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Page 4, The Hondo Anvil Herald, Thursday, May 24, 1990
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Older Americans' Month
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P.O. Box 400
Hondo, Tx 78861
Dear Editor:
youngsters who are emotionally dis-
Placing trust in the court
May is Older Americans Month, an turbed or learning-disabled and youth
appropriate time for our nation to who suffer from abuse or neglect,
focus on providing opportunities for RSVP volunteers are engaged in a
older citizens to serve in their com- great range of social services, assist-
munities. ing literacy projects, food banks,
The time for promoting service by homeless shelters, libraries and
seniors has never been better. Older schools, to name but a few areas of
Americans are the fastest-growing involvement More than one-third of
segment of our population; they are our RSVP volunteers serve with pro-
Dear Editor, The main purpose of this letter is to healthier and more active than ever grams for young people, demonstrat-
We, the family of Ivan Dale Lopez, reassure our family and ask them to before ACTION’S Older American ing, as do Foster Grandparent volun-
buried and said good-bye to this teen- trust in our judicial system. For in Volunteer Programs—the Retired teers, the great value of intergenera-
ager Wednesday, May 16, 1990 just court, it doesnt matter who you are, Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), tional volunteering,
one day prior to his 20th birthday, public figure or not, if a crime has the Foster Grandparent Program and Since 1974, Senior Companion
Now, as we grieve, these questions been committed, justice will be done. the Senior Companion Program- Program volunteers have given care
afise: We would like to show the young have played a pioneering role in as- and companionship to other seniors.
What reasons would a public Figure members of our family and other suring that senior citizens are full Lending crucial support to
have to rob this youth of his life? families, that violence is not the way participants in our society, applying Alzheimer's care projects, hcspitals,
Could it be this person did not have to settle a disagreement. their wealth of wisdom and experi- hospices and the homebound elderly,
enough confidence in the police dept. These youngsters are our future and ence as [hey help build their commu- Senior Companions help enable thou-
that he had called earlier, to Call them our example will be very important in njtjes sands of their neighbors to remain at
again if he needed help? their lives and in others. We, as adults President Bush often says that, home and avoid institutional care.
Of course, we all have had, at one have to teach them to place their trust "any definition of a successful life In a milestone project sponsored in
time or another, one or more confron- in the court but, the main question is, must include serving others," a con- partnership with the American Foun-
tations with someone else, but do we Will Justice be Done?
have the right to resort to violence and
shoot someone?
Balloons not as harmless as they seem
Dear Editor,
I've seen several items in your
paper recently about balloon re-
leases to celebrate events.
Please read the enclosed clipping
from the book "Fifty Simple
Things You Can Do to Save the
Earth" and share whatever you
think is appropriate with your read-
ers. There are lots of other ways to
celebrate an event that won't hurt
the environment.
Thanks for your concern.
Sue Calberg
KSAT 12 Country reporter
(Editor's Note: Some excerpts
from the copy Ms. Calberg sent in-
cluded the following: In 1985 an
emaciated 17-foot female sperm
whale died on the New Jersey
coast. When marine scientists ex-
amined it, they found a balloon -
with 3 feet of ribbon still attached
2nd graders enjoyed tour
Dear Editor,
Many thanks for letting us vi&t
your place. The children loved it.
Sister Frederick Joseph, teacher
We really enjoyed our visit! 2nd
Grade: Dorothy Pargas, Arthur Lutz,
Robert Garcia, Christy Tovar, Re-
agan Rothe, Julie Arnold, Burney
Tedford, Harris Schlortt, Laura Jo
Wheeler, Robby Watkins, Randal
Jackson.
Also Amy Schueling, Michael
Rothe, D'Ann Zinsmeyer, Tina Voigt,
Tina D. Roberds, Marsha McCauley.
So did 1st graders
Dear Ladies,
We really liked our trip to the
Newspaper.
Thank you for showing us around.
We learned a lot.
*Your Friends,
DUanis First Grade
by Isela
- blocking the valve that connected
the whale's stomach to its intes-
tines. It starved to death. For some
reason schools of squid - sperm
whales' favorite food - congregate
around pieces of plastic in the wa-
ter. When they surround a latex
balloon, whales swallow that, too.
Sea turtles often meet similar
fates after swallowing partly-de-
flated latex balloons. When bal-
loons land in the water, they
quickly lose their color and with
ribbons or strings trailing behind
them, they look uncannily like jel-
lyfish - sea turtles' favorite food.
The article says most people
aren't aware that balloons pose a
risk. For information on balloon
ecology, send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope to Balloons and
Clowns, 703 North Milwaukee
Ave., Liberlyville IL 60048.)
cept exemplified by ACTION'S dation for the Blind, visually im-
Armando Lopez 435 000 older volunteers, who last paired Senior Companions are assist-
Ivan's father year gave our C0Untry more than 100 ing other blind and visually impaired
million hours of service. older people.
Now celebrating its 25th anniver- During Older Americans Month, I
sary year, the Foster Grandparent urge all Americans to express support
Program brings love and care to for older volunteers by honoring their
72,000 children with special and many contributions to our country's .
exceptional needs. Foster Grandpar- future.
ent volunteers make vital contribu- Jane A. Kenny
tions to mentally retarded children, Director
It doesn't take much to make you realize that you are a has-been.
Last Friday I thought it would be a good idea to go to the "Summit
Meeting" called in Austin by Texas Water Commissioner John
Birdwell.
Since I didn't get an invitation, I telephoned the Water Commission
office, and was connected with a lawyer who works there. I explained
that I was a former commissioner, and would like to attend the meeting,
and could he please tell me where and when it was being held.
I was politely informed that if I didn't get an invitation, I was not
welcome, and could not attend.
So the fact that I represented a newspaper right in the middle of the
area being considered for a water rape didn't matter, and the fact that
I was an ex-commissioner didn’t mean anything, either.
So, I did not go, but that is not the end of the story.
It seems that when the meeting opened, there were more folks there
than had been invited officially. Birdwell tried to get those not invited
to leave, and finally asked for a show of hands to see if the crowd
wanted all these "outsiders" present. He may have been surprised to see
that only three people voted with him, and he would probably be even
more surprised if he were to consult the law books.
There are mighty few occasions which call for closed meetings to
consider public business, and I don't think that was one of them.
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By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN - In a last-ditch effort
to keep alive a school finance bill,
leaders of the Senate and House
late last week offered to reduce
the cost and make four major
concessions if it would persuade
the governor to sign the legislation
rather than veto it.
But some lawmakers character-
ized the offer as a surrender to
Gov. Bill Clements and threatened
to vote against the bill.
In the latest proposal, legisla-
tive leaders offered to:
■ Lower the first year cost of
the bill from $555 million to $450
million.
■ Allow the governor to appoint
the state education commissioner.
■ Adjust funding formulas to
hold down future cots of the public
school system.
■ Allow voter approval of
property tax increases in certain
instances.
Compromise to Surrender
Responding to the legislative
leadership’s willingness to give up
so much to avoid a veto, Rep.
Eddie Cavazos, D-Corpus Christi,
chairman of the 26-member House *
Of war, catching a train and just plain luck
So Much
For That
By Doug Johnson
Special to the Anvil Herald
Caen, France—It was a cold
morning late last February when my
friend and I set out to catch a train to
Paris. We were on foot because the
otherwise convenient bus service
didn’t run early Sunday in this city
of about the population of Lubbock.
A nagging inner voice said we’d
left too late. We were behind sched-
ule, and a sense of hurry quickened
our steps. To be honest, we didn’t
really know the way to the station
anyway. “I’m in Europe,” I kept
musing to myself, reveling in the
strangeness of those words. Still
grossly unfamiliar with this foreign
place, we were trusting to luck.
And that’s why we got there.
A fter spending two months
/A in France studying World
War II, I’m struck by how
big a role luck played in the pivotal
Allied D-Day invasion of June 1944.
Certainly General Dwight Eisen-
hower and his colleagues planned
extensively and well in mas >ing
troops an?l 1 nateria 1 in southern Eng-
land, and then in tooling Nazi dicta-
tor Adolf Hitler into believing the in-
vasion would come not at Normandy
but to the cast at Pas de Calais, the
English Channel’s narrowest point.
The British even broke the Nazi
radio transmission code.
Stormy weather forced a one-day
delay, from June 5 to June 6, and then
Operation Overlord only came off the
morning of June 6 when a “window”
of fair weather lasted just long
enough to get things rolling. Thou-
sands of ships unloaded hundreds of
thousands of troops.
The Allied invaders came in 1944
to mount an invasion, to win a war. I
showed up nearly 46 years later,
working as a teaching assistant with a
University of Texas journalism his-
tory class. We were supposed to gain
perspective of that war not possible in
a regular classroom.
I was on my way to the Caen train
station that morning for a one-day
excursion to Paris. Those soldiers
way back when headed for Paris, too,
but they weren’t going for fun. They
didn’t enjoy a comfortable train ride.
A few snub-nosed French cars
traveled the narrow road leading
downhill past the new Battle of Nor-
mandy Museum, a large, box-like
building set prominently on the city's
northwestern outskirts. A gently-
sloping plain overlooked a pictur-
esque mixture of modem buildings,
medieval cathedral spires and,
squarely in the middle of downtown,
even an ancient castle built by Wil-
liam the Conqueror.
British tanks under General Ber-
nard Montgomery and German pan-
zers under Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel clashed here more than four
decades ago. The museum itself sits
atop an old German bunker. Just a
couple of miles away is another an-
cient abbey, its walls riddled in spots
with machine-gun bullet holes, and a
quiet garden decorated with a bronze
plaque memorializing 18 Canadian
prisoners murdered June 9, 1944 by
their Nazi captors. The skies over
Normandy were filled from horizon
to horizon with Allied
bombers raining terrifying
devastation on Caen.
We crossed a foot-
bridge over a highway and
walked that morning
along narrow, cob-
blestoned streets, through
centuries-old residential
sections which had es-
caped damage. Down-
town, we admired the
12th-century St. Pierre
cathedral’s soaring
steeple, along with the
massive ramparts of Le
Chdteau, William the
Conqueror’s 11th-century
castle. Later on I would
find a photo in a book, of
an Allied soldier manning
a defensive nest atop the castle’s
lookout tower, shortly after the Brit-
ish and Canadians forces took Caen.
The soldier surveyed a night-
marishly ruined city. The cathedral’s
regal tower had been blasted away on
the third day of the invasion, a no
doubt spectacular victim of a huge
shell fired by the HMS Rodney from
the Channel, 14 miles away.
Around St. Pierre we noticed
wide avenues more similar to city
streets back home. Three-quarters of
ancient Caen had been reduced to
smoking rubble and then was rebuilt
after the war. I read in another bode
about how rubble in the streets had
prevented both Allied and German
forces fropi moving in the city.
We turned down one main street
and headed toward an elegant, twin-
towered church building. This was
the Abbaye auxHommes, established
by Conqueror Bill as a penance for
marrying his cousin.
My watch showed we had just 15
minutes to make our train, we began
wondering if we were going in the
right direction after all. My friend
approached a congenial-looking
older man on a corner and asked in
mangled French the way to le gore,
the train station. He smiled and
pointed back the way we came, then
motioned for us to follow him. He
led us to his car, parked nearby, and
this man we’d never met and
couldn’t even hold a conversation
with sped us through Caen.
TAT e turned a different way
v V this time along the main
* * downtown street, head-
ing past a golden statue of Joan of
Arc and another medieval cathedral
whose main tower noticeably
leaned to one side. We crossed the
River Ome, that strategic barrier
which the German army defended
so tenaciously while the British and
Canadians destroyed the city in
order to capture it.
At the station we ran to the plat-
form and were the last ones to leap
aboard the train to Paris. It began
moving the moment we found seats.
“We don’t deserve to be on this
train,” said my friend.
“I know,” I answered. “Do you
realize that even if we’d walked in
the right direction the whole time
we might not have gotten here?” We
had succeeded by being wrong.
The Allied invaders didn’t stop
to ponder the luck which aided their
wartime drive to Paris. We certainly
weren’t about to question a happy
accident which cm that day made all
things possible.
Mexican American Caucus, said,
“We’ve gone from compromise to
surrender.”
If these changes .are incorpo-
rated into the bill that is sifting
on the governor’s desk, “the cau-
cus will oppose the plan,” Cavazos
said.
Clements’ chief of staff, Mike
Toomey, was busy contacting
House Republicans to see if they
support the concessions before
Clements makes a decision.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, who
backs the concessions, was pes-
simistic that an agreement could
be reached. He accused the gover-
nor of abandoning lawmakers and
passing the task to special master
Bill Kilgarlin.
If the governor agrees to the
proposals, the bill will be recalled
and the House and Senate will be
asked to approve the changes.
Meanwhile, Kilgarlin continued
to push for power to consolidate
Texas school districts so that he
can shift local property tax dollars
to poor school districts.
Some lawmakers speculated pri-
vately on whether one more spe-
cial session — a short one — could
produce a plan before the special
master has time to draft one.
$250 Million Bailout
While awaiting the governor’s
decision on school finance, Senate
leaders unveiled a $250.1 million
bailout plan for Texas’ cash-
strapped social services agencies.
But sponsors acknowledged it
will take new taxes or fees to pay
for it. This prompted speculation
of additional special sessions after
the school finance problem is
resolved.
Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
author of the measure, said the
plan would provide $177.3 million
in new funds to the Texas
Department of Human Services
during the next 15 months.
During that period, the agency has
projected a deficit of $211 million.
Brooks’ proposal calls for the
Texas Department of Health to
receive $35 million to continue
operating the Chronically 111 and
Disabled Childrens Program.
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