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REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS who spoke at the Shelton Chamber of Commerce meeting last Thursday were, left to right, Irving Newhouse, Duane Berntson, Kenneth Eikenberry, Kemper Freeman and John Hendricks. lican Concerns of were Chamber of hen five Republican to the chamber meeting last night at Heinie's the introduction of legislators was John Hendricks, ty Leader Irving Mabton, told the that the had been around the state different point of Comes from the of the legislature. he said, is drifting toward a which makes for a person in profession to serve because it takes past year, he said, spent 155 days in this does not count which have the legislature is he said, is not COmes to Olympia issues are being the rug...- no real bills being the 1976 session, The legislature 'ting bills so they they are doing. g, Newhouse is to pinpoint are thinking. In said, there is a aCCountability and the students are anticipates failures in the Canal The Hood Canal School Board at its meeting Monday night seated Dr. William Busacca as a member of the board. Richard Endicott was elected chairman of the board to succeed Warren Edinger Sr., who has served as chairman the past year. The board adopted a set of proposed board meeting procedures. Included in those procedures are that individuals or groups wanting to appear before the board should contact the school board the Monday prior to the legisla am er Concealed-weapon permits on the increase in county coming year and the continuing problem of school financing. He commented that about half the Democrats in the legislature are retired or public employees• Other problems which the legislature must face, he said, are transportation, energy, unemployment compensation and medical malpractice problems. Representative Duane Berntsen, Burlington, said the legislature is taking a look at the creation of a Department of Energy to see if it is needed. They are also looking at emergency energy powers for the government and a thermal siting act which would bring all forms of energy siting under one act. He stated a gas tax increase is needed if there is to be any highway construction and, if one is not passed in the coming biennium, cutbacks in highway maintenance will be necessary. Discussing Initiative 316 to restore the death penalty for some crimes, Representative Kenneth Eikenberry, Seattle, said juvenile code was written by the public defenders and appears to be designed to protect the juvenile from the court. The new code would call for four separate hearings in criminal cases. He also commented that 60 percent of the crime is committed by juveniles• Representative Kemper Freeman, Bellevue, discussed state pension funds and the financial problems they are getting into. He stated that because of increases in pension funds granted to the seven different groups representing state employees, who in effect compete with each other, each wanting a little more than the other, the state now has an unfundec] liability in the pension funds of about $1 million a day. The last session of the legislature put $425,000,000 into the pension funds, about 10 percent of the revenue from the general fund, and the pension funds are still not keeping up with their liabilities. This is a serious problem, he (Continued from page one.) and wielded primarily as a threat. "They very rarely involve a concealed weapon of any kind," said Johnson. "Because of our locale and all of the sports hunting we have, almost every family in the area owns some type of firearm like a shotgun or a rifle. But more often than not they'll use them in a threatening way rather than with any actual intent to do harm." The law now prohibits all The Mason County Forest Festival Association, at a meeting last week, selected "Timber, Our Heritage" as the theme for the 1976 Forest Festival. Festival president John Hinck announced that Phil Hamlin would be chairman of the concession committee. The group discussed plans for the 1975 festival• Liquor license is approved The State Liquor Control Board has issued a Class H-Club license to Shelton-Bayshore Golf Club to sell beer, wine and spirituous liquor for on-premises consumption by its members at Route 2, Box 89, Shelton. the vote should be a mandate to said, which is some day going to Love that lasts those in the Department of Social explode• The state has been, he Only parents' love can last our and Health Services to get the said, promising benefits which are lives• Robert Browning. element of discipline and beyond its ability to pay. punishment back into the The state, he said, is walking • criminal jUstiCe system. " Up to dls~r and the Democrats He stated that there are 30 are paralyzed, ram inmates in the WaUa Walla State Proposals which would Penitentiary who are locked in combine the seven funds into one 3800 segregation who have been victims would help by cutting down on the competition among groups to get more than the others. There have been hints, the legislators said, that a one percent sales tax increase and other tax increases will be proposed by the Democrats not just tot school funding, but for a six percent salary increase which the Democrats promised state employees. 8 Husqvarna MOTOR SHOP 1306 Olympic Hwy. S. 426-4602 of a criminal act within the penitentiary. They are locked in segregation while those who are responsible are loose among the prison population. He said there should be a mandated minimum sentence for some crimes, particularly crimes against individuals. He also said a proposed new persons - including peace officers - from assuming ownership of a firearm on the day of purchase. A mandatory three-day period must be observed first, during which authorities check for any violations or other question marks which might warrant disallowing the transaction. "The idea," offered Doeneh, "is that if you're buying a gun to do somebody in, you're mad, and they figure maybe in three days you'll have cooled off. If you're still mad in three days," he added with a grin, "you can go ahead and shoot him." The concealed-weapon permit itself is by no means regarded as a deterrent to crime, according to most officers• Johnson, for example, reasons that anyone likely to use a gun illegally isn't going to heed laws pertaining to the concealment of weapons, anyway. "All the permit really does," he said, "'is allows an honest citizen to protect himself. And it's really more a deterrent; it gives people a comfortable feeling to know that if anything should come up they have a means of protecting themselves." . rday, This 3rd annual parade co-sponsored by the Shelton JayCees and the Shelton Chamber of Commerce is the largest and first of its kind in Washington• Begins downtown at 3 p.m. and concludes with the lighting of the Christmas Tree ' re of the Fun-Enter Now/ (personal, commerical, etc.) number in group: of Leader: First, second and third place trophies catagories 1. Marching Bands 2. Marching Units 3. Mounted Units 4. Mobile Units 5. Merchant Floats 6. Service Organization Floats 7. Individual Entries A. 0-6 years old B. 7-12 years old C. 13 and up Also to be awarded: The Grand Marshal's Award Chamber of Commerce Award Christmastown U.S.A. Award kASTOWN, USA PARADE COMMITTEE 5ORS -- SHELTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & SHELTON JAYCEES P,O. BOX "A" • SHELTON, wAsHINGTON 98584 meeting to get on the agenda• The procedures also provide that a time will be allowed for visitors to make comments which should be directed to the board as a whole, not individual board members or members of the administration. It also provides board members may interrupt a speaker to ask questions or make comments in order to clarify the discussion. The procedures provide that not more than five minutes will be allotted one speaker and not more than 20 minutes to one subject except with unanimous consent of the board. Persons appearing before the board will not be permitted to discuss a motion pending before the board, the procedures provide. The procedures provide that oral complaints against individual employees of the district may not be presented at the board meeting. The complaints should be presented in writing and signed by the person making the complaints. It is also provided that boisterous conduct will not be permitted. North Shelton Community Auxiliary Saturday, November 22 Starts 9:00 a.m. Safeway Store in Shelton Make us an •]. "'" lau h if 4-Door •:•:, 2-Door Make Offer .1 - . ¢ 4-door. They don't make them like this anymore! ,• .~ Kneeland Center OPEN Monday-Saturday until 8 p.m. OPEN SUNDAY after church 'til 7 p.m. Bring your ., °' leash! 4 door a real dog! 1974 A WAPLD DEALERo on MI. View | Thursday, November 20, 1975 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 1 Bill Johnson • George HasBrouck • Tomi Smith • John Ervin • Glen Stepper