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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Monday. March 3. 1980,
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In our opinion
Sp^cmRestforT
threat voided
Governor William P. Clements Mr.
has wisely cancelled plans to call a
special session of the Texas
legislature in August. Since the last
regular session, Clements has been
threatening to call a special session,
with different.and possibly politically
advantageous dates suggested.
constitutional aTnendments and
statutory laws byspetition and to place
such initiative proposals on the general
election ballot. The I & R concept also
authorizes the people.to repeal any law
on the Iwrok.
s part
While the governor has the power to
specifically limit topics to be con-
sidered in a special session, the
previously suggested subjects have
dimmed in their value as
urgently needed legislation.
One of the topics which had been
discussed for submission to a special
session involved initiative and referen-
dum, which is favored by Governor
Clements. During the 1979 regular ses-
sion, Clements supported H.J.R. 3, a
constitutional amendment which
would authorize the people to propose
.This particular piece of legislation,
which may have considerable support
as well as strong opposition in'some
quarters, can easily be considered in a
regular session.
The recent controversy surroun-
ding House Speaker Billy Clayton ob-
viously would have an impact on a call-
ed session. Even if Clayton should
, decide to step aside, under the House
rules he has the authority to name his
substitute. .
Under such a cloud, the work in a
special session would proceed with ma-
jor difficulty. It certainly would be a
difficult political situation in. an elec-
tion year.
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CAPITAL COMMENT
Lost: $469 million surplus
• By Robert J Wagroan
BILL RUSSELL COLUMN
Another look at the draft
By BILL Rl'SSELL
Copley News Service
Inflation poses top
challenge to Carter
A sequence of jolting events in the
il
financial world may finally be convinc
ing the Carter administration that
political rhetoric is a useless weapon
against rampaging inflation.
Danger signals were flashing
almost everywhere lpst week as prices
continued their relentless upward
spiral.
The bond market was jolted by a
sharp collapse in values. Interest rates
soared to record highs in many
categories. States, cities and other
local governmental agencies were
described as virtually cut off from long
term financing sources. The stock
market continued its own retreat.
Serving to crystalize the developing
feeling of concern was a speech by
Felix G. Robatyn, investment banker
and a key figure in the fiscal rescue of
New York City, declaring the country
is coming close to national bankruptcy
through runaway inflation.
Rohatyn called the situation the
worst threat to U.S. democracy since
the 1930’s and urged an emergency
program including a 12-month freeze
'of wages and prices.
In Washington, administration of-
ficials and leaders in Congress
scrambled to find acceptable new
restraints. Under discussion were such
steps as a reduction in government ex-
penditures, credit controls and restric-
tion of the nation’s money supply.
The need for prompt, decisive ac-
tion can hardly be overemphasized.
The Carter administration has mis-
judged the economy for more than
three years now American peo-
ple are paying(l(*Miy?or the blunders.
Once the destructive tide gets
powerful enougW, there will be nobody
left to bail o,ut (he government.
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
•Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
•A More Prosperous Agriculture
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification"
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
An Associated Press story
in the paper stated: "A new
generation of young Ameri-
cans is saying, ‘Hell no. we
won’t go. And so are their
sisters and mothers.”
Recently, some influential
people in Congress have
said we may have to bpng
back the draft. '
This is a terrible problem.
We are caught between two
conflicting- needs — the
needs for strength and for
fairness. On one hand, we
have to recognize that no
natiomm the world can keep
buiidmg^anns the way the
Russians have been building
them wittiAit going bank-
rupt, unless they have a
'war. You can love mankind
and the United Nations, but
you have to worry about the
Russians
You can have lfi olive
branches sticking out of
your teeth, and you still bet-
ter be ready to bop the Rus-
sians on the nose if you have
to You can be a socialist
one-worlder and a friend of
every oppressed soul on the
plant, and you still should
keep strong, with one eye on
the Russians
On the other hand, we
have to recognize that most
- military traditions were in-
vented by despots. In fact,
the more oppressive and ty-
rannical rulers In history
Jack Anderson
Secretary
stories
Andrus
about
annoyed
his past
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON Interior
Secretary Cecil Andrus,
wearing a petulant air of
affronted dignity and annoy-
ance, has taken exception to
my reports on his political
past
Secret investigative files
and knowledgeable sources
disclose that Andrus as gov
ernor of Idaho seemed to do
everything possible to clear
the way for Emprise Corp.,
a Mafia-linked sports outfit,
to move into the state His
appointment of a small-town
sheriff. John Bender, as
Idaho’s chief lawman also
appalled federal agents
trying to cope with the
Mafia.
At a national law enforce-
ment conference, one expert
described the Bender
appointment as ‘a classic-
case of corruption and infil-
tration by organized crime ”
Meanwhile, the Law
Enforcement Intelligence
Unit, a federally subsidized
crime-fighting group,
refused to send any sensitive
data to Idaho when it found
out Bender had unauthorized
access to it
This attracted the scruti-
ny of crime investigation
units at both the state and
federal level. No less than
Nick Scoppetta, the New
York prosecutor of Serpico
fame, came to Idaho to
investigate.
There was enough
evidence, he concluded, to
justify calling a special
grand jury But this was pre-
cluded by Idaho state law
Instead, the facts were set
forth in an investigative file
which mysteriously disap-
peared after it was turned
over to Andrus
Upon President Carter's
appointment of Andrus to
the Cabinet in 197b. a team
of FBI agents pulled the
facts together for a routine
background report Yet
astonishingly, this derogato-
ry material was not included
in the FBI report that was
submitted to the Senate
My sources . said the
embarrassing information
was expunged from the
report before any Senators
could see it - a charge that
a White House spokesman
emphatically denied Yet the
information never reached
the Senate committee that
reviewed the Andrus
appointment, obviously,
someone's hand had been
quicker than the eye
I asked my associate Dale
Van Atta to investigate the
cover-up. He spent weeks in
Idaho where he spoke to doz-
ens of sources and gathered
hundreds of pages of docu-
ments Then we questioned
Andrus about the allega-
tions
The Interior Secretary is
an amiable, earnest sort,
with an air about him of
legitimate purpose and dis-
arming frankness His meth-
od is to admit candidly what
was already known and
beyond hiding, but to deny
its logical implications.
Meanwhile, he adopted
the tactics of the cuttlefish,
which are known to marine
biologists for their protec-
tive habit of squirting ink to
evade pursuers He began
squirting ink long before I
could get to my typewriter
Without knowing what I
intended to write, he called
a press conference, labeled
the unwritten story as
garbage" ami huffed off
He has continued to spread
the protective ink
Mr Anderson has just
resurrected and rehashed
old barroom gossip which
has absolutely no basis in
fact," he snorted A rehash'’
The story had never been
published, but had been
actively suppressed. Bar-
room gossip'’ The informa-
tion came from the files of
at least three official inves-
tigations
Here are just a few of the
questions that are still
reverberating Why did
Andrus as governor engage
in political manipulations to
promote an Emprise race
track in Idaho’ What hap-
pened to the investigative
file that was entrusted to
Andrus care0 Why did he
appoint a backwater sheriff,
with a reputation for corrup-
tion. as Idaho's top law
enforcement officer0 Who
removed the derogatory
information from the FBI
report before it was submit-
ted to the Senate0
The burly John Bender
served under Andrus as the
top Idaho cop from 1971 to
1977 Yet hpre's what my
reporter found from sources
and documents
* Four separate infor-
mants told four state inves-
tigators that Bender took
payoffs from them while he
was sheriff in a northern
Idaho gambling bailiwick
* A state agent, quoting an
underworld informant,
reported Bender had "kept
the heat off" his illegal drug
pushing, which was "allowed
to continue through the pro-
tection afforded by Mr John
Bender
* An Idaho convict, who
now lives in fear of his life,
informed Internal Revenue
Agents how he served as
"bagman" for Bender A
secret memorandum relates
that the informant told of
being asked by a group of
northern Idaho bartenders
to deliver an envelope of
cash to the sheriff's car The
informant claimed that on
another occasion he handed
over $5,000 in payoff money
to a Bender deputy
The fearful accuser has
been switched to another
tederal prison for safety
Yet meanwhile, the informa
tion he supplied has never
eri ’
been pursued
ENEMIES LIST - Presi-
dent Carter had a "City of
Champions" day at the
White House on February 22
to honor Pittsburgh’s finest -
- the football players of the
Super Bowl-winning Steelers
and the baseball stars of the
World Series-winning
Pirates The president also
sent invitations to all Penn-
sylvania Congressmen --
except one Rep. Eugene
Atkinson. Democrat of Pitts-
burgh, was pointedly omit-
ted from the guest list It
seems he hasn’t been wel-
come at the White House
since he threw his support
behind presidential contend-
er Sen Edward Kennedy
were exactly the ones who
broke new ground on how to.
make their soldiers fight.
A lot of wars weren't
much more popular in a
despot’s own army than
they ...were in the enemy
army. This is not surprising,
since the soldiers knew very
well that thousands of them
could be slaughtered just so
their kmg could take a new
vineyard away from his
cousin who ruled the next
country This was bad for
morale, Wars were very un-
fair for the soldiers
One of our thorniest prob-
lems has been how to recon-
cile efficiency for war with
our democratic rules requir-j
ing the consent of the gov-
erned. The Vietnam -War
showed us what can happen
when we fail to address it
properly We saw kids lying
down in front of troop trains,
and we read of drug epidem-
ics among the soldiers.
After a great deal of
thought, I have devised a
four-point plan to cure the
evils of unfair military ser-
vice and build strength at
the same time
Point One: We , should
have universal military ser-
vice for all citizens, two
years' worth. I mean all
citizens, male and female.
Nobody gets out here. If you
only have one eye, you peek
your way right on in If you
only have one leg, you hop
right on In. No deferments.
No nothing
Point Two. No one should
serve in the armed forces
before reaching the age of
40 That’s right, 40. This is a
key point.
There are several reasons
for this point. The 40-year-
olds as a group have enor-
mous political and economic
influence in the country If
the Army were drawn from
that age group, we’d be
much less likely to jump
into a war halfheartedly, as ,
we did in Vietnam. Half-
. hearted wars are undemo-
cratic. They also sap
strength. No army of 40-
year-olds will allow itself to
hit the trenches unless we
are in serious need of a war
It has long been recog-
nized that wars are unfair
because they tend to kill off
the young and spare the old.
By and large, the older peo-
ple in a country have been
just stupid enough to start
wars and just smart and
powerful enough to get the
young people to fight them.
This point would fix that
opportunities to move up in
the world and acquire things
to tight for. Then aruj only
then would they ship out.
Point Four: Anyone who
gets elected to major public
office should be required to
serve a two-year hitch
immediately, before taking
office. This point would
cause some administrative
problems such as longer
transition periods, but it
would be worth the trouble
• It. would make for more
.sober discussions of upcom-
ing wars- during political
campaigns.
Instead of visiting the
troops overseas, the pohti-
' cal candidates would be part
•of them. Instead of talking
about vague things such as
pride and national prestige,
politicians could talk about
where they would fight and
why They would speak w ith
more authority. For the first
time, we would have an
Army in which you’d put
your money where your
mouth is and your mouth
where your money is.
I hope you’ll think about
this plan. If I am elected
your president, I’ll put it
into effect as soon as I get
out of the .Army.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - There is some good, news and some
bad news from the- U.S. Postal 'Service. First, the good newS:
The USf’S showed, its first “profit" in 32 years, and actually
managed to close its books with a $469 million surplus. Now,
the bad news The USPS "surplus is much less than meets the ’
eye " ,-w
Postal sources, in fact, tell us things are so bad that the cost
of mailing a first-class letter will have to be raised in 1981 to
18 cents from the current 15 cents.
Why0 Because, our sources say, the postal surplus is little
more than an accounting trick Here is how'flie whole thing
was pulled off (pay close attention, pleasb; as with zip codes,
this starts getting confusing after the third digit): . .
. In order to arrive at what is called a "positive funds
balance," the postal service received $2.6 billion from taxpay-
. ers last year; the federal government shelled out $811 million
for actual postal services' performed for it, and forked over
-another $1.3 billion as an outright subsidy. (The USPS also
managed‘to rake in $15.4 billion from the public for services
rendered; its'budget lor the year was $17.5 billion.)
Now for the accounting trick, which has to do with worker
overtime ,The USPS is being sued by unions representing post-
al employees The suit contends that the service should have
paid overtime to many workers who, instead, received
unwanted compensatory time At stake; $500 million -~ or,
just a little over the. amount of the “surplus.” If the USPS
loses the suit (a fairly good bet), the-"surplus" instantly will
become a deficit because the service did not budget,for this
loss and has set aside no reserve.
For, the current year, the service says it can just about
break even without any postage increase, but only if it gets
another $2.5 billion or so from the taxpayers and it increases
its borrowing by about a billion or so.
The USPS's biggest expense is people, the salaries it pays
are the highest in government
In his new budget message, President Carter has requested
that federal workers be limited to a 6.2 percent pay raise this
year Needless lo say, with inflation running at over 13
percent, the prospects of only a 6 percent raise has not gone
over well with most of the federal workforce
Postal workers do not share this ill will, however Last
year, in order to avoid a strike, the postal people agreed to a
new three-year pact that guaranteed two increases a year: the
normal wage hike given to all federal workers and a cost-of
living adjustment Therefore, unlike their colleagues in most
other federal departments (who will have to make do with
meager 6 percent raises), postal workers likely will get in
excess of 10 percent
This means that, even if mail volume (and, hence, income)
increases, as is projected, and the USPS borrows even more
than last year, it still will finish 198(1 with another large defi
cit (The USPS budget for 1980 is estimated at $19 billion.)
Which is why, within a few weeks, you can expect this
announcement Effective Jan. 1, 1981. first-class mail will go
up to 18 cents for the first ounce (Total budget for 1981
incidentally, is projected at $21.3 billion.)
Sjiys one postal source, "The increase should go into effect
immediately Inflation, energy prices and wage increases are
going to kill us this year. Politically, though, it is better to
announce that we are going to hold the line this year but
this wii] only be done by borrowing more.
“I just wonder if we are going to be able to get bv with an
18-cent rate Twenty cents may be more like what we really
will need"
i NKWSPAPEH ENTKRCKISK ASSN )
Issues had role
The Almanac
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Today is Monday, March 3,
the 63rd day of 1980. There are
303 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On March 3,1847, the inventor
of the telephone, Alexander
Graham Bell, was byrn in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
On this date:
byl849, Congress created the
Department of the Interior to
look after the nation’s
resources.
In 1887 , 21-year-old Annie
Sullivan arrived at the Keller
home to teach their deaf and
blind daughter, Helen.
In 1945, the American and
Canadian armies linked up as
the German army went into full
retreat along the Rhine River in
World War II.
BY EVANS WITT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP)
Presidential candidates,
pollsters and professors love to
argue about whether "The
Issues” really make a dif-
ference in a presidential
campaign.
There is really no single
answer to the question.
But there is clear evidence
that the issues were important
to the New Hampshire voters
who gave President Carter and
Ronald Reagan victories in the
first presidential state
primary.
It might be going too far to
say that voters there knew the
candidates' positions on the
issues and then voted approval
or disapproval of those stands.
But they did cast their ballots in
line with their feelings on the
issues and generally in support
of the candidates’ positions.
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There are also military
advantages. In a long war,
we would be forced to send
in reserves when our regu-
lar Army suffered too many
casualties. In the past, this
has meant working toward
older and older soldiers —
so* that an enemy knows
things will get easier for his
side as the war goes
on.Under my plan, this
would be reversed. As the
war grew longer and bloo-
dier, our reserves would get
younger and younger.
Point Three: No one who
makes less than $10,000 a
year should serve in the
Army at all. Nobody who
earns so little has any busi-
ness away from home that
long in the first place.
They don’t have that
much.to protect. They are
the least motivated of the
soldiers. And, in a long war,
they would gradually have
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“I look the money because I thought I could
connect the bills with D.B. Cooper."
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I
in voter showing
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For example, New Hamp-
shire Democrats who favor
wage and price controls voted
for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
who supports such measures to
control inflation. That group
voted for Kennedy by a 48-37
margin over Carter, The
Associated Press-NBC News
poll of voters last Tuesday
showed.
But those who oppose such
controls — as Carter does —
backed the president by a 59-18
edge.
Or take reimposition of the
draft, which Carter says the
•nation must consider. And of
course he has proposed
registering young people in
preparation for a drdft
Those Democrats who favor
resuming conscription voted
for Carter by a 61-27 margin
over Kennedy, the poll found.
But anti-draft Democrats
cast their ballots against
Carter. Kennedy got 46 percent
of their votes and California
Gov, Edmund G. Brown Jr. got
23 percent. Carter drew the
support of 23 percent.
Both Kennedy and Brown
oppose a peacetime draft.
With the splintered field of
candidates on the Republican
side, the picture is more
complex.
New Hampshire Republicans
did say they gave Reagan his
overwhelming victory because
of the former California
governor’s stands on the issues.
One of Reagan’s favorite
themes is the need to cut
federal spending and trim the
federal bureaucracy.
Of course, all the GOP
candidates talk about cutting
federal spending, but Reagan
seems to have made the issue
his own.
New Hampshire Republicans
who favor a substantial cut in
federal spending favored
Reagan about 2-1 over George
Bush, the poll found. But those
who oppose such cuts split their
vote, giving Reagan 32 percent
and Bush 27 percent. Sen.
Howard Baker got the support
of 18 percent and Rep. John
Anderson 19 percent.
Of course, for each on these
poll questions, the remainder of
those polled were not sure or
said they voted for other
candidates.
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