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COWPOKES
By Ace Reid
—Arthur Hays Sulzberger
None will weep
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at Soviet death
©Ace REI
ark day
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The Llano News
To the class of 1936
POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGE TO LLANO NEWS,
BOX 187, LLANO, TEXAS 78643
SARA WARTES
A.C. KINCHELOE
TYE ADAMS
PATRICIA MUDD
SALLY BUCKNER
E. J. GIFFORD
JEAN ALEXANDER
A 'Light'
thank you
Class of 1936
best looking
Few Americans will shed tears at the fu-
neral for a state that killed and enslaved
millions and ruled its citizens with an iron
fist.
We have only to remember the Berlin Air-
lift, the Korean War, the Berlin Wall, the
Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam and the Cold
War to know how much the Soviet Union
cost the United States in lives and treasure.
and to catch up on all the Texas
activities that I have missed.
Here's a big Coastal Bend
toast to each of you.
Elvin Nichols
1201 Moore Ave #408
Portland, TX 78374
Model‘T’ legislation
not practical in Senate
EDITORIAL/OPINION
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“I want to apply fer a credit card, I’m tired of my
checks bouncin’ all over the place!”
The success of the commonwealth in face
of food shortages and a disintegrating
economy remains to be seen, as does the
fate of the other republics. Chaos, anarchy
and civil war are still possible.
While the end of the Soviet Union has
been in sight, the abortive coup that briefly
toppled Gorbachev accelerated its disinte-
gration. Gorbachev himself set the forces
in motion that destroyed communism.
Dear Editor:
I would like to say to everyone
who had anything at all to do
with the lighting and decorating
of our courthouse. "Thank You,
Thank You. Thank Youl"
Frances Hyatt
These are difficult times for newspapers,
indeed for most of the news and informa-
tion arms of the communications industry.
It has been years since smaller towns have
paid me was not enough in my
way of thinking, but it is better
than Just legal fees.
It is a sad situation when a
man has to spend his savings to
fight to 'keep what belongs to
him. and still end up on the
short end of the stick. I in just a
working man like most of you. 1
tried to fight the City Council
the best 1 could.
I guess this should teach us
all a lesson. Pay more attention
at election time. Check out all
the candidates. Where do they
stand on issues such as this
one? How ambitious are they?
Take an interest ' in public
meetings. Be informed. Don’t
leave it to the other guy.
With the economy like it is, it
will be interesting to see just
how "things" develop and how
We need to protect minority views, but at
the same time we shouldn’t surrender to one
or two obstructionists. I would prefer
changing the filibuster rule, but that may be
politically impossible. However, I do be-
lieve that three fairly minor changes would
help ensure the Senate proceeds with all due
speed on the business at hand without get-
ting sidetracked.
As a first step, one proposal I support
would permit the Senate block irrelevant
amendments by a supermajority of 60
votes. We must fully debate issues like hir-
ing quotas and terrorism, but not in the
middle of debate on the highway bill.
I support another reform which would re-
quire that once a major bill or amendment
has been voted on, a supermajority of 60
votes would be needed to take up similar
legislation again in the same year. Re-
fighting old wars over and over during the
same year is divisive and unproductive.
A third proposed reform would focus Sen-
ate debate by confirming amendments to
one section of a bill at a time. Taken to-
gether, these measures would help ensure a
logical order to Senate debate.
The Senate also needs to play hardball
with filibusters. Too often we shrink in the
face of a threatened filibuster instead of
forcing opponents to demonstrate their
stamina. There might be fewer long nights
of debate if the diehards were forced to
speak around the clock now and then.
The Senate may never achieve efficiency
as defined by a time and motion expert, but
we can be much more productive if we get
rid of some of the underbrush that so often
trips up this institution. We must put our
house in order to better accomplish the
people's business.
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The Soviet Union died, not with a bang or
- a whimper, but with a declaration.
With it came the last gasp of a system that
had threatened and often terrorized much
of the world. .
The end came with the decree of Russia,
Ukraine and Byelorussia that they were
forming a commonwealth of independent
republics. Kazakhstan also is expected to
join the commonwealth.
Minsk will replace Moscow as the coordi-
nating center, although there will be no
central government as such.
With Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia ac-
counting for 70 percent of the population
and an even greater share of Soviet wealth,
there is nothing Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev can do to salvage the ruins of the
Soviet state.
Gorbachev was not even invited to the
weekend meeting that created the com-
monwealth. He was told later.
Leaders of the new commonwealth
quickly assured the West that there would
be central control over military questions
and nuclear weapons. Such assurance is
meaningful, since the members of the
commonwealth have most of the 27,000
weapons on their soil.
By Senator Lloyd Bentsen
While the classic style and design of the
Model T may have a certain attraction, not
too many people rely on the old cars to get
around these days.
Similarly, many of the procedures in the
U.S. Senate that were created in the 18th
century are appealing to history buffs but
are not practical for the Senate as it designs
policies for the 21st century.
There are valid reasons why the senate
reveres its rules and traditions, but at the
" same time it shouldn't blindly resist con-
structive changes that would help us work
more rapidly and with more certainty on
the major issues our nation faces. I have
long supported such changes, and I’m hope-
ful that recent criticisms of Congress will
generate the support necessary to reform
the way the Senate does business.
The Senate has the tradition of respecting
the rights of the tiniest minority. Through
the rule of unlimited debate, known as the
The failure of the Dallas Times Herald is
a blow to the business environment in Dal-
las, which already is feeling the brunt of
defense industry cuts. More than 900 em-
ployees are being laid off.
The demise of newspapers today is in-
variably blamed on poor economic condi-
tions. That is certainly part of the story.
Newspapers, like other corporations, also
got swept into the leveraged buyout mania
of the 1980s. The Dallas Times Herald la-
bored under three different owners over the
last decade.
Newspapers are part of the foundation
upon which our society has formed. In this
200th year of the First Amendment and the
Bill of Rights, it is particularly painful to
see parts of this foundation crumble.
It is especially painful to say farewell to a
newspaper like the Times Herald. Like all
newspapers, it was better some days than
others. But day after day, the Times Herald
was a newspaper with spirit. There was a '
feistiness about it, a feeling that it was un-
afraid to remember the forgotten, challenge
the powerful or probe for the story beneath
the story.
We shall miss the Times Herald.
Austin American-Statesman
( USPS 316-700)
Serving Llano, Llano County and the Highland Lakes area
Since 1889.
The land that brought the world V.I.
Lenin, Josef Stalin, the KGB and the Gulag
Archipelago is gone, replaced by a new en-
tity that claims it wants peace and nuclear
disarmament. The world is better off.
San Antonio Express-News
Monday was a somber day for Dallas and
for Texas. The state's second largest city
lost one of its daily newspapers. The
demise of the Dallas Times Herald not only
will diminish the availability to Dallas
readers of news and information, but also
will lessen the number of ideas and view-
points in the marketplace of thought.
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor and Publisher
SARAH BUCKNER
Legacy
gone
During a lifetime a man works
toward acquiring a legacy to
leave his children and
grandchildren. My legacy was
the property on the river that
the City of Llano Just had to have
: for a golf course.
A lot of people have the
misconceived idea that parties
was all my place was about
wrong. This was a place of
solitude not only for me, but for
the many animals.
For the last three to four years
there have been two Bald Eagles
- one mature and a young one.
This year there are two grown
eagles. On the day 1 was waiting
for the City's final appraiser. 1
counted no less that twenty-
eight wild turkeys going down
the gully to water.
If we had gone to court, things
could have been tied up for two
to three years. No one could use
the land - not me or the City
during that time. Only if I won in
court, would the City pay me for
my legal fees.
1 have $60,000 in the Riverlake
Property The $35,000 the City
Page A-4 Llano News, Thursday, December 12, 1991
The reunion picture in the filibuster, one Sentor can block or reverse
news proves that we had the the progress of Important legislation and
best looking class of that delay the work of the whole Senate. For ex-
decade. 1 wish that I had been ample, a farm bill can be derailed if one
there with you. Sentor chooses to hold a filibuster on an
Just recently decided to unrelated, complex foreign policy question
move home to lexas, to retire, that is in the headlines. *
( , Llano News
Letters to the Editor D P.O: Box 187
Llano, Texas 78643
opportunity to publicly convey been able to sustain more than one daily
my many thanks to two citizens publication. Now larger cities are experi-
of Llano for their courtesy and encing the same misfortunes. We recently
help during my recent visit to saw Lit,tie Rock lose one of its two daily
Llano County. newspapers.
A vehicle breakdown that oc-
curred November 24 as I was re
turning home from a hunting The battle between the Dallas Times Her-
trip in your area might have left aid and Dallas Morning News, which was
me stranded. But, with the pursued with vigor through the latter part
gracious help of Ron Seward of the 1970s and into the '80s, was a rivalry .
who made the right contacts, that drove both newspapers to improve
and Mr. Beverly Hardin who took their performance.
time out ol his day of rest. When a good newspaper closes its door it
much money comes into town Hardin's Garage was soon ie-ncnA SOeMIWSPAREE SOSCSiesont
from the extra nine hole Golf opened, and in just a short time, is always remembered for its editorial con-
Course I was on my way tributions. but a newspaper also is a busi-
I would like to thank everyone it is my sincere hope that any ness, an employer.
that supported me in my light. I travelers from Llano who might
received calls from Horseshoe happen upon misfortune here in
Bay. the city ol Llano and Smith County, will be met with
around the county, the same kind of courteous
A special thanks to Jack Hol assistance 1 found in your City
comb for the petitions and those and County,
who signed them. Again, I veiy much appreciate
Again thanks to everyone. all the help.
Calvin Moses Sincerely,
Llano, TX* Lany Craig
======= Smith County Judge
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1991, newspaper, December 12, 1991; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1603328/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.