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Editorials — Features — Opinion
THE BAYTOWN SUN Tuosdav,. D«c«nrib*r 5, 1978
. Washington --
Even The Cats
Are Grinning
Sometimes the U.S. government goes out ofits way to
prove it carrte an absolute nuisance.
»Take the case of Southern Clay Inc., which has a factory
*at Paris, Tenn., putting out a clay product for cat-boxes
best known as “Kitty Litter.”
a,simple enough process, but the federal Mine Safe-
ty and Helath Administration insists that since clay comes
from the'ground — an excavation half a mile from the
Kitty Litter plant - the company aptualfy is engaged in
mining and milling. .“ - ■
Therefore, says MSHA, Southern Clay is subject to safe-
MEWCO'^
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON — Air traffic ^
control is a serious business, and
the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration run& an academy in Okla-
homa City to teach the nidi-.
ments of the profession.
Not everyone takes the train-
ing seriously, however. Accord-
ing to confidential State Depart-
ment cables, two dozen students
- from Libya tended to regard the. "
FAA academy as a setting for
the movie. “Animal House”
Libyan Students Pose
FAA Academy Problem
fore he became attorney gen-
eral. We also mentioned that his
son had been appointed as the
attorney for the Savannah school
systeih:.
ate in s'uch matters. But the de-
cision was later made by then]..
In the original column, we
cited a Justice Department
MR. ANDERSON also said the
annexation was a successful ef-
fort by the ‘white establish-
ment' to dilute black voting pow-
statement disputing our find- er in Savannah. In fact, The Sa-
ings. We later published a cot___ vannah Morning News pointed
rection, clearing up a couple of out, 'the black community voted
technical errors. The attorney overwhelminglyapprove '
general still isn’t satisfied that the annexation” . , •
his side of the story has been . The column asserted that the
told fairlv. He feels strongly that -mayor of Savannah made sev- -
ty rules that govern, say, coal miners working in shafts
several hundred feet down.
The company has been told to devise an escape system
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"mine." Southern Clay estimates it will lose 6,000 man-
hours in production time givaigits..25QJactory. workers
special training ijj how to escapeimm a rttme. disaster.
One thing that has always.impressed us about cats, in
addition to their tidiness, is that they seem to watch the
human world with a sense of wise and detached
superiority; as though they wondered what the hustle and
bustle is all about. If they grin from time to time, as some
people insist, it’s no wonder.
1 *
■■232?*. S:S
attack on mv son and me. Washington and met with the
said,, for instance, that my head of the Civil Rights DivI-
> JOB.
disregards _
rules and practices established
aSISSfe *&&&
not attending classat. all." X fffrs wasan^co
Almost half the Libvans re- over redistricting was going on. Department s decision on annex-
Almost nall Tfie Libya---in faL.t, my soh was appointedby.....ation and-my son’s-appointment
fused to apply for renewal of ex-
pired visas, the State Depart-
ment reported.
Because of "similar experi-
ence with Libyan students sev-
eral years ago'," the FAA re-
is blatantly false. His only con-
k
The Mrk?QuestiGhs:
Ms,
student deportment.-” But the
..proctor, Mohamed Twir, “has
been ignored by students in his
several attempts to correct situa-
' . V-; tion," the cable notes.
Ik
rty questions, mostly dark, are raised by the
Guyanan atrocity. . •
Could the mass deaths in any reasonable way have been
prevented? Some critics blame the State Department and
FBI for not having investigated the Jonestown colony
adequately and warning of its murderous potential.
But another scenario could be written whereby too-
zealous scrutiny of such a situation, particularly in a
location outside U.S. jurisdiction, could be construed as
closest to it may well have been their own as a damned if
they did, damned if they didn’t situation
Capitol Spotlight - -
San Francisco Crime.
Unit Is One Of Best
By MARTHA ANGLE
And ROBERT WALTERS
fund'the overcharge.
EARLY IN THE training pro-
gram, the frustrated Twir ad-
vised school officials that many
of his fellow students were-,
cheating on examinations. "In- ~
- structors ‘scrambled’ the tests
and eliminated most of prob-
lem." the cable said, adding;
' Individual test scores dropped
dramatically.” ”
The Libyan government was
finally persuaded to take action.
Embassy representatives went
to the academy and laid down
the law to the fractious -stfr
the countywide independent
school board, which hasJWJO;......“necfion was by accident of geog-
litical connection wbrtwer-witk-^ ja^Aflives.in Savannah) and
the city or the city council. I had accident of birth (he is my son),
nothing to do with that appoint-• » '1 recognize the First Amend-
ment, although I was p/oud of ment need for full, free and even
my. son when t learned that he ” unfair comment by the press on
hasbeen selected. The legal is- public- officials and public af-
sue Of the redistricting was dis- fairs. Ordinarily, I would not re-
eussed with me by my ass'oci- spond to a column such as Mr.
afes, Mr. Egan and Mr. Days, at Anderson's, but dragging in my
their request, which is appropri- son was beyond the pale. "
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Decern
This coming -
■subieetefcjef
pated change,
upsetyou Mt
...: L-MoiMaUpi
HEALTH
By Lawrence E. Lamb. M.D.
re .
-X
At night when - you are
lying down, the fluid m the
hardy9 Should they have exercised greater caution? Un- jn many cities it's called the
doubtedly. but it is a chronic failing of reasonable men - "Mayor's Complaint Center,"
------ITEM-:-A-little boy complained
that a merchant refused to pay
the standard deposit, on re-
gfflftgaesas.....
but seldom willing to file com told t0 sftaDe 110 or S|UD out"And
DEAR DR. LAMB 1 had
heart failure and was rushed . .*
mis^ajo1'' anc” every . S^Sbed^hgnypu-
checkup they tell me my S1* UP all day or stand up,
heart and lungs are perfect. y°ur I?et ®bd ankles are
hut 1 still take-Lasix......... below your, heart level. The
In the mornings my ankles fluid tends to-aecurnulate in
are normal, but by night direction, spe^
credit the full horror of which the unreasonable are
capable until it is often too late.
If there is any basic truth to be derived from the
rrjurderous end of the Jonestown colony, an exulting of
sac
-tion is to generate good will, sumerTYaud Gnit secured the * Y^nd*. members of- minority
publicity and political support youngster's refund — 20 cents'.- •• group! ’- < • . -
. for th».n»yor. ,r ” ; It’s those latter cases thaLdis-,
In other communities it’s tinguish the office here, because A CONVERTED truck called
known as the "Office of Con- other district attorneys offices the Complaint-Mobile" regu-
told to shape up or ship out. And
plaints-those who speak little the louring Twir was
English, the elderly the poor - *lven explicit authority to pun-
f_ they aredpubleinsize l am' - c^ally-in-your-^feet-and
78"years oldrdo rioTsmoke
and do not use salt. So why
That already has, been revealed many times in human
history,
quently an isolated, ill-funded , their consumer fraud work to
agpnrv with an inadequate staff . jitajnr lawsgits and broad in-
world," as India’s Mahatma Gandhi put it, “it has been
exploited the most.” .
and no real enforcement povver
In this city, however, it's a no-
vestigations.
"Other DAs told us it would be
neighborhoods but also the His-
panic Mission District and pre-
15 Rep^Lester Wolff. D-N Y...
has strongly protested the train-
ing of any Libyans at ’all. He
notes that Libyan strongman
Muammar Qaddafi has pro-
vra
Your doctor may be con-
do mv ankles swel” , tent for you to have a mild
My doctor doesn’t seem to ar^punt^af swelling of your
be concerned about the ^d ankles as long as
swelling and there is no your.lungs are clear of fluid
congestion. Is this normal and you are able to get along
and will they always stay well otherwise. Some doc-
dominantly black areas such as
Hungers Point and Western
ternational terrorists. Wolff an-
■|rily""wnjte"S«felaly: &fj StaUr
ing. ‘
............DEAR READER ^ As
■ ouf too much salt arid water
from the body, which can
Cyrus Vance: “Are we making
Libya's airport' safe for terror-
you p.
a medicine to wash salt out-
of your body. When you
eliminate the salt, it also
takes water with it. It is
You are wise to limit your
salt as much as possible. If
From Sun Files - -
WPA Workers Needed
Warm Clothing, 1938
nonsense, well-financed tniore . death to handle individual com” Addition. ” ...... . .
than $400000 annually) team of plaints,' recalls Raymond T Middle-class whites continue to A. - L f -
more than two dozen aggressive [limner: a young lawyer and Ma- , stream into the office of the Con- rootnote. A spoxesman tor
lawyers and an equal number of rine Corps veteran who left the sumer Fraud Unit, with ac- h Jiman.fc'm0assy acKnow1'
isrssrs, fi-ttsasss rssr drrriS6
ssmssi"- sssrs
,-fashionable-tor municipal gov- black grandmother who ma- - its assistance. T recently re- were .being- sent back to Libya. of t^s^ budds^ in, rat,ons' Thls rnedlclne en
commonly used in patients
who have swelling because
of heart failure. - ■
Heart failure means ’a -
your swelling really bothers
you or increases more, you :
might talk to your doctor J-
about it arid ask if there are
some additional medicines
you might take.
Many patients with heart .
failure also take digatalis —
which you didn’t mention -
bells m-sw:
This medicine
ables the heart muscle to
7aK:,~“r~”r • - «*» SsrtSilS
.DEC 5. 1938 ■ Ifrn Lange Jr., co-chairman of ^X
Mrs Anna Wright, pioneer, the Christmas seal drive in and successful te .
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ago that it was offering "very
competitive . . low bank
as a -college undergraduate."
spent more than a decade as a
computer scientist, then de-
cided to change careers and be-
'come a lawyer
photographer, take her photo on
this occasion,
By a vote of 50 to 0, Harris
DEC, 5, 1958
When Police Chief
Ford has developed an
elaborate program to make the
plaining about a problem with a
$10000 piano she had
(Hirchased” Ford recalls with a
quite capable oflakinTcare of it......“stpabbi^-a-fevannahr
herself "------------- •' ' "
-v.v4 « «»-. ”, lissues.
redistricting plamThe result Was- The a differmXUih
ZSJSTfZZ- 2 jSgASSK M ts’jk *c*
Highlands, and issuanre of $21* their photo made as they
000 in bonds is authorized. The observe construction of the new
district embraces 4,000 acres, police administration building
near Highlands. The drainage . run South Main, the pair is tagged
project will cost $55,000 of which as Montgomery-Ward ”
the government will supply $34,” Election judge N'ami Katribe
™ - Works Progress Ad- announces Precinct 102 polling
place will be moved to Paul
Prince Butck. 2800 Market, from
Community House No. 2.
Footnotes to files:
Polling place for Box 102
isee 1958) was moved several
It’S
Possible
cently reported that Attorney . . .
General Griffin Bell "medi- vemfAnto your tissues. The ^ - nuid,.that accumulates
1,ed"
. fSarr,ount ot.1,uld ,n the . • marked disappearance of
symptoms.
to; reduce black representation whether it is theTrftside'&f :r~” ^ -
on the city council the heart or the right side of
Bell's intervention was unpre- the heart that fails. When
cedented. since the Justice De- .- the left side fails, people
partment receives as many as 50 experience shortness of
redistricting proposals in a breath. This may occur with
week. Earlier, Assistant Attor- exe.rti# but if the comlitior. ;
neyGeneral Drew Days III had 2^ « ma> occur
Today In
History -
000 in
ministration (WPA) labor funds
Oimmissioners of the district
are Harfv K Johnson, S.J.
Philpott and'-Albert Ward.
B B. Williams, Goose Creek
city engineer for the WPA curb
to the WPi^crew members so
i hey can work during the. cold
weather He says several men
get sick in cold weather because
they have no coats.
' “ ‘"'DEC. 511148
Building permits for
School. Andy Contreras is elec-
tion judge.
Anna Wright (see 19S8) was
the adopted daughter of Texts
patriot Asbbel Smith, who
made his home at Evergreen
on a bluff overlooking TaBbs
Bay. • ,
sumer Fraud Unit investigated
and found that the interest rates
actually were among the highest „
in the state. ”
Rather than contest the unit's
civil suit alleging false and mis-
leading advertising, the bank
agreed to pay $275,000 to settle
the litigation out of court.
Item: In advertisements plac-
ilSiSXSlJt- ^rggifflS, iig*as,mm awR«.i
* olUmlhrtnpstoRl™. rmn^vwiSS som.on. !o °“b Ik toL a miq, ut « uttaBip.
Npv tor on Thoae-who sign- fating -I hflimrt. thp mne-therapy-fw^huiriari^imiST. PracU!*<i-tow *n Savannah be- other disorders. ment of the American West.
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SAGITTARIUS
. 21) As long as
to do things yi
a cheery per:
with today. He
site will be trti
are qoestione
secrets of ge
others rn yoUr
Letter Mai! 5-
and a long,
damped env
Graph. P.0 B-
Station. N Y '
..........speofy riuth s
CAPRICORN
.Today you'll t
get a tew tic
■ -who has caus
recently You
.....you voice any
. AQUARIUS (.
Dor: try to
\ dollar with
' fnqnd today '
- not beaselasl
PISCES (Feb.
»toortant goals
----- TodSyr'-riutHh
tain.e'd easily
' face oppositii
your best effo
ARIES (March
wary today of
........Tinning. Ther
may say- sqm
•ire! and then
refracting-you
TAURUSJ
S (Apri
era! people ar
about situatior
to you. Don't t
that tney coi
when thev rep
GEMINI (May
Cision is you'
__e.nemo)day-
jqsihve rather
the things that
CANCER (Jgn
sons you us
today,'
extrem.e conSi
LEO (July 23-A
be too dem
..triends today.
frut te is: no)
their loyalty tc
VIRGO (Aug.
is one UFTri'
domestic har
disrupted by \
issue on whic
mate disagree
LIBRA (Sept. 2
good at issuir
but you're like
if someone a
you What's.
goose is sauc
SCORPIO (Oc
your haste to J
ping today y
some bad pu
paying out hari
examine all mi
hilly. .....—..
ACROSS
.! .Mail'1 eh i
metal
5 Shrevyd
8 Irritates.
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..... . i Debttc s * ''*e
"'14.01 that kii
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diur;*r.««
ims ■ %== is mm mm
al $9 but promised that it would
be refunded at the destination.
When no refunds were fortb-
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Aiiistant to Publisher
Leon Brown.......
Frtd ttornbergtr .. ..
Fred Herjman....... ............ Editor end Publisher, 1950:1974
: ~ (Chairman of Board Southern Nawspapers, Jack.——
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendergrass.. ......Executive Editor
Jim Fjnley..:................................................Paging Editor
Wanda Orton....................................Associate .Managing Editor
-------- ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.....
John Osbourn.................................................Retail Manager
Pat B. McDonald.,.......Classified Manager
race would be if someone that isgoing-down tfiesewer
could developacheap, pollu- of negative thinking to be
tion-free. constant energy turned ipto positive, con-
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bilked its customers. TTie com- thing for the human family (ration, jealousy, seif-pity
pany promptly agreed to pay would be for someone to and guilt could be reversed
$10,000 in fineymdfrestitution.” ' develop an inexpensive, non- until that same force begins
ltenrr An elderly woman pollution-producing simpli- to turn generators that pro-
claimed that a downtown jew- fied system of turning salt duce the energy called hope,
eler estimated it would «st $10 water into sweet water. optimism, and joy. what a
to repair a broken necklace, but " Then all of the deserts would
Berry’s World
transformed world we would
■ "No, that’s not the
answer," came a strong
voice from somewhere in the
become blossoming agricul-
frave!"
How much of your mental
The Way
It Was
S»
130' W*nw
By c»rr.w.
Sunday HUMlIKIIfM
December 5,177* — Phi Beta
Kappa founded at College of
William aad Mary
MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATES CRESS
n. rr„,»
rafted The S.- s . ex -
LETTER POLICY —
-------ill aeniinnaui ueon re-
Bible Verse
on.t mah(eners vw BecwnuieitU Ht AuMlcalian
Dues) *»r good and w«cien' -fawn PMate Me? leOari Utorl
FOR WE are his workman-
ship, created ia Christ Jesas
into good worts, which God
hath before ordained that we
shook! waft ia them. Epbe-
room. "What gbod is Food
and health if people are at
war? The greatest thing
someone could offer “Would
be a system of international
law- where all people would
agree to Jive together in
brotherhood without violat-
ing anyone's human
freedom!"
About this time I decided
to chime in. I stood before
the group and said, T do not
intend to minimize the enor-
moUs value of what you have
energy in the. course of a
week is drained into negativ-
ity instead of being chan-
neled as a force to produce
dynamic and constructive
new ideas? Such a system of
"converting the potential pol-
lution of negative energy
into a positive force has been
developed! The key is pray-
er, the model is Jesus, and
the pattern is the lord’s
Prayer! That can change
your life! Check it out today!
mentioned. I agree with
Reverend Schuller, pastor of
the Garden Grove, Calif. Com-
munity Church, can be heard
weekly ori his nationally syndi-
-f
cgTVprogram,
Hour of
bus discovered the West Indian
island rof Santo Domingo.
In -1776. the first scholastic
fraternity in AmericyPhi Beta
Kappa, was ^hized aT the ' " ^
College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg, V
In l934. 66 people were exe-
t:5. Stole"
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!6 8«-":1 " " :
■ iiowiHva'il
t ^ Parasites --
; '8 ufryers- _ :
20 l.nSMY;! -
-22 -Sesame pam
23. Wirstess; ■ -- ‘
signs)
'74 CToaK s
2? OiT-lsuffm.
'28 GU"iie
31 HVll|ll.lii1
- ’Wiet""
32 Real-estate'
map -
33 Doctrine
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35 Russian city ’
36. Conferteraie.
States Army
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37 Author of
(he Raven •
cuted in Russia after purge
friafc ffl wMcfr-they were ac-
Stalin regime.
Ten years ago: Rome was"
paralyzed by a, 24-hour strike,
but three weeks of Communist-
out the rest of the country.
Five years ago: The United,
States and Romania signed an
economic cooperation agree-1
ment at the conclusion of a vis-
it to Washington by Romanian ;
President Nicolae Ceausescu.
Today’s birthdays: Republi- j.
can Sen. Strom Thurmond of ’
South Carolina is 78. Former
Army Secretary Stanley Resor
is 61. • •
Thought for today: Business. 1
you know, may bring money
but t
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