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In our opinion
Construction splurge
here is impressive
The Sulphur Springs area continues
to roll out a surprising sequence of
“good news” while much of the coun-
try — and the world — lies bogged
down in economic troubles.
Latest impressive addition to the
current list is the announcement that
July building permits here soared to
$1,133,800 with homes and apartments
^performance is particularly con-
vincing when viewed against the near
stall in the construction industry na-
tionally and the high interest rates that
still prevail.
Also significant is the fact that hous-
ing investments are based primarily
on anticipation of community growth.
Builders don’t put this kind of money
on the line without confidence that a
market exists for their products.
With the 1980 census count still a
matter of controversy, it is interesting
to note that housing authorized in July
should provide living quarters for 112
future Sulphur Springs residents.
The 17 individual residences and 24
apartments reflected in the July
building permits will provide ac-
commodations for 41 new households.
Assuming a household density factor
of 2.75 persons still exists, the resulting
multiplication produces a total of
112.75. Since you can’t deal in fractions
of people, it is necessary to get rid of
the .75 one way or the other. We decid-
ed to eliminate this one in the interest
of a conservative approach.
In any event, the 112 newcomers
won’t show up in the official count now
until 1990 and by that time the govern-
ment head counters may lose track of
half of them.
It is hard trying to make sense out of
a census.
After the shah
He probably would have been among the last to agree, but
there scarcely could have been a more appropriate witness
than his late imperial majesty. Mohammed Rcza Pahlevi. to
the truth of the observation that history is made by events, not
men
The passing of the shah is in itself an event of no little
interest. But it is the event, not the man. that has impact on <
the continuing Iranian crisis.
And even that is of considerably less consequence at this
stage of history in the making than events taking place in his
former capital - principally the continuing struggle for revo-
"COMMENTARY
Don Graff
lutionary power between religious extremists and an uncoor-
dinated array of secular moderates. Or of numerous events
during the three decades that preceded the Iranian revolution.
Those were the years of deepening relationship between the
United States, the foremost global power, and a Middle East-
ern despotism searching for a 20th-century identity.
The significant events of the period are well known — the
shah's ouster in 1953 by anti-Western nationalists and his
prompt restoration by CIA arrangement, the non-stop Soviet-
American competition for Mideast advantage that invested
Iran with such strategic importance. Iran’s rapidly increasing
oil wealth and the shah's forced-draft effort to modernize the
country, the attempt to transform Iran into the West's surro-
gate policeman following withdrawal of British power from
the Persian Gulf.
Through them all, successive administrations in Washington
came to view the interests of the United States and imperial
Iran as identical. That was a fallacy that continues to cloud
comprehension of what has happened and is happening in
Iran.
Former President Richard Nixon — self-appointed Ameri-
can representative at the shah’s last rites but, as a once pow-
erful man similarly outpointed by events, possibly the most
appropriate — has criticized the present administration for
lacking “the grace to admit that (the shah) was a friend of the
United States for 30 years.”
Grace may have less to do with it than realization in retros-
pect that during the last several of those years the shah was
the type of friend who makes enemies superflous. He was a
driving force in OPEC’s inflating of oil prices that is shaking
world economic and political stability. His modernization of
Iran was imbalanced, an attempt to construct an-industrial
economy on a primitive social and political base that resulted
in uncontainable tensions.
And his rush for Mideast military pre-eminence — encour-
aged by the Nixon administration which removed long-stand-
ing restraints on U.S. arms policy, making available to him
the latest weapons in massive quantities — had the effect of
unsettling rather than stablizing the region.
There is considerable beating of breasts in some quarters to
the effect that American failure to go all out in support of the
shah as his regime crumbled will cost us dearly in the future.
Turning again to the portable Nixon: “If the policy of the
United States is not drastically changed so that the world will
know that we stand by our friends, we will lose all our
friends.”
That may be one lesson to be drawn from the Iranian
events.
Another might be that expediency rather than friendship is
what is really involved in such relationships. If more reserve
were exercised in the development, collapse might not be the
traumatic event it so frequently and unfortunately is.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
Psychologist to give
tips to teachers
the inservice training for Sulphur Spr
ing teachers in August is titled
“Educator Stress Management.
One of the topics to be addressed in
“ ilphur Spr-
August
An
Austin psychologist, Mrs. Barbara
DaShong, will address the growing
problem being encountered in schools
nationwide.
Dan Durham, assistant
superintendent-instruction, has cited a
three-fold objective in bringing the
topic up for consideration. He says it is
hoped mat it will (1) identify sources of
stress for both teachers and students,
(2) identify interpersonal physical ef-
fects of stress, and (3) describe the dif-
all types of work, professional or other-
wise, but if the teachers can learn to
cope with the problems early in their
careers they should experience hap-
pier lives.
The public is guilty of blaming the
teachers for a great many things in re-
cent years, when, in fact, parents have
failed to share the responsibility of
teaching. It is especially important to
teach sound values in home life for
children to carry into schools. If
discipline is emphasized at home and
respect for others instilled, the life of
the teachers in classrooms certainly
would be improved, giving them more
ferences in teaching techniques which opportunity to help shape and stretch
enourage stress and techniques which young minds for a future better
do not encourage stress. America.
Teacher burnout has not been a ma-
jor problem here, although there have
been a few who have succumbed to
stress and opted for other types of
employment. There are pressures in
As Sulphur Springs gears up for the
start of another school year, it is hoped
that parents and students incorporate
the attitudes that will encourage
teachers to do their best jobs.
The Almanac
Today in History
By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, August 4,
the 217th day of 1980. There are
149 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On Aug. 4, 1914, Britain
declared war on Germany at
the beginning of World War I.
On this date:
In 1790, a naval force was
formed that later became the
Coast Guard.
In 1892, Lizzie Borden was
arrested in Fall River, Mass.,
for the hatchet murders of her
father and stepmother.
In 1944, Nazi police captured
14-year-old Anne Frank and
seven other Jews in their hiding
place in Amsterdam.
In 1972, Arthur Bremer was
found guilty and sentenced to 63
years behind bars for the
shooting of Alabama Gov.
George Wallace and three
others at a political rally in a
Laurel, Md., shopping center.
Ten years ago, the death toll
in Cuba, Florida and Texas was
put at more than 30 in the wake
of hurricane “Celia.”
Thought for today: Peace
comes from within. Do not seek
it without. — Buddha (about
563-483 B.C.).
Jack Andarton
On ABSCAM s candid camera:
no smile for Rep. Thompson
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - The
printed word can scarcely
convey the moral squalor
that has been captured on
the secret ABSCAM video-
tapes, like bad dreams that
won't go away. The relent-
less FBI cameras show how
the rustle of petrodollars
can bring out the worst in
some congressmen.
A few congressmen with
itchy palms were caught on
the videotapes taking bribes
from undercover agents who
posed as bagmen for an
Arab sheik. My associate
Gary Cohn has now
reviewed hours of the
incriminating tapes.
There is the spectacle, for
example, of (he respected
Rep. Frank Thompson, D-
N.J., groveling for Arab
cash. At age 62, he is still
strikingly handsome, though,
his distinguished face is
beginning to show the
ravages of wear and worry.
His patrician profile,
crowned with silver hair,
calls to mind the toga-clad
Roman senators of old
Yet the secret videotapes
reveal that a shabby, ear-
thier Frank Thompson lurks
beneath the surface. He was
crass and foul-mouthed in
the presence of the phony
bagmen. Tipped off by
ABSCAM middleman How-
ard Criden that the Arab
sheik wanted a prominent
politician for his money.
Thompson bragged that he
owned New Jersey.
"Let me say this." he
assured the bagmen, "my
Democratic county chair-
man ... is a county chairman
because ... I got tired of
being the county chairman,
so he’s the county chairman.
He’s also state chairman
He’s the state chairman
because I don’t want to be
the state chairman, and
that’s the whole
New Jersey ."
With a conspiratorial air.
Thompson advised the bag-
men to ignore other con-
gressmen who might be
trying to grab a piece of the
action. "You only talk to the
people I talk to ... And you
talk to the members of Con-
gress I suggest,” he said.
Criden interrupted with
added testimony to Thomp-
son’s great importance. As
the House Administration
Committee chairman,
Thompson runs the second
most important committee
in the House. Criden pro-
claimed grandly.
The congressman picked
up the cue. “Internally with-
in the House," he said, "it’s
the most important commit-
tee. It controls all the money
for all the committees and
subcommittees, all of the
members ... whatever mem-
bers need for anything.
"And I have a lot of
latitude." he added, warm-
ing up to the subject. “I don’t
approve of the way a guy's
voting ... and he wants to
change his office ... and he
wants to move his (expletive
deleted) telephone why,
his requests can be reject-
ed."
One of the undercover
agents expressed an interest
in the committee that over-
sees immigration matters.
Thompson warned that the
chairman. Rep Elizabeth
Holtzman. D-N.Y., was too
honest to take a payoff.
She's about 36. 37 years
old She graduated with
highest honors from Har-
vard Law School. She’s nev-
er been laid," said Thomp-
son contemptuously. "You
know, she's a frustrated
lady."
FBI agent Antlfony
Amoroso, using the assumed
name Tony DeVito, asked
state of whether Thompson could
help the phony Arab sheik
with his immigration prob-
lems and “put a bill through
if he needs it."
Thompson agreed
"(Deportation) can be
stalled,” he said, “but it’s
very difficult. Very
difficult.”
Amoroso, a darkly sinis-
ter-looking man with black
bushy hair and a hawklike
nose, chomped fiercely on a
cigar. "Well, that’s what the
money is for, isn’t it?" he
demanded. He talked like a
gangster in the old
“Untouchables” TV series.
“Yeah," said Thompson,
“well, I'm not asking for any
money.” Instead he suggest-
ed that the sheik deposit
$300,000 or $400,000 in some
Trenton, N.J., banks of his
choice. "Would that be any
problem?"
“No problem whatsoever
..." said the undercover man
"You 11 contact me and give
me the names (of the
banks)."
Thompson said there were
"two Trenton, New Jersey,
banks that I can think of and
possibly a third one else-
where in my district ...
(which would) be absolutely
delighted to get $300,000 to
$400,000”
•'You'll take care of us.
we ll take care of you ...”
promised Amoroso
Thompson also brought up
another possible payoff
scheme. He suggested that
the sheik withdraw a Certifi-
cate of Deposit, say for
$500,000. from the Chase
Manhattan Bank and deposit
it in the bank of a friend.
“Chase Manhattan wouldn't
miss it for 10 seconds," said
the congressman cavalierly.
He described his friend as
a banker who had
approached him years ago
and had asked. “How could I
invest in you?”
Thompson explained: “I
can go to him. and have been
able to go to him for years
and years and years. I know
he's absolutely straight,
absolutely a Marine."
Thompson explained that
his friend would pay “maybe
2 percent less on a CD than a
big federal bank."
After Thompson left, the
undercover agents had two
stormy meetings with mid-
dleman Criden. They berat-
ed him for failing to deliver
on his promise that Thomp-
son would take a $50,000
cash bribe and. thereby,
become beholden to the pho-
ny sheik. Later that evening,
the indictment alleges,
Thompson and Criden
accepted the $50,000
BILLYGATE BLIPS: Sen-
atorial rivalry for press cov-
erage -- never under tight
conrol -- has zoomed with
the Billy Carter uproar.
When Sen Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
for example, sent a “person-
al letter” to Sen. Birch Bayh.
D-Ind. chairman of the
investigative subcommittee,
he thoughtfully released
copies to the press. Bayh
first learned the contents of
his colleague's letter from a
wire service ticker.
Meanwhile, businessmen
and other international tra-
velers are getting a wry
chuckle at White House
insistence that Billy's brief-
ing by National Security
Council experts was a rou-
tine courtesy available to
anyone. The best that most
Americans can get before
junketing abroad is a truly
routine briefing at a low
level of the State Depart-
ment.
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Search for top senior centers
By Lou Cottin
The search is on for out-
standing senior centers No
prizes will be awarded to the
top finishers, but valuable
information may be gathered
that will benefit senior cen-
ters of today and tomorrow
As we know, the growth of
multi-purpose senior centers
represents a big step forward
The senior citizens’ clubs of
earlier decades were mostly
places where, as one director
put it, “We keep the old folks
busy.”
Today, trained workers lis-
ten to us old folks" in our
larger, more efficiently
directed multi-purpose cen-
ters and clubs. They accept
guidance from those of us who
serve on their executive and
advisory committees.
In that sense, we determine
what programs and services
they should provide Often
these centers are affiliated
GROWING OLDER
Lou Cottin
with government-sponsored
nutrition programs
Awhile back, the assistant
secretary of the Department
of Health. Education and Wel-
fare (now the Department of
Health and Human Services)
saw the need for a special
study of senior centers. That
survey is currently being con-
ducted by a private research
firm.
The primary objective is to
locate centers that provide
outreach, adult day care,
health screening and clinical
services. Other points of inter-
est include services to home-
bound and disabled seniors.
Berry's World
In the first phase of the 18-
month survey, users are being
asked to name effective sen-
ior centers and to provide
information about their ser-
vices and activities.
The user evaluations will be
augmented by statements
from community leaders and
workers in the aging field.
Finally, the centers will be
contacted directly for more
information.
This survey offers a unique
opportunity to active, aware
seniors. If we feel our local
centers are doing a good job,
let’s say so.
But if we think more should
be offered at the centers we
attend, we should use this
opportunity to voice our
suggestions and complaints to
those conducting this study.
True, this is supposed to be
a search for outstanding
centers. But that shouldn’t
stop us from registering our
gripes if our centers are not
providing important services.
A survey like this one should
include the bad as well as the
good.
How else can the Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services judge which centers
are really worthy of acco-
lades?
If you want to participate,
write to Dennis Thum, mana-
ger, JWK International Corp.,
7617 Little River Turnpike,
BARBS
Phil Pastoret
With the increasing number
of women executives, says our
favorite apple polisher,
there’ll be all kinds of oppor-
tunity for an enterprising yes
ma’am.
Another nice thing a boot
year newspoper: The batteries
never ran down right in the
middle of a fascinating story.
Annandale, Va. 22003. Or
write to Sara Wagner, mana-
ger of the Senior Center
Project, at the same address.
When you write, furnish the
name, address and phone
number of the center as well
as the name of a staff mem-
ber who can be contacted for
additional information.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
IT'S POSSIBLE!
Robert Schuller
Have a
good day
By Robert Schuller
“Have a good day," I said,
rather routinely. “I certainly
will have a good day," my
friend replied.
Startled by his confidence, I
asked, “Tell me why you
sound so sure."
“Because,” he enthused, “I
make all my days good, with
God’s help. I think a good day,
believe a good day, pray a
good day, work a good day! So
I have to have a good day.”
A sensible formula, I
thought as 1 walked away. He
had the right idea.
That common little phrase
uttered so often without
thought, “Have a good day," is
not really an idle or meaning-
less comment. It can be a real
fact of life! Indeed, it is possi-
ble to make every day a good
day!
Now you’d better notice, I
didn’t say that every day can
be an easy day. Nor do I mean
that all days will be free from
pain, disappointments or
suffering. But we can take
these factors and make good
days out of them
There’s nothing soft about
life, but neither is there any-
thing that is impossible —
even having a good day! The
secret is in taking God as a
partner for life and walking
with Him. Then every day
that you live can be a good
day!
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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