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THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
Wednesday, November 16,1968
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PERSPECTIVES
EDITORIALS
Piney Woods Diary
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them freedom of choice.
I don't blame smokers for feeing persecuted.
I dont blame them for becoming weary wdth toe
“nyah, nyah, nyah" impcit in the boorish ges-
tures of the air-wavers. eye-rubbers and face-
contorters and those who imagine they have
staked out some higher moral ground just be-
cause they — through accident or willpower —
have escaped the addiction. A lot of people who
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Texans everywhere
got a real psychological
boost when the Depart-
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nounced the lucrative
supercollider project
would be built near
Waxahachie in Ellis
County.
The $4.4 billion
physics lab, the largest
scientific project ever
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meaning people behind
dubious causes.
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can smoke if they want
to. It is not our concern.
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smoker.’ I'm sorry, but there is nothing to be
gained by harassing smokers. I just don't feel
comfortable telling Wks what they should or
should not do.
I won't pretend that I don't sometimes admire
the style smokers’ possess — it is an elegant,
civilized and deadly habit. I wish it didn't kill us. I
wish it didn't divide us so.
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HIGHLIGHTS
TEXAS MESS ASSOCIATION
dragged across the closed cover and sulphur
flashes through the atmosphere I have seen
the smokers greedily shield their brief fies,
working that marvelous coordination of hands,
bps and kings.
I have seen them drop their eyes into middle
distant Marboro Country and sigh out their
private steams. I have seen them smile their
odd little lotus-eater smiles.
Now understand this. I do not smoke. Aside
from a stray puff or two in junior high school I
have never smoked. I don't condone smoking, I
would never encourage a young person to
smoke. Smoking kills you. It killed my mother's
father and my father's mother and it very likely
contributed to my own father's death.
And, as a non-smoker, I can't pretend to un-
jesture. I have
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Battleship Texas
The Battleship Texas is scheduled to “sail*
next month from San Jacinto Battleground berth
to a Galveston drydock for repairs to keep her
afloat.
The repairs will be largely funded by private
dollars raised in several grassroots efforts.
Textbooks Approved
Following the state's approval of textbooks
last week, conservatives criticized some of the
selections as "trash, filled with errors," and
“providing no hope."
Rains, Hispanics
Hopes for heavy Republican gains among
South Texas Hispanic voters were dashed by a
heavy turnout for some Democrats which some
say was a backlash to the tactics by Secretary
of State Jack Rains.
Rains' office implied voting fraud and
prepared to police balloting there, but was
turned back by a lawsuit and counter-charge of
racism and tyranny by Democrats.
If Rains runs for governor in 1990, as many
predict he will, he will no doubt face an uphill
battle for the votes along the Rio Grande.
State Drug Testing
Gov. Bill Clements said the state should emu-
late many private employers and start drug test-
ing now employees in state agencies.
"If you're going to have testing in the private
sector, why shouldn't you have something like it
in state government, particularly for people in
sensitive jobs?", he asked.
Clements is expected to submit proposals for
drug testing now or current state workers for
drug or alcohol abuse.
The governor also ripped state agencies for
"turf fighting" which creates costly duplication of
services.
DiEions of barrels of oil remain in the ground in
Texas — at the bottom of semi-depleted wells and
reservoirs where conventional technology can't touch
t. Up to now, that oil has been too expensive to pump
out of the ground.
Texas Railroad Commissioner John Sharpe wants
to make it cost-effective to go after such oil; on Mon-
day. he proposed that producers who undertake en-
hanced recovery projects — designed to get to that
left-over oil — be given tax credits.
State Comptroller Bob Bullock estimates that the
proposed tax incentive — a 50 percent severance tax
exemption for oil produced from new enhanced
recovery projects — would cost the state ap-
proximately $459,000 in lost taxes the first two years.
However, Bullock said if any new projects begin be-
cause of the incentives, the losses could easily turn
into tax gains for Texas.
We think Sharpe's plan is a good one, we are risk-
ing relatively little for what we stand to gain. Our fu-
ture lies not only in discovering more oil, but in
recovering what we already know is in the ground.
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loietabio; that l ant unable to cope wih; Otat as-
phyxiatae me?A bad smel The smell of tailure,
the smell of a soul gone stale.
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derstand the gentle tremble of a smoker's mind
as calming, stimulating nicotine washes over A
I don't know that secret satisfaction, I don't un-
derstand A
At the same time, it would bo untruthtul for
me to say I am not at times envious at smokers.
Sometimes I wish I could roll a cigarette be-
tween my fingers, lot t dangle, tip-glowing, from
my fipa, and expel those ancient, ghost-grey
clouds _ to look just like another ruined poseur,
another Bogart. another James Dean.
Smoking is such a beautiful madness.
Most of the smokers I know are trying to quit.
They know it is an unhealthy habit. A lot of them
tael it is silly for adults — people who do serious
work —to have to get up and leave their desks,
to go outside or to some cordoned-off area
before they can fight a cigarette. I tend to sym-
pathize, though I understand people complain
and worry about secondhand smoke and al
that. I won't say those are silly worries.
But it should be obvious that to live one must
incidental smoke could ever be. rd sooner my
eyes tear up from secondhand smoko than my
ears be subjected to secondhand didactic ad-
monishments.
Militant non-smokers are to my mind more of-
tensive than militant smokers. Ours is a society
that has traditionally respected minority rights,
and smokers are certainly a suspect class. It is
not (yet) illegal to smoke. I is not even legal to
try to induce someone to smoko. But these
days some places will not hire you • you are a
smoker. I think that is wrong.
And I is not I admit, legal to attempt to dis-
courage smokers from lighting up Some
smokers might even welcome the tsk-tsking of
the concerned. But I won't pester a friend to
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The Curious
to bring thousands of jobs and billtons of dollars
to Texas’ hard-pressed economy.
The announcement, which came on the heels
of a Texan s election to the White House, also
served as a reminder that bipartisan political
clout is invaluable.
On Nov. 8, voters showed much independ-
ence and divided the offices among both
parties. Texas Republicans won the White
House and gained a low high court seats, but
the Democrats gained in congressional and
statehouse seats.
• Moment of Unity
The Supercollider announcement was balm
to sore political wounds because Texas
Republicans and Democrats could claim a
share of the credit.
In this instance, both parties worked for the
good of all Texans, a shining moment in a politi-
cal season otherwise noted for harsh attacks,
mud-slinging, charges of voting fraud and
racism.
It was a moment of unity which cannot last in
the contact sport that is Texas politics, but can
always return again.
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had evidently been posi- edited or issued on such cities."
perfectly between the So far, he says, he has
H.,el > received newgoanerg from Car.
thages In Illinois, New York, Ten-
nessee, Missouri and Mississippi.
"Notwithstanding," he laments.
One critic submitted a 50-ft long list of poten-
tial errors which the State Board of Education
said it will analyze.
The board ignored all requests to delete clas-
sic literature from books.
"That’s a big victory," said Mike Hudson,
Texas Director of People for the American Way,
a national organization that urged the board to
keep the stories.
Early Retirement
Hundreds of Texas public employees will be
able to retire early if the Legislature adopts a
plan proposed by the State Board of Education.
The board recommended that lawmakers
change the retirement eligibility requirements of
the 500,000-member Teacher Retirement Sys-
tem.
Presently, a school employee can retire with
full benefits if his or her age and years of serv-
ice totals 95. The board proposal would lower
that total to 85.
Other Highlights
A governor’s taskforce told Clements the law
automatically suspending driver’s licenses for
teens who abuse drugs and alcohol is not being
enforced but could be an effective deterrent.
The panel also recommended that medical
schools be required to teach a course on sub-
stance addiction.
t The closest statehouse race involved
15-year incumbent state Rep. Ed Watson, D-
Deer Park, who lost by 12 votes to Republican
Mike Jackson. A recount could change the
results.
t The chairman of the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Commission said the commission is
willing to assume jurisdiction over the Alamo if
the Legislature wants that but isn't pushing for
the authority.
There is something I truly admire conditions for the next gentle man
about president-elect George Bush, who dares run for high office.
He faces reality and makes it work As long as Goliath forces want to
for him. All of us know what kind of destroy our nation we cannot elect a
statements will make it in the eve- David too nice to pick up a stone,
ning news. It has to be violent, vul-
gar or controversial. Bush, naturally
kind and quiet, adjusted his own Louise Dominy
campaign to fit that unpleasant clr- Gary
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Curious hopes she doesn’t miss Panola Newspapers Editor
egain. It might get embarrassing. Phil Martin has received a letter
At the academic level, there's from a gentleman named Fran-
the Carthago school bus driver deco Ruiz Navarro of Cartagena
who was unable to avoid running (road "Carthago"), Spain,
over a door when it ran in front of The amiable senor, who writes
her bub. Ahterward, the deer his letter in both English and
irohed away unscathed. Through Spanish, says he is searching for
incredible luck or skillful all cities named Carthago on el
maneuvering on the part of the mundo, and "for all newspaper
Tomorrow’s thing, this 'Great American
Smokeouf" thing, bothers me. I know there
This is the season of door hunt-
ing stories, and they are flying High school, has attracted con-
thickandfast sidorablo attention from
There's the story of Bobby academics and school ad-
Watson, who has been batting ministrators statewide.
loro. His first day out, he didn't (The humanities, to give a
Ooe a single door. His second day simplified definition, are most
out he atived an the lease to find commonlyaregarded today,
hi deer stand had been stolen. literature and the particularly
Watch this space for develop- as they toad to anindividuas un-
derstanding of Ns place in the
Panolaw
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e created by to
cost of doing business. Furthermore. to five wel
sometimes requires that we accept certain
greater risks — such as skiing or riding in
airplanes — that other reasonable people might
find unacceptable
I would modestly suggest that smoking is one
of those greater risks. It ought to be available as
a dangerous option to those who want to
pursue IL The information is available, anyone
who picks up a cigarette must understand the
consequences of his or her actions.
But as tor secondhand smoke, well, that
somewhat lesser risk is just a part of the cost of
doing business. V circumstances arise where it
can be shown that innocents are injured, then
that is undeniably a tragedy. Still Americans
The sign, says our inlorm
identified the bazaar at
•bizarro."
Whether this was a misape
ora comment remains a mysti
i the distaft side of the sport flow of history and culture.)
Soaps hurried out the first Not everyone shares this un-
it Sha shot at a derstanding. Said one mother,
and uSd. Her hunting "My kids wont take no humanities
anions cut off half her course. They don't need IL
tg They’re real popular already."
• second day out she again Sigh.
od a deer and again she
ad. Her companions cut the
lining hall of her shirttail off.
I Addrsee.
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as- - „ueS.
oiks interested lh tho "I did not get The Panola County’
ibalogical Seminar and of Carthage, TX yet."
kid Fair coming to Tyler Needlees to say, the lack will be
irday, Nov. 26, will be rm- promptly remedied.
sed to know the presentation,
ih travels nationally, is not
halh 4noicharge event. Only
Know any curioua,
nny or otharwiaa in
We didn’t see it ourselves, but
we're advised one of those easily
changed signs in town where you
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