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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 | 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 • • : ,.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 Founded 1886 by Grant C. Angle teens. Marling Addreu:. Box 430, Shelton, Wash. 98584 Published at Shelton, Mason County, Washington, every Thursday. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Postoffice, Shelton, Wash. Member of National Editorial Association Member of Washington Newspaper Publishers' Association SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $5.00 per year in Mason County, in ad- vance  Outside Mason County $6.00 EDITO R AND PUBLISHER -- Henry G. Gay SUPERINTENDENT -- Jim Shrum OFFICE MANAGER -- Lodema Johnson NEWS EDITOR  Alan Ford = OFFICE ASSISTANT -- Mary Kent R. R. Greive, majority leader in IOCIETY EDrlZ)R- Marj Jacobson the Senate, filed a minority re- . port. Then Lemhardt Howell, an . fDVERTISING MANAGER -- Don Adolfson 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 | purchases."