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Editorials
Unforgettable
You watch the gray hair spread across
the temple or the tiny wrinkles at the
comer of the eyes as they deepen into
gorges. Then comes the day when you
can’t remember how many cups there
are in a quart or who played second base
for the Cincinnati Reds in 19S8, and
there’s no denying the inevitable.
Everyone knows the memory is the first
to go.
Well, forget it. Researchers from the
American Psychological Association
have reported that new studies show
memory loss in older persons is far less
than commonly imagined by eighter
scientists or laymen. What scientists
previously measured as memory loss, the
researchers contend, may have been an
artifact of earlier experiments, in which
subjects of various ages were asked to
recall trivial facts. In the new ex-
periments, older people performed as
well as their juniors when asked to
remember information within the con-
text of solving practical problems.
Those findings suggest to the resear-
chers that, while younger people may be
better at Trivial Pursuit, older people
are better at knowing what’s forgettable.
“Older adults may be more willing to
forget new information than younger
adults, since older adults may have more
previously learned information with
which to judge the importance of the
new information,” says Cameron
Camp, one of the researchers.
Translated, tnat seems to be a way of
saying that experience is valuable and
that age brings more discriminating
taste, and — who knows? — maybe even
a touch of what used to called wisdom.
As a trade for not being able to
remember Johnny Temple, the
ballplayer with the elusive name, that’s a
pretty good' bargain.
(Reprinted by permission of The
Sacramento Bee)
A protection rule
The British Boxing Board of Control
has approved a requirement that
deserves consideration in the United
States. All boxers in professional cham-
pionship bouts must undergo a brain
scan before being declared fit to enter
the ring. The board expressed the hope
that brain scans would eventually be re-
quired prior to all boxing matches.
Brain scans are the common term for
computerized axial tomography scans,
which can reveal hidden blood clots or
brain atrophy. Dr. Bennet Derby, a New
York neurologist, says, “The scans are
the best way of making sure a man’s
brain is OK when he enters the ring.”
Some states require brain scans for a
boxer who was knocked out in his
previous fight. Amateur rules also ad-
dress the problem. A fighter who has
been knocked out can be barred from
sparring or participating in a match for
30 days to one year, depending on the
number of knock-outs.
While those precautions are a step in
the right direction, they don’t go far
enough. The American Medical Associa-
tion points out that a knockout isn’t the
only thing that causes brain damage.
Even a winning boxer who takes
repeated punches to the head can have
permanent brain damage.
Requiring a fighter to undergo a brain
scan before he boxes — regardless of
whether or not he was knocked out in his
previous,,match — makes sense. No per-
son with signs of brain damage should
be allowed to fight again.
(Reprinted by permission of the Omaha
World-Herald)
DOIN .2.4% INTEREST.
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AND'CUD MOM
KEEP5TT HASHED AND
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Many happy returns of
the day to Jim Hedrick,
Sept. 12 and also to Bob
Wood on that same day.
These celebrate on the
11th - Nancy Gottschalt,
Patsy Goebel, Judy
(^hesser, Sheila Richards.
Fun back in the good old days
Who Gives A Hoot
li\ Homer Kitiut
Manners are the
manifestations of class.
1 KNOW SOME-
THING GOOD ABOUT
YOU!
Wouldn’t this old world
be better
If the folks we meet
would say
“I know something
good about you”
And then treat us that
way!
Wouldn’t it be fine and
dandy
If each handclasp
warm and true!
Carried with it this
assurance:
”1 know something
good about you!”
Wouldn’t things here be
more pleasant
If the good that’s in us
all
Were the only things
about us
That folks bothered to
recall!
Wouldn’t life be lots
more happy
If we’d praise the good
we see,
For there’s such a lot of
goodness
In the worst of you and
me!
knows where you are go-
ing.
You are tun off rffain
street by a combine.
You can’t walk for exer-
cise because every car that
passes offers you a ride.
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Homer Berner
YOU KNOW YOU
ARE IN A SMALL
TOW N W HEN.....
Every sport is played on
dirt.
The editor and
publisher of the
newsrfTSpTis carries a
camera at alljtimes.
You don’tAise your turn
signal because everyone
Once, milking an old
cow in the back barn lot, 1
got tired of her swatting
me in the face with a tail
full of cockleburrs.
....So, with a piece of
binder twine, I tied her tail
to my leg.
I hadn’t gone around
the bam but about four
times before I realized my
mistake.
BUT. WE HAD FUN
BACK IN THE OLD
DAYS...
We played darts with a
torncob. It had three
chicken feathers in one
end and a nail in the other.
But if I picked the wrong
target, like the sugar sack
draining cottage cheese on
the clothes line, Mom
would likely thump me on
the head with her thimble
finger.
Every boy had to try
smoking corn silk,
grapevine or coffee
grounds - at least one time
until he got caught and got
a good strapping.
Here he lies molding,
his dying was hard. They
shot him for folding an
IBM card.
Blessed are the youth of
this nation for they shall
inherit the mess we’ve
made.
Check your Hug-O-
Meter, better yet, use it!
• AND IF YOU GET \
CAUGHT WHILE SP1ING \
AT U.N., CONSEQUENCES
_ WILL BE MOST SEVERE.
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WElLHAVETO
FRAME ANOTHER
JOURNALIST
i’ll have
TO SWALLOW
CYANIDE?
Gov. White takes the offensive
AUSTIN — Texas Go\
Mark White, fighting for
his political life, took the
offensive last week against
the Texas House,
threatening to veto the
new betting bill unless
House Speaker lewis’
team solves the state’s
fiscal crisis in a second
30-day session.
What White means is
raise taxes, and he’s back
ed by L.t. Gov. Bill Hobby
on that issue.
But the House again
demonstrated its opposi-
tion to a tax hike when
some 85 state represen-
tatives rallied to support-
House Speaker Gib I ewis.
Opposed for re-election
back home, Lewis is also
fighting for his career
Tempers were -hot and
House members com-
plained of being pushed
around by the governor
and senators who want a
sales tax increase.
The House and Senate
are now farther apart than
State Capitol Highlights
B> l.>ndell Williams
before. 1 ndgame politics
and re-election rhetoric
may base derailed what
appeared to be a new basis
of cooperation-
( ul first, lax Later
Last week, -lewis
softened his stance, saying
he was not entirely oppos-
ed to a tax hike. In fact,
for days. .Capitol scut-
tlebutt had it that Lewis
would allow a minimal tax
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bill in the second session
because he had saved his
re election face.
Hobby, for his part,
signaled lie would accept
the so-called Band-Aid ap-
proach that senators had
vowed to kill.
But after White’s
threat. House member^
rallied at Lewis’ office,
lewis repeated his first
position: cut the budget
first and then we’ll think
about raising taxes.
Lewis still holds.the ma-
jority of votes in a divided
House. One frustrated
pro-tax representative
even accused Lewis of
aiding White’s Republican
opponent, former Gov.
Bill Clements. He implied
no tax bill would wound
Mark W hite.
Are we watching
legislators vote on the
basis of whether they want
to support the re-election
of either Mark White or
Gib^Lewis? Or can the
fiscal crisis stand as a valid
issue by • itself? Maybe
both.
Veto Anyway?
White is suspected of
wanting to veto the betting
bill anyway. . Pro-
horserace members are
reluctant to gtve White his
tax bill until after the new
I hev
bill becomes law
don’t trust him
On the surface, it ap
pears the budget is being
sacrificed tor parimutuel
betting, but the real issue
is predominate House sen-
timent that taxes should
be raised in lanuary. not
now.
Now Into Deficit
Bv mid-week. Hobby
warned legislators t hey
faced the most radical loss
of funds of any state in ihe
nation’s history. By not
acting, they could also
become the nation’s
laughing stock
Hobby called the first
session a flop, but said a
stopgap plan of tax hikes,
budget cuts and accoun
ting maneuvers will keep
state checks from bounc-
ing, if the House okays it
in September
I he House Republican
response was to question-
Nt e accuracy of
Democratic Treasurer
Ann Richard’s statistics.
I he curtain rang down
early Thursday on the first
special session, tour days
after the state ended the
fiscal year $231 million in
the hole, the first deficit in
25 years.
Lawmakers finished
business on only three ma-
jor isucs: legalized betting
at horse and dog tracks,
school discipline and in-
terstate and branch bank-
ing
Pressured and deter-
mined. the governor came
out fighting. He gave
legislators the weekend off
to face voters back home
before starting the new
session Monday morning,
when he planned to ad-
t
dress a joint session.
They went home
fatigued, particularly the
workhorses on the budget
committees.
THE CUERO RECORD is published twice weekly (Wednesday and Satur
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Berner, Homer H. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 73, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 1986, newspaper, September 10, 1986; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth844410/m1/2/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.