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PAGE 4A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY D
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EDITORIAL
THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
Weekly Special
A Third World facte-off
Guard training to be offered
By JACK ANDERSON
mi DALE VAN ATTA
WASHINGTON - The Persian
Gulf crisis is a faceoff between two
Arab nations - Saudi Arabia and Iraq
- that, for the past eight years, have
bean the biggest buyers of weapons
ta the Third World.
New intelligence about their
arsenals hints that Saudi Arabia
asay base bought nuclear warheads
Bern China and Iraq may have ob-
tained kngrange missiles from the
Strict Union capable of dropping
chemical and conventional
warheads on U.S. troops.
The 8audi purchase has not been
cenflnned by U.S. intelligence of-
ficials, but they are worried enough
about it to warn President Bush in
Ms secret daily intelligence briefing
that Saadi Arabia may have nuclear
Highly reliable sources used by
the Central Intelligence Agency
lave reported that on Aug. 3, the day
after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait,
the Saadi Ambassador to the United
States, Prince Bandar bin sultan,
asked the Chinese government for
chemical and nuclear warheads to
pat on CSS-2 missiles.
The Saadis secretly bought CSS-2
adssUas from China in 1905, outfitted
with conventional warheads. The
United States did not find out about
the purchase until three years later.
At that time, both the Chinese and
the Saadis swore that although the
CSS4s were designed to carry
nuclear warheads, the version sold
to Saudi Arabia did not have those
Since the Aug. 2 invasion, U.S.
electronic intelligence has detected
that the CSS-Xs in Saudi Arabia have
been in a heightened state of
readiness. The recent top-secret
reports also say there has been an
influx of Chinese nuclear missile
technicians into Saudi Arabia since
early August.
The Chinese Embassy in
Washington called the reports
“sheer fabrication,” and the Saudi
Embassy refused to comment.
On the other side erf the line drawn
in the sand, Iraq also may have a
long-range missile capable of carry-
ing a nuclear warhead, but probably
does not have the nuclear warhead.
The missile in question is the
Soviet-made SS-12, which the Soviets
agreed to destroy under the 1967 In-
termediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Top-secret reports from the CIA and
the Defense Intelligence Agency say
that a Soviet diplomat in Baghdad
has warned U.S. diplomats there
that the Soviets sent SS-12 missiles
to Iraq sometime before the invasion
of Kuwait
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze has privately told
UJS. officials that the Soviets never
gave Iraq any SS-12s. Given the
Soviets’ good record of nuclear non-
proliferation, it is highly likely that
even if the SS-12s changed hands,
nuclear warheads were not part of
the package.
The SS-12s have a range of more
than 500 miles and could give Iraq
pinpoint accuracy that it does not
have with its homemade long-range
missiles.
The only bright spot in the in-
telligence reports is that Iraq is
short on missile launchers for its
arsenal and is even trying to jury-rig
flatbed trucks as launchers.
THREAT CARRIES WEIGHT -
Saddam Hussein’s decision to
release all foreign hostages may
have been prompted by growing
anger in the Kremlin about the Iraqi
treatment of Soviets stranded in
Iraq and Kuwait.
Saddam knew that some of his own
people had beaten Soviet soldiers.
The intimidation of Soviet soldiers
by their Iraqi counterparts increas-
ed after the Helsinki Summit bet-
ween President Bush and Mikhail
Gorbachev. Top-secret U.S. cables
from Baghdad reported that at least
one Soviet may have been murdered
and others were being mistreated by
Iraq.
Gobachev was incensed by the
reports, and he let Saddam know it
through bade channels.
Then, Sovier Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze announced
publicly that file Kremlin would not
sit still if any of its citizens held
hostage by Saddam were harmed.
TOP FINANCIAL COP - President
Bush has signed a bill establishing a
new job in die federal bureaucracy,
that of chief financial officer. The
president has the power to appoint
the new officer, who will then hire
assistants to watch for waste and
abuse in 23 federal agencies and
departments. The object is to stop
the next financial scandal before it
gets out of control. Our sources sau
Bush will probably nominate Frank
Hodsoll to the post. Hodsoll is now
executive director of the Office of
Management and Budget.
Copyright 1990, United States Syn-
dicate, Inc.
State Capital Highlights
Taxes always an issue
JELL WILLIAMS
Association
i Gov.-elect Ann
Mphards said reorganization of the
Mate tax baae would not be an issue
la the Legislature, powerful Port Ar-
thur Democrat Sen. Carl Parker is
planning on reforming part of it.
Parker wants to abolish local
school property taxes and replace
them wifi) a statewide property tax,
the one lawmakers repeated during
Gov. BUI Clements’ first term.
Parker plans to cap state property
taxes at $1 per $100 valuation and
aQow school boards to ask voters for
approval to add an additional 25
Mats from local money.
Other legislators support coun-
tywide taxation, a plan also favored
hgr Or paor school districts.
dhsr rnfiimu-Ukr wp«nAng the
salts tax to include exempted
hmhNMes so the rate can be
hawed may be up to Lt. Gov.-elect
Bib Bullock, now the state tax col-
lector who undoubtedly will be the
foremost tax expert in the
Legislature.
Werkers’ comp fight
An angry Joe Giam, head of Texas
labor anions, likened state insurance
commissioners to a bunch of
“carpetbaggers” last week and ac-
cused them of being in bed with the
faring they regulate.
Gunn’s remarks dune as a Rio
Grande Valley state district court
opned hearings an whether the
werkers’ compensation insurance
law is constitutional.
Insurance board chairman James
Saxton warned Texas businessmen
that If the lawsuit brought by Gunn’s
Texas AFL-GEO results in the court
throwing out the law, the board will
have to raise premiums statewide.
The suit charges the new law
denies woihers basic rights and
dtecriminatos against Hispanics by
reducing benefits for agricultural
Richards surprised many
shaervers by naming state Rep. Jim
Parker, D-Comancbe, as her
legislative director last week, a
Parker, well regarded by his col-
BrnTaadSeM *° b°U>
jggfc m
Craymer, an assistant to
•Gib Lewis, will become the
Js budget director, and
iffidde willbe
appointments secrctarjt.
Parker wifi resign and a special
e held to fill iris vacan-
' is Ms
When he’s not presiding over the
Senate, LL Gov. Bullock will work at
a drug-and alcohol-abuse facility to
augment his $600 a month income.
Bullock will counsel alcoholics and
advise the management of View-
Point, a privately funded center with
offices in Hillsboro, Bullock’s home
town, Beaumont, Dallas, Houston,
Arlington, Lubbock, and Jasper. The
firm is headquartered in Beaumont.
“I feel like I have something to
contribute by helping people who are
trying to turn their fives around, and
this is the kind of work that can be
done as time permits, Bullock said.
Scholarship resolve
The man in the U.S. Department
of Education who created a
firestorm of controversy last week
turned out to be a Midland native
and a boyhood friend of file Presi-
dent Bush’s eldest son.
Michael William, the assistant
secretary, himself an Afro-
American, upset blade Americans
when he banned all racially-
exclusive, publicly funded scholar-
ships. The scholarship policy was
later revised.
Name game assault
When Texas voters had an oppor-
tunity last month to vote for Gene
Kelly and Bart Simpson, their
ballots didn’t tell them if they were
voting for a dancer or a cartoon
character.
State Rep. Warren Chisum,
D-Pampa, is determined to change
that. He has filed a bill Uut would re-
quire a candidate's occupation to be
printed after his or her name on the
ballot.
Greyhound track okayed
The controversial greyhound rac-
ing trade license for Galveston
County was finally awarded to a
group headed by the son of legen-
dary football coach Bear Bryant,
which will build Gulf Greyhound
Park in LaMarque.
The state’s share is six percent of
wagon, estimated at between $25
million to $300 million yearly.
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
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Telephone Number 937-4387
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Van Thomas, Sports Editor
Oteg Peak, Area News Editor
Don Hendrix, Special Sections Editor
Dianna Campbell, Living Section Edttor
Emfiy Banka, Reporter
Stephen Henfrt, Photographer
Gordon LeBarron, Mike Kelly, Don Hoieman
Beamon Goodwin, Adrian Dum, LeeTtorrat
■poaltlan Supervisor
Deborah Brown, Pam Cherry, OUe Stephens
Maty Jo Watson, Sandra Jackson, Kay Ley Cuevaa
Patty Hanherd
Diana Fiscal, Barbara Wllaon, Laura Munaon
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LUFKIN - Hie Community Ser-
vices Division of Angelina College
has secured approval from the
Texas Department of Correction to
offer its prison guard pre-
employment training program cm
the Angelina College campus.
This 150 hour program will pro-
vide the required training for entry
into the TDC prison guard applica-
tion pool from which prison guards
are hired for units throughout the
State of Texas. While completion of
the program does not guarantee
employment, approximately 97 per-
cent of persons completing a college
prison guard program are hired
within 60 to 90 days of completion.
Basic criteria of eligibility to app-
ly to alter the training program are:
1. Person must be eligible for
employment in the United States.
2. Person must have no outstan-
ding warrant for arrest.
3. Person must have no pending
criminal charges or be serving pro-
bation.
4. Person must be at least 18 years
old.
5. Person must have a high school
diploma or state issued GED.
6. Person must not be on active du-
ty in the military.
7. Person must have no Class A
misdemeanor convictions within
previous 12 months, no Class B
Misdemeanor convictions within the
previous six months, no DWI or DUI
within last two years, and no com-
pletions of sentence for felony con-
victions within the last 15 years.
8. Person must pass the
height weight requirements.
Persons meeting all of the above
criteria who are interested in this
program must come to room 111 of
the college administration building
to pick up a program application
form 8 ajn.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday
or 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Friday,
December 17-21 or 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Monday-Friday, January 3-11. For
persons who cannot get to the col-
lege during the times listed above,
an extra application pick-up session
will be held at 1:30-10:30 a.m., Satur-
day, January 12 in the Health
Careers Building, room 110. Pro-
gram applications are also available
at area Texas Employment Com-
mission Offices and the program is
also JTPA eligible. All application
forms must be completed and
returned to the community service
office of tee college by Jan. 18,1991.
On Feb. 1,1901 at 8:30 a.m. all per-
sons who returned program applica-
tions must report to room 209 of the
college science building. TDC per-
sonnel will be present to conduct
weight checks and to give a pre-
employment test. Program ap-
plicants must pass both the weight
check and the teat to continue in the
program. The TDC personnel will
also schedule program applications
to return to file college Feb. 11 and 12
at an appointed time and place for a
personal interview. After tee per-
sonal interviews, the TDC wifi begin
to conduct background checks and
employment reference checks. Pro-
gram applicants not found eligible to
enroll in the training program will
be promptly notified by tetter from
the TDC. The TDC will send the col-
lege a final list of all persons eligible
to enroll in the training program by
Feb 13.
These persons will register and
pay fees in the college community
service office in room 111 of the col-
lege administration building 8 a.m.4
p m., February 14,15,18,19, and 8
a.m.-4 p m. February 20. The cost of
the course will be $150.
The training class will meet
5:30-9:30 Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and 8 a.m.-5p.m. Saturday
starting Feb. 20, 1991 few six weeks
until April 6,1991. A complete class
schedule of rooms and training ac-
tivities will be available at registra-
tion. Upon completion of the training
program, a graduation list will be
soit to the TDC. The TDC will then
begin to make offers of employment
within 6040 days.
The TDC training program in-
cludes such topics as: employment
rules and regulations, defense tac-
tics, grievance procedures, security
procedures, contraband and
shakedown, restraint tactics, use of
force, inmate management, CPR,
first aid, access to courts, riots,
gangs, escape, legal issues, care of
mentally or emotionally disturbed
offenders, hostages, disciplinary
procedures, prison organisation,
segregation, crisis intervention,
criminal justice system, a prison
unit tour, and firearms and
chemical agent training conducted
at a prison unit.
Persons needing answers to ques-
tions or more information should
call 409,633-5206.
Region has potential to become a leader
LUFKIN - By 1992, Deep East
Texas may have in place an
economic information system with
tee potential of making the region a
national leader in rural economic
development efforts.
The system, known as the
Economic Resource Information
Center (ERIC), is being shaped
through efforts of the Deep East
Texas Development Association, tee
Deep East Texas Council of Govern-
ments and the School of Forestry at
Stephen F. Austin State University
in Nacogdoches.
“Moat metropolitan areas have a
great deal of economic information
available to them for economic
development efforts through foe
federal government’s metropolitan
statistical area program,” explain-
ed Tony Bennett of Diboll, president
of the Deep East Texas
Developmental Association.
“But rural areas have a disadvan-
tage because this information is not
available as a part of their efforts to
bring in new business and industry,”
he said.
“The ERIC project would not only
provide that information for Deep
East Texas, but could make the
region a national leader among
rural economic development
efforts,” be explained.
The ERIC sy stem would work this
way:
A central data base and operating
staff would be established on the
campus of Stephen F. Austin State
University-taking advantage of the
university’s computer facilities, ex-
isting personnel, an available
building, and other cost-saving
resources.
The central ERIC location would
generate economic and geographic
information for a variety of uses, in-
cluding economic development, tee
proposed 9-1-1 emergency response
system for Deep East Texas and
property appraisal mapping for all
local tax entities.
For economic development pur-
poses, ERIC would generate infor-
mation on labor, land coats, taxes,
population demographics, ntilttiaa,
natural resources, available in-
dustrial sites, transportation, quail-
Worry about
new things
WASHINGTON, D.C. - For most
of us, Jan. 1 simply marks the begin-
ning of the new year - a second
chance to meet tee goals we Sri but
weren’t able to attain the year
before. But for others, like Alan
Caruba, it means another year to
worry about the little things.
Caruba, executive director of the
National Anxiety Center, will issue
tee center’s official fist of tee “Ten
Silliest Things to Worry About in
1991” on New Year’s Day. Hie list is
designed to take bote a humorous
and a serious look at file issues teat
distract Americans most
What are the Mg 10 for 19911 They
include: Am I going bald? Will I win
should I wear?
For a complete list of the "Ten
Silliest Things to Worry About in
1991,” write the National Anxiety
Center, P.O. Box 40, Maplewood,
NJ. 07040.
dustrial sites, transportation, quali-
ty of life such as education facilities,
churches, culture and entertain-
ment, and other information.
Deep East Texas counties could
access the information through a
computer linkup or by using the cen-
tral location.
“What we would like to see happen
is for each county to set up an in-
dustrial prospect presentation
center with a computer link to tee
central ERIC location,” said Ben-
nett. “In this manner, each county
would have a tremendous amount of
resources available at its
fingertips.”
The idea for ERIC came from a
trip by Deep East Texas leaders to
economic development center
created by a utility company.
That center gives industrial pro-
spects an overview of essential
economic information in each
Alabama county without extensive
travel. The prospect can also leave
with a videotape of the information.
Dr. Kent Adair of SFA, chairman
of tee ERIC project for tee Deep
East Texas Development Associa-
tion, believes ERIC has “vast poten-
tial” for the rural counties of the
region. He hopes the system can be
operational by 1992.
“As for as we know, no other rural
region has ever attempted to set up a
system of this type,” he said, “if we
can make it work here, Deep East
Texas would have an enormous ad-
vantage over other rural areas of
Texas when it comes to economic
development.”
Correct and timely economic in-
formation is crucial to industries
considering new plant locations,
said Adair.
“Without it, they won’t even look
at a location, and that’s been one of
our major problems in Deep East
Texas. The information we needed
just hasn’t been available in Austin
or anywhere else.”
The first step in the development
of ERIC-the design of a system to
generate tee right information-has
been completed through funds pro-
vided by the Pineywoods Foundation
of Lufkin, DETCOG and SFA’s
School of Forestry.
The next step will be to raise funds
for ERIC’s capital costs, estimated
to be around $2.5 million, which
would fond creation of the central
location on the SFA campus and fink
up the first two counties to the cen-
tral ewe.
ERIC supporters will seek the
funds from a number of sources:
From potential users of the
system, such as the 9-1-1 emergency
response program, appraisal
districts, and others.
Fran counties, cities, Chamber of
Commerce, utility companies and
others interested in ERIC’s
economic development potential.
From other contributors, such as
foundations and private companies.
From the Texas Legislature,
where State Senator Bill Haley has
pledged Ms assistance to secure
funds.
Haley said ERIC “is one of tee
most exciting economic develop-
ment projects ever proposed for
rural Texas, and tee benefits could
be far-reaching for every county and
city in this area.”
Adair estimates teat it will cost
about $600,00 a year, perhaps less, to
operate ERIC once it is on tee fine.
Mori of file coats would be generated
by user fees, he says.
The coat for a county or city to fink
up with the central ERIC system
will run from $2,000 to $30,000 depen-
ding on the services desired, Adair
estimates.
Bennett said ERIC also has the
potential to save taxpayers millions
of dollars in costs for duplicated ser-
vices.
“One example is file mapping and
property appraisal information
needed by county appraisal
districts. If we can create a central
system for all 12 counties in Deep
East Texas, instead of each county
paying for a separate system, the
cost savings to governments who
support the appraisal districts would
be enormous,” he said.
Adair said an ERIC presentation
is available to government agencies,
clubs and others who are interested.
They should contact him at SFA’s
School of Forestry
Weather
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ingston). These are figures for the H-hour periods ending at 6 a.m.
POLK COUNTY AND VICINITY - Cloudy Thursday with a 60 per-
cent chance of showers, a high of 82 degrees and east and
southeasterly winds 10-15 miles per hour.
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