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Edmtor,als. The Flapdoodler:
Time for the bridge,
Now is the time for all good Mason County voters to
come to the aid of the county road system. A "yes" vote
on the Harstine Island bridge proposal next Tuesday will
do the trick.
The proposed bridge is more than a private
roadway for Harstine islanders; it is a much-
needed link to a large section of the county which,
with the development the bridge will stimulate,
will add considerable assessed valuation to the tax
rolls.
The islanders, because they want the bridge, have
voted to pay a large share of its construction cost. The
rest of us in the county can pay our share for an additional
tax of only 8/10th of one mill.
This is a small price to pay for a permanent
structure which will replace a ferry now being
subsidized to the tune of $38,000 a year from
oounty funds. The bridge will also avert the need
to replace the ancient ferry, a project which it is
estimated will cost $200,000.
The littlest beggar
God help the little children who learn American folk-
ways on the night of October 31.
If there is anything more incongruous than a two-
year-old trick-or-treater, it will be found only in Strange
As It Seems.
There on the porch stands the little beggar,
cheek-by-jowl with a jack-o-lantern which scares
him silly, and started him on the road to hysteria
the moment his mother tugged him up the front
steps. His pants are wet and his last feeding is
beginning to curdle in his bloated little stomach.
All he wants is a warm breast and a dry diaper, but his
mother, unable to bear the thought that her infant might
be culturally and socially deprived, has smeared lipstick on
his nose, stuck a couple of felt ears on his head, handed
him a paper sack which drags on the ground when he holds
it shoulder-high, and hauled him out into the rain to prove
she loves him.
Mama has spent all day telling him what a great time
he is going to have, and teaching him to say "twick-or-
tweet." Why, hell, he just learned to say "baw-baw" and
that took him two years. So he just holds out the sack
and says "haw-haw."
The bored householder drops a Baby Ruth
into the already bulging sack from a height of five
feet and the tiny celebrant doubles over and grips
his abdomen to ease the pain of the hernia he has
just acquired along with the candy bar.
Then mama drags him to the next porch and, when
him d and tells papa what a good time Junior had,
and that there will be enough candy bars for daddy's lunch-
box for the next thirteen years, give or take a few weeks.
Letter box:
Look at the records
I1 Let us take a look at the
records in the City Hall.
Earl Moore served four years
as Mayor of the City of Shelton.
During that period, I feel, he was
faced with many problems of
city government: a decline in
city revenue, what appeared to
be a very disorganized state of
,confusion and conflict in some
departments, out-moded and con-
flicting ordinances, together with
other problems long over due for
correction.
Many taxpayers feel Mr. Moore
served your city with dedication
and courage through his term in
office. During that period he was
faced with harrassment by a
very small group who were able
to voice their personal opinions
in newspapers without all of the
facts, as reflected by the official
minutes of the commissioner's
meetings.
In spite of the many problems,
loss of revenues and unpopular
decisions which had to be made
to comply with state laws gov-
e r n i n g c i t y government, the
'Moore administration completed
the four year term with an out-
standin record of public im-
provements and responsible ex-
penditure of tax monies.
The state auditor's office, after
examining the city records, com-
mended the Moore administra-
tion for its good management.
The state auditor's reports cover-
ing the past four years since the
lVoore administration make in-
teresting reading.
To this writer's knowledge, the
state auditor's report, especially
on the City Hall Annex, has
never been published. The finan-
cing on the annex purchase is
covered by Ordinance No. 712.
This writer believes that at the
close of the Earl Moore adminis-
tration the city affairs were in a
well-organized state. Few, if any,
changes were necessary for the
present administration to carry
on without change or conflict.
This writer feels Earl Moore
is dedicated to the welfare of the
City of Shelton and Mason
County.
If you are interested in good,
efficient, honest and sincere city
government vote for Earl Moore
who conducted a very successful
business for many years in Shel-
ton and has the experience and
time to serve you as your mayor
for four years.
Take a look at the records.
The facts are there.
C. W. Streckenbach
Harstine Island
A beautiful duet
Editor, The Journal:
October 24th at 8 p.m. in the
P.U.D. auditorium, Clint Willour
and Pat Byrne sang a duet. Best
show I've seen in Shelton. All
about our town's growing pains.
Many hours planning and pre-
paration. A wonderfully executed
presentation.
Every citizen could spend a
couple of extremely profitable
hours seeing and hearing these
fellows display problems and
suggest some reasonable, work-
able answers. Said they would
be happy to present same to any
club, church or civic group with
a couple of days notice.
Friends and neighbors, if every
group in town would contact
these gentlemen and see this n-
spiring demonstration, then get
to work, we could have all the
goodies mentioned. We don't
need any imported experts to
squander our taxes.
We saw a glimpse of what
can be if we support our present,
amiable and intelligent mayor
and commissioners. Our city is
solvent now, and with good local
planning it will remain that way.
We can install new m o d e r n
sewer grids, both storm and sani-
tary and with a modest enlarge-
ment of our treatment plant,
solve all our sewage problems
for several years growth.
Let's underground all
our wires, too, and then pave
our streets. Why not get the talk-
ing, llanning and method of fi-
nancing (local} settled this win-
ter and we can start moving dirt
next spring.
We know it can be done. Let's
get with it.
John A. Dinning
Shelton
Page 4 TM" Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, November
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Capitol dome:
"Trick or treat!"
State Democrats run out of dough in the kitty
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
While attention has been fo-
cused on Governor Dan Evans'
troubles with conservative ele-
ments in some of the state's ma-
jor counties, the Democrats have
m ar
i srious. They are finan'cial.
The new state chairman, former
Representative Robert KUll, is
learning what others have
learned before him. When the
other party has the governorship,
raising money isn't easy.
At the end of the first eight
months, only $10,443, less than
20 per cent, had been raised to-
ward the $59,000 quota for this
year.
DISENCHANTED
IVleanwhile. some of the state
committeemen who elected Kull
earlier this year, have indicated
their disenchantment. They over-
ruled him. on two points at a
recent meeting. They voted down
his proposal to apportion dele-
gates to the 1968 state convention
on the basis of how much each
county had raised toward its
quota.
Then they voted to resume pub-
lication of the party organ, the
Democratic News Digest, which
Kull had suspended because of
a lack of funds. To help pay for
it, they cut Kull's salary from
$18,000 to $15,000 per year.
FUTURE IS BLEAK
And while Kull was having his
problems, his predecessor Frank
Keller, was learning that there
doesn't seem to be much future
in being chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee
in this state. Keller left the state
chairmanship, now held by Kull,
to take a federal job. Now the
job has been abolished.
The same thing happened to
A case of
/n a king-size bM
: ii
By STEVE ERICKSON
What do you put in a two-car garage?
Well, you store boxes full of old pictures,
scratchy old sweaters out there.
And it's a great place for the kids' reje
toys, fireplace wood, ladders, fishing gear::
three-penny nails. Also for miscellanea
trivia, in t
But not for cars. They belong outside,
sleet and ignominy.
That's just one of the inconsistencies and .;.nmm
at our house. Another is the station wagon vhic[7)l
one time believed would occupy half the garage'
"Gotta get a bigger car," my wife and
to mutter every time we drove more
in our compact job. Meanwhile, our
were scurrying back ancl forth from front
back seat via the oonvenient aisle
bucket seats.
"Yeah," we'd agree, time after time.
Pickup truck. Bus."
We settled on the wagon, but it made
Even though the back seat folds down, pro
gymnasium back there, and even though we l_ :
with three layers of soft quilts (converting 0/
padded cell, appropriately enough), and evecn k
the view and the air are better in the bac '-l
travel five-in-the-front. Susan, the mild,ma
cocker, has the padded cell all to herself. :i
This sort of thing has been going Q
years. One house ago, we were the proud o
of the only home on the block with two el
suppOS
basins in one bathroom. This was teeth sil !
mean two people could brush their
taneously. __.,h ad j
What it actually meant was that mY w:::ily',
to soak the kids white shoestrings a.nd the z'- .1 e
ed combs And one morning I found a sinai P-
in there, sleeping.
One person brushed his teeth at a time.
arc di
rat
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,.th,
bedsprin
Keller's predecessor, Herb Legg.
Legg also left the state chairman-
ship to take a federal job, only
to have the job abolished from
under him later. Legg, being at-
torney, did manage to land else-
where and now is an assistant
,:attorney general on Attorney
, (eeal 3ohn J. O Conned s istaff,
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
On the Republican side of the
fence, an experienced observer
doesn't have to be on the spot
at the national level to perceive
that everything is shaping up for
Governor Dan Evans to keynote
the Republican national conven-
tion next year. Those who handle
the manipulations backstage are
set on putting the accent on
youth and good looks, and Gov-
ernor Evans has both.
This group won't be able to
sidetrack U.S. Senator Everett
Dirksen, however, despite the ef-
forts of New York's Governor
Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller
and Dirksen have been tangling
at national conventions for 15
years. Rockefeller won the first
two encounters, but the rest have
gone to Dirksen.
With those interested in party
harmony holding the deciding
votes, you can expect a compro-
mise, with Evans being selected
as keynote speaker and Dirksen
being elected chairman of the
convention's platform committee,
the spot he wants.
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
The chances of a constitutional
convention call getting through
the 1969 Legislature don't appear
to be any better than they were
in the last session, judging from
the minority reports coming out
of the Constitutional Revision
Committee. First State Senator
assistant attorney general, spoke
up. Both are Democrats, but both
spoke a different piece.
Greive objected to the commit-
tee's endorsement of Attorney
General John J. O'Connell's plan
to call a convention by initiative.
He contended that if this can be
..done, it will open the door to
constitutional amendment by ini-
tiative, as is done in California,
which he said "constitutional
authorities agree has the worst
constitution in the United States."
Howell challenges the commit-
tee's recommendation that legal-
ity of a convention call be tested
at the earliest possible date, con-
tending this is impractical. With
so many disagreements bobbing
up this early, it seems apparent
that a convention call can't get
the necessary two-thirds vote in
each house of the Legislature
next session.
While saying he supports con-
stitutional reform, Greive raised
a point seldom brought up, that
the people of Washington have a
sizeable investment in the pres-
ent constitution. He pointed out
that thousands of matters have
been interpreted by the courts
which now are settled law.
even a generation before the
courts could clearly define prop-
erty rights. The bulk of Greive's
minority report, however, criti-
cizes the majority report for fail-
ing to state what a new consti-
tution should provide. He said
the voters can't expect to ap-
prove a constitution if they
aren't informed what the new
constitution will be like.
This, the major portion of the
minority report, already is in
the process of being muzzled.
Governor Evans has announced
he will follow the committee's
recommendations.
able basin was dispensed like lifeboats are
sinking ship--to women and children first.
The topper came just this month,
combination of our exhausted
advertisigcrowding
and a monumental '
A new constitution, he said,. ai n b' ::the Simmonsand Besuty
would raise thousands of levi P g Y: / ;' ........ S s:$"
questions and would be years, US to Invest In lat in;spensab "'l
20th Century life, the king-size bed. :: ,
I should have known what to expect fro Yi
experience with two wash basins, one of which
be used. . _. a
If not, then, the two-car garage mim-i
should certainly have been some sort of P erau' '*
wallpaper. 4i
mn ag°
And of course, the five-in-front staff cO
should have been clear indication of t hings to_o,|
But far be it from me to profit from exPer'
@gf ff
So, last night as I lay sleeping o, oreV
king-size bed which was uaranteeo +d bl
overcrowding, my slumberg: as interrUP t
pointed elbow in the ribs. i
"Whazzis ?" I mumbled, only half awake" . 1
I
"Nice of you to visit," she said., "I'I°e.';rs¢'
way on the floor and at the rate you re s r
Phone 426-4412 make it yet." . e0i
b00i00kod 00ooked ove, to0000'd
of unoccupied Beautyres. I was rolled m i
by a pair of very cold feet. _cept
That's about the end of this sad l:'ad pt
thing. Over breakfast we decided to mug .][
A second television set for the den.. v/e I!llll
in the living room, and the kids can i
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A second television set, for the den.
Unless,,.
A day in the life of a Defense Department purchasing agent
By DONALD KAUL
If there were no Pentagon, right-think-
ing Americans would have to invent one.
Where else could they find such superla-
tive examples of bureaucratic stupidity and
corruption to condemn?
Take, for example, the most recent
story involving purchasing practices of the
Defense Department.
It seems that the Defense Supply
Agency paid $33,938.95 for a quantity
of knobs that ordinarily sells for
$210.60.
And, to add insult to injury, the govern-
ment, under a special computerized formu-
la, claimed that it had saved $8,349.74 on
the deal.
This leads one to speculate just what
manner of man is employed by the pur-
chasing agencies of the Defense Depart-
ment. It would be interesting to catch one
2, 1967
of them after he's been on a little shopping
errand for his wife.
He comes into the house carrying his
bag of goodies and his wife says:
"Did you get everything, dear?"
"Yep. Milk • • • bread.., thumb tacks
•.. butter. Got it all."
"$7,438.95."
"Seven thousand, four hundred and
thirty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents!"
"Yeah. They. were having a sale on
thumb tacks."
"You told them you were a purchasing
agent for the Defense Department, didn'.t
you, Harry?"
"Sure I did. I always do."
"Why, Harry? Why do you always tell
them that?"
"It seems to impress them. As
soon as I tell them they start scurry-
ing around, getting me a chair, light.
in K my cigarette."
"Did you ever. stop to think why they
make such a big fuss ?"
"I suppose it's because I'm a valued
customer."
"And do you know why you're a vmaed
customer ?"
"No."
"Because you're.a •cluck, Harry.
You think nickels are worth more than
dimes because they're bigger."
"You mean they're izot?"
"Harry, every time you walk out of the
house, it costs us a fortune. Remember
last week, when you went to get the car
washed ?"
"Yes, what about it?"
"They charged you $1,547, Harry. Plus
tax,"
"They wouldn't have charged it if the
job wasn't worth it, Milliscent. As we say
down at the Defense Department, most
just ve tj
P Y "half -s° . t
One pair of shoes . €45, . y0t
cleaned and blockea, _ ¢7
charged you $50 to ham ,,
car." .. chS¢? /
"What's wrong W':j' r old" ,' g
aY ,go
It was only nu re :
can't go on like thiS..v-
relY:
to quit your job." ..d to to
"Millie, I wasn't g°lVe 'i
until evening, but I do .,
job., I've been fired"'ear g¢ l
After all these Y " , foil|
fir you ?" ..¢thiO .
• "They said it W:' Ch': 1
positon rate on P '-:|
to use my ,partrnent
Defense De
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purchases."