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Editorials: iii I ii Saga of Protect Push The unearthing of what excited archeologists have tabbed "videoscrolls" from a sunken lakebed near Dordogne, France, has cast some doubt upon President Richard Nixon's assertion that the recent journey to the moon by three American astronauts was "the greatest week in the history of the world since Creation." It seems incredible that anyone cotdd challenge the president's evaluation of the moon walk, but the paper-thin, brittle videoscrolls, buried for 25 million years, reveal the thrillying story of 30 minutes that changed tile world. thrilling story of 30 minutes that changed the world. The scrolls, which can only be run through a stone projector after careful soaking in the saliva of the East Indian wartoad -- a rare liquid since there are only 108 of the creatures in existence - contain a documentary featuring the commentary of one Walter Anthracite of CBS, Cavedwellers Broadcasting System. Using clips fihned in living black and blue, Anthracite outlines the fantastic experience of three cavemen who were the first human beings to push a Whirling ttaul-Everything-t:dible Lashup up a hill. The WHEEL, as it was called by the workers at the Push Center at Cape Glopp, had been perfected over a period of 2,000 years by dedicated technicians as a means of hauling fi)od, particularly heavy dinosaur meat, to the tribe's caves. There had been many setbacks over the years on Project Push. Anthracite noted that ten ntcn had died in the early years of the project when a four-ttm WlIEEL, with the axle placed near its edge rather than its center, slipped off its pad and ran wild through a crowded tyrannosaurusbtlrger stand. The project really picked up steam, however, when the tribe, the Furrycans, learned that a coastal people, the Clammunists, were also determined Io bc lhe first humans to haul a load of meat tip a hill.'Project Push then became a top priority item, and the citizens willingly donated 25,000,000,000 snakeskins (the legal tender of the time) to assure its success. The qualil:y of the videoscrolls is not Ihc best and at times it is hard to tell if Anthracite is weeping from emotion or whether the wartoad saliva is running down his cheeks, but he does seem visibly affected as the three terranautspreparc for the unprecedented assault on the hill. While they arc changing into their special lizard skin Ptsh suits, however, lie nlanagcs to contain himself as he fills in with special color material. He interviews lhe terranauts' wives and, although lhey seem to be thrilled over the experience, one of them mutters that she will be glad when her husband returns to their cave becau the tamily is completely out of firewood and sabre-tooth tigers have made off with their three youngesl children since her husband started work on the project. There were doubters in the tribe. Anthracite held the :microphone for a white-haired theoloan,lo commented: W the GreatIremakerad*,,btertded er be hauled up a !hill on a wheel, he would have made all stones rotmd wilh axles in the middh,." A man-on-the-path interview turned up a sour individual who grumbled: "It's all a hoax. It's being done with nfirrors by our leader in the White Cave to bolster his sagging popularity." Anthracite chuckled as he brushed off this comment by pointing out that the mirror had not yet been invented. The climax of the project is described by the commentator in a quivering voice. The three terranauts begin their excnJciatingly-slow journey up the hill, pushing a giant WHEEL tied to the axle of which are two triceratops hindquarters, half a dozen pterodactyl wings and a side of brontosaurus. Halfway up the slope, one of the terranauts takes his shoulder from the WHEEL and is left behind with a gourdful of water to refresh his companions on the return trip. The two remaining pioneers manage to shove their loaded WHEEL to the brink of the hill and after five minutes of equipment-checking one of them grabs a chunk of --f003P I /'/, k,\\; Capitol dome: Next best thing to no session is short session But you can only push a Legislature. to() far, and an election year isn't the time for the executive branch to flex its muscles. As for we who had predicted another marathon session next year, this is one time when a prognosticator would rather be wrong. Dusting Off Shelves Retailers have been busy dusting off shelf space this week. e:will receive their first direct shipments of out-of-state wines from wholesalers on Friday. The law legalizing sales to retailers took effect on July 1, but when they wrote the bill. the legislators didn't allow for state liquor board regulations requiring approval of prices and certification of wines before they could be sold. The liquor board's laboratory has been working two shifts certifying the many new brands being listed. New listing by state liquor stores--most of them foreign imports-also will make their appearance on Friday, but many of the brands being certified for private retailers won't show in the state stores. They include many brands which even the liquor board had never heard of. Another step has been taken in the move to challenge By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS When Gov. Dan Evans aniaounced he doesn't have any intention of calling the legislators back at the end of 60 days in next January's special session, it was the best news the weary law-makers had heard this year. The only announcement which could have made them happier would have been one saying the governor had changed his mind t l and wouldn't:call  :iI, session. But that wasn't to be. The next best thing to no session al all is a short session, and the governor expressed the hope the legislators could comple'te their work within 30 days. That sounded good to the legislators, too, and if they shoot for 30 days, they should be able to make it in 60. Red Faces While the governor's announcement was a welcoming surprise, it caught quite a few observers with red faces, including the writer. In every session he has had as governor, he has kept the law-makers in session until he got what he wanted. Even House Speaker Don Eldridge had predicted there never would be another session of less than 100 days. constitutionality of the lttt urban transportation law. The attorney general has declined the request of a Bellevue taxpayer to challenge the law, which clears the track for the taxpayer to take the case to cot|rt on his own. lle contends the bill enacting the law embraced more than one subject, contrary to constitutional prohibitions against "two-headed bills." The law enacted grants to first-class cities 50 per cent of the motor vehicle excise taxes collected in their areas, for development of mass transportation facilities. Tax Revision There has been a lot of talk among legislators about plans to make some changes in the governor's tax revision package when the Legislature meets in special session next January. But if there are to be any changes, they will be minor in nature. There might be some provisions for medical exemptions providing the governor considers them "workable." If there are too many serious efforts made to amend the package, however, there won't be any. Legislative leaders aren't going to allow that can of worms to be opened again, and if it looks triceratops and steps onto "the flat ground. For once, Anthracite keeps his mouth closed and the history-making Let'I talk books: terranaut, bent under his load and sweating profusely from the halt" hour's exertion, speaks. "One small hernia for man," he grunts painfully, "and a double hernia for mankind." Anthracite is ecstatic, and so is the leader from the White Cave when he arrives to congratulate the terranauts, who are perched in the top of a tall tree where they will be in quarantine for three years to avoid contaminating the tribe with any magic substance they alight have picked up during their trip. "1 want you men to know that this is the greatest thirty minutes in the history of the world since Creation," he shouts up the trunk. "Unless maybe it was the invention of weapons with sharp edges." Faces of Eve-a study in values met with the reply: "No, not yet. 1 am in no hurry." Boy and girl part, and the boy seeks the company of buxom Mrs. Tenny. Each author has a fine way with words, a genuine storytelling skill. In The Foxes, writing is sharp, erudite, sophisticated. In Atlantis, things are put in the way kids talk, like would come from a tape recorder. The Foxes has no humor, its dark mood would not permit it. Atlantis is full of wit as the young think it up. The plot in The Foxes is all but absent. A group has met for unknown reasons for a weekend, so that time is not a factor. One waits for Godot to come but, as in that massive riddle, waiting goes on and on and nothing happens. In short, Mrs. flilsinger in this, her first novel, cuts a slice of life, looks it .over, dissects it, then walks away, all for reasons never disclosed. The mystery is what she was trying to do in her cameo pages. Atlantis is an old hat tale in that it has a beginning, a middle, and an end, a very logical end. Time goes on; one can see its passing. The girl grows toward maturity, events occur in sequence, the people and the scene change. For one thing, there is more junk on the beach, the stuff that litter bugs scatter. On putting the book down, one feels that the tale is finished. MuU Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426.4412 Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post Office, Shelton, Wash. Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $6.00 By LLOYD A. COOK Foxes on the'Hill. By Serena Sue ltilsinger, Gambit, 1969. Love in Atlantis. By B. L. Barrett, Houghton Mifflin, 1969. The first novel takes its title from a poem by Wallace Stevens: Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill. The story begins with a cremation. A young woman, mother of a young son, has taken her own life, and a small group has assembled for final rites. No one, except the husband Claud, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ....... • .............. Henry G. Gay PLANT SUPERINTENDENT ........................ Jim Shrum NEWS EDITOR ................................... Alan Ford OFFICE MANAGER ......................... Lodema Johnson OFFICE ASSISTANT ............................. Mary Kent ADVERTISING MANAGER ...................... Don Adolfson NMIMuMuuum the son and a family friend, figure any further in the tale. Why, then, did the author make this start? Perhaps, and 1 guess, the idea was to create the somber mood that pervades the narrative. Some months later friends and relatives of the dead Rachel gather at Claud's house on the hill, an old stone mansion beside the sea. No reason is given for the meeting so that, again, one lacks a due as to what the author has in mind, the theme if any of the novel. Most of these weekend guests are strangers, getting on in years, and all have known Rachel. They walk and sail but mostly they talk. They talk about each other and news headlines. In the main, they talk about Rachel who turns out to be an impulsive, Page 4-Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 31, 1969 self-centered and unloved person. Discussion turns also on young Mark and what is to become of him. Once more, nothing is resolved. Two guests come late and are housed overnight at the home nearby of Claud's friend where the couples engage in mate swapping. As usual, the incident is not connected, not made an 'integral part of the story. This, then, is "Foxes on the Hill." There is a postscript in which the guests depart, go their separate (or paired) ways. To add what may seem a non sequitur, the novel has had much critical acclaim. "Love in Atlantis" is a lively, rollicking tale about a "well brought up" teanager, a girl never named since she, now married, is presumably the author. The setting is a small beach town in California. The time is now, the story as simple as can be. Swimming, surfing, beach parties, watching the Margie O. (fish boat), dances at the Anchor Care. Shatto, the life guard, Mrs. Tenny with her broken viens, old Mr. Tenny and his dog, Florence Hohe the town bad girl, the CCC boys. Always central is the girl- her first romances, first kisses, steady dating with Dwayne Skinner, her ideal of what a man should be. The climax comes when Dwayne, insistent on his needs, is like it might happen, the bill will be kept on ice. The Republicans have the votes in the Itousc, and the Deomcrats, the votes in the Senate to prevent eilher side from cutting the issue wide ()pen again. Other Taxes There has been some talk about a local option bill, permitting counties, and possibly cities, to levy sales taxes, similar to the local option provision which the governor vetoed ou! of the tax revision bill. This measure would be pushed as a separate bill on its own, but it is highly doubtful if either the cities or the counties want it. Without their support it would have little chance of passage. Repeal of the inventory tax also seems certain to come up again, but without anything to compensate counties for the resulting loss in revenue, it also appears doomed. Top Priority New unemployment compensation legislation has been given top priority by Governor Evans for the special session, topping, apparently, even his department of transportation bill. This is the one issue on which all legislators voted strictly along political party lines during the 1969 session. Even after the Legislature had adjourned, attempts to settle differences between the Republican majority in the House and the Democratic majority in the Senate were fruitless. Governor Evans is determined on this matter, but this is one subject on which the Democrats are standing pat. If an agreement is reached, the Republicans will have to yield. This could be accomplished by a switch of just seven votes in the House, Governor Evans probably can do it, but he may want a few concessions from the Democrats. Budget Worries If the state's financial health looks bad by the first of the year, as some economists predict, this could present the law-makers with their No. ! problem. Already there are two schools of thought on the status of the general fund, one optimistic and the other pessimistic, with the bearish views being expressed by those in the governor's cabinet. The latter are the figures the governor will use, and if he thinks new or additional taxes are needed to keep the general fund in the black, he will ask for them, but apparently won't demand. His strategy probably will be to threaten cutbacks, even elimination, of some programs. Whether to vote more taxes or permit cutbacks in programs will be a difficult decision for legislators to make in an election year. The department may incorporate stricter controls into its regulations, as Don Moos, the director, prefers controls to prohibition. The Flapdoodler_: From a hde pool to the White Hou By STEVE ERICKSON Mother-in-law has some growing up to .do.0gt0 . "rpl She actually believes Teddy KennedY is g,. k.sl: b the hook (in this current drowning mess)s!00g'?.00i i J a powerful national pohtician whose name ts _'';'!i¢ fl|' How stlly can she get? I tried to conv' ,-,1 thinking. 1  .e a "Teddy will get the same treatment anybedyelJe ' i receive under the circumstances. He will get .o I..¢l.]Z" ' treatment. Why, the local district att°rney [ °' 'a'!'qtrt,.h.'',A,,': "Humpla!" she snorted. "Is that the san,a,, s¢ _____'n.¢ d,' fearlessly charged Teddy with leaving '_'..iicid,,"ll= accident, instead of manslaughter, negligent" .... , -] driving, or perjury?" ,^t to 1. "Mother-in-law," 1 parried, "you've go!:;S,vel  I was stung and saddened by her cym¢a • I1' r considerable such jaded thinking in my felloW  it's disheartening. I don't know where it can tn  d ........ II me "  Well, stud mother-m-law, te ,," ,'Dke  enlightened American figure this case? : ' "'ln a press release." "Yes, well .... anyway, like Teddy said, he i= after the accident, and-" "He was in a daze before the accident. N0,1r I:I! stupor." • 1 clucked nay tongue, it had no visible erred°! stoicism. "If 1 may continue," i continued, by the magnitude of this latest tragedy he wandered around in a confud state ours. :'About ten h " ed  'ttmmmm. Well, when his sensibilities retUr When he sobered up, you mean. . ,., thillii ''e' " "  "d the rtg, -the senator ,mmedmtely d] . -1'. "No," she said, "he didn't do the r,ght t' leave the country. Or restore the ltrl to h!,. .ke¢ • * iiiw [ , Cape Cod for help. All of which were wtnJn:Jlto . didn't even tell the whole truth, when he deeP--- all." "Aha!" I said. "Got you there BecaUSe bY • • nee ot Ill attorney's own admission, 'I find no evide :'tI, here.' Whaddya say to that'?" cal "That district attorney has a great politi Massachussetts." p00 "Which is more than you can say for lamented. 'Tin afraid this washes him tf.",. I ...... aid He I Ths starts him off, she s • of sYtlOI the White House on a tidal wave gullibility." " "You're being entirely too hard on TeddYL "Give him a chance. He'll show you what h¢ doing for you." her peculiar" y "That," she said, admitting in .,orati0 AI, • rear n rl0 had been right all along, "is son-in-law. Tide puddle to the White "" Americana." "1 knew you'd see it my way," ! gloated. I,t.", Le.er 00ox- Shook the wrong tO , Editor, The Journal: schooling. 1 just finished reading C. Do yo White's letter, employeS Although my gray matter is fulltime still trying to figure out some of students d it, there are parts that come isjusther¢ through loud and clear. This is the T he bo obvious jab at Tacoma City Light. Cushman Being a member of the family Lake (so to speak) I do wish to add to Compa some of the things Mr. White said Resort. and dispute others. Fourth You state T.C.L. pays $2.70 the lake it per acre in taxes. 1 don't know only about that, but what does your offered to largest timber company here in Mason Mason County pay? My here. information states roughly 25 public. cents per acre. Now whose Tacoma pocketbook does that grab? businesseS, ll,,, The City of Tacoma pays a Mr. wte, t,,, substantial amount to the local this time.Kittie i)i € i.,t,l ! school district for our children's i  Peace once a year o, Editor, The Journal: taxpayerS ,.P;he b# ,,IY, The first "step" to a world andno - holiday - it could be the first a .... o bu _,tit, t |! time since the United Nations was to lana ". oa '€' iJ formed that all of the members whchthis" plane.t.ldshOU be  "0ftl,t,.li'*J would agree to make the day the mankind. -e l. "uV'= 000;l[!I[,ll "ql astronauts landed on the moon a world-wide holiday, not just a trLo:nli!:" II  United States' holiday. We know that eight of our astronauts gave their lives, the Beautiful Editor, The Journal: and This is a letter of appreciation husband and praise from a "Georgia add that Cracker." Dedi Shelton is my husband's home enjoy town and thanks to a gift Shelton subscription from his parents, Mr. town and Mrs. Bab Stewart, 620 Cola their b St., we are able to keep track of Grandpa the friends he grew up with as So, well as the. friends we acquired gad, for when we visited your beautiful home & town in 1964. ,,powerful The beauty and friendliness of Shelton and Washington State is something 1 have never forgotten