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Tuesday, December 13, 1983
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
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DEC. 13,1943
President Franklin D. Roose-
velt, while visiting in Sicily
recently, pinned the Distin-
guished Service Cross on lst.Lt.
William K. Kellogg, 22, of High-
lands. Kellogg was honored for
leading an airborne infantry pla-
toon on a 13-day campaign 40
miles behind enemy lines in Italy.
Mrs. M.L. Busch is installed as
president of Zone 4, Woman’s
Society of Christian Service.
Mrs. Harry M. Bowen and Mrs.
H.R. Hamil honor Lt. J.D. Bowen
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In a flurry of last-minute appeals, attorneys for Florida
convicted murderer Robert Sullivan tried to convince the
- Supreme Court the death penalty violates the Constitution
because it is “cruel and unusual punishment.
This argument has been used many times in such cases
before the Supreme Court, but up to now the justices have
avoided confronting the issue head-on and making a
definitive decision.
The Justices have hinted at least some of them may
believe capital punishment is cruel and unusual punish-
ment. In fact, Chief Justice Warren Burger indicated he
may lean toward this belief.
In a brief opinion, in which he concurred with most of
.the justices in rejecting Sullivan’s appeal for a stay hours
before he was electrocuted in Florida’s electric chair,
Justice Burger wjote'that arguments the death penalty is
cruel and unusual are “dwarfed by the cruelty of 10 years
on death row” inflicted by lawyers turning the (appeal)
process into a “sporting contest.”
, Dubbed the Dean of Death Row by journalists, Sullivan
lived in the shadow of death longer than any condemned
prisoner in the U.S., 10 years and 18 days.
He was sentenced to die for robbing and murdering the
assistant manager of a Homestead, Fla., restaurant in
1973. During that time, Sullivan’s lawyers used every
avenue of appeal open to them, but none of the stays
lasted long. Neither the governor of Florida nor any state
court would grant a last-minute stay after the Supreme
Court turned it down, 7-2.
A handful of protesters opposing capital punishment
wept when they learned Sullivan had been electrocuted.
They claimed their stand was not taken on the basis of
guilt or innocence, but because they have a duty to in-
tervene in matters of life or death.
If there were any protesters at the funeral of Sullivan’s
victim, other than relatives and friends, no notice was
taken of it in the press. There are sometimes noisy claims
— that constitutional rights of persons under death sentence
are being violated. What about the constitutional rights of
victims?
Inconsistencies in the way the judicial system handles
capital punishment cases should be eliminated. Grounds
for appeal, together with time limit definitions, should
become part of our laws in capital cases.
There are no justifiable reasons why a person should
await execution for 10 years, or even a year, for that mat-
ter. If justified by the crime, punishment should be car-
ried out without delay.
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at a dinner. He recently received
his commission at Williams Field,
Ariz.
Jack Anderson
DEC. 13,1953
Baytown Jaycees will conduct a
membership drive tomorrow,
reports Max Goldfield, president.
' Six city officials leave today on
a three-day hunting and fishing
jaunt at Rancho Blanco near San
Antonio. They will be guests of
White’s Uvalde Mines, a company
that sells street paving materials.
Making the trip are Mayor R.H.
Pruett, Councilmen Rufus Ber-
geron, M.L. Campbell and Lacy
Lusk, City Manager C.D. Middle-
ton and Finance Director A.V.
Barber. Public Works Director
C.W. Grantham will act as city
manager in Middleton’s absence.
Police Chief W.R. Montgomery
complains about merchants who
leave their doors unlocked, say-
ing this is a welcome mat for
thieves.
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Harmful Chemicals In Food
Reported In Market Survey
restricted insecticides,
dimethoate and its first cousin,
omethoate.
WASHINGTON - Americans The turkey meat also contained
have paid a price for the bounty a low level of DDE, the poisonous
that surrounds us. Our food is no substance that results when DDT-
longer produced on small family contaminated plants are in-
farms, but by huge agribusiness gested. Though DDT has long
operations. They depend for their been banned in this country, it re-
success on the constant use of mains in the soil and in plants thfit
pesticides that leave tiny residues grow in that soil — and thus in the
in just abQut everything we eat. food chain. DDE shows up in
The Food and Drug AdministrW almost every animal product, in-
tion conducts ongoing studies of eluding milk and eggs,
food to identify, the kinds and — If you use pork sausage in
amounts of potentially harmful your stuffing, that also has a legal
chemicals that find their way onto but relatively high level of DDE.
your dinner table. For these The white bread you toast for the
“market basket surveys,” the stuffing contains tiny amounts of
FDA scientists shop at the super- the acutely toxic pesticide
market just like any homemaker, malathion as well as the
cook the various items the way phosphate diazinon.
you would and then — unlike you — Risk the kids’ displeasure
— test the results for toxic and serve spinach if you will, but
chemicals.
My associate Vicki Warren ob- and DDE and the insecticide
tained an unpublished computer dieldrin. Try to sneak broccoli in
printout for a recent market as a substitute, and you’ll be
basket survey and checked the feeding the little nippers minute
data. Only a few of the quantities amounts of endrin, another insec-
of chemicals were of questionable ticide. The use of both dieldrin
and endrin has been restricted in
— Turkey was found to contain the United States,
a low level of pentachlorophenol,
or PCP, a wood preservative diazinon.
which contains the carcinogen
dioxin. What’s a wood preser- 1254, a PCB, the same kind of
vative doing in turkey meat? For deadly compound that leaks out of
one thing, the leftover matter electrical transformers,
from cattle whose hides had been
treated with PCP was ground up gravy, you’ll invite grandma’s
and put in animal feed. Though scorn. And you’ll also be feeding
the practice was stopped last the family tiny amounts of
summer, PCP is still showing up malathion.
in meat, apparently because of its — A glass of wine to aid diges-
extensive use on farm structures, tion? It contains two more
— Ice cream contains some of
the same wood preservative
found in the turkey (from the milk
or cream), and traces of dieldrin,
heptachlor epoxide and a banned
but still lingering insecticide,
BHC, a suspected carcinogen.
Footnote: A staff aide, for a
House Agriculture subcommittee,
which has been trying for two
years to tighten pesticide regula-
tions, put the problem this way:
“Scientifically, we can’t prove
that even low-levels of exposure to
pesticides are safe. There is clear f°r doe Gates McCune, 44, lifelong
evidence that exposure can con- Baytown resident and well-known
tribute to cancer and birth businessman. He was owner of
defects.” In other words, no one McCune Paint Co. and was a
knows for sure how our food is.
DEC. 13,1963
Services will be held tomorrow
know that it contains both DDT
painting contractor.
Grocer David Glenn says his
GAMESMANSHIP: President food market will be moved to
Reagan had a few kind words to larger quarters onCherry Street.------------~
say the other day about the video Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
games that obsess many Ameri- 912 sponsors a new Boy Scout '
can youngsters. “Many young Troop which will be called Troop
people have developed incredible 912- Scoutmaster will bgElmer L.
hand, eye and brain coordination Douty and Oscar F. Ing?l|m Jr.
in playing these games,” he told a
group of math and science stu- troop committee,
dents. “The Air Force believes
these kids will be outstanding pil- speaks to the Lee College Engi-
ots when they fly our jets.”
But the president hastened to
add that he didn’t want the kids
telling their parents he thought it
was OK to play video games all
the time. “Homework, sports and
friends come first,” he said.
legality.
Mashed potatoes contain
will serve as chairman APthe
Squash contains Aroclor
Architect Lowell Lammers
neersClub.
If you use canned brown
System Invites Abuse
Today In
History
Over objections of one of its members, the House Ethics
Committee decided to issue subpoenaes and move ahead
with its investigation of Houston State Rep. Ron Wilson’s By the associated press
questionable use of state expense funds. Bob WagiTian On Dec. 13, 1944, a Japanese
Rep. Lloyd Criss, La Marque Democrat, voted against f ) _ / 1 % a # suicide plane crashed into the
the Commmittee decision, saying the matter should be 1 RfNQtfNn Q ( I Ann Wn\/ u.s..cruiserNashville, killing 138
dropped because voters in Wilson’s district re-elected him • V/ DUMUll b L-Ully VYUy 'Tn™; Woodrow Wilson ar-
last year, knowing about accusations against him. r* . . . _ * rived in France, becoming the
We see that as a weak reason why an elected public of- £ JKfli N i n r* O 1 Q / < R 1 n I >+r i TP first sitting us- President to visit
ficial should not be investigated if there is reason to Jll IL.C I / / \J r\vJv*lVJI Jll IIC a European country.
believe he misspent public funds or otherwise betrayed , BOSTON (NEA) - For most “reflected anti-Semitism,” since from the neighborhoods to “down- Menuhin2 made°his*S]\jew ^ork
public trust. Boston voters, the mayoral elec- the only pro-abortion candidate town.” The period saw unprece- debut at age 10
But we agree with one Statement Rep. Criss made while tion had the best possible results: then running for the House was dented growth, and today’s mov- jn 1978 reports from Tehran
Ray Flynn, the popular city coun- Rep. Barney Frank, who is Jew- ers and shakers are the develop- sai(j the staff of the U S Embassy
cil member, was elected by an ish. ers who have poured billions into there had been bolstered bv
overwhelming majority. At the In very Catholic Boston, a can- rebuilding the city’s central area, dozens of specialists to helD the
same time, Boston can be proud didate does himself little good by So, the change in administra- shah stav in Dower P
There was inordinate and inexcusable delay in getting that the contest between Flynn suggesting that a beloved and re- tions makes the establishment And in 1979 Iran’s Avatollah
this investigation Off the ground. and former black activist Mel cently deceased prelate is a bigot, more than a bit nervous. Some Khomeini and’Iranian militants
The ethics committee is looking into Wilson’s collection Kiag "ever took a Jacial turn- And so, practically speaking, the fear that Ray Flynn will be much at the U S. Embassy gave the go-
of Slfi 820 in ner diem (dav) exDenses in about 13 months Boston'ans see these results as election was all over after King’s like Cleveland’s Dennis Kucinich, ahead for neutral observers to
of 1981 andl&ra white heservetfaschVirmanof theHouse Praof of far the fy has come “Medeiros statement.” whose populist, anti-establish- visit the American hostages.
OI l»ol ana lyoz, wniie ne servea as cnairman 01 me riouse in the past 10 years. A decade ago, While Boston voters seem ment term as mayor was viewed Thoueht for tndav- “th k
Health Services Committee, as well as records Of Boston was torn by racial strife, pleased with Flynn’s victory and as a disaster for that city. way to cheer yourself ud is to t
telephone calls charged to the State on his telephone as its school integration battle led are still congratulating them- However, other observers be- to cheer SOmeone elseP ud ” -
credit card. t0 violence and national head- selves for the campaign’s high lieve that Flynn will come to Mark Twain American writer
wiicrm’c tfifi rmn hiidopt uiat ovprcnpnt hv lines. But Bostonians say that tone, the political and business es- terms with the establishment and
5 those days are behind them and tablishment is apprehensive will run the city much as White
$6,700, partially attributable to the large amount Of ex the city has pulled together. about having Ray Flynn as may- has — as a place very friendly to
penses he collected for trips to and days spent in Austin. Several experts here weren’t so or. commercial development. One
When this came to light, the House Administration sure that the campaign wouldn’t Flynn is a lifelong resident of sign of this, they say, is Flynn’s
Committee forced Wilson to suspend his committee’s become racial in tone. Both King South Boston, the Irish Catholic campaign opposition to a propos- out of the stem of Jesus, and a
and Flynn are regarded as good working class neighborhood ed business tax. Branch shall grow out of his
men; they’ve known each other that’s better known as “Southie.” But if Flynn does remain true to roots: And the spirit of the Lord
. . , , since childhood and seem gen- More than that, he’s almost an his campaign pledge of returning shall rest upon Him, the spirit of
Legislature convened. Since then, restrictions nave oeen uinely fond of each other. Both embodiment of Southie’s values: power and decision-making to the Wisdom and understanding, the
placed on the number of trips to Austin for which commit- said that above all else, they He lives in a modest but sparkling people and the neighborhoods, spirit of counsel and might’, the
tee chairmen may collect expenses. would ensure that race didn’t be- home, supports his wife and six Boston might be in for an interest- spirit of knowledge and of the fear
There is something wrong with a system that invites cornea factor in the campaign. children on his $32,000 City Coun- ing four years under the leader- of the Lord.”
ahiiQP Thp House Fthirs Committee should look into However, many King and Flynn cil salary and drives an 8-year-old ship of Southie’s first mayor. -
abuse, me House kimcs committee miuuiu iuuk. iuiu supporters didn’t share as high a station wagon.
Other Changes in addition to more Strict accounting for ex- regard for one another. The ex- Although he has been active in
pense reimbursement. perts said the campaign would politics all of his adult life, he is in
stay clean if Flynn remained no way a member of Boston’s De-
un ahead and King seemed unlikely mocratic political establishment.
* ^ to win. But if it got close near the He laughs when remarking that
end, they said, the campaign Tip O’Neill didn’t even know who
might become very dirty — .de- he was until after the primary,
spite what the candidates them- Most important, Flynn is a pop-
ulist In the traditional Jefferson-
What happened was that Flynn ian sense: He believes deeply in
took a clear lead from the first the wisdom of the people and be-
post-primary poll and never look- lieves that decision-making
Retail Advertising Manager ed back. And three weeks before should flow upward from them. In
Classified Advertising Monager the election, when Kingshould both the primary and the general
been making his big move election he campaigned on a plat-
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the committee was debating what action to take against
him. “If any action was necessary,” said Criss, “it should
have been taken long ago.’’
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 037, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 13, 1983, newspaper, December 13, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153961/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.