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an outpost on Diego Garcia is
considering the potential for
disruption of the shipping lanes upon which the
U.S. must depend for its supply of oil from the
;; Persian Gulf.
The developing base in the Indian Ocean,
however, is the nation’s most forward Installation
' 4n monitoring the Soviet Union’s, effort to nail
down its takeover of Afghanistan
Somalia is not likely to risk SOviefwrath by per-
, mitting construction on sites coveted by the U S
nor is Saudi Arabia prepared to outrage its Arab
i neighbors by inviting U.S. bases.
But Washington is not the only capital to
acknowledge concern over the Russian invasion
of Afghanistan.
Australia is nervous about the vulnerability of
its remote and sparsely populated west coast.
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has offered the
U.S. permenent base facilities on Australia’s In-
dian Ocean coast in return for help in improving
his own country’s defense.
The proposal makes sense for both countries.
Australia’s west coast is not the ideal location to
establish a permanent Indian Ocean presence. It
is, however, much closer to the current action
arena than the Philippines bases from which
President Carter ordered a carrier force to show
itself in the Persian Gulf area — an order later
countermanded.----------
Even during ongoing congressional efforts to
trim the federal budget in the war on inflation,
funds for defense apparently will remain intact.
The House Budget Committee, in fact, even con-
sidered briefly an increase of $1.5 billion to con-
struct a new naval fleet for the Indian Ocean.
. The Australian offer is an opportunity to ac-
quire operating room in a sensitive global area at
bargain prices. It should be pursued.
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small comfort When
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money (or the paperwork
that they generate to justify
their high salaries So far,
she hasn’t collected a penny
of the new government
assistance
Forbidding as her fuel
bills are, Virginia’s biggest
problem is paying for her
medicine She attends a
free clinic for treatment,
but the prescription drugs
must be paid out of her own
pocket. She may soon need
to choose between food and
medicine. “I don’t need to
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By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON -
Virginia Ison is nobody you
would expect to read about
in the newspaper. She is
usually reported as just
another statistic, one of 16
million Americans over 65
with a yearly income under
(6,999.
Rampaging inflation and
other economic monsters
are slowly circling in on
Americans like Virginia. I
think it is important to look
behind the statistics, to put
faces on the numbers, to
tell the living stories of the
American economic crush.
—Not long ■ ago--thtevgr
broke into Virginia Ison's
trailer, which sits alongside
highway 50 in Orlando. Fla
The thieves stole
everything they could carry
- from her family trinkets
to cooking pots It was the
best thing that could have
happened to Virginia.
She had moved with her
husband to Florida from
Worcester, Mass., because
of his heart condition. They
dreamed of a golden life in
the Florida sun. That was
24 years ago. He died in
1975. leaving her the trailer
they’d scrimped to buy for
their laSf years.
Now that trailer is all she
has, and ironically, the
burglary may have saved
it. Property taxes had crept
up until she could barely af-
ford her simple home. The
gbvernment slapped a tax
lien on the trailer. The lien
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12 Actor Ladd
13 Dairy product
14 Lily plant
15 Savoir-faire
16 Male child
17 Stick
18 More
precipitous
20 More disabled
21 Olympic
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22 Rubber rug
23 Danish coin
26 Rest
30 Suspend
31 Animal
doctors (abbr.)
32 Eon
33 Mock
34 Movie
35 Carries with
difficulty
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ILLEGAL GUN Trade: One
reason that attempts to
regulate the sale of han-
dguns draws such vigorous
opposition is that enormous
profits are made in the il-
licit pistol trade. *
No firm statistics exist on
the underground gun mer-
chants, because almost
anyone can get a permit to
own or sell a gun. But
statistics show that hun-
dreds of shooting deaths
each year are traceable to
guns bought illegally.
Treasury officials have
estimated that fewer than
30 percent of federally
licensed firearms dealers
actually conduct bona fide
business operations. And a
study by the respected Na-
tional Coalition to Ban Han-
dguns supports this official
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The coalition’s study,
centered on the New
Haven, Conn., area, showed
that more than 77 percent of
the licensed gun dealers
were in "direct violation of
at least one federal, state or
local jaw or regulation.”
Furthermore, the group
concluded, more than two-
thirds of the gun sellers
“did not appear to be bonna
fide businesses.”
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eat so much. I guess," she
told my reporter James
Grady.
Sltr MIrT-tTfrtrto her
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family for help. Her sister
came up with $200 to pay for
fixing Virginia's septic
tank. "If she hadn’t been
here and able to help. I'd
have to go out and scratch
the ground like a dog.” said
Virginia. But now her sister
has retired and faces
money problems of her
own.
Virginia has one ace up
her sleeve, one last
desperate hope. If her
situation gets really bad.
she’ll go to her church. But
she won’t ask her friends
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By JULIAN BOND
One important byproduct
of the 1980 Census count is
reapbortionment,— of city
that he and his fellow jurists are entitled to a 12.9 councils, county
; percent pay increase this year, not the 5.5 percent sions, state legislatures and
granted to other high-level government congressional districts,
employees The black population that
The other workers were limited to the lower in-
crease by action of President Carter and Con- miilion people _ might
gress. But Federal Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. have meant four additional
.ruled in Washington the “freeze” did not apply to blacks in congress arid
jurists. ____ 1 ’ * dozens of additional blacks
Unless there is an appeal to his ruling, U.S. electedlolesserofflces
District judges’ salaries will rise from $54,500 to
suburbs. Despite rising
^gasoline prices, most
metropolitan population
growth in America is a
suburban phenomenon.
While neither owned nor
rented housing increased
much in center cities over
the last decade, such hous-
ing increased considerably
faster in suburbia, the Cen-
sus Bureau notes. At the
same time, the Census said
only one of five blacks in
America lived in the
suburbs.
Thus future reapportion-
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if one could decide on
the amount of his own paycheck?
Some judges can. A federal judge ruled recently
ment is likely to increase
power among fltose who*
have chosen not to live and
pay taxes where most
blacks live. Their political
interests are more likely to
reflect a Proposition 13
mentality than they are any
increase in spending for the
disadvantaged.
from church for help with
things like the leaky roof
because, “I’m saving them
for real emergencies.”
Virginia Ison ia just one
face in a vast, anonymous
crowd. There are 16 million federally licensed gun
Americans no better off dealers who were willing to
sell handguns to telephone
callers didn’t even have a
local firearms license, the
coalition found in its sampl-
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Over 60 petcent of the
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than she is. But if all the
others are like Virginia,
they can at least smile
about their adversity. "If
you’re going to cry,” she
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' Center city residents —
many of them black and
are likely to
"took away all my feelings
of independence,” she said,
almost choking on the emo-
poor
discover themselves as un-
ing.
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But one day while she
was out, burglars struck.
Luckily, Virginia had been
able to keep up her in-
surance payments. The
company paid her $600 for
what the thieves stole. She ,
used the money to pay the
taxes and fines.
This left her with nothing
but small change and a
shortage of cooking pots.
But at least the trailer is
now unencumbered. Until
next time.
counted after the 1980 Cen-
sus as they were before.
This year’s results are
expected to shift at least 11
$61,500 and Appellate Court judges’ pay will go . congressional seats from
from $57,500 to $65,000. Those on the Supreme shrinking to growing states
Court will have their pay go up from $75,000 to ~ most often by increasing
gyij Sun Belt representation at
There is another legal action pending before the aes^ernnse F°rf0 slthe B
Supreme Court that could boost salaries of federal California, Florida and
judges even higher.
As we were saying, it’s nice to be both judge and gressionai representation.
New York stands to lose
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DEAR DB LAMB — I am not emit any significant
expecting my second child m——amounts of microwaves. As a
three months and I'm very result, you can stand in front
worried. About a month ago a of it all day and it won't dam-
friend of mine who is also age you. Finally, more recent
pregnant told me that her doc- studies have raised serious
tor warned her not to eat any questions as to whether THERE PROBABLY will
foods prepared in a— microwave exposure poses be a “next time.’’
microwave oven because of any hazards at all to human Virginia’s income is a
the radiation. Well. I've eaten beings. Ditiful S4 179 ,, a vpar hpr
foods prepared in a Of course, you can get f1 “U1 “ a yea£' ne^
microwave , oven. Naturally. burned with them if you stick total payment under Social
this upset me so when I went your hand in a source of Security disability laws,
to see my doctor he said that microwave just as food can She started drawing
there was probably no danger get cooked, but-that may be disability payments seven
in eating the foods but that about the only hazard that years ago because she has
standing in front of the exists. Apparently, much of arthritis of the snine 1 ike
microwave oven , could be the concern about 6 Spln^ L*e
harmful. I've also stood in microwaves has been some- the burglary, ironically, the
front of a microwave oven what exaggerated. painful arthritis has been
when it was in use. but the .- her good fortune,
most has been about five :-:v:v:v:-:v:v:v:v:v:<v:-:v:v:v:v:v:v::v::' Virginia’s tin roof leaks,
minutes. Is this going to affect In rainy Florida, that can
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your mind at ease. Foods P°°r enou§b 9ual'fy for
cooked with microwaves pres- It WOS home-repair help from the
ent no hazard at all from the county. She was told last
microwaves. All the ’ ,« 177- , , August the county would fix
microwaves do is speed up the ArniL, a, i//a. bora her roof That was eight
movement of natural molec- Dunmore removed gun- months The ]eaks *
ules that are inside the food to powder from nnrenaireri
begin with. Williamsburg. still unrepaired.
A properly functioning Ram water drips into the
modern microwave oven does • 6as heater in her living
room, the same heater
which heats her bedroom.
She doesn’t dare use the
. JiTfater when it’s raining.
She also doesn’t use it much
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four seats, Illinois and Ohio
two each. Michigan, Penn-
sylvania and South Dakota
may each lose one.
The 1970 Census
demonstrated that
America’s black population
grows at more than twice
the rate of the white popula-
tion — 12.6 percent for
blacks compared to 5.5 per-
cent for whites.
It placed 75 percent of
blacks in metropolitan
areas, 55 percent in cities.
And it found it a pro-
gressively Southern popula-
tion - the South-to-North
migration pattern
established at the beginn-
ing of the Civil War was
reversed for the first time.
Black interest groups — ‘
ranging from the NAACP
and Urban League to
Operation Push and the Na-
tional Conference of Black
Mayors — have zeroed in on
a proper 1980 count of
blacks as a means of insur-
ing proper allocation of
federal and state funds.
But the use of the figures
to reapportion local and
state goveminents — which
coptrod such spending —
has be»*,*rtmost overlook-
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asset to the people of
Baytown as a member of
their city council.
I am voting for Francis
Portis Tuesday and I urge
all my friends to do
likewise.
Dear Editor:
Tuesday is election day. I
am supporting Francis Por-
tis for city councilman,
District 1.
He has proven leadership
abilities in both his profes-
sion and in community
organizations. I believe
Francis Portis will be an
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„ From The Baytown Sun San Jacinto Parent-
files, this is the. way it was Teacher Association.
40 and 30 and 20 years ago: Lynn Hodges Jr. is a new
APRIL 21,1940 member of Beta Chapter of
More than 600 Tri-Citians Kappa Sigma fraternity at
attended a ceremony the University of Alabami
yesterday at Robert E. Lee Willie Ogden of Baytown
for the dedication of the will be transferred from the
French 75 mm. gun as a Naval'Base at San Diego to
world war memorial. Corpus Christ!
The gun is presented by APRII „ 1Qfin
the Tri-Cities Post of the Aviation Cadet Stephen
American Legion, with . _T
Louis Van Meldert, post cadp?i°
meaner pain than the rest commander, delivering the inJj AhSS!?r, \ ^
of us feel. Even in Florida, address. Howard Hum- " A‘r Forc« Bose where
winter can be bitter. On phrey, past commander, sch , d‘ng navigator
cold pights, Virginia slept was master of ceremonies. \
with a hat on,to keep her ar-,. L.A. Lovering cpprotary Airman ,2->C Marshall ■
thrific body as warm as of the school board, ac- Wa>’ne Watkins is named
possible. cepted the war memorials “airman of the month” at
The mercilessly high cost on behalf of the school.____Chennault Air. ForeeBase
of fuel in America is cloak-' Music was presented by the in Lake Charles. La-
ed in an illusion of equality. REL Band, decked out in
All of us are hit with the i new Confederate uniforms,
same price, but those on APRIL 21,1950
tiny, fixed incomes like David Donoghue an-
Virginia ache the most nounces his resignation as
from the price squeeze. city attorney, effective May
She applied under a new 15. He will go into private
federal grant program for law practice with Franklin
money to help pay her fuel C. Jones in Houston,
bpls. But the bureaucrats Mrs. Larry Brennan Jr.
aire using up too much of the comes president of the
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when the weather is dry.
Because of the terrible cost
of fuel, she kept her house
as cold as she could stand it
all winter.
Cold weather bites ar-
thritis victims with a
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By Robert Schuller
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was posted, he barely missed
the cutoff time for qualifying
in the Boston race.
Then one of the doctors exa-
mined him and found that
miles earlier, he had been shot
in the head. The bullet was
still lodged in his skull. He had
i half the race with a bullet
tir/wad. He lost the race
agajfift • the clock by seconds,
but he had a winning attitude.
He refused to quit.
When everything jn life
presses m on you remember,
the winning attitude can turn
the tide. Refuse to quit,
regardless of the obstacles, li
The starter's gun went off
and the pack of long distance
runners took off on the
marathon, Soon they settled
into their pace, with more
experienced runners gradual-
ly opening up a lead on the
others.
Mile after mile, the feet of
the runners pounded away,
eating up the distance to the —
finish line. The runners began
to stretch out as the miles
wore on.
iSuddenly—there- was—the
sound of a crack, and one of
the runners felt a burning sen-
sation in his head, but on he
ran. He was confident that
this would be the year he qual-
ified to run in the Boston
Marathon:
As the miles wore on, he
felt weakened, bothered with
a slight pain in the forehead.
But on he ran, until he fin-
ished the race. When his time ”
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Equally ignored is the
power that state govern-
ments assert over the
center cities where most
blacks live.
One heated Issue in the
recently concluded 1980 ses-
sion of the Georgia Central
Assembly, for example,
was a tax formula that
would have siphoned sales
tax money from the state’s
urban centers into rural
Georgia. The proposal was
barely defeated, indicating
that although a majority of
Georgians live in urban
I areas, rural lawmakers
still dominate the power
positions.
The 1980 Census results
are likely to give added
power to a third bloc — the
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Mrs. J.W. Herring,
representing the Lum-
Roark' Chapter, United
Daughters of the Con-
federacy, presents a 50-star
United States flag to Robert
E. Lee High School. The
flag is accepted by Prin-
cipal Holly McLemore and
students William Hudnall
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