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jo_ur_0000f OPlmO00 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. u TO YouI00 COR00.I00 COME OUT PI00A00I00i00" 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 00lLe 0000'?;Jour00al 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. Published at 227 West Cota Street, Shelton, Mason County, Washington 98584, weekly. Second-class postage paid at Shelton, Washington. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $8.00 per year in Mason County $10.00 per year in State of Washington $15.00 per year out of State EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ..................... Henry G. Gay 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. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ,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