The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1988 Page: 4 of 21
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Letters to the Editor
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were killed in an airplane crash, it
made all of the headlines and a lot of
concern is voiced for some time
following the accident. Airline re-
cords estimate 2,500 accidents for
airplanes in 1986 which resulted in
700 fatalities. How many car acci-
dents were there during the same
time period and how many deaths!1
The record shows 17,700,000 auto
accidents, which resulted in 47,900
“ debates for for they might miss
something, but after they’d watched
Do you have any brochures I might
have concerning your town? My son
and his family are also interested.
He is a data analyst and computer
specialist. He’d be interested to
learn of your job opportunities.
people, like yourself, that we met.
People were so great and so good
to us, re-affirming my philosophy
that all people are basically kind and
concerned. Learned a lot about our
great country, too.
We traveled over 2800 miles, no
mishaps outside of flat tires and had
rain only one day. Weather was
super for riding.
Thanks again for your concern and
hospitality. (wish you every success
in your endeavors.
date and served only to work the
delegates into such a state of
euphoria that by the time the
convention was over they thought
they had the presidency cinched
without an election.
Next came the Republican National
Convention, and' they promptly
accepted the challenge and started
some mudslinging of their own. In
fact, they got so good at it, that the
Democrats are now crying, foul I
It’s fortunate that the United
States elects its officials for four-year
terms. Thus we can have three years
of relatively normal living, followed
by a year of el-c lion hoopla.
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Dear Mr. Taylor:
We made it, completed our bicycle
ride across the nation. Arrived in
Jacksonville the tenth and will be
flying home this afternoon.
This has been truly a great
experience, the most memorable
part being the many wonderful
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Th-.zfully, the last presidential
debate is behind us. At least George
Bush vows there will not be another
debate, and if Dukakis wants to
debate, he will have to debate by
himself. This is something for which
many voters are profoundly grateful.
They didn’t want to miss any of the
LADIES ALOFT — Sweetwater.
Texas, was the site of the only
military air base in history that
trained women pilots exclusively.
The Southwest Conference is in its
usual turmoil, and it’s beginning to
look like the Aggies might come out
on top this season. However, the
Aggies are on probation and cannot
go to a bowl game or accept the
conference championship if they win
it. They’re in the doghouse with the
NCAA or the NAACP or somebody.
Anyhow, they can’t play any post-
season games or hold the conference
championship. While some lesser
team goes to the Cotton Bowl, the
Aggies probably will plow the south
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Congratulations to the Llano Yel-
low Jackets, who beat Sonora, 7-6.
Friday night. Tore, that’s a narrow
margin of victory, but on the record
books,- it’s as good as a run-away
score. The Jackets already Mave won
three gaassa this season, which is a
tremendous improvement over last
year, when they didn’t win a game.
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Genevieve Siegrist
Fontana, California
Dear Mr. Taylor:
Since our "D.Q." meeting, we
have now completed our trip and are
flying home today to Cedar Rapids,
Iowa. The total mileage was 2870
miles.
Before the trip, I was concerned
about the roads, drivers and how we
would be accepted. My fears, doubts
were in vain! Grading the trip. I
would place Texas and Louisiana at a
‘ 9.9 (no one is perfect). We met
people like yourself and the trip was
a success due to the kindness of
Texas and Texans.
This trip has been a goal of my
friend, Clifford and I’m very proud
and happy I was invited (chal-
lenged?) to take part.
Who knows what adventure is over
the next hill or how bright the
rainbow after the storm?
Thank you for helping us meet a
Texan! My door is always open to
you!
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Dear Editor:
I sure will be glad when work is
finished on Furguson Electric plant.
So the LCRA can stop producing
hydro-electric electricity at Buchan-
an Dam hydro-electric facility to
compensate for the lack of electricity
from Furguson Plant. Lake Buchan-
an is getting precariously low again.
People are again having to put
pumps farther into the lake. •
Now that Lake LBJ is going to be
lowered four feet, and refilled back
to its maintained level, how much
farther down will Lake Buchanan get
then?
This, my friends on Lake Buch-
Editorial /Opinion
"The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size •
hut its snirir . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor and Publleher
SARAH BUCKNER
T.H. CUNNINGHAM, Publaher Emeritus
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Dear Editor:
As a visitor to Texas, I was
completely taken by the beauty of
your town. In no other state have I
seen the beauty and antebellum
/ atmosphere Llano possesses. What
an incomparable river you have.
I
1 am a -etiree, weary of the smog and
confusion in California. I have
thought of selling my home and
moving to your town.
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In 1943-44, more than 1,000
women passed the necessary exams
and were accepted for training as
World War I pilots. They even had
could have won.” Well, Texas had
the same 60 minutes that Arkansas
had. They just didn’t get started
soon enough. You can’t go into the
fourth quarter on the short end of a
24-3 score and expect to win. The
Longhorns did a remarkable job of
getting the final score up to 27-24. '
“Sure that ole man’s disappointed his son
didn’t toiler him a ranchin’. Sent him off to
school and ended up a brain surgeon!”
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS: Ruth Deal, Eellne Kewlerschke, Lettle
Wyckoff, Jamie Palm, Stephanie Bates and Janet Hemen.
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hano News published stories about
tS endeavor several times, I though
you might like to know what the final
figures were. The lowest number of
fatalities occured on August 3 and 10
when two people died because of a
traffic accident. On the opposite side
of the coin was June 15 when 24
deaths were recorded.
Two things caught my attention on
the topic this week. Another grind-
ing crash at the intersection of RR
1431 and SH 29, better known as
Fuzzy’s Corner, this past Monday
morning. Also the publication called
“Driveline,” which is published
monthly by the Safety and Traffic
Operations Section of the State
Department of Highways and Public
Transportation.
aggravated robbery he committed while on
furlough in May 1987. He also was suspected,
but not charged, in the beating death of his
brother-in-law.
"You just can’t predict human behavior; I’ve
given up trying," said S.O. Woods, director of
the prisons’ bureau of classification and
records and the overseer of all Texas
furloughs.
Gephart was one of 23 prisoners furloughed
in 1987 or 1988 who had troubles. Most of the
temporarily freed inmates were accused of
committing minor and usually unprosecuted
offenses, such as driving with expired car in-
surance.
But seven prisoners were tried on more
serious charges, including aggravated kidnap-
ping, assault, aggravated drug posseesion,
burglary, auto theft, shoplifting and — in
Gephart’s case — aggravated robbery.
Critics of the program, like Harris County
Sheriff Johnny Klevenhagen, said that they
have been blind-sided by the furloughs of in-
mates.
"I have never found anybody who has ever
served on a jury who ever felt in their wildest
dreams that an inmate would get two
vacations a year. I think it’s a mockery of
justice," Klevenhagen said.
It seems incomprehensible that Texas prison
inmates who have convictions for serious
crimes against society would have the
privilege of unescorted furloughs for any
reason. There is nothing right about this prac-
tice and it should be stopped immediately.
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Michael Dukakis and the Demo-
erst campaigners have recently been
making loud noises and uttering
piercing shrieks about the Republi-
cans' negative campaigning, and
derogatory statements about the
Democrats. Well, if they will refresh
their memories a bit, they will
remember just where that sort of
thing started. It was with Ann
Richards' keynote address at the
Democratic National Convention.
Remember her famous line, “Poor
George! He was born with a silver
foot in his mouth.” Richards ridi-
culed the Republicans for about an
hour and was followed by Edward
Kennedy, probably the most biased
and most vicious Democrat in the
Senate, who blamed the Republicans
for everything from bad weather to
receding hair lines.
All of this happened before the
convention got down to the business
of nominating a presidential candi-
It was with interest this past
summer that a special effort was
made in Texas to have at least one
“deathless day” in which there
would not be any traffic fatalities.
The time period covered was called
“The 101 Days of Summer” and the
goal, a very meager beginning, was
to have at least one deathless day out
Of 101.
ByHalCummingh
COLUMNISTS: Hal Cumnnigham, Marly Hale aad Jeter KuyhraidL
It will be a relief when November 8
is gone, and poll takers will quit
calliya and wenths to koow whom
we> deme to BN.' Howevet,
they hang up In a hurry when The
Wanderer tells them he’s going to
write in Tammy Bakker.
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It is chilling to read that nearly 5,000 felons
including 517 convicted of murder or voluntary
manslaughter, have been out of Texas prisons
on furloughs since January 1987, when
Governor Bill Clements took office.
The copyrighted Fort Worth Star-Telegram
story prompted the Texas Board of Correc-
tions chairman to order a freeze on week-long
furloughs for murder convicts.
The Telegram story also says that at least
one prisoner has been convicted of commit-
ting a felony while on leave, while 14
furloughed Texas inmates are now missing
and listed as escapees.
Texas prison records show that about 200
inmates are furloughed each month from the
nation’s third largest prison system under a
1977 law that allows emergency and
discretionary passes without restriction.
Texas prison policy since 1987 has almost
guaranteed rejection of furlough requests
from inmates conviced of capital murder or
sex offenses. Still, some of these offenders
were granted four-day, unescorted emergency
furloughs to attend the funerals of relatives.
Others nearing the ends of their sentences
were granted seven-day "appropriate-reason
furloughs" to visit families or seek jobs.
After a two-month investigation, the Star-
Telegram reported that most of the Texas
convicts from January 1987 through August
31, 1988 have returned to prison without in-
cident.
But one inmate, Jesse Oliver Gephart, 34, of
Burnet, is now serving 99 years for an
Swbetwatet, bet it was the only way
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Statistics are not the most enjoyable
thing to read, but they do give us
something to think about.
Did you know that in the year 1987,
one person died in a traffic accident
on the average of every two hours
and 41 minutes? One person was
injured every two minutes and 19
seconds and one reportable accident
occurred every 80 seconds. Since the
year 1980, Texas, which has an
enormous amount of roads has
been gradually pulling the death rate . +i, ,
lower each year. The last peak was The facts are not too pleasant, but
4.3 per hundred million miles. .In there still remains a lot each one of
1987, it was down to 2.2 deaths. us can do to help cut down the
All things considered, you, the number of accidents, and right now I
driver and those who enforce the am thinking of Fuzzy's Corner,
traffic laws. are doing a tremendous Buchanan Dam residents have made
job to get the death rate down. appeals in the past for a better
Unfortunately more is needed. system than just flashing lights. How
The clamor to raise the speed limit many will have to die and how many
from 55 to 65 on interstate highways will have to be injured before a
may push the death toll higher this better system can be developed?
year. Of the 38 states posting the It has been said that the Highway
new speed limits, deaths on those Department feels the present system
same roads have already increased is adequate. If that be the case, then
by 22 percent over the past five year why are there so many accidents?
average for the same months. Certainly more protection is needed.
Driveline made an interesting ob- I don’t like red lights and stop signs
servation in its September issue, anymore than the other person, but
When a large number of people (14) .the pause is worth it to save a life. .
one, they wished they’d gone
bowling or curled up with a good
book instead. It to doubtfol that any
of those sotalhd debates ifhenced
any voters to change their minds or
told them ahythhing they hadn’t
heard over and over again.
The candidates might have been
better off had they spent that time
kissing babies.
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Today, Sunday, Texas exes are
crying in their beer and moaning. “If
we'd just had five minutes more, we
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The Mame News sellelts letten te the edhter
anan, is a very good question.
Did all of you know that there are 12
lakes on the Colorado River water-
shed above Stacy, and that lake will
make 13?
Also according to the Army Corps
of Engineers who have already made
the study, that three more lakes
could be built between Stacy and
Lake Buchanan to collect over a
million acre feet of water? This is
much needed surface water, and
would be another flood control factor
to keep the water above us, and to be
able to use when needed as a water
source in a dry period.
Gene Fox
Buchanan Dam
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1988, newspaper, October 20, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585772/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.