El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 9, 1982 Page: 4 of 34
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Pane 4-A E) Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Wed.. June 9,1962
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CAC Can Work
Every town, no matter how small, or how large, has its
“low rent” or even poverty areas. El Campo is no excep-
tion.
The people of El Campo who either live in this situation,
or who because they are members of racial minority
groups, have an advantage over their peers in many other
cities. They have an established, officially recognized
organization working for them called the Community Ac-
tion Committee. But committees are only as good as the
people on them.
Only .four people attended last month’s CAC meeting.
How much influence do four people have on the communi-
ty? Not much. The people who are considered minorities
have wanted better representation in decisions that affect
their lives within the city. They now have it through the
CAC, but their involvement in CAC meetings and activities
is needed if the group is to ever become the respected voice
for those people which it has the potential to become.
Marijuana Farming
Agriculture is thriving in Texas. Farmers harvested crops value at
$4 billion last year. These crops helped to feed and clothe the entire
population of the United States and much of the world.
Yet there is a prosperous crop in Texas that doesn’t do anybody any
good— it’s marijuana, and last year alone $8 million worth was seized
in our state. Extensive land area, a sunny climate and rich soil have
made marijuana farming in Texas a profitable endeavor.
Former large scale drug smugglers have become domestic growers
in Texas to reduce the risks of transporting marijuana across interna-
tional borders and open seas. In addition, these growers are seeking
quality control in nurturing the most potent plants for the best market
price available.
After a series of drug raids last year, netting thousands of dollars
worth of marijuana, the Department of Public Safety has stepped up
its search in isolated areas across the state for the illegal crops, but
they can’t do it alone.
For the month of June, 1962, the Crime Stoppers Advisory Council is
focusing its statewide ‘Crime of the Month’’ on marijuana farming If
you have information on this criminal activity, please call the anti-
crime hotline at 1-600-252-TIPS.
Cash rewards are available for information leading to the arrest and
indictment of marijuana farmers. Citizens do not have to reveal their
name, just their information, and they will be given a unique code
number for identification purposes.
Stop marijuana farming in Texas! Call l-800-252-TIPS today to help
rid our state of these criminals.
Session Unnecessary
By SEN. KENT CAPERTON
The Special Session which concluded at 10 p.m. on May 28,1982, dealt
primarily with prison and higher education funding. The governor call-
ed the session in response to a lawsuit filed by Midwestern Unitersity
which was set for trial in the first week of June.
However, the lawsuit was postponed and no special session was need-
ed to deal with that issue. The governor persisted in calling the session
at great expense to the taxpayers. Unfortunately all that the special
session was allowed to deal with was the repeal of a property tax which
has not been collected for many years, and ;*ot the question of how to
fund buildings at the 17 colleges and universities outside the Perma-
nent University Fund.
The real emergency was in our prison system, brought on in no small
part by the governor's veto in 1979 of 829 million to build a new prison
facility. In an attempt to keep the prison doors open, we voted an
emergency appropriation of almost $60 million to do what should liave
been done three veers ago.
Overall, I am disappointed with the Special Session’s answer to both
matters. Both issues are old ones. Both are highly complex and cry for
Comprehensive approaches. The governor, in calling a Special Session,
virtually demanded that “band-aids" be placed on wounds which ex-
tend far deeper than the skin.
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Today, we are
crippled with a na-
tional economy that
affects every
member of society.
Economists all over
the United States
are labeling our
dilemma a reces-
sion. The Leader-
News asked El
Campoans, “How
do you think the
recession is affec-
ting our local
economy?”
Emily Entrlcht
South Mechanic
Market Helper
R.C. Roye
1614 N. Wharton
DPS Trooper
“Well I think that it’s affecting
us all the way round If 1 could
stop it I sure would.’’
“I can’t tell any difference in it
around here. Anybody who wants
to work can work.”
Dr. Earl Erwin
South Mechanic
Veterinarian
“Judging from what 1 hear, it’s
affecting some of the local in-
dustries I think the biggest affect
will be on agriculture."
Jeanette Shiplette
401 E. Norris
Administrative Assistant
“Negatively, I can see that
there are a lot of people that
aren't working right now That
certainly has something to do with
El Campo s economy ”
Tim Burt
2001 Ave. F
Agricultural Loan Officer
“Very much, low commodity
prices for farm products (are af-
fecting the economy). Consumer
demand is low because of
economic uncertainty."
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OBSERVER
By HARLAN HOBBS
People of El Campo and
Wharton County have reason to be
proud of the artists in their midst.
Prime subject of conversation at
the Art League’s fine exhibit this
past weekend was the high quality
of the work exhibited by local
artists. Not only was there a
broad variety of subject matter,
there were many varied and in-
triguing techniques.
We wonder, though, that the El
Campo scene is seldom explored
by our artists. Especially do we
wonder when we know that within
a radius of 30 miles of the El
Campo Museum there are sylvan
scenes, buildings, landscapes and
people rich enough in character
and subject matter to challenge
the greatest of artists.
If Rembrandt or Whistler or
Rockwell had set their easles
anywhere within El Campo or
Wharton County, the faces and the
character of our people would
have provided fascinating subject
matter for them. Like, for
example, the awe etched on the
faces of children at their first
glimpse of the Museum Christmas
Exhibit. Or the envious ad-
miration in the eyes of hunters
when they inspect the splendid
Weinheimer trophies. And that
look of absolute, if weary, pride on
the faces of the farmers with the
first cotton or maize or rice
harvested.
More than anything else,
however, offering unsurpassed
subject matter for our artists, are
the character lines in the
magnificent faces of the people —
the men and the women — who
have built this community and
continue to build.
So. Here we are in the middle of
1982. Already great plans are
being made, imaginative
programs underway for a proper
observation of the Texas
Sesquicentennial in 1986. Like
communities all over Texas,
sooner or later, in a greater or
smaller way, El Campo will be
called upon to participate. With
that thought in mind, shall we
challenge our artists, the creative
genius, in our midst?
Suppose that El Campo,
working together as a com-
munity, here and now resolve that
in 1986 our Sesquicentennial
observation shall be the
dedication not only of an adequate
Community Center, but also of a
splendid new museum.
Those artists who were able to
create a mural of the African
plains worthy of exhibit in the
Smithsonian, surely in three
years could (with the help of their
fellow artists) create murals for
both institutions depicting the El
Campo scene through the years
for future generations to study
and know.
Of course, the talents of our
artists would need to be matched
by the talents of all our people —
our business community, our
laborers and technicians, our
farmers, our people in govern
ment and our people in the
professions. All elements of the
community would be challenged
to make such a Sesqui dream
come true
But, as often in history, it may
need to be the artists who give the
challenge
Wonder if the El Campo artists
dare lay down the gauntlet'’
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 9, 1982, newspaper, June 9, 1982; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1007203/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.