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4 - THE OTHELLO OUTLOOK
OTHELLO, WASHINGTON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1974
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By ROBERT
CUMMINGS
;acher Bargaining Bill Stopped
nate Committee, Ba :k in April
OLYMPIA The highly
controversial school teachers'
collective bargaining bill tra-
veled a long way before op-
ponents were able to block it in
Senate Rules Committee. It
will be back in April, but it will
be revised drastically before
another attempt is made to
enact it into law.
Under the present cutoff
resolution, it wouldn't qualify
for consideration in the April
session. Present plans, how-
ever, call for revising that rule
to except certain bills in ad-
dition to those already
exempted from the cutoff.
A Saving Maneuver
Actually, the decision to
hold it in Senate Rules pro-
bably saved the bill. Though
slow to start, the opposition
had gathered strength to the
point there was a good chance
the measure could be amended
on the floor.
Any substantive amend-
ment at this point would have
sent it back to the House, and
it probably would have died in
limbo with the recess. Even if
it had succeeded in passing the
Senate in the same form it
passed the House, there was
tiative campaign for an initi-
ative which would modify the
present teachers' tenure law.
It would authorize school
directors to weed out teachers
they considered imcompetent,
and to reduce staff when de-
creased enrollments caused a
budget squeeze. The decision
to take this route was made
after his bill to accomplish this
objective died in committee.
Earlier, Rep. Charles Moon,
Snohomish, filed Initiative
284, a corporation privilege
tax measure, after the bill had
lain dormant in a House
committee for more than a
year.
Before The Fact
The practice of polling
constituents to learn their
views on major or contro-
versial legislation always has
been popular with some
lawmakers. But the number
has been increasing steadily
since the success of citizens's
initiatives.
Before the vote on either the
gambling bill or the lottery
measure was taken in the
House, Rep. Frank Warnke,
Auburn, had polled the voters
in his district. Those ques-
seriousd0ubt whether it could ti0ned fayored a statewide
" become effective beforehteih lottery by~a marginof 4 to 1;<
the y4hr. 'find'-¢oted 2~to l:dil fx~ar of
Sen. Jim Matsoa, Selah, and
several others were planning
to spearhead a referendum
campaign to submit the issue
to the people. With the
support of school directors and
administrators throughout the
state, it wouldn't have been
too much trouble to get the
necessary 59,000 signatures.
That would have tied it up at
least until next November,
with its ultimate fate being up
to the taxpayers who pay the
bills.
Everbody's Doing it
The success of a couple of
highly controversial initia-
tives, such as 276 and 282, the
past couple of years has
prompted numerous legisla-
tors to take their cases to the
people. Some are acting after
the fact; others before the fact.
Sen. Hubert Donohue, Day-
ton, plans to launch an ini-
playing cards for money.
By the same margin, they
said they didn't think playing
games of chance increase the
crime rate.
Not Always Soluble
Earlier, Rep. Robert Ran-
dall, Bremerton, chairman of
the House Ways and Means
Appropriations Committee,
came up with a lot of answers,
but found they weren't so easy
to resolve.
To reach as many people as
possible, he ran advetisements
in every newspaper in his
district, asking the voters
what type of tax relief they
would prefer.
Seventy per cent favored
special levy relief; 20 per cent,
removal of the sales tax from
food and drugs; and 10 per
cent, a general reduction in the
sales tax.
Randall devised a plan to
Vocational education in
Washington state serves five
identified groups of people:
high school students, persons
who have graduated or other-
wise left high school, adults,
disadvantaged, and handicap-
ped.
In order to serve these
distribution, and farm ser-
vices. Ag-ed also includes jobs
related to recreation, land-
scaping design, horticulture,
forestry, and the ecology.
Home economics and family
education prepare persons for
their dual role of home-
maker-wage earner and the
groups, vocational education management, production, and
offers programs in the state's services associated with foods,
high schools, vocational tech- clothing, institutions, the
nical institutes, and commun- hotel-motel industry, and the
ity colleges in five broad areas home.
of instruction which are In nearly all cases, voca-
designed to prepare students tional programs are offered
for employment in specific with the help of advisory
occupations or upgrade the committees made up of people
skills ofpersons already
employed.
Distributive Education pre-
pares students for employ-
ment in the marketing, dis-
tributing, merchandising, and
management of goods and
services.
Trade, technical and in-
dustrical education includes
the construction and metal
trades, food service, fisheries
and oceanography, and all
technical occupations such as
electronics or graphic illustra-
tion and drafting. This cate-
gory of training includes
health occupations which pre-
pare students for" the sup-
portive occupations to the
health professions.
Business and office pro-
grams train for all office
practices, operation of office
machines, computing,, steno-
graphy, and data processing.
.Agriculture education
trains for all the farm and
farm-related occupations of
food production, processing,
who represent the manage-
ment and employees of the in-,
dustry for which the training
is preparing students. The
committee serves to assist in
keeping the training up4o-
date and provides advice on
job opportunities. Industry
plays an important role in
vocational training and often
supplies equipment for train-
ing purposes and training sta-
tions for students within
industry iteself.
In addition to these tradi-
tional areas of activity, the
Council for Occupational Edu-
cation has moved toward
working specifically with dis-
advantaged and handicapped
persons, career education and
career guidance development
in the grades from kinder-
garten through high school,
education for parenthood, job
training and placement of a
regional curriculum manage-
ment center for vocational
education.
provide the levy relief, but he ~
couldn't sell it to his collea-
gues. Too many of them were
unwilling to go for the budget
cuts in other areas which his
plan would require, in order to
take the burden off special
levies.
Maybe, But Maybe Not
Maybe the Legislature will
find some additional money for
tax relief when they return in
April, but the way things look
now, it probably won't be
there.
At the moment, it looks like
all that can be hoped for is an
amendment to the general re-
venue act to exempt prescrip-
tion drugs fi:om the sales tax.
Its administration would be
simple enough.
Virtually all drug stores
have a separate counter for
dispensing prescription drugs,
so separating these sales from
those subject to tax wouldn't
be any problem. It would be a
different story in super-
markets which often sell more
than 100 items, other than
food, and run them all through
the same check stands.
Unnavigable Waters
Sponsors of legislation to
regulate pleasure boats still
haven t been ab|e 'to ~athom
the mysteries ~of'saf~ navi-
gation through the Senate.
A boating safety bill has
passed the House in virtually
every session dating back to
1963, always to get lost in the
upper chamber. Each was like
ships which went missing at
sea; unreported and lost
without a trace.
So this time it was decided
to launch the legislation in the
Senate. Not much use of going
through the agonies of piloting
the measure all the way
through the th)use, if it were
doomed to be lost when it
reached the other side of the
building.
The new version had been
stripped of many of the
objections which had been
raised to previous measures.
It was acceptable to a large
share of the boating frater-
nity.
It did do better than any of
its predecessors which had
come oww from the ltouse. It
at least got out of committee.
But when it reached the floor,
it met the same fate as the
others. It was sunk by a vote of
17 to 41.
HIGH SCHOOL
THURSDAY, Feb. 14
Senior Talent Show, 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, Feb. 15- Basket-
ball at Eastmont. C squad
basketball at Eastmont, 5 p.m.
SATURDAY, Feb. 16
Sub-regional wrestling at
Ephrata, 1:30 and 7 p.m.
Basketball at Quincy. C squad
basketball at Quincy, 5 p.m.
.By Re . Ot 'en
Power Play Interesting
On Veto Restriction
OLYMPIA - Not as many
people as usual were in the
galleries nor were there as
many news people present,
since it was Saturday after-
noon, when one of the more
interesting power plays of the
Legislature took place.
Legislation to restrict the
Governor's veto power had
been on the calendar for a
number of days but had not
come up for action. When the
legislation was finally con-
sidered and the debate ended,
no one was certain what the
vote would be.
The voting by oral roll call
posing passage gathered in
small groups to find those who
might switch a vote to
counteract the change of the
opposite side. After about 30
minutes of this kind of hard
persuasion, a Seattle legisla-
tor switched from "no" to
"yes", giving the majority
needed for passage -- but for
only a minute. Immediately a
switch was made to balance
that change so the process
continued. When one more
person switched in favor of the
bill, a quick rap of the gavel
terminated the opportunity
for further action. Final
passage had been achieved.
was nip and tuck all the way. Since it had cleared the
When the last person hadSenate earlier the constitu-
voted, the tally was one vote tional measure will now
short of the 2/3rds required appear on the November
for passage. Rather than
announcing the vote and
thereby killing the legislation,
since the speaker favored its
passage, he and a few others
mounted an effort to persuade
someone to change his vote.
Groups Bargain
In the meantime those op-
TEN YEARS AGO
February 13, 1964
Art Bach who has been in
the men's clothing business for
50 years, the last nine here in
Othello, has decided to "call it
a day".
Bach and his wife "Gert" are
retiring and have sold Bach's,
Men's Store to an Ephrata
man. Bach announced sale of
his firm to John Magoteaux,
who will assume his first store
ownership here in Othello.
Magoteaux, who managed
Bjorklunds and Geesey's Mens
stores in Ephrata, is looking
forward to his new Othello
venture.
An application has been
filed by a local businessmen's
t~r,,up for a national banking
vharter for Othello. The
h;u'kers of the prospective
hank now have 30 days to
prel,are a br, wb.ure complete
with an extensive survey of
the region tellim4 why they
should be granted a charter.
I)an I,eary. N~okcsm:tn ')f
the h)cal groul) sai(l. "If w(' u,,,t
approval for the l)r()l)()~,(',l
bank then we hope h) ,,larl
immediately with i,lan- ~,,
have such an insliluti,m ,,l,,'n
within 90 days."
Besides l,eary, th,)s(, wh()
were listed as charter men~
bers of the proposed torpor
ation on the application ~ere
Jim Billberg, Ed Emry. Javk
Vickery, Jim Hostettvr. liar
Icy Dirks, Monty Fraser. Fran
Lynn and Elwood (;uenther.
*************
The Othello City ('ouncil
took a look at the possibilities
of a city volunteer fir(, force at
its Monday meeting and
1)I(',I)4(.(I (hvnls(.h('s t,) ~,)rk
I()v. ard,, thi~ twal. ('tUTt'ntly
I h(. vii x ('(rot I',1('1 ", l~ it h Adams
(',)unl'~ rural ~'il'(, l)islri('l for
il', fir,, I)r,,lp('lh)n.
\t Ih,. -:tin,' ti,m' May()r Mel
}"au,Ir,,,, t,xlc/)(h,d Ih(' id('a of
('nla)•~Jl+~ th(• l)lan", f,)l• the
pr,)p()st,d r(,m,)dt,lin~ ()f the
.'ilx hall into a fir(. ,,late.
,*******,,, **
HI:TI':EN '~ EAIL5 Ma)
Februan 12, 1959
I.aru,('~.l (.r()~,l in hist(,ry of
lh(' ('ahar('t was entertained
las( weekend in the seventh
annual PTA extravaganza. An
estimated crowd of 1,200
watched local talent, away
from their everyday toils for a
brief excursion into the world
of greasepaint and footlights,
put on a show thoroughly
enjoyed by all. Performers
from every walk of life volun-
teered their efforts to make
this one of the best, if not the
best cabaret since its debut
seven years ago.
Organizational meeting of
the promoters working to-
ward getting an Othello Golf
OTHELLO'S NEWEST SERVICE
B& B SPRAYING SERVICE
"COMPLETE LAWN & GARDEN CARE"
* INSECT CONTROL * MOWING
* WEED CONTROL * FERTILIZING
* FRUIT TREE & SHRUB TRIMMING
* EDGING
Course was held Feb. 3.
Officers elected were Ron
Drake, president; Gerald
Love, vice president; and Fred
Shelton as secretary-treasur-
er. Board members elected
were Bob Smethers, Hugh
Sloan, Del Russell, Chuck
Sheppard, Cliff Neutz and
Nick Sandar.
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Lkensed Pesticide Consdtant
20 Years Experience
Call 488-2308 For Estimate
General Election Ballot for the
voters' approval or rejection.
Lottery Passes
After numerous attempts,
L
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legislation providing for a
state lottery has been passed.
If the Governor signs it, the
lottery would be controlled by
the Washington Gambling
Commission which would have
broad regulatory power.
Although polls taken by
some legislators show that the
majority of the people favor a
state lottery, I opposed its
passage. The arguments for a
state lottery consist almost
entirely of how this could
improve the state coffers and
help provide additional funds
to our schools.
I believe many people who
favor a state lottery have a
misconception of the amount
of funds that will be raised in
this manner• The Department
of Revenue estimates that the
income to the state would be
about $13 million per year.
This figures out to be about %
of one per cent of the total
state budget.
It is a sad state of affair:
TWO 4520
JOHN DEERE TRACTORS
WITH FOUR BOTTOM PLOWS
& GARZA
when we as a
state, must resort to a
to help secure ads(
to educate our
Certainly there are
ways than this.
For the bride of the
here's the pride and
fort of Irish Setter
Boots for ladies.
RED
WING
APPA!
730 lAST MAIH
)THIELLO,
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 12, 1959
Edwin B. Stemen, local high
school principal, told the
Outlook during a telephone
conversation Thursday that he
has tendered his resignation
as principal in the local high
school system. Stemen, who
has been in Othello for
approximately three years,
would only answer "no com-
ment" when queried as to his
reasons for quitting the post
and future plans.
*************
I)an Simpson of Othello was
t(,ntali'.ely awarded a wreck-
int~ (',,ntract for the Old
()lh,.lh) high school building.
+-+:it,ll)-.(m was apparent low
l,M,l,'r t',)t" the
job when sealed
I,,d- ~(.)'(. (,l)ened at the last
)',.~ular ~,('hool board meeting.
lh' ha(t submitted a wrecking
hid I- the hoard for $210.
Salad Bar
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Corn on The Cob
Hot Home Made Bread
Children Under 12 Years Old Only 15¢
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Adults $ 3.45 Each
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