Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1988 Page: 2 of 12
twelve pages : ill. ; page 19 x 14 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
it
1 W?
I 0m : .
v : ;
-
..
* ■
■
t . r -' •
■ ‘ ; '
*
'■ . I I
. »• :i *f
ikm
*
*
Thursday January 14 19M
This Week
In Portland
THURSDAY, JAN. 14
Alcoholics Anonymous -8 p.m., 609 lUilroad Ave
FRIDAY, JiLN. li
Portland Al-An«i - 10 «.m„ Our Ady a) Mount Carmel ( athoix
Church
SATURDAY. JAN M
Alcoholics Annonytnous -1 pm . 601 Railroad Avr
SUNDAY, J,IN. 17
Narcotics Anonymous - 7 p.m . Our lady of Mounl Carmel Catholic
Church
MONDAY. JAN. ill
Rotary Club • noon. Community Center
Lions (Tub - 7 p.m.. Chamber at Commerce buildout. 907 Elm
G-P Booster tlub - 7: IB p.m.. high school cafeteria
Alcoholics Anonymous I pm, 609 Fiailraad Ave
TUESDAY, JAN. I*
Portland Garden Club-9a m., members homes
Library board meeting - noon. BeU-Whittington Publx Ijbran
Qty council meeting ■ 7 p.m., city hall
G-P ISO board al trustees meeting ■ 7 p.m.. Administration building,
Giegory
Eastern Star - 7: JO p.m.. Masonic ledge Iwiiding
Volunteer fire department - 7: JO p it ., fire station
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 609 railroad Ave
WEDNESDAY, JIN. 79
Chat Wort Civic Cluh-lOa.m., Nortlishoie Country Club
Kiwonu Club * noon. Chamber of Commerce building. 902 Elm
Portland Sea Gulls Square Dance Club - 8 p.m., Community Center
THURSDAY, .IAN. 71
Commodity Distribution - 9 a.m. till gone. Assembly of God Church
hall. M2 Lang Road
Story Time - 10a.m., Bell-Whittington Public Library
Gregory Liom Club - 7 p.m , fire stat ion
Alcoholics Anonymous - 8 p.m., 609 Railroad Ave
BE IX-WHITTING TON PUBl JC LIBRARY HOURS
Monday. Tuesday. Thursday-9a m to6p m . Wednesday 9 a m to
7pm.; Friday - tu rn. toSp m , Saturday - Ida m to2p.m
Portland’s Past
51YKARS AGO
1MI-
Gregory-Portland High School
ptoced ttr third highest number of
students in the resume I bend last
Saturday in Alice
Mr and Mrs George Beck of 110
Maple Dr attended the Texas Ar-
chery Club MVtalliitior banquet at
Holiday Inn in C^pus Chnsti last
Saturday night
5 YEARS AGO
-1983-
Clay Floyd, a junior at the Univer-
sity of Texas, Austin, recently was
a wanted the J.L Mosle Memorial
Scholarship in the amount of $500
Participating in a speech tourna-
ment in Clear I .alee last weekend,
tlae G-P performing arts department
a on iheir ninth sweepstakes in a
rjw.
Opinion
Highlights & Sidelights
Repbulicans Investigate Forgery Claims
Forgeries Suspected
A spot ( heck of petitions by The
Dallas Moralag News turned up
evidence dial dozens of nariKj had
been forged on the Dole and Haig
petition*, including the names of
Democrats and one dead person, all
from Houston
Officials in both those campaigns
denied knowledge of forgeries and
the Texas Republican Party is seek-
ing out the over-zealous worker who
may have committed the felony
The position of those candidates on
the Texas ballot could be in jeopar-
dy
Agriculture Commissioner Jim
Hightower to the extent that they
snare much of the same Austin
liberal support.
The irony was that Jack
Hightower could be confused with
Jim Hightower by un unformed
voters the old name-game share
which is common in Texas
High Court Battleground
The struggle for political
dominance of tins state will be
fought in H88 on the Supreme Court
campaign trail. Certainly, the
scenario ls in dire disarray and
erhaps well-matched
issue ls whether the court
should be .eft or nght and whether
justices sliould be elected or ap-
pointed
For starters, the majority of
justice aren’t happy with recently
departed Chief Justice John Hill,
who quit ir mid-term to lobby for an
appointed court.
perha
At
The expose on 'US’ Sixty
Minutes" made justices suspect n
the eyes of the naticai * nd as Justice
Oscar Mauzy impliec in remarks
last week, it's war
Then when Campbel. quit to cam-
paign to keep elected judges, the
other faction got angry
Presently, it’s the most divime
political issue to hit the SuprMtt
Court and legal profession 8®
decade
Democrats have lost the edge
Gov. Clements is sitting with two ap
ntments and a well-funded
rorm slate to topple i Democratic
court which is at war with itself.
Observers are convinced it's going
to be a bitter fight The issue of
wholesale impropriety by some
justices is what started this confron-
tation and if the warriors get out of
hand during the campaign, T—-•
befoc
poii
ref(
Justice Resigns
While the presidential race will
dominate the season, it looks like
most of the good action will take
place in - of all unlikely places —
the Texas Supreme Court races
Campbeli's resignation caught
Democratic headquarters by sur-
prise and they blasted him for giving
Gov. Bill Clements another
backroom appointment
Some party faithfuls contend the
party is in no position to exhibit self
righteousness about backroom
maneuvering, since it’s under fire
for favoring one presidential can-
didate while charged with the duty
of conducting a fair and impartial
primary election.
HOW'S THAT AGAIN ? Jody Sabatmo. owner of Sabatino Advertising in Corpus Chnsti explain! how to
set up an ad campaign to Paula Gillis and Mike Cunningham at Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce
Meeting
The Bookshelf
Blueprint For Soviet Change
Outlined In Gorbachev's Boolf
In a tumultuous week that can on-
ly mean the election campaign
season has begun in earnest
• The Texas Republican Party
began investigating whether
signatures were forged on the peti-
tion* of presidential candidates Bob
Dole and Alexander Haig
• Robert (ampbrll. a leading
Democrat on the Texas Supreme
Court, resigned from the bench,
angering hi* party 's officials by giv
ing the GOP governor another free
appointment; meanwhile, the
Republicans launched their slate to
reform the high court
• Former state Sen IJoyd Dog
geti. D-Austin, uncloaked his well-
veiled candidacy for the Supreme
Court and cranked up his organiza-
tion of liberals
• In order to avoid a primary
fight with Doggeti, former Con-
gressman -lack Hightower switched
his c ampaign over to the seat being
vacated by Campbell
• A former heaJ of the Ku Klux
Klan filed for president on the Texas
Democratic ticket
The surprise resignation of a
Republican District Judge in San
Antonio left somewhat of a strain on
GOP intentions there when it looked
like Democrats would be kept off the
bo Hot altogether However. Gov
(Vments stepped in and restored
the r re to the voters
Season's Top Secret
The rhubarb over Campbell's
departure was somewhat settled on
the Democratic side when
Hightower used the opportunity to
sw itc h targets and avoid a primary
fight with Doggett
ontroversial Iioggett adored by
the liberals and abhorred by the con-
servatives. should get the prize for
the season's best-kept secret Not
until the filing deadline approached
did Doggett reveal hLS plans to
regain public office
.Some saw a basic irony in the in-
itial Doggett-Hightower matchup,
fur Doggett is closely aligned with
M YEARS AGO
-lfTH-
Tammy Shaw will be crowned as
the football sweetheart at the foot-
ball banquet this Saturday
Tammy Robison lias been filling a
slot on the varsity l ady Cats as well
as playing on the junior varsity this
year . She is a junior
I YEAR AGO
-1987-
Desnna Winans of Portland has
been selected by (as Donas de la
Corte to represent Portland as a
duchess in the annual Buccaneer
Conation Pageant this spring
Jeffrey D Gardner, son of Mr and
Mrs Bill Gardner of Portland, has
been promoted in the U S Air Force
to the rank of ( a plain
Tyler Native
Named Editor
Of Newspaper
Ijee Ann Neill joined the staff of
the Portland News last week and
will be the new editor
Miss Neill, 22, is a native of Tyler
Portland will be taking orders
are (back row, I r)Amy
Fowler Stacie Shaver and (front row I r) Michelle Gamsle, Kimberly
Bennett and Holly Wither ten
Court Ripcords
DISTRICT COURT
Gillian Christina Willoughby vs
Steven Duane Willoughby. divorce
Gary Wayne Harris vs. Margaret
Jeanette Hams, divorce
Mary Ixjui.v Belcher vs Adam
DeLeon and Northern County
Mutual Insurance Company, suit for
damages and injuries i auto *
* Richard Scott Moreland vs.
Carolyn Mane Moreland - Divorce
First State Bank of Taft vs Jessie
Torres - Suit On Note
First State Bank of Taft vs. Mur-
phy P Hamilton and Esther L.
Hamilton - Suit On Note
Inland C. Pope vs. Kathleen B
Pope - Divorce
James E. Van Cleave vs. National
Union Fire Insurance Company of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Suit To
Sirt Aridr Industrial Accident Board
Award
James H Jones vs Century 21
Myers. Realtors - Suit For Damai
aunty
and J<
Lozano - Reciprocal
Susan Jane Maddox vs Ronald E
Vladdjx - Divorce
Ruul Coronado vs Charles Henry
Simpson. M I) . and Taft Hospital
Suit F or Damages
H eta! ■
“ Try Tide
Marshal] and Donna R
.Viarsliall vs City of Aransas Pass.
T exas and Robert Earl Hines - Suit
For Damages and Personal Injuries
< Auto).
Coastal National Bank vs William
C. Price - Suit On Note
iges
County of Sutter. State of Califor-
osephine Imzano vs Jimmy
L.D King, ct al vs Josie Hughes,
el. al - Suit ToTrespass To Try Title
LEE ANN NEILL
and a recent graduate of Sam
Houston State University She has
worked at the Tyler Morning
Telegraph and The Houstonian, the
college newspaper
"I’m excited about covering
Portland and am looking forward to
meeting and working with the people
in the community. she said
In addition to her work l**e Ann
enjoys photography, horseback
riding, country and western dancing
and creative writing
Film To Be Shown
At Chat-Work Club
The Chat-Work Civic Club will
hold its monthly meeting on Wednes-
day. Jan '20, at Northshore Country
Club A film entitled Father Ixioks
Back' will be shown
Interested members are asked to
bring small wrapped gifts for the
Taft Nursing Home and/or canned
goods for PAC
Members are preparing for its 2nd
annual style show and luncheon. It
will be held on Saturday. February
13, at Northshore Country Club All
proceeds ,;o toward civic activities
in our community
By Lyra Sparks
Dne of the must challenging books
I have tried to review is
1 ’erestroika New Thinking for Our
(ountry and the World" by Mikhail
Gorbachev The author states in the
beginning that an American publtsh-
ed i Harper and Rowe) asked him to
write this thought provoking
volume, and 1 have read that it is
already on the best seller list. Since
the author is Time’s" choice for
Man of the Year" it is a book that
should be widely read. Everyone
won't agree with it all, but it will
give each reader food for thought
Perestroika, ' a Russian word for
restructuring, has been in effect
since Gorbachev was elected head of
the Russian government < 1985i The
book is the author's own account of
the revolution he ls presently im-
plementing in the Soviet Union
Seventy years after the October
Revolution it constitutes real
changes in attitudes, in ideas and in
practice that entail a radical altera-
tion of both domestic and foreign
policy. Another word he uses fre-
quently in the book ls glasnost.
meaning openess letting Russians
know what is going on in the govern-
ment. for instance
Throughout the book he insLsts
that Russia needs to go back to
U*mn s basic (and more liberal)
ideas He implies that Stalin,
Kruschev and other Russian leaders
led the country away from the
original objectives about Soviet
society as a socialist state
Gorbachev advocates deep
changes in the method of governing
that the people, the workers, should
elect the leaders of their work units
— basing their choices on individual
abilities that they should discuss
and criticize issues of government
with no fear of being punished He
has liberalized the press, been sup
ported by it and encouraged citizens
to write letters to the editor" with
constructive criticism and no
danger of punishment for so doing
(He includes excerpts from some of
these letters )
While the first part of the book
stresses perestroika and
democratization" which, he* say s is
the main power of perestroika and
that the ‘creativity of the masses is
the decisive force in this restructur-
ing. he deals in the second half with
the world problems, the need for na-
tions to work together Those who
travel to other countries will agree
that the world's nations liave pro-
blems in common that need solving
poverty, illnesses, pollution, overuse
of natural resources and many
others Basic ally the big problem is
fear of nuclear war which could
never be won but would result in
world suicide
Frank ir. his criticism of the past,
trenc hant in fus recommendations
for the future, Ujs General
Secretary ls uaswerving in his
recommendations for the present.
Gorbachev is convinced that the
needs of the world arc inseparable
from these of his country For. in the
search for a nuclear-free, nonviolent
world, restructuring must be a
global affair and involve the further-
ing of the cause of understanding
and it is good that the;/ are so.” He
denies that the Soviet Union would
force communism on other nations,
for he believes that every country
should be privileged to choose its
own method of government.
Eloquently, forcefully, Gor-
bachev shows the world as he sees it.
He shetls new light on problems of
anas reduction, shows the reader
the world as he sees it He gives his
views of international affairs and an
laside look about Geneva and
Keykyavik ■ Icelandi He feels that
in spite of dLsagreements. progress
is always mack wher two nations
talk together
You may not agree with all he
says, but a reviewer his said, "In a
day of mass media, Gorbachev has
written a long letter " He has given
tlie world a lot to think about
Ritdirs 11 uh- b<><»k r ill hkgB he is
sincere!
en^^i'rTs,’s^v,Z7s.,°pU’“ gg
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Neill, Lee Ann. Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1988, newspaper, January 14, 1988; Portland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871096/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bell/Whittington Public Library.