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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. oee 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 Published at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Mason County, Washington 98584, weekly. Second-class postage paid at She~'ton, Washington. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.00 per year in Mason County, in advance -- Outside Mason County $7.50 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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