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(Editor's note: The Cir-
cleville Philosopher on his
Johnsongrnss farm on the
San Gabriel Hlvcr seems
unalarmcd about the state of
the nation this week.)
Dear editor:
There is a tendency among
some people to believe the
United States is incompetent
or to put it another way less
competent than other major
nations.
In fact according to a
recent poll if you believe
polls are competent two-
thirds of the people think we
are in "deep and serious
trouble."
Whatever the situation is
you shouldn't get the notion
we're alone.
For example according to
an official news report in the
Russian government's own
IIAHIUSHUKG PA. The nuclear reactor accident at Three
Mile Island already has Ictl to five lawsuits filed In behalf of
area residents who claim the crisis has hurt their business
depressed values of their property and caused them mental
and bodily harm. And It may take sears to resolve the legal
issues growing out of the March 2K incident which Is the
biggest scare in the history of this country's commercial
nuclear energy program.
WASHINGTON An anticipated summer gasoline shortage
may be made worse deliberately to keep heating oil flowing
to homes next winter says Energy Secretary James
Schlcsingcr. Schlesinger said the administration may soon
have to take steps to see that crude oil normally destined for
refining into gasoline is used to make home heating oil instead.
CHICAGO Sears Itoehuck and Co. the nation's largest
retailer says It will accept no further federal contracts
because of a "campaign of harassment" by federal In-
vestigators over Scar's hiring practices. The company's
contracts with the government amount to about 1 percent of
its annual business $20 million of $17.2 billion in sales.
Companies that hid on government contracts must comply
with federal civil rights and affirmative action laws and
regulations.
AUSTIN The Texas House failed by two votes to approve a
constitutional amendment outlawing a state personal income
tax. The tally last Wednesday was 98-38. It was the third lime
such a measure has failed in the House. Gov. Clements had
included a constitutional prohibition against the income tax
in his legislative program The amendment introduced by
Rep. Al Brown of San Antonio was amended by rcmovng a
provision that banned a corporate profits tax in an effort to
get it passed.
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Mrs Dorothy Jean Bartlett
Mrs Vicky Sartor
Jimmy Howell
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Mrs Riley Dalley
14 50 per year In Bell Milam and Williamson
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newspaper the only kind
they have over there "40
percent of the Soviet work
force will be too drunk or too
hung over every Monday
morning to put in a good
day's work."
That's what I'd call being
in deep and serious trouble.
What I want to know
however is who did the
pollsters interview to find out
that two-thirds of U.S.
citizens think we're in deep
trouble? Were any
prospective candidates in-
cluded? I've seen few candidates
now or in the past who didn't
claim we're in serious
trouble and the only way to
get out is to elect them. After
they get in and we're still in
trouble they then claim the
only way to get out is to re-
elect then.
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Progress Bartlett
T T T T T V
The world rarely solves its
problems. It mostly just
passes them around from one
party to another or from one
system of government to
another. You can't tell how
drunk a man is by the form of
government he's living un-
der. According to some people
the world has been on the
brink of disaster ever since a
brink was discovered.
I don't know how seriously
we're in trouble but you can't
make me believe that once
we've got all these cars
produced we aren't going to
find something to run them
with or that once we've got
all these buildings with
windows that won't open we
aren't going to find some way
to air-condition them.
Yours faithfully
J.A.
WASHINGTON Consumer
percent In March led sharply by higher prices for food
housing clothing and gasoline according to government
figures. The March Increase will mean that Social Security
recipients will receive a U.9 percent Increase in benefits to
offset Inflation In the past vcar. Figures released this week
show that a composite Index of economic Indicators showed
that the economy declined for the third straight month
providing new evidence that the economy Is heading for a
sharp recession. These contradicting facts have government
officials disagreeing over the future economic outlook for the
country.
WASHINGTON-The quality of life for most Black
Americans has not changed signficantly in the past decade
says former head of the Congressional Black Caucus Hep.
Parrcn Mitchell. Mitchell said that while the Blacks have
made progress after the civil rights movement of the 1950s
and 19G0s racism is still present in American society. In a
speech to the American Association for Affirmative Action
the Maryland Democrat urged Blacks to improve their place
in society "but not at the expense of leaving the lot of the
vast majority of Black Americans substantially unchanged.
TKIIKAN IKAN The National Iran Oil Co. says production
of Iranian crude oil will average 3.5 million to I millllon
barrels a day for the rest of the year with total of I. OS million
barrels going to Exxon Texaco Gulf Caltcx and Shell daily.
None month contracts have been agreed upon with some 35
countries and oil companies. He said the price was $10.57 a
barrel for light crude and $IG.0l for heavy crude.
PEKING U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim says the
Vietnamese-Chinese peace negotiations are deadlocked over
Cambodia and "it will be a long process to solve the
problem" "The Chinese want to introduce all the elements of
the problem into the discussions including Cambodia and
border matters But the Vietnamese do not want to discuss
Cambodia" Wnldeheim said after the leaders in Hanoi
rebuffed his offer to mediate.
WASHINGTON Teams of doctois touring rural backwaters
and slums of America found far less hunger here than similar
groups encountered 10 years ago a new study says. The Field
Foundation report being delivered today to the nutrition
subcommittee of the Senate Agriculture Committee con-
cludes that the billions of dollars spent in a 10-year federal
program were largely effective.
WASHINGTON Proven reserves of natural gas in the
United States were 200.3 trillion cubic feet last year a slight
drop from the previous year the American Gas Associaiton
says. 10.6 trillion cubic feet were added to the reserves last
year a decline from the previous year's addition of 1 1 .9 cubic
feet.
WASHINGTON MCI Communications Corp. a Washington
based company wants a federal court to break up the giant
American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The suit filed
Monday charges AT&T with monopolizing the long distance
telephone market and asks for $3 billion In antitrust
violations MCI provides long distance phone service
primarily for businesses
Thoughts
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prices increased another I
Cheese is said to be the
earliest form of dairy manu-
iaciuring uccause ui lis
itrnnnth.crlulnn minKHnq It
was fed to the Jewish and
Roman soliders
"And carry these teH
cheeses uato the captain ol
their thousand and look how
thy brothers fare..." I
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AUSTIN After some-
times petty sometimes pas-
sionate debate the Texas
House this week passed a
becfed-up version at least
where salaries arc con-
cerned of a state budget.
The price tag on the
House spending plan for
1980-81 is S20.3 billion.
Gov. Bill Clements says
that's about $600 million too
much. House members in-
creased various salaries by
almost $200 million. Clem-
ents had made it clear long
before the House began its
work that he was against
many of those pay hikes.
It took the House four
days and part of a fifth to
finish the initial step in the
appropriations process that
now moves on to the Senate.
Afterwards the budget will
probably be hammered out
in a conference committee.
and then the governor must
approve it.
Acting as if they didn't
know Clements had threat-
ened to veto teacher pay
hikes that exceeded 5.1 per-
cent House members voted
teachers a 7 percent raise for
1980 and 1981. on top of
step increases. That amounts
to a 20 percent increase in
pay for teachers over the
next two years. Teachers say
that will just about keep
them up with the inflation
rate.
The House also approved
raises for Department of
Public Safety troopers (40
percent state employees who
make less than $20000-a-year
(seven percent) district
judges (14.8 percent) and
district attorneys (36.7 per-
cent). It must be pointed out
that everytime legislators
raise district judges salary
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WHO DOES OUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENT?
Ours is a renrescntative
government a
democratic republic. We
know this is true because wc
havereadltinourConstltu-
tion and we remember that
every two years we hold
elections. But isn't it
strange indeed that when
you begin to list the many
. itnc
mingS.
that renresent
government more often
than not you will find that
government does not repre
sent you.
When a businessman
tries to operate his business
they raise the amount of
their own retirement pay
which is based on a certain
percentage of a district
judge's yearly salary.
When the House was fin-
ished only $530 million in
state funds was left unspent.
Remember school finance is
still to come.
After several emotional
speeches the tedious work
of approving the two-inch
thick appropriations bill
crept along punctuated by a
bomb scare that came at the
end of a long day of debate
legislators' giving the
"Hook'm Horns" sign and
singing the "Eyes of Texas"
when discussing teacher sal-
aries at UT.
The Governor
At almost the same mo
ment Gov. Clements was an-
nouncing at a press confer-
ence that he wouldn't say
what he would do if the Leg-
islature passes to his desk a
separate presidential primary
bill the House was attaching
a rider to the appropriations
bill that would prohibit the
'use of state funds for any
primaries other than those in
May.
Clements who in effect
killed legislation raising
home loan interest rates by
his announcement that he
would veto such a bill said
the issue of a presidential
primary was the Legislature's
"baby" and that lawmakers
should do their duty and
vote without waiting to sec
what he will do if the bill
reaches his desk.
From now on Clements
seemed to be saying law-
makers would no longer
have advance notice of how
the governor would act re
garding certain pieces of Icg-
From Congressman
Marvin
Leath
and is confronted almost
daily with the bureaucrats
from the Wage and Hour
Office the auditors from
Internal Revenue the in-
spectors from OSHA the
air quality people from
EPA or any number of the
other scores of federal
agencies there certainly
little evidence io mnke this
businessman bellevs the
government represents him.
- Then when it comes time to
pay income taxes a great
majority of us would cer-
tainly disagree that our
islation. "Wc arc not going Short Snorts
to play this game that way" Those who had been bit-
Clcmcnts declared ing their fingernails over an
The way the Senate was economy that had grown by
playing this week left the 6.9 percent in the final quar-
govcrnor with little to cheer cr of 1978 breathed a sigh
about. Senators rejected at- of relief this week when
tempts to bring up legisla- numbers released showed a
tion that would have given growth rate of only 0.7 pcr-
Clcmcnts budgetary powers cent in the first quarter of
Senators opposing the bill this year. The "overheated"
said it would have given the economy that had been roar-
governor the power to al- ing along at the end of 1978
most rewrite the budget. Op- was supposedly one of the
position forces were quick to contributing factors to the
point out that the Senate ever-increasing inflation rate
also refused to give such Another economic note
powers to Gov. Dolph Bris- statistics released this week
coc.
Wiretap Dill
Wiretap legislation thru
Clements supports emerged
from a Senate subcommittee
this week even though the
bill's author had pronounced
the legislation "dead" only a
week before. The bill would
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndoll Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Icgalizc electronic surveil-
lance in hard drug cases.
Sen. Ed Howard sponsor of
the wiretap legislation ap-
peared to have the votes
necessary to move the mea-
sure out of the Jurisprudence
Committee and onto the
Senate floor.
And when more than
5000 union workers de-
scended on the State Capitol
this week chanting "Kill that
bill" in protest against legis-
lation that would repeal the
prevailing wa?c law Clem-
ents true to his earlier state-
ments said he had no opin-
ion on the bill "I do have an
opinion about them being a
little quieter." Clements said
iokinuly while tradesmen in
hard hats and carrying their
lunchpails swarmed over the
Capitol Building in one of
the largest protests since the
days of the Vietnam War.
government is represen-
tative of our views.
So we migh't ask
ourselves why is it so? The
simple truth is that a
democratic republic will not
work unless we participate.
Only when we are willing to
give of our time our
talents and our money to
assure that those elected of-
ficials represent the best in
terest of all our people will
this system of government
truly be reflective of all our
people.
For 20 vears America
has enjoyed the freedoms of
representative government
vet through four decades of
apathy we today find
uuv vumumcu uy
is government that controls us
not one that wc control
cverywnere i go people ten
mc 0I ucr "usirauons
most of our people arc
frightened by the future
they are concerned about
their economic survival
one even considered ad-
mitting women to medical
colleges. One woman tried
and was rejected from
almost 30 different in-
stitutions. She had made
a laughing stock of
herself but she used oven
that to her own advan-
tage and when Geneva
College in upstato Now
York admitted her "as a
joko" the joko turned out
to bo on them - sho
graduated first in her
class. Even so no city
hospital would hire her so
sho opened a small clinic
in a New York City slum
which later became a
respected hospital tho
Now York Infirmary for
Womon and Children.
Who was that lady?
Elizabeth Dlackwell
Would Vou Believe...
Assuming that the
earth were complotoly
dry a man walking day
and night at a steady pace
could circumnavigate tho
planet in a little less than
a year.
A leaping flea ac-
celerates from a standstill
to a speed of three feet per
second in less than two-
thousandths of a second.
show major corporations
with hefty increases in their
profits during the first quar-
ter of this year. Tcxaco's
profits were up almost 80
percent in that period and
Exxon's increased by more
than 35 percent.
Finally the Senate version
of Rep. Wayne Pcvcto's tax
reform bill sponsored by
Grant Jones of Abilene
slipped out of the Senate
Finance Committee this
week.
The Joncs-Pcvcto bill
would set up single appraisal
units for each city school
district and special district in
a county. Hopefully the
legislation would create
standards and guidelines by
which property could be
taxed locally and state-wide
in an equitable fashion with
homeowners and commercial
interests paying their fair
share of the tax burden.
During the last two legis-
lative sessions Pcvcto's bill
ended up buried in the Sen-
ate Economic Development
Committee. But the bill was
amended this time around to
satisfy real estate interests
that managed to kill the
measure in 1975 and 1977y
Our elderly are reduced to
second-class citizenship
because inflation has
destroyed their quality of
life. Our young families are
tormented that each month
they go farther in debt.
Taxes arc consuming their
productivity and livelihood.
However it appears to
me that people arc awaken-
ing. It becomes evident as
we sec the concerns of an
aroused electorate in such
efforts as Proposition 13.
And in the nine days of the
Congressional Easter
recess I attended 26 town
meetings and made some 35
spejchcs. Most of these ses-
u sions were qucsuon-ana-
answer
discussions. The
crowds were lame and
there is no question In my
mma tnat the people ot the
nth District have given me
their mandate to work
toward stopping these
trends.
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