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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
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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