Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, December 17, 1979 Page: 2 of 10
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NORMAN FISHER, Publisher
DENVER DOGGETT. Editor
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vested interest in growth.
The dangled tax breaks,
mild weather and a quality of
life unlike that offered by the
decaying, closed-in Northeast.
Like successful shrimpers,
they often returned with their
nets full.
Industries took the bait, br-
inging people and their sala-
ries to Texas. But of all that
came, the one making the big-
gest splash was not the one
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Salome, came to help them.
The child, circumcized at the
age of 8 days by the village
mohel, was called ‘‘Yeshua,’’
or Jesus, a common name
J the “Salvation of
sient peasant couple from Ga- Jehovah.” By usage, he would
taken refuge for the delivery of seph, Jews wnofJoseph" ”
As a male child, and Mary’s
first born, he would take on all
the obligations and rights as
the future head of the family.
At the end of her 40-day peri,
od of. purification, as fixed in'
Mosaic law, the couple took the
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parable model was selling for
lass than >10.
The same technology mush-
roomed, an electronics began
providing entertainment as
well as information. The
miracle chips allowed
machines to put games onto
television screens and to make
digital-readout watches.
They talked in rhyme to
children old enough to punch
the right buttons and they
talked in dollars to accoun-
tants smart enough to punch
the right buttons.
Docutel, another Dallas
company^, adapted the
technology to banking, and is
the company most responsible
for those automatic tellers
that let you get cash in the
middle of the night.
Chilton Corp., also of Dallas,
was the first to computerize
its credit-reporting business.
Chilton is one of the ethree
largest such companies in the
United States now.lt provides
businesses with credit reports
on potential consumers.
This service has become a
growing economic indicator.
- The more people seek credit,
the more future spending is in-
dicated.
Undoubtedly, Texas’ go-go
attitudes and active solicita-
tion of corporate newcomers
had plenty to do with decisions
made during the 1970s to move
to the Lone Star State.
But some moves were made
for other reasons, perhaps the
general ambience of an area.
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
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for the month (TOTAL CURRENT
MO. BILL). The result isjhe small
amount you spen^ each chy to
enjoy all the things that depend-
able electricity makes possible iriyour home.
Electricity.. .one of today's best energy values.
When you break down your
charges for electricity on a
per-day basis, the value you're
receiving for your dollar comes
into much sharper focus.
) On your monthly electric bill,
first look at the date your mieter
was last read (PRE$. READ DATE) and, then, the
date it was read previously (PR^V. READ DATE)
It is a strange contrast. “The
last shall be first," he said,
"and the first last." He dwelt
as the least of men, in a dim
corner of the unmentioned and
unnoticed. Yet his name excels
every name in the annals of
mankind.
Metroplex, a name adopted by
the Dallas-Fort Worth area in
general.
It was a homecoming, be-
cause American began in Tex-
as. But the howl from New
Yorkers was beard across the
nation. Taxi drivers in
Manhattan refused to take
passengers to American's
rapidly emptying New York
headquarters. The mayor
there railed publicly.
But American came home,
th e glamor-boy re turn ed to the
fold to Join other Texas-based
airlines like Texas Inter-
national and Braniff — and
Southwest.
Southwest began in Texas as
a fun-loving little airline that
shuttled businessmen between
Dallas, Houston and San An-
tonio. It operated from the old-
er, downtown airports at
Houston and Dallas.
The airline grew, fighting
tooth-and-nail in an almost
comical battle with Texas In-
ternational and Braniff.
While the airlines grabbed *
the headlines, other, larger
companies opted for Texas
with less splash and more
cash.
Nowhere was this trend
more visible than in Houston,
which became the undisputed
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grew to manhood, but ancient
non-canonicai literature pro-
vides some inklings on that pe-
riod. This first installment of a
five-part Christmas series,
“The Secret Years," dtaws on
those writings to recount the
Asked to pin down a head-
quarters move to Texas that
ordinarily might not come to
mind, Worth Blake came up
with a real dark horse.
Blake runs the North Texas
C/wnmiMinn, a sort of super-
chamber of commerce whose
aim is to plug a large chunk of
North Central Texas.
When the Dallas Cowboys
moved to suburban Irving in
the 70s, it was to a showplace
football stadium, famed for its
semi-roof that keeps the play-
ing field uncovered, protects
the fans and drives television
cameramen to drink because
of abrupt changes in lighting.
But the Cowboys weren’t the
only group identifiable by
their uniforms who chose Irv-
ing for a new address.
“This may surprise you, but
I'd say the Boy Scouts of
America would be one of the
major catches for us,” Blake
said. “They brought in 600 or
700 people, and they’re looking
to bring in more."
Some might argue that Irv-
ing is so urban-oriented that
aesthetics might not be the big
thing there that proves
attractive to businesses.
Using that premise, one
might assume that companies
moving operations to Texas
stay within hollering distance
of the major cities of Dallas
and Houston.
Not so, amigo.
Take El Paso - General
Motors, Rockwell Interna-
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with the most economic im-
pact ..
But it served as a focal point
for northern frustration over
defections to the part of the
country that became known as
the Sunbelt.
Groundwork for the deal
was laid in 1973, when the
sprawling, futuristic Dallas-
Fort Worth Regional Airport
was opened. It was the world’s
largest at the time.
The airport yvas a key to
American Airlines' decision to ,
trade Manhattan for the available for everything from
taco stands to computer com-
panies.
In Richardson, just north of
the Dallas city limits, looms
Texas Instruments.
It is an immense company,
and in 1971 it introduced an
item that would change the
way Americans added, sub-
traded, multiplied, divided,
counted, estimated, withdrew,
paid and played.
The item la a simple, pin-
head-size chip, usually made
of tilicon containing, in ef-
fect, an entire computer.
Texas Instruments had al-
ways been concerned with
creating a market to which it
could sell components. It had
been known to invent an item
for others to produce while TI
provided components.
That didn't prove to be the
case with the electronic calcu-
lator, invented by TI in the
1960s. The first model now is
the property of the Smithso-
nian Institution in
Washington.
The perfection of the chips
did away with room-sized
computers that required enor-
mous investments.
TI entered the calculator,
market itself in 1972, offering
a smallish one for 6150.
By decade's end, a com-
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But sometime before that
point the foreign astrologers ar-
rived with their mystic inter- .
pretations and their gifts. The
visit aroused suspicions pf the
depraved King Herod, whose
fear of plots aireddy had
drenched his own household in
blood."
He dispatched troops to de-
stroy all Bethlehem nurslings
up to the age of 2, a furious
onslaught of screaming terror
,knd massacre, yet a not-sur-
prising tactic in that region of
iMtruments and Levi Strauss
did.
El Paso is so removed from
Dallas and Houston that it's
literally in a different time
zone.
What’s Mo attractive about
the isolated city 'way out
west? * *
Probably the fact that it’s
right across the Rio Grande
from Juarez, Mexico, and that
fact that these two foreign
neighbors work very well to-
gether.
So well that companies like
those mentioned earlier have
taken to building "twin
plants.”
Under that concept, a com-
pany will build a facility in the
El Paso area, shipping parts
to a “twin” operation around
Juarez, to be assembled by
cheaper labor.
The assembled product is
• brought back to the UJS. side
for distribution and
marketing.
The companies and the two
cities have profited.
“It has pumped a lot of mon-
ey into El Paso,” said Jack ,
Morris, excutive director off
the El Paso Chamber of Com-
merce. “It took us from a
stable condition which had
lasted for about 30 years to a
rapid growth situation.
“In simplest terms, El Paso
was kind of sleepy until the
70s. The Sunbelt lifestyle has
become a recognizable factor
for. labor availability and
economical operations of
tional, GTE-SyIvania, General. businesses. ’’
By GEORGE W. CORNELL
AP Religion Writer
Out of the night, he came.
Out of the shadows and the un-
certainties, his life emerged. Jt
was unknown, except in its con-
sequences. He was reared and
lived mostly in obscurity. Yet
he gripped the world. -
“If I glorify myself,” he said,
"my glory is nothing."
A curtain of silence sur-
rounds the time of Jesus on
earth. Of his 33 years, there
are accounts of only three.
t Nine-tenths of his biography is
‘ untold. Yet no other figure tow-
ers so great in the world's his-
tory.
TOMORROW: Fugitives in
''lypt.
Texas past and promise
Part n: Wartry gei TNcb-
EDITOR'S NOTE . The 70s.
A decade of change confu-
Mon, good and bad. The gtbgo Tanned men in three-piece
suite, sometimes sporting
western hate and boots, made
their pitches to businessmen
in frorty climes.
They promised a warm wel-
come to the south in general
and to Texas in particular.
They represented chambers of
commerce, individual com
ern archaeology has dated his
term from 9 B.C. until 6 B.C.
Other evidence, such-as St.
Luke's statement that Jesus
was-about 30 when he began his
L ministry in the 15th year of the
reign of the Roman emperor
Tiberius, also would put his
i birth in 7 B.C.
Coincidentally, in that year,
! as determined centuries after- .
1 ward by astronomical calcu- oppression and defiance'
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mail, paid in advance per sphere low in the evening sky. .
year, 636.00; daily and Sunday
/ in Erath and adjacent coun-
ties. By mail outside the trade
area in Texas by request.
her son. It was not a pleasant
setting, as often pictured, but
fraught with discomfort, anx-
iety and difficulty.
The mother, weak from her
labor, sprinkled the infant with
salt to toughen his skin,
swathed him with strips of boy to the Temple in Jerusalem
cloth to brace his body, and *- •-=- -----
laid him in a chiseled-out pit in
the rock floor used as a feed
, . . ' a new son, the poor were per-
The date was about 7 B.C. -- mitted to offer only two birds
A 1’ as nuacalculate'd to instead, as Joseph, a poor man,
the modern calendar. did
The Roman empire’s satrap, For more than a year, the
Herod the Great, then ruled Is- . couple apparently resided in
. . rael. Scripture indicates that Bethlehem, with the child al-
well as the AP news dispat- Jesus was born at least two most entirely in his mother’s
care. Husbands in those days
weren't inclined to tend, infants,
the old Roman year 750, or 4 The boy would remain a suck-
B.C. Also, Scripture notes that ling until he was at least 2.
the tax census requiring Joseph
to register in Bethlehem took
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Industry and technology
energy center of the natton
with the arrivals of several
major efl coopaatea* heead-
quarters.
With the nation squeezed by
an energy pinch for the first
time, the petrochemical
giants watched their incomes
swell and the earnings of their
employees enter the
mainstream of Texas com-
merce.
Money in growing Texas
banks begot more money and
more banks, making capital
Jesus' early years
cloaked in obscurity
Questions cloak the story — youthful wife, Mary, obviously
whose beginning is called had decide^ to remain in Beth-
lehem, a small, dusty hamlet
on a wind-swept ridge, rather
than return at once to Naza-
reth. Demeaning insinuations
had arisen there about her
dent nop-canonical accounts,
and the couple — almost alone
j the holy inception —
chose to stay away from that
strained hometown at-
mosphere.
Joseph could work in Bethle-
hem at his carpentry trade, —
neighbors drove him out of his ter, either of handmade day
hometown of Nazareth. bricks, or by preparing one of
The long, formative stage be- the grottoes along. the town
fore then is unrecorded, except " *
in fragmentary intimations.
What circumstances shaped
Warned' beforehand in a
dream, Joseph had gathered
his family in the night, and had
fled southward toward Egypt,
taking the boy, whose origins
were framed in bewilderment,
hardship and violence, into the
future desolation of exile. ’
The mark of the outcast was
on him, from the start.
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years of Jesus.
They lasted throughout his
childhood and young manhood
until he reached the age of
about 30, at the start of his (---- .
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plateau, wnere dwelt many of
the am-h-aret,the common la-
borers and herdsmen.
him? What influences went into . Old writings, traced far back^
his development? What hard into that era, describe Joseph
decisions led to his hour of des- as an aged, hard-working man,
tiny? a widower when he wed Mary,
The concealed years began at and ber as about 16. The tradi-
his birth in a hillside cave,on “ons indicate thauher sister,
the edge of Bethlehem — a
dark and draughty limestone
cavern used for animals —
smelly, littered with offal,
crawling with insects.
There, in desperation; a tran- meaning
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lilee, Joseph and Mary, had be known as Yeshua ben Jo"
called had decide^ to remain in Beth-
the 30 years in which Jesus Christmas. Much of it is mys-
tifying. Much is hidden. Yet
there are ancient hints and
clues to many of the missing
elements. From these bits of
evidence, along with conditions i pregnancy, according to an-
of the period, it is possible to t '
make out some of the back- and the couple
beginnings of the Christmas ground — to glimpse the secret in trusting
story. j
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mitted to offer only two birds
did.
For more than a year, the
Bethlehem, with the child al-
the tax census requiring Joseph
Phone all departments, 965- place while Quirinius
63.00; by the year, 636.00; by and Saturn formed a brilliant
A "star,” says Matthew’s gos-
pel, beckoned the Eastern
Sages, presumably from Per-
sia, on their 1,200-mile journey
perhaps a year or more-in
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