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k 1 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. ~lX~lll~lm~llllglllllll~nglMIIIIIIIIIImllllllllllllll Mack McGinnis' HIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIilImlIIIHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIH 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) as/to " Of/ county" 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. SUBSCRIP~TION RATES: $5.50 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $6.50 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 Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, May 17, 1973 TO EAT HI6g M r.AT PRICE5 OFA FuD. tl RIPE A T-- E 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 rosos to roadcast °mpan 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