The Bellingham Herald from Bellingham, Washington • 1

THURSDAY Bellingham Washington 98225 '4 10 cents daily 15 cents Sunday a member of the Gannett Group -s v-vi 4 v-' Vv 1 I i 4 search create 'jobs and make American industry more 1 competitive abroad i Public School finances He promised to unveil later in the year a plan to finance public schools without burdening the property-tax system delivery of the message coincided with the beginning of his fourth year in office Otherwise Nixon said little about hew initiatives but stressed instead that Congress should act on than 90 major administration such as welfare reform government reorganization and revenue sharing that have been hanging fire for a year or longer In comparison a 15000 word written State of the Union docu Court t' i v'' 4 4P' lr J77T: i -Hf' 1fS 'V4'V iU 4 Mr: 5 jrWwi 4 iiSrlBWftCTl bills legitimate know in will an honest not only but within issues of national January 200 972 Volume 83No 17 mm WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon urged a Democratic Congress today to reject intense pressures of a political mid enact an array of stalled administration measures an enlarged defense budget and a technology to promote research and create jobs In a 4000-word State of the Union address prepared for delivery at a live-broadcast joint session Nixon said he and Congress should dose ranks making sure that legislation the nation needs does become hostage to the political interest of any party or The President an announced candidate for a second term said he wants a bigger defense budget and a technology to encourage re By State Supreme ruled OLYMPIA (UPI) State Supreme Court today unani -mously dismissed a challenge against bills passed after mid- night on the 60th day of the 1971 special legislature The decision written by Justice Hugh Rosellini said that while the Constitution limits regular legislative sessions to 60 days that' does not apply to special sessions is no constitutional limitation or restriction on the power of the legislature to sit in extraordinary session once properly convened under provisions of the Constitution until the business before it is the court said The case was brought by the Distilled Spirits Institute which challenged a two cents per ounce increase in the liquor tax That bill and several otter pieces of legislation were passed after midnight of the 60th day of the special session The ruling will also apparently apply to several other major bills and constitutional changes which the legislature passed after the old deadline Included was a rewriting of the compensation law Justice Hugh Rosellini who' wrote the 8 0 decision said the constitution is a restriction and not a grant on legislative power and all doubts must be resolved in favor of the legislature Not a restraint He said the challengers failed to demonstrate that the of the constitution intended to make the 60-day limitation applicable The court said the constitution was doubtful at very least v'X --V--- W'" 4T v-t r- ifCustornsJI HSSlOOO'FEEtt 1 rvT I y' 1 I a v' tf Jt yx-K3v 1 1 i i rr fv N' A 4- 4 vl (' 'vtifl Ks fciT jfy- Viv since the area is the place of the first settlement here Some of those would include Pickett House with a park area around it and the old territorial courthouse Roth Apartments Aftermath dub the Theater Guild building Eliminate 33 blocks of streets by vacating them This figures out to IV miles of streets and would return about nine acres to the tax rolls It would save property owners about $100000 in street improvement costs plus street department maintenance money she said Her proposal would create one block out of three in some instances are not proposing vacations right she stressed we could certainly eliminate many of the streets in the area and still have streets lending themselves to the use Miss Wolf also referred to a proposed plan for a park at the (Continued on Page 2 Col 3) ment the chief executive warned over his past arguments on behalf of the pending bills -In his written presentation Nixon said his planned visits this year to Communist China and the Soviet Union mean not that our differences have disappeared or will disappear in the near The important thing he said that we talk about these differences rather than fight about Serious mistake i would be a serious he continued say that nothing can come of our expanded communications with Peking and Moscow But it would also be a mistake to expect too much too Discussing home-front reac- ture on a take it or leave it basis Once a free conference committee bill comes back to the legislature members must vote either for or against the proposal without amendments Reasonable laws In another portion of the decision the court said the lature has the power to enact all reasonable laws except where such laws would be prohibited either expressly or by inference by the state or federal constitution touch of a silver thaw but schools operated on time Down comes another On Chuckanut Drive State Highway Department crew's had just managed to clear one slide yesterday afternoon wheH another slide came down in the same spot at 7:25 pm forcing closure of the road again The slide in the vicinity of Rock is being referred to as by the Highway Department District Highway Supt Marvin Chennault Said the road will probably be closed most of today (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) tkm to the Vietnam war Nixon wrote: has been a tendency among some-to swing from one extreme to the otter in the wake of Veitnam from wanting to do too much in the world to wanting to do too little We must resist this temptation to For the United States to withdraw from international responsibilities be to make a dangerous he said If anyone had doubts the political season is at hand Nixon erased them at the outset of his speech for the joint session At a time when at least 10 members of Congress were vying for office he said: are more candidates for the presidency in this chamber today than there probably have beat ait any one time in the whole history of the Great pressures the political pressures this session of the Congress be great There is division of opinion between the parties the parties on some foreign policy and domestic policy as well there are great problems that are so vital they transcend partisanship Let us have our debates Let us have our honest differ- ences But let us join in keeping the national interest first Let us join in making sure that legislation the nation needs does not become hostage to Unpolitical interest of any party or any Power fails to Intalco The main area station for the Bonneville Power Administration at Custer which supplies power to Intalco went down temporarily today A backup system which draws power from Canadian sources failed to operate and electricity to the aluminum plant was cut off for about five minutes A prolonged outage at Intalco would cause freeze-up of the aluminum reduction pot lines which would entail a chip4ut estimated at $75 million and three months work The Bonneville Seattle regional office said it was unable to give technical details as to what caused the outage because all personnel at the Custer Station were too busy making repairs The outage at the Outer Station caused lights in Bellingham to flicker several times between 10:19 and 10:45 am today ing stop and caution lights were installed Picture is facing north In top photo taken near the corner if St and the bypass the truck customs is pictured Trucks using this 13 mile route will now bypass downtown Herald photo BLAINE TRUCK ROUTE The new $640000 Blaine truck route an Interstate 5 bypass designed to aid cross-border flow of truck traffic was opened for use today Lower photo was taken at the curve where southbound traffic moves onto the Interstate overpass In background local vehicles move on St where blink we must hold that it (the constitution) does not constitute a restraint upon the power of the legislature to sit when in exraordinary session until the business before it has been the court said In another area the court upheld the right to submit a bill to a free conference committee The decision said the constitution does not prohibit the free conference committee from submitting a compromise bill to the legisla Miss Wolf offers Plan to revitalize 'Old Town' i v'-t -v' tv AS rl 1 Vl 4-ms 4" 4- s4 '44- M-KK- 4 4 could be allowed there not in fact happened" Condition of much of the housing there has deteriorated more and more she said Housing inspectors have contemplated a house-to-house inspection of the area but have delayed partly because of time limitations but mostly because the GC zoning not encourage residential She said a study of the changes of land use between 1968 and December 1971 shows the greatest gain was the increase in office space with the second 'largest gam in vacant land Losses occur greatest loss was to residential uses with particular emphasis on demolition of single family housing Interestingly the use that the General Commercial zoning was designed to accommodate has to determine if using return addresses is against postal regulations Assistant Postmaster Mack Stull said today Associate listed Several businessmen received the letter containing a religious booklet and a price list for other materials The return address listed a business associate or a friend Twq attorneys received letters with the return address After determining that neither man 'sent the religious literature to the other the letters were reported to the post office In the phone book both attorneys are listed In the yellow section Their offices are located in the same building Other professional and' businessmen reported the fake letters including some certified public accountants and dentists Herald news editor 'George Boynton received a similar let Cold-warm weather disrupts traffic By GLENN LARSON Of The Bellingham Herald A bold plan to revitalize Old Whatcom has been put before Bellingham Planning Commission It would combine land use changes rezoning and elimination of many streets to encourage upgrading of residences and better use of what is called the lettered area It is generally bounded by West Holly Street Broadway Halleck Street and Whatcom Creek It is the site of first settlement Growth slowed Planner Eunice Wolf told the commission last night zoning a large part of the area three years ago has tended to stifle residential growth and improvement A study shows she said that the general commercial uses which A silver thaw in the northern part of Whatcom County delayed opening of schools in the Nooksack-Sumas area today and heavy rain in the southern part of the county caused another mud and rock slide along Chuckanut Drive In Skagit County warm rain in the vicinity of Newhalem and Diablo caused another avalanche along Highway 20 closing the emergency lane which had been opened to Diablo last week Nooksack Valley High School and Sumas Christian School were forced to operate one hour late when ice covered roads made early bus runs hazardous The Lynden area received a shown a loss in the area namely the auto sales and service Miss Wolf said The largest land uses in the area the most unproductive and represent a waste of she said City street rights-of-way make up 36 per cent of the total land area of 119 acres and the blocks are arranged in a grid pattern 200 feet apart and are small She proposes: The General Commercial zone should be removed and rezoned to high density residential (RH) Existing uses could continue as non-conformers but expand The RH zone would permit apartments and office buildings with protection from light industrial uses allowed in GC Save historical sites Specifically saving certain structures as historical sites ter Thursday and the return address named and Mrs EF also of Bellingham No longer here After some checking is the widow of Robert Boynton who died in 1969 Mrs Boynton sold her house last year and moved to Oregon neighbors said' The small pink-covered pamphlet is entitled World Treason to Christ and the A Vincennes Ind address is given at the end of the book for person's wishing extra copies Along with the booklet is a booklist for supplementary religious materials The organization listed on the pricelist is Christians Awake hi Marysville Calif Stull suggests all residents receiving such letters report them to the Post Office Mailing with false return addresses sent Unusual letters have been sent to Bellingham residents in the last few days supposedly mailed from a friend business associate or a relative The Post Office received a number of complaints since local residents received the letters postmarked Seattle Tuesday These letters have been sent to the postal inspector in Seattle Herald today CLEAR VIEW ON ALABAMA The old Northern Pacific railroad trestle on Alabama Street hill was removed yesterday by a Burlington -1 Northern crew clearing the street of its longtime hazard Many of the wooden ties were hauled away by' a Bellingham water department crew (left with track) BN railroad has been removing the tracks that go from downtown Bellingham around North Shore Drive on Lake Whatcom to Wickers ham since Great Northern and Northern Pacific merged and this line was eliminated (See Story Page Herald photo.