The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 2013 Page: 2 of 20
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The Dublin Citizen
Thursday. Nov. 14. 2013
Editor’s Mail
Dear Editor,
This fall, Congress has an important opportunity to
create jobs and grow the economy by passing a long-term,
comprehensive Food, Farm and Jobs Bill. The Farm Bill
impacts every American, every day by providing a wide
range of programs that strengthen our nation.
The Farm Bill is crucial to maintaining a strong agriculture
sector and an abundant food supply that benefits all
Americans. Over the past two years, producers have faced
a multitude of disasters - from drought, to flooding, to
blizzards. These events demonstrate how important the
safety net is to keeping producers going strong. Under the
2008 Farm Bill, the Farm Service Agency provided nearly
SI.3 billion in disaster assistance to Texas farmers and
ranchers using Farm Bill programs.
A new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would provide a strong
crop insurance program, reauthorize the now-expired
disaster assistance programs, and provide retroactive
assistance for livestock producers. By reforming the safety
net to eliminate the direct payment program - which pays
producers whether or not they are in need of assistance -
the Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would also save billions of
dollars in the next decade.
In addition, it would allow USDA to continue export
promotion efforts that have led to the best five-year period
in agricultural trade in American history, and provide FSA
with the tools to extend additional farm credit in Texas.
The Farm Bill is also a job creation bill that would
empower USDA to partner with rural communities to grow,
expand and support new businesses.
A new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would help Main Street
businesses grow and hire more, strengthen infrastructure
in our small towns and provide new opportunities in
biobased product manufacturing and renewable energy. In
Texas, USDA has funded 118 projects since 2009 to help
farmers, ranchers and rural businesses save energy through
the Rural Energy for America Program. This and many
other efforts could continue with a new Farm Bill.
A new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill would make important
investments in nutrition programs that provide critical
assistance to vulnerable Americans, including children,
seniors, people with disabilities who are unable to work,
and returning veterans. It would enable USDA to continue
our work with more than 500,000 producers and landowners
to conserve the soil and water. It would undertake new
strategies to improve agricultural research, and it would
ensure a safe food supply.
All of these efforts strengthen our nation. A new Food,
Farm and Jobs Bill would continue the job growth we’ve
seen in recent years and help grow the rural economy.
That’s why President
Obama has identified passage of a new Farm Bill as one
of his top three legislative priorities this fall.
This is a prime opportunity to give America’s fanners,
ranchers and producers the certainty they need about the
next five years of U.S. farm policy, while investing in the
rural communities that stand at the heart of our values.
The Farm Bill has stood as a model of bipartisan consensus
for decades and it is high time that both Democrats and
Republicans come to a compromise on this new Farm Bill.
It is our hope that Senate and House conferees will reach a
consensus quickly and move a Farm Bill f orw ard as soon
as possible.
Respectfully submitted,
Judith A. Canales (State Executive Director, USDA - Farm
Service Agency)
Paco Valentin (State Executive Director, USDA - Rural
Development)
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A real scourge
Polio has become a problem in war ravaged Syria and
surrounding countries are worried about it spreading across
their borders.
Efforts are being made now to give oral vaccinations along
the borders of those countries including Lebanon, Jordan and
Iraq and probably others. On my trip earlier this year to India,
I was advised to take a polio booster which I did as polio cases
are reported in that country.
There are reports that there has been a polio outbreak in
Syria due to unsanitary conditions as well as malnutrition.
That could also be said about the situation in other countries.
However, the best 1 remember, a definite cause for polio has
not been 100% identified, just suspicions.
That brings back a lot of memories. In the late 1940’s and
early 1950’s polio was pretty common in this country and was
extremely feared as many people died from it and others
suffered from the after affects including breathing problems
and loss of use of legs for various reasons.
I well remember how scared my parents were that I would
contact the disease at school and how protective they were to
avoid my exposure. One of my classmates at Comyn, Rick
Barnes (younger brother of the future Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes)
came down with polio and was in the iron lung. We were close
friends with the Barnes family and went to the hospital to see
Rick. That was scary for anyone, particularly a person my age,
about 6 or 7, the best I can remember.
If you've not seen an iron lung, they were one of the first
devices that helped people breath and it’s a big machine with
the body encapsulated except for the head. It’s a very primitive
looking machine but it did die job and is evidence of just how
far medicine has come in the last 60 plus years.
In later years, after the Comyn school dosed and Rick went
on to school in DeLeon, I would keep up with him. He went on
to be a lawyer for the government in Washingtoa He has a few
walking problems still but suffers no other problems due to
the polio.
A Dublin dassmate, Bill Turney, also had polio and went on
to become a very successful and respected doctor in Waco. I
never really talked to him about it but it did leave him with a
slight limp. I’m not real sure how many people died or were
permanendy disabled by polio but it was a very feared disease
at the time and certainly still needs to be regarded as a horrible
disease.
Fortunatdy, for the most part, the Salk vaccine devdoped in
the 50’s eradicated the problem and I well remember the
praise heaped on its developer, Dr. Jonas Salk. I also remember
just how feverishly the medical community worked to try to
find a vaccine for polio.
According to information on the internet and what 1
remember of it, ‘The Salk vaccine changed medical history ,
preventing many thousands of cases of crippling illness and
saving thousands of lives. In the United States, the vaccine
soon ended the yearly threat of epidemics and the toll of
paralysis and death.
“In the five years before 1955, when mass inoculations with
the vaccine began, cases of paralytic polio averaged about
25.000 a year in the United States. A few years after polio
vaccination became routine, the annual number of cases
dropped to a dozen or so, sometimes fewer. In 1969 not a
single death from polio was reported in the nation, the first
such year on record, and now the disease is on the verge of
being eradicated worldwide.
“Success against polio was a critical event in the dawning of
the modem era of vaccine development, which has been
marked by effective preventatives against a broad range of
other infectious diseases, including influenza, measles, mumps
and rubella.
“Paralytic polio was known as early as the time of ancient
Egypt. In America it was never as widespread a disease as
influenza or measles. In the 1920’s, 30's and 40's, however,
outbreaks of the disease came, increasingly, in frightening
epidemics. Many children and young adults died, were
crippled or paralyzed.
“Some expected the decade of the 1950's to be even worse,
and in the epidemic of 1952, the worst on record, nearly
58.000 cases of polio were reported in the United States; more
than 3,000 died of the disease."
I just hope the outbreak in Syria is not taken too lightly as
this Is a serious disease.
Thanks for reading.
(McKinnon can be contacted by e-mail, publisher#
dublincitizen.com).
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Sterling
Texas Press Association
Amendments approved
All nine proposed amendments to the state constitution
on the Nov. 5 election ballot passed.
Texas Secretary of State John Steen, the state’s chief
elections officer, on Nov. 6 commented that the 2013
constitutional amendment election “was our first statewide
election with a photo ED requirement in place, and it was
smooth, secure and successful.”
The photo identification requirement took effect following
a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June on a Voting Rights Act
case that challenged the state law over its potential negative
effects on voter turnout, particularly among Texas’ black and
Latino voters, older Texans, rural Texans and Texans of
lower income.
On Election Day, Steen said unofficial vote totals for
Proposition 1 indicate that 1,144,844 voters cast a ballot, a
66 percent increase over the 2011 constitutional amendment
election in which 690,052 voters cast a ballot.
Here are brief descriptions of each proposition:
Prop. 1, authorizing the Legislature to provide for the
creation of a homestead property tax exemption for the
surviving spouse of an armed forces member killed in
action.
Prop. 2, repealing the State Medical Education Board and
the “obsolete" State Medical Education Fund.
Prop. 3, authorizing a political subdivision to extend the
number of days of an exemption from ad valorem taxation
that are already covered by an ad valorem tax exemptioa
Prop. 4, authorizing the Legislature to create an ad valorem
tax exemption on the residence homestead of a partially
disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of a partially
disabled veteran if the residence homestead was donated to
the veteran by a charitable organizatioa
Prop. 5, authorizing the making of reverse mortgage loans
for the purchase of homestead property, and to amend
lender disclosures and other requirements in connection
with such loans.
Prop. 6, providing for the creation of the State Water
Implementation Fund and for the fund to be used in assisting
in the finance of priority projects in the state water plan to
ensure the availability of adequate water resources.
Prop. 7, authorizing a home-rule municipality to provide in
its charter the procedure to fill a vacancy on its governing
body for which the unexpired term is 12 months or less.
Prop. 8, repealing the article of the coastitution relating to
the creation of a hospital district in Hidalgo County.
Prop. 9, relating to expanding the types of sanctions that
may be assessed agaiast a judge or justice following a formal
proceeding instituted by the State Commission on Judicial
Conduct.
AG sues over hiring rules
Texas Attorney Cieneral Greg Abbott on Nov. 4 announced
he had filed a lawsuit challenging guidelines issued by the
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that “limit
the ability of employers — including the State of Texas and
its agencies — from
categorically excluding
convicted felons from
employment,” he said.
Abbott said the hiring
guidelines the EEOC adopt eel
in 2012 “prohibit Texas and
its agencies from categorically
excluding convicted felons
for certain jobs."
Unit issues
identification
A Texas Department of
Public Safety on Nov. 5
announced a mobile disaster
unit has been deployed to
central Texas to issue
replacement Texas driver
licenses and replacement
Texas identification cards to
victims who lost those
documents as a result of the
severe storms and flooding
that recently impacted that
area of the state.
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ACROSS
1 tills Sandler was In
98 ’ Waterboy" with
SMU s Kathy Bates
5 astronaut Slayton
who lived in TX at
his death
6 notable legislator
for vets: TX.............
Tiger" Teague
7 ex-Ranger catcher
Petralli (85-'93)
8 TXism: *__wash"
(meaningless)
9 TXism: "can t hold
__to him"
(one ot a kind)
6 TXism: “tie up the
loose
8 TX Jerry LaCroix
was in this 70s
band lor a while
(2 wds)
>1 TX Buddy Holly
hit. “____Boy!"
22 "_in peace"
23 ya taler"
24 doth
30 decayed or
outdated
(hyphenated word)
34 this makes TX coot
35 mother of ex-Dallas
coach, Jimmy
36 Russian river
37 this Bob pitched for
Rangers in 1985
39 this Kenedy paper
is now "The Karnes
Countywide’
(2 wds.)
43 TXism: "sticks like
___a road”
44 Mexican signatory
of NAFTA: Carlos
Salinas de...........
45 dk. to Austin from
Abilene
46 Santa checks this
47 upscale store in
Dallas or Houston
•__Taylor"
49 nestle or cuddle up
5? "Texas -Step"
53 TXism "raring to
54 Rangers like to
second base
55 “Texas of
Certified Public
Accountants’
58 spews out
25 :26
•~T
“'fHT
^52
59 this Muhammad
beat TX Foreman
in 74 jungle rumble
60 AIDSvtrus
61 wood-chopping
toot
DOWN
t TXism. “N he was
____ wouldn't
wag his own tail”
(lazy)
2 in Comanche Co.
on hwys 8 & 16
3 novel by TX Judith
McNeught"
........of
Dreams"
4 former TX
Commissioner of
Education, Lionel
9 first cattle brand
recorded in TX
10 TXiam: •___
about which horse
he saddles' (thief)
11 “Possum Kingdom
Recreation ....."
12 TXism "stirred up a
hornet’s_
13 dislike intensely
14 _ Porte, TX
15 hesitation sounds
17 TXism: “aH over but
the__________________*
19 ornamental and
fragrant plant
(2 wds.)
20 TXism:"___
hear thunder" (deaf)
24 do re mi _ so la ti
25 pecan pie with ice
cream: *_mode"
26 Slate Capitol, e g.
(abbr.)
27 TX Revolution was
a_against
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28 TXism: "get your
ducks___"
(get* together)
29 El _ ____ College
is a community
college In down-
town Dallas
31 Amarillo hosts the
“......-8tate Fair &
Rodeo"
32 honey-baked___
33 TX champ buKrider
Don was son of
this rodeo producer
36 No Atlantic flatfish
40 design by
computer (abbr)
41 state lor Yu
Darvieh or Matt
Garza
42 TXism: Thin-
skinned'
48 TXJanis Joplin
died from a drug
over in 1970
50 Colorado indians
51 TX Mac Davie hit:
“Baby, Don’!___
Hooked on Me"
56 TX or NE city
57 genus of molhs
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