The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1978 Page: 4 of 34
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Bureaucrats hampering energy
Secret arrests
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When does desirable privacy become undesirable
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That question will face the Legislature in Sacramento
next year when it considers needed amendments to the
Information Practices Act of 1977
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librars
Phil left Thomas at his home near Beckville, but only after Betty
learned the real situation By the way, both men brought in plenty of
deer and turkey to prove where they had been
The California Highway Patrol has announced that it
will no longer give the news media street addresses of
arrested persons
The California Youth Authority has interpreted the act
to mean it cannot release the names of anyone in custody
or who has been paroled Police on the campuses of the
State University and College System won t even release
the names of arrested persons
DORISD MOUSE
Publisher
Jim Stevens Editor
Paul Palmer
Advertsing Mgr
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If someone told Troy Gholston to go tend to his rat killing, he
could do it with great results'
Troy caught two field rats at one time in a trap set in his garage He
even has pictures to prove it
His wife Mary wasn t as thrilled over the kill as Troy was She went
to the garage where they have sweet potatoes stored, to get some to
cook and put her hand almost on the trap with the two dead rats
TWO IN ONE
Orita Morrison and Freddie Mason are much in demand to present
programs and such
The pair did double duty Monday night They presented a Christmas
program at the home of the Jay Yarboroughs for the Carthage
Classroom Teachers Association Then, immediately. they went to the
home of the ( rawford Parkers where they gave the same program for
the Alpha Psi Preceptor Chapter of Beta .Sigma Phi
"I WROTE THAT SONG."
EXPLAINING TOD
Thomas Allums had to talk pretty fast to his wife Betty when he
came in Saturday after a deer hunt to South Texas
Thomas and Phil Markham of Shreveport were returning from the
hunt when they were stopped at the scene of an accident near
Palestine A lady from Bossier City had been involved in a one-car
accident After some checking and discussion. I hear, she decided to
accept Phil's offer to take her to her home
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Subscription Rotes
Payable in Advance
Panola County Area
M 00 year
Elsewhere in Teias
$9 00 year
Other States
112 00 year
as verond (lavv ma"er
a* •he povt ot*c• n Carmhaqe
Disabilities soar
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1 Front the files of the Panola WaUhntan I
Q Dors a hologr aphi write vour
uwn > will apply in the slate ol
i alifornia" Where can I find out if
ihr law sol mi stale permit thi kind
id will* RJM Los ingeies t alil
Municipal bond insurance which
guarantees the tmely payment of
principal and interest on munc pal
bonds should they default is used by
individuals and institutions and
financial professionals who manage
municipal bond mutual fund' and
sponsor tal exempt investment
trusts
A+ PANOLA WATHMAN Carthage Texas December 14 198
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TWIN BOVS
Jim and Sherry Brewster have a pair of boys' The twins were born
F riday Dec 8. at Wllis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport
Eric Edwin was born at 2 41 p m weighing 6 lbs 7′2 ozs Derek
James arrived five minutes later He weighed 5 lbs
Grandparents are Mr and Mrs James Brewster and Mr and Mrs
Metz LaFollette
Can you imagine the bragging the Carthage quartet of grandparents
will be doing' Sherry and Jim will be so busy, they won t have time to
show their pride Congratulations to all
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I nfortunately the free market
system hasn t been given a corn
pletely free rein The ( arter ad
ministration s contribution to the
energy supply situation is a new
army ot bureaucrats in the
Department ot Energy The No 1
energy bureaucrat Dr James
Schlesinger still wounds off on the
subject of gasohne rationing from
time to time Bureaucrats always
prefer controls to production
Another unfortunate fact is that
some owners ot oil wells still receive
only $5 5a barrel) for their product
while Arab producers are paid $13 a
barrel federally decreed
favoritism for foreigners which is
hard to comprehend
Alan Reynolds economist for the
We supported that act because we believed it provided
some much needed protection for the privacy of .
individuals whose records were held by state
government agencies
We still support the main thrust of the legislation but
we have become aware that it has had some unexpected
and undesirable side effects
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dependent making $200 per week will be $22 70 compared with $$22 10
in 198 Whereas, someone making $300 per week in 1979 will have
$4; no in< ome tax withheld and in 1978 that amount was $43 20
These minute changes result in lots of headaches for payroll clerks
and probably will balance out to the same amount of income tax
withheld at the end of the year
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Superintendent Q M Martin of the
Carthage school system was named
a director of the Texas I nited Fund
organization
An automatic coin operated
laundry servict was introduced in
Carthage
■ up- b- orouQ*‘ »•
He or she should te able to direct
vou to a tok on will writing for the
lav individual if vou have a court in
vour vicinity vou could probably
contact the probate division in
formation and also learn if
holographic wills are accrptable
A Municipalties do depend on
property taxes for operating costs
and for support of bond offering*
None of this means that a major city
will fnd itself bankrupt or on the
verge of bankruptcy in the near
future in this climate of un
certaintv however many investors
have been taking a closer look at the
benefits of insuring their munie ipal
bonds
Four local busnessmen joined the
third Industrial Tour sponsored by
the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce
ideologues who attempt to spread
the rrology panic are beng
< ountered the real producers in our
s«M ietv who are finding new
resour es and creating new wealth
From a vantage point in Oklahoma
the outlok is cheering
• Arr municipal bonds in
surable rsprcially in light of what
has been happening in New Vork
4 ilv t lev eland and now ( alifornia
with the passage of l’roposition 11*
A The answer to your first
quest ion rs v e t alifornia does allow
holographie wills one of the first
ways for an individual to fnd out
atout a holographi will if vou do
not want to srek the advice of a
The number of Americans drawing disability benefits
under Social Security has doubled since Koto 29
million and rising Whats going on’
There s no sign ot an epidemic of disabling accidents or
illnesses What is happening is that another federal
program has drifted out ot control
Adding disability insurance to Social Security looked
innocent enough when that bridge was crossed in the late
1950s if Social Security could provide some economic
security to workers after retirement adding a bit to the
payroll tax could also provide protection against loss of
income from a disabling accident or illness before
retirement After all only a small percentage of the work
force ever becomes disabled
Yet the number ot people drawing disability benefits
has leaped far ahead of projections and the cost is going
off the charts from $3 1 billion in KO to an estimate of
$14 billion this year At the heart of this financial disaster
is a set of miscalculations about government programs
and human beings
Accepting public benefits no longer bears the stigma
it once did ' sighs Joseph Califano secretary of Health
Education and Welfare It s more than that Congress
ignored another facet of human behavior The more
liberal the definition ot disability. and the more generous
the benefits provided the more people will consider
themselves disabled and the longer their disability will
last
Social Security benefits were increased sharply early
in this decade It now develops that some workers
receive more in disability benefits than they could earn if
they were working Can such a person be blamed for lack
of motivation in overcoming a disability to get back to
work. or in seeking retraining for a different kind of job ’
There were other miscalculations Congress did not
anticipate how much subjective judgment by doctors and
lawyers would go into interpreting definitions of
disability Nor did it foresee court decisions which have
broadened eligibility for benefits
All this poses an unpleasant task for the next Congress
it must tighten definitions of disability in the Social
Security law. overhaul a cumbersome and expensive
administrative structure, and either trim back benefits
or otherwise encourage more beneficiaries to return to
work
it is always politically difficult for Congress to trim
back a social program that is overshootng its target The
task will be easier in 1979. however Reform of disability
insurance can help forestall the ballooning cost of Social
Security which is becoming a political liability for both
Congress and the administration
will t reuired to spend large sums
to operate in accordance with the
provisions of the bill The public will
'utter as a result of the price control
maze in the energ legislation
Th,. cost of blundering
bureaucrats and anti business
protest group- is impossible to
estimate The whole emphasis of the
tureaucrats and protesters such as
New York based < ouncil on
Fo omic Priorities is on extending
federal controls on energy sources
or restr ting corporate activity
The (FP is pponed to additional
coal leasing on public lands in the
W est
Despite the harassment by
bureaucrat an i protest groups free
market fore e have lorated major
ewenerg, wurces such a* the v ast
new g.. field on the Gulf I oast in
additi '. tle 2a- w overies
have ‘wen rde in i anada and
Meve Mat, of this fuel will te
availabie 'o \mer < ar , if the I s
overmen' i <■>(>• rates with our
northern i',d -outhern neightwr-
15 YEARS AGO
The Carthage Kiwanis Club
scheduled its third annual variety
show for Oct 28 at the Carthage
High School auditorium Proceeds
from the show would be used to
finance the club's charitable pro-
jects
The Panola Watchman announced
that a color advertisement for 1964
cars at Panola Motor Company was
scheduled in that week s paper
OKLAHOMA (ITY Okla \
v isit to this energy state makes clear
the folly of giving bureaucrats
power over the nation s oil and gas
supplies Oklahoma s ndependent
oil and gas operators are doing an
extraordinary job of finding new
sources of supply Flsewhere in the
nation the search for oil and gas is
equally rewarding
First National Bank of ( hi ago
rerently told a I s!< Hducational
Foundation conterence for
European free market spokesman
that the price svstem is the test
wav to proess intormation about
energy supplies and to handle
scarcity It s too bad that the ad
ministration doesn t understand that
fundamental economic tact
since the energ'. crisis developed
five years ago the independent oil
operators have done wonders in
locating new sources of supply They
have worked over old fields drilling
at much greater depths This has
resulted in notable dscoveries but
the drilling has cost a lot of money
The most inexpen-ite drilling rig
costs almost $1 million Equipment
lor drilling at great depths or oft
shore runs into manv millions ot
dollars Searching for oil or gas is a
risky business \ drv hold can cost a
fortune Happilv the risk taking
spirit hasn t been entirely ex
tnguished by tug government
The-new energ-. toll which was
forced through the Congress by
President Carter will make solution
of the nation s energy companies
If these are proper interpretations of the act, the act
should be changed The Legislature should spell out
clearly what information is public record Certainly the
identity of arrested persons should never be shrouded in
secrecy We don t want secret arrests in a free
country
the radical
I »!av popie in the energ
tu~ine- Kn<>w tha' the < $ must
push deve eoment at all forms of
energ} oil gas coal and nuclear
The entire energy industry
houeter is the target of ecological
protest groups \s Fdward J Walsh
writes in The Anti Nuclear
Movement the goal of the new
brer of radical ideologues is the
• utting off of economic growth in
’he I nited states He points out
that Theobvous immediate target
is energy the lifeblood of an
advane ed industrial society
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Orita has a similar situation waiting for her Sunday She and her
husband.E B will be in Dallas to be with their grandchildren Mary
and Evan Morrison while their parents go skiing in Colorado
The Morrisons son. Dr Eddie Morrison teaches a Sunday School
class at University Methodist Church Eddie talked his mother into
teaching the class for him
< inta says she and E B will bring the children back to Carthage for
the week before Christmas Doodles would like to tease her that the
reason she wants to bring them here is so she can show them off to her
friends and relatives And that s a good reason’
SE ARCHING FOR INEORM ATION
Colin R Mangham, who lives at 5364 198th St . Langley B C
V3AIE9. Canada, has written the Watchman regarding news items
concerning members of his family
Mangham is researching his fathers family, which includes the
Manghams and Chamnesses who s ttled in Panola County in the
1800‘s He asked for copies of a series of articles published in the
Watchman or any other information regarding them He would
appreciate hearing from members of the family or anyone having the
information he needs
NEW TAX G( IDE
Have just received a copy of the 1979 Circular E Employer’s Tax
Guide I dread this each year as the increase in payroll taxes continues
to climb
For each $100 paid to an employee $6 13 will be withheld in 1919
compared to $6 05 in 1918 This amount is matched by the employer
Social security tax will be withheld on the first $22,900 earnings
compared to the $17,700 ceiling in K8
Although nothing is said about increases in income tax deductions
the required amount held weekly for a married person with one
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Stevens, Jim. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1978, newspaper, December 14, 1978; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1422289/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sammy Brown Library.