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By Bill Berger
Jerks and
knee-jerks
One of my old friends from Illinois, James H. Roberts, writes manufacturing process were blamed for the cancer incidence,
something worth reading every week. Here's a sample about some of Looking at the lawsuits from some of the people with ailments they
the jerks who rush new public laws upon us long before they are felt traced to working around manufacturing asbestos products, the
carefully studied..
What this country needs is a good constitutional amendment.
Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety
People, aided and abetted by the Congress and assorted legislatures,
decided in classic knee-jerk fashion, that all of those insulating and
Said amendment to read "When anybody, or person, male or tiling products should be removed forthwith from where-ever.
female, is elected to the Congress of the United States, or to any of the Whereupon we suddenly find the landscape peopled with "asbes-
legislati ve bodies of the several states, the first thing that should happen tos removal agents", clothed in Ku Klux Klan-white sheet-like outfits,
upon their being sworn into office is that their legs should be.amputated breathing apparatus and boots, charging huge sums for the "safe"
'above the knees'"!
This will prevent their predilection for knee-jerk reactions, which
seem to be more and more a trend of the times.
removal of all this insulation and tiling from schools and assorted
public buildings.
This .writer spent a large part of his childhood six decades ago,
Thirty-something years ago, a fire in an ancient Chicago parochial growing up in a house with asbestos insulation on the boiler and heating
Parental ‘support'
school, Holy Angels, was fatal, as we recall, to about 80 elementary
students. There was strong evidence of arson under a wooden stairwell.
pipes and under an asbestos-shingled roof. Today I still live in a house
like that. In college, I built stage scenery, night after night, in a room
Dear Editor:
As a Senior at Hondo High School,
I have noticed a great deal of Senior
parental "support.” I feel this "sup-
port" is being blown totally out of
proportion. I also feel that their ac-
tions should not even be considered
support because they only show it in
areas that are advantageous to their
families. It began in September, and it
seems to be getting worse.
I do not want to point a finger at any
particular parent, but I think it is about
time they learned to control them-
selves. During football season, we
heard that the coaches were too rough
and abusive. And then during basket-
ball season, we heard the cheerleaders
and their sponsor were not doing an
appropriate job.
If the parents are so sure of them-
selves, then maybe they should be
coaching the football team, or they
should be in a skirt cheering.
Their actions just seem to be getting
more ridiculous. The annual sports
banquet has always been put on by the
Senior parents. This year's was no
different; however, it seemed that a
few of the parent's support was not
sincere. I realize that the sports ban-
quet could not be held without the
help of the parents, and this year's was
lovely ; however, I am not an athlete,
and I was treated very rudely. The
parents provided all of the Senior
athletes with gold owl souvenirs.
When it was announced, the interpre-
tation by many was that all Seniors
got one. The mothers were patrolling
the area to insure that only Seniors got
one. There was an owl sitting in front
of my plate. I was approached and
asked very rudely who I had taken the
owl from. I did not appreciate being
accused and being spoken to so
rudely. If the mothers were so worried
that only Senior athletes received a
memoir then they should have made
themselves more clear or called each
up individually and distributed the
owls in that fashion.
A few parents seem to be going out
of control. It is as if they can not
appreciate anything. Supporting the
students is one thing, but degrading
others in doing so is wrong. Show
some support and care for our educa-
tion, not only our extra curricular
activities.
Let the kids attempt to fight their
own battles because you can't fight
them for your kids in the real world.
Name withheld
by request
Never before, nor since, had there been such a tragedy in a school containing two huge hot water storage tanks insulated with asbestos,
from suchacause. (Yes, a school in Texas exploded due to a natural gas Similarly, for more than 30 years, asbestos has insulated the heating
concentration, and another, either there or in Arkansas, suffered
tornado casualties.)
plant of this business.
Only recently, in light of hundreds of similar litanies to the
But the Illinois legislature, in the wake of Holy Angels, ordered preceding, have the bureaucrats belatedly decided that it is more
far-reaching and expensive school safety codes; interior doors, win- dangerous to remove existing asbestos installations than it is to leave
dows, paints, materials, what-have-you, costing hundreds of millions
spread over the state's taxpayers.
Just when school administrators and boards got the new school
them.
Another example of knee-jerk...by jerks.
Wholesale amputation, even if we changed it to public aid, could
safety codes behind them, along came asbestos.
This had its genesis when employees of Johns-Manville company,
which had a plant in nearby Bloomington, among others, appeared to
have suffered a higher-than-average level of lung cancer. Johns-
Manville produced an insulating material made of asbestos fibers, a
fireproof and heat-resistant material used for retaining heat within
boilers and pipes, for wear-resistarit floor tiling, for panels in false
ceilings and for fire-proof roofing shingles. The airborne fibers in the
j save us a lot of money when it comes to the legislative bodies.
Fairbury (111.) Blade
Plain English
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Dear Editor:
My wife and I were two of the
eighteen people that attended the
political forum in the district court-
room the other night. Although very
poorly attended, these people are to
be commended for trying, which is
more than anyone else has done for a
city election.
One question that really galled me
was about this so-called English
Only. This is a sly way of trying to
discredit us. As a sustaining member
of U.S. English for several years, we
don't care what they speak in their
homes. They can speak Greek if they
want to. Our objection is when they
complain about having to speak Eng-
lish in public places.
This entire meeting was conducted
in English and we wondered why,
since they seem to hate the English
language so much. Possibly even they
realized that the only way to get ahead
is to speak English.
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In a letter about our school in the
San Antonio Express-News Monday
morning, written by a so-called histo-
rian, he stated that an interpreter is
still needed. Since our school has
been consolidated for 52 years, this
writer would be far better advised to
see that his brethren learn to speak
English and attend the schools that we
have provided for them with our tax
money.
A recent editorial written by a fine
minority columnist stated that more
than two thirds of the Latin American
population polled in the San Fran-
cisco area favored English as the offi-
cial language.
Yours truly,
'Sarge Ney
(Editor's note: The column to
which Mr. Ney referred in the last
paragraph appeared in the San Anto-
nio Express-News last Thursday. It
was written by Thomas Sowell.)
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndell Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
School funding enters crunch time
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AUSTIN - Democratic legis-
lators are airborne to slamdunk
a sales tax increase past Gov.
Bill Clements’ veto stamp, but the
feisty Republican is poised to re-
ject the shot.
A stem gatekeeper, Clements
warned lawmakers he will keep
them in Austin for a third special
session if they fail to fund public
education with revenue cuts and
transfers.
Meanwhile, a conference com-
mittee that has been putting final
touches on the education bill be-
gan looking at a first-year price tag
of between $523 and $550 million.
Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur,
chairman of the conference com-
mittee, said that whatever bill
emerges will have a first-year price
tag that can be financed with the
tax bill and budget cuts already ap-
proved by the House.
That level, he said, will include
$65 million estimated to be
necessary to make up for a
projected deficit in the public
school budget undcY current law.
By the end of last week, almost
everyone accepted the warning as a
realistic prediction. “This session
is effectively over,” said Lt. Gov.
Bill Hobby.
But-without doubt, some Demo-
cratic lawmakers want a tax bill for
Clements to veto or risk closing
schools.
With the party’s gubernatorial
nominee Ann Richards trailing
GOP choice Clayton Williams by
some 15 percent, she needs the
ad vantage of blaming Cements for
closing schools.
Of course, not all Democrats
think like that, and a handful voted
against the tax hike. The majority
simply felt that a tax hike is the
easiest and only way to get the
fluids for schools. Republicans,
for the most part, think the future
cost will be much, much higher
unless the structure is streamlined.
Prepayment Hopes
The focal question now is: Since
the Legislature won’t make the
court-ordered May 1 deadline,
will the Texas Supreme Court
close public schools before the
semester ends.
The answer depends in part
on how fast a school district
prepayment bill follows the tax bill
through the House.
This bill authorizes Comptroller
Bob Bullock to prepay school
districts for summer months,
thereby keeping them from closing
for lack of money.
But if the partisans want to
trap Clements, why would they
allow him this out? The bill’s
fate, whether it passes or dies,
probably signals the Democrats
real intentions.
That failing, a state district
judge has said he will on May
1 consider extending the court-
ordered deadline.
Thus, lawmakers have at least
two ways to squirm out of passing
a school finance bill this month.
Third Session Inevitable
Perhaps (he wisest heads knew
all along that a third special
session was inevitable.
As Speaker Gib Lewis said last
week, “The governor will do what
the governor has to do,” and so
must pro-tax Democrats. When
Clements threw down the veto
gauntlet, inevitably they had to
answer.
Now, if lawmakers squirm past
the deadline, who’s to say that it
won’t take a fourth or fifth special
session for lawmakers to equalize
school finance?
Some Other Options
■ The Senate niay breathe new
life into the state lottery issue next
session, thought dead when the
House rejected it la^t week as a
means to raise school revenues.
■ Gov. Bill Clements suggested
layoffs. Some state agencies have
hired employees above the Legisla-
tive Budget Board levels.
Lewis and Hobby said they
knew of no place where cuts could
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be made.
Bullock blamed Clements for
“balancing a school budget on the
back of the workers assisting the
poor, the sick and those in nursing
homes.”
The state employees union re-
buffed Clements and called for a
state income tax.
Teachers to March
Before the floor debate on
his sales tax bill, state Rep.
James Hury, D-Galveston, invited
teachers to march on the Capitol.
“Let ’em march, if they’ve got
nothing else to do. It’s good
exercise,” responded Clements.
Of course, they had some-
thing better to do: Teach in the
class room. But a teacher group
spokesman said they’ll march this
ummer in the third special ses-
S1°n‘ Other Highlights
■ The Texas Supreme Court
voted to restrict sealing civil trial
court records only where there is
a specific, serious and substantial
interest which outweighs potential
public danger.
■ The governor of Texas is
a weak position, ranking 49th
among the 50 states’ executive
officers, according to the North
Carolina Center for Public Policy
Research.
The study ranked the governors
on veto power, appointment power
and budget authority.
If Texas isn’t last, who is?
Rhode Island, said the study. i
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