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The Lee County Senior Citizens
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and other southern growing regions
Ironically, the weather factors
that are producing rain in Texas are
also responsible for drought in the
corn belt, say forecasters.
The jet stream is on a southern
track, trapping thunderstorms in
Oklahoma and Texas, while depri-
ving the Midwest of the moisture it
needs.
Grain traders believe that drought
tends to accompany "El Nino,” the
warming of Pacific Ocean waters off
the coast of South America. This
year is an El Nino year, and the
adage is holding true.
The corn belt has been spared
widespread drought since 1988 when
protracted heat and dryness spurred
increases in food prices, devastating
farmers in the worst-hit areas.
Throughout the Midwest, rainfall
has been unusually low since
January, leading some forecasters
to think that it might be a repeat of
the 1988 drought.
The big difference is that this year
the Midwest is experiencing unsea-
sonably cool weather along with the
dryness instead of heat like they had
in 1988 Even though the lack of heat
has eased damage from the lack of
rain, it has also stalled develop-
ment of corn and soybeans
As most farmers know, corn and
soybeans account for a substantial
portion of the U.S. agricultural
industry's global exports and are
used in a variety of processed foods
and as feed for livestock.
For cotton, continued forecasts of
above-normal precipitation could
have a drastic effect on cotton prices
unless the weather turns dry and
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BULLET TRAIN - Even though
none of the routes now proposed for
the high-speed bullet train will run
through Lee County, local resisents
will have a chance to find out more
about it at a public scoping meeting
set for next Wednesday, June 24 in
Giddings.
This is one of 39 scoping meetings
that are being conducted by
Woodward-Clyde Consultants who
are preparing the environmental
impact statement.
About 400 residents of Fayette
County turned out for the meeting
held in La Grange and there was no
doubt that they were 100 percent
opposed to the project which would
run through Fayette County as one
of its routes.
La Grange area residents felt that
the impact would all be negative and
nothing positive about having the
Texas High Speed Rail Corporation
run the bullet train through their
county, especially since it wouldn't
even stop in any small towns and
would just connect the big cities with
passenger train service.
After all the problems country
towns have had with city govern-
ments wanting to build lignite
mines, trash dumps, airports and
even biomedical waste incinerators
out in the country away from those
cities, most country folks don't want
any more of it. They just want to be
left alone to enjoy the fresh air and
quietness of country life.
Now it turns out that the
corporation that wants to build the
bullet train also wants to borrow the
money from the U.S. government
through tax-free bonds which will of
course be financed by all of us-city
and country folks alike.
Anyway, if you're interested in
voicing your opinion about the
proposed bullet train and listen to
some of the benefits and drawbacks,
you’ll have a chance to do so at the
Giddings scoping meeting next
week.
Even though the temperature has
only been getting up into the mid-90s
so far in June, for some reason the
sun seems to be extra hot this year.
Maybe all this talk about the
depleting ozone layer and the
greenhouse effect has something to
do with it. Or maybe it’s just
psychological and I'm imaging that
the sunshine feels hotter.
But I've talked with other people
who also think that the sunshine
feels like it's bearing down harder
this year and affecting how it feels to
the skin. Maybe it's been gradually
getting worse for a number of years
but we just haven’t noticed it.
It could be like when the days start
getting longer in the winter. At first
you don't notice it’s staying light for
a minute or two longer But when the
days get considerably longer every-
body notices.
As far as the sunlight is concerned,
maybe some of us are just too
spoiled with air conditioning or don’t
get out in the sun as much as we used
to. Then when we do, we feel it all
that much more.
But some people say that it even
feels warm early in the moring when
it usually is a little cooler
Whatever it is, I plan to spend less
time out in the sunshine and more
time in the shade whenever possible.
And when I’m out in the sun for any
length of time, you’ll see me wearing
a baseball cap and probably
sunglasses And I’m not crazy about
hats or caps
Instead of heading to the beach
each summer, some of us may be
traveling further and going up into
the mountains where it's cooler.
With the ozone layer thinning, all
of us ought to also think twice before
doing anything that will cause us to
get a suntan or sunburn. Otherwise
we might end up with skin cancer in
a few years.
The best time to go outdoors is
earlier in the morning or late in the
afternoon.
If you're planning to go to the
beach this summer, the best time to
lay out is before 10:30 or 11 a m. or
after about 4:30 p.m. Any other time
of the day is a good way to end up
with skin cancer. And believe it or
not, skin cancer can kill you.
Not only can the sun cause skin
cancer, but it can also make you look
like a dried up prune when you get
older.
Speaking of the heat, the weather
service said the combination of the
humidity with the actual tempera-
ture Monday at 6 p.m. made it feel
like it was 104 degrees And it felt
every bit that hot
June has turned out to be about as
humid as May usually is.
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health care center still stands Such
a center will offer an emergency
room, outpatient services and home
health care. It could also include bed
patient care for up to 23 hours. This
type of operation is profitable and
can well serve our health care needs
at no cost to the taxpayer."
Mr Poole also asked the hospital
board to call another hospital
election to get the concensus of the
people.
Board member Jim Stanley
responded to Mr. Poole’s statement
saying, "Mr. Poole, you’ve been
right 99 percent of the time We all
need to look and decide what we
need to do We have downsized and
there are a lot of problems. ”
“We can’t have more of a hospital
than we can afford,” said Mr.
Stanley He asked Reuel Cooper of
Lexington what he would like to see
Pastor Cooper said he would not
answer at the present.
Board member Jack Stewart was
concerned about the effect it would
have on the nursing homes, saying
with only a rural health care clinic
available without a hospital, nursing
home patients would have to be
shipped out. He said it would be
difficult to cover those cases and
people would have to travel to
Giddings, Texas
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MIDWEST DROUGHT - It may
have been wet as the dickens in Lee
County and Central Texas so far this
year, but it’s just the opposite across
much of the Midwest.
An unusual cool-weather drought
is threatening crops across a broad
area of the northern Midwest.
The driest region stretches west
from northern Indiana into Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and north-
eastern Iowa.
The drought is severe enough that
some farmers predict disappointing
yields unless their corn and soybean
crops get rain in the next week or so.
Weathermen are calling this a
very strange drought because it's
not accompanied by heat. The
weather has been cool and dry.
The unusual type drought is
centered in Illinois, the heart of the
com belt, so you can see why
everyone is becoming concerned
about corn and even soybean prices
which are already moving higher on
the futures markets
Cotton prices are also moving
higher but for different reasons The
cotton crop is being threatened by
excessively wet weather in Texas
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Beth & Don Bums owned Don’s Western
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BILL FAILS - If you recall the
Viewpoint column about the pro-
posed balanced budget amendment,
you might be interested in knowing
that it failed by a 280-153 vote in the
Congress. That was just nine votes
short of the two-thirds majority
needed for it to pass.
As I tried to point out in the
column, we need a balanced budget
alright but achieving it would
probably have meant a combination
of much higher income taxes as well
as cutbacks in government spending
- a bad combination and a
double-whammy on the economy.
Supporters claimed it would hav
forced the nation's politically
divided government to rein in th*
deficit that approaches $400 millio’
this year alone.
President Bush felt the vote wa
close enough to continue the fight to
try to pass a balanced budget
amendment again.
Opponents said the amendment
was political diversion - a way for
lawmakers and the president t
support the notion of balancing the
budget but avoiding making the
tough decisions on taxes and
spending required to actually do it.
The amendment wouldn't have
required a balanced budget until'
fiscal 1998 at the earliest - two
president elections away.
Austin.
When asked what people in the
Lexington area would want, Mr.
Poole replied “We could take
anything." It was noted that
Lexington had a doctor in a clinic,
but that the doctor left town after his
wife left him.
Mrs. Carole Stewart, in response
on medical care in Lexington, said
that the “care should be equal as
best as we can provide it.”
Mr. Stewart said that the hospital
owes a lot of money, but that $640,000
is owed the hospital by Lee
Countians. “We are taking care of a
lot of people. There are a lot of
people with addresses and they are
not paying,” he said.
Dr. Charles Burns, chief of staff,
said there are about 180 patients in
three nursing homes in Lee County.
"It could be a real problem without a
hospital,” said Dr. Burns. He said
the hospital could conceivably get by
with 8 to 10 beds. He said physicians
assistants in rural health care
clinics are excellent help Dr Burns
suggested the possibility of starting
two clinics.
Mr. Poole suggested having a
mobile unit to serve Lexington one
day a week and then other areas.
The board voted to begin
implementation of a rural health
care center for Lee County Hospital
District No. 2.
BY B. P.
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