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Tha00sgiving
This :the time for giving thanks.
It i ae one week in the year when this column ceases
iut icdclastic bleating and joins tile sunshine spreaders in
labAed praise of plastic, junk food, nuclear weapons,
wlne, tranquilizers, situation comedies, self-help
.ut'nre, professional sports, electronic evangelists and the
[1 • •
.r blessings bestowed by God on His chosen people in
VU SofA.
Let us give thanks that our nation's prosperity has
;eached the point where Congressmen can be purchased
with sums commensurate with their high office.
Not too many years ago, it would have been
unthinkable for a •Senator to spend $6.7 million in a
reelection campaign, but Jesse Helms of North Carolina
accomplished it this year.
A special thank you should be uttered this year for the
patriotic obstinacy of the Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases of the United States Army. In spite of
pressure from the World Health Organization (WHO), it has
held on to its samples of smallpox virus.
WHO, for reasons which are probably suspect because it
owes allegiance to no one nation, has been engaged in a
campaign to eradicate smallpox. It hopes to announce in
October 1979 the extinction of the disease.
Since the only smallpox left in the world would be in
laboratories, WHO asked the 75 labs with virus samples to
either destroy them or turn them over to one of four
designated holders. Most labs cooperated.
But the United States Army, thank heavens, did not. In
its continual struggle to make the world a healthier place in
which to live, the Army must make use of every possible
weapon. And smallpox virus would be a superb addition to
its biological warfare arsenal.
Although it disclaims any such intent - which it must
to parry the thrusts of bleedinghearts - there is no other
reason for the Army to keep its stock of virus.
Not only would a smallpox weapon assure the United
States of supremacy over the forces of evil in a hot war,
but it would be an excellent bargaining chip in the
disarmament game.
Consider this: the United States would be the only
nation on the globe able to unleash smallpox on a
smallpox-free world. That's power, and with power comes
victory. And peace.
A less dedicated defender of freedom might have
succumbed to the treacherous pleadings of the World
Health Organization, a group which includes representatives
of our nation's enemies. But the Army stuck to its guns.
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Capitol CDome:
Everybody wants to change education act
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
Few people seem to be
happy with the Basic Education
Act of 1977.
But whether the 1979
Legislature enacts any
substantive changes will depend
upon ability of the lawmakers to
agree on numerous controversial
issues. And reaching agreement
on the multitude of proposals
which have been submitted so
far won't be easy.
Too Many Thumbs in the
Soup
As the famous comedian,
Jimmy Durante would say,
"Everybody wants to get into
the act."
At a recent hearing
conducted by the Senate
Education Committee, some
sixty-seven amendments were
proposed. Many of them
embraced several, so if broken
down and added up, the grand
than five different groups offered
proposed changes.
There Will Be More
Included were the
Washington Education
Association and the Washington
State School Directors
Association, as might be
expected. Others were the State
Office of Public Instruction,
Washington Educational Staff
Associates Council, and Citizens
for Fair School Funding.
There were nulnerous other
organized groups, however,
which have been active on the
education front previously,
including the PSTA and School
Administrators' Association,
which probably will come in
with some recommendations of
their own.
Additionally, you can expect
numerous other proposals from
the general public.
But where most of the
total wo,ul exceed 100:N.qles ..... ,gy9,1psa'te seeking ger.ous
A case of the jitters
But what enlightened actions has our governor taken?
She" declared a solution to overpopulation was starvation.
She callously fired people whom she said were 'friends.'
She basely ridiculed anyone who disagreed with her
preconceptions regarding nuclear power or oil ports or
supertankers on the Sound.
She berated conservationists for becoming "gooey" over
a few dead ducks. She hired scientific rainmakers who
proved to be fake quacks. What she spent on training her
"attack" terriers and on their dog mansions would help
about seven people a year on her reduced welfare payments
of $60 a month. She's left the mental health and prison
systems in turmoil and directionless.
Hardly an enlightened record! She probably thinks The
Captain and Tenille's hit song, "Love Will Keep Us
Together," is about Siamese twins joined at the lips.
Historically, social enlightenment has covered a wide
range of subjects. Tolstoy wrote you could judge the
culture of a civilization by the way it treated its criminals.
Others stressed the care given the young, the aged,
minorities,,the insane.
Such examinations focused on a problem, usually
unpopular, and tried to rectify the situation. Much of the
history of our nation is a record of such attempts. Still,
some of our finest reformers like Dorothea Dix, Lorenzo
Coffin and Jehudi Ashmun are almost entirely unknown
today regardless of their humanitarian efforts. Instead we
remember generals, politicians and crooks.
With our governor, people seem to get in the way,
especially if money is involved or if the offenders can be
assaulted without fear of reprisal. Her targets are weak or
defenseless.
In the same speech she announced her opposition to
allowing private insurance carriers to compete with the
state industrial insurance system. She said the state could
do a better job.
When she ran for governor she didn't think government
could do anything better than private industry but now she
wants to be reelected and with labor's support.
She won't always be able to "conquer the naive
instincts of (the) crowd" but until that time, she can give
Mr. Coffee Nerves a case of the jitters.
By JOHN GAAR
Addressing the state Labor Council's Committee on
Political Education our governor proved you can be young
only once but you can be immature forever.
At the meeting she used a meaningless cliche, claiming
she was "fiscally conservative and socially enlightened."
John Bagnariol, Speaker of the House in Olympia, said that
in 1973 after he became House Ways and Means Committee
Chairman but the phrase has an even longer history.
Since then, Bagnariol has hired high-priced help and
become self-assured and ambitious. He's learned the maxim
of an old Virginia Democrat: "I'd rather keep my promises
to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree
of forgiveness."
Cash across the sea
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Mailing Address: Box 430, Shelton, WA 98584 Phone 426-4412
By DAVE AVERILL
Even if you've never had the pleasure of visiting South
Korea, you may have worried a bit about those headlines a
few months back.
It turned out that our Korean friends were doing
everything but emptying their treasury into the pockets of
various members of the United States Congress• Considering
that our congressmen are a well-paid bunch while the
average Korean has to scramble'just to pay for his rice and
radishes, it hardly seemed fair.
Now it turns out that spending money can work two
ways.
In a nice gesture of hands across the sea, a
congressional subcommittee reported last week that
American business firms dumped more than eight million
U.S. dollars into a reelection campaign of South Korea's
President Park Chung Hee.
The big spenders in the crowd were American oil
companies. If the numbers on the gas pump have been
looking kind of large to you lately, take comfort in the
thought that you're a part of a display of international
friendship.
Not only that, but eventually your dollars came home
again to make life more comfortable for some lucky
American statesmen.
You don't have to go back to te early days of this
Republic to encounter a time when Americans figured
bribes and payoffs and under-the-table cash deals were
things that happened only in foreign countries with low
moral standards. There arc people still alive today who
once thought they were being governed by upright men.
Today, though, we don't have to take a back seat to
anyone when it conies to hardnosed politics. When you
read about those big bucks flowing back and forth across
tlie Pacific you realize that we've finally arrived in the big
leagues.
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Page 4 Shelton-Mason County Journal -'Thursday, November 23, 1978
changes in the Basic Education
Act, there is one group which is
seeking just one.
The Washington Educational
Staff Associates Council wants
the people it represents to be
recognized as certificated
employes.
Staff associates as defined by
State Board of Education
regulations are school counselors,
school nurses, communication
disorders specialists, occupational
therapists, school psychologists,
reading resource specialists, and
school social workers. The
council fears that unless these
specialists are specifically
recognized, the law will be
interpreted to exclude them.
Some Agreement Exists
Not surprisingly, the WEA
and SPI are in agreement on
some of the proposed
amendments. Both think the
definition of basic skills should
be expanded to include foreign
languages, and so do the Citizens
for Fair School Funding.
SPI and the WEA also agree
on various other points, but the
WEA has far more proposals
than any of the other
organizations.
A m o n g t h e m a re
amendments to the definition of
contact flours, and to the length
of the school day. The WEA also
would like to have the provision
deleted which permits use of
teacher aides in grades three
through kindergarten.
A House Social and Health
Services subcommittee has
approved a bill which would
extend provisions of the health
care cost containment act to
cover health care practitioners.
This is the act which requires
hospitals and nursing homes to
get a certificate of need from the
Board of Health before acquiring
any new, expensive equipment.
The purpose is to eliminate
duplication of such equipment in
any given area if the purchase
price would tend to raise costs
charged to patients.
As proposed by the House
panel, further duplication of
doctors' equipment also would
be prohibited. Joint use of the
existing equipment within an
area is contemplated, with joint
sharing of costs and fees.
Freshman Ranks Thinner
There will be twenty-five
"freshmen" in the House next
session, including eighteen
Republicans and seven
Democrats.
But despite the apparent
turnover in the recent election,
there will be less newcomers
than there were two years ago,
when there were thirty.
The Republican caucus also
will include a former member
who last served in the Legislature
in 1963, Bob Eberle, Vashon.
That was the session a coalition
of Republicans and conservative
Democrats controlled the House.
How many freshmen there
will be in the Senate depends
upon how you define
"freshman."
Jo u
A lot of nerve
Editor, The Journal:
How can Sheriff Dan McNair
possibly have the nerve to ask
for an immediate disability
retirement when only two
months ago he was actively
seeking reelection?
If his back and pulmonary
problems are so severe that he
now requests immediate
retirement, he should not have
run for office. How did he think
he could handle his duties as
sheriff if he had been reelected,
if he is so disabled that he must
now seek retirement?
Maybe he planned to hand
those duties over
Todd so he would
something to do!
He should
from the election,
medical
this if he is to
If the local
approves his
is something
County. If all
elections were to
retirements there
too many
not enough active
Use real trees-
Editor, The Journal: tree for your
No one is really sure where you are
the idea originated to use a tree money for foreign'
at Christmas. Wherever the of supporti
origin, though, it is now an Washington
intricate part of the American The fire
holiday tradition, mentioned in
For the past few decades, the real Christina:
production of this holiday over-rated. A
tradition has been a booming tree properly
business in Shelton where the that
climatic and soil conditions are level frec
perhaps the most conducive in stand and your
the nation for the growth of out enough to
evergreen trees. So much so that combustion.
Shelton began calling itself A greater
Christmastown, U.S.A. wire on tree
The use of artificial metal of a fake
Christmas trees in Shelton has used in fake
bothered me for some time. I turns into a
feel the time has come for me to A fake
speak out for our local industry, home or
A natural Christmas tree is a "ChristmastoWn'
biodegradable and renewable disturbing
resource. Trees by their natural appalled the
process of growing give off growing number
oxygen to the atmosphere. One the downtown
acre of young growing Christmas had a real
trees every day produces the holiday displayS.
oxygen requirement of 18 tree industry of
people, provides
A real tree can be used long people year
after the excitement of the during pro
holiday festivities has faded doing this,
away. Set the tree outside your supporting
window and put bird or squirrel businesses.
feed on it until spring. Then ut I hope this
off the branches and use them to find only
for mulch. The trunk can be .business and
used in your fireplace. After all,
A non-renewable resource is yourselves
one that can be used only once. U.S.A." and
One example is petroleum very product
products. Polyvinyl Chloride, the this claim?
plastic most often used for So come ol
artificial trees, is derived from Shelton business
petroleum. The plastic that fake you get behind
trees are made from is a stop callin
non-renewable resource; once it "CHRI
is used up, it can't be replaced.
Most plastic trees are The
manufactured in Taiwan or Hong
Kong, so if you purchase a fake
Debunking myths about crime,
By GAY ANDREW DILLIN
in The Christian Science Monitor
Americans talk a lot about crime, but do they really
know very much about it?
A new federal study indicates they don't.
For instance, how many of the following statements do
you think are true?
- Crime is growing rapidly in the United States.
- Most city dwellers consider their neighborhood unsafe
and crime their most pressing problem.
- The elderly are victims of crime more often than any
other age group.
- Most burglars enter a home by breaking in through a
window or door.
--Women are more frequently targets of crime than
men.
-The typical criminal is a loner, unemployed, and on
welfare.
-Persons living in big cities are more likely to be
victims of crime than those in small cities.
All of these statements are false, says a newly released
study entitled, "Myths and Realities about Crime," put out
by the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
(LEAA).
Let's look at each of these popular myths:
The typical criminal, says the LEAA report, was not a
loner, unemployed, or on welfare before he was arrested.
As of 1974, only three percent of the U.S. prison
population had been dcpe;dent on welfare prior to their
arrest. Some 77 percent were wage earners before their
imprisonment. However, the median income for the
lawbreakers was low .... $4,630, or only about half the
amount earned by the average working male.
Nor is the typical inmate a loner. Nearly three-fifths of
all prisoners had lived with family members before their
arrest. Some 86 percent kept contact with family or friends
while in prison.
Another myth debunked is that crime is rising.
Actually, the crime rate held fairly steady during the years
covered in the study, 1973-76. Household burglary, auto
theft, rape, and personal robbery actually declined, while
assault, as well as personal and household theft, increased
slightly.
Contrary to popular opinion, forced
necessary in a majority o,f burglaries. An
window, or even a key, was used to enter na
apartments.
The study also noted that those living
less likely to be the victims of assault,
household, theft than those in small cities,
more apt to be robbed or mugged.
Nine out of every 10 big-city dwellerS
"reasonably safe" when out alone durin
report found. Decidedly few (54 percent)
night, however.
When these same city dwellers were
anything you don't like about this neighb
many (10 percent) complained
problems, such as noise, trash, and oW
complained about crime.
The belief that the elderly are mor e'er
crime than others just isn't so, says the reP €
(ages 12-24) suffer from violent crimes seven
as those 65 years and older.
And men are nearly twice as likely to
violent crime than women, debunking
held opinion.
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,o f
Mack McGinnJSl
Harry Mehre, after coaching Georgia and Ole
became one of the South's most entertaining
Remembering a Georgia-NYU game in Yankee
split crew of officials. I always liked to have the
linesman. We were hanging on a 7-6 lead in
NYU on our six-inch line, fourth down. O!!
was a big pileup. It was comforting to see the
the ball on our one-inch line, point downfidd
first and 10!'"
(Fred Russell in