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Editorials: Driver Ed: Geritol vs. Pepsi Shelton teenagers, it has been decreed by the powers- that-be in city hall, will have to gyrate to muffled drums if they wish to continue dancing in Lincoln gym. City commissioners, suffering under the pressure of two complaints from persons living in the vicinity of the gym, Tuesday ordered the chief of police to investigate the noises emanating from that venerable structure and tell the kids to cool it. This edict from the Geritol Set to the Pepsi Genera- tion makes about as much sense as an order to a body and fender man to quit pounding on automobiles. There is no such thing as quiet teenage music, nor is there such a thing as a quiet teenager when three guitars and a drum are throbbing full blast• The Mason County Multi-Service Center sponsors the dances to give the kids an organized activity which will keep them off the streets and out of automobiles. The ef- fort is apparently paying off; the youngsters showed up in droves and had a ball. If the noise level is cut down to that of Wayne King, the kids won't show up. Music that separates the brains of adults from their skulls may seem immoral to some grownups, but it doesn't seem to do any permanent dam- age to teenagers, and is way ahead of some of the quieter activities the younger set practices• • The youngsters could be slopping up beer in the dead of night on a logging spur; they could be emulating the birds and bees in the back seat of a car; they could be stealing hubcaps and gas; they could be driving an auto- mobile at 100 miles per hour on the county's twisting roads. We don't think the kids are asking too much when they request an opportunity to dance to the music they enjoy. Their parents and grandparents asked for the same thing and, in most instances, got it. Fading memory re- calls that jitterbugging was considered obscene by parents who had danced the Black Bottom. The ancient Lincoln gym has been around as long or longer than any of the surrounding houses. Residents who live next to a gymnasium cannot expect the hush of an R-1 residential zone. That's why houses adjacent to gymna- siums sell for less than houses in quiet residential zones. A better solution than calling the cops to squelch the noise outside would be to turn up Lawrence Welk inside. "My trouble all started when I was brainwashed by the Hoorver administration." Capitol dome: Highway department borrows cash to finance work during long, hot summer By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS partmcnt borrowed from the general fund for the first time • For the. second time within in history. less than a year the Department of Highways has had to borrow TABLES REVERSED \\; from the state, s general fund to (0'J3 45 :itch orn th si-. keep the motor vehicle fund out ation 34 ,yea ago, wh $0 of" tied" ed ' ' '"' S" .iWtpn  was borrowed from the It borrowed $9 million late last motor vehzcle fund to provMe month, but repaid it within a.. unemployment relief. few days. The motor vehicle fund This action led to the consti- balance had dropped to a paltry tutional amendment which now $6 r, fillion in July. forbids use of motor vehicle A similar situation developed fund money f()r anything but last December, when the de- highway purposes. Letter box County/ost prison when it lost Savage Editor. The Journal: down the drain were the Mason • Referring to the front page County Republicans then headed story in Sept. 7 issue of The by the present Chamber of Com- Journal about lVEason County merce Committee head. These losing the women's prison. I politicians, prodded by Gummy noticed the Chamber of Corn- Johnson of the Governor's Office, merce Committee head, who was worked day and night the last also head of the Republican few days of the 1966 campaign Party for Mason County during with their telephone committees. the 1966 political campaign, is door bell ringing squads letters crying that. "the community of to the voters from the Governor, Shelton has been had by the in an all-out effort to defeat the politicians." Mason County Representative The Editorial in the Journal who had introduced and guided on the same subject said that through the Legislature the bill Mason County went down the to let the experts select the site drain the moment that the 1967 for the women's prison. Legislature took the site selee- Who n the 1967 Legislature tion Out of the hands of the called to order and found that experts and gave it to a corn- Mason County had no Represt- mittee of politicians, ative, the old politics arose a- This was only the moment gain and took charge of the that it became obvious to all women's prison site, polities that we had been had by the which Representative Charles politicians. The real moment Savage had put down in the 1965 that I knew we had been had Session and no doubt he could was when they counted the bal- have kept them down in the lots and announced that Mason 1967 Session had he been there County no longer had a Repro- which would have allowed the sentative in the Legislature. exports to select the Shelton The politicians who helped to site. put the comraunity of Shelton C. W Streckenbach Founded 1886 by Grant (3. Angle .Mglling Addre: Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Phone 426-4412 Published at Shelton, Mason County, Wuhington, every Thursday. Entered as Second-ass Matter at the Postoffiee, Shelton, Wash. Member of National ltorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUS-tIPTION FtATS: $5•00 per year in Mason County, in ad- vance -- Outside Mason County $6.00 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER  Henry G. Gay SUPENT -- JLm Shrum OFFICE MANAGER . Lodema Johnson IWS EDI'tR  Alan Ford o _- :£DtRtTIS!NG MANAGER  Don Adolfson -- - - z- The $10 million which was bor- rowed, incidentally, was never repaid. For years there was a bill in each session of the Legis- lature, calling for repayment, but the campaign was dropped in the mid fifties. If the present general fund surplus is maintained, the cam- paign for repayment may be re- vived; possibly with success this time. WEATHER TO BLA/E The depletion of the motor vehi- cle fund is the result of the long warm, dry summer, so favorable to highway construction. Contractors have been able to complete many projects ahead of schedule, and as the work was compleded, they had to be paid. The motor vehicle fund will continue to hang on the ragged edge as long as the favorable weather prevails. The depart- ment would like to keep a bal- ance of $20 to $30 million in the fund, to provide for such con- tingencms. This could help spur agitation for repayment of the $10 million borrowed so long ago. "POLITICAL PRESSURE" William A. Gebenini, who re- cently resigned as Director of Aeronautics, has written Wash- ington legislators, saying he was "forced by p01itieal pressure" to tender his resignation. Copies of the letter, which were mimeographed, were sent to Republican as well as Demo- cratic law-makers and at least one reached the Governor's office. Gebenini had been appointed director early in the first Albert D. Rosellini administration. He had been active in Rosellini's successful 1956 campaign. He is a former State Patrol captain, and it has been an- nounced that he will be em- ployed by the patrol in a civilian capacity. The Department of Revenue last week adopted rules for qualifying for tax write-offs to industry to help defray the costs of installing air pollution or wa- ter pollution control facilities. The law. enacted by the 1967 Legislature. permits industries installing such facilities to de- duct sales and use taxes on the installation costs from their busi- ness taxes. It is estimated the law will mean a loss to the state of $2.5 million in revenue, which could be reflected in the size of the general fund surplus at the end of the current biennium. RAPID TRANSIT Resistance to rapid transit probably will continue in high- way circles, but it will be a quiet resistance. At the Good Roads convention in Vancouver, Washington, dis- cussion of rapid transit by high- way officials was cautious. Highways Director Charles G. Prahl, whose speech in Honolulu created such a furore, never Pace 4. Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, September 21, 1967 mentioned rapid transit as such in Vancouver, and made only one slight reference to it. "We welcome the emergence of other transportation modes to assist in solving the ..rban transpoation problemsi but are convinced there can be no let-up in construction of freeways in the populated areas if we are to meet the transporation demands of the public," he said. That was it. CHAIRMAN SPEAKS OUT George Zahn, chairman of the Highways Commission, said he believed it is his responsibility "to urge caution and considera- tion in the development of any mass transportation system," adding : High school ho, d.at purpose years, much needs to be done if the prograw lvl, tb plish its dual purpose of highly trained Y°''-['r°tldUl : a reduction of traffic incidents among you _, e 1 This is the over all conclusion of an i ne'. .  gation conducted by the Auto Club Safety I)ePTV4'l y pe . n :,, cation ro am PurPose of the investigatW , 7ei  p gr . -- .... 0o '" . , vide a critical, factual analysis of hzgn =-" . cation in the state, tte  -h High school driver education became _ se i gram in June, 1963, following passage o1 a. =7r0dd , aid law during the 1963 Legislature. Thh  e0:, reimbursement of up to 75 percent of ' :t7 schools conducting approved courses; aut perintendent of Public Instruction to se ,pt course standards; enables schools to conduet.il during or after the school day and durang vaee0  tL imbursement and costs. .rre tli in,,000000ig00tor00 00ouod o00uo00,o00 On the plus side, the program h as ez'v" lw'' ,I'le .; st four year,, d stunt, if slow, growth in the pa .... e  t.,i!n • i , I :dicati°' ':qf ii, , Though current resistance is comparatively quiet, it appears to be sufficient to block any move to divert gasoline tax money to rapid transit for quite a few years at least. The one thin everbody agrees on in regards next year's A majority of driver education >n "I must decry the attitude of elections is that the political doing an adequate job in the classroor ltl a few proponents of rapid trans- division 'in the State Senate will car. Most have the desire and d it who seem never to miss an be 25 - 24. for this life-saving job. However, roOra opportunity to criticize, cajole, The difference of opinion re- improvement still exists. ,.v scold or berate highways in an volves around who  ';";"L.: ='C10011".,: ,11: effort to promote their own Pe 251h 0te fQr school administ-atdrhv'e:ee t• 01 mode of transportation." = Democrats or education as a full lllgu: ......... Zahn took cognizance of rapid Strangely, many on' tmth sides, ore, ithey not only provide equal atUS t°::;0tl t00a00,t ,o Oove ore 00u00oroo00 land, Chicago and San Francisco, ocarts think, the Republicans but encourage student participation. In .-- re but quoted R. R. Stokes, manager will have it. Some Republicans stance, one or more phases of the courSe are of the Bay Area Rapid Transit, think the Democrats will control graduation, ads to many drawbaCkS-[;r; j° I: as saying "highways will re- again. main the number one means of Barring a political upheaval, Its newness le  moving people and goods." it looks like the Democrats will teacherseXpansi°nfalls°f fardrivershorteducati°n'of the demand•The suP Pdleg# ], t-ree: versities have not developed adequate te::ier'rier')ilveu 0 programs in this field• Most teachers re coarsely eorSes, o  still be in the saddle. The Republicans, who now hold 20 seats, are virtually certain to pick up three more through redistricting, and have a big edge in their chances of getHng another for a net gain of four. "'Put, Mister!" Black market thrives in Poland By DEAN TARRACH • "Pest - Parlez Vous Fran- eais?" (No Response!) "Sprechen Sic Deutsch?" (No Response !) "You speak English? .... Yes." "You want to change American dollars for 70 Zhloti?" (24 Zhloti for one American dollar is the official rate in Poland!) "No !" "How about 80 for one?" "No." "90 for 1?" "No !" "NO." "My last offer is 100 for one dollar." 'No, thank you, I have all the Zhloti I need." • "Where are you going?" "Russia !" "I give you four times the of- ficial rate for rubles." "No. thank you." Thus terminated my con- versation with one of literally hundreds of money black market dealers in Poland. It is forbidden by law to do this, yet the enter- prising black market thrives on foreign currency. I asked our guide about WHY this condition exists. It was ex- plained that the foreign curren- cies are much in demand for their buying power. The black market gets dollars illegally from tourists, and then sells them to the Polish sailors who go abroad. The sailors buy needed com- modifies and return to sell them through the underground at tre- mendous profits. Sometimes they wish to buy at foreign currency stores which sell cigarettes--A- merican brands--for $2.40 per carton or Canadian Club whiskey at $2.60 per quart. Foreign cur- rency is all you can spend to get these tremendous values. Or a third reason is that they are saving dollars to buy their way to freedom in the Western world. The secret police circa- late and try to steal money, too. If the agent you are illegally changing money with turns out to be the spy, you are placed under arrest. Needless to say, we were ap- proached countless times--but none of us traded dollars-- even though the rates were tempt- ing. But the LAWS WEREN'T. Poland has 20% private farms, 50% collective farms, and 30% state farms at this time. They are gradually giving way from private (state) to collective farms. A private farm can only be 220 acres in size. They can hire workers, but they must pay the workers wages and insurance. The population of Poland is 32,000,000, of which 2,000,000 are in the cgrrLmunist party. Poland is not the great affluent society - but rather very poor, if not the poorest of the satellite nations. In Poland, if you desire a car, you must save for it. When you have saved the down pay- merit, you put your name on the list and wait for two years or more. You must "also PROVE a need for a car. The money you save had better not exceed the money you could possibly save during the years on your salary. Car prices start at 90,000 Zh- loti and go to 120,000 Zhloti (Be- tween $20,000 and $30,000.) A worker would have to work be- tween five and ten years to pay for a car - IF HE DID NOT SPEND ONE RED ALUMINUM ZHLOTI. You can buy on time with 20% down and the balance in twenty years. The same rate applies to flats (apartments). Very low income groups can have their flats free of charge--a flat comprising 7 square meters per person--not to exceed three persons (21 square meters) costs the health- y sum of 200,000 zldoti ($50,000). To give you a mathematical problem--one meter equals rough- ly 39 inches. !- The official tourist agency of Poland is ORBIS. In Hungary it was Ibuz. In Czechoslavakia it was CEDOK, and in RUSSIA- INTOURIST. It is the function of these tourist agencies to feed, house, and help inform the tour- ists from all over the world that come to their country. There are private businesses in Poland (Not so in Russia.) They are small and are located in a small section of Warsaw. They appear to be well off, as they had cars, etc. So, free en- terprise does pay off here, too. They seem to take r0ore trips than the average Polish citizen, also. The water in Poland s fit to drink by the naqves, but not so for the tourist. So we faced our old friend--"bottled soda water" referred to affectionately in Eur- ope as Aqua Minerale. It tastes roughly like a warm, old Alka Seltzer. The artists, composers, writers and politicians are the hihest paid people in all the Curtain countries, including Russia. Poland is basically a Catholic land. They have (or so we were told), two hours of religion in school per week. Speaking of schools: In Poland the teach- er.'s salaries are very poor. Our guide was a teacher who moonlights in the summer by being a guide for ORBIS.- The waiters in the restaurants are slow, and could care less about waiting on tables. It seems that under socialism, they re- ceive the same salary whether they wait on one table or ten. So dinner can last up to two and one half hours. The nightclub musicians play three songs and rest for twenty minutes. They, too, receive their pay, o why be speedy? These are just two examples of com- munism in practice. The old NO INCENTIVE system--is it really the ideal government? cation training through abbreviated college during summer school, evening extensiOn ::! one-week programs• "og teC'/ I% (One college annually offers sum r i dr established a 1%, grams, and another has  lli.!Y " cation.) s- etce to i Some school districts have er driver education a sC:ool s driver education has not been given eq ual st i| subjects. The fact that driver educatiOn instruction on non-school days certified teachers to participate, hinderance to development of a The law also limits the amount and calls for a "lab" fee. have interpreted this comb ing the program at no cost to eral fund. Therefore, some high they prevent many who nee from enrolling. The size of the State Office has an adequate job of supervision and man has been charged with this has had to supervise a state-wide prO[ Since June, 1963, the number of education has shown a slow, but wise, t e number of students enrolled ly. A total of 183 high schools (of a pated in the program, with 17,455 1963-64 school year. The following ye vided the course for 21,417. school year is expected to reach 29i high schools participating. Only 20 to 25 percent of all eligib] pleted an approved course of 30 1]1 in-the.car, 12 hours observing. The ieY driving age: d to $':1: dents" includes all those of The average number of hottrt 0!: ' row__o  tion decreases during the second Y ilarly, the second year saw a decline t 0f  01r'I' e I: time devoted to the program. ,urb $ , Du,'imz 1963-64 the average r m w ¢i00 I! ! for the three phases 'of the prog::obse,.; to ' 'f classroom, 7 in the ear and 15  droPP req   :r i the second year, these a verage i,ira - #l and 13 "ust one hour above r :fed! , l ' ,.qu .,de ments in each category. -t of m'::rOW i In 1963-64, more than 63 perCW_') ¢#V" } instruction all three uhases inclUae--^or' o (  ^ ,ext y"]'hoar' ing regular school hours  -" .oo,. of the program was offered dttrmg sv,.