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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.
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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