Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 190, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 15, 1985 Page: 2 of 36
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WELLS INDEX
Ah I know Is what I read In the papers
Will Rogers
Letters to Editor
our
yours
lows
months
Add cigarettes to the ‘hit’
Second U.S. hostage may be dead
vital link In the
ace would
had PRO-
BOSTON- If thare Is one thing on
Elaine Crispon's White House desk
that she isn't proud of, It's the
ashtray The press secretary for
Nancy Reagan, a First Lady who has
made drug abuse her number one
Issue, admits that she Is 'hooked'' on
cigarettes
Crispen has MMMHi
tried iind tail(*<i
to quit Not
even her col
"You ruined my drawing.
Her father replied, "I just wanted
to teach you a lesson. Don's believe
everything you see on television."
Alison hand-
ed him a sheet
of paper with a
crayon draw-
ing on it.
T'What 1a
are far from psrfx
are the beet oxistl
world and wo are
God to be so privilq
mommy and this is the daddy and
this is the little child, and this is the
cat and this io a tros."
"That’s fine, but how do you get
Star Wan. The rockets can't got
Where to write
your elected officials
President Ronald Reagan
The White House
Washington, D.C., 20500
U.S. Senator Phil Gramm
179 Russell Senate Office Bldg,,
Washington, D.C. 20510
Chief Executive Officer
Fort Madison Community Hospital
Money kroncois (I B. Mineral Wells)
Dottle Ollier (•refer*, r
nion and vote on election d
Merry Christmas to the
Minora) Wells and to a
friends, thank you for letting us got to
know you.
State Rep. Rick Perry
Texas House of Representative
P.O. Box M10
Austin, Toxas 78759
U.S. Senator I Joyd Bentsen
307 Senate Hart Bldg.,
Washington, D.C. 20510
Texas Senator Bob Glasgow
P.O. Box 12085
Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711
U.S. Rep. Charles W. Stenholm
District 17
1232L.H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20615
WASHINGTON - Last Juno, when
the 88 American hootagea from TWA
Flight M7 were sot free In Beirut.
President Reagan said he would not
forget the seven other Americano
who had boon kidnapped in Lebanon.
But oven aa
be mark that
■< «u r" n.I he “.. u
CIA had Wl
reliable in
rounded the issue of drug abuse too
Iom." I can't Imagine a bettor in-
troduction ot the topic of teen-age
tobacco la not Intoxicating Tobacco
dooan't cause immediate harm You
do not have to become a pusher or
through to kill the mommy, the dad-
dy, the child and cat."
"I don't see how that blue arc can
stop missiles from hitting your fami-
ly, Barry said
Alison pointed to three red missiles
bouncing off the arc. "You see? The
bombs are stopped and can’t hit
anyone."
"Where did you got the ideas that a
blue crayon can stop a rod one?"
"I saw It on television. It said if
everyone supports Star Wars we will
bo safe from getting killed.
"Don't lie to me," Alison's father
said.
"She's not lying," I told him. "I
saw the same TV commercial. It's
Bout by some outfit called 'Peace
old' to convince people the Presi-
dent's Strategic Defense Initiative
works. They're hoping If they make it
simple enough Americans will buy
Barry said, "What a crock.
They’re using a kid's drawing to sell
a pie -in the-sky Idea."
I said, "Don't jump to conclusions
that a child was the artist. I know
several scientists who could easily
have drawn it."
“The drawing doesn't convince me
we should spend zillions on Star
Wars."
"It's not intended to convince you -
It's supposed to convince Alison
After all, it's her generation that is
going to have to live with laser beams
and enhanced deterrence. If kids
believe a blue crayon can stop a red
one then they won’t bo afraid.”
Alison was just standing ther
sheepishly. Finally she said, 'Is my
drawing all right?"
Hor father replied, "As far as It
goes It io. Hand mo a rod crayon and
a black one, Okay, now watch
carefully. The rod crayon can't get
daughter'!
cherry thrrnl»
in not nlay
ing in the ■■
house this W|S
Christmas If a
you're still
smoking"; not
oven the memory of the President's
disapproval of a loaded ashtray:
"tok, tak" • have helped her to finally
kick the habit.
But finding an addict among the
warriors against drug abuse In the
White House, especially teen-age
drug abuse, Isn't that surprising.
Yes, tho National Institute on Drug
Abuse ranks tobacco aa tho most
lethal and the moot addictive of all
drugs The American Psychiatric
Association lists tho Inability to quit
Reagan has greater name recogni-
tion that Benson & Hedges.
What a remarkable counter-ad she
could be Mrs Reagan's current
drug-abuse program warning about
uppers and downers has reached an
audience wider than those who sell
longs and slims. She has a logical,
and remarkable chance to affect na-
tional health, just by telling the truth,
just by talking about tobacco as
another drug and about smokers as
drug abusers.
Have I forgotten about politics and
the power of tobacco lobbies? Not at
all. But lately, tho tobacco com-
panies have begun to sound like pa-
tients in tho last stages of em-
physema. They can barely yoll; they
need all their energy to keep
breathing Today the public imago of
the tobacco lobby Is just a notch
above that of tho strootcorner
pusher. I don't believe that smoking
is too "Controversial" for a Presl-
dent's wlfo.
This Is the First Lady, after all,
who Mid: "I am not an authority on
drugs, but I do care about young poo
aand I don't think wo oan afford to
i a generation of our young people
to chemlcala." Nor can wo afford to
lose another generation in tho ashes
Tobacco. Nancy; add It to tho list.
Meres tt. Secretary of State
George Shults privately called tho
family of one of the hostages and
assured them "we are using quiet
diplomacy to secure the hostages
release At the same time, Shultz
to tho Iranians
A crack in the kid’s peace shield
I was over at Barry Israel's the
other night when his 8-vear-old
daughter Alison came Into the living
room.
you .
done your
homework’"
her father ask
as a "tobacco dependence disorder."
The American Medical Association is
calling for a ban on all cigarette
advertising.
Still, tobacco is not usually thought
of as a drug with a capital D. We do
not think of Lucky Strikes and
smack, of Vantage and crack, of
Marlboroa and cocaine, of Virginia
Slims and LSD in the same vein. We
do not think of Elaine Crispen and a
drug addict in the same way either.
So tobacco has yet to win a place of
honor, where It really belongs: on the
First Lady’s agenda, the First
Lady’s hit list.
In private, Mrs. Reagan has
spoken out. As her press secretary
says, "Mrs. Reagan Knows smoking
isn't good. I know she encourages
friends to quit." In public, she has
come only as close as the foreword to
a book on marijuana, "My primary
purpoee In thia battle against drugs Is
to draw attention to the problem, to
make people aware and got them in-
volved... The wall of denial has our-
The circumstances under which I
loft Palo Pinto General Hospital wore
not pleasant ones so I will not dwell
upon them. I will however, say that
no one should complairf about tho
hospital unless they are willing to do
something about It. Politics has got-
ten Palo Pinto General Hospital in
tho condition it Io In today. Nothing
Published dally •«
of July, Labor Day,
Now Veor'i Day and Mamarial I ,
dai. Ina., 388 B.E. Firol BtraaL Mineral Walla, Taxaa 78887.
•Ingle Copy twenly-flve eenle, Including taa. dally: fifty
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ai, per monlhi IM.M, In*
r Plala, Jack, Partier, Hood,
Kaatland, Kralh, Young and Mephena counties: Ml.88 In-
cluding tag. anywharo else In the continental U.B. All
depart mento 38M4M.
through the arc, and the house and
the family of three.”
“Why?1’
"Because black crayons can
always to through blue ones. Even a
nuclear umbrella won't stop them
That's why a blue crayon la not going
to save us."
Alison looked at mo for some help
"I have to agree with your father,"
I ’told hor. "There are too many dif-
ferent colored crayons for one blue
arc to stop. Even If only one color got
through It would wipe out your mom-
my, daddy and child."
Barry said, "Did you hoar what
your Uncle Art just said? Listen to
him. He knows evwytMw."
Beaoio •lllov (•retorg, Possum Klngoom, Palo Pinto)
Bob Me Paddon (Polo Pinto, lento. Lone Comp)
Jon Toy for (Circulation Manager)
Qjg Olrt and Save
Mineral Wells Index
Established Mays, 1900
Having boon a stewardess with
American Airlines tor I i/l yean, I
have traveiled the world around and
observed a groat many cultures,
societies and communities quite dif-
ferent from our own. I hod the
r j group who is very
active In our community I've boon
involved in It for sometime and
recommend that any concerned
peronte wishing to bo ectlvo In our
community and school contact Con-
cerned Parents Group, 8. Oak Com-
munity Center, 708 8. Oak, Edna
Callman, or Sherry Carpenter. I have
soon action result from my own oon-
(Continued on Paas 8)
Our country educates more of its
populace than any other country In
the world. UMR students may teal
higher in some areas of academics,
but wo must realise what a small
percentage of tho oducablo children
of the USSR theoe "students" repre-
sent. Leas than 1/4 of the oducablo
children in communist countries are
even allowed to attend school. If tho
United States concerned itself with
such a small percentage of Ito
•durable children, I am certain the
USSR would never have higher
at a dem 11 fleoreo
to loot Thursday's School Board
they
In tho entire
LL bieeood by
I as to live here
and K
letter
OeeemOec The State Department
still continues to tell anyone who in
quires that it “assumes" Buckley
and Kilburn are still alive, along with
the four others. But the State Depart
ment knows better.
MANILA MAINLINE The U.S
government has more to complain to
Philippines President Ferdinand
Marcos about than cwmlinuiag oar-
prostitute or mugger to support a
cigarette habit. Cigarette smokers do
not drop out of high school or rob
their parents' pocketbooks and die in
the streets. It's all too easy to build a
"wall of denial" around this drug
abuse, because it doesn't make such
dramatic copy.
And yet tobacco does destroy lives.
To some, like William Pollin. the
former chair of the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, cl
"gateway" into the
world. But on Its own, tobacco is
related 35,000 American deaths last
year. Deaths that started at an aarly
ago.
Over M percent of smokers begin
Sng before they are 81, moot in
r high, before they have the
ment to say no or the vision to
see thier own mortality Smoking, it
la true, is becoming extinct among a
young elite: Only five percent of the
incoming freshmen at Harvard and
two percent of those at Dartmouth
smoko ■ but In tho same ago group,
one out of every five Is still puffing
away.
Tho numbers alone may take
tobacco seem like a "normal nablt."
Glamorous ada push this drug
unceasingly. But tho White House
has Ito own glamour and Nancy
two of the
■ even
Americano M
were already
dead Wo *
reported loot ► ■ .
week the svidenes that CIA
wlBtem Bucktoy. 88. l__ _1
station chief In Beirut, was kidnap-
ped at gunpoint near his apartment
in tho Lebanese capital He was
transported to the town of Baalbek in
the eastern Bekaa Valley This to
Syrian-controlled territory, but there
la a strong Iranian presence
Basjihr Lmsj * a aasUmw UmwbwxlIaK
•T m m w^Sp * •M to fl vaDwiiBIl
(Party of God) extremists closely
linked to the Islamic Jihad Both get
directions from Iran.
Doo. 8, tog* Kilburn waa kidnap-
ped In Beirut and driven to Baalbek
He had a history of heart disease and
hypertoneion. and a stroke had loft
him parttally paralysed According
"It's Star *<■’•*—
Wan.” Alison said. "This to tho sun
■ent a secret
via a Swteo diplomat in Tehran, war-
ning that Iran would "suffer the con-
sequences" if any Americans
hoetages were harmed The torture
of Buckley continued
Apr* Bucktoy suffered a heart at-
tack brought on by torture, and died
teaching for tho United States Army
Education Canter during the daj rand
teaching English to a variety of inter
nationals in tho evening for a Ger-
man owned and operated school.
During thia time I lived like a Ger-
man, In German housing, treated by
German doctors, shopping In Ger-
man otereo. I chose this lifestyle over
military housing which waa available
to an contract employees of tho Ar-
my Education Center, I had the
freedom to travel all over Europe in-
diroctly with earnest concern by Mr.
Ray at last nights meeting; point be-
ing, Issues wore not Ignored, but
treated with dignity
Tho strip search, body search issue
which has brought about such hooted
debate should »>e addressed I’d like
to offer tho following:
1, Tho primary (and only) reason
such a search would take place would
bo when the school
BABLE CAUSE A detailed outline of
probable cause to In tho discipline
plan. Authorities will always bo call-
ed and used when they aro available
8 REASONABLE attempt to roach
tho parents will bo made WHAT 18
REASONABLE. My children’s
school Information cardo have ap-
proximately six telephone contacts
on them. My homo phono, my
husbands' job, an
for his;
doctors,
reached If all of those numbers and
people aro triad and no ono knows
whore I am or how to contact mo or
my husband.
Search and seiiure aro a vital link
in cleaning up our schools, obtaining
•dm Issa bio evidence for a courtroom
to NOT the objective: awareness of
tho student that »chool officials know
what they aro doing, placement of
tho student in a drug education situa-
tion, bringing parent, student and
faculty together in a confronting, and
reaoving atmosphere ARE some of
tho objectives of search and seizure
The matter of concerned parents
aroused after tho meeting last night
and I apologise for having my head in
tho sand when the lady stated wo
needed a group. 1 said yea, wo did, I
»)MHJ|<1 have said yea wo needed more
because wo already have a wonderful
concerned peronte
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Remembering Friends
To tho Poopto of Mlnorol Wells
Doer Frtendo,
During thia holiday season, it to
time to stop and say thanks to tho
may poopto who made our short stay
in MiMral Wolto enjoyable As Ad-
ministrator of Palo Pinto General
Hospital, I mot many outstanding
poopto, both inside tho Hospital and
out My friendship with those in-
dividuals will bo forovor
remembered Tho time Lisa snd I
spent In Mineral Wolto was an on-
Babin and friendly time. The First
pttot Church of Minors! Wolto will
always be special In our hosrts and it
to our sincere hops thst ws may find
that fine Christian fellowship again
Wo made many good friends through
tho church and wo aro forever
grateful.
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