The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 28, 1984 Page: 4 of 36
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I do have one small problem with Clint.
He has the unique ability to make me feel
guilty. He is sort of my Jewish Mother. He
comes home from one of his tours, starts tn
on my weeds, and I go into a fit of guilt and
depression. I don’t cut the weeds, but at
least I feel guilty.
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According to articles I've read in
This not only will help the US.
Treasury, it'll keep television from
being cluttered up with those dull
political ada. I’ve never seen a
political commercial half as enter-
taining as some of those far-out
Yours faithfully.
J.A.
course, some bellweather votes we
can look at The INI Economic
Recovery Tax Art-the 25 pen ent
simple civil lights bill. The fart is
that Congressmen now know better
than that Any vote for this bill is a
knowing vote for a bigger govern-
ment and a vote against any mean-
ingful definition of civil rights
The second piece of legislation
travels under the name of “Com-
parable Worth." It is not a bill man-
dating equal pay for equal work for
men and women, as Its supporters
sometimes claim. Equal pay for
equal work is already the law of the
land. It has been since 1904 This bill
would force the establishment of
bureaucratic committees to deter-
mine how much your job is worth and
how much you should be paid. If the
bureaucrats determine that your job
is “comparable" to someone elae's
job that pays less-well, you're out of
luck What is the name for a system
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Widening Deficit
While we hear a lot of talk about cutting the deficit
these days it is not likely that we will see much whittl-
ing done on it as long as Congress continues to pass
around the favors that involve spending our tax
dollars.
Members of Congress are thinking about the home
folks in this final windup of the session before the elec-
tion
Despite the rhetoric about the virtues of balancing
the federal budget, the lawmakers are preparing to
enact billions of dollars of spending measures and tax
breaks that will please many voters but deepen the
budget deficit
The Wall Street Journal this past week reported on
some of the spending projects that have come into the
legislative hopper even as Congressmen are deploring
the deficit.
If Congress were really serious about tightening the
belt and actually cutting down on the deficit, it would
not pass such measures as the one which Sen. Thomas
Eagleton of Missouri slipped in to spend $8.7 million to
renovate the courthouse in his home town of St. Louis.
Neither would there be a bill providing tax relief for
U.S. umbrella makers.
The House has passed bills that would authorize
$172.5 million in aid to schools for physicians, phar-
macists and other health professionals and $200 million
to subsidize the constructoin of ships in the U.S.
The session-ending calendar is loaded with bills con-
taining funds for various water projects, grants, and
aid to varous states and communities, plans to send
more federal money out into the 50 states where
presumably it will impress constituents and encourage
them to vote for their legislator, whoever he may be.
With this kind of attitude, the deficit is going to be
permanent.
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ASSOCIATION
I shall feel guilt no more. I listened to him
the other morning, took the trash out and
there, in magnificent splendor, stood a
veritable jungle of weeds. I carry a gun with
me to the alley. There is no telling what
manner of beast lives in that jungle.
I felt guilty all day. That night I turned on
the tube. I am a cable subscriber and Clint,
of course, owns a large share of the cable
company. I tried to watch Cinemax but the
police radio interferred with the broadcast.
I searched in vain for an educational chan-
nel There was a sign on one channel that
said we would get educational TV sometime
after the second coming.
Well sir, I had my answer. I decided 1
would cut my weeds when and only when,
old Clint gets the cable fixed. No more guilt
for me. At last I can grow weeds without
guilt. Thanks, Clint. I needed that.
Warm fuzz les,
Doug Manning
ed. civil right* legislation Well,
since then, everyone has had more
time to look at this bill and the longer
one looks the worse it gets It is
nothing more than a power grab by
Washington. D.C. The easy vote foe a
Congressman or Senator would be to
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In judging our present crop of Con-
gressmen and Senators there are. of really representing our interests as a
free people, one must look at those
voles that receive little attention and
whose true effects are often distorted
across-the-board tax cut-ts one such in the press
J commend two particular pieces
of pending legislation to your atten-
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Paul Harvey
Periodic political campaigns bring
into focus some unfinished business,
frequently helpfully
In open dispute is the degree to
which President Reagan and-or Mr
Mondale intend to cut Medicare, but
both candidates are willing to put the
squeere on doctors and hospitals
Mondale's deficit-reduction pro-
gram proposes a 112 billion Medicare
cut
President Reagan's Medicare-
reduction program is already in
place and working
Eleven cents of every dollar
Americans spent last year went for
medical care Our combined medical
bill came to S.355 4 billion For each
man. woman and child and us that's
11.459
Seventy-three percent of all
medical bills were paid for "indirect-
ly" - by government or by insurant e
companies
Hoth government ami insurance
companies, make no mistake, col-
lected the money from us in taxes or
in premiums
But we are "not doing nothing"
about soaring health-care costs.
The cost of medical care increased
11 percent In 1M2.» 4 percent In IN3;
this year 4.3 percent, the least in ten
yean’
Since Medicare decreed a strict
schedule of fees for specific
ailments, the average length of stays
for all hospital patients has declined
dramatically
As s result, health insurance costs
which had been increasing 20 percent
a year for five years will increase
less than 10 percent this year In
Iowa. Blue Cross-Blue Shield has
reduced its premium rate for the
first time In 40 years
And so far there is no evidence that
patients are hurt by having fewer
tests and earlier dismissals and
more use of outpatient facilities
Hospitals are being forced to
become innovative
Doctors are required to be in-
novative.
Americans are at their best when
they have to be. Confronted by a free-
and-easy medical system which
threatened itself with bankruptcy,
we have doctors voluntarily freezing
fees, hospitals voluntarily sharing
equipment. subcontracting
maintenance, instituting other effi-
ciences.
If the political debate shed more
heat than light on the subject, it did
serve to terrify professionals with
the realizations that the only viable
alternative to bankruptcy is self-
discipline.
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By REED PARSELL
Do you believe everything you
read in the Brand?
A national poll indicates you pro-
bably don't. Common sense says you
probably shouldn't. After all, our
managing editor once put “April 12”
on the front page of the Aug. 12 issue.
Yes, he still works here.
According to a survey conducted
earlier this month by Gallup, just 39
percent of the 750 adults polled
believe almost all or most of what
they “read or hear in the news media
as a whole."
Confidence in newspapers and
television reports were comparable
with each other and about even with
those of big business, Congress and
organized labor. People par-
ticipating in the poll said they felt
more trustful of banks, churches, the
military, public schools and the
Supreme Court.
Fifty-three percent said they could
believe "only some" news coverage
they are exposed to through the
_ I media, while * percent claimed they
- *, could take "very little" of the news
reports as being the gospel truth
Though only 39 percent could
believe almost all or most of what
they "read or hear in the news media
as a whole," seven in 10 agreed
media stories are generally ac-
curate.
Forty-six percent of those polled
who have been interviewed by the
news media said farts were kept
straight in the resulting reports
Thirty-seven percent said the stories
were innacurate and 17 percent -
presumably those who were objects
of accurate though uncomplimen-
tary reports - offered no comment
Too aggressive, obnoxious, unpru-
dent • media mongers could be
classifed in those terms. I'll agree
But innacurate'’ Very infrequently
so. and in many such incidents it is
the sources, not the reporters, who
are responsible for fallacies
Trust us
Remember that phrase when you
set your clocks forward one hour this
coming Monday the 29th of June
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Voting Process
Deaf Smith County has approximately 9,887
registered voters this year, and it will be interesting to
see how many of them go to the polls on Nov. 6.
For those who want to cast ballots, there is no excuse
for not being eligible. It’s much easier to vote than it
was some years ago. There was a time when a person
had to pay a poll tax of $1.75 in order to be eligible. The
courts ruled the tax was unconstitutional.
It may be too easy to vote. Downstate where some
300,000 new voters have been recorded, it is charged
that many of them are illegal aliens who are not
citizens and thus not qualified to vote. In fact, we heard
rumors here during the primary elections that some il-
legal aliens were voting.
Because of our Voting Rights Act, it is very difficult
to prove that a certain voter is not legally qualified to
cast a ballot. The only way to challenge a vote is to do it
individually and that means making an individual sub-
mit proof of citizenship, that he or she is not a felon and
have the right to vote.
Unfortunately there will be instances in some parts
of the country where special interest groups have
worked to register voters and will herd them to the
polls and try to tell them how to vote. This does not do
much for democratic process but, perhaps, there is no
better way.
We can only hope that all of those registered voters
are fully qualified to cast a ballot. But we hope some of
those registered voters don’t go to the polls. Only those
citizens who care enough about the issues to become
informed as to the candidates and what they propose
should actually vote.
It’s scary to think that some candidates may win
because they look good on the television screen, or
because they tell lies about their opponent, but that
seems to be the way many campaigns are conducted
these days.
We’ll have to deal with that until a better system is
available.
Clint Formby is back in town. The boy
gets around. This time he went to Korea to
check out how things have progressed there
since the war.
I think he came close to heating up the
hostilities all over again. It seems he
pointed his camera and they pointed their
guns. At least this is the story Clint tells.
What probably happened was that Clint told
them to cut their weeds and they decided to
shoot him.
Clint has never grasped the truth of the
little boy’s essay on Socrates. The boy
wrote:
Socrates was a great man.
Socrates told the people how they should
live.
They poisoned Socrates.
All kidding aside, Clint’s life is really
remarkable. How anyone from Hereford,
Texas could walk in the circles he walks in
and experience what he experiences is
amazing. I am proud of his ac-
complishments. Hereford is fortunate in-
deed to claim such a citizen of the world.
I use Clint’s name a great deal. It is the
one sure way I have to get inside otherwise
closed doors. I actually believe I could get a
private audience with the Pope by simply
saying, “I know Clint Formby.”
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vote This tex cut brought us our pre-
sent economic growth and only a
politician with a congenital contempt tion
for taxpayer* could have voted
against it
The balanced budget amemlment gressmen were fooled into voting for
is another make or break vote In this measure a few months back
1902. both houses of Congress voted because they thought it was, as label-
on this measure, which would end the
deficit problem once and for all It
passed the Senate but failed to
gamer the required two-thirds vote
in the House of Representatives
The problem with such key votes
as the INI tex cut snd the balanced
budget amendment is that only those vote for the bill and simply tell his
politicians so far to the left that you constituents that he thought it was a
need a pair of binoculars to spot
them voted against these measures
These bills were debated in the full
light of a national debate They were
accurately labeled and everyone
knew just what they were voting for
or against Such votes, however, give
us only a first cut in dividing the op-
portunities from the men and women
of principle
something to do about it open the office of Senator or Con-
In one state, two candidates runn- gressman to out-and-out bidding'’
Ing for the US Senate are spending On election day. sealed bids from through if we are to make intelligent
more than a million dollars In less the two candidates seeking the same decisions about who to return to
affluent states. Id million dollars is office will be opened and the highest Washington after the Nov t election
ordinary A race for a seat in Con- bidder wins The money from each,
gross costs anywhere from 1500.000 in the form of certified checks, then
to I1.00U50. with no bearing on the goes to the U.S. Treasury instead of
caliber of the Congressman you get I “ ‘ ‘
There's no telling bow much total tione.
money will be spent this year to eloct ““ "
Senators and Congressmen, it's in
the millions and MillioM, and moot
of M will be spent for tetevteion com-
mercials
Now Indirtdaul TV atakions and the
networks are undoubtedly the outfits regular commercials As for which is
least bi nU| of fbaritial aeototanre. the more honest, what's honesty got
Any UmoteteetJZtefc can get 1200.000 to do with political ads?
for 00 seconds worth Of time advertis-
ing tooth paste. M doesn’t Mod any
that money
If It’s foregone that the one with
the papers lately the coot of running the moot money wins, why run all
for office is now at its highest point in those dollars through TV stations
history, and I have figured out that don't need It anyway? Why not the many recorded voice votes or the
use of unanimous consent and we as
voters have a lot of material to wade
Watch out for Congressmen
By RICHARD L. LESHER
President
WASHINGTON - First-time
parents quickly learn that a newborn
demands full-time attention. To
leave baby unattended or even to
look away ever so briefly is to risk
the safety of child
Congressmen, though rarely as
cute, must also be watched carefully.
Oh. not that if left to their own
devices they might hurt themselves.
Rather, we fear, and with reason,
that out from under the watchful eye
of taxpayers. Congress may do
damage to us We know from sad ex-
perience that when we re not paying
close attention, they are given to fits
of tex increases, pork-barrel spen-
ding. and special-interest regula-
Since it seems that the candidate
with the most money for TV ads has tions
the best chance of winning, I have a It's not easy for us taxpayers to
proposal for making better use of keep track of what our congressmen
and senators are doing. This year
alone, the House of Representatives
had .M2 roll call votes; the Senate
had 250 Add to these recorded votes
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Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 84, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 28, 1984, newspaper, October 28, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1348410/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.