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ditorials And Opinion
nuclear power since
Mile Island, a com-
in Maine rejected a
have closed that state’s
plant. The vote - 220,000 to
— —— lessons for both supporters and
opponents of nuclear power.
Anti-nuclear crusaders ought to recognize that
most citizens, whatever their doubts about the
wisdom of future investments in nuclear energy,
see no compelling reasons to shut down existing
- plants.
Had they done so in Maine, for example, con-
sumers would have had to shell out up to $140
million more per year for replacement energy in
the form of oil-generated electricity. That’s a high
price to pay for an anti-nuclear bias that goes
several steps beyond the bounds of common
sense.
But the Maine vote also tends to confirm what
most utility executives already acknowledge at
least privately, that oposition to nuclear power is
sufficiently widespread to jeopardize prospects
for new plants beyond those already operating or
under construction.
After all, 4(fpercent of those voting in the Maine
referendum favored closing a plant generating
nearly a third of the state’s electrical power.
Voters in five other states — Missouri, Mon-
tana, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington —
will confront ballot initiatives or referendiums
Nov. 4-that would ban or restrict nuclear power
plants or place stringent controls on disposal of
nuclear wastes.
In the result of the Maine referendum is any in-
dication, most voters will want to encourage addi-
tional nuclear safeguards while permitting con-
tinued operation of existing plants.
That is an inclination that reasonable people on
» both sides of the nuclear debate should be able to
respect, if not support*
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, October 10, 1980
In Washington - -
Tax-Exempt Bonds Being
Roundly Abused In U.S.
HEALTH
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D
Washington Report--
justice Prgbe fosipor red
1 o bar Carter Criticism
DEAR DR. LAMB - I am
87 years old and hav$ some
large gallstones. The doctor
says my condition is too poor
for an operation. Is there any-
thing I can do to help this
condition? What do you think
my life expectancy would be
under these conditions?
DEAR READER - You
may not need to have the
stones or the gallbladder
removed. Many people have
large silent gallstones and
never have any difficulties
with them.
If you were younger and
were in good health, even if
the stones were not causing
$pfiy symptoms, it might be
wise to remove them; but the
sujgery is not entirely without
.risk.
Unless you have symptoms
from the gallstones, I would
not recommend doing any-
thing about them. If you do
have symptoms it depends
upon what kind and how
severe they are. If yoy have a
little gas now and then that is
one thing but if you have
symptoms of inflammation of
the gallbladder and it might
rupture like a ruptured appen-
dix that is another.
You could live out your life
and never have any trouble
with silent gallstones. No one
can say. I am sending you The
Health Letter number 4-9,
Gall Stones and Gall Bladder
Disease, to give you more
information that might apply
to your particular situation.
Other readers who want this
issue can send 75 cents with a
long, stamped, self-addressed
envelope for it to. me, in care.
of this newspaper, P.O. Box
1551, Radio City Station, New
York, NY 10019.
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By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - President Jimmy
Carter has been spared the humiliation
of a pre-election probe into allegations
, that his Justice Department deep-sixed
15 cases that were considered politically
sensitive by the White House.
The Senate Judiciary. Committee has
been investigating the charges for near-
ly six months. But § few weeks ago, the
word came down from the office of the
Senate majority leader, Sen. Robert
Byrd, D-W. Va., that the probe — in the
words of one Judiciary Committee staff
member — was to be put on “active
hold.”
Another committee source was more
candid. The investigation was being
postponed, he told my associate Indy
Badhwar, in the interest of “Democratic
unity — not hurting the administration
too much before the election.”
The probe might have been nearing
conclusion at this point had not the
Justice Department defied the commit-
tee for two months by refusing permis-
sion for the panel’s investigators to ex-
amine its files on the 15 questionable
cases. ",
Only after a unanimous committee
vote to subpoena the documents, and a
full-Senate vote to uphold the demand,
did Assistant Attorney General Philip B.
Heymann, head of the Criminal Divi-
sion, give in. He agreed to allow
designated committee staff aides to look
at the files. But, in return, he insisted
that the department’s attorneys not be
questioned about the instructions they
may have received from higher-ups.
The Senate investigators thus relin-
quished their trump card. Since "the com-
»ise\was struck, said one committee
ce, “I can’t say we’ve dope a whole
toMS OF THE cases under scrutiny in-
volves a former federal energy regional
chief, Kenneth Dupuy, and Georgia state
energy czar Lewis Spruill, who was ap-
pointed to that post by Jimmy Carter
when he was governor. The energy of-
ficials were accused of accepting lavish
gifts from Georgia oil dealer William E.
Corey, who was favored with generous
fuel allocations during the gas shortage
that came in the wake of the 1973 Arab
oil embargo.
Spruill had also been charged with giv-
ing preferential treatment in 1973 to the
Plains, Ga., gas station then owned by
Billy Carter.
The case was referred to the Justice
Department shortly before Jimmy
Carter’s election. The department sat on
it for three years and thendismissed it.
Most of the cases in question were
handled by the Justice Department’s
Public Integrity Section. Among the
others that smack of political hijinks are
these: -
— An investigatkm-into charges that
Air Force generals and government
lawyers conspired in a smear campaign
against Pentagon cost analyst Ernest
Fitzgerald, the man who blew the whis-
tle on a $2 billion cost overrun on the
Lockheed C-5A program. -
A probe of alleged violations of
federal election laws by former Penn-
sylvania Gov. Milton ShapfPwhen he ran
for president in 1976.
— An inquiry into charges by Pitt-
sburgh developer Jack Nard that promi-
nent lawyers with ties to a federal judge
committed perjury in a civil suit.
— A probe to determine whether
documents were illegally destroyed to
protect former Civil Service Commis-
sion officials from charges that they con-
spired to violate the federal merit
system. -
FOOTNOTE: In defense of the Judiciary
Committee, one senator’s' aide claimed
that its probe of the 15. cases had been
put aside so that investigators could
spend more time looking intd fugitive
financier Robert Vesco’s White House
connections. Sen. Byrd did not return
repeated calls to his office.
Service Is Our Schtick: For some
Postal Service employees, it’s not entire-
ly a life of snow, rain and gloom of night.
Nearly a year ago, for example, the
postmaster at Clarksburg, W. Va.,
resigned and Julie McCarthy, manager
of the bulk mail center at Largo, Md.,
was dispatched to perform his duties on
a temporary basis.
As a trainee in the Service’s career, ex-
ecutive service, she has been collecting
daily living expenses every month while
retaining her apartment in Ihe
Washington area. During the work week,
the taxpayers foot her Clarksburg motel
bill of $32 a day. She’s allowed $16 a day
for meals. On the weekends, she flies,
home, and the postal Service picks up
the $100 round-trip tab. * V .
To fill her permanent post at Largo,
the Service brought in another “tem-
porary”, William Christy, from Man-
chester, Conn. He collects the same per
diemfor meals and the monthly rent for
a furnished apartment. Once every three :
weeks; he flies home to Connecticut at
Postal Service expense.
JIMMY STRIKES/Out:. Before the na-
tion’s capital lost its baseball team, U.S.
presidents delighted in throwing out the
symboic first pitch of the major league
Seasoh. But President Carter, a softball
player, unfortunately can’t find the,time
to meet with a New Jersey family t j sign
a historic baseball which has been
autographed by every chief executive
since Herbert Hoover. I
Thomas J. Cooney, father of two deaf
youngsters, Tommy and Ronnie, has ap-
pealed in vain for an audience with
Carter jo get his signature on the sports
momento. “The president is too busy,”
responded a White House aide, who
adivsed Cooney to “Send us the ball and
we will have it autographed for you.”
Watch On Waste: The Carter ad-
ministration recently urged government
agencies to cut back on travel expenses
by sending only one bureaucrat to out-of-
town conferences. But Sen. Jim Sasser,
D-Terin., has discovered a U.S. Forest
Service manual that complies on one
page and endorses junketing-as-usuai on
the next. At one point, the agency sug-
gests the “possibility” of sending only
one official who would then report back
his colleagues. - Further on, the
management manual grants as many as
35 upper-echelon bosses blanket ap-
proval to attend 77 various conferences
this ye,ar. A Forest Service spokesman
insisted he saw “no inconsistency.”
By ROBERT WALTERS
(First of two related columns)
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Pizza
parlors, skateboard parks and
chiropractors’ offices could hardly be
i classified as industrial facilities. But all
have been beneficiaries of a financial
device known as industrial development
bonds.
In Louisiana, the tax-free bonds have
been used to finance the renovation of .an
architect’s office and a hotel. In Ten-
nessee, auto dealerships and a dress
store were built with IDB funds. In Ohio,
nursing homes and a bakery were the
beneficiaries.
In Minnesota, the gimmick raised tax-
exempt construction money for racquet-
ball courts, a bowling alley and a hard-
ware store. In Pennsylvania, the
beneficiaries included movie theaters, a
ski resort and even a funeral parlor.
“It’s a good deal for everyone,” says
Richmond Va/, lawyer and bond expert
Alfred Shilling, whose state has turned
to IDBs to finance everything from a golf
course to corporate aircraft.
BUT SHILLING’S “everyone” doesh’t
necessarily include the federal Treasury
or the citizens whose tax burden must-be'1
increased to offset the revenueslost Jay
the government when 'corporations
abuse the tax-e^pipt bonds.
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the most auj}3oritatjv^7iuWieyiofA'rr(he'''?(
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gressional Budget Office shows that
more than $7 billion worth of cut-rate
IDBs were issued last year.
The Treasury Department estimates
that the federal tax loss directly at-
tributable to the proliferation of in-
dustrial development bonds, known as
industrial revenue bonds in some states,,/
will reach $2 billion during the current
fiscal year.
“Two billion dollars a year is a lot of
money, even in Washington,” says
Treasury Department official John M.
Samuels. “If the ordinary working man
has to pay taxes on his entire paycheck,
it is hard to justify an incentive program
which provides billions of dollars of tax-'
_ free interest for the very wealthy.”
On a 20-year, $1 million bond issue, a
tax exemption can save $300,000 to
$900,000 (depending on prevailing in-
terest Yates) in interest costs over the
life of the loan.
CONVENTIONAL municipal bonds -
used to finance schools, airports,
government buildings and other
municipal public works projects - tradi-
tionally have enjoyed a legitimate ex-
emption from federal and state taxes.
IDBs also benefit from tax-exempt
status because they are issued in the
name of a city, a county, a state or other
municipal authority. But they are back-
ed only by the credit — and paid off with
the revenues — of the corporation for
"which the facility is constructed or
renovated.
Although first authorized by 1936
legislation in Mississippi, Jhe IDB con-
cept didn’t spread to most other states
until after World War II, when it became
especially- popular among Southern
states seeking to lure industry from the
North. Hundreds of communities
throughout the country were then em-
bracing a vision of a thriving industrial
park on the edge of town where modern,
non-polluting factories would provide
countless jobs for local citizens and
boost the area’s economy.
When those cities discovered there
were far fewer plants than commutyties
seeking ♦&**** ^-';^the.lDB ioitcepJ-'
was corrupted ani'‘lndbstiial” bonds"
became fair game for jjrtualjy ,every
''"/’iaamelype'of hon-industriat enter- -
prise. ' • ' . ' " -
PENNSYLVANIA’S IDB’s have been us-
ed to finance 128 bars and restaurants, 67
auto dealerships and service stations,
movie theaters, ice-cream parlors apd
an amusement park. In Philadelphia,
the Hearts and Flowers Go-Go Bar,
featuring topless \dancers, and an
"adult” book store both qualified for tax-
exempt IDB financing. ^
“We’ve got welfare for farmers, we’ve
got welfare for the poor,” says Virginia
lawyer Shilling. “This is just another
level of subsidy.”
That’s exactly what it is - a welfare
program of subsidies for business ex-
ecutives and corporations evading their
responsibility to pay their fair share of
the country ’s tax burden.
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From Sun Files - -
College, CAA Sponsored
Pilot Training In 1940
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
the way it was 40 and 30 and ,20 years
ago:
OCT. 10,1940
Students selected for the pilot training
course, sponsored by Lee Junior College
in conjunction with the Civil Aeronautic
Authority, are Emery Harbors, Lewis
Bemiard. F.R, HysQn. Thomas~P^lie»:
John McCuiiey, Jdhn Hamilton, Donald .
Patterson, Stanford Toups, G.I. Poole
Jr. and J.P, Roden.
The Tri-Cities Airport, owned by G.I.
Butler, is leased by the CAA for the pilot
training course. *
Tri-Cities Junior of Chamber of Com-
merce will hold a mass meeting for all
Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi
for training in the radar school.
Alden Weaver is master of ceremonies
for a covered dish luncheon given by the
DeMolay Mothers Club.
Baytown construction this year zooms
past the $5 million mark.
OCT. 10,1960
James Ray Robertson; 10, is pictured
qn..the front page with his pet monkey,
“Peanuts.”
Jumping from 2,800 feet, M-E. Taylor
parachutes into a new hobby and a herd
of cattle at Humphrey Airport and suf-
fers a sprained ankle, Taylor then
declares an end to his short-lived sky
diving career .
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men in the area who are qf drqftage.
Glenn Roy Haines Jr., 13, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G.R. Haines, 265 New Jersey, * fans who cannot attend the
died yesterday in a hospital hei-e. meetings of the Touchdown Club.
Mrs. Norman D’Olive is elected Texas
j division secretary of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
OCT. 10,1950
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Bible
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FOR WHEN for the time
ye ought to be teachers,
ye have need that one
teach you again which be
the first principles of the
Oracles of God; and are
become such as have need
of milk, and not of strong
meat. Hebrews 5:12
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