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If Sheiton School District voters are to remain consistent,
they should replace three school board members this year.
The positions of Dr. George Radich, Dr. Mark Trucksess
and Tom Weston will be on the ballot in the fail.
These three form the conservative majority of the board.
They run a school district in a manner that would warm the
cockles of Barry Goldwater's heart.
They are so fLscally-responsible that local revenue per
pupil in the Shelton district is $172.78, compared to a
statewide average for first-class districts of $508.15.
They have kept the lid on spending so effectively that
Shelton teachers receive the lowest average salaries of the
state's 75 first-class districts and received the lowest salary
increases last year of any first-class district.
But, apparently, they aren't conservative enough tot the
district's voters.
Earlier this year they asked for a conservative special levy
of $666,000 which they said was needed to adequately
operate the schools.
The voters clobbered the request.
It's time these flaming liberal-conservatives were removed
from the board and replaced by true conservatives who can
cut the cost of education in Shelton to the more realistic
figures of 1925.
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The United States Department of Labor has put another
arrow in the quiver of the doomsayers who claim this nation
is going down the tube in the same manner as the Roman
Empire.
The department says its studies show that employment of
keypunch operators is expected to decline to 235,000 in
1980, from 300,000 in 1970.
10 kilowatts
Until the late 1930s, when cheap
electricity was made available
to rural communities, small
ten-kilowatt windmills -- originally
built to pump water--provided
the only electrical source for
countless farmers across the U.S.
100 kilowatts
Built at a NASA facility near
Sandusky, Ohio, this lO0-foot-
high windmill is scheduled to begin
operating late Ibis year. Its rotor
blades -- 125 feet from tip to tip --
will feed 100 kilowatts into the
local power system.
6,500 kilowatts
Prompted by the mechanical
failure of the 1,000-kilowatt
windmill on Grandpa's Knob in
Vermont, Percy H. Thomas, a U.S.
Federal Power Commission
engineer, designed this massive
generator in the late 1940s.
At the same time it reveals that nearly 9,000 jobs for
bartenders are expected to become available nationwide each
year through 1985.
We're doomed, friends. Nothing will us - not even
fast food and football for the masses.
Once again, the Seattle P-I has stolen a march on the
other news-peddlers of the state.
The morning newspaper that cleaned up crime with its
Secret Witness program and solved the energy crisis with
General Owl has now discovered the candidate who will
restore public confktence in state government.
In f[ont-page zinger, the P-I revealed that a poll it
comm found the leading l)emocratic candidate for
govern0 :t be Dr. Dixie Lee Ray.
Dr. Ray, you will recall, is the fl)rmer University of
Washington marine biologist who abandoned the tide pools
for a job as director of Seattle's Pacific Science Center.
The P-l's leading Democratic gubernatorial contender
then procured a Republican appointment as head of the
Atomic Energy Commission. When that bureaucracy was
terminated she was appointed special assistant to Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger.
recently quit that job because, she said, she couldn't
to see Hopalong Henry, the man who brought us peace
with honor in Southeast Asia.
We at the Journal would ordinarily have our noses out
of joint at being scooped by another newspaper. But we are
happy to follow the P-I by a week with our own poll of the
leading prospects for next year's race for governor.
We hired the prestigious riational firm of Scannitt,
Rammitt, Krammitt & Skipp to conduct the survey. Working
from a list of leading citizens provided by the Journal,
SRK&S came up with the following fi ures.
LEADING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES: %
Sam Guess ................................... 26.3
Jermaine Magnuson ............................. 9.2
Martin J. Rosellini '. ............................. 7.0
John Ehrlichman ............................... 5.3
Rare Sunshine ................................. 5. I
(Rare Sunshine is favored over all contenders if the race is
held at 1 mile and 1[16.)
Hugo Frye Patric . .......... 3.6
Bob Satiacum .................................. 2.4
Hugo Frye Uhlman .............................. 1.8
LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES:
%
Sonny Sixkiller ................................38.2
August Mardesich .............................. 19.4
Big Bill Bantz .................................. 8.6
Nancy Evans ................................... 7.3
Leonard Sawyer ................................ 7.1
Lloyd Andrews ................................. 4.0
Lloyd Cooney ................................. 3.7
Lloyd Helpus .................................. !.8
County"
Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, Wa. 98584
Phone 426-44 12
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ............... : ...... Henry G. Gay
in a recent peech to a conve ,tion in Des Moines, Iowa,
Russell W. Peterson, chairman of the President's Council on
Enviromnental Quality, predicted that in the 21st Century
windmills will be used to produce electricity for home
heating, cooling, and lighting.
Then Petcrson jocularly added: "The switch to wind
power will, of course, favor some locations over others:
('hicago will be the Saudi Arabia of the 21st Century."
Not so, Mr. ('bairman!
The U.S. city that would benefit most by a shift to wind
power is Fargo. North l)akota, according to the current
(August-September) isstie of National Wildlife magazine.
l)espitc reputation as the "Windy City," Chicago
finished a poor lcnth among 32 metropolitan areas checked
for their wind power potential by the National WildlilL"
Federation publication. Based upon hourly observationls by
tWe" Nafibfi il wcattier service over a IO-year period, the
conservatio m: gazinc I'(~und that Fargo, Wichita, Boston,
New York, Ft. Worth. Des Moines, l-tonolulu, Milwaukee and
('lcveJand arc all breezier.
Fargo recorded an average wind velocity of 14.4 miles an
hour during the period studied while Chicago had an average
of only I 1.2 miles an hour, tying with Minneapolis and only
slightly ahead of Indianapolis.
Among the cities checked, Los Angeles and Anchorage,
Alaska. ca~h with an average velocity of only 6.8 miles an
hour, proved Io be the least windy and therefore the leasl
desirable as itvs for power-producing windmills.
The polcnlial for electric power from windmills is
prolnisillg, the National Wildlife article says, despite the fact
Fargo, North Dakota ..................... 14.4
Wichita, Kansas ............................ 13.7
Boston, Massachusetts ................. 13.3
New York, New York ..................... 12.9
Ft. Worth, Texas ............................ 12.5
Des Moines, Iowa .......................... 12. f
Honolulu, Hawaii ........................... 12. 1
Milwaukee, Wisconsin .................. 12. 1
Cleveland, Ohio ............................ 1 1.6
Chicago, Illinois ............................ 11.2
Minneapolis, Minnesota ............... 1 1.2
Indianapolis, Indiana ................... 10.8
Providence, Rhode Island ............. 10.7
Seattle- Tacoma. Washington ........ I0.7
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Some of the many differences
between Governor Dan Evans and
the 44th Legislature appear
coming to a head and may wind
up in the courts. Court tests
currently are being prepared on at
least two issues.
The Senate Republican caucus
and the House Democratic caucus
each reportedly have been
preparing injunctions testing
Governor Dan Evans' power to
call a special session while the
lawmakers are in recess. Evans is
supported by an opinion by
Attorney General Slide Gorton,
based on Supreme Court decisions
from five other states which hold
the (;overno~ has authority to
convene the Legislature at any
time during an emergency.
Admittedly, Washington's
constitulion differs from that of
the other states, but lhe crux of
the issue could be what
constitutes an emergency, and
whether one actually exists.
Meanwhile, the Senate
San Francisco, California ............. 10.6
Baltimore, Maryland ...................... 10.4
Detroit, Michigan .......................... 10.3
Denver, Colorado .......................... I0.0
Kansas CRy, Missouri ..................... 9.8
Atlanta, Georgia .............................. 9.7
Washington, D.C ............................. 9.7
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ............ 9.6
Portland, Maine ............................... 9.6
New Orleans, Louisiana ................. 9.0
Miami, Florida ................................. 11.8
Little Rock, Arkansas ...................... 8.7
Salt Lake City, Utah ........................ S.7
Albuquerque, New Mexico .............. 8.6
Tucson, Arizona .............................. 8. I
Birmingham, Alabama ........ . ........... 7.9
Anchorage, Alaska ........................ ..6.9
Los Angeles, California .................. 6.8
Page 4 - Shelton-Ma'~on County Journal - Thursday, July 31, 1975
Democratic caucus has attorneys
exploring the feasibility of
challenging some of Evans' partial
vetoes of the budget. They don't
question his right to veto the
section appropriating $65 million
for special levy relief.
They are contesting his power
to veto out the various
restrictions on general fund
spending which the Legislature
included in the budget. They
contend the vetoes represent a
usurpation of legislative intent.
"We Shall Return"
Even though the lawmakers
are challenging the Governor's
power to call them back in session
when technically they "already
are in session," they will return
when the Governor summons
them. They already have made
arrangements to be here without
any loss of face, and without
conceding anything.
The Rules Committees of the
two houses have made
arrangements to hold regular
that it is "largely ignored in the U.S. by federal energy
budget planners."
So far the federal government's only sizeable effort has
been the award of $1 million in contracts for the preliminary
design of large wind energy systems. With these funds the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is
building a windmill with 62-foot blades to be mounted atop a
100-t'oot tower near Sandusky, Ohio. When its blades reach
their designed speed, the contraption is expected to produce.
100 kilowatts tbr the Sandusky Light and Power Company.
Meanwhile, at least five major U.S. universities are
moving ahead on wind research and Honolulu has become the
first U.S. city to invest municipal funds in a wind power
project. The Hawaiian city plans to build a $50,000 windmill
that will produce each year as much power as $7,000 worth
of oil or coal -- thus paying for itself, hopefully, in seven
years.
The National Wildlife article, one in a series of energy
reports to the National Wildlife Federation's 3.5 million
members, divides wind power projects into three categories:
* Small windmills for remote areas. About 175,000 of
these are still standing out of the 6.5 million that were built
on U.S. farms between 1880 and 1930. Though they were
designed primarily to pump water from underground, some
rural dwellers now see them as a supplementary source of
electricity. Power can be stored (lot calm days) but storage
equipment is expensive.
* Medium-sized generators for small communities.
Producing tip to 100 kilowatts, as in NASA's Sandusky
experiment, these machines are not designed with storage
systems. Instead, excess power produced on windy days is
sold by the community to the local utility company.
* Huge generators operated by utility companies. A giant
pinwheel built atop 2,000-foot Grandpa's Knob, in Vermont,
generated up to 1,250 kilowatts before conking out in the
1940's. This prompted the design of a skyscraping 6,500
kilowatt generator by a government engineer, but it was
never built. Now a Massachusetts professor predicts that by
the year 2000 we will have 2,000 huge windmills stretching
from Texas to the Canadian border and producing 1.5 trillion
kilowatt hours.annually.
If the professor's prediction comes true, one of those
giant windmills will undoubtedly be built near Fargo, North
Dakota.
committee meetings involving all
members on either the weekend
of August 1 or August 8.
As the Governor has said he
will give the legislators until about
August 1 to resolve their
differences among themselves,
and assuming he will give them at
least a week's notice, the special
session probably will be called for
August 8. But the lawmakers still
would like to have the issue
resolved by the courts, for future
reference.
New Leadership Test
Whether resignation from the
Legislature of William Chatalas,
the majority caucus chairman,
strengthens or weakens Speaker
Leonard A. Sawyer's leadership
will depend upon who is elected
as Chatalas' successor. Chatalas,
who had been caucus chairman
sinCe 1969, never has been a
member of the "slate" which
elected SawYer as speaker.
Competition for the post lies
between Paul Conner, Sequim,
the majority whip, and Richard
A. King, Everett, chairman of the
House Constitution and Elections
Committee.
Conner is believed to have the
support of the "regulars" who go
along with Sawyer. King has the
backing of the same liberal bloc
which challenged Sawyer earlier
this year, and which has claimed
to have gained strength since.
King isn't considered as liberal
as some of those who are
supporting him. In his role as
Constitutions and Elections
Committee chairman, he just
recently abolished a
subcommittee headed by John
Hawkins (D-Tacoma), who had
been an especially outspoken
critic of August P. Mardesich, the
Senate majority leader.
Eliminated was the
subcommittee on eampaign
financing and campaign practices~
But it was done diplomatically.
King has opted to have the full
committee take up the numerous
problems involved.
Editor, The Journal:
I would like to give my
opinion of some of the projects in
Shelton and some that are
complete.
For instance, the overpass
that crosses the freeway lO1 and
the road that passes over it. It
looks like someone made a big
mistake in favor of a private
company instead of the people of
this town because the road only
goes to a closed dump and a
gravel pit. Why?
This bridge upped the cost of
the freeway because the bridge
had to be undermined in order for
the freeway to go under it. It also
delayed pavement of about 100
yards of freeway which the crew
had to make a special trip back to
pave.
The money used on this
bridge could have been used for
projects that would have
benefitted the people of this town
a lot more. For example: Franklin
Street from 7th Street to the city
limits needs repairs or a new road.
Take a look for yourself and you
will see.
Also, why
Avenue
money spent on
to give someone a
Also, it is
my children to
road because of
speeding
have seen a lot
stopped
ever seen one of
stopped. Why?
Also, I
enough tax money
there seems to be
new roads on 7th
• all the roads around
gets the most re
Why?
I believe it is
from 7th Street
without the help
Same probl
intersection of
Railroad Avenue
block on top of
on old 10l).
By STEVE ERICKSON
America at age 199, a country priding
and freedom, should consider fences.
The nation is unrestricted in principle, an
land, lots of land. Sprawling free for you and
shining sea.
Enter fences.
Quoth Webster: "Fence... a barrier of..
iron.., used as a boundary or means of
confinement." A fence can be a wall or guardrail
it is one thing more. Restrictive.
This untamed virgin U.S.A. has been
and crosshatched with a haphazard
dead-ending explorable byways, regulating
artificial corridors, imposing piecemeal parcels
spaceland.
It is a maze only a laboratory ratrunner con
entirety, yet individually many of the
beautiful.
Stairstepped pickets, pointed,
home inside.
Curlicued iron,gratings flecked with rust,
corroding out of concrete beds.
Tennis court corrals where players in
try to clear with a fuzzy ball another, smaller
Wire fencing, rolled and baled, waiting to
enclosure like the one that contains it, in
warehouse.
Ornate iron chain, creosoted against the
reminds, buttressed by concrete anchor posts.
Mossy fence with tiny arches, made of stone
Sterile guardrails scratched and battered
whose drivers strayed.
Epitomizing all, untold miles of lethal
needles warning that there is no passage here.
Some of these will crumble, others
overtake a few, as nature always must.
But somewhere on a drawing board
man to build himself a better barrier lest he lose
mind and stray too far from permissible bounds.
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(Wes Izzard in
At Austin, TX, an operator of a funeral home has a
which promises a warm welcome to anyone who
chapel.
(Paul Crume in
Why does a baseball pitcher who makes $75,000 a
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