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Doug Manning
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Letter to the Editor
Back to Model T
Paul Harvey
Let’s Take Audit of Pluses
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a virtual mini-war on small
business’ It’s true. Citing
"unnecessary and heavy-
business accounts and
receivables also rose 35 per-
cent over last year.
The committee’s report
some good news?
The news is the President
Sen. John G. Tower, Room
142, Old Senate Office
Dear Sir:
I would like to publicly say
"Thank yc-j” to Mr. Nunley
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Citibank has discovered
that the increase in labor
costs in our country is dower
than in any other industrial',
nation Our average hourly
Fellows, That’s Pretty Poor
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development has
come up with some intriguing
statistics which reveal that
125 percent of all the people in
Santee, South Carolina, and
115 percent of the people in
Gay, Georgia are below the
poverty line. Might this not
indicate, suggests National
Review, that 196 percent of
the people in HUD are grossly
overpaid?
That signing did not come a
minute too soon for the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company, which recently
processed one-and-a-half tons
are grateful to all the doctors
who have helped Shannon,
and we are confident that
they have done everything
possible for her. Only God
knows what the future holds
for Shannon because now her
life is in his hands.
One would think that with
all of the technology that ex-
ists in the world today, solu-
tions to anything could be
found. However, even with all
this technology we are still in
Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen.
Room 240, Senate Office
Building, Washington, DC.
20610 Phone: (202)224-3121.
progress in determining the
cause or cure for cancer.
As shocking as this story
may be, I hope that it will in-
spire each of you who read
this to write your Con-
gressman or Senator and
urge them to lobby for
legislation that will increase
the appropriations for cancer
research.
I am convinced that only
through dedicated research
will we be able to reduce
these frightening statistics
and find a complete cure for
cancer. Then we will be able
to save innocent lives such as
Shannon's.
IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
Hey, what happened to all
that optimism, all that ex-
cited anticipation of the new
administration?
John R. Ireland
White Rock, N. Mex.
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of Mr. & Mrs. Henry
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
an article that appeared in a
Santa Fe News paper written
by John R. Ireland of White
Rock, N.M. Ireland is the
grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry McCauley and brother
of Mrs. Dennis I-atham, both
of Hereford.
for the sacks.
God bless you all as abun-
dantly as you have blessed
me and all of the precious
people who received of your
giR of love.
Thank you from the bottom
r/lW Goes COURIMOUSe
do is roll up their sleeves and
come out with a 1981 style
Model T.
The Model T was not, as
some youngsters might think,
a football formation, it was a
car. It sold for about $400 and
Henry Ford the First said you
could have it in any color you
wanted so long as it was
black. If a dollar is now worth
only one-fourth of what it was
in those days, the $400 car
should sell for $1600 today,
-and it wouldn't even have to
be painted if its body, unlike
the Tin Lizzy as the Model T
was called, was made of
bright, rust-proof aluminum.
It wouldn't go 75 miles an
hour but the people who drive
75 miles an hour don t seem to
have more to offer when they
get there than if they’d
traveled at 40.
The car industry ought to
get at this at once, lest they
all have to borrow from the
government to stay in
business and eventually the
government might have to
foreclose, take over the
operation and turn it over to
the post office.
Yours faithfully.
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Thoughts for 1981
Do we still need to spend
nearly half a million dollars a
year for the National Board
of the Promotion of Rifle
Practice? And how about the
continuation of the Interior
Department’s Bureau of
Mines Helium Fund—even
though the government no
longer purchases helium?
Bootleg Philosopher
Auto Solution:
The euphoria related to the
Reagan victory lasted only
one day on Wall Street. And
on Main Street, the
celebrants are beginning
already to hedge and doubt
and nit-pick.
Nonsense!
The Reagan team is trying
to sustain the momentum of
its mandate for a new beginn-
ing; let's not hang back
ourselves!
Disappointments of the
past four years had
Americans, as recently as
last summer, chewing their
fingernails up past the second
knuckle over high inflation,
high taxes, high interest
rates, high unemployment,
high federal deficit, high
Ironically, for 1980, the
number of tax-delinquent ac- ___________
counts rose only 3.9 percent." has just signed the Paper-
-1 work Reductj0n Act gf 19g0
which could save $250 million
by eliminating unnecessary
government forms and
streamlining information
systems.
I was extremely shocked by
the statistics reported in your
Sun. Dec. 21, 1980 article
"Chances are one in four you
will develop cancer.” Also
stated in this article was that
only a 50 percent chance of
survival exists once cancer is
developed. What is bother-
some is that these statistics
haven't changed much during
the last decade and in fact the
incidence of cancer has ac-
tually increased during this
period. As an engineer. I find
it especially bothersome that
no real solution has been
found in determining what
causes cancer or how to ade-
quately treat it.
These statistics appear to
be very accurate, especially at Nunley's Fruit Market for
donating fruit and sacks for
23 fruit baskets to be
delivered to Meals-On-
Wheels recipients before
Christmas, and to Suzy and
Sam Curtsinger at World Of
Health who donated 23 bags
has undergone surgery and of assorted Sugar free candy
if applied to my family, there
are four people in my family
including my wife, Judy,
Travis 10, and Shannon 4.
Shannon was diagnosed with
_ _ _ _ an incurable form of brain
by tbepresent cast irondome cancer last September. She
Rep. Kent Hance, U.S.
House of Representatives,
r 1610 Longworth Building,
the dark about life processes Washington, D.C. 20515.
Phone <202)225-4005
has just competed six weeks
of intensive radiation
treatments. I am well aware
of current cancer research
and aware of cancer
treatments, but we are
frustrated because no doctor
knows what caused the of my heart. I love you! God
cancer or how to cure it. We loves you. Happy New Year'
I ,ola Curtsinger
716 N. Cherokee
HMOW Director
New York City would be
justified in dumping raw
sewage into the Hudson River
for three years? The ques-
tion, of course, is
preposterous. Any company
caught engaging in such ac-
tivity would be criticized
severely and probably
punished to the limit of the
law.
Ah yes, but when govern-
ment is the culprit...what
then? As a
editorial recently asked:
"...How many New Yorkers,
we wonder, are aware that
when the big new convention
center opens a couple of
years from now, it will be
spewing about a million
gallons of raw sewage into
the Hudson River for three
years? That's a pretty big
story in New Jersey which
will get a lot of the benefit of
New York’s filth but none of
the profit from the center.”
Yet as the station pointed out,
when New York authorities
were asked to respond to
complaints from New Jersey
groups, they refused. In fact,
they refused even to
acknowledge that a problem
exists.
It all makes me sympathize
with that taxpayer who
recently wrote the IRS asking
them to delete the word
"please” from their forms,
because hearing the IRS say
"please” was just like having
a mugger with a gun at your
head say "please.”
Big Apple or
Rotten Apple?
Ask yourself: Do you think
a privately-owned building in of paper just to comply with
the one new OSHA regulation.
It should also please the
small business community
whose paperwork burden has
been calculated by Senator
William Roth of Delaware to
be 850 million pages long. In-
cidentally, Roth also
calculates that if those 850
million pages were laid end to
end, they would stretch
around the world nearly six
times and, if stacked, would
WNBC-TV form a column 67 miles high.
handed use" of enforcement
actions against small
business, a recent Senate
Governmental Affairs sub-
committee report that IRS
ft
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come close and we are 30 per-
cent ahead of them
More? AU right...
Some gloomy
gnosticators have protested
that our nation cannot com-
pete because labor has driven
our costs too high.
Horsefeathers!
government debt and high
government spending.
There was a move-to-
Australia pessimism
permeating the populace suf-
ficient to landslide the ins out
and the outs in.
But the ebullience and ela-
tion was spent even before
the inauguration. That must
not be.
The unease, apprehension
and defeatism result from
misplaced emphasis on our
debits.
Quickly, before our new
beginning aborts, let's audit compensation has doubled in
our pluses.
Strip away the exchange
rate distortions and in the
production of goods and ser-
vices the United States stands
head and shoulders above the
rest of the world!
The Wharton School has
compared our standard of liv-
ing with everybody else’s; on- pound and the Japanese yen.
in general and why certain
diseases afflict certain peo-
ple. It must be remembered
that most of the technology
developed to date was a
result of adequate research
funding. I believe that inade-
quate funding for cancer
research compared to other _____ ____
programs (defense spending. Building, Washington, D.C.
etc.) has resulted in no real 20510. Phone: (202)224-3121.
Stamp Space
The Postal Service proposes to have untold
billions of dollars by instituting the nine-digit
zip code. Some authorities say it will save so
much we won’t have to have another postal
rate increase in the near future.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Barry Goldwater Jr.
has proposed another idea which he claims
will save |1.2 billion for the Postal Service. He
wants to sell advertising space on postage
stamps. No more commemorative stamps and
things like that, he says, when the space is so
valuable.
Obviously the space on a stamp is limited, so
the messages must be brief. We noticed that
two editors-Steve Monk in Graham and Bob
Miller in Hamilton—have already given some
thought to the proposal and have come up with
suggestions on some messages that could be
put on the stamps. These include:
An advertisement for recreation spots
around Lubbock.
A listing of this year’s accomplishments by
football teams of Texas A&M, Texas Tech and
TCU.
A Bum Phillips’ playbook-Earl left, Earl
right, Earl up the middle.
A list of work days that are left after govern-
ment employees have used up their holidays.
How to win at Las Vegas.
How to live on Social Security at the current
inflation rate.
The American plan to rescue the hostages in
Iran.
An explanation of how the nine-digit zip code
will save money.
...You get the idea, and anyone can play the
game. Here are a few of my suggestions:
A promotion about the smooth-working
governmental units in Potter County.
Testimonials from farmers praising the
Carter farm policy.
A listing of the good news reports about
Hereford that have been on Amarillo televi-
sion.
How many houses will be built if the prime
interest rate stays at 20 percent.
A listing of Howard Cosell’s worthwhile con-
tributions to pro football telecasts.
Worthwhile contributions by Ralph Nader to
anything.
A list of New Year’s resolutions not broken
by April Fool’s Day.
Testimonials from Hereford citizens prais-
ing the Texas Rural Legal Aid.
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...that means keep it simple. I do not know
where it came from but somehow we- have
created a new form of the English language.
It may be the result of our need to make
everything sound important. We like to whittle
nothing off to a fine point. The result is that our
new language is full of redundant phrases.
The result is a whole world of Howard Cosells.
A senator recently said he was not worried about
nuclear proliferation but the spread of nuclear
proliferation.
In this new language everything must change
its name. The optometrist shop is now a vision
center. A pool hall is a recreational center.
Everything must be a center. Soon, the churches
will be sin centers and the mortician will call his
place the dead center.
Computers may have contributed to this new
language. I heard the ultimate the other day. So-
meone said they were going to have a sym-
posium designed so people could interface. In the
old days that meant some people were going to
get acquainted.
The airlines are the worst offenders. They
have a language all their own. They do not say
get in the plane, they say you may now board the
plane. They do not say you may get off the plane,
they say we will de-plane from the forward
cabin. Instead of saying “DO NOT SMOKE”
they say please extinguish all smoking
materials.
One of these days a plane will actually lose its
cabin pressure. The oxygen mask will drop
down. When this happens folks will need to act -
fast. There will only be a few seconds leeway for -
the passengers to get air. There will be fewer
seconds for smokers to be put out before the ox-
ygen is on fire. While they are going through
their language, the plane may blow up.
One day we will say: The man has no follical
appendages on the cutaneous apex of his cranial
structure, anterior to the sagital suture or
posterior to the lymbodiadal suture, where said
follical appendages habitually germinate.
Which is to say: the guy is bald.
Warm fuzzies,
Doug Manning
Take a Load Off Your
Shoulders
The question is: With a
federal budget described as
"hemorrhaging," taxes clim-
bing by record amounts, the
national debt soaring toward
a trillion dollars, inflation re-
maining in double digits, and
now, interests rates seeming-
ly levelling off at a mere 20
percent, are you ready for
Insults Inflicted by Big Brother
By RICHARD LESHER
ILS. Chamber of Commerce
ly France and Germany the dollar is worth 3 percent
more than a year ago;
against the German mark our
dollar is 10 percent stronger
than a year ago.
But all that red ink in our
national buget - frhat about
that?
10 years. But in Britain it
trebled; in Japan and Ger-
many and France it
quadrupled.
But, the nervous Nellien,
cry, "Our dollar is hopelessly
weak and worthless. " That is
not so.
Compared to the British
Reagan is no workaholic
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Why has President-elect Ronald
R.agan's unusually casual approach to governance during the
li.< ration period produced so much amazement and indigna-
tion among supposedly sophisticated political observers’
luosc who claim to be startled by Reagan's apparent lack
of interest or involvement in much of the new administra-
tion's daily routine either are feigning surprise or haven’t
closely examined his record
Virtually every objective account of Reagan's stewardship
as governor of California, for example, portrays him as a man
who expected his subordinates to run the state government
with little or no involvement on his part.
Many of the issues that demanded the governor’s attention
were summarized in terse (if not oversimplified) one-page
“mini-memos" so Reagan wouldn't have to be burdened by
listening to complex arguments or reading detailed analyses
' Reagan was. of course, forced to become ir volved in resolv-
>ing California's mafjor problems during his tenure in office.
Jbut nobody ever accused him oi being a workaholic.
One especially revealing account of Reagan's nine-to-five
day is contained in “Ronnie and Jesse" by Lou Cannon, an
[astute Washington Post reporter The book was published in
1969 — more than a decade ago.
' Often (Reagan) arrived home by 6 and showered immedi-
ately. then changed into his pajamas." writes Cannon.,"In the
evetui.g. he and Nancy watched television — and the governor
read correspondence or memos.
“Both (Reagan) and Nancy were disturbed by jibes that he
was a ‘part-time governor' with nothing better to do in the
evenings than watch television Still, be liked to watch it”
A contemporary account that reinforces that earlier evi-
dence comes from former President Gerald R Ford, who was
courted by Reagan during last year's Republican National
Convention as a potential vice-presidential running mate.
Ford freely acknowledged — and Reagan never denied —
that the two men seriously discussed a unique arrangement
under which Reagan would, in effect, serve as “chairman of
the board” while Ford acted as “chief operating officer" in
charge of day-to-day government activities
Political scientists and historians were aghast at the notion
of a president's delegating so much of his authority, but the
arrangement apparently never bothered Reagan Indeed,
there is growing evidence that the role originally offered to
Ford now is being played by Edwin Meese III. counselor to the
president-elect.
Giv<n Heagan's longstanding propensity for such arrange-
ment-, it's hardly astounding to find him touring Pacific
Palisades. Bel Air and Beverly Hills on visits to his barber,
tailor and dentist while his staff is introducing his Cabinet
selections and issuing policy statements in his name
Is Reagan's management style suitable for a successful
presidency? That question ought to remain unanswered until
he - and the voters — have an opportunity to test it following
his inauguration
We do know that previous presidents who had a penchant
for detail and an obsession about doing almost everything
themselves were notably unsuccessful with that approach.
Lyndon B Johnson, for example, was notorious for calling
the managers of obscure government programs to complain
about their failings after reading critical stories on the wire-
service printers installed in his White House suite so that be
wouldn’t miss any new tidbit of information
Similarly. 4Rsscy Carter was widely derided for insisting
that he persdnfly retain authority to schedule playing time on
the White House tennis courts
Johnson and Carter were so obsessed with trivia, however,
that they failed to recognize the massive popular sentiment
mounting against them. If Reagan wants to experiment with a
different approach - at his own risk — he deserves the
opportunity
(Editor's note: The Bootleg ■«what the car makers ought to
Philosopher on his Deaf
Smith Grass farm on Bootleg
Corner tries to help the
automobile industry this
week, he claims.)
Dear Editor:
One of the worries of the
1981 's is what's going to hap-
pen to the automobile in-
dustry. As I understand it, the
more cars produced in more
different colors and models,
the more the car makers are
going in the hole. Since about
one in four workers in the
country is dependent on the
car industry in one way or
another and the rest of us are
dependent on it to get to
where we’re going without
walking, the problem needs
solving.
But the car makers are go-
ing about it in the wrong way.
It used to be said that even-
tually airplanes will be as
cheap as cars but »be car
makers inisundersta.d and
are makmg cars as expensive
as airplanes. When they
advertise a car as "the
lowest-priced” what they
mean is it's the least high-
priced.
They didn’t ask me but
Our total government
deficit has been running just
ahead of 1 percent of the
GNP. Gejnany's 3 percent.
Japan's 6 percent.
Of seven industrial nations,
our ratio of debt to GNP is
lowest!
And further - if only in the
development of alternative
energies - this next decade
Happy young year.
Amerieais; these are the
"good new days;" these yet
ahead will be the greenest
years of all!
WASHINGTON - What
with all the attention being k_____
given to the huge increases in seizures of business tax-
Social Security taxes for 1981 payers' property jumped an
- up $20 billion overall and as astonishing 44 percent in the
much as 25 percent for some first six months of the 1980
workers - many of the other fiscal year. IRS levies on
little insults inflicted by our business accounts
friendly federal protectors
are receiving scant attention
from the press.
For example, did you know observes: "These increases
that the IKS has been waging in enforcement activity are
not correlated to any similar
increase in the number of
new tax-delinquent accounts.
The original dome of the
Capitol in Washington D.C.
was made of wood covered
with copper, and was replaced
in 1865
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