Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 231, Ed. 1 Monday, September 29, 1980 Page: 2 of 10
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Inflation remains top
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With national elections rapidly ap-
iroaching, the Federal Reserve Board
las emerged from a summer of near
libemation for another struggle with
nflation.
The Fed jacked up its discount rate
— the amount it charges other banks
for loans - by a full two percentage
points, an unusually strong dose.
By renewing the squeeze on credit
the central bankers nope to stop the
current run-up in the amount of money
in circulation, a prime motive force
behind inflation.
With all the various pressure groups
competing for vote, politicians who
hope to remain in office face a Her-
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culean task in attempting to regain
stability by holding back the tide of
direct spending.
Yet inflation ranks as the most
damaging of all domestic economic
problems. Other forces are limited in
their scope. Constantly rising prices
hurt everyone.
Nobody likes to put up with tight
money, but when compared to
runaway inflation it must be regarded
as distinctly the lesser of two evils.
"VOYAGE INTO
UNKNOWN”.
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OR "TME MUMMY”?*
Countdown begins
on signing to vote
Qualified residents of Texas who do
not possess current voter registration
certificates face an important deadline
if they wish to cast ballots in the
November 4 general election. They
must complete their applications for a
voter’s registration certificate 30 days
in advance of the election.
Since October 4 falls on Saturday and
the county-tax assessor-collector’s of-
fice is closed on that date, this means,
in effect, that Friday, October 3, is the
final day to complete applications for
the voter’s card.
Today is a good time to check and
see that your card (white) is current
and then have it handy to show when
ou go to the polls on Tuesday,
ovember4.
Bush seeks exposure
while staying in back
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Growing crime rate
cause for concern
Texans have many things to boast
about, but the steadily climbing major
crime rate is not one of them.
It’s an unhealthy fact to report that
there were 1,162 murders committed in
Texas during the first six months of
1980. Three of those slain were police
officers killed in the line of duty.
Another RE48 otlteww were-assaulted-
during the six months span.
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The Texas Department of Public
Safety’s statistics listed 417,774 major
crimes from January through June, an
increase of seven and one-half percent
over the corresponding period of 1979.
As crimes increase, the officers’
workload increases and their ability to
clear criminal cases lag. Only 21 per-
Jack Anderson
cent of the cases were cleared, the DPS
reports.
Records are not immediately
available, but non-major crimes ap-
parently are soaring, if news accounts
reflect accurate pictures of the situa-
tion. Shoplifters are active. Theft of
service complaints are everyday oc-
currences. No doubt many other lesser
crimes go unreported because victims
accept the fact that the chances of
recovery ofihelr goods are unlikely.
The necessity of stronger crime
prevention programs, locally as well
as nationwide, is quite clear. It is going
to take a tremendous effort to reverse
the spiraling major crime record, but
the problem must be addressed promp-
tly and efficiently before the criminals
take over completely.
BY JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - For
George Bush, the Republican
vice presidential candidate, life
on the campaign trail is a
constant struggle for exposure.
It is tricky business, of course,
because Bush doesn’t really
want to make news.
“The thing that is going to
determine this election is the
top of the ticket,” says Bush.
“For me to suggest it’s going to
be different and go out with a
flamboyant statement and try
to get my name on Walter
Cronkite or something like that
— it just isn’t the way I see it.”
While avoiding the kind of
controversy that might attract
Cronkite, Bush assiduously
woos the local media, hoping to
get on the front page or the local
TV and radio news with a low-
key message for Ronald
Reagan.
Thus, when Bush flew in for a
luncheon of the Akron Press
Club, time was set aside for
“press availability” at the
airport.
Fittingly, it was at the press
club that Bush enunciated his
doctrine of the GOP vice
presidential campaign, offering
“a little civics lesson” about his
Tape of cult's last hour
shows rage against suicide
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - To the
outside world, the mystery
of the appalling mass sui-
cide at Jonestown, Guyana,
two years ago was how 900
men. women and children
could have gone meekly and
willingly to their deaths at
the command of their lead-
er, Jim Jones
The horrifying answer is:
They didn’t.
Though brainwashed and
enslaved by the charismatic
cult leader, the People’s
Temple members did not, in
the poet’s phrase, go gentle
into that good night. They
raged, raged against the
dying of the light.
They screamed "No! No!"
when Jones exhorted them
to slaughter their children
and commit "revolutionary
suicide.” They argued They
howled. The children cried.
It was all in vain. Like
Adolf Hitler in his bunker,
Jones had armed fanatic
thugs to enforce his insane
Gotterdammerung Wielding
submachine guns, pistols
and crossbows, they over-
came the sometimes hysteri-
cal protests of the doubters -
- mainly women who balked
at giving their toddlers poi-
soned Kool-Aid.
The grisly evidence that
demolishes the Jonestown
myth is contained in an
hour-long tape recording
made by Jones of the tragic
end of his jungle commune
It is in the possession of con-
gressional investigators and
the FBI. My associate Indy
Badhwar has obtained a
is a sickening sound
track that no Hollywood hor-
ror movie could surpass.
The voices are those of real
people, all of whom will be
dead within the hour. Why
Jones recorded the night-
mare is beyond comprehen-
sion; it is as if the Nazis had
wired one of their gas cham-
bers for sound.
The date is Nov. 18, 1978.
Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., has
just left Jonestown for the
airstrip nearby, after com-
pleting his fact-finding tour
of the People’s Temple
commune It is shortly after
noon.
Jones has gathered the
cult members together and
harangues them over the
camp loudspeaker. He
makes a startling predic-
tion: Congressman Ryan is
about to die. Apparently
speaking for the record.
Jones disclaims responsibili-
ty
“One of the people on that
plane is gonna die ... is gon-
na shoot the pilot," he tells
the crowd. "I know that. I
didn't plan it. but I know it’s
gonna happen. They're gon-
na shoot that pilot Down
comes that plane into the
jungle..."
Explaining that Ryan’s
death will destroy Jones-
town. causing the Guyanese
government to murder or
kidnap their children. Jones
tells his wretched flock they
must foil “the enemy" by
taking matters into their
own hands. When Ryan's
plane goes down, "we had
better not have any of our
children left when it's over,”
Jones says.
"So we can’t sit here and
wait for that catastrophe
that’s gonna happen on that
airplane. It’s gonna be a
catastrophe," Jones shouts.
At another point, he
explains: "If they come after
our children, and we give
’em our children, then our
children will suffer
forever."
The twisted logic of their
leader's deadly scenario
does not persuade many of
the cult members. There are
cries of protest, and one
woman challenges Jones
directly.
"I feel. like, that as long
as there’s life, there’s hope,”
she says. “That’s my faith"
Jones: “But Hon, everyone
dies. Someplace that hope
runs out, ’cause everybody
dies.”
Woman: "I know that, but
I still believe as an individu-
al I have a right --”
Jones: “You do, and I’m
listening."
Woman: “I think, and I
feel - I think we all have a
right to our own destiny, as
individuals. And I think I
have a right to choose mine,
and everyone else has a
right to choose theirs...”
Jones, shouting her down:
“And I don't think we should
sit here and take any more
time for our children to be
endangered "
The debate heats up, with
Jones trying to stamp out
the sparks of resistance.
Suddenly his guards return
from the airstrip with the
report that Ryan is dead -
not in a plane crasn, but
gunned down as he was
about to enter the plane.
Pandemonium breaks out,
and Jones, evidently sensing
that it is time to cut off the
argument before it gets out
of hand, shouts orders to
break out the cyanide-laced
Kool-Aid and get on with the
“revolutionary suicide."
Jones: “Please get us the
medication. It’s simple, it’s
simple. There’s no convul-
sions with it. It's simple ...
Just please get it. before it’s
too late. The GDF (Guyanese
soldiers police) will be here
any minute. I tell you. get
moving, get moving...”
Amidst the general outcry
and protest, one woman’s
voice is heard exhorting her
friends to accept the fate
Jones has decreed for them.
"This is nothing to cry
about," she shouts. "This is
something we should all
rejoice about. We should be
happy about this...”
Jones picks up on this idea
eagerly: “We’ve lived as no
other people have lived," he
tells the crowd. "We’ve
loved, we’ve had as much of
this world as we re gonna
get. Let’s just be done with
it, be done with the agony of
it ... I want to see you go. I
don’t want to see you in this
hell no more. No more, no
more, no more. You’ll have
no problem with this thing if
you'll just relax. It is not to
be feared It is a friend, it’s
a friend.’’
But the screaming and
shouting continues, moving
Jones to berate his follow-
ers, shouting: "Stop this
hysterics! This is not the
way for people who are
socialist-communist to die...
No way for us to die We
must die with some dignity ’’
Pleading with one reluc-
tant woman, Jones cries:
"Mother, mother, please,
please, please - don t do
this, don't do this. Lay down
your life with your child.”
As the poisonings proceed,
Jones encourages the cul-
tists feverishly, like a mad
conductor leading a sympho-
ny of death.
“Hurry, my children,
hurry," he shouts. "All I say
is, let’s not fall into the
hands of the enemy. Hurry,
my children. Quickly, quick-
ly, quickly, quickly, quickly!
No more pain now. No more
pain. I said now, no more
pain...”
As the tape ends, women
are still screaming. Children
are still crying.
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adapting to life as No. 2 after a
long presidential campaign.
Running for vice president,
Bush said, “is really different
than (being) out there slugging
away, going after it for yourself
in the primaries.”
“You know we’re not trying to
always wedge onto 45 seconds in
the national news on
television,” he said.
Rather, his assignment is to
travel around the country to
“articulate as best I can the
positive aspects of what it is we
stand for, and not get out there
and cause a lot of grief for Gov.
Reagan.
“I have certain convictions
that I feel strongly about, but I
will continue to emphasize
positions that are common, that
are strong, that I think will help
people,” he said.
“You don’t want to get out
The Almanac
Today In History
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Sept. 29,
the 273rd day of 1980. There are
93 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Sept. 29,1066, William the
Conqueror invaded England
and claimed the British throne.
On this date:
In 1789, the U.S. War
Department established a
regular army with a strength of
700 men.
In 1918, Allied forces in World
War I scored a decisive
breakthrough of the Hin-
denberg Line in Germany.
In 1923, Britain began to rule
Palestine under a mandate
from the League of Nations.
In 1978, Pope John Paul I died
in his sleep at the age 65 after
reigning just 34 days.
Five years ago, baseball’s
Casey Stengel died of cancer in
New York at age 85.
One year ago, Pope John Paul
II addressed a crowd of more
than 1 million in Dublin,
Ireland, in an impassioned
appeal for peace in Northern
Ireland.
Today’s birthdays: Actress
Madeline Kahn is 38 years old.
Film producer Stanley Kramer
is 67.
Thought for today: An ob-
stinate man does not hold
opinions, but they hold him —
Alexander Pope, English poet
(1688-1744).
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
Pork barrel legislation is
often fashioned from political
backlogs
The fellow who says to look
straight in his eyes while you
speak is probably trying to lift
your wallet unnoticed.
I carefully survey all the
options — you just can’t make
up your mind.
Berry's World
© IMObvNEAlnc
"Just say the word ‘Shogun’ In front of an NBC
exocuttvo and he goes gonzo."
IN WASHINGTON
|| Robert Walters
there and chart a lot of new
waters so some guy will take
one of these things, you know,
one of those styrene
(microphone) things, stick it in
Reagan’s face, and say, ‘hey,
did you hear what that idiot
Bush said in Akron today?”’
Evidence of Walter F.
Mondale’s vice-presidential
drive is seen so rarely on net-
work television that it has been
dubbed the “stealth” cam-
paign, named after the
program to develop an airplane
that is invisible to enemy radar.
Thus, the vice presidential
candidate’s job — be he Bush or
Mondale — is to boost the
morale of the campaign
workers, shake loose con-
tributors’ money, and help get
out the vote, often in small and
medium-sized cities overlooked
by presidential candidates.
It’s ‘welfare’ that works
By Robert Walters
WASHINGTON (NEA) - In an era when it is widely
assumed that the money spent on the government's domestic
social programs invariably is squandered or stolen, here’s a
report on a federal initiative that has been amazingly success-
ful.
Because the program hasn’t spawned any scandals to
attract the attention of the press and the public, it is virtually
unknown. Its official title is the Special Supplemental Food
Program for Women, Infants and Children.
More commonly known as WIC, the acronym for the three
groups of beneficiaries, it is one of the "welfare programs” so
frequently derided by middle-income taxpayers angered by
the supposedly senseless waste of their money.
But WIC is actually saving money for everyone. One study,
conducted by Harvard University’s School of Public Health,
found that every $1 spent to aid pregnant women avoided 63
in hospital costs that would have teen required to finance
treatment of their underweight, anemic or otherwise sick
babies.
Those medical expenses inevitably would have been borne
by the general public, because most of those poor enough to
participate in WIC also qualify for health-care assistance
under the federal Medicaid program.
Another evaluation of the program, conducted by the Yale
Medical School, found substantially lower rates of infant mor-
tality among babies born to WIC participants.
The secret of WIC’s success is a program carefully designed
and implemented to aid a specifically targeted group of bene-
ficiaries: pregnant and nursing women, their infants and their
children under 5.
Potential participants must be certified by physicians,
nutritionists, nurses or other health professionals to be at
“nutritional risk” as a result of inadequate diet and low fami-
ly income.
Although the program is funded by the federal government,
it is administered by the health departments of all 50 states.
They, in turn, certify public or private health facilities or
other non-profit community groups as the local sponsors.
Initially authorized by Congress in 1972 as a pilot program
with an annual budget of 625 million, WIC has grown to serve
more than 1.8 million women, infants and children annually at
a current cost of 6750 million per year.
President Carter has recommended — and Congress proba-
bly will appropriate — 6900 million to finance the program in
the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
But an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people who are already
certified as nutritionally and financially qualified remain on
waiting lists for the program, unable to participate because
all of the WIC “slots” in their states or communities are filled.
In addition, the number of individuals estimated to be eligi-
ble for participation on the basis of income (but not necessari-
ly screened for health qualifications) ranges between 8.7 mil-
lion and 9.3 million.
Those who are participating receive vegetable or fruit
juices, milk, cheese, eggs and iron-fortified cereal. Infants less
than 1 year old also get formula.
But instead of confining itself to merely doling out that
food, WIC includes strong nutrition-education and health-care
components designed, to eliminate the dietary and medical
problems associated with pregnancy and infancy.
The result has been a major reduction in premature births,
low birth weight, respiratory illness, stunted growth, mental
retardation, subnormal development, birth defects and infant
mortality among families participating in the WIC program.
The program has its share of problems. WIC doesn’t have
adequate funds to pay for the health care that is often neces-
sary, there is no provision for special formulas or foods for
those with unusual problems, and the waiting lists remain
crowded.
But the good news is that the federal government has devel-
oped and is expanding a cost-effective program that serves a
humanitarian need while simultaneously reducing the awe-
some financial burden of providing medical care for the
nation’s poor.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN)
GROWING OLDER
Harold Blumenfeld
Concerns of senior voters
By Harold Blumenfeld
I was asked if people of the
aging generation might vote
for Ronald Reagan in Novem-
ber only because he is 69,
whether he might be favored
because they consider him
“one of us.”
So, I took a straw poll in my
neighborhood, which has a
predominantly older popula-
tion.
I found that the candidates’
ages are not a factor for those
I questioned. They won’t vote
for Reagan merely because he
is in their age bracket; neither
do they consider his advanc-
ing age a handicap.
Many expressed other inter-
ests that will guide their
hands in the voting booth.
A few want to know more
about Reagan’s and President
Carter’s stands on the Equal
Rights Amendment, abortion,
Israel, the Soviet Union,
national defense, Latin Amer-
ican refugees and crime
prevention. (The last probably
is a matter more for action by
local and state law-enforce-
ment authorities than by the
president.)
Even some of my more
affluent neighbors wonder
who would use the power of
the White House more effec-
tively to halt runaway infla-
tion. That shows how even
those who are not solely
dependent on Social Security
are having a difficult time
making ends meet.
Many are worried that the
erosion of the dollar may pre-
vent them from keeping up
with the cost of medical care
as they grow older even with
the help of Medicare.
One neighbor, for example,
reported being shocked when
he recently received his
surgeon's bill of 62,500 for a
routine orthopedic operation.
This man faces additional
expenses for the hospital, the
internist, drugs, therapy and
other incidentals.
Most of those I questioned
have no apprehension that the
Social Security Trust Fund
might dry up and eliminate
their important monthly bene-
fit checks. They are confident
that Social Security will con-
tinue for retirees who rely on
it for basic living expenses.
Many agree that the next
president should try to
improve foriegn relations,
particularly with our allies.
They seem to believe that
Congress will be the place to
look for legislation on
improved health care, tetter
housing, reduced inflation and
so on. They feel the need for
laws stabilizing the cost of
necessities like food and
drugs.
Nationwide statistics indi-
cate that people over 60 vote
regularly, even in minor local
elections. That was substanti-
ated^ my poll.
All those I questioned defi-
nitely plan to vote in Novem-
ber. Some don’t want either
Carter or Reagan; they are
going to vote for John Ander-
son, write in somebody else or
indicate “none of the above."
Even if we’re disappointed
with our choices this year, it’s
futile to show our protest by
sitting out the election.
Voting is a privilege we
should cherish. Many of our
ancestors flocked to our great
country because they were
denied this opportunity in
their homelands.
Personally, I’m going to
read and listen to what the
nominees say in the next few
weeks. And I will certainly
vote.
There may still be time to
register to vote if you haven’t
already done so. Then
exercise your right as a citi-
zen and cast your ballot for
somebody on Nov. 4.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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