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Page 4 Tribune-Progress Thursday August 9 1979
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Circleville
Philosopher
(Editor's note: The Cir-
cleville Philosopher on his
Johnsongrass fnrm on the
San Gabriel Hlvcr examines
a new government windmill
this week from a distance.)
Dear editor:
According to an article I
read in a newspaper the other
day and have been thinking
about ever since the
government has built an
experimental windmill atop a
4000-foot mountain to sec
how much electricity it can
generate
What caught my attention
was not whether a windmill
will work 1 firmly believe it
will based on the 2000-year
history of the invention but I
can understand Washington's
not wanting to go off half-
cocked Furthermore I
believe a windmill will
generate electricity if you
hook it up to a generator and
the wind is blowing.
Washington's on sound
ground there.
But what did catch my
attention was the price. It
cost $3500000 I suppose the
government is the only
organization in the world that
requires three and a half
million dollars to build one
windmill. However you've
got to remember it may have
taken two years or more to
complete an expensive en-
vironmental impact study on
the effects of whirling blades
on honey bees that might
show up in the area. And how
about horseflies? Have you
thought about that7
The government estimates
the windmill will generate
enough electricity for at least
300 families when weather
conditions arc ideal. Some
people claim the weather was
ideal for six and a half
months back in 1923 but I
have no proof of this.
The energy officials who
dedicated the windmill said it
moy be a large part of our
answer to OPEC I got to
figuring If it costs $3500000
and will serve 300 families
except on still days that
means the windmill cost -per
- family would be $11CCC
For the 50 million families in
this country the cost of
providing windmills for all
would come to $503300000. If
zeroes running on forever
confuse you the figure is
pronounced 583 billion 300
million dollars.
OPEC must be shaking in
its boots. I know I am.
Yours faithfully
J.A.
Watching
Washington
Tciaa Instruments Is one of the big employers In our state
with 78000 workers.
That is a lot of jobs but it's small potatoes when compared
with the army of full-time workers that would be needed to
comply with paperwork demands made each year by the
federal government.
According to the latest es-
timates from the Office of
Management and Budget it
takes the equivalent of 393-
000 fulltlmc workers to Till out
all the forms government in
Washington sends out.
There Is of course no
"army" filling out these
forms. The Job Is done by the
American people. OMB
figures that individuals and
businesses In this country work 786 million hours a year
to All out tax forms and business census forms and farm forms
and the like; enough In other words to occupy 393000
workers fulltlmc.
I must hasten to add here that the OMB estimates arc
closer to educated guesses than to precise projections.
One of my main concerns as a Senator is the costly burden
Imposed on Americans by unnecessary and excessive govern-
ment paperwork and red tape.
Efforts to combat It have been made more difficult by the
fact that government lacks a solid understanding of the
scope of the paperwork problem. At this point no one can
say precisely how heavy a paperwork burden government
Imposes. Tor that matter no one can say what use Is made of
all this paperwork by the Individual agencies that require it.
There is a nagging though as yet unconfirmed suspicion
that no use at all is made of some of the paper that people
often spend hours Tilling out a form and send it on to Wash-
ington only to have it shipped to storage unread.
One way we have of keeping loose tabs on the growing
JftVf
paperwork burden Is the federal Register a compilation of
all government regulations. It is a kind of catalogue of gov-
ernment paperwork.
Throughout 1955 some 10.000 pages were published In the
Federal Register. In 1980 it Is expected that number will
have Increased ten-fold to I00.C00 pages.
Another way we try to keep track of federal paperwork is
through the Office of Management and Budget. OMB serves
as a clearinghouse approving in advance 'the various forms
that government agencies and departments propose.
One problem though is that not all government agencies
have to clear their forms with OMB. For example the In-
ternal Revenue Service which reportedly accounts for over
80 percent of all federal paperwork is not required to clear
its forms.
IRS Commissioner Jerome KurU says his agency prints
and distributes to the public over 300 tax forms each year.
Americans he says work over 577 million hours a year to fill
out tax forms; the equivalent of 288500 fulltlmc workers.
1 recently Joined with two of my colleagues Senators Law-
ton Chiles of Florida and John Danforth of Missouri to In-
troduce legislation that will give us a handle on the amount
of paperwork churned out by the federal government. It will
also begin the Job of cutting back on that paperwork.
Our legislation would establish the first policy based on the
recognition that government paperwork and red tape impose
a significant cost on businesses and consumers that they
divert far too many resources from other productive uses.
The bill would require all federal agencies including
IRS to clear all proposed forms with OMB.
The bill would set up an office within OMB headed by a
presidential appointee to take responsibility for coordinating
federal paperwork. The office Is to set paperwork reduction
targets for each agency and to review each agency's Informa-
tion management efforts every three years
Our bill Is designed to Implement recommendations made
by the Federal Paperwork Commission. We worked on It for
more than a year before introducing it recently.
Two Bcntscn anti-paperwork bills were approved by
Congress and signed into law last year. One of them elimi-
nates overlapping demands made by individual federal hous-
ing agencies the other reduces demands made on local gov-
ernment under the Comprehensive Education and Training
Act.
The purpose of these bills was to eliminate paperwork In-
equities In two narrow categories. The most recent more
comprehensive legislation represents a much broader effort
to cut through the red tape and cut back the paperwork com-
ing out of Washington.
a
From Congressman
Marvin
Leath
The Free Market
There has been a great
deal of talk recently about
confidence in government.
Surveys show that people
no longer have faith in our
future they arc disillu-
sioned frustrated and
uncertain. Our people turn
to their government for
leadership but somehow
the response they have
received from government
has been so wrong so often
that we find a vast con-
fidence gap.
As a private citizen I
wondered so often where
we had gone wrong and
what had caused our system
to falter so helplessly. Like
so many others the thrust
of government policy and
the illogical absurdity of
government regulations and
programs left me with a
sense of desperation. Now
as a Member of Congress
after observing countless
hours of debate on hun-
for our imminent demise as everybody else has
the world's strongest nation whether they deserve it or
is growing frightfully clear not. We have seen a
Absolutely no decision legitimate concern for
can be made in our govern- rights of many of our pco-
ment today no matter what pie turned into a circus of
it concerns that is not rights for criminals
drastically influenced by homosexuals snail darters
totally unrealistic social coyotes and consumers.
politics and the completely
Obviously we the peo-
ple should take care of
those who arc old sick
handicapped or otherwise
r-STATE CAPITAL
i
HIGHLIGHTS
AUSTIN Governor
Clements and l.t. Gov.
Hobby last week asked
federal government to
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
"admirably" to the disaster.
Bullock Urges Uiiloiibatlon
Hill
Hill
the
en
large the official disaster
area left by Tropical Storm
Claudetle.
The state's top two offi-
cials made an aerial tour of
Harris. Galveston Cham-
bers llr.iona Jefferson and
Orange counties the official
disaster one and requested
that Hardin and Liberty
counties be added to the list.
The storm damaged farms
and refineries knocked out
telephone service to thou-
sands of customers and
damaged some 20.000
homes. The total damage
was estimated at about $750
million by federal officials.
Clements found no fault
with the federal govern-
ment's actions in emergency
procedures and praised com-
munity officials for reacting
State Comptroller Hob
(hillock stirred up a storm
of controversy last week in
his speech to the Texas AIJL-
CIO conference when he
urged unionization of state
cmplovccs.
His words drew applause
from the crowd and later
criticism from Gov. Clem-
ents. Clements campaigned
last scar on a promise to
eliminate 25.000 state jobs
and shrink stale government.
Hullock told the AFL-
CIO delegates that "public
employees of Texas the peo-
ple who keep this state run-
ning need a real friend."
and he pledged to be the
first state official to recog-
nize a union contract
Clements said he was
Dullocks stale-
"amacd"
menls.
at
Berry s World
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HTnwHBiq
OWfbyNEA Ino
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"Just be glad you don't live In the United
States I hear they've Just had a horrible
purge there "
The controversial tax col-
lector's remarks drew praise
from union officials and
criticism from anti-union
factions who charged Hul-
lock was merely trying to
widen his power base by in-
gratiating himself with state
cmplnvccs.
Consumer Office Cut-Hack
In the face of "budget re-
alities." Attorney General
Mark White will turn his
office's consumer complaints
duties over lo local Better
Husincss Hurcaus
White explained the move
was made because of a tight
budget and not because of
"a lessening of our desire or
commitment to work for
consumers of Texas" but he
failed to pacify consumer
advocate groups.
Texas Consumer Associa-
tion director Jim Hoyle said
complaining consumers will
lose because sending them
to the Hetter Business Bu-
reau is "like sending chick-
ens to the fox." Boyle said
the AG's Consumer Protec-
tion and Antitrust Division
has handled some 72000
complaints since 1973 and
he doubts the Better Busi-
ness Bureau will be as ag-
gressive in handling com-
plaints. A chief assistant attorney
general said it's a mistake
for anyone to think the at-
torney general is "getting
out of the consumer com-
plaint business." David
Bragg pointed out that the
cutback in mediating con-
sumer complaints will free
staff members to pursue
fraud and deceptive trade
practices more vigorously.
Skirling n Veto?
Like White and most
other state officials Agricul-
ture Commissioner Reagan
Brown is having problems
coping with a tighter bud-
gethe wnnts to keep the
department airplane which
the governor vetoed in June.
Clements cut $300000 bud-
geted to Jcasc and operate
absurd assumption that
everything and everybody
must be guaranteed by law
success security and the
dreds of issues the reason ability to have everything inadvertently deprived. It is
our obligation and their'
right in a compassionate
tree society mere is
however a vast difference
between the social respon-
sibility of government and
economic necessity. The
socio-economic politicians
have never learned that in
order to finance needed
social concerns you must
have a viable free economy.
They totally fail to under-
stand that as they destroy
our ability to produce and
as they destroy capital ac-
cumulation they kill the
goose with the golden egg.
Consumers don't need pro-
tection by the federal
government the free
market is the only thing that
will protect consumers. The
free market will reward
those who work and punish
those who arc lazy. Only in
the free market is there op-
portunity. Only in a free
market can true economic
freedom be available and
history has proven that
economic freedom is the
basis of all freedom.
Brown's airplane for the
next two years.
A new state law requires
all state agency planes to be
pooled starting Sept. I.
Brown wants to buy a
$450000 airplane from
funds left in his department
budget when the fiscal year
ends this month. "We've got
lo have a plane in this de-
partment. Agriculture is the
biggest business in Texas . . .
We have to go places where
we couldn't go commercial"
Brown insists. The million-
dollar plane at half-price
would be a good buy for the
state he thinks.
A Republican legislator
from Dallas. Rep. Frank
Gaston accused Brown of a
last-minute end-run around
the law aimed at reducing
state aircraft expenditures.
The state owns 18 planes
and leases 1 1 more.
If the money left in
Brown's budget is not spent
it will be returned to the
state treasury.
Dallas Delegation Feud
Two other Dallas lawmak-
ers have gone another round
in u feud which began over
this year's Junclccnth cele-
bration. This time Rep. Cally
Smothers has attacked fel-
low black legislator Paul
Ragsdalc as a "nut" and a
"lazy bum."
Smodjcrs was angry with
what he thought was Rags-
dale's meddling in a state
investigation of Smother's
Henderson County child-
care home
Ragsdalc immediately re-
newed his call for Smother's
removal from the House
Black Caucus calling him
"an anathma to black peo-
ple." The pair verbally clashed
in June over a law making
Emancipation Day an offi-
cial state holiday in Texas
Ragsdalc said that earlier
in the spring during the re-
cent session Smothers had
threatened his life Smothers
claims the on-going investi-
gation is politically motivated.
Shu lived from 17G3 to
1830 and was the wife of a
famous American Presi-
dent. When her husband
served as a foreign
minister to Fruncc she
became known for her
beauty and flair for enter-
taining. While in Franco
she saved the wife of the
Murquis do LaFaycttc a
woman who had been im-
prisoned by Robespierre
during the Reign of Ter-
ror. Who was that lady?
Elizabeth Kortright
Monroe
News
Roundup
WHIAT PRICK RMCH NW HIGH
Average prices for wheat in July reached their highest
level in 45 months while June corn prices were the highest
recorded In three full years Agriculture Department
statistics show. The Crop Reporting Board said Tuesday In
its monthly report that higher prices for corn wheat lemons
potatoes and grain sorghum contributed most to the 0.75
percent increase from June to July in prices farmers receive
for raw food products. The boom in prices began in June after
reports of problems with the Russian crop Prices at the farm
for nil types of wheat averaged $3.95 a bushel last month as a
result 23 cents above the June mark a 94-ccnt gain since
April and the highest average since the $4.02 of October 1972.
TRIBUTE TO BUDDY HOLLY SLATED
Wnylon Jennings and the original Crickets will headline a
"giant concert tribute" to Buddy Holly next month at Lub-
bock's Civic Center Exhibition Hall. All proceeds from the
Sept. 7 concert will go toward an 8'4-foot bronze statue of
Holly and a Walk of Fame honoring West Texas personalities
who have become famous in the entertainment industry.
Jennings who began his musical career playing bass for
Holly also will produce the show Corbin said. Planners of
the event hope to make the tribute nn nnnunl event.
Would You Believe...
Near Webster Mass. is
the longest-named lake in
the world: Lake
gungamaug.
The fastest greyhound
dog has been clocked at
41.7 mph.
The curlew bird can fly
non-stop for over 2000
miles
No train has over run
over the tracks of tho
Hampden Railroad ncur
Delchertown Mass
You cannot wipe out
poverty with a law you
do it with work and proper
incentive in a free economy.
You cannot eliminate
failure by law you do it
with individual incentive
and determination. You
don't solve the energy crisis
with more welfare and more
taxes you do it with
SUPERMARKET PRICES RISE AGAIN
Supermarket shoppers had to stretch their dollars still
further as grocery bills measured by an Associated Press
markctbaskct survey showed prices have risen by more than
half a percent. At the first of August the average cost of a i
miscellaneous selection of food and non-food items was about
5 percent higher than it was seven months earlier. One out of
four products checked by the AP went up during July. Total
rise in prices for the year was at 4.9 percent.
UNEMPLOYMENT RISES SL0MY IN JULY
The nation's unemployment rate rose slightly in July to 5.7
percent making n full year in which the jobless rate has been
below 6 percent the government said. The Labor Depart-
ment said the number of jobs 5848000 was little
changed from June but there were signs of possible future
deterioration in the job market The unemployment rate in
June had been 5.G percent the lowest in nearly five years.
ESTES SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS
i
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
Convicted swindler Billic Sol Estes. released from nrlsnn
technology and capital eight years ago after serving six years for one of the biggest
You don't halt inflation by a""1'1"" " msiory was sentenced to return to prison for
printing more worthless dHXninnTi?1iied. "ftCr h'S firSt casc A co"
mnnoi; vmi cnti it with ""p"110"1 Raymond K. Horton was sentenced to three years
money - you solve it with and fined $10000. Estes was convicted for swindling a West
increased production and Texas farmer out of $30000 nrl rcstos nni iim-i rn
convicted of conspiring to conceal Este's assets from the
internal itevenue service.
less waste
As the
great football
Sure slnn that summer's coach Darrell Royal once
here: It's impossible to open said when asked who would
the bus windows. star a particular Cotton
if i. . . Bowl game "We will dance
QUAKE HITS NORTH CALIFORNIA
Thll aW.r.rtil ll l. ! ....
.. u ..- Dunne 01 with them that brune us " n ub --"" juiim.- in w years nil northern
nnvnnr- pIkp. ivlint wmilil wan mem uiui uruug us Cnllfnrnln's pnnslnl 'null -.nnn iii n ..
they have to talk about at Free enterprise brought us Pacific to the Sierra causing widespread damage and some
cocktail parties.' we need to dance with injuries. The quake measured 5.9 on the nirhtnr Mi !
her again. was centered about 100 miles south of San Francisco where
the Bharp rolling spasm hit hardest.
fppn
IliiiliiJ j
Thoughts
Some people diet others
uss up the grocery budget
feeding tho lawn.
Christ urged a vacation KOWCWO INFLATION PRIMARY GOAL
from the strenuous dally
routine. Former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumcnthal says
"And He said unto them President Carter must "Explain that everything must toke a
Come ye yourselves npart second place to bringing down the rate of inflation."
Into a desert place and rest Blumcnthal said it will take four to five years to control
a while ..they had no current inflation and predicted the current recession will
leisure. .und they departed extend Into tho next year. He also hinted that his recent
Either our dunking finger
Is getting thinner or the
doughnut holes are getting Into a desert place by ship forced departure may havo been due to conflicts with the
inrKL-r. privaieiy. iviarK ujai-iu White House staff.
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