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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, June 26, 1491
Opinion
Sun editorial
Hearings set
on vote plan
T| aytonians should plan to attend one of the seven
public hearings scheduled to discuss a possible
JLI municipal voting plan for the city of Baytown.
The hearings are intended to give Baytonians an oppor-
tunity to express their views on the type of municipal
election system that should be implemented in Baytown.
Information gathered at these meetings will be used to
formulate a plan that hopefully will reflect the views,of a
majority of Baytonians.
The public hearings have been scheduled at various lo^
cations throughout the city to make them accessible to all
segments of the population'.
All the meetings will jjegin at 6:30 p.m. on the follow-
ing days and at the fallowing locations:
July 8, George Washington Carver Elementary School;
July 9, San Jacinto Elementary School; July II, Baytdwn
Junior School; July 16, Ashbel Smith Elementary School;;
July 18, Stephen F. Austin Elementary School; July 23,
Ross S. Sterling High School; July 25, Baytown Com-
munity Building.
Let’s get holiday act together
WASHINGTON — The state of New
Hampshire has recently made a couple of le-
gislative decisions affecting its holiday rec-
ognitions. It has, on the one hand, created a
new Civil Rights Day, which will be ob-
served as most .of the rest of the nation
pauses in mid-January for Martin Luther
King Day; and it has, at the same time,
dropped from its calendar a venerable old
anniversary known as Fast Day.
The second decision is perhaps the most
significant of the two. Fast Day has been as
emplanted in New Hampshire as the Granite.
The commemoration, in late April, dates to
1681, when a man named John Cutts took
sick; he was the president of the colony As-
sembly then, and his colleagues asked the
citizens to pray and fast fQr his recovery.
Well, Cuns died anyway. But Fast Day
has continued in one fotm or an other for, lo,
these 310 years. And it wasn’t easy for New
Hampshire to repeal the tradition. Americans
are a celebrating lot, and we surely worship
our litany of holidays; one does not seem a
free man, Cicero said, who does not some-
times do nothing.
Yet all repetition becomes monotonous —
look at Madonna’s buUet bras sieres. And
holidays are no exception. The Pilgrims
started Thanksgiving in 1621, to celebrate
human survival, but, over the centuries, year
after year, it has become a dull moment to
Tom
Tiede
suffer sweet potatoes and watch those bullet
bras on MTV.
Therefore, a modest oroDosal. The rest of
the nation would do well to follow the New
Hampshire lead. Most states presently ob-
serve 10 holidays — New Year’s Day, King
Day, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day,
Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus
Dfy, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and
Christmas — and changes are long overdue.
We!re talking'wholesale here. With two
exceptions. Christmas must be retained, and
July Fourth, of courth. Christmas is no lon-
ger a mere occasion, it is a fundamental or-
gan of the U.S. economy; and Independence
Day is the last of the conventional holidays
to retain the spirit of its original intention.
Otherwise, cut and slash:
— New Year’s Day. A good place to be-
gin reform. It is the most meaningless of
' commemorative dates.
— Martin Luther King Day. He was a fine
fellow, but the day off is blatantly political,
even vaguely coercive. New Hampshire has
it right. It should be made Civil Rights Day.
— Washington’s Birthday. Some call it
President’s Day, some Washington-Lincoln
Day, and it’s a bore by any name: Actors in
cheap wigs shilling Japanese cars. One more
rerun of the Henry Fonda film by Jane’s boy
friend’s network. Gad. Change it to Demo-
cracy Day, where, it’s legal to shoot anyone
impersonating a preSdent.
— Memorial Day. It should be combined
with Veterans Day.
— Labor Day. It’s a dry bone for the
working stiff thrown by gallant swells who
either depend on his sweat or his vote. And
what is more, Americans already work less
than most residents of Earth. Let’s at least
modify the holiday so that we are encour-
aged to spend it in labor for others, the poor,
the ill and the helpless.
— Columbus Day. Second only to New
Year’S Day fftr purposelessness. Plus it is
historical whimsy. The Phoenicians were
probably here long before the Genoan,
maybe the Romans — certainly the Indians.
Who didn’t discover America? How about
American History Day instead; then we can
learn the origin of bullet brassieres.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
President using veto threat
From Sun files
Waste site opposed
near Dayton in ’81
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
In 1931
Dance every night at Sylvan Beach. The cost for Sunday after-
noon dances is 50 cents a couple. Ed Eiseman is manager.
Bobby Carter, Goose Creek’s youngest city commissioner, will be
installed high priest of the Goose Creek chapter of Royal Arch
Masons.
. The largest single shipment of shoes ever to be received in the
Tri-Cities is delivered to Kilpatrick’s Smart Shop.
Pelly Mayor C.D. Little leaves for Austin to seek a hearing before
the state lire commissioner to obtain reduced fire insurance rates.
A Ken Maynard movie, “Sons of thg Saddle,” is coming to the
DeLuxre Theater.
............ In 1936
One-hundred people attend ameeting at Goose Creek City Hall to
push for plans for the Houston-Port Arthur highway.
Irvin Davis, daredevil aviator, will make his famous bat wing leap
at Sylvan Beach,, says R.S. Lindamond, Sylvan Beach manager.
In 1941
Dr. H.B. Naylor, veterinarian, opens an office at the comer of
Goose Creek Street and East James in the old Community Creamery
building. A graduate of Texas A&M, he is a native of Center.
Theo Wilburn, vice president of the Goose Creek Chamber of
Commerce, presides at a meeting in the absence of President L.M.
Trenckmann. —— .
In 1946
A Morrell Park citizen complains about a cow “mooing” and dis-
turbing his sleep. Officers D.K. Myers and John Gray investigate the
cow call.
WASHINGTON — Seeking Republican
reinforcements, President Bush complains
that he’s reduced to “playing defense” in
Congress. That means vetoes.
The list of Democratic measures subject
to veto threats is long’ and getting longer,
part of a veto strategy the White House tries
to use as more than a last resort.
Bush seeks to make the veto an offensive
weapon, too, to seek compromise, demand
concessions and try to get his own way.
With Democrats dominant in Congress,
Bush said the other day, “we’re asked to
play, sing, from their music, and I’m not go-
ing to do that.”
A Democratic senator complains that the
administration is tlireatening to veto bills
that haven’t even been introduced yet.
There’s a broad warning on a whole class
of legislation; Bush has said he will veto any
measure that would ease restrictions on the
use of federal funds for abortion, even abor-
tion counseling.
With Republicans outnumbered in both
the House and the Senate, and with only an
outside chance of GOP gains to reverse Se-
nate control' during a second term, Bush has
only the veto to back most of his legislative
demands.
“As it is now, I’m playing defense in the
Walter,
Mears
House, I’m playing defense in the Senate,”
he said Monday night at a Republican fun-
draising dinner in Milwaukee. “Thank God,
we had 21 vetoes, and every single one of
them was sustained. We’re got to keep bad
things from happening, and then get more
people so we can make good things happen
in the Senate.”
In a pep talk to Republican senators on
May 15, Bush sketched in the other side of
the veto strategy, saying “it’s the only way
we can get decent Republican ideas” through
Congress.
“When we’re in a minority, the only way
we’re going to get something done is to beat
down the bad idea before they give us a shot
at a good idea,” he said, urging GOP sena-
tors to support him against override
attempts.
Bush has threatened a second veto of the
civil rights bill he says would lead to hiring
quotas. And he has said he’d also reject
spending limits or public financing in con-
gressional campaigns, a family leave bill, le-
gislation to bar the hiring of permanent re-
placements for striking workers, measures to
make the cable television industry once
again subject to federal regulation, defense
spending cuts aimed at weapons the admi-
nistration wants, legislation to deny trade
preferences to China.
And more.
“The only domestic policy action that ap-
peals to the president seems to be the veto,”
said Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio.
“He sleeps at night and dreams about the
veto. He wakes up in the morning talking
about the veto.”
To make a veto stick, Bush needs only
one vote more than one third, in either the
House or the Senate.
Hence the veto strategy. It works best for
an administration with a limited set of legi-
slative aims.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Walter R. Mears,
vice president and columnist for The Asso-
ciated Press, has reported on Washington
and national politics for more than 25 years.
Symington says he’s on course
The Rev. P. Walter Henckell is elected chaplain of the Texas F.lks pushing too hard.
By Walter Mears
of The Associated Press
PHOENIX — A political fumble cost the
state a Super Bowl, the savings and loan cri-
sis was a hometown headache, a bribery
scandal wracked the legislature, and it took
all winter to elect a new governor. But Repu-
blican Gov. Fife Symington says he’s on
course now and doing fine.
After the political shocks that have been
jolting Arizona over the past three years, Sy-
mington said part of his mission is to deal
with the national image problem that’s still
cutting convention business.
On that and most everything else, Sy-
mington says he’s an activist, pusiing for
change instead of waiting for it. That is not
universally praised; in the state Senate, con-
trolled by Democrats, he’s been accused of
Gov. Evan Mecham, an ardent conservative Charles Keating’s home territorv.
accused of misusing public funds and ob- Overall, Symington says he is encouraged
structing justice. That put Democrat Rose at the outlook for economic growth.
Mofford into an office she didn’t seek. Symington led the 1990 election for gov-
One of Mecham’s legacies was the con- emor, but he fell just short of the absolute
troversy over a paid state holiday honoring majority that was required to win. That; too,
Martin Luther King Jr. Mecham rescinded was because of Mecham; a minority elected
the one his predecessor had ordered and the him and the state, didn’t want a replay,
holiday question was put on the ballot last Scandal hit the legislature during the ru-
November. Ijjost, by 15,000 votes, after noff campaign; seven legislators and four
warnings that disapproval would lead profes- lobbyists were indicted in a bribery sting,
sional football to pull its 1993 Super Bowl Six legislators resigned and the Senate ex-
out of Phoenix. The threat “showed a lack of pelled the seventh. Political reform propos-
understanding of the frontier mentality in als are due later this year.
Arizona,” and cost votes for the holiday, Sy- Symington finally was elected on Feb. 26.
mington said. “The political turmoil of the past is not Ar-
But the setback also was an opportunity izona,” he said as he took office on March 6.
for the new governor, who endorsed a bill to “I had a one-week transition,” he said in
put the holiday question on the ballot again an interview last week. “We were busy try
State Association.
Ensign Norlyn C. Tipton, 21, is killed when his plane crashes at
Pensacola, Ha. He was the son Of Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Tipton.
In 1981
“It’s going to be an Alamo battle with a San Jacinto finish!” Bill
Daniel declares at a meeting concerning a hazardous waste site near
Dayton./About 700 residents attended the meeting at Woodrow Wil-
son Junior High auditorium, sponsored by People Against Contami-
nated Environment (PACE). The group is opposing plans by Rollins
Environmental Services for a permit to use'land three miles west of
Dayton as a disposal for hazardous industrial wastes.
Symington has compared his role to that championship.
1992, and asked the National Football
League to consider Phoenix for its 1996
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of a chief executive officer, and the legisla-
ture to a board of directors. Predictably, legi-
slators disagree, saying theirs is a coequal
branch of the government.
• “The legislature is not used to having a
governor who has strong opinions and who
wants to be a player, day by day, in the pro-
cess,” said Symington, a Phoenix real estate
developer before he ran for governor. "We
sometimes find ourselves disinvited. ...
“They’re used to having a much more pas-
sive governor," he said.
That’s a byproduct of the troubles that be-
gan three years ago with the impeachment of
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Before then, he thinks, there will be a paid
King holiday for state workers.
That controversy still is hurting conven-
tion business. “It’s been trendy to beat up
Arizona and jump on the issue,” Symington
said. “It’s economic intimidation/’
But that hasn’t been a problem in his ef-
forts to interest investors in Arizona and its
businesses, Symington said. He said poten-
tial investors look more closely at the state
economy.
“It’s a different mentality,” he said.
There ’s a real estate slump, worsened by the
savings and loan mess which hit hard in
ing to get elected so we didn’t have a lot of
time to plan.”_________________________
While his budget has been disputed in the
Democratic Senate, there’s already an agree-
ment that it will be balanced, with a surplus,
and with no new taxes.
Now Symington talks of cutting taxes. “I
think it’s important to get a foot in that
door,” he said.
He’s also at the center of negotiations on a
plan to buy and scrap an unfinished hazard-
ous waste dump about 35 miles south of
Phoenix. He’s a radio talk show regular. Sy-
mington heads his own education task force,
and says that if necessary, he’ll use “flank-
ing maneuvers” to'get around the legislature
and put school reforma referendum.
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1963: Kennedy speaks in West Berlin
On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where
he was greeted by more than a million of the divided city’s residents.
In a speech, Kennedy made his famous declaration, “Ich bin ein
Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City, New' Jersey’s Board-
walk, was,opened ,to the public. ,______________________ <......-
In 1900, a commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the
fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
In 1917, the first troops of the American Expeditionary Force
arrived in France during World War I.
In 1919, the first issue of the New York Daily News was
published.
In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 coun-
tries in San Francisco. (The text of the charter was in five languages:
Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.)
In 1948, in response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, the
United States announced it would increase its daily cargo flights to
the western sector of the isolated German city.
Ten years ago: Conservative Democrats joined Republicans in the
House of Representatives to approve President Reagan’s package of
budget cuts, a day after the Republican-controlled Senate passed a
similar measure;
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Eleanor Parker is 69. Singer Billy
Davis is 51. ’
BIBLE VERSE
“At the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he
will answer thee.”
Isaiah 30:19
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