Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 160, Ed. 1 Monday, July 7, 1980 Page: 4 of 10
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4—THC NEWS-TELEOKAM. Sulphur Spring*, Toxus, Monday, July 7,1S*0.
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In our opinion
Tuberculosis incidence
cause of concern
Tuberculosis can be controlled and
normally poses few problems in
Hopkins County. But with the
emergence and detection of several ac-
tive cases of the disease in Hopkins
county in recent weeks, it becomes
vitally important for an increased
awareness of TB.
County Health Officer Dr. Don
O’Neal has issued a call for all citizens
to act now to help health officials find
any TB cases in the area so that treat-
ment may be started.
The Public Health Clinic, located at
213 Jefferson Street, has offered to skin
test free of charge all people who think
they may have been exposed to the,
disease. It is a simple, easily perform-
ed test and can be done quickly.
The Public Health Clinic feels that
it is especially important that migrant
farm or industrial workers be tested.
Since many of these workers do not
speak or read English, employers of
migrants have been urged by the clinic-
if they suspect possible contact, also
may take the skin tests.
Speedy action is suggested so that
this disease does not become a wide-
spread problem.
our marriages
My wife, Nikka, and ! cele-
brated our 50th wedding anni-
versary on June 13 Recently
we got to wondering bow
many of the couples we knew
in our youth are still among
the married
What brought this on was a
notice in our local newspaper
that another couple was also
going to celebrate 50 years of
marriage Nikka and 1 had
met at this couple's home
Both of them went on to
become noted musicians
Another reason was a
report in the New York Times
that one of Nikka's old sweet-
hearts had made a valuable
contribution to child psvchia-
try
Nikka wrote to him We got
together in Baltimore It was
an enjoyable meeting He. too.
had stayed married to the
same woman for half a centu-
ry. .
We remembered our circle
of friends in the 1920s Most
of us had very litUe money
When we met, it was to dis-
cuss books, plays, art. politics
and esoteric subjects gener
ally Sometimes we listened to
GROWING OLDER
Lou Cottin
music at the home of the one
person who owned a record
player
Niklu
Nikka and I started a tele-
phone campaign to find out
where and how our old friends
of younger days now lived.
One call led to another
Yes. some of our friends
had died All had married.
Only one couple of the 10 we
reached had been divorced
This 90 percent record of
long and successful marriage
needs to be interpreted.
The year we were married,
the divorce rate was 16
percent. Preliminary Figures
put the 1978 divorce rate at
5.2 percent Our children are
the ooes responsible for the
upsurge m the divorce rate —
a statistic as surprising and
painful to us oldsters as it
must be to them
What was the essential dif-
ference between our marriag-
es and those of younger people
who casually break up after a
few years'’
In our cases, we have not
frit pressured to communi-
cate anything and everything
all of the time Our silences
are relaxed and relaxing. We
sense and respect each other s
right to independent thoughts
There is a special kind of
privacy in long-term marriag-
es There is respect for areas
of individuality There are
places in our separate lives
into which our spouses don t
intrude
About some matters, we
feel that the less said the
better Couples whose mar-
riages last for decades under-
stand that there is no sense
up hot coals in’ a
fire We consider it
wasteful to disturb the sereni-
7of our relationships with
anger
Troubles and disappoint-
ments are shared Quarrels
are patched up. Healthy
defense mechanisms grow to
become part of the habit of
bring together
In time and with conscious
practice, the love that brought
people of our generation
together m the first place
keeps reasserting itself
Indeed the love even grows
It takes on a more delicate,
more intriguing form among
the long-married
We have worked at our
marriages We have fashioned
our married lives separately
and together
I said to Nikka. Thanks for
a good life."
She answered, "You're not.
so bad yourself ’
She west out to tend her
garden. I went up to my office
and wrote this column
XEOSPlPtK EXTHtPRISE ASSJ>
Benefits of technology
outweigh possible risks
The results of a survey conducted
recently by Louis Harris and
Associates, Inc. are interesting. The
study found that the American public
in general believes that technological
progress projected over the next
decade or two offers more benefits
than possible risks.
The opponents of nuclear power
plants ana other technological ad-
vances have claimed more newsprint
space and a great deal of prime televi-
sion time to paint a different picture, if
these accounts are taken at face value.
It would appear that while the
highly vocal opponents of nuclear
power have been gaining maximum
coverage of their activities, including
many of an illegal nature, the general
public does not close its collective eyes
Sulphur Springs Neuds....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
Jack Anderson
to the benefits that can be provided by
the technological advances.
True, the American public wants
and demands maximum safety stan-
dards to curtail possible risks. But they
also realize that there are risks in just
about every activity that exists.
Americans, for example, are well
aware that driving automobiles on the
busy freeways and city streets offer
dangers. The risks, in fact, can be
shown to be greater than those involv-
ed in actual wartime combat.
The survey clearly shows that
Americans are for progress and
technological developments that will
enrich and benefit mankind. They are
smart enough to know that risks are in-
volved.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
The Almanac
Today in History
By Tba Associated Press
Today is Monday, July 7, the
189th day of I960. There are 177
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history;
in 1846, the United States an-
nexed California, as the
American flag was raised at
Monterey after the surrender of
the Mexican garrison.
On this date:
In 1801, the black general,
Toussant L’Ouverture,
proclaimed Haiti’s in-
dependence from France.
In 1865, four people were
hanged after being named as
accomplices of John Wilkes
Booth in the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
In 1898, the United States
annexed Hawaii.
In 1958, President Dwight
Eisenhower signed a bill
making Alaska the 49th state.
Ten years ago, Romania and
the Soviet Union signed a 20-
year friendship treaty.
Last year, the United States
and China signed a new trade
agreement granting Peking
most-favored-nation status.
Today’s birthdays: Singer
Ringo Starr is 40, French
fashion designer Pierre Cardin
is 57.
Eyadema, Togo's tyrant,
portrays self as divine
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Almost
a decade ago, I introduced
Idi Amin, the mad ruler of
Uganda, to a world that had
taken little notice of him. He
strutted for a while on the
world stage until his ignomi-
nious fall from power last
year.
Now his place as the
world's most asinine despot
has been taken by a flam-
boyant man with the unpro-
nounceable name of EUenne
Gnassingbe Eyadema. He
rules the 2,4 million people
of the small West African
nation of Togo with a flair
which, if set to music, would
make comic opera.
He is square-shouldered
and close-cropped, his mas-
sive bulk too big for his stat-
ure, with a deep, resonant
voice such as one expects to
hear call sinners to the Last
Judgment. His talk is ram-
bling and his temper short,
suggesting pn exasperation
over the Inability of others
to see those simple truths
that are so clear to him.
Although he is less bloody-
handed than Idi Amin,
Eyadema's attempt to por-
tray himself as a living god
indicates that he is cut from
the same cloth. Here are
some examples of his reach
for divinity:
* Portraits of the 44-year-
old president-for-life, wear-
ing the wings of an angel,
are displayed in govemipent
and private offices through-
out Togo.
* Eyadema buttons show-
ing the dictator's smiling
face are worn like bouton-
nieres on lapels throughout
the country. <
* Eyadema not only
makes most of the news in
Togo; he also reports it. He
is the Walter Cronkite of
Togolese television, reading
the evening news himself.
* A shrine has been erect-
ed at the site of a plane
crash from which Eyadema
escaped unharmed while
four others perished. The
wreckage of the plane has
been enshrined, and the date
of the crash has been
declared a national holiday.
* A $250,000 vanity-press
comic book, recounting
Eyadema’s miraculous sur-
vival of the plane crash,
starts out in fairy-tale fash-
ion: “Once upon a time there
was Eyadema...”
* The erstwhile army ser-
geant uses such titles as
"guide of the nation,” “the
helmsman,” "leader of the
new march" and “source of
knowledge"
The reality of Eyadema's
rule is less saintly, however,
than his propaganda would
suggest. With a handful of...
other non-commissioned
officers in the French-
trained Togolese army, he
seized power from President
Sylvanus Olympio in 1963.
In the past, Eyadema has
boasted that he personally
killed Olympio, but he
dehied this in a recent inter-
view. The murdered presi-
dent's son, Gilchrist Olym-
pio, now a businessman
living in Paris, has been
trying to oust Eyadema
from power.
Gilchrist Olympio told my
reporters Bob Sherman and
Katherine Koch: "Eyadema
has rounded up entire fami-
lies, even entire tribes, and
held them incommunicado ,
from the outside world. One
tribe was picked up and held
in the desert last year and
about 200 people died”
• When my reporters tele-
phoned the palace for
comment, the tyrant of Togo
handled the call himself. He
responded in resonant
French, gracious to begin,
then increasingly bellicose.
He denied all charges, final-
ly cutting off the conversa-
tion with an abrupt: ”1 have
no time to talk about this
nonsense."
DO AS I SAY: Richard
Daschbach, the flamboyant
chairman of the Federal
Maritime Commission, has
ordered a crackdown on the
staff's official travel. “Only
essential” trips could be
taken, he warned So
stringent were the travel
restrictions that the
commission’s hearing law-
yers had to cancel a trip to
San Francisco to take depo-
sitions.
Meanwhile, however,
Daschbach himself was fly-
ing off at public expense on
“essentiar trips to Palm
Springs (that well-known
maritime center), Rio de
Janeiro, Honolulu, London,
Madrid, Buenos Aires and
San Juan. The total tab
came to $9,500.
And the agency’s general
counsel, Brien Kehoe, who
often travris with Dasch-
bach, spent more than
$(,000 of the commission’s
travel kitty.
ed( a
globe trotting, the peripatet-
ic chairman said it was nec-
essary to represent the com-
mission at official functions
“If I didn’t think it was
necessary, I wouldn't do it,”
he assured my staff.
POLITICAL POTPOUR-
RI: Independent presidential
candidate John Anderson
will ask each House member
to put aside party loyalty
and pledge to follow his
popu
esidei
the presidential election is
thrown into the House ...
Anderson would like to
entice one of the following
Democrats to join him on
the independent ticket: New
York’s Gov Hugh Carey or
Sen. baniel Patrick
Moynihan, Illinois’ retiring
Sen. Adlai Stevenson in or
Colorado’s Sen. Gary Hart...
Contrary to published
reports, Ronald Reagan
hasn't narrowed down his
vice presidential choiWs but
is still considering several
possibilities, a close confi-
dant told me President
Carter's political managers
will try to present him as a
man of peace and to portray
rival Reagan, in contrast, as
a hardliner who would be'
reckless with military
power
THANKS, BUT NO: Mar-
garet Truman Daniel enjoy-
ed her recent visit to the
National Press Club, but
firmly declined her hosts'
request that she perch atop
the club's old upright piano
for a picture. It was the
same piano that was the set-
ting for a famous World War
II photo of her father, the
late president, at the
keyboard, grinning up at a
sultry starlet named Lauren
Bacall.
BOMBING ALREADY?
Employees of the new
Department of Health and
Human Services refer to it
frequently by the code name
“H2S” - which happens to
be the chemical symbol for
hydrogen sulfide, the stuff
that gives stink bombs that
sickening rotten-egg smell.
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Smooth-Hawley revisited
Scattered here and there in the press in recent weeks have
been reminders of an anniversary of some significance to our
own tunes
It is a half century since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff became
the law of the land, apd the near ruin of the economy
History by definition not being news, and the economic
branch of same by most definitions bong equivalent to intel-
lectual anesthesia, is an adequate explanation of why refer-
ences were so few 4
That and our preoccupation with the alarming state of
affairs of the economic present — the continuing slide into
recession, inflation s continuing attack on the value of the dol-
lar and the continuing deterioration of the American world
trade position.
The cumulative impact is apparent throughout the econo-
my, but nowhere more so than in the auto industry with the
81 5*6illion Chrysler hail-out. the rising volume of fuel-effi-
cient imports, a third of the work force off the job and
increasing pressure on Washington to curb foreign competi-
tion
There is also steel, with problems of even longer duration
with aggressive European and Japanese producers that it sim-
ilarly has sought to alleviate by penalizing imports.
And these are just a couple of the biggest fellows on the
block. Similar aches and pains are afflicting many others, and
bringing similar demands for a protectionist response to the
general ailment
Demands that are Finding increasing public support A
sounding just out by the New York Times/CBS New Poll,
notes an emphatic majority - 71 percent - for protectionist
trade policies to deal with the present complex of economic
problems The inflation-curbing advantages of unimpeded
trade in the form of cheaper foreign goods carry little weight
Berry's World
COMMENTARY
Don Graff
when the essential issue ts perceived to be the preservation of
the jobs of American workers
It marks a significant increase in protectionist sentiment in
the last few years and it raises disturbing echoes of the situa-
tion in 1930 when the economy was slumping, unemployment
was climbing and business and labor were clambering for
assistance.
Which brings us back to Smoot-Hawley. The steepest tariff
hike in the nation's history was Washington's response back
then, and it quickly brought results Although not those antici-
pated.
In self-defense, U.S. trading partners immediately followed
suit and raised their tariffs. Trade volume declined, every
country’s position worsened and the worldwide Depression
was deepened and lengthened.
Protectionism did nothing to improve things for Americans,
employers and would-be employees alike, a consequence that
was rather quickly recognized. But it took decades to reverse
the process and repair the damage
American trade policy since World War II has been consist-
ently in the opposite direction — toward reducing trade
restrictions to the politically practical minimum And it has
been largely successful, culminating last year in the labori-
ously worked out multilateral trade pact entered into by 99
members of the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs.
Much has changed in the half century since Smoot-Hawley
Tariffs today are far below 1930 levels. The United States
itself has become a much greater trading nation with exports
currently representing 10 percent of overall output of goods
and services, far a total vatoe in 1979 of $270 billion
One out of every eight manufacturing jobs now depends on
exports, almost a third of corporate profits come from over-
seas activities and the produce from ooe of every three farm
acres is destined for foreign purchasers.
Americans thus have much more to lose this time should
history repeat Protectionism as a response to today's chal-
lenges could cost more jobs than it saves because it is essen-
tially ail effort to export economic distress rather than resolv-
ing its causes at home.
And as Smoot-Hawley taught at considerable cost it doesn't
wort.
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