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Editorials. The Flapdoodler:
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, Free game was i
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00,.,ton o.y,..ve.00or00 everypennyit00
improved relations between administration and faculty dur-
ing the current negotiations between the school beard and ;
The tension engendered by the sniping warfar4hof the
past three years hu ead considerably since the opening The peanuts, popcorn and Cracker Jack
up of negotiations sessions and publication and public the home team was lousy. *: i
scrutiny of the study committee and school board reports. While Keith and I sat watching and ch( I
So far as we know, the Shelton negotiations sessions land Beavers performed like the last-place t!
are the only such meetings in the state being conducted in • Their outfielders threw to the wrong
public. This departure from the usual secret meeting par- fielders b°bbled r°utine gr°unders, the Pitcher k!
noses in both camps who kept the schools in a turmoil for OT ...... ven their third-base coach seemed to m.
so long. C he was.
A statement made in public stands by itself. It can- The league-leading Eugene Emerald,
not be embellished over coffee, distorted on a street corner, .=/ hand, seemed about to pounce on poor Pc
or denied at a subsequent meeting. / They swung mightily, ran the bases
In the atmosphere which prevailed several months ago, flawlessly. Yet Eugene appeared to be
the school board and the SEA were headed toward impasses probably reluctant to embarrass the lowly
on numerous matters. Breathing the new air, they have
resolved most of their differences and reached agreements
which will insure educational continuity during the coming
year.
Admittedly, it is an uneasy truce. Deep wounds do
not heal overnight. But there is hope now that both groups
will save their fire for negotiations meetings and develop
a spirit of cooperation which will produce better schools
for Shelton,
There is one more ingredient needed to insure that the
turmoil of the last few months becomes the start of a new
era for our schools. The citizens of the district must take
a new and deeper interest in their schools and support both
teachers and administration in the attempt to strengthen
them.
The job cannot be done without the cooperation and
understanding of all three groups.
Shrubicare next?
The day may not be too far distant when you can file
a malpractice suit if your weeping willow roots strangle
your trailing arbutus.
During each session of the legislature, numerous prac-
titioners of various tasks seek to acquire prestige and pro-
fessional status through state-regulated licensing laws.
The winners this year in the effort to enter the sanctuary
inhabited by doctors, dentists, lawyers, chiropractors and
other pros were the landscape architects.
Governor Dan Evans has signed Senate Bill 217 into
law, thereby requiring registration of all landscape archi-
tects in the state. According to the public relations man
of the Washington Society of Landscape Architects this
means
"esthetic appeal wi,,resu]t."
Gee, whiz, that's great. It's more than that, it's as-
tounding, because in most oases the only result of newly-
won professionalism hat been the escalation of fees and
state sanction of esthetic monstrosities such as Sea-Firet's
new Seattle skyscraper.
"In the rare case of gross incompetence, negligence or
fraud." continues the landscape flak, "any person may file
charges against the registrant."
Keep that in mind should your rose garden crumble
into your swimming pool. Yesterday you could only take
a gardener to court. Today you can detrowel a landscape
architect.
Let's talk books:
The Chr:t:on Science M0mt0r
V1
"I feel there's more to education than mere marks. There's the
relationship of teacher to pupil, the personal interest and
understanding that help a person to grow..."
Capitol dome:
Mobile home taxation under study by solons
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Though tax reform wa the
principal issue of the 1969 Leg-
islature, the vote to submit R
to the voters didn't eliminate
the problem in the Legislature.
During the interim, the subject
of taxes will get more study
Shah any other.
A speical committee of 10 was
crtti to study the field of,Urn-
her taxation alone, and to come
up with a recommendation de-
signed to be equitable. Four leg-
islators will serve on the com-
mittee, one from each political
party from' each house; two coun-
ty assessors; a representative of
the State Department of Reve-
nue; a representative of the com-
missioner of Public Land;, and
two representatives of private
t imh, er owners.
It is expected that a private
research ftrm will be retained
to do the staff work. Funds for
the study were includ in the
main budget big.
Another spy tale, a good one
By LLOYD A. COOK
[1 In "The Salzburg Connection"
(Harcourt, Brace and World,
1968), Helen MacInnes tells the
story of an American who is
not by trade an espionage agent.
The young man, Bill Mathison,
is a publisher's agent on a bus-
iness trip to Austria. Here he
falls head over heels - and quite
by accident - into a complex bit
of international spying and in-
trigue, as do many of MacIrmes'
heroes in late years.
The care taken in finding and
describing locales is a trademark
of the author's craft. Salzburg,
in some ways a 16th Centruy
city, is a sight no visitor can
forget. Old Town, cobbled streets,
colorful dress, fairy tale houses,
quaint inns, oversize tankards of
beer. A funicular up Castle Hill,
with the Archbishop's palace at
the crest. One has from here a
picture card view of the town
below and the hil around, with
the majestic ASps as background.
Dick Bryant, a nature photo-
grapher, heard years ago that
the Nazis had sunk a chest in
nearby Finstersee, a like "cold,
black, evil." On a husl-hush
trip after dark he searches for
the chest and finds it but day-
light prevents him from retriev-
ing it, When he dies in what
looks like a car skid, we learn
that undercover agents of four
nations are seeking the box, with
the Nazis standing guard.
Btll Mathison arrives to check
on a book contract that Bryant
claims to have with the New
York publishers. He talks with
Azma, Bryant's wife, and'her bro-
Viewpoint:
ther Johann, both Austrians, who
tll him that the man he has
come to see is missing. The day
before Mathison had tried to call
on the firm's Zurich representa-
tive, Eric Yates, but found him
on a holiday. Any reader would
know by now that the story line
is shaping up, and that things
and people are not what they
at first seem. An Ellssa Lang,
a Chicago co-ed type, has come
into the tale and held hands with
Bill, so that romance Is account-
ed for. After Johann recovers the
chest, the story really moves.
There is no humor in the book,
no tunny lines, not that there
needs to be; All else is here -
action, suspense, intrigue, love
interest and the stakes are
i high, life or death for some.
And also, MacInnes is not strong
on sex, like some of her compet-
itors in the mystery field. Sex
is not a passion, a preoccupation,
but a physical act, told with
faint distaste, as my grandma
would have told it.
The hidden chest theme - state
papers, names of traitors, gold,
jewels, war plans, inventions,
you name It - has been done
many times. It is one of the
three most common themes in
espionage tales. What new twist
does Maclnnes give it, what is
novel in her best-selling book?
For one thing, her plots are al-
ways intricate, more so than
lan Flee'ring's or John eCarre's.
Ian Fiemir or John Gearre'=.
Moreover, her writing is always
literate, though she does dart off
on many a tangent.
How is aLny good plot thought
The hgher the rank of a person within a group, the more
rarlv his actions conform to the norms of the group.
out, shaped up? I do not think
the author has ever said in print
Just how she works. Is plot mak-
ing an exacting, laborious pro-
cess, tortuous to the mind? Or
is it, per centre, a simple, slap-
dash affair, a thing to be hallu-
cinated without strain? While the
first may well be true with Mac-
InneS, I want to conclude with
a case of the second kind.
Calder Wllllngham tells how he
came to write "Providence Is.
land," a Literary Guild selection
for March 1969. Toktoy's remark:
"A great writer is not afraid
banality" intrigued him. ater,
he saw a cartoon, a man and
woman on a sand spit, beneath
a palm, obviously castaways. It
occurred to him that nothing
could be more banal than the
island scene, used ad naseum in
all mass media.
"The inspiration came to me,"
Willinghm writes, "that if a
man with one woman on an un.
inhabited island was banal, then
a man with two women would be
twice as banal. Double your fun,
double your pleasure - and dou-
ble your problems and eompli.
catto]n."
It would be a simple sexy
tale, run to about 300 ms pages,
take two mont to write. In-
stead the author spent a hard
year and a half on the book
which came out to 1014 ms peg-
ca. Tolstoy, he reflected, had
nat told it all; he had left out
the catch. "It requires great ef-
fort to even approach the banal,
greater still to transmute its bas-
ic metal into gold."
I have not yet seen "Provi-
dence Island" but R is reputed
to bea good book. Iflts author
has told us how ideas for books
get generated, then maybe we
should all turn novelists. The
work task would be nowise as
hard as fine craftsmen make it
---Qeorle O, Hom=m lwk,
-Shelton.Malon€0unty Journal. Thursday, June 5, 196@
Meanwhile, the Legislative
Council's committee on revenue
and taxation will continue its
study of the entire field of tax
exemptions.
The council recommended that
the 1969 Legislature remove the
property tax exemption for cer-
tain retiremen homes, but a bill
to accomplhish this failed to pass.
The measure probably will he
• rmbmitte to the special ses-
sion next January, but the re-
sults of other tax studies pro-
bably will be withheld until
the regular 1971 session. The fierd
of tax exemptions is so broad it
could be a continuing study for
many years to come.
In addition, the committee has
been directed by resolution to
study tax exemption for steam
plants, and to explore the entire
field of taxation of mobile homes.
The Legislature wants to know if
owners of permanently located
homes are paying their fair
share of taxes, particularly with
reference to the costs of educa-
tion.
TAX ON 8TF,&M
The tax exemption for steam.
powered generating plants was
enacted to aid proposed steam
generating plant which would
have used coal from the econo-
mically-depressed area of Cle
Elum, but the plant was never
completed.
The only steam plant current-
ly enjoying the exemptions
using steam from the AEC nu-
clean reactor plant in the Trl-
Cities area, but other steam
plat,s are contemplated and law-
makers fear the exemption could
become significant and statewide
in scope.
. Still another resolution calls for
a study of the use of sales con-
tracts as a means of evading
personal property taxes on bus-
tness inventories. This study will
he made by the Legislative Bud-
get Committee.
CONSUMER8 GET ATTENTION
Numerous utudies have been
ordered with an eye to providing
more protection for the consum-
Ing public. A comprehensive re-
solution directs the Legislative
Council to study consumer pro-
tection and consumer credit; also
protecion for individuals against
"the arbltrary and capricious
a c t i o n s of administrators"
through appointment of an om.
budsman.
The Senate has called for con.
tinuation of the study Into pro-
blems created by receipt of un-
solicited credit cards through the
mail, and possible legislation clar-
ifying the liability of persons who
receive credit cards they don't
intend to use.
Another Legislative Council stu-
dy will delve into the need for
protecting purchasers of resid-
ential real estate from acquiring
property without adequate sew-
age disposal systems and study
the frequency with which such
sales occur, A House resolution
declares existing laws on land-
dord and tenant relations fall to
deal adequately with modern con-
ditions, and calls for an updat-
ing of these laws €o protect the
rights of both, and to clarify
their respective responslbillties.
The cotmcil also has been in-
structed to study the practice of
charging higher rates for auto
casualty and liability insurance
which are based solely on the
age of the driver, with particular
reference to juveniles and min-
ors.
One of the products of rapid
growth and development, the
tain geographical areas.
The council is directed to deter-
mine the need and feasibility of
combining various special pur-
pose districts; the desirability of
empowering county commis-
sioners to combine special pur-
pose districts within statutory
guidelines; the desirability in
some geographical areas of hay-
more than 40 ypes of special ing service now provided by spec-
gax!ng disriGts which he '= bn' : ial liricts provided instead by
created to meet demands for
various services, is being made
the subject of a comprehensive
and detailed study by the coun-
cil.
The resolution calling for the
study points out there is little
uniformity in the legislation
creating such districts, and often
much disparity, and that services
offered by some overlap in cer-
nearby cities or by the counties,
and whether legislative enabling
authority for special purpose dis-
tricts should be partially or en-
tirely revised, made uniform or
combined.
STORM CLOUDS FORMING
The ingredients for a full-scale
controversy are contained in a
resolution calling for a joint stu-
dy by the Legislative Council
and Legislative Budget Commit-
tee into the feasibility and desir-
ability of consolidating the cur-
rent responsibilities of the Parks
and Recreation Commission with
the land management respon-
sibilities of the Department of
Natural Resources, into a
single, consolidated department.
The committees also are direct-
ed to develop recommendations
and a fiscal plan for preserving
existing state parks in utilizing
withdrawn trust lands which will
conform with the enabling act
and the state constitution. The
recommendations and plan are
due for presentation to the 1971
Legislature.
Possibility of consolidating the
two agencies has been discussed
from time to time, but nothing
probably will come of it until
both are in control of the same
political party.
,Letter box:
Bible has lasted
Editor, The Journal:
There are those that would
have you believe that the Bible
is a Man inspired book. There
are many things to disprove this
theory.
First and foremost, the Bible
has lasted all down through the
ages, where other books have
gone by the way, or have grown
old and uninteresting, while the
Bible portraying the same mes-
sage is ever new and interesting
and comforting, and inspiring,
and the answer to whatever pro-
blems one has.
Secondly, the Bible tells man
he is a sinner. Man does not like
to be called a sinner. He will
tell you he is as good as anyone
else which he probably is, but
the fact that he rejects Cwist
as Saviour, is the great sin the
Bible speaks of, not what he
says and does.
If the Bible were man's word,
it would be written differently.
He would find excuses for him-
self, but it would be always the
other person to blame.
Dear ones, don't you find it
that way in this life? It Is at-
wets the other person that
wrong, not I or me. Oh we
might say we are sorry fog what
we have done or said. but when
it comes right down to brass
tacks, we will find an excuse why
we did so and so.
Also, the Bible is too deep a
book for man to think up. The
natural man likes to have things
logical, according to the way he
thinks because he is spiritually
blind, and if he was writing the
Bible he would make it nice and
easy for himself.
Human nature has never chan-
ged in that respect. While God
never forgets, man is inclined to
forget from one day to the neXt,
what he has written, or said,
so the man inspired Bible would
surely be a tanglement and full
of contradictions which are the
result of man's ideas today.
God's word in the Bible says
that all have sinned and come
short of the Glory of God, not
JUst certain people. God's word
telk man Just what he is and
what to do about it.
Proverbs 16:2 "All the ways of
a man are clean in his own
eyes: but the Lord weighets the
spirits."
of a huge home crowd. ' ....
And a huge crowd it was. The newspaper
ing estimated the mob at 15,465, which in
there might have been 10,000 warm bodies on
The big attraction, of course, was the
sionfree. It was the annual Little League
too little for Little League, and I'm a trifle
both like free stuff, so we showed up.
And quickly grabbed a couple good seat,
hind the box seats, right down in front,
ters' on-deck circle.
It started raining. We retreated to the
stand, where pigeons have roosted since
and plunked down among the feathers.
Groundskeepers started rolling canvas
dirt. But not over the grass. This being
dwelling Beavers lose their ball games on
thetic grass) and it's waterproof.
At any rate, all the Little Leaguers booed
keepers, and their coach-manager-n
erons hollered a few lusty insults from
A half-hour ler it quit raining. The
up, but apparently not fast enough, because
uers and their mentors booed the
too.
Keith and I went for a hot dog.
our seats had been stolen by an elderly
like they had come up to pigeon
the youthful (and other) exuberance.
Soulmates.
We located a couple other seats. Behind
We moved again, down into the
leather lungs and flannel mouths. And, I
late, a wet bench. Oh well.
The game began. The comedy of
ly, nobody got hurt. Nobody scored, either,
at which pointKeith and Idecided that
ball for one night. ....
"Pretty dull game anyway," I said as
Things picked up after we left, I'm
caught fire for the first time this season.
A couple Beavers got on base and then
utility infielder stuck his bat in the way
doubled them both home.
And then the pitcher swung at an
in self-defense and smashed it out of M
The Beavers held on to win it, 3-1.
Everybody was very happy. Their joy
There was joy in Mudville.
But now, since we missed all the actiO
to go to another game.
And that's serious. Because there'S
League Nits per season. Next time we'll
get in.
Letter box:
Rickety death
Editor, The Journal: pletely
I would like to know who is comments
responsible for the rickety group that the
of death traps referred to as a parably
carnival that represented part of that one
our Forest Festival this year. hat one
Surely the Forest Festival corn- of Foresl
mittee could find a carnival with- rides
safer and cleaner equipment unsafe eqt
(and operators) to be part of lion the
our cries' largest annual event, ride, is
For twenty-five cents my three- claRetS
year-old son was allowed to ride If the
the merry-go-round for 4 revels- tee is
tlons and for another twenty.five such a
cents I was allowed to stand our
beside him and hold him on the peopleS
three legged tailess horse since If there
there was not a solitary safety a result
strap on the whole apparatus.
I realize that many hours of carnival
hard work and planning are put were
into the Forest Festival. I found grace
the Forest Festival parade corn-
Credit where"
Editor, The Journal: people
ieI feel that a correction should
made about the window dis- dent
play at Bob's Shoe Tree. The deal
whole credit for the attractive be
and artistic display is due Jan- course
een Deyette a Shelton Ht Junior. with her
The very realistic ,'trai of
Pb at ShaRon, Mason
Entered as Second-Clase Matter at the