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uses only 112.000 BTU’s per
square foot per year.
-Meanwhile. down on the
street the government s giant
fleet of automobiles--the world's
largest--is guzzling more gas
than ever. Last year, governm-
ent vehicles traveled 3.3 billion
miles--10.7 percent more than
"With all this talk about
drafting women. I wouldn't
know whether to burn my
draft card or my bra.”
— Amy K. Posner, stage
actress
million gallons of fuel. The total
mileage driven by the federal
government's vehicles has been
increasing more that 50 percent
faster than that of the general
public.
A POLITICIAN WHO DOESN'T
LIKE HIS JOB CAN JUNKET
Texas Congressman Ron Paul
recently turned down what he
termed a "14-day. all expense-
paid winter vacation to study
alternative energy sources” in
Capetown, South Africa and Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
Spoilsport Ron was overheard
Nation program. However, the
ranger said the boys' singing
was disturbing the peace and
disgracing the memory of
Thomas Jefferson.
WHIPPING INFLATION-ITS
EASIER SAID THAN DONE
The President wants to whip
inflation. but he might do well to
reason. Campaigns ought to be
shortened because that's the
only way to get an un-tarnished
candidate.
You give investigative report-
ers six months or a year to
examine a candidate's backgro-
nd and campaign shenanigans
and if you're looking for an
un-blemished man you may as
well stay at home on election
day. The longer the campaign,
the more the reporters are going
to turn up. You get comfortable
with one candidate and some
snooping reporter turns up
something on him.
Furthermore, even after a
man is elected the reporters
don’t let up. Any month they
don't uncover a scandal about
Congress, you get the feeling
they've been loafing on the job
This can't go on. It looks like
the only way we're ever going to
get honesty in government is to
stop checking up on government
officials. AH officials should be
considered innocent until caug-
ht. and anybody who tried to do
any catching is a rotten egg. On
the other hand let's all be
thankful the investigative repor-
ters are checking up on officials
Iran. According to the London
Daily Telegraph. Iranian shop-
keepers are being given up to 15
lashes in an effort to encourage
them to reduce prices.
Unfortunately, many Tehran
merchants have retaliated by-
closing their shops, as one
Editor's note: The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Deaf Smith
County grass farm takes a
sidelong look at political
Campaigns this week.
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angry shopkeeper complained to
a housewife: "Why should we
be lashed when the prices we
have to pay are so high?”
FINAL BULLETIN FROM THE
ENERGY FRONT
The Community Services
Administration, the govern-
ment's anti-poverty agency, has
anticipated the worst. It has
spent $75,000 printing booklets
entitled: "No More Heat? A
Self-Help Booklet.” Among
other things, it advises people
whose heat has been cut off: "A
paper bag wrapped (on your
head) can keep you warm...cut
eye holes in the paper bag."
Yours faithflly,
J.A
septic tank or sewer line. and telling the newspaper. Washin-
how effectivegu is. gton Weekly. "AH the famous
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Capitol Building
Austin, Tx. 78769 a
Telephone: 512-475-3222
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Warm fuzzies,
Doug Manning
Bad Judgment
By HAROLD HUDSON
Parryton Harald
The continuing news coming out of Washington
and Austin about bribe taking and questionable
exchanges of money between private individuals
and public officials has a lot of people confused
and understandably worried. We wonder what
kind of people we have elected to run this country
and we don't like the way things appear.
It may be that there has been no wrong doing,
but it sure appears to be so. In the case of Billy
Clayton, the saport that he took some cash from a
man supposedly representing an‘Insurance
company andahen put it aside to give back to the
man the next time he saw him somehow does not
have a sincere ring to it.
We will wait for the facts to emerge, but at best,
Billy Clayton has exercised very questionable
lodgment for a state official in the top bracket.
Somehow, we just can’t digest this action. We
have tried to imagine what Rep. Bob Close would
have done in similar circumstances, and we have
concluded that he would have handed back the
envelope, even at the risk of embarrassing the
insurance man. This would have been the only way
to handle the situation in order to avoid any risk of
being accused of taking a bribe or a payoff.
in the case of the FBI operation in which
undercover agents offered cash payments to
Congressmen for various favors, we would like to
know a whole lot more about the scheme. Did the
FBI merely set out to find which members of
Congress were crooks? Or, did some individual or
agency have something else in mind when this was
authorized?
VAW:
As the government continues ; beaches and nightclubs along
to dilly-dally, the delays are the route must be coincidences.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
Sen. John Tower
Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Telephone: 202-224-3121
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Dear Editor:
I would like to express my
opinion regarding the articles
concerning the alleged bribes
accepted by Bill Clayton. I do
not believe he accepted any
money or favors intentionally as
a bribe.
I have known the Gayton
family since the 1930‘s. Billy
Wayne's father and mother
were and are fair and honest
people. We have had our
differences of opinion in politics
and community affairs, but I
have never known any of the
family, including Billy Wayne,
to do or say a dishonest thing.
They have always tried to put
the right things and regard for
other people first. Billy Wayne
is not and does not know how to
be dishonest
1 do not believe allegations
against public officials should
be reported until they have been
indicted by a Grand Jun or a
reporter can present an iron clad
Rep. KmmHmm
House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Telephone: 202-224-3121
hear the national anthem,
though ”
— Eric Heiden, member of
the U.S. Olympic Speed Skat-
ing Team, revealing how be
feels about representing
America at the Winter Olym-
pics. For Heiden, speed skat-
ing is a personal challenge
that has little relevance to
patriotism. (Rolling $ one)
Thumbing Back
56 YEARS AGO
The next water bills will be figured on a different basis to
that prevailing here for the past year or more. Where the
minimum rate has been $2.00 a month for the one-inch meter
or under it, is now only $1.50, effective Jan. 20. and will be
used in the calculations for statement to be mailed out March
1.
An employe of Southwestern Bell Telephone company is
attaching a condenser to the present boxes of customers, in
preparation for the cut-over later to the new call system, or
common battery type. This is one step nearer the day when
crank-ringing to reach central in Hereford will have passed
into the realm with the long-horn cow.
25 YEARS AGO
Gting the fact that the drop on support prices to 70 percent
of parity this year will mean a reduction of 50 cents per
hundred on grain sorghum prices to producers in this
community. Com. on the other hand, will be higher. Taking
the total acreage of 20 farmers, the average would be 5
percent in cotton and 25 percent in wheat, which leaves 70
percent of the remaining land in this area to be planted in
grain sorghums, substitute crops or summer fallowed.
The March of Dimes surpassed even the fondest hopes of
sponsors this year as incomplete totals gave $5,853.53 to date
in Deaf Smith County. The amount, well beyond the tentative
$5,000 goal set by local leaders, continued to swell as
donations trickled in through various divisions of the
county-wide organization.
16 YEARS AGO
The possibility of a community college for Hereford, a
dream of many Hereford citizens for years, appears to be a
step nearer this week. Dr. Robert Clinton, Assistant
Commissioner for Community Junior Colleges with the
Coordinating Board of the Texas College and University
System was in Hereford this week meeting with a group of
citizens interested in the establishment of a Junior College for
Deaf Smith County and outlining procedures for the
establishment of a junior college district.
"Top West Texan" award was presented to Henry Sears
at the annual banquet of the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce in Fort Worth. Jim Sears received the award for
his father.
becoming more and more
expensive. The cost of the
original plan has already
quintupled!
LATEST BULLETINS FROM
THE ENERGY FRONT
-The Department of Energy is
busy. busy, busy these days as
its employees prepare draconian
measures in view of forcing the
public to conserve energy.
Ironically, the building where all
this activity is taking place has
one of the nation's highest rates
of energy comsumption. Accor-
ding to the American Consulting
Engineers Council, it takes
more than 225,000 BTUs of
By SUSAN STOLE]
Associated Press I
MCALLEN, Texa
, Evangelist Lester R
- have found no supp
fight against state
'licensing laws at I
0 Conference of
assembly Friday,
- come.
Delegates to t
meeting unanimous
J' on voice vote a
.. supporting curt
requiring the state
" and license public,
1 YEAR AGO
WASINGTON (AP) - China s Teng Haiao-ping wound up
his Washington visit with a bit of sightseeing, a private
meeting with Richard M. Nixon and the signing of accords
with President Carter aimed at boosting China's great leap
toward modernization.
The first stage in what has apparently turned into a "war of
nerves" between area food corn producers and Frito-Lay Inc. S
of Dallas ended with old contract growers for the most part
still refusing to sign contracts with Frito-Lay for food corn
production in the local area in 1979.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government officials, faced with
continuing shortages of Iranian crude oil, are considering a
ban on Sunday gasoline sales and a variety of other measures •
reminiscent of the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - College presidents supported a
proposal to repeal the 10-cent state property tax and to
substitute a special fund to finance many campus construction
projects.
If my sister Beth and I
were from a country where
speed skating was really big,
we'd think it was something
special But were from
America, where it's at the bot-
tom of the barrel when it
comes to sports It's nice to
MR. CHAIRMAN
This has been a very good year. I have been
chairman of only one committee and it is a committee
of one.
A committee is a collection of the unfit chosen
from the unwilling by the imcompetent to do the
unnecessary....
And. a committee succeeds in getting something
done whan and only when it consists of three
members, one of whom hoppens to be sick and
they were important enough to attract subtle offers.
There may be committees I would want to chair. If
they were important enough to attract subtile offers.
Unfortunately, the only ones I am asked to chair are
so obscure I have to bribe the editor of the paper to
tell the story of my election.
Election as chairman is basically the reeult of your
friends turning on you and designating you as the
one to catch the flak. It is a group of folks designating
where the buck stops.
I learned a long time ago that the best way to avoid
the chairmanship was to nominate someone else
first This is the normal version of the golden
rule-do unto others before they do unto you.
I worked this idea for four years in a ministerial
alliance I belonged to several years ago. Each year,
the current chairman would say, “The floor is open
lor nominations for..."
t would not even let him finish, I would butt in with
my nomination.
They caught on. I arrived on election day to find
the other men there and huddled. I knew I was in for
trouble. Maybe even defeated.
The chairman said, “Floor is open and Doug, you
are out of order."
Another so called friend said, “I nominate Doug
Manning for chairman.”
Why fight the inevitable? I said, “Mr. Chairman, I
move nominations cease and you elec* me by
acclamation.”
H passed....
Contemporary music is
probably the most useless
thing in America today. The
frisbee is more vital and use-
ful to America's lifestyle than
contemporary music."
— Frank Zappa, contempo-
rary musician/composer
(Trouser Press)
religious 24-hour ca]
"I was not surpri
the churches we red
said in the past the J
law,” the Rt. I
When the average American
can hardly afford to take a
weekend away from home,
thanks to all the Congressional-
ly-caused inflation and energy
problems. politicians will be
getting tax-paid tans."
Thanks. Ron.
TOURISTS ARE TO BE SEEN*
NOT HEARD
A United States park ranger
recently kicked about 100
teenage boys off the steps of the
Jefferson Memorial in Washing-
ton D.C., for singing-are you
ready? - "God Bless America."
The song was meant to be part
of an American Legion Boys
Dear Editor:
As most people now agree,
political campaigns start too far
ahead of the elections. Here it is
only February, the elections
aren't till November, nine
months away, and some
candidates for President have
been running since last
summer, some even before
then.
This takes a lot of money
causes wear and tear on the
candidates who seem to think
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WASHINGTON The Wall St-
reet Journal recently reported a
story that should become a basic
civics lesson for every child in
America - and every politician
as well. It seems the town of
Westfield, Massachusetts, is
involved with two, nearly
identical sewer projects. There
is. however, one minor
difference. One project is locally
financed: the other is being
directed by the federal
government
The locally financed project
has progressed so nicely that
construction will begin in early
spring. But the federal project is
still bogged down in a
bureaucratic maze. and has not
even been granted approval for
federal funding. For example,
the government now wants the
city to mail a questionnaire to
every one of its residents,
inquiring whether they use a
energy per square foot to heat. -
cool and light the building for (
one year. By comparison, the
average New York City building
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I have been reading some- a fair price except for having to
body's else's mail, buy feed.
Letter from a farm wife in "The storm did much damage
Mmnrsnts to a neighbor now to the barnlot buildings and took
transplanted to Chicago. all the fruit trees and most of
The names I'll skip because our grove but next year will be
this was never intended to be better."
anything more than a private Then there is some more
letter between friends. about Esther's funeral and the
Good enough longtime frien- letter concludes. "Hope you
ds to want to know about one enjoy good health and we wish
another, about how things are. you a happy and good new
"Dear Ruth . How are you? year..."
We are all fairly well. And the letter is signed
I guess you knew Esther died. "With affection."
I figured we might have seen Because the Harveys are
you at the funeral but then the friends of the addressee. I read
weather got so bad. this personal letter.
"It was a bad storm. And I thought about the
Eighty-mile-an-hour winds and struggles of this farm family...
hail. Ruth, the hail was piled up And I thought about city
like snowbanks. We lost all our workers demanding more with-
crop, out producing more...
"Then, of course, the And I reflected on private
summer had been so wet we conversations with public figur-
didn't get our second crop of es who are scared witless by the
clover hay for our cows. It just welfare army.
rotted in the field. So it's been a They confide to me that they
rough year, that way." are terrified-that if they were to
Let me interrupt my reading cut out the tax-free handouts,
of this letter, those people would set fire to
You are not going to hear our cities.
anything astounding. There is And , think about that--about
nothing astounding in the letter, those more greedy than needy.
Nor should the complaints be And the workaday people all
construed asself-pity.lts lust around
me hard-taxed to
one farm wife telling a support a third generation of
transplanted friend how things parasites
are back home P“.
Now. I'm quoting again: And then I reflect on this
"Clover rotted in the fields...- Minnesota farm family-and
rough year...no crop and no how they live in a perennial
income. We had some eggs to pinch without protest, expecting
sell but top was 36 cents a dozen nothing for nothing, tending
and, as you know. Ruth, that their chores, behaving themsel-
won't pay for feed. Milk brings ves. making do.
Rep. Bill Clayton
House of Representatives
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, Tx. 78769
Telephone: 512-475-3400
case to a Grand Jury. Too many they have to stomp around in
officials are trie and found New Hampshire in freezing
guilty in the media and later weather with frozen smiles on
proven innocent by the courts their faces shaking hands with
Because of the publicity the people who’re more interested
public officials. their family and in the tourist business than the
friends have suffered unneces- election.
san embarrassment and anxie- There's no telling how many
ty and some people will always millions of dollars are being
think they were guilty I believe spent just to get nominated,
in a free press but as with all with millions more required to
freedoms there is a great get elected.
amount .if responsibility that That, political analysts say is
gars along with it. the reason all campaigns ought
Sincerely, to be shortened say to three
Mr and Mrs. M Struve weeks at the most.
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 162, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 17, 1980, newspaper, February 17, 1980; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1422100/m1/4/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.