Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 96, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 2, 1990 Page: 4 of 38
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EDITORIAL
Letters to the editor
History continues to repeat itself
trial lawyers regard each other as
mortal political foes, the latest bat-
tle lasting three sessions ewer the
workers' compensation insurance
The fact that Richards' ex-
husband once headed up the Texas
Trial Lawyers Association, and that
it heavily backed her this year, can
only remind us that no quarter is
likely to be given.
In political gamesmanship, the in-
surance lobby stole a inarch on them
aB and she may not be able to do
anything about it
Bat if die finds herself signing a
new state income tax —wtiiw in
her first term, her foes may not be
able to resist the urge to pose her in
front of Mark White's silhouette.
Not all involved in cover-up
AUSTIN - History does not often
repeat itself, bat now and then
parallels occur which tease the
miad. like Gov.-elect An Richards
hi the last two months of her cam-
paign, she hung her hat on the
pledge to bring insurance rates
down in Texas-and even foes in the
other camp had to admit she had lat-
ched onto a good issue.
Bat now, before she's even in of-
fice, the State Board of Insurance
hikes insurance maximum rates by
an average of 1S.I percent
statewide, ranging from a 1.4 per-
cent raise in West Texas to 34.1 per-
cent in Fort Worth.
The board's action last week came
right on file beds of a legislative
hearing on which big companies ask-
ed lawmakers to totally deregulate
uk industry to nnvt rates down.
The request was 110 degrees apart
from Richards' position: she vowed
during her campaign to lower rates
t is a savvy Meanwhile, the governor-elect
cal pressure is held a rare meeting with the man
tai she will replace, as she announced
sot too much her first staff appointments,
ng her hand; Rfctards met for about 45 minutes
t between her wt!h Gov. Bill dements, whom she
tatty bow. had criticised doing her campaign
ustry and the against GOP nominee Clayton
Richards said. "Now is the time
where we have to do the job we said
we would do. This is one of those
ftaiwnL
Smith’s statement is that the
Teas Water Commission out of
Beaumont fn*T«nmir»twri to me
that the individual involved had
contacted him regarding disposal
of the matter. At that point, 1 re-
quested information regarding
what is done to dispose of toxic
materials such as this and was
Following the meeting, she an-
nounced her first two staff
•Jack Martin, a political consul-
tant and former executive assistant
to U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, will
direct Richards’ transition team.
•Bill Oyer, a spokesman for the
Richards campaign and head of
press relations for the state
treasurer’s office, was named press
secretary.
Bufiock’s salary cat
As comptroller, Bob Bullock
draws a $74,691 paycheck, but when
he Is sworn in as lieutenant governor
in January, Ms state salary will drop
to $7 JOB.
That’s why Bullock is considering
joining Ms father-in-law’s law firm
to make ends meet.
Bullock’s announcement is ex-
pected to prompt the Legislature to
put the issue of lawmakers'salaries
to the people in the form of a con-
stitutional amendment..>
<MHe toM me to (he day he saved
my soul from a devil's hell. I’ve
lived a tat of years and He’s never
let me down yet I just wish I
could say the same for me. But
every day He lets me live I have
to admit I IK Him down, either by
doing something wrong, hurting
someone else, neglecting so-
meone, being critical of others,
> expoctmg too much of them, wan-
ting my own way, abating my
own bofiy, thinking bud thought!,
or talking about others unfairly,
or failing to do the things He lays
on my heart to do because rm too
busy (1 jsut don’t have the time,
even though He’s the one who
gives me all my time, talents and
abilities in the first place, and
will help me carry out ffls will if
IH let am), just to mention a
few! You see. Pm not perfect, but
neither are any of you out there.
He told us there’s none perfect,
only one, and fiat’s God, our
Heavenly Father! But he’s told
us to strive for perfection - Jesus
set the example and will help us
toward our goal if we keep our
eyes fixed upon Him!
How can I judge any of you?
God says not to judge, lest we be
judged ourselves! If the truth
would be told about abnoti any of
us who live here in this “wonder-
Weekly Special
one of the Catholic church’s top ex-
perts on Jewish-Polish relations. He
isnothappy with the history of those
relations. "It was a terrible thing,”
he said of the Holocaust “Imagine
10 percent of the population
By JACK ANDERSON
and DALE VAN ATTA
the federal fiscal year when agency dollar doesn’t boy much there. With
heads would come to Mm with fran- the fall of file dollar has come a lack
SSSStSSTi!
end of the year, the Treasury would us about the "snub factor" when
take tt back. One federal bureaucrat they produce dollars, American
toldSkroff, “We’ve got 040,000 left in traveler’s checks and credit cards,
aur travel budget Set up soma Some restaurants, stores and hotels
meetings! Wei figure out what have put a surcharge on American
they’re about later.” credit earth, and others refuse
otiright to take than, fearing a col*
MONEY IS NO GOOD - Many lapse of file UJS. banks that issue
dedicated EuropMles are staying
homo rather than vUttog Europe
this season. It isn’t simply that their Cuuihtiu*,mmirwiweS!w««w.mi.
WASHINGTON - At the Nad
death camp in Auscbwitx, Poland,
the word “Jew” does not appear on
any of the signs. Instead they say,
“Here 4 million people suffered and
died at the hands of Nasi
Elsewhere in Poland there are
other signs cropping up, like the
obscene slogan sprayed on the wall
of Warsaw's State Theater: “Jews
to the ovens.”
Poland was once a haven for Jews.
Some 3.5 million of them lived there
at file beginning of World War n.
But today there are less than 7,000
and their average age is 70. Jewish
leaders have looked at the signs of
increasing «tiAmiBitm mil are
even considering a final evacuation
of those who remain, for their own
safety.
Under the old commmunist
government, Jews were purged
from government jobs and HmiwH
And yet here, there is no feeling of a
void today. I can teB yen there has
been no sorrow. R is became we liv-
ed not together bat side by tide.”
Musial suggested that Poland
needs a cleansing from its anti-
Semitic roots, and from the
Holocaust, even though it was the
Germans who did the killing, and
even though some Catholic priests
paid with their lives when they stood
up for the Jews.
Those anti-Semitic roots ore deep
in the Catholic church. For years,
Catholic officials spread stories
about Jews-the moat common befag
that Jews killed Catholic children to
use their blood in unleavened bread.
As evidence of that outrageous
myth, a huge painting still hangs to-
day in the 17th century church in
Sandomiers depicting Jews
dismembering Christian babies.
There are Poles who believe that
some Jews Mde their heritage so
they can get into positions of power.
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
ALVIN HOLLEY, PUBLISHER
glad?), we aB have a tat of
“black" filings in our past, and
probably in our present lives -
things m don't want anyone else
to know! So, what do we do? We
the campaigns of two presidential
candidates in the recent election.
Bronislaw Geremek, a Solidarity of-
ficial, is Jewfeh by heritage, but not
in practice. Jacek Kuron, Polish
born labor ndtiator, is frequently
mistaken as being Jewish but ia not
Even Prime Ministar Tadeuss
to budget cuts
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