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In Portland
This Week
THURSDAY, JULY*
TOPS 638 - 7:30 p.m., Ftrst Presbyterian Church
FRIDAY. JULY 1
Portland Al-Non -10 am. Our lady of Mount Carmel
Catholic Church
SATURDAY, JULY 4
FOURTH OF JULY ACTIVITIES
AT COMMUNITY CENTER
0 SUNDAY. JULY S
Portland Singles Club - 7:30 p.m., Lands End apartment*
social room
MONDAY, JULY 8
Rotary' Club -12 noon, Community Center
Lions Club -7 p.m., Shep's Chicken Shack
Traffic advisory board - 7 p.m.city hall
G-P Community Chorus - 7:28 p.m., First Baptist Chur-
ch; for bookings call I aura Adams, 643-7406
Fire department auxiliary - 7:30 p.m., fire station
Overeaters Anonymous • 8 p.m.. First Presbyterian
Church
TUESDAY, JULY 7
Chamber of Commerce board of directors • 11 am.,
Portland State Bank
City council meeting - 7 p.m., city hall
Eastern Star-7:30p.m., Masonic Lodge building
Volunteer fire department -7:30 p.m., fire station
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
Kiwants Club -12 noon. Shep's Chicken Shack
Portland Al-Non - 8 p.m., First United Methodist Church
Portland Sea Gulls Square Dance Club - 8 p.m., Com-
munity Center
THURSDAY. JULY I
Story Time - 10am., Bell Public Library
TOPS 638 - 7 30 pm., First Presbyterian Church
Jaycees- 7:30 p.m.- Community Center
BELL PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 9 am. to 8 pm.;
Wednesday -1 am. to 7 pm.; Friday - 9 am. to i pm.; Satur-
day-10 am. to 2 p.m.
14 YEARS AGO -1987
Portland NEWS will move in-
to new office space this Friday
in the Graham building on
Moore Ave. at the overpass
The office will be located tn
space between Central Power
and log hi Co. and Ed Whitney
Insurance Agency
Portland NEWS was started
in the spring of 1964 and since
that time has grown wtth
Portland until it is now
distributed by carrier boys into
1,300 homes within the city
limits of Portland A limited
number also are delivered by
mail.
Would you believe’’ • Grapes
38 cents a pound; cantaloupe. 4
for 99 cents; potatoes. 10-pound
bag. 49 cents, cake mix, 29
cents; coffee, 37 cents a pound
Building permits for the city
Killer Bee Is No Boll Weevil
— by pdl —
BILL PATMAN, U. S.
Representative for this district,
voted “yes" when the fed
budget came before the House
last week
The “yes" vote actually
maant “no.”
It waa a vote for the oppose
Uon's effort to chop up the pro-
poeed budget and U> go at it
piacemeal fashion, taking an
itam at a time, which in fact
would have killed the legisla-
tion.
Patman’s "yes" vote was a
vole against getting out of the
deficit-spending mire that his
party has sunk this country into
over the period of just short of
SO yean.
With his "yes" vote. Patman
voted no to getting a hold on
government spending
He voted no on trying to get
the budget balanced
He voted no on a concerted
effort to put the brakes on
double-digit inflation
He voted no on the hopes of
getting American production
back on track
He voted no to try to get the
high interest rates back to
where Americans can once
again start to dream of owning
a home and making other pur-
chases
He voted no to dismantling
the fed juggernaut so firmly
implanted on the Potomoc
He voted no to taking the
billions of bucks out of the fed
coffer and getting them back
into the mainstream of the
American free enterprise sec-
tor
He voted no against the
American people, and voted
yes for the continuation of the
socialistic nightmare that has
plagued this country far too
long.
It is hoped that his con-
stituents too will have to oppor-
tunity to vote "yes” in the not
too far off years, and that such
a vote will say “no" to the con-
tinuation of such thinking in the
House by a representative of
this area
TWENTY-NINE House
DemocraLi, now know as the
BoU Weevils,” crossed the ai-
sle to vote for the budget
measure
Nine of them are Texans.
In a cotton state, the term
“boll weevil“has normally
brought fears of crop failure.
But. for this point in time, it
is comforting to know the Boll
Weevils are there and fighting
for a new course of direction for
the country.
Such new, logical thinking is
something a former Killer Bee
hasn't been able to com-
prehend, yet.
THE ACTS of vandalism gp
on.
They are senseless
They are disgusting
Each time the cit) installs
new facilities at Municipal
Park, they are demolished or
stolen.
You, the taxpayer, is the per-
son who is paying for this
ridiculous devastation of public
property.
And, it doesn't stop there.
Each week there are any
number of home owners who go
through the same infuriating
experience. Vehicles receive
the same attention.
City officials have let it be
known that they hope to in
some way put a stop to this
needless drain of tax dollars.
Persons who may be caught
tn such undertakings should be
ready to receive no leniency.
If a minor is involved,
parents are held financially
responsible.
The city staff ami police are
vitally interestred in any Infor-
mation that might be made
available which would assist at
ending this continuing criminal
activity.
THERE MAY be many
smiles about the fate that is
befalling the barbaric govern-
ment of Iran.
For this is the government
that sacked the American em-
bassy in Teheran and kept the
hostages captive for those
many months
Nothing is too bad for that
government, you say
But, beware
On Iran’s northen border sits
the USSR ready, willing and
able to make its move at a time
of their choice.
There remains no doubt that
the Communist agitators,
revolutionaries, bag men and
infiltrators are feverishly at
work doing what they do best *
working from within to bring
chaoa, and then to bring in thtlr
big guns and establish another
"government of the people ”
The Soviets long have tgd
their greedy eyes on this prime
piece of real estate, gateway to
the warm water ports of the
Persian Gulf and access to the
Indian Ocean
They will never stray from
their objective.
II again is a bad situation
with possible dire con-
sequences for the ^United
States, for the Mid East and for
the entire world.
Iranians blame the United
States for the bombing there.
But, those in power in Iran
know well who the pee
pretrators are.
Another Afghanistan?
FREE NATION
CELEBRATION
Country Crossroads
Downtrodden Female, A Cat,
Sets Example For Everyone
by KEITH GUTHRIE
The name "Country
Crossroads" was the name of
my Mother's column that she
wrote for the first newspaper I
bought just after college. 1 just
picked up the name for my own
when I returned to pick up the
newspaper after the war,
Mama having died while I was
overseas. Below is most of one
of the first columns she wrote
for the Harris County News.
I'd Like To
Write
I'd like to have the grace to
write
A poem every day.
About the fragrant, fruiting
A
Highlights and Sidelights
during June totaled I1K.7M
This included 11 permits for
new residences totaling
$100,500 Additions amounted to
$18,500 and fences added
another $1,798 to give the grand
total
II YEARS AGO in
City council voted Tuesday.
night to close the HUD trailer
park on Municipal Park aa on
Aug. 3 and at the same time to
notify all occupants of HUD
trailers or private premises
that they must remove their
trailers or be in violation of the
city's mobile home ordinance
Shortly after Hurricane Celia
hit last year, city council
enacted legislation allowing
HUD trailers to be located on
private property This special
relaxation of the city's mobile
home ordinance will expire
See PAST, Ps*» 1
AUSTIN—Leu than a
month ifter the Legiilsture
ratified new boundary linei
for mate Home and Senate
district!, the entire redts-
(rictlng proccu it in up-
heaval again
Governor Bill Clements
has vetoed ihc plan for the
Senate, thereby allowing the
plan to be redrawn by the
constitutionally provided re-
districting board, composed
of five state officials
The board, headed by Ll.
Gov. Bill Hobby, tried to
meet for the first lime last
week, but postponed metion
pending the outcome of a
lawsuit filed last week which
challenges the new House
districts
The class action lawsuit,
with three legislators head-
ing tip the list of plaintiffs,
cjiargrs I hat counties have
been illegally split in each
of the five major metro-
politan areas Dallas. Port
Worth. San Antonio. Hous-
ton and El Paso, as well as
Laredo and Amarillo.
A slate district judge was
scheduled to hear the case
this week II the judge finds
for the plaintiffs, the new
House districts will he in-
validated and the redistrict-
ing hoard will assume the
task of drawing an accept-
able plan,
Caagrestlonal Redistricting
Meanwhile. Clements has
not backed down one iota
from his announced intent
to veto any plan approved
during the coming special
session which does not pro-
vide for a black congres-
sional district in hit home-
town of Dallas
The Legislature adjourned
last month without reach-
ing a compromise on new
congressional districts. Due
to population growth. Texas
is entitled to create three
new congressional districts
dementi ft Blacks
Clements has been insis-
tent in hit desire to create
a predominantly black state
senate and congressional dis-
trict in Dallas
He hat publicly and loud-
ly said the Dallas blacks
must get a fair shake
That's a worthy cause, but
tome legislators arc saying
Clements hat other motives
hidden behind the civil rights
banner
The real targets are lib-
eral Democrats who are a
pain in the neck to Clem-
ents Stale Sen Oscar
Maury of Dallas, and con-
gressmen Martin Frost and
Itm Mattox
Perhaps the most influen-
tial black in the Legislature,
Rep. Craig Washington, D-
Houtton. was highly critical
of Clement's statements con-
cerning the veto of the Sen-
ate plan.
"Clements doesn't cere
about blacks and he never
has. but blacks are protect-
ed hy the Voting Rights
Act and Republicans art
not."
Washington said the Sen-
ate plan had "a Dallas dis-
trict that in excess of 66 per-
cent minority. Is Clements
suggesting that blacks are so
lethargic and lazy that we
cannot elect one of our own
without packing all of us
into one district?"
Mauzy. Two COPS
Washington was referring
to the Dallas district now
represented by Mauzy
Clements may have a prob-
lem because Mauzy, a white
liberal, is in good standing
with blacks and has been
repeatedly re-elected in pre-
dominantly minority district.
And Clements is probably
more worried about the po-
litical survival of two Re-
publican senators from Dal-
las who find themselves
paired in a new district Dee
Travis and John leedom.
Travis, however, is expected
to run for Congress
Dallas Fonfressmrn
Thai brings up the issue
of congressional districts in
Dallas Clements says he
wants a district cut where a
black can win Be that the
case, the plan he has in
mind will do that and weak-
en iwo liberal Democrats.
Frost and Mattox, at the
same time Clements has
already called Mattox "a
disaster" and vowed he must
8°
The Lib*
If the Democrats domi-
nated the Senate plan, not
all Democrats were pleased
Two members of the House
liberal faction, John Bryant.
D-Dsllas. and Ted Lyon, D-
Mesquite. said they wel-
comed Clements' veto of the
Dallas senatorial plan
Lyon, in fact, had already
drawn up the pipers for e
lawsuit challenging the Sen-
ate plan.
Bryant and Lyon oppose
the plan because it would
divide Dallas County into
six different districts, many
largely rural in character
Rcdlstrlcting Board
At any rate, the task is
now before the Legislative
Redistricting Board, com-
posed of five Democrats:
Hobby. Bill Clayton. Mark
White. Boh Bullock and Bob
Armstrong.
Some observers have won-
dered if Clements' veto was
the right political move for
him, throwing the task of
by LYNDF.U WILLIAMS
protecting Republicans to
five Democrats.
Clements has said that at
least four of them will be
facing the state's voters in
the next election, and that
is incentive for them to be
fair Republican state chair-
man Chet Upham said the
old plan barely protected
the GOP status quo in the
Senate, so really the party
has little to lose by the veto
In fact, it sends the issue
further along the process to
what may prove to be its
ultimate conclusion: a plan
drawn up by the U.S. Jus-
tice Department silting un-
der a Republican president
tree.
The bate helor buttons gay.
I’d like to see my name in print
In vivid headlines tall
That tell of an unselfish soul
Who joyed in giving all.
I’d like to know that one sweet
day
In passing back to God,
Would be unmarred by any
need of a correcting rod.
But since no poem will surpass
The ones already done,
Or better day or better deed
Invite the rising sun.
I'U strive to write in word and
deed
Unto my fellowman.
A kindly, joyous song of praise
Tofit into God’s plan.
Even As You
Audi
With the great open spaces
from which to choose a subject,
I seem to be writing, today,
about the downtrodden female.
This is to be about a cat - a
mother cat - sow cats you call
them when they are followed by
a mewing litter of scrawny kit-
tens.
This cat is the color known as
"calico." She is not beautiful.
She doesn't even have a name.
She has four spindly kittens -
two yellow and two gray. None
of us like her very much, but
since I have heard, from other
homes, lately the wail, "What
am I to do about the rats?" I
am beginning to took upon her
with respect. She may be lack-
ing in lots of things, but she can
catch rats - yes, and gophers
and rabbits.
From my porch. 1 saw her
make her first kill. She was
trotting along, then went into a
tigerish pose, body tense, tail
twitching, one forefoot raised.
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Suddenly she leaped,
soundlessly, and came up with
an ugly, long toothed gopher.
She took it to her kittens, lying
off without a taste, as they
scrambled onto it with claw
and needle-like teeth. A few
days later she brought them
another, then a rabbit, and this
morning at daybreak, she
came in with a big rat, his long
tail dragging In spite of her
lifted head
Now, I haven't any reason in
telling Mrs. Cat’s story, except
admiration for a little creature
that refuses not to be a win1- I
She te well fed, so are her
tens. Bom with her motherhood
was the impulse to rustle for
her young, to lay before them
the best, though she broke tooth
and claw in the effort. Not
beautiful to otliers, to her, they
were beyond compare. I knew
how she felt I think it was like
my feeling when my little girl,
brown balds wrapped about her
head, said her first speech, or
my Uttl* boys, minus shoes and
shirt, stepped out in a tooth!
grin in ttieir first Boy Scoi
trousers. 1 couldn’t catch a ral |
but I sense a fellow feeling with
the female who can, and I take
off my Panama to Mrs. Cat.
Thanks For The
Rain
No matter what yoy^creed,
or financial rating, you must
have had an uplift of spirit
when you awoke before
daylight Sunday morning to the
continuous splatter of rain on
the roof. And 1 think you were
glad that it rained out Sunday
School, church too. perhaps,
and afternoon visiting and7
visitors. That breaking of a
three months drought was
something you wanted to enjoy
in aloneness. So, let's sajtf
together: Thanks for the rain W
Courthouse Squares
Tuesday was chilling sum liar
to Monday. A 7 dow decline. A
three-to-one breach ratio.
Volume In the 40 million share
vicinity A leadership provided
by some buy-out special situa-
tion. The month of June closed
out in flat and unromantic
fashion.
The dow industrial closed at
977. The blue chip index is fast
approaching the lower end of
its 96-1000 trading range. More
over, the bond market has now
reached a technically oversold
status that should begin to
break the downward slide Cou-
ple that with tfie fact that the
day prior to the long In-
dependence Day weekend -
which would be Thursday of
this week - has had a strong
record of success in the market
may slowly begin to come out
of malice But the old fire
brinestone te not present We
would settle for a burning bush.
The major fundamental pro-
blem is the ragged action in the
bond market. News that the
May index of leading economic
indicator fell by 18 percent,
somewhat higher than ex-
pected, failed to stir en-
thusiasm. The bond dealers are
loaded with inventory and
another new treasury action to-
day failed to attract much in-
terest. Given the record of the
past three years, it te not sur-
prising to see bond investors
caution But failing to respond
to slowing business, slowing in-
flation, slowing money supply
and affirmative Washington
action, borders on paranoia.
Wednesday, technical condi-
tions might take hold that
would allow a little relief to the
frazzled bulls But if there is a
summer rally out there, it te
currently very well disguised
Bookshelf
A Volume To Help Forget World’s Troubles
BY LYRASPARKS
If you want a book in which to
lose yourself, forget all your
problems in summer reading, I
recommend "The Woman of
Eden" by Marilyn Harris.
It te another volume of a
family saga. I hadn't read tfie
first, didn't know about them,
but the intensity of the plot of
this one makes me want to go
back and read the earlier
volumes. They are "This OtJier
Eden, "The Prince of Eden,"
and "The Eden Passion ”
The time te in 1870 and 71;
the setting sweeps from
England's Devon Coast to I -on-
don, Cambridge and finally to
America. From the very begin-
ning one Is conscious of the
dominance of John Murrey
Eden, how he manipulates and
controls the five Eden women
He has a strong but strange
feeling for lady Mary Eden,
hte cousin who te the object of
his greatest beneficence, the
object of hte deepest rage and te
actually the heroine of the
book.
Mary is young snd
headstrong, feels stifled by
John's possessive protection,
and eventually te almost killed
by it. Falling in love with an
American, Burke Stanhope, te
almost her undoing as well as
her salvation.
Elizabeth Eden te as doae to
a mother to John as he ever had
and has also had the care and
upbringing of Mary. She too
must choose if she would win
her independence
lady Lila Harrington. John's
wife, has suffered perhaps
more than any; her father,
I/ird Harrington, lives at Eden
Castle with her and her sons -
hte grandsons
Dowager Countess Harriet
K,den, Mary’s and John’s aunt,
lives in a self-inflicted world ofy
darkness as well as seclusion *
She te doing penance for a sin
and only she and John know
about it.
And then there te Dharl, the
beautiful Indian woman who
has been John's mistress. She
falls in love with John's
solicitor with dire results.
A two week's extravagant
festivity at Eden celebrate*
John's completion of the ol#
castle's restoration Somehow
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