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Fudd's Farm has put its show on the road and the small
tempest in downtown Shelton's teapot has subsided.
Three weeks ago a young man visited the Journal office
and asked if we would rent the Darigoid building - which the
Journal leases for storage space - to his rock music band for
three weeks. The musicians had been unable to find a place
to practice where they would not be interrupted, he said, and
it was important that they have some solid hours of practice
before accepting engagements.
Since it was obvious this budding Beatle had more energy
than money, we offered him the building at no charge with
the stipulation that it be used for practice, not concerts, and
that visitors be kept to a minimum. He accepted with alacrity
- Paul Alacrity; he was the drummer.
Then the storm began to brew in the teapot. Before the
long-haired musicians had their electrified noisemakers out of
their car, the Shelton police department received a complaint
that a bunch of hippies was moving into the Darigold
building.
The Fudd's Farm five, meanwhile, swept out the
building, paid. twenty bucks to the PUD to turn on the juice,
plugged in its stringed instruments and started practicing.
The police received complaints about the noise and,
understandably, told the band to turn down the volume and
cut off all playing after ten o'clock at night. They complied
with this request, although to a Lawrence Welk-trained ear,
the volume was still too loud.
That first sight of hair and beards, however, had done its
work. For three weeks there was a steady barrage of curious
complaints and rumors.
When the band bought an old bus in which to tour, a
hippie invasion of Shelton was predicted. When a woman
with a child showed up, there was a complaint that "those
hippies" were feeding drugs to a two-year-old.
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"I'm all for that 'love thy neighbor' thing.., so long
as they don't have long hair or beards."
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The building was described variously as a flee-love nest, a
drug den, the headquarters of a Charles Manson-type
commune, and the site of the upcoming Sky River rock
festival.
Darigold executives, after receiving complaints,
dispatched a painter to obliterate their signs on the building,
and the moo juice company's top legal eagle called from
Seattle to inquire about the hippie invasion of downtown
Shelton.
When we assured him that the inhabitants of the building
were a group of incipient free-enterprisers practicing so they
could separate customers from their money by assaulting
their eardrums, he heaved a sigh of relief and returned to
more mundane corporate business.
Monday morning, the leader of the band came into our
office and announced that Fudd's Farm was ready to roll. He
said they had paid the PUD bill, cleaned up the building and
were ready to head their bus toward Seattle, then points east.
, He thanked us for use .and he had
" written five new songs duri 't'li t i'ee s. '!
We took the keys and wished him luck. He and his fellow
guitar-pluckers are going to need it.
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A Democratic knee-slapper during the 1964 presidential
campaign featured an interview with Barry Goidwater in
which the Republican candidate answered a question thusly:
Reporter: "What would you do in case of an atomic
attack?"
Goldwater: "'Well, first, I'd put the wagons in a
circle... "
This merry tidbit was one of hundreds of jokes which
hinted that Barry Goldwater's thought processes were stalled
somewhere in the last century. He was most often linked to
the social and political thinking of President William
McKinley
Republicans that year were stuck with stale jokes about
Texans. Now, however, the GOP humorists have been handed
a gulden opportunity for some real laugh-provokers.
A group of King County Democrats has formed (this is
no joke, honest, fellas) a Harry Truman Democratic Club.
This sad attempt to escape the effort of solving today's
problems by nestling under a 20-year-old security blanket is
on a par with Goldwater's days-of-yore dreams and George
Wallace's ante-bellum yearnings.
Harry Truman rose to the occasion during several crises,
but by training and experience his reaction to the problems
afflicting the nation today would probably coincide with
those of Mayor Richard Daley, the Chicago dinosaur. He
would he about as effective at solving today's problems as is
Richard Nixon, who is giving 1946 answers to 1970
questions.
We envision a meeting of the Harry Truman Democratic
Club commencing with the Missouri Waltz, followed by a
discussion of the foot-slogging infantrymen of World War 1
and a demonstration of legging-winding. From that sparkling
beginning, the program would be all downhill, except for a
sprinkling of Dewey jokes and filmed highlights of the 1932
Democratic National Convention.
If there is anything more hilarious than a conservative
cashing his farm subsidy check, it has to be a liberal, huddled
in his split-level, trying to maintain the status quo.
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By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Though the Washington
Environmental Council has
indicated plans to sponsor an
initiative to the Legislature on
seacoast management, some
legislators have hopes the plan
will be dropped.
They think they detect some
dissension within the council
itself; even a possible split on the
issue.
The Environmental Council
bill is much broader than
anything the legislators will go
for, and a subcommittee of the
Committee on Governmental
Cooperation has prepared its own
bill as an alternative.
If the initiative plan is
dropped, seacoast management
will occupy a high priority on
Gov. Dan Evans' legislative list.
Competition in Death
Recent traffic deaths on
ocean beaches have created fear
that these may soon be taking
more lives than the dreaded ocean
undertow. As a result, regardless
of what happens to seacoast
management, there will "be a
concerted effort to close all ocean
beaches motor of vehicle traffic.
This would involve removing
the vehicle from the state
highway system. They can't be
closed permanently to motor
vehicle traffic without legislation
repealing the law which classifies
the beaches as state highways.
If adequate accesses and
adjacent parking can be provided,
the legislation will have the
Governor's full support. Even if
these can't be provided
immediately, it is unlikely that
the chief executive will oppose
the closure.
Highway and Ecology
Legislation is being prepared
by the staff of the
newly-established Department of
Ecology which probably will
provide new ulcers for the
highway builders.
It would give the Department
of Ecology a voice in the rout~g
of new state highway
construction.
The department wouldn't be
granted veto powers over the
Highway Commission, but the
highway builders usually oppose
any legislation which might even
hint of restrictions.
The new department's
director, John Biggs, believes such
legislation could avoid
controversies such as have
developed over Interstate 90.
The proposed legislation also
would give the department a voice
in the location of future power
transmission lines.
Long Time Coming
The state's criminal code,
which has been on the books
since 1909, may be in for its first
complete revision in the 1971
Legislature.
A citizens' advisory
committee is nearing completion
of its draft of a proposed new
code and will hold its final
meeting on September 12 and 13.
Tile revised code will then be
submitted for the Judiciary
Committee of the Legislative
Council for approval.
Some drastic revision are
expected. Because many could be
highly controversial, it is unlikely
that the proposed new code will
be unveiled for public perusal
until after the November 3
general election.
Three Washington
congressmen face opposition in
the primaries this year, but a
glance at the records would
indica'te their opponents are
trying to get there the hard way.
No incumbent congressman
has been defeated in this state's
primaries since 1932.
Ironically, the only district
where it occurred that year was
the First Congressional District.
That is where State Sen. Joel
Pritchard is challenging
Congressman Tom Pelly for the
Republican nomination. It is
considered the most serious
challenge of the three.
Congressman Brock Adams is
opposed by John McKee in the
Seventh District. McKee made a
surprisingly strong showing in an
unsuccessful bid for the
nomination for Secretary of State
two years, but if he should win it
would be an upset.
Congresswoman Catherine
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"The ills of our campuses and our society are too
numerous, too serious, and too fateful to cause anyone to
believe that serenity is the proper mark of an effective
university or an effective intellectual community. Even in
calmer times any public college or university worthy of the
name has housed relatively vocal individuals and groups of
widely diverging political persuasions .... The society which
tries to get its children taught by fettered and fearful minds is
trying not only to destroy its institutions of higher learning,
but also to destroy itself ....
"[But] ... violation of the rights or property of other
citizens, on or off the campus, is plainly wrong, And it is
plainly wrong no matter how high-minded the alleged
motivation for such activity. Beyond that, those who claim
the right to interfere with the speech, or movement, or
instruction, or property or others on a campus - and claim
that right because their hearts are pure or their grievance
great - destroy the climate of civility and freedom without
which the university simply cannot function as an educating
institution."
Malcolm Moos, President
University of Minnesota
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Pagl 4 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, August 27, 1970
May has two opponents for the
Republican nomination in the
Fourth District.
The best known, Floyd
Paxton, ran against Mrs. May on a
Conservative Party ticket in 1966.
He got 9,585 votes against 77,929
for Mrs. May.
R. O. Pyle, Pullman wheat
farmer, also seeks the Republican
nomination but the more
candidates there are in a primary,
the easier it usually is for the
incumbent.
U.S. Senator Henry M.
Jackson also faces opposition in
the primaries this year, his most
serious challenger among three
Democrates being Carl Maxey,
who has the endorsement of the
liberal Washington Democratic
Council.
On the record, Jackson is in
the strongest position of all.
No U.S. Senator ever has been
defeated in a Washington state
primary. U.S. Senators, however,
have been elected by popular vote
only since 1914. Prior to that
they were elected by the
Legislatures of the various states.
Editor, The Journal:
Cheers to the young student
who spoke his mind about the
need for mutual respect. Respect
for the young adults and their
ideas, which are so different from
the ideas of the older generation,
my generation, of which I am
heartily ashamed when I read
such letters as was printed from
Mrs. Dinning.
For shame, Mrs. Dinning, you
didn't mention one word about
the fact that this same group
performed at a benefit dance for
the Multi-Service Center, I think,
at the pool Nuotare last Saturday
night. Not one work of gratitude,
although I don't think they
wanted gratitude only, the need
to be a welcome part of the
community.
Just what do you think this
does to the morale of our
children? So what if they play
loud music? There are so many
respec
~. . mmrelthings they couldgbe doing
that are much more harmful. At
least they are doing something
constructive.
And believe me, I think that
the music they play is every bit as
sweet to them as the music we
had in our time. I had an
opportunity to go to the pool last
Saturday to hear them, and it was
pure enjoyment to watch the
youngsters just sit on the floor
and enjoy the music. I watched
the faces of the youngsters and
they were just as wrapped up in
the music as any of the great
artists of our time.
Cheers, also, to the young girl
who recognized the need of the
young people to get together and
talk things over, and opened her
door to them. If you would only
stop and rationalize, Mrs. Dinning,
I am sure that you would agree
that music is much better than
riots or other evils.
Mary Wagner
Editor, The Journal:
What happened to the
uniformed police officer we have
had in past years at the Fair?
Could it be there are enough men
on the force to have sent one up
each of the three days?
The two days the Sheriff's
Posse had their exhibit of
marijuana and the drug
equipment in their building it was
a most popular spot: especially
for the teenagers. It was too bad
they were not there on Sunday
when many asked when they were
going to open up. Many more
might have profited from the talk
that was given had the booth had
more publicity.
Our hats should be off to the
fine fire protection we had during
the Fair. They proved their worth
in putting out two grass fires in
the parking lot before they could
cause any harm.
The educational exhibit of
flowers furnished by: Mr. and Mrs.
Bargemeyer from the garden of
the Corrections Center were of
great value to persons wanting to
know the names of some of our
common flowers. The Corrections
Center grounds are indeed
beautiful this time of year.
The city of Shelton sent up
two large bouquets of outstanding
roses by Mr. Williams the city
gardener. It seems the roses have
never been lovier than they are
this year and there may be a
chance of cuttings for rose lovers
this fall.
How many knew that we had
so many artists in Mason County?
The big new Arts and Crafts
building with its many exhibits
proved the need for such a place.
The few dedicated people who
saw its completion surely deserve
our sincere thanks.
The public is surely getting
litter conscious. All the visitors to
the Fair should be congratulated
on the excellent use of the Keep
Washington Green litter bags and
th~ white barrels.
Here is to a bigger and better
Fair in 1971.
Jean Eliot
Editor, The Journal:
The Shelton Nimrod Club
reminds campers and hunters that
as the start of hunting season is
just around the corner, it would
be a good idea for you to bring
out not only your own litter, but
a little more.
A few people cannot win the
battle against litter by themselves:
it takes all of us pulling as a team
to complete this important job.
The club's litter patrol will be
out in full force to help the
situation. The patrol has the
authority to arrest persons who
insist on littering our beautiful
county.
James Bariekman
Secretary, Shelton Nimrod Club
Editor, The Journal:
While realizing that human
nature, at best, is not conducive
to open-mindedness or free
thinking, it is still disturbing to
discover the large number of
hypocritical people claiming to be
"understanding," "willing to
listen to others' positions," and
"democratic."
We are referring to those
persons, principally of the older
generation (although not
excluding those under 30), who
deplore student unrest and ask
loudly why these "young punks"
don't "work within the system."
However, to our sad experience,
these same people condemning
students are the first ones to resist
change in the system.
It appears that although they
would like to woo the radicals,
they would also like to stifle free
expression by forcing students to
conform to the establishment's
way of thinking. In other words,
they want the kids to get
involved: THEIR way.
We are not saying that
everyone over thirty is wrong, nor
that the younger generation is
right. We are merely voicing the
opinion that everyone, regardless
of age, status, or political
viewpoint, has a right to be heard
- without being called a "crazy
kid" or a "stupid old fogey."
To illustrate our point:
Friday night at the Mason
County Fair. we, as supporters of
Carl Maxey, were scheduled to
work in the Democratic booth,
only to find, upon our arrival,
that Mr. Harry Elmlund and Mrs.
Arnold Livingston refused to let
us into the booth, their reason
being that "priority" people
chosen by the Democratic Central
Committee were the only ones
allowed to represent the
Democrats. "
We left,
of literature,
minutes later to
picture of Cad
several signs
balloons, ha
vanished from
Jackson propl
place. Mr.
assured us that
of the
that he
request,
with
But when
stopped at
for Maxey
informed that
left, while
were stacked
This being
into polil
d isappointed
party policy
any one
primary electiOn
carried out. Due
we had
primary, all
equal time
obviously,
The
one of the
trying to seduce
into its ranks.
would work
of all politic
groups
seeking reform
for people
opinions, but
legal machinery
carry out their refi
And until
express their own
the tools of
that the best
hurl a rock at the
majority. Art
Editor, The Journal:
Having just read the two
articles on your editorial page,
"The bewhiskered ilk" and "Need
mutual respect," 1 am greatly
dismayed.
Why do the people over thirty
fear us, their progeny? Yes, I said
"fear." I do not really believe that
they hate us, for if they had,
then surely they would not have
clothed us, housed us and
what choice have we
our own culture?
So, then,
divided into
entities: an ol,
would effect a
q uo, lethargic
and the youn[
number with
strength to see
you, our
we think, a:
provided us with the finest earSBut be fle~
education.
They taught us how to think, person by the i
Now they fear what we are beard ...it
thinking. What kind of rationale is
this? Is the world turning so
rapidly around them that they
cannot take the time to see its
faults, but accept these faults as
being "just the way things are?"
The time has long since passed
that the world situation should be
changed, and youth is impatient.
But if those who begat us, reared
us to be responsible citizens, will
not listen to our ideas and ideals,
have taught
book by
yourselves are
we of
Get to kn
individuals.
opinions
instead of
every time you
with which
is COIT
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Editor, The Journal: high
On August 22 I attended a The
meeting of the Hood Canal a take-o
Environmental Council at North Fickle-Fil
Mason High School. The featqred called the
speaker was Mr. Biggs Director of Taking
the State Department of Ecology. with a
Mr. Biggs explained the speaker
immediate problems facing hisaward to
department, the lack of authority spoiler
for land management and the them
difficulty of extablishing a NoW
functional base of action. Still, and he wash
Washington is one of only twoI don't re~~
states which have established A project
Department of Ecology and theto
guidelines they lay down willas the
serve for others to follow. Mr. Council
Biggs had to leave before the next hearing
number on the program which crowd
was the
was the presentation of an
"Award." ever haPPq
The award was the result of aSlide
WITCH HUNT. From a four-page were shoWl
script a long harangue was read non
giving in detail a description of all for the
the proposed developments on east
Hood Canal which the H.C.E.C. were
felt might disturb the ecology and time I
pollute the water. These included in th_e
Boise-Cascade Properties, a little
4000-acre upland development Canal
and a Marina at Anderson Cove wouldn't
and even little old Alderbrook's
gave me a
Anita
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