The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 46, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1974 Page: 10 of 20
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KERMIT, TEXAS
Telephone 586-2561
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC.
109 S. Poplar
Zip Code 79745
Second class Postage Paid at
Kermit, Texas 79745
M. M. Donosky ..............................Publisher
Bill J. Beckham.............Vice-Pres. and General Manager
Phil Parks...............*.............Managing Editor
Maud Green.......V...........................Editor
Robert Wingrove ..........................Sports Editor
Jane Inskeep .......................Advertising Manager
Winnie Spikes ................Composition Superintendent
Marie Butts........................ Circulation Manager
Don Cox ................ Press and Camera Superintendent
This newspaper is dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to the
unification of the townspeople in a common purpose for the
betterment of our community; to our churches, schools and
homes, that Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to live
and rear our children. And, above all, honesty, decency, justice,
tolerance, faith in Almighty God — These shall be our citadel.
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New Test In Vietnam?
There are strong indications that President Ford may soon
confront his first major foreign policy challenge on that old and
tortuous battleground, Vietnam. The North Vietnamese, who
have recently been stepping up their attacks all across South
Vietnam, are reported to have alerted some of their home army
divisions, perhaps for a new all-out offensive. It is easy to see
how they might calculate that Mr. Ford would not dare to
reinvolve U.S. military power in that part of the world and that
they are now free to do their worst without fear of U.S.
counteraction.
We note with satisfaction, therefore, that the new Presidnet
made it clear in his first address to the Congress and the nation
that the U.S. expects the North Vietnamese to honor the 1973
Paris peace accords. We assume that he means that the U.S. does
not expect to see a gross violation of the accords, such as a
massive new offensive in the South. We hope that the
President’s statement has been accompanied by appropriate
communications to Moscow and Peking to the effect that the
U.S.would not look kindly upon any Soviet or Chinese military
or moral support for a new North Vietnamese attack. South
Vietnam is no military pushover, even without the kind of U.S.
support provided in the past, and Hanoi could not hope to
prevail unless she could count on adequate resupply from her
Communist “sponsors.”
So it would be well to let all concerned know without delay-
that any new Communist military adventure in the Far East is
quite incompatible with detente and the kind of relationship
that the Soviets and even the Chinese now profess to want with
the U.S. The coming weeks and months may offer an interesting
test of the sincerity of their words.
Washington Transition
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the birth of our
nation, our form of government has just passed the rqost severe
test it has faced in a century.
Thanks to the inspired Constitution upon which this
government is founded, the resignation of the President of the
United States has been carried out in solemn — if sad — dignity.
There was no violence. Hundreds of people gathered around
the White House — but they were not unruly. They came to
watch the end of an era.
Unlike the scenes in other parts of the world when
governments have fallen, there were no rumbling tanks, no
military attacks, no executions, and no burning and looting.
The city was not put under marital law. On the contrary, the
country’s laws held the nation together. The Constitution which
was framed in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in
1787 and became effective March 4, 1789 provided the compass
that kept our nation on its steady course.
By the same token it must be recognized that in this instance
the government did not fall. There is no new “regime”; there
will be continuity of policy. Some faces have changed.
Watergate held our country up to a mirror. Our citizens did
not like what they saw. They called upon our rule of law to
correct the image. We have taken the necessary and painful steps
to make the correction.
We did this because this is a government of laws and not of
men. We fervently pray that the lessons the country learned -in
this trying incident will lead us to appreciate once again the
value of honesty and integrity in the operation of government
and the conduct of our personal lives.
The Tragedy Of
Richard Nixon
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
PRESTO (IIANCO!
Monday, August 26,1974
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-AND ALL YOUR
CONSUMER PROBLEMS
SHALL DISAPPEAR!
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VIRGINIA PAYETTE
Hometown Spirit
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An Unnecessary Agency
The Oracle of Delphi, seated on the golden tripod
throne at Mt. Parnassus in ancient Greece, had the popu-
lace seeking inspired advice, and the treasures ot the
world were placed at her feet.
A new Oracle has been proposed for the golden dome
of Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C. Its name will be the
“Consumer Protection Agency” and it, too, will be the
infallible expert on all things.
It will be the Oracle of the American consumers. It
will interpret all the needs and wishes of “consumers”
to the hundreds of agencies, bureaus and departments
carrying out the federal governmentWdicts and programs
already protecting the consumer.
The CPA Oracle will gaze in its crystal ball and debate
with other agencies on just what size of packaging will
meet your needs; the size of the average serving; what
advertising and promotion will be simple enough to un-
derstand and will not deceive you. Its scope will go beyond
the everyday needs of the consumer by intervening in
many other matters, from the determination of airline
routes, to milk marketing orders, to labor problems.
The new Oracle will do all your thinking for you and
speak for you as a consumer—whether or not it may hurt
you as a worker, a farmer, or a businessman.
And you really don’t need a crystal ball to tell you that,
if Congress goes along with the idea, your money will
go to support this new agency along with the 1,000 other
agencies of government._______
THE
FAMILY
LAWYER
School's “Long Ann
Big Eddie, an oversized teen-
ager. liked to bully the girls on
their way home from school.
When several parents finally com-
plained to school officials. Eddie
was placed on probation.
But at that point, his own par-
ents decided to take a hand. Filing
a lawsuit against the school, they
claimed their son’s punishment
was illegal.
Newspaper families move
around a lot, which makes it
sometimes hard to build up
that old hometown spirit. But
the next time we trade
mortgages I can tuck my roots
under my arm and take them
along with me.
And that may take a bit of
explanation:
One good thing (maybe the
only one) about always being
the “new people” on the block
is that after living on both
coasts and in-between, you
have a wide choice of where
you want to be from, if not
where you want to go.
The obvious place is where
you hatched your family, did
your stint with the PTA,
Scouts and Sunday School, and
planted the dogwood tree
outside the first of many
houses. (Even when you knew
you wouldn’t be around long
enough to see it grow up.)
And so we picked this small
village just half an hour from
The City (nobody calls it by
name; you go into “the city”
for dinner and shopping) where
we wound up as retread
residents 10 years and 2,500
miles later.
This won’t be the last stop,
either. But that’s where those
portable roots come in.
They’re all therein, in a
shiny little book put together
by neighborhood historians
and other local lights to honor
the village’s 75th anniversary.
And, since many of our local
lights are big names in the
celebrity world, “Views and
Vignettes” is a mighty
professional job.
If you can’t live in the house
your great-grandpappy built,
this is the next best thing. (I
found out, for instance, that
George Washington slept here.
In a tent, I guess, with his
Colonial Army.) In 1666,
Mohican Chief Gramatan first
sold the land to the white man.
But the village proper was born
in 1898 in (and as family
surprises go, this was the
biggie) the very spot where we
now live.
Jerome Kern, Eddie
Rickenbacker, General CustiS’
widow and baseball’s Ford
Frick. Even Garbo, they say,
lived here for a time.
So did Joseph P. Kennedy.
And when John F. Made it to
the White House, the headline
on our weekly newspaper read:
“Local Boy Elected President,”
Later neighbors included:
the little girl who grew up to
marry Teddy Kennedy; Ed
McMahon, Art Carney', Gary
Moore and Jack Parr. Plus so
many presidents of so many
corporations you get used to
jostling elbows with executive
power in Lenny’s stationery
store,
“Views and Vignettes” is
deliciously full of old-timey
photographs of scenes from the
‘90s and portraits of early*
bigwigs. For my instant ^
ancestor . I have adopted the ^
first postmaster, who sported a $
long white beard, set up shop
in his front parlor and bragged
that he delivered mail “if and
when he had a mind to.”
(For the record, the village is
still a mile square. And my
postal patriarch seems to have
sold his ideas to the national
mail service.)
But the book is a handsome
history of an adopted
hometown, the kind of
treasure you mail to your kids
to remind them they do have
roots, scraggly though they
maybe.
And wherever we land next,
it will have a place of honor on
the coffee table - to sustnu
me through one more
VI. I
from the Welcome Wagon lady. \
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Paul Harvey
News
The Buck Stops Where?
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“Dogwoods,” the homestead
of the first founding father,
stands in historical glory not
20 feet from my kitchen
window. There it was that 33
trustees met to create a formal
village out of a rambling
collection of farms. (The vote,
incidentially, was 25 for, 8
against.)
M SMALL
BUSINESS
AS HEARD
BY HEARD
Will They Learn?
More than a year ago, before the full extent of Watergate was
known, political analysts Ben Wattenberg and Richard
Scammon discussed the fate of Richard Nixon in a Washington
Post interview. “Nixon, as much as I might want to begrudge it,
has done some monumental things in the last few years,” wrote
Wattenberg.
“And the idea that Richard Nixon is going to be remembered
For Haldeman and Ehrlichman and a bunch of creeps who
bugged the Watergate — when he also ended the war and
established relations with China and Russia and set up the SALT
treaty - is unlikely. This guy has been a historic president, like
It or not.”
In May of 1973 that assessment appeared safe. Now it no
longer does. While the former President, true to his last wish in
office, may well be remembered in history as a peacemaker, it is
certain he will also be remembered as the Watergate President.
Mr. Nixon, during a long and often birlliant public career,
mastered the intricacies of political power. But he failed to
master Richard Nixon. He was a tragically flawed President who
could not admit error and who regarded his political enemies as
though they were his country’s enemies. They, of course, were
not.
In the end, this man of remarkable ability allowed his worse
instincts to dominate his actions at crucial moments. That, too,
was part of the tragedy of Richard Nixon.
If President Nixon’s seventh - and presumably final - public
crisis ended in tragedy for him, however, it also ended in a sad
triumph for our constitutional system. Richard Nixon and
Watergate taught us that we are still governed by a system of
laws and not men. But we will be paying the price of that lesson
for years to come.
Mr. Nixon now must assemble the pieces of his shattered life
and plan for the future. Although there are those who thirst to
further hound and humiliate him, we trust the great majority of
Americans will say amen to President Ford’s inaugural prayer
that Mr. Nixon and his family will find the personal peace that
he worked so effectively to give the rest of mankind.
In the past few months there
has been a number of events
which should cause some of the
nation’s biggest manufacturers
to wonder whether they should
continue to try and have their
cake and eat it, too.
* # *
In this period something close
to a dozen of the nation’s big-
discount chains have gone into
the bankruptcy courts. This
probably proves out the say-
ing of Ahraham Lincoln about
the inability to fool all the
people all the time.
* * *
The discount chain was pri-
marily based on two points.
One was the merchandising of
cheap imported goods, at a long
profit. But in order to induce
store traffic, it was necessary to
“hot shot” familiar American
brand items.
* * *
Unfortunately for them,
many American brand manu-
facturers permitted the dis-
count chains to “football” their
products around, and now they
will probably only collect from
the bankruptcy proceedings a
few cents on the dollar.
* * *
In the meantime, they have
also succeeded in turning into
shambles a large segment of
the independent dealer-support
they once enjoyed.
* * *
Probably the major reason for
the debacle of many of the de-
faulting discount chains is due
to inflation overseas, and the
devaluation of the Amferican
dollar, which cut off the unlim-
ited supply of cheaply priced
foreign goods.
* * *
Without these long profit
items on the imports, and un-
able to boost prices to a normal
level on the American brands
which had so long been cut-
rated to bring in the traffic, the
end was inevitable.
* * *
It is also unfortunate that
many independent suppliers
will be hurt as the cases of
these bankrupt discount chains
wend their slow way through
the courts.
* * *
But as a poet, or someone
once said, every cloud has a
silver lining. Thus, if anybody
has learned anything from
these debacles, there could be
a silver lining.
* * *
Time alone will tell if this
silver lining develops. It is pos-
sible that in the board rooms
of some American brand manu-
facturers there are some pene.
trating questions being asked.
* * *
In permitting discount chains
to “football” their brands, did
they not sell their birthright
for a mess of pottage? Is not
steady, growing dependable
market expansion better than
a flash in the pan?
* * *
And if the corporate manage-
ment does not reflect on their
past folly in trying to have
their cake and eat it too, it
seems high time that the stock-
holder should ask some pertin
ent questions.
© National Federation of Independent Business
"AH of these incidents hap-
pened after school, away from
school grounds,” they pointed out.
“Therefore, the whole matter was
outside the school’s jurisdiction.
Problems of this kind ought to be
handled by the parents, not by the
school.”
However, the court upheld the
probation order against Eddie.
The court said schools have a
“long arm” reaching any miscon-
duct by students, even away from
school, that disrupts the educa?
tional process. Said the judge:
“The true test (is) not the time
or place of the offense, but its ef-
fect upon the morale or efficiency
of the school.”
Still, to justify disciplinary ac-
tion, the harm to the school must
be substantial.
Thus, another court voided the
suspension of a high school athlete
who had been found in a car con-
taining several .bottles of beer.
The bottles were not his. He had
not been drinking. And the inci-
dent took place during vacation.
The court said there was not
enough harm 16 the educational
process to justify the penalty.
In a third case, two students
were suspended for publishing an
“underground” newspaper, which
they had distributed off school
premises.
Evidence in a court hearing in-
dicated that the newspaper did in-
deed contain criticism of the
school. But the criticism was not
1) libellous;
2) inflammatory; or
3) obscene.
The court thereupon lifted the
suspension, saying that school au-
thorities had overreacted. They
should have been particularly
wary, said the court, of infringing
on the constitutional right of free-
dom of the press.
We live at the foot of “the
hill,” which was famous
around the turn of the century
as an artist’s colony. But these
were no struggling behemians;
they arrived at the peak of
their careers and built
sprawling Victorian mansions.
Over the years other famous
names moved in: Sinclair
Lewis, Dorothy Thompson,
TRIPLE DEAD
HEATS SCARCE
There’s been only seven
triple dead heats in harness
racing. The most recent took
place this month at the track at
Los Alamitos, Calif.
The penchant for “passing the buck” is encouraged by the
basic fact that it makes for convenient conversation
Simple people are able to converse mostly only about other
with upgraded enlightenment we are enabled to discuss
thThe refined intellect is capable of discourse on ideas.
But, again, simple people are best able to talk about other
^/moff shoot of this proclivity is our tendency to divert any
displeasure to “those fellows in Washington.
That’s an unworthy cop-out. , . ■
In a government of, by and for the people, when you look at
“those fellows in Washington” you’re looking in a mirror.
The American consumer - you and I — blame the big oil
companies” for fuel shortages which our own ravenous appetite
created
It’s we who demanded more cars, more heating, more air
conditioning, more power accessories and appliances - more
everything that consumes energy.
We lambast “the Administration” for our disadvantageous
balance of trade though it is we consumers who buy Japanese
products while picketing American factories.
It is we the people who hoard gasoline, baling wire, steel pipe,
toilet paper and pennies.
If we were Russians living in Russia we might rightly and
properly “blame government” for mismanaging our affairs - if
we dared. .
But in our representative republic we are answerable
ultimately to ourselves.
It is because some of us, the people, misbehave that
government has to intrude on the privacy of our luggage at the
airport.
It is because some of us cheat on our taxes that everybody’s
private papers are subject to official scrutiny.
It is because some sickies among us hide razors in apples that
whole states have had to outlaw Halloween.
We gripe about high taxes yet we demand from government
more and more services which can be bought only with tax
dollars.
We hear about politicians cutting corners between tax
avoidance and tax evasion ancf we are loud with our indignation.
How dare those fellows try to get away with what we all try to
get away with?
With righteous wrath we throw a corrupt policeman on the
altar to pay the penalty for the corruptor.
When we hear that some corporation helped elect some
politician in exchange for some favorable consideration we
shout, “Those dirty crooks!” t ■ ■
Yet we help elect our owh preferred politicians with the
“understanding” that they’d by George better pay off on their
overt and covert promises of patronage, legislation or subsidy.
Despair with our government should reflect disappointment
with ourselves. Government of, by and for the people is neither
less nor more than whatever we are. That places on us a vary
scary responsibility.
The Oil Patch
by Gordon Bankston
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When the capitalist world starts to trade
with us, on that day they will begin to finance
their own destruction.
-Attributed to V.I. Lenin
OLDSTERS GET ACES
It wasn’t planned that way,
but it turnedout to be Senior
Citizen’s Day recently at the
Jackson Park golf course in
Seattle.
First, Vaughn Abbey, 71,
rapped a seven wood dead to
the pin for a hole-in-one on the
125-yard 11th hole.
A short time later, Herb
Sheriff, 76, scored a
. hole-in-one on the 160-yard
No. 4 hole.
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Parks, Phil. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 46, Ed. 1 Monday, August 26, 1974, newspaper, August 26, 1974; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034353/m1/10/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Winkler County Library.