The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1988 Page: 4 of 29
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Charlie and Betty Altimore
Altimore’s Department Store
What’s a voter to do? Who should
he vote for if he does go to the polls?
Many candidates, locally and state-
wide, say little or nothing about
where they stand on really important
issues. They fail to say why you
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believe, having closely studied his
or her qualifications, is best qualified
to do a better job than his opponents
That way lies hope of a better day
Doing nothing insures the status quo
or worse.
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Important races on both the Democratic and
the Republican Primary ballots are shaping up
and it behooves each of us to be prepared to
take the time and effort next Tuesday to go
and vote for the candidates of our choice.
In case anybody missed The
Wanderer week before last, he got
crowded out of the paper by letters to
the editor. Letters to the editor are
sacred cows around the News office,
and when a bunch of them come in.
something's got to go.
was the EPA is supposed to come up
with 25 new tests from time to time.
The testing of public water
supplies will, in the very near future,
become more and more expensive,
forcing many water systems to go to
outside laboratories to get the tests
done. To do your own testing would
be prohibitive because of the highly
technical equipment needed to con-
duct the tests. More money down the
drain.
You should see the list of things
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These primaries will determine the can-
didates for the November ballot to be elected
all the way from our county officials to the
next president of the United States.
The right and privilege to vote is very
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meet. Just as surely, the TEC has enough
money in its budget to mail a post card to all
Texas employers, giving them at least a ball-
park estimate of the increase to come.
This coming Tuesday, March 8, is Super
Tuesday when Texans have the opportunity to
go to the polls and vote.
We would like to thank the loyal
customers of this area for their
continued support during our four
and a half years in business in
Kingsland. We shall treasure the joy
we found in your friendship. It has
been our pleasure to have served
you.
softeners are said to also cause lead
solder to deteriorate.
To find out if you have that problem
you have to foot the bill for your own
tests.
Education is good and technical
advancement is fine, but the time
of enjoying a cool glass of water is
now getting more and more difficult.
It may look clear and clean, but now
you will always be wondering what
sort of chemical might be included in
that once refreshing drink.
I wholeheartedly agree with The
Wanderer in his editorial column of
February 25, 1988. The subject was
hamburgers and their ingredients
and supplements. He bemoans the
old time hamburger of hamburger
with pickle, onion and mustard.
In the late 20s and early 30s. I
worked in hamburger stands while
attending high school and law school
— nine hours a day, seven days a
week — for 91.50 to 92, not an hour.
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3 yuan 832.30. Esewher hi Teznet 1 year 819.50, 2 yuan 838.00.
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NEWS CORRESPONDENTS: Ruth Deal, Bataa Kowlerechhe, Lettle
Wychaff, Jamie Mas, Feyce Slaughter and Jaaat Hansa.
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So, why the delay in letting the business
community in on the secret?
Surely, the TEC and the office of the State
Comptroller has enough statisticians, accoun-
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the business of governing the
country.
Qf course, The Wanderer is no
authority on government, but it
seems to him that congress has
outdone itself in recent years, not
only in doing nothing constructive,
but in throwing monkey wrenches in
the works of every proposal put
before it to benefit the nation.
When wr speak of governmental
reform, it seems that the place to
start is with congress.
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the kind someone else wants. If you
do vote, you might get the kind you
want.
What kind of government do you
want here in Llano, in this county, in
Texas. in Congress, in the Presiden-
cy? Don't just chew about the mess
we are in over the coffee cups. Do
something positive to clean it up
Either run for political office or
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food you could eat within reason.
Hamburgers were five cents each,
or if taken out, six for a quarter in a
bag. We bought hamburger for 12
cents a pound, buns for 10 cents a
dozen, and onions and pickles were
cheap compared to today’s prices.
We had a limited menu — cheese
sandwiches, vegetable and bean
soup, chili, coffee, milk and soda.
Those were wonderful days of good
food — not all this present doctored
up stuff in order to build up the price
and mostly food cooked in boiling oil.
I wonder how old The Wanderer
(Hal Cunningham) is but probably
Editorial/Opinion
"The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
has now been found all over the
Central Texas region. The critter is
far from becoming extinct.
Now comes the meeting at Horse-
shoe Bay and Dick Cook, who
manages the water system reports
that the EPA is now going to enforce
the requirements of their Safe
Drinking Water Act of 1974. Did you
notice the date? That’s right, 1974 —
just 14 years ago. All of a sudden,
the EPA is finally getting serious
about enforcing the rules.
Cook was not too worried about he
Horseshoe Bay system. tip noted
numerous tests were already being
taken and Horseshoe Bay was well
within the EPA boundaries. What
There’s no way to know how many local
businessmen missed yesterday’s article about
the increase in unemployment insurance, and
will get the bad news two weeks from now.
They will be given even less time to come up
with the payments.
It may come as a shock to the state, but
most businesses project their required outlays
six months to a year in advance, and the
projections form the basis for a predictable
business plan. This latest piece of news from
the TEC just knocked all those projections into
a cocked hat, and the business plans as well.
Clearly, this is no way for state government
to treat the business community, which
provides the foundation of Texas’ prosperity.
Laredo Times
should vote for them, whether they
are incumbents seeking reelection or
new candidates. Nationally, we are
flooded with information from presi-
dential aspirants. Locally, we are
fainting from thirst. The sad result is
that many voters doen't even bother
to register to vote. Others register,
but stay home on election day. Thus
a dedicated minority of political
activists succeed in electing or
reelecting their favored candidates
while the great American right to
vote is neglected by an indifferent
electorate.
How long must this deplorable
situation continue? No longer than it
takes for sensible citizens to realize
that in a democracy or a republic you
get the kind of government you
deserve. If you don’t vote, you get
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If I ever had the opportunity to sort
of pick on one of our federal agencies
one of my favorites has always been
OSHA, which is supposed to stand
for Occupational Safety something or
other. You know, the group that is
supposed to watch over and help
protect us from potential hazzards
and set standards for better working
conditions. I think that is the group
that.wanted farmers and ranchers
to put up outhouses in the pastures
at strategic places for the benefit of
the workers.
Cartoonists had a field day with that
one not too many years ag. •
In - the past two Weeks, ' my
attention has been brought to focus
on the EPA. I know that one. It’s the
Environmental Protection Agency.
First reference came up at the city
council meeting. Talking with one of
the engineers after he had completed
his presentation for a dam on the
Llano River I wondered why he had
some choice unprintable words for
the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Remember that Concho Snake that
tied up the construction of Stacy
Dam on the Colorado River? Guess
what? The lowly little snake, which
was thought to be the las’ of its kind.
sure. The Communists are not the
ones we have to fear. If the
government ever is taken over, it will
be by the IRS. That is the most
autocratic and tyrannical organiza-
tion in the country.
It was considerate of Mary Nabors, com-
missioner of the Texas Employment Com-
mission, to drop by and let area businessmen
know their unemployment insurance rates are
going up by almost 300 percent.
While breaking the bad news, the good
commissioner also offered some reasonable
explanations for the unprecedented tax hike.
What she had to say about the state’s
economy — the extensive unemployment, the
business failures, the forced layoffs — made
good sense.
What she didn’t explain is why Texas
businessmen are only now being notified of
such a substantial change in their operating
expenses. Employers will be notified of the in-
crease in unemployment insurance rates at the
beginning of February, with first payments
due in April.
The state’s unemployment figures are not a
secret, and neither are the number of business
failures, bankruptcies and bank failures.
Everyone in the state has been reading about
all this for months, even years.
Obviously the state legislature knew the
crunch was coming; the lawmakers in the last
session of the legislature changed the unem-
ployment insurance formula to prepare for just
such a contingency. That was last summer.
Earl C. Mohler
Legislative Committee Chairman
Local Chapter 2500 AARP
P.S. Special thanks to the Cattle-
raisers Association who, by sponsor-
ing a "Meet the Candidates" night.
Monday, February 29, took a step in
the right direction. We need more
such civic efforts and bigger, better
informed voter turnouts before we
see much improvement in the
indifferent voter situation.
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precious to many of us who love our United
States. In our democracy, the voters deter-
mine who the leaders will be and what direc-
tion their leadership should take.
Exercising the right to vote is important to
the spirit of America and Texas freedom, liber
ty and independence to make sure that all
governmental bodies, from the courthouse to
our nation’s capitol, responds to the will of the
people.
I know of nothing more critical to the sur
vival of our great country than for all eligible
citizens to participate in our uniquely
American voting process.
side, 11:00 on the north side, 10:55
on the west, and 11:00 on the north
face. It was 12:00 noon everywhere
else in town. A stranger coming
through town probably would think
Llano can’t amount to much aa a
town — they don’t even know what
time it is.
Of course, there’s a reason. They
say it almost takes a steeplejack to
get up into the clock tower, and the
courthouse employees aren’t getting
any younger. What Llano really
needs is new works in that old clock.
Now The Wanderer can already hear
the county commissioners jumping
up and down and shouting. "It's not
in the budget)’’
Well, then, take the darned thing
down. They could paint happy faces
on the four dock dials. or even letter
the legend, "We have no hands
before our face."
that might be in your water. How
about some of these: Pentachloroph-
enol, Monochlorobenzene, trans-1,
2-Dichloroethylene, Bromodichloro-
methane — and the list goes on and
on. If I don’t stop, the typesetter will
most likely have a few choice words
of her own.
There was only one thing that really
made sense and that was the
problem with lead. Your drinking
water coming to your home will be
lead-free. But if you have water
pipes where the plumber used lead
solder, you cbf have a problem.
The instructions from the EPA is that
you should not drink or cook with
ByHalCunnigh
in the annals of history. this
decade probably will be known as the
witch-hunting era. The Salem witch-
craft had nothing on the United
States Congress, which has done
practically nothing but investigate
everybody connected with the gov-
ernment. The best thing that could
happen to the nation would be for £
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each other. Then elected and ap- t
pointed officials could get on with L
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T.H. CUNNINGHAM, Pubiaher Emerttus
“I was in snow deeper than this in Montana
when the wind changed to the south and I
swam my hoss plumb to Wyoming!"
close to my age (7b). I also think that your reputation trampled in the dirt
if we had franchised those old nowdays is to become a television
hamburger stands. I would not have evangelist. And the best way for a
gone into the law profession. At least girl to fall from grace is to become a
my wife (Madye Estep Horak) thinks TV evangelist's secretary.
so, although she came after my -w-
hamburger experience. The four-faced clock on the Llano
Hats off the The Wanderer. 1 County courthouse is no great asset
expressed his same hamburger to an up and coming community. A
sentiments in my recipe to Cookin' traveler coining through town can
from Scratch of the Cherokee VFD have it almost'any time he likes.
Auxiliary page 37. Thank you, depending on which face of the clock
Harry F. Horak he looks at. For instance, at noon
Cherokee Saturday, It was 8:30 on the east
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April 15. the deadline for render- IRS says that isn't true — they've
ing unto Caesar that which Caesar been given the wrong answers only
says is Caesar's is not far away, and 25 percent of the time. Well, one
this year taxpayers may be in for percent is too much. If you can't get
even more of a hassle than usual. In the right imformation direct from the
the first place. Congress has again horse’s mouth, where can you get
"simplified" the income tax laws, it?
which has so complicated them that Of course, by giving the taxpa-
even the Internal Revenue Service yers bum steers, the IRS can come
doesn’t understand them. On top of back later and demand additional
that, a recent survey shows that payments, plus interest and penalty,
people who have gone to the IRS for That sort of thing should help the
advice on their tax problems have national deficit.
been given the wrong answers It does seem, however, that a
almost half the time. However, the nation as powerful and as technically
advanced as the United States could
----------- figure out a tax system that is at least
comprehensive to a layman of
but per day. Plus, of course, all the average intelligence. One thing is for
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1988, newspaper, March 3, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585749/m1/4/?rotate=90: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.