Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 290, Ed. 1 Monday, September 18, 1978 Page: 4 of 12
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in 1961, U.N. Secretary-Gen- trouble with progress is that it
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killed in an airplane crash In playwright Oscar Wilde, 1854
Northern Rhodesia. 1900.
The Democratic candidate has had an outstanding record
while he has been in the House of Representatives. I think he
should have a chance to carry those abilities which have helped
him to make that record into the Senate. He does seem to be a
man of ability, to have a practical understanding of needs and
problems. He shows a power to convince people of his honesty
and sincerity. These qualities should be taken into consideration
by the people who will be affected by what Congress does in the
next six years. A candidate needs to be judged by the voter in the
light of what he might be able to do for the underprivileged, the
minority groups, the senior citizens, and the taxpayers, as well
as for the nation's security and future welfare.
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When the snows come, the question may be: Where are
the law and order of yesteryear?
When will the people learn and accept the fact that they can-
not. with impunity, frustrate the divine laws of nature? The
homosexuals want acceptance and unblushingly ask that full op-
portunity be given them to inculcate their bottem-of-the-barrel
degeneracy. Right-thinking people cannot afford to stand idly by
and let this happen, for if they do, then we are all in very grave
trouble.
The same goes for E.R.A., and don't be deceived by the
euphonious title! The backers of this amendment hope to fool
enough people into believing that a better society can be had and
maintained by equalizing the sexes. This is pure hogwash.
No society can long remain stable if it continues to ignore the
natural order of things. If our government places any store by
the motto “In God We Trust," then how much more the ver-
batim divine injunction The head of Christ is God and the head
of man is Christ and the head of woman is man”? Any success
by thhose in the forefront of the ERA. movement (mostly
atheists and those who fear neither man nor God, and of course,
as always, the unsuspecting) at ingraining thoughts and ideas
contrary to this injunction can have far-reaching consequences
if the opposers of this vile and insidious amendment are silenced
or become ineffectual.
It is high time for all who have the clear vision to see the perils
of this perversion—euphemistically called E.R.A.—to speak out
and let their eloquent voices be heard lest the very foundation
stones of our once strong patriachal society be totally un-
Citizens get a ‘Fair Share’
By Martha Angle and Robert Walters
BOSTON (NEA) - Citizens in this cily’s Roxbury section
" russsfully fon mor mass transit service,
protection. In Dorchester, the people want better banking
As we consider this race, we should give some study to the
deplorable practice of those members of Congress, who, when
they are once elected to Congress, immediately begin a cam-
paign for re-election to the same office. In effect, this practically
perpetuates them in office, while the country suffers from a lack
of new and fresh outlooks and abilities. This has gone on for 30 or
more years in some cases, and seems to be Tower's purpose in
this case. I have always thought it would be good to limit the
length of years of service for members of Congress as we do for
our Presidents.
Dear Editor:
I notice in your news story about highway projects (Sept. 12)
that “an overpass in the area of Center Ave. and Brady Highway
across the railroad tracks is included in the 20-year plan" but
may come sooner “if civic leaders feel this project is more im-
portant than some others. ”
I want to register my hope that this will be sooner, even im-
mediate. since I live near the tracks at this point.
The noise of train whistles 20 times a day is maddening—and
damaging to ear drums, I’m sure. Why is so much noise
necessary with trains traveling at about 10 miles per hour or
less? Can’t there be automatic lowering bars put up, now, to stop
traffic? People in closed cars probably don’t hear the whistles
anyway. Sheer noise is in any case a poor safety device, for
noises are all about us as we drive.
Ima Brownwood booster. Our town is progressive in many
respects, but far behind some others I know in its engineering at
railroad crossings. Please city fathers, correct this—now!
2 IN WASHINGTON
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In 1810, Chile declared inde- One year ago: Israeli Foreign
pendence from Spain. Minister Moshe Dayan arrived me evienu. anaew
, in 1850, the U.S. Congress in Washington for a round of Some residents of
passed the Fugitive Slave Act, talks on Middle East isues. J*~ * • ""
permitting slave owners to reel- Today’s birthdays: Former
aim slaves who had escaped film star Greta Garbo is 73
into other states. years old. Actor Robert Blake is
In 1(31, Japan began military 45.
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We should examine carefully the records of these two men.
Senator Tower has had certainly a less than outstanding record
in the Senate, and he is now (and has been for several years)
making a “desk-thumping" defense of that record. It has
seemed to me for several years that he listened closest to those
who could do the most for him, rather than to the people back
home.
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"If they’d just slow down enough, I’d invite them to reading class.
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Voters should study carefully the records of these two can-
didates. They should listen to them talk at public meetings and-
or-on television. They should make up their minds as to the
honesty, the sincerity, the ability of each and decide whether the
welfare of the people will be served best by one or the other. And
on election day, their minds made up, they should go to the polls
and vote.
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organizations are exercising their newfound power and
influence. In Fall River, for instance, residents recently
won a campaign for prompt reconstruction of a fire-razed
neighborhood school.
After a Revere youngster was killed by a passing
commuter train, an outraged community demanded - and
got - full fencing on both sides of the track. In
Worchester's Grafton Hill section, residents won their
struggle for demolition of an abandoned building that fag
a neighborhood eyesore.
All of those local groups share a common affiliation:
They are chapters of Massachusetts Fair Share, one of the
country’s most successful and sophisticated practitioners
of community organizing.
Most of Fair Share’s 20,000 dues-paying member
families are headed by a low-income or blue-collar wage-
earner whose annual salary is in the -to-,
range Few had any record of prior participation in civic or
political affairs.
Many had been alientated from local, state and federal
politicians and bureaucrats perceived as unresponsive to
their needs They were afflicted with what Michael
Ansara. Fair Share's staff director, describes as “a
paralyzing sense of powerlessness '
"Every member we organize comes with a whole lot of
work” says Ansara, a talented, articulate 31-year-old. “It’s
not as if we're riding the crest of a great wave."
Further complicating the organizing task is the ethnic
diversity of membership that ironically also is one of Fair
Share’s great strengths. The Dorchester chapter is heavily
Irish, the Roxbury unit is dominated by blacks and the
East Boston affiliate is predominantly Italian
Portuguese-Americans are heavily represented in the
Fall River chapter, with numerous French-Canadians in
Lowell and Spanish-speaking citizens in Jamaica Plain.
To avoid unwanted philosophical clashes, Fair Share
members have agreed to disagree on two highly emotional
subjects — school busing and abortion — by purposely
avoiding any organizational position on those issues
But there’s no dearth of other issues for Fair Share’s 30
affiliates, spread across the Bay State. At the local level,
neighborhood groups are constantly battling municipal
officials for improved street lighting, traffic signals, snow
removal, recreational facilities and other serv ces.
The community units in each city usually are also
working concurrently on at least one broader municipal
issue. In Springfield, for example, Fair Share affiliates
have challenged a $13.1 million rate increase being sought
by the local gas company.
In Worcester, a citywide campaign humiliated the
owners of a hotel, a nursing home and other commercial
properties into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in
delinquent real estate taxes.
Fair Share also campaigns for social and economic
justice on a statewide basis, emerging in recent years as a
potent lobbying force in the state capitol on Beacon Hill.
One recent effort was instrumental in convincing the
state legislature to require auto insurance companies to
rebate $55 million to more than 600,000 drivers. On the
general election ballot this year is a Fair Share-inspired
initiative to provide property tax relief for all Massachu-
setts home-owners. -
With an annual budget of almost $600,000 and a staff of 50
organizers, Fair Share stands as a model for aspiring
community-based organteations now springing up through-
out the country to enhance citizen participation in the
political and governmental processes.
“Perhaps our most important accomplishment," says
Ansara, “is our success in restoring to some citizens the
belief that they can control what happens to them.”
Monday. September IS, 1978
It pays to be suspicious
So you’re going to buy a car.
Considering the price of cars
biggest investment of your lif
maybe you should hold off until yo
two free federal pamphlets Bob
written. They were prepared 1
ortation. They can prevent
titles are: “Common Sens
and “Common Sense in Buying a!
are available from Consumer Info
Colo., 81009. If you want the new
Item No. 693F. If you want the use
Item No 503F. You can have bot
postcard request. They’re free.
The new-car pamphlet is 32 page
April. First it tells you "how NO
talks about the unwary buyer who
around the block, falls in love wi
sees and tumbles into a pit he's di
The right way to buy your nev
parts: Real shopping, a period of c
and, finally, the purchase.
Real shopping means taking time to ioox up consumer
magazine road tests (and ignoring auto industry puffery)
It means going over information on tires, braking,
acceleration, all available from dealers by federal law. It
means preliminary driving tests, careful choice of dealer
and a dealer’s service.
Once you’ve picked the kind of car you want, the
pamphlet urges “patience... Don’t go out and buy the first
car that seems to fit your basic requirements.” Road-test
the car the way you’d use it; check fuel economy and the
warranty. Read the requirements of ALL warranties, a
right you have under law.
Before taking possession, make sure your car is exactly
what you ordered. Check all optional equipment. Make
sure the “dealer prep” is complete. And be patient about
it. Inspect the car, inside and out, again road-test it. A tip:
Running the new car through a car wash will determine if
it leaks. Check the odometer. A federal law makes it illegal
to tamper with mileage.
If you have problems after purchase, pursue the dealer;
don’t let him off the hook if he says, “wait for your next
regular checkup, we’ll fix it then." Demand itemized bills
and work receipts, and keep them. The pamphlet has a
section on “where to take your complaints," and hints
about trade-ins and new-car financing.
The used-car pamphlet is only 20 pages, but it warns that
the used-car “adventure can turn into a misadventure
ending in dissatisfaction, frustration, monetary loss and a
real threat to safety.”
The first rule, the pamphlet says, is “to inspect a used
car as thoroughly as you would a house, ” preferably taking
it to a competent mechanic. There's no such thing as “dirt-
cheap,” the pamphlet says, and it repeats you must be
"patient... curious and observant... suspicious ... choosy
and uncompromising."
The pamphlet details the odometer law, suggests that
used-car warranties aren't worth much, lists different
places to buy a used car (some you may not have thought
of). It gives basic rules for avoiding problems. For
example, don’t buy at night or in the rain, and don't buy at
all if you’re refused a test drive or if the dealer won’t let
your mechanic check out the car. J
Look for body putty, excessive rust, leaking fluid, worn
shock absorbers, cracked battery, dirty oil, badly worn
carpets or upholstery, rough transmission, unusual vibra-
tions, white or bluish smoke out of the tailpipe, and check
on how the lights work.
A page is headlined: “Be Careful of Tricks.” Nine are
listed. Once again, the pamphlet warns, "Be Suspicious."
Those two words could be the motto for all new and used-
car buying.
(This weekly column by provides information about
federal services offered to individuals and groups. Queries
are invited. We can’t reply to each letter but will answer as
many as possible. Write to "THE U.S. AND YOU,” care of
this newspaper.)
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Dear Editor:
This is the first letter I have ever written to the editor of a
newspaper in the hope that my views and opinions might be
published. In this case, I hope they will be. I do think that the
people of Texas should give careful attention in the current
political campaign to one race in particular: The Krueger-
Tower contest for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Q.‛7
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Briefly noted . . .
By Dou Graff
As if the opinion polls weren't enough, President Carter
is now having problems with his residence
That's sinking, too.
Government engineers aren't sure precisely why -
shifting of the earth, uneven settling of the new steel-
buttressed interior installed during the Truman occuoancv
- but the White House is definitely atilt °upanez
It’s the southwest corner that's taking the plunge
15/1000ths of an inch a year by current measurement’
which means that in something less than a million years it
could sink out of sight. Which isn’t likely to happen since
attention is already being directed to corrective measures.
Still, the Italians have had 800 years to straighten out
Pisa s Tower and still haven’t brought it off.
Parting thought: It’s probably purest coincidence, but
the southwest corner of the Executive Mansion points
toward President Carter’s native Georgia. Its opposite the
northeast which draws a bead on Sen. Edward Kennedy's
Massachusetts, is rising at an equal rate.
What’s in a degree?
Canine intelligence varies from breed to breed and
individual to individual, but Ph D. material it is not.
Although there are institutions which apparently think
otherwise, a New York legislator charges.
Assemblyman Leonard P Stavisky of Queens says his
ward Shanna, in return for a registration-by-mail fee of $5.
has been accepted for the doctoral degree program in
recreation management and supervision of Pacific College
in Los Angeles. More, a personal letter from the school’s
president sees great things in Shanna’s post-degree future
sooner risnter »d experience are going to be recognized
Remittance of an additional $150 would get Shanna her
degree, but Stavisky has elected to make her an early
dropout since as a six-month-old German shepherd her
academic background is limited to a stint at obediance
school. She does, however, bark in several languages
Shanna’s brush with academia, set up by Stavisky to
publicize his campaign against "unscrupulous degree
By TheAssoclated Press In 1071, Egypt and I«r«el « mlsopmradoapoint as to the nonselectivity of diploma-by-
Today is Monday, Sept. 11, the changed rocket fire across the It may also have made another one unintentionally about
211st day of 1171. There are IM Suez Canal for the first time the state of highest education these days. The way their job
days left in the year. since a cease-fire 13 months market has been shrinking of late, a lot of graduate school
Today's highlight in history: earlier. alumns may be deciding that advanced degrees are for the
On this date in 1759, the Ten years ago: About ISO dogs. *
French surrendered Quebec to militant student demonstrators Seasonal law and Order?
thsBriisht. halted registration at Columbia Good news ’bout dogs comes from New York City.
t this.date: ... University in New York. More precisely, about dog owners. To the considerable
In 1793, President George Five years ago: East Germa- surprise of authorities, the city's new ordinance requiring
• Washington laid the comer- ny, West Germany and the Ba- walkersofdogstoclean up after their chargesis working.
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_ ----- M • ations venture forth equipped with a variety of makeshift and
specially designed pet accessories, and the consequences
are evident. Sidewalks and streets are noticeably cleaner.
Some residents of high-occupancy neighborhoods are even
daring not to look down before every step. Less than a
hundred violation citations have been issued.
The not so good news is that animal shelters report an
increase in traffic. Animal love for some pet owners
apparently can be rapidly cooled by inconvenience.
Which has custodians of civic cleanliness wondering how
long the present state of compliance may last. It could turn
out to be a warm-weather phenomenon, subject to sudden
change with winter when cleaning up becomes more
inconvenient.
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saw every man clearly. ” — chamber: for ’ bird of the
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tonic goddess of spring and that are amusing and often
the Anglo-Saxons called ridiculous. One such error in
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COMMENTARY
Donald F. Graff
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Deason, Gene. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 290, Ed. 1 Monday, September 18, 1978, newspaper, September 18, 1978; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1573486/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.