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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. I I I lll Illl -- I Ill II I II Illl I Ill "Study hard, son!" • • 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 filll!lIllllluuu Viewpoint: Knowleoge don't keep any better than fish. -A. N. Whitehead. lllluNu 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 I 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 $50.00 when they left. He said he would buy some card tables with the money. Some of us thought the money should be spent for books on botany or ¢¢aet, library, so the keeping wry- organization" in 1968 the WorkshOP and laa! miles r 3 was meals I camps t exempt hundreds PerhapS, if would private Anita "s!" ,, , , I$l It Its not for me. 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