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Show Just Between You And Me -J 'iSL By N. E. ' siS- jPf "Red" Wilson Well, what is Milford's' Mayor up to now? He upset most of the county last week when he got a candidate from Greenville to file for the Milford Commission seat on the Democratic ticket. That shennagigan violates the long time gentlemen's agreement that one commission seat comes from each of the Beaver, Bea-ver, Minersville andMilford areas to give all parts of the county representation on the Commission. Though Mayor Young undoubtedly un-doubtedly had his reasons for breaking political etti-quet, etti-quet, the rest of us will likely never know, since his candidate lacked sufficient residency, and will not be on the ballot. Whatever the reason, he didn't win many friends in either party in the county. 0 - It's the time of year that ye ol' Ed is supposed to come up with some inspiring prose for the Class of 1980. The idea is to inspire them on to greater things. But how do you inspire them to leadership when our nation's leaders will probably prob-ably have them fighting a war before their next birthday? How do you inspire them of society, when unem -ployment is in double figures? How do you inspire them to invest in their future, when the investments of their parents are being wiped out with inflation and depression? depres-sion? The Class of 1980 will enter a world facing many crisis. The energy crisis is almost ridiculous when you look at it. On the one hand there is an abundance of energy, even a surpluSj if you can afford it. On the other hand we' can see the bottom of the barrel. But alternate sources of energy are readily available, but the nation cannot get its act together to decide on a comprehensive com-prehensive energy policy. Bureaucratic regulations stop private enterprise from developing new energy sources sour-ces at every turn. The country faces a mineral min-eral crisis, but wants title ti-tle up most of the readh. available minerals in Wilderness Wil-derness areas, while Importing Im-porting 98 of the strategic strate-gic minerals. Inflation continues to eat away at savings while depression de-pression spurs unemployment unemploy-ment and disaster for those whose savings are already al-ready gone. As the Class of 1980 spreads its wings, the future fu-ture is not one that is encouraging, en-couraging, still, opportunities opportuni-ties do exist. We are a tough nation. The crises of today, could help build the leaders of tomorrow, who will solve the problems of the world. So, Class of 1980, while we don't envy you, we wish you the best. May you find your rainbow, and ours, as you- travel life's highways. 0 - We've watchedMt. St. Helens Hel-ens with interest during the past months. Never did we dream that it's eruption would cause the havoc of last Sunday. And it could be only the beginning. Not too many years ago, we lived at the base of Mt. St. Helens. We fished the Toutle River and Spirit Lake, and picked huckleberries on the Timberllne. Spirit Lake was beautiful, and excellent ex-cellent fishing. Now it's filled with mud. Steelheading and Salmon fishing on the Toutle were favorites. Many of 1 our friends lived along it's -banks. It was one of the most beautiful rivers we've ever known and we have known many. We traveled the logging roads of the luclous forests in search of deer,elk,grouse and wild blackberries. The logging camps were all familiar fa-miliar to us, as was old Harry Truman. Harry was an old, cantankerous devil when we Interviewed him for the Cowlitz County Advocate about 15 years ago. He loved his whiskey, the mountain, and being alone. It was said the only thing strong enough to make him leave the mountain moun-tain was a shortage of whiskey. whis-key. It seems very likely that he will never leave his mountain again. HERE'S MORE ABOt'T JUST BETWEEN His resort, perched in the tall timber was just four miles from the end of the road, which ran above tim - berline. He was satisfied and happy there, whether he was snowed in and alone in the winter, or had a resort full of people, in the summer. sum-mer. We've seen and heard little lit-tle about Castle Rock.where we lived. - About 40 miles from the top of Mt. St. Helens, Hel-ens, it is situated between Interstate 5 and the Cowlitz River. The Toutle River mouth is just a few miles north of Castle Rock, and flows into the Cowlitz. It's almost impossible for the flooding to miss Castle Cas-tle Rock which lies low along the river. The fairgrounds, where we spent many loving lov-ing hours, is sure to catch full force of the flood. How could such a beautiful beauti-ful lady create so much havoc by blowing her stack? |
