Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 29, 1980 Page: 4 of 6
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DIVERSITY PRESS October 29,1980*4
Mzed duck dog
aten by ’gator
n Port Arthur
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (UPI) — Jimmy
orel wants to open season on southeast
exas alligators. And no wonder: his
rized duck dog was eaten by a 14-foot
Uigator that surfaced in a canal off his
olivar Peninsula beach cabin.
‘I picked up a brick and hit that ‘gator
quare in the head but it never fazed him,”
aid Borel in recalling the death of his
abrador retriever that had jumped into
he canal to cool off.
The Port Arthur resident has an ally in
lis campaign to open alligator season —
lob LeBlanc, Port Arthur’s Pleasure
island commissioner.
During the early teal duck season in Sep-
ember, LeBlanc was hunting between
ligh Island and Sabine Pass. He sent his
log to look for a crippled teal that had
iplashed down in the nearby grass.
A large alligator ambushed the dog
vithin 30 yards of LeBlanc’s duck blind,
fortunately, the elderly dog’s skin was
oose enough that it managed to tear free
'rom the alligator, which had clamped
steel-trap jaws around the canine’s mid-
section.
With duck season opening Nov. 8 in most
}f Texas, hunters fear an increase in con-
frontations between alligators and hunting
dogs in coastal counties.
Although the alligator is an endangered
species officially, the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department says the reptile is
anything but endangered, at least along
he upper Texas coast.
“Our studies since 1977 show that
Orange, Jefferson and Chambers counties
may have an alligator population exceed-
ing 100 gators per square mile,” says Bill
Brownlee, TP&W program director for en-
dangered species.
Last year’s TP&W census revealed
35,000 to 38,000 alligators in Jefferson,
Orange and Chambers counties.
Candidates ’ stands
Continued from page 1
federal funds to develop renewable
energy resources and develop in-
creased use of solar power. He supports
the continued use of nuclear power, em-
phasizing increased safety measures.
He has signed a compromise version
of the windfall profits tax.
DEFENSE and the DRAFT
—Reagan is committed to achieving
military and technological superiority (
over the Soviet Union. He supports an
increase in military pay and benefits.
He is opposed to reinstatement of draft
registration.
—Carter supports the upgrading of
combat readiness of our armed forces
and pledges to improve military pay.
He supports registration of 19- and 20-
year old men and women for possible
military service. Congress opposed
registration of women.
Carter favors the development of
MX-missles, Trident submarines and
cruise missies.
—Anderson favors an increase in
defense spending, but does not support
building of the MX missle system. He
does support the Trident program. He
is opposed to the reinstitution of peace-
time draft registration.
ABORTION
—Anderson is opposed to a con-
stitutional amendment banning abor-
tion, and feels the choice should be left
up to a woman and her doctor. He sup-
ports the use of federal funds to assure
the right of choice to the poor.
—Reagan would support an anti-
abortion amendment and a curb on
federal funds for abortions, except in
cases when the mother's life is in
danger.
—Carter is opposed to an amend-
ment banning abortion or restricting
the use of federal funds for abortions
for the poor.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS and ERA
—Carter urges the ratification of the
equal-rights amendment. He would in-
crease his efforts to seek equal pay for -
women for work of comparable value to
that done by men.
—Anderson supported extending the
deadline for ratification of ERA. He
would not restrict women’s job op-
portunities.
—Reagan opposes the adoption of the
ERA amendment.
CIVIL RIGHTS
—Reagan supports enforcement of
laws to assure equal treatment in job
recruitment, hiring, pay and housing.
He opposes forced busing to achieve
racial desegregation.
—Anderson supported the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 and the Open Housing Bill of
1968.
—Carter supports affirmative-action
goals to overturn discrimination in
education and employment. He would
strengthen the policy of appointing
more women and minorities to federal
positions at all levels.
LABOR
—Carter supports an increase in the
minimum wage, the right of public em-
ployes and agricultural workers to
organize and bargain collectively. He
favors a repeal of Section 14-B of the
Taft-Hartley labor act.
—Reagan urges a reduction of
payroil-tax rates, supports the right of
states to enact “right to work” laws un-
der the Taft-Hartley Act, and would
create programs for disadvantaged
youth, offering training, educational in-
struction and job placement.
—Anderson has voted against com-
mon situs picketing, labor law reform,
and weakening of the Hatch Act, to per-
mit more political activity of federal
employees.
AGRICULTURE
—Anderson supported the
President's grain embargo against the
Soviet Union and the 1977 Omnibus
Farm Bill, which extended farm
programs for four more years and
raised price support for most com-
modities.
—Carter favors an increase in the
level of support for farm prices and
would impose no future embargoes on
agricultural products except in war or
during grave threats to national
security.
—Reagan would lift the Carter em-
bargo on sales of grain to the Soviet
Union. He would support programs to
bring farm prices above parity levels,
and assure a priority of fuel to
agriculture.
WELFARE
—Reagan would seek to end welfare
fraud by removing ineligibles from
welfare rolls, tighten food-stamp
eligibility, and end aid to illegal aliens.
—Anderson endorses a welfare
program that would provide em-
ployment for the able-bodied and
adequate income assistance for those
unable to provide for themselves.
—Carter would support an income
floor both for the working poor and the
poor not in the labor market. He would
support continuing full funding for the
food-stamps program.
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Right-wing religion goes to Washington
Moral Majority groups becoming more powerful politically
FORT WORTH (UPI) — When times are
hard, people turn to religion. But lately religion
has been turning to politics.
Conservative Christians, such as those ban-
ded in Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority, are
becoming more .noticeable and politically
powerful. A Texas Christian University an-
thropologist says a major factor in the upsurge
is the economy.
Dr. Andrew Miracle said that in such
frustrating circumstances, people look for sim-
ple answers. And these answers, he said are
amply supplied by the the “Christian right.”
“The fundamentalists are saying, ‘Do as we
say, vote as we say, and God will look
favorably on us and solve our problems,’ ” he
said. .. / v
The yearn for quidk and easy answers by tur-
ning to “other worldy” solutions in time of
great social stress is nothing new for society,
he said.
"During the 1930s the radio preachers were
big. People were looking for answers during
the Depression and these people supplied
them,” Miracle said.
Miracle likened the current turn in society
toward the so-called Christian right to cargo
cults in Micronesia and New Guinea.
These cults are usually led by a strong,
charismatic leader who tells the natives that
one day a plane or boat will arrive full of
weapons and magic cargo that will drive away
the Europeans and their culture.
“They feel the cargo will enable them to
return to the better days of the past,” he said.
Some cults have gone as far as building run-
ways and erecting flagpoles flying improvised
Union Jacks to lure the magic airplanes. Other
tribes wait for long periods of time on beaches
in anticipation of their magic boat arriving.
“The leaders tell the tribes that as soon as
the boat or plane arrives, everything will be
fine again,” he said.
Miracle noted several similarities between
the cult and the current Christian political ac-
tivism:
—They both are centered around a strong,
dynamic leader.
—The leader is in touch with God or gods,
and has “the word.”
—The groups want a return to past times
when traditional values were held high.
—The movements depend on “other
worldly” solutions to solve current problems.
Miracle said most Christian denominations,
and particularly those in the South, have
always felt the church should stay out of gover-
nment and secular institutions. “These chur-
ches have always been concerned with the
hereafter and not the present,” he said.
Political involvement by the church could
cause problems for some people as they
become resentful of .the breakdown of church
and state separation.
“I think you’re going to see people demand
that the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) start
cracking down on some of these churches.
When many of the television ministers see it is
no longer profitable to go into politics, they
may step aside,” Miracle said.
The completion of the presidential election
will subside some of enthusiasm of the fun-
damentalists, but the most damaging blow will
be an improved economy, Miracle said.
Economic recovery, he said, will take away
a lot of the frustration that is fueling interest in
the groups.
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Freshman Burger Bash
At the Baptist Student Union_
Nov. 2
1 p.m.-5 p.m.
Lunch will be served at 1 p.m.
Games and lots of fun will follow.
Deadline for signing up at the Bap-
tist Student Union is Thursday,
Oct. 30.
free
Freshmen will meet today
The freshman class will
have a meeting today at 3:45
p.m. on the 8th floor of the
Gray Library, said Sonceria
Standifer, public relation
chairperson for the fresh-
man class.
Standifer said that the
meeting will be for all in-
terested freshmen who are
willing to help make Lamar
University’s homecoming
“the best ever ” through
freshman involvement.
“We are trying to build
class unity and to involve
freshmen on and off cam-
pus.”
The chairmen for this
year’s freshman
homecoming committee are
Tom Kruse, Carroll, Iowa
freshman; Matt Gauvin,
Leomaster, Mass, fresh-
man; Mark Floyd, Houston
freshman; Chris Kim,
Beaumont freshman and
Sonceria Standifer, Fort
Worth freshman.
Kathleen Pere, assistant
to the dean of student
development, said, “The
freshman class is trying to
establish a comprehensive
program for its members1
this year.”
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