The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 168, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1994 Page: 4 of 51
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Our congratulations to everyone who took their daughters to work on
May 5, annual Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Several employers in
the area planned special activities for their visitors, and school districts
participated by forgiving absences.
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District will go to the polls Saturday with the fate of the district
and its 18,500 students in their hands.
> They will be faced with a pair of referendums which would invest a
total of $75.6 million in new facilities, renovations and new equipment
in district schools.
The members of the Bond Steering Committee which put this pro-
posal together calls the bond issue an investment in the fixture.
* • Like any shrewd investors, we believe Goose Creek patrons should
know what their getting for their investment:
The first referendum on the ballot would invest a total of $55.2 mil-
lion in district facilities and equipment, including the following:
■ $22.5 million to replace three elementary schools. The campuses
Ashbel Smith, Lamar and Stephen F. Austin would be replaced at a
cost of about $7.5 million each. Ashbel Smith has been closed for two
years because of environmental contamination, Lamar has similar
problems and structural problems and the number of students in the
neighborhood have simply outgrown the facilities at Stephen F. Austin.
■ $25.5 million to bring other campuses up to code. Eight elemen-
tary campuses need extensive work, a total of about $6 million new
electrical systems, air conditioning and security systems. About $5
million would be spent at four junior schools to alleviate similar prob-
lems. And nearly $11 million would be spent at Robert E. Lee and
Ross S. Sterling high schools.
■ The remainder of the money in the first proposal — $6.9 million
—would go toward purchasing classroom and administrative comput-
ers. The plan is to provide all Goose Creek student the instructional
tools they need to be successful.
■ • A proposed $20.4 million high school is the second question on the
ballot.
: ■ When committee members first met to plan this bond issue, the
; idea of including a third high school was the farthest thing from their
minds. As they researched the problems facing Sterling and Lee, how-
ever, they came to believe that making a case for a third high school in
Goose Creek CISD would not be difficult.
The proposed high school would initially accommodate about 1,200
students but would be built to handle 1,800. The new school would
allow enrollments at Lee and Sterling to return to the 1,800 students
they were built to handle and relieve safety and security problems fac-
ing the two schools.
The real dividend in this investment, however, is the future of our
community. The profit will come in the education of our children.
That’s a return none of us can afford to pass up.
Invest in the future. Vote yes on both referendums in Saturday’s
Goose Creek CISD bond election.
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marching orders: Pressure Congress to enact I ^ , ■ controversial subject of financing,
many elements of President Clinton’s health ||l„ Clinton only asked for support from
care reform plan. : 1' 1 - AARP’s members: “I’m counting on you for
But only if it contains two key, budget- 1B| jlllyj) Qj a your help. When you go home from this
busting provisions — free prescription drugs -A •-1 - convention, help us spread the word. Talk to
and long-term care benefits. linlMIartlllH your friends and your family. Most of all,
The message was heard by the more than call your senators and your representatives in
20,000 older Americans assembled for the Unlike Clinton’s plan, the AARP plan was Congress. Tell them you want health care
biennial convention of the American Associ- ^on8 011 promises and short on specifics. reform this year.”
ation of Retired Persons (AARP). Unlike Clinton, the AARP plan never talks This is no small thing with a group known
With more than 33 million members about financing some of these benefits by for jte massive letter-writing campaigns and
nationally, AARP is the country’s largest tinkering with Medicare, a subject as unwel- for striking fear in the hearts of members of
lobby with more members than the Democ- come in elderly circles as Tonya Harding at a Congress.
ratic and Republican parties combined. With Kemgan family reunion. Perhaps the most knowledgeable forecasts
health care costs representing an unusually Clinton has put unusually targeted and about health care reform were given by for-
high percentage of the budget of the elderly, serious time into winning AARP over, a mer Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. His
AARP has been at the forefront of proposing measure of the clout the organization carries message was reassuring to the group:
in Washington. Last year, he even went
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House has long counted on America’s elder- beyond its Washington leadership to pitch
ly to be the foot soldiers that help bring his reforms to a large AARP gathering in
momentum to the fight for health care —San Francisco. Both Clintons met with a
reform. smaller group in New Jersey this year.
In the opening session of the convention
here, Clinton sent a special, two-minute
video which included a brief welcome to the
Whichever of the she major plans is enacted,
he had no doubt that “of all the groups of
people, you will have the best deal.” Without
AARP lifting another lobbying finger, he
later added, better treatment for older Ameri-
cans would invariably be the case because of
their ballot-box clout
Clinton’s arrival on a banner of health care
reform was a breath of fresh air for the
AARP leadership in Washington. They
warmed to the President quickly, which was convention and a big pitch for health care
no surprise to Republican members of Con- reform. As he spoke, any differences
gress, who have long viewed AARP’s lob-
bing arm as liberal and Democratic despite
the organization’s pledge of nonpartisanship.
The shock belonged to Clinton, however,
when AARP refused to wholeheartedly '
endorse his health care plan. He was “very,
very surprised about this,” one White House
source told our associate, Dale Van Atta. But and long-term care,” Clinton added. He
AARP has its own plan, “Health Care Amer- could have been reading directly off the
ica,” which promises far more generous ben- printed resolutions formed by the AARP
efits to older Americans than Clinton’s plan, leadership and passed at the convention.
The assembled membership weren’t total-
ly buying the overwhelmingly Democratic
message of the “nonpartisan” AARP con-
between the AARP leadership and the Presi- vention. There was fervent disagreement
“We’re going to protect and strengthen
Medicare,” he said to applause he didn’t
even hear. “If you have a Medicare card,
you’ll keep it”
“We’re going to cover prescription drugs
proposed reform except one: The intervie-
wees unanimously wanted assurances plan
that they could still go to the doctor of their
choice.
Jack Anderson’s column, “The Washing-
ton Merry-Go-Round," is distributed by the
United Feature Syndicate. His correspon-
dence may be addressed care of this newspa-
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How to make $ 100 million with a nonexistent camera
Texas viewpoints
Public will narrowly triumphed over the NRA’s
heavy-handed tactics’ in assault weapons vote
n an article on the new Flintstones movie
in the May issue of Premiere, Brian Graz-
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DeVito reprising his role, Jeff Bridges as Jeff
Conaway, Tommy Lee Jones as Judd Hirsch,
Michelle Pfeiffer as Marilu Henner, Jean-
Claude Van Damme as Tony Danza, Chris
Lloyd as Chris Lloyd, and Jerry Seinfeld as
Andy Kaufman. It could happen.
We could see “Starsky And Hutch” with
Pacino and Redford, we could see “Six Mil-
lion Dollar Man” with an anguished Keanu
Reeves. We could see “Little House on the
Prairie” with Daniel Day-Lewis and Sissy
“If ‘Mission: Inpossible’ has a shot of Tom
Cruise in the trailer, with that familiar ‘Mis-
sion: Impossible’ music, you’ve sold the pic-
ture. You don’t even need to shoot the movie.
Don’t even roll the camera—it’s a $ 100 mil-
lion film right there.”
I’ve been brooding about this for days, try-
ing to figure out how you make a $100 mil- think, if you want to make money on a film
lion on a movie without rolling the camera. I that hasn’t been shot you only need stars and Spacek.
don’t even have a camera. If I can turn not a concept. Who can’t be replaced? What precious
rolling a non-existent camera to my advan- If actual footage no longer matters I media memory can’t be plundered? Why
tage, frankly, I could use an extra $100 mil- should be able to say, Paul Newman is John can’t we mix and match? “The Simpsons
lion. In a world where die late Richard Forsythe in “Dynasty: The Movie,” or Andy Meet Alien.” “Close Encounters of the Third
Nixon is eulogized by the left and reviled by Garcia and Meg Ryan in “I Love Lucy: The Kind Meet Six Degrees of Separation.”
right (for being a liberal!), I guess anything Movie,” or Chevy Chase is Jack Lord in “Indiana Jones and Scoobie Doo and the
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The big surprise should not be that the House of Representatives voted to
ban 19 semiautomatic assault weapons. The surprise should be that the vote
was so close.
After all, polls consistently showed at least 80 percent of Americans
favored the assault weapons ban. And practically all of America’s police offi-
cers and law enforcement organizations supported the ban. President Clinton
•. and Attorney General Janet Reno supported the ban. Former President
Ronald Reagan supported the ban. So why did the measure pass by only 2lb-
214?
The answer is money and threats from powerful lobbyists who for decades
have been able to control votes in Congress whenever gun issues were con-
sidered despite the desires of most Americans, But Thursday’s vote represent-
ed the second defeat within six months for National Rifle Association lobby-
ists. In November, Congress finally passed the Brady bill, despite repeated
attempts and strong public support.
Heavy-handed tactics by NRA lobbyists actually lost Thursday’s vote for
the gun lobby. Two House members say threats from NRA lobbyists caused
them to switch their votes and support the ban...
Hawaii Five-O: The Movie,” and a grateful Jewels of Opar.” I think the Carpenters said it
And Mr. Grazer, as a legitimate producer, America should be fawning at my feet, hold- best: “We’ve only just begun.” How about
seems to know what he’s talking about If he mg up its vast checkbook m a graceful and Winona Ryder and James Spader in “The
says you don’t need to shoot a movie to respectful gesture. Carpenters: The Movie,” directed by John
make money on it, I’ll take his word for it Please send me money, America I’ve got Carpenter? You know where to send the
After all, he has “SgtBilko” in develop- ideas up the wazoo. checks, don’t you?
ment. He’ll have dozens of Not Ready for “The Ed Sullivan Show: The Movie” Ian Shoales is a columnistfor the Newspa-
Prime Time Players oozing into khaki for might be a project David Lynch could really per Enterprise Association. His correspon-
that one. I’ll bet he has Eddie Murphy signed sink his teeth into. I’ll bet we could get Tim dence may be addressed care of this newspa-
for Bilko even as we speak. The moral is, I Burton to do‘Taxi: The Movie,” with Danny per.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 168, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 15, 1994, newspaper, May 15, 1994; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157937/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.