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OTHELLO, WASHINGTON
THE OTHELLO OUTLOOK
THURSDAY, DECEMB 26, 1974
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Here is a small Christmas
present for all readers of this
column who are basketball
We will welcome all identifying information, particularly corrections which
have to offer for pictures appearing in this column. Just call The Outlook
Gladys Para 488-2812. The pictures are the Museum and Arts
Mrs. Para providing the text.
SHOWHOUSE
December markstheendof in actuality his ability is fans and others interested in
the harvest season here in the impaired to the point that his historical accuracy, and most
Othello area and a time to reflexes are almost one half of i/nportant the former Hatton
relax and enjoy ourselves, normal. If he gets behind the basketball team members who
There will be many parties wheel at this time he is very are still living: A correction of
MATINEE Friday & Satu,
2:00 p.m.
R.D. (Dan) LEARY .............................. MANAGING EDITOR' "180 E. Main
and get-togethers during this dangerous to himself or a misprint in last week's
month and in most cases there anyone he meets on the high column.
will be plenty of beverages way. A nationwide study The machinery that digests [] •=
readily available. Since many shows that over 50 per cent of the print here at the Outlook
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 24,1954
Contractors on three sec-
tions of the new East-West
highway across the Columbia
Basin are well along on their
work and a bid call is due soon
on the fourth and final section,
according to Richard Barber,
district engineer at Wen-
atchee for the state highway
department.
The section from Vantage to
Beverly Flats is 75 per cent
complete, the section from
Beverly Flats to Red Rock
Coulee is 40 per cent f'mished
and the piece from Red Rock
Coulee to Taunton is 25 per
cent done, Barber said.
Up for bid call soon will be
the section from Taunton to
the East Low canal near
Dr. Kenneth Pershall will
open offices in Othello in the
near future, it was reported
this week. Dr. Pershall has
been in general practice for
the past two years in Camas.
" He will move his wife and
two children to Othello as soon
as possible and will start his
medical practice upon com-
pletion of the new clinic
building now under con-
struction on Main street
across from the city park.
The Othello city council has
adopted an ordinance which
removes the caucus system of
nominations for posts in the
• city government and places
city elections under a primary
and general election setup.
Under the new system, those
who wish to run for an office in
the city government, merely
file for the post at the office of
the city clerk. The filing fee is
one per cent of the annual
salary of the office.
TEN YEARS AGO
December 24,1964
Winter weather conditions,
which locked Othello and the
northwest in a sub-zero cold
wave last week, continued to
harass local residents Monday
as a full-scale blizzard dumped
four more inches of snow on
the region and blocked most of
the area's roads.
The Monday morning bliz-
zard forced closing of all area
schools and brought a rash of
cancellations of social events
and other meetings.
The new storm struck the
Othello area about 5 a.m.
Monday. High winds, com-
bined with the heavy snowfall,
caused extensive drifting and
closed most of the roads in the
area. Reports were Monday
morning that all highways out
of Othello were closed, but
after the storm stopped about
noon, state and county high-
way patrols were reported
making good progress on
getting the highways opened
again.
On a city basis, a new snow
plow which arrived just last
week, has been going almost
steady since last Thursday.
Both the ndw plow and a
grader, as well as other city
equipment, were in action all
day Monday and by late
afternoon had many of the city
streets plowed out. Many of
the residential area streets
were almost impassable for a
brief period during the day.
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In the largest bid opening of
the 1965 fiscal year at the
Columbia Basin Project head-
quarters in Ephrata last
Thursday, Kenneth E. Beck
and Sons, Inc. of Moses Lake
submitted an apparent low bid
of $926,706.96 for the con-
struction of watoreays and
related facilities to irrigate
Blocks 21 and 48, a total of
6,700 irrigable acres of land on
the Wahluke Slope about
seven miles south of Othello.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 24,1959
The 10 p.m. Othello curfew
During this special sea-
son of the year, which begins
with Thanksgiving and pro-
gresses through Christmas
and into a new year, the
theme that recurs most
frequently in our minds and
hearts, I'm sure, is a hymn of
thankfulness.
Thankfulness, not only for
our individual blessings, but a
thankfulness also for the
collective good that has come
our way.
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The Commissioner of Re-
clamation, Floyd Dominy, has
informed the Columbia Basin
Irrigation Districts that they
will have to pay the $1.65 an
acre drainage assessment. The
assessment was levied by the
Bureau of Reclamation con-
tract which Basin farms will
repay part of the cost of
constructing the huge irri-
gation project.
for teenagers will be strictly
enforced, according to police
officers. Last week a copy of
the curfew ordinance was
taken to the Othello schools
and placed on their bulletin
boards with a request that it
be read and understood by
each individual and also read
over the public address
system at a time set aside for
all to hear.
The ordinance, which was
approved and passed in May
1958, reads that all teenagers
must be off the streets of
Othello and in their own homes
or place of residence by 10 p.m.
weekdays and by 11 p.m. each
Friday and Saturday, except
those who are employed
beyond those hours.
The fines can be very stiff
for a Second offense.
arrested for drunken driving,
you merely have to be Perales Completes
affected by what you have to
drink. If you are driving and
have been drinking and are
stopped by a state trooper for
committing a traffic violation,
then you can pretty well count
on being given breathalyzer
test to determine the amount
of alcohol in your system.
If you are planning to
celebrate this month and do
some drinking, please do not
get behind the wheel of your
automobile. Have someone
else who is sober drive you
home or call a taxi. Don't end
the year by being arrested for
driving while under the
influence, or worse yet being
involved in a serious accident
that could take your life, or
the life of another.
Greeti
working with the young; our
political conscience that of
being 0thelloites and Ameri-
cans; are great rewards in
themselves. And in spite of
the hardships experienced by
some in our profession and in
our country since last we
celebrated this special time,
Marine PFC Porfirio Per-
ales Jr., whose wife Janie is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Juan Lopez of Warden,
graduated from recruit train-
ing at the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot, San Diego.
Physical conditioning, dis-
cipline and teamwork are
emphasized during Marine
recruit training.
time to send and to receive
greetings, notes, letters of
good wishes that spread
happiness like a warm cloak;
messages that bear the
signature of friendship, that
impart beauty and warmth of
life, wishing joy, happiness
and peace.
"Greatly to be cherished
and held in heart is the wish
of peace. 0nly as we have
peace of mind and heart,
peace with God and man, can
we have happiness and joy. To
wish one the best in life is to
wish him peace. With all the
heart, let us wish peace in
each individual heart and in
all the world."
We wish you and yours,
peace and Happy Holidays!
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-. leaders set out originally with
• plans to get committee assign-
ments for the new Legislature
out of the way early this time.
But like many well intentioned
plans, things haven't worked
out that way. It now looks like
they won't be ready until after
the first of the year.
While few changes in
chairmanship are scheduled,
the task of making other
committee assignments isn't
easy, especially in the House,
where the Democrats gained
five seats in the last election.
*~ The problem arises from
numerous requests for
~: changes in committee assign-
ments. When one change is
~' made, another has to be made
' elsewhere - sometimes two,
one to make room for the new
assignment and one to fill a
resulting vacancy.
: And each of these changes
can result in others. It is like
the man who tried to fit a new
leg onto a table only to find it
was shortly too long. By the
time he finished sawing in his
attempt to balance things, he
didn't have much left.
The House Democrats have
nearly reached the conclusion
:" that they may have too many
members.
Consolation Prize
That's a problem the House
Republicans don't have, even
though such a consolation
prize from the last election
doesn't offer them much
solace.
They already have ap-
proved committee requests of
their members, and forwarded
them to the majority leader-
ship. In most cases the
requests will be granted.
The Democrats meanwhile
plan to take advantage of their
increased membership by
easing the loads now being
carried by some of their key
men. Chairmen of major
committees will have to serve
on only one other committee
besides the one they chair.
Many of them, such as John
Bagnariol, chairman of Ways
and Means, and A.A. Adams,
Social and Health Services,
presently each serve on two
other committees.
Litter is Lighter
A House Ecology sub-
committee headed by Hal
Zimmerman, Camas, has been
surveying results of the model
litter control act and finds it
has been working well.
Periodic extensive monitoring
indicates litter along highways
has been reduced by 90 per
cent.
Recycling plants are doing a
thriving business, but the
subcommittee thinks there
should be more. It currently is
exploring feasibility of en-
couraging operation of such
facilities by local govern-
ments.
Pre riding state funds on a~
one-time n atching basis is
being discussed. It is believed
they could become serf-
, supporting once they are
established. But revenue from
the present litter tax is
limited, and in view of the
budget squeeze, tapping any
other revenue source would be
out of the question.
Increasing the litter tax also
appears inpractical at this
time. It is collected in
conjunction with the B&O tax
and Gov. Dan Evans already
has proposed an increase in
this tax to bolster the general
fund.
Bottle Battle BRter
Though Department of
Ecology surveys show that
bottles and cans comprise only
about 20 per cent of the litter
(64 per cent is paper), pressure
continues in behalf of a
beverage container refund
bill, similar to that in Oregon.
Wh!le the Washington En-
vironmental Council supports
the model litter control act, it
wants it supplemented by a
bottle refund bill. Other
organizations pressing for
such legislation include the
Association of University
Women and numerous lesser
groups.
The bill failed to get out of
committee during the past two
years, but if its starts moving
the next tim~, the battle could
be bitter.
Special opposition is ex-
pected from retailers on the
basis of figures from Oregon
which show handling costs
have boosted their operating
expenses by nearly $3 million a
year.
Political Torture
Governor Evans' tax pro-
posals are certain to cause
much agonizing in legislative
chambers. Contained in his
budget message and fully
detailed in .the daily press,
there isn't any need to detail
them here.
His proposal to remove the
sales tax from food and
increase the business tax is
politically smart because more
people pay the former than
pay the latter. But it will
represent political torture for
many lawmakers, including
moderate Democrats who
control both houses, as well as
many ReDublic~ns. • ~!~'~
All realize how popular it
would be to remove the sales
tax from food -labor has been
calling for this for years. But
many also are reluctant to
place any more burdens on
business in the face of a
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last term as President. Othello.
Shades of the Past
Among other things, it could
widen some breaches in the
majority ranks, between
liberal and moderate Demo-
crats. M~ny of the latter have
become fiscally conservative
and many also are more
business oriented than some of
their more liberal colleagues.
Rep. AI Williams, Seattle
liberal who earlier this year.
unsuccessfully challenged
Leunard A. Sawyer for the
speakership, already has
assailed the leadership for its
announced policy favoring
hold-the-line spending.
He accused both Evans and
the Democratic leaders of
following "Herbert Hoover
policies."
How much effect Williams'
insurgency will have on his
Democratic colleagues can't be
gauged at this time. He didn't
have many followers when he
ran for S~.
But his knowlege of
Hoover's policies should be
easier to measure. According
to Williams' age as listed in the
legislative roster, he was only
lagging economy. Unemploy-
ment compensation taxes are
scheduled to go up in January,
and so are industrial insurance
rates.
His proposal to boost the
sales tax on other commodities
also could have repercussions.
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system and affects you vision.
It is almost non-detectible,
but vision is reduced or
impaired by that one drink.
After you have had that
first drink it will take you
system approximately 90
minutes to completely remove
the alcohol from your body, a
fact that is not altered by the
presence of food in your
system. Food in your stomach
will slow down the time that it
takes for the alcohol to enter
your system, but once it
enters your system the effects
are the same.
After a person has had a
few drinks, he is overtaken
with a feeling of security in
his ability to perform certain
tasks such as driving an
automobile. He feels that he
can do anything he wants
without any problems, when
regard to one's ability to drive or to be in actual town teams everywhere; past
operate a motor vehicle,physical control of a vehicle.., and present, and a Happy New
When you take that firstThe law does not say you Year to everyone in Hatton.
drink, it goes into yourhave to be drunk to be
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'RICHARD REX .............................................. AD MANAGER yearly in Adams, attending these parties will be caused by someone driving last week and spit it out a .
JESSIE M. PLANT .................................. SOCIALEDITOR Grant, Benton and driving home, there aresome while under the influence of letter short. The truth is, theChorley and Thel
Franklin Counties, facts that everyone should alcohol. In Washington the Hattonbasketball teams were
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MARGE FEYDER .............................................. AD LAYOUTI know about the effects of Drunken Driving statue reads a real THREAT to those of
Single copies - 15¢ alcohol and driving, in part, 'It is unlawful for any surrounding towns; a
There have b eenailkindsof person who is under the THREAT is what those boys NEW YEAR'S
studies made on alcohol and influence of affected by the were. No treat.
its effects on the body in use of intoxicating liquor to So Merry Christmas to all