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Editorials:
New school necessary
The third phase of Shelton School District's long-range
building program - construction of a new high school - is
about to be offered to voters for their approval.
The district's directors are expected to. take steps
tonight to put the $3,000,000 bond issue proposal on the
November 4 general election ballot.
The action comes none too soon. Shelton High School
this week passed the 900 figure in enrollment, highest in the
school's history.
The first two steps in the long-range plan have relieved
the pressure on the district's elementary schools. Students are
now studying in the modern addition to Bordeaux School
,and Mr. View School's added classrooms will be ready for
occupancy in a month or two.
The new high school, to be built on Spring Road on the
city's northern boundary, will solve the problem of the
congested school complex in downtown Shelton, which now
houses elementary, junior high and senior high school
students.
Three million dollars is a lot of money. It must be
remembered, however, that it is to be raised through a bond
issue, :not a special levy, and will be paid out of district funds
over a 20-year period.
Local voters have shown, by approval of the first two
phases of the long-range program, that they will support
realistic, needed improvements in their school system. The
new high school is in this category. It is not a frill, but a
necessity.
How much is enough?
The state's fly-by-night aluminum siding salesmen who
choked on their Cheerios while reading the morning paper
last week had good reason to become agitated.
Right there in nice black print was the story of how
Former Attorney General John J. O'Connell, fearless
champion of the abused consumer, had boosted a fee to San
Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Aiioto, also the poor man's
;friend, from $1 million to $2.1 million.
Alioto, an anti-trust lawyer at the time, signed an
agreement with O'Connell in August, 1962, to represent 16
Washington State utilities in an attempt to disgorge rebates
from national electrical supply firms charged with
price-fixing.
in May, 1965, the agreement was revised by O'ConneU
to remove a ceiling of $1 million. Alioto subsequently
obtained $16.2 million from the offending companies and
received $2.1 million of it as a fee.
'l'he_.question bothering the siding salesmen, and
numroth 1a¥, :i much,is ertoua?
O'Connell had definite ideas abou! how mtwh was
enough for a con man to charge a widow for resurfacing her
home and the tactics used in obtaining a contract.
In light of last week's disclosures, however, there is
seemingly nothing wrong with two legal brothers getting
together and working out a doubling of fees which otherwise
would go back to the taxpayers who originally put up the
dough.
Maybe the siding salesmen could build a better image
and improve their income if they banded together into a
professional organization and boosted a few of their number
for public office.
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Capitol dome.
Threat 0f initiative is effective weapon
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Perils of holding a special
legislative session in an election
year are becoming increasingly
apparent, though the special
session still is some four months
away.
In addition to the obvious ones
is the use of initiative measures to
! rbje:
it is for sponsors to have on file
before the Legislature convenes
an initiative which would grant
them much more than they could
hope to get from legislative
action.
This technique can be effective
in softening the opposition,
forcing it to yield on certain
points in return for an agreement
to drop the initiative.
TWO ON THE WAY
At least two groups currently
are considering this strategy for
next January's session, though
neilher will admit this is the real
purpose of their moves toward
the initiative route.
Spokesmen for the Washington government is planning a similar
State Labor Council were the nlove in efforts to get more
first, it might break the impasse financial aid from the state.
between labor and management A coalition of cities and
o n a n u n e m p 1 o y m e n t counties probably will be formed
compensation bill. Now local to sponsor the initiative, and its
A plague of terms
By EARL D. HASENWINKLE
The other day I came across an article in a magazine
which described "terms of venery," also called nouns of
multitude or group terms. These terms were codified in the
15th century when the English language was literally
exploding, and each was at one time or, for that matter, still
may be in general use as the only proper term for a group of
whatever beast, fish, fowl or insect it designated. For
example:
A plague of locusts
A labor of moles
A murder of crows
A cowardice of curs
A sloth of bears
An unkindness of ravens
filing early in January is virtually
a foregone conclusion.
The state's cities aren't satisfied
with what they got out of the last
Legislature and the counties got
nothing.
EFFECT ALREADY FELT
The threat of an initiative by
local governments already has had
its effects.
The Legislative Council's
committee on revenue and
regulatory agencies has called it to
the attention of the entire
31-member council. The
committee has given the problem
of providing adequate financing
for local units of government its
No. l priority.
It already has held two public
meetings on the issue, in Seattle
and in Vancouver. It has
scheduled at least three more in
advance of the special session, in
Ellensburg, September 19-20;
Spokane, October 9-10, and
Bellingham, November 7-8.
RICH FIELD
A leap of leopards About a third of the $6 million
A fall of woodcocks net worth listed by San Francisco
Let's talk books: A skulk of foxes Mayor Joseph Alioto in his libel
The Frontier West as it was and is
By LLOYD A. COOK
The Shorn Lamb. By ttughie
Call, Houghton Mufflin, 1969.
Six-Horse Hitch. By Janice
Holt Giles, Houghton Mifflin,
1969.
Horse and Buggy West. By Jack
O'Connor, Knopf, 1969.
]'he first 6f these books is a
precious little gem. It is a love
story, unfolded slowly, as is the
author's wont in her novels. The
setting is the foothills of the
Rockies, the beauty of which can
make one gasp.
Laura McCord is a young
widow whose husband was killed
a year or two ago in an accident.
She is resolved to run Ben's big
sheep ranch but, and here is the
problem, mountain men do not
like to work for a woman. They
drift in, say at lambing time, work
a stint, then drift away. Old
Crash, the top kick, tries hard but
can't get the spread under
control.
Laura, as usual, drives to town
and picks up the few hands she
can. One is a tall and lonely man,
not given to talk. He is wearing
sneakers, as no Montana lamber
would do, yet he claims some
know-how from long ago.
The author tells how John
Morgan organized the Cabin
Creek work, how other men
turned to him, how Laura's trust
and confidence grew. She writes
out of long experience in sheep
ranching and with great realism.
One can hear the bleat of
newborn lambs, smell the smell of
shearing sheds.
I have called the book
"precious," and what makes it so
is the love affair of Laura and
John. Angle, a strange little waif,
brings the two together and, in
finding each other, they come
upon some truths about
themselves.
Starr Fowler, as a boy, had one
ambition. To drive a "six-horse
hitch" on the Overland Stage
Line, Missouri to the Pacific. The
trail is full of hazards - sharp
downgrades, heavy sand at times,
tricky river crossings, boulders in
the way, blinding rain and snow,
redskin ambushes. The time is the
1860's. The Civil War is on, the
big Indian wars of the West lie
just ahead.
Starr has practiced on four's
but, with sixes, more strength and
skill are required. One must hold
three reins, one to each horse,
between the fingers of each hand,
along with a whip, foot resting on
the brake. When he, at age 19,
gets his chance to drive, he has
some trouble .but makes good,
thus is off on his career.
The young man's father owns a
line station, a small dobe fort,
which Starr oversees, and it is
here that Bucky, a leggy little
redhead, comes in. She worships
Starr of course and tells him,
when she is nine, that she is going
to grow up and marry him. He
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treats her lre a kid sis, for he is
smitten by a beautiful young
lady, an Easterner come West,
who refuses to have him unless he
quits driving and settles down.
While Starr mopes about, he fails
to see that Bucky, now sixteen,
no longer looks or acts like.a
child.
What happens next - Slade the
outlaw, Indian fights, the
defection of Bernie the beautiful
to the Indians - is good fiction,
just as the setting is good
historical fact. I have long felt, in
Mrs. Giles' novels, the urge to get
the Old West settled, to advance
its life and work, to bring it fully
into the Union. The better you
understand the West of the
1860's, the more you will value
her writing.
Frank O'Connor is much loved
for his far-away hunting stories,
his own adventures. Here he tries
his hand at telling what Tempe,
Ariz., was like and is like. He grew
up there, before World War l,
knows the town and country.
"The last drop of water," he
writes, "has been squeezed out of
the Salt River for irrigation.
Instead of clear water, clean sand,
and willows the river bed is a
dusty waste, filled with rusty auto
bodies, wornout tires, jerry-built
warehouses, piles of junk and
garbage. The country between the
river and Scottsdale, where l used
to shoot doves and quail, is now
solid with houses, all with TV
antennas, all exactly alike." How
true, damit, how very true!
This book will interest most
readers who know Tempe. They
will find it a rare delight to
wander down memory lane,
guided by the old sharpshooter.
Page 4, Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, September 18, 1969
A dissimulation of birds
A pitying of turtledoves
A gaggle of geese
A richness of martens
A crash of rhinoceroses
An ostentation of peacocks
An exaltation of larks
' A school of fish, a pride of lions,
A covey of quail, etc.
The author described as lamentable the fact that so
many of these terms have slipped out of the our common
speech. I agree, because they are right, Can you imagine a
group of lions being anything other than a "pride" or geese
not a "gaggle."
He stated that there is little enough poetry in our speech
(and lives) to continue to ignore a vein as rich as this. Again I
agree and suggest that these colorful terms be reinstated and
expanded to include groups of other present day critters and
things-- to wit:
A drug of hippies
A confusion of politicians
An inflammation of blacks
An equivocation of reporters
A catastrophe of surroundings
A capitulation of diplomats
A riot of students
A surreptitiousness of taxes
An apology of courts
A discouragement of values
A constipation of automobiles
A scream of singers
A shackle of police
A gap of generations
An entaglement of laws
A rebellion of youth
A deception of liberals
A submission of people
An anxiety of conservatives
Now I admit that these terms may need some minor
refinement. Some people with a different outlook than mine
may even suggest changes such as "an equanimity of
politicians" or "an equivalent of taxes," but in view of what's
been happening in the past few years, I ask you - what kind
of talk is that?
suit against Look magazine was
e.arned in Washington State.
A state audit shows Alioto
received $2.1 million in attorney
fees from this state for
representing a group of utilities in
an anti-trust suit against 26
electrical firms filed by former
Atty. Gen. John J. O'Connell in
1961-62.
The group, including cities,
counties, port districts and public
utility districts, recovered $16.3
million. Alioto's fee, under terms
of an agreement reached August
28, 1962, was to be 15 per cent
of the settlement.
The agreement originally
called for a $I limitation on the
fee, but this ceiling was removed
May 4, 1965, with inclusion of
hydroelectric generator purchases
for the Wanapum dam project,
which weren't included at the
time of the original agreement,
INDUSTRIAL DISPERSION
An initial investigation by the
Joint Committee on Highways
indicates as much as $50 million
could be saved annually in the
highway budget if 15 per cent of
the new population expected in
the Puget Sound area by 1985
could be diverted to other parts
of the state.
As a result, Sen. Nat
Washington, Ephrata, says the
joint committee is now
proceeding on the second phase
of its study - seeking means to
encourage industry to locate in
the state's nonmetropolitan areas.
The initial study was
conducted for the committee by
Battelle Memorial Institute.
Conclusions are that aerospace
and electronic industries have the
greatest potential in the state, and
also are the least restricted in the
selectmn of plant locations.
The Flapdoodler;
Altitude and
bring dizzy spells
By STEVE ERICKSON .. t0#
It took an ocean of paint and a legion oflgltes
new coat on that old barn of mine.
My own role in the operation was strictly
l initially purchased the house one dark
late last year Standing there in stark silhouetted
a blue-black'sky it looked pretty dramatic, pret
The next day the sun came out and it lool
blue. Like a big glob of discarded children's.
on blue on blue. Trimmed tastelessly in turqw
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Something definitely needed doing.'
about three layers of paint, preferable a color on
side of the spectrum from blue.
So, come June, 1 bought a couple gallonS of
imaginative white paint, and hove to. slaPF i
"I'll be done by September, I told wife,
brushful of latex onto a strip of siding.
That boast returned to haunt me. Bea
looked, it was September, and last time I i0
blue barn was still pretty blue, mixed with:
lower elevations.
Several complications caused my c ompletion date t°l
off target:
Ours is a two-story hottse, and mine is a
courage.
-Blue covers white much more readily tha
covers blue.
..... Leisurely temptations of the good o1'
little time for unpleasantries such as tuda) pair
As August wore oll so little of the houSe
wife, always the sardonic one, would
those rare occasions when 1 was out there
whistling "September Song."
At length ! completed all the white I
climb to, on the three sides of the houSe
front.
"1'11 do the back side at my leisure," 1 tel
"Your backside looks like its already
that," she said. ,kills i
At any rate, I was left with a ridicul°U I
The bottom half of the house was white, anu
blue, way tip there in the never-never lan ,,,ou--
turned my knees to rubber and my spine to a
Enter the Legion of Ladies. h 0r,.
A friend of wife, who must have serVed a
the commandos, dropped by, sneered at mY ii
the extension ladder to its utmost, and v:aml ,a
Once aloft, she did a balancing act on 1he
drenching the house with paint, trinarned at00d
Wife stood on a tall stool and
windows.
Shayla was the Gunga Din of the paint Ic ....
paint rather than water to the energeti.creW ,,'
And Bossy Kelly supervised. ''' 7 ' r ' '
The man of the house sat on the fro
something cold, offering praise and thanks, I
advice.
And at length the three visible sides of tlae 01d
white, just like I'd promised back in June.,, 1 aid.
"It doesn't look like silly putty noW, ' "- .
She eyed nay own summer-softeneo o, lhoU lille
"Maybe," she said, "you could use
yourself."
Whatever that meant.
Letter box:
Tax church camps
Editor, The Journal:
Mr. Carroll Itinderlie (letter in
Sept. 11 Journal) is Director of
Holden Village, "a lay center for
all the church." In 1960 the
mining rights, Copper mountain
in it's entirety, all of the village
buildings and mine structure were.
given to the Lutheran Synod by
the mining company.
The W.S.F.W.C. Conservation
Workshop was held at Holden,
July 28, 29 & 30, 1969. For
groups, the camp fee is $1q, per
day for each adult. The group,
W.S.F.W.C., gave Mr. Hinderlie a
good will offering of $50.00 when
they left. He said he would buy
some card tables with the money.
Some of us thought the money
should be spent for books on
botany or ¢¢aet,
library, so the
keeping wry-
organization"
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WorkshOP
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