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THE OTHELLO OUTLOOK
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1974
L
"Working for Othello's Balanced
growth" Entered as Second Class
Matter January 21, 1947, at the Post
Office at Othello, Washington under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Published every
Aeeo~N/~ - ~ lel~ Thursday morningat Othello, Washing-
ton 99344 by the Basin Publishing
Company.
R.D. (Dan) LEARY .............................. MANAGING EDITOR
DEAN H. JUDD ........................................................ EDITOR 180 E. Main
RICHARD REX .............................................. AD MANAGER Subscriptions $5.00
JESSIE M. PLANT .................................. SOCIAL EDITOR yearly in Adams,
Grant, Benton. and
BETTY HASTINGS ............................................. SECRETARY Franklin Counties,
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• ~IIEI,LY HANLEY ....................................... COMPUWRITER Single copies - 15¢
By ROBERT
CUMMINGS
I
OI,YMPIA - This coming
weekend could be rough on
lobbyists when the continuing
l,egislature resumes its com-
mit tee sessions--the first to be
held since the 42-day session
afljourned last April 26.
All standing committees are
scheduled to meet Friday and
Sat urday. All except eight will
be meeting on Friday. Of the
ot hers, six will meet Sitturday
morning; two, early Saturday
al'lernoon. No joint sessions
are scheduled. But the match-
ed committees will be meeting
simultaneously, in separate
locations. I,obby groups will
haw, to either "double4eam"
I he sessions, or skeet back and
forth between two different
t)uihlings.
Only exceptions will be the
Ruh,s Committees of the two
houses, which will meet at
different times, each in its own
room, on the ground floor of
the I,egislature Building.
Senate Rules will be meet-
ing at 1:30 p.m. Saturday;
llouse Rules at 2 p.m.
Building Hopping
All other llouse committees
will be meeting in the House
Office - Building. All other
Senate committees except
Ways and Means will meet in
the Public Lands Building.
Senate Ways and Means will
be on the fourth floor of the
I,egislative Building.
Meeting simultaneously
from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday will be
the Senate and House Agri-
culture Committees, Com-
merce Committees, Judiciary
Committees and Labor Com-
mittees.
From 10 a.m. to noon Friday
will be meeting time for the
two Education Committees,
the Financial Institutions
Committees, and the Higher
Education Committees.
The two Ecology Commit-
tees, Natural Resources Com-
mittees and Parks Commit-
tees will be in session from 2 to
4 p.m., and the Constitution
and Elections, Local Govern-
ment, and State Government
Committees, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Most Saturday sessions are
scheduled to wrap up early, by
meeting between 8 and 10 a.m.
These include the two Social
and Health Service Commit-
tees, Transportation and
Utilities, and Ways and
Means.
Will Bear Watching
Few hearings are schedul-
Prepared bY OthelLo School District oft it.ial s
Illiteracy: Fault of
Home or School?
()ne million U.S. children
aged 12-17 years cannot read
even at the fourth-grade level,
according to a new federal
repot'|.
I{esults of the special
.fouryear testing program
~uggests illiteracy to be more
I,,rvasive than ever before
realized.
The problem wits found to
lie the most sew, re among
low income black males, one
-u! of five of whom could end
fornml schooling without be-
ing able to read a simple
l~ilragraph-
'rhe National Center for
llealth Statistics, an arm of
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, said
the findings indicate that
existing government defini-
t ions of literacy "might lead to
serious underestimates" of the
problem.
Part of HEW's Health
Examination Survey, the spe-
cial reading tests were ad-
ministered to a sampling of
6,768 youths between 1966 and
1970.
The scoring showed that 4.8
per cent were illiterate.
Projected nationwide, that
means about 1 million of 22.7
million school-age children
who should be in grades 6
through 12 cannot read a
fourth grader's materials.
Illiteracy was found to be
most prevalent among boys,
especially blacks from low-
income families where parents
had little or no formal educa-
tion.
For example, 4.7 per cent of
white males and 1.7 per cent of
white females could not read,
compared with 20.5 per cent of
black males and 9.6 per cent of
black females.
In families with less than
$3,000 annual income, 9.8 per
cent of white youths and 22.1
per cent of blacks were judged
illiterate. But the inability to
read dropped to 3.5 per cent
and 12.6 per cent, respectively
in the $5,000 - $6,999 income
level, and to .8 per cent and 4.7
per cent in families earning
more than $10,000.
If parents had little or no
formal education, 22 per cent
of whites and 53 per cent of
blacks could not pass the test.
When one parent had finished
elementary school, the illiter-
acy rate fell to 6 per cent for
white youths and 18 per cent
for blacks.
TO ALL OUR SEAR'S
OUR NEW STORE HOURS
WILL BE
MON. THRU FRI. 9 A.M TO 6 P.M.
SATURDAYS 9 A.M. TO 1 P.M.
TNRU JUNE, JULY
AND AUGUST ONLY
ed. Most of the sessions will be
work sessions, and their
agenda are chiefly tentative.
They require approval of their
respective Rules Committees,
which hasn't yet been obtained
in most cases. But the
tentative schedules include
enough subjects to make many
observers as well as lobbyists
wish they could be in more
than one place at a given time.
Those early Friday morning
Commerce Committee ses-
sions provide a good example.
Both plan to take up the Auto-
motive Repair Responsibility
Act, which has been widely
discussed during the past
several months. But each will
work on its own version.
The Senate committee has a
new draft of SB 2565. The
House committee has a sub-
stitute for HB 684, based on
the California act.
Others Busy, Too
While the two Commerce
Committees are meeting, the
two Labor Committees will be
discussing other matters of
interest to the business com-
munity.
The House Labor Commit-
tee plans to renew its effort in
behalf of the State Labor
Relations Act. Listed as
Labor's tola priority bill last
session, it passed the Senate
but failed to pass the House
after two attempts.
This committee also plans to
take up feasibility of tying
workmen's compensation
benefits to the cost of living,
while the Senate committee
may discuss whether self-
insurers should be studied; to
determine whether additional
legislation is needed in this
field.
School STrikes Eyed
The number of disputes
between teachers and other
school employe groups and
various school boards has
prompted the Senate Labor
Committee to study possibility
of strengthening the state's
mediation service.
Disputes between school
districts and their employers
currently are mediated by the
Department of Public In-
struction.
Under consideration is con-
solidation of all state media-
tion services under a single
agency. They are now spread
around among five.
The Department of Labor
and Industries operates the
state mediation service, which
?,
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0f
TEN YEARS AGO
June 4, 1964
Othello's new city-county
jail was condemned this week
by Adams County Health
Officer, Dr. J. Collin Lindsay
of Ritzville, for its lack of
sanitation facilities in the jail
cells.
The new $40,000 jailhouse
was to be occupied this week,
but police officials said they
would not be able to move until
the health problems were
solved.
Two major complaints were
cited by the health officer, the
lack of toilet facilities in the
drunk tank and the unpainted
porous concrete block walls.
Dr. Lindsay said the walls
would have to be painted and a
toilet put in the drulak tank to
meet minimum requirements.
Dedication of a new me-
morial and the bridge leading
to the Bess Hampton Memor-
ial Gardens were completed
here May 30 as part of the
Othello Memorial Day ser-
vices.
Featured during the activi-
ties at the special services was
the dedication of the Athey
Bridge which crosses the canal
into the cemetery. Henry
Franz, county commissioner,
presided at the dedication of
the bridge and other com-
missioners present were Bob
Danekas and Kenny Foulkes.
The importance of planning
for the future and choosing a
vocation or profession in which
"you will really be interested"
were stressed to the Othello
High School Class of 1964
during commencement exer-
cises held here Tuesday night.
William Bennett, member of
the high school staff and
class-honored speaker at the
graduation urged the gradu-
ates to do some planning to
mediates disputes between
labor and businesses which
aren't involved in interstate
commerce.
Besides the Department of
Public Instruction, others are
operated by' the Marine
Employes' Commission, the
Higher Education Personnel
Board, and the State Board for
Community College Edtw.a-
tion.
Numbers Don't Count
As all bills remaining at the
end of the April session were
indefinitely postponed, num-
bers now being used are
meaningless, except for iden-
tification purposes.
Unless there is another spe-
cial session, which is ex-
tremely unlikely, all the
various committees can do
now is make recommendations
to the new Legislature which
will convene next January.
All bills which are revived
will have to receive a new
number and be introduced
again. Many may be prefiled
next December, for introduc-
tion in January, but only by
legislators who were elected
or reelected in November.
Bill numbers by themselves
aren't infallible for identifica-
tion purposes. Many have
been redrafted-some several
times--and others have been
substituted.
The numbers still can be
useful, however, for obtaining
copies from the legislative bill
room; provided the person
seeking them is awa re that the
measure sought is a substitute
bill.
make certain they are going to
enjoy their chosen life's work.
A total of 95 Othello seniors
received diplomas during the
exercises which attracted a
capacity crowd to the school
gymnasium.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
June 4, 1959
A capacity audience of
parents, family, friends and
school dignitaries witnessed
the Commencement exercises
for the 1959 Othello High
School graduation held at the
high school gymnasium last
night.
R.L. Soderberg, chairman of
the board of directors, pre-
sented diplomas to the 46
graduating seniors.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
June 4, 1954
Heading the graduating
class of Othello High School
are Edward Chatfield, vale-
dictorian, and Zelma Powers,
salutatorian.
Chatfield, 18, is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Chat-
field of Royal Bureau Camp.
He entered school this year
from Warden.
Miss Powers, 18, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.W.
Powers of Block 49. She came
to Othello from Eddyville,
Ore.
Other members of the
graduating class are Bob
Peterson, Jane Hammer,
Floyd Gillespie, Donna Young,
Doris Faudree, Larry Gano,
Anita Simpson, George Leigh-
ton, Patsy Martin, Terry Vess,
Perly Nichols, Phyllis Hays
and Larry Bray.
The Othello Farm Labor
Office located just south of
Booker's Feed and Seed on the
highway leading south from
town is now open to serve both
farmers and workers in
Othello and the adjacent area.
Othelloites will get the go
ahead to start hooking up their
homes and business establish-
ments on the newly installed
sewer system, it was an-
nounced this week by Mayor
Clarence Wilson.
The move came this week
after a special council meeting
held Monday evening at which
time it was decided that the
effluent line, which has been
holding up the connection,
would be sufficiently complet-
ed to allow the connections.
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have to offer for pictures appearing in this column.'Just call The
Gladys Para 488-2812. The pictures are provided by the Museum and
Mrs. Para providing the text.
PIONEER SPORTSMAN - This is John Crider in 1913. He was on the "rip 0-ack"
of the Milwuakee car department and paused during inspection of a passenger
John Crider, who lived his
entire adult life in Othello, was
one of the organizers of the
first Gun Club in about 1928. A
group of local friends who
enjoyed hunting got together
at that time in order to rent
the available hunting land, to
prevent its being leased away
from them by a Seattle group.
In the days before it was
necessary to compete with city
slickers for space in the
outdoors, this group of local
men hunted frequently in the
marsh areas west and north of
town. A description of one of
these trips by Crider has been
preserved.
Shiner lake had a good
reputation in 1919 for hunting
as well as fishing, and 80 to 90
ducks were taken on one par-
ticular two-day trip that year,
which included Crider and
several others whose names
were familiar to Othello: Will
Hodson, school teacher; Bill
Ogden, editor; Bill Gifford, a
policeman; Frank Schneider, a
railroad carman; Clayton
O'Leary, storekeeper; and
Mike King, who was a grocery
clerk, all went together on this
occasion and camped at what
was called Dad Tindal's shack
on Shiner lake.
,The first .shoot, of early
morning was over, a huge
breakfast of hotcakes, ham,
bacon and eggs had been
served, and nearly everyone
was asleep. Crider noticed the
young King had left the group
to go after water, and while he
was gone, Crider acted quickly
to make him the victim of a
practical joke. Filling some
shells with flapjack flour,
Crider exhanged them for
those ,in King's gun, and then
settled back to enjoy the wait
for the evening shoot.
According to memory, the
time was passed by amusing
themselves with the usual
horseplay, which at one point
included a "bear dance" done
by Hodson and Ogden as the
rest of the men sang "The
Bear Went Over the Moun-
tain". As the sun got lower
they~ appeared to become
serious hunters once again and
all gathered their gear to head
for the small coulee where the
tules were thick.
It wits a
King was
lead; a huge flock
were staying on the v
all became very
denly the flock rose
were everywh
everyone else
young King unloa(
The air was
with white t
came down.
returned to the
they listened to
until morning, an,
back out to
mallards,
and Canada
numerous, he
even with the
evening's shoot,
men bagged 42
them.
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