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As the Years Turn
Something is happening In China
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to swear in fluent Mandann Chinese.
Nor could 1 disrupt polite conversa-
pause between sentences Delegates
don't pay any attention to what a
In rural China, where 800 million of
the one billion Chinese live, the
without notice. The whole world seems in-
tent on being sure we are properly informed
of our fate. It is as if it is not enough to get
old; we have to constantly be warned so we
can properly dread the prospect.
Ijttle children are called upon to par-
ticipate in this conspiracy. One day they are
rug rats sucking their thumbs and raising a
fuss. The next day they invite us to their
wedding.
Even our peers turn against us. I-ast
week, the alumni magazines from our alma
maters were full of news about our new jobs
and successes. This week the same
magazines tell about our retirements.
Our bodies certainly participate. Nothing
works anymore. We ache in places we did
not know we had. Our hair begins a race
between-filming grey and turning loose.
Shaving becomes a tricky process of digg-
ing hair out of wrinkles, and we get sore
necks from bobbing our heads looking for
the right focal in our glasses.
Writing this article became so depressing
I decided to watch TV. I flipped to a channel
featuring Dick Cavett doing one of his
historical flashbacks called "The Way We
Were." The year he was featuring was 1956.
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Doug Manning
owned; and the 8 percent of arable
land that is privately owned pro-
Best Wishes.
Ralph Winter
Asst Dutnct Clerk
75 YEARS AGO
Beginning next Thursday. Hereford will celebrate the 11th an-
niversary of her birth by taking three days vacation from business
The Hereford Concert Band has made all the arrangements for the
entertainment of the people The first and second days will be under
the management of the band, and the third day will be the old-time
basket picnic.
After three or four trials, a number of auto enthusiasts met at the
office of Pitman and Yost last Friday and perfected an organization
for the purpose of establishing rules in driving autos, to secure some
future date for a race meet and to promote good roads
56 YEARS AGO
Cattle will be bought in Deaf Smith County Friday and Saturday in
the government drouth relief program. A total of 382 head were pur-
chased last week here. Of this number. 275 were accepted for ship-
ment and the remaining 107 were condemned and killed
With 294 pupils enrolled in high school and departmental grades
and books already issued, school is ready to start In full swing Mon-
day morning here
I was completely bumfuzzled dur-
ing the acceptance speech of Mr.
Reagain (sic).
at a flat 25 percent What remains
looks an awful lot like what General
Motors or an American farmer
would call a "profit." This the
Chinese farmers are free to reinvest
the Chinese people. Now, with
modest but significant steps toward
rewarding talent and hard work, the
Why has China decided to edge
away from the failure of socialism?
Has the CIA been dropping copies of
Milton Friedman's books into the
suburbs of Peking"’ Or sailing Sears
and Roebuck catalogues up the
Yangtze River"’
I doubt It. But the leadership of
China was not able to ignore the suc-
cess of Taiwan and Hong Kong,
which have had relatively free
economies over the last 40 years and
now boast per capita income eight
and 14 times greater than their
duces over 20 percent of China's
agricultural output
These reforms have doubled the
per capita income of China's farming
families in just five years
The economic liberalization since
1974 has not been limited to
agriculture China now allows in-
dividuals to start small businesses
with up to II employees and today
there are 15 million entrepreneurs
scattered across China
Bordertown has a population of
2000 and is the local government ad-
ministrative centre of the District
Council of Tatiara which covers an
area of 2500 square miles and has a
population of 7000 It is situated on
the main highway between Adelaide
(the < apt i tai city of South Australia i
and Melbourne 'the capital city of
Victoria i.
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10 YEARS AGO
Residents of the Finlan subdivision-commonly called the Labor
Camp, literally had their water cut off over the weekend, posing a
tense and touchy situation which apparently involved a shooting In-
cedent Saturday.
A 1974-75 budget of *1.5 million was approved by Deaf Smith Coun-
ty Commissioners Monday afternoon, following a busy morning.
1 YEAR AGO
Hereford's one-month-old all-time record for water use was shat-
tered during the period from July 18 to Aug. 17, according to City
Manager Dudley Bayne.
More than 233.5 million gallons were used by local residents for the
recent 31-day period. That represents a 13 percent increase of 206.8
million gallons consumed from June 18 to July 17. last summer.
Bayne said, the average monthly water use was around 120-125
million gallons
ting the cheers
At the Republican convention,
every time a speaker mounted the
rostrum and prepared to unleash his
oratory, delegates would begin yell-
ing and stomping Sometimes they
Editor's aote: The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Deaf Smith Coun-
try grass farm reports on the
Republican convention this week,
more or leas.
AGING WITHOUT GRACE
Someone asked me if I like the age I am. I
said, "I like my age now a lot better than
the age I am going to be.”
I do not know what happened to me. I
think of myself as a young man of about 30.
Last week my daughter became 30. Now, of
course, I started early (I married my den
mother), but somehow the time slipped
away. I am now old enough to talk about the
good old days and make all kinds of com-
parisons between the then and the now
The other day I had an opportunity to buy
a chance on an old classic car. The folks
who were selling the chances raved on
about how wonderful this old car was. How
they do not build them now like they did
then. I went to see this jewel, expecting an
antique. The car was a 1954 Ford. I was
married and the father of a child in 1954. I
told them what they could do with their
chances
Somehow, I am not ready for the cars of
my early adulthood to be old classics. I got
rather snotty about it all. I told them that in
1954 people were saying, “They don't build
them like they used to,” so what's the big
deal about a '54 Ford?
The worst thing about getting older is no
one will let us slip up on ir nor slide by
U.S. Chamber Voice of Business
Karl Marx ”
The former communes pay a fixed
Well, the underdeveloped world
can learn from the Chinese ex-
perience But It sholuld learn the
same lesson that China spent so
much blood and wasted live to learn
the key to economic growth la to
respect private property, cut taxes
and provide incentives for economic
production to individuals and
businesses.
If Mao had read Adam Smith and
not Lenin, he could have saved his
people much pain and suffering
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enough I wouldn't have charged
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Yours faithfully.
I Dear editor,
May I please have some space in
I your newspaper to send greetings
I from the people of Bordertown to the
I citizens of Hereford.
I As you are probably aware, the
[ towns of Bordertown and Hereford
r have been paired in the Twin Towns
I Project as part of the celebrations of
[ the 150th Birthdays of the states of
South Australia and Texas in 1966
» Some weeks ago 1 received an in-
I formation kit from the Deaf Smith
I County Chamber of Commerce
I which listed the names of many
1 groups and organisations in
J Hereford. I have taken the liberty of
1 pairing some 37 of these groups with
I organisations with similar interests
I in Bordertown and have requested
1 the Bordertown people to make con-
fl tact with their Hereford counter-
fl parts.
' It is understood that several letters
* have been forwarded and that others
will be sent in the near future If any
K Hereford organisations are in-
terested tn corresponding with a
similar group in Bordertown 1 would
be happy to make the necessary ar-
rangements All letters or requests
would be acknowledged within one
week of receival
If any group or club is interested in
knowing more about Bordertown, it
is suggested that they contact me
and join the Twin Towns Project I
am sure that the exchange of ideas,
information and greetings between
our two towns will prove to be good
fun and especially rewarding for
those persons most actively involv-
ed.
To a lot of folks the word COLA means a soft drink
and a delicious one at that. To others it means a nice in-
crease in the government check they receive every
month and represents a gift from America’s tax-
payers.
The COLA means a Cost of living Adjustment and is
an automatic boost in Social Security or government
retirement checks based on the government cost of liv-
ing index. Congress, in a generous and vote getting
mood passed the COLA provision in 1977 as a means to
help Social Secutity recipients and government pen-
sioners cope with the continued cost of living as
brought about by inflation.
At the time they put a cap on the COI^A and it would
not go into effect if the cost of living index did not go
above 3 per cent.
Thus there was no COLA in 1984. But it being an elec-
tion year, the Democrats rushed to pass a bill giving a
COLA raise anyway, and the president, not to be out-
done in an election year, eagerly signed it.
So everybody who gets a retirement check from the
government also gets a raise.
Much of the red ink in the federal budget comes from
these COLA adjustments. When inflation was in double
1 digit figures, the COLA made some sense. In a period
when inflation has been pretty much brought under
control it does not make sense, especially when it is
sinking the federal financial ship of state.
Not only those who draw a Social Security check but
all of the civil service retirees, veterans, retired
military personnel, retired judges, retired con-
gressmen, aid to dependent children, all get a boost in
pay
Most federal retirees are now making more in retire-
ment than they ever did while working, thanks to a
generous COLA system.
The only answer is to boost taxes on the working peo-
ple and this will be done come the first of the year when
those with a paycheck will find it smaller because of
the tax bite taken out of it.
It is difficult to understand why we have problems
reaching our UW goal. Hereford and Deaf Smith Coun-
ty have exhibited their generous support of so many
programs and projects over the years, yet this one goal
has not been reached.
The community has often contributed more than its
share, per capita, to a number of national campaigns.
The United Way provides one of the best methods for
us to really see the benefits of our gifts.
Let’s put the UW drive over the top this year!
25 YEARS AGO
With enrollment figures expected to climb sharply this week, more
than 2,100 student in Hereford Public Schools will occupy seats Mon-
day on opening day of the 1959-60 term Hereford public schools will
tabor on l^bor Day, according to the announcement made this week
by Superintendent Fred Cunningham. Due to the lateness of the holi-
day this year, students will not be given the day off.
Deaf Smith County maize growers this week kept their fingers
crossed as they planned their combining attack on fields about the
middle of the month.
WUNCtOM 2
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Through the efforts of the United Way of Deaf Smith
County, thousands of local citizens have benefitted
over the years in areas of health, elderly care, child
development, and recreation for all ages.
The United Way kicks off its annual campaign drive
Monday and “Caring More in ’84” is the slogan for the
fund-raising effort. The UW has not reached its goal in
several years, so it will take “more caring” for the
drive to be a success.
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WASHINGTON • I do not know how preeminent economic power, my cording to his abilities, to each accor-
Chinese hosts kept me up late with ding to his work ." If this sounds a lot
intelligent, probing and sympathetic like capitalism, well, don't tell the
tion in Cantonese Chinese of the questions Chinese government because it has
Shanghai dialect Yet I suspect that Something is happening in China masked this fundamental shift as
only a few years ago the work pro- Something good Since Mao's death correcting a misunderstanding of
fit" in any language would have rail- in 1976. the Chinese economy has
ed more than a few eyebrows in Com- been inching away from the Stalinist
munist China. Even veiled model of centralized bureaucratic sum and then find their surplus taxed
references to "incentives" and control that hobbled China's pro-
private property" would likely gress for the previous three decades
have caused proper Communist Par-
ty members to drop thier chopsticks
Yet, when I visited Mainland China formerly collective communes are
five years ago and discussed the giving way to the "responsibility In addition, some land has been
formerly subversive economic ideas system" where, according to the, distributed and is actually privately
- free markets and private property • govemment-controled China Daily,
that have made America the world's the new principle is "from each ac-
You see, I've got a cow out here on
my place that's the world's cham-
pion fence-breaker She doesn't pay
any more attention to a fence than a
__________ politician does to a promise. I could
Some pundits say political conven- [»ve shipped her to Dallas and bad
held him up for 10 or 15 minutes. I got tions are now out of date and un- .......*
the impression they didn't want to necessary, that the platforms and
hear what he had to say. Then when the nominations are like some hay
they saw they couldn't head him off I’ve got out here on the ground -
and were in for it, they quieted down, already out and dried, that all a
But let him pause at the end of a covention does is bale it, regardless
sentence, even to just take a sip of of the protein content
Political convention unique event
water, and the yelling busted out Nonetheless, there are politicians
again already laying plans for the conven-
If you want a convention to run on lions four years from now. and cities mainland counterparts
time, don't allow your speakers to angling for the job of hosting It. For 30 years the Chinese people
Incidentally, one of the interesting h*ve been saddled with a govern-
things about the Republican conven- ment committed to policies that stlfl-
Dear editor: speaker's saying, but if he pauses tion in Dallas was the security fence *d economic growth and smothered
Luckily it happens just once every they think he's said something worth erected around the convention hall to the natural abilities and talents of
four years, but watching a political yelling about keep the protesters out and the
convention is an experience hard to I was completely bumfuzzled dur- delegates in. There was some con-
describe in any form anybody who ing the acceptance speech of Mr. cere at first over whether it was
didn't see it can understand Reagain (sic). strong enough. I could have relieved Chinese people are discovering that
It's sort of like a disorganized high There are some mighty thirsty them of that worry easily. incentives do matter.
school pep rally with nobody direc- delegates here, I said to myself,
because at every few sentences he
spoke they interrupted and began
yelling, "Four More Beers!"
It was explained to me they were
saying, “Four More Years."
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