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Pardons imperative '[' '
The national interest demands that the Congressmen " . o " • .
involved in the South Korean bribery scandal be given
unconditional presidential pardons.
President Carter should issue the pardons immediately
for all crimes real or imagined. Further delay will subject
; the nation to a protracted trauma of accusations, denials,
hearings, trials and appeals. '
i If the nation survived, which is doubtful, it would be .
;1o more than a helpless, pitiful giant, unable to effectively i:.,; .
serve as God's instrument in the never-ending fight against
theforces of evil abroad and the nattering nabobs of .
negativism at home.
Thomas Jefferson would agree. More than 200 years
ago he said: "Were it left to me to decide whether we
should have a bubonic plague without bribed Congressmen,
or bribed Congressmen without a bubonic plague, I should
:i not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
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,, Jefferson, as did the other patriots who brought forth
on this continent a new nation, recognized that first things
come first. We should listen to him.
Congress is faced with an overwhelming list of major
problems that need its attention. First on the list, of
course, is debate and passage of legislation that will assure
American judges at the trials of Soviet dissidents.
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, who must push this
measure through the House of Representatives, has been
hamstrung by the vicious coverage given his involvement in
the Korean affair by a biased media.
Irresponsible stories in the press that he acted with
questionable propriety in accepting parties and gifts worth
about $8,000 so distracted O'Neill that it is reported he
inadvertently erased 18½ minutes of a statement
denouncing Russian trial procedures.
Other matters that a strident public is demanding
receive immediate legislative attention include:
1. A strong law that would make it a federal crime for
non-incumbents to solicit or accept campaign contributions
from individuals or corporations with gross incomes
exceeding $3,200;
2. A bill that would allow dams to be built in areas
with no waterways;
3. A measure that would name Hubert Humphrey the
38½th President of the United States and provide the funds
to tear down metropolitan Minneapolis and replace it with
a library containing his collected speeches.
There is other legislation that must be tackled
immediately if our nation is to survive in a world
threatened by savages and despots who have no respect for
manmade or divine law. But our elected representatives will
not get the job done if they must bear the burden of being
held accountable to laws that apply to the rest of the
Our government is the only thing that stands between
us and anarchy. Richard Nixon told us that, but we didn't
listen until it was too late and he had been driven from
office.
But now we must listen. If present officeholders are
driven from office, Congress will become nothing more
than a lair for self-serving predators seeking power and
money wherever they can find it, and using that power and
money to perpetuate themselves in office.
If those Congressmen involved in the Korean affair are
crucified for minor indiscretions, they are liable to be
replaced with persons who are really dangerous, perverts
who are easy to recognize because they have one thing in
common: no respect for the traditions and customs that
have made Congress what it is today.
Some of their ilk are already serving in Congress and,
joined with newcomers of the same persuasion, could do
irreparable harm. They would ignore the national security
while furiously debating such minor irritations as inflation,
unemployment, and the energy shortage.
We cannot allow this to happen. Write President Carter
today and tell him to issue immediate pardons to the
embattled Congressmen. Only then, with the matter of
Koreagate behind them, can the nation's lawmakers resume
the important matters at hand.
Failure to resolve the problem now will make a
mockery of America's claim that it is the land of the free
and the home of the bribed.
00ea-Flap !€od
Sign right here, sonny
C__apitol00Dome:
State asked to pay for
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Most city and county
officials believe that if the state
would pay for the services it
receives from local governments,
it would go far toward solving
their financial problems.
The payments would be in
lieu of the taxes paid by private
entities.
And many think they might
fill the gap left by the sales tax
exemption for food which
became effective on July I.
Some Differences Aired
While there was general
agreement that the state should
pay for such local services as
police and fire protection,
sanitation, etc., county and city
officials differed on a second
choice.
Counties would like
authority to levy the same
business and occupation taxes
(B&O) in unincorporated areas as
cities and towns do within their
corporate limits.
Cities prefer the concept of
revenue base sharing. Officials of
the state's large counties are also
interested.
Levy Lid is Target
Virtually all those responding
to a questionnaire sent to more
than 1,800 county and city
produced a pen. Zimmer did so and was alone again.
Later, the ballpoint ferret approached home run king Jim Rice,
said, "Excuse me..." and was cut short with, "Don't excuse
yourself. It's all right." Rice adorned the ball.
Bob Bailey added his moniker over eggs benedict, then indicated
others of his ilk, helpfully. It became crowded between the seams.
Suddenly, a wildfire rumor - Bernie Carbo and Dennis Eckersley
were out in the lobby by the elevators. Embolden, d, the name
collector headed out at a sprint.
"Could I trouble you?" he asked Carbo, jabbing with the
handwritten sphere. Just then an elevator arrived. "Sorry, gotta go,"
said Carbo. "That's okay, I'll ride along," the seeker said, and did
prevailing. The captives escaped 15 floors later with writer's cramp.
And so forth - 18 autographs worth. A good weekend's
pestering.
A friend of long standing, one with worthwhile opinions, a large
degree of savvy and a practical view of life, listened to the
39-year-old for a while that last day then rained on his tirade by
blaspheming:
"I don't see any purpose served in getting somebody's autograph.
There's nothing gained, no point. It can't do anything for you, it's
just a name somebody wrote someplace. Meaningless."
The old adolescent was ready for that because he had been
searching his own motives in like terms.
"If you can't see the point there is none," he said. "If you see
the point, that is the point. Empathy is its own reward. Autographs
are a grand intangible."
EPILOGUE - Because of the fickle destinies of professional
sport, the baseball became obsolete four days later. Bernie Carbo was
sold to Cleveland.
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Mack McGinnis'
Comedy'00Comment
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Woody Anen's quip: "I don't mind dying. ! just don't want to be
around when it happens."
(Irv Kupcinet in Chicago Sun-Times)
By STEVE ERICKSON
Twenty-nine years later things were different, but the more things
change the more they stay the same. As a boy he collared the Seattle
Rainiers; now, as an adult (sort of), he collected Boston Red Sex
scripture.
Here was a man of 39 seeking the signatures of athletes a
generation younger. Was that juvenile? Was it time for this adult to
put away his childish things? Are autographs worth the humbling
chase?
He envisioned himself towering over Little League legions,
proffering his pen and baseball to a Carl Yastrzemski who snickered,
glowered and refused. Why, a guy could get embarrassed.
But feeling foolish would inhibit enthusiasm, so he determined to
brazen it through. After all, there's a difference - albeit a fine line -
between being childish and childlike.
Forewarned and forearmed, he advanced, temerity his disguise.
The challenge was formidable, because to ballplayers who spent
boyhoods 'oiling 'mitts and envisioning themselves on bubble gum
cards, signing autographs soon pales in esteem.
The domed stadium where the first-place Red Sex spent three
days whacking the last-place Mariners proved barren. Prospective
signers shunned their public, although utility infielder Frank Duffy
eventually obliged the questing railbird. It had been easier in 1949, in
San Francisco's Seal Stadium. Thirteen autographs in 28 minutes and
it seemed only yesterday.
He finally struck paydirt this time at the Hilton Hotel coffee
shop, interrupting players' meals, tattooing his horsehide for
posterity.Cornered, they signed. Nuisance value.
Initial success came when a waitress even older than he furtively
pointed out a diner in a comer, worrying a club sandwich, reading a
book. "A catcher," she whispered, and it was. Carlton Fisk. "Er,
Carlton," he called, waving the blank baseball, "suppose you could
sign... ?"
"on my way out."
After that it was easier. Yaz dropped by for lunch, was ambushed
while scrutinizing a menu he had no doubt memorized a dozen
seasons hence, and resignedly signed sans snicker.
Dwight Evans, who would hammer homers in the next three
games, enlisted then drawled, "Hey, Rooster, you, too," handing the
artifact over to shortstop Rick Burleson, who had been trying to
ignore the whole situation. Rooster wrote.
Relief pitcher Bill Campbell strolled in. Pounce! Afterward,
Campbell turned to an amused Burleson. "I can't help it," he said,
"it embarrasses me."
The Bosox had work to do and they abandoned the Hilton in
favor of the Kingdome, where they dispatched Seattle with the
tidiness of a Trac-Two guillotine, 13- I.
At the coffee shop the following 7:45 ann., Bosox Manager Don
Zimmer had just ordered fresh-squeezed orange juice when, to his
fascination and alarm, a disembodied hand snaked around the comer
of his booth, bearing a baseball.
"Would you mind signing this?" said a voice, and a human form
"There is a section of economics that is at present
nonexistent and that I propose to call by an unlovely
name: the economics of refuse. We produce in
ever-increasing volume the things we want, goods, but
also in ever-increasing volume the things that are
nuisances, bads. The graph of our progress is
incomplete if we only draw in the northeastern part of
the quadrant the positive increase of goods per capita,
while we neglect to draw in the southern quarters the
negative increase of bads per capita. '"
Bertrand de Jouvenal
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay
Paqe4. Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 20, 1978
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It's not true the administration has no foreign policy. Jimmy Carter
has a policy. Andy Young has a policy. Zbigniew Brzezinski has a
policy. Cy Vance has a policy. Miss Lillian has a policy...
' {Wendell Trogdon in The Indianapolis News)
A hypochondriac is a guy who takes different pills than yours.
(Ashley Cooper in Charleston, S.C. News and Courier)
elected officials by a legislative
Ad Hoc Committee on Local
Government and Urban Affairs
blamed the 106 levy lid law of
1977 for many of their budget
problems.
In this they have plenty of
company. School and other local
taxing districts have fried similar
complaints with their legislators.
City and county officials
both called for either repeal or
amendments to the present law,
with city officials leaning more
heavily toward a change.
Insurance Costs Cited
The skyrocketing cost of
liability insurance increases local
governments' financial woes.
Some are now taking the
precarious risk of going without
coverage.
Many cite as a possible
remedy a limit on the amount of
damages that may be awarded in
a single lawsuit.
Others would eliminate
potential liability from certain
types of conduct or facilities,
while another proposal called for
enabling legislation which would
authorize local governments to
enter into joint pooling
arrangements.
State Shares Blame
Rules and regulations
imposed on local governments by
the state are also held
responsible for budget problems.
A majority of both city and
county officials contend present
bid limits imposed by the state
are escalating the cost Of public
works projects.
The 38-member ad hoc
committee is composed of
legislators, and county and city
officials. Final proposals will be
received at an August meeting in
Seattle so standing committees
can start holding hearings and
have legislation prepared before
the 1979 legislative session
convenes.
Not Silent Any More
Cocktail lounge owners
whose liquor licenses are
jeopardized by inability to
maintain a ratio of 40 percent
.food sales to 60 percent liquor
(Rule 35) have accused
Dixy Lee Ray of "being
on the issue.
But her silence
been based on the fact
had asked her.
somebody has, some
may not like the answer,
She has made it
she backs the Liquor
Board all the way. It
position that any change
law enacted by
years ago is an issue
Legislature to settle.
Appointment is the
While the Liquor
Board is an autonolr
the Governor's
significant because she
a second appointment
three-member
January 1.
Meanwhile, the
dries, who have been
defensive in recent
unsuccessful o
various liberalizations
liquor laws, have taken
offensive again.
The Washington
Alcoholic Problems,
the Washington
Association, has asked
board to tighten Rule
requiring a 50-50 ratio.
The board has until
to act on the request.
Overhaul
The Interagency for
Recreation (IAC),
established by initiative
1964, may be in
overhaul when the
Legislature meets.
The IAC distributes
and state funds fog
recreational projects
launching ramps, game
propagation, bridle trails,
well as state and local
It presently is
five citizen members
of seven state
agencies: Natural
Parks and Recreation
Fisheries, Trans
Commerce and
Development, and EcologY,
h.j.
Still waiting
for Santa Claus
By DAVE AVERILL
Fairy tales used to befor kids.
About the time you got to be five years old, you
up and realized that Santa Claus looked a lot like
man. The Easter Bunny quit laying chocolate eggs o
porch, and even the Tooth Fairy turned out to
disappointment.
Parents used to worry, in those innocent days, W
learning the truth would shatter the children'S
emotions.
There was always some rowdy kid who lived 0
next block, ready to break up all those illusions.
parents," he would say darkly, "have been lying to
Later the same kid would be delivering lectures
facts of life, long before anybody's parents got are0
mentioning the subject. There's a kid like that in
neighborhood.
As it turned out, everybody managed to st
through life without Santa Claus or the Easter Bu#
the Tooth Fairy. You have to take the world the way
find it.
But those youthful disappointments left a mark.
One bit of evidence comes in the form of a
promotion in which some housewife with glazed
unleashed in a supermarket for a free shopping spree.
You have seen it happening on TV. The
through the store, cramming canned hams and sirloin !
into her shopping cart while the announcer
It may be hard to understand why such a
attractive to watch, but people must like it or
stations wouldn't keep showing it. All of us are
we can't have everything we want, maybe at least
have a shopping cart full of free sirloin steaks.
In our unkind world, every paradise has its
serpent.
Last week it developed that even the
paradise, the free no-strings-attached shopping
always what it seems.
Maybe you read about it. This lady in
buying things in a shopping center. A couple of
came up, gave her a letter and announced that she
won one of those TV-style chances to shop without
Help yourself, they said.
So the lady marched into her favorite retail
started grabbing everything in sight, just like the
television.
The story had an unhappy ending. The young
turned out to be practical jokers. The lady had to
all the loot. Probably, after her eyes lost that
look, she wept just a little.
She should have expected the worst. Like the
us, she knew Santa Claus wasn't real; but like the
us, she probably had held out just a glimmer of hope
the rowdy kid on the next block was mistaken.