Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 213, Ed. 1 Monday, September 8, 1980 Page: 4 of 10
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Detroit fights safety regs
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Another chance
for local effort
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they can Swc-jot financaE* na6»e *p2 *cy - ar*
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se- arrc.ii-
7V jKJwtrr warn NHTSA to delay the
erwmmm » -.aas ana *4#' track* of rale* designed to guard
a^a-gg sM*csf-cttWEs m^nes in crashes
Bwsaers Car anxapen sow m«*t be able to withstand a 0
rHpact wtraoat cj—*g> The auto makers are asking that
isc susut be .nttnc to 25 rr.pt
Rear NHTSA aas indicated that within the next
twe years £ *1 propose rale* to improve tail- and turn-signal
hj*rng a i n«m of reducing rear-impact crashes The
n for more government-financed research
before ary regs^titcs are preened
arises* ratings Thu year
An oppertawty for rMunwg Jefltio*
r>e*kd in tht s
arena of the ffe^iuas
County Qvk Onter has been ts>
covered by lAwefl Cable It presents
another opportunity for member* ct
the community to step forward to take
action on their own, at «*t-savi«?
figures.
Completion of the Qvk Center fur-
or sarrasat program, ttoai .are. .that,
prices would cone in at the $159,990
’_-j ,
nisfungs is going to be a step-by-step
process. Some of the items wuJ have to
be funded by supporting governmental
agencies but that lengthy process will
cost money - has already cost money ,
in fact.
But some of the needed equipment
can be obtained through ckher chan-
nels and the seating is an example If
the arena seating was to be put out on
buds as would be required under a bond
herd or iagber At sacs a pnee. S
might be diffkait to jump oat at this
time for the addition.
Bat there are sane bleachers
available now and the cost estimate is
right at 64,990. That's still a hefty
figure, but no where near what an
all-new system w.ocld cost somewhere
on down the lm»
Pe<jp*e wtoare interested in seeing
the crjRtinued'dev ekipmeRt of the Qvic
Center for all of its many uses should
be interested in taking advantage of
this opportunity. Private donations are
going to be solicited for the seating and
it is a good opportunity for the con-
tinued example of community desire to
get the center equipped
THE WAGMAN FILE
BobWagman
5«» attatME l^'^reacy ffiepK an General Hr.n
attempt w> pc tv gc-»«ritoei^v^Kp6« -j* ntr~*ujc. -Jit
xtjmxjt: r«xra_K rsszess sc a*r V pease* 12 sur_^g
w«s tae lie; model war ic afi can scod a the llK Suras ’
Bk Detract t --acspa.fi far bcyooc this ress-atj*.
Baacahy tv a*x makers ar* aaansf taat a arjec X safety
11 tdih— - sane that xaie yet to taxe effect, oners tiat
Lav* see* jt fort* for years - be pwRpooefi oXLf.eC ;c ever
wipe; fr-jCE tv 5wts cneapieteiy TVy irsc wart far screes
that a»i sf« safety ra*» wtS 0* jrpaemetr.ee s» tie foresee-
able fstsr* . ,
It WyvtjC V noted taat foreifs firms ——*~i aac
ntiinag can is tV UisteC States saaK coccpiy wrti ail US
*afetr rajfement*
Among tv aetr. makers many reqses-tec crarges safety
r*f*iaii<*s are tV foOovmc
Child-restraint rystems GM sa* asaed for jowerusg of the
'-Treat force-level reoeremem* for dsud-restrair: systems a
C-asrwrrtiv» ratings This year NHTSA has begun to
rate can based on tVsr ability to withstand 30 mph collisions
GM was* tv agency to terminate these ratings
Ueopct protect** GM wants to change the way
NHTSA proposes that can be tested for their ability to with-
stand side -TT-.pam Industry critics charge that the standard
w£ v weateaed -J tV testmg change is adopted
Rear fieias of view The mdnstry opposes as too costly
art uo to ism rear visnal obstructions such as pillars and
to- regsire .ar ger xtsde nurron
These adastry resjaests appear to be getting a sympathetic
nearrv free tv Carter administration Already it has been
anootacec -sa: the Department of Transportation — of which
NHTSA a a pan — will issue 00 major safety regulations
drag IkW
Prrvaieiy administration officials say they have no
problem ink GM 5 request for a year s delay in the phasing
2 of nas&ve restraints although the auto industry has known
smee III" that the requirement was to begin with the 1982
mooe-i year
Aatc-safety orgamzatiOBS are worried that the White House
will caao moc± of wkat has been gained in auto safety because
of its concern with Detroit's financial health As Ben Kelly of
the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety puts it Were
hopeful that the administration will hold the line on safety-
even given -v very real financial plight of the auto industry.
But we know that the White House is under intense pressure
from Detroit to make major safety rollbacks W’e can only-
hope mat tney will resist the pressure "
VE»Sf- aPBL EVTSIiPRiSE VSS>
New lesson
in enterprise
The American auto industry is get-
ting a painful lesson about free enter-
prise, and the fact that private com-
panies are free to take risks in the
marketplace to provide a product or
service desired by consumers.
If a product is provided in a form
consumers want, the producer will
reap financial benefits. Failing to turn
out items that consumers prefer vir-
tually assures losses.
Despite repeated warnings, U S.
automakers have been caught with too
few smaller and more fuel-efficient
vehicles. Foreign automakers, mean-
while, have been reporting huge suc-
cesses in the U.S. market.
This is never more apparent than on
the West Coast, where highways are
jammed with the smaller cars, virtual-
ly all of them bearing foreign manufac-
turer nameplates. It is really a signifi-
cant difference from past motoring
habits, one that is clearly seen on those
roadways.
And one of the reasons is the con-
siderably higher prices for gasoline
that West Coast motorists are paying
when compared to Northeast Texas
pnees. Last week there was about a 21-
cent per gallon differential between
prices in California and Texas.
Recession, inflation, government
regulations, worker productivity,
management, safety requirements and
other factors all have contributed to
the losses being posted by American
auto manufacturers. But the basic
reason, it would seem, is that the U.S.
companies badly misjudged what
American consumers either wanted to
buy, or were going to be forced into
a
The Almanac
buying
U.S
manufacturers can change their
direction. But it will take a long time to
overcome the head start of the foreign
makers and it has proven to be a costly
lesson.
Tod** in History
By Th* Associated Press
Today is Monday, Sept 8, the
252nd day of 1900. There are 114
days left in the year
Today's highlight in history
On Sept. 8, 1ST74, President
Gerald Ford granted former
President Richard Nixon an
unconditional pardon for any
crimes he may have committed
during his term in office.
On this date:
In 1565, a Spanish expedition
landed at what is now St.
Augustine, Fla., and founded a
European settlement in North
America
In 1855, the Crimean War
ended.
In 1935, Sen. Huey Long was
shot in Baton Rouge, La. He
died two days later
Ten years ago: The Red Cross
was named to negotiate with
guerrillas holding hostages on
board two hijacked airliners in
Jordan.
Jack Andarson
Officials of State Department
leaked secret testimony
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - No offi-
cials In Washington are
more outraged than those at
the State Department when
a reporter discloses one of
their precious "secrets"
They cry "national securi
ty' even though the expo
sure of supposed secrets Is
usually more embarrassing
than damaging to security
Now I've learned that a cou-
ple of Foggy Bottom's
junior-grade Kissingers
deliberately leaked confi-
dential Information to a for-
eign official, thus sabotaging
a months long investigation
Into a inultimillion dollar
car thelt operation along the
Mexican border
Here's what happened
The House subcommittee on
Inter American allairs
sc hill u led hearings into the
growing problem ol Amen
can cars being stolen and
smuggled into Mexico US
law enforcement authorities
were convinced that corrupt
Mexican officials werc
colleague had said in the
executive session had just
be more likely to cooperate
been repeated to him by a
.....al in
in cleaning up the situation
WILL IT FLY? Sen
Mexican consular official
Texas The long investiga
lion was effectively
wrecked, the El Paso police-
man said
A classified State Depart
ment memo confirms that
Mt'Kune and another Mexi-
can desk officer, Everett
Briggs, had summoned a
Mexican Embassy official,
Salvador Campos, and pro-
ceeded to tell him practical-
ly everything that went on
at the secret subcommittee
session
The memo explicitly
states that McKune
' summmarized the presen
deeply Involved In the rack
et Esti
stimates of the opera
tlon's take ran as high as $2
billion
Because of the delicacy of
the investigation, and
because two key witnesses
Pa
from the El Paso police
department refused to testi
Pr
tat Ion made by the El Paso
police officers in executive
session ” Campos was told,
according to the memo
That (the El Paso offi-
cers) presented credible evi
dence of Mexican police
officers operating vehicles
known to have been stolen
recently in El Paso, (and)
“That evidence was given
regarding three motels used
by Mexican police as staging
areas in Ciudad Juarez for
stolen U.S vehicles destined
for transportation to the
Mexican interior"
The subcommittee is now
fy in public, subcommittee
cn
chairman Gus Yatron, D-
trylng to repair its credibili-
ty byletting it be known that
State “
Pa, decided to hear the tes-
timony In closed session A
tlmony in ciosea session a
State Department represent
alive, Kenneth McKune,
then ol the Mexican desk,
attended the closed hearing
A few days Ihter, one of
the El Paso investigators
called the subcommittee
staff and complained angri-
ly that everything he and his
State Department personnel
will no longer be let into
executive sessions
Footnote McKune told
my associate Lucette Ug-
nado that informing the
Mexican official was "the
responsible thing to do ” The
reasoning, other sources.
**id, was that when Mexican
authorities learned how
much Congress knew they'd
Strom Thurmond, R-SC,
who predates the Air Age by
just over a year, has a pet
project that appears to be
rooted in nostalgia It's the
Enforcer, a turbo-prop fight
er plane that’s essentially a
souped-up version of the
World War II P-51 Mustang
The Air Force considers
propeller-driven planes
obsolete, but Thurmond
pushed through J6 million
lor research last year Even
though the Air Force said it
hasn’t used the first $6 mil-
lion yet, Thurmond made an
impassioned plea for an
equal sum this year, to the
amusement of his Senate
and House colleagues taking
up the Defense Authoriza-
tion Bill in secret session
"Do the funds include the
cost of scarves and
goggles?" Sen. Howard
Cannon, D-Nev., wanted to
know And Rep William
Dickinson, R-Ala . irre-
verently suggested the
Enforcer be equipped with
55-gallon drums and spray
nozzles for crop-dusting use
When the chuckles subsid-
ed. however, the powerful
Thurmond got his $6 million
PRECEDENT FOR
BILLY? A modest Billy
Carter approach to White
Michigan theater owner to
book a movie in which young
Roosevelt had a financial
interest
Using Marine Corps
stationery, thus assuring
there'd be no doubt WHICH
James Roosevelt he was, the
president's son wrote “A
lew weeks ago, I sponsored
the distribution in the United
States of a picture called
'Pastor Hall.’ It was my sin-
cere belief that it was a pic-
ture with profits to all
concerned, especially the
exhibitor
"It has come to my atten-
tion that you have not yet
booked Pastor Hall' Natu-
rally. it means a great deal
to me to have you as one of
those who is playing my first
contribution to the motion
picture screen "
WATCH ON WASTE:
Foreseeing a serious infesta-
tion of grasshoppers in 1979,
ulture Department
Agriculture Department
officials in 1978 set up a
IJ0.7 million "Grasshopper
opper
Control Program" to light
the pests Their forecast was
.ast
gr
damage since the 1930s
pes
on tne money Last year was
the worst for grasshopper
House connections by Pre-
sident Franklin D Hoose
veil's eldest son, Jimmy,
was unearthed recently by
John E. Miller, a South
Dakota State University pro-
fessor doing research at the
Df
Library of Congress this
summer
Miller found a letter Jim-
my wrote while on active
duty in the Marines, urging a
but part of the blame rested
with the bureaucrats They
spent much time and effort
grappling with the definition
of "infestation" -* whether it
is “8 adult grasshoppers" or
"24 baby grasshoppers" per
square yard •• as well as
fumbling around over where
to use planes to spray and
just which fields should be
treated The result was
many farmers' crops
destroyed by the biblical
plague of locusts
&TTA N.t.A. go
HULMfc
“This one is called ‘The Laughing Buddha' — it is said that he heard the one
about the Reagan-Bush China policy.”
Listen to your stomach
At any age - and especial-
ly at our age — we need to
treat every stomach discom-
fort as a warning
We get the burps after
dinner7 It could be a symp-
tom of something much
worse
We have an increasing num-
ber of bouts with diarrhea
alternating with constipation7
Again it could be cause for
concern.
The American Digestive
Disease Society warns that
even slight discomfort after
eating must be considered
potentially dangerous
local gastro-enterologists to
consult
GROWING OLDER
Lou Cottin
Of course, the problem may
turn out to be insignificant At
our age, the stomach doesn t
respond to food intake as well
as it did when we were
younger But that doesn't
mean we should simply grin
Berry's World
and bear our discomfort
The society offers a formi-
dable list of stomach and
gastro-intestinal ailments,
ranging from peptic ulcers to
diverticulitis, from hiatal her-
nia to inflammatory or irrit-
able bowel syndrome. The
earlier any of these diseases
are detected, the sooner we
will start feeling better
Most of us don't know much
The society is launching
workshops where groups ol
lay people meet with profes
sionals. In these workshops
people learn to deal physical
ly and psychologically wit!
stomach problems — includ
ing how to manage theii
symptoms and how to livt
more comfortably.
Members receive th<
monthly newsletter "Livin|
Healthy." which offers specif
ics on various digestivi
illnesses Additionally, the;
receive a series of informa
tive brochures about man'
gastro-intestinal problems.
Cnpyrlglil IMO
I'wirdFmiiH'SvmlKitK' lm
@ t»«0 by MtA He (i
"Why don't we call this alternative plan 'Opera-
tion Jack Anderson
about these illnesses All we
know is that were having
pains or bloating or discom-
fort
So. we go to our doctors
Their job is to help us, and
usually they do
But the Digestive Disease
Society believes that we
patients should give our doc-
tors more help
It’s not enough to say, “Hey,
Doc, I’ve got a bellyache."
That is unfair to the doctor
because it makes it more dif-
ficult for him or her to diag-
nose our condition.
An intelligent patient is a
physician's best support The
more accurately we describe
our condition, the more effi-
ciently and effectively our
doctor can help us
We can become better
patients by joining the Diges-
tive Disease Society, a non-
profit educational organiza-
tion based in New York City
with branches throughout the
country
Members of the organiza-
tion can write or phone for
advice from health counselors
ecializing in digestive
As a member of the Diges
tive Disease Society, you wi’
be not only an intelliger
patient. You will be a
informed patient.
Want to know more aboi
the society and its work?
You can write to the organ
zation about any digestiv
problem you may have. Yo
will be sent a free brochur
about that problem along wit
membership information.
The address is: America
Digestive Disease Societ’
Department L, 420 Lexingtd
Ave., New York, N Y. 10017
The society urges you (
write rather than phone. T1
phones are needed to advii
its many members.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
special!]
diseases.
Another benefit of member-
ship is the society's physician-
referral service. If a member
needs a specialist, the society
will give him or her the
names and addresses of three
Friend of ours spends
salary — and then somi
trying to get all noise el
nated from his hi-fi sysi
You might call him a hum!
People who don't believe in
bell have never tried to reach
from an auto window and get
small change from the auto-
teller’s drawer.
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