Portland News (Portland, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1978 Page: 2 of 15
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ON THE surface anyway
times appear to be good
Hut, it is that time of the year
when the friends in Washington
are talking budget and glibly
throw around figures in the hu
undreds of billions
This is the underlying
danger The danger of yet
more and higher inflation, even
though the political campaign
talk of James Earl Carter was
about a balanced budget,
stares every American in the
eye and in the pocketbonk
In his 1979 budget. Carter
proposes a budget deficit" of
$61 billion, with an overall
budget of over a half trillion
dollars Estimates are that the
"cash flow" deficit will be
some $Wt 1 billion
UNBELIKVEABLE.
Such wanton disregard for
all Americans and their follow-
on generations for eons of time
to come is inexcusable,
shameful
Most of the money goes for
handouts, and for the pet
socialistic projects of the
spenders in Congress and the
White House It goes to feed a
bureaucracy which day-by day
imposes its own will on the
people and further feathers it
own cozy little nest of per
petuity
The nation's economy show-
ed good strength in April
Industrial output rose 1.1 per
cent Housing starts increased
six per cent This marked the
second good month in a row
Employment in this country
is the highest ever The so-
called unemployment rate
(manipulated by the powers
that are • is tiekrw six per cent,
and the rate for married
homemakers is down to some
2 8 per cent.
If ARM.Y TIME to shell out
billions on social needs
The point is this - - it was not
until May 6 this year that the
average American WORKER
stopped slaving for the
government at all levels and
began working for himself,
according to the non partisan
Tax Foundation
And the lawmakers do have
their opportunity to do
something about the deficit
mess
On May 3, a cut in non-
defense spending was brought
before the U S House in the
Holt proposal It would have
sliced $11 8 billion off the red
ink It would not have harmed
any program It would have
limited the growth of the
malignant fed jungle to eight
per cent
The proposal failed. 203
against. 197 for
NOTE OE interest at this ,
election time runnoffs are
Jurrt* 3): John Young, the
Representative from this area
voted against the proposal
Why’
On May 9. the House rejected
by a 203 to 196 vote a proposal
that would have cut the budget
by a mere two per cent
Note of interest Young also
voted against proposal
A small ray of sunshine • • On
May 9. the House approved an
amendment which would bring
all the Panama Canal revenues
under the shield of Congress
This is. funding is brought into
the budget where it will be
under full congressional
control
Note of interest: Young
voted for this one
THE GROSS federal deficit
through 1979 will be $873 7
billion
This deficit is borrowed
money and supposedly must be
paid back some day, in some
way. by somebody, or else It is
the or else that is frightening
And these billions are not
bringing productivity, ad-
vancement, brighter
technology, exploration They
are bringing nothing but
demand Demand for more,
and more, by those who are
soaking up the bucks and by a
self perpetuating bureaucracy
And, the ballooning deficit
brinfp the threat of recession,
possibly severe depression
With the feds soaking up the
country’s currency, money
cost is shooting skyward for
home mortgages, automobile
loans and for all the other
forms of consumer credit.
Savings organisations even
now are reporting sharp
declines in their savings
growth rates as money goes to
the high interest Treasury
note
Look at the stock market, it
reached a new three-year low
recently
The people who are paying
the bilks are beginning to get
the word a country can not
spend itself into a social utopia
without, at some time, paying
the consequences
They are not yet ready to pay
those consequences and are
awakening to that fact
Now they must get the wore
to the politicos who cause the
whole cotton picking mesa and
see to it that they have the full
skinny, or else
Or else there is going to be
one big exodus out of Potomoc
Heights back to the boonies of
reality __
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■REMEAABER
THOSE WHO
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from HISTORY'S SCRAPBOOk
OATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS
May 38. 184$ Almost 28 square miles of Tokyo are ablate
following raids by United States B-39 bombers
May 37. 1837 A one week celebration marks Ifcr opening of the
(.olden Gate Bridge ia Saa Francisco Bay
May 38, 1988 Two monkeys named Abie and Baker survive a
too mile trip into spuce out of Cape Canaveral. Florida
May 39. 1799 -By a close vote of 34-33, Rhode island ratifies the
United Stales CaaatitaCfcM—the last of the ll rotomes to do so
May 31, 1939- Philadelphia • sesqniceaiennial Exposition
celebrating tbe 188th anniversary of ibe founding of tbe United
States, is opened to tbe public
June I, 17*3- Kenlucky Is admitted as Ibe l aina'i 18th stale
Highlights and
Sidelights
bvLYHDELL WILLIAMS
AUSTIN —Texas Public
Utility Commission staff
members have proposed
slashing more than $116.3
million from a proposed
$214.3 million Southwestern
Bell telephone rate increase
PUC staffers would allow
an increase of about $97.7
million.
Bell sought a 10 4 percent
rate of return, but the recom-
mendation would allow 9.3
percent Based on equity.
Bell sought a 14 percent rate,
and the staff would allow 12
percent
Company officials called
the recommendations inade-
quate to meet their needs
Declaring the company's
cost of doing business in the
state was $1.84 billion, the
PUC staff would not allow
these Bell requests
—Including $245 million
in construction programs in
the rate base
—Consideration of $50
million in claimed federal in-
come taxes.
—Allowance of $3 million
in advertising and contribu-
tion expenses
■—Inclusion of $2.4 mil-
lion in ad valorem tax claims
Hearing on the Bell re-
quest is scheduled for May
22. and probably will last
three weeks
Average home telephone
subscribers would see little
change in rates under the
staff ptoposal, and rural rates
may decrease slightly. PUC
indicated.
Allowable Set
For the 16th straight
month, the Railroad Com-
mission set the statewide oil
allowable, for June, at 100
percent of market demand.
Nominations to buy Texas
crude oil totalled 3.5 million
barrels daily, just 6,037 bar
rets fewer than in May
Commission calculations
anticipate 2.9 million barrels
daily crude output during
June.
Chairman Mack Wallace
reported June nominations
for the purchase of Texas
natural gas totalled 23,103,-
367,000 cubic feet daily, an
increase of two percent over
May
Wallace also noted crude
and petroleum products im-
ports were 7,631,000 barrels
daily during the four weeks
ended April 28, representing
42 percent of current U S.
demand.
Special allowables were
assigned to 11 fields for con-
servation purposes June 20
is the next monthly oil and
gas proralion hearing date
here
Crime Force Rapped
An audit hy the governor's
Criminal Justice E)ivision or-
ganized crime task force rap-
ped Attorney General John
Hill's organized crime task
force for allegedly operating
illegally as police officers and
packing guns.
The report also claimed
the attorney general has no
authority to operate an in-
telligence agency and criti-
cized poor record keeping
Tim James, head of the
unit, called the report ridicu-
lous. politically motivated
and “just plain sorry.**
James also made the point
that the unit is federally
funded, and that no criticism
has been made of it earlier
when financing of its opera-
tions was renewed
( oarts Speak
The State Supreme Court,
upholding the Third Court of
Civil Appeals, held children
of illegal aliens ar; not en-
titled to free public educa-
tion The same issm. it before
a federal court.
In other actions, the high
court:
—Agreed to hear argu-
ments June 7 on an appeal
hy Firestone Tire and Rub-
ber Company from a lower
court finding that it should
pay sales taxes on auto parts
used m minor repair jrbt.
—Concluded multi-county
electric power providers
don't have to submit cost and
rate base data for every city
where they seek rate in-
creases.
—Affirmed an award of
an Odessa man who sued
Gibson's Discount Center
Inc for false imprisonment
and malicious prosecution.
Low Vole
Nearly four out of five
Texans of voting age failed
to vote in the May 6 primary
election
The official vote canvass
of the Democratic primary
showed slightly more than
1.8 million voles cast Turn-
out of Republicans in their
primary was only 156.979.
Both parties canvassed the
primary votes here last week
There were no surprises
Attorney General John
Hill, the Democratic nomi-
nee for governor, urged
Democrats to unite against a
strong Republican ticket
challenge in November.
The (ingle statewide
Democratic runoff June 3 is
between Jerry Sadler and
John H Poerner (appointed
incumbent) for an unexpired
term on the Texas Railroad
Commission.
Short Snorts
Attorney General John
Hill urged a district court in
Austin to dismiss a suit by
Rep Wayne Peveto of
Orange to invalidate the 10-
cent state property tax Hill
said the legislature should he
allowed to consider the issue
Gov. Briscoe appointed
Raul A. Gonzalez of Browns-
ville judge of the 103rd dis-
trict court of Cameron and
Willacy counties, succeeding
Judge William Scanlan who
resigned
Hill said in a recent opin-
ion Harris County commis-
sioners can pay themselves or
their stand-ins $10 for at-
tendee business meetings of
private groups where atten-
dance is related to duties of
office.
Nine applications to sell
$32.3 million in securities in
Texas were filed with the
State Securities Board last
week
John Soule will head the
Railroad Commission’s trans-
portation division.
The Sunset Advisory Com-
mission will consider recom-
mendations on eight agencies
Thursday. May 25.
The Small Business Ad-
ministration has declared 102
of 254 Texas counties as dis-
aster areas due to drought
damage to 1977 crops. Des-
ignation makes the counties
eligible for disaster farm
loans
Sen Peyton McKnight of
Tyler served as governor for
a day May 17. Sen. Raul
Longoria of Edinburg suc-
ceeded him this week as Sen-
ate president pro tempore.
Bookshelf
The Plague Dogs: A Story
Of, Love, Struggle Against Evil
BY LYRA SPARKS
At first I thought 1 wouldn t
like it; I am speaking of "The
Plague Dogs'' hy Richard
Adams Adams, as you may
remember, is the author of
"Watership Down,” that
delightful story allegory
symbolic tale call it what you
will-that was such a best seller
a few years ago It was
engrossing and stimulated the
imagination giving different
meanings to different readers
So I didn’t think the "The
Plague Dogs" could come up to
the earlier book But after the
first chapter I found it just as
engrossing as the earlier tale
There are more human beings
in this latest book, but the focus
is still on animals
Adams moves us more
deeply than he has ever done
with his impassioned vision of
the fate of animals at our
mercy-with his enthralling tale
of flight and jiursuit, with the
three wonderful creatures
whose story he tells
Two dogs escaped one night
from an animal ex-
pen mentation laboratory in
the English Lake District
They are Snitter, a small black
and white fox terrier, and
Kowf, a large black mongrel
Each has been badly injured-
in the name of science 'The
whole book carries a message
against uneless, sometimes
mercenary, experiments or
helpless animals i
Snitter and Rowf. unused to
freedom, are scarely prepared
for survival in the bleak land
scape of crags and fells in
which they find themselves
But they are befriended by a
creature whose like they have
never encountered before: it is
the tod (fox), a rakish wan-
derer who tries to teach them
trickery as a means of sur
vival The tod believes all men
are evil-hut Rowf and Snitter
have different ideas
At first the three are pursued
by local farmers on whose
sheep and fowl they prey The
story balloons. involving
scientists, politicans, govern
ment officials. joumalists--and
others Especially interesting
is Digby Driver whose main
concern is to please the editor
by blowing up. slanting, em
broidenng the angles of the
events, thus making a sen-
sation, and selling more
papers
Richard Adams has given us
a talc of quest, a spellbinding
story with mythic (and
spiritual) overtones of love and
struggle against evil But it is
hu three wonderful animals-
dogs and fox powerfully
conceived, magically realized,
seizing and holding our
allegiance, who make this
novel affecting, disturbing,
illuminating
In Portland _
This Week
He gave then!
Will you give-now?
PROCEEDS TO VETERANS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE U.S.
Poerner. . .Not Sadler!
by James E. Tracy. Jr.
It appears that Texas voters
have fallen into the proverbial
trap of voting for the name
rather than for the individual
in the past primary election
John Poerner is running for
the Railroad Commission, and
is opposed by a well known
name in Texas politics, Jerry
Sadler Sadler is not the man
for the job. yet Texans voted
for him or his name, in the past
primary.
Poerner did manage to
garner enough votes to place
him in a runoff with Sadler, but
it will be up to the people of
Texas to elect a railroad
commissioner.
"I have been unable to get
my opponent to face me, or
even appear in public , so that
people can make a com-
parison between us." Poerner
reports
Poerner has been endorsed
across the state of Texas by
those who know him, he's a
good man. the man for the job'
Sadler lead Poerner 45 percent
to 28 percent in the election,
and it was again a case of the
voters going for a famous
name This is the
second time Sadler has at-
tempted to reenter the realm of
state politics In 1976 he gave
Jon Newton a scare forcing
him into a runoff before he was
eventually elected railroad
commissioner
Sadler's attitude, as was that
of two other RRC candidates in
the primary, was to run on his
name He spent $3,600 in his
campaign effort, claiming
There are philosophical,
psychological undercurrents -
and a tender, compassionate
ending
The following patroas of the
Bell Public Library have
generously donated useful
items such as hooks, paper
backs, records, etc , prior to
this week We wish to take this
opportunity to publicly
acknowledge their generous
donation Recent donors were
as follows: Delores Herrera.
Catherine Gilley and Mrs W
Ehnes
We feel Texans should start
talking up Poerner’s candidacy
to assure we don't make
another mistake like we did
with another famous name in
1976 Don't let the likes of
Sadler insult your intelligence
ay voting for him because of
nis name Vote Poerner for
Texas Railroad Commissioner
people were tired of big
spenders trying to buy eW
tions.
Texas has risen above the
days of Jerry Sadler and his
tirades in Austin It's high time
voters paid attention to the
quality of candidate attached
to those hundreds of names on
the ballot
Band Box
By
Linda Snodqrass
Throughout this year, I have tried to give you an inside
glimpse of the band in hopes that you could better understand
the atmosphere surrounding the band 1 have one more
chance to explain and describe this atmosphere to you, and
the best explanation I can give is to tell my feelings about
band
Band, to me, was never just an extracurricular activity,
but a motivation that gently guided me through high school
The hand hall was like a protective haven that I could escape
to whenever school pressures became too great Inside this
room, people huddled together to create a close bond of
friendship I could always count on someone being there to
laugh with me, to study with me, to play with me, and most
importantly, to talk with me
Band also gave me the opportunity to interact with
people in all kinds of situations such as coping with a person
at two o'clock in the morning after a long bus trip or leaning
on a person right before performing Each instance made
that bond between me and my fellow bandsmen closer I
never had the fear of not being accepted because band truly
cared for everyone Most importantly, band taught me that
everyone needs someone Everyone depends on everyone
else in the band, and this enabled the band to achieve its
success
Before I close, I want to introduce the people who will try
to keep the hand a big family- next year’s officers They are
Ricky Vasquez. president; Bruce Hagemann, vice
president,; Shawn Strain, secretary; Mary Cochran,
treasurer, Linda Flores, historian, Beth Vanlandingham,
publicity; Debbie Duncan, senior representative; Barbie
Birmingham, junior representative; and Danny Deegan,
sophomore representative With this group of fine people,
I'm sure the band will keep its proud tradition that I have
tried to explain I hope you have at least a little un-
derstanding of what a great organization band is I'm glad
that I had a chance to he a part of it
THURSDAY. MAY 2S
TOPS 638 7 p m , St Christopher by the Sea Episcopal
Church
Jaycees - 7 30 pm, Community Center.
Letters
To The Editor
Letters to the editor ore published In the PORTLAND Nf.WS with or
without the writer's signature However. In submitting material the
signature of the writer, address and telephone number mutt be included
along with a stole men! not to publish the name 1/ that k desired Letters
wSt be verified with the tendor prior to publication The editor reserves
the right to reject and letter
MONDAY. MAY 29
Memorial Day observance -9am Municipal Park
TUESDAY. MAY M
Portland Church Women • 11:30 a in., alternating
churches
Volunteer fire department - 7:30 pm. fire station
WEDNESDAY. MAY 31
Kiwanis Club • 12 noon. Shep's Chicken Shack
Portland .Sea Gulls Square Dance Club 8 pm, Com-
munity Center
THURSDAY, JUNE l
TOPS 638 7 p m . St Christopher by the Sea Episcopal
Church
Gamma Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha, member's
home
What would it take to get the beachfront cleaned up at the
end of streets Secoand San Saba7 I know below all the trash-
broken bottles, tires, shoes, you name it—that there is the
possibility of a beautiful beach This is probably not the only
beach area in Portland where similar problems exist, and
other residents must feel as I do
Not only is there trash, but the constant motorcycle
hotrodding is fast eroding and destroying what beach there
is Many people use to enjoy walking and shelling here but
the trash is worse than ever, and you take your life in your
hands dodging the motorcycles These same motorcyclists
race along the drainage ditch between Seco and Poesta from
Alazan St down to the waterfront Besides being extremely
noisy and disturbing U< all residents, they are dangerous, as I
have seen young children run to avoid being run down I know
the police have had complaint calls about this hut the
situation remains unchanged Can anything at all be done to
put a stop to this’ Concerning this particular problem, I
wonder if the parents of these young motorcyclists are
aware, and if so. care about the disturbance their children
are creating These parents could handle this problem if they
care enough
Portland is a fine city, but I am quickly becoming
disillusioned with a city government that is concerned with
growth only in terms of building as many homes as fast of
possible and disregarding the many natural possibilities of
our waterfront location There is a need in Portland for an
accessible beach and marina, and this should no longer he
ignored
It is a mistake to he concerned primarily with the
building of more and more homes, lets' do something to
protect and develop our natural assets to make Portland an
even more pleasant city We may be the "Fastest Growing
City In Texes." hut lets' just he sure we grow in the right
direction Mrs Becky York
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