Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 141, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1980 Page: 4 of 14
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4—THI NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, FrldayTJtfne 13,1980.
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\ In our opinion
County bond election
probably best answer
Checking decisions on controversial trying to slip something by in a hurry,
public spending issues to the people for of being afraid to seek public endorse-
decision is a procedure that defies ment and various other devious things,
serious challenge. By using the bond election method,
Only time will be lost as a result of fhe ^^issioners Court is taking the
the Hopkins County Commissioners oat off itself and handing the decision
Court’s decision to call a bond election 0 ie PeoPle wtl° must Pay the
They will have the responsibility of
deciding whether the civic center
realizes its full potential as a com-
munity asset or drags along in slow
gear. _ .
At the same time they also are ex-
pected to pass judgment on several
other troublesome county spending
problems, including a new jail and new
on the additions sought for the new
Regional Civic Center instead of taking
the simplier certificates of obligation
route.
In this inflationary age time also
must be regarded as an expense item,
so there will be a price tag attached but
the advantages gained probably will be
worth the cost.
Except when a real emergency office buildings,
might exist, use of the certificate of Now that the voters have been
obligation procedure always is open to assured full control of the county spen-
some criticism. Officials are accused ding ball, it will be interesting to see
of desiring to exert undue authority, of what they do with it.
Good rain prime need
as summer approaches
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NEWS) ITEM- A LONG-DORMANT VOLCANO COULD
ERUPT AT ANYTIME, WITH UNPREDICTABLE R£&ULTg.
Take sun in moderation
Summer may be more than a week
away on the calendar, but a highly
familiar milestone already has been
reached by the course of the weather
itself.
We need a good rain.
The moisture flow has tended to be
a bit on the sparse side this year, suffi-
cient to keep things growing but not
enough to establish a ground reserve
against the rugged demands of sum-
mer,.
June ranks as something of a swing
month where rain is concerned. In
some years it provides a bountiful sup-
ply. In others it can pass through
almost bone dry.
• Precipitation this year has been on
the sparse side, but half of the month
still lies ahead. Nothing would be quite
so welcome now as a full blown
downpour that would keep the coun-
tryside green and growing.
Louisiana progressing
under new governor
Louisiana, for the second year in a
row, has been ranked No. 1 in the na-
tion in the terms of industrial expan-
sion. Much of the credit for the tur-
naround in the improved economic
conditions in lx)uisiana is attributed to
the state’s right to work guarantee.
I^ouisiana enacted the right to work
legislation in 1976 and since that time a
number of major industries have ex-
panded and new facilties have been
built. The accelerated move of in-
Jack Anderson
dustries from the snow zones to the
sunbelt is reflected, along with the im-
proved business climate.
Louisiana’s Republican governor
David Teen — the first elected in over
100 years — emphasized in his cam-
paign his support of the right to work
protection, and many observers credit
his leadership in the continuing and
improving outlook in the state adjacent
to Texas.
The sun keeps our world
alive. It provides light and
warmth It is the source of
solar energy
The sun makes crops grow
to feed us. It paints a bronze
patina on our bodies that
makes us look better and pos-
sibly even feel better.
It can also give us cancer,
Thfit American Canper Soci-
ety estimates that about
600,000 Americans have skin
cancer and that 6,000 die of it
each year. If not treated
early, the disease can be dis-
figuring and deadly
A friend who recently
underwent surgery for remov-
al of a cancerous growth from
his bald head suggests that
just as smokers are warned
about cigarettes, all of us
should be cautioned that “the
surgeon general has deter-
mined that the sun is danger-
ous to your health."
- You don't even have to bask
in the direct rays of the sun to
develop skin cancer Reflect-
ed sunlight at pools, at sandy
beaches and even under trees
and awnings can affect many
people!
Skin cancer is primarily a
white person's disease. Black
skin has a pigmentation that
largely prevents this type of
cancer. Light-skinned, blue-
eyed people are more suscep-
tible than those with darker
complexions.
More men than women are
affected by skin cancer, prob-
ably because men have more
often worked and played out-
doors while women shaded
themselves from the sun.
Skin cancer seems to
appear mainly on people over
60 That doesn't mean it is
another physical penalty for
5v
Justice Department:
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a volcano about to erupt?
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Attor
ney General Benjamin Civi-
letti, an earnest fellow with
an air about him of legiti-
mate purpose, is sitting atop
a Justice Department that is
rumbling like Mount St
; Helens in its pre-eruption
* stage
I have charged that
: Justice, far from blind, has
l been winking at powerful
l politicians who run afoul of
; the law I have cited case
* after case of selective pro
l secutions and aborted inves-
tigations Now the Senate
Judiciary Committee is
-• investigating more than 20
I politically sensitive cases,
’I which appear to have been
: mishandled
Even the celebrated
ABSCAM Investigation has
come under fire. This is the
FBI’s elaborate “sting"
operation, which netted
eight members of Congress
and several other public
1 officials in a phony Arab
attempt to buy influence
with cash on the barrelhead
A month ago, I suggested
that the Justice Department
seemed more eager to puri
> sue President Carter’s oppo
nents than his supporters 1
reported that two of the
ABSCAM targets, Sen. Har-
rison Williams, D-N.J., and
Rep. Frank Thompson, D-
£■* N.J., planned to support Sen.
Ted Kennedy for the Demo-
; cratic presidential nomina-
> tion.
But in the case of
; Newark's Mayor Kenneth
Gibson, undercover agents
met with him in Atlantic
* City last November. They
i sounded him out about using
- his influence to help a phony
Arab sheik He was secretly
videotaped handing an FBI
operative a card and invit-
ing him to City Hall.
The next month, Gibson
endorsed Jimmy Carter for
re-election and became one
of the big guns in Carter's
New Jersey campaign. The
compromising tape, mean-
while, was sent to Justice
Department headquarters,
which never gave the neces-
sary authorization for the
agents to proceed with the
Gibson investigation.
Rep. James Florio., D-
N.J., is another who was
offered a baited hook by the
ABSCAM operators Then
last January, he came out
for President Carter. The
Justice Department seemed
to lose interest in pursuing
Florio, although the con-
gressman says he simply
refused to deal with the
"Arabs ’’
Justice officials ordered
the ABSCAM team not to
pursue promising leads
against at least seven mem-
bers of Congress. This
angered the people at the*
lower levels who leaked the
ABSCAM story to the press,
according to sources close to
the investigation
An indignant Civiletti
ordered an investigation into
the press leaks Now Justice
Department officials are
trying to pin the blame on
the only non-government
member of the FBI under-
cover team, even though
they have privately conclud-
ed that their own prosecu-
tors were responsible for at
least two of the three initial
leaks.
The intended scapegoat is
Mel Weinberg, the 55-vear-
old con man who master-
minded the ABSCAM caper
Weinberg is furious at this
attempt to keep Justice's
skirts dean at his expense,
sources told my associates
Clark Mollenhoff and Gary
Cohn »
Weinberg happens to be
the government's single
\ most important witness in
the upcoming ABSCAM
trials. He not only planned
the whole "sting" operation;
he was present when cash
payoffs were made to the
politicos in a plush George-
town town house and other
locations.
By attempting to pin the
leaks on Weinberg, the Jus-
tice Department brass may
be sabotaging their own
case
Footnote: A Justice
Department spokesman
refused to discuss specifics
of the investigation.
TABULATING TERROR
ISTS: The State Depart-
ment's most recent rundown
on terrorist activity in the
Middle East names Libya,
Iraq, Syria and South Yemen
as the most flagrant sup-
porters of internatipnal
terrorism
The document has been
closely held by the inhabit-
ants of both Foggy Bottom
and Capitol Hill. It pinpoints
oil-rich Libya as1 the most
effective protector of terror-
ist groups and individuals,
which are identified as pri-
marily affiliated with vari-
ous extremist Palestinian
elements.
"Although the Libyan gov-
ernment claims that it is
opposed to terrorists," the
State Department summary
notes, “it has qualified this
by saying that freedom
fighters’ are not terrorists."
The roster of international
terrorist strikes supported
in one way or another by
Libyan strongman Muam-
mar Qaddafi, according to
the State Department,
includes the 1972 Munich
Olympics massacre of Israe-
li athletes; the hijacking of a
Lufthansa plane the same
year; the blowing up of a
Japanese airliner in 1973;
the shootout at the Athens
airport in July 1973, a simi-
lar attack on the Israeli air-
line in Rome that September
and a Czechoslovakian train
hijacking the same month; a
British airliner hijacking
over Dubai in November
1974. and the kidnapping of
OPEC oil ministers in
December 1975.
MOORE MIFFED; Jim-
my Carter's congressional
liaison man, Frank Moore,
was upset at my report that
Rep Norman Mineta, D-
Calif., a Japanese-Ameri-
can. had not been invited to
a state dinner for the visit-
ing Japanese prime minister
because Carter people
thought Mineta was Italian.
An aggrieved Moore called
to point out that there had
been no state dinner for the
prime minister when he vis-
ited here in May.
Informed that the embar-
rassing slight had indeed
occurred - at a state dinner
held last year - Moore said:
‘‘It must have been the fault
of someone in the invitation
office or at State."
Copyright 19*0
* irtH Feature Syndicate. Inc
GROWING OLDER
Harold Blumenfeld
growing older, however. Can-
cerous as well as non-malig-
nant growths may have start- ■
ed 20 or 30 years ago but are
only manifesting themselves
today.
People in the Sun Belt-
where the sun shines almost
every day have a greater
chance of getting skin cancer _
than those who live in more
temperate climates.
But with the arrival of
warm weather, Northerners
are also out golfing, swim-
ming, fishing, sailing or just
basking in the sun on a beach
Without proper precautions,
that’s where cancer can begin.
I know. I never wore a hat
when I lived up North. I
moved to Florida seven years
ago and began wearing a cloth
hat or cap when going into the
sun. (I don’t wear a straw hat.
which permits the ultraviolet
rays to penetrate.)
Recently I detected small
scabby sores on my head and
face. A dermatologist diag-
nosed them as aclinic kera-
tosis, a pre-cancerous condi-
tion.
The growths were removed
with cryosurgery, a painless
freezing process using liquid
nitrogen. Even if they had
been cancerous, they could
probably have been treated
successfully.
Since then, I have had a few
more of the sores, the penalty
for my earlier exposure to the
sun Now I visit my skin doc-
tor twice a year for continu-
ing treatment.
We don’t have to live
indoors. We should partake of
the beautiful, warm sunshine
that feels so good after the
overcast and bluster of
winter.
But some precautions
should be taken when we are
exposed to the sun.
Use a sun screen that lists
PABA as an ingredient. A
tanning lotion may give you a
quicker bronzed look, but it
won't filter out the sun’s rays.
That smog in the sky that we
may curse is also an excellent
sun screen,
Worship the sun with
Berry's World
©!MODyNCA.Inc.
"Jane Fonda and company, no doubt!"
Cl
^ IN WASHINGTON
Robert Walters
moderation. Take the rays in
easy, short doses instead of
frying for long periods. Wear
protective clothing, especially
if you are fair skinned
Don’t try to get a quick tan
with a couple of visits to a
"tanning booth" where you
will be exposed to strong
ultraviolet lamps
Remember, too much expo-
sure to Old Sol not only might
be the seeding of potentially
cancerous cells. You also
might end up with sunstroke.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
The Almanac
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, June 13th,
the 165th day of 1980. There are
201 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history;
On June 13th, 1956, Britain
turned the Suez Canal over to
Egypt after operating it for 74
years.
On this date:
In 1777, France’s Marquis De
Lafayette arrived in South
Carolina to help the American
colonists in their battle for
independence from England.
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion
began against the Europeans in
China.
In 1927 , 750,000 pounds of
paper fluttered down on aviator
Charles Lindbergh during a
triumphant ticker-tape parade
in New York.
In 1967, the Soviet Union
called for an urgent meeting of
the U.N. Security Council to
pressure Israel to return Arab
territory seized in the Six-Day
War.
Ten years ago, Brazil agreed
to ransom the kidnapped West
German ambassador by
freeing 40 political prisoners.
Five years ago, Britain’s
inflation rate jumped to a
record 25 percent — the highest
in the world.
In their best interests
*by Robert Walters
SAN FRANCISCO (NEA) - The nation's wealthy and power-
ful special interest groups have very high standards when
dealing with electoral politics - they insist upon the best that
money can buy.
Utility companies, banks, beer breweries, sqft drink
bottlers, cigarette manufacturers and a host of others have
spent uncounted millions of dollars in recent years to finance
propaganda campaigns designed to defeat ballot measures
that might embarrass or inconvenience them.
Nowhere is the price of buying an election higher or the
practice more common than here in California, where ballot
propositions invariably accompany the candidate selection
process in both the June primary and the November general
election. »
In the most recent example of that profligate, heavy-hand-
ed spending, the country’s major petroleum companies - who
ritually insist that they need fatter profits to finance new oil •
exploration efforts — diverted more than $4 million of those
revenues to defeat a proposed excess profits tax.
The'total estimated cost of that effort was more than $5
million, somewhat less than the record-setting $6 3 million
spent two years ago bv the tobacco industry to defeat a citizen
initiative that would have restricted smoking in public places.
The ballot initiative opposed by the oil industry would have
imposed a It) percent surtax on the California income of all
companies whose worldwide operations produce earnings of
more than $5 million annually and which derive 50 percent or
more of their revenues from "the obtaining, processing, dis-,
tributing qr marketing of oil, gas, coal or uranium."
Revenues from the surtax, estimated by state officials to be
$140 million to $520 million annually, could be spent only “to
fund increased bus and rail service for Californians and to
develop alternative transportation fuels.”
The committee promoting the ballot measure. "Citizens to
Tax Big Oil," was headed by Bill Press, a former policy advis-
or to California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry)-Brown Jr. It original-
ly had a campaign budget of $700,000 but was able to raise
only about $400,000 to $500,000 to finance its efforts.
Press’s campaign strategy was simple and direct "We are
providing a positive outlet for the hostility and frustrations
that people feel about the big oil companies. The bottom line
is corporate greed how much money they are making and
how much money they are spending against this initiative."
Opposition to the surtax was headed by “Californians for
Pair Taxation." a committee ostensibly organized by a San
Francisco-based campaign management firm. But behind the
scenes was an elite group of oil company executives who
made all policy decisions at secret semi-monthly meetings.
The leader of that campaign was Standard Oil of California,
which last year had profits of almost $1.86 billion, an increase
of 71 percent over 1978. It pumped more than $l million into
the anti-surtax campaign
Other oil company contributions included Shell, $650,000;
Union $550,000; Texaco, $260,000; Gulf, $230,000; Getty,
$220,000; and Standard Oil of Ohio, $210,000.
That money was used to finance a television advertising
campaign that saturated the state with dire warnings about an
unspecified “$100 million sting” to be perpetrated by unidenti-
fied "bumblers '
Money was lavished on consultants to provide sympathetic
economic analyses, pollsters to conduct continuous public
opinion research and political organizers to tailor special
pitches to the elderly, blacks, Jews and other groups.
What that campaign began last February, public opinion
surveys showed a seemingly insurmountable 40 percent gap
between those who supported the surtax and those who
opposed it. But the margin dwindled to 26 percent in April and
16 percent in May.
On election day in early June, the ballot propositition was
resoundingly defeated by a 56-44 margin. Once again, a spe-
cial interest group had paid for — and received — the best
that money can buy.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
An “F” for Hypnolearning
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
Can hypnosis improve aca-
demic performance? Some
studies have suggested, that it
can, but often they have been
done without control groups
or statistical checks. In a
more recent test, done with
careful controls, the technique
flunked.
Randy Cole, a Houston psy-
chologist who uses hypnosis in
his own counseling practice,
set up the experiment with 93
students who were taking a
study-skills course at West
Texas State College. The tech-
nique was a kind of hypnosis
that might be efficiently
administered to large num-
bers of students — by tape
recording.
The 31 students who were
assigned at random to an
experimental group first
donned earphones and, on two
separate days, got used to
being hypnotized by hearing a
40-minute tape.-
On it, Cole read from a
widely used set of standard
hypnotic instructions. "Relax
your muscles,” was one
suggestion; “let your eyeballs
get heavy" was another. After
many such promptings, Cole
used a standard check on
whether the students had
actually been hypnotized He
asked them how many of the
suggestions they had been
able to follow. All of them
said they had been able to fol-
low at least some, and many
said they followed them all.
Then came the test of
hypnolearning. Eight times
during the next four weeks,
the students heard tapes with
brief suggestions to induce
hypnosis. Immediately after-
ward, they heard 10 minutes
of suggestions tied to the sub-
ject matter of the course. One,
for example, advised: “You
will find it surprisingly simple
to pick out important words
and phrases rather than hav-
>? ing to read every word.”
When the course was over,
the students in the hypnosis
group had improved consider-
ably in all their study skills.
But so had students in two
control groups who either
received the recorded study
suggestions without the hyp-
notic cues or simply attended
regular class sessions.
The experiment does not
utterly rule out effects from
learning under hypnosis, Cole
says; the curriculum may
have been so effective by
itself that any gains from hyp-
nosis were lost in the overall
high level of improvement.
Also, he says, mass hypnosis
by tapes is not as effective as
individual trance induction,
which may still turn out to
help students who can afford
it.
* * *
frying to increase workers’
motivation, industrial psy-
chologists and management
suggested a number of new
management techniques over
the last few decades.
The newer techniques have
involved setting specific pro-
duction goals, letting workers
participate in setting goals or
in other workplace decisions,
and “job enrichment” —
increasing the variety, auton-
omy, responsibility or scope
of a job. The studies of how
they worked out were careful-
ly compared by Edwin Locke
and several colleagues in
industrial psychology at the
University of Maryland.
Various monetary incen-
tives, they found, led to a
median increase in productiv-
ity. Job enrichment yielded 8
to 16 percent increases. Work-
er participation in making
decisions was least effective
of all — it produced a median
increase of less than 1
percent.
The researchers speculate
that the recent growth of sup-
posedly scientific knowledge
about human behavior may
have made industrial psychol-
ogists lose sight of something
as basic as money.
(c) 1980 Psychology Today
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