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• BY TERRY M. EVANS
I According to a story by Saralee Tiede
ip the Tuesday, Sept. 27, Star
Trleftmm computer magnate H. Ross
Rerot spoke before the Southern Gov-
g-nors' Association, Monday, and cal-
led for mandatory two-year public ser-
vice programs for young people. v:
| Perot recommended that young peo-
ple—the story did not specify high
school grads—who don’t choose mili-
tary service be required to serve local,
state or federal government for two
years at a subsistence wage. Those who
refuse would be subject to penalties
that Perot did not specify.
: Perot suggested that such a program
should be “the price you pay for
citizenship in a free society.’’ Govern-
ment service, he said, should be the
price of citizenship. Those who partici-
pated would get certificates. Those who
didn’t would be subject to the stigma of
being considered “free riders.”
Governor Mark White said he sup-
ports the idea but prefers that it be
voluntary.
“Imagine if people could spend a
portion of their time after graduation
working in rural health clinics,” White
said. "I think we could focus an amaz-
ing resource on some of our problems.”
The Star foil asked Burleson and
area residents leaving the post office:
“Would you support or oppose manda-
tory two-year public service programs
for young people who don’t choose
military service?” Those willing to
respond were allowed to read Perot’s
statements prior to answering.
Of 11 respondents, seven were op-
posed to such programs, two supported
the proposal, and two supported it with
reservations about the penalties and
the attached stigma for non-participa-
tion.
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penalties suffered by those who did not
wish to participate. “There should be
no punishment for not participating nor
higher rating for those who do. Those
people who serve in the military service
now don’t get any extra consideration.
This sounds like Russia to me. The
United States is a whole different coun-
try and shouldn’t start doing things like
Russia.”
MARGARET SCHUMACHER
Anne Hunter, a 46-year-old house-
wife, said she would “probably” sup-
port such programs, but she would have
to know what penalties the non-partici-
pants would suffer. “If a person can’t
afford to go to college there should be
something else after high school,” she
said. “The military is not for every-
body.
“Young people would find it a relief to
have some place to belong after high
school. In my time, young men weren’t
even considered for a job unless they
had put their two years of military
service in.”
Hunter pointed out that she did not
approve of the above mentioned dis-
crimination. “There would have to be
exemptions in such a program for
health or responsibilities at home. If it
were done right, there would be no need
for penalties. I don’t want to see a
police state in America; this might
work better as a voluntary program. ”
Tena Brand, a 20-year-old student at
Texas Court Reporting College, said
she was opposed to such programs and
objected to Perot’s remark about pay-
ing a price for citizenship. “EveiYbody
pays a price for citizenship in this
country in one way or another,” she
said. “I pay taxes out of the living I
make for myself. People should not be
forced into a service to the government
unless there is a war.”
Brand also objected to Perot’s sug-
gestion that a stigma be attached to and
“This is a joke. It’s nothing like the
freedom of choice the United States is
known for. The stigma thing stinks.
Paying taxes u serving the country.
I honestly don’t understand some of the
things politicians come up with.”
Kathy Mauk, a 26-year-old waitress,
was also opposed to the idea. “This
doesn’t provide a freedom of opportun-
ity for jobs or a freedom of choice,” she
said. “This is not the American way of
doing things.”
“I could see having a stigma and
controls attached to criminals, but not
the youth of the United States. I would
also hate to see good minds wasted in
low-paying, low-responsibility positions
in bureaucratic government agencies. I
believe in the draft in time of national
emergency, but it is not right to force a
kid to make a choice like this.”
Carolyn LeEan, a 17-year-old secre-
tary, was opposed also. “If you don’t
want to work for the government you
shouldn’t have to,” she said. “If a
person lives in the United States and
has U.S. citizenship, especially if the
person was born here, he is a citizen, he
is an American. Paying taxes is paying
to be a citizen, that should be service
enough.”
Lori Buttner, a 20-year-old assistant
head cashier for Winn Dixie, said she
thought Perot's proposal was “kind of
stupid.”
"Being born here, people have the
right to be here without serving the
government," she said. “I’m an adult
and work to support myself. Who has a
right to force me to choose between
serving the government and military
service? There are people who want to
do this kind of work. It's their job and it
should be. Paying taxes on the money I
make it serving the country. Two
years working in a government agency
would be a wasted two years not
working toward a career, a retirement
plan, or school.”
TOM WYLIE
Margaret Schumacher, a 61-year-old
salesperson, said she would support
such programs as Perot suggested.
“Since there is no draft, this would be
the next best thing,” she said. “I would
have no qualms about penalizing and
attaching a stigma to non-partici-
pants.”
Schumacher said that at the time of
life when young people graduate from
high school, so many are undecided
about what to do with their lives that
such a program would serve as further
education. “It would give them know-
ledge that would help them determine
what to do, and at the same time
perform a worthwhile public service."
CAROLYN LeFAN
Marvin Cross Jr., a 31-year-old roof-
er, at first said he opposed Perot’s
proposal on the grounds that it would be
against constitutional rights to deny a
person a choice. However, he changed
his mind as he spoke and decided he
supported Perot because “everyone
should serve the country.”
Cross said stigmas should be attach-
ed to those who did not wish to serve in
either the military or the government
and that penalties would be in order for
non-participants, although he was not
sure what penalties would be right.
Tom Wylie, a 29-year-old parts mana-
ger for a Whites store, said he would be
opposed to mandatory government ser-
vice. “The way this is stated by Perot,
it is almost Communism,” he said.
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going to begin boxing us in," she said.
“They’ll take us up and then we can’t
move. There’s no other way we can
keep our tax rate down. We have 47
square miles of school district with over
5,000 kids in die schools and more
moving into the area all the time. We
can’t have that many children and keep
educating them properly without bring-
ing in some industries to help out.” „
Gieser pointed at Duncanville as an
example of a town that allowed itself to
be boxed in. “All the cities around them
have come in and annexed them,” she
said. “This hurts because now they
have only 13,000 acres left and it all has
to be industry in order for them to
survive. They have reserved that re-
maining 13,000 acres for industry so
they can’t use it any other way.”
Gieser said people in Burleson have
to start understanding economic devel-
opment. “There are some folks who
maybe don’t understand why Burleson
must grow. We cannot be juk a small,
bedroom community anymore unless
the homeowners want to absorb the
increased tax burden or lose what is
good about Burleson.
“It can be done with caution; we do
not have to accept any industry that is
undesirable. I purposely avoided indus-
tries I felt might pollute Burleson. I
didn’t approach the chemical compan-
ies or paper companies because of their
odor and their affects on air and water.
We are looking for good, clean indus-
tries like high tech. The silicon valley
that we went to in Santa Clara is ail
high tech. Some of them plan to visit
this area in the next few months.”
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my home repaired, that’s all,” he
commented Monday. “Everyone who
has assisted since the explosion has
been very efficient and helpful,” he
added.
Following many years of employ-
ment with Johnson County, Kennard
resigned last spring after a theft scan-
dal unfolded in his probation depart-
ment. Subsequently sentenced to 10
years of probation for the felony theft,
Kennard made restitution to the county
of nearly $10,000.
As to the criminal proceedings of the
past spring, Kennard commented,
“People only seem to remember those
things. They don’t know about all the
letters I’ve received from people thank-
ing me for helping get them back on the
right track and the many years I
devoted to the county.”
GIESER SAID the high tech indus-
tries are more desirable because they
are clean, do not pollute, would employ
a lot of people, and pay good salaries.
“I talked with a company that makes
parts for Harbison/Fisher. There is an
installation in Crowley and they were
interested in Burleson because we are
so close to that plant.”
When the tour was completed, Gieser
had two companies that were willing to
commit themselves to visiting Burle-
son. Four others said they wanted to
look at Cleburne. Burleson has the
chance to make itself more attractive
for the trip that will take place next
year. “Between now and then, we need
to come up with a very attractive in-
dustrial park,” Gieser said. “We’ll
need to show them land that is attrac-
tive to them with the price attached.
They could also use buildings, as much
as 20,000 to 40,000 square feet with
loadingdocks and everything they
would need to come in and start doing
business."
Gieser didn’t get to visit with the
companies she was most interested in.
Three pharmaceutical companies had
answered Gov. White’s letter but had
not been able to attend the meetings.
“If I had had more to show and offer
them, I could have gone to them
directly,” she said. “This type industry
will be one of the number one industries
in Texas within the next decade. We've
got to be able to show them we have
everything they need, then show them
our school system, city services, and
facilities. We have an industrial park,
but it is privately owned. We need one
owned by the city.
“We need to annex south and west of
Burleson. There’s still plenty of land
out there for industrial sites without
putting them next to residential areas.
We realize that homeowners don’t want
a bunch of industries going up next to
them.”
BURLESON HAS not annexed any
substantial amount of land in the last 10
years, according to Jean Phillips, city
secretary and interim city co-manager
“We could annex 30 percent of our
present total land area immediately,"
Phillips said. “The greatest expense
would be providing water and sewer
service to the annexed property and we
would have to present a service plan to
the people on the land and the citizens
of Burleson in a public hearing. If we
failed to provide what we promised in
the plan, we would forfeit the annexed
property and jeopardize revenue shar-
ing from the state."
Phillips added that there is water at
the south boundary of the newly ac-
quired land north of the city so there
wouldn’t be too great a problem supply-
ing to any industry there. However, the
sewer system is farther south and
would be more costly, but it would still
not create a real expense problem.
Gieser said the main thing that is
attracting industries to Texas is the
lack of corporate taxes and individual
income taxes. Dr. Vic Arnold, director
of the Bureau of Business Research for
the University of Texas, delivered a
20-minute speech to each meeting of
California industries. They were also
shown a film about Texas and what the
state has to offer. “After they saw the
film, they were convinced that Texas is
a great place,” Gieser said. “We have
to convince some of them that Burleson
is the best place in Texas for them.
Good schools, good city services and
facilities, good restaurants and every-
thing else good about Burleson is
brought about by growth. Growth is
brought about by industry.
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KATHY MAUK
Lawana Leonard, a 53-year-old
housewife, was opposed to the program
because it would not take the place of
military service. “Young people should
serve in the military,” she said. “Work-
ing in government agencies would not
be the same as serving in the military
and it would be taking jobs away from
other people. They’d have to make jobs
for some of the young people and that
would mean more money from the
taxpayers.”
Bob Coffey, a 39-year-old financial
services representative, objected be-
cause he didn’t think anyone should
have to choo6e between government
service or the military. “People should
be given free will unless there is a
national emergency,” he said. “They
shouldn’t have to choose one or the
other. Nobody owes anything for the
privilege of citizenship if they’re paying
taxes. This would be one of the things
that concerns me deeply over the way
America is going.”
David Bleeker, a 32-year-old exter-
minator for Burleson Pest Control, said
he would support such programs for the
very reasons Perot gave in his speech
to the governors. “I don’t agree with
the thing about the stigma, but his
concept is sound,” he said. "There
should be other alternatives like the
Peace Corps or the Red Cross. There’s
no free lunch, that’s the bottom line.
“In Vietnam, thousands of American
men were forced to go to war. This is a
little different, but it would offer an
alternative if there were rules regard-
ing future military service require-
ments. Participants should be granted
draft exempt status unless a national
emergency exists.”
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