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Editorials
Arkansas - State of
Contrasts
Arkansas is a state of con-
trasts. The east half is a rich
farming area for rice, cotton and
soybeans, most of which is
irrigated, whereas the western
and north western area is moun-
tainous. with little farming.
Here is the manufacturing, the
tourist attractions, cattle, hor-
ses. recreation.
One of the most attractive little
cities of all in this part of Arkan-
sas is Eureka Springs, which is
palled “Little Switerland”.
We followed Interstate 40 out
of Little Rock to Russellville,
where we had hoped to visit with
another former Pharr-ite. Victor
Dziadek and wife Nancy but to
our disappointment, we found
that he was working in
Morrilton. which we had passed
through. 30 minutes before.
We then followed Highway 7
from Russellvile straight north to
Harrison and then on to Eureka
Springs. Hwy. 7 is one of the
most scenic routes in all the U.S.
It winds and twists for 60 miles.
The first 25 or 30 minutes are
Tine but then it becomes
monotonous. We took a break on
the circuitous drive by stopping
at Dogpatch USA. which is just
off Hwy. 7 between Jasper and
Harrison. We toured only the
visitor center and mailed some
post cards. This is a teenage en-
tertainment and if we had had
children with us, we would have
taken the tour, where all the
characters of the “LiT Abner”
comic strip come to life. With all
the rides that are available, it is
similar to Disneyland or
Opryland.
There are several curio-gift
shops, short order businesses
along Hwy. 7 and one of which
caught our fancy advertised as
follows: “Booger Hollow. Pop. 7.
counting one coon dog. Taint fur
now. Keep acoming. Yur shor
welcum.”
There is so much to see in
Eureka Springs for the first
timer. We had been there three
years before and had toured the
Blue Spring. Christ of the Ozarks
statue. Miles Music Museum, the
historic Crescent Hotel, and the
Beaver Lake area. This time, we
went to see the Great Passion
Play again, which is presented in
an open amphitheatre by the
Smith Foundation. We arrived
at the grounds an hour early so
we had time to visit all the
exhibits, including a musical at
the memorial chapel, the art
gallery, and the orientation cen-
ter. which gave a history of the
Smith's in pictures and slide
show.
We had super seats for the
Passion Play, just nine rows back
in the very center. We brought
binoculars so we could watch
the expression on the faces of
the actors. Someof the script
had been changed from the first
time we saw it but it follows the
Bible story exactly for the last
seven days of the life of Christ.
The resurrection scene was
more dramatic.
If you ever go to Eureka
Springs, you should plan to
arrive early, see as much as
you can before the Passion Play.
En route to Fayetteville, we
toured the Pea Ridge National
Military Park, where the battle
of Pea Ridge of the Civil War
was fought. We had been by the
battle field a couple of times on
previous trips but this time we
stopped; and we were glad we
did. We toured the visitor center
and then made the tour of the
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battlefield, all by car. We did
not realize this was such an im-
portant battle of the Civil War.
Two generals were killed and
Indians fought in this battle the
first and only time.
In Fayetteville, we had an en-
joyable visit with our third and
oldest brother. Ralph, and wife
Robbie, who after a long career
of 35 years with the Bureau of
Public Roads, retired in this city.
He had five years of service with
the Army Reserves, retiring as a
Colonel. Fayetteville, of course,
is the heart of Razorback coun-
try. so we walked softly and did
not flaunt our Texas Tech cap.
For the first time, we returned
to South Texas from Arkansas
via East Texas traveling through
the eastern tip of Oklahoma
passing through such towns as
Poteau, Heayener, Broken Bow
and Idabel. The latter is the last
town before crossing the Red
River, which is the border bet-
ween Texas and Oklahoma.
Idabel is the home town of Mrs.
Bodford Hudspeth of Pharr; by
the way.
Our next destination was Tyler,
acclaimed as the rose capital of
the world. Tyler is a bustling
city of 100,000, so they said, and
while there we had a wonderful
visit with two more former
Pharr-ites, Jimmy and Clara Lin-
nard, who moved to Tyler seven
years ago. They lived on South
Jackson Rd. here and he is the
younger brother of Leslie Lin-
nard, who is an administrator in
the McAllen public schools.
Jimmy is a partner with two
others in an accounting firm in
Tyler, where they have their
own two story building, with
nine other accountants and 35
employees The Linnards have
four children, but none at home.
Before leaving, we visited the
famous Rose Gardens. There
were acres and acres of roses,
every variety grown. If you ever
to to Tyler, you should visit this
garden. ^
After leaving Tyler, our l^st
sightseeing stops were at Wood-
ville, where we visited the
museum of former governor
Allan Shivers, Woodville being
his home town. Much of the
display of documents was
familiar to us, as it made news at
the time, one being his marriage
to Mary Alice Shary of
Sharyland.
Our last tour was the major In-
dian reservation in Texas,
located between Woodville and
Livingston. Mabel has been
wanting to see this reservation
for a long time, as she “grew up”
in Oklahoma where there were
many Indians. This reservation
is in the Big Thicket-it is the
thickest country we have ever
seen-massive pine trees and
many world record trees in the
reservation, like water hickory
and shumack oak. A full blooded
Indian who was born on the
reservation was our tour guide.
We left home without an
American Express card but we
got back home alright. We did
have a Mastercard!
NOTE: This is the last article
about this trip through two
states.
STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndelt Williams
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN—If you’ve ever won-
dered why political campaigns in
Texas traditionally kick off on Labor
Day, remember the end of the fiscal
year comes on August 31.
Candidates who are also incum-
bents have enough to do in complet-
ing their budget requests and hold-
ing down staff spending the last two
weeks of that month.
Last week, while Republicans held
their national convention in Dallas,
Texas statewide officials and agency
heads were dotting the is and cross-
ing the ts in their budget reports to
the Legislature.
Meanwhile, House Speaker Gib
Lewis and his appropriations panel
chairman sent out new letters to
agency heads asking that new em-
ployee hiring be stopped temporarily,
as well as capital expenditures and
new construction projects.
The reason for the belt-tightening
is the grim revenue projection which
could be worsened if economic con-
ditions remain unchanged or sink
lower.
Lewis and the chairman, Jim
Rudd, D-Brownfield, sent similar
letters last spring asking agency
heads to prepare “no growth"
budgets to submit at summer’s end.
But many agencies haven’t fol-
lowed that request and are asking
the Legislature for substantial bud-
get increases for one reason or
another.
2nd Tax Hike?
Only last week, State Comptroller
Bob Bullock again warned that pres-
sure is mounting for a second tax
increase when the Legislature con-
venes in January for a regular
session.
Legislators are facing a projected
$1 billion shortfall.
Unless the budget can be cut to
accommodate the shortfall, the tax
hike will be necessary. The Legisla-
ure is also facing increased needs in
the prison system, court-ordered
mental hospital reforms, state em-
ployee salaries and ‘welfare growth
needs.
Newspaper Tax
When the Legislature passed a
record $4.8 billion tax bill last
month, it restored a tax on news-
paper subscriptions.
But Bullock said he is thinking
about writing individual members of
the Legislature “telling them they
stumped their toe here.”
“Sure I can take my auditors and
divert their attention to auditing
eight and nine year olds, or I can
take that time and audit some of the
Fortune 500 corporations. I’m going
to recommend it be repealed.”
Bullock said it will be impossible
to audit the 20,000 to 30,000 news-
paper carriers in the state, some in
grade school, who are responsible
for collecting the tax and remitting
the funds.
Punitive Measure
Bullock even went so far as to call
the tax a punitive measure, since the
press wrote articles critical of House
Speaker Lewis for failure to fully
disclose contributions.
But Rep. Wayne Peveto, D-
Orange, said House members were
more concerned that since “news-
paper people drummed up support
bill, they should help share part of
the burden.”
“I don’t think this was a slap at
the Capitol media, but more a feel-
ing towards the editorial boards
back home,” Peveto said.
All collected, the tax revenues
would total about $4 million, a mi-
nute sum in the state’s $35 billion
budget, according to Bullock.
Mattox
Last week Texas Attorney Gen-
eral Jim Mattox settled with an Aus-
tin developer accused of misrepre-
senting consumers by making him
return funds to 237 people who had
purchased time-share interests in a
Port Aransas condominium.
Mattox who has also declared
legal war on parents who owe back
child support, earlier gave those
parents one month’s amnesty to vol-
untarily work out a way to catch up
on payments.
He calls it Project Pay-Up but it
is ending Sept. 1. "If parents don’t
come in and pay up, they’ll face us
in the courthouse,” he said. Under
new state law permitting garnish-
ment of wages for back child sup-
port, 434 child support dodgers have
been jailed this year.
Low-Level Dump
Texas may be moving too fast in
its search for a low-level nuclear
dump site, according to the conserva-
tive West Texas chairman of the
subcommittee studying the issue.
Following last week’s hearing,
where expert witnesses told Rep.
Gary Thompson, D-Abilene, that
below-ground dumps are old fash-
ioned, Thompson said special legal
questions must be cleared up, too.
As low-level waste generated by
hospitals and labs increases, pressure
is mounting on the Legislature to
find a suitable storage facility. One
plan is to bury the waste in West
Texas, but citizen activists there have
stopped it time and again.
JACK ANDERSON AND JOSEPH SPEAR
WEEKLY SPECIAL
VA Puts Reagan On The Spot
With Election-Year Demands
By Jack Anderson
and Joseph Spear
WASHINGTON - The Veterans
Administration is unlike any other
federal agency. It has a powerful —
and politically untouchable — con-
stituency of its own that transcends
the authority of any temporary
occupant of the White House.
So it’s hardly surprising that the
VA has chosen to put President
Reagan on the spot in an election
year by proposing an ambitious
plan for the health care of the
nation’s ever-growing number of
older veterans.
It’s also not surprising that the
White House is sitting on the
proposal, hoping it will not surface
before Election Day.
The reason: The VA’s long-term
plan for handling the aging vets has
several options — but they’re all
going to be expensive. If Reagan
endorses the multi-billion-dollar
proposals, it will make his promise
to avoid tax increases even less
credible than it is already.
But the alternative is enough to
give Reagan-Bush campaign stra-
tegists nervous fits. If Reagan
rejects the VA’s grand plan, he risks
offending more than 28 million
veterans, to say nothing of their
spouses and children, who will get
stuck with the heath-care bills if the
VA isn’t able to take care of them.
It’s obviously a problem that isn’t
going to go away. The White House
would like to have it stay in the
closet for another 80 days or so.
Our associate Donald Goldberg
obtained a copy of the VA’s draft
report, titled, “Caring for the Older
Veteran: A Shared Vision for the
Future.”
“Americans are growing older,”
the report notes, “but veterans are
growing older faster than the gen-
eral population. ... In this decade,
4.2 million veterans will pass the
age 65 milestone. ... By the year
2000, 63 percent of all American
males over 65 will be veterans.
Under current eligibility rules, this
means that by 2000 two out of eve-
ry three elderly males in the United
States will be eligible for VA health
care if they elect to use it.”
The VA report makes clear that
if its suggestions for handling this
potential flood of ailing old-timers
are adopted, it will add significant-
ly to the agency’s medical costs,
which are already running more
than $9 billion a year.
“The magnitude of the increase
will depend on factors whose
impact can only be estimated, but it
will approach an increase of $6 bil-
lion (a year) from 1985 levels at its
peak in 2000,” the draft report
warns. “In addition, provision for
the facilities necessary to meet the
needs of the older veteran will
require an estimated $6.6 billion
investment above current commit-
ments, primarily between 1990 and
2000.”
SUPREME CHALLENGE: Wal-
ter Mondale’s talent for building
coalitions will be put to the
supreme test this summer and fall:
Only if he can maintain the fragile
unity that he achieved at the San
Francisco convention will he stand
a chance of beating Ronald Reagan.
Mondale is counting on about two
dozen states to give him a bare
majority of electoral votes. But
even this narrowly focused cam-
paign depends on keeping the
disparate elements of the Demo-
cratic Party happy.
Mondale’s contentious constituen-
cies — blacks, Jews, Hispanics,
labor, women, Southern populists
and blue-collar ethnics — have con-
flicting goals and demands. The
Democratic candidate needs all of
them to win, yet every time he
appears to be leaning toward one
group, he risks alienating the
others.
Our reporter Norman Kurz ques-
tioned a number of political leaders
about Mondale’s chances, and only
a handful honestly felt that he
would carry their states. Not even
the dramatic choice of Rep. Geral-
dine Ferraro, D-N.Y., as his running
mate, the pols believe, will give
Mondale the boost he needs to beat
Reagan.
Westerners are convinced that
Mondale, who did poorly in the
region’s primaries, has all but writ-
ten them off Southerners are pes-
simistic about the chances of two
Northern liberals in an area that
voted against one of its own, Jimmy
Carter, in 1980.
“If the election were held today,”
said Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas,
“there’s no doubt we’d lose Texas,
and without Texas the Democrats
can’t win.” He added loyally. “But
we have a chance.”
“It’s going to be uphill all the
way,” said Rep. Jim Wright, D-
Texas, the House Majority Leader.
“Ferraro would not have been may
first choice. ... But when the quart-
erback calls the play, I go block
downfield.”
COMPUTER INTERVIEWING:
Republican party strategists have
come up with a new twist on com-
puter dating services. It could be
called “computer interviewing.”
The Republicans may not have as
many women delegates attending
their convention in Dallas this week
as the Democrats had in San Fran-
cisco. So the Republicans will use
their limited female resources to
maximum advantage by putting
their computers to work.
Each woman delegate’s back-
ground has been fed into a comput-
er and cross-indexed. So when a
reporter wants to interview a
middle-aged black schoolteacher or
an unmarried Hispanic business-
woman, the machine will identify
the best candidate for media atten-
tion.
Copyright, 1984,
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Looking At It Sideways
How do you wake up? Never
thought about it, huh? Well, you
probably know that not
everybody does it the same way.
My research indicates that there
are several ways to do it.
I had a roommate, once, who
was terrible at getting up. It was
not that he had trouble waking
up. The problem was that he
woke up and wanted me to get
up with him. He would wake up
at exactly 7:43 AM every single
morning of his life. That was
had enough, but he always wan-
ted me to wake up with him. The
alarm never got to ring more
than five seconds before he was
already out of bed.
He would jump, literally jump,
out of bed and veil a hello at the
sun. I don't think the sun ap-
preciated it. The sun was still on
the other side of the world at hat
time of the dav.
He would jump out of bed and
he fresh and ready for the day.
He was never sleepy after the
alarm rang. There is nothing
worse than an early riser when
you insist on sleeping past your
wakeup time. I finally had to
move to the basement in order to
wake up comfortably. 1
Some people tend to lazy them-
selves out of bed. - Tka alarm
rings and they just turn it off.
The alarm rings again, and they
just put under the bed. This per-
son puts one leg down on the
floor and waits five minutes to
put the other one down. )
They also tend to be jn tho
shower forever. Sometimes. I
think they actually fall asloep in
the shower. Never let this kind
of person get in the shower
before vou.
There are also the kinds of par-
son who can never seem to hear
the alarm ring. The alarm just
dies out before they wake up
However, once they wake up,
they realize they are late for
work. Then its like a little tor-
nado running around searc\jng
for shoes, socks, papers, the
toothpaste, and the wallet and
keys before they leave. These
people eventually wind up with a
flat tire as they pull out of the
driveway.
Mothers and fathers are a
totaly different breed of waker-
uppers. Mothers don't even
need an alarm clock to wake
them up. They have a little
alarm in thier head that just goes
off the same time every day.
They verv methodically wake up
and get to work. Make the cof-
fee. hd the cat out. take a
shower, wake up the kids, and
wake the father, always in that
order. I would know that the end
of the world is near if mv mother
ever varied from this schedule.
Fathers are a little different.
Fathers seem to wake up in a
trance. They kind of wake up
with their eyes closed and walk
straight into the shower. Then a
cup of coffee will open one eye.
After that, its the sleep walking
By Arnoldo Mata
to get dressed. Fathers seei
have a rather steady pace al
everything they do. Nothing
speep them up or slow tl
down. It always takes tl
exactly the same? amout of I
to get dressed.
However, the worst one?
waking up are the ones wh<
their alarm at least fifl
minutes ahead in order to hi
in time. These people alv
make it a point of letting it
enough to wake you up. /
they set the alarm such that
can just barely got hack to s
before you have to wake uj
your own.
There is something to he <■
however, for not waking i
That is what I like about wa
up. deciding that you will
wake up. at least not now.
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