Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Happy fish
More from the book on Civil Defense in Spokane, in the chapter on the decline and fall of shelters:
Must have been some mighty happy (or dead) fish all the way down the Spokane River into the Columbia and then the ocean. Oh well. Whatever it takes!!! to keep people away from any sort of narcotics. Now let's have a smoke and a highball to celebrate our success.
Reminds me of the many scenes in '50s cop shows where Joe Friday or Dan Matthews disgustedly snorts "Narcotics are worse than murder!" while puffing a Pall Mall and sipping a martini.
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The federally provided medical kits held phenobarbitol tablets that were attractive targets for thieves. .... In October 1971, Spokane CD director Pounds announced that robbers had stolen pills from 60 public shelters in Spokane County. Later that year, the feds ordered the removal of pills. CD officials pulled 1.25 million sedative pills from all Spokane area shelters. Pounds and his aides mixed the pills and hot water into a slurry and flushed the mixture into the sewage system.
Must have been some mighty happy (or dead) fish all the way down the Spokane River into the Columbia and then the ocean. Oh well. Whatever it takes!!! to keep people away from any sort of narcotics. Now let's have a smoke and a highball to celebrate our success.
Reminds me of the many scenes in '50s cop shows where Joe Friday or Dan Matthews disgustedly snorts "Narcotics are worse than murder!" while puffing a Pall Mall and sipping a martini.
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