The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 273, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1976 Page: 6 of 18
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Editorial Page
• Editorials
. • Features
• Opinion
4~A Friday, August 27f 1974
Alarming Answer
To False Alarms
Everybody likes to see 0re engines racing down the
street, their sireri* wailing. Some people like it so much
that they turn in alarms just for fun.
False alarms have become such a problem in some com-
- mumties. in fact, that a number of them have simply
resorted to-rembving alarm boxes from the streets. One of
them is Oakland. Calif., whose experience seetrts to betypi-
. cal of cities its size.
In fiscal 1973-74, Oakland recorded 10,477 false alarms.
Even figuring a very low $7 cost for each response for fuel'
consumed and wear and tear on equipment, these false
alarms cost the. city’s taxpayers more than $73,000. This is
not to consider the unnecessary risk to life and limb.
In an article in ' Fire Command'”, a publication of the
National Fire Protection Association, battalion chief
llunnes ,\J Andersen relates how Oakland tried all kinds of
ideas to stop false alarms — cameras, dye and stinkum on
street boxes, stake-outs, school programs and informa-
minal'bulletins distributed door-to-door.
Some of them helped a little, but others actually made
the problem worse by reminding potential.offenders that
street boxes existed and could, be used as toys.
The Oakland Fire Department then contacted other
- cities to. see what, they had done Of 51 cities. 37 indicated
that they had a false-alarm problem, and of these, 33 had
removed some or all of their boxes.
'Oakland eventually removed 87 of its most troublesome
boxes, and even though false:alarm culprits are still play-
ing games, the city does not plan to remove nonoffending
boxes or those causing a ''liveable" level,of false alarms.
- Within the next' two years, however, an automated 911
telephone system will go into service in the greater
Oakland area. When the 911 system is fully operative, says
Andersen. "Oakland intends to take a hard look at its re-
maining street boxes.”
Private Push Best
The need for nuclear energy expansion in the U.S. will
demand an estimated six to nine new plants to supply the
enriched uranium for fuel.
■ The House, taking note of the estimated construction
■ cost of up to $42 billion, has approved legislation that
would allow private companies to compete with the gov-
> eminent in fuel production.
•The profit motive should encourage greater efficiency in-
the proposed facilities. In addition to sharing in the plant,
cost, the companies would pay royalties to the govern-
ment for use of the technology'whichJs now a federal
monopoly, ■ ”
, Under the cooperative effort, the government could
maintain security of nuclear materials and the secret pro-
cesses.
And-the potential for extraordinary profits would be con-
trolled by congressional review of all contracts.
The .NrtielearFuel Assurance Bill merits Senate approval
and President Ford’s signature, not only to perform the
function spelled.out in its title, but to relieve the American
taxpayer of a portion of the cost burden.
From Sun Files - -
Refinery Explosion
Killed Worker In ’36
Tacfrmmmn
“Are you two going to haunt me forever -
Her Nickname Turned
Into Long Nightmare
• One stormy morning in the
early 1940s. a tiny identification
bracelet was placed around my
wrist. Little did I expect that the
nameband would -eventually be-
come, an albatross around my
neck.
■ The wristband, which -read
Dolores Ann Derryberryk"
made, an appearance shortly af-,
, ter a'formal endorsement across
my backside by the attending
doctor. Between sleeping and
quaffing milk. I managed to hold
my own until-W. B. <Berti All-
man appeared
Babies become beautiful-but
are often born looking as ugly as
a dried prune, A good-natured
fellow. Bert teased mv mother,
that 1 looked alot like a dodo
bird 1 don't know- what hap-
pened to "bird" but "Dodo"
stuck as a nickname.
Around the third year of my
Ashbei Smith career. Bill Hart-
man signed an Innocent ditty in
■ my autograph "book about my
name which reduced me to
tears. Since then myTamily has
"called me "Dodie" or "Doe."
I have spent a good deal of my
life explaining that 1 am not
Duty Dodoberry or Dottie Dew-
_ berry. The worst mispronuncia-
lion was by a hystericaljllajun-
telephone operator. It defies re-__
peating. .
•It is some consolation thaH
which literally means lady of
sorrow. Early in life I developed
a "sense "of humor about my
name. It served as a diversion
from acne or dating during ado-
lescence. .
Unlike most young girls think-
ing about marriage. 1 dre'amt not
about handsome white knights,
but plain-vanilla John Smiths. I *
choose Smith because John Doe
would find me Doe Doe.
Ironically, I was first married
to a Scha.tz, which translates
sweetheart. This German,
tongue-twister led to being call-
ed "Sweetie," "Schatzy.
Slitz.” or worse. Years ago I
obtained a divorce and began
work at The Baytown Sun as Do-
die; Schatz Later I. remarried
and became Richardson, which .
is a rather solid Anglo-Saxon
sounding name
Around the office I am known'
as a, "homegrown gal. " It is de-
lightful to run into Editor and
Publisher Leon Brown and be
greeted with a cheerie, "Hello,
Dodie Deayberry " And Jim
Kyle neveMails to say, "Dod.
are you still calling the Schatz
_ By DODIE RICHARDSON
While registering recently at
the University of Houston at
Clear Lake. I was "mis-regiSi_
tered wunder the name of Doris ■
E. Richardson, it was my mis-
, fortune to be informed that Do-
lores A. Richardson does hot ex-
ist or even compute.
"Ah.”, I thought, "I've been
Business Mirror - -
Consumer Price
Index Explained
NEW YORK (API - The na-
tional consumer price index is
- to your wallet what the Dow
Jones industrial average is to
■your stock portfolio. It may
have much meaning, or it
might have none at all.
Investors know that it is very
unlikely that anyone would buy
all '30 stocks in the industrial
average and no others, and so
. the daily fortunes of. investors
usually yary widely. Some will
, wm. others lose, "regardless oT
the average.
""Thdefhnomists knowthafThg "
• natidhal consumer price ifldex, ’
while valuable as an indicator
of the economy's direction;
-mighLapply precisely to none
of the geographic areas of the
country.
• Neither the industftaH-aver- p
From The Baytown Sun files.
!. this' is the why it was 40 and 30
and' 20 years ago:
' AUG. 27. 1936
Dr. Harmon Lowman, school
superintendent, is in Austin
seeking to have a ruling reversed
about Highlands students being
ineligible to play football this
" vearrat-Robert E Lee The dis-
trict recently annexed Highlands
which previously was in the .
(rosby 'district
Services' are held today for
Thomas Carroll, 35, of 805 S
Pruett, wh'o died from burns in.
ab . explosion at Humble "s
Baytown Refinery in the lead
recovery plant
John Marvin Enderli and
Richard Burnett are co-captains
of the Cedar Bayou HighjSehool
football team Other lettermen
returning are Morris Fayle,
Scott Candle. Pat Spurlock. Joe
Murphy.' Cecil Dunman, Ed
Wolff .add Leonard Dahlquist
AUG. 27, 19?6,
Satn Paine asks the Goose
Creek Cijy Commission to
authorize municipal garbage ser-
vice in the business section. "We
believe the removal of garbage
and trash is an operation of the
city and not a private
enterprise," Paine (ells the com-
. mission He reports business
firths are paying from $5 to $30 a
month to "have trash hauled from
alleys and sidewalks.
L J Ballard and Kenneth H.
Baird open a new airport. Air-'
Cenjer, Inc,, four miles from
Goose Creek, on Cedar Bayoq-
Lynchburg Road
Jack. Jambs is chairman and J.
W. Pyle, assistant chairman, of a -
membership drive in the Tri-
Cities Chamber of Commerce
Goose .Creek police radio sta-
tion will remain in operation at
least until there is proof it is no
longer needed, says M. W.
• Geisendorff, member, of the
Goose Creek City Commission.
AUG. 27, 1956
Services are held for Manuel
S Ciruti Sr.; 80, father of Mrs.
W. B, McNulty,, Mrs. George
Lancaster, J.eo Ciruti, Floyd
Ciruti and Manuel S. Ciruti Jr.,
all of Baytbwn,
P . L. DeVerter is chairman of
the Southwest District of the
American Society for Testing
Materials.
Four sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Leibham are serving in the
Armed Services. They are
Anthony, Dennis, Thomas and,
David.
jpronounced shots
Actually, my name problem
remains not with my friends but
with doctors, lawyers and uni-
versities. il dare not imagine
how an Indian chief would pro-
nounce it I For the past 15 years,
I have been in and out of five
universities under, various
names. Repeatedly the name on
the transcripts is misspelled'and
miscalled
age nor the consumer price in-
dex can be used as"a measure
.of one's own finances.
In July, for example, the
price index for the nation as a
whole rose 0.5 per cent, but in
Yew York the rise was-only 0 4
per cent, in, Detroit 0.7 and in
Los Angeles, a very, in-
flationary 1,1 per cent.
If you examine the past 12
months you find a similarly di-
verse story.
Whereas the price index for „
the entire nation rose 5.4 per
.cent from July of. 1975 tp July
of 1976, the increase was- 6.7
per cent in bloth Chicago .and
Philadelphia 1 _
The breakdown of the com-
ponents also reveals vast differ-
ences.
New Yorkers experienced an-
increase in housing costs of only
0.1 per cent, or 1.2 per cent on an
annual basis. But In Los An- -
geles. housing cost rose 1.1 per
cent, or 13.2 per cent annually.
Is~tte consumer price index
therefore meaningless',' Not at
wide geographical ’ range . of
habitation and the diverse liv-
• ing habits of individuals.
If the statistics are used as
individual guides, then the geo-
graphical breakdowns for par-
ticular areas are much more
valuable than the national aver-
ages. although .still not nearly
so valuable as one s own per-
sonal records..
It isn't only the CPI that is
. often misconstrued as a guide
to personal affairs rather than
as a generalindicatof of the
economy The popularly used
jobless rate is often so misused,
'to the chagrin- ef the Labor De-
partment
lnVariab'fy;~some"individuals,
apply the rises and falls of job-
Jess rate as a measure of their
own job. securTfyT if (tey"have -
one, or .a measure of their
chances of finding a job, if they
are unemployed ,
Used properly, the numbers
arg invaluable. Used, for the
wrong purpose, however, the
numbers, can often distort and
deceive
What people
are saying...
"The number of attorneys
who-can handle political
criminal trials in this country ' -
-you Tcan count on one hand. "
-jOefense attorney Leonard
I. Weinglass, defense counsel
for convicted Symbionese
Liberation Army members
William and Emily Harris.
Plot To Kill Kissinger
Stopped 4 Days Short J
filed under I). S or R.“--
Calmly and ‘clearly I began ex-
EpTaimng my "tale of Doe". Once
upon a time In the small town of
Pelly, a woman from Old Town
•;went to a hospital in New Town,
now called Baytown, and gave
birth to a'baby girTcalled, .
WASHINGTON - A reported
plot to assassinate Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger in Costa
Rica six months ago was blocked
by U.S. and Costa Rican au-
thorities four days before it was
supposed to be carried out.
We have pieced together the,,
story from secret testimony be-
fore the Senate Internal Secur-
ity Subcommittee and from in-
terviews with Cuban exiles and
U.S. intelligence sources.
A Cuban terrorist named Or-
lando Bosch Avila, was reported
to be gunning for Kissinger. The
attempt on the secretary’s life
ryas expected, according to un-
derground reports, during his
visit to Costa Rica last Febru-
ary.
. Shortly - before Kissinger’s ar-
rival, Bosch slipped into Costa
Rica on a false passport. But the
FBI and Secret Service had been
alerted. They traced Bosch's...
movements and notified the Cos-
, ta Rican authorities. The sus-
pected assassin was arrested and
clapped into a tiny jail cell four
days before Kissinger got to
. town. ■
The plot to kill Kissinger ap-
parently grew out of his over-
tures to improve , relations with
' Cuba's Fidel Castro back in 1972.
This reportedly upset an anti-
Castro terrorist band", known as
j. Cuban Action, which Bosch
headed
We reported part of the story
two years later after a lengthy in-
vestigation in Miami. In. col-
'umns on Sept 1 and Nov. 12,
1974, we warned that anti-Cas-
, tro terrorists planned an "assas-
sirtation against American
congresmen and businessmen
who supported a . . thaw." We
noted that Kissinger had been in
touch with Castro.
The first hint that Kissinger,
himself, was une of the targets
came taler from Carlos Rivero
Collado, son of the man elected
. to the presidency of Cuba in
1958. Rivero was active in the
anti-Castro underground in Mi-
ami's iittle Havana: But he later
' re-defected to Cuba where he
gave a fascinating interview.
T have known privately since
1972." he,said. "(about) .the plan
to assassinate the U.S. Secretary,
of St-ate " He said the plot had
takbn "certain form" by 1973
.-and hay been .:'actualized" by
1974 - -- -- ......
Then in a reference tb our 1974
columns, he added. "This fact
whifft. I repeat, I've known pri-
vately. has been corroborated by
the U S journalist Jack Ander-
son, '
... Rivero named Bosch as one of
the 18 anti-Castro ie.iders who
had. conspired to kill U.S. and
other leaders promoting a Cub-
an-American detente. Bosch al-
ready had been convicted in 1968
of shelting-a Polish fighter with a
bazooka while it was moored in
Miami. H? jumped federal pa-
role and fled to Venezuela in
1974.
singer. He is now at large some-
where in Latin America.
DEMOCRATIC presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter must
have Don Johnson in mind when
he charges that the Republicans
find cushy jobs in the bureau-
cracy for defeated GOP legisla-
tors.
Johnson, a former Iowa Con-
gressman. was appointed by
President Richard Nixon to head
the Veterans Administration.
But he was forced out of office
when he proved to be a lacklus-
ter leader. So he was shuffled
over to the Commerce Depart- j- denied having any plans for a
ment, where he has been en-
sconced as deputy assistant fo-
ment alone, Johnson has spent
« at least $7,000 on travel, $5,204 in
the last year. He always goes
first class, despite the fact that
government regulations, require
coach travel for federal em-
ployes. The enterprising John-
son, however, has a ready ex-
cuse for his luxury accommoda-
tions."
I'm a hell of a big mam" he
told our reporter Barbara Takei,
Tm 6-5 and weigh 270 pounds. "
Johnson also said his bad back
forced him to fly in the forward
compartment. Despite his many
excursions to his home state, he
retary for Domestic and Inter-
national Business.
Johnson has used both his VA
and Commerce posts to travel,
mostly, back to Iowa, where he
has kept his political fences
mended in the hope of once
again running for office.
At the Commerce . Depart:
comeback in politics.
Bible Verse
FOR HE taught his disciples,
and said unto them. The Son of
man is delivered into the
hands,of men. and they shall
kill him: and after that he is
killed, he shall rise the third
dav. Mark 9:31
Dr. Lamb
Some help
for osteoporosis
DEAR DR. LAMB — I was
enlightened by your column on
"Porous bones in women." I
suffer from osteoporosis of
the spine and, am interested in
learning what proportions of
sodium fluoride, calcium and
vitamin D I should take daily.
Would it be possible for you to
inform me what you consider
a reasonable dosage'’ I am 61
years, old and am
recuperating from a bad at-
tack of sciatiear
I have never taken calcium
and do not enjoy milk. I plan
to start taking calcium tablets
immediately. Lately 1 have
been reading articles on nutri-
tion'and realize as a nation we
do not pay enough attention to
our diets.
DEAR READER - You
should see your doctor about
what you should take for your
own individual case, There is
a lot to the proper manage-
ment of a person with dissolv-
ing bones i osteoporosis i.
The . Mayo Clinic reported
good success using daily a
combination of 50 milligrams
of sodium fluoride and 600 to
1000 milligrams of calcium
carbonate or gluconate
-supplement plus 50.000 units
of vitamin D twice a week.
This was reportedin
-Postgraduate Medicine.^ Oc-
tober 4972 and Modern
Medicine' March 5, 1973. in
case your doctor is interested
in mv source for a referenrp
DEAR DR LAMB - Just
what is~TTvancdse vein and is-
if true that jogging causes
this’’
DEAR READER - Sorry;
you are getting the benefits of
•an article from Playboy
magazine that I disagree with
entirely.
Varicose veins, are dilated
veins, usually of the legs com-
monly seen in women- after
pregnancy Normally there
are small valves inside the leg
veins to make the venous
blood ali flow one way. up
toward the heart. When the
Veins dilate and overstretch
the valves don't work The
veins become ponfunctlonmg
sacks, like overstretched
balloons, and when a person is.
on his feet they are full of
stagnant blood.
The veins in the outside of
the leg normally drain direct-
ly into the deep veins of the
leg When one stands still
there is a lot of pressure from
the upright column of blood in
the legs The pressure can in-
crease the swelling of the leg
veins. But as soon as you take
one step the contracting
muscles in the legs squeeze
down on the deep veins and
milk the blood toward the
heart The ner result is that
the pressure inside the veins
falls dramatically with walk-
ing and hence with jogging.
Walking and jogging then,
as opposed to standing still,
decreases the pressure inside
the veins of The tegs and helps
to protect against varicose
veins rather than causing
them thej^writer of the
Playboy article apparently
did not consider the important
-difference of muscular -Con-
traction with jogging as op-
posed to standing still So you
and many others have been
needlessly alarmed
v -The CPI does have an appli-
cation that is more limited than
many people realize, but it is
nonetheless an essential meas-
urement of over-all direction,
one that policy/ .makers could
scarcely do without.
It does, however, have rather
limited application to individual
decision-making because of the
Wf) tPaptoton &un
Leon Brown .....................Editor and Publisher
John Wadley ........... ........ General Manager
Fred Hornberger................ Assistant to Publisher
Fred Hartman...........» . , Editor and Publisher, 1950-1974
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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendergrass . . ............. .... Executive Editor
Jim Finley ............................ Managing Editor
Wanda Orton............... Associate Managing Editor
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Leonard Weinglass
The Way
It Was
August 27, 164(1 — Plantation
Agreement — Providence set-
tlers agreed on religious liberty.
MONTHS’ LATER; he was re-
ported to be in Curacao, pro-
tected by Chilean gunmen. He ,
bragged, according to the re-
ports. of his "money, friends and
protection."
Florida's Dade County Public
Safety Department, because of
the huge Cuban population in
Miami, has excellent ties
throughout Latin America. In
- early 1976: tije county’s terrorist
expert, Lt Thomas Lynch, pick-
ed up some electrifying news.
He tojd the Senate Subcom-
mittee about it in secret testi-
mony. "We received informa-,
tion from confidential sources,"
4 he swore, "that there was going
......to be an attempt on the life of
Secretary of State Henry Kissin-
ger ... We passed the informa-
tion on to the FBI, and they had
also received the information.
..jnd we notified the Secret Serv-
ice, as th^y have the protective
duty for the Secretary of State."
The plot was linked to Kissin- ,
ger's two-day stay in Costa Rica,,
and Bosch was picked yp and
questioned. He was held qn a
fake passport charge until Kis-
singer was safely out of the eoun-
try. , i
Bosch later insisted: "My only,
crime was entering the country
with a false,passport." Certain-
ly, it Was never proved in court
that he hoped to knock off Kis-
Berry’s World
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