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Stop which Carter?
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Angry voters knock
down new taxing unit
the Dallas-Fort Worth
Area have delivered
of a strong message with
their overwhelming rejection of a plan
for setting up an area rapid transit
system financed by a 1 percent sales
tax.
The communication from the
various participating ballot boxes pro-
bably should be viewed as consisting of
two separate sections.
The first concerned shortcomings in
of generalities and few
specifics. Appeal apparently was lack-
ing.
An influence of considerably more
effect probably is the push toward rais-
ing taxes at every level that is under
wayin the Dallas area.
The City of Dallas has stirred up a
hornet’s nest of angry home owners
with its program to bring all
assessments up to full market value.
With such hostile forces in action, it
is easy to see why angry and frighten-
ed taxpayers would strike back with
every opportunity.
It also is easy to see some sort of a
rough parallel trend beginning to take
shape here in Hopkins County.
Under provisions of a new state law,
machinery is being set up to boost pro-
perty assessments to “true market
value” here and all over the state.
Sulphur Springs Independent
School District trustees have increased
the tax rate without a bit of expressed
opposition. County and state officials
are doing considerable speculation
over how they may get in on the pie.
Hopkins County taxpayers have
been enjoying the benefits of extreme-
ly reasonable local taxes. Unless peo-
ple are ready to stand up and fight for
their cause, the advantage may be
short-lived.
All right, folks, step up and place your bets on the Demo-
EdMusk°^lyou at, as they say. this critical juncture?
Or bow about Jimmy Carter?
Don't act surprised - you know the one we re talking
about Lower in the polls than any president has ever been
Architect of economic and foreign policies most other Demo-
crats would dearly love to see canceled.
The fellow with the brother.
A poor bet, you think’ A master of timing - all of it bad -
who has managed to set himself up as the ideal target for a
"stop-him" movement'’
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* COMMENTARY
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Don Graff
Efforts to head off nominations regarded as sure things,
disasters or both have been around almost as long as our pres-
ent rational, orderly and infallibly rewarding procedures for
selecting candidates for the highest post in the republic
For a choice example, let s go all the wav back to 1872
when, as today, large numbers of party leaders were dissatis-
fied with the record of their incumbentpresident So dissatis-
fied, in fact, that liberal Republicans bolted the regular party
convention rather than go along with Ulysses Grant's renomi-
nation. They ended up endorsing the same candidate as the
Democrats You can read all about how successful that slick
maneuver was in the biographies of President Horace Gree-
ley
Moving along to 1912, we have a real former president in
the thick of the “stop-him’' fray Dissatisfied with the conserv-
ative policies of his successor in the White House, Theodore
Roosevelt sought to deny renomination to William Howard
Taft. He had a potent advantage few such challengers have
enjoyed, having demonstrated his popular appeal by sweeping
most of the primaries But the Republicans in convention
assembled still chose Taft.
And. of course, defeat But even with precedents, you can t
have everything.
There also have been some lively efforts to stop non-incum-
bents, notably the Republican bloodletting in 1964. For the
memories that may need brief refreshing, that was when Wil-
liam Scranton opposed Barry Goldwater s march to the nomi-
nation with spirit and some fiery language, at one point
describing Mr Conservative's political philosophy as a “crazy
quilt collection of absurd and dangerous positions “ An opin-
ion. as it turned out. apparently shared by masses of voters
But not by the convention. It went for Goidwater on the first
ballot
So much for spirit and fire
There's more, much more, but you get the idea What it
comes down to is that in presidential politics it's virtually
unheard of and quite possibly impossible to stop a leader this
close to the finish. Particularly if he is an incumbent.
Even in the chaotic Democratic convention of 1948. when
the Democrats were convinced they were headed for defeat
with Harry Truman, the battles did not focus on his renoinina-
tion but on a matter of party principle — civil rights.
The rule applicable then, as today, was that when in power
you do not run against your own record.
(Of course, former New York Mayor Robert Wagner did
exactly that in 1961 in winning his third term as a newly
minted reform Democrat. But that was mayoral politics, not
presidential, and New York is not the nation, an unarguable
fact that the rest of it accepts primarily with relief.)
Precedent, ir short, remains powerfully against Jimmy
Carter being denied renomination.
Of course, precedents have been known to be broken, partic-
ularly in presidential politics.
But don't bet on it.
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The Almanac
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Higher energy costs
may force changes
The traditional high-domed sanc-
tuary buildings which dominate
church structures throughout the
: world may be engangered. Perhaps
•the present buildings are not in danger,
but in the future architects may be
compelled to design churches with
more fuel-efficient qualities.
The cost of heating and cooling the
huge spaces in churches has soared so
dramatically that in many cases utility
costs Are claiming as much as 25 per-
cent of the budgets.
: Utilization of solar energy systems
might be adopted in the future by chur-
Sulphur Springs Ne«ds....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
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Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12,
the 225th day of 1980. There are
141 days left in the year.
- Today’s highlight in history:
On Aug. 12, 1898, the peace
protocol ending the Spanish-
. ... ..... . . American War was signed after
ches, With the high-vaulted roofs ap- nearly four months of
pearing as ideal for this type of hostilities.
pea ring as
development.
Smaller congregations with limited
resources may be forced to turn to less
expensive buildings, eliminating areas
which prove costly to heat and cool.
Churches may feel the fuel crunch
more than most organizations, but it is
pretty obvious that all down the line in
the business and home industry more
efficient methods are needed to con-
serve available resources and tap
others more plentiful.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
On this date:
In 1530, troops of the Holy
Roman Empire restored the
Italian dty of Florence to the
Medici family.
In 1658, the first police force
in America was bom with the
establishment of a guard of
eight men in the Dutch colony of
New Amsterdam.
In 1851, Isaac Singer of Pitt-
stown, N.Y., was granted a
patent on his sewing machine.
In 1959, school integration
began in Little Rock, Ark., as
six black students enrolled in
formerly all-white schools.
Ten years ago, President
Nixon signed a bill changing the
181-year-old Post Office
Depiu-tment to an independent
government agency.
Thought for today: Laws do
not govern. Lawyers do. —
Anonymous.
1 Jock AndTion
Carter's fine needlework
binds convention delegates
-By JACK ANDERSON
: NEW YORK - Jimmy
: Carter’s minions have done
: everything they can to make
; sure that the Democratic
; National Convention will be
; as smooth and sweet as the
; Republican love feast was
• last month.
> Granted, the Carter
*• people’s hopes for a friction-
> free coronation are less than
realistic But on the other
•: hand, the president’s politi-
>; cal pushers have been oper-
■; ating with White House clout
!; and a singleminded dedica-
> tion. They have left nothing
:• to chance, down to the
’• smallest detail.
Anyone who expects the
\ Democratic convention to be
*: a tumultuous donnybrook
should consider the ground-
work the Carter forces laid
almost as soon as they
I; moved into the White House
: Starting with Day One, the
; president’s people have been
; aiming for a smooth - call it
v slick - 1980 convention that
<: would see Carter renominat-
ed, if not by acclamation, at
least by an enthusiastic
majority.
with the
ion,
■: a party rules commission
named for its chairman.
*•' Michigan party chief Morley
Winograd. The commission
ostensibly was appointed to
& make the nomination pro
C cess more democratic; in
>'■ fact, it gave a party incum-
y'- bent an enormous advantage
4‘- over any challengers. The
commission was loaded with
% Carter people, and much of
its behind-the-scenes direc-
tion came from White House
>•: majority.
The effort began with I
<• 1977 Winograd Commissi
a norfti mine AAmmicci
politicos like Mark Siegel.
Rich Hutchinson and Pat
Caddell.
Among the “reforms" pro-
mulgated by the commission
was the compression of par-
ty primaries into 14 weeks
instead of 21 •• an obvious
advantage for a headline-
commanding incumbent
over rivals who were lesser
known or had less access to
the media.
The Carter people also
tried to engineer a rule that
would have required a can-
didate to get 25 percent -
instead of 15 percent - of
the primary vote to win any
delegates in most electoral
districts. This would have
been another advantage for
an incumbent against the
kind of dark horse challeng-
er that Jimmy Carter him-
self was in 1976 This,
however, was rejected by
the Democratic National
Committee
As Siegel commented on
the work of the Winograd
Commission, “Clearly the
White House goal was to
help the president as much
as possible."
Most significant of the
commission’s achievements,
of course, was the delegate-
binding rule. Carter's man
Hutchinson introduced it
onto the tail-end of a series
of proposals, and it breezed
through virtually undebated
Ana the Carter camp's
control of the convention
machinery will make it as
certain as possible that the
challenge to the delegate-
binding rule - or any other
fly in the Carter ointment
will go largely unseen and
por-
;o.b
unheard by the public
“We are not interested in
having the president
trayed as an uncaring S.(
on prime time,” a Carter
convention strategist told
my associate Tony Capac-
cio.
What the public sees and
hears on prime time will not
reflect the actual percent-
age of voter delegate sup-
port for Carter and Kenne-
dy. Madison Square Garden
will be flooded with Carter
people, out of all relation to
the number of delegates the
two contestants won in the
primaries.
While Kennedy is entitled
to 226 guest passes to 324
for Carter, the White House
has an additional 100 passes,
the Carter Cabinet 26 more
and party chairman John
White another 1,337
A GOP EXAMPLE. The
Democrats don't stand a
chance of matching the
Republicans in convention
harmony; they’ll also find it
tough to equal their rivals in
convention security Thanks
largely to the well-trained
Detroit Police Department,
the GOP convention had as
little trouble from outsiders
as from its own orderly
delegates.
The most exciting
unscheduled event was the
accidental tripping of two
smoke alarms and the sniff-
ing out of a.couple of hunt-
ing rifles left in a hockey
trainer’s locker. Outside the
super-secure convention hall
area, the worst that hap-
pened was a drunk lurching
Into a downtown hotel and
threatening to kill the high-
est-ranking Republican in
the place. He was quickly
relieved of his gun, which
turned out to be a toy.
DO AS I SAY: Bob
Strauss, the wily Texan
who's in charge of ramrod-
ding Jimmy Carter's nomi-
nation through, will use any
argument to make a point
Discussing the delegate-
binding rule with “open
convention" advocates the
other day, Strauss explained
disarmingly: “The rule was
put in place to keep people
like me out of power I'm a
smoke-filled-room operator,
and I’m proud of it.”
AMONG FRIENDS: Shir
ley Metzenbaum. whose
husband, Sen. Howard
Metzenbaum. D-Ohio, is Ted
Kennedy’s state delegation
leader, appeared on a TV
talk show back home recent-
ly, prepared to do verbal
battle with Carter support-
ers in the studio audience.
She never got the chance.
Eight members of the audi-
ence indicated their support
for John Anderson, two for
Ronald Reagan. 25 for Ken-
nedy - and not a one for
Jimmy Carter.
ANOTHER BILLY: Rep
John Anderson, the inde-
pendent candidate, also has
a kid brother named Billy.
But Honest John assured a
questioner that his brother -
who goes by the proper ,
name of William - would
never be likely to embarrass
a sibling in the White House
William works for a
conservative. highly
respectable accounting firm
in Chicago
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I nMPnlRNMrw Ik
Watching Washington
Snowbelt blocked heat relief
In the past, those of us in Congress who sought energy
assistance for cooling—as well as for heating—have faced a
tough battle from our Northeastern and Midwestern col-
leagues.
It’s easy enough for TV newscasts and newspaper pictures
to portray the dangers of death from the cold—homes buried
in snowdrifts or cars stranded
snowbound along desolate high-
ways. But how do you drama-
tize heat, with a picture of a
thermometer registering 115 de-
grees?
Last year, Senate debate on the
Low Income Energy Assistance
Act was tinged with the sort of
aggressive, intolerant regionalism
which, unfortunately, dominates
many Senate discussions of how
federal funds are to be divided among various states and re-
gions.
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Uteres®
Berry s World
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"Isn’t then anything else on besides the dumb
convention?"
Legislators from the Northeast and Midwest succeeded in
channeling the bulk of energy assistance to their regions,
pointing out that many elderly people in their areas faced the
hard choice of buying food or fuel; between eating and
freezing.
In considering the energy assistance legislation, those of us
representing Sunbelt slates argued that heat was every bit as
serious a threat to vulnerable groups in our region.
Our Snowbelt colleagues ridiculed us, some even going as
far as to oppose aid for cooling even under the limited,
medically-qualified conditions finally included in the bill.
They insisted that cool air is a luxury, not a necessity, and
that hot weather posed no real threat to life.
Sadly, it took a sweltering heat wave this summer, resulting
in over 2,000 deaths—many of them needless—to drive home
the point that heat kills as surely and cruelly as cold.
All across Texas, throughout the Southwest—and even
the Midwest-the poor, the elderly, and the ill perished in
steamy rooms with temperatures shooting over the lOO-de-
gree mark.
Many died because they couldn't afford to own or operate
a fan. Reports show that some victims had cooling units or
fans, but were afraid to turn them on for fear of running up
an electricity bill that they couldn’t afford to pay.
Many of the elderly victims kept their rooms tightly se-
cured because they were afraid of being robbed. They were
afraid to leave their homes and seek help at cooling centers or
elsewhere.
The heat wave developed into a national tragedy; suffer-
ing Americans needed help quickly—they couldn’t wait un-
til October, November or some indefinite future date. I was
determined to correct the mistakes of the past and make the
Low Income Energy Assistance Act—which I voted against
last year—more consistent with reality.
We weren’t talking about a program to buy air condi-
tioners for low-income Americans, any more than the exist-
ing program would buy furnaces in the Northeast and Mid-
west. We were dealing with an energy assistance program
that would help pay the increasing cost of running coolers on
an equal basis with the cost of running heaters
I was pleased this month when Congress acted quickly and
the President signed into law my emergency legislation to
help hard-pressed Americans cope with the deadly summer
heat.
My bill changed a provision in the energy assistance law to,
in effect, allow $21 million in unspent aid to be redirected
from the North to the Southwest to aid heat wave victims.
As a result, energy assistance aid has been flowing to
Texas and other parched states overcome by the heat wave.
The funds are helping millions of Americans who are in need
of a fan or the assurance that they can run their fan or win-
dow unit without fear of going bankrupt.
Sadly, a tragedy resulted before Snowbelt lawmakers could
see the justice in giving equal weight to cooling needs and
heating needs when it comes to energy aid. It reminds us
again what crises we face as a country when regional—not
national concerns—are placed first.
I intend to continue working for national unity. I intend to
continue working to develop a permanent energy assistance
program that recognizes that extreme heat is as harmful to
human life as extreme cold.
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