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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Wed., Oct. 26,1988—3
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Face the press
We ask very little of Cooke County
agencies, we receive very little,
while our property tax valuation
has steadily increased in recent
years. Younger Cooke County resi-
dent enjoy most of the benefits of all
tax dollars, so why should they not
bear a larger portion of the burden?
Senior citizens have worked hard
and save in order that they retire
with some dignity. Most all of these
citizens live on a fixed income,
social security etc. In many cases
their bank account runs out before
the month ends.
Cooke County senior citizens de-
serve a better break than they are
getting from the County Appraisal
District.
Paul Brown should look at the
other side of the issue. We resent his
narrow viewpoint.
Lee Sample
Lake Kiowa
Register photo: Three-year-
old Donnie Thompson yelps his
delight and hugs one of nine or-
phan puppies at the W.C. Hill
Service Station, East Highway
82. There were nine pups in the
litter and the mother dog was
killed by an automobile Mon-
day night on the highway in
front of the Hill store. Mr. and
Mrs. Hill took in the “orphans”
and they’ve already found
homes for five of the dogs.
Anyone in the market for a pup
of mixed breed can have one for
the asking. Young Thompson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Tho-
mpson, 1303 N. Howeth St., says
he’d like one please.
To the Editor:
This letter is in response to Paul
Brown’s two-part article in the
Gainesville Register on Sunday,
Oct. 16, and Monday, Oct. 17.
This is a very biased and slanted
article. I am sure if Paul Brown
were 65 years of age or older, he
would be able to recognize the other
side of the coin.
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City Councilmen opened
sealed bids from 13 car dealers
and equipment companies
Thursday as the first step in the
purchase of seven new city ve-
hicles. Included in the purchase
will be one new automobile, to
be used as a police car, two
%4-ton pickup trucks, two two-
ton trucks, one three-ton truck
with installable packer-type
garbage unit, and one front end
loader.
***
“Buddy Ryan has done a
wonderful job with the Leopard
line,” Leopard Head Coach
Dub Wooten told 35 or 40
Booster Club members Tues-
day night in the field house. “I
get a lot of credit for the line
that I don’t deserve,” the coach
smiled. “Actually, all my
credit should go for selecting
buddy as my line coach.”
Donald W. Reynolds,
Chairman of the Board
Warren G. Flowers,
General Manager
Eric Williams, Managing Editor
David Scott, Advertising Manager
Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
LOCALLY OPERATED MEMBER
□ONREY MEDIA GROUP
In a parliamentary democ-
racy such as Great Britain,
the prime minister is re-
quired to appear regularly
before the House of Commons
to answer often-hostile ques-
tions from opposition mem-
bers. Question time provides
a searching examination of
the government’s policies on
a routine basis; it is also the
principal forum in which the
prime minister explains and
defends his or her programs
and builds support for them
among the electorate.
In this country, the presi-
dent cannot be compelled to
appear before Congress for
questioning. The adversarial
role filled by opposition party
members in a parliamentary
system rests instead with the
American news media.
But the press’s opportunity
to interrogate the president
depends almost entirely on
the whim of the chief execu-
tive. Some, such as Franklin
D. Roosevelt and John F.
Kennedy, met almost weekly
with reporters (although FDR
usually declared his sessions
off the record). Others, such
as Richard Nixon and Ronald
Reagan, virtually hid out
from the White House press
corps.
Mr. Reagan, who is skilled
at giving speeches, has never
communicated nearly as well
when speaking off the cuff.
Consequently, he has aver-
aged fewer than six press
conferences a year — an all-
time low in the television era.
Journalists in search of the
President’s views are gener-
ally forced to shout questions
at Oval Office photo opportu-
nities or over the roar of heli-
copter engines.
In part because he has held
so few news conferences, Mr.
Reagan is the most packaged
PADAR
DElECOR
president in U.S. history.
Americans have had far too
few chances to see him in the
relatively uncontrolled set-
ting of a televised press con-
ference. The extraordinarily
high voter interest in the
presidential and vice-presi-
dential debates — which were
really joint press conferences
— shows that the electorate
is hungry to see their leaders
in a less-varnished environ-
ment.
To answer this need, a Har-
vard panel of distinguished
journalists and academicians
has urged the next president
to stage at least two daytime
press conferences each
month in addition to six
prime-time appearances each
year. Michael Dukakis en-
dorsed the proposal in princi-
ple without committing him-
self to the specific numbers.
Vice President Bush flatly re-
jected it.
Presidents are understand-
ably reluctant, particularly
during times of great contro-
versy, to face the skeptical
questioning that lies at the
heart of democratic rule. But
the failure to confront such
queries not only insulates the
American voters from their
elected leader; it also insu-
lates the president from the
concerns of the people.
Democracy in this country
serves best when there is an
open clash of ideas and a
clear understanding by the
electorate of the views and
objectives of the occupant of
the Oval Office. In the ab-
sence of an official question
time, White House press con-
ferences provide the best ve-
hicle for such an essential di-
alogue. The next president
needs to bring them back
from the brink of extinction.
exempted. Hence the principle of
equal protection under the law may
be at stake.
Even the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 10th Circuit, which last year up-
held a slightly less restrictive law in
Oklahoma City, noted that the plain-
tiff firefighter in that case failed to
raise the equal-protection issue. The
implication: A final verdict on such
laws has yet to be laid down.
As someone who has never smoked
a cigarette in his life, I welcome the
prospect of a tobacco-free society.
But how we arrive at that goal is no
less important than the achievement
itself. Shall we reject unhealthy hab-
its through education, popular exam-
ple and individual choice — or shall
we do so through coercion?
The answer will say a great deal
about our lingering commitment to a
private sphere of freedom.
Being Lake Kiowa residents, we
representa a large portion of the
2,750 Cooke County senior citizen
residents who are 65 or older, and
we do contribute a large amount of
tax dollars to Cooke County.
First of all, Lake Kiowa’s comm-
unity is self supporting. Further-
more, Lake Kiowa residents spend
a large portion of their spendable
income for day to day needs with
Gainesville and other Cooke County
merchants.
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Berry's World
I’ve got just the job for the Ameri- jeans to the office or snack at our
can Civil Liberties Union: Find a new- work stations.
ly hired police officer or firefighter in Yet most of us would bridle if a
Massachusetts and sue that state for company ordered us to church on Sun-
regulating private lifestyles. day or demanded we give up beef at
Shouldn’t civil liberties include the dinner. Why should smoking at home
right to engage in legal behavior in be treated differently? It’s unhealthy,
one’s own backyard? The strait-laced of course, but it’s still legal,
commonwealth governed by Michael Arguments for banning off-the-job
Dukakis disagrees. It recently be- smoking fall into one of two catego-
came the first state (although not the ries: the pragmatic (it saves tax reve-
first local jurisdiction) to implement nue and promotes a healthier work
a law prohibiting new police and fire- force), or the suffocatingly paternal-
fighters from any smoking at all - istic (people must be told what’s best
not only on the job, mind you, but for them). A potential ,loss of liberty
away from work, too. rarely enters the equation.
As with most assaults on freedom, “We think it’s a good idea that peo-
the smoking ban is beguilingly well- pie shouldn t smoke, says Robert B.
intentioned. Massachusetts law pre- McCarthy, president of the Profes-
sumes that heart and lung disease sional Firefighters of Massachusetts,
among police and firefighters is relat- as if anyone disagreed. The trouble
ed to stress, however obvious that it’s with good ideas, though, is that there’s
often caused by heavy smoking. Tax- no end to them. It’s a good idea for
payers thus find themselves helpless- people to exercise daily, to avoid fatty
ly liable for staggering disability foods and too much booze, to volun-
payments. teer time to charity, to watch beauti-
So why not simply change the law? ful sunsets, to stop quarreling with
Because the unions object. Their their spouses, to read the classics,
members prosper under automatic Good ideas multiply like crabgrass,
disability. And lawmakers would Yet when written into law by busy-
rather conspire against personal free- bodies, they also choke off spontane-
dom than risk inciting a powerful in- ity and individual choice.
terest group. Fortunately, Massachusetts may
Most Americans, including myself, have left an opening for a successful
have no objection to police depart- challenge to its smoking ban (which is
ments, restaurants, airlines or other where the ACLU could enter the pic-
businesses banning smoking from ture). While new police and fire-
their premises. After all, employers fighters won’t be permitted to smoke,
can dictate whether or not we’ll wear current employees who smoke will be
“I’m a Republican — I deal with the Highway Patrol from a position of
strength.”
Vincent Carroll
This looks like a job for the ACLU
***
Register photo: A new
55xlll-foot terminal building
for Cenral Freight Lines is go-
ing up slab by slab at its North
Highway 77 location. The
builder, the Billington Con-
struction Co. of Waco, had
seven truckloads of pre-
fabricated concrete, at 34,500
pounds per load, shipped up
from Austin.
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Both Skippy and Poppy Bush way out in front of Dukakis
LOS ANGELES (NEA) - Some re- speeches in which he talks about bus snezoregacrurai you couM be taa camaeeampsemoresnndaembastiznde Atwater is very open about this strat- (Bushfhas been able to get away with
porters have taken to betting on vision the future, ehis tain that Skippy would show up. If, day and delivering the message irre- egy. He says much of the early cam- it.”
which George Bush will make a given. ecologically sound however, the speech was being given spective of audience or location. paigning consisted of hard-hitting There was a danger that Bush
dates canopagnsstapothte santhounna ‘’mirae^arettePoppy speeches. mnehewestcorMortheastnorgtawyupa Now something even more insid. ^ges»^
points of light,” or the bellicose, flag- Other times — surrounded by pai would show up ious has occurred. Bush has started kis” (s the Bush camp calls its nega- va;niv ;n the second debate to make
waving candidate who slams Michael American flags and police officers j though only Skippy giving what some are calling “Chi- tive campaigning). Atwater says Bush yat Yin when he SDoke about mt
Dukakis unmercifully. a fierce Bush attacks his opponent for ns meWeensetoough, °mR nese" speeches - sweet and sour. In can now follow his own inclinations to thisspnnt."henih» George Bush he
Some call it the “Poppy and Skippy being soft onsrimerwea “ appeases.) effect. Poppy and Skippy show up be a nice guy more often and sketch wasisening"Buttpolsondicateithat
poo, after a continuing story line in to.liberal and aiarcarrynsmsm. But in recent weeks the game has together. out his vision of the future. voters have not seen this as an issue,
cartoonist Garry Trudeau s Doons- ber of the ACLG The rhetoric sug become progressively moredifficult. “Now we can afford to hit both
bury comic strip. Trudeau postulates geststhat or> theday Dukakis de Poppy started showing in On these occasions - and they are themes in the same speech. At first These same polls show that many
two Bushes: the nice kindly bumbling comesipresiden psoniited “ates Skippy states, before traditionally becoming the rule rather than the ex- we did one or the other in clumps a voters are turned off by what they
George (Poppy) and his evil twin bethrowinopenand surrender to the Skippy audiences. Then Skippy began ception - Skippy leads off with a couple of days in a row. Then we var- perceive as Dukakis lack of warmth,
brother (Skippy). George is being held would immediately surrender to me turning before Poppy crowds hard-hitting attack on Dukakis. Then, ied it on the same day. Now we feel The Bush camp intends to play on this
prisoner in the wine cellar of Donald Soviets. eneeches Initially, some reporters com- suddenly, with an almost visible shift- confident that the same audiences by increasingly stressing Bush’s hu-
Trump s fabled yacht while the evil These are the Skippy speeches^ to campaign officials that this ing of gears. Poppy replaces his evil will respond to both.” man side. In fact, says one high-level
Skippy campaigns for president. Once it was easy to determine was doneSto prevent them from twin and the remainder of the speech What has surprised the Bush forces Bush aide. We ve done the damage
There have indeed been two very wtachBmh was going to draw up You writing tories in advance - or, is given to Bush relating his gentle vi- - and absolutely shocked the Duka- we set out to do. Maybe in the final
different George Bushes campaigning simpizlooksdsatwhee you "ere and worse to throw off the betting pool, sion of America with its inevitable kis camp - is how effective the strat- days of the campaign we can retire
thisomeermes Bush gives beautiful « the speech was being given in the The truth, though, was that the Bush thousand points of light. egy has been, and how, as Dukakis SkiPPy altogether.
---—History today-----
By The Associated Press in 1949, President Harry S.
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Truman signed a measure raising
300th day of 1988. There are 66 days the minimum wage from 40 to 75
left in the year. cents an hour.
Today’s highlight in history: One year ago: In Miami, an inves-
In 1881, the Gunfight at the O-K tor who had suffered heavy stock
Corral occurred in Tombstone, market losses shot and killed a
Ariz., as Wyatt Earp, his two brokerage manager and wounded
brothers and ‘ ‘Doc” Holliday shot it his personal broker, then turned the
out with Ike Clanton’s gang. Three gun on himself.
members of Clanton’s gang were Today’s birthdays: The former
killed; Earp’s brothers were woun- archbishop of Philadelphia, Cardi-
ded. nal John Krol, is 78. French Presi-
On this date: dent Francois Mitterrand is 72.
In 1774, the First Continental Actor Bob Hoskins is 46. Actress
Congress adjourned in Phil- Jaclyn Smith is 41.
adelphia. Thought for today: “ You have not
In 1825, the Erie Canal opened, done enough, you have never done
connecting the waters of Lake Erie enough, so long as it is still possible
and the Hudson River. that you have something to con-
In 1942, the U.S. ship Hornet was tribute.” — Dag Hammarskjold,
sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz U.N. Secretary-General
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