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THURSDAY 24
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JOE LEONARD, D.D.S.
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Farm Mutual Insurance Association
Contact: Agent Rita Pearson, Box 58, Wheeler, Texas (806) 826-3740
Reasonable, sound protection for your home, farm and other property.
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I hope you’ve had the
chance to meet Wayne Collins.
He’s Dimmitt’s mayor, and he’s
running for the Republican
nomination for Congress in our
district.
Whether you’ve met him or
not, I want you to know my
opinion of him. I think he’s one
of the finest men I’ve ever
known and worked with.
Wayne and I both grew up
in Dimmitt and have worked
together on many projects
through the years. Although
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PUBLISHER
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HIGHLIGHTS
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I’m a Democrat and he’s a
Republican, I volunteered to
help him any way I could be-
cause I know he would be an
excellent representative for us
in Washington. He can do the
job for our district that he has
done for the City of Dimmitt
and the Panhandle—that is,
sort things out and get things
done. Philosophically, he’s
more of a pragmatist than a
party-liner.
Wayne isn’t a back-slapper,
but he is the best type of public
servant—knowledgeable,
diligent, diplomatic and effec-
tive.
I wouldn’t presume to tell
you whom to endorse or sup-
port. But I do want you to know
the opinion of this candidate’s
hometown editor.
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Funny thing happened to the Clinton-Reno Anti-Crime team.
Taking aim at gun dealers, gun shows and “assault weapons,” and
with lots of help from the gun-ignorant eastern media, they seem
to have shot themselves in the foot. All this publicity against guns
in the past few months has caused a “panic buy” of hand guns. The
guess was the American public owned about two and a half million
handguns before all this started. Gun sellers report record sales in
pistols and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns since the first of
the year. It is estimated that the American public now owns about
a million more guns of all kinds than we did two months ago.
“Better get one while we can.”
Gun dealers is the first misnomer. Most guns are sold by one
person to another. Most gun sellers at the gun shows do not operate
a store of any kind. Between gun shows they keep their collections
under the bed. The President of the United States picked up the
phrase “kitchen table” gun dealers to describe these folks. We think
of ourselves as “hobbyists.” We are mostly retired people or have
some other business in real life; we buy, sell and collect guns for
the simple reason that we like guns.
I just returned from a Houston Gun Show at rhe Astrohall. The
three day weekend event was so crowded it was nearly impossible
to walk the estimated six miles of aisles inside the huge building.
I love to go to gun shows, usually looking at what’s on the tables.
This time I also studied the crowd. Who are these people? With a
mild sense of modest depreciation we call ourselves “gun nuts.” A
small group, not as many as golfers or bridge players, we date back
about 75 years and most of us will proudly tell you we are “Life”
members of the NRA, National Rifle Association. The NRA in-
cludes the whole bag, shooters, hunters, collectors and in the two
previous wars the United States government sold off surplus
military weapons to the American public through the Director of
Civilian Marksmanship, a joint effort of the military and NRA.
Sales were limited to two each, us old timers still tell of buying
Springfield rifles for S15 each, value now over $300. Most impor-
tantly, we were the only nation in history who’s government could
risk an armed population.
Still buying and trading openly at the guns shows, this crowd
today is mostly in their sixties, nearly all over 40. Homeowners,
grandpas, tens of thousands of the most successful looking old
greyheads. This highly uncriminal looking bunch is the target
Clinton, Reno and the Eastern press chose to open their war on
crime. Talk about a bunch of ol’ men who are really mad about
something! The first political candidate who understands all this
will have to hire extra help to count campaign donations.
We are more outraged than the average person when some crazy
abuses his right to own a gun. “Don’t call the cops, call the coroner,”
is gentle old granddad’s growl for justice to such.
I say “eastern media”, because that’s where the power base is
and those poor city kids never grew up around guns with a gentle
father teaching them the use and respect for any gun. They didn’t
gl ow up like us. But more of us vote.
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month, $7,050 was invested in
new band instruments to
replace some that literally
were too old to even repair to a
satisfactory condition to main-
tain the superior level of our
music and band programs. The
superintendent and ad-
ministration has left no stone
unturned in the mission to
reduce expenses and keep
quality programs a priority at
the same time, which is no easy
task. For instance, Mr. Mar-
cum spent a considerable
amount of time in research and
negotiation, and found a way to
reduce the district’s workers
compensation insurance
premiums over $150,000
during the last two years. I
Earley’s Debate Challenge
Rep. Robert Earley, D-Portland,
who is opposing Railroad Com-
mission Chairman Jim Nugent in
the Democratic primary, challenged
Nugent to debate him on the issues
facing the regulatory agency.
Earley also said that the commis-
sion is a relic in need of a new
name and a new chairman. Nugent
has served on the commission for
15 years.
Earley said the commission
regulates trucking, oil and gas,
but has little to do with railroads.
He proposed changing the name to
Texas Commission on Energy and
Transportation.
Nugent’s campaign accused Ear-
ley of “desperate campaign tactics”
and said it is too late in the cam-
paign to schedule debates.
Fired Lawyer Sues AG
A consumer-protection lawyer
claimed in a lawsuit filed last week
that Attorney General Dan Morales
fired him for taking on a politically
powerful insurance company.
Ed Salazar, a 10-year veteran
of the attorney general’s office,
is suing Morales for wrongful
termination.
But Ron Dusek, a spokesman
for Morales, said the suit is
without merit. He said Salazar was
fired because he failed to meet
expectations.
The suit alleges that “special
treatment” of the insurance com-
pany was based on its political in-
fluence and Morales’ desire to win
campaign contributions for or influ-
ence in the coming campaign."
Other Highlights
■ Former Texas Agriculture Com-
missioner Jim Hightower will go
national with his populist views in
May, when his new program, High-
tower Radio, airs on the ABC Ra-
dio network. The three-hour call-
in program is scheduled to air on
Saturdays and Sundays from High-
tower’s Austin home.
■ Houston Lighting & Power offi-
cials got conditional approval from
the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-
sion to restart the South Texas
Project nuclear plant near Bay City.
The plant has been idle for a year
because of mechanical and other
problems.
AUSTIN — Even though she
was acquitted by' a jury in Fort
Worth earlier this month, U.S. Sen.
Kay Bailey Hutchison’s legal battle
continues.
Hutchison was found not guilty
on Feb. 11, of four felonies and
a misdemeanor that allegedly had
been committed during her 2 1/2
years as state treasurer.
The verdict came after Travis
County District Attorney Ronnie
Earle refused to continue prosecut-
ing the case, suspecting that Vis-
iting Judge John Onion would not
allow the introduction of evidence
seized without a search warrant in
a June 10 raid on the state Treasury.
After ordering jurors to find
Hutchison not guilty, Onion ex-
cused himself from further pro-
ceedings. Then, State District Judge
Bob Perkins of Austin allowed pros-
ecutors to release grand jury tran-
scripts in the case, but changed his
mind after Hutchison’s lawyers ob-
jected.
After her acquittal, Hutchison
asked the district attorney “to
release anything from the illegal
raid to the public so you will have
access to that.”
Earle since has opened to public
inspection some 68 boxes of
the disallowed evidence in his
office’s investigative files, but the
grand jury transcripts, which are
contained in 70, 3-inch binders,
remain sealed.
No Tax Increase in 1995
There will be no tax increase in
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think that those of you running
your own business would agree
on the magnitude of that one
transaction alone.
I say all this only to show
that I think the school board
has done everything in its
power to be fair to all programs
in the district, and to represent
all constituents on as equal a
basis as possible. I truly hope
that this information has
helped to answer the questions
and concerns that have been
expressed to me, and I’m sure
other trustees, during this past
week. I thank all of you for your
time.
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1995, Gov. Ann Richards and Lt.
Gov. Bob Bullock said last week.
“No new taxes in 1995. We
will make the shoe fit the foot,”
Bullock told the Texas Chamber of
Commerce.
Richards, who spoke to the same
group, said she also would fight a
tax increase.
Bullock also said he would
consider giving Texans a chance
to vote on term limits of 12 years
for members of the Legislature
and the top seven elected statewide
officeholders.
“If it appears on the ballot,
it would pass,” Bullock said.
Richards said she would not oppose
a constitutional amendment on term
limits.
Health Textbooks Adopted
The State Board of Education
adopted new high school health
textbooks last week that have drawn
criticism about sexual content from
fundamentalist groups.
Even though board members
ordered nearly 300 changes in the
books, opponents still said the
subject materials — particularly
those related to sex — were
inappropriate.
Three of the five textbooks
were approved by a vote of 9-
6, with the five Republicans on
the board voting no along with
one Democrat, Bill Hudson of
Wichita Falls. One other book was
adopted 10-5 and the fifth book was
approved 14-1.
The textbooks have been debated
since November when they were
tentatively adopted subject to revi-
sions from board members.
About a thousand changes were
later suggested, most coming from
Republicans.
State Education Commissioner
Lionel “Skip” Meno pared that list,
and Democrats on the board agreed
to about 300 revisions.
Jeff Fisher of the American
Family Association of Texas, one of
the groups fighting the books, said
the association is prepared to take
the state board to court “to get this
issue settled.”
“These books violate the Texas
Education Code. They are not
appropriate tor the school children
of Texas,” Fisher said.
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1994, newspaper, February 24, 1994; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1285917/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.