert Brehmeyer, Jr. and James K.
Gribble of Mary M. Knight ,School District; R.L. Sills,
Raymond Kronquist and Jerry Reid of North Mason School
District.
Public Utility District 3 will obtain a complete
transfusion of new blood if its three commissioners - Harold
M. Parker, Jack A. Cole and Edwin W. Taylor - make good
on their threat to quit.
Mason County fire district commissioners who indicated
they will resign are Orville L. Good, Union District 6; Michael
E. Kirk, District 1; Edward P. Bartolat, District 3; Carl L.
Emsley, Henry Unger, District 4; Otto E. Nojahn, District 6;
Phyllis J. Fixemer, Dr. Frank C. Taylor, District 8; Edward
N. Nolden, District 9; Ray Schwietering, District 11; I.C.
Ford, District 12, and Clifford E. Harto, District 13.
Initiative 276 is still .under assault by numerous
officeholders, but if it survives there will be 28 positions
open in Mason County for budding politicians who are
willing to disclose their personal financial records.
It should be pointed out to newcomers to the political
game that it is not necessary to raise 50 million dollars and
subvert the Justice Department, FBI and CIA to win election
to any of these local offices.
All that is needed ,is a willingness to serve and a finger
strong enough to punch hundreds of doorbells.
/
Something less than the battle of the century is shaping
up for Washington voters in 1974.
It will feature Methuselah vs. Mickey Mouse, trading
blows for a seat in the United States Senate.
In one corner will be Warren Magnuson, wearing
geriatric-green trunks and an FDR button; in the other Jack
Metcalf, wearing red, white and blue diapers and a look of
confusion.
What a card. What a choice. What a gawd-awful mess.
There has been nothing like it since - let's see now - since
the hapless voters of Washington state were given the same
choice in 1968.
, cteaectins a chock
signed by the taxpayers since 1932. We have recounted on
this page in the past his habit in recent years of spending the
first month or so of each session in Palm Springs, California
- 3,000 miles from the spot he is paid to occupy.
He should retire and spend his own time in Palm Swings.
But, like his hoary contemporaries from the South, he is
apparently going to let only death or defeat at the polls
remove him from office.
Since he has set the ground rules, defeat at the polls is the
obvious answer to improving this state's Senatorial
representation. And that, unfortunately, brings us to Mickey
Mouse.
If Jack Metcalf is the best the Republicans can come up
with, Maggie will celebrate the turn of the century in Palm
Springs and Washington, D.C.
Metcalf, tireless champion of the status quo of 1896, is
over his head in the State Senate. Sending him to the big city
would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, even with
his consent.
Since the Democrats - even those who know he should
bow out - are stuck with Maggie, it is up to the Republicans
to come up with a worthy challenger.
And please, fellows, not Lloyd Andrews or Big Bill Bantz.
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Bill Horine says meat is so high-priced, "chuck is now called Charles."
(Robert J. Herguth in Chicago Daily News)
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
While many income tax
opponents have been gloating
over the 3-to-2 defeat of tax
reform in Oregon, numerous
others are quietly disturbed.
They fear a reverse effect.
What they fear most in the
general election next November is
a small vote. Voter turnout in
odd-numbered years historically
has been light.
The presence of state issues
on the ballot for the first time
isn't expected to make that much
difference as compared with
former years.
An air of overconfidence on
the part of many who oppose a
state income already was in
evidence. Even numerous
legislators who voted for it fredy
predicted publicly that it would
be defeated.
There could be a real danger
that defeat of the Oregon tax
reform proposal will cause many
Washington opponents of the
income tax to feel it isn't necessary
to go to the polls.
Do or Die
On the other hand,
proponents of tax reform are
virtually certain to flock to the
ballot boxes en masse.
It will be a do or die effort on
their part. They are well aware
that if the income tax is defeated
this year, it will be many years
before it will be possible to get
such a measure through the
legislature again.
After the income tax was
rejected for the fourth time in
1942, it was 27 years before the
legislature could be persuaded to
put it on the ballot again, even
though various versions were
introduced in every regular
session in between.
Mike Rapchak heard of a $100-a-plate political dinner that lost money
- they served meat.
(Irv Kupcinet in Chicago Sun-Times)
The Scots invented golf. Which could also explain why they invented
Scotch.
(James Dent in Charleston Gazette)
Mack McGinnis describing plato for a new church: "It's so modern it
even has bucket pews."
(Red O'Donnell in Nashville Banner)
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Phone 426-4412
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay
Temporarily Muzzled
One handicap facing income
tax opponents is the fact they
can't launch a really effective
campaign until about
mid-September.
The bill to implement H JR
37, the proposed constitutional
amendment to permit an income
tax, could be the key to the entire
campaign.
And nobody can be certain
what the implementing bill
actually will be until after the
legislature holds its next special
session in September.
The last session passed
implementing bill, and opponents
think they can see some flaws in
it. But they can't say too much
about them, because the
legislature will have time to make
changes corrections in
September, if it wishes.
Different Form, Same Objective
There is a wide difference
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between the tax reform program
which oregon voters rejected and
that which is being proposed in
this state.
Even opponents will concede
that the Washington plan, with its
various constitutional controls, is
much more palatable.
But the objectives are the
same; property tax relief.
Both would shift part of the
property tax to the income tax.
But in Oregon it was a case of
increasing a tax which the state
already has, while Washington
would be imposing a new tax.
The property tax,
incidentally, should be more
onerous in Oregon than
Washington. This state's property
tax, even with special levies,
averages about 50 percent lower
than Oregon's.
Time Running Out
Time is running out for Bruce
Helm, who wants to refer to a
vote of the people the salary
raises which the legislature voted
for state elective officers.
Before he can even get his
campaign underway he must clear
up the matter of an emergency
clause which now stands in the
way of a referendum campaign.
The supreme court won't hear
arguments on the case until May
22. It was willing to hear the case
sooner, but attorneys weren't
prepared and that became the
eadiest date that could be set.
Even if a favorable decision is
rendered, and it comes
immediately, the attorney general
will require 10 days in which to
prepare a ballot title, for the
referendum.
That would put it into June
before Helm even could get his
petitions printed. To qualify for
the ballot, he would have to get
nearly 60,000 valid signatures
before July 16.
Crux of the issue is the fact
that the pay raises are included in
the big budget bill for operating
the state for the next two years, a
standard procedure.
The budget becomes effective
July 1, the start of the 1973-75
biennium. Nobody can argue that
the effective date is "necessary
for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, health or safety,
or support of the state
government and its existing
institutions."
But Helm contends the
emergency clause shouldn't apply
to the pay boosts, because they
don't become effective until next
January 1.
Presuming his referendum
effort is aimed principally at the
legislative pa , boost, the need for
referendum action could fall
apart.
No legislator can draw his
increase until 1975, because the
constitution doesn't permit
law-makers to accept pay raises
during the term for which they
are elected.
That would allow time for an
iniative to be filed for the 1974
general election ballot, repealing
the legislative pay hikes before
they could become effective.
Cutback Poss le
But if the referendum effort
fails, the salary increase could
trigger an iniative effort in
another direction, a cut in the size
of the legislature.
Inquiries already have been
received by the secretary of
state's office regarding a
reduction in the legislative
membership.
The size of the legislature can
be reduced by initiative to the
minimum prescribed by the
constitution, which could
eliminate neady 43 percent of the
seats in the twfi houses.
The minimum membership
prescribed by the constitution for
the House of Representatives is
63, which would be 35 less than
the 98 now serving.
By HARIETTE BARNETTE
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trees in the vast wasteland" -ican televisi,of Ameri 'on: AlistairPlar~ing acookfeWs
AMERICA. An awesomely vast subject, masterfully Produced. Our TV
industry even lacks the wit to how it at an hour the a ......
s -crage worKing
stiff could get to see it. We can thank BBC too for HENRY THE
EIGHTH, FORSYTHE SAGA, SANFORD AND SON and ALL IN THE
FAMILY - they originated them all.
The new craze for backgammon (that funny design on the back of
your checkerboard). Said to be simple to learn, but the money being
bet by players of the game is very heavy/
Before you toss Aunt Minnie's old sofa into the County dump,
check the bottom of it for old coins that have slipped out of sitters'
pockets over the years. Upholstery men do pretty well on this route,
adding to their coin collections!
D.H. Lawrence said, "1 never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."
Editor, The Journal:
It seems this is a time of
revision of most anything and
everything, so I'd like to make a
point which seems to be given
very little thought by the proper
authorities. Child support!
I'm sure ours isn't the only
case of this nature, and I'd
Editor, The Journal:
"You know, Joe, it's gotten
so I don't hardly even miss the
TV news anymore."
"Yeah, I know what you
mean. At first when Nixon
announced the order stopping
newsprint from being made and
all the newspapers went out of
business, I thought that must be
just about the end of the world.
But after awhile, it got so I kinda'
accepted what he was sayin'
about 'how many trees would be
saved by not having newspapers'
and 'the price of lumber would
come down again'."
"It did too. Why I built a new
doghouse for the mutt last week
and it only cost me $114. I
remember back in '74 before
newspapers were taken care of, I
put that closet in the rec room
and it cost me 300 big ones."
"Yeah, I really missed reading
the old evening paper, but then
when the Postal Service started
putting out Li'l Abner stamps and
cancelling letters with the Peanuts
comics, that really took the sting
out of it."
"You gotta admit it was a
sharp move, just when everybody
was sayin' the Post Office
Corporation was so riddled with
corruption they'd never make
money, old Chairman Dick
zapped .them with the funnies and
now they've got so much moolah
they volunteered to finance his
re-election campaign so he won't
have to raise taxes for this term.
Isn't that the greatest?"
"I'm not so sure. I think
shutting down the TV stations
during the news hour back in
phase II of the Energy
Conservation Program was really
the high point of his middle term.
I mean, it did everything he said it
would."
"It sure did. Why it made it
Editor, The Journal:
The Liberty Bell is a symbol
of our freedom and heritage.
Patrick Henry would turn
over in his grave if he could see
the ungrateful way his heirs are
today abusing that heritage. It
seems to this writer it's time the
silent majority of us Americans
stood up to be counted before
our heritage is lost forever.
Our heritage is priceless.
Should we ever lose it, no friendly
nation on earth has the power or
will to aid us in recovering it.
In 1 914, President Teddy
Roosevelt sent the Liberty Bell on
exhibition tour of the United
States, as he also sent the Great
White Fleet around the wodd. It
arrived at King Street railroad
station in Seattle about August 15
and was set up for 'exhibition on a
rail siding on a flatbed railroad
car.
At that time, dad and I
arrived in Seattle where I began
chiropractic treatments for a back
condition. Between treatments,
dad took me to see the Liberty
Bell. There was an immense
crowd there, but we were able to
crowd in close to the railroad car,
where dad lifted me up so I could
see and even touch the bell, which
I did.
It was a reddish bronze. It had
two metal A frames, one on each
end, and a massive cross-beam of
apparent white oak, highly
polished.
That was an inspiration and
thrill I never have forgotten the
last fifty-nine years. Thinking
about it also has refreshed my
memory about other events that
occurred in 1914, such as the
opening of the Panama Canal.
Next, John J. Pershing's
pursuit of the Mexican bandit,
Pancho Villa, who had been
marauding and killing Americans
on the Texas-Mexico border.
At the same time I was taking
treatments; one evening the
papers came out with big red
headlines: "War Declared In
Europe!". The war dogs of
certainly welcome letters from
anyone who wishes to see if we
can't find justice in this mess
somewhere.
The point I'm going to make
is that we have an outmoded law
and a governor in office that
seems to create welfare recipients.
This is what is happening in our
possible for Nixon to eliminate
thousands of job in the Anti-Bias
Administration. Then the
recession just faded away after all
those commentators stopped
talkin' about it. And enough
power was saved so we could use
the old electric stove again to
warm up the meat-substitute."
"That was the best part,
alright. I wuz really gettin' tired
of eatin' cold potato-substitute."
"Hey didja hear about the
plan for a news-substitute?"
"You're puttin' me on."
"No kiddin', they're going to
call it Money Messages. It was
announced on the billboard this
mornin'. I saw them puttin' it up
during exercise hour. Nixon sez
it's gonna be five more years
before the Forest Recovery
Administration can allow
newspapers to resume, so the
Treasurery Corporation is gonna
start giving news on money:
thought-for-the-day on coins,
enduring presidential homilies on
small bills, sports scores on 20's,
and stock reports on hundreds."
"Geez, if that don't beat all.
There's finally a way to get the
sports, and wouldn't ya just know
1 haven't seen a 20 since the
Income Redistribution Act of
1977. You got a spare Happiness
Pill, Willy?"
"1 don't take 'em anymore,
Joe. Only thing that'd make me
happy is if Nixon ended the war."
Dennis Kelley
Editor, The Journal:
I am writing to you about
second and third cousins
marrying. Some people feel it's
wrong and sit in judgment of
Europe in a cartoon were leaping
at each others' throats. In one of
the first great battles, Verdun,
France, five hundred thousand
soldiers perished.
Some time later, a great
smokescreen descended on
Harstine Island and the Puget
Sound country. One evening as I
rode horseback into the peat bog
in the middle of the Island to
round up the family cows, I
witnessed a blood red sunset. It
seemed the whole world was on
fire. That Smoke was the result of
many forest fires in Washington
and Oregon, and remained until
the late fall rains came.
The next event was the big
Shelton fire which destroyed two
city blocks between First and
Third Streets. Only two buildings
escaped the fire - the Shelton
Hotel and Lumbermen's building
(now Miller's) - with the
exception of the bank vault,
which stood up prominently in
the devastated area.
Next day the Shelton children
had a field day digging for small
change in the ruins and some of
them did quite well. Some of the
diggers were Herb Angle, Vincent
Connolly, Tim O'Neil, Jr., Morns
Needham, Emil, Leonard and
Wilfred Christenson.
The first three new structures
to go up after the fire were the
State Bank building, McDonald's
Store (now Mac's Corner), and
Emil Paulson's saloon.
Next event was the Fourth of
July celebration at Jarrell's Cove,
where Henry Lorenzen led a sham
battle company in pursuit of the
Mexican bandit. After several
volleys from a homemade cannon
and several rifle volleys, Villa's
straw dummy was captured.
I'm proud of my heritage. My
grandparents, the Ed Haskells,
along with my mother and three
brothers, emigrated west in 1887
and arrived and settled on
Harstine Island in 1888, one year
before Washington became a
state.
Bill Bergeson
Wrangell, Alaska
case.
Myself and my
were on welfare
my present husband.'
say that he removed
from the welfare
suppose to collect
he is supposed to
support. I say
pay their child
the same token it
one man to
someone else's
I've gone to many
trying to collect
support, including
welfare with name
of my ex-husband.
Because we are
support everybody,
,payments to
husband's child
neglected through
state is now trying
non-support.
The
situation are either
husband fulfdl his
his own child or
someone else's . This~
that the welfare
$50 a month while
the other hand
$200 to take care of
It's no wonder we
income tax, etc.
balance this rob Pete11
account somehow.
There are exce
rule, but there
provisions for child
save a man from
who's already
share welfare seemS
answer. If there
instances of this
"No wonder there
people on
law-makers have
general public an
credit card (free
the taxpayers, one
speaking) the credit
called public
Mrs.
them and
According to
God's holy word
to 18, it isn't wroag
laws it isn't
to the doctor it
So how
and say it's wrong?
Indian people
it's wrong. But
will find still live
superstitions as
wrong beliefs.
A person who is
then marries a
the wrong one.
says the remarried
living in adultery
ex-mates are still
to 3.
Maybe there
nationalities
beliefs, but I am a~
know their beliefs
concerning this
I don't know
will help but I wish
would write in and
or- wrong
portion of these t
cousins marrying; 2,
adultery.
I know for a
help me and me
who have married
It would
ones who sit
something, also.
Editor, The J.our1 1:
One of the
salesmen is sure
customers to
to take a look
ballooned deals.
show up here.
They should
- their God is
Jesus don't
people like this
all - Rev. 19:16,
The rest
fit properly as
to this issue --
him and he don't
stupidity.
A
is one who has
do what every
could afford it:
without