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Opinion
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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1990, ALBANY, TEXAS 76430
THE ALBANY NEWS
The Albany News
Since 1875
Oldest journalistic venture west of the Brazos
Editor/Publisher
Donnie A. Lucas
Managing Editor
Melinda L. Lucas
Staff Reporter & Composition Carol Lackey
Composition
Betty Balliew
Moran Correspondent
Audrey Brooks
Office Assistant
Betty Law
Office Assistant
Susan Winegeart
I;
After the resurrection . . . "Jesus came
and spake unto them, saying, All
power is given unto me in heaven and
in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I have command-
ed you: and, lo, I am with you alway
even unto the end of the world.
Amen."
Matthew 28:18-20
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West Texas Press Association.
By Pat Lidia Jones
It is no secret that I love to read.
Besides the newspaper which is my
favorite "read," I also list magazines in
my Top 10.
I know I am not alone in my fondness
for magazines. So here is a tip: at the
Inwood Shopping Center, corner of
Lovers Lane and Inwood in Dallas, is a
shop called The Original Magazine and
Book Store. I've been to book stores
and news stands all over the world, and
I've never found a better magazine
shop than this one.
I think it's one of Dallas' best-kept
secrets. I happened upon it by accident.
I went out to that location to visit a
shop that carries Horchow's catalog
left-overs. The Horchow place had
moved, and in its place was a whole
newly-done shopping center, complete
with brick drives and all new store
fronts.
So I didn't locate my shop, but some-
thing better. Before you go ripping into
Dallas to check out my "find," let me
warn you that, although the name of
the store includes "Books," there are
many better book stores. Taylor's in
Fort Worth and Dallas are the best
book stores in this half of Texas.
I'm talking magazines. There are
magazines on every subject im-
aginable. The Original is, as I said, new.
It fairly sparkles with its beautiful
hardwood floors and very well lighted
shelves of shiny slick magazines deal-
ing with such a variety of subjects:
news, horses, dogs, cars, sports of
every kind, health, walking, cars,
decorating, house plans, fashion, cook-
ing, crafts, puzzles, travel, gardening,
games, TV, and as the advertisements
always say, "much, much more."
There are whole sections of British,
French and Italian magazines, and
foreign newspapers as well as many
current USA city papers are available.
At the rear of the store are
children's books and magazines. There
is a snack bar and tables and chairs for
resting, reading, or chatting with a
companion. The rest rooms are very
clean and well-appointed.
It's just a fine, fun place to go, and a
wonderful place to wait. You think
they've got a new fan? You're right,
but I don't keep secrets like that; I love
to share with friends who have like in-
terests.
I don't buy all my magazines at news
stands. I have subscriptions to a good
many. And when the mail contains a
new magazine, I take it and go to the
trash container and flip through the
publication, tearing out the heavy
paper advertisements and getting rid
of all the loose cards and envelopes
that are inserted in every magazine.
I hate these things. They are one of
my pet peeves. I don't even look; I just
tear and toss.
A year or so ago, I received in the
mail a free magazine called "Country,"
subtitled "For those who live in or long
for the country." Inside was a whole
radical idea to me —no advertise-
ments — absolutely none.
For no more than that, I subscribed.
It comes every other month. It's full of
stunningl) beautiful photographs, but
more than that, it's fun.
The most recent issue included "Tips
From a Pro on the Fine Art of Country
Waving," "My Most Embarrassing Mo-
ment," "Dog Tales" (about an active
two-legged dog), "The Pig Page," "The
Way It Was," and recipes and photos of
homes and kids and animals.
I received the magazine on a busy
day and just skimmed through it in a
hurry, but my eye was caught by a
small half-page article about huge
Texas tomatoes. It told of eight and 10
pound tomatoes grown by a fellow in
Ennis, Texas, who was pictured hold-
ing one of his specially developed
monster tomatoes. Free seeds were of-
fered. I made a mental note to tell Jim
Owen, who is our in-house gardener.
The next morning, things were run-
ning at a bit slower pace, so I handed
the mag to Jim, saying he should send
for some of the free seeds and try his
hand at growing giant tomatoes. With
a laugh, he showed me that it was all an
April Fool's joke with a fake picture
and name. The joke was on me.
Then I became intrigued by another
column in the same issue. It was a
challenge from the editor to find a nee-
dle hidden somewhere —anywhere —in
the magazine —not a real one, of
course, but a sketch.
Now the magazine is about 60 pages
long. In the next several days, Talou,
Jim and I looked in spare moments for
the "needle." At noon one day, Talou
shouted, "Eureka, I've found it," and I
rushed in to look. A.V., my ever-patient
mate, asked Talou what she had won.
She didn't know; we hadn't thought
about that. So Talou looked to see what
prize she had won, hopefully
$1,000,000. The first thing she read
said, "Just use the envelope between
pages 50-51 We knew that
envelope had been torn loose and
thrown away the day I received the
issue.
Well, we could overcome that, but
what was the prize? Hmm, they put
your name in a cracker barrel and draw
50 names. If you're one of those 50
lucky people, "you'll receive a home-
made pie baked by one of the best
cooks in the country, Maudie Raber, an
Amish farm wife in Ohio!"
Talou and I looked at each other —
we were thinking the same thing, I
knew. A home-baked pie fresh from
Ohio. Unless it's got crusts like card-
board, it's hard to get a pie to a church
supper from your house, holding it in
your lap. As for fresh, Talou and I had
our doubts.
The article went on, "Wait! That's
not all!"
"Ha!" said Talou, "here comes my
$1,000,000."
If Talou was one of the two people in
Texas whose magazine contained the
hidden words, "Hay, you won," on the
same page as the needle, she would
win
What? The tension was mounting in
our kitchen. The prize would be a large
package of homemade sausage from
Elmer Renge of Dixon, Illinois!
Be still, my heart!
We're still looking for the secret
phrase in the magazine that tells us,
this too is an April Fool's joke.
If your life lacks laughs, come by the
house. If we're busy, we'll loan you our
Country magazine to read.
letter to the editor
Dear Editor:
The Albany News is better all the
time —county and city news, good pic-
tures and needed information for our
town.
Thanks for the information last week
on the public meeting planned at Roby
to organize opposition to a proposed
hazardous waste injection well pro-
posed for Fisher County.
My wife Joan and I attended the
meeting. She is from Richardson, north
of Dallas. We don't trust Dallas with
their hazardous waste, what it is now
or could be five years from now.
At the Roby meeting everyone be-
lieved there is a potential for the
wastes to seep front one geological for-
mation into another where oil had been
located and move with underground
water. Someday it could wash into our
creeks, rivers and streams, slowly
come east from Fisher, Jones and
Shackelford counties, to Hubbard Lake
and on to Stephens County.
When hazardous waste does give
trouble, do you move away, try to
pump it back out of the earth, or stay
and die or be sick from now on?
At the meeting, state Sen. Steve
SOMETHING'S GOT
TO BE DONE
ABOUT THESE
DECEPTIVE DIETS! ■'
GRAMfA
SUDMM*
state capital highlights
By Lyndell Williams
Lawmakers opened the new session
determined to get results but with the
leadership still at odds over which path
to follow.
•Challenged to produce a plan by
feisty Democrats, Gov. BilLClements
came out with ways to transfer from
$269 million to $466 million;
•The Senate quickly approved a pre-
vious plan to spend $1.2 billion equal-
izing public education, but the gover-
nor scoffed at it as veto fodder.
•House Speaker Gib Lewis endorsed
a $450 million plan and predicted the
House would pass it this week.
Some House members aren't opti-
mistic, since the House plan is still
more than $150 million higher than
Clements' limit set earlier. On its face,
the plan sets up an end-game confron-
tation with Clements and one booby
prize being the closing of public
schools.
Apparently, House leaders want to
approve the bill so that the conference
committee can hammer a compromise
that, theoretically, epuld p*re spending
to below $300 million.
With several members, including
Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur, de
termined to raise spending levels, the
bill will likely remain in jeopardy until
the session's final hour on May 1.
If the Legislature fails to pass a bill,
or does and Clements vetoes it, the
Texas Supreme Court will have the op-
tion of closing the public schools some
three weeks away from the end of the
semester.
If that happens, the resulting politi-
cal mudstorm will make the Richards-
Mattox-White scrap look like a thank-
you notes party.
But conference committee members
can be controlled more easily than a
full fighting floor of lawmakers. They
can also be pulled and replaced at the
leadership's will. Plus, they're the
scapegoats should the session fail in its
task.
Mark White's Rampage
In what is certainly his Rubicon,
former Gov. Mark White blasted em-
battled Ann Richards, and said that if
she is the Democrat nominee, he may
vote Republican in November.
His statement could be a Texas his-
tory first, and, if she wins, it could be
his last credible act within the Texas
Democratic Party. A remarkable ram-
page.
Meanwhile, in the final week of cam-
paigning, Jim Mattox preached at Bap-
tist churches and appeared solo in a TV
debate where he pumped questions
about her past drug abuse.
Richards waged tours through the
rural areas, and dodged the drug issue
when asked about eyewitness reports.
GOP Abortion Shift
Meanwhile GOP gubernatorial nomi-
nee Clayton Williams and running
mate Rob Mosbacher proposed a
streamlined anti-abortion legislative
plan, narrower in the types of abor-
tions it would outlaw.
Democrats promptly jeered that Re-
publicans were retreating, a move in-
, tended to cause a rift between the GOP
and pro-life groups.
But Republican leaders insisted they
weren't getting yellow, just smarter.
The plan requires parental consent for
minors and outlaws abortions of viable
fetuses and gender selection abortions.
Mosbacher said they want a "real
world" abortion stand which would
gain ground by limiting abortion
rights. The war to eliminate abortions
has been either lost or put on the back
burner.
Spokesmen said the candidates were
not moderating their anti-abortion
stances, but in the face of the Idaho
test case abortion bill and the heat
Williams is taking for an indiscreet
rape reference, there's little doubt the
pair is caught between angry factions:
pro-life and pro-choice.
They need to appeal to the moderate
woman voter without losing pro-life
support and at the same time disarm
fears raised by pro-choice activists.
Carriker said these hazardous waste
injection wells are located down south
close to the ocean. Dallas is trying to
put one by a small town.
Citizens of Albany are lucky they
didn't put one in Shackelford County.
Sen. Carriker, who lives in Fisher
County, said the opposition views us as
being backward, as being few in num-
ber and as being poor. If Fisher County
can stop this hazardous waste injection
well, then this should stop and prevent
any other attempts on other small
towns.
Albany, let's help these people at
Roby. Send contributions to Hazardous
Waste Operation Fund, Roby, Texas
79503.
To give reasons to stop hazardous
waste injection wells in small towns
please write to Oscar Cabra, U.S.
E.P.A., Allied Bank Tower 13th Floor,
1445 Ross Ave., Dallas, Texas
75202-2733, or Russell Kimble, Texas
Water Commission, P.O. Box 13087,
Capitol Station, Austin, Texas
78711-3087.
Donald L. Stilwell
Albany, Texas
Community Calendar
APRIL 12 Nutrition program meal - Youth Center, 11:30 am
Lions Club luncheon - Ft. Griffin, 12 noon
Maundy Thursday - First Christian Church, 8 pm
APRIL 13 Community action program & income tax
assistance - Depot, 10 am-3 pm
Chamber of Commerce luncheon - Ft. Griffin, 12 noon
APRIL 14 Junior-senior banquet & prom - NSES cafeteria
APRIL 15 Easter sunrise service - Fandangle Prairie Theater, 7 am
4-H rifle team meeting - Show Barn, 2-5 pm
APRIL 16 Bridge games - Jackson Warehouse, 1:30 pm
Hospital board meeting - Hospital board room, 1 pm
APRIL 17 WCTCOG job training program - Depot, 10-11 am
Nutrition program meal - Youth Center, 11:30 am
Brown Bag Bible Study - First Christian Church,
12 noon-12:50 pm
APRIL 17-18 Early childhood screening - NSES
APRIL 18 Nutrition prograpi meal - Youth Center, 11:30 am
Kiwanis Club luhcheon - Longhorn, 12 noon
APRIL 19 Community leader meeting - Courthouse, 7 pm
Fandangle practice - Youth Center, 8 pm
APRIL 21 Spring Fling- Downtown Albany
APRIL 25 Social Security representative - City Hall, 1:30 pm
APRIL 26 Buyer-Seller Banquet - NSES cafeteria, 7 pm
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