The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1988 Page: 3 of 25
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Dear Editor:
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor and Publleher
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sends delegates to the state conven-
tion, which in turn elects delegates
to the national party convention.
Moat *go as instructed delegates.
That is, they’re told how to vote,
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Well, Super Tuesday, or rather
Stupid Tuesday, is a thing of the
past, and at least a little bit of the
hoopla has died down. Don’t get to
Bureaucracy was created to divide
power among several people, but it
Another right promised us is that of
trial by jury. It is expected as a
matter of course that when charged
with a crime, one will be judged by
twelve impartial fellow citizens. Yet
people complain bitterly when they
are chosen for jury duty, and employ
numerous unorthodox methods to
avoid it. They are willing to receive
the benefits of a fair trial, but are
unwilling to pay the price.
High school and junior high school athletes
who chew smokeless tobacco are 60 times
more likely to have precancerous oral lesions
called leukoplakia, reports the Journal of the
American Denatal Association.
The finding was the result of screening 986
football players in Birmingham, Alabama, high
schools and junior high schools. The study
found that 30 percent of the students had used
smokeless tobacco and 8 percent were users
at the time of the study.
NEWS CORRESPONDENTSt Ruth Deel, Belton Kewlerechke, Lettle
Wyehot, Asais Mb, Feyee Siemehter and Jami Hema.
Previous reports have linked the use of
smokeless tobacco to increased risk of oral
cancer and gum disease. All such studies
have noted an alarming increase In the teen
use of smokeless tobacco, the American
Dental Association said.
The use of smokeless tobacco for more than
two years or use of more than three tins of it
per week may be predictive of leukoplakia, the
study showed. Seven percent of leukoplakias
are malignant.
young Americans dodged the draft
during the Vietnam War by fleeing
to Canada.
rivals!
In other action, the men's council raised
football coach David McWilliams' annual
salary to *100,300 after one season as Texas'
coach. They also raised just-fired basektball
coach Bob Weltlich’s salary to *76,864. And
they even gave baseball coach Cliff Gustafson
a raise to *63,600. Coach Gustafson has been
coaching at Texas for 18 years with his team
sonsitently In the top 10. His Horns are curren-
tly reted number three In the nation. Maybe he
should take over the basketball coaching, too.
The new price per ticket will be *26, up
from *20 this pest season and up *10 from just
three years ego.
It seems to me that Texas, perhaps, is
hoping that fewer Longhorn fans will attend
these two gemes. The Longhorns haven't done
too well ageinst either the Sooners or the
Aggies in recent years and the men's council
might be trying to keep fens at home instead
of going through the agony of watching con-
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Council will be reising the price of tickets to
the Texas-Oklahoma and the Texes-Texes
ABM footbell gemes, effective this coming
seeson.
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president, they’ll be off again in full
cry calling each other names until
the November general election. And
don’t get the idea that we’ve settled
anything in the primary elections.
That’s just the first shot in a long
war.
With the oddball method we use to
elect a president, anybody could
wind up president. And the fact that
somebody won the primary election
by a landslide doesn’t mean that he’s
going to be the next president, or
even the party nominee. It works like
this: Every precinct holds a precinct
convention after the primary elec-
tion, electing delegates to the county
convention. The county convention
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Serving Llane, Llame Ceumty and the Mighland Lakes area
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weeding out all of the hopefuls who
want to be president and narrowing
the field down to a number that can
be printed on one ballot.
That’s why we have to look forward
to little but political hoopla for
another eight months or so. It’s one
of the curses of election year.
Editor’s Note: The following essay
was written by a Llano High School
student and according to teacher
Larry Leifeste, it was one of the best
submitted in his class. He thought it
would be nice to share the student’s
thought with the public. The writer,
who requested his name be omitted,
came within one point of a perfect
score because of misspelling of the
word “bureaucracy” and a punctua-
tion mark. As for its content, it
should give a lot of people something
to think about in this election year.
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Why Democracy Has Failed
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Democracy, the system Winston
Churchill hailed as the best form of
government known to man, is an
oddity, for in it alone do the people
actually rule themselves. This con-
cept of self-rule seems logical, for
theoretically the people themselves
know best what their own wants
and needs are. However, the rosy
future envisioned by the Founding
Fathers at the signing of the
Constitution has undeniably wilted
somewhat; the crime rate has risen
dramatically, and graft and corrup-
tion are widespread, to cite a few
examples. This degradation of dem-
ocracy in America is not, however,
an indication that the theory of
self-rule is fundamentally flawed, for
as already mentioned, nobody knows
the people’s needs better than the
people themselves. If the underlying
idea of democracy is sound, why
then has it not lived up to its
founders’ expectations? What has
caused its degradation? These ques-
tions have few obvious answers, but
there are some things that have
clearly added to democracy’s prob-
lems.
Editorial/Opinion
“The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . , Arthur Hays Sulzberger
SUBSOBmON RATES: UamCeuty 1 yen 811.45,3 yuan 822.40,
3 yarn 832.30. Beowhure b Tezaas 1 yee 919.50, 2 yeers 838.00.
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the LLANO fe'NEWS
In reference to the letter saying
the boundary being used for incor-
porating Kingsland is unfair, we
couldn’t agree more, but by law we
are only allowed four square miles
and we tried to take in the areas that
we consider were the most important
in helping to protect the investment
of all the people in Kingsland
including business and residence. To
say that a group of people who are
taking their time and money to help
keep Kingsland a nice, clean place to
live and visit should be boycotted, is
hard for me to understand. Remem-
ber, that this is only being done to
give the people a chance to vote. It
still takes a majority to decide either
way.
To answer the question of taxes,
there is no proposal for ad valorem
taxes, but that again is something
the voters of Kingsland will decide in
the years to come. You may want to
keep in mind what it will cost each of
us if we do not incorporate. It is my
understanding that this was last
voted on 14 years ago. Can we really
wait another 14 years?
Carl Ricketson
Kingsland
feeling too good about it, though.
Wheg the party conventions each though some go unipstrustedIt vote
come up with a nominee for as they please. The national party
- - - - convention elects the party’s nomi-
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More basic to democracy are
elections. for they are a cornerstone
of the entire democratic process.
They represent the basic idea of
democracy, that of self rule, because
they are the vehicle by which the
people pick individuals to represent
their needs and wants. People expect
their views to be represented in
government, but they are not willing
to take the small trouble of voting for
the person whom they want to
represent their views. In fact, it is
estimated that only fifty percent of
the eligible voters vote in presiden-
tial elections, much less other
elections.
A second major cause of the decline
of democracy lies in the government.
Primarily, the problem arises from
the geographical distribution of
power: one central government with
much of the power, and fifty state
governments with less power. This
system works well in Britain, for
example, but in a country as vast as
America it is impractical. It goes
back to the idea that people know
best what their own wants and needs
are, and it is inconceivable for a
representative in Washington, D.C.,
to have intimate knowledge of the
wants and needs of the inhabitants of
Noatok, Alaska, for example. In-
stead, the distribution of power
should place more importance on
state and local government and less
on the central government.
Another burden on democracy is
The first and most important of
these is, ironically, the people
themselves. Naturally, Americans
want the liberty and rights guaran-
teed them in the Constitution.
However, they are unwilling to
accept the responsibility that goes
with freedom. Americans pride
themselves as “guardians of demo-
cracy” and enemies of communism
and dictatorship, yet millions of
“Naw, that ain’t a wildman, it’s an
unemployed Stock-broker.”
has been carried to the extreme in
the United States. As well as
dividing power, it has also created a
monster of inefficiency and red tape
that is sapping the government’s
ability to make even simple deci-
sions. Bureaucracy also necessitates
enormous amounts of tax revenues
to pay all the people who compose it.
In short, government has become too
large and inefficient for it to function
properly, and democracy suffers as
consequence.
Also related to government are
politicians, the ones who actually
control the democratic process. Just
as other people have other jobs,
they, too have a job. And just as
other people sometimes neglect their
duties, so do politicians sometimes
neglect their duties. However, the
consequences of their neglect are far
more serious, for they affect all of us.
Politicians have far more power in
their grasp than the average citizen,
and they should be able to accept the
responsibility that comes with this
power. Politicians should realize that
how well they do their job directly
affects the wellbeing of literally
millions of people.
In conclusion, democracy is a
fundamentally sound method of
government, but in America it has
been seriously abused by both the
people and the government. The
people, having become used to
freedom, no longer want to pay the
consequence, and the government is
too centralized and bureaucracized.
Politicians also add to the problem
by neglecting their duties. In short,
the people have become spoiled, the
government inefficient, and politi-
cians incompetent. While these
conditions exist, not even the best
form of government can be expected
to operate flawlessly, and it is a
tribute to democracy’s basic sound-
ness that it can function at all.
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Beaumont and the Sabine above
। Orange. It ended at the Mississippi
I River and the cattle went on to New
, Orleans by boat. Ruth Garrison
Scurlock, a descendant of Texas
pioneers, has recorded the trail’s
history.
Need for such a trail began after
1541, when Coronado brought in the
first cattle as food for his expedition.
■ Once the Spanish began establishing
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ted late in the last century when
hunting wild mustangs was a
profitable business in Texas.
The animals not only were valu-
able but difficult to capture. To make
certain the horses didn’t stray, the
hunters often slept holding them by
a rope. During their rest, however, it
wasn’t unusual for competing hunt-
ers to slip up, cut the tether and take
the animal.
Many a mustang wrangler awoke
to find his captive gone and himself
“holding the rope.”
SPIRIT WORLD — They may not
all be avi liable in the nearest store,
but the fact is that more than 70
different brands of beer are sold in
Texas.
Of these, only three are native, or
local, products. Several of the others
that are national brands are also
brewed here, however. The rest are
imports from other states and
nations.
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY —
Texas’ first cattle trail dates back to
the mid-1700’s, a century and a half
before Jesse Chisholm’s wagon
tracks became the main highway for
cows going to market.
It was called the Opelousas Trail,
and its destination was New Orleans,
not Abilene, Kansas, where Chis-
holm’s route quit.
Goliad was the starting point, and
the Opelousas followed the upper
edge of the coastal plain. It crossed
the Trinity at Liberty, the Brazos
near Navasota, the Neches at
Again, the postal service is
making ominous noises about raising
postal rates. That’s beginning to
sound like a cracked record. In
addition to that, post offices have
started closing another half day a
week in order to save money. It looks
from here like it’s costing the public
more and more for less and less
service.
Remember when a two-cent stamp
would take a letter anywhere in the
United States? And when there were
two mail deliveries per day, six days
a week?
A number of years ago, when they
were talking about stopping Sunday
mail delivery to the post offices. The
Wanderer wrote and complained to
his congressman. There is nothing as
bureaucratic organization fears like a
congressman. A short time later,
they sent a postal inspector to Llano
to straighten out The Wanderer.
They argued about for about an hour
and a half and finally agreed that the
postal serveie was in a hell of a
shape, but it wasn’t the inspector’s
fault.
It might not be a bad idea to let
United Parcel Service have a shot at
letter mail. They’ve certainly proved
that parcel mail can be handled
economically and efficiently.
One good sign is the fact that
they’re also planning to raise the
price of junk mail, which may
eliminate some of the junk mail
schemes that are such pests, inclu-
ding the racket of piggybacking
several advertising pieces in one
wrapper and mailing it as one piece,
at least one of which regularly
circulates in Llano. It might also save
money by eliminating the necessity
of emptying the post office waste
baskets so often. That’s where a lot
of junk mail winds up.
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COLUMNISTS: Hal Cuminehem, Marilyn Hala and Jefes Kuykendal.
nee for president, who runs against
the nominee of the other party in the
November general election. That
sounds like a hell of a way to run a
railroad.
Although a big win in the party
primary is a big plus sign for a
candidate, it doesn’t mean that he’s
going to be the party’s nominee for
president. When the going gets
tough at the national convention and
they start horse trading in their hotel
room caucuses, even instructed
delegates sometimes change sides,
and sometimes who will emerge as
the party’s nominee is anybody’s
guess. It sounds like a rather silly
way to elect a president, and in many
ways it is, but it’s a method of
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presidios and missions, they also
started herds. Marketing the cattle
not needed to feed the soldiers,
priests and Indians became a
problem.
French Louisiana could use the
surplus but placed high fees on
imported cattle. However, thousands
of head were smuggled in along the
Opelousas and across the Sabine.
Once the customs duties were
repealed by the French, Beaumont
became the cattle capital of Texas. In
1850, some 40,000 head passed
through that community on the
Opelousas.
Coastal trails' like the Opelousas
(and the smaller branches that fed it)
began to be abandoned after the
Civil War and the coming of
railroads. For more than a century,
however, they were a vital part of the
development of ranching in Texas.
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1988, newspaper, March 17, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585750/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.