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3E ©SMALLTOWNPAPERS, INC. ALL CONTENT COPYRIGHTED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SUBJECT TO LICENSE AGREEMENT. REPRODUCTION, DISSEMINATION, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION PROHIBITED. PAGE 4 DAN RICHARDSON, PUBLISHER SAM LOWRY, REPORTER A PUBLICATION OF TARTAN PUBLICATIONS, INC. ' ANDREW J. MCNAB, PRESIDENT cow in the mhTe It's said that miners used to take canaries into the coal mines with them as biological alarm clocks. When one of the birds would drop dead, the miners knew the air was poisonous, and would clear out. That cow in Mabton, the one with the mysterious and dreaded disease making all the headlines, call it the cow in the coal mine. Its illness is a warning as pointed as any dead canary. We knew mad cow was coming, and perhaps already here in the North American market. Europe had those terrible outbreaks, and Canada found its first infected animal in May. U.S. agriculture officials put some (in hind- sight, really obvious) rules in place as early as 1997 to reduce the possibil- ity of our herds becoming infected. They began testing then - not enough animals, probably, but testing nonetheless. In other words, the government saw it coming. I wonder, did ranchers? Did the rest of us? There are two ways for ranchers and politicians in Klickitat County, and in every agricultural county, to deal with mad cow disease: They can hope it goes away - the easy thing -- or they can do something to keep it out of here for good -- the right thing. The right thing means taking action to evaluate, critique and reform safety and processing along the entire beef food chain. That's something that even federal veterinarians and ag officials are saying we should do. We need leadership on this. Cowboys, the symbol of our wild and free Western way of life, are supposed to be about honesty, decency, hard work. I hope that's more than hype, because now is the time we need that kind of people to step up and make the hard choices about their own industry. We need leadership and critical thinking from our ~anchers. We need it from our granges, our butchers, and our county commissioners. Leadership means evaluating ranching and slaughtering techniques, not to keep them cheap, but to keep them clean and disease-free. Leadership means calling state and national representatives to let them know we want this investigation to produce long-term review and, if necessary, changes. Leadership may even mean making changes in your own cattle operation, even if the feds aren't looking over one's shoulder. We need our cattlemen and leaders not just to convince city people that their hamburgers and steaks are safe -- but to make sure that they are. Dan Richardson For a game of finesse and it's barn-league basketball skill, I still enjoy watching basketball, although it's really not much of a game anymore. Some folks marvel at the big college players and the pros who go flying through the air and slam the ball through the hoop, but that doesn't do any- thing for me. We used to make shots like that everyday when I was a kid. We didn't call it the "high lob" or the "Alley Oop," but the play was the same. We had a special signal for that play in the old dairy barn. One kid would holler "off the wall" and another would run up on the hay bales, grab a rafter, and lean toward the hoop. He takes the high pass and jumps for the bas- ket, stuffing the ball through on the way down. It! f TII6 ~"'~ was just one of those plays a guy had to make if he wanted to play in that league. / BaCk ~ I Our barn had a big hay loft with a wood floor/ F6~[~ ~1 and baskets at both ends. The off-the-wall play was good in the early part of the season when ~ there was still plenty of forage on the court. By January, the hay near the basket had been fed, and nobody could climb high enough to get the slam dunk. That's when the pure shooters came into their own. And in those days we had shooters! There were two handed set shots and several variations of the hook. Our barn had cows below the court, and the ball would go down the ladder or through the manger. Everyone learned to shoot with a wet ball, as well as a dry one. Each kid haft his own shot. It wasn't like today when they just jump up in the air and let fly. A kid's shot was dependent on what kind of barn his goal was in, as well as all of the stuff his dad had stored there. You could see it at the high school games. The guy with the high-arching set shot had a barn with a beam about six feet in front of the basket. He learned to arch it over the beam. The player with the driving hook shot was used to shooting around the corn-picker when going to his right. The kid who took all of his shots from 19 feet practiced with a hay rake on the barn floor and was limited to la'yups or the long bomb. Scouting reports described what kind of barns were common in the com- munity, how much hay the players baled (strong under the basket) and how many cows they milked (quick hands). We could shoot from anywhere, and quite often we did! Barnyard basketball could be rough, but it was nothing compared to what we faced in those old gymnasiums. Most courts had bleachers dear down to the floor and an uneasy crowd. The in-bounds play was called "oxeuse me - two." The ref gave you five seconds to in-bounds the ball, but the fans often permitted less than that. Each gym was different. Some had a stage at one end, and the home team would fill that with junior high kids and other sorts of undesirables. Ceilings were low. Sometimes you could arch your shot at the end with the stage. Size and brawn meant nothing in those days. We did it all with finesse. Those big guys playing today, heck, they would have brained themselves on the light fixtures. THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER FOR GOLDENDALE AND KLICKITAT COUNTY, WA ESTABLISHED 1879 • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FROM OFFICES AT 117 W. MAIN • GOLDENDALE, WA 98620 TELEPHONE (509) 773-3777 • FAX (509) 773-4737 EMAIL: (NEWS) SENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR (ADS, COMMUNITIES, HOMETOWN) GSENTINEL@GORGE.NET OR (EDITORIAL) GSPUBLIsHER@GORGE.NET THE GOLDENDALE SENTINEL STAFF KAREN HENSLEE, CLASSIFIEDS, JOBWORK &.PRINTING AMY WALKER, GRAPHIC DESIGN BETH SCHRoDER, NEWSPAPER LAYOUT &. DESIGN HELMUT ADLER, ADVERTISING SALES &. CIRCULATION Deadlines: Display Advertising: 5 p.m. Friday Classified Advertising: Noon Monday Legal Notices: 10 a.m. Tuesday News and Letters: Noon Friday $ubicrlptlona: 1 Year, 2 "fears Goldendale - Carrier $22, $37 In Klickitat County - $29, $52 Outside Klickitat County - $38, $70 USPS 2213-6000 WEEKLY. Periodical postage paid at Goldendale Post Office, Gotdendale, Wash. 98620. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Goldendale Sentinel, 117 W. Main St. Goldendale, WA 98620-9526. 1he I];oldendale Sentinel JANUARY 1, 200, A YOU'LL HIlleD BUT THI~Y'RI~ ALL our! w~v.b m'r yscor l"oon s, com THE C MUN ' eri Keep on watching the hospital To the Editor: I went to the 6:30 a.m. Hospital Board Meeting on the Dec. 17. BRIM Hospital Management group was there, and seemed to be work- ing hard at learning about the hos- pital's management problems. (NOT problems with the nurses and doctors, who I visit and appreciate very much.) The commissioners had each received a certified letter from our Klickitat County Treasurer, Dani Burton. They didn't read it at the meeting, so I later got a copy from the treasurer's office. This is the most interesting paragraph: "The Bond payment was due on December z, and the bond funds were short by approximately $4200. Rather than have the Hospital default on the bond, I added that cost to the continuing negative bal~:ace of the fund. However, please be advised that I cannot - and will not - continue this ad infinitum. We have discussed this before at great length, and I was assured that you would cut your spending - or do whatever was nee- essary to get the Hospital General Fund back in the black. This has not happened. The HospitaI is essen- tially in the same position financial- ly - or worse - than it was a year ago. As of today - after transferring funds from the Hospital's deposito- ry account - it was over $419,431.2o negative, which will be even worse after next week when warrants are issued. It is apparent that the plan discussed in our June meeting has not worked. I need to know what steps you intend to make to cure this condition." Brim may be good, but can they pull an elephant out of a hat? I'd like to ask more questions at the board meetings, but they don't always have a Public Comment agenda item. Keep watching for news of a citi- of an evil dictator, or to free the Ira,[is zeus meeting in January'. Maybe people. It was to stop an imminen,sc we'll get a peek behind the curtain attack by the country of lraq agains to see how the board s actions may the United States. ry perform another trick: Allowing the Further, the Bush administratiol hospital to disappear, was quite specific about tht Glenn W. Ryder weapons of mass destructiol Goldendale (WMDs) possessed by Iraq. In fad i~. it was stated many times that Iral ale possessed 26,ooo liters of anthra~le' Greetings, G'dale, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, trC from Iraq million pounds of sarin gas, muahel, tard gas, and VX nerve gas, aloni~0~ To the Editor: with 30,000 munitions to deliv~he~ these agents. We were told that Ira~ Co My name is Todd Riches, a local would take this stuff and use i!(~el from Goldendale. I am currently against United States, if we didn'l deployed to the Middle East with invade first. .,~ Operation Iraqi Freedom. I am a So, what's the deal here? Is it tha~tler third class in the United States Naval ~ the American publi~Plo refuses to believe tha' he Reserves. Thank you we were lied to? Oi)at I just want to say thank you to those tothose who that our now onl~.A party political syster~Leu who support us in support us in supported by tht!ol this dangerous mis- sion we are in. this danger- media refuses t