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EDITORIAL
PAGE 4A
THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
SUNDAY MARCH 17,1m
Letters to the editor
Superintendent says 'thanks'
To the editor:
On behalf of the Livingston In-
dependent School District Board
of Trustees and staff, I would like
to express our appreciation to the
2,018 voters who demonstrated
concern for the future of our
school children. It Is especially
gratifying to know that the ma-
jority of the voters desire to con-
tinue to provide quality education
for our children.
I would also like to express
special appreciation to: USD
CARES - Citizens Against
Rollback Effects; community
organizations - Polk County
Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors, Polk County
Democratic Club, Association for
Community Action and Polk
County Retired Teachers
Association Executive Board -
who openly expressed their sup-
port In the newspaper; school
groups; and, to individuals who
contributed their time, energy
and funds to provide for the
future of our youth.
It is time for all of us to unite
and move forward. The staff of
the Livingston Independent
School District will continue to
give a maximum effort as we
strive to provide a quality educa-
tion for each student. We need
your Input and support mor e than
ever. Let’s loin together to make
for our kids where
a future
dreams can come true.
Jerry Major, superintendent
Livingston ISD
P.O.Box 1297
Livingston
Children were the winners
To the editor:
Tuesday, March 12 was a
highly publicized day for Liv-
ingston. Because of the real con-
cern for our children’s future, we,
as citizens, exercised our rights
and voted on their behalf.
To anyone who gave five
minutes or five hours of their
time; one dollar or considerably
more; made buttons or stamped
ribbons; distributed flyers; call-
ed strangers and neighbors alike;
sent letters; made posters; but,
most Importantly, voted, know
that you made a difference in Liv-
ingston’s future. It was truly
heartwarming to watch us come
together, young, old and all those
In between, and share a sense of
pride In our community.
Thank you to each and every
one who helped In our children’s
cause.
Sincerely,
Janey West, chairman
Citizens Against Rollback Effects
(CARES)
P.O.Box 1972
Livingston
No place for poets?
To the editor:
Some of us, when relating the
things that we do,
Find we best can express It In a
verse or two.
We’re not really poets of great
reknown,
We're simply ‘'poets In our
hometown!”
We’d like to be “heard” from
time to time,
Write a bit of verse on a subject
or two.
Why, there’s really no telling
what they can do
If given a chance, and en-
couraged by you.
So please let us know if our
“dream can come true!”
And wish you would publish our
little rhymesl
In our “Polk County” paper,
could you find a nook,
Where folks who like poetry
could always look
And find some verse to enjoy
each week,
Or write some themselves if
they wanted to “speak?”
I think your "Editorial corner”
is fine,
But it’s just not the (dace for
things of this kind.
So, if you opened up a “corner”
for poetry each week,
I feel pretty sure you’d not have
to seek
For folks to contribute a verse
now and then,
And soon you will find that a
poet’s a friend.
Who will help in the growth of
the “Enterprise”
Because most folks love poetry,
and you’ll be surprised
How they’ll eagerly hunt for
that section to read
For they won’t want to miss it,
and you will see
Just how many poets really live
in this place,
Who, up to now, haven’t
“shown their face.”
Many folks, being modest,
think they’re not very good,
So they’ve never let others
know that they could
Lollie Roberts
P.O.Box 1398
Livingston
(If you get a sponsor who will
pay for the space,
We’ll be glad to put poetry in
that given place.
In the meantime, it’s true,
newsprint does “grow on trees,”
But by the time It gets here, It’s
attached with high fees.
8o, some editor’s letters will
continue to rhyme,
But, please, stick with the
issues, for we haven’t got time
Or the space to devote to those
without views
After all, our main goal is to
cover the news.
We’re not saying, “Never!” but
you’ll understand
That this poetry-writing could
get out of hand.
We think time and space would
be better spent
On some local person or local
event.
It’s frustration you’ll see if
we’re here typing verse.
When we should be recording
the news, deaths and births.
This column’s still open, for
views good and bad
Poets may use It, or they may
buy an ad.
We’re not ruling it out, It could
hannen someday.
But 'til then there’re two
choices - write a letter or pay.
-ed.)
State papital highlights
Bullock to campaign for income tax
By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
Texas Press Association
AUSTIN - In what some observers
called political suicide, Lt. Gov. Bob
Bullock last week said he will active-
ly campaign for a state income tax
on Individuals and corporations,
saying, "It’s the right thing to do for
Texas.”
He predicted the budgetary crisis
will force a reluctant Legislature
and governor to enact the controver-
sial tax this year.
“It was a difficult decision
because I personally dislike • and I
would imaslne most Texans do - any
type of new taxes,” Bullock said.
He said the state desperately
needs money to reform its un-
constitutional school finance
system, expand crowded prisons
and ball out the deficitoidden
welfare programs.
Bullock suggested a five percent
tax on individual’s adjusted gross in-
come, with the first 825,000 in annual
earnings for a family of four exemp-
ted.
The proposal calls for an eight per-
cent levy on a corporation’s taxable
income as reported to the Internal
Revenue Service.
Richards, Lewis dubious
Gov. Ann Richards and House
Speaker Gib Lewis repeated their
opposition to an Income tax and said
there was little public or legislative
support for one. But Lewis said he
would back the proposal if he
became convinced it was necessary
and Richards did not rule out the
possibility.
“I don’t like income taxes; I
detect no sympathy or support In the
general public,” said Richards. She
said the chances of passing an in-
to none,” but
come tax is “slim
refused to say whether she would
sign or veto such a mesure.
In a related development, the
governor signed an executive order
creating a Governor’s Task Force on
Revenue.
The panel, which will be chaired
by former Gov. John Connally, and
is to report its findings to the
Legislature by July 1, is to examine
the “entire range of revenue
options.”
Contribution limits
Meanwhile, the governor’s sup-
porters turned up the heat on efforts
to limit contributions to political
candidates and officeholders.
Texas is one of 16 states which still
allow political action committees
(PACs) to make unlimited political
contributions.
As a result, 30 of the Legislature’s
most powerful members received
more than 63 percent of their funds
from special interest groups, law
firms and lobbyists.
The Richards-backed bill would
limit contributions to $2,500 per elec-
tion for House candidates, $10,000 for
Senate candidates and $20,000 for
statewide candidates.
In the House
Rep. Hugo Berlanga, calendars
committee chairman and a top
speaker lieutenant, filed a bill which
got mixed reviews.
One provision would outlaw PACs;
another would repeal the law which
bans corporations and labor unions
from making political donations.
Berlanga said his bill would
clarify who was actually giving
money, but Common Cause
spokeswoman Mary Nell Mathis
disagreed:
“It amounts to one person in a cor-
poration making a decision on spen-
ding corporate funds...it is a ripoff of
the stockholders.”
In the Senate
State Senators raked welfare
agency officials over the coals last
week while Lubbock state Sen. John
Montford, declaring the agency is
"out of control,” said lawmakers
should consider breaking lt up into
smaller agencies.
Three Department of Human Ser-
vices board members were absent
from a Senate committee hearing,
which riled Montford and Gov. Ann
Richards, who will name her third
board appointment soon.
Montford, who chairs Senate
Finance, added, "I think an Income
tax is actively In discussion.”
Rains loses bid
Former Texas Secretary of State
Jack Rains, who lost a bid to be the
Republican nominee for governor
last year, lost out on an appointment
last week.
Rain? was nominated to the Texas
Department of Commerce by
Richards’ predecessor, Gov. Bill
Clements, but couldn’t jump the
Senate confirmation hurdle, falling
14-16.
Gay takes House seat
Glen Maxey of Austin became the
first openly gay candidate elected to
the Legislature, defeating an
Hispanic troubled by financial in-
nuendoes, for the seat vacated by
Railroad Commissioner Lena Guer-
rero.
Maxey. who headed up the
Lesbian-Gay rights Lobby for years,
is a Democrat who “has paid his
dues,” said a supporter.
Other Highlights
Texas consumers who buy
“lemon” automobiles will get more
state protection under a bill approv-
ed by the Texas House. The measure
would speed up the process for
declaring an auto a lemon if the
defect Is a serious safety hazard,
such as a brake or steering problem.
• Oilman T. Boone Pickens says
the Texas Department of Commerce
should close the state’s international
trade office in Tokyo in an effort to
force a level playing field with the
Japanese, whose business practices
are anticompetitive.
• The House passed a bill to make
it a crime for a taxi driver to take a
roundabout route to increase fare.'
Do you have an opinion?
The Polk County Enterprise en-
courages readers to submit let-
ters expressing their views and
opinions. '
The letters will be published in
the Enterprise’s “Letters to the
editor” column on Thursday or
Sunday.
The letters may be written on
any subject or issue of general In-
terest.
Letters must be accompanied
by a name and mailing address
and will be subject to editing for
>n, spelling
grammar, punctuation,
and length.
Letters must include a
telephone number for verifica-
tion. We will not publish the
telephone number.
Readers should keep their let-
ters brief and to the point. Each
letter should contain no more
than 850 words. Letters ex-
ceeding that length will be edited
or withheld from publication.
Letters will also be subject to
editing for libelous or slanderous
statements and commercialism.
This column is not meant as a
forum for political candidates,
although we welcome comments
from the public concerning cam-
paign issues. During election
campaigns we will not allow men-
tion of specific local candidates.
Letters may be submitted in
person or can be mailed to “Let-
ters to the editor”, Polk County
Enterprise, P.O. Box 1278, Liv-
ingston, Tx. 77S51.
A
Weekly Special
Egypt becomes partner in Bush peace plan
II iv
By JACK ANDERSON
and DALE VAN ATTA
WASHINGTON - George Bush
has a plan to win the peace in the
Persian Gulf as decisively as the
allies won the war. And Bush’s main
ally In the peace effort is not an old
partner, Israel, but a new partner,
Egypt.
Sources in Cairo told us that Bush
has found a friend in Egypt’s Presi-
dent Hosni Mubarak. The two have a
common vision and have become
closer during the war than Bush’s
relationship with Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir, whom
Bush believes to be stubborn and in-
flexible.
What Bush needs to win the peace
is an ally who believes in being
diplomatic rather than combative,
and the Egyptians have a love for
diplomacy.
Together Bush and Mubarak have
drafted an agenda for easing ten-
sions in the Persian Gulf. These are
the points on which they agree:
- The bulk of U.S. forces must be
out of the region within six months,
and most of them long before that.
- Ongoing security for the region
would be the responsibility of Arab
forces, mainly Kuwaiti and Saudi
Arabian. The United States would
keep Navy, Marine and Air Force
units at a respectable distance while
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia would
keep U.S. weapons and equipment
stockpiled just in case American
troops had to deploy quickly to the
region again. There would be fre-
quent military exercises conducted
by the United States and its Gulf
allies to keep everyone in a state of
readiness.
- Mubarak is adamant that ex-
isting borders in the Middle East be
respected, in spite of the fact that
some Arab countries might want to
dicker over some of the more recent
changes. It was only 70 years ago
that the British drew the post-
Ottoman boundaries, and Mubarak
thinks it’s time to live with those
lines.
- Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria
would be the Arab leaders setting
the terms of post-war life in the Per-
sian Gulf.. They stuck together dur-
ing the war, and they want to dictate
the terms of the peace. The only
thing on which they may disagree
significantly is the role of Jordan’s
King Hussein. The United States and
Egypt think the king can be
“rehabilitated” after his pro-Iraq
stance during the Gulf War. Saudi
Arabia is not so forgiving and will
only work grudgingly with King Hus-
sein.
- The “haves” in the Gulf must
share with the “have nots." Egypt
and Jordan are among the have nots
because they have no oil. They think
it’s time that the oil-rich monarchies
and dictatorships cooperated more
with their starving Arab siblings.
- Mubarak and Bush are both
committed to making some progress
in solving the Palestinian problem,
and they agree that Palestine
Liberation Organization leader
Yasir Arafat Is a “soiled commodi-
ty.” Arafat made the mistake of
throwing In with Saddam Hussein,
and he will not be welcomed now at
any peace table where the United
States and Egypt sit. That’s just fine
with Israel too. Mubarak won’t hat-
chet Arafat in public, but he is
scouting for a workable successor to
take up the PLO banner.
BABY BOOM - The low number of
casualties in the Persian Gulf War
meant that doctors deployed to the
Gulf had some time on their hands.
How did they spend it? Some told us
that they did plenty of pregnancy
tests. Some of the female soldiers
who weren’t eager to do time in the
Gulf were frequent visitors to the
medical clinics. They said they and
their husbands had made heroic ef-
forts at a pre-war baby boom once
they learned that the women would
be deployed. Those who were found
soldiers who take their military
careers seriously. Staff Sgt. Liane
Overstreet of the 82nd Airborne
Division said, “I’ve spent years
i that I can be
tryping to prove to men1
a valuable asset to a unit and keep
up my end of the bargain, and those
women make it harder.”
pass. That’s not the best method in
the heat of battle.
The vehicles were designed for a
war in Europe where the variety of
terrain and the landmarks require a
map instead of a navigational
device.
Two companies are under
COMBAT LOSSES - One of the
major hazards of the Persian Gulf
War was getting lost in the
featureless desert. The Pentagon
never bothered to develop an ade-
quate built-in navigational system
for the M-l Abrams tank and the M-2
Bradley fighting vehicle. That
meant that crews in those armored
vehicles occasionally had to get out
and take their bearings with a corn-
contract to supply the Army with
receivers that take a
hand-held_____________
reading from satellites, but the Pen-
tagon didn’t buy enough of the
gadgets to go around. One company
told us that the mother of one soldier
placed a credit card order and sent
her son a receiver because she knew
she could get it to him faster than the
Pentagon procurement system
would.
CttfrilM 1M1, (MM IMart Syndicate,
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to be pregnant after they reported to
r in the Gulf
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The eagerness of some women to
carry a baby Instead of a weapon
has annoyed the majority of female
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