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When it comes to sacred cows, you've got to take the bull
by the horns of the dilemma and wrestle him to the floor of
the china shop.
We found this out the hard way recently while
attempting to compile a new list of hard-core American
sacred cows. The old list was badly out of date. It
included-among other things-motherhood, dogs and apple
pie.
Motherhood is taking its lumps from abortion reform and
the women's h'beration movement, dogs are either on leash or
sweating it out in the city pound and apple pie as we knew it
went down the drain with the advent of the home freezer.
We began our man-on-the-street research with a fellow
who made a positive statement with his automobile's
bumper. "America, Love It Or Leave It," the red, white and
blue bumper proclaimed. We asked him what it meant.
"Just what it says," he answered.
Unsatisfied, we prodded for further explanation.
"Well, Americans should stop complaining and protesting
about everything and love their country. It's the greatest
country in the world and they should he proud of it. But all
they do is complain and raise hell.
"The niggers think they're .good as white men when
even the Bible proves they aren't. So of a sudden, after
years of sitting around on their duffs letting us look after
them out of the goodness of our hearts, they start
demanding, demanding, demanding. When you don't give
them what they want, they start buying guns and causing
riots by marching down the street. Who gave them the right
to march down the street? If they get anything, they should
have to earn it just like the rest of us.
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"Unemployment problem? What unemployment problem?"
"That goes for the Indians, too. They steal all our fish
instead of going to work and now they demand to be given
government property.
"The kids nowadays don't give a damn for anything.
They have no respect for their parents, they don't appreciate
what we've done for them and they don't love their country.
They won't fight for America, they're all on dope, they make
love like tom cats, they disrupt the schools, break windows
and burn down buildings.
"The college teachers are a bunch of communists and the
guys in charge of the colleges don't have the guts to throw
them out.
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
If it proved nothing else, this
year's compaign for signatures
proved that the initiative process
of legislation still isn't necessarily
"a rich man's game."
If a measure has sufficient
public appeal, it still can qualify
House Joint Resolution No. 42.
You can expect to read and hear
much speculation between now
and election day as to what this
could lead to.
Appearance of a "tax-freeze"
initiative and "tax reform"
measure on the same ballot could
confuse a lot of voters. Under
for the ballot without either
"The welfare chiselers have raised taxes so high you're heavy financing of experienced normal conditions when the
lucky if you can keep your home. Lots of old folks are losing professional assistance, voters are confused they are
This was proved again this year inclined to vote "no."
their homes, while those hippie freaks and bums who won t through the successful signature But in view of recent events, it
work are on welfare and getting food stamps.
solicitations for Initiative 256 is far from certain that conditions
"There's nolawandorder, The cops catch a crook and if (bottles) and 251 (tax-freeze). in this year's election will be
i the wishy-washy judge doesn't let him off or give him a light Initiative 256 came in with about normal.
185,000 signatures and Initiative Canal To Be Ditched
sentence, the parole board lets him go as soon as he gets to251 with more then 134,000. A lot of dreams will go down
prison. ...... Both originally were shrugged the ditch when the State Canal
"A taw-abiding citize own the "experts;" .l ..didn,t lql ort comes
ties, the hippies are taking dope, going aroend and But the amateurs succeeded The report will conclude that
sleeping five to a sleeping bag at rock restivals, and nothing is / where the professionals feared to the long dreamed-of canal to link
done about it. But let a good American go ten miles over the
speed limit or take one clam too many and he's nabbed right
away."
"That's quite a list of complaints,"
our interviewee had finished.
we commented when
"Those aren't complaints," he said. I'm just telling you
the way things are."
"It looks as though some changes have to be made in
America," we remarked.
"Changes?" he retorted. "We don't need any
changes-love it or leave it, I say!"
tread.
It has happened before; most
recently in 1966, with the
initiative repealing the Sunday
blue laws; also in 1960, legalizing
joint tenancy agreements, and in
1 9 5 2, with the colored oleo
measure.
Confudon On the Ballot
Certification of Initiative 251
will put it on the same ballot with
Gee. Dan Evans' tax revision
program, already certified as
southern Puget Sound with Grays
Harbor isn't feasible.
The cost estimate, quoted at
$30 million in 1933, had
balooned to $400 million when
the Army Corps of Engineers
made its last cost estimate about
10 years ago. The report will
suggest construction of a canal
connecting Grays Harbor and
Willapa Bay with the Columbia
River, but will conclude that the
link with Puget Sound isn't
needed.
The report is being completed
despite the fact that Governor
Evans vetoed the $44,000
appropriation for the commission
out of the budget.
Espanded Seacoast
Governor Evans thinks there is
logic in the Washington
Environmental Council's proposal
to include fresh waterfront as well
as salt waterfrontage in the
seacoast management act. But he
hasn't decided what he will
include in the executive request
bill he plans to submit to the
Legislature.
The Governor is still hoping
that the environmental group will
abandon its plan to try an
initiative to the Legislature, and~i
instead try for enactment of
legislation in the 1971 session.
If the council goes the initiative
route, delay until the next
election appears inevitable. Not
only is the Legislature almost
certain to pass the issue on to the
voters in that event, it also can be
expected to submit its own
version as an alternative on the
same ballot.
Where The Buffalo Roam
Staging of a rock and roll rally
near Eatonville in defiance of a
court order has stirred speculation
whether the next Legislature will
enact some laws at the state level.
Only controls enacted so far are
county and city ordinances.
There wasn't any pressure for
this kind of legislation in the last
session and the Eatonville
incident could be forgotten by
next January except for one
possibility. The Buffalo Party,
original sponsor of the rally,
intends to hold a convention on
primary day and nominate various
candidates for office.
Scoop Jackson Stopped
When the Boeing Company was
awarded the contract for building
the airborn warning and control
system, Governon Evans finally
"scooped" U.S. Sen. Henry M.
(SCoOp) Jackson o'n a relL~ase ~out
of WashingtOn, D.C. But
apparently it was an accideat.
The word received by Governor
Evans was timed for release at 2
p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. As
most releases out of the national
capital are usually marked
according to Eastern time, Evans
assumed the White House
intended the Boeing news for 2
p.m. Eastern Time, which would
be 11 a.m. here.
He consequently released the
news at the latter time. By the
time the later release time was
called to his attention, it was too
late to do anything about it.
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Someone is going to make a million dollars when he
designs a program listing the players in Washington state
politics. At the moment, it is difficult for the layman to tell
the players from the spectators-or the increasing number of
stray dogs on the field.
Incumbent Democratic team members of the Great
American Pastime are the latest to he left stranded in left
field. Delegates to their state convention in Spokane last
weekend adopted a platform most of the officeholders say
they cannot live with.
At the same time, the delegates delivered a sharp blow to
the midsection of their most popular vote-getter, Senator
Henry M. Jackson, the overkill champion of the Western
hemisphere, by adopting a peace plank urging "removal of all
U.S. troops-combat, support and advisory-from Vietnam
and elsewhere in Indochina... "
The weekend's events so unnerved State Democratic
Chairman Neale Chancy he is reported to be re-reading "The
Life and Times of Boss Tweed" to find out where he went
wrong.
The delegates also endorsed H JR 42, Governor Dan
Evans' tax reform proposal which will be on the ballot in
November.
The state's Republicam, meanwhile, are considering
taking a lumds-off attitude on their leader's tax reform
measure, when they construct their platform. Stu Bledsoe,
head elephant handler, has indicated the Republicans will
neither support or oppose the issue as a party.
The GOP platform plank will probably read: "HJR 42 is
on the ballot. We urge all citizens to go to the polls."
Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Getcha prosram here!
Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412
Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washkngton, every Thursday.
Enternd as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Shllton, Wash. "
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay
from the
University of
Wsshinllton Daily
"Anothor lamibilttv, Khorana (tho molecular btologi*t who ac.
coml hod the tint ar etal jnthosis of a conced.s, is "the
genetic planning of indivtdualt--tailodng people to .fit patterns,
turning out ath t or in Ilectual,.'"
--Tin~, June 15, 1970
It was a gray morning and a slight drizzle was falling as Osborne
Cretin antered the building bom _g the Federal Bureau of Off-Swing
and Semml Resultants. He stood sheepishly in the lobby, unsure of
where to go in the maze of offices and laboratories before him. Men
and women in white coats scurried back and forth, carrying a
plethora of test tubes, vials, cultures and specimens. They ignored
him.
"Income, come in," a voice came suddenly from an office behind
him.
Cretin entered and saw a rather attractive woman seated behind
a large desk. Her name, Cretin noted, was Miss Creant.
• "Good morning, what can we do for you?" she said, using the first
person plural even though she was the only person in the room.
"Well, I came to order a baby, Cretin said.
"Will that be to go, or do you want it delivered?" Miss Creant
asked.
"Delivered?"
"Yes, sir, our stork system is very efficient."
"Stork?"
"Yes, we've found them to be most useful."
"Oh."
There was a pregnant pause.
"To go or delivered, sir?" Miss Creant asked again.
"Well, I dop't know. You see, I got this letter in the mail and..."
"Oh, this is not a voluntary baby, then?"
"Huh?"
"You seem a bit nervous, sir. Is this your first baby?"
"Yes," Cretin said, blushing.
"Well, there's no need to be mervous, sir. This is a very efficient
and sterile procedure. Let me see the letter you received."
Cretin reached into his pocket and produced the letter addressed
to himself and his wife. He glanced at it briefly before handing it
over.
"Greetings," the letter began, "You are hereby ordered to report
to the Bureau of Off-Spring and Sexual Resultants, there to undergo
the Parental Investiture Process pursuant to Section 14 of the
Amended Fertilization and Population Act."
The letter went on in a similar vein, all of it completely unintelli-
gible to poor Cretin. Across the bottom was printed a scroll contain-
ing the legend:
"Sic Crearemus Mundum."
"I see," said Miss Creant after she had read the letter. "Where is
your wife, sir? She was supposed to come, too."
"Yes, I know. She said she had a headache and just wasn't in the
mood."
"Oh. Are you an athlete, sir?" Miss Creant asked, looking skeptic-
ally at Cretin's dissipated body.
"No ma'am," he replied.
"Oh, then you're an intellectual."
"No, I'm a vacuum cleaner."
"A vacuum cleaner, sir?"
"Yes, I clean vacuums."
"Uh-huh."
"Part time."
"I see, then you're an undesirable."
"Ma'am?"
"It's a new Supreme Court raliag that we must also produce un-
desirables because they have a right to be represented in the popula-
tion, too," said Miss Creant, suddenly getting very cold. "I do wish
they'd mind their own business. Congress clearly intended to exclude
undesirables from the population program." "I'm sorry," an embarrassed Cretin said.
"Well, what model would you like. In our undesirable line we have
three basic colors: white, albino' and pink-toned. Oh, no--pardon
me--we don't have any albino models available. They were called
back."
"Called back?"
"Yes, we found a defect in the vascular system."
"Oh. Well, I'll take a pink-toned model."
,,Sorry, we're out of pink-tones."
.'White then."
"O.K. If you'll go down the hall to our Undesirable Display Hall--
White, you can pick up your baby." ,'Can't I have him delivered?"
"No sir. We can't touch the undesirable babies. It's a custom
imported from India."
Cretin did as he was told and picked up his late-medel baby. He
chose one featuring optional manual dexterity. Then, with the baby
in his arms, he walked back out into the drizzling morning.
On his way home he stopped and bought a cigar. He was a father.
--Ray Hallinan
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Page 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 16, 1970
Editor, The Journal:
I believe the county
commissioners have the power to
pass a resolution to stop these
hippies from defying the laws.
They could use helicopters to
spray the county or state roads
with a solution of pesticide mixed
with dyes which would mark all
Editor, The Journal:
The anonymous voice at the
other end of the line cracked with
antagonism, "You'd better
knock-off the anti-American trash
you write in the paper.., there
are still some partiotic people in
this country and we won't have
you crumbs downing America."
Well, I was caught off-guard. It
isn't every day you get abusive
phone calls-especially from
someone whose voice combines
the best qualities of Spior Agnew,
John Wayne and Billy Graham.
Needless to say, I was impressed.
Maybe there's something of the'
masochist in me. I really wanted
to hear this "gentleman" out and
to engage him, as they say, in
constructive dialogue.
So I took the diplomatic tact
with the limp rejoinder, "I'm
sorry, sir, if my letters offend
you, but... "
''Don't give me that
(obscenity) stuff," he cut in. "If
you're so damned smart, why
doesn't President Nixon ask for
your advice."
"I sort of wondered that
myself," I said, hoping that a
little humor might soften him.
"Anyway, President Nixon isn't
exactly known for accepting,
much less tolerating, the advice of
those who disagree with him.
You'll recall what happened to
James Allen (former U.S.
Commissioner of Education) and
Leon Panetta when they publicly
disagreed with the
President . . . in the best
democratic tradition, Nixon fired
them."
"That could be," he conceded,
taking a more conciliatory stance
toward me, "but Kate Smith's
'God Bless• America'-you know,
what she sang at the 'Honor
America Day', uh, thing-choke
you up even a little?"
Editor, The Journal:
Recently my husband and I
made a trip down the coastal
highway from Long Beach
Washington to Arcata, California,
east to Redding and then to
Klamath Falls, Ore., Eugene and
back to Shelton.
Every area has a different
problem than any other, yet each
shares the same concern for rising
prices, taxes, unemployment and
the Vietnam war.
A good way to get the feel of
the community is to buy the local
paper. At Ocean City Wash. the
concern is for preserving the
estuaries which are the shores and
swampy areas on the ocean and
mouth of rivers emptying into the
ocean. All fish, shell fish and sea
life depend on the small
organisms growing in these
estuaries for their life. Fills by
commercial builders and housing
developers will change the
ecology of the beach areas by
destroying feed producing land
for wild life on land and sea.
Along the Oregon coast are
many dairies but no farming of
the land. All of the dairy feed
must be shipped in, for the fields
haven't been cropped for years
and are covered with thistle, tule
grass, buttercup and skunk
ca bbage. Some pastures are
irrigated but there is little grass.
All kinds of farm machinery lies
abandoned in the fields where it
was left years ago. Most homes
are well kept and each has its
quota of nice cars, campers, travel
trailers and Hondas. Very few
have gardens anymore.
There is much logging in
northwest California, mostly
redwood. There are stacks of
' weathered lumber at the mill sites
and many old, grey logs in the
ponds and stacked in yards,
indicating there is no shortage of
lumber but probably there is no
market of the lumber is being
held for higher prices.
A winding, crooked highway
from Arcata, Calif. to Redding all
straight up with a logging truck
on every bend is a hazardous way
to travel but once committed
there is no turning back. Along
the way mountains are being
leveled and valleys filled for a new
highway. We spent the night at a
Forestry Camp at Willow Creek
on this road and listened to
logging trucks rumbling through
all night, carrying their logs to the
coast.
The Klam-ity Kourier is a
weekly newspaper serving
Klamath, Trinity Valley,
the
law, when a
blocking off a
road.
The solution
odor to it such
skunk.
L. L. Parsons
"Oh, it
right -in
days afterward,
ask that God bless
we are ravaging
nation with
savagery
affront.. •
there is a deity,
sickened b)
nation-"the
violence in the
Martin Luther
the Vietnamese
urging of some
leaders. This
Christ philosophy
to me.. • and I
patriotic about
The caller
sigh into the
quickly turned
sorry for you,
questions
being. MY
testily asserted.
"I'm afraid
point," I
"Some of our
name of God
embarked upon
which I dent
national
could
in the
of political
the interests
don't always
our
difference in
"OK," he
doesn't change
America; as far
love it or leave
"I think
blindest and
I began.
God-fearing
up, parting
unprintable
So goes
David Jubb
California-
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