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PAGE 2, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, MAY 16,1986
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
still don’t have an adequate response.
Blame?
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but Census data indicate that 65 American workers
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a 29-year veteran with the Immigration and
“What the government
gives, government must
first take away.”
Federal, State, and local
government spending as a
percent of gross national
product has more than
tripled since 1930. Then, it
was 12.4 percent; now it is
over 40 percent.
Let us not blame it all on
the politicians. They’re no
worse than the people who
elect them. Too many people
vote for the politician who
promises the most goodies
from the government
trough, and then rebel when
they get the bill.
— American Way Features
SPECIAL “HOMES OF THE
PRESIDENTS” EXHIBIT
ON DISPLAY AT CARLSBAD
CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK
up the 31-acre site wnere more
than 200,000 tons of radioactive
waste is buried.
Canonsburg, the first of 24 sites
to be cleaned up under the Urani-
um Mill Tailings Radiation Con-
trol Act of 1978, once supplied ra-
dium to Madame Curie and
helped supply fuel for the first
atomic bombs.
Although energy officials insist
the site is safe, town officials and
at least one insurance company
fear it may be the target of future
lawsuits from residents who de-
velop health problems. If so, they:
said, the borough could end up as
a defendant.
“The defense costs would be
prohibitive” if the community
was included in such a lawsuit,
Borough Manager Paul Amic
said. “They (insurers) don’t
want any part of it.”
Canonsburg is among hun-
dreds of municipalities around
the country, possibly as many as
1,000, which lack liability insur-
. ance, said Barton Russell, presi-
dent of the National Center for
Small Communities.
Because of the increasing
claims and damage awards, Can-
onsburg’s insurer, Maryland Ca-
sualty Inc. of Baltimore, last
year joined other companies
pulling out of the municipal lia-
bility business. Maryland Ca-
sualty extended Canonsburg’s
policy 80 days to give it time to.
(El Paso Times, April 6,1986)
Second class postage paid in Dell City, Texas 79837
Subsidiary MARY-MARY, INC.
Mary Louise Lynch...................... Editor-Publisher
Nancy Lewis................................ Assistant & Advertising
Jovce Gilmore............................. Salt Flat Editor
Ina Warren................................... Crow Flat Editor
Linda Polk................................... Ft Hancock Editor
Bernice M. Elder.......................... Sierra Blanca Editor
Jean Ellison................................. Courthouse News
Advertising rates upon request from Business Office,
open ail day Mondays, and until noon Tuesdays.
Open from 10:00 a.m. until Noon Thursdays
The National Park Service
has announced that a special
traveling exhibit on “Homes
of the Presidents in the Na-
tional Park System” is now
on display at the Carlsbad
Caverns National Park visitor
center. The public is invited
to view the exhibit from now
through June 1.
The exhibit has 21 graphic
panels and includes photos of
many of the former Presi-
dents’ homes as well as a map
showing their locations. The
White House and Camp David
are also covered by the exhibit.
While the National Park Sys-
tem does not have a site for
every President, many interes-
ting and valuable historic sites
connected with various Presi-
dents of the United States are
a part of the 337 units admin-
istered by the NPS.
There is no charge for view-
ing this special educational ex-
hibit.
Box 659
Dell City, Texas 79837
(Hudspeth County)
Phone: (915)964-3426 or-2490
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or reputation of any person, firm or corporation, which
may occur In the columns of the Hudspeth County
Herald will be gladly corrected upon being brought to
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not responsible for copy omissions or typographical
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the next issue after It is brought to attention, and In no
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:ppy as well as editorial and news content.
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PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK for
Hudspeth County, Texas, third largest county.
Notices of church, entertainments where a charge
admission Is made, card of thanks, resolutions of
respect, and all matter not news, will be charged at
the regular rates.
$9.46 In County
$10.51 Out of County in Texas
$l0.00|Out of State
Adv. Rates $2.00|pcl In County - $2.5Q pci Out of County
find another carrier, but the
town’s efforts were unsuccess-
ful.
So far, nine insurance compan-
ies have refused to cover Canons-
burg, which had a favorable lia-
bility loss rate over the past five
years, Amic said. One carrier,
Municipal Risk Insurance Co. of
Pittsburgh, cited the radioactive
waste site for its decision.
One Canonsburg agent has
managed to track down a Dallas
company willing to insure all but
the waste site.
“He said, ‘I can get you insur-
ance, but are you sitting
down?’ ” the mayor recalled.
“He said they want $100,000.”
Canonsburg was paying $25,000
a year for its previous policy.
Until a carrier is found, which
town officials doubt will happen
for another one or two months,
police officers have been asked
to limit their high-speed chases.
Town vehicles have been
grounded except for two police
cars and one street department
truck protected under a high-risk
policy. So far, none of the bor-
ough’s 30 employees have been
laid off. The volunteer fire de-
partment has its own insurance
policy.
Street crews finished blocking
off the Canonsburg Town Park
last week; before, police had
been asking people to stay out.
The Convention of 1836 created the Office of the Tbxas Attorney General
on March 17, 1836, and chose David Thomas to fill it.
Tbxas law combines Spanish and Mexican legal traditions—particularly
in the areas of community property, homestead exemptions, water rights
and debtor relief—with Anglo-American common law. But neither the
Spanish colonial regime nor government as organized under the Acta Con-
stitutiva of Mexico had a corresponding official; thus, David Thomas was
the first Attorney General of Tbxas.
His term lasted one day short of a month. Thomas died on April 16th,
the victim of an accidental gunshot wound he suffered while traveling to
join Sam Houston at San Jacinto. Tbxas President David Burnet appointed
Peter Grayson in Thomas’s place. Nine men served the Tbxas Republic as
Attorney General and all but Thomas were presidential appointees.
Tbxas became a state in 1846. The first four AGs after statehood were
also executive appointees. A constitutional amendment in 1850 made the
office elective, however, and Eheneezer Allen was the first Attorney General
to win at the polls. Except for a brief period under the Constitution of 1869
during Reconstruction, the AG has been an elective office ever since.
According to political scientists. AG.s in British and American legal
history are different from lawyers in private practice because they “really
have only one client—the people, or the state.” Many Tbxas AGs have ad-
mirable records as the lawyer for Tbxas and all 'Ibxans, although as Tbxas
has grown and changed, so too have the responsibilities of the Peoples
Lawyer.
Tbxas came into the Union cash poor but land rich. And the primary
way that AGs served as lawyers for the people was to prosecute those who
made fraudulent claims for land from the public domain.
Making sure we get our money’s worth from our public lands—the lands
that support our public schools and universities—continues to be a major
part of the Attorney General’s job. But with the end of Reconstruction after
the Civil War, Tbxans worried about a number of issues, particularly about
the growing power of large corporations like banks and railroads. Because
of their concern, when t hey wrote the Constitution of 1876 they included
the instructions that the Attorney General must:
especially inquire into t he charter rights of all private corporations,
and ... take such actions in the courts as may be proper and necessary
to prevent any private corporation from exercising any power ... not
authorized by law.
With these instructions, the AG’s Office took on one of its most impor-
tant modern features, what former Attorney General Will Wilson called be-
ing a "corporate policeman." And the first. AG to really police corporations
was James Stephen Hogg (1886-1890).
J Whether this is true or not is less important than the fact that ♦
! the allegation is symptomatic of increasing suspicion, resent- t
; ment and resistance. 2
; And history is on the side of the fearful, Ancient Israel was 2
; defiled by strangers within her gates and soon her prosperity was 2
; no more. z
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And diey continue to pour across the borders, uncounted thous- >
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of money and armies of manpower at fhe problems, but it won’t
j; be solved until Congress approves employer sanctions.
;> And face it, many members of Congress now have enough al-
;> iens in their home-district constituencies that they dare not
;> confront the problem.
Town without insurance
‘walking on eggs’
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"Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of Joy...”
CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) —
Along Pike Street, and most
everywhere else in this old facto-
ry town, police are putting the
brakes on high-speed chases,
municipal street crews are doing
a lot of walking and residents are
being shooed from the park.
Canonsburg is “walking on
eggs” because it has no liability
insurance and no prospects for a
policy soon, in part because of an
old radioactive waste site at the
edge of town.
“We just can’t take a chance
on something happening,” said
Mayor Jack Passante, who is
urging municipal workers to be
especially careful in their duties
until an insurance carrier is
found.
“We could be putting the spur
on bankruptcy with a gigantic
lawsuit,” Councilman Jim Ma-
trogran said.
This community of 10,400 resi-
dents, about 25 miles south of
Pittsburgh, has been without lia-
bility insurance — or “going:
bare” in insurance industry par-
lance — since its policy expired
March 21.
Since then, the recipient of the
state Chamber of Commerce’s
1985 outstanding community
award has been unable to obtain
coverage, a problem plaguing
many other municipalities
around the country.
The U.S. Department of En-,
ergy and state Department of
Environmental Resources re-
cently spent $31.6 million to clean
Ancient Israel was defiled by strangers within her gates and
soon her prosperity was no more.
Today, more and more European and Scandinavian countries
are issuing a nonwelcome for outsiders. *
* Nine million illegal aliens in the United States are <
Americans taxpayers $35 billion- a year in unemployment
!; surance, welfare payments, education and other services.
The Moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert, and the only floods on the
planet have been ones of molten hot lava.
PAUL HARVEY NEWS
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;• The Senate voted last fall to fine employers who hire illegals.
; but it exempted '’farm workers," and other employers have man-
J; aged to use this status to escape penalties.
< The House is currently contemplating legislation, but that
< could be said almost anytime over the past five years and we
<1 still don’t have an adequate response.
<! We h.ear AIDS and other exotic diseases have been introduced <!
< into our country’ by the influx of Africans, Asians, and Car- g
J ibbean islanders carrying virus, for which Americans have no £
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