Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 193, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1980 Page: 4 of 18
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4—TMI NEWS-TEIGItAM, Sulphur Spring, Tmm, Thursdoy, Aug. 14. IMO.
&
Jock Andorson
In our opinion
Single equalization
board proposed
.‘County commissioners in Texas
npght lose one of their pressure jobs if
a$roposed amendment to the state's
constitution is approved in November,
ty the ballot on November 4 this
proposition will be listed as Amend-
ment No. 3.
•:The measure proposes that there
will be a single appraisal and a single
board of equalization within each
county for ad valorem tax purposes.
Wider present law, county com-
missioners are required to serve on the
county board of equalization, where
they receive considerable heat when
property is revalued upward and tax
rftes climb.
£ Currently, other entities within the
cOuntv may have their own
ilization boards. Under the
change, one equalization
would handle the duties for all
entities.
Agriculture department
helps more than farmers
: It’s a mistake to think that the U.S.
Agriculture Department exists only to
provide assistance to farmers. Such
thinking is almost in left field.
:For example, almost two-thirds of
thfe department’s budget takes care of
enaitures on food programs for
lions of individuals at home and
overseas.
The food-stamp program, projected
to: cost $9.7 million m 1981, is the
biggest fund-grabber in the
Agriculture Department’s budget. A
pretty big bite — $1.2 billion — goes to
the “Food for Peace” plan the United
States government conducts abroad.
• In the $22 billion Agriculture
:By The Associated Press
Today Is Thursday, Aug. 14,
the 227th day of I960. There are
139 days left In the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
GpAug. 14,1945, World War II
ended with the surrender of
Japan.
On this date:
la 1784, the first Russian
colony in Alaska was founded
on Kodiak Island.
In 1856, the first American
patent for an accordian was
granted.
Ip 1935, Congress passed the
Social Security Act.
In 1973, American bombing of
Cambodia came to a halt,
marking the official end to 12
years of U.S. combat action in
Indochina.
Ten years ago, the Vatican
and Yugoslavia patched up an
18-year break and resumed
diplomatic relations.
Five years ago, the president
of Bangladesh was killed in a
coup that overthrew the
country’s 3W-year-old govern-
ment.
Last year, hurricane-force
winds slashed through a fleet of
more than 300 vessels taking
part in the Fastnet race off the
coast of England. Eighteen
were reported killed in
yachting’s worst disaster.
Today’s birthdays: Circus
impresario John Rlngling North
is 77. Jockey Robyn Smith is 36.
Pitcher Mark Fidrych is 26.
Thought for today: We don’t
know one-millionth of 1 percent
about anything. — Thomas
Edison (1847-1931).
Get McGovern' campaign
slings much mud his way
Since the enactment of the Property
Tax Code in 1979 (it becomes fully
effective in 1982) approximately 215 of
the 254 Texas counties have voluntarily
joined district-wide appraisal districts.
These districts will provide for ap-
praisal of all property within each
county. Thus, it stands to reason that a
single equalization board can be ap-
proved to handle those problems that
develop and need adjustment.
While it has not been proposed yet,
it might be reasonably expected that at
some future date a single tax collection
agency for all entities in a county could
become operative.
It might be more efficient with
computerized operations. It is doubtful
that it would be less expensive. But it
might be easier to handle tax
payments at one office instead of
several.
Department budget which has passed
the house for fiscal 1981, more than
half, or $12.8 billion, has been allocated
to domestic food programs.
In indirect ways, utilization of
surplus foods through various
programs benefit farmers. But the
point is made that the farmers and
ranchers actually receive less in direct
assistance than might be assumed.
Whi
is char
me
thaft a waif are expenditure.
iVis well to know where the funds
are going to keep everything in proper
perspective.
By JACK ANDERSON
WASHINGTON - Eight
years ago, the hero of the
Democratic convention was
the gentle, genial Sen.
George McGovern He took
a shellacking at the polls --
the victim of one of the dirti-
est presidential campaigns
in political history
Now he is back on the
hustings, largely overlooked,
running for re-election in his
native South Dakota But he
hasn’t been forgotten by the
implacable forces of the far
right who abhor his unrepen-
tant liberalism. George
McGovern is as green in
their memories as the cash
they are pumping into South
Dakota to keep him from
being re-elected
And once again, he is
being splattered with cam-
paign mud. The right-wing
ideologues and single-issue
zealots are holding poor
McGovern responsible for
just about all that’s wrong in
the world. “Unfortunately,"
lamented one supporter, "if
you tell it loud enough and
long enough, people will
begin to believe it It is
almost subliminal
hypnosis ”
McGovern's support of
federally funded abortions
has earned him the epithet
of “baby killer" in local
newspaper ads. One of the
sleaziest tactics has been the
distribution by the Life
Amendment Political Action
Committee of lurid photos of
dead fetuses displayed next
to a picture of McGovern
These were not only mailed
out wholesale to South Dako-
ta voters, but placed on
windshields of cars parked
outside Sunday church
services.
Bankrolling much of the
“get McGovern” effort is the
National Conservative Polit-
ical Action Committee. Its
headquarters is in Arlington,
Va., and it seems to have
few ties to South Dakota,
other than to have designat-
ed state’s senior senator its
No. 1 target for political
oblivion this year
NCPAC has spent
$135,000 so far in its
attempt to nail McGovern.
Yet Federal Election Com-
mission officials note there
are no itemized receipts
from South Dakota in the list
of contributors that NCPAC
filed with the FEC. This sug-
gests that little of the anti-
McGovern money is coming
from his constituents.
Curiously, NCPAC has not
reported to the FEC a single
itemized contribution since
last October, though it has
taken in more than $2 mil-
lion since then. Experienced
fundraisers express doubt
that such a large sum could
be raised without at least
some big contributors In
earlier FEC filings, NCPAC
listed a number of oil and
gas firms and other Big
Business donors
Footnote NCPAC head
Paul Dolan confirmed the
group's intention to beat
McGovern. He insisted that
Giving due process its due
Close to 200 Iranians jailed following demonstrations in
Washington that escalated into rioting.
Most of them on a hunger strike, refusing to give their iden-
tities to American authorities and courting deportation as a
result.
The Ayatollah Khomeini charging brutal mistreatment and
demanding a United Nations inquiry.
The prisoners in the U.S. Emnassy the targets of yet anoth-
er anti-American demonstration in Tehran.
And now for the good news from the Iranian front.
That’s right, good news. Admittedly it takes a bit of looking,
but such can be found even at this particularly trying phase of
a crisis that persists in going from bad to much worse.
It is in a report from the U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service on the progress to date of the investigation of the
The INS explains the low number of actual deportees as a
consequence of the complexities of the deportation process
Any foreign resident believed to have violated visa terms,
which in tne case of the Iranian students usually means drop-
ping out of school, is entitled to a hearing. In the event of a
negative decision, the visa holder may appeal to the Immigra
tion Appeals Board and, if again rejected, to the federal courts
all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States
No snap decisions made here. And with some 8,000 chal-
lenges to dispose of, it could be some time before the number
of Iranian deportees grows appreciably, let alone the entire
investigation and deportation process is completed
Rather than explaining the situation almost apologetically,
however, the INS should be pointing to it with pride
For it signifies something far more important than the slow
turning of the wheels of justice. It demonstrates that due pro-
cess prevails in the United States even in an intensely emo-
als
COMMENTARY
Don Graff
nying
U.N.
legal status of Iranian citizens in the United States.
As of Aug. 4, only 70 had been deported as a consequence of
having been found in violation of the terms of their visas.
Another 308 shipped out voluntarily And some 8,000 more are
contesting deportation orders and, until their cases are decid-
ed, legally entitled to remain in this country
That is out of nearly 59,000 Iranians, overwhelmingly hold-
ers of student visas, resident in the United States at the
seizure of the Tehran embassy and the onset of the current
crisis.
The overwhelming majority, more than 50,000, are
adjudged to be “in status,” that is, in compliance with their
visas and consequently legally resident in the United States -
for all that they may be outspoken in their dislike of the coun-
try and its policies.
tional situation.
Americans are undoubtedly in overwhelming agreement
with a State Department spokesman who, in deny
Khomeini's charges of mistreatment and welcoming a
investigation of the handling of the demonstrators, observed
“They chose to demonstrate, and they chose to take the conse-
quences of demonstrating.”
But in the United States, those consequences are deter-
mined by law, not irrational passions. The demonstrators by
their defiance of the law should not be and are not in any
danger of being deprived of their rights under it, including the
right to leave the country if they so desire.
That last is a great deal more than can be said of the situa-
tion of Americans in Iran.
Double trouble
Second Thoughts on Headlines Department:
“Draft chief vows penalty for refit lag to sign up.”
(From The New York Times, reporting Selective Service
Director Bernard D. Rossiter’s warning that "this is not Mick-
ey Moose, ” the law will be enforced against men refusing to
register.)
And then there are those who think that by registering,
they’re already being penalised.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
the committees average
contribution is $14. and
voiced approval of the right
to-Iifers campaign, telling
my associate Lucette Lag-
nado that McGovern
"believes in murdering
babies Dolan expressed
surprise that NCPAC had
not been filing itemized
reports with the FEC and
promised the oversight
would be corrected Another
NCPAC target, incidentally,
is the able Frank Church. D-
Idaho, chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations
Committee
REASSESSING RONNIE:
Jimmy Carter's operatives
were sniffing around in
Detroit last month, and
came away deciding that the
Republican candidate is not,
after all, vulnerable to
attack as the arch-conserva-
tive they had been counting
on. Their reports indicated
that those in Reagan's inner
circle are bright and politi-
cally savvy, and are deter-
mined to broaden Reagan's
political views - or at least
the public's perception of
them In other words, this
will not be a replay of the
Johnson-Gold water
campaign
THE SCOOP ON SCOOP’:
One of Henry Scoop
Jackson's backers as an
alternative to Jimmy
Carter was. surprisingly,
Ted Kennedy A couple of
weeks ago. Kennedy told his
aides he wanted to nominate
the Washington senator if it
became clear Kennedy
couldn't win the nomination
himself Jackson s ties to the
Kennedys go back to 1960.
when fie was JFK's first
choice for a running mate
But Papa Joe Kennedy
and Speaker Sam Rayburn
advised JFK to make a
gesture" to Lyndon John-
son. To their surprise. John-
son accepted the second spot
on the ticket
CAREY IN THE WINGS:
Like David Copperfield’s
friend Barkis. New York
Gov Hugh Carey is willin’
He’s not only willin’ to be
the Democratic choice for
president, he's even willin'
to be tapped by John Ander-
son as a running mate What
has Carey sitting under a
tree waiting for lighting to
strike is a private poll of 62
New York Democratic coun-
ty chairmen It showed
Reagan running first. Ander-
son second and Carter third.
USING EACH OTHER:
That supposedly hasty - and
still bizarre ~ meeting
between Ted Kennedy and
John Anderson was actually
a long time in the making
Kennedy had been trying to
set up such a meeting early
in the primary season, in
hopes of loosening a few
Carter delegates. Anderson,
of course, used the parley as
a way of signaling Kennedy
supporters that they could
find a home in his independ-
ent camp if Ted were not
nominated
WATCH ON WASTE:
Ronald Reagan’s attack on
“welfare chiselers” could
get valuable ammunition
from an investigative report
that has never been
released Prepared by audi-
tors in the General Account-
ing Office, the report states
that in fiscal 1978, more
than $900 million was given
out erroneously in the Aid to
Dependent Children
program. The waste includ-
ed overpayments to eligible
families as well as pay*
ments made to ineligible
families
i iipvnght 1980
I mti il Kt attire Syndicate ln<
6TrA N.&ft. 30
HUCME
‘‘These mixed marriages can be a problem. Let’s look for a compromise —
now who wears the Willie Nelson jeans and prefers the Gloria Vanderbilt?”
Aiding the skeptical tourist
By the Editors
of Psychology Today
j
On guided tours, people typ-
ically bite their tongues In
art museums, for example,
they yearn to ask skeptical
questions like "It wouldn't
take much skill to paint that
— why should it be in a
museum'’” or "Why is this
good'’" Instead, they play it
safe with questions like “Are
all the paintings in this room
by the same artist’’" and
"When was that painted-’"
Such inhibitions can easily
be overcome, according to
studies done in several Wash-
ington, DC., museums All it
takes is for tour guides to ask
for challenging questions,
pose them in their own pres-
entations and pause for at
least six seconds after asking
PSYCHOLOGY
TODAY
a question to give people time
for mulling it over.
Caryl Marsh, a psychologist
who is curator of exhibitions
and research at the National
Archives, documented the
prevalence of tame questions
several years ago by observ-
ing tours given by 20 guides at
the National Collection of
Fine Arts. She then retrained
six of them to apply recent
research findings.
One key finding was the dis-
covery of the psychologist
Albert Bandura that when an
Berry's World
© I960 by NEA. he
"Not ANOTHER add rain dance!"
authority figure models the
kind of questions he or she
wants people to ask. people
tend to ask more of them
Another principle came
from studies done by a sci-
ence educator. Mary Budd
Rowe, showing that when
elementary-school teachers
pause three to four seconds
after asking questions, the
students ask more questions
of their own
The retrained guides prac-
ticed "modeling" and using
"wait time" on one another,
and thoroughly reviewed the
current exhibit so they were
confident they could handle
any queries their new tech-
niques provoked They then
began tours by announcing
that the tour was designed to
stimulate questions and by
posing some questions of their
own such as "Why is this art?"
In the six-second pause,
someone usually responded to
get the ball rolling. Later, the
guides modeled more ques-
tions by asking the tourists
“Does this work arouse any
feelings in you’ What does it
convey to you?”
Ms. Marsh observed 48
tours that used these tech-
niques and found that model-
ing and wait time elicited
nearly eight times the number
of challenging questions that
were asked on the earlier
tours. Moreover, the tours
provoked more discussion
among tOur members.
Instead of losing partici-
pants as they went along (a
common occurrence on guid-
ed tours), the lively groups
often attracted new people en
route.
In addition, the guides
learned something about the
depth of the museum goers’
interests. One noted, “I’m con-
vinced now that visitors are
there on a less superficial
basis than I might have
thought before.”
Wait time and modeling are
now used with similar results
at the National Archives; the
National Zoo is incorporating
the techniques into education-
al programs for children. Ms.
Marsh is convinced that “the
expression of curiosity can be
enhanced by these techniques
in schools, factories, hospitals,
on-the-job training sessions or
conferences — any setting in
which important questions are
often not asked for fear of
sounding ignorant or in some
way offending.”
(c) 1980 Psychology Today
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
Family ties
being sought
Editor:
I am currently compiling a
list of descendants of Charles
and Parthenia A. Stewart
Kennedy of North Carolina,
then Tennessee (Carrol and
White Co.), then to Hempstead
County, Arkansas.
I am told that Paschal and
Jacob Thomas Kennedy resided
in Sulphur Springs or Weaver,
Texas. I would appreciate
hearing from anyone who is a
descendant of the above or from
anyone who knows anything of
their whereabouts. I will an-
swer all letters and exchange
information. Thank you very
much, DOROTHY KENNEDY
PARTAIN, Box 63, Mur-
freesboro, Ar. 71958.
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