Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1979 Page: 2 of 16
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In Portland —
This Week
THI'RROAY. F’ER. x
Story Tima ■ l:S a m . Ball Public Library
Portland Extension Homan taken Hub 9 to an.,
t -mmimMv Center
TOPS OR 7pm St Chrtaotpbar s By The Sea
Kptsrogai CTwrcb
Jayears 7 M pm . Community Canter
MONDAY. FKB. It
Rotary Club 12 not* Community Canter
Lions Club 7pm Sheps Chicken Shack
Till RftlMY. PER IS
Chamber af Commerce monthly meeting 12 noon.
Shep s Chicken Shack
Volunteer fire department 7:11 p m . fire station
Planning and Zoning Commission • 7 SO pm. city hall
Cnastal Bend Break**.-* Cl Club 7 10 p m . Land's End
social room
WEDS ESI! AY. PEB. II
Newcomen Club name* day - 9 30 am. Fint United
Methodist (’March
C. P chapter AARP 10 a m . Fint Presbyterian Church
Kmsnis Club 12 noon. Shep s Chicken Shack
Portland Sea (.alts Square Dance Club a pm.
t immunity Center
t:il RKDAY. FEB IS
Sian Time • a m . Beil Public Library
la I ache League • 9 10 im d Waterview
TOPS km 7 p m . SI Christophers Bv The Sea
I iHsropal Church
RPI.I. Pt BI .K I I (IK All Y HOURS
Monday Tuesday Thursday 0 am to « pm
Y edneaday • am fa 7 pm. Friday 0am to 5 p m .
s iturday 10 a m to 12 noon
Portland’s
Past
11 YEARS AGO - life
Joel Rhyne, head coach at G
P for the past fire yean, has
asked io he relieved ef bn
< «xit hmg duties at the end ot
this '< boot year Rhyne has
been in the G P system seven
At a special session of the
city council Wednesday,
cnntracts were opened and
accepted for the building of a
city ball, a maintenance
Imikling and a fire station
Bund money for the projects
was voted by city residents
Growing P rtland registered
a total of 9or
the I»ggest
county
ngle box :n the
IS YE ARB At 4) ; MB
poflfee Chief E V Goode
plans to lauch a new program
immediately aimed at curbing
the narcotic traffic among
Portland tc
The I. T Kolb Chevrolet
dealership moved into its new
fat .lilies last week
Loral businessmen will be
polled by the city council lo get
then reaction lo having a city
ah' lax law in Portland II
from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOK
OATES ANO EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
February I. ISM - A charge shat the Stale Departmesi >« ir
tested with CemaMahSs Is made fry Sesator Jaaepb R McCarthy
(R . Wit. i dartag a speech hefare a Repahlicaa Waosea s (lah ia
West Virfoda
February Id. I Ml — Fraacis Gary Pawcrs. held by Rastla at aa
American spy. la released ia exchange far Savtet spy Radalf Abel
I eUuary II. 1M1 — la Wssbisgtoa. Robert C Weaver is swore
ia at aa sflmWdsiratar af the U S Haasi^ aad Home Ftaaace
Ageary. the M^sat federal post ever bcid te date by a Negro
r It, IMS — Birthday af Abraham Liscala. Ilcb Presi-
' ' * “tales.
For Instance
Don’t Always Believe Fancy Covers
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TIIF.ltF IS more and more
mention being mack* about
International Year of (he Child
Even President James Earl
Carter Jr . by Executive Order
bet designated 1979 as the
International Year of the Child
authorizing appointment and
funding nf a National IYC
Commission He has appointed
a 25-member Commission
chaired by Mrs Andrew
Young She is the wife of the
U S ambassador In the United
Nations He's the guy who
thinks Cuba is doing such a fine
Kd> m Africa
How did the IYC get started”
IN IKW the United Nations
passed a resolution called ihe
"siedaration the Rights nf
Hie Child The UN also
declared 1975 lo be
International Women's Year
ilWY'. and designate 1976-
INIS as International Women s
liecade
In I97r, the UN named 1979 to
be IYC
Who instigated all nf this'’
TIIE INTERNATIONAL
Federation of Democratic
Women. an old-time
communist women's group,
said it was they who introduced
the resolution to make 1975
IWY
This Women's International
Democratic Federation
WIDE- also launched IYC
through the UN.
The first international
seminar in preparation for IYC
was held by WIDE in October
I9T7 in Prague. C/echmkt
vakta
Marie Kahrhelvoa. chair
woman nf the Czechoalvak
Womens Union said at the
seminar Socialism, the
new social order has always
cieisKiered Ihe mam dutv to he
to socure peace and to devote
all ariNind care lo Ihe voung
generation All Ihe rights of the
new generation to a
harmonious healthy and
universal development of all
children and vising people are
laid dow n in the constitutions of
ill soruilist countries '*
IN \SMI ctl \s they say that
the children in socialist
countries already are
liberated.' then they must
mean t) at the children in the
capitalist nations and the Third
World are the ones that now
mast be liberated "
The President has authorized
a I9R0 W hite liisise Conference
on Children and a 19R1 White
I louse ('nnfrrcnce on Families
There are those who believe
that if these conferences follow
the l«7t; conferences - the Joint
Committee on Mental Health
and the Conference on
Children- partic ipants will nof
deflate whether the federal
government should rear
children but they merely will
discuss how the government
should rear children
It has been pointed nut that
since IWY and IYC are
mseparahlv connected resolu
lions passed at the National
IWY meeting in 1977 at
Ihxistor. furnish the pirture nf
goals
\MliVi TIIE recom
mrndations made at that
f roe rally funded confab are
Reproductive freedom
• abortion- sexual preference
- homosexual ty>. non sexist
education at all levels and
federally funded child
development centers for ALL
children
All resolutions passed at the
Houston conference have been
presented to the President and
to Ihe Congress with a request
that they form the blueprint for
future legislation
ding pass
lo the Pn
the report to Ihe President on
i be I97n White House
Conference The real solution
requires a fundamental change
in the value commitment and
in Ihe actions of Ihe persons
who control the public and
private sector of nur common
life parents and those whose
decisions defermine the life
styles nf other human beings "
FROM TIIE same report
We recommend that laws
dealing with rights of parents
Bookshelf
‘Victims’ — Full Sweep Of A Serious Problem
RYI.YRAKFAKKS
For some time I have been
disturbed by the fact that the
scales of justice in -w courts
and penal system are badly
tipped in favor of the criminal
while the victim a more or less
ignored It was nof until I read
the recent hook. "Victims' by
J L Rarkas that I realized the
full sweep of the grief, the
emotional problems the long
period rrf adjustment that was
the lot of those who had been
close to the victims in case of
homicide. the victims
themselves who survived assa
ult. rape, robberv and other
crimes Everyone should read
the hook
The author ■ w ho is a woman J
was impelled into her research
by Hie senseless subbing of her
brother a fine young man with
all the potential for a good life
Two tern aged vandals
- Grangers - approached him as
he w as walking near his home
both stuck a knife into hun
puncturing his liver a fatal
their efforts to adji
It was at ibis time she
wound
She describes the reaction of
friends- so different from that
evidenced w hen the person has
a natural death or even is killed
in an accident She Ukes us
through the family trauma and
ljust
a tin
decided to aim her life work
toward the prohmg of crime,
what it does to society, the
hidden payment it exacts from
victims and those near them in
not only physical and financial
ways hut psychological effects
as well For some time after
her brother's murder she tried
to find (Nil what the D As
office was doing about it The
end result was complete
frustration, anger and feelings
nf guilt
The author spent years
sludving interviewing
teaching going to school as
wrll She traveled in the United
Stales and Europe gathering
data and information In the
United SUtes the government
is so conceired in spending
money lo psychoanalyze, help,
rehabilitate the criminal, in so
few sUtes is any money spent
to pav hospital bills, funeral
expenses, take care of bereft
vising families of the victims,
or make tny sort of restitution
for injuries
She discussed battered wives
and children assaults that
might have resulted in murder
rape, robbery, all aspects of
violent crime She feels that
the public should be
sufficiently aroused to demand
some governmental action She
is not making a plea for capital
puntmhment. hut she deplores
the ease with which
offenders, especially those
with a previous record, may he
paroled turned loose on
society to commit other
crimes and this happens as we
all know
The aulhot also points out
Ihut too niRnv times our TV
and even literature glorify Ihe
and Clyde
criminal Itonnie
1
has been estimated that
Portia no would collect from
115 OH per year upwards on the
one per cent ertv sales tax
Permits for 27 new homes a
record were issued in
Portland during January for a
total of S2R9.9B3 - An average nf
110.741 per house »
Marrold White was sworn in
as chief nf police at Tuesday
night's city council meeting
A resolution by the city
council was adopted Tuesday
night which endorses the efr
nstruction nf a median harrier
on Highway ill between the
Moore Street overpass and the
causeway for the safety of the
traveling public
I YEAR %MI I97X
Building permits totaling
II .020 116 911 w ere issued by the
city during January
With almost ino persons in
attendance the Gregory city
council met Monday night at
ihe fire station and passed a
resolution to change the city's
commissioner form of
government to an aldermanic
organization
by Bill Germany
i nti \r heard of the summer
duldrum- Welcome lo the
February blahs The weather
e- Inusv world problems arc*
unrrlrnting and thr market has
turned defensive Hut one
trains patience in wall street
'q*ring wdl arrive right on
schediile
Thr steady decline in
average daily volume during
February graphically
illustrates that the* buyers have
lowered their bids We envision
a period of drift immediately
ahead with some trading
Hurries as the dow industrial
average holds above the
critical Tan uni support zone
and rebuilds its base
The market looked
respectable 'hrough most of
yesterday s session but tiegan
to fade in Ihe final 15 minutes
Their is nothing much in the
overnight news to alter the*
•Weekly Portfolio-
William \ - Hilli Germane is an arrminl executive with
Rache llaisev .Stuart Shields. Incorporated
Germany. a native nf Lake Jackson Texas, attended the
I nicer site of Texas lie plaved end for I T in IKS. 1*34 and
1957. and later placed professional football in the ( anadlan
I led hall league
Since moving In thin area five years ago. Germany hat
hern active in rent estate, in addition lo his work ax a stork
broker
mood of caution The* dollar has lime high Iran remains a
tirgun lo weaken again and sourceof great concern hut the
London gold is al another all major antagonists seem to he
Letters To Editor
Letters to the editor are published in the PORTLAND
NEWS with or without the writer's signature. However, in
submitting material, the signature of the writer, address
and telephone number must be included, along th a
statement not to publish the name if that is desired Let
ters unll be verified with the sender prior to publication
The editor reserve the right to reject any letter
5 ini publish suc h a refreshing newspaper' This week the
Iron! page had all kinds of news about the good thing young
(Mnplc are doing in receiving Eagle Scout awards winning
art contests, raising Ihe grand champion hog and many other
things reported IhriNighiNil \<Nir newspaper
Hut vour paper is dedicated lo the best interest of
Portland, so you have a lot of good things to write about
S E Kelly. Jr District Manager CPI,
(J P-
the
February 12, IMS -
m the UaMs4 State
irge.
and lo require posting of
and municipal bond
days from dale of chai
■pure postn
county and municipal
election notices at the court
house and ihree other prom-
inent locations rather than
in all precincts
he reexamined and changed
where they infringe on the
rights of children
amendments should reinforce
the primacy of the rights of the
From a hook published by
UNESCO -United Nations
Educational. Scientific and
Cultural < irganizatiom, "As
long as ihe child breathes the
poisoned air of nationalism,
education of the world
mindedness can produce the
only rather precarious results
As we have pom
frequently the famil
infects the child with extreme
nationalism The schoaJ
therefore sh«Nild use the means
described earlier to combat
lamily attitudes that favor
ungoism
There are now efforts being
nut. it is
lily that
Hastes Does
Makes Waste
T II II II I II II T II K
Administration's bungling
foreign policy and non-existent
energy program, the United
Slates continues to find itself in
a hind for crude
To add insult to injury, there
area l>unch of states, including
Texas unfortunately, that went
to up their speed limits above
the 55 m p h national law
Transportation Secretary
urns
ning v
nut ol the fed money handout
iporu
Brock Adams says that any
state so doing will he chopped
made to lower the age
compulsory schooling to three
years or vnunger. and one
national educational
association is advocating the
start nf formal education at
away
e two
and even Knbinhnori She cl-
ones w ith the following There
is nothing pleasant about being
a crime victim Crime ran he
traumatic horrifying
financially damaging
shocking frightening, and
unfair
What will it take to stop
reomanticizing the criminal
Everyone must answer the
question, must decide how
much time and effort he or she
is willing to contribute to
reversing the epidemic of
v iolence today Hut as a victim
I must admit with regret and
embarrassment that if it had
mt been for my bro*i:- r's
unprovoked muider crime
would have been something
nut there and "eouldn t
happen to m*
II vou read this hook and if
vnu have had the "out there
attitude I assure you vnu will
come to grips with the reality
of the problem and definitely
vnu will have some nf adremlin
reaction
TXKING CIIII.DKEN
from their parents at age
or three would he doing so at
iheir most formative years
The American family
concept and the parent child
relationship is the most
precious thing this country has
going fnr it
Already there has been top
much crmion of the American
lannlv through the hard sell
k4> i4 the humanist feminist
cult
I low much more it can stand
is a question that needs serious
thought
way i
It is hoped he will remain
adamant about this
Instead the lawmakers of
these stales shculd quit their
w himpenng about lead footing
and tell the people to start nut a
little earlier and they Won't
have to risk the lives of their
lellnw motorists by ripping
down the highways and
byways
It is estimated that the 56 law
saves some 250.000 barrels of
luel a day The Iranian mess is
costing us 900.000 barrels a
dav Must another hardship hr
added in this figure tust for the
sake of sheer haste”
And just for th.” non
believers, if they don't care
about the iife saving factor. 55
does make a difference in fuel
savings
The 55 limit was established
as the efficient speed on two
factors wind resistence and
th" car's engine efficiency
Engineers learned that the
wind resistence increases "as
the square nf the velocity of the
m p h
than .
TIIF TWO YF\K deficit of
• h»* federal government -19711
79- is greater than the entire
- iet if government in 1965
* hen this country embarked on
•he socalled social programs
of Ihe Great Society era
The New Foundation will do
little to curb the flow
through the air mass at 65
h is 40 per cent greater
in at 55. even though speed
has increased only IR per cent
Traveling under 50 m p h
would probably waste fuel
iiecause of gear raims liming
sellings and other mechanical
Iactors
is a great pre Red Chinese
philosopher once remarked
Man with lead foot can trip
into own grave "
skirting the edges ot an all out
conflict
Meanwhile on Ihe domestic
Iron! consumer credit figures
(nr December showed a record
monthly level debt
underselling again that John
ihlic is taking caubon In
consumer sentiment
pollsters and is then going
exactly counter lo lhal
sentiment in his spending
(Kilterns Wha! is an **conomist
lo do
As for rotation of
leadership we liegm lo see
some new patterns emerging
For one. areas that would be
affected by gasoline rationing
in the spring are taking on a
heavv look while energy
related groups are showing to
advantage
Uommnditv groups such as
('Hiper are ir demand while
some of ihe more reeenl
glamour favorites are tailing
by Ihe wayside
(in the lixed income side
renewed dollar weakness and
anticipation of some bad
numliers from ihe .lanuarv
producer |»rice index on Friday
have solidified conviction that
there will Im* no monelarv ease
in the near term
We expect the market will
open on a mixed note flurry
Ironi time to lime and then
revert to defensiveness in the
latter part of the day Don t
light it. Iiahv It is smaller than
both of us
Short Snorts
The Senate passed bills to
increase the state's time for
trying non-jail-sentcncc mis-
demeanors from 10 to 60
Band Box
by Shawn Strain
\s vini might have heard, ihe G P Hand With the Proud
Tradition i' planning a trip to Carlsbad. N M
Although we will visit the caverns, we won’t be
|M*r1orming <Nir concert lo delight the hats in the caves as
mans |x*oj>lc have thought Unfortunately the trip is not free,
hut then niie-t good things in life aren't Consequently
several fund drives have been organized
The new Is founded Band BooMers Club has started it's
campaign by selling candv bars Pecan rolls and chocolate
i mnch t«rs are going fast so find a band booster and buy a
( hiN'olate bar
I ion l get the idea that the hand boosters are doing all of
the work tndav is the kick off of the magazine campaign
which is sponsored by the hand members Although
magazine subscriptions will be sold door to door by all band
nu-mtiers if v<m are not contacted by a hand member and
w ish to purchase a subscription, contact the high school band
hall and -orneone w ill Im* sent lo vour home
so if v<ni like to read about cars, fashion., homes or
plants we jirnhably have a magazine that you'll enjoy
reading Ihe next time \ou have the urge to jog to your
iM-ightmrhond magazine rack, don I
Remember to sujipoit vnur Hand on their way to New
Mexico The I .and nf Enchantment For further information
-mi magazine sells i ontad (he advertisement in the Portland
News
Xlttaugh kind members are excited about the trip other
• vents dsn <«cupy their minds 1 11. Solo and Ensemble
I iMitesi IS coming up and right around Ihe corner ui I'll,
. «mm erl iimI 'ight reading contest The band hall is as busy as
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