Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1986 Page: 3 of 38
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Editorials. Opinidns
Burlcton Star, Thursday. July 17. 1986-3A B
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Speed limit overdue for
revision to sensible level
Nevada’s brief posting of a
70-mile-an-hour speed limit
the other day wasn’t genuine
defiance, but a move to trig-
ger a court challenge of the
national 55-mile limit. The
action, however, emphasized
the growing Western rancor
over a speed law that can add
hours to an obedient motor-
ist’s travel over the great dis-
tances between Western cit-
ies. The resentment has
reached the point — and ev-
eryone knows it — that it’s a
rare driver who keeps it at 55.
Nevada’s is but the latest
such protest. Other Western
states have enacted symbolic
70-mile limits (usually, as in
Nebraska, with prior assur-
ance of a gubernatorial veto),
and Western congressmen
have repeatedly introduced
bills to allow higher speed
limits on rural sections of the
interstate system Out West,
the 55-mile limit is as popular
as prohibition or cattle rus-
tlers.
Twelve states have devised
an ingenious way of discreet-
ly ignoring the limit. Instead
of stiff fines, drivers exceed-
ing 55 on thinly traveled rural
highways are given only mild
citations for “energy wast-
ing” that cost around $5 and
aren’t recorded against the
driver’s license or reported to
his insurance company.
In California, the limit is so
widely flouted that the High-
way Patrol recommends
boosting it to 65 on safe, light-
ly traveled rural stretches of
the interstates That would
let tne CHP concentrate its
enforcement on highways
with heavier traffic where
the 55-mile limit should re-
main as an important safety
factor Such flexibility is es-
pecially important in the
West, where scoffl^y motor-
ists who habitually exceed
the limit on sate stretchers be-
come menaces when they re-
flexivelv speed on heavier-
traveled routes Moreover,
once half or more of a state’s
driving public is caught
speeding, the state must
forfeit millions of dollars in
federal highway funds.
The growing erosion of re-
spect for the 55-mile limit
could be stemmed by letting
the states make sensible ex-
ceptions on their safe, rural
interstate routes. That might
lead to a marginally higher
accident rate on those high-
ways, but it could well be
offset by the ability to deploy
scarce traffic officers more
effectively on the hazardous
routes and thereby better
safety overall. The 55-mile
limit made sense as one of a
package of stop-gap energy
conservation measures when
it was enacted nine years ago.
and it still makes sense as a
safety measure on crowded
^highways. But it’s unneces-
sarily restriOTive in many
parts of the wide-open West
It’s time for Congress and the
administration to acknowl-
edge the need for fine-tuning.
(Reprinted by permission
of The Sacramento Bee)
Letters to the Editor
Reader’s idea btInflated
_. I read with great delight (mis-
ery loves company) and empathy
Terry-EVins’ article in the July 10
*7 ,
would
closet.
Also, I want Ip say how much I
come„ 0®ut M
("
enjoy* heading your
Letters to the Editor
Star accused of bias
In response to you “Editoi i.iK
Opinions" dated Julv 10 lost-In
James Moody, it sure seems than
when newspapers print I ties ate
supposed to print the lasts and
not be one sided or biased Wliai
is not stated in the article is that
the so called lad\ repoiiei who
plumed tor inlormalum ilium
the Crowley Police Department*
had gotten hostile and w.is
demanding information -- name
ol victim onl\—at around 10 >0
am. the next da\ tollmcing die
accident,r less than 24 bout'
Does the1 Burleson Si.u make a
habit ol onl\ wanting lo Itnd out
inlormalum only when ck.uh in-
curs in a neighhonug city ITTc
so called repo tie i was informed
that an investigation was pending
on the accident, and appaieniK
the Burleson Sun icpuHei was
more interested in obtaining ilu
name ol a 10 \cai old gul ,md
had no compassion h>t
deceased lam11\ Ibank goodness
the Burleson Sun does uoi u pic-
sent the view ol the iili/iii- . >i
Burleson
Yes certain llitm inaimn
public record bui is the Buries,
Slur too good to conn in ilu
police department and luul mil
what is really going on1 D<> imi
know the numbei ol plume ,.(i.s
that are made to a police dci'ail-
menl in a da\ icquc'iine mfm-
mationJ When vou pi mi p.un.il
tacts without checking tin oiTai
side what kind ol piolcssi.MMi
are uiu' \Nhal 1 have lead and
seen in the article is what is c v
pccted ol an amateui ncwsp.tpci.
and il is in jux 11 lash I .lm, i m
the Burleson Sun looking a: dn
truth bui vcha' thee seem to am
as benelits lliemseKes and iml
the vubhc W hen sou msuli tin.
police department, \uu also a
suit the citizens ol C i ow U \
Is dns the ivpcol reporting \ou
can lind when a reporter has
nothing else lo do What about
com caliber ol leadership which
sec nis lo be lac king ' W hen
tiagcdv occurs, vou als< show
ixc 0'co'inpassion. Yes. the iirst
amendment applies, bur \uu
seem to loiget the supreme court
decision ol due process when
\ou insult the individual police
c*!Iicci who is out there to pro-
led people like vou, lake the
abuse Irom die public, hut also
jvihie with a smile
You don't heal us or the
Itmvlcv }>.i|Ht criticizing your
poluc departmeni or your citv I
coiisidei die snuice and hope
dial lames Mooch does not
'cl-Hci die view'd! the Burleson
s .a loi las lading to check Ins
lac is Ik Ioic going ill pnnl II vou
, an: upon die whole taels and
wain to bias dial shows die
.! he i ol ic porting the public
needs to ■'know Nlavhe .the,
Hmieson Snil has not grown up
u.ili da people' ol Buileson and
want' lo keep the public in-
loimcilul w I ml dies want to phut
a toice u[schi the tcadcis
Rohclt Mimic
( low Ic'V Pol ic e Dent
Editor’s note: The letter refers
to a fatality accident in Crowley
on July 3. The so-called lady
reporter is Managing Editor
Dottle Wilson. The Burleson
Sl.tr would he more than glad lo
print (acts about police matters
in Crowley If those facts were
ever made available. The fact
remains, despite the name call-
ing Iron) the Crowley PD, that it
is the only law enforcement
agency we deal with that consis-
tently refuses to divulge facts
that are public Information. We
have no complaints against in-
dividual members of the Crowley
Police Department, but Its
policy of enforced secrecy is a
bad one and Chief of Police
Ruby Hall needs to do someth-
ing about it.
Star which related recent ex;v. enjoy thr*S&(/*gon Star.
pcrieti.ee w jib the great gifts from We lived “in Barleson
developers, usually of lake lots.
It took several personal ex-
periences on mv part before I
kicked the habftv ? 2 ’---ls.'
I found mysdfHveakening the
other day, but mv husband was
strong and tossed the invitation
into the trash.
The crowning—and final —
embarrassing episode was my
"Sea Cloud Sport Boat,” which
turned out to be an inflatable raft
(for two?j. *
1 was afraid we would wreBc.
the car driving;,Hbaie*2r!flY hus-
band and kids were laughing so
hard I didn’t laugh as much as
they did.
I've lound out since that there
tinue to
paper.'-, • ■ -
It's good thy wav vou feature?
our young people and their ac-
(^ompli^firfi’cnts. I wish Keene
years and just moved to Keene had such a newspaper,
two years ago. 1 still work in Sincerely, . -,®’
Burleson at the Southwest Ad- Betty Heinrich
yiptist Headquarters and con- ihuByo,.-•*
Offers called Jripoff*
I am just writing in response to public to see it But the gittsare
I
are several of us where I work
who belong to this secret “Sfca
Cloud Sport Boat" club, and no
telling how many more if they
t just writing in response to
Terry Evans’ story about the free
gifts Jo people w ho visit lake lot
or condominiums.
I 3tn\glad£someone had the
guts to expose these people and
their hard-to-believc gifts for
what they really are.
I receive these offers' every
week and I know they are a rjp-.
off because 1 have* friends who
have.|spne v^y disap-
pointed. I am sure people’ have
very nice property for sale, and
they need £ome way to entice the
public to see it. But the gi . ,
joke and sometimes aty._alt^)uf
ar£$%.
>; -*-v %
One frien
thuf mine was prom- • i-
ra'^pass Boat just for -
:
ised a Cobra
looking at their expensive prop-
erty. What he got was’ a small
rubber boat in a srqalf bq* that
would take the ’Tncf^bltiTfOtk . g
-ou^btow if up!
Anyway, you were right’ If it
sounds loo good to be tjxte, it
always is. Keep up the; good
work.
Dale and Pam Owen
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These young people and ilu if
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group of young men and women
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with their training ollieers lot a
training session Again these
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Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1986, newspaper, July 17, 1986; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth761215/m1/3/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.