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@I-IELTON--MASON COUNTY JOURNAL--
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Drawn by Wendell Fosdick 4th Grade, Bordeaux School
l COAST TO COAST STOneS I
126 S. 2nd e. Prouty, Owner
6th Grade
Greeting by Barry Bailey
Bordeaux School
RIC CO.
Greeting by Susan Attwood
Age 11
Mr. View School
T :
Les Shelver
UHI}ER THE
Additional State Troopers Saving Lives;
Traffic Record Improving In Washington
By ROBERT C. CUMMINGS
OLYMPIA -- The increase in
State Patrol personnel authorized
by the 1965 Legislature apparent-
ly is paying dividends, though only.
one.Lm,(~ of the 150 additional
The situation isn't critical. There
still is a considerable supply and
FPC approval would ease the sit-
uation considerably,
SALES TAX
State officials believe that en-
SERVICEMEN
Seamma Richard C. Holtorf,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Holtorf, Shelton, will always
remember Dec. 2, 1965---the day
nuclear-powered warships were
first used in armed comba~ against
an enemy. He is serving aboard ;
the nuclear-powered attack air-
craft carrier USS Enterprise. i
troopers authorized has been ad-
ded to the force so far.
Thzough the first half of this
year, before the first class of re-
cruits had been graduated from the
academy at Shelton, the traffic fa-
tality rate was running well ahead
of a comparable period of 1964.
Since graduation of the first
class, the trend has been reversed
At the end of November, with on-
ly one month left to go, the toll
for this year was 650, just 20 be-
low the total for the first ii
months of last year.
The record is much better than
appears on the surface. The rural
death rate is 27 below last year,
while the urban toll, in azeas be-
yond jurisdiction of the patrol, is
seven more than last year.
35 LIVES SAVED
It can be assumed on the basis
of these figures, that the increase
in patrol personnel has saved at
least 35 lives. There is still one
month to go, and December is a
bad month. Last year, 61 were
killed in December.
Fifty men have been added to
the patrol in two classes. Another
28 will be graduated and added
to the force Jan. 14. The patrol
has every hope that it will continue
to reduce the staggering toll on
the highways.
LOGS
Research studies on the log ex-
port controversy, conducted by the
Pacific' Northwest Forest and
Range Eperiment Station of Wash-
ington State Univ.ersity, show-
ed that logs exported to Japan
have an average value of $99.70
per thous:~.nd board feet, compared
with $95.24 for the same logs on
a mixed yield of lumber and other
primary manufactured products.
Costs of each operation were In-
cluded in these figures.
As for employment, it showed
~ha.t logs used for domestic man-
ufacturing in sawmills and ply-
wood plants provide eight to near-
ly 10 man hours per thousand
board feet, compared with. three
man hours per thousand feet in
log exporting.
On the other hand, the research
showed that only 9 percent of the
exported logs are Douglas fir. Sev-
cnty-~'~ix percent are western hem-
h)ck oz' white fir, with various spe-
cies making up the balance.
GAS
There has been a curtailment in
the supply of intemx~ptible nat-
ural gas used principally by paper
mills, sugar mills, state institutions
and some schools.
Domestic users aren't affected,
,a they all use firm gas; neither
are any customers of Washington
:Natural Gas Company, which does-
n't sell interruptible gass.
"" ~kbo~lt ]20 million cubic feet of
]interruptible gas, which is cheap-
er than firm, is used in this state.
The curtailment was ordered be-
cause of the heavy demand on firm
gas. All pipelines supplying this
area are carrying their maximum
authorized capacity.
The Federal Power Commission
has been asked to grant a tempor-
ary permit authorizing importation
of an additional 50 million cubic
feet a day.
hb r Coue il
Automation
The Mason County Labor Coun-
cil this week issued a statement
concerning the effects of automa-
tion and the need for increasing
the minimum wage. The statement
was signed by Darrell Sparks, pre-
sident of the Labor Council.
A National planning academy
and federal minimum wage safe-
guards for every American worker
could offset unemployment and un-
der-employment resulting from au-
tomation, a labor member of the
National Commission on Technol-
ogy, Automation and Economic
Progress said.
Such an academy, pulling to-
gether the best minds from Amer-
ica's business, industry, unions,
professions and colleges, could ap-
praise technological developments
and their use for the benefit and
advancement of the entire nation,
President Joseph A. Beirne of the
Communications Workers said on
the n~tionwide radio interview,
Labor News Conference.
BEIRNE SAID the minimum
wage should be increased now to
$2. an hour and apply to "every
worker in the United States." He
specifically meant, he said, to in-
clude workers in intrastate com-
merce under the Fair Labor Stand-
ards Act. The social security sys-
tem, he suggested, has "destroyed
the myth of interstate versus in-
trastate commerce."
The A FL-CIO's position on soLo-
marion is clear, said Beirne, who
is a federation vice president. "We
welcome it; we look forward to
the introduction of new technolo-
gy," provided that its benefits flow
to all the people and its policies
are not based on "financial con-
siderations alone," he emphasized.
He rejected the theory that auto-
mation threatens only unskilled
workers and predicted that "low-
er-level" decision-making manage-
ment jobs" will be seriously affect-
ed as well.
That makes "education-free pub-
lic education from the age of
three . . . to the doctorate level,"
for those with the ability, "one of
the keystones" of any effort to
lessen the blow of automation, he
said.
MANN REAL ESTATE
Where The Action Is
actment of an initiative measure
being sponsored by the Association
of Washington Cities would mean
a 5-cent sales tax.
Assuming that the cities will
be able to get the signatures nec-
essary to qualify, the initiative will
be on .the general election •ballot
next November.
It would grant, cities and town~
a portion of the sales tax now col-
lected by the state.
If approved by the voters, the
Legislature would have to provide
the state with additional revenue
to make up the difference. State
officials ,are convinced a 5-cent
sales tax would be the only answer.
While state officials plan to re-
main neutral, word of the 5-cent
sales tax possibility, is certain to
be well circulated. It could be*
enough to spell failure for the in-
itit~tive.
PROPERTY TAX
An organization has aready
formed for a big push behind a
proposed constitutional amendment.
in the next Legislature which
would set the assessment base for
taxing property at 25 percent of
true value.
The present provision calls for
an assessment base of 50 percent,
but the average statewide is only
25 per. cent.
The County Assessors' AsSocia-
tion pressed for a 25 percent am-
endment in the last Legislature,
but they bumped'into a drive bY
,Gov. Dan Evans for a 36 percen£
base. Both prqposals failed.
EARI~Y START. ,
The new organization "Citizens
for 25 percent Amendment," in-
cludes all of the county assessors,
plus numerous other organizations,
including the Grange, Farm Bur-
eau, taxpayer groups, realtors and
other businessmen.
This larger group, starting much
earlier, should stand a much bet-
ter chance of gettingthe two:
thirds vote in the Legislafure nec-
essary to put in on the 1968 gen-
.eral election ballot.
If a 1965 law designed to raise
assessed valuations to. 25 percent
by 1968 woz'k.s, the proposed~ con-
stitutional amendment~ would :be
a "ceiling" rather than an increase
in property taxes. '
It would Stand an excellent
chance of winning'approval, at the
polls.
HOSPITALS
Hospitals are expected'to ask
the next Legislature for an ap-
propriation of $300,000 to make
up for money they will lose from
care of welfare patients during
the current biennium, through the
reimbursable reductions put into
effect by the Department, Of P:Ub~
lic Assistance. , ,,
The departmental action was ne:
cessary because the 1965-67 ~.ap-
propriation fell short of the am-
ount which the department has
agreed to pay:
MEDICARE
Implementation of the federal.
medicare program is expected to
mean a savings in the Department
of Institutions, as well as Public
Assistance.
The act provides for payment of
care of mental patients over age
65.
The savings for the Department
of Public Assi~tapce is estimated
at $2.6 million, but it won't~ affect
the department's budget. It hb.d
been anticipated and allowed for
when the 1965-67 appropriation
was approved.
SPACE
The next Governor may not have
to worry about a place to v,.~rk
between election day and inaugu-
ration.
The Legislative Council's ~ub-
committee on state governmen,t is
proposing that an incoming Gov-
ernor be provided with office spac~
in which to:werk at least, 30 day~
prior to his.takin~t off.ice.
• ! •
As the carrier Enterprise went { : ' "" !' : ":
against the Communisl Viet Cong
in South Viet Nam, the nuclear-
powered guided missile frigate ~ .'
Bainbridge was again at the "Big
E's" side, providing anti-air an(~ ....... ..... .
anti-submarine defense f()r the : , • " .
pleted a 30-day, 16,000 mile tran- ,, ' .
sit from Norfolk, Vs., to the
Western Pacific to become the
first nuclear-powered vessels to . :.:' , .......
operate with the Seventh Fleet. :
* $ *
U.S. Coast Guard Seaman Ap-
prentice Dean E. Dewell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Dewell, Shel-
ton, graduated Dec. 17 from an
eight-week training program at
Government ~sland, Alameda, Cal-
ifornia. His company, of which
he was an assistant platoon leader,
was winner of Honor Company of
the Week twice.
After spending Christmas at
home with his parents, he will
report to Yorktown, Vs., for ad-
ditional training and will return
to Seattle for one-the-job training
as a Boatswain's mate. After 12
months of active duty, he will
then serve five years in the active
;reserve stationed in Tacoma.
• Alrmm~ Third Class James J.
Rutledge, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene R. Rutlcdge, Shelton, has
been gi~aduated with honors at
Chanute AFB, Ill., from the train-
ing course for U.S. Air Force air-
C~kft mechanics. Airman Rutledge,
a graduate of Shelton High School.
is being zeassigned to Bergstrom
AFB, Tex., for duty with the
Strateglc~ Air Command.
Greeting by Peggy
5th Grade
ACROSS FROM,:
EVERGREEN
INSURANCEI,:
and
TRAVEL
CLARA
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CAROL
Greeting by
Cindy
Grade 5
Bordeaux
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6th Grade
Greeting by Scott Miltenberger
Mt. View School