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Centel wants to raise rates enough
to boost revenues by more than 40
percent next year. In return for in-
cities like Sanger or Krum that
probably wouldn’t have the resources
to take on the phone company by
themselves. And all of the cities in
which Centel has requested hikes are
rted that
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What makes a big rate hike, like this
one, smart more in a small town than
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Governors bringing
memories to Carter
shortage of women and a high death
rate.
Life expectancy was 27 years. A
More women died during childbirth.
For any Colonial American there,
was little expectation of seeing either
parent survive until he was grown.
Even when the tobacco economy
began to prosper, housing remained
only 56 half-size pages of print, and
even so, customers in many cases
can't call outside their own city limits
without paying a toll charge.
Centel proposal bears watching
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make it cruelly easy for unwary
consumers to go deeper in debt.
What the board did was modify the
POWERFUI PLUNGE
CLOGGEDT
ALL 1HiS SPECULATON ABOUT
HOWTEASHAS NEVER
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WHAT BILL CLEMENTS
MGHT BE LIKE AS GOVERNoR
IS AMAZING__
After the Vietnamese signed,
the dfliciaila interviewed by Rand
said the second cause of ultimate
collapse set in with the with
drawal of military aid
The qpestion is, though, could
South Vietnam have survived
even mith American aid and
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History books which feature the
rare attempts at grandeur have
distorted the picture. The typical
home, even of the well-to-do, during
our nation’s first hundred years was
desperately lacking even in such
“essentials” as beds, tables, benches
and utensils.
, - without HUD and starve without food
primitive and temporary. Typical stamps.
they complained, and doled out the
money to 38,000 local governments,
school districts, even private organ-
izations.
Aside from welfare programs, they
said, more than half of all federal aid
is now routed around the states.
"If the states are to support and
effectively assist their federal partner
in reducing the federal deficit, we
. must, as a matter of policy, establish
a presumption aganst bypassing the
states in new programs and for
strengthening the state role in
1 MEAN, How COLD
FOLKS HAvE So
SOO} FORGOTTEN-...
By JANET FULLWOOD
Staff Writer
Will a group of small cities stnned
by the punch of a monster company
rebound with enough muscle in the.
name of public interest to slay the
dragon? Or will the big, bad telephone
company have enough huff and puff to
blow their lights out with the latest •
what they can do to fight it.
The Texas Municipal League, which
packs plenty of well-backed clout, has
intervened against Centel in behalf of
the cities affected. Their “‘efforts
should at least guarantee that the
proposal will be dissected and
evaluated in depth before any kind
the Rand report came out
Perhaps it’s just seeing it rim •
writing that makes it more
time-payment contract, insofar as it billion.
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Presudent Carter in asking for an
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management of federal aid that now is
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hike with a fine-toothed comb.
One town after another in the Wise
County service area is going on record
as opposing the proposed hike, and
representatives from several area
towns are in Austin today learning - | Erndonu3
What will be the-result of the Centel
rate case? .■___________'____________________*....................
Probably the PUC will end up
granting Centel a portion, though not
all, of its requested increase. That’s
what seems to happen in most
protested rate cases, anyway.
Unlike ordinary plung
flex dots not permit c
air or messy water
bock or escape. Will
— commented of the Centel proposal.
Maybe so. ———___
plained, he had “no table nor other
room to write in, than by the fire upon
hy knee, in this sharpe winter."
Family life was fragile due to a
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By PAUL HARVEY
Syndicated Columnist
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia,
has been reconstructed, and hopefully
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, will be, to
help Americans remember the way it
was.
Historians, measuring time in
terms of what they consider
significant events, are inclined not
really to care what Ben Franklin had
for breakfast.
Yet perhaps it is significant for our .
perspective to know that throughout
most of his life his meager breakfast
was bread and milk. served in a
twopenny bowl made of clay and
eaten with a pewter spoon.
That is the way it was, even for the
celebrated, in 18th-century America.
And in the 17th century life at best
was miserable.
Your great-great-great-grandfa-
ther's life was incredibly hard.
The signers of our nation’s
Declaration of Independence were
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So while billets stand empty at
Andrews, visiting brasshats
luxuriate in commercial hotel
rooms downtown at\ the tax-
payers' expense.
men of means, yet economically, they
were what we’d consider deprived,
disadvantaged, underprivileged.
If your image of Colonial America is
one of commodious New England
saltbox houses or ample brick houses
in Tidewater, Virginia, adorned inside
for a life of elegance and grace — that
is not the way it was.
Thomas Dudley, who became
governor of Massachusetts Bay,
writing in 1631 to the Countess of
Lincoln, apologized for the crabbed
style of his writing because, he ex-
Chico, Decatur, Krum, Ponder,
Sanger, Slidell and Sunset take up
hotesmdownown Washington IS of being stuck out in the boondocks
mes MV Although the nation’s
Wise County system customers,
either. Included is a proposal to in-
state a 20-cent charge for some
directory assistance calls, and
another proposal to raise pay phone
eherges-from-a-dime to-cents,.—
Lots of nasty things have been said
about Centel since news of the rate
requests reached customer ears last
week. And certainly the citizens who
face pocketbook drains have every
right to complain, to protest and to
examine Centel’s justifications for the
with new equipment and bigger
service expenditures.
People in the Wise County service
area have been known to complain
about their phone service, as we all
have. They’d like to see im-
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cagicadimetectythe Paris of the themnsetves, be where the action is.
Wester its restaurants At first, Andrews officials resisted
and might He are undeniably more the complaints. But last June, the
attractive to itimergte VIPs than the VIPs found a friend in Maj. Gen.
efficers mass and the base movie Benjamin F. Starr, Jr.
Paris accords.
There it is repoi
President Richard ]
cit'd holders to put their homes up as record-holder. Rep. William Natcher,
collateral. The three-day think-it-over D-Ky., holds a record for attendance
period, the Fed ruled, is in force only that may never be matched — 167
at the time the original credit votes on the House floor. Since he
arrangement was signed. „ T came to Congress on January 6, 1954,
Once the agreement is entered into he has never missed a day’s session or
and the consumer’s home is on the .a single vote.
Club meets
at the Hob
fellowship
fast.
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League (
Voters will
noon until
910 Hiller
crises will
for discussi
KIWANIS
at noon at 1
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iving class
fered by
Public Schoc
10 p.m. at I
School, Roo
fee is requ
payable whe
to’ class.
SINGLES
of Denton (
sponsor an
and game n
clubhouse, f
and Hercule
10 p.m.
DENTON
Society will i
p.m. in th
Meeting Ro
Denton Good
Village, 25
Drive. For
0 mation.
Clayton Scot
WEIGHT
meets at 7:3
Asbury
Methodist Ct
N. Elm.
DUPLICAT
begins at 7:
the Civic Ce
more inform
387-2276.
NATIONAL
ization for
Denton Count
Railroad, Sa
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tervention is that it provides an
There are other parts to the Centel umbrella of protection for the small
proposal that don’t go down easy with
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schedules that frequent cancellations
leave empty rooms at Andrews while
transient VIPs check into hotels, v
The figures tell the' story: In 1977,
1,926 hotel rooms were used in all of
October, November and December;,
this year, after General Starr’s
decision to relax the regulations,
more than 2,400 hotel rooms were used
ih the month of October alone. Starr
sees nothing wrong. "In my opinion
I’m not breaking the rules," he said.
“Taking care of the customer is my
first priority."
morf than four small rooms, two up
and two down, built on wooden posts
of increase makes it past the
regulatory commission.
The nice thing about TML in-
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Vietnamese leaders blast their
own government for its internal
corruption and failure to un-
derstand the Americans working
in the country.
The former officials outlined
four forms of corruption:
"racketeering in scarce and often
vital goods; bribery of officials;
buying and selling of big jobs and
appointments, - and.....-------the
collection of army pay from
ghost soldiers’ and ‘roll call
soldiers’.’'
The Americans had their faults
as well, the report indicates. “The
Americans . . . judged a man too
easily on whether he spoke decent
English and drank some bourbon
with them; and the Americans
could be fooled into declaring
some man a ‘tiger’ when in fact
he was nothing of the kind," the
former officials said
The Americans also had an
appetite for .“yes” men, the
report shows, which clouded their
vision of the true war situation.
With the corruption within the
Vietnamese government and the
Flow M
Hospital:
ABRON,
and Jenivi
line, the only safeguard against
at available billets on the air base.
Cost to the taxpayers: 15,000.
rate increase request to come before
the Public Utilities Commission?
A proposal from Central Telephone
Company of Texas (Centel) that
would substantially hike rates for
Wise County Telephone Co. customers provements, all right. But the idea of
is gathering plenty of flak in the cities shelling out up to 40 percent more for
routed directly to municipal govern-
menta. and for -an assortment of
federal, moowes to ease, the impact of
the budget sgueeze
- The Natsonal Governors' As-
sociatiom aready has declared its
-support Sor Carter s effort to balance
the federal buget by 1981
But there are a few items the
govermors would like tn return —
icludiingg more power in the im-
plerpentataou of domestic programs
and a streamlined system of federal
anti that woudd gve them greater lee-
y* y
Asdrews, vimtigg branshats luxuriate advance reservations indicated the
m emmmerehes dod rooms downtown Andrews billets were booked up.
taxpsyers ugpto—- Bvt this wervattons rwild be made atintown,
btoRR— M be against mitary hotels. Such are the uncertainties oF
regndadoms Aecardns * Offiei Air military travel and conference
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creased customer charges, the in a big city is that there just isn’t that
company proposes to improve service much for higher rates to buy .
Telephone users in places like
Dallas have two 4-inch-thick books of
numbers to pick from. But combined
listings for Alvord, Boonesville, Boyd,
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Base quarters not good enough for ‘brass’
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misunderstandings by ’ the
Americans on the outside, there
was certainly no amount of
money or support that could have
prevented the fall of South
Vietnam.
Of course we knew that before
nspector General team was
the InState Inn rather than
the full pressure- -plow
the clogging mm end
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The signers of our notion’s
Declaration of Independence
were men of means, yet
economically, they were what
we'd consider deprived, disad-
vantaged, underprivileged.
Pentagom auxongs. the rooms like the arduous limousine ride into
a ifcHr at toe base are downright town, which in rush hour traffic can
Sgertam take the better part of an hour, as any
These mgbaritic bra stoats prefer taxpaying commuter could testify
accommodatioms at more fashionable -------
small ones, Sanger and_Decatur-----
being, in fact, two of the three largest. I
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pressured the South Vietnamese
into signing the agreements with
threats that he would cut off all
support funds if they refused
; ~M you cannot give me a
positive answer (on the
agreement by 1200 Washington
tme, Jan 2. 1973, I shall
authorize Dr 'Henry A.)
Kissinger to initial the agreement
even writbout the concurrence of
•four government," Nixon was
reported as saying
And, of course, there was wood
heat, oil light and no plumbing.
Any American reared in a com’
parable environment today woutd"
likely consider his house a shack, his
neighborhood a slum and his
prospects hopeless.
Any American in a comparable
environment today would freeze
By JACK ANDERSON Force rules, all 60 rooms at Andrews
Somdheaded Cadummist must be filled before billeting officers
WASHIVGTON — To the humble can put anyone .up at a hotel off the
-—emmstedmamimmsberracksbunk, the base.
tranmabent billets at Andrews Air Force The billeting office used to follow
BasecutsdeWasthington would seem the rule book. But the Air Force’s
comfortable enough. But to the peripatetic pooh-bahs began griping,
miltary brans who peas through They didn't like the simple comforts
liBm — tom way to and from provided at the base. They also didn’t
By WALTER R MEANS - Management and Budget.
AP #pecdal Correspondent "As you know? from your own ex- .
»» WASHINGTON (AP) — When . perience as governor, the public looks z ’ . /o
Ragtog wlito the tohite House the to state government for leadership 7 • A _ —7 7 ——T 7 • 1 _ •
today better than colonial times
Carter that he ssed to be one of them. education, social services, envi- -%
They domt warn him forgetting the ronmental protection and other
services," they told the president.
While they didn’t say so, the states,
in turn, look to Washington for some of
’the money to do those things.
“Yet the federal government has
increasingly bypassed the states,”
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it would affect. residential phones and 87 percent
Who, after all, wants any of their more for business phones does not,
monthly bills to go up? And who would understandably, sit well with them,
continue to support the local “More guts than a packing house,”
politician who went along without a a Sanger newspaper columnist
will colle
newspapers a
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Fire calls
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304 Avenu
residence,
damage.
2:23 a.m.,
605 S. Br
residence,
damage.
Report documents
Vietnamese collapse
The US Defense Department Rand report, it is doubtful. The
1 • nom knows why Vietnam fell At report, titled, “The Fall of South
least now it‛s official Vietnam, Statements by Viet-
Aecording to • Rand Corp. namese Military and Civilian
report, commissioned by the Leaders, ” is partly a confessional
Defense Department, Vietnam document in which the former
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fell because of corruption in the
Vietnamese government and
American misunderstandings.
The m-page report offers three
ftam of interviews with former
Vietnamese leaders, including
former premier. Air Marshal
Nguyen Cao Ky,
— Fhere » not much new in-
formation offeredin the report
, but apparentlyLtheUS. govern-
ment feels better now that the full
story of the demise of South
Vietnam is documented.
p . The report places the beginning
1 of the Vietnamese fall at the 1973
way rinallkocating the dollars that flow . existing programs," the governors
from Wasingon said
They mde torn budget case in But Carter, former governor or not,
Man to"Carter and to James T. is on record on the opposite side of
Mentjre 3r. director of the Office of that issue.
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AV Will the big, bad telephone com-
"*.l pany have enough huff and puff
weg to blow the lights out with a rate
VEE.... increase?
Natcher's closest call came in 1968,
overspending is an annual rexmnder when he was with 99 other
from the credit card company that congressmen attending a ceremony in
defaulting on payments could cost the the Senate.
CONSUMER TRAP: The Federal card-holder his home. —— As Natcher recalls it, House
Reserve Board has been pushing The Federal Trade Commission, Speaker John McCormack was one of
interest rates to new highs in an an- concerned that low-income the party, so he figured there would be
nounced effort to discourage Con- homeowners will be victimized by no roll calls. But the Speaker was
Burners from buying on credit. This is hard-sell merchants and go ever ' called back without Natcher noticing
supposed to slow inflation. deeper in debt, points out that the and a roll call was announced
At the same time, the Fed has Federal Reserve Board’s decision to Natcher learned of this threat to his
quietly removed a consumer- relax the warning requirement was attendance record at literally the last
borrowing safeguard in the Truth-in- "baaed almost entirely on comments minute. "I ran through the long
Lending Act - a move that could from bank creditors." corridor to the House Chamber and
Small wonder: A confidential turned in the door at the Speaker’s
analysis prepared for the Fed notes podium just as they were handing the
that if credit plans "were to mobilize Speaker the vote tally slip to announce
but five percent of homeower equity, the vote," Natcher told W- „ .j -X,
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