The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 12, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 20, 1986 Page: 4 of 28
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Dear editor:
You ride along a road and see all
sorts of trash somebody has thrown
out of his car and you wonder, what
kind of people do that sort of thing?
Are they un-thinking, or teenagers
who haven’t learned to think, or anti-
social, or uncivilized or, as the
phrase goes, just common’
Well, I was pondering this when I
turned on the television and saw a
shot of the grounds after 40,000 peo-
ple had left Willie Nelson's Farm Aid
II concert. Looked like every foot of
the place was covered with discard-
ed trash. You mean to tell me the
people who like rock and roll and
country western music are the peo-
ple doing the highway littering’ This
is hard to believe as I know people
who are otherwise sane, upright
citizens who like that kind of music.
Then one night later 600,000 New
Yorkers turned out for a classical
music concert in Central Park Next
day television showed tons and tons
of trash left on the ground. You mean
to tell me it’s the classical music
lovers who're doing the highway lit-
tering?
Well, a few days later the stock
market closed at its highest point in
history. Television showed the
uproarious scene at the closing
moments at the Stock Exchange.
You know what, every inch of the
floor was covered with paper orach
You mean to tell me it's the stock
brokers who're doing the highway lit-
tering?
My mind drifted further afield.
You ever seen the trash left in the
stands after a college football game ’
Ever counted the cans and paper
napkins along a lake shore’ Ever-
seen a teenager's room? Ever seen
inside my office?
These things are confusing and I'm
sorry I brought it up.
Yours faithfully.
Maybe I am not too late. I think I will put
in a counseling center for Cabbage Patch
dolls. Sort of a sanitarium where we could
treat everything from hyperactivity to bed
wetting. Now that has possibilities. With my
luck, by the time I get it all together and
spend a ton of advertising I will find out it
has already been done. The story of my life
is "When I arrived the suckers had already
been plucked.”
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It’s coming as a shock for a lot of folks - many of
w hom should know better — but Texas is going to have
to make some sacrifices. There simply isnt enough
tax money for everything.
Those sacrifices may well take on rather large pro-
. exas economy is on the decline, soon to bottom out
and head into an upturn, we hope. But anyone who has
gotten used to an almost endless supply of state and
federal funds for any and all possible projects — well,
you'd better get un-used to it.
-Tbe Lufkin Daily News
Judges by merit?
Add at least two more prominent Texas politicians to
the list of leaders who want to change the way the gate
chooses its judges.
Li Gov. Bill Hobby and House Speaker Gib Lewis
have endorsed a plan that would allow the governor to
appoint judges, replacing the election system.
On balance, the merit selection system - used in
several other states already — is a better idea than the
partisan electian method still used here.
With the weight of Lewis and Hobby, argnaNy the
two most powerful political leaders in Texas, behind
P.T. Barnum said there was a sicker
born every minute. He forgot to say that
there was a sucker plucker born every half
minute The result is that by the I get
there all of the suckers have already bee'
plucked
I went through Cleveland. Georgia the
other day Cleveland is the birth place of the
Cabbage Patch Dolls. Talk about sucker
pluckers! The factory is set up like a
hospital The manufacturing area is railed
a birthing room. They have adoption papers
instead of sales slips.
We drove out to see the home of the young
man who dreamed this up. I cannot
describe the home. They told us he had an
indoor pool and a slide that extended from
his upstairs bedroom to the pool. That's liv-
ing.
This guy’s mother made dolls. They were
funny looking little critters made of stuffed
and pinched doth. She gave the things away
and it seemed as if people loved them. An
idea was born and this guy was snrarr
enough to make it work.
One would think that all of the hype would
turn people off. If not the hype then rartain-
ly the price. The authentic dolls with faces
made of cloth and signed by the creator sell
tor up to $300 a toy manufacturer mass
produces a cheaper ” version at about $65
This for a doll”
People flock to the hospital. The strange
thing is that most of the dolls are sold to
adults. These folks take it all very seriously.
They dote on their dolls. They collect them
They buy clothes for them. They buy tee
shirts and other stuff to declare their love. I
stood there in awe and realized I got in too
late The suckers had already been plucked.
There is no a summer ramp where people
can send their dolls. Now, I should have
thought of that one . All a guy would need is
a storage shed to throw them into for a cou-
ple of weeks.
Editor’s note; The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Johnsongrass
farm on Tierra Blanca Creek comes
to some complicated roartart oar on
littering.
we didn’t have all the laws that make it costly for
employers to fire kids for irresponsible behavior
Minimum wage was not very high back then and its
coverage wasn’t as wide as it is today
When he was running for president'. Ronald Reagan
said the minimum wage has caused more mivn and
unemployment than anything else since the Great
Depression."
Every one has to start somewhere in the work force
and if you dont know anything, you are not worth,
mnuch to an employer. Those who demand an increase
in the minimum wage call themselves friends of the
poor He re not so sure that is true
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Minimum wage
There is a move underway to raise the ~ j H
wagein the country on the assumption thataltofpeo-
Piecantbegiven * raise in Pay by the mere passage of
The minimum wage is $335 per hour and has been
at that figure since 1961. Those who want it
raised say that if the minimum wage were adjusted for
inflation, it would now be at $4 an hour.
The purpose of the minimum wage is noble to raise
the standards of living for working people But i has
not really worked out that way For every M percent
mcreaae in the nununum wage, there has been a 1 per-
cent increase in unemployment.
Some jobs have been phased out entirely
tney were not worth the minimum wage Moat of these
jobs were for low-skill. entryHevel positions. This hurts
th, poor and the young.
In the late 40s and 50s there were all kinds at jobs for
the poor and for youngsters, even for minorities I held
some of those jobs myself during high school and coL
kedsinscotstnfebay, aoda 2ek hoeing
in the summer, and washing dishes in a cafe. Non
those jobs paid much, but then I wasn’t worth much
The Proposed
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HERE' how they stack op : ’
Terror in market
’ irst, Tylenol was the victim. then an array of rap-
sule drug products and even baby food. The most re-
cent targets have been Jell- gelatin and puddings.
Who knows what will be next’ it is a sad rommeo-
tary on American society, indeed. And who can pre-
tend to understand the warped mind of a person who
«ould lace any product with cyanide and then put it
back on the shelf for some unsuspecting supermarket
customer to buy and consume?
The scope and nature of the problem defies a solu-
tion. Certainly, thorough investigation and stiff pro-
secution must be part of it. Better packaging and other
precautions help, too, but is anything truely • tamper,
proof" Not likely. As the saying goes, what man can
do he also can undo.
This American consumer terrorism apparently has
no end except to satisfy the perversions of small in-
dividuals.
-Tbe Wichita Falls Record-News.
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Letters to
the Editor
To The Editor Hereford Brand
This letter is in regard to the nice
big picture and article in the
Hereford Brand just prior to the
Warm Fuzzies, Fourth of July given to a local in-
Doug Manning dividual who operated a profitable
6 fireworks stand. We in the Whiteface
Kiwanis Club have no quarrel with
your right to run the paper in
whatever manner you see fit. We
think the article was a good idea and
a good article, but we would have to
take issue with the civic mindedness
on the part of the Hereford Brand in
Ri.I t k- doing an article of this nature for an
"preslaxesher programs., and searching for new is to bring the black underclass into individual when it would have been
w ISHNG’WvL. I . solutions towhatwean recognize as the Amercan mainstream it is ar s0 much better to have done the arti-
cDepwTMAfello"entt a Erave:national problem But the awesome task, bticanbedoem cle on a local service club which uses
football games Evenume to ttend ? nghts establishment adamantly all concerned lav down their all of its profit helping local needy in-
WOnt aKSsE" gztimeourteam refuses to join the debate, resorting rehtorical sword and wor together dividuals and organizations Our
hdde,he thought they instead to insuits and the rabbie club had two fireworks stands in
"sstgsmlth,ggg. rousing rhetoric of the past For this to happen, the civil nghts Hereford and fireworks sales is our
parmotaatwetPeoaexageerated Thisbot wind blows nobody rgood I establishment must first overcm major money making project, our
Pimdi S Tx. toda • “ ? that racism erists, but it is its parnoia Not everyone who dues- dedicated members donated approx-
mailune, Hrights Eroups that are no longer the major impediment to nous its sacred cows « a c^^ imately three hundred fifty hours of
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sav the r-m—.yorm has ssion.ne Ehe law o the land and enjoys over- paranoids have real enemies. there stands open to accomodate the
mistn "antnisinnhasbetrayedts whelmningsuppomt from all sectors of are no enemies of racial justice on fireworks buying people of Hereford
—_ T and.nnlonger the society The challenge before us now the U.S. Crril Rights Commission and we ar glad to do it because the
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