Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1980 Page: 2 of 24
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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, Feb. 15, 1980.
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In our opinion
Naming county roads
sounds like good idea
Delegations in several East Texas
communities in recent weeks have ap-
proached their Commissioners Courts
io request that rural roads be
designated with official names. They
have also suggested that signs
designating the roads also be provided.
If there is such a movement in
Hopkins County, it has not come to
light publicly. But somehow the sug-
gestion of officially naming,
designating and signing rural roads
has considerable merit.
If the County Commissioners could
agree on names of their roads and of-
ficially designate them, it would follow
that various community leaders could
sponsor projects to erect signs. They
would not have to be elaborate metal
signs. A few painted signs erected on
posts would suffice. And perhaps they
would be of such quality souvenir
hunters would not bother them.
'The hard surface highways in
Hopkins County are sufficiently
recognized that they do not need signs.
There is a substantial need, however,
for signs on many of the dirt lateral
roads in the rural areas.
The signs could help out in the event
of fires. Many times units coming from
other areas are not familiar with the
roads and signs would be of a great
benefit. And people who live along the
roads with signs could more easily
direct friends to their homes.
.Perhaps the youth clubs or com-
munity improvement organizations
could adopt a program that would in-
clude signs for rural roads. It would be
a commendable project.
Confounding Carter tactics
" WASHINGTON (NEA) -r- Will the real President Carter
please stand up''
Is he the dove on the left side of the table who lor years
has been shaping a foreign policy emphasizing detente, human
rights nuclear nonproliferation reduced^defense budgets and
global demilitarization''
Or is he the "hawk" on the right side of the table who now is
issuing ultimatums to the So^et Union, shipping arms around
the globe, calling for renewed'draft registration aad propos-
’AH"
IN WASHINGTON
fl| Robert Walters
ing massive Increases in defense spending':’
In the wake of the crises in Iran and Afghanistan' Carter
has confounded friend and foe alike by.suddenly deerriphasiz-
ing. if not summarily abandoning virtually all of the
principles he firmly articulated and aggressively promoted as
the foundation of his foreign policy during his first three years
in the White House
One of the most striking examples of the president’s sudden
policy reversal is his administration s decision to offer $4«0
million worth of military and economic aid to the government
of Pakistan during the next two years.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan provided the geopoliti-
cal rationale for that action, but Carter’s move meant ignor-
ing three touchstones of hi§, earlier foreign policy
discouraging the proliferation of nuclear weapons; stressing
human rights and reducing foreign military sales.
All three considerations were crucial elements in the Carter
administration’s mid-1977 decision ta abandon the proposed
sale of 110 A-7 attack planes sought by Pakistan
The president ljst year cut off ail military assistance to
Pakistan because that nation refused to allow international
inspection of a nuclear research program suspected of being
designed to produce nuclear weaponry.
The Carter administration also has~been critical of the
human/rights policies of Pakistani President Mohammed Zia
ul-Haq, an army general who seized power In a 1977 military
coup, now rules under martial law and repeatedly has post-
poned promised parliamentary elections to install a civilian
government
Similarly. Carter earlier. pledged to reduce the United
States role as the world's leading arms merchant because
"competition in arms sales is Inimical to peace."
But Pakistan isn’t the only counfry to benefit from a resur-
gence in munitions trade. During the past year, the Carter
administration has expanded its sale of everything from small
arms to jet fighters throughout-the Middle East — the one
regiob"brtiie world where Carter earlier stressed the need for
political stabilization.
Beneficiaries of a vastly expanded military aid program
have included not only the powerful nations of the region —
Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arab!? - but also lesser-developed
countries such as Oman and North Yemen.
Other examples abound. Demilitarization of the Indian
Ocean was a goal propounded in Carter’s State of the Union
message only two years ago. Today, approximately two dozen
United States warships and an equal number of Soviet mili-
tary vessels are stationed in the Indian Ocean or the adjoining
Persian Gulf.
During the 1976 presidential campaign, Carter proposed a
$15 billion cut-in defense spending, then scaled that down to a
reduction of $9 billion tq $10 billion. He has just offered a 1981
federal budget calling for an,increase of more than $15 billion
in military appropriations.
Finally, there’s the central issue of relations with the Soviet
Union. The, man who four years ago said we should "continue
our friendly relationships with Russia” now-says that nation’s
invasion of Afghanistan "could pose the most serious threat to
peace since the Second World War.”
One thing, however, has remained constant — the validity
of an observation Carter Offered in a March 1976 speech, dur-
ing the last presidential campaign: “Our foreign policy today
is in greater disarray than at any time in recent history."
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN i
Non-wood plant eyed
as newsprint source
f With the price of newsprint
•.escalating and a limited supply, if not
.'shortage, looming, the American
Newspaper Publishers Association is
hoping that promising tests Tfecently
; conducted with kenaf may provide
'• relief.
• Kenaf, a relative of the common
hisbiscus plant, is being considered as
a substitute for wood as a pulp source
for newsprint. The plant can be grown
: in most areas of the United States.
Research has shown that an acre of
land planted to kenaf can yield nine
times the pulp recovered from com-
parable forest land. The stalky,
non-wood plant is reported easy and
inexpensive to grow.
Sulphur Springs Needs....
•Cooper Reservoir
* Broader Vocational Education
•More Downtown Parking
•Continued Industrial Development
*A More Prosperous Agriculture
,£■
jack Anderson
The projection that kenaf may
come to the rescue of the newspaper
publishers is just another way to point
out the many, many ways’ that
American agriculture can step in and
help this great nation.
The worsening petroleum situation
gives a sense of urgency for the need to
convey grain to alcohol to power the
nation’s machines and transportation
system.
Gasohol or alcohol-powered cars
may be just around the corner. The
promotion of great fields of kenaf to
keep the presses rolling for the news
media—as well as the government's
massive red tape bureaucracy func-
tioning-may be a savings factor.
•A City-County Health Unit
•City Beautification
•Enthusiastic Citizens
•Minimum Housing Standards Code
•Improved Streets & Drainage
The Almanac
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the
46th day of 1980. There are 320
days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Feb. 15, 1898, the bat-
tleship Maine was blown up in
the harbor off Havana, Cuba,
setting off the Spanish
American War.
On this date:
In 1564, the Italian
astronomer, Galileo, was born
in Pisa„
In 1824, the pioneer crusader
for women's rights, Susan B.
Anthony, was born in Adams,
Mass.
In 1933, President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly
escaped assasination in Miami.
The shot fired at him missed but
killed Mayor Anton Cermak of
Chicago,
In 1972, Attorney General
John Mitchell resigned his
cabinet post to direct President
Richard Nixon’s re-election
campaign.
Ten years ago, Britain’s Lord
Downing, who led the Royal Air
Force to victory over the
Germans in the Battle of
Britain, died at the age of 87.
Former Idaho appointments
haunting Secretary Andrus
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By JACK ANDERSON
x WASHINGTON - Nine
years ago, when newly elect
jijd Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus
^appointed Sheriff J6hn
/Bender as state commission
per of law enforcement --
'Idaho’s top cop - the shock
; waves were felt all the way
ito the Justice Department in
i Washington. Appalled at the
^selection, U.a. officials
;threatened to cut off federal
f funds that the new commis-
Jsioner would control
: But six years later, when
'Cecil Andrus was named as
jjimmy Carter’s Interior
• secretary, none of the mis-
‘givings that stirred the fed-
eral lawmen In 1971 were
^transmitted to the Senate
^committee considering
^Andrus’ appointment. He
;was confirmed without any
^embarrassing questions
ijabout Mafia influence in
> Idaho, which had so alarmed
Mhe Justice Department.
S The one brief mention of a
«possible campaign contribu-
tion to Andrus from a mob-
C connected race track cartel
which might have opened
•: the door to a whole closet
>: full of questions on orga-
•: nized crime in Idaho - had
been deleted from the FBI's
background check on Andrus
before the Senate confirma-
tion committee saw it.
I; Within weeks after
t Bender’s appointment as
* Idaho's top cop, the Law
✓ Enforcement Assistance
J Administration in Washing-
i ton sent Andrus a secret
l report listing its doubts
$ about the ex-sheriff
i "Serious allegations con-
* cerning the competency,
; leadership ability and per-
? sonal integrity of (Bender)
'"reflect adversely on the
quality of state law enforce-
ment in Idaho," the report
stated The federal officials
demanded a full investiga-
tion of Bender before any
more U S funds would be
forthcoming
Andrus, evidently confi-
dent that nothing would be
turned up, appointed a spe-
cial prosecutor and two
investigators, who worked
on the case six months. The
result was described later
by Andrus as "barroom gos-
sip and unsubstantiated
rumor," The entire file - an
inch-and-a-half thick - was
never made public, and for a
simple reason: It was turned
over to Andrus
My associate Dale Van
Atta spent weeks investigat-
ing Andrus. The trail led to
Idaho where Van Atta asked
so many questions that he
attracted press attention.
Andrus responded by calling
a press conference to
answer in public the ques-
tions Van Atta had been ask-
ing in private.
The Interior secretary
told what had happened to
the Bender file He had
turned it over, he said, to
Bender himself. This belated
confession appalled the spe-
cial prosecutor, Fred Kenne-
dy.
"I have to say I was com-
pletely flabbergasted," he
said, to get any information
at all in the 1971 probe, he
explained, his investigators
had promised their infor-
mants complete confidenti-
ality He said friends of
Andrus and Bender made
statements that "they never
dreamed the two would
read."
They would never have
talked if they had thought
Bender or Andrus would see
the files, Kennedy said
Bender, however, assured
my associate that he had
never seen the file and knew
nothing about its disappear-
ance, Responding to this in
an interview, Andrus recant-
ed his press conference
statement. Maybe his mem-
ory wasn't right, he now
said, maybe he hadn't turned
the file over to Bender, after
all.
Interestingly, the missing
investigative file, though
supposedly dealing only-with
Bender, also contained
serious allegations about
Andrus -- specifically that
He had taken campaign con-
tributions from organized
crime figures, probably,
through the Emprise Corp
Andrus says he doesn't
remember seeing anv such
charges in the file while he
had it,
What Andrus may not
know Is that the file turned
over to him was not the only
copy. One of the investiga-
tors, fearing that the then-
governor would destroy the
incriminating file, made a
second copy According to
sources, this copy is sitting
in the Idaho attorney gener-
al's office, along with other
files on Andrus The docu-
ments are in an ultra-secret
file cabinet under a special
code to prevent accidental
discovery
WATCH ON WASTE: A
5104 million boondoggle,
which' was allowed to die
two years ago because of
widespread fraud and waste,
is about to be revived thanks
to intense lobbying by the
program's beneficiaries.
The discredited program
paid full salaries and
retraining expenses for air
traffic controllers who
found the stress of their jobs
too much for them and
retired early It was quickly
abused by the highly paid
US. employees in the
nation's control towers.
One used the program to
become a clown, another to
become a baseball umpire.
Some added moonlighting
jobs to the government sal-
ary and training stipend
The number of controllers
who grew nervous in the ser-
vice skyrocketed during the
five years the program last-
ed the cost of training a
controller for two years in a
new career while paying his
salary (up to $45,000'a year)
came to a staggering
$?70,000 for each partici-
pant who completed the
program.
The House Civil Service
Committee has now voted to
reinstate the program.
Among the members of the
committee who have taken
campaign contributions
from the Air Traffic Con-
trollers Union are Reps.
James Hanley, D-N.Y., who
got $2,650, and Morris Udall,
D-Ariz., who got $7,100
Reps William Ford, D-
Mich,, and William Clay. D-
Mo, who are also on the key
committee, not only took
campaign contributions, but
each received a $1,000 hono-
rarium plus expenses for
addressing the union’s con-
vention in Miami.
Footnote: Anyone who is
aware of government
extravagance should write
to JACK ANDERSON'S
WATCH ON WASTE, P.0
Box 2300. Washington, DC.
20013.
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"Sweat! You’re on ABSCAM camera!”
Funds for senior programs
This column is about
money.
Specifically, it is about a
revised edition of a book that
tells professionals in the aging
field how to get money for
programs they direct or hope
to launch.
But you don’t have to be a
professional to use “Funding
in Aging — Public, Private
and Voluntary.” Any group
pushing an idea that may help
seniors can ask a local library
to get this book. It is well
worth studying.
The first edition, “A Nation-
al Guide to Government and
Foundation Funding in the
Field of the Aging,” was writ-
ten by Lily Cohen of the aging
program at New York’s Adel-
phi University and Marie
Oppendisano-Reich, a statisti-
cian-analyst at the Nassau
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GROWING OLDER
Lou Cottin
County, N.Y., Department of
Senior Citizen Affairs.
The 174-page first edition
was published in 1977 and
quickly went out of print.
The question of reprinting
came up when the last copies
had been sold, By that time,
the authors had gathered
much additional data.
So, Adelphi University opt-
ed for the new enlarged
edition, which has become
known — lovingly, in most
cases - as the “money" book.
Berry's World
Kathleen Hamilton Gerardi of
the Nassau Office of Housing
and Inter-governmental
Affairs was added to the writ-
ing and research team.
The revised edition does
much more than the original
to guide readers in raising
funds.
It keeps in mind that not all
requests for financial support
in the agingfield are for large
sums. Many are for low-cost
demonstration and test pro-
grams that are often the basis
for further action in the inter-
est of seniors.
"Funding in Aging" is,
therefore, more than just a
comprehensive listing of
financial sources, Rather than
a "money” book, it is a “how-
to-get-the-money” book.
The authors explain how to
make contact with a possible
funding source. They take
their readers through the pro-
cedural maze of federal and
state governments and pri-
vate foundations.
Indeed, the section on fed-
eral and state funding of
aging programs is alone
worth the price of the book.
Then there is the foundation
section.
Each entry starts with the
name and address of the foun-
dation, the amount of money
it has to spend, and the
emphasis of its donations to
aging programs. Also listed is
grant-application information
and how much money the
foundation donated to aging
programs over the past five
years.
New to this edition is a sec-
tion on corporate giving. The
book points out that some cor-
porations are recognizing that
they have a responsibility to
society as well as to their
owners and shareholders.
The authors wrote to a
selected list of Fortune
magazine’s major corpora-
tions.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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IT'S POSSIBLE!
Robert Schuller
Response of the heart
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Jim Berry cartoonm
’i)i»(W6vNCA IrtC
By Robert Schuller
1 recently read a newspaper
account which related how a
young father had jumped into
a lake and saved his drowning
4-year-old son. The remark-
able thing about the story was
that the man, a non-swimmer,
had to swim several yards to
rescue the child.
“I’m deathly afraid of
water,” he told reporters
afterward. When they com-
mended him for his courage,
he debunked the notion. RIt
was not an act of the mind,"
he said, “but rather a
response of the heart."
Love does not need logic to
justify its action. Neither does
faith. Both are reponses of the
heart. When a person accepts
God and turns his life over to
His sovereignty, he Is
responding to the sacrificial
love of the Father expressed
by sending His Son to die on
the cross nearly 20 centuries
ago,
Once you and I tie our
heartstrings to that love, we
become new people capable of
a love beyond ourselves.
Reverend Schuller, pastor of
the Garden Grove, Calif.,
Community Church, can be
seen weekly on his nationally
syndicated TV program,
"Hour of Power."
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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