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—- THE BAYTOWN SUN_ Tuesday, November 9, 1993
OPINION
Sun editorial
Help reduce
E. coli threat
IT "Texas’ officials are investigating a possi-
■ ble link between seven cases of food poisoning
.A.and the dreaded Escherichia coli bacteria.
The Texas cases have been reported since Oct. 3.
Two have resulted in the deaths of children younger
Fortunately, none of these cases have been re-
ported in Baytown.
Still, caution should be exercised in the prepara-
tion and handling of certain types of food.
For example, ground meat, especially hamburger,
should be thoroughly cooked. Cooked meat should
be handled with utensils, and unpasteurized milk or
raw milk products should not be consumed.
Taking these precautions can help reduce the risk
of contracting a dangerous and potentially fatal form
of food poisoning.
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From Sun files
Baytown man killed in
motorcycle wreck, ’83
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was.*
In 1963
Melanie Moore is crowned homecoming queen at Robert E.
Lee High School.
Nancy Chandler of Highlands is elected sweetheart of the
Robert E. Lee Band.
In 1973
John C. Echols is president of the Baytown chapter of
Ducks Unlimited.
O.A. Boatright, chairman of the Lee College Board of Re-
gents, presents a plaque of appreciation to Aggie Wager, who
resigned from the board.
Ancil Jones, representing the regional office of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, presents a check for $1.5 million in
federal funds to Mayor Tom Gentry for expansion of the West
Main sewage treatment plant.
In 1983
Dennis Earl Gilbert, 24, of Baytown, is killed in a motorcy-
cle wreck two miles south of Shoreacres Boulevard on High-
way 146.
Helen “Bees” Barolak and Wanda Ellis file for re-election
to the school board. Ellis is the current president of the board.
Favorites are elected at Gentry Junior School. They are
Becky Barrios and Billy DeLavergne, eighth-graders; Angel
Rains and Tim Copeland, seventh-graders; Tiffany Caruso and
Brian Naismith, sixth-graders.
Ralph Brock is elected president of the Highlands Junior
School Student Council.
Tracy Silverburg has the leading role in “The Man Who
Came to Dinner,” which will be staged by the REL drama
department.
Kurt Fisher, senior at Barbers Hill High School receives a
letter of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship
Corp.
Bernard E. Lounsberry, 89, died Nov. 7 in a local hospital.
A 63-year resident of Baytown, he owned Lounsberry Repair
Pump and Supply Co.
MINI THOUGHTS
A person’s character is like a fence. It cannot be
straightened and strengthened with whitewash.
—WO
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Gary Dobbs........................................................Editor and publisher
Wanda Orton.............................................................Managing editor
Bruce Guynn............................................Associate managing editor
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Jobs summit and unemployment
. Walter
Mears
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clin-
ton’s international jobs summit has been put
off until next year, but it can wait —
nagging, chronic unemployment will still be
there, a shared problem that can be politi-
cally perilous:
While the U.S. economy is improving,
Clinton said the other day, that trend can’t
be assured in a global economy when other
nations are lagging.
The jobs summit was proposed to deal
with such questions this fall. It still is
planned, but delayed, probably until Febru-
ary.
When it is held, the big seven finance and
labor ministers who are to confer will be
taking up issues that can lose and win
elections, as in Canada and, indeed, in
Clinton’s victory a year ago.
The president pointed to “the remarkable
similarities” between his 1992 campaign and
the issues of Jean Chretien’s Liberal land-
slide in Canada last Monday. “People want a
job-generating strategy, and they want the
deficit brought down,” Clinton said.
The conservative prime minister whom
Canadians defeated had blamed a 11.2
percent unemployment rate on world eco-
nomic problems beyond the control of any
one government. That may be good eco-
nomic theory, but it is not good politics.
George Bush had said much the same thing
early in his losing 1992 campaign for a
second term.
Bush also suffered politically for his
optimistic appraisals of a sluggish economy,
and that lesson isn’t lost at the Clinton
White House, either. The economic growth
rate is up, and Clinton said recently that
“we are beginning to see real progress."
At the same time, he said there’s a lot
more to be done to improve the economy “in
ways that average Americans can actually
tell” are improving their lives.
The unemployment rate is 6.7 percent,
down a point since the 1990-1991 recession.
But factory jobs are at their lowest point
since the mid-1960s, and long-term unem-
ployment is a persistent problem. Congress
has been straggling for a month over a $1.1
billion extension of unemployment compen-
sation to more than 1 million people who
have used up their 26 weeks of benefits and
still don’t have work. The hangup is about
how to pay for it without worsening the
deficit, not whether to do it.
Consumer confidence ratings climbed
with Clinton’s election, but have been
slipping again in recent months, according
to the Conference Board, a New York
organization that conducts monthly surveys.
That’s happened while the economic
indicators have been improving, but statis-
tics aren’t as convincing as what people see
and hear every day, and Clinton acknow-
ledges that the economy isn’t working well
enough to satisfy many Americans.
The president also said that despite the
improving U.S. economy, long term recov-
ery can’t be guaranteed in a global economy
with “very slow growth to no growth in
Europe,” where unemployment is more
severe, and problems in Japan.
That’s where the jobs summit would fit
Proposing it last summer at the economic
summit in Tokyo, Clinton said the industrial
democracies have to find ways back to work
for people left behind in the new world
economy. The Tokyo summit leaders
agreed, and it was to have been held in the
United States in November. The aim, Clin-
ton said then, was to search for causes and
answers to stubbornly high unemployment
PRESS COMMENTARY
Board of Regents chairman Ross Margraves could open yet another her chosen field and knowledg
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tem administrators must work to ensure that future business dealings You gotta love two guys, one of whom a congressman descrihwl
leaw no room for charges of questionable conduct as not being “satisfied until we all live ta puWretousiS ” S th2
t I?liegatV0^ again?t Mjftgraves from an anonymous letter other as someone whose “whole career revolves around making our
to members of the Board of Regents claiming Margraves had per- lives miserable.” making our
sonally benefited from A&M business deals. The former is Ralph Nader
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Today in history
1938: ‘Crystal Night’ erupts in Germany, Austria
vjvaiuaiijr «uiu iuuung ana owning synagogues as well as a IUAC *« me peaceiui rail of the Berlin Wall
Jewish-^wned stores and houses in a pogrom that became known as Ten years a8o: President Reagan arrived in Tokyo with his wife
KnstaUnacht ’ or “Crystal Night.” Nancy, to begin a week-long visit to Japan and Soutii Korea for talks
On this date: on economic and security issues.
1872’flm destroyed nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston. Five years ago: Former Attorney General John N Mitchell a
. I93?’ Workers President John L. Lewis and other One year ago: Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London
labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization as appealed for help in rescheduling his country’s debt, and unred Brit-
part of the American Federation of Labor. ish businesses to invest. *
In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major- .. Today ’s Birthdays: Actress Hedy Lamarr is 80. Former Vice Pres-
league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitmst '^ent gP,ro T. Agnew is 75. Sportscaster Charlie Jones is 63 Base-
. ball executive Whitey Herzog is 62. Astronomer Carl Sagan’ k59
J” autbor-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39. ^en- B°b Graham, D-Fla., is 57. Actor Lou Fenigno is 41
In 1963, twin disasters struck Japan as some 450 miners were
killed m a coal-dust explosion, and 160 people died in a train crash.
In 1965, the great Northeast blackout occurred as several states
and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting
more than 13 hours. s
In 1967, a Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo space-
craft K off fiDm CaP® Kennedy on a successful test flight
In 1970, former French president Charles De Gaulle died at age
In 1989, communist East Germany threw open its borders, allow-
ing citizens to travel freely to the West
BIBLE VERSE
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep; let your
laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to
heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the
—James 4:9,10
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