The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 274, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 1987 Page: 4 of 24
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BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday. September 17.
^EMTORIAL
Jack Anderson
He kept his promise
U.S. Constitution
instills fair play
Two-hundred years ago, a small group of men,
representing a newly independent nation of 4 million
people, signed a document that was to have far-reaching
significance.
But even the framers of the U.S. Constitution probably
could not foresee its ultimate impact.
Under its auspices, democracy has flourished in the
United States and this nation became a magnate for
freedom-loving people around the world.
With the influx of hard-working settlers from Europe
and other continents, this country grew from a small
agricultural nation to a mighty industrial power with
one of the highest standards of living on earth.
As other nations entered the age of democracy in the
19th and 20th centuries, their leaders looked to the U.S.
Constitution for inspiration in formulating their own
systems of government.
For while this nation’s system of goverment is admit-
tedly imperfect, it has proven to be among the most
stable and benevolent in history.
Because of the strong love of freedom it has fostered,
authoritarian movements have never gained a signifi-
cant foothold in this country.
And the strong sense of fair play that has been instill-
ed into the citizens of this nation has resulted in periodic
“fine tuning” of the constitution to improve the quality
and scope of democracy.
From Sun files
Hofheinz reveals plans
for Astroworld in 1967
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
School trusees adopt a policy
of hiring only those teachers who
have degrees from standard
four-year colleges and
preferably those who are local
residents. In keeping with the
newly adopted policy, trustees
then hired Percy Fayle, Walter
A. Bradbury. Vaudine King,
Sylvia Hankins and Mattie
Nelson.
Mrs. T.E. Ball takes charge of
a membership campaign for
Highlands Parent-Teacher
Association. Membership fee is
35 cents during the drive and 75
cents after the drive.
50 YEARS AGO
Neva Newman is named drum
major of the Maroon Brigadiers
at Robert E. Lee High School.
Genevieve Ilfrey and Sylvia
Manteris will be assistant drum
majors while Doree Beavers will
be platoon commander.
40 YEARS AGO
Ralph McFarland opens a fur-
niture store in.Highlands.
Ganders John Brunson and
Jim Slack will miss the upcom-
ing Milby game because of in-
juries.
Alton Laird is named assistant
director of the Tri-Cities Recrea-
tion Council. Director is Dan
Stallworth.
30 YEARS AGO
' Frank Goss is chairman of the
commercial division for United
Fund.
L.J. Marsh succeeds Frank
Yates as chairman of the
Veterans Service Center for the
Baytown Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
20 YEARS AGO
Bill Hartman covers a press
conference in which Judge Roy
Hofheinz reveals plans to create
an amusement center called
Astroworld.
Mrs. Ed Gill presents a pro-
gram on Greece for the Minerva
Study Club. She and her husband
have returned recently from
Salonika, where he was on
assignment for two years with
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CIRCULATION
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has
kept one campaign promise that has gone
largely unheralded. He correcUy suspected
that the federal budget was loaded down with
waste, and he pledged to seek out and
eliminate misspending.
He created a task force of business leaders
and asked them to apply their managerial
know-how and common sense to the problem.
Its official title was the President’s Private
Sector Survey on Cost Control. But such a
moniker couldn’t last, and it quickly became
known as the Grace Commission — after the
drive and determination of its chairman, J.
Peter Grace.
With a powerful push from the president,
the commission has made extraordinary pro-
gress at cutting government waste — against
the stiff opposition of the special interests.
For the fiscal years 1986 and 1987, this effort
has saved close to $70 billion. This amazing
achievement has been documented out of
government ledgers by the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget.
Thus the federal growth rate has been cut
significantly without damaging or depriving
a single federal program; the fat has merely
been sliced off. The biggest saving has come
from modifying government procedures. In
the words of the president, the Grace Com-
mission “set down a long-term strategy for
streamlining our government,” which has
become "the basis for on-going reforms."
Meanwhile, Congress is also turning to the
Grace Commission’s proposals for slashing
government expenditures. One out of every
three members has already joined Grace
Caucuses, which has pledged to cut the waste
out of the federal budget. The anti-waste
drive is led in the Senate by Dennis DeCon-
cini. D-Ariz., and Gordon Humphrey. R-
N. Ft?,’and in the House by Buddy Roemer, D-
La.. and Beau Boulter. R-Texas.
Because of the Grace Commission’s stunn-
ing success, it has been enlarged and
revitalized as the United States Taxpayers
Commission. The president met on July 7
with J. Peter Grace, who set up the new com-
mission, which will serve as the taxpayers
eyes and ears in Washington.
It will keep a permanent watch on how the
taxpayers’ money is spent. As Reagan later
explained on his weekly radio broadcast: "J.
Peter Grace and a group of dedicated
business leaders are now forming the U.S.
Taxpayers Commission to keep the focus on
reducing costs rather than raising taxes. 1
expect they will bring renewed interest to
streamlining federal operations and to
assure that you, the American people, are
getting all the government you are paying
for.”
The Taxpayers Commission is recruiting
commissioners from the grass roots. It will
seek a political balance of Democrats and
Republicans, liberals and conservatives,
who will seek new ways to fight waste, im-
prove efficiency and cut spending. It will
report back to the taxpayers on a regular
basis on the misspending of government
funds.
How to pay for yesterday’s expenditures
with tommorrow’s revenues, meanwhile, a
troubling problem. For the spending rate is
still too high and growing too fast. People
cannot remain free and productive if a con-
stantly increasing share of their earnings is
taken by government and spent on its pur-
poses rather than theirs.
Footnote: Jack Anderson has been co-
chairman with J. Peter Grace of the national
effort to reduce waste in government. They
will now co-chair the new U.S. Taxpayers
Commission.
DANGEROUS CARGO - Bills are expected
in Congress this fall to require proper
monitoring of the half-million loads of hazar-
dous substances that are transported
through more than 39,000 largely unsuspec-
ting communities each day.
The exisiting system of alerting local
authorities to shipments of nuclear wastes,
toxic chemicals and explosive is primitive at
best. The problem is complicated by the in-
volvement of mobsters in some waste-
disposal companies, which subverts the
makeshift warning system by false repor-
ting.
Federal law has long required those who
generate the deadly substances to provide
authorities with manifests giving details on.
the dangerous shipments, but there Is no
computerized system to make sure
manifests are even made out. The current
setup provides effective information only
after an accident happens, and often too late
to do the firefighters and police on the scene
any good. The result is that emergency
crews often have no idea whether they’re
dealing with deadly nitrous fumes, nuclear
waste or just a gasoline fire. Their lives and
their communities are at stake.
An up-to-date computerized system, which
the federal government has failed to put in
place even though it has had the authority to
do so for 13 years, would enable police or
firefighters to learn exactly what’s in a
truck, railroad car or barge within minutes,
using nothing more than the vehicle’s license
plate or registration number
LAST WILL BE FIRST (TO GO?) -
Democratic sources tell us the presidential
campaign that’s in the worst financial shape
is that of former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt
His unsentimental rivals, expecting (and
hoping) that he'll drop out early next year If
not sooner, are already itchy to get their
hands into the deep pockets of Babbitt sup
porters In Texas, Arizona, New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Louisiana.
PENTAGON BRASS hats, desperate to
strike back rhetorically at the Ayatollah
Khomeini's venomous hyperbole, have
poured 2,500 years of history down the old
memory hole and arbitrarily renamed the
Persian Gulf. In Pentagonese, It is now the
"Arabian Gulf," presumably to honor our
sometimes allies who share shorefront pro-
perty with the Iranians/Persians. An in-
teresting idea. The next time Rajiv Gandhi
cuddles too close to the Russkies, we ll
rename the Indian Ocean the Pakistani
Ocean. And in the unlikely event that our
British cousins offend us deeply, we can
rename the English Channel after the
French. Belgians or Dutch
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GUSTAVUS Alaska — About two dozen bent, to control motor vehicle emissions. -
punctured and rusted oil drums extracted from In Fairbanks, motorists
beneath the earth's surface are piled behind the autos running while parked during the winter to
■ -------*- keep them from freezing — a practice that pro-
duces "ice fog" laden with pollutants.
The transportation of crude oil from Alaska's
North Slope has produced numerous oil spills. Ear-
ly this year, a tanker chartered by the Standard Oil
Co. accidentally dumped almost 1 million gallons
of oil into the Gulf of Alaska when it became caught
in a storm while 250 miles offshore.
Last month, another tanker chartered by Stan-
dard Oil spilled 125,000 gallons of crude oil into
post office in this community at the gateway to
famed Glacier Bay.
Partially covered by sandy soil, the 55-gallon
drums are ringed by plastic sheeting. A purple-
brown liquid oozes from the pile at several points.
As many as 500 to 1,000 additional barrels are
believed to be still buried here.
Nobody is certain what they hold or whether
their contents might endanger the children attend-
ing a public school only a few hundred feet away.
S* ~ •j-.< Anchorage
road from the site where the barrels were buried during the annual red salmon run
decades ago.
"As it stands now, there are no problems,” says
Bruce Tedsten. president of the Gustavus Com-
munity Association. Nevertheless, the state has
started to regularly monitor the town’s water supp-
ly
Recent years have seen spills of polychlorinated
biphenyls in the isolated village of Kake in the
southeast panhandle and at Elmendorf Air Force
Base just north of Anchorage.
In Kotzebue. 100,000 to 200,000 gallons of diesel
fuel leaked from a defective storage tank into the
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Today
in history
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two hundred years ago. on
Sept 17, 1787, the Constitution of
the United States was completed
and signed by a majority of
delegates attending the constitu
t i o n a I convention in
Philadelphia
On this date
In 1862. Union forces hurled
back a Confederate invasion ol
Maryland in the Civil War Battle
of Antietam
In 1949, more than 13o people,
most of them U.S citizens, died
when fire gutted the Canadian
passenger steamer "Noronic at
a pier in Toronto,
In 1962. space officials an
nounced the selection of nine
new astronauts, including Neil
A Armstrong, whd would
become the first man to step on
to the moon in 1969
In 1976. NASA publicly unveil
ed the space shuttle "Enter
prise” at ceremonies in
Palmdale, Calif
In 1978, Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister «Menachem Begin con
eluded their Camp David sum-
mit with the signing of a
framework for peace in the Mid
die East
In 1980, former Nicaraguan
president Anastasio SomOza was
assassinated in Paraguay
In 1983, Vanessa Williams of
New York State became the first
black contestant/to be crowned
Miss America. (The following
July, she also became the first
Miss America to resign in the
wake of her “Penthouse"
magazine scandal.)
In 1984, Brian Mulroney was
sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime
Minister, succeeding Liberal
,John N. Turner.
Today’s Birthdays: Former
Chief Justice Warren Burger is
80. Actor Roddy McDowall is 58
Actress Anne Bancroft is 56. Ac-
tress Dorothy Loudon is 54. Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is 54.
Author Ken Kesey is 52. Actor
Paul Benedict is 49. Actor John
Ritter is 39.
Thought for Today: "The peo-
ple made the Constitution, and
the people can unmake it. It is
the creature of their own will,
and lives only by their will.” r-
John Marshall, fourth chief
Justice of the United States
(1755-1835). A
Bible verse
Take bead, and beware of
covetousness for a man’s life
consisted not in the abundance
of the things which he posees
aeth.
Luke U: IS
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