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THURSDAY 7 IANUARY 1999
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List events In this calandar
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Thursday, January 7
► 5:00 p.m., TOPS Meeting, Fire
Hall.
►Jr. High Spearman Basketball
Tournament.
Friday, January 8
► 12:00 noon, Lions Club Meeting,
Fire Had.
►jr. High Spearman Basketball
Tournament.
► 5:00 p.m„ Boys & Girts, V & JV
Basketball games against Sunray,
There.
Sunday School, 11 a.m., Morning
Worship, 7 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10 a.m., Central Baptist Church
Sunday School, 11 a.m., Morning
Worship. 6 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10:30 a.m., Believer's Covenant
Sunday Worship.
Monday, January II
► 10:00 a.m„ Hemphill County
Commissioners' Court,
Commissioners' Courtroom,
Courthouse.
Saturday, January 9
► No scheduled events
Sunday, January 10
► 8:30 a.m., First United Methodist^
Church Early Worship Service,
Sunday School 9:30 a.m„
Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.
► 9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian
Church Sunday School, 11 am,
Worship Service
►9 a.m., Sunday Mass, Sacred
Heart Catholic Church, 10 am,
CCD Classes.
►9:30 am.. First Christian Church
Sunday School, 10:30 a.m.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Evening Worship
► 9:30 a.m., Church of Christ
Sunday Bible Class, 10:30 am.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Evening Worship, 7 p.m.,
Wednesday Bible Class.
► 9:45 a.m„ First Presbyterian
Church Sunday School, Worship
Service 11 a.m.
>9:30 am, First Baptist Church
Sunday School, 10:45 a.m.,
Morning Worship, 6 p.m.,
Training Union, 7 p.m., Evening
Worship.
► 10 a.m„ Assembly of God
Christian Education, 6:30 p.m.,
Evening Worship.
► 10 a.m., Pentecostal Church
► 7:00 p.m., EDC Meeting,
Community Development Office.
► 7:00 p.m., Athletic Booster Club
Meeting, First State Bank
Community Room.
►Jr. High and Freshman Basketball
games against Sunray,
Boys-Here, Girls-There.
Tuesday, January 12
► 12 noon, Rotary Club Meeting,
WCTU
► 5:00 pm.. Boys A Girls. V * JV
Basketball games against West
Texas, Here.
Wednesday, January IS
► 9:15 a.m.-12:00 noon, 1:00-3:4$
p.m., Driver's License Exam,
Courthouse Basement.
► 10:00 a.m., Sagebrush Painters,
Fire Hall.
►6:30 p.m., School Board
Meeting, Administration Building.
SERVICES
► National phone line to report
child abuse: I -800-4-A-CHILD
(1-800-422-4453)
► Tralee Crisis Center for
Women, call toll-free
I-800-658-2796,
► Sharing is Caring food pantry
and clothes closet. Saturday 9
a.m.-noon, First & Elsie.
Donations through local
churches or directly.
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FLY ZONE...
Stop Social Security privateers
Jim Cullen in the Progressive Populist
BePUBLICANS IN CONGRESS appear deter-
llmined to overrule the public not only in the
impeachment of Bill Clinton but also in efforts to
privatize Social Security in order to “save” it.
While public attention is focused on the impeach-
ment melodrama, Republicans continue their cru-
sade to privatize Social Security, despite solemn
pledges made during the past election campaign to
save the popular retirement program. With Clinton
in search of a legacy and the Republicans not in much
of a mood to give him anything else, the privateers
hope the President will come around to a compro-
mise. Working people need to bolster the Democrats
defending Social Security and let the privateers know
that they tinker at their peril.
The privatization schemes would divert a portion
of payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts
that would be invested in stocks or other securities.
Not only would this enrich securities dealers, but it
would also begin driving the wedge between high-in-
come contributors - who have the most to gain from
privatization - and lower income Social Security con-
tributors, who do better under the current system.
Republicans have attracted some support from
Democrats in the Senate, particularly Daniel Moyni-
han of New York, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and John
Breaux of Louisiana. But most Democrats so far have
resisted privatization, which would introduce risk
into a system dedicated to providing legally guaran-
teed core retirement income and would require deep
cuts in benefits. The National Commission on Retire-
ment Policy found that privatization would reduce
guaranteed monthly benefits by 30% or more, raise
retirement age to 70 and cut disability payments.
Clearly one of the reasons Democrats gained five
seats in the House this past November was voter
unease about leaving Republicans in charge of “re-
forming” Social Security.
As we have noted several times before, the gloom-
and-doom forecasts for Social Security assume a
level of economic growth in the next 75 years that is
half the rate we have seen over the past 75 years.
Even the Great Depression in the 1930s showed a
greater growth rate than the moribund 1.8% the
conservative actuaries plugged in to threaten Social
Security with a potential shortfall 40 years down the
road. A more realistic 2.4% growth rate would leave
a fund flush with cash for the next 75 years and no
“fix" needed.
However, even if you assume that moribund eco-
nomic growth, the pundits in D.C. don’t even admit
that simply lifting the $68,400 limit on taxable wages
not only would solve any problems, but it might allow
us to give lower-income workers a payroll tax break.
Maybe the bigshots don’t talk about that solution
because they all make well over $68,400, so the solu-
tion would come out of their pockets.
Let your member of Congress know that any
reduction in Social Security benefits or extension of
the retirement age - as most privatization plans as-
sume - is unacceptable. Call them at 202-224-3121.
THURSDAY
HIGH: 60-65
LOW: lower 30s
Partly Sunny.
NW wind l0-20mph
FRIDAY
HIGH: near 45
LOW: mid teens
Mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain
or snow
SATURDAY
HIGH: 35-40
LOW: 15-20
A slight chance of snow
early, then becoming
partly cloudy
SUNDAY
HIGH: mid 40s
LOW: 15-20
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 1999, newspaper, January 7, 1999; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth747259/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.