Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 97, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1979 Page: 4 of 28
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William Buckley
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By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON IAP) - Given the
The objective would be to double the
efficiency of our fleet Congress has
mandated that by 1985 cars produced
average 27.5 miles per gallon, but that
would still mean that the average of
all the cars on the would get much
less Too little, and too late, for those
No. none of us pick our parents or
our cousins from a catalog We cannot
decide who will be our nephew this
year or whether to find new children
who might better contribute to our
' sense of self-worth
Want to have your say about
comm unity-related problems, to be
It seemed to her that one of the most
remarkable and even attractive
things about families is that they don't
choose each other , they just live with
each other Even those who feud
acknowledge a bond, and those who
argue about everything from politics
to sports find a way to share the pain
Address your letters to "Our
Readers Say'” Denton Record
Chronicle. PO Box 369, Denton.
Texas 76201
Reagan would win 2-1 over former
Texas Gov John B Connally in last
Saturday's Republican straw vote in
Florida Once again, the initial fore
cast was hedged later on, with the
Reagan camp saying their man would
win by 8 to 10 percentage points. He -
did
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thanks jury
To the editor:
To the 12 jurors of Cole Parks
Thank you for stepping into the
circle of love that has existed around
my Dad since the events of Jan 14.
and joininginto the love and com-
passion we have for him
Happy Thanksgiving and God
bless you.
through inflation and through the
exportation of our capital plant We
cannot do that for very long Already
we are slogging through the mud.
flirting with that zero growth in
productivity that heightens social
tensions and demoralizes once-bright .
societies
lobbyist for sameness, had even
rooted for turkey which, to be honest,
she despised But here was something
about Thanksgiving that was positive-
ly atavistic. She felt like a kid or a
curator who wanted everything in its
place.
She wondered sometimes whether
security for mobility. We pride our-
selves on flexibility, and calculate our
sense of freedom by the number of
choices we have
Then, too we are encouraged lo
constantly reassess the jobs we have,
the people we love, the places we live
by. the standards of "happiness" and
self-fulfillment If they don't measure
up, we are supposed to move on to new
houses, new towns, new lovers — as if
they were brand names
But faced with a smorgasbord, we
sometimes long for a sit-down meal
Independents get nostalgic for
streets and correct some traffic
problems, the city is looking at a
big chunk of money for streets
And you know w here big chunks
of public money come from
The longer street work is put
provements in design
About 30 percent of Denton's
streets need some serious work,
the study done by the city in-
dicates.
There already were several
street projects in the city’s
Capital Improvements Program
— some work on McKinney and
Windsor in the 1980-80 program
the Mingo to Bell extension in the
‘80- 81 program, the city's part of
the work to be done on U.S. 380 in
‘83-‘84 and 8270,000 for street
reconstruction in ‘83-‘84.
About S1 million a year has
been programmed for streets
There are indications that
within a year the citizens of
Denton will have a chance to vote
on a multiple-choice of programs
to fix up the streets Each
probably will include what can be
done for how much money and
what it will mean by way of a tax
increase Councilman Roland
Vela suggested this approach at —
Tuesday’s council meeting City
Manager Chris Hartung agrees
that it would be a good idea
in addition to the $9.8 million or
whatever it might turn out to cost
for the major repairs, the
relocation of Bell Avenue which
Texas Woman's University is
requesting will cost about $900,000
by the city's figures
With major repairs. Bell
Avenue and some other work to
-increase the capacity of some
The cost of energy:
America must find means to fight back -
The Record-Chronicle welcomes
letters from its readers; however,
letters must include the signature
and full address of the author, plus a
telephone number, if available, to
assist in verification. All letters will
be verified for authenticity prior to
publication
To assure a fair hearing for all,
letters must be limited to a 400-word
maximum Anonymous letters are
never printed
While the initial Reagan claim was
overly optimistic, the Connally people
got into forecasting, too. and then had
to admit they were disappointed at the
final numbers.
Connally’s state chairman, Ander
Crenshaw, said on Oct 20 that the
Texan was going to score "a major
upset victory" in the straw vote
Crenshaw cited the original Reagan
victory claim, and said that anything
less than 50 percent of the vote would
be a serious defeat for Reagan
celebrations The women were
working now, and the children were
growing now, and occasionally one
member or another was on lend-lease
to another holiday table.
Yet for all that, family means
stability.
And not just for her The people she
knew, even those who lived much of
the year at great emotional or geo-
graphic distances, come home this
"Nothing can provide an incentive
to conserve fuel like making it more
expensive." Tobias concludes And no
one has put the case for realistic fuel
prices more plainly “We are either
fools or masochists." Tobias con-
cludes "I think a combination of
both "
Did anyone watch the CBS
'Channel 4 television program at 6
p m on Nov 18?
It told of an approach to health as
being one of ■Self-Care" — people
are given training in how to diagnose
and treat their own illnesses. It is
called the WELLNESS movement
For many reasons, one being that it
started in California, it will be most
likely labeled fad and fraud, but I
look for it to spread eastward 1
surely hope it does I was one of its
staunchest supporters starting less
than two months ago, and I never
heard of the movement until Sunday
night.
It has worked for me
nections and satiate themselves on
belonging
Many of us have willy-nilly traded
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Denton
less per mile. At 85 cents and 14 miles
to the gallon today, it costs 6 cents to
drive one mile. At 82 and 28 miles per
gallon (some cars get 40 miles to-the
gallon) it would cost 7 cents
Every penny collected by the
government with the gasoline tax
should instantly be returned to the
American people — by a reduction in
other taxes The point, quite simply, is
to cut out the rhetoric about the moral
equivalent of war blah blah blah and
cause people in their own self-interest
to pay for gasoline the cost of
replacing it. Only tens of millions of
individual decisions will bring about a
substantial conservation of energy
We are paying, right now, $2 and more
per gallon of gas, but paying for it
So I says to myself, what
possibly can a fellow in
my position do to blunt
the bite of inflation —
then suddenly it hit me.. .!
Jeanette Oxford
Irving
priorities of blood
Communes and communities we
have built to last, with almost
calculating cautiousness, fall But the
families that grow like Topsy with all
the eccentricities of nature, with
people who have only each other in
common, survive.
It is odd, but in a world that gives lip
service to the importance of change,
we give real service to the people we
have known all our lives. In an era
when we are supposed to pick
carefully, we care most fully about
those we haven't picked at ail
In the end, we are closest to those
we re stuck with And maybe that is
the oldest tradition of all
Washington Post Syndicate
presidential candidates and their
managers should have learned by now
- that forecasting the outcome of a
political contest can magnify a defeat
. and take the edge off a victory
% They haven't.
* For some reason, inside every
campaigner is a would-be oddsmaker
The wise ones try to convince the
world that their candidates will be
. delighted to limp home second or third
= in this or that presidential primary
* election
= But enthusiasm often overcomes
E wisdom. It's happening in the 1980
= campaign.
E Some will magnify defeats, as Sen
= Howard H Baker Jr did by counting
= too heavily on victory in an otherwise
E meaningless straw poll in Maine He
X lost, to former CIA Director George
- Bush
Some will help take the edge off
= smaller-than-expected victories, and
make them look like defeats. That
™ happened dramatically two cam-
E paigns ago, when Sen Edmund S
X Muskie’s manager in New Hampshire
X said anything less than 50 percent of
X the vote in that opening primary
would be grounds for suicide Muskie
won with 44 percent His campaign
went downhill from that point.
Last campaign, Ronald Reagan had
problems with forecasts that ex-
ceeded performance His people in
~ New Hampshire began by forecasting
- a landslide When Reagan lost by a
handful of votes to then-President
heard, to have an influence on
events that shape your city, county,
state, nation'’ - .
* • Richard Swerdlin
Denton
Reader supports
self health care
To the editor:
To the editor:
On Nov 18 CBS reporter Mike
Wallace interviewed Ayatollah
Khomeini on “60 Minutes." Wallace
prefaced the interview with the
statement that he was forbidden to
ask any questions about "freedoms"
in Iran This further underscores the
hypocrisy of the Khomeini govern-
ment. It scarcely represents an
improvement over the tyranny
practiced by the recently deposed
shah It also underscores the maxim
that change is not necessarily
progress
------------------------------Our readers say!------------------------------
Khomeini proves change not always best
the more the streets
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR
Syndicated Columnist
Andrew Tobias is one of the half
dozen most lucid and expressive
writers in the trade, expert among
other things at handling economic
analysis which, in other hands, comes
out abstruse and forbidding. In the
current issue of Esquire Magazine,
Tobias talks to us about energy. and in
four pages tells us more than every
president or presidential candidate or
energy czar has told us in six years of
nagging over the € es in
belonging People who live as in-
day — not to a place setting but to a terchangeable subjects in a job. or
sense of place They feast on con-
By ELLEN GOODMAN
Syndicated Columnist
BOSTON — The signs were
everywhere Her aunt was counting
seats, calling in chits, and getting
moderately hysterical. Her uncle was
staying calm and thereby getting into
trouble
The children were figuring out a
way they could get to sit together —
“We promise to be quiet this year" -
and the adults were figuring out
whether an advance fast would mean
that they could eat the stuffing
Everything was running on
schedule, which is to say behind
schedule, which is to say according to
family tradition
The woman liked it. She was a closet
traditionalist, and Thanksgiving was
her annual comin-out party
She was perhaps the chief family
That informal survey you take
every time you drive down the
street in Denton has now taken
formal form It would take
perhaps $9.8 million to fix up the
streets without any widening
straightening or other 1m-
lessons of campaigns past.
Here are the vital statistics:
In 1972, our oil imports cost us less
than 85 billion
In 1979, our oil imports will cost us
$65 billion
That comes to $295 per person, or
81.180 for a family of four
If we paid out all the gold in Fort
travagant Knox (844 billion) we wouldn’t make a
The Planning and Zoning single year’s payment to OPEC
Commission will get the problem We could pay OPEC, for one year's
supply of oil at the rate we consume it,
32 5 million acres of $2,000-an-acre
farmland — approximately the entire
state of Iowa thereafter everyone
Page 4A DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE Friday. November a. 1979
of working with the city staff to farming in Iowa would be an em-
get a package together which all ployee of OPEC
of the council and a majority of The following year, we could give
the people can support They them Wisconsin
must decide how much should be The year after that, we could give
done and how soon them our entire steel industry, plus
A 810 million tax program Sears and A&P (except that A&P is
would mean a tax increase of mostly owned by the Germans)
about 35 cents - 815 million. The year after that, we could give
about 52 cents them IBM. RCA. General Motors, plus
in general, the answer to how the copyrights to all our motion pic.
much and how soon is that a lot___, . „
needs to be done and it needs to be Had enough Yet t a exac y is
where we are headed
very soon. , Of course, if the United States were
Hartung said surveys and to become much more productive.
comments to the city indicate that that would make , difference How’re
streets are the No. 1 concern of we doin’?
the citizens. He and the council During the second quarter of 1979.
Know the need productivity in the U.S. suffered its
Putting this into specific sharpest drop in more than five years
projects at specific costs with The Japanese save 25 percent of
specific tax increases is the their disposable income We save 5
knotty problem. How much the percent
citizens are willing to pay to back The total government, personal and
up their complaints about streets corporate debt in the United States
s something else rose from $1 6 trillion in 1970 to over 84
___________________________.__________________trillion today in other words in order
C141.1 1. 11, 1 to maintain our standard of living, we
Candidates backpedal didn’t produce more, we simply
Iborrowed
1 » • In 1925, the average American spent
on vote prAC1 pt ions 60 percent of all the days of his life
VULC PI CUCLULD working. Today (we start working at
an older age, retire earlier, live
Gerald R. Ford, his claim of longer, work fewer hours per week"
satisfaction at having come that close the average American spends 40
to an incumbent was undermined by percent of all the days of his life
the early claims that he was going to working
win. .... Well, can we, as the saying goes, do who love Iowa, Wisconsin, GM, IBM.
In the 1976 Florida primary his anything about it’ gold, steel and Sears
campaign manager. E L (Tommy) Yes. Tobias recommends that If we doubled the range of a gallon
homes, forecast a 21 victory over beginning immediately, we set out to of gas (by driving smaller less
Ford, then toned it down to 55 percent tax gasoline 81 more per gallon, in spunky cars), we would not need tc
Ford won with 58 percent of the vote, yearly increments of 25 cents. drive less Nor would the cost of
and Reagan once again said he was The average car on the road in driving, if we paid 82 per gallon (less
ign with the outcome America gets 14 miles to the gallon than the Europeans pay. come out to
Thomas is still working for the
Reagan cause, and he's still into 3
forecasting He said weeks ago that
Ellen Goodman
people who live with change, cope
with It, even embrace it as hopeful,
also long the most for sameness She
wondered why the loving was so often
associated with family and with this
Thanksgiving, this time when we
celebrate bringing in the family as if it
were our harvest
The notion of an unchanging family
was, of course, an illusion. She knew
that. Her family was not, any more
than any other, a frozen entity, a
tableau vivante directed by Norman
Rockwell
There had been additions and
subtractions accompanied by
mournings, separations and
want an assigned role and a per- - know us because they knew us when
manent title, like mother, father. They own their place by eminent
aunt, cousin. domain, and we give them the
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