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t AMF.I IC.A USED "T'O Se 9"7 L.8. WE,6 'LIEIG Representative Helmut Jueling took his calloused derrier home to Fircrest last week. The Republican legislator left Olympia's marble zoo while the 44th Legislature was still in session because, he said, he was tired of "just sitting there not doing a damn thing." He said he'd return "when they get a budget out of the Senate." Jueling's refreshing reaction to the unproductive output of the $56,000-a-day futile factory makes for a happy conjecture: W ,hat would happen if all fhe legislators followed his lead, leaving only the leadership, the employees and assorted camp followers to continue the marathon? Picture a hostess herding a group of children through the tiouse gallery. "'See the two men playing gin rummy at the rostrum?" she would ask the youngsters. "Well, the one on the left is Speaker Leonard Sawyer, the most powerful man in the House, and the other the one who keeps picking up the wrong cards - is a lobbyist for the utilities." John Cherberg would go out of his mind with an empty Senate chamber. He would have to resort to introducing himself with a one-hour paean of praise. Unless, of course, he could cajole the Puyallup Daffodil Princess to appear for a return engagement carrying a bouquet of plastic daffodils. Members of the press corps could return to chapter two of The Great American Novel and the adolescent army of pages could devote full time to indiscriminate goosing. It's an idea whose time has come. ,O Some national problems seem insoluble. Not so the oil crunch. Strong leadership at both national and state levels has given the American people a clear picture of the problem and has come up with a solution. President Ford led the parade. First he raised the tariff on imported oil, which he explained would raise the price of gasoline and thus cut down use of automobiles. Then he released billions of dollars to build new highways for use of the cars he was trying to keep in the garage. He then raised the tariff again, in a move to keep the cars off the new highways. Henry Jackson and some of his fellow Senators said the oil situation was so critical they favored gasoline rationing to keep cars off the road. The Senate then approved $9.1 billion for highway construction. In March, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said "It is no longer a question of whether oil prices will come down, but when they will come down." This week, government By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS No matter how long a legislative session lasts, there invariably are unmistakable signs which tip off the experienced observer that the Legislature is getting ready to adjourn. One of the prerequisites to adjournment seems to be almost complete disagreement. Before the lawmakers can quit, the two houses apparently must get so far apart that it appears they can never get together again. This is an encouraging sign. all is the era of virtually complete confusion, when wheels start turning within wheels; when predictions can't stand up more than five or 10 minutes at the most. Bills die a dozen times during this period only to be revived and started to move; only to be killed again. There are trades and counter trades, deals and new deals. Things which seemed settled when the legislators adjourned for lunch are unsettled again by the time they reconvene in the afternoon. This point was reached spokesmen said they expected gasoline to go to 70 cents aWhen this point is reached, by the middle of last week. gallon and maybe more. seem to mesh suddenly, A Dozen Deaths The Wash ton ture, It lii g With the Tldngs start td~!~l~d ~:~."~*:,~ '~' " ..-" ....... ¢:._^, The four-bill transportation ederal lawmakers , okay a variable gas tax which will add ram, ........ into the home stretch. Reading package suHereu a nan uozen as much as three cents per gallon to the cost of fuel. This will discourage driving, it also approved a huge approwiation for highways to make it easier to drive and is working on a bill to prevent hitchhiking, the Europeans' proved way to cut the use of high-priced gasoline. You, as a citizen of this great state and nation, have a major role to play in these exciting solutions. Your leaders have done all they can do. Now they are depending on you for your part. They have reserved for you the honor of paying 70 cents a gallon for gasoline. this sign isn't always easy, however. The problem is determining when the ultimate point has been reached. Frequently when it appears they can't get any further apart, they do. The Senate and House apparently reached this point early last week. Era Of Confusion But the most reliable sign of deaths during a 10-day period, only to receive a new lease on life through "miracle drugs" concocted by the legislative medicine men promoting the package. All part of a package, each bill was dependent upon the others. If one was killed, all would go down the tube. The master key was legislation establishing a Department of Transportation, By JIM FITZGERALD I never feel more unAmerican than when in the presence of Mickey Mouse. The family that reveres Walt Disney together is the family that stays together, prays together, and flees together from an "R" rated world. Everyone knows that. But 1 never saw a Walt Disney film I didn't hate. I wouldn't insult my family by asking them to laugh at talking cars and Fred MacMurray bouncing over buildings. Fact is, I like to take my teenagers to "adult" movies that would soil their minds if they weren't accompanied by a parent with a damp sponge. This is a satisfying way to thumb my nose at censorship, just as the censor thumbs his nose at freedom. Also, the kids might learn something worthwhile from these forbidden movies. One sex scene in technicolor is worth 1,000 words from a dumb father who learned it all from the rack boy at Curley Peloso's poolroom. By the time he is 18, I want my son to know the streets of Los Angeles are not paved with flubber. So you get the picture. The CIA has probably been reading my mail for years. Any man who sneers at Donald Duck must have subversive connections. I tell you all this only because I recently spent some time in Orlando, l lorida, and my wife said it would be a sin to leave without visiting Disney World. We'd been on the road several days, and I'd already used up all the sins allotted me for March, so... The Disney people grab you while you are still on the Mack McGinnis' highway, l hey come on ,our car radio and suck you through the gate. The 12,000-car parking lot is divided into sections named after dwarfs and the attendants warn you to remember the name of your section or spend the rest of your life on foot. "We're in Dopey," my wife said. "Certainly," I said. After putting down $13, we entered the world's largest combination gift shop and hot dog stand. Everywhere I looked, someone wanted to sell me something to eat or something to take home to prove to my neighbors I'd been gypped. The $13 bought us admission to 8 of the "special attractions," all of which were easy to find. Each one was at the Florida end of a line of people stretching to Utah. I wouldn't stand in a line that long if it led to Sophia Loren playing Snow White as a nymphomaniac attacking everyone parked in Dopey's section. We did sneak into the theatre where life-size replicas of Cinderella, Mickey and the gang sang songs and told jokes. It's amazing how those inanimate dolls talk and move and appear just as human as the people in the audience (especially the zonked-out father with 3 little kids who has been looking for his car for 3 weeks). It must cost a million dollars to make a 6-foot doll that can tap dance and sing "Some Day My Prince Will Come." Only a jerk would point out that a real live girl would be a lot cheaper and more entertaining. "You're a jerk." my wife said. I came away from magic land with tremendous respect for the precision and efficiency of the Disney people. They handle gigantic crowds without wasting a movement or a minute. Endless railings keep you in line (Please don't sit on the rails; they are for herding, not comfort). Recorded voices continually tell you to face right, turn right, and leave by the After services one Sunday, a woman told the Rev. Mr. Wiles: "Pastor, exits on the right,, 1 wo,u, ldn t turn left for fear a giant neon every sermon you preach is better than the next. (George Dolan in Fort Worth Star-Telegram) sign would /lash TILT and 1 would be banished from the kingdom forever lbr plugging Mickey Mouse s digestive tract. A woman read recently that one woman's group is suggesting wives greet their husbands at the door with a little flare - like clothing ~lves in Saran Wrap. The woman says she thinks her husband would take one look at her wrapped like that and ask, "What, leftovers again?" (Minneapolis Tribune) As we drove out of Dopey's section, the same sonorous voice was on the radio, still urging us to come to Disney World and telling us how to park. Disney won't be programed to say goodbye until Mickey Mouse figures a way to freeze farewlls on a stick and sell them for 50 cents a lick. Page 4. Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, June 5, 1975 near SubSB 2535. Governor Dan Evans, who had been trying unsuccessfully to create such a department since 1967, let it be known before the 44th Legislature convened, that if he didn't get this bill, he would veto any other transportation bills. A measure acceptable to him, SubHB 164, passed the House easily enough. But as usually, it was killed in the Senate Transportation Committee. Then the Senate brought out its own version, SubSB 2535, passed it and sent it to the House. Tale Of Two Bills The two measures were about as much alike as night and day. The House bill would create a Department of Transportation by merging the Departments of Highways, Motor Vehicles, Aeronautics and related agencies into a single department. The commission would name the secretary or department head from a list of three names submitted by the Governor, and the Governor would have authority to remove him. The Senate version wouldn't create a super agency. Instead it would convert the Department of Highways into a Department of Transportation by adding a division of public transportation. The commission would appoint the secretary, and have sole authority to remove him, and only for cause. When this measure arrived in the House, the House Transportation Committee proceeded to amend it by putting its original bill on it, and was ready to send it back. Rocky Road But the Senate sent word that if this happened the measure would be treated as a new bill, and would suffer the same fate as the original. The stalemate was broken when Senator AI Henry, author of the Senate version, agreed to a compromise amendment which would require the commission to appoint the secretary from three nominees submitted by the Governor, but would leave the power to fire in the hands of the commission. This amendment was adopted on the floor of the House, but the measure was sidetracked when Representative Robert Perry, architect of the House version, submitted another amendment. The bill called for a $500,000 appropriation from a "transportation fund." Unaware that a transportation fund would be reacted by another bill in the package, Perry changed this to "general fund." This sent the measure to Ways and Means Committee, where the appropriation chairman, Representative A. N. Shinpoch, said he would hold it until a House-bill consolidating the state's computer systems was released by the Senate State Government Committee. Editor, The Journal: We feel compelled to make a response to Edwin Montoya's May 29 letter on Laetrile. Laetrile is not a cancer treatment and not a vitamin. Clinical evidence from research over the past 22 years has proven repeatedly that Laetriles are not effective in the treatment of cancer. This evidence is presented by the National Cancer Institute, the California Cancer Commission, the AMA, the USFDA, the American Cancer Society and many other agencies and groups associated with cancer research. The research by hundreds of physicians has overwhelmingly disproven the initial research by Drs. Krebs, et al. The promoters of Laetrile reap huge financial returns, a fact Editor, The Journal: My husband and I just returned from a visit with our son, who is an inmate at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. While there we were again privileged to attend another of the meetings held each Friday night at the minimum security building by the lifers and we talked to the young lady whose following piece was published in "Letters to the Editor" column in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin. If only we had more like her and her family. There could be a change in the criminal neglect we find within our prisons. There are enough families that not one of our young men who are being held W.C.C. need feel completely alone. Share a few moments of your time with one of them. You just might find that they too are human beings and worthy of your respect. Mac Stratton Shelton 'Why seek retribution?' To the editor, Why, why can't we get beyond the point of wanting retribution? Why can't we, the cit ens of this county who are in a position to really help the convicted offender who lives amongst care enough to help? It really does make a difference, you know, when we ourselves feel someone cares - cares enough to visit, to write, to send a birthday card. Well, it matters to prisoners, too. If we could only ~understand how much could be saved- taxes as well as people's lives, and property, by simply getting involved with just one convicted offender and helping him understand that someone does care about him, helping him understand how we manage to stay inside the law. Where are the Christians in Walla Walla who have been saved from loneliness and despair? Is there no loneliness and despair in prison? It seems we have the administration and staff who can and want to perform real rehabilitation at the penitentiary if only they had the interest and support of the local community, becausse that's what it takes. Our family has been visiting lifers in maximum and minimum security for the past year and our minds have been profoundly changed from our former thinking. Dear Journal Readers: The parade and the weather were fantastic. But please note -that the eight cars and two motorcycles that were driving erratically in the parade near the Shelton Big Fours vehicles are in no way connected with our group. The Shelton Big Fours in no way condones the manner in which these people were driving their vehicles - popping clutches, squealing of tires, hard on the gas, heavy on the brakes, wheelies by the bike riders. Being the second to the last entry in the parade in no way helped our public image, because of the invasion of all of these non-four-wheel-drive vehicles who decided they wanted to be in the parade. Also, the drivers of these vehicles were in no way concerned with the safety of the Editor, The Journal: Congratulations on the EXCELLENT supplement (of May 29, 1975), covering the history of our Mason County Forest Festival. Clive Troy did a beautiful job of writing up the story. I appreciate also the articles by Dave James, by Harry J. Clark and by Frank Lynch. 1 assume this Mr. Lynch is the late writer in the Seattle P.I. whom I enjoyed many years ago. It is good to be reminded of those who have done so much to make our unique festival the "30-year success story" it is, and especially of those who are still with us: Harry Clark, Oscar Levin. W. H. Needham, Clarence Beauchamp, Joe Hansen, and probably others I don't happen personally to recall. It was disappointing not to see mention of 1944. Apparently no record was made, and I myself was completely in the dark about it at the time, and thus remember nothing beyond my personal impressions. A friend invited me to accompany her to some affair I had not heard of, to be held in the gym building facing the old Lincoln School. We found the hall decorated with a miniature forest of beautiful second-growth fir trees, in front of which a group of cute little children performed to tinny music from a little old phonograph - first graders, and maybe some second graders - or kindergartners if such there were back in 1944. The audience was small, mostly the parents. 1 recall the surprise and delight expressed by the late Doctor Kennedy as he Editor, The Journal: There is a bill about to be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee which would make it illegal for persons to in any way instigate the overthrow of our government or any other government. This could conceivably mean that private citizens, voicing their discontent with government policies as many rightfully do these days would be committing an illegal act for which they could be busted as legally as are thieves. Conceived by Richard Nixon and John Mitchell, this bill is known as S.I. If it passes, folks, better COUfll 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 Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 per year in Mason County, in advance --Outside Mason County $7.50 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay which is res continuing patients are urged to their physicians treatment from a NanCY Mason County American Not every changeable, perhaps, been murder in mY my bitterness did when love stepped ha mother was not her killer was productive citizen, father. "And if you who do good to you, is that to you? For do the same.. enemies and do'g,,---' nothing in return; reward will be great. measure you give measure you small children sitti~ curbs. I guess we were lucky no one The Shelton provides social recreational members. They active members in Search and Rescue, activities, and ha! directly with the and Welfare Office County. Prospective want to join the Fours are on a basis. During members watch habits. None of the invading join. Let's hope parade officials prevent another watched his tiny remember clearly beautiful bird song. knew it was a eyes kept where surely a sitting! It seems to Clark was with that ,,celebratiOn" s watch what you say it to. gt. 1, Editor, Thehal It conversation the they came here the friendly people. I doubt the friendly attitude in a than was my Journal office gathering material supplement. I am also Levin, Dave and Simpson for their many with pictures treasured very It was and I enjoyed [: