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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
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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
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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
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