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Editorials • Features • Opinions
TMf BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, February 14, 1*71
Tax Burden Is An
Economic Threat
Washington Report - -
South African Agents
The other day Charles Schultze, the chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers, said, "The most impor-
tant development threatening sustained economic
recovery is the increasing burden of taxes borne by die
average taxpayer,"
Given that Schultxe is absolutely correct, the wonder is
thflt the Carter administration's proposed Us cut package
would do so little to deal with the problem
In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, William Fellner of
Yale makes the worthy observation that thes
/response
creasing bui^n^Uje* inflation ,, •
in» administration uses tiW'sHmTnstmrr That someon
(with a spouse and two children) making 120,000 in 1979
will gain, because the tax cut, $150 even after paying the
higher Social Security taxes. Yet this is misleading, as
Fellner jjoints out,
If our worker ii making $20,000 at the beginning of 1979,
he must finish the year having made an additional $1200
In order to keep pace with inflation, figured to be six per-
cent,
Yet to earn $21,200, as Fellner goes on to say, has its
own complications. Our worker will be clipped for $276 in *
income taxes on the extra $1,200. By itself, the $276 ex-~
reeds the $150 tax cut bn the initial $20,000
Fellner s point is that at this neighborhood of income,
our worker’s tax liability increases by somewhat more
than six percent, the rate of inflation
What to do? Clearly, Washington should adjust the tax
schedules so that, as in the case of our example, a six per-
cent salary Increase does not automatically increase the
proportion of Income taxes This is called "indexing "
Indexing would prevent the tax burden from Increasing
because of inflation, thereby It would help sustain the
economy recovery.
It is a tax reform the administration should consider
‘Spy’ On Congressmen
tral Intelligence Agency quoted
an imide source as saying: "The
majority of the military leaden
believed Park would step down
in 197$ ... If Park decides to
continue, (the source) believed
that the President would re-
ceive very little military or pub-
lic support"
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - South Afri-
can agents slipped into dosed
congressional briefings and ob-
tained unauthorized informa-
tion twice last month
On Jan. 18, an uninvited offi-
cial of the South African em-
bassy attended a State Depart-
ment briefing The session was
restricted to members of Con-
gress and their staffs.
Again on Jan. 31, an em-
ployee of a la* firm represent-
ing South Africa posed asaron-
gresional aide to get into an-
other off-the-record briefing. * «ai toi strong supporters oi
The firstmetdent may have. **hepresident.Therefore,anyat-
been inadvertent; the second tempted anti-Park.coup would
deliberate Om'S&MrW***
______ "(The-soprce) thought that a
potential violation” of U S. es-
pionage laws Another source
called the incident "morally
wrong” but said it didn't appear
to violate the laws governing for-
eign lobbyists
NEVERTHELESS, THE CIA in-
formant "emphasized that a
military coup against the Park
regime would not succeed. He
explained that the military com-
manders in and around the Seoul
area were strong supporters of
any event, the result would not
be popularly supported by the
military or the people."
This secret assessment, which
dates back five yean, is still con-
sidered by our sources to be
sound. A coup against President
Park, despite the bribery scan-
dal, would not likely succeed to-
day, they say.
Footnote; The first published
report on Tongsun Park's con-
gressional connections ap-
peared in our column on April 1,
1974. The column told of his
"lobbying" on Capitol Hill and
his close ties to Rep. Richard
Hanna, ftCalif. Yet it waj a year
• tatv before flit. SasWrDepaft-
ment began its i •
ever, it would have to be done
with the President 's approval. In
possibility of bribery until July
17, 1975.
HEALTH
Big deal!
Capital Spotlight - -
Marston Case Could
Seed Selection Basis
The tint briefing was ar-
ranged by Reps. Thomas Dow-
ney, D-N.Y, Andrew Maguire,
D-N.J., and Edward Markey, D-
Mass After they learned about
the uninvited guest, they joined
in writing a sharp, private letter
to Soqth African Ambassador
Donald Sole;
"We believe that your staff has
seriously deceived the Ad Hoc
Committee by attending our
meeting,” complained the con-
gressmen. “We also believe that
your staffer leaked portions of
the meeting to pro-government
press in South Africa. Roth ae-
,-tions were reprehensible,”
*The ambassador responded
that his aid "arrived at the meet-
ing long after it started" and
"hear no announcement that the
meeting was closed.* The de-
tails were furnished to South
African, newspapers, 'wrote the
ambassador, “in response to en-
quiries” and "in good faith,”
Readers’ Views
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR LAMB Two
year* ago I found out that I
waa a diabetic I am almost
II 1 went to the hospital for
testa and had a teat .made
this week. My cholesterol Is
normal My blood sugar of
late has bqen 124 to 141 and
the laatIS*.
Now my doctor tells me at
my age he would prefer it to
be around ISO. At that count
he says that I am not so apt
to ha ve a heart attach This
doctor has a very large
practice,
Another doctor Instils the
sugar count should m hold
at 12S. Will you please give
me your advice? 1 seldom
•at anythlnfwith sugar in It
levels suggested as normal
in older people are really
compatible wit
health
itibie with optimal
They may Just be
common in those age groups
but so i* brartTtnd-vasctthtr
A By MARTHA ANGLE
Aid ROBERT WAITERS
" WASHINGTON (NEAt -
Having shot himself In the foot
" in the Marston case, President
Carter can no longer dodge his"
campaign promise to take the
appointment of federal prosecu-
tors out of the political spoils
tions tp congressional candi-
dates, JMT.OOO compared to
$844,000 during the first 10
months of last year
Who says money doesn't talk"
litical conservatism is largely a
semantic exercise. • •
One recent poll of merely 200,-
ofiege freshmen found a 10-
diaeaie and a tot of medical
problems you would like to
avoid
Thai leaves me where I
started tn observing that-
your levels are certainly not
system
The clumfy firing of David
Marston, the youthful Republi-
can U4 attorney for Philadel-
phia, has prompted a House Ju-
diciary subcommittee to' sched-
ule hearings next month on leg-
alarming cither too high Elation to institute some type
or ,ipo low, and I think you uf m,r„ sy„em for ,he election
should not be overly con*
turned about them
DEAR READER - My
advice ia to eat a healthy
normal diet, eliminate
obesity or avoid it if you are
already thin and stay light
on your uae of sugar and
sweets. If your condition
permits, take dally walks
and enjoy yourself. ,
DEAR DU I.AMB What
are the symptoms of preg-
nancy ' I am not sure (f t am
or not. but suspect I am I
have an enlarged stomach,
late period, heaviness in the
stomuach, and have a crav-
ing for soda crackers in the
mid
Your won't get an agree-
ment on what your blood
fiddle of the night, despite
the fact I used to hate them,
1 had intercourse about a
month ago -» three times.
I'm only a teenager Please
help, as I am worried
sugar really should be for
your age That In itself
means at the levels you have
it is net eery, important. ,
Drt. Jurgen Steinke and
Grtu-gr Thorn oF Harvard
#rite in the latest edition of
Harrison's Principles of In-
ternal Medicine for medical
students anddoctore Uyatihe
twoltour level in people over
M may be normal about 180;
, DEAR READER - You
haveldentlfled both some of
the main symptoms and the
cause. During the early
stages of pregnancy a chem-
ical teat has to be done to
determine if you are preg-
nant or not Your doctor
could do this for you.
The point they make it that
the glucose levels are higher
each decade after age M.
perhaps you can talk to one
of the teachers whom you
have Tapport with. Most
•Uthorativo
source I must say that we
at becau
often team that because a
Rading ia common in the
i does not mean it
rat, a
! obesity is
widespread in our society,
but it is certainly not condu-
cive to good health So. I an.
not certain t
ipport
communities have organisa-
tions that will help girls, but
I'm not sure for the size of
your community
'UMUilf -...MB . >va»asstvai i
§-------jMfKiktiondow nojrmier
modest amount of obesity
of federal prosecutors
And the panel, headed by Rep.
Robert W. Kastenmeier, l>Wis,
expects Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell
to tell It whether the President
will actively support such a
measure
Despite Carter's campaign
pledge, Bell has previously
shown no enthisiasm for merit
selection of U.S attorneys He.
was not anxious to antagonize
senators of the President's, par-
ty, who had traditionally re-
. garded .there jobs as patronage
plums, virtually dictating
prosecutorial nominations
Soon after Carter took office,
Bell struck a deaj with key sena
tors, The administration, he
promised, would not press mer-
it selection of IJ S attorneys if
the senators would relinquish
their patronage hold over ap-
pointments to federal appeals
- courts ~ . ■ ,.
House members like Eastern.
meter, however, see no reason to
honor such a coiy. informal ar-
rangement - particularly when
the administration's bungling of
the Manton cue has embar-
rassed ail Democrats
"We re not trying to put the
Justice Department on a-spot,"
Kastenmeier said, "but this is a
American teenagers, accord-
ing to a new survey by the Na-
tional Assessment of Fatiicaiion-
al Progress, know less today
than they did six or eight years
ago about government, polities ‘
and constitutional rights,
But there was one glaring ex-
ception to the. overall perform-
ance slide on the standardized
test It seems that l&year-olds
. showed an astonishing 20-point
increase in their scores on one
question pertaining to consUtu-
* tional rights pfThe accused in
crimina Leases,
The test supervisors rather
glumly suspect the "credit" be-
longs more to "Kojak" arid his
ilk than to classroom teachers,
000 college freshmen found a 10-
poing decline, from 37 to 27 per-
cent, in the number of students
describing themselves as “liber-
als last year compared with
1970 .‘_____
But the percentage of self-
described "conservatives” re-
TWO WEEKS later, the news-
paper editor who fled South
Africa, Donald Woods, ap-
peared behind closed doors on
Capitol Hill to testify about
abuses by the South African gov-
ernment.
Because of the earlier secur-
ity breach, extra precautions
were taken. Access to the hear-
THERB IS increasing evidence
in other surveys -that the na-
tron's supposed shift towards po^
•mained in the 15-17 range, with a
majority of the freshmen —
some 56.6 percent - labelling
themselves as "middle-of-the-
road."
Furthermore, the same poll by
the American Council on Edu-
cation found "increasing lib-
eralization of students’ atti-
tudes'' towards legalizing mari-
juana, equal rights for women
and even busing for racial bal-
ance
"Apparently views that were
once considered liberal are now
part of the mainstream of opin-
ion among today's college fresh-
men,"observed one test admin-
istrator.
From Sun Files - -
Cook Led LakewoQd
Civic Group, 1958
From The Baytown Sun files, _
this is the way it was 40 arid 30
and 20 years ago:
. •/ FEB. 16. 193*
Harvey C Kremming, inter-
national oil workers union
speaks at an open-
And 1 would add that
muny, .voung girls ere not question whore time has coroe
regular when they first be- . "
THE YEAR 1977 as everyone
president
meeting of Local 333 in Horace
Mann Junior High auditorium
He predicts Texas Gov James
Allred will never get another ml
workers union vote regardless of
whether he runs for "dog
catcher, flea catcher or anything
else " -lie also lambaste the
■in that the higher
gin menstruation Missing a
period now and then is not
all that unusual, with or
without intercourse
knows by now, was a bad year on
Capitol Hill for organized labor
and the consumer movement.
Cfje Itoptotmi &un
Leon WfW
Fred Hornberger......................Assistant to Publisher
Fred Hartman......Editor and Publisher, 1980-1974
{Chairman of Board Southern Newspapers, me.) r
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendef^rass.............;...^,T7r.Tr.tvi.....77,,.Execuftvf Editor
.Editor and Publisher,
i the consumer movement,
Business lobbyists scored unac-
customed triumphs in the heav-
ily Democratic Congress Work-
ing at least three of big labor's
pet proposals, plus the Consum-
er Protection Agency.
- Now Common Cause has re-
ported that business groups, (or
the first time, pulled ahead of ta-
bor unions in political contribu-
Humble Kmplovees Federation
as a company, union" and says
it has less than 60 days to fv^7
Dr .M S Alexander is given a
leave of absence as city health
Zatopek represent the
Distributive Education Club at
REL at a convention in Austin
FEB. 16.1958
D, Buckley Wright says
Baytown looks good after two
yearsin Venezuela; InDecember
he witnessed a revolution in the
South America rountry.
New officers of.the Lakewood
Civic Association are T. E. Cook,
president J F Elliott, .rvice
president: Mrs R E. Bums,
secretary;.-H W Kinsey.
treasurer:-. ■, ;/ '
C B PetteWjy. is en'route to
ing room was restricted to one
door, and a sign was posted at
the door that the briefing was
closed.
Inside, an aide to Rep. Dow-
ney noticed a young woman tape
recording Woods’ confidential
remarks, The aide asked the
woman to identify herself,. She
produced a congressional ID
card, identifying herself as Eva
Neterowicz from the office of
Rep Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill
It was later determined that
she left Rostenkowski's office in
October 1977, and joined the law
firm of deKieffer and Associ-
ates. The firm is registered as an
agent for South Africa and is
paid approximately 3150,000 an-
nually for legal and lobbying
work.Jjleterowicz is assigned tp
South African account, __
A spokesman for the firm said
that he was aware of the inci-
dent and that Neterowicz has
been reprimanded. All em-
ployees of the firm have bene in-
structed to represent them-
selves correctly, the spokesman
said;
The three congressmen, mean-
while, have written Ambassador
Sole a second letter, declaring:'
"Clearly your Washington rep-
resentatives have acted cc
I contrary
to your assurances and have
committed a major political
blunder." * '—.—
At the South African em-
bassy. a spokesman said the am-
bassador stands by the first let-
ter he wrote to the congress-
men. This states that embassy
officials are not authorized to at-
tend closed meetings and would
Dear Editor:
I appreciate Peter Guenther’s
interest in the local school sys-
tem (Readers’ Views, 2-13-78).
On-tome points we agree. On
many, we disagree. m .'
So that interested readers may*
compare his statements with my
exceptions and clarifications, I
will attempt to follow his gener-
al outline.
First, I am not, nor is any Har-
lem parent with whom I am fa-
miliar, interested in “forcing”
progressive education on any-w
one. We are well aware that
some parents have strong ad-
verse feelings about the type of „
education we want our children,
to have. We advocate an alter-
native for those parents.
Still, I cannot deny that many
of us to believe progressive edu-
. cation to be the best answer for
most students — "hapless," nor-
mal, intellectual or otherwise.
We believe this not through
some wild conspiracy or sense of
elitism (as Mr. Guenther im-
plies), but rather on the basis of
sound, realistic documentation.
I draw my figures not from
Reader’s Digest (a fine maga-
zine, but hardly an authority on
education), not from The Re-
view of the News (which dem-
onstrates its Bias with the title
“Stop Monkeying With Our
Schools"), but from The Public
Schools of Howard County,
Maryland, A Report by the In-
stitute of Field Studies Teach-
ers College, Columbia Univer-
sity, 1975. ”
This report clearly indicates
that Harlem Elementary is not a
"proverbial exception to the
rule,” but simply the state of the
art of education today.
All Howard County elemen-
tary schools are open concept.
Let’s look at test results using
Mr. Guenther’s own choice of
both teste (IT8S) and grade (5).
Out of 24 districts, Howard
County ranks first in spelling; It
ranks second in vocabulary,
reading comprehension, punc-
tuation, language, language to-
tal, and math problems. (Mont-
gomery County ranks first in
each of those categories. It too is
a progressive system.)
The county ranks slightly low-
er on capitalization (fourth) and
math theory (thin!), ~
Ob standardized achievement
tests for fifth graders, Howard
County students tested a full
year ahead of grade level. Grade,
equivalents range from alow of
5.8 on Arithmetic Problems to a
high of 6.2 on Arithmetic Cbn-
cepts. The total Language Skills
grade equivalent irtt
dents, but by ones with lower
grades as well. (J. McPattland
and J. Epstein, "Preliminary
Results,” Dec. 13, 1974, and
"Summary of Final Report,”
Feb. 28, 1975: The John Hop-
kins" Study, John Hopkins Uni-
versity.)
As for Mr. Guenther’s other
points:
+ Yes Harlem’s Sue Jennings
is an outstanding principal, and
those who know her agree that
she probably could “make any-
thing work." The fact that such a
woman chposes progressive edu-
cation is a recommendation in it-
self.
-1- Yes, Harlem has an out-
standing staff at hll levels - sec-
retarial, instructional, and vol-
unteer. They understand that in
a TRUE progressive school, no
student is a lost cause. No child
is dropped by the wayside in the
rush to educate the mass. Every
child is an individual, a special
creature of God, a unique col-
lection of strengths and weak-
nesses that the teacher seeks to
know and appreciate.
+ Yes, a lower pupil-teacher
ratio results in more effective
teaching and learning. I avidly
support any and all efforts at
lowering the ration at every
school in GCLSD.
+ Yes, money is provided for
bussing children to Harlem. That
is because they are being bussed
into. a . predominantly black
neighborhood and achieving (by
choice) racial balance. If it were
not for Harlem’s voluntary buss-
ing, all Baytown children would
by now be subjected to bussing
(without choice) by mandate of a
federal judge. ’ ,
+ Yes, Harlem parents do
take an active interest in their
children’s learning experience.
But so do parents at Travis,
Bowie, Lamar, St. Joseph and
other schools. To imply that only
Harlem parents are exceptional
in this regard seems unfair to
many responsible, concerned
parents in Baytown.
+ No, I do not believe that
“the majority of children will al-
ways do as little as possible..
They do not, however, like to be
bored; they do not like to feel
they are being held back by stu-
dents less talented than they;
and they do not like to feel they
are holding others back. They do
want to be challenged, to be ex-
cited, to be appreciated. No
school system does this; or even
attempts to do it, as well as the
progressive one. z
Howard County. Md„ is
Indonesia on an assignment with
Standard Vacuum Oil Co,
officer in Goose Creek while he
L)r H H Duke
Bible 'Verse
Jim FlnMy...................
Wanda AlMClate Managing Editor
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
-£- 1 7RtWMnneg*r
iiftad
goes to Marlin
will fill in during his absence;
FEB W. IMt-
ln observance of National
Heart Week. Dr,H H Duke
talks on neart disease at the
Rotary Hub meeting and on a
radio shown mi Station KREL
Ernest Davenport. Emma
Osteon and Billie Joyce
SO THEN faith eometh by
hearing, and bearing by the
word ol God. Romans 18; 17
The Way
It Was
February IS. 1778 55th
birthday of Christopher' Gads-
den
Friends And Romans
not attempt to do so
Korean Coup? - Congres-
sional investigators are trying to
get their hands on some old in-
telligence documents, which de-
scribed the Korean bribery op-
eration years befonf, the Justice
Department got around to in-
vestigating it.
The secret documents also re-
ported that most South Korean
military leaders expected Presi-
dent Park Chung Hee to retire in
1975 but would not depose him if
he decided to stay on. “
In a secret report barred from
foreign dissemination, the Cen-
Those are basics - reading,
wiling, and arithmetic. This
blatantly progressive school sys-
tem of Howard County pro1
duces fifth graders who function
academically a full year ahead of
the national norm.
I should mention that Howard
County high school graduates do
proven system,
It is also a progressive system.
Truly progressive schools can
hot only "hack it,” they “hack
it" outstandingly.
So, as Mr. Guenther says,
‘‘Let’s have schools that can and
will beat the national average.”
majority
wort toward making the
y of our schools true ex-
-mm! the progressive con-
on SAT than do graduate of tra-
ditional high scools. Where they
do exert is in self reliance; posi-
tive' reactions to school, wort
and teachers; and plans to at-
tend college, not just by "A” stu-
cept. At the moment, with the
sole exception of Harlem, they
are not.
James B. Sullivan
P.O.Box 1338
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By Robert Schuller
Mountain-moving faith
befiiis with a dream But
before that dream can
awra,*!
dare to risk failure! For faith
is making a decision with no
, guarantee of success.
Unfortunately, manypeople
fad and never know it. They
go through life without a
angle apparent setback.'
never suffff;!
or reversals And they think
mi
ailed because th*v nMWwi :
failed because they neglected
to spot and develop the once-
in-a-lifetime opportunity.
They decided not-to-decide.
They are failures and do not
even know it
- You can be certain of tins-
el time you make a choice
you take a chance. Dare to
make a commitment of faith
to an idea, a dream, a project
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