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Back to darkness
The light which for tile past few months has ilhuninated
problems within the Shelton school system, providing parents
and other taxpayers with the knowledge and information
needed to correct them, is in danger of being turned off.
When the school directors opened negotiations meetings
with the Shelton Education Association to the public, they
performed a public service of inestimable value. Patrons of
the district can now see for themselves both the conflicts and
the steps being taken to solve them. This has led to a
lessening of the distrust felt by the majority of the public
toward both administrators and teachers.
Coupled with the WEA-sponsored Study committee
report and the report to tile people of the school board, the
open meetings were an indication to the public that teachers
and directors wanted that public to know more about the
schools it supports.
There are indications this week that the board is
considering a return to the secret meetings of the past.
Shelton Education Association representatives have expressed
a desire lbr the closed sessions to discuss the report of the
state superintendent's impasse committee, and several board
members are apparently in favor of such an arrangement.
This would be the worst possible move at the present
time. The quarrels and personal vendettas which have kept
the schools in turmoil for the pasl five years are in process of
being eradicated.
The public is the big loser when its elected
representatives do business in secret. The sinners are strong
men who can dominate and sway opinion with high-pressure
tactics in private, and weak men who can return to their
constituents with distorted versions of what transpired during
ch)sed meetings.
We said it a month ago, and we'll say it again: A
statement made in public stands by itself, it cannot be
embellished over coffee, distorted on a street corner or
denied at a subsequent meeting.
When public bodies start doing public business in secret
meeting, it is not in that public's interest.
"Now say,
'ham and eggs'."
Deathly prose
The industrial-mililary complex has got to go.
We're nol disturbed about the minor sins of this
ntpidly-growing monster, such as the slaughter of 40,000
young Americans in a senseless war in the Orient, the
decimation of the population and plant life of a country the
size of Georgia, or the stockpiling of enough deadly germs to
eradicate eight times the world population.
No, sir, those are merely irritants, easily forgiveable
when you realize they stimulate the cconmmy and insure full
employment. What i?ugs us is the proliferation of
gobbledygook, that precious practice of government which is
personnel dccck'rah)r", "impact attenuation device" and
"ten,bat emplacentent cvacuator".
The first is the Air Force's definition of a parachule, the
second is the Bureau of Public Roads' jaw-breaking name for
the empty oil drums placed around highway obstructions and
the last, for crying out hind, is a shovel as described in a
Defen, Departmetlt publication.
We have just concluded what we assumed would be a
simple business deal with IBM, tile octopus of the computer
world. We arranged with one of tile company's marketing
representatives (salesmen) to acquire a computer which does
everything but take out the garbage. Our end of the bargain
involved providing negotiable engraved material (money) on a
monthly basis.
While wading through the waist-high pile of paper that
had accumulated by the time the machine finally started its
mysterious htnnming in the Journal plant, we came across the
phrase "the machine's monthly availability charges".
We suspected what it meant, but to be sure asked tile
company's marketing representative over a vessel of pungent
liquid rejuvenator (a cup of coffee).
You guessed it, that" mouthful of words denoted
"payment".
"The decorator says he has to go(
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Capitol dome:
Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 3, 1969
Adjournment was solid blow for tax reform
By: ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Most champions of tax reform
now agree that the best thing the
Legislature did for the program
occurred when it let the annual
election bill die witil
adjournment.
If the program were to be
il tit/lt'thut,ytlt they gree, it i
woulcln t have a dhance.
Virtually all legislators who have
returned to Olympia, after going
home, report their constituents
generally opposed to the
proposal.
A member of the State Labor
Council staff who worked hard
for tax reform said most members
of the rank and file of labor are
against it.
An informal poll of the 78
members of the Democratic State
Central Committee netted 48
replies. The vote was 38 to 10
"no." The poll was informal and
doesn't establis!l a central
cornmittee position on the issue.
but it is significant.
PICTURE COULD CHANGE
There seems little doubt that if
the tax reform package were to
appear on the ballot this fall, it
would suffer the same fate as
Oregon's sales tax.,
:But these ounting on this
situation to remain this way
through November, 1970, arc
underestimating the campaiglqing
ability of Gov. Dan Evans, attd
the organizing capabilities of
Republican State Chairman C.
Montgomery Johnson.
The fate of the tax program
remains in doubt, but with
Governor Evans stumping the
state in its behalf, backed by a
strong, coordinated organization
in each county it could stand a
chance.
There wouldn't have been time
to soften the current
Let's talk books:
ovcrwilelming opposition to a
slate illCOIBu' tax between now
dlld tlliS cotnillg N(P,'t'llll'lt?r.
l)claying the election until
llcxt year has at least givell tire
,,rogram a reprieve, and a fighting
cllallcC.
RECORD ON TIlE BENCH
,'iWo laws enacted by Iho I)b9 ,
i,gislature, one creating a
12-judge court of appeals alld
;i;lother creating cighl new
superior court .judgcships, it heady
had provided (;overnor I(vans
wittl 20 judicial appointments.
more than any other governor in
st:de history.
Now tie gets seven ill(ire, for a
total of 27. Seven new Superior
Court vacancies will be created
when his appointees nrove up to
the new court of :lppcals in
Atgust,
Governor Fvans also will gel a
Supreme Court appointnrent at
the end of this year when Judge
Which war, daddy, which is it?
By: LLOYD A. COOK
A friend, a veteran of Korea, is
in trouble with his 6-year old.
Susie has a big thing on war, any
war, and father is running out of
tales. Of course tomorrow she
may be off on something else, say
crocodiles or canaries, but today
it is combat, the bloodier the
better, and her daddy needs some
help.
At a time when many people
are sick of war, many pray for
peace, it s well to recall a war in
which all can take pride. In his "A
Itistory of the American
Revelation" (Knopf, 1969), John
R. Allen retells how the thirteen
nattering colonies united slowly
against the British and at last
drove then out. Another new
history deals, not with the making
of the union but with its
preservation.
This is Bruce Catton;s "Grant
Takes Command" (Little, Brown,
1969). the epic story of the
General's march from Vicksburg
to Appomattox. The novelty is
the insight which this foremost
historian of the Civil War brings
to his work task.
1 have now a war novel, a chase
and catch story, that is very good.
It is Barry England's "Figures in
a Landscape" (Random, 1968). I
like the shrewd way it is plotted,
its grasp of tactics and terrain,
and the hard, driving quality of
the work.
Two men break from a line of
captured soldiers, maybe in
Vietnam or Korea. They bowl
over the guard before he can get
his rifle unslung, roll with him
down a rock face into a deep
ravine, kick him to death and
escape with the gun.
Still with hands tied belund
them, they set out for some
distant mountains. Comes dark
and a native stumbles on thent
apd they kill him. They cut
themselves free with his knife,
then raid a village for water, food,
whatever they can find. They
travel at night, dodging enemy
patrols, and hole up in the
daytime.
As pursuit gets organized, it is
guided by a heliocopter that flies
search patterns over them,
directing the hunt. It is this
unrelenting, always intelligent,
war between the two men and the
chopper pilot that gives point to
the tale, a struggle that goes on
for fourteen eventful days,
As the men keep on ducking
patrols or shooting them up, the
p, ilot's orders are changed from
capture to kill. By now the
escapees are battered from
clawing a way up the mountain,
starved and sick, but in no mood
to give up. They have taken
another gun and some clips of
ammo but are growing too weak
too use them.
When it seems that they have
had it, seasonal rains begin and
water limits vision to a few feet,
giving them a chance to break out
of the cordon around them. They
try, try again, but are too far gone
to make it. Part way conscious
now, they settleback into a rock
shelter, await the morning sun
and their enemy the heliocopter.
As 1 read books on Vietnam, 1
keep measuring them against
David Halberstam's "One Very
Hot Day" (Houghton Mifflin,
1967). The author won the
Pulitzer Prize for his writing on
this war in 1964.
The action on this one hot day
i.n jungle and swamp was a 3-point
mission against the VC not far
from Saigon. "lwo South Viet
units were to walk in, the third to
be dropped by choppers. (,apt.
Beupre, a tired old veteran, and
young Lieunt. Anderson, are
advisors to one of these groups.
One village is passed without
anabush. A captive is taken, and
word is tortured out of him that
the VC, as usual, have been tipped
off, that a hit has been planned
further along. Beupre reasons that
the trap will be sprung, not at the
next village, but just beyond
when his outfit will be caught
of(guard. He considers flanking
tire danger spot but decides to go
around.
The South Viets shoot up the
second village but no one is there.
They take a break, laugh and
shout, then head into the detour.
With no warning, all hell breaks
loose and hall" the unit is shot
down, Confusion reigns and the
slaughter mounts. Who lives and
who dies, how escape is made, is
wartime writing at its awful best.
There is space to add a note
about another book. Were one to
drive north from Rome on the
autostrada he would, finally, take
a turnoff dirt lane and come to
Monte Sole. It was here, in the
villages, that German soldiers,
under order of Kesselring,
murdered 1,800 Italians, all
civilians (men, women, children)
in the fall of 1944. Jack Olsen
tells about this senseless massacre
in his "Silence on Monte Sole"
(Putnam 1968).
Matthew W. tlill retires.
I:+ttr of Ihe new appellate
judges bare Dolitical backgrounds
as l)etnocrats. ('harles Ilorowitz
atd Jerome Farris. both of
Seattle. and Judges tlugh tivans of
Spokane and Ralph Armstrong of
Longview. Two are former
legislators, ltarold Pelrie,
Olympia, and Judge Armstrong.
I:arris is the first Negri'-to be '
lVdlncd above the Superior Court
level in the state judicial system.
Aaotlwr. Charles Z. Smith, is on
the King County Superior Coutt
bench.
STRUCK BY STRIKE
(;overnor Evans, who
schedules his appearancesas much
as a illOllth or more ill advance,
mid his schedule upset by the
culhmry workers' strike in Seattle
and "l'acom.'l. Ilnwilling to cross a
picket line. Ire cancelled for the
juration of lac strike all breakfast,
luncheon and dimrer appearances
in the two cities.
l.vcnts of the (;onference on
Issues and Priorities for
l)cvelopmcnt of America
Northwest which had been
sciledulcd br a Seattle restaurant
were switched to the Science
Center. F'ood was served by a
cat.erer who wasn't involved in the
labor dispute.
LOOKING ELSEWHERE
Now that Secy, of State Lud
Kramer has said lie will announce
his intentions regarding the
Seattle mayoralty race on July 15,
it appears a virtual cinch that he
will toss his hat into the ring.
A Seattle supporter says his
campaign organization will
become 100 per cent effective the
following day. Reportedly, some
$78,000 had been pledged to his
campaign fund as early as a week
ago. If he wins. it will give
(;evener Evans another
appointment, to replace Kramer
as Secretary of State.
Though now an assistant
secretary of labor, Art Fletcher,
1968 Republican nominee for
lieutenant governor, is a
possibility. He is interested in
returning to this state.
ANOTHER MOVE
There long has been a
"summer White House" on the
national scene. Now there is a
"'surnnler executive mansion" at
the state level.
Governor Evans and Iris family
have noved into the waterfront
home of friends who are gone for
the summer. It is located in the
plush Cooper Point area north of
Olympia, near the Country Club
and facing Budd Inlet, Olympia's
main bay.
They wanted their sons to have
the chance to swim every day and
play with other youngsters while
school is out, but will move into
the mansion again in September.
Tie State Patrol security guard
which normally keeps watch over
the mansion has moved to Cooper
Point, also.
The Flapdoodlem
Old salt's
on the briny
By: STEVE ERICKSON
The ea-weathered sign advertised a "Boat al fit#
Crab Pots .... $12)' and who could resist?
Not wife.
"'Oh let's," she squealed, and so we did.
Proving before we were through that o1'
Ancient Mariner. or even Popeye the Sailor Man.
The boat was a long, flat-bottomed eyesore
boys used to call "a rowboat."
Eyeing my nautical-style
bar-pilot-and-sea-skipper's cap, the Old Salt
explained indulgently that "This here flat tt0r ..
from roilin' over on ye, sonny."
Wincing, 1 leaped into the dinghy.
"ALL" 1 cried, "all Evinrude!"
"'Yep," he allowed. "Broken though." excel#
Sure enough, the starter cord was fully
refused to retract.
"Now what?" 1 asked.
"Well," he said, whittling on a piece of
pocketknife in what appeared to be an a
a snicker, "Why don't you take her sister
crooked a finger at a similar rowboat tied
acros, sprawling when the two boats suddenly
The Old Salt cleared his throat, hand over
finally managed to stop chortling. "Ah'll git
bait," he said, shuffling off.
lte returned with three pots and three fisl
"Bait," he explained. "Here, ah'll show
it."
He grabbed a spike and a sledge hammer
spike through a gaping fish eyeball. It
other. Both popped.
"Jest thread this twine throudi the
pot," he said. "Nothin' to it." He
gagging on the dock. "Er, ah'il do the
said.
He finished, and the five Erickson
the boat and set sail, Cast off. Hove to. We
Fortunately the Garibaldi Inlet was
daddy became seasick on the CrossillgHaif.w.aY
("Local term, sonny") wife hurled the baiteu
briney deep (Nautical term, pops"). ,
A halt-hour later' Keith, my five-3
1 hove to once again, setting out after the potS.
And Lo[ Twelve squirming, pinching
one. The second pot was empty, and as we
squalid sea {"Get thai, Pops?) it was, once
The motor fell into the sea.
Seem the motor mounts had torn
plywood and dropped the Evinrude into
main ("Pops'? You there?"). The gas line sa
kept the motor from sinking to Davey
(wow) and allowed Keith to pull it back il
superviSed byT¢£aplh Daddy. :
So there wc were, adrift and under
which sensed that, so to speak, the tide
Fortunately, the master of a
noticed our plight and towed us back to
soaked motor miraculously started after e:
even propelled us back to the dock, and the
"Seen ya flounder out thar," he
mouthful of sardine brains. He sensed
about to damand a refund, in light of the
"Quick thinkin', yankin' the motor
said. "Ye'd make a good bar pilot," he
Turned out he was right. Because upOa
that's just where i piloted the family bus.
To the Garibaldi Bar.
Letter box:
Only 0ne, Jac
Editor, The Journal'. nuclear att
In your letter box there was
the statement made that there
was a preference for the "other"
Jackson over the "new" Jackson.
Perhaps the'record should be
more thoroughly checked to
discover that one of the strongest
and most consistent supporters of
the United Nations, a strong
United Nations, was and is ltenry
M. Jackson. At the same time this
support has never meant that the
United States should be a
defenseless nation.
Certainly the United Nations,
as imperfect as it is, would never
have been able to exist and thrive
without the shelter afforded by
the umbrella of strength of the
United States. The Russian use of
the veto would still be an
extension on communist policy if
the United States had not had a
superiority in force of arms. The
strength and willingness to use it
afforded all nations the
opportunity to speak and be
heard without fear, and to act
concertedly.
The attainment of the ultimate
United Nations as a world
federation will be a gradual
process, and its hope lies in the
democratic development of lhe
world organization, not
a development dominated by the
communist philosophy.
Russia now has its own
ABM system, is improving it, and
also has a great missle threat. The
United States without an ABM
system is open to nuclear
blackmail. If the Russian leaders
want to extend their policy, as in
the Cuban affair, what defense
have we against a threat of
Russia
system,
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