The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 189, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 8, 1982 Page: 4 of 20
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SUM
<EDITORIAL
Editorials
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Law Adequate To Deal
With DWI Problems
A ne* y/>k tha’ eoul-d holster nation*i6e moves to do a
oetier jot of controlling drinking drivers claims that as
many as 10 percent of aiJ drivers are drunk by legal
vf Hitions. on weekend nights
Deterring the Drinking Driver Legal Policy and
Social Control was written by H Laurence Ross pr>
lessor at State University of New York at Buffalo It is
sponsored by the insurance Institute for Highway Safety-
Now in general circulation the book says most motor
vehicle crashes :n which alcohol plays a role involve far
greater quantities than one of two drinks It takes a look
at ways public resources are directed at controlling
Inmken driving .
the Justice and Transportation Departments and
other federal agencies are urging states to take ad-
vantage of federal funds expected to be made available
gfc pending legislation to develop and implement
stric t la ws against drunken dri vers
The House will soon begin consideration of legislation to
■ 125 m 11 or, in Vfrl and 150 million in I9W for the.
Trans porta ion Secretary to make available to states to
fight the drunken driver menace
To gam a share of these funds states would have to
agree to follow federal guidelines in developing legisia
•non and other programs to control drunken drivers
Commenting on Professor Ross book. Dr Wiliam Had
don president of the Insurance Institute, said
It pulls together for the first time m one place, the
world’s best research on drunken driving and what works
and doesn't work or might work to reduce it
The book claims that while large amounts of alcohol
must be consumed for blood alcohol concentrations to ex
ceed 0 10 percent, roadside surveys have shown that on
weekend nights as many as 10 percent of all drivers have
such illegal concentrations ...
One way to restrain people from drinking and driving is
Jack Anderson
Taxes — Nuclear
Holocaust Or No
accessary figures m audit situa-
tions
to this bureaucratic nightmare
tt mlgnt be thought the tax coilec
tor* mold amply throw up their
hand m despair Bui no ooe ever
got rich underestimating the
buOdif tenacity - of i .federal
bagman Despite the basic sur-
vtral' problem* of tta unto-
rtneratod the IKS agents Will, on
summoned to doty by the
the Brown campaign strategy
^ Robert Walters
^ Only The Violators
One way to restrain people from anniing ana anving is
to toughen laws governing the violation the book pro- l^y j 11 fjpt D6n0f it
^ The greater the perceived liklihood of apprehension Washington sea The nuaiiy that * less than io per
prosecution conviction and punishment the more severe locale is the White House and the cent of the value of consumer
the perceived eventual penalty and tne more ,t* w.
perceived to be administered the greater will be the „ ^ consider** yixt
deterrent Professor Ross wrote pnde his initiative to substantial In addition former nv Chair
He said the most promising route would be to introduce ly enhance the agency’s regional man Michael Pertscbui now a
WASHINGTON - If you mould
mrvtve a nuclear holocaust, you
aught thak you'd deserve, a brief
respite from federal taxes ss you
watt lor the dust to settle Perish
the thought
The U S Treasury has already,
begun plotting to remove even
dm day silver Inung from the
mushroom shaped clouds of
nuclear euaftict Come dooms-
day tax collectors wtfl have a thetr few could presumably be
hand is the pockets’-of--the-mr-
vtvsro Some of the paperwork
has' already been completed • it's
titled Design of an Emergency
Tax System •
The author of tius remarkable
document ts Gary Robbias. a
senior official m -the Treasury*
under secretary's office He con-
cedes there will be some wor
-.some problems facing the Inter
sal Revenue Service as it lets
about putting the arm on dazed
distraught survivors of- a nuclear
attack
For examp* the income tai
system is extremely vulnerable to
losses of records of transactions
the memo cautions These
records are required in order to
■detennme. .the base for tax at any
penod of time ’
In other words.- if a hardy tax
payer should make it safely to the
fallout shelter but the employer s
payroll records were incinerated
how would he get accurate W 2
forms to submit with the 1040 on
April 15'
The necessary information
would not he available for prepar
a convincing threat of probable apprehension for the organization
accomplish the goal he added boast* the Chairman, Doling that
Among the book S findings before the reorganization the
: Drivers who have substantia! blood-alcohol concen- ^ most centralized
trations more often are responsible for crashes in which *^y oflh* ,eder!ll*ov"n
they are involved than the other drivers ‘ The year was i»7o and the ooaom
2. Craktes in which alcohol plays a role are much more speaker was C aspar w scbuk Yet ms plan to
severe than other crashes alcohol plays a role in about .V; Weinberger a staunch eliminate regions! offices would
percent of all fatal crashes . Republican who now head* the not. withstand even a primitive
3 Most drunken drivers involved ,n serious and fatal ______
crashes have blood alcohol concentrations of 0 10 percent pr„idenu wh(, Mr>ed (act ^ ftc* stroc
of hjgher . usually m uch higher durtng the past two decades ture the field offices not only
A'Separate Study bv the Transportation Department of Weinbergers achievement is serve as outposts to deal with
500 drivers involved m automobile crashes in upstate New »°rth recalling a dozen years regional issues hut also band*
Democratic member of the com
mission, suggests that Miller's
estimates fail to fake into account
the funds that must be spent for
severance pay relocation lost
productivity and wasted
- resources.
The chairman is one of the na
tion s leading proponents of cost
benefit analysis, -says Pert
If sufficient damage is done
to the continental United State*
the Treasury memo
acknowledges-’ 'the tax system
itself.may nave to oe changed -
But Treasury has a solution
ready'
Instead of an income tax, one
could design a general sate* tax
which would raise five revenues
required.'' Robbins suggest* A
point-of purchase tax would hav e
the twin advantage* of ®**> eoL
lectioo by the IRS and encourage
mem of savings to aid in
rebuilding the capital stock he.
explains
The author has even figured out
.how big a sales tax would be need-
ed The general, sales .lax or.
final sales would have to be ap-
proximately 20 percent in order to
replace the current individual
and corporate income taxes
Social Security taxes, and estate
and gift taxes
Footnote Suspicious that the
Treasury document might be a
tongue-in-cheek exercise may
mg of tax returns and determm associate Lucette Lagnado called
mg tax liability the Treasury Robbins He said he wrote a
memo concedes Further, the holocaust lax collection plan a
Internal Revenue Serv ice would coup* of yean ago It was quite
find it impossible to verify the serious he said
From Son Files
E. Harris Bar Association
Led By Girardeau in 1962
From The Baytown Sun files
this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
» years ago
JUNE1.1K2
Mrs Bessie Pfistner is elected
noble grand and Mrs Grace
Parker, vice grand of the Goose
CreekRebekafi Lodge "“7“.
Jean Wilson. Robert E Lee stu-
dent becomes state president of
the Junior Classical League The
The Bavtowm Oilers chalk up
their seventh straight »m down
mg the Glenn McCarthy
Shamrocks of Houston 12 8 Otters
Manager Jess Burch says the
next game wtll be against Conroe
JUNE 8, 1*62
James W Girardeau of
Baytown is elected president of
the East Harm County Bar
Association Roscoe R Zierlem
York mean.nUe tSJTTC
the Rev Terry Wilson pastor of treasurer Outgoing officers are
Cedar Bayou Methodist Church Tommy McManus president
The Rev Glenn Evans former Darnel Elkins vice president
ly of Goose Creek graduates. andWilliamJ Gid*y secretary
from Boston University School of treasurer
Theology Houston Lighting 4 Power Co
Grac* Lee Turner is elected asks Baytown City Council to
president of the Theo Rho Club grant it a rat? increase the first
JUNE k. 1952 time in the company s 7* year
The executive committee of the history-that is has sought an m
quitters or oilier drugs m the bloodstream of nearly four
X'M?he10proh,ems to deaUng drunken davmg aS'S'SSSSSS
cases in Harris County in the past has been that they were millions of Americans of ready of major ett companies deceptive
handled too routinely and tnat Junes »««d too light 21SS‘SAT S
7^ sun believes that ,ns,ead of enact,ng SffSStSSSXl
more laws to deal with the drunken driver problem, we renUy operated by the FTC an largest producer of blue Jeans
could handle it just as well by more strict enforcement Of’office in Kansas City. Mo was Finally. Milter has handled a
could handle it just as well oy more strict enforcement oi ™ » SSTTii - m Boston delicate mat er m an equity Fneods °» ^r.rv *■" »«< to E c Jack
laws already on the to,k, and t,v .titter punishment lor JS““S£ 5J12E2 wuen- lib Me ol Rnoen B.yt»n , hl*f
violators
H— SiSSs
tn et v ■ «L. C T SbeweU. Jack Ward *od rate * 77 ccot* for 17 kilowatt
George G«>try They are to hours Under the proposed
Their workload is to be con to six. but failed throughout the
solidated into the operations of ensuing six months to specify
asMirsras:
abandoned
•Our failure to do so has had
£fir IBaptoton feun
in Atlanta Chicago, Cleveland
Dallas New York and San Fran
CISCO ■ predictab* unfortunate results.
Hiller claims the reorganua My* Patricia P Bailey, a
tion is part of an austerity pro- Republican member of the corn-
gram to give the taxpayers a mission "All 10 of our offices,
bigger band for their buck The. uncertain of their future, have
evidence suggests, however, that suffered varying degree* of afs-
it is an ill-conceived scheme that tety, low morale ancTa loss of good
will serve only the interests of personnel
those engaged In Utegsl unfair The commission finally
and anti competitive trade prac designated the offices to be closed
ttces to mid-April, but Comm**toner
At a time when President Bailey notes that a reduction in
Raagas to pnatotiag the concept our regional presence will limit
taming another library building kilowatt hour* for $1 JO, a ti-cent
Dr A R Padgett is chairman ■ difference to the mtoimum bill
Mr* Lon Perkim. Wooster MF Harmon, counselor at
Baptist Church librarian, tells Carver High School, is one of 30
plans for a story hour during the educators selected to attend a
summer counseling and guidance training
Mrs SC Davidson s piano institute June 18 through July 27
pupils present a recital at the at San Fernando Valley State Col '
Community House . lege to Northrtdge. Calif
Today In History
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of bringing government closer to our version, our perspective and June I. tbeltoth day
the people. Ms administration is our ability to respond to the real of There toWSH
decimating a regional structure needs of business and consumer* days toft in the year
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The selection of field offices to
be ctoaed leaves ietor - major
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Bible
Verse
"And therfor* will the Lord watt.
ftnt He may be gracious nuto you.
and therefore will He be exaitod.
that He may have mercy upon
you. for the Lord to a God of
■ Today's highlight
in history
Qn June 8. C32. the
Prophet Mohammed
On this date
In 1*42 Japanese
submarines, shelled
Sydney, Australia, to
World War n.
And to 1973. Spain s
Generaliaalmo Fran
daco Franco relin-
quished sot
power by naming Ad-
miral Louis Carrero politician was kilted
Bianco as Premier by terrorists
Five years ago 0ne year ag0
The House Ethics Israel announced
Committee voted to tto wan»)a|ws
require Congress ha<J destroyed a
members to thsctooe mdear mtto to’
details of lirjnqtipmutito
!“.®CL,ti0nf_ W“]’ manufacture of
we^wtis at
fort to determine the
scope of that govern
ment's Influence
poddHng - oi. Capitol
m
In 1971. PWMto
Salvador Altende
declared a stale of
that facility
Today’s birthday
Supreme Court
Justice Byron White
is 85 years old
Thought For To-
day: ft to easy to be
after an antUeftut - English proverb
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 189, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 8, 1982, newspaper, June 8, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063528/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.