El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 70, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 19, 1986 Page: 4 of 44
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Reconsider Tobacco
Ten years ago the American Cancer Society
decided to try a new program to call attention to the
dangers of smoking in a good-natured way. That
program, the Great American Smokeout, is alive
and well today.
Smokers surely get tired of hearing and reading
about the dangers of tobacco products. But there is
something about smoking that separates it from
other vices — it affects others.
But there is more to it than than the mere fact that
it annoys or physically irritates others. Those who
nag smokers about their habit usually care for
them. They don’t want to see him or her succumb „o
the slow and painful death cancer would bring. And
they don’t want to see their tickers stop premature-
ly, either.
This year Dr. “Red” Duke, known best for the
syndicated television program, “Health Reports”
seen on Channel 13, is even getting into the act. He
will prescribe a smoke-free day for Texas smokers
tomorrow. He is serving as the state’s honorary
Great American Smokeout chairman. His “Health
Reports,” produced by The University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston, are broadcast
three times a week on 69 television stations in 30
states.
This week he is featuring smoking and quitting
smoking. “You can’t say anything good about smok-
ing,” Duke said. “But the good thing about the
Great American Smokeout is its supportive ap-
proach ... but it has a very serious purpose. Each
year, 350,000 Americans die of diseases linked to
cigarette smoking. We have to convince smokers
that quitting is the best thing they can do for
themselves and their loved ones,” he added.
The Smokeout has expanded its scope to include
support for dippers and chewers. Recently, the
dangers of smokeless tobacco use have become so
well-publicized that Kansas City Royals slugger
George Brett, a long-time chewer, announced that
he gave up the habit. And, as a result of a new law,
television and radio ads for smokeless tobacco have
been banned, and the same law requires that warn-
ing labels be printed on all packaging starting next
year.
Despite these measures, it has been estimated
that as many as 22 million Americans dip or chew, a
figure which includes 12 percent of this country’s
college students, a recent study revealed.
George Brett should be looked on as a role model,
not the pro athletes who prior to the advertising ban
glorified the use of smokeless tobacco, and not the
coaches who use it at school. Coaches are often role
models, and as such should set good examples for
their student athletes. Smoking in the coach’s of-
fice, dipping and chewing on the practice and play-
ing fields and the display of snuff cans through back
pockets should not be condoned by the athletic
department or school officials.
Tomorrow is a good day for smokers, dippers and
chewers to try to kick the habit. Today is a good day
to start setting a good example for our young people
so they never pick up those habits.
Letters To The Editor
Support Appreciated
Editor, the Leader-News:
I want to say a warm thank you to all of you that so ardently
supported me in my campaign for Justice of the Peace. I
am still committed to our community and will undoubtedly be
involved in its civic life in one form or other. My congratula-
tions to Judge Bubela.
Sincerely,
Saul P Cortez
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The Great
American Smoke-
Out (GASO) is
tomorrow and this
week Sound-Off asks
smokers, non-
smokers and former
smokers: “Will you
participate in GASO
by either: stop smok-
ing, help someone
else stop smoking or
offer some words of
encouragement to
those who wish to
stop smoking?”
Victor Rocha
405 Tegner
Smoker
“I have been smoking for
45 years and I am trying to
stop now. It’s hard to stop.
Everytime I walk into a store
I have the urge to buy a
pack.”
Gail Allen
311 Tegener
Smoker
‘‘Yes, I am bound and
determined to stop this time.
I have tried six or seven
times before to stop, but this
time I am going to try
harder.”
Anita Moreno
111 Sunnyside
Former-smoker
‘‘I stopped smoking three
months ago. People should
stop because it is becoming
too expensive to buy a pack
of cigarettes.”
Alice Hensley
510 Alamo
Non-smoker
“I don’t know if I can stop
my friend from smoking I
will leave some signs of en-
couragement around
though.”
THE
OBSERVER
Cecilia Polasek
110 Tallow Lane
Non-smoker
“I would like to help my
friend stop smoking, but he
lives out of town. I have tried
before, but it has not
worked.”
By HARLAN HOBBS
More Than
Just Trees
Take Root
By the score they came,
young and old, spanning three
and sometimes four genera-
tions. All day they came,
from early morning until the
work was done.
Their task? To plant a
pathway of beauty for ap-
proaching generations. To
establish a code of conduct
for future heirs of the people
of El Campo. A pathway en-
nobled by trees and shrubs
and wildflowers.
Working there were grand-
fathers, ruggedly strong Tex-
ans, setting a pace for
middle-aged sons, so that
grandsons might be promp-
ted to demonstrate youthful
strength with superior effort.
It was a superb show of coor-
dinated manpower.
Alas!
Manpower was upstaged by
woman-power and child-
power. Not outdone, mind
you, yet out-classed. There
were the women who knew
how to build mounds around
fresh-planted flora to hold
precious water to convey to
thirsty roots. They guided lit-
tle children in building gumbo
dams encircling shrubs and
trees. They made a game of
toil so that much constructive
work was done by tiny hands.
With Cub Scouts and tiny tots
around, every male was
aware of the strain of supervi-
sion for strong and knowing
women. Things to guard
against ... fire ant hills, pud-
dles of sticky gumbo, traffic
on the roadway, equipment at
work in the planting. As
always, they did it, working
meantime at physical chores
alongside their men.
So often that I sometimes
felt a sense of guilt, I paused
that day to lean upon my
shovel to observe the young,
especially a child grown dear
to me, as they performed
chores assigned to them.
Among them was Jessica who
will, years from now, drive
along that roadway to El
Campo and remember, ‘‘One
day, with my father and his
friends. I helped plant this
thing of beauty.” Many of her
friends will share such
memory.
It was a proud day for El
Campo.
History will long remember
the names of those of the BEE
organization, because it was
their magnificent leadership
that rooted beauty this
autumn of 1986 in the soils of
South Texas, in this unique
oasis called El Campo
Saturday. Nov 15.1986 may
well be remembered as El
Campo s lasting contribution
to the glory of Texas in the
final days of its sesquicenten-
mal rededication
Yet. the work is only begun
El Campo industry, business
and finance have responded
to the BEE initiative so that
not only the highway ap-
proaches shall be a panoply of
wild flower beauty, but so
shall acres more of the inner
city.
Proud and purposeful peo-
ple have joined hearts and
hands to sink roots that en
sure El Campo shall offer a
pathway to Paradise leading
South Texas into a magmfi
cent future
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 70, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 19, 1986, newspaper, November 19, 1986; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018727/m1/4/: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.