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THE BAYTOWN SUN
TuewUy, February 10, 1911
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Nation At End Of
The Beginning
So here we are at the end #f tjWa beginning.
The family photos and thwfarof jellybeans are
in place in the Oval Office. Inaugural festivities
are no longer news, and we should be hearing less
of who is knocking them dead in what designer’s
gown and which are the realty choice parties —
the ones where Betsy and Bonita and the rest of
the old California crowd show.
Well, we can always hope.
Most likely we will still be hearing now and then
about progress in the redecorating of the White
House, as the Jacqueline Kennedy purists react in
horror to Nancy Reagan’s concepts of California
classic. But you can’t have everything. And on the
plus side, there should be less and less need on the
part of journalists to refer to the acting past for a
spot of color in the copy as readers get to know
him simply as President Reagan.
On the other hand, you never know. Even some
who should know much better can’t quite get out
of the act yet. Such as the New York Times’
James Reston, who found the inaugural speech “a
theatrical triumph” in an Inauguration Day
script (bringing in the hostage release) "no
brilliant Hollywood producer could have dared to
imagine...”
But again, we can at least hope.
So now comes the big question: What next?
There was a great deal of post-election and pre-
inauguration talk about the new administration’s
intention to hit Washington running. What it came
down to appears at this very early date to have
been a transition operation so massively unwieldy
that its participants kept running into each other.
President Reagan’s first executive gesture was
to freeze federal hiring, which was only to echo
his predecessor, Jimmy Carter’s freeze, which
reduced the government’s civilian employee total
by some 45,000 in four years, was still in effect
when he left office.
In fact, in other respects as well the new Presi-
dent Reagan has more in common with the new
President Carter than might make him com-
fortable if he were inclined to give it much
thought.
Reagan, like Carter, arrives in Washington
short on programs ready to implement but long on
intentions, some of them very similar to Carter’s
— controlling federal spending, shaping up the
tax system, pruning the departmental jungle,
liberating public and business from the
regulators, reversing the flow of power and
responsibilities from the states to Washington.
But that is not necessarily a had thing. Let it be
remembered that Jimmy Carter’s trouble was not
in how he started out but what came after, how he
did or did hot meet the challenges that he either
had not initially fully understood or could not have .,
anticipated.
There has also been some talk about the Reagan
election being an event of similar but mirror im-
portance to that of Franklin Roosevelt, epochal in
its political implications.
That will require some proving, for which we’ll
just have to wait. But here, too, let it be
remembered that the New Deal did not burst fully
developed upon Washington and the nation on In-
auguration Day in 1933. The famous first 100 days
were a period of furious improvisation with many
changes of approach but never of purpose: to
devise the programs to which the problems of the
nation would respond.
Under the circumstances, it is just as well that
the Reagan administration is not off to a running
start. Problems always become more com-
plicated when they are in your lap rather than on
someone else’s back. A quick fix all too often is on-
ly buying more trouble for the future. —-
The administration and the.nation are likely to
be better served in the long run by a walk at a
steady pace, with a sure sense of direction and a
clearly comprehended purpose.
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Here's How To Become
The Family Folklorist ,
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Washington Report - -
Voodoo, ESP Cast Spell
Over Defense Planners.
BY JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Last month, I
revealed a Pentagon secret that raised
eyebrows from coast to cqast. To the
thousands of skeptics who wrote in, no, I
don’t take hallucinogens. The brass hats
are, indeed, dabbling in the dark arts.
They are seriously trying to develop
weapons based on extrasensory percep-
tion. If the research is successful, the
next war could be won presumably by
casting an evil eye on Moscow.
Jhe true believers are convinced that
our national security can be preserved
only by spending millions of dollars on
such comic-strip concepts as the
“hyperspatial howitzer,” which sup-
posedly could transmit a nuclear explo-
sion in the Nevada desert to the gates of
the Kremlin with the speed of thought.
Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.Q^or exam-
ple, is a respected five-term con-
gressman and a member of the House
Select Committee on Intelligence. He
has advocated psychotronic weapons
with the tenacious courage of some
death-defying marvel. He has teetered
but ever righted himself on the trembl-
ing high wire, keeping his balance
against the unseen push and pull of
mighty interests, inching his way for-
ward a few more yards to his goal.
By Pentagon standards, not much
money has been invested on psychic
warfare — a trifling $6 million. Rose
thinks the United States should be spen-
ding a lot more money on these ethereal
weapons. “They could make every other
weapon obsolete,” he told my associate,
Ron McRae, urgently.
The congressman is quite correct; the
Buck Rogers weapons would certainly
make plain old nuclear bombs obsolete
— if they should ever work.
ONE SUCH weapon, it turns out, has
been blessed with an Air Force contract.
It’s an anti-missile system that would
throw a time warp over the North Pole.
Incoming Soviet missiles would fly into
the time warp and explode harmlessly in
the past — perhaps blowing up
Cmdr.Robert Peary or, if the time warp
mechanism was tuned to really high fre-
quency, killing a few dinosaurs.
The National Security Agency, to cite
another example, has tried to use ESP to
cradf Soviet codes. When the agency’s •.
computers have failed to break the
secret code produced by the Kremlin’s
computers, the NSA technicians have
enlisted the help of local astrologists and
palm readers.
So far, according to my sources, the
swamis have been no more successful
than our computers. But the Ouija-board
warriors are still trying.
Reporting on the bizarre research that
goes on in the Pentagon is not without its
hazards. Several self-styled psychics
have accused me of being an unwitting
victim of Soviet success in the field. I
am, they say, acting under long-range
Kremlin hypnosis Intended to persuade
the American populace that Pentagon
attempts to close the “psychotronic
weapons gap” with the Soviet Union are
a ridiculous waste of money.
I must confess that long-range hyp-
nosis, like the hyperspatial howitzer,
happens to be one of the key weapons in
the voodoo warriors’ arsenal.
But there are more skeptics than ad-
vocates. One critic of ESP warfare,
physicist Martin Gardner, characterizes
the budget for psychotronic weaponry as
a monetary “black hole,” into which bad
research sucks good money forever.
Others suggest that ESP efforts should
be classified as “Top Stupid.”
The lips of Pentagon spokesmen,
meanwhile, are sealed. They will not
confirm or deny that the programs exist.
GET A HORSE!: As a freshman
member of Congress, Rep. James
Coyne, R-Pa., is no big wheel on Capitol
Hill. But at least now he can get around
on his own wheels, without a chaperon.
After driving for weeks on a learner’s
permit, Coyne finally got his driver’s
license.
Although Coyne holds degrees from
Harvard and Yale and once taught at the
Wharton Business School, he has had
learning difficulties when it came to t
“"automobiles. Twice in recent years, he-
had his driver’s permit suspended by the
state of Pennsylvania. He bad to be
chauffeured around by volunteers dur-
ing last year’s campaign.
Most of Coyne’s troubles stemmed
from speeding violations — three in the
last few years — but one suspension in-
volved an argument over a fine for driv-
ing with an expired inspection sticker.
He’s currently being sued by two youths
as the result of a collision last April.
Coyne insists he has learned his lesson
— and he recently passed his driver’s
teat. “The three-point turn was tough,
but I executed it flawlessly,” he said.
“Now if I can only get Mom and Dad to
let me have the car on Friday nights.”
ASPIRIN NEEDED: It’s tough enough
to be selected for a Cabinet position that
the president’s top advisers would like to -
eliminate. But Terrel Bel,: Department
of Education secretary, will find more
specific headaches in store for him.
Not the least is the truly disgraceful
situation in the Office of Indian Educa-
tion, which disgusted professionals have
been leaving in droves.
Bell, who comes from an area with a
large Indian population, will be appalled
at the mess he is inheriting. The
mismanagement was systematically
covered up by department poohbahs who
didn’t want to rock Uncle Sam’s gravy
boat.
By WILLIAM STEIF
NEA Staff Writer -
, Ever since “Roots,” there’s been a ris-
ing Interest among Americans about
their family backgrounds.
1 recall, for example, my wife’s family
making a special pilgrimage a couple of
years ago to the church graveyard in a
little village in the eastern Ohio hills. We
never made a concerted effort to pull
together the family’s folklore. But you
may want to do Just that.
And now the Smithsonian institution’s
Office of America# and Folklife Studies
has published a booklet to show you how
to do it.
The booklet’s entitled, “Family
Folklore.” It offers words of warning
early: “Because family folklore exists
only with the context of a living family, it
is constantly evolving. Each generation
will forget or alter the lore that it has
received. . . That same generation will
add new lore and new traditions.”
The booklet notes that you’ll “never
record the entire body of your family’s
folklore. . . You cannot be so absorbed
with preserving the past” that you
iieglemne present it adds:-“A tradition- -
does not have to be old to be worth
preserving.”
HERE’S HOW you go about being your
family’s folklorist.
Either take notes (which has disad-
vantages, like not being able to look your
subject in the eye or not being able to
write fast enough) or tape-record your
family’s memoirs, using a small
cassette machine with a built-in
microphone, a camera is a good idea, *
too. t
Once you’re equipped, the booklet
says, you have to decide where to start.
The booklet’s strong recommendation:
Start with yourself, using the questions
at the end of the booklet to prod your
memory.”
“The first outside person you inter-
view should be someone with whom you
feel very comfortable,” the booklet says
— possibly a parent, brother or sister.
You’ll get leads from those you inter-
view to other people, and they may not
even be family members. For example,
quiz long-term boarders.
The booklet suggests family dinners,
picnics, reunions and holidays as natural
times for Interviews. You can even in-
vite relatives who get along well
together for dinner, and try serving food
that will bring back memories.
SOMETIMES, IN a group interview,
you’ll find a person who exclaims:
"That’s not really the way it happened at
all.” Get him or her to tell a different
version. And try to keep your Interview
sessions as Informal as possible, ques-
tioning while the person you’re inter-
viewing is sewing, baking or engaged in
some similar activity.
The booklet offers interviewing tips:
Ask evocative questions, not questions
requiring only yes pr no answers; face
up to the fact that you won’t get all the
information you want, but don’t be
afraid to let the person you’re interview-
ing wander off on a tangent; show in-
terest; use props such as photo albums
or old letters.when possible; be sensitive
about older persons getting tired; and
prepare d written report along the way
as a tangible result of the participation
- ofofherr---———-
Save and index everything, including
tapes, notes and photos.
The booklet says most of your
relatives will be delighted with your new •
interest in collecting family folklore, but
a few may be “uncooperative or even
hostile.” You’ve got to be careful to pro-
tect the rights and privacy of all family
members. Never make a promise you
can’t, or don’t, intend to keep.
AT THE booklet’s end are 16 questions
that can form a kind of basis for your
family’s folklore. But the booklet warns
“no single set of questions” will elicit
successfully all the information wanted
from every family. The questions are
suggestive; pick and choose the ones
that seem to fit.
“Family Folklore” is available for $1
from the Consumer Information Center,
Dept. 166H, Pueblo, CO 81009.
It can start you off on hours of
pleasure that will satisfy your curiosity
and that of your nearest and dearest.
From Sun Files,--
Bowen Earned Distinguished
Flying Cross 30 Years Ago
From The Baytown Sun files, this is
tbe way it was 40 and 30 and 20 years
ago:
----- FEB. 10,1941
Auburn Parrish and William,
Crawford, both of Pelly, are hurt in a car
wreck on the Baytown-Pelly Highway.
Sara Nelle Scown, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Scown, is named a student
sponsor of Uie mid-winter ball presented
by the Men’s Interfratemity Council at
Louisiana State University. r
Mrs. W.W. Bunting presents a pro-
gram for the Tri-Cities Music Study
Club.
Audrey Nell Smith of Goose Creek will
present a piano recital at Texas Chris-
tian University where she is a
sophomore student”-"' ”
FEB. 10,1951
Capt. Jack Bowen is awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for action in
Korea.
A “brighter than lightning” flash that
flickered off and on at the rate of about
150 times per minutes is observed early
today by A.S. Waldrep Sr. from his home
on East James. He says it was traveling
north at a terrific speed.
Committee chairmen in the Baytown
Chamber of Commerce will be Theo
Wilburn, agriculture; Roy Elms,
athletics; George L. Keene,‘ civil
defense; James Harrop, education; Dr
W.H. Bridges, health; W.T. Busch,
highway; Robert Matherne, industrial;
Joe Reid, legislative; C.Q. Alexander,
water supply; SydGould, publicity; Sam
Paine, retail merchants; L.A. Hale,
membership; W.R. Sloan, traffic; L-G.
Sanders, tunnel. -
FEB. 10,1961
Humble’s Baytown Refinery increases
production of heating fuels to meet the
needs of northeastern states caught in
the grip of a record cold wave. '
-E.L. “Ed” Parker resigns from the
Baytown Police Department to take over
the identification division of the Orange
Police Department.
R.S. “Rich” Clark retires from Hum-
ble’s Baytown Refinery.
C.E. ‘‘Scottie” Leach will discuss pen-
ding state legislation at a meeting of
Precinct 165 voters at the Lakewood
Clubhouse.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Tuesday, Feb.
10, the 41st day of 1981/
There are 324 days left in
the year.
Today’s highlight in
history:
On Feb. 10, 1962, the
Soviet Union exchanged
captured American U-2
pilot Gary Powers for a
Soviet spy held by tbe
United States.
On this date:
In 1763, France ceded
Canada to England as the
French and Indian War
ended.
In 1828, Simon Bolivar,
the South American revolu-
tionary, became ruler of
Colombia.
In 1846, members of the
Mormon faith began an ex-
odus to the West from D-
linois.
And in 1964, the House of
Representaives passed the
most far-reaching civil
rights bill ever considered
by Congress.
Ten years ago: Cam-
bodia’s head of state, Lon
Nol, suffered a stroke that
paralyzed his right side.
Five years ago: Presi-
dent Gerald Ford ordered a
review of bribery and other
illegal activities t)y
American corporations and
executives in foreign coun-
tries.
Thought for today:
Nothing can harm a good
man, either in life or death
— Socrates, Greek
philosopher (469 B.C.-399
B.C.).
The Way
It Was
FEBRUARY 10, 1763:
French and Indian War
aided by Treaty of Paris.
Bible Verse
AND THIS,is the will of
him that sent me, that
every one which seeth tbe
Son, and believeth on him
may have everlasting
life: and I will raise him
q> at the last day. St. John
6:40
u rrs CLOSETS THAT time of year when a
FELLER WILL SPEND A WEEK OR TWO OF HARD
VvORK RATHER THAN 50? FDR A POUND OF TOMATOES.'
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Bernice Bede Osc
cfour
February 11,1981
Don't be afraid to
involved in projects this i
year that are a bit grander
larger in scope than those v
you've tackled in the p|
You're lucky with big ideas.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)1
cognizant of the wishes of otH
today, but don't let them p|
sure you into doing anytlf
against your better judgn
Think for yourself. Romai|
travel, luck, resources, pos
pitfalls and career for the con
months are all discussed in ;
Astro-Graph which begins
your birthday. Mail $1 for eacl
Astro-Graph, Box 489? R#
City Station, N.Y. 10019. Be f
to specify birth date.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March
Keeping secrets may not be I
ot your strong points today, r
could talk about things whicH
best kept to yourself. Li|
more, speak less.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) I
sons who have no real reas|
lor being there could disi
things today which affect
self-interests. Don't let t|
butt-in.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) I
is one of those days when I
could be a trifle out of step |
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